Episode 31 A Question of Sport

Going for glory on tonight's show...

World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi,

England shot stopper Jack Butland,

Olympic medal-winning swimmer Steve Parry

and the Welsh sprinting sensation Christian Malcolm.

Who will be victorious on A Question Of Sport?

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

APPLAUSE

Hello, and welcome.

What a line-up we have on tonight's show

and it promises to be a great battle.

It is also a fitting finale to the series

because Matt and Phil are tied...

AUDIENCE: Ooh!

-..so the winner tonight will win the series.

-Ooh!

Let's start with the Picture Board.

And, Matt, you are going first.

OK, here we go.

HE EXHALES

SUE LAUGHS

Number nine, please.

-Jim Courier.

-Yes.

-Number 10.

Katy McLean.

-Yep.

-Number 11.

-Mark Ramprakash.

-Yes.

Number 12.

-Steph Curry.

-Yes.

-Number eight.

-Eric Dier.

-Yep.

-Number seven.

Oh!

-Thompson, Johnson, Thompson...

-No.

-Move on, number six.

-Maro Itoje.

-Yes.

-Number five.

Victoria Pendleton.

-Woody.

-Yes, it was, yes.

-One.

-Geoff Ogilvy.

-Yes.

Number two.

-Magali Harvey.

-Yep.

Three. What a shout.

-Adrian.

-Yes.

-Four.

-Tom Daley.

-Yes.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

What a start!

You only missed one, number seven.

That was Morgan Lake,

the British heptathlete.

So, 11 points scored.

Are you ready over here?

Yes. Right, here we go.

The round starts when you pick the first number.

Number one please, Sue.

Oh, Um...

-Sexton.

-Yep.

-Yes, yes. Two.

-James Dasaolu.

-Yep.

-Three.

Oh!

Don't know. Heiken... No, no.

Go on. Quickly.

-No.

-Four, move on, move on.

Four.

-Darren Fletcher.

-Yes! Five.

-Boxer... Oh, Quigg!

-Scott Quigg.

-Six.

-Who's that? Del Potro.

-Yes.

-Del Potro.

Seven.

-Jazz Carlin.

-Yes. Eight.

-Nesta Carter.

-Nine!

-Sagna.

-Yes! Ten!

-Oh! Taylor.

-Yes.

11!

Oh.

-LAUGHTER

-Kevin Proud.

-Go on. Who?

-Kevin Proud. Calum Jarvis.

Yes. 12.

-Oh!

-ALL: Donaldson.

Yes!

CHEERING

-Great work, fellas.

-It was him.

Great stuff.

You only missed the American skiing star,

which was Lindsey Vonn.

Lindsey Vonn.

Good, we'll take that.

Cool. The pressure's on tonight, but what a start from both teams.

At the end of the round, they're tied on 11.

APPLAUSE

It's Sports Action now.

Matt, your team are up first.

You'll need to keep an eye on all the stars you see.

It's a good ball.

Norwich back in it.

She's got to finish three places ahead of Hammer.

There's her time, 35.110.

Hammer's fourth.

And she powers towards the line, can she do it on her own?

It looks like it's grounded.

-Will the ref give it? Yes, she will.

-WHISTLE BLOWS

Well, he thinks that.

Just a doddle.

Well, it will help if you know all six stars,

because you're going to need their initials.

How many have you got?

Ian Botham.

Yeah?

Yep. The goal-scorer, Nathan Redmond.

OK.

-The tennis player, I think...

-I would have thought Ward.

I think it was Dan Evans.

That's fine, I wasn't confident.

-Laura Trott.

-Laura Trott.

-Yeah, I got that.

And the lady rugby player was Harriet Millar-Mills.

So H-M-M?

M...

-Millar-Mills.

-Millar-Mills? Just one M?

Just checking.

And the golfer, Andy Sullivan. Sully.

The initials of the people you saw

will help you identify this sporting event.

Some of the letters will give you more help than others -

however, one key letter from the puzzle won't be revealed.

Hmm.

So, there are three points available

if you get it after one set of initials.

Which person are you going to start with?

So, which of these key letters...

do we have that we think might be in there?

-We've got Harriet. Let's go with Harriet Millar-Mills.

-Shall we?

What, an H? I like that, I like that, we'll go with that.

-You're going with that?

-Yeah.

Harriet Millar-Mills.

OK, let's have a look. How does that help you?

-Not a lot.

-But, oh, that's not as good, that.

Oh, no...

That's it.

-Sorry about that.

-So, what is it?

A sporting event.

You can have a guess.

-H-O-R-S-E...

-Oh!

Oh!

Hold on a minute!

I think, just by you saying that, Maggie...

What about that?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-I think that's good.

-Yeah?

What are you going for?

You're having that. Maggie, this is yours.

Badminton Horse Trials.

Is spot on!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Once again, Phil...

-Yes.

-..identify the sports stars.

-Yep.

Then the world record is 51.94.

51.94, is he going to get it?

Oh, just outside.

It's short, and over they go.

-He's right there, touches down.

-WHISTLE BLOWS

Running very, very strongly indeed,

and Patton is jogging through.

Patton in second place, Pognon in third.

10.13. Well done.

Lomas.

Oh, yes!

Oh! Oh!

How many have you got?

Right, OK. Well, we've got...

-Swimmer.

-Matt Grevers.

-Mark?

-Matt.

-Oh, Matt.

OK. We've got Owen Farrell.

We've got Shaun Udal.

-Mm-hm.

-Runner.

-Tyrone Edgar.

Tyrone Edgar. E.

And we've got...

I think the footballer is Ian Harte.

And tennis?

Oh, who's that one?

Kournikova! Of course it is.

It's Anna Kournikova.

Anna...

K.

LAUGHTER

-We've got them, we've got them.

-That's all we need.

OK, you need to use the initials

to help you work out this sporting phrase.

A sporting phrase.

-A phrase.

-So, who are you going to go with first?

Do you want to go with vowels?

Or something a bit out of the ordinary?

SU, perhaps?

-Quite out of the...

-Let's give it a go.

-SU?

-Go on, then.

-Go on, then.

-Who are you going with?

-Shaun Udal.

-How does that help you?

-Don't know.

Come on.

Oh, no.

-Oh.

-LAUGHTER

That doesn't help us at all.

That's a plural of something, isn't it, an S?

LAUGHTER

Musketeers! Oh, no.

LAUGHTER

-Of the...?

-Sorry?

Of the...! Yes, of the.

We've got "the". Yes!

Something "of the..."

-Yeah.

-Something "of the..."

Look at these lot over there! They're going, "Nah, mate."

They've got it already. Don't look at them, I told you.

-Don't look at them!

-LAUGHTER

Game of... Game of...

-Game of the...

-Satsumas?

-Satsumas!

-LAUGHTER

It's game, it's game!

I need an answer. Pick two more letters.

-Oh, no, then.

-Think about what you're going to pick.

-AK?

-AK.

-AK, Sue.

-Who is?

-Anna Kournikova.

-Anna Kournikova?

-OK.

-It must be in that last word.

No, it's not game.

Oh, no, that totally...

Sporting phrase.

-"Keep off the..."

-Grass!

Oh, no! Keep of the...

-"Keep off the grass!"

-LAUGHTER

Well, what could it...

Oh, I hate this.

Steve, have you got anything?

-Maggie pretty much got it...

-Straight away.

Pretty much got it straight away, yeah.

Wow. Yeah.

-Rugby. It could be...

-Maggie....

pretty much got it.

-Oh, pretty?

-Pretty much got it.

Pretty. Pretty.

Oh, he's just trying to throw us now.

-King?

-King! "King of the..."

-Oh, I've got it.

-King of the...

I've got it now you said... "King of the Mountains."

CHEERING

Was he helping when he said Maggie got it?

-Have you got the link?

-Maggie, do you cycle?

LAUGHTER

What's the jersey?

What jersey, sorry?

Polka-dot jersey.

Oh. Blimey, give us a better one that that.

We've got no chance.

We got it anyway. We only lost a point.

End of the round. Phil's on 13, Matt in front on 14.

APPLAUSE

Now, it's time for Home or Away.

Jack, coming to you first.

We'll start with a home, please.

Home.

Who played on the losing side

in the 2008 FA Cup final

as a 17-year-old

before scoring the winner for a different team in the final

six years later?

-Portsmouth?

-Portsmouth?

Was he? Right, so he was a loser?

Then to Cardiff.

Cardiff? Provisionally.

-Yeah.

-Who won it in '14?

Arsenal won it in '14.

-I think it's...

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-I think it's Aaron Ramsey.

-It is.

Aaron Ramsey, well done, Jack.

APPLAUSE

Go on, Steve, you love a home question.

Yeah, I'll have a home question.

Christian will answer it for me.

Who finished fifth in the 200m butterfly in London

before breaking compatriot Ryan Lochte's Olympic record

to win gold in the 200m backstroke?

-Just one more time, Sue.

-One more time?

-No, no, I think I've got it.

-Go on.

-OK.

-Tyler Clary?

Well done, it is.

The American, Tyler Clary. APPLAUSE

Maggie, your choice - Home or Away?

-Home, please.

-Home.

Which player won a Six Nations title in 2013,

a year before her 40 points helped her country to fourth place

at the Rugby World Cup in France?

So, she scored 40 points in the Rugby World Cup?

She...

Just out of interest, who was in that...

third and fourth place play-off game?

-Ireland and...?

-It was Ireland and France.

Ireland and France. France won that, and Ireland came fourth.

Good, good, Ireland, good, good.

I feel like I know this player.

-Do you?

-I think it was...

-40 points?

-I'm going to go for it.

-Are you going to go for it?

-Go on, then, go.

-Niamh Briggs.

-Niamh Briggs is the right answer, yes.

The Irish full-back. APPLAUSE

Christian, you often like to gamble on an away question.

Go on, have a dart. Come on, let's gamble.

-I'll go away, please.

-You'll go away?

-I'll go away.

-Come on.

Last season, in Formula One...

Oh, I hate racing.

..three drivers from outside of Europe finished on the podium.

Name them for a point each.

-All right.

-Europe - they've got to be Argentinian, Brazil...

Brazil...

What's his name?

Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, what's his name?

-Aussie bloke, Aussie bloke.

-Yeah.

Oh, oh, oh... Oh!

Yeah, yeah.

Oh...

-Webber?

-No, no, not Webber.

No, no. Garibaldi.

No, it wasn't Garibaldi.

-I can see his face.

-Ricciardo.

Daniel Ricciardo, Daniel Ricciardo.

-That's one.

-Is it Daniel Ricciardo?

"That's one." LAUGHTER

Daniel Ricciardo.

Is there a Mezza...?

Is there a Mezza?

-Mezza?

-Massa?

Massa? Massa!

Felipe Massa.

-Oh, of course it is.

-LAUGHTER

Why did you not tell me that?

LAUGHTER

Crikey.

I don't watch Formula One, but everyone knows Massa.

Felipe Massa.

-He's Brazilian. That's a great shout.

-Yeah.

-Massa...

-I don't know whether I've got it in me

-to come up with a third one.

-You have, you have.

I don't think we've got it in us.

So, we're going to go with

-Daniel Ricciardo...

-Yep.

-..Felipe Massa...

-Yep.

-..and...

-Make up a name.

Yeah, Osvaldo.

LAUGHTER

Osvaldo is wrong, but you scored two points.

Massa and Ricciardo... APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH

So, a bonus point if you get the third one.

-Perez.

-It is Sergio Perez.

APPLAUSE

It's time for the captains to see how much they are prepared to risk.

Matt, your team are going first.

You should be happy, as your question is about Rugby Union.

Oh! Well...

-We'll take that.

-There's a point for each correct answer you give me.

But be careful - if you give me a wrong one, you will lose them all.

-Ah, OK.

-Name five of the players

who have scored 14 or more tries

since the Six Nations started.

Right, it's got to be him.

-Surely?

-Five players who scored 14 or more tries

since the Six Nations started.

We'll get one on the board.

Brian O'Driscoll?

Brian O'Driscoll is correct, yes.

-Right, OK, OK.

-APPLAUSE

Are you going on?

He's GOT to be there, hasn't he?

Yes, go on, then.

-Got to be.

-Yeah.

-Shane Williams?

-Is there again, yes, that's two points.

APPLAUSE

You don't have to go on, but...

-But...

-Are you going to risk...?

Maggie's just written down Ben Cohen,

which is a very good answer.

I should really know this.

Will Greenwood...

-Are you going to risk it?

-For Will Greenwood?

I think... Close. We're more likely to be here.

But have we said him yet?

No, we haven't said...

You've gone for O'Driscoll and Williams so far.

-O'Driscoll and Williams?

-Are you going on?

We've also got Gareth Thomas just thrown in there, as well.

Was that an answer?

SUE: Oh-ho-ho!

AUDIENCE: Ooh!

Come on, "Keep Off The Grass."

LAUGHTER

-What would you...? What would you go with?

-I think that...

-What would you...?

-I think Gareth.

-OK, we'll go with Gareth Thomas.

No.

AUDIENCE: Oh!

If you have gone with Ben Cohen or Will Greenwood,

you would have been correct.

And the other two were Tommy Bowe and Jason Robinson.

-Jason Robinson, yeah.

-But that means that you lose those two points.

-And, Phil...

-Yes!

..let's see how much you are prepared to gamble.

-Not much, I reckon.

-You have got...

-Let's go.

-You've got Commonwealth Games.

LAUGHTER

-Take a load off.

-Here we go.

Other than the home nations,

name the five countries

that have won the most medals at the Commonwealth Games.

Right, OK, take your time, boys.

Aussie.

We've got Aussie, we've got Kenya.

-What's that?

-Malaysia.

-Malaysia?

-Yeah, at tenpin bowling they are mint.

LAUGHTER

I'm serious.

We've got two bankers with...

We've got two bankers.

You've got two bankers, are you going...?

-Which one are you going for?

-Jamaica.

But they're not good off the track.

-CHRISTIAN:

-It's only been lately, and it's only on track.

Go with the ones you're sure about first.

-Right, we're going to start with Oz, yeah?

-Yeah.

-Australia.

-Australia.

-Yes.

One point.

APPLAUSE

One point. But are you going on?

My top five would be Canada, New Zealand, Kenya, Malaysia.

Right, OK.

Oh! South Africa.

But they only came back in...

Oh, they were out for a while, weren't they?

You got one point. Are you going on?

This is unbelievable.

-Canada. Canada.

-Let him say it.

Go on. No, go on, Canada.

-Canada. Canada.

-LAUGHTER

Canada. Canada. It's a big place.

-You're going on, for Canada?

-It's a big place. Canada.

Well done. Yes.

CHEERING

Do you reckon, nick one more?

Malaysia.

What does Malaysia... Like badminton, ping-pong?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Are you going on?

You can stick or you can go on for one more.

-What you reckon?

-Go on, say that then. Go on.

-We might be...

-It's only in the...

-They're only, they're only...

-Malaysia.

Track and field, Kenya.

-Yeah, OK.

-No, I think...

Sue, we're... Sorry, but we're going to stay.

-OK.

-Ooh!

We're going to stay. We're not 100% sure.

Well, you secured the two points...

-Yeah.

-..which is good, but if you'd have gone on,

-you would have gone with...?

-Kenya, Malaysia and South Africa.

If you'd have said Kenya, wrong.

Malaysia, wrong.

South Africa, correct.

You would have been all right.

We did well. We did well.

The other two nations were India...

and New Zealand.

Two important points -

which means, at the end of that round,

Matt's on 17, Phil in front on 18.

CHEERING

As it's going to be the European Championships in a few weeks,

we thought we'd take a look back at some of the great goals

from the tournaments gone by.

So, write down everything you see.

Brolin.

Dahlin, Brolin.

Brilliant. Brilliant goal.

Here goes Torres.

Oh, it's there.

Shearer...

It's three.

Jumping with the goalkeeper, and they've scored.

And he's scored it, and they've won it.

Czechoslovakia are the new European champions.

No chance there.

Now to volley it. Oh, it's in. What a goal.

Turned and shot, and it's gone in!

It's the golden goal!

Looking for Larsson...

Oh! And that is absolutely magnificent.

Trezeguet is waiting in the centre.

Trezeguet!

France have won the European Championship.

Allez Les Bleus.

Great goals, there. Great watch.

But we're not going to make it easy for you as it's a decider,

cos on the board are 12 flags.

You need to take it in turn to try and name a country

that was being scored AGAINST in the action.

Oh, I didn't look at that. I didn't look at that.

Did you look at that?

So, Matt, as you're one behind, we'll let you go first.

We've got to start with that, haven't we?

-Got to start with that one.

-Yeah.

Go on, then.

Being scored against.

Scored against. Portugal.

You're going for Portugal.

Let's see.

Well done. Yes.

-Good boy, good boy.

-APPLAUSE

Who did Shearer score against?

Shearer?

That was against, erm...

HE STUTTERS

-Let's go for that, then.

-Was it...?

-What are you going for?

-Netherlands.

Netherlands. They've always been in it.

-Yeah.

-Netherlands, Sue.

You're going for the Netherlands, at the bottom.

Yes.

CHEERING

Euro '96.

All right.

Have you got an inkling... on any?

I think Hungary or Bulgaria.

-One of them...

-You like that one?

The last one was scoring against one of them.

Right, OK.

-Come on. We have to go Hungary on that one.

-Yeah? Yeah, think so.

-Yeah? Go for it.

-Hungary.

Going for Hungary.

Oh!

-No.

-Oh!

-Go on...

-Oh, you've got one.

-You've got it.

You've got it. Hold on, Italy.

-You're going for Italy?

-Trezeguet in the final.

Well done, Christian.

APPLAUSE

Well, can we go with the other one?

-I think it's got to be the other one.

-Go with this one.

-Yeah.

Yeah? I think we'll...

Process of elimination, I think it's got to be, but I'm not 100% sure.

-Bulgaria.

-Bulgaria.

Is it right?

-Yes, it is.

-Come on. Back in the game.

APPLAUSE

Back in the game.

It's all right.

Greece were actually winning it, weren't they?

Denmark have won it, so I'm going to rule them out,

cos they actually went on to win it.

So, I reckon a bit of Switzerlande.

-Switzerland, Sue.

-OK, let's have a look.

Come on.

AUDIENCE GROANS

-Sorry.

-The two we were looking for was...

..Belgium and the Czech Republic.

-Oh, was it?

-Those are the two we were looking for.

Well, heading into the final round, just one point in it.

Matt's on 19, Phil on 20.

APPLAUSE

And our final round of the series is a Sprint Finish.

So, Matt, you are going first.

-Come on, Matt.

-OK, here we go.

Come on, then, let's have it. Let's have it.

Good luck. Good luck, everyone. Good luck, everyone.

Good luck. Have a good one. Have a good one.

-Are you ready?

-I'm ready for this.

Your time starts now.

Olympic athlete with three events. Running...

-Triathlon.

-Yeah.

-Yep.

-Yeah.

Ooh, in rugby, you get the ball and then just a little, cheeky little...

-Grubber.

-Yes.

-Ooh, you wear these on your hands...

Gloves. Goalkeeping gloves.

-Yes.

-Yup, yup. And, ooh, erm...

F1, big 'tache from the '80s...

-Mansell.

-Yes.

-Yes, yes, yes.

Ooh! You're really good at that, on the rugby...

-Tackling.

-No, you sit on the side now, and you talk a little bit...

-Punditry?

-Yes, yes.

-Yes.

When it's touched down in your own area, you go back for a...

-Five-metre scrum.

-Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

Ooh, erm... A very good academy round here,

feeds players to Man United and Liverpool...

Somewhere Palace in London.

Something Pally.

Ally Pally. Alexandra Palace.

Yeah, the team would be?

The team would be Alexandra.

Something Alexandra!

-Crewe Alexandra.

-Yes!

-APPLAUSE

NFL team in the Big Apple...

-New York Jets.

-Yes.

-Yes, yes!

-Not Silverstone or Donca...

-WHISTLE BLOWS

APPLAUSE

Well done.

-Well done.

-Out of the ten points you could have, you scored eight.

Well done. Eight.

So, there we go, Tuffers.

-Yep.

-Eight to take the series.

Yeah, come on. Come on.

CHEERING

Very good.

Very good. Come on, be kind.

OK, then, OK.

-Ready?

-Yeah.

-Time starts now.

-Man United legendary goalkeeper, Dane...

-Schmeichel.

-Yep.

-Yes, yes.

Oh, funny stick, like that, with netting in it.

-You throw it like that.

-Lacrosse.

-Yes, yes.

-Yes.

-Oh! You wear them.

-You put them on your head.

-Swimming cap.

-Yes.

Yes. Oh, the rugby team that play in all the diamonds...

-Sara...

-They play at the Stoop.

-Harlequins.

-Yes!

-Yes.

Oh, this... Running round...

-Hurdles.

-And you have a hurdle...

-110m hurdles.

-400m hurdles.

-No, in the water.

-Steeplechase.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Oh! At the end of the game, you...

-Celebrate.

-No, you... With your mates...

-You go like that...

-Change tops.

-Yes.

-Swap tops.

-Swap...

-Swap T-shirts. Change jerseys.

-Yes, erm...

-OK.

A rugby league player, went over to, erm, Rugby Union,

played for the Rabbitohs...

-That's not him!

-LAUGHTER

Move on! Move on!

-Oh, baseball. What are these?

-Socks.

-Yes. What colour?

-Red Sox.

-And the tea party...

-Boston Red Sox.

Yes. Oh, tennis...

Not Queens, not Queens...

-Wimbledon.

-WHISTLE BLOWS

-No!

-Kings.

-What was it?

-Roland Garros.

I said the wrong bloke...

I said the wrong bloke!

How did we do?

Sam Warburton.

All I had to do was say, "Welsh captain."

-Yeah, that's all you had to say.

-I said Sam Burgess.

LAUGHTER

How many did we get?

Well, you needed eight to win...

..and you scored...

seven.

APPLAUSE

Oh, Warburton...

It's been a hard-fought series,

so we're going to end it with a friendly draw.

Well done.

-I said the wrong name!

-LAUGHTER

It's easily done.

-Oh...

-Yeah, well, that has cost...

-I mean, that was it. That was it.

-That was it.

-That was it.

The boys would have been all over Sam Warburton.

-Yeah.

-"Welsh Rugby Union captain." "Sam Warburton. Move on."

That's all you had to say. "Welsh captain."

And, Tuffers, that was a lovely harle-queen that you did.

LAUGHTER

And a big thank you to our guests -

to Maggie and Jack, to Steve and Christian.

Thanks to the captains as well.

We'll be back for another series but, for now, goodbye.

APPLAUSE