Episode 34 A Question of Sport

Lining up on the show are...

British 800 metre runner Jenny Meadows,

golf's rising star Tommy Fleetwood,

England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis,

and Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to the show.

We'll just have a brief word with the captains.

So, are you confident of leading your team to success tonight, Daws?

Oh, I'm so confident, I've got so much hair on my team!

LAUGHTER

Makes up for yours, don't it?

LAUGHTER

Get off.

-And Tuffers!

-Yes.

-What about you?

Yeah, well, with these two either side of me, how can we lose, Sue?

-That's all I can say.

-We will see!

-Fighting talk!

-It is.

-Come on.

Right, let's get on with the show,

and first up it is the Picture Board.

And we're kicking things off with your team, Matt.

-There's one minute on the clock.

-OK.

-What's your first number?

-Number 9, please.

Oh, erm, Mayte Martinez?

-Yes.

-Number 10, please.

Dave Horsey.

-Yes.

-Number 11.

Steve McMa... McMan-an-a-man?

-Yes.

-12.

Hawkins.

-Yes.

-8. Surprised Phil, that one.

Er, Cilic.

-Yes.

-7.

Oh, er, er, Fickou?

-Yes!

-6. Join in, you two, whenever you like.

LAUGHTER

-Oh...

-Oh, that's, erm, Mills, Hannah Mills! 5!

Erm, Joe Burgess.

-Yes.

-1.

-Seamus Coleman.

-Coleman. 2.

Erm, Armasova...

-Yes, I'll give you that.

-3.

-Er, it's...!

-Er, Hoffman.

-Hoffman!

-Yes, it is.

-4!

Ntini?

-Yes, you've done it!

-Oh!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done.

MATT LAUGHS

Phil is delighted for you!

Right, team, don't worry about that at all, OK?

We will just concentrate on our 12, I can feel a good score coming on.

-Sue, number 1, please.

-OK, right.

-Yes.

-Oh...

-Tanni Grey-Thompson!

-Yes.

-Yes, 2, 2!

-Erm...

-Er, Brittney Reese?

-Yes.

-Yes, 3.

Oh, Mills! 4...

Jordan Nobbs.

-Yes.

-5...

Oh, Dubuisson!

-Yes!

-6!

Oh, Berger!

-Yes.

-7...

Here we go. Er, Jesse Lingard?

-Yeah.

-8...

-Oh, Meadows, no, not...

-No, no, Gibbons, Gibbons.

-Yes, it is!

-Gibbons, yes, 9!

-Dott!

-No.

-Maguire!

-Yes!

-Stephen Maguire.

-Yes, 10!

-Aussie? No? Who plays in Volkswagens?

-Who? Wolfsburg.

-That's Wolfsburg, that is, definitely.

-Popp?

No, pass, move on, move on, 11...

Oh, what's his name? Daly?

-Yes!

-Yes, yes, 12.

Er, Laura Robson?

-It is, yes!

-Oh, well done!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Wow.

-You just missed one German football star, Anja Mittag.

-Oh, yeah.

-Ah...

-Did know that.

It's the only one you missed, what a great round from both teams.

Phil's on 11, Matt in front on 12.

APPLAUSE

It's Sports Action time now.

Watch closely and write down as much as you can.

-COMMENTATOR:

-Serena is the Wimbledon Champion once again.

Brady, end zone, touchdown!

Amendola!

It's Milner, Defoe dives to get there!

Jermain Defoe scores!

England have the breakthrough they desperately need!

He is coming back, but still there is Cavic.

Is Cavic going to get there? No, Phelps has got it, I think.

Yes, he has. Michael Phelps has won.

Double 17.

A double 17 seals it for the Power.

And touched on to Ablett, who looks for support,

and he's got it!

He's got it in the shape of Kevin Sinfield!

OK, the first person you'll be answering questions on is

Serena Williams.

On the board are five categories, and, Phil, as you are trailing,

you can pick first.

One point for each correct answer.

-Which one would you like to go for?

-Erm...

Do we know the opponent?

We don't, do we? Do we know the year? No.

LAUGHTER

Missing Link might be easy, to find the link,

-cos they might give us some answers.

-Hopefully.

-I think that is the premise of the game.

-Let's go for that.

-Shall we go for Missing Link?

-Yeah, I like a missing link.

Missing Link, please, Sue.

Missing Link, OK, here is a list of the women with the most

Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era.

Who is missing?

-Wow!

-Er...

-Wow! Erm... Go on.

-Who's the Belgian girl?

-Oh, that could be a great shout. Hingis?

-It's not Venus, is it?

-Could her sister do it?

-Oh, well, her sister Venus could be in there.

-Who else is there?

-Are we missing someone?

Come on, it's an absolute ledge.

Er, could be Venus.

-Seles.

-Seles!

-Monica Seles.

-No, not her.

-It is her!

LAUGHTER

No, it is her, but it's not the one who won...who won it.

-Venus, shall we try Venus Williams, shall we?

-Going for Venus?

-Let's go with that.

-Venus Williams, I don't think it is.

OK, let's have a look.

-It was Seles!

-Yes!

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

-Was that a double bluff?

-No, it wasn't, I just gave him the answer!

It was Seles.

Now Matt has a choice.

-Yeah, Tommy, I'm happy, I'm happy.

-Er, go with Opponent.

You're going with Opponent, so you'll obviously know,

-who was Serena beating at Wimbledon?

-I think so. It was, er, Radwanzka.

-It was.

-Well done!

-Very good, well done, good work.

APPLAUSE

This time your questions will be about Jermain Defoe.

-New board, so, what do you fancy?

-Me again?

-Yes.

Right, well, it was Italy, wasn't it?

It was Italy, wasn't it?

No, I blanked out during that period,

-I'm not sure anymore.

-Really?

-Yeah, well, if you saw Buffon...

-Yes, it was Buffon, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was Buffon in goal.

Erm, Sue, we're going to go Opponent, please.

OK, which European country was Jermain scoring against?

-Ah, OK, you got this.

-You've got it.

-Go on.

-Italy.

No.

-Wasn't it?

-LAUGHTER

Wasn't it?!

No, it was Slovenia.

-Oh, I thought it was Buffon in goal.

-Buffon don't play for them!

-You were so confident about that!

-It was!

-OK, back to the board.

Daws, can you get another, steal another point?

-What d'you think there?

-Right, Firsts...

Ooh, first... His debut, or...

his first club?

-Let's try it.

-Let's go with Firsts, please.

-Firsts.

Which manager gave Jermain his first England cap?

Wow.

-OK.

-What year would that be?

-We need a year to start with.

Whoo...

-I think it's Sven.

-He's been playing a long time, ain't he? Could be.

-Capello?

-He's been playing a long time.

-He has.

-Playing a long time.

I feel like he's been playing a long time, since Sven...

-Well, Sven was early 2000s, wasn't he?

-Yeah.

-I don't think it was since 2010, it's before then, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Shall we say that?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Gets you a point, yes, well done.

Whoo, well done!

APPLAUSE

-Next up, Kevin Sinfield.

-Right. What does Wildcard mean, Sue?

-Anything, basically.

-Anything, could be anything.

-Wildcard, definitely.

-Wildcard, Sue.

-OK.

Which rugby union team did he switch codes to play for?

Oh...

Leeds?

He's up north. He's up north...

Northampton.

-LAUGHTER

-That's good work!

-PHIL LAUGHS

-Oh, leave off!

He's doing another Seles on me, no.

-MATT BARKS

-Come on, boy, come on.

-Come on, boy.

-Oh, who's...?

-Definitely northern, d'you reckon?

-Oh, I don't know.

-Walkies!

-What's that?

-Sale?

-What's that, a shark?

Sale Sharks?

-Erm...

-Walkies!

Let's try... Listen, he's...

He played for Leeds, so let's try the other Leeds,

it's just across the road.

-If you fancy.

-Leeds, Sue.

We'll accept that, I think. We will accept that.

APPLAUSE

What's with the woof?

A lead!

Oh, no!

Walkies, that's...! LAUGHTER

-Good work, though.

-Yeah.

Give you Leeds, it's Yorkshire Carnegie.

Er, right, back we go to the board.

-What are you going to go for, Daws?

-Let's go for Missing Link.

-Missing Link, OK.

-Yeah.

Who is missing from this list of England captains at the World Cup?

Now, I nearly said a name there,

but I think in a World Cup he would be Welsh.

Keiron Cunningham, would he be Welsh or was he English?

-He was English.

-He was English.

-He's English?

-Yeah, he was English.

-Could be an unbelievable shout.

-I think that's a really good shout.

Or, or, or...!

Or...!

Forgotten his name.

LAUGHTER

Come on, you know this. Big fella, great, great physique!

-That's Keiron Cunningham.

-No, no, like a proper... Looked like Thor!

-Thinking of...

-Who did he play for?

-Thinking of Peacock or someone like that?

-Like that but not, no.

-Like that, but chiselled jaw...

-Adrian Morley?

-No.

You're on... You're right on, you're right on line, right on line.

Oh, come on, I know this, I know this.

He's on the show all the time, legend...

Kevin Sculthorpe.

-Sculthorpe. Paul, Paul!

-Paul Sculthorpe.

-Paul Sculthorpe.

-Sculthorpe.

-Jenny doesn't look too impressed!

-Don't like that, do you?

-No, I do.

-Or Jamie Peacock?

-No.

-No?

-No.

Let's go with Paul Sculthorpe.

You've gone with Paul, let's have a look.

Ooh!

End of that round, and Phil has moved on to 12.

Matt's in front on 14.

APPLAUSE

And now it is a choice of Home Or Away,

-and, Jenny, we're coming to you first.

-Ooh!

-So, home or away?

-Erm, home, please.

-Home.

-Yeah.

Who won European 800 metres bronze in 2014, and has since

reached World and Olympic finals without winning a medal?

It's the Polish athlete Joanna Jozwik.

Yes, it is! Well done.

APPLAUSE

Rachel, home or away?

-I'll go home, please.

-Home.

Who made her England debut against Estonia in 2015,

and won her second cap almost a year later against the same side,

scoring a hat-trick in both games?

I think I know this.

Is it Danielle Carter?

It was, yes!

APPLAUSE

Rachel, you're here, but I think you know Tommy, don't you?

SHE LAUGHS

LAUGHTER

Tommy, would you like to say something here?

-Yeah, he spends more time with my husband than I do.

-Ah, right.

-Not like that, though.

-LAUGHTER

-Care to explain, Tommy?

-Er, he's my caddy, actually.

He's one of my best friends for years, and he's my caddy now,

yeah, so, we've known each other a long time.

So you don't see a lot of him any more, then?

He's off travelling the world, is he?

No, no, but, erm, he's doing all right, I think, for Tommy,

and vice versa, so, yeah, looking forward to travelling the world

with them both, actually, over this next few months.

We've been, er, we've been arguing who he'd be supporting

-tonight, actually.

-Tonight, yes, is he here?

-Yeah.

-Oh.

What's the answer?

LAUGHTER

-It won't be me.

-Be diplomatic.

Anyway, so, Tommy, we're coming to you, so home or away?

I'll, erm, go home, please.

Which two-time Ryder Cup winner recorded his first

European Tour victory in 2006 by winning the Italian Open,

before winning the event for a second time ten years later?

Francesco Molinari.

Well done, yes, it is!

APPLAUSE

A stroll in the park there, champ, a stroll in the park.

-Ooh, so, Greg.

-Get one in the bank, still in the game, stay in the game.

You sure? You watch me get this wrong now.

-No, don't do that, come on.

-We'll go home.

-Yeah.

Who, since 2012, has won five European Championship medals,

three indoor and two outdoor, with his only gold coming in Prague?

-I'm assuming this is long jump we're talking about here?

-Yes, it is!

Otherwise it'd be a bit of a tricky home question.

Well, we, yeah, we never specified so I was a bit concerned

-for a second.

-No, that's fine. We wouldn't do that to you, Greg.

-I think I know.

-Good.

-Cos he's... If it is...

I mean, it should be him. Five European?

Five European Championship medals, three indoor, two outdoor.

He's one of my sort of closest friends within athletics,

so this is... If I get it wrong, and it's not him,

I'm going to feel very silly.

Erm, the person I think it is is Michel Torneus.

-Your mate.

-My mate, yeah, from Sweden.

Your mate is the right answer!

APPLAUSE

OK, teams, you're taking it in turns

to complete our sporting timelines, OK?

You'll be given the event,

and then all you need to do is work out the missing answers.

So, Tuffers, you are up first.

All right.

Which football clubs are missing

from this sequence of most recent FA Cup winners?

That's United, then, just before the Gooners was...

-That was Arsenal versus Bradford.

-Was it Wigan?

-Wigan?

-What, Wigan City?

-No, Wigan Athletic.

No Wigan, Man City...

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

-Wigan beat Man City.

-Yeah.

-They did.

-I feel like, yeah...

Is that the right year?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-What are you going with?

-Shall we go with that?

-Go on.

So Chelsea, Wigan Athletic, Arsenal, Arsenal, Man United.

-Let's see.

-Come on.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well done, well worked out.

So, Matt, who is missing from this sequence of British women

to win athletics gold at the Olympics?

I'm slightly confused because it's not run...

We're going with javelin, the javelin?

-I put that lady's name, and then you put javelin, didn't you?

-Yeah.

-So go for it.

-Oh, no, well, let's think.

-Are you thinking it's not?

There can't be anyone else.

-Unfortunately, well, Tess was silver.

-Yeah.

So are we going with it?

-We were on the same lines, weren't we?

-We were on the same wavelength.

-Straight away. Go for it, Jenny, go for it.

-OK.

We think it's Fatima Whitbread for the javelin...

-And?

-Jessica Ennis?

OK. Let's have a look.

Oh, no. It was Tessa Sanderson.

And Kelly Holmes.

-No way.

-Double gold.

-Fatima didn't win gold?

-No, she won the World but never the Olympics.

-I always get that wrong.

-OK, Phil.

-Yes.

-Which Rugby World Cup-winning captains are missing here?

Oh.

-Oh, come on, Tuffers, you've got these.

-I have, though.

-You've got them.

-Oh!

-Francois Pienaar.

-Yes. Yes. Is that that one?

-I don't know.

Which one was it? The first one or the second one?

He won it in South Africa. Didn't he?

-That's England, South Africa...

-New Zealand.

-Yeah, so who is it...

-So it's Pienaar, Pienaar.

-GREG:

-When is it? 98?

-I don't know.

-What year was that?

That year was... Oh, three. Dawson won it!

-That was when Dawson played.

-That's 99.

-I'm just under Johnno's armpit.

-Yes.

LAUGHTER

In his back pocket.

-Another All-Black?

-Or Australia?

Oh!

LAUGHTER

-Is it Aussie?

-You can actually see the light come on.

LAUGHTER

Who was the captain, though? It wasn't Michael Lynagh,

It was the number nine.

Oh, what was his name?

It was the little scrum half.

Not Tim Horan. Not Michael Lynagh.

I've got it! It wasn't the number nine at all. John Eales.

-And Francois Pienaar.

-That's what you're going for. Let's have a look.

I think you got it as well.

Well done.

You are spot-on.

APPLAUSE

Who was the number nine?

Yeah, Pienaar in '95, Eales in '99.

-So, Matt, your final one.

-Need this.

Name the two Formula 1 World Champions

missing in this sequence.

OK.

-Ooh!

-Something, Hamilton.

Oh, my goodness me.

That's evil.

Yeah, he's in there, but I don't know whether he's before or after.

Oh, so when was Button?

And, oh, no!

Alonso won it back-to-back as well.

I feel like you are overcomplicating things.

-Well, no, because it could be...

-Did Hamilton stop them?

It could be Alonso, Alonso, Hamilton, Button, Vettel.

Or it could be Alonso, Button, Hamilton, Vettel, Vettel.

I think I'm going to go with...

-Button.

-OK.

And?

-Alonso.

-Are you right?

No. Kimi Raikkonen was the one you missed out.

But you do get 1 point for Jenson Button.

APPLAUSE

Which means, at the end of the round,

Matt is on 17. Phil, in front, on 18.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Teams, we've got an observation round for you,

and I can promise you, it's hard.

The action is going to come thick and fast.

You need to count the number of sports stars in action. Here we go.

MUSIC: Ocean Drive by Duke Dumont

Oh, I so love this game.

APPLAUSE

Calculations at the ready. Here we go.

-Oh, you've got it. You've come up with it already.

-An estimate, yeah.

Yeah, no, that's good, cos I've got absolutely rubbish down here.

LAUGHTER

I was very vigilant on the other ones.

But you've missed out on all the big ones.

LAUGHTER

The difficult ones, I've missed purposely.

-RACHEL:

-Anything over sort of two hands.

And was yours...

-Don't tell me, but was yours close to what Tuffers came up with?

-No.

LAUGHTER

-OK.

-It's the nearest one?

-Yes.

-We'll see who is closest.

-Shall we go with that?

You seem very calm on your team. It's complete chaos over here.

-Miles apart.

-We're not too far away.

-I'll go with yours.

-OK, Sue, we are logged in.

-Jolly good.

It is one point for who is closest, so let's reveal your answers.

One point?!

-AUDIENCE:

-Oh!

-160, 165!

-Wow.

-I put 162. I was going to go 162.

I was going to go 164.

LAUGHTER

How many did you have in that open-water swim?

-30.

-Five.

-Five?!

-25. 25.

-25.

-30.

-26.

-And what about in the rugby?

-I went with 26.

-22.

-23.

We should be winning this, then.

LAUGHTER

But the only trouble is, though, I put the horses in as well.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Well, I can reveal...

..that the answer is...

-One hundred...

-Go on.

..and sixty seven!

The point goes to Matt.

APPLAUSE

And at the end of the round, the teams are tied, both on 18.

APPLAUSE

Tonight's show is ending with a Sprint Finish,

and all to play for, 18, all.

-Up you come.

-Come on, I'll have some of that.

APPLAUSE

Ten points up for grabs here. Here you go, your time starts now.

-OK, end of a race and there's a...

-Photographer. Photo finish?

Yes, there is. Oh, in football, I'm coming in for one of those.

-Side tackle.

-Yes.

-Oh, Phil Mickelson, the world's best.

-Lubber.

-Yeah, but it's called...

-Flop shot.

-Yes.

-Oh, opening batsman, now captain for cricket.

-Oh, Joe Root.

-Yes, yes.

Oh, he wins the... Best Rugby League Player of the Season wins the...

-Man of steel.

-Yes, he does. Oh, who does that?

-Umpire.

-Yes, he does.

-The Eagles, the football side. The Eagles.

-Sheffield.

Down in London. Football team.

Ian Wright scored in the FA Cup final.

-Have they played for...?

-Blue and red.

Move on, move on, move on!

Oh, golfer.

-American, did that.

-Oh! Patrick Reed.

-Yes.

In the NFL, you win one of these, big...

-Big things.

-Championship ring?

-But what's The Final called?

-The Final in the NFL?

-It's the...

-What's this?

-Super Bowl.

Love a bit of soup, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This sport, it's got a little round thing in my hand,

-and I go like that.

-Ooh, no.

-Hand ball.

-Can't take that.

WHISTLE BLOWS

APPLAUSE

Crystal Palace.

Are they not the Eagles? Are they not the Eagles?

Yeah, they are, they are.

Yeah, Crystal Palace, yeah. And the other one, sadly, you said hand.

Very well done. You scored eight points.

APPLAUSE

Up you come, Tuffers.

-Nine, to win now.

-OK.

-Are you ready? Time starts now.

In football, not the FA Cup, the other one.

-League Cup.

-Yes. Yes.

What do they do on the long jump when you go over the bit...

A foul. A red flag.

Yes, yes.

Oh, you get that in rugby, you're in the...

-BOTH:

-Sin bin.

-Yes.

Middlesex, the home of cricket, in St John's Wood.

You know, not the house of...

The house of... In cricket, the house of...

-Lords.

-Yes!

-Yes, thank you.

JP played snooker. What was his name?

-John Parrott.

-Yes.

Great shot in golf. It's not too, it's not three...

Birdie. Eagle. Albatross.

-No.

-One.

-You just hit it.

-BOTH:

-Hole in one.

-Yes!

Oh, goalkeeper, used to play for Man City, now gone to Italy.

Joe Hart.

Yes, yes. Oh, if it's the quickest running time in Rio...

World record.

-No.

-Olympic record.

Yes.

-You are going like that...

-BOTH:

-Swimming.

-Water polo.

-Yes!

Hockey with... What have you got? What are they?

-Wings.

-Yes!

What's the colour on the thing, it's green and amber.

-Target.

-Wait.

WHISTLE BLOWS

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Oh! Ice hockey!

Oh, no!

You've done well there.

You've done top drawer there.

-Yes.

-Brilliant.

-Ice hockey may have been a bit of a clue there.

-Hockey.

I forgot ice.

Detroit Red Wings.

And we cannot accept your first answer,

because you said not the FA CUP.

And cup was in the answer. We didn't accept handball.

Oh!

You needed nine to win.

You have scored...

eight. It's a tie!

APPLAUSE

What a nice way, what a friendly way to end the show.

A tie, it's lovely, isn't it?

Thank you to our guests Rachel and Greg, to Jenny and Tommy.

The three of us, we will see you soon.

Until then, from all of us here, goodbye.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE