This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz was a special with questions about many famous facts from the world of sport (football, tennis, running, boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, swimming, weightlifting, cycling, car racing, ice skating, snooker and much more), a surprisingly factual and as usual funny show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: Roisin Conaty and Dane Baptiste (Sports & Prayers), Tom Allen and Kerry Godliman (Double P. E.), and Judi Love and Joel Dommett (Richard & Judi). This quiz focused on all sorts of sports facts and information from history, music, headlines, people, science and technology, film and TV, and pot luck (general knowledge) to answer about. These questions are asked as they are, with video and sound clips, with pictures (including Say What You See), and by celebrity and mystery guests on screen or in the studio, so it really does feel like a proper quiz that you can take part in. Sports stuff that was questioned and joked about, and mentioned (or pictured) included: the Romans, chariot racing, horseracing, Sue Barker, Bend It Like Beckham, Pelé, the World Cup 1966, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, Clare Balding, Tyson Fury, Nicola Adams, Paul the Octopus, Ellie Simmonds, Ellen MacArthur, Tom Daley, Zara Tindall, Venus and Serena Williams, Andy Murray, shuttlecock, touchdown, Qatar, Let's Play Darts for Comic Relief, competitors in ancient Greek Olympics competed completely naked, art was once an event at the Olympics, aesthetic and physical, Pankration (a cross between wrestling and boxing) and the fouls/illegal moves of biting and gouging, basketball invented in 1891 but the hoop was not introduced for 21 years, the 1988 Seoul Olympics where Ben Johnson won the 100m and it was described as "the dirtiest race in history" because only two out of the eight runners were not linked to performance enhancing drugs , the Tour de France has been running over 120 years and drinking alcohol was outlawed in 1965, the 1975 Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs Battle of the Sexes and the two giving each other insulting gifts (she gave him a piglet because she called him a chauvinistic pig, he gave her a lollipop saying "she's gonna be a sucker for my lob"), Elton John bought Watford Football Club in 1976, in 2018 Lewis Hamilton launched a secret music career, "Three Lions" with five England players named in the lyrics (Nobby Stiles, Bobby Charlton, Gary Linekar, Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne, Bobby Moore), the Jules Rimet trophy stolen and found by a dog, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, the Black Eyed Peas' Fergie, and Michael Bolton singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" American National Anthem badly at the Super Bowl, Adele singing the Tottenham Hotspur fan chant, the musical sporting tradition of singing "Sweet Caroline" originated with the Red Sox baseball team and has been adopted by British darts, football, and rugby league fans (Dr. Charles Steinberg transformative powers for the crowd), during the France '98 World Cup England players (including Tony Adams, Alan Shearer, Gareth Southgate and manager Glen Hoddle) pranked the press by quoting song titles during interviews, sporting star outfits: Eddie the Eagle, Bjorn Borg and Ian Poulter, Serena Williams won the 2017 Australian Open whilst pregnant, the 2022 Lionesses, in 2003 Alex Ferguson kicked a boot at David Beckham and used the term "hairdryer treatment" for his dressing room rants, the 2005 London Marathon with Paula Radcliffe apologising for pooing in the street, the 2005 British cricket team Ashes celebrations with Freddy Flintoff and Kevin Peterson drunk at Downing Street, in 1995 Manchester United's Eric Cantona said "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" during a press interview after kung fu kicking a rival fan in the crowd, in 1995 Michael Jordan announced coming out of retirement to return to the NBA with a famous press statement fax saying "I'm back", Torvill and Dean, Roger Bannister in setting a four-minute mile record in 1954, Conor McGregor fighting against Floyd Mayweather, Michael Jordan is one of the greatest athletes of all time with the most accurate shot in American history, Tiger Woods considered by some as the all-time greatest golfer, the Sydney 2000 Olympics with Eric Moussambani 100 metres freestyle completed in the slowest time and he was nicknamed "Eric the Eel" (he only learnt to swim 8 months before competition and the other two swimmers were disqualified for false starts, doing it on his own), iconic sporting phrases: Michael Buffer ("Let's get ready for rumble!"), Jamie Vardy ("Chat s***, get banged"), and Jane Fonda ("Feel the burn" and "No pain no gain"), boxers Vitali Klitschko and Manny Pacquiao and footballer George Weah have all become politicians, Morteza Mehrzad being the star player of the Iranian seated volleyball team at the Paralympics because he has long arms and is the tallest player (he is the second tallest man in the world), the autobiography of Andre Agassi, the 1976 Athena Tennis Girl poster, e-sports was a pilot event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, VAR (video assistant referee) introduced in 2016, in 1818 William Cubitt invented the treadmill which was originally created to punish prisoners, three sports played on the surface of the Moon: golf, high jump, and javelin, Cristiano Ronaldo in an advert on Japanese television for a facial fitness fool, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan tried virtual reality snooker but he fell over, Muhammad Ali stars in computer super fight (Mohammad Ali and Rocky Marciano filmed fighting and a computer made a movie), Vinnie Jones leaving football to become an actor, Rocky running up the stairs to the Philadelphia Art Museum, songs from sports movies: "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito = The Karate Kid, "Show Me Heaven" by Maria McKee = Days of Thunder, and "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor = Rocky III, Match of the Day host Gary Linekar kept his promise to present wearing only underwear in 2015 if Leicester City won the Premier League, Len Smith being the world champion of marbles, in 2018 Derek Chisora said to Dillian Whye in a fighting analogy he would "go through Whyte like laxative", WWE Rikishi and his signature move the "Stink Face", commentating gaffes: David Coleman said "If that had gone in, it would have been a goal" and Michael Owen said "Footballers these days often have to use their feet", Frankie Dettori won all seven races at Ascot in 1996, the bleep test is a running test used to estimate athletes' aerobic capacity, murderball (wheelchair rugby) described as thrilling and brutal, chess with a bit of violence, and something out of Mad Max, sport star hairstyles: Jack Grealish, Megan Rapinoe, and Mario Balotelli, excuses given for sporting losses: dodgy lasagne (Tottenham food poisoning), Ridley Scott (invited Hamilton to The Martian set before Grand Prix), and farts (darts player Gary Anderson blamed Wesley Harms farting onstage), close up faces: Sophie McKenna in shotput, Daniel Purvis in parallel bars, and Natasha McKay figure skating, Muhammad Ali trademarked the term G. O. A. T. (Greatest Of All Time), and sports stars in scandals: John McEnroe, Diego Maradona, and Lance Armstrong. Other celebrity and special mystery guests in the show included the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School in Neasden who act out well known news stories, Charles Dance who reads an autobiography, international rugby stars Will Joseph, Alex Cuthbert and Dillon Lewis, John Barnes (who raps to World In Motion"), Kadeena Cox, Stephen Fry, David Haye, Dame Kelly Holmes, Joe Marler, Tim Peake, Fiona Walker from the 1976 Athena Tennis Girl poster (the female tennis player without underwear touching her bottom), and Shaun Wallace from The Chase. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they always choose the right celebrity panellists, and it works as a funny way to reminisce on sporting things you remember, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!
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