Episode 34 A Question of Sport

Tonight's star-studded line-up is

England batsman James Taylor,

Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton,

World Cup winning centre Mike Tindall

and welterweight world champion boxer Kell Brook.

Who will come out on top on A Question of Sport?

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Hello, and welcome to the show.

The captains are raring to go

and look confident with their teams but who will be winners tonight?

We'll find out. Let's get things started with the One Minute Round.

Well, your team are up first, Matt.

Anyone can shout out the answer as many times as you want.

Start now. Which Japanese player did Andy Murray beat in five sets...?

-Nishikori.

-Yes.

Who, in 2015, became Pakistan's all-time leading

run scorer in test cricket?

Move on, think about that.

What surname do these two sports stars share?

-James.

-Yes.

-Caterine Ibarguen is a world champion in which...?

-Triple jump.

Yes. Who is this multiple world champion?

-Sebastian Vettel.

-Yes.

-Junaid Khan for cricket.

-Yes.

Teams from which country have won

the last two Champions League finals?

-Spain?

-Italy.

-Yes, Spain.

These three sports stars all share their surnames with

things you might buy at a motorway service station.

-Petrol, diesel...

-Hot chocolate.

-Hot chocolate, coffee.

-Yes.

-Sandwich.

-Sausage roll.

-Burger.

-Nope.

-Sandwich.

-Mars.

-Petrol, diesel.

-Water.

-Juice.

-Fizzy drink, tea.

-What do you buy? Biscuits.

-Polos.

-Cakes.

Mints.

-PHIL:

-Dresses, you can get anything there, dresses...

-WHISTLE BLOWS

-Oil. Oil, oil.

-No.

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-What did you say there?

-Petrol.

Fuell.

THEY SIGH

That is unlucky.

And, Justin Mapp.

-Justin Mapp!

-PHIL LAUGHS

But still a very good start, you've scored seven points.

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-OK, Phil, over to you.

-Shout them out, boys.

-60 seconds on the clock. Ready?

-Yes.

Here we go. Which European golfer won back-to-back

Open Championships in the 2000s?

-Padraig...

-European... Padraig Harrington?

-Yes.

Who did Callum Smith beat to win the British super middleweight

-title in 2015?

-Rocky Fielding.

-Yes.

-Good.

-What surname do these two sports stars share?

-Lewis.

Yes. Which rugby team play their home games at Kingston Park?

-Newcastle.

-Yes.

-Good lad.

Which British competition is this?

-Challenge Cup.

-Yes.

-Ooh!

Which country has won the most Winter Olympic curling medals?

-Scotland?

-Nope.

-Sweden? Norway? Austria?

-Nope.

-Curling?

-Yeah.

Great Britain?

-What are they called?

-Do you want to move on?

-Move on.

These three sports stars all share their surnames with things

you might order at an Indian restaurant.

LAUGHTER

-Lager.

-Buna.

Lager, yes! Poppadom? Poppadom?

Lime pickle?

Tikka? Tikka?

-Yes, Tikka.

-Buna.

Madras? Vindaloo?

WHISTLE BLOWS

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Everyone's favourite little starter, Baji.

Oh, Baji!

The only other one which you were struggling with,

the curling medals - Canada. We were looking for Canada.

But still another great start. You're level.

Both teams are on seven.

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OK, teams, it's Sports Action now. Matt, you're up first.

You'll need to keep a close eye on the people you see.

Back right, tough to get there.

Judged to perfection.

Now, then.

Good try, brilliant goal.

Oh, well, she gives it a little bit of a rattle

but understandably delighted.

CHEERING

That is a magnificent try.

Merlin the Magician couldn't have done it any better.

-Well, first, you need to get as many names of the stars.

-OK.

The cricketer, whichever one...

Graeme Smith was the batsman and Monty Panesar was the bowler.

OK, so, it's the batsman, so, yeah.

-Golfer was Kevin Na.

-Right.

High jumper was Isobel Pooley.

That's three.

-The footballer was Nicolas...

-Anelka.

-OK.

Tennis player... Ivan Lendl? Ivan Lendl.

-And the rugby player was my grandad.

-It was!

-Ieuan Evans.

-It was. You've got to explain now.

On the Lions tour of '97, cos I was the youngest, I was Son,

Keith Wood was bald as well, so he was Father

-and Ieuan's just very old, so...

-LAUGHTER

..he was known as Grandad, yeah. Ieuan Evans.

So using the initials of the people featured,

you need to put them together to form a sport.

Graeme Smith...

..Ivan Lendl...

..Ieuan Evans.

-And then N-A for...

-N-A?

-Anelka.

I-P.

Oh, my goodness me, what is that?

Oh, look, there's an I-N-G there, look.

-There's a skiing.

-Oh, yes, yes, yes!

-What is it?

So we've got...

LAUGHTER

P and A and L, I, N...

Something skiing.

-I was looking for...

-Oh!

-Maybe it isn't skiing.

No. Here we go, look, here we go.

-Alpine.

-Alpine skiing.

-There you go.

-Happy with that?

Yeah.

-Go on, buddy, take that.

-Alpine skiing?

Is the right answer. Well done.

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-Same rules apply.

-Yes.

Keep an eye out for the sports stars you see.

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Her speed over the last 200 metres is incredible.

What a great last two minutes by the youngster.

Ake with the throw. Deeney managed to head it off.

Spins and scores! And Watford are ahead in the Emirates.

Nelson with the pick-up.

Straight out...

Very well worth try by Newcastle Falcons.

Short ball has just helped it on its way.

Who can blame this fella?

He's got runs all over the world on all kinds of surfaces.

What was his name? What have we got there, boys? What have we got?

-Have we got a boxer?

-Have we got a boxer?

I think it was... David Barnes I had.

David Barnes?

-No.

-David Barnes?

-I don't know.

Now, listen, what have we got? Let's go from there first.

-Rafa.

-Rafa Nadal.

-Sonia O'Sullivan.

Sonia O'Sullivan.

-Jamie Noon.

-Jamie Noon.

And I'm out.

Football, Watford, that was Troy Deeney

and what's the other one up front for Watford?

-No idea.

-No idea? What's that? "N-I"?

LAUGHTER

What's his initials?

Right, and you reckon the boxer was...? David Barnes?

-To be honest with you...

-No, you're not sure.

Olympics, Olympics, was it Olympics?

It were Olympics.

And then the cricketer. What was his name?

Little number four for Pakistan.

Erm...

Oh, what was his name? Retired about three or four years ago.

I think it's Mohammad.

But then he changed it a couple of times.

What do we need to get anyway?

The letters need to form an international sports star.

Right, hold on, what have we got?

And an M for...

Not Mohammad Asif.

The M is right.

Mohammad...

Oh, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it!

I've got it, Mohammad Yousuf, Mohammad Yousuf.

Is that Y?

LAUGHTER

That is a Y. Yes, yes.

That is Mohammad Yousuf. Right. Now we need a sports...

-Well, we're going to struggle with the boxing, yeah?

-Yeah.

International sports star. It's two points

or one point if you get a clue.

Ron, Ron, Rooney?

Wayne Rooney? Oh, no, it's got an S in it. Er...

We're going to have to get a clue, aren't we?

-Do you want a clue?

-We'll have to get a clue.

-You're going to get a clue.

Was world number one for a total of 268 weeks.

-In what?

-LAUGHTER

-International sports star.

-World number one for 286 weeks?

-268.

-268 weeks.

-So sports where you have a world number one for that long.

Tennis? Tennis?

Darts.

Maybe it's tennis.

Oh, could be.

Oh, boom!

Boom-diddly-ooms.

We haven't got half the letters.

-No.

-All right.

-I'll give you the other names, then.

-Oh, go on.

-You can't have a point, obviously.

-No.

-We've got to move on.

It was, Miguel Cotto was the boxer.

-Oh.

-Miguel Cotto.

-And Odion Ighalo.

-Odion Ighalo!

That would have helped.

An O and an I would really have helped.

-O-I?

-Yeah.

-Erm...pfft.

LAUGHTER

-World number one for a total of 268 weeks.

-No, still not got it.

-Jimmy Connors.

-Jimmy Connors!

-Jimmy Connors, we were looking for.

No chance. Unlucky, team. Unlucky.

That's all right.

End of the round, Phil's still on seven, Matt in front on nine.

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Now, Home Or Away. Kelly, coming to you first.

-Er, I think it's going to be home.

-Home.

Who finished fourth in the heptathlon

at the World Championships in Beijing

a year after winning European silver in the same event in Zurich?

Oh, my...

-Don't like to hear that, to be honest.

-No, this might be a first.

Whoa-whoa-whoa.

-I have no idea.

-Let's have...

-I don't think you'll know.

I know the country she's from.

No, I'm going to help you in some way, shape or form.

OK, I've got it, I've got it. Beijing from last year?

-Mm-hmm.

-Yup.

Is it Laura Ikauniece? Ika-nice?

No! SHE GASPS

-Stop the press!

-LAUGHTER

Is that the first one you've ever got wrong?

Ever got one wrong, ever got one wrong.

-Go, go on, tell me.

-It was the Dutch athlete Nadine Broersen.

Oh, Nadine Broersen?

Yeah. Kell, over to you. Home question?

Come on, we can get this.

-Home.

-OK.

-Come on.

Which former world super-lightweight champion won the vacant

WBC welterweight title in January, six months after beating

Paulie Malignaggi in his first fight in the division?

-Danny Garcia.

-Yes, it was, well done.

The American Danny Garcia. APPLAUSE

So, James, home or away? Home question?

I'll go home, please.

Who, in June last year, scored a century on test debut

and followed it up by scoring double hundreds against both

the West Indies and New Zealand?

-Double hundreds.

-Oh, my...

-So who played...? This is last year, Sue?

-Yup.

(Adam Voges.)

(Voges? Australian?)

-Yeah, you know, he played on a team with me.

-You've played with him?

-Yeah.

He scored 100 against West Indies on debut, didn't he?

-In June.

-In June, yes.

Adam Voges.

Yes, it was, the Australian batsman, well done.

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So, Mike, home or away?

-Home, please, Sue.

-Right.

Which player scored a hat-trick of tries against Uruguay

on his World Cup debut in 2015

and in his next game scored in the Six Nations against Scotland?

Who started...?

For England?

I was only at the game(!)

-Right.

-Commentated on the game.

-Were you?

-LAUGHTER

Yeah.

Slightly embarrassing!

I remember watching.

Oh, sorry, Kruis, George Kruis.

The second row. Crewe?

No. LAUGHTER

For Sco...?

He scored a hat-trick against Uruguay.

But that was his debut against...

No. Forget all of the debut bits and pieces. Just - the answer would be...?

-A winger.

-Correct.

Watson was my first person but it won't be that.

So the other one was...?

-Jack Knowell.

-It was, Jack Nowell. Yeah.

-I didn't know that was his debut.

-Yeah, Jonny May and Watson.

-Oh, OK.

-So, moving on.

The captains now.

It's time to see how well you can read each other's minds.

Oh.

-What?

-Yes.

-Phil...

-Yes.

..I'll ask Matt a question and he'll write his answer down.

You have to try and guess what he's gone for.

Will he go for the obvious answer or try and double bluff you?

-Right, OK.

-Oh, I hate this with a passion.

Question one, Matt.

Write down one of the four countries

that has won the Wooden Spoon

in the Six Nations since 2000.

OK. So, it would be...

One of the four countries...

-Those, those...

-..that have won the Wooden Spoon

in the Six Nations since 2000.

..those...

and those.

OK.

What's he going to write?

-OK, they're the two...

-Givens.

-They're the two obvious ones...

-Yep.

-..aren't they?

-I'm thinking of going for the other one.

-But the other two...

-Ah, the other two.

-We've only got one. We've only got one.

LAUGHTER

-We've only got one.

-No, you haven't.

-We have. We've only got one.

-You haven't.

-There's only one.

-I'm telling you right now,

it actually doesn't matter what we write down

because Tuffers will get it.

LAUGHTER

I can...

I can pretty much guarantee,

however we think about it, he has this...

It's as if he jumps into my body

and to the end of my hand,

and writes it for me.

Will you go for the obvious

or not so obvious?

Write it down on your tablet when you're ready.

Yeah, definitely.

I definitely think I'm going for the obvious...

so I'll go for the non-obvious,

which they don't actually know.

-Yeah, OK. That one.

-Surely Tinds will know.

No, he won't.

He didn't even know the England winger

who scored a hat-trick in the World Cup.

LAUGHTER

He's not going to know who got the Wooden Spoon. Come on.

Are you locked in?

-OK.

-Right. It's locked in.

So, Phil, you've been going round...

What have you...? Were you going...?

-Have you come to your answer?

-Well, we've got three. We've got three.

-We're not sure of the fourth.

-Not looking at it.

Who are your three?

We've got Italy, Scotland and France.

Sue, we are going to go...

Sc...

F...

LAUGHTER

France.

-I don't believe it!

-LAUGHTER

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I'm in there.

I'm in there. I'm in there.

I can't believe it.

I'm in there.

I'll tell you, there's loads of room.

There is LOADS of room in there, I tell you.

LAUGHTER

I am so worried for you, Matt.

I'm so worried for you.

Good luck.

I want you to write down one of the four male British boxers

that have won gold at the Summer Olympics since 2000.

One of the four male British boxers

that have won gold at the Summer Olympics since 2000.

Oh, yes!

Yes.

Yes.

Now...

-Have you written one in, Tuffers, already?

-Yeah.

-Oh, you've gone for it already.

-The trick is not...

It's not HOW we get in.

We can get in, all right?

LAUGHTER

But it's trying to find the right place...

LAUGHTER

..that is the tricky part.

Yeah, the wrong turn, you're in a very dark place.

A little bit of a maze in there.

Lots of dead ends.

Right, OK.

How many have you got?

-How many are there? Four?

-Mm-hmm.

I think my team have got four.

Oh, OK.

-Who are they?

-Audley...

He's not going to look at you now.

Audley Harrison. Joshua...

Anthony Joshua.

Luke Campbell. James DeGale.

They're thinking, "We haven't put that down."

-He's not even going to look at you now.

-Has he written it down?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-He's locked in.

-I'm done. I'm in.

I'm telling you, that will be the rogue-est one.

-That would be the...?

-Rogue-est one. The outsider.

-That will be the rogue.

-Yeah.

-OK. We'll go along with that.

-Which one would be the rogue, do you think, James?

-Don't.

-No, no, no. I'm not...

-Yeah, exactly.

Now, Sue's trying to jump in on that

-cos she knows if we...

-He's locked in, we can't change it.

Yeah, I'm not going to say it.

But hold on. You know, Sue, what happens.

I mention a name

and then they cotton on to the name that we're mentioning,

and make me guilty for not saying the name if I say another name.

LAUGHTER

Do you not think that you think...

-about this too much?

-A little bit.

LAUGHTER

-A little bit.

-Go on. Go on. Go on.

-A little bit.

-Who you going for?

My team...

think that Tuffers, cos he's gone straightaway,

he's gone with the obvious of Anthony Joshua. All right?

The rogue is Luke Campbell...

and when I listed the names,

and I said Luke Campbell,

Tuffers had a little bit of a twitch and so did...

So did Tinds, as if...

-As if...

-We didn't know it.

LAUGHTER

-As I says.

-However...

I've fallen for that before...

..and they've put Campbell.

Do you know what I mean?

So I've stupidly and openly said,

"Well, so they're not going to do Campbell," and I've dismissed that,

and all of a sudden Campbell has appeared on the screen.

You were both happy with that one, so I think you two should get

all the credit and I'll get all the blame, quite rightly.

And you are coming for...?

If they go Campbell then everyone laughs at me,

I'm quite happy with it.

-If they go Joshua, you guys are the heroes.

-What are you going for?

Anthony Joshua.

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I thought you'd done it!

You said him about five times!

Unbelievable.

-Yeah, but you spelt it wrong.

-I know!

-How did I spell it?

-It's got a P in it. Camp-bell.

I said that the first time. There you go.

-No, but it's got a B in it as well.

-Oh, it's got a P and a B in it?

LAUGHTER

Camp-bell.

End of the round, a little closer now -

Phil has moved onto 9, Matt still in front on 10.

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And, Matt, your team are up first. Who's gone fishing?

MUSIC: Fish by Mr Scruff

Argh!

-That's tough. We hardly saw him!

-Yeah, we didn't even see him.

Lots of Canada geese,

and something to do with the boot coming out.

Everyone laughed over there when the boot came out instead of a fish,

-so that might have been a clue.

-Right.

No.

Well, if we didn't... Well, we didn't see his face.

-He was married, he had a scar on his finger.

-Stubble.

-He had a scar on his finger.

-He bit his nails.

-So it had to be to do with...

-His jeans were shocking.

-They weren't fitted.

-They were terrible.

-No? No, you don't like it, do you? You don't like it.

-Yeah.

-Well, who was he talking about?

-He wasn't...

-Is he quite tall?

-Yeah.

-We haven't got anyone else, have we?

-I think that's a good shout.

-Likes fishing.

-Yeah.

-That's a good shout. Go for it.

-We'll go with Harmy.

-You're going with Steve Harmison, are you?

Let's see if you're right.

Yes, well done.

The England fast bowler Steve Harmison.

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-Did you have that, Tuffers?

-Yeah.

-Yes, easy.

Right, will you get this, though? Who is this taking things off road?

MUSIC: Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg

MUSIC: That Golden Rule by Biffy Clyro

Yeah.

-Yeah?

-I literally just thought the same thing when you said that.

-Mick Fitzgerald.

-OK.

Of course it is, the Grand National winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald.

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Well done to both teams in that round.

Just one point in it still - Phil is on 11, Matt in front on 12.

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We're ending tonight's show with a Sprint Finish.

Who will be victorious?

Phil, as you're trailing, you get to go first.

Shout 'em out, boys, come on. Come on!

Come on.

Just keep shouting out anything and we'll move on when you get it right.

-OK, Tuffers.

-OK, let's have a look at the first one.

-OK.

-Ready?

-Time starts now.

-If I'm a boxer and I'm getting beaten up, you're a...?

-On the ropes.

-Yeah.

-Rope-a dope?

-No...

Oh, move on, move on, move on.

OK, not first, second, third - what do you get? What colour?

-Not gold, silver...

-Bronze.

-Yes.

-Yeah, and it's round your neck.

-It's a...

-Bronze medal.

-Yes, correct.

-Tottenham nickname.

-Erm...

What are they nicknamed?

You ride them on your boots, on your boots!

And you're riding on a horse and you want to kick them along,

what have you got...?

-Spurs!

-Yes!

-OK, yellow card in rugby - you play in the...

-Sin bin.

-Yeah.

Oh, your missus does it.

-Equestrian.

-Yes!

Oh, the middleweight boxer, erm...

It's not raining, it's not sunshine, it's the...

-The reigning...

-Oh, he's brilliant.

-Cloudy?

-Mayweather!

-Yes!

Erm, it's a... You're on...

I don't know what to say.

-Oh, God!

-WHISTLE BLOWS

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Oh, God.

I got actually mesmerised in your Spurs.

The effort threw me.

The effort! I wasn't letting Spurs go.

I wasn't letting Spurs go.

-The one you missed on the first one was against the ropes.

-Yeah.

You just got the ropes. But, anyway, you scored 5.

Not bad, not bad, boys.

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So, Daws, 5 to win.

Right.

-Yeah, good luck.

-Erm...

-Time starts now.

Erm, uh, erm...

In tennis, if you're not in the tournament and you get an invite...

-Wild card?

-Yes!

-Good shout.

-Well done.

Oh, athletics, really good and they win a bit of jewellery.

-Diamond League.

-Yes, yes! Yes.

Erm, there's one delivery and there's the second one.

I haven't got time to do six

but eventually I'm going to get to six and there's no runs.

-No balls.

-No, there's no runs in the over.

-Erm, a maiden.

-That's right, that's right.

Erm...

The German for Arsenal, the German fellow who passes it.

-Assists everywhere.

-Ozil.

-Brilliant player.

-Yeah!

England and Scotland in rugby play for the...

-The Calcutta Cup.

-Oh, my goodness me! Yes!

-Whoo!

Erm, not fine leg but the other one.

-Third man.

-Yes.

-Oh, come on!

German golfer, won the Masters.

Slightly old fella, dodgy 'tache.

-Oh!

-Little ponytail, grey ponytail.

-Oh, not...

Yeah, come on, you know the cricket!

Cricket, great opener for Australia.

-Yeah, erm...

-WHISTLE BLOWS

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-Bernhard Langer.

-Oh, I was thinking of him!

And you needed 5 to win.

You scored 6 - you're the winners tonight!

Well done.

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Well, it was very close all the way through.

A huge thank you to our guests -

to Kelly and James, to Mike and Kell.

The three of us will be back soon.

Until then, goodbye from us all. Bye-bye.

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