Bbc Iplayer Games and Quizzes

Sporting quiz games on TV take for many years been dominated by three major shows. On the BBC, A Question Of Sport has been going potent for an astonishing 47 years and shows no signs of slowing down. In 1995, They Retrieve It'due south All Over moved over from radio where information technology had been presented past Des Lynam and had a successful 11-year run – as well on BBC – presented offset by Nick Hancock and later by Lee Mack. More than recently A League Of Their Ain has proved hugely successful in the hands of James Corden on Sky.

Merely over fifty years ago football had it's ain quiz evidence. Quiz Ball ran for just six series only is recalled fondly by those who remember it.

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The rules were pretty directly-forward. The team winning the 'kick-off question' started things off and the captains chose who would reply a question and the degree of difficulty. At that place were four routes to goal ranging from going for four like shooting fish in a barrel questions to one extremely hard one. The opposing squad had the option to buzz in and 'tackle' although they couldn't do this on the toughest question. If the defending team got the answer wrong information technology was a goal to the attacking team. Got it? Right.

The hardest question quickly became known as 'Route One' and a few years later the phrase came to define the fashion teams in (real) football would move the brawl quickly from back to front.

Teams consisted of three from the club (unremarkably three players but sometimes including a manager or official) and one invitee supporter (more of which later). English language and Scottish League clubs were included. David Vine was the initial quizmaster although he was later on to be replaced by Stuart Hall of 'It's A Knockout' fame.

The 'pitch' started out as a lath behind the presenter simply this was eventually changed to a 'Subbuteo-style' layout between the 2 teams with flashing lights indicating the road to goal chosen.

Game On

Ian Ure – First Quiz Ball Superstar

In year ane xvi teams took office and the bear witness kicked off with a thriller every bit Arsenal got the better of Nottingham Wood 3-2 after extra fourth dimension (that episode, 1 of only a few that take not been wiped is available on BBC iPlayer). The Gunners, with Ian Ure starring and DJ Jimmy Young as guest supporter then saw off Fulham (who bizarrely had Pete Murray, a well-known Armory fan, as their guest) and Leicester City to reach the terminal. There they met Dunfermline Athletic and a lid-fob from Young along with two 'goals' apiece from Ure and Terry Neill gave them a seven-iii win. All of the Scottish team'due south goals came from The Great Escaoe, Upstairs Downstairs and The Professionals star Gordon Jackson.

Ian Ure – Looking smart

Year two saw Arsenal, with Ure once more outstanding, make a bold bid to defend their title. The Scot scored all five in a win over Hearts in the second round having scored 1 in the starting time. In the semi-terminal he struck again but the Gunners were undone and another hero emerged. West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper John Osborne got all of the Baggies 'goals' in a iv-2 win. This brought his full to 11 in three matches and he added another in the final to help his team beat Nottingham Forest, led by pipe smoker, dairy farmer, Brain of United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland contestant and afterwards Everest double glazing endorser Ted Moult who as well finished with 11 in the tournament, by ii goals to one,

Ted Moult puffs away

John Osborne – Scintillating Form

The contest took a yr off in 1968 but returned the following yr and Osborne was over again in scintillating form in the offset round, scoring both in a 2-1 win over Crystal Palace. However, the title went north of the border with Celtic, led past defender Jim Craig (a graduate of Glasgow Academy) and actor John Cairney – whose brother Jim was a pro – seeing off Hearts in an all-Scottish Final.

The Old Firm

Craig and Cairney carried the Celtic team. Skipper Billy McNeill was decent too but Willie Wallace was there to make upwardly the numbers. Cairney recalls the team leaving i question for Wallace to answer. The question 'Who or what is a Garryowen?' Wallace'due south reply 'A racing tipster' (the Daily Record equus caballus racing tipster at the time was chosen Garry Owen so he wasn't besides far off the mark).

Celtic's prized double

Celtic do the Double

1970 saw not i but two Quiz Balls. The first was an eight-team matter featuring champions and Cup winners. Arsenal – missing the silky skills of Ure – were knocked out in the kickoff circular and Celtic, winners of the double that flavour, repeated their success of a year earlier, beating English champions Everton in the final. Information technology was the aforementioned two stars for the Scots. Craig scored iii and four in the first ii rounds and went one better again in the concluding, his 5-timer backed upward by two from Cairney in a 7-5 win. Brian Labone and Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart led the fashion for the Toffees but they cruel simply short.

Scottish 2d division champs Falkirk won their first-round clash by a alone Alex Ferguson goal and Fergie scored again in the semi only it wasn't enough to meet off Labone, Stewpot and Everton.

Celtic went on to play England in a special 'challenge lucifer' but cruel to a 7-6 defeat.

Leonard Sachs – Turncoat

The second edition afterward in the yr also featured viii teams and saw Leeds United somewhat surprisingly include 'The Good Quondam Day' presenter Leonard Sachs as their guest star. Sachs was switching allegiances, having appeared in twelvemonth one of the competition as Sheffield Wednesday's guest supporter. Leeds made it to the semis where they were undone by Crystal Palace and St Trinian's star Richard Wattis. Just Palace themselves proved second-best in the final as Alan Durban, with help from Archers thespian Bob Arnold, led Derby County to a four-2 win.

And and so to 1971 and the last year of the tournament. Once again but eight teams took part and the list of stars included Nicholas Parsons (Leicester City), Roy Kinnear (Colchester United), Jimmy Logan (Dunfermline Athletic) and Hugh Lloyd (Chelsea, manifestly Raquel Welch was non available).

With Lloyd clearly missing erstwhile partner Terry Scott, Chelsea fell to a semi-final defeat at the hands of Dunfermline while Mike Stringfellow led the way as Leicester saw off Blackpool to brand the concluding.

Who needs Division One? We've got a bays!

Alleviation for Pars

Dunfermline subbed Logan in the concluding, bringing in Dr Who star John Pertwee only it was centre-one-half John Cushley, shrewdly signed from W Ham and another Glasgow Academy graduate, who proved the star, scoring a hat-trick as The Pars ran out 3-1 winners over Leicester for whom Parsons grabbed a consolation. Possibly Dunfermline could have fabricated apply of Pertwee's skills on the pitch as they finished bottom of the Kickoff Division that flavour and were relegated

And and then it was gone. Six seasons of the nation's finest pitting their wits confronting each other ended and bragging rights for Britain's Brainiest Team would no longer be fought for around that oversized Subbuteo pitch.

If nothing else Quiz Brawl gave u.s. some fun, and it gave us Route One – and both are now more often than not just fond memories!

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