Episode 33 A Question of Sport

On the show this evening, American football star Jason Bell,

squash world number one Laura Massaro,

Lions front row forward Alex Corbisiero

and Premier League striker turned pundit, Iain Dowie.

Let's get things started on A Question Of Sport.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello, and welcome to A Question Of Sport.

Our guests tonight are all used to that winning feeling

but only one team can come out on top. Who will it be?

Let's start things off with the One Minute Round.

-Matt, your team are up first.

-OK.

-Happy? Here we go.

In 2015, which male athlete won world 5,000 metres

for a third consecutive time?

-Mo Farah.

-Yes.

Which team did the Carolina Panthers

beat in this year's NFC Championship game?

-Who did they just beat?

-They beat the, um...

-Atlanta.

-No, no.

-No, no, Cardinals.

-They beat the Cardinals.

Yes, they did. Yes.

Here's an anagram. Who is this Grand Slam winning tennis player?

-Boris Becker.

-Yes.

In 2011, which British squash player lost in her only world open final?

-Nicol David.

-No.

Anyone else? Move on, move on. Think about it, think about it.

Which English football stadium do these star's surnames make up?

-White Hart Lane.

-Yes.

Which American golfer has finished runner-up at the US Open

a record six times?

-Phil Mickelson.

-Yes. These three sports stars all share their names

with words that might come before door.

Open. Shut.

Uh..

-Blue.

-Closed.

-Yellow.

-Green.

-Green.

-WHISTLE

-Oh, my goodness me.

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-Kevin Trapp.

-Oh!

-Johan Barne.

-Oh!

And Brandon Stage.

Stage! Oh, my goodness.

And the British squash player - Jenny Duncalf.

Five points scored.

-Right, Tuffers.

-Yes, shout them out, boys, when you know them.

Great Britain beat which country

in the semifinal of the Davis Cup last year?

-Argentina.

-No.

-Belgium. Belarus.

-No. Do you want to move on?

-Move on, yeah.

Which Premiership Rugby side play their home games at

the recreation ground?

-Bath Rugby?

-Yes. Which motor racing star do these surnames make?

-Johnson.

-Jensen.

-Jenson Button.

-Yes. Who, this season,

broke David James' Premier League record for the most clean sheets?

-Petr Cech.

-Yes. Here is an anagram.

Who is this Major winning golfer?

-Golfer.

-Nick Faldo?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Christian Kist, Stephen Bunting and John Part

have all been world champions in which sport?

-Darts.

-Yes. These three sports stars all share the names with words

that might come after window.

-Cleaner.

-Yes.

-Yes! Great shout. Shopping.

Windows. Steamy.

Steamy?

LAUGHTER

-Shopping's close.

-Window...

-Shopping's close.

-Pane? Pane.

-Window shop.

-Pane.

-Pane.

-Tim Paine. Yeah.

Chris... Window...

Window, curtains. What's it called?

WHISTLE Oh, no, no.

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Shopping was close.

-It is Shoppa.

-Oh!

Window Shoppa.

And Great Britain in the Davis Cup in the semifinals?

Australia. But well done.

End of the opening round.

Matt is on five.

Phil's team in front on seven.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It's Sports Action time now and, Matt, your team are going first.

Pens at the ready. Here we go.

To Fernando's feet.

And finished!

It's his first Manchester City goal.

Oh, again, superb.

Wasn't that a brilliant finish?

10.92 the time. Very close.

Jamie O'Callaghan.

Five metres, then, from this line.

He's over! No problem.

I said we'd soon see him, there he is.

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-59.

Absolutely perfect yorker.

Bears touchdown...

OK, you saw seven sports stars there.

Did we?

For each one you name correctly, you earn a point.

Be careful, if you get one wrong, you will lose all of the points.

So start with the people you know best.

Does anyone know...?

Matt Forte?

-You're going with that and it is correct, yes.

-Good man, good man.

Straight in.

The squash player was Rachael Grinham.

-Yes. Correct again.

-Good start, good start.

So that's two. You're definitely going on.

-Gail Devers.

-Yes. Correct, well done.

-Get in there.

-So that is three points. You're definitely going on.

-That's three.

But we're going to go with Sam Tomkins.

Correct again. Takes you to four.

Cricket, football and snooker.

Snooker...no.

No.

LAUGHTER

PHONE RINGS

Can you answer that?

-Is that me?

-Oh, don't say it's you!

LAUGHTER

It IS you!

LAUGHTER AND CHEERING

Get them on, get them on!

-Phil, Phil!

-'Hello.'

-Hello.

Phil, we're just filming Question Of Sport at the moment.

-Hi, Phil!

-There's Sue over there.

-Hi!

-'Who's this?'

Yeah, he doesn't know who he's called.

LAUGHTER

-'It looks like Matt Dawson.'

-It IS Matt Dawson,

yeah, how are you doing?

You've sat on your phone and called me by mistake, haven't you?

'That's right!'

Phil, I'm going to have to love you and leave you.

Say goodbye to everyone. Say bye, Phil.

AUDIENCE: Bye!

-Bye, Phil. Bye, Phil. See you later, mate.

-'Ta-ta, mate.'

Ta-ta.

His wife came in the back of the picture there as well!

Sorry. Sorry.

-So, four.

-Snooker, no.

Snooker, no. OK.

Now, the football was Man City.

I've written down Bonie, Boney...

Not too sure. We can't lose all the points.

The cricket, Plunkett.

Are you going with it?

-Are you going...?

-Go on, go with Liam Plunkett.

Well done, you've now got five points.

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I can't... I can't gamble with the football one.

Don't do it.

-No?

-No.

-Happy?

-We'll take five.

-Yeah.

-We'll take five, Sue.

-Five is on the board.

-Who would you have guessed?

-Probably would've gone with Bony.

Wilfried? Would've been the right answer, yeah.

-It would have been the right answer.

-It's OK, it's OK.

-But it was a risk.

-And snooker, it was Mark Allen.

-It was Mark Allen.

-But well done there. Five points scored. OK, Phil?

-Yeah.

-Your team.

Let's have a look.

Well played.

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Sprinting towards the line now.

She backs up that team pursuit gold

with an individual gold as well.

A little chip, a little pitch and backspin.

That's how he does it. He's a little terrier.

Interception and it's going to be a try for Scotland.

Interception again, scoring again.

And Scotland are level.

Double 4.

That's the one!

Oh! I know some of them and I don't know them.

-It's tricky, that, isn't it?

-Let's just go for the bankers, first.

I've got absolutely nothing written down on here.

LAUGHTER

-Right. Who's that?

-That's a tennis player.

-Are you sure?

-Let's just keep that in the locker.

-You're making me doubt myself, now.

-All right.

-Let's just get...

-Bolasie, yeah.

-Yeah? 100%?

-Yeah.

-Crystal Palace?

-Yeah, absolutely.

-Yeah? All right, then.

-Sue?

-Bolasie.

-Yes. Yannick Bolasie, well done, one point.

-Well done.

APPLAUSE

We've got the golfer, definitely. Haven't we? Corey Pavin.

-Yeah. Definitely.

-Corey Pavin. Golf.

Two points. Well done.

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-Scotland?

-I know...

It's not...

one of the backs for Scotland.

It's not Lamont, he's bigger.

-Yeah. It's not Ian.

-It's not them.

-All right, so we might pass...

-We might just hold...

-No, no, no, it's the other guy.

-I know, I forget, I always forget her name.

-I used to know her.

It's the...the...cyclist.

Always forget her name.

What else was there? Oh, darts!

-Gary Anderson.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Anderson, darts.

-Yes. Gary Anderson. Takes you to three.

Berdych!

-You reckon?

-Yeah, I do.

-You reckon it's Berdych?

-I do.

-Let's have it, go on.

-Tomas Berdych.

-Correct.

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And it's a shame because I know them.

Oh, what's his name, the runner?!

Oh, it's not Gardner, it's not...

-Oh.

-The cyclist...

And I know the cyclist's name!

SHE GIGGLES

Her name is Ross...

-Ross...

-No, it's not.

Rosalynn. Rosalynn!

Definitely not Rosalynn.

-Isn't it Rosalynn?

-No, no. Can't remember the name.

-Rosalynn!

-You're on four points. Are you going to risk it?

-Shall we stick? Stick?

-Stick?

-Stick.

-Oh, I love it. Stick!

Four points. That's good.

I'll let Dawes... You know the cyclist, don't you?

Rowsell.

-Rowsell!

-What an idiot!

-Rowsell, Rowsell!

-Joanna Rowsell.

-Not Rosalynn!

-The runner, did you get the runner?

Laura got the runner.

-Yeah.

-Dai Greene.

-Dai Greene!

It's easy when you tell them, isn't it?!

-Oh, of course it is!

-And rugby?

-I can't think of the rugby player.

It was Tommy Seymour.

-Seymour!

-And you're in the lead, because at the end of the round,

Matt's on 10, Phil's in front on 11!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now it's Home Or Away, so, Jason, coming to you first.

-(Home question.)

-Home question.

-Home.

Who in 2015 became only the second rookie since 2000

to score receiving, punt return and kick return touchdowns

in a season when he caught a 43-yard pass from Russell Wilson?

I think I know his last name...

-Last name?

-I know the last name.

-That's good enough for us.

That's fine. Lockett. Yes, it is, Tyler Lockett.

-Well done.

-Tyler Lockett.

Alex, over to you. Home or away?

-Home.

-Come on, mate, come on.

Which forward played his first international in four years

in February 2015 and in his next game

became the oldest try scorer in Six Nations history?

-I think I know who it is.

-Go on. Who is it? Go on.

-Nick Easter.

-Yeah, it is.

-I'm pretty sure it's Nick Easter.

-It was Nick Easter. Yes.

Well done. Scored for England against Italy at the age of 36.

-Laura.

-Home, please.

-Home.

Who was the only woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal

in all three events in 2010

before winning mixed doubles bronze for Australia in Glasgow?

So, who won gold in Delhi?

It was Nicole.

Jenny won silver.

-Kasey won bronze.

-Oh, I like it, like your thinking now.

Who's the Aussie out of that?

Kasey, but that was just the individual, so she would have...

Won the bronze medal at Glasgow?

-Mm-hm.

-Yeah. Go with that, then.

-Yeah.

-Kasey Brown.

-Well done, yes, it was.

-Yes!

-Correct.

Ian, home or away?

-You fancy away?

-I do, yeah.

-Well, but...

One point, and we're in the lead.

-What're you like in your football, though?

-Rubbish.

-Oh, are you?

-All right, we'll go home.

-Go on, then.

Who, last season, scored 20 league goals to help his side

gain promotion, and by Christmas 2015 had become the first player

from his club to reach double figures in the Premier League?

Who got promoted last year?

-Bournemouth.

-Who, last season, scored 20 league goals to help

his side game promotion, And by Christmas 2015 had become the first

player from his club to reach double figures in the Premier League?

-It's him, innit?

-It's him.

-Right, is it?

-Yeah, it's him.

Vardy.

No!

Ooh! For Watford.

-Oh.

-Troy Deeney.

-Troy Deeney.

-No.

-Ighalo?

Ighalo. Ohh, ouch!

OK, not to worry. Right.

For this next game, we asked a selection of the general public

to help us fill in some sporting blanks.

OK? Teams, you will need to guess what words they went for.

So, Matt, this one is for you.

Have a think, and then give me the three words you want to go for.

Olympic...blank.

Did you ask this audience?

-Not this audience.

-Oh. Can we ask this audience?

You can ask this audience if you want, absolutely.

-What would you go with?

-AUDIENCE OFFERS OPINIONS

Rings? Games?

-Gold.

-Gold.

-Gold. Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on! Hold on a minute.

-Gold.

Gold. Games.

-Medals.

-Stadium.

So, everybody in unison...

..fill in the phrase. Olympic...

AUDIENCE SHOUT VARIOUS WORDS

That was just a blur.

What did we hear most of? Games?

-Gold.

-You heard Gold?

-I heard gold.

-I like Stadium.

-Olympic stadium.

-I like gold.

-You like gold.

-I like gold.

-I bet you like gold, eh?

-Yeah.

-It's great stuff.

-NFL - the bling everywhere!

We were young, you know?

What would you... Your favourite?

-I like athlete.

-Olympic athlete.

-I'm happy to go with those two.

-I feel good about them.

-Yeah?

-Mm-hm.

-Is that all right?

Olympic athlete, young man, what do you think?

What would you go with, young man?

-Games.

-Oh, we don't have it, OK.

So, we're going to bank games in, 100%.

-Athlete.

-Athlete. And the other one?

Gold.

Happy with that? What was your name, young man?

-Ben.

-Ben. Are you happy with Ben's selection?

Yup. Ben, come and sit here a minute, please.

Sit here a minute. Come and sit here, Ben.

Have you got your three?

You've got your three, tell Sue.

-Games.

-Yeah.

-Athlete.

-Yeah.

-Gold.

-Thank you very much, Ben. Thank you.

Good man, Ben, well done.

Good stuff.

Let's reveal.

-Games!

-Good start! Good start!

That was the most popular answer.

Second most popular answer...

Ooh!

-What?!

-And third most popular answer...

-Oh.

-AUDIENCE: Ohh!

-One point.

-Ben, you said games, though, didn't you, Ben?

-You said games? Ben said games. Well done, Ben.

-Ben said games.

-Well done.

-Well done, Ben.

-Still scored there, that's good. OK, Phil.

-What have we got?

Which ones do you think were the most popular here?

Final...blank.

-Score.

-Whistle.

-Score.

-Score.

-Whistle.

-Countdown.

-Final countdown.

THEY HUM FINAL COUNTDOWN SONG

Final score, final whistle, final lap?

-Final furlong?

-Final furlong, very good.

-Whistle!

-Round.

Final round.

Final hurdle.

-Whistle!

-I think score, whistle, bankers.

-Bankers.

-Final whistle, final score...

-What are you going with?

-We're going with whistle, and score,

and then what? And then what do you reckon for the last one?

Result. Final results?

I think you got result on that.

It's that or furlong. Furlong hands up?

-AUDIENCE: No!

-Round? Hands up.

Final round, yeah.

-Result?

-Round.

Oh, it's round. It's gone round.

-Final round.

-Round or furlong.

-Kick? Final kick?

-No.

LAUGHTER

-Round, Sue.

-OK.

-Final round.

-Right, let's have a look.

I bet it's furlong.

-First - whistle!

-Yes!

Second most popular...

-Score!

-CHEERING

Come on, round. Come on, round.

And here we go...

Furlong!

LAUGHTER

The only one! You were the only one who said it!

I knew it was that.

LAUGHTER

At the end of that round, Matt is

now on 13, Phil in front on 14.

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It's an Observation Round now and both teams will be playing along.

You've got to watch very closely,

you'll need to count the number of people you see competing,

so you are looking for the number of people you see competing.

It is tricky. Here we go.

MUSIC: Counting Stars by One Republic

What?!

LAUGHTER

Have you... You've written nothing down! There's nothing there!

He's counting in his head.

Right. OK, let's have a little count up here.

THEY MUTTER

You didn't do anything!

Panicked.

Oh, that's good, no, that's... That's all right.

-What do you think?

-What did you have?

-I had 70.

THEY WHISPER

-How many?!

-75.

-Oh, my goodness me. What is going on here?

I've just got two different numbers for that.

-At the very least we've got...

-TUFFERS:

-Oh, yeah!

Hold on, there was, yeah! Oh, we forgot that. Hold on.

How many was there? There was... Yeah, go on.

I forgot about that, I forgot about that.

Eight...

Are they fours?

-No, they're eights.

-Were they fours or eights?

It's either fours or eights. Definitely eights.

-Yeah, so that's...

-So there were eight eights, we'll say 64.

There wasn't eight eights!

-Was there eight?

-Yeah.

-Boats?

-Yeah.

-No.

-What do you mean, no?

-Was there eight?

-How many...

In finals they have eight lanes, don't they?

Well, put six down, six eights, 48.

-Six eights, 48. What, on top of that?

-I would.

-That's what I...

-I just didn't even have that down.

I didn't even have that down.

-Whoo!

-Yeah, go on.

He's the boss, he is. He's the boss.

-Go on, we're in, logged in.

-Right, we're logged in.

Let's reveal the scores.

76.

LAUGHTER

I don't know!

-What were you watching? MATT:

-135!

-What did you change from?

-What? 80.

-We had 80.

-We had 80!

We had 81.

-MATT:

-Where did you find 55 people?!

The rowing specialist.

The rowing specialist!

Steve Redgrave over here.

There were three boats of four.

LAUGHTER

I want to see that back up.

-Get it back up!

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There were three boats of four!

-We had 80 logged in, we were logged in.

-81.

Well, you would have got two points for who was closest to the score.

If you'd have gone with 80, still wouldn't have been right,

because guess what?

76 is the right answer!

APPLAUSE

End of the round, and the lead has changed.

Phil is still on 14, Matt in front on 15!

APPLAUSE

And, Matt, who is this auditioning for Miami Vice?

-Did you see much there?

-No!

I mean, a little bit of ginge, with the stubble, yeah?

Bit of ginge?

Dressing up. Wearing a wig.

Flamboyant.

I mean, this fellow is...

There is nothing this kid won't do.

-Nothing.

-Yeah, that's true.

-Shall we go with that one?

-Yeah.

-Iwan Thomas.

Let's have a look.

Yes, the European champion, Iwan Thomas.

APPLAUSE

Well done. Phil, who is being given the run-around?

# All dressed in black

# With silver buttons all down her back

# High, low, tipsy toe

# She broke a needle and she can't sew

# Walkin' the dog

# Just walkin' the dog

# Ah-ha-ha

# And if you don't know how to do it

# We'll show you how to walk the dog

# Come on, come on, come on now, boy

# Ask your mother for 15 cents

# And see an elephant jump the fence

# He'll jump so high, he'll touch the sky... #

Who is that?

Oh, I think you've cracked it.

-Oh, yes.

-Who is it?

Might well be.

-Good as anything, isn't it?

-Yeah, go for it.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Lewis Smith.

-OK.

-Yeah.

Let's see.

Come on.

Oh-ho-ho-ho! Yes, the Olympic medallist Lewis Smith.

APPLAUSE

And you needed those points to keep you in it.

End of the round, Phil has moved on to 16, Matt in front on 17.

APPLAUSE

We are ending the show with a sprint finish.

It's still all to play for.

Tuffers, as you're one behind, you get to go first.

-Set the standard.

-Come on, come on!

-Come on.

-Have you done your warm up routine?

-Yes.

-All right.

-Yes.

-OK.

-OK.

-OK. There's your first word. Off you go.

When you grab the bloke and you throw him over your shoulder,

-Nippon is, what's the sport?

-Judo.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Erm... Oh! The gymnast, gymnast,

British girl gymnast.

-Beth Tweddle.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Oh, German football team.

-Football...

-Bayern Munich.

-Monchengladbach.

No, it's like, in the woods!

-Wooo!

-Dusseldorf.

-Woo!

-Dusseldorf.

-Wooo!

Woooaaar!

The football team. Move on. Move on.

Oh, in rugby if you can't see your...

-Opposite man?

-Yeah, if you don't go that way, you go down the...

-Blindside!

-Blindside!

-Yes, yes.

In F1, they all begin at the...

-Pole.

-Starting grid.

-Yes, yes.

-Oh.

-Come on!

-You're on the bench

and you come on and score a hat-trick, you're called...

-Super sub!

-Yes. Yes.

Golfer, women's best golfer.

Oh, erm...

-Steve...

-Davis?

-Yes.

-Laura Davis?

-Yes! Yes.

-Good.

-Rugby!

-Bayern Munich.

-SA Rugby!

-No.

South Africa, Springboks!

-Yes!

-WHISTLE BLOWS

Got it!

Just in time.

-What a good team!

-APPLAUSE

-Wolfsburg was the...

-Wooo!

Woooo!

-You scored seven points.

-Oh, not bad, not bad!

-Good score, good score.

-Not bad. Oh, Wolfsburg cost you.

So if you match seven, you win, Daws. Up you come.

All right. Come on, here we go! Come on!

OK. Ready to start. Off you go.

OK, American football team up in Boston.

-Patriots.

-Yep. Yep.

-New England Patriots.

-Yes, that's the one. That's the one. Oh...

English squash, male, great player, won everything.

-Nick Matthews.

-Yes. Yes.

Oh...

Ice hockey, massive trophy.

-Stanley Cup.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Oh, there's two minutes to go in the NFL, and you have a...

-Two minutes at the end of the game...

-Overtime.

No, but two minutes before the end of the game,

there's a certain cut-off, and there's a...

-Two-minute warning?

-There's a little...

-Time-out.

-Yes.

-Yes, yes!

Oh, you've won six-love, six-love, six-love, therefore you've won in...

-Straight sets.

-Yes.

-You have.

And not baseball, but...

And not hard, but...

-Softball.

-Softball.

-Yes, yes!

-Oh, swimmer, legend, loads of medals,

-American.

-Ian Thorpe. Er...

-Michael Phelps.

-Yes.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Touch down in the...

-Endzone.

-Yes!

Yes. Not the Olympics, but the other one every four years.

-Commonwealth.

-Yeah.

-Commonwealth Games.

-Yes!

-Yes, yes!

WHISTLE BLOWS APPLAUSE

Come on!

What a team!

-Come on!

-Well done.

Commonwealth Games just in time.

You needed seven to win. You scored...

nine, you're the winners!

APPLAUSE

It was certainly entertaining. Well done to Matt's team.

A huge thank you to all of our guests here tonight.

The three of us, we will see you very soon.

Until then, bye-bye.

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