Episode 27 A Question of Sport

Joining the team tonight are...

Olympic medal-winning gymnast Amy Tinkler.

England all-rounder Paul Collingwood.

Premier League striker Clinton Morrison.

And Paralympic table tennis star Will Bayley.

It's time for the quiz on A Question Of Sport.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello, and welcome to the show.

I'm really looking forward to tonight but, captains,

how are you feeling about your teams? Matt?

Well, I'm feeling very, very youthful.

-Thanks.

-And then a little bit slightly more aged over here.

-Thanks, Matt.

-But, yeah, young and old, young and old, feeling ready.

LAUGHTER

Can I come on your team over there?

-Tuffers?

-Well, with me, it's all about hitting the target tonight,

and the target can only be a win for us tonight.

-Come on, we're ready.

-Tough talk, tough talk.

OK, let's get things started with the Picture Board.

Matt, we're going to start with your team.

60 seconds on the clock to get through as many as you can.

Number nine, please.

-Imogen Cairns.

-Yes!

Number ten.

-Coutinho.

-Yes.

-11.

-Middlesex.

-Yeah, he's the opening batsman.

-Come on, then.

-Robson.

-Yes.

Number 12.

-Jesper Parnevik.

-Jesper Parnevik.

-Yes.

-Eight.

-Dan Coles.

-Mm-hm.

-Seven.

-Nishikori.

-Yes.

-Six.

Gemma Gibbons.

-No.

-No. Um...

Oh, no, move on, that is terrible.

I know that. Five. That's terrible. Pressure.

-Bottas.

-Yes.

-How do you know who that is?

-One.

-Lloris.

-No.

-Lloris?

-No.

-Who's the keeper?

-Oh, Begovic.

-Yes.

-Two.

-Aliya Mustafina.

-Yes.

-Three. Join in, Colly, whenever you like.

-I'm here!

-Cathy Freeman.

-Yes.

-Four.

Ganguly.

-It is!

-Get in there!

-How did you know all them?

-Captain. Captain!

Very well done. The only one you missed out on,

-Olympic bronze medallist Sally Conway.

-Conway!

-OK, Sue, we're ready when you are.

-When you start the first number.

Number one, please, Sue.

-Vijay Singh.

-Yes.

-Two. Shout them out.

-Peter Rosemeyer.

-Yes.

-Three.

-Oh.

-I don't know...

-Zara Phillips.

-Yes.

-Four.

-Virgil van Dijk.

-Yes.

-Five.

-Oh, Nick Compton.

-Yes.

-Six.

-Gavin Henson.

-Yes.

-Seven.

-Oh, Hana Mandlikova.

-Yes.

-Oh, eight.

-Sara Head.

-Yes.

-Yes, nine. Come on.

-Barry McGuigan.

-Barry McGuigan.

-Yes.

-Ten.

-Oh, Monreal.

-Monreal. 11.

-Haile Gebrselassie.

-Yes.

-12.

-Peter...Dunwoody!

-Yes!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Your voice was getting higher and higher!

-Sorry!

I don't think I've ever got 12. 12! 12!

What a high-scoring opening round.

Matt is on 11 but Phil's team, full marks, they're ahead on 12.

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Next up, teams, it is Sports Action.

For this one you need to keep an eye on the people you see

and where the action is taking place.

And that's all he needed, just one.

Revenge for Rio, misery for Murray.

It's going to be a championship record,

it's going to be a gold medal for Great Britain.

Paula Radcliffe becomes the world champion.

..moves into the slot.

Palmer floating one for the endzone

and JJ Nelson has it and it's a touchdown Cardinals.

That's short and smashed.

Swing turn, she goes the right way.

Must hold on and lift this dismount.

She does. Absolutely fabulous work.

She is the gold medallist.

Oh, it's hit the underside of the bar. Was it over the line?

A goal has been given, he chose to go the other way...

Oh, no...

On the board are a number of cities.

We didn't want to make things too easy for you

so there are more cities than were featured there.

You need to match a piece of action to the city in which you think

it took place and, Matt, as you are trailing you get first choice.

Sofia.

-Oh, we got one?

-Sofia.

-Get in there.

-Becky Downie.

-Go for it.

-Becky Downie, Sofia.

You are going for Sofia, let's see, are you right?

-You are, well done.

-Well done, Amy.

Great start, that's a great start.

Fabulous.

Your one?

Yeah, Jamie Rawson, Arnie Chan, Sydney.

OK. Let's have a look.

All right.

It is, well done.

-Was that definitely there?

-Just the sport, to the city.

-That was Cardiff.

-OK, you're going cricket in Cardiff.

-It's correct, yes.

-Very good.

Right, the football.

It's not Baku, the football, is it?

-No, it's not Atlanta.

-Not Atlanta, not Beijing.

Berlin maybe.

-Maybe.

-Brussels.

-Berlin.

-Berlin?

-Yeah, the football, yes.

-Yeah. I'd say that.

-It's worth a try, isn't it?

-You sure?

-Yeah.

-It's not Phoenix.

-No.

-It's got to be, hasn't it?

-It's definitely not London.

-It's got to be, hasn't it?

-It's not Helsinki.

-Go on, then, have a go at Berlin, go on.

-Zidane, Berlin.

OK, are you right?

-Please, come on.

-Yes, you are.

APPLAUSE

He was scoring in the World Cup final. Your final guess, Matt?

We might have a dab at...

the American football. Phoenix, Arizona.

Is it American football?

It is, well done.

So we've got the tennis. Oh, it could be the ATP.

It could be the ATP in London.

Or the running, Paula Radcliffe, Brussels.

Beijing was the Worlds, I think.

-Beijing was the Worlds in athletics, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-Beijing.

-Was she at Beijing, Paula?

-Yeah, she was, yes.

-Was she?

LAUGHTER

Yeah, she was, yeah.

Oh... Let's have a... We're going to have to have a guess.

-Which one do you fancy more, del Potro...?

-Did del Potro win,

-and did he win Beijing?

-You were confident, don't change your mind.

-Did he win in Beijing?

-You were very confident.

-Did he win in the Olympics?

-He didn't win the gold in Beijing.

-Was it a blue tennis court?

-Yeah, it was, it was blue.

-Yeah, blue, it was blue.

-It's London, del Potro.

-Yeah, del Potro.

-You're going London for the tennis?

-Yeah.

-Is the tennis in London?

-Yeah.

No!

The tennis was the Davis Cup.

Davis Cup, del Potro beating Murray in the Davis Cup for Argentina.

-Sorry.

-And what would you have gone for with Paula?

-You were going to go Beijing.

-It would have been wrong.

-No, it was Helsinki.

-Oh, right.

-Fair enough.

-And at the end of that round now the teams are tied,

both on 14.

APPLAUSE

It is Top Ten time now

and here with your question is a South African sporting legend.

Hi, everyone, Jacques Kallis here.

That is a powerful strike.

Oh, that's out, isn't it? That's out, definitely.

Of the bowlers that have played Test cricket and taken 230 wickets,

who are the top ten run scorers?

Well, thanks to Jacques.

Just to remind you of the question,

of the players who have taken 230 or more Test wickets,

who has scored the most runs?

So Jacques is top with a whopping 13,289 runs.

What?!

So, Daws, you will go first when you're ready.

OK. What's your absolute - handy having a cricketer,

they haven't got a cricketer on their side!

LAUGHTER

Ouch!

-What's your go to?

-Go to was Kapil Dev.

That's for your first pick, let's have a look.

Is he on that list and where?

-Number three.

-Oh, that's a good shout.

-We're going to go with Botham, Sue.

-Going with Ian Botham.

Number four.

-Amy?

-I've got nobody!

Your turn, come on!

(Imran Khan. Go for it.)

-Imran Khan?

-OK, let's have a look.

Oh, come on, Amy!

I knew that!

Richard Hadlee, Sue.

-Richard, is he on the list?

-Sir Richard.

-Sir Richard, indeed.

-Oh!

-Number nine.

-Shaun Pollock.

-Shaun Pollock.

-Number seven.

-Gotta be, gotta be.

There's no time limit on this?

-Ever.

-Ever, ever.

Ever.

Garry Sobers.

Is he on the list?

Yes!

Doing very well, both teams.

Getting a little tricky now.

What about this?

-That's...

-What about that?

No?

Go on, then.

This is on your head, this one.

Yeah.

-I don't know whether he...

-I mean, he's like down as one of our greats.

Surely if he's a great he's got to be on the board, hasn't he?

-He's got to be.

-Who?

-Freddie. Freddie.

-You're going with Freddie Flintoff?

-Well, I've got to.

-OK.

Is he on the list?

No.

How can he be down as a great if he's not on that list?

Because he only took 226 wickets.

Oh, that's harsh.

-That's just mean, Sue. That is mean.

-Yeah.

-Shall we try him?

-Yeah, he's ten.

-Yeah?

-Wasim Akram.

-Wasim Akram, oh.

-Nailed it.

-Is he on the list?

No!

-No.

-What?

-He's 11th.

Oh!

-Tough.

-We're missing five.

Warney?

-Wouldn't be top ten.

-No?

Would he be alongside Hadlee?

Shane Warne would not have scored more runs than Hadlee.

-What are you going to go with?

-No idea, Sue.

-OK.

-Oh! Shush! Shush!

LAUGHTER

Shush!

SUE LAUGHS

-I think he likes that answer.

-Well, it could be all right.

-Oh, OK.

-Go on, we'll go with it.

-Azharuddin.

-Is he there?

No. He's not.

-Chris Cairns.

-I think Vettori.

-Vettori.

It's Cairns that I'd say got a lot.

Which one are you going with?

-Who's got more runs out of Vettori and Cairns?

-Cairns.

Would you say, Colly?

LAUGHTER

-I'd say Vettori's got more wickets.

-Yeah, Vettori's got more wickets.

-More wickets but Cairns got more runs.

-Vettori scored quite big

towards - and he played for years!

That's what I'm saying.

Dettori, Frank, what's his name?

Vettori.

-Vettori.

-You're going for Daniel Vettori.

-Daniel Vettori.

Is he there?

Yes!

APPLAUSE

4,531.

Vettori, wow.

-Right.

-Can I keep going?

-Yeah.

-Shall we have another go with Cairns?

-Yeah.

-200 runs,

-let's have another go with Cairnsy.

-Cairnsy.

-Chris Cairns.

You're going with Cairns?

No!

So, you are out as well.

Number ten, nobody mentioned him.

-Oh, you did say Vaas.

-Chaminda Vaas.

-You did say Vaas.

And I think you had this one, too, you almost went with it.

Shane Warne!

-There you go.

-You talked yourselves out of it.

-Warney.

-Absolutely.

-He's the only Aussie in that lot? Wow.

-Yes.

Great round, great round, enjoyed that. End of the round -

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

APPLAUSE

Well, now the guests can play safe for a home question or risk

going away for three points. Amy, coming to you first.

-Home question or away?

-Home.

-Home.

Who in Rio won her second Olympic team all-around gold medal

before going on to win two individual silvers?

I'm pretty sure it's Aly Raisman but there's Aly, Simone...

Simone.

-Gabby.

-Gabby.

-Maddie.

-Maddie.

And... Oh, gosh...

-Laurie.

-Laurie.

Have you just made those names up?

-LAUGHTER

-You're just humouring me there, Amy,

aren't you? You're just humouring me.

No, and then Aly got silver all-round

and she got a silver on floor.

Alexandra Raisman.

-Is the right answer.

-Well done.

Yes, well done.

-Will, home or away?

-Home, please.

-Home.

-Take your time.

In his five Paralympics,

which European won class eight gold in Sydney,

class seven bronze in Beijing, and at the last two Games

won individual silver medals in the class six category?

-Alvaro Valero.

-Absolutely.

-Paul, home or away?

-Don't know, what am I doing, captain?

-To be honest, I haven't got a clue what you're doing.

-I'm with you.

I'm obviously not very good at cricket questions

-so shall I just go away?

-Go on, then, go on, I'm happy.

-All right, we'll go away.

-Away.

-I'm happy, skip's happy.

-Away, OK.

-Away. Away.

-Since 2,000,

which three riders have won the MotoGP World Championship

on three or more occasions? LAUGHTER

SHE LAUGHS

I think that's gone down really well!

LAUGHTER

Home!

Me jumper's stuck!

MotoGP.

Since 2000,

which three riders have won the MotoGP World Championship

on three or more occasions?

OK.

Come on, what's the most obvious one, what's he called?

-What's his name?

-Rossi.

-Valentino Rossi.

-Valentino Rossi.

Is he GP, yeah?

Yeah, he is.

That's the only one I know.

-Rossi.

-I don't know any.

No? There is another one that I think I know.

-Really?

-It's in there.

Somewhere.

Spanish?

Spanish, you're right.

Come on.

-Marquez.

-Really?

Mark-ez, Mark-wez.

I don't know why you're looking at me.

Marquez. Miguel Marquez.

Marquez.

Foggy! Foggy?

I know that name, Fogarty.

Yeah, I know that.

Was he GP or was he the Superbikes?

If you get three out of three here, I'm going home.

-OK, we'll go with Valentino Rossi...

-Mm-hmm.

..Marquez, I think his name is.

And?

-Shall we go with Carl Fogarty?

-I think we've got to.

Yeah, he's an all-round good lad and ledge,

so let's give him a mention.

-Exactly.

-He is.

-Carl Fogarty.

-You're going with Foggy.

You have got...two right.

-Two right.

-We'll take two, thank you, thank you.

APPLAUSE

Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez.

-Marcy Marquez.

-Hayden's a good shout.

Wasn't there a Casey?

-That's a good shout, yeah.

-Was it Casey?

It was Casey.

-Yeah, there is a Casey.

-Hayden or Casey?

Casey. Casey, Sue.

-Hayden.

-Are you thinking...?

LAUGHTER

-Casey...?

-Casey.

Is that his surname?

-No, that's his first name.

-First name.

-Oh, is it?

-Oh, it's not, is it?

-Yeah, it is.

-Oh, well, we don't know his surname so we're going to go Hayden.

-OK.

That's wrong. Casey Stoner would have been wrong.

Oh, Casey Stoner.

It was Jorge Lorenzo.

Clinton, coming over to you. Home or away?

-We could go away.

-Go away.

Yeah, shall we have a gamble?

-Yeah, we can do this.

-It's up to you, mate.

So, go on, you go on, then, you go.

-No, I always listen to my captain.

-Home or away?

-Go away, go away.

-Away.

-Come on, then.

Why have we done that?

LAUGHTER

Only four European players

won singles matches in the 2016 Ryder Cup.

Name three of them for a point each.

Oh, we'll get them. Pieters.

Was it Wood?

Pieters, Wood.

Did Kaymer win one?

-Martin Kaymer.

-I don't think he did.

Oh, who were the new ones? Who were the new ones?

There was loads of new ones.

Cabrera-Bello, did he win one?

Italian guy.

Right, OK then. We're going with Pieters.

-Yep.

-Wood.

Garcia.

You have got one.

One correct.

Thomas Pieters was correct.

Daws, you've got a chance for one point.

I think it was Henrik Stenson, wasn't it?

-Is that your answer?

-Yeah.

It's right, yes.

APPLAUSE

Yes, and the other two were Martin Kaymer...

-Oh, you said Kaymer!

-I said that.

..and Rafael Cabrera-Bello.

Oh, I said that! All of them!

And at the end of the round, Phil is on 20, Matt in front on 21.

APPLAUSE

Captains, you'll be up in the middle for this one

and, Matt, you're going first. Up you come.

APPLAUSE

OK, Daws, each of the nine sets of initials on the board

are an answer to a question.

You will get a point for every square you get right

and a bonus point if you complete a line.

-A line.

-You have 45 seconds to get through as many as you can.

When you're ready, pick your first set of initials.

DEC.

A fielding position on the offside mount.

-Deep extra cover.

-Yes.

BAW.

An evasive movement to avoid punches in boxing.

-Bob and weave.

-Yes.

FMF.

The event in which Anthony Ervin has won double Olympic gold.

F... F...

PC.

Italian referee who officiated the...

Colegio. Pablo Collegiate.

Cologio. Caladili-lo-lo...

LAUGHTER

-RLA.

-Main court at the Australian Open tennis.

-Rod Laver Arena.

-Yes.

QOOTB.

A term used to explain an explosive start to the 100m.

Quick out of the blocks.

WHISTLE BLOWS

No way!

As they say somewhere else, he'd started, so he could finish.

Oh, OK.

FMF?

-50-metre freestyle.

-Oh...

Brutal that, weren't it?

PC, PC?

Pierluigi Collina.

Pierluigi Collina.

So, four right and a line, so that is five scored, well done.

APPLAUSE

-Up you come, Tuffers.

-Come on, let's go.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK, Phil, there's your board.

-OK.

-Ready?

-Yeah.

-OK, off you go.

WBRT.

-LAUGHTER

-WRBT.

Usain Bolt was 9.58 seconds in 2009.

World record...

-Erm...

-Yeah?

Um...

beating time. World record best time.

-Move on.

-OK.

-SK.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Olivier Giroud have scored with

one of these this season.

-Scissor kick.

-No.

-Sidekick.

-No!

-No, no, no, shush, shush.

What is it, then, kick?

What kick?

Move on.

Spot kick, spot kick!

-No.

-Scorpion kick.

-Yes.

-Go on, WGN.

Richard Johnson won this race

on Native River at Chepstow in December.

Erm...

Oh, what is it...? Guineas.

Oh, I can't stand this game.

SOO.

Three rugby league games played annually between Queensland

and New South Wales.

-Oh, State Of Origin.

-Yes.

-RCVC.

Ian Poulter and Jim Furyk were amongst these in 2016...

-WHISTLE BLOWS

-Oh, man!

APPLAUSE

-What was it, scorpion kick?

-Yeah, scorpion kick.

What's W... World record best time?

-World record-breaking time.

-Oh, breaking time!

And WGN was the Welsh Grand National.

Welsh Grand National.

At Chepstow, yes.

Yeah, well, move on.

And you just ran out of time for Ryder Cup vice captains.

-Enjoy that one, Tuffers?

-Hated every single second of it.

You scored two.

Oh, brilliant.

Which means Phil has moved on to 22

but Matt, wow, he's out in front on 26.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It is time for an observation round now.

The action is going to come thick and fast

and you will need to try and count all the people

that you see competing. So only the people who are competing, OK?

And good luck.

-What is that?

-Two, three, four, five, ten.

They were in pairs and there's four.

Total up your answers and write them on the tablets when you're happy.

Roughly I put about 150-odd, 160-odd.

Oh!

Shall we split the difference?

Yeah, I don't think you should take mine.

Come on, we've got to split the difference there, haven't we?

Yeah, OK.

Very happy with that.

Right, shall we reveal the answers?

Let's have a look.

Tuffers has gone for 180.

Oh, we've gone big.

We've gone big there.

-That was my first one.

-How many people were in your boat?

I can tell you one person is only three out,

and that person is...

Daws. Yes, 135.

Well done, well done.

APPLAUSE

One point, which means that at the end of the round,

Phil stays on 22, Matt's moved ahead on 27.

APPLAUSE

We are finishing the show tonight on the buzzer, so it's crunch time.

Here we go. Are you ready?

Here comes your first question.

In which event did Leon Smith

captain Great Britain to success in 2015?

Go on.

-BUZZER

-Rugby.

-Davis Cup.

-Oh.

In which sport are Eve Muirhead and David Murdoch

Winter Olympic medallists?

-BELL

-Curling.

-Yes.

Gary Rowett, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Nigel Clough

have all managed which football team?

-BUZZER

-Burton.

-Yes.

-Good man.

Which Welshman won a Paralympic table tennis gold medal in Rio?

-BUZZER

-Rob Davies.

-Yes.

Baseball teams from Boston and which other city

include the word Sox in their name?

Which other city, Sox?

Nope? BELL

-Minnesota.

-Chicago.

In Olympic gymnastics,

the floor and which other event are competed in by men and women?

-BELL

-Vault.

-Yes.

In which year did Tom Lehman win his only major

and Nick Faldo win his final one?

-BELL

-'96.

-Yes.

Gennady Golovkin defeated which British boxer in 2016?

WHISTLE BLOWS It was Kell Brook.

APPLAUSE

Too far to catch up, so well done to Matt's team.

Commiserations over here but a huge thank you to Will and to Clinton

and also to Paul and Amy.

The three of us will be back soon.

Until then, from all of us here, goodnight.

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