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For the spin-off video game, see A Question of Sport (video game).

A Question of Sport
File:A Question of Sport.png
GenreSports quiz show
Created byNick Hunter
Presented byCurrent:
Sue Barker (1997-)

Former:
Stuart Hall (1968: Pilot)
David Vine (1970-1977)
David Coleman (1979-1997)
StarringTeam Captains:
Current:
Matt Dawson (2004-)
Phil Tufnell (2008-)

Former:
Cliff Morgan (1968 Pilot-1975)
Henry Cooper (1968 Pilot-1979)
Fred Trueman (1976-1977)
Brendan Foster (1977-1979)
Emlyn Hughes (1979-1981, 1984-1988)
Gareth Edwards (1979-1981)
Willie Carson (1982-1983)
Bill Beaumont (1982-1996)
Ian Botham (1989-1996)
John Parrott (1996-2002)
Ally McCoist (1996-2007)
Frankie Dettori (2002-2004)
Theme music composerRichie Close
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series47
No. of episodes1,164+1 pilot
(as of 20 September 2017 or
Series 47, Episode 6)

Landmarks:
4 March 2013:
1,000th episode[1]
Production
Production locationsStudios HQ1 and HQ2 on rotation, MediaCityUK[2]
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release5 January 1970 (1970-01-05) –
present

A Question of Sport is a British sports quiz show created by Nick Hunter. The format involves two teams of sports stars answering questions on their own and other sports. Each team has a resident captain, each of whom is joined by two stars of the sports world, and plays for the most number of points to win the game.

The show premiered on BBC One in January 1970, 14 months after Stuart Hall hosted a pilot episode, and was originally hosted by David Vine with Cliff Morgan and Henry Cooper serving as team captains. It took an 18-month hiatus from June 1977 before relaunching in 1979 with David Coleman replacing Vine. It has been hosted since 1997 by former tennis star Sue Barker, with former England rugby player Matt Dawson and former England cricketer Phil Tufnell serving as captains since 2004 and 2008 respectively. Sporting a light-hearted nature, it is one of the BBC’s longest running shows. In December 2014, the show was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest running sports quiz show.

On 8 January 2010, the BBC broadcast a 40th anniversary special, where Barker, Dawson and Tufnell were joined by Pat Cash, David Coulthard, Laura Davies, and Michael Johnson.[3]

Series 42, episode 17 marked the 1,000th episode where each captain was joined by two former captains. Tufnell was joined by Bill Beaumont and Ally McCoist while Dawson was joined by Willie Carson and John Parrott, with Tufnell’s side winning.[4][5][6][7]

Quiz format

The rounds played include:

  • Picture Board – numbered squares reveal sports person for the contestant to identify
  • Action Round – contestants are asked questions about a montage of sporting action
  • What Happened Next? – sports footage is halted at optimum moment and teams are asked what occurred thereafter.
  • Observation Round – sports action is shown and contestants are asked questions about details of what they have just seen, e.g. "What colour hat was a certain person wearing?" or "How many balls can you see in the following clip?" The footage for the latter question will be of many different events and all show balls, or whatever item has been asked
  • Mystery Guest – teams have to identify a sports star in unfamiliar circumstances and with unconventional camera angles.
  • Home or Away – contestants can answer a question on their own sport for one point ('home'), or a question on any sport for two points ("away"). Team captains always receive "away" questions.
  • Captain's Challenge – the captains have a contest in different feats.
  • One Minute Round – teams are asked nine questions in 60 seconds
  • On the Buzzer – teams answer questions at quickfire pace (this was only introduced in later years – in the Vine and Coleman eras, the show would end with the remaining six Picture Board questions)
  • Sprint Finish - team captains act out up to 10 sporting terms in 60 seconds without using the words given

Presenters and team members

The show was hosted regionally in the North of England by Stuart Hall from 1968, then nationally by David Vine from 1970 to 1977, and then from 1979 until 1997 was anchored by veteran BBC sports commentator David Coleman, although Vine returned for part of one series in 1989 when illness forced Coleman to temporarily stand down from hosting duties. Coleman was also unavailable for two shows in 1996, so one of the team captains, Bill Beaumont, sat in as host (the only team captain to host the programme), while the rugby star Will Carling took Beaumont's place as captain. In Coleman's final series as host, ex-tennis star Sue Barker stood-in for a couple of shows including one at Christmas, a role that she continued after Coleman's retirement.

Many team captains have enjoyed stints on the show down the years, including:

Over the years there have been several guest captains standing in for one of the regulars when they have other commitments. Following Ally McCoist's departure, several guests, including Phil Tufnell, sat in the captain's chair before Tuffnell was eventually selected as McCoist's permanent replacement:

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Of these Barnes, Cooper, Charlton, Moore, Hughes, Beaumont, Carson, Botham, Parrott, McCoist, Dettori, Owen, Rutherford, Speed and Dawson were still active participants in their sport while appearing in the show. The others had retired.

Sports stars often say they know they have 'made it' when they are invited to appear on A Question Of Sport. The sports personality with most guest appearances is Steve Davis, who has appeared 18 times.

There was also embarrassment for the show's hostess, Sue Barker, many years before she took on the role of the show's presenter. When she appeared as the Mystery Guest, captain Willie Carson incorrectly guessed that she was boxing champion Alan Minter, while the opposing captain, Bill Beaumont, thought she was footballer Ray Clemence. In 1987, Princess Anne appeared as a guest on Emlyn Hughes' team, just weeks after the ex-footballer had embarrassed himself by claiming a photo of her on a horse was jockey John Reid. The show achieved A Question of Sport's highest ever ratings of approximately 19 million viewers. It was the first time a member of the royal family had appeared on a television quiz show. Anne's daughter Zara Phillips also appeared on the show twice in 2006, the latter for a Sport Relief edition.

However, Hughes's embarrassment would not be as bad as Ally McCoist or Shane Warne in 2007. During the part of the show called Mystery Guest (see Quiz Format), it was McCoist's turn and he failed to realise it was his own boss at Rangers, Walter Smith, who was disguised. Also, in the 700th edition of the show, a compilation of Mystery Guests was shown as a special round. Here McCoist also failed to recognise himself as a showjumper from a clip some years previous. As for Warne, when the opposing team incorrectly guessed Venus Williams as the sports star shown, the answer was Serena Williams but Warne thought differently and thought it was Roger Federer, despite the two being different colours and gender. Another embarrassing moment for a team captain happened in 2003, when during the Home or Away round where the captains had to guess an anagram, and Frankie Dettori did not recognize his own name. When this question was passed over to Ally McCoist, McCoist did not answer verbally but climbed onto the desk in front of him and copied Dettori's famous flying dismount.

Transmissions

Series Start date End date Episodes
Pilot 2 December 1968 1
1 5 January 1970[8] 18 May 1970[9] 20[9]
2 11 January 1971[10] 5 April 1971[11] 13[11]
3 20 March 1972[12] 19 June 1972[13] 14[13]
4 8 January 1974[14] 2 April 1974[15] 13[15]
5 10 July 1975[16] 28 August 1975[17] 8[17]
6 3 May 1976[18] 21 June 1976[19] 8[19]
7 18 April 1977[20] 6 June 1977[21] 8[21]
8 8 January 1979[22] 2 April 1979[23] 13[23]
9 7 January 1980[24] 18 March 1980[25] 11[25]
10 27 February 1981[26] 15 May 1981[27] 12[27]
11 5 January 1982[28] 30 March 1982[29] 13[29]
12 12 January 1983[30] 30 March 1983[31] 11[31]
13 29 December 1983[32] 8 May 1984[33] 14[33]
14 31 December 1984[34] 11 April 1985[35] 14[35]
15 5 December 1985[36] 1 May 1986[37] 21[37]
16 11 December 1986[38] 14 May 1987[39] 21[39]
17 3 December 1987[40] 26 April 1988[41] 20[41]
18 25 October 1988[42] 11 April 1989[43] 24[43]
19 24 October 1989[44] 1 May 1990[45] 26[45]
20 23 October 1990[46] 23 April 1991[47] 26[47]
21 15 October 1991[48] 21 April 1992[49] 26[49]
22 27 October 1992[50] 20 April 1993[51] 26[51]
23 19 October 1993[52] 30 May 1994[53] 28[53]
24 11 October 1994[54] 2 May 1995[55] 26[55]
25 20 October 1995[56] 3 May 1996[57] 27[57]
26 1 October 1996 30 May 1997 29
27 7 October 1997 1 May 1998 26
28 4 November 1998 21 June 1999 27
29 6 September 1999 2 July 2000 30
30 16 October 2000 21 May 2001 32
31 5 September 2001 24 July 2002 29
32 18 October 2002 15 August 2003 31
33 3 October 2003 13 August 2004 42
34 17 September 2004 15 July 2005 41
35 10 September 2005 8 September 2006 42
36 15 September 2006 18 May 2007 34
37 15 September 2007 11 June 2008 36
38 5 September 2008 12 June 2009 37
39 2 October 2009 27 August 2010 33
40 29 November 2010 1 August 2011 30
41 8 August 2011 20 August 2012 44
42 1 September 2012 31 July 2013 34
43 21 October 2013 13 August 2014 30
44 20 August 2014 15 July 2015 31
45 12 August 2015 5 August 2016 36
46 24 August 2016 31 May 2017 36
47 16 August 2017 TBC TBC

97 episodes (mainly ones from Series 1–25) were wiped from the BBC archives. The episodes that survived in the archives are:[58]

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Spin-offs

The A Question of Sport format has been applied to various other areas of knowledge. The following spin-off series were all made by the BBC:

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 19 April 1971 24 May 1971 6
Series Start date End date Episodes
1 24 April 1988 28 August 1988 18
Series Start date End date Episodes
3 January 2000[59] 1
1 8 April 2000 3 June 2000 9
28 December 2000[60] 1
2 28 April 2001 28 July 2001 12
Series Start date End date Episodes
1 5 July 2001 29 August 2001 8

Roslin also hosted a one-off special, A Question of EastEnders, in 2000. Another one-off special, "A Question of Comedy" was to have been aired on 16 March 2007 as a part of Comic Relief 2007, but after a scandal involving contestant Jade Goody it was replaced with a special edition of Top Gear.

A Question of Spit was a short segment aired in 1988 as part of the inaugural Red Nose Day telethon, featuring Daley Thompson, Barry McGuigan and Mike Gatting forming a team, with their opponents being their own Spitting Image puppets, captained by an Emlyn Hughes puppet. The quiz was hosted by the Spitting Image puppet of David Coleman, with the real Coleman and the puppet Steve Davis also making an appearance.

On 21 March 2012, One Media Radio's Final Whistle produced a one off end of year special entitled, Final Quizzle: Final Whistle does A Question of Sport. Presented by Barry Landy, the show featured two teams consisting of Stuart Hodge, Rory Wilde, Phil Peacock, Steve Sanders, Ben Mouncer and Lewis Davies and included rounds such as 'Tiger's Eighteen Holes' and 'Whelan or Fortune'.

In November 2012, One Media Radio's Head of Sport Edmund Doc Crosthwaite confirmed that Final Quizzle would return for a one off Christmas special on 12 December 2012.

A Question of Sport Relief is a special version of the show usually presented by a guest presenter on Sport Relief night since 2002. The 2002, 2004 & 2006 versions were hosted by Stephen Fry. 2008's version was hosted by Jimmy Carr after Fry had to pull out having broken his arm.

BBC One Scotland aired a one-off A Question of Scotland as part of Children in Need 2008, with Jackie Bird as quizmaster.

The CBBC programme Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow made a parody called A Question of Muck as part of the creamy muck muck grand finale game.

The CBBC programme The Saturday Show did a segment called A Question of Busted featuring the pop band Busted answering questions about themselves it was presented by Fearne Cotton who in each segment was dressed as Sue Barker.

In popular culture

The What Happened Next? round was spoofed in an episode of A Bit of Fry & Laurie as David Coleman (Fry) asks Emlyn Hughes (Laurie) to guess what happened after the action stopped in the previous sketch. The host's refusal to confirm whether the given answer is correct then leads into another round of the game, with the question of what happened following the original What Happened Next? sketch.

The show was one of many British TV shows reinterpreted by Chanel 9, a recurring sketch on The Fast Show, where it was titled Questo Sporta and featured the mystery guest round.

References

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  2. ^ "A Question of Sport Studio".
  3. ^ "40th Anniversary Special".
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  5. ^ "A Question of Sport: 1,000th episode, BBC One, review". Daily Telegraph. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  6. ^ "A Question of Sport reaches its 1,000th show – but is it past its sell-by date?". Guardian UK. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  7. ^ "1,000 episodes of A Question of Sport down: But 'What Happens Next' for BBC favourite and can it last another 30 years?". Mirror. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  8. ^ "A Question of Sport World Cup Edition". The Radio Times. 28 May 1970. p. 23.
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  32. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 29 December 1983". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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  34. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 31 December 1984". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  35. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 11 April 1985". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  36. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 5 December 1985". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  37. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 1 May 1986". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  38. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 11 December 1986". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  39. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 14 May 1987". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  40. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 3 December 1987". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  41. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 26 April 1988". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  42. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 25 October 1988". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  43. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 11 April 1989". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  44. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 24 October 1989". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  45. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 1 May 1990". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  46. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 23 October 1990". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  47. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 23 April 1991". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  48. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 15 October 1991". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  49. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 21 April 1992". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  50. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 27 October 1992". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  51. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 20 April 1993". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  52. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 19 October 1993". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  53. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 30 May 1994". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  54. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 11 October 1994". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  55. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 2 May 1995". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  56. ^ "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 11 October 1995". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  57. ^ a b "A Question of Sport – BBC One London – 3 May 1996". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  58. ^ http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=bd58d4a8-306f-4001-8055-cc3cb056cdc3
  59. ^ http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d598747b81b24eceb4ae8ad6191d3f12
  60. ^ http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/198acb889ab146e68c728ee044d44ac6

External links

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