Episode 6 A Question of Sport

Tonight's sporting line-up is...

A rising star of English golf,

Eddie Pepperell.

800m specialist Jenny Meadows...

French rugby forward Serge Betsen...

And Premier League midfielder

Kevin Kilbane.

Which team will be victorious

on A Question Of Sport?

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to the show.

Looking at the teams in front of me,

we could be in for a close one,

so let's get things under way

with the One Minute Round.

OK, Matt - we're starting with your team.

You've got 60 seconds on the clock

to answer these questions,

-are you ready?

-Just shout them back at Sue.

-OK!

-Here we go.

For which super league team do Matty Smith, Josh Charnley and...

-Wigan Warriors.

-Yes. At which course

did Justin Rose win the 2013 US...

-Merion.

-Yes. Who is this British

motor racing driver? Anagram.

-Eddie Irvine.

-Yes.

Which British athlete in 2015 won her first Diamond League race

by winning the 1,500m in Oslo?

-Laura Muir.

-Yes.

Which sports star is this describing?

-Number seven, Real Madrid... Ronaldo.

-Yes.

-Good shout!

The 2015 Premier League darts was won by which player?

-Van Gerwen?

-No.

-Um... Um... Anderson.

-Yes.

These sports stars all share

their surnames with words that follow garden.

-Gate.

-No.

-Gra... Garden...

-Garden...er.

-No!

-Follows garden. Garden...

-Path.

-Path!

-Yes!

-Garden... keeper!

-No.

-Gate?

-Garden... Garden.

-Garden...

Garden!

My mind's gone blank.

WHISTLE

-You missed the American football wide receiver Kenny Shedd.

-Oh!

Oh, Shedd!

And the pitcher, Pete Center.

-Garden centre.

-Ah!

-Garden centre!

It's so easy when you know it, isn't it?

So easy! Anyway, well done - you scored 7.

Very good start.

-OK, Phil's team - everyone ready?

-Shout them out, boys. Yes.

Here we go.

Who at Wimbledon in 2015 did Serena Williams

beat for the 17th time in a row?

-Er.... Her sister, Venus.

-No.

-Pass.

-Kournikova.

-No...

-Sharapova!

-Yes.

Which French rugby side play their home games at Stade Mayol?

-Clermont...

-Toulon.

Toulon. Who is this English golfer?

Er, Rose. Oh, there's no R there!

LAUGHTER

Er, golfer... English golfer!

-Sandy Lyle.

-No!

Er, English...

-Do you want to come back?

-Yes, come back.

Which of the home nations reached the top ten of the Fifa world

rankings for the first time in 2015?

-Wales.

-Yes.

-Which sports star is this describing?

-Baseball, MVP...

-Michael Jordan.

-Yes.

At which racecourse are the English classics the Oaks and the Derby?

Er... Epsom.

These sports stars all share their surnames with words that follow ice.

-Breaker.

-Hockey.

-Gin and tonic.

-No!

-Tea.

-Ice tea.

-Ice...

-Cream.

-No.

-Ice cream...

-Lolly.

Yes!

Ice lolly, yeah. Ice...

WHISTLE AND APPLAUSE

Lolly was a good one.

-What do you have in your gin and tonic?

-Gin!

-No...

-LAUGHTER

-Do you want it with lemon and...?

-Ice.

-Ice cubes.

Oh, ice KUBES. And I know

-the golfer, now.

-Do you?

-Paul Casey.

Yeah, the anagram was Paul Casey.

And the other ice one was ice BERG.

-Henning Berg.

-Of course!

At the end of the opening round, Phil is on 6,

but Matt's team in front on 7.

It's Sports Action time now and both teams are playing along.

Make a note of the action you see.

He's going to at last win the Grand National,

it's Don't Push It and Tony McCoy and the 15th attempt.

Fernando Alonso wins his first Grand Prix

and he becomes the youngest man ever to win.

..simply found that it was good enough to be the Masters champion.

There's a chance for Liverpool!

CHEERING And it's 2-1!

And Liverpool have one foot in the final!

CHEERING

COMMENTATOR SPEAKS IN FRENCH

She went for absolutely maximum stretch there.

Scott Williams, Shane Williams...

Yes!

He's going to go out with a flourish!

Last game, last try!

Shane Williams.

And then Christine Ohuruogu is perhaps going to get there.

Christine Ohuruogu wins the gold!

She is the world champion.

Oh, it's out. That is out!

What did I say?

And that's two in two and the crowd are going unbelievable,

everybody's jumping up and down.

OK, Phil, as you're trailing, you're up first.

You need to choose a piece of action

and match it to a year that is on the grid.

Erm, right, any ideas?

Erm...

Is that a no?

When did Shane Williams retire?

-2011.

-Yeah, go on.

-You're going for the rugby, yeah?

-Yeah.

-Shane Williams.

-And the year?

-2011.

2011. Let's see, are you right?

-BELL DINGS

-You are right.

Well done, Serge.

APPLAUSE

-Tuffers, Tuffers, you can bank that one point or...

-Are we still going?

Well, and then it goes over to Matt and then it can come back to you

or, if you're on a roll, you can have another go, if you're sure.

Good game, good game, Sue!

-If I'm on a...

-But you need to be sure of one.

I've never been on a roll.

LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH

Got to be... Got to be that.

-I'd go with that.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, I would.

-You reckon?

-I'd say so.

-The National, 2010.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Go on. Go on.

I'll say Tony McCoy won the National, 2010.

Don't push it.

Sorry?

-BELL DINGS

-It is right, yes, well done.

APPLAUSE

Right, what do we do? What do we do?

Right...

I should know the cricket.

Who was it? Aussie, Aussie...

You don't have to go on, you can bank your two points.

-Shall we bank that?

-And then you may get another chance later.

Shall we take that? Happy with that - two?

-If you get it wrong you lose though two that you've just got.

-Oh, no.

-We will freeze.

-You'll freeze? Yes. OK, it may come back so think hard.

OK, we're over to you.

-Yeah, you've got one we're sure of.

-Yeah, OK. No pressure!

I think Christine, World Champion, was 2007.

'07, was it?

-BELL DINGS

-Yes, well done. Well done, Jenny.

APPLAUSE

We're pretty sure Immelman in '08.

Immelman, '08.

-BELL DINGS

-Is right again. Very good.

APPLAUSE

MATT LAUGHS

Two points.

Once again, if you want to go on you risk losing those two points

or do you want to stick?

What other ones have we got? Onions. Onions.

-Oh, yeah, the cricket.

-Onions.

-'09.

Got to be '09.

It can't be 2006 for Onions, can't be.

Shall we go for that? Let's go for that.

-You're going to gamble?

-Yeah, yeah.

-You're going for it?

-'09.

-Graham Onions, '09.

-Onions.

-BELL DINGS

-Yes.

APPLAUSE

Right, we've got to be a little bit careful here because...

..if we then freeze and hand it over...

-They're going to clear up.

-They could clear up, exactly.

Really?

Jenny, have you watched this show at all?

-Shall we go for this one for the football?

-Yeah.

-It's got to be, it's got to be the football.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-PHIL:

-You could lose it all.

-I think we should gamble.

-Yeah? Happy gambling?

-Yeah, we should go for it.

-2006 was the Liverpool football.

-OK.

-BELL DINGS

-Well done, well done.

APPLAUSE

-I think we'll pass back, we'll pass back.

-OK.

-Phil, fill your boots, pal. Fill your boots.

-What's that?

-Fill your boots.

-Back to you, Phil, for the top line.

Right, so we've got motor racing.

Alonso, 2001?

Or '02?

Or '03?

Alonso is still racing. It was his first!

-Did it say it was his first win?

-First Grand Prix win, yeah.

Would that be about...? Could be '03?

-Yeah, go with that.

-You've got to have a guess anyway.

-'03, Alonso, Sue.

-Is it correct?

-BELL DINGS

-It is, well done.

APPLAUSE

50/50, I hate 50/50.

I always lose.

Tennis and it was the Commonwealth Games.

Was that the Commonwealth Games?

-Which means what?

-Manchester...

-Manchester, Commonwealth Games.

-Commonwealth Games.

-But it's...

Just when was it?

Commonwealth Games.

I don't know. Was it in Manchester?

-Manchester, yeah.

-Where do you live?

-Manchester.

-Right...

Do you remember?

Does it fall on odd or even?

Odd. Even.

Even, I think it's even. Of course it's even.

-Commonwealth Games...

-Gymnastics.

-Gymnastics...

'02.

Gymnastics '02...

-BELL DINGS

-..is right!

APPLAUSE

-Aren't you going to stick?

-We've still got one more.

-Are you going to stick?

-We've still got one more.

No, well, that then means obviously

that the tennis at Roland-Garros was 2001.

It was.

-BELL DINGS

-Jennifer Capriati.

APPLAUSE

Well-played.

It means at the end of the round, the teams are tied both on 11.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Now, choice of a Home question or an Away question.

Jenny, coming to you first.

-What do you think?

-Home.

-Home?

-Home.

I want to go Home, please, Sue.

Who won Commonwealth silver medals behind Nancy Langat

in both the 800 metres and 1,500 metres in Delhi?

-Ooh...

-Take your time, take your time.

-Ooh, yeah, I know this.

-Silver?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-I know this.

-Think about it, be sure.

Can you give us it again?

Who won silver medals behind Nancy Langat

in both the 800, 1,500 metres?

-So Nancy won both of those.

-Yeah.

-She's good.

-It was...

I can see a face, I race against her.

Erm...

-A New Zealand girl.

-New Zealand girl.

-Yeah, she was British, now in New Zealand.

-Right.

She's the same sort of age as Hannah England.

Er...

-It's in there.

-It's so in there.

-Go through the alphabet.

-Let's do the alphabet.

-OK, let's do the alphabet.

A...

-Erm...

-At least we know the alphabet.

Ooh, hang on.

Serge, sort him out.

Nikki Hamblin.

-Yes.

-Come on!

APPLAUSE

Serge, Home or Away?

-Home, please.

-Home question.

Since 2000, only two French players have scored ten or more tries

in the Six Nations.

Name either of them for your point.

Erm... Yoann Huget.

Yeah?

-Erm...

-Winger.

-Vincent Clerc.

-Yeah?

Erm, yeah. Vincent Clerc.

Yoann Huget or Vincent Clerc?

-It's up to you.

-Vincent Clerc.

Vincent Clerc.

Yes, is the right answer. Yes.

APPLAUSE

-And the other was Rougerie.

-Oh, Rougerie.

-That's right.

OK, Eddie, Home or Away?

-Home?

-Yeah, yeah.

-We'll go Home, Sue.

Which former Ryder Cup player won his first European Tour title

in his 228th start

by winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in 2014?

Oliver Wilson.

Yes, well, easy for you.

-Well done.

-APPLAUSE

-Kevin, Home or Away?

-Home, please.

Who in a 6-1 victory against Gibraltar in 2015

became the first player from his country

to score an international hat-trick since 1969?

6-1 against Gibraltar?

In 2015.

In 2015 beat Gibraltar 6-1.

-Robbie Keane scored a hat-trick against Gibraltar.

-Yeah?

-I think...

-I don't think it was 6-1.

-I'm not too sure if it was 6-1.

-No?

Became the first player from his country to score

an international hat-trick since 1969.

I think...

No, it's not Robbie Keane...

Lewandowski, I think, scored a hat-trick against them as well.

-And that's the first time it's been done since 19...?

-From his country.

From his country in '69.

I don't know how Germany...

-Germany beat...

-I think...

-..or something, didn't they?

I think it's Lewandowski. I think it's Lewandowski.

Yeah, I'll go Lewandowski, Poland.

-That was not against Gibraltar.

-Oh!

-No.

That was against Georgia.

It was Steven Fletcher for Scotland against Gibraltar.

Hard lines, hard lines.

It is time now for the captains to take on the wall.

-Matt, you're to go first.

-Ooh, right, OK.

-Down you come.

Get in there. All right, here we go.

OK.

-OK, Dawes. On the walls are nine tennis players.

-Oh...

You need to find the five that have reached

the Ladies' Singles final at Wimbledon, OK?

-OK.

-Your time starts now.

-Help.

-Clijsters, Lisicki.

-Wait, where?

-Top left, top right.

-Yeah?

-And bottom middle, Azarenka.

-Yeah.

-Middle.

-Seles?

-No, go Jankovic and go Seles.

-Jankovic, where's Jankovic?

-Middle.

-No, no, she's not done a final.

Let's have Mary Pierce.

-I don't think she's done...

-BUZZER

-Two.

-Oh, no! They're definitely?

-I'm sure Lisicki's won it.

-Clijsters, I'm not sure...

Yeah, Clijsters won it, I'm sure she won it two years ago.

I think she's won it.

Oh, no!

I'm panicking now, I'm panicking!

-BUZZER

-Three.

-Oh, three!

Maybe...

Touch... Yeah.

I'm running out of steam.

-BUZZER

-Four.

-Yes, yes. Keep Kim Clijsters.

-OUT-OF-TIME BUZZER

-We'll take that, we'll take that.

-I'm going to calm down.

-APPLAUSE

-That's good.

-That's good.

Well done, four points scored.

I had no idea what I was doing there.

We figured that out.

Sabine Lisicki is right, Gabriela Sabatini is right.

Monica Seles is right. Vera Zvonareva is right.

Kim Clijsters is wrong.

The one you missed out is Agnieszka Radwanska.

Agnieszka Radwanska.

But you got four points which is a very good start.

-OK, Tuffers, you ready?

-We are. Let's go. Come on. Let's have it.

Come on.

APPLAUSE

Boys, if you could get it right first time cos I don't know

whether I can keep running up there and back.

I might not make it.

-Right, come on.

-Right, on the wall are nine sprinters.

You need to find the five that have won Olympic medals

in both the 100 and 200 metres, OK?

-Have won medals in both the 100 and 200 metres.

-Both?

-Yes.

-OK, your time starts now.

-Top right, Fredericks?

-Yeah, top three, top three, I think. Yeah.

-Maurice Greene, Carl Lewis.

Christie, Linford Christie. No, no, Campbell off. Campbell off.

-Linford Christie.

-Yeah.

-Right.

Yohan, Yohan Blake.

-BUZZER

-Three.

-Middle, Yohan Blake.

-Yohan Blake, middle one.

-Yohan Blake?

-Yeah.

-You've got to take one off first.

-Take one off, what one?

Take Frankie Fredericks maybe off. No, Ato Boldon maybe off.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Frankie Fredericks has won...

-BUZZER

-Three.

-Three.

-Donovan Bailey!

-Yeah.

-Take one off first.

Take it off, this one.

-BUZZER

-Two.

-Ato!

Take one off! Take one off!

Yeah. Then Maurice Greene.

-Take one off!

-OUT-OF-TIME BUZZER

Oh, no!

So, right down that middle line is Carl Lewis, Yohan Blake

and Ato Boldon. Those three are right.

Maurice Greene and Darren Campbell are wrong.

The two you wanted Frankie Fredericks, as you said,

-and Walter Dix.

-Oh, Walter Dix.

But you've scored three, that's good. Well done.

APPLAUSE

And at the end of that round, Phil is on 15, Matt in front on 17.

APPLAUSE

Now it is the Observation Round.

Both teams are playing along and all you need to do is count

the number of balls you see, OK?

It goes pretty quickly so be warned. Here we go.

Hello and welcome to the draw for the sixth round of the FA Cup.

MUSIC: Feel The Love by Rudimental

OK, teams, you now need to write your answers down on the tablets

in front of you when you have agreed a figure.

And the team that is closest to the correct answer will win the points.

(16, two sevens are 14 so that's 30...)

Have we got the same?

-Look at that.

-We've got the same.

-No chance.

-That's weird.

-We've never got the same number.

-You've got the same number?

-All three of us.

-You're kidding.

-I promise you.

Well, that's easy then, isn't it?

-Did you have different systems?

-Well, we all could be wrong.

-This is the neatest system I've ever seen.

-Oh, yeah. Mine's not...

I bet your score card looks lovely at the end of a round.

Remarkable.

I'm slightly dropping you in it here

but at the top of the page he's even written "balls seen".

He has!

You should put your name and the date.

-And he's written...

-Yeah.

-It's all under... That's immaculate!

-It is.

I'm going to take a picture of that.

That's amazing. Never seen anything like it.

Good work.

-Have you agreed a number?

-Yes, we have.

Everyone's close, OK.

OK, right, let's reveal your answers.

45,

48.

The answer is 50 - the points go to Matt's team.

Oh, well done!

-Good!

-One point.

APPLAUSE

Which means, at the end of the round, Phil is still on 15,

Matt in front on 18.

APPLAUSE

Matt, your team are up first.

Who is this doing a spot of gardening?

# How many kinds of sweet flowers grow

# In an English country garden?

# I'll tell you now of some that I know

# And those I miss you'll surely pardon

# Daffodils, heartsease and phlox

# Meadowsweet and lady's smocks

# Gentian, lupin and tall hollyhocks

# Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, forget-me-nots

# In an English country garden. #

-Oh, man.

-I didn't... That last bit didn't look like him to me, but...

I've got no idea who that was.

We haven't got anything else, have we?

We're going to have to go with it.

-Padraig Harrington?

-Let's have a look.

Could be.

Yes, the Major-winning golfer, Padraig Harrington!

APPLAUSE

Not bad!

-Phil, you need this one.

-We knew that as well, we had that as well!

Who is making a tasty dessert?

Serge got it, did he?

Yeah, James Haskell.

Let's see if you're right.

Yeah, well done, Serge. The England rugby star James Haskell.

APPLAUSE

Well done to both teams. Phil has moved onto 17,

Matt still in front on 20.

APPLAUSE

We are closing tonight's show with a Sprint Finish and, Tuffers,

you need to put some points on the board here.

Come on, let's go.

APPLAUSE

OK, there's your first word. Off you go now.

Home of English rugby.

-Twickenham.

-Yes.

Oh, number seven! Man United, the seagulls.

-Cantona.

-Yes, yes, yes.

-Oh, if you play tennis, there's a...

-Serve.

-And then you...?

-Volley.

-Yes.

Oh, in boxing, you...when you're getting beaten.

-Throw in the towel.

-Yes.

-Yes, yes, yes.

-Oh, in boxing...

-Gum shield.

-Yes.

Oh! Donk, donk, donk.

-Table tennis.

-Yes.

-Erm...

Oh, in cricket, I haven't made my ground, I'm...

-Out, run out.

-Yes!

Yes. Erm, they've just been promoted. Little seaside club.

-Bournemouth.

-Yes.

Erm, oh, when you hit 60 at darts it's a...

-Treble 20.

-Yes!

Oh, the really good lady pentathlete.

Erm... You know.

-Oh, from Sheffield!

-No, no, no! The other one.

Carl...

The runner, Carl...

-Lewis.

-Yes.

-Denise Lewis.

-You said it! That's it.

-That's it!

APPLAUSE

Ten out of ten, and you needed it. It moves you onto 27.

APPLAUSE

And now, all of a sudden, you need eight to win.

SUE LAUGHS

Do you want to do that again?

-Shall we do that again?

-Yeah.

-Do that again, do that again.

I can do it a lot slicker than that.

You know they're going to leave that one in, though, right?

A lot slicker than that.

That doesn't bode well for what I'm about to do.

I was going to say, "Steeplechase!"

LAUGHTER

OK, eight to win. Up you come.

Here we go, here we go.

APPLAUSE

Come on, team, come on.

-Are you ready? Time starts now.

-The home of tennis in England.

-Wimbledon.

-Yes.

Erm, oh, Australian golfer.

-Jason Day.

-Yes.

Oh, if you're brilliant at the thing every four years, the athletics...

-Olympic champion?

-If you're brilliant at that

and you get the best time in the world, it's a...

World lead? World record?

You said both of them, let's move on. OK, in football....

-Diving tackle.

-Yes, get in there!

-No, no, no.

-Sliding tackle?

Yes, sliding tackle.

Oh, erm, Tom Watson stood on it to say goodbye.

-Swilcan Bridge.

-Yes.

And, oh, Rugby League, Rugby League,

they play for a very famous competition going back ages.

-Lovely trophy.

-Challenge Cup?

-Yes.

-Yes, yes!

-Oh, basketball.

-Dunk.

-Slam dunk.

Yes! Oh, erm, not the first or the second, but the...

Third? Bronze?

In cricket, you have the...

-Treble?

-Oh, hat-trick.

No, no. What's the person here doing that?

-Third umpire!

-Yes.

-Oh, American swimmer...

WHISTLE BLOWS

APPLAUSE

-You needed eight.

-Oh, I didn't get eight.

-JENNY: Didn't get eight?

You scored eight - you win by one point!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

So, so close - just one point.

Anyway, we have had so much fun and a huge thank you to our guests -

to Jenny, to Eddie, to Serge and Kevin.

The three of us will be back soon. Until then, goodbye from us all.

APPLAUSE