Scott’s afternoon team launches “Treadmill Trivia,” a quiz where contestants run on a treadmill that speeds up with every wrong answer — with predictably chaotic results when both Chopper and Laura take it on.
The show opens with Scott introducing Treadmill Trivia, a feature filmed with trained professionals present for safety. The concept is straightforward and brutal: answer quiz questions correctly while running, or the treadmill speeds up until you inevitably fall off. Chopper goes first, facing a mix of sports trivia questions. He answers incorrectly on golf ball dimples (guessing 64 instead of 336) and the year boxing became legal (1924 instead of 1901), but gets the biggest participant sport right (fishing). As the treadmill accelerates, he tackles questions about the first modern Olympics, Hulk Hogan’s real name (getting it wrong), and other sports facts, with the machine gradually speeding up.
Later in the show, Laura takes her turn on the treadmill, facing the same question set. She performs better initially, correctly identifying 336 dimples on a golf ball after recalling it from an episode of QI, but then struggles with subsequent questions. Boxing’s legal date (1920 vs. 1901), the biggest participant sport (boxing vs. fishing), and the first Olympics all trip her up, increasing the treadmill’s speed. By the time she reaches the egg and spoon race question, things have deteriorated significantly — she injures her knee badly enough that Scott has to stop the feature immediately, emphasizing the “don’t do this at home” warning and noting that trained medical supervision was on hand.
Between the two treadmill segments, Peter Jones from Dragon’s Den reads out text messages sent to the show’s “third number,” attempting to decipher youth speak and text abbreviations. His deadpan delivery as he struggles with modern texting conventions provides comic relief.
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