Episode 26 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

Hello. I'm Alexander Armstrong. Welcome to Pointless.

This is the show where all the questions have been asked

to 100 people before the show and all our contestants have to do

is come up with the answers no-one else could.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hi. I'm John from Leeds

and this is my daughter Eleanor from Manchester.

-Couple number two.

-Hi. I'm Jayne from Whitfield in Kent

and I'm here with my sister Sharon from Sheldon in Birmingham.

Couple number three.

My name is Joe, this is my friend Jason and we're students from Crewe.

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Chappy, this is my better half, Sammy,

and we've come from Newcastle.

And these are today's contestants.

Thanks very much to all of you.

We will find out more about you throughout the show as it goes along.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Here to change these eight characters

like they're his expired Myspace password,

it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

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-Hiya. Hiya.

Hi, everybody. Afternoon to you.

-And to you.

-Two returning pairs.

Jayne and Sharon, who were knocked out in Round One last time.

Hopefully, we'll see a bit more of them this time.

And on podium one, John and Eleanor who played very, very well.

Got all the way to the head-to-head. Two-one in the head-to-head.

Then I think they had an argument about which answer to go for

in the final one.

John, as all fathers should do, overruled his daughter

and John, as all fathers always are, was incorrect.

So, I think they've got some making up to do on today's show.

Nice first round today.

Some pointless answers going begging in Round One today.

Ooh, that's nice. Very good.

Right, yes, Mark and Sandra won the jackpot last time,

so today's jackpot starts off back at £1,000. There it is.

As Richard says, there will be some pointless answers flying around.

Let's try and get as many of those netted as we can and banked

so we can swell that jackpot as quickly as possible.

If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

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OK, as always, remember, the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

That's all you have to remember.

OK, our first category today is...

It's a Words round.

Can you all decide in your pairs who will go first, who will go second?

Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

..O-O-L as they could.

We're looking for any word that has its own entry

in the English section of oxforddictionaries.com

as of March 2015 that ends O-O-L.

As always, no proper nouns, no hyphenated words,

anything like that.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Now, then, Eleanor. Welcome back.

-Thank you.

Remind us what you do, Eleanor.

I am in recruitment currently, but training to be a zoologist.

That is fun. How far are you into the training?

How long will it be before you are a zoologist?

I've graduated. I'm just working for a couple of years

to build up my CV and then headed to Australia.

-That's where you're going to do it?

-Yeah.

You're going to specialise in Australian mammals, are you?

-Hmm...yeah.

-Why especially Australia?

-What's luring you out there?

-Um...

Because the wildlife brings in a lot of money into the country,

they pump a lot of money back into it,

so there's some great projects to work on.

OK. Now, Eleanor, words ending O-O-L.

I'm going to - I think it's correct -

say spool, as in cotton.

Spool, says Eleanor. Let's see if spool is right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said spool.

It's right.

39. APPLAUSE

39 for spool. Seems a bit harshly high.

Tough on that first podium, though, on Words rounds, isn't it?

-Always is.

-So little time to think.

Yes, spool as in cotton. Quite right.

-Now then, Jayne.

-Yes.

-Jayne, welcome back.

-Thank you.

It was Round One. There was nothing wrong with your Round One.

-Two perfectly good answers.

-Yes. They were just a bit high.

They weren't even that high.

Just everyone else scored annoyingly low.

-They did, yes.

-I hate that.

-It's not right when that happens.

No, it's not right at all. Jayne, remind us what your hobbies are.

-What do you like getting up to?

-Mountain biking.

I don't mind dabbling in a little bit of cooking as well.

When you say dabbling in a little bit,

do you consider yourself rather a fine cook

-or do you follow recipes and just knock things together?

-It depends.

Sometimes I might just throw a few things in

and don't always measure it.

-Yeah.

-But then sometimes I will follow a recipe,

but then it doesn't always come out great.

Do you have a favoured recipe book?

No. I have a lot of them, but I don't have a favourite one.

-Have you come up with a word ending O-O-L?

-Um...

-I'm going to go with school.

-School. OK, Jayne says school.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said school.

It's right.

60. APPLAUSE

60 for school.

Yes, school. Do you want a definition of school?

-I think I...

-You're OK?

-I think I've got it.

Go on, actually. Yeah, go on. What is it?

Oh, hold on a minute. It is...

Oh. Place to...where...learn stuff.

LAUGHTER

School. Got it. Got it.

-Jason.

-Hello.

-Welcome to Pointless.

Good to have you here. You are a student at Crewe?

-I am.

-What are you studying?

I am doing a masters in sport science and exercise.

Sport science and exercise.

-Do you do quite a lot of exercise and sport as well?

-Yes.

I go to the gym as much as I can,

play badminton for the university team.

-Can you kind of call that coursework?

-Yeah, we'll go with that.

But lots of studying, if my lecturers are watching.

What sort of things have you learned? What do you learn in sport science?

Mine is mainly focused on coaching,

so it's how coaches acquire knowledge,

a lot of theory behind coaching.

OK. And when you leave Crewe...? How long until you leave Crewe?

-I graduate in September.

-Oh, really? Not long at all.

-No.

Will you go on into coaching? Is that what you're hoping to do?

I hope so. I'm off to America in a few weeks

to coach football, or soccer.

Excellent. Best of luck with that.

-And best of luck with your word ending O-O-L.

-OK.

So, I was going to go spool.

However, leading on from that one, I'm going to try preschool...

-Preschool.

-..and hope it's one word.

-Like the way you're thinking, Jason.

Preschool, let's see if it's right

and how many of our 100 people said preschool.

It's right. Oh, Jason!

Oh, we have a new low score. It's 4!

Very well done indeed. APPLAUSE

-Very well done. 4 for preschool.

-Well played, Jason,

though slightly weird to have preschool after school.

-It's mad, isn't it?

-It's crazy.

I can't remember what school means now.

-School - where to learn stuff.

-Yes, yes, got it. Brilliant.

Yes. Preschool after school.

-Preschool - before you've learnt stuff.

-Yeah. Very odd.

Thank you. OK, now, then. Welcome, Sammy.

Great to have you on Pointless. What do you do, Sammy?

I'm an actress and a sign language interpreter.

Wow. Which of those did you do first?

-Acting, I'm guessing.

-Yeah.

What sort of thing? Do you sign performances and things like that?

I'm working my way up to it. It's a little bit more difficult.

I get a bit over-expressive and over-gesticulative

-and it's distracting.

-That's nice, though, isn't it?

-It shows you're involved.

-I'm too involved.

You build up quite a sweat, I should think. Yes.

You don't want to have to be being taken off

and towelled down between acts, do you?

-Like Rocky.

-Yeah, exactly.

OK, now, Sammy, words ending O-O-L.

I've genuinely got my fingers crossed for lambswool.

Oh, she's good. Oh, if it's right. It might be wrong.

It might be totally wrong. In which case, it's awful.

But lambswool. Lambswool. Sammy says lambswool.

Let's see if it's right and how many of our 100 people said lambswool.

It's brilliant, Sammy.

1! It scores you 1. APPLAUSE

If it were down to me, I'd say that should have been pointless,

but there we are.

One person said lambswool. Very well done.

It's a terrific answer, Sammy. Very well played.

Welcome to Pointless as well. A risky one to do, though, isn't it?

-Those compound nouns that fit together.

-Yeah.

But lambswool, all one word. It's the wool of a lamb.

Oh, I see.

-Or several lambs.

-OK. That's clever. Thanks, Richard.

We're halfway through the round. Let's look at the scores.

Lambswool - the best answer so far. Well done, Sammy.

That puts you and Chappy ahead of the game.

Then we travel up to 4, where we find Jason and Joe.

Up to 39, Eleanor and John.

And then - I'm so sorry - 60, Jayne and Sharon.

This is a high score.

So, yeah, Sharon, just think of a really, really low-scoring word

ending in O-O-L and we'll keep our fingers crossed

that it keeps you in the game.

We'll come back down the line.

Can the second players step up to the podium?

-Now, then, Chappy. Welcome.

-Hi.

-Welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. What do you do, Chappy?

-I'm a graphic designer.

-What do you do for fun?

-What keeps you entertained?

-I'm in a band.

-What do you play?

-I play bass.

-Very good. What kind of band is it?

-It's post-punk, goth.

-We just like to make a lot of racket.

-OK.

-What's the name of his group?

-Chappy, what are you called?

We're called Retriever.

Retriever. Good.

Good. That's good.

-That'll come back to us, won't it?

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER Now...

-HE SIGHS

-I liked it.

-I liked it.

Now, Chappy, you have to score 58 or less.

-Simple as that.

-Yes.

I had one. I think it's now risky,

so I'm going to tactically say something

that I am more sure of, which is...powertool.

Oh, podium four on fire. Or are they? Maybe they're not.

Maybe that's a terrible answer. Powertool.

There is your red line. If you can get below that with powertool,

you are through to the next round.

Oh, no!

Oh, no. Oh, I can't bear that.

That's scored you 100 points, takes your total up to 101.

I think I'm going to regret choosing that one over the other one.

-Oh, no.

-You are.

-Oh, I'm so...

LAUGHTER

-Rich.

-No sign language needed there, was there?

-LAUGHTER

-I tell you what,

I would love to hear the risky one.

Let's have a listen to that at the end of the round.

But two words, I'm afraid - power tool.

Ah. Ah. Now, Joe, welcome. Welcome.

-Also at Crewe.

-Yeah.

-Do you also graduate in September?

No, I'm an undergraduate student studying business management

and I graduate in July.

Have you got plans made for your future?

I'm currently looking for jobs, mainly in the HR area.

OK, well, you're speaking to your future employers, Joe.

What do you...? Talk to me as if to them.

What are your attributes, Joe?

What would you say were your best things?

-I'm a good team player, I guess.

-OK, OK. Do you have a bad point?

I find it's always good to say, "Yes, if anything,

"I find I'm too severe on myself. I just drive myself too much."

-Do you have any bad points, Joe?

-Um...I'll try not to say it, but...

Um, no.

No! LAUGHTER

There we go. Employ him immediately. Joe, you're on 4.

If you can score 96 or less, you...yeah.

-I'm going to go with whirlpool.

-Whirlpool.

OK, whirlpool, says Joe.

Here's your red line, nice and high.

Get below that with whirlpool, you are through to the next round.

It's right.

Well done.

2 for whirlpool. APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 6,

our lowest total of the round by a margin.

Well played. Someone has got to employ him after that, surely.

-Surely.

-That's a great answer.

-It's a great answer.

-Now, Sharon, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Remind us what you like getting up to.

What amuses you, Sharon?

I'm a member of the gym, my local gym. I like to go...

When you go to the gym, do you do classes there

or do you go on a machine or do you go with free weights

or do you just go on the treadmill and watch Pointless?

-THEY LAUGH

-I do exactly that.

I go on the treadmill and watch Pointless. Yes.

-That's exactly the right answer.

-Nice, isn't it?

-Isn't it? Very nice.

Now, then, you're no longer the high-scorers.

If you can find yourself scoring 40 or less,

you should be into the next round.

Yes.

It's going to be stool.

-Stool.

-Stool.

-OK, you're going to go for stool.

Here comes your red line.

If you can get below that with stool, you are into the next round.

Let's see how many people said stool.

It's right.

52. APPLAUSE

52 for stool takes your total up to 112.

Sammy and Chappy are fine. Chappy is almost forgiven.

LAUGHTER

-Don't make me define what stool means.

-I won't.

I just won't.

John, welcome back.

-Remind us what you do, John.

-I'm a parcel handler at Royal Mail.

That's right. And your hobbies, John?

I play some golf, I go to live music sometimes

and I go to the cinema quite a lot.

Live... Are there any bands you would count yourself an uber fan of?

-The Decemberists are probably my favourite.

-The Decemberists?

-Yes.

Richard, tell me about The Decemberists.

You'd like The Decemberists.

Xander would like The Decemberists, wouldn't he?

-Would he?

-I suspect, yes.

-Good, good. Brilliant.

John, so, 72 or less.

Well, after the power tool incident,

I don't believe I'm going to go down any risky road,

so I'm just going to stick with drool.

-Drool.

-Yes.

Stick with drool, John. Stick with drool.

Here's your red line. Get below that with drool, you're through.

Look at that.

44. APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 83.

You did exactly the right thing there.

It's so tempting to go for one of those compound words,

but not on that last podium.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

-Damfool.

-LAUGHTER

It's all one word. Not just since Mr T, as well.

And it does mean someone who is a fool but more so.

Faldstool, which is a stool that bishops sit on. A folding stool.

-Jamrool, which is what, of course, Geordies have at lunchtime.

-Mmm.

Next page.

Longwool is a breed of sheep - a very famous breed of sheep.

Some people at home would have got longwool.

Playschool. Sool, which is a dog worrying a sheep, essentially.

-Aw, I was thinking of a dog worrying for a moment.

-Aww.

I was just picturing a dog just going...

YOWLS MOURNFULLY

-No, quite the opposite.

-Oh.

Tomfool is a pointless answer.

Undercool, which means the same as supercool, actually.

And vanpool, which is a slightly bigger version

of carpool, essentially.

Very well done if you said any of those pointless answers.

Let's look at the top three answers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Some big scorers here.

-Cool, fool, pool.

-There we go. Thank you very much indeed.

-Pleasure.

Well, we're at the end of our first round. I'm sorry! I'm sorry.

We're saying goodbye to one of our returning pairs.

-It's Round One last time, Round One this time.

-I know, yes.

Oh. I am so sorry.

Jayne and Sharon, far too soon to be saying goodbye to you.

It's been lovely having you on both shows, albeit briefly.

Thanks very much for playing. Sharon and Jayne.

-BOTH:

-Thank you.

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But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.

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And now we're down to three pairs.

At the end of this round, we'll have to say goodbye to another pair.

Jason and Joe, congratulations to you,

our lowest-scoring pair in that first round.

Sammy, special congratulations to you

for our lowest-scoring individual, lambswool.

That's how you play a Words round, for heaven's sake.

And John and Eleanor, congratulations to you

for being our only remaining returning pair.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our Category for Round Two today is...

History. Can you all decide in your pairs who will go first,

who will go second?

Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

Oh, that's nice history. Events of the 1990s. Richard.

-History, though, right?

-Oh, it is.

-That's depressing.

We're going to give you six clues on each pass

to events that happened in the 1990s.

Just need you to give us the most obscure answer, please.

12 in all to have a go at at home.

Those events do not include Jason and Joe being born,

even though they were born in the '90s.

OK, so, yes, we are looking for the events of the 1990s

as described by these clues, OK?

And here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

-John.

-I think I know all of them except one.

Hard to judge which one would be more difficult,

but I'm going to go for the bottom one

and say John Prescott.

John Prescott, says John.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said John Prescott.

It's right.

18. Not bad at all.

APPLAUSE 18 for John Prescott.

I believe it was Chumbawamba, the band who threw a...

-..a bucket of water over him.

-He's called Danbert Nobacon.

-Danbert Nobacon was exactly his name, yeah.

-Yeah.

Hey, look, we can talk.

-We've all got names, right?

-We've all got names.

All got names, Joe. What are you going to go far?

There's one I'm certain of

and one iffy, but hoping...

I'm going to go for an obvious one

and hope Jason will do well in the next board.

The film directed by James Cameron which won 11 Oscars in 1998

-is Titanic.

-Titanic, says Joe.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said Titanic.

It's right.

18 is our only score at this juncture.

-30 for Titanic.

-Yes!

-APPLAUSE

-I was hoping that might sink a bit further, Joe.

-Yes, surpri...

Yeah, very good. Surprisingly low score, isn't it?

One of the biggest movies of all time.

They called it, to keep it under wraps

until they'd finished shooting, they called it Planet Ice,

-was the name of the project.

-Clever.

-It is clever, isn't it?

-Very clever. Thanks very much, Richard.

OK, now, Chappy. Chappy, this board is all yours.

Well, I think I know three and I can have a stab at the other one.

The man who Tony Blair succeeded was John Major.

The member of the royal family was Prince Edward.

The stab that I would have took

was 1999 for The Philosopher's Stone.

But I'm going to go with the US president,

George Bush senior.

George Bush senior, says Chappy.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 knew that answer.

It's absolutely right, of course.

30 is our high score.

I suspect you'll pass that and you do.

You pass that comfortably. Look at that.

Very well done. APPLAUSE

Honour restored on the far podium there.

Lovely total of 8.

-They are very, very good on that last podium.

-Yeah, they are.

It's a cracking game. We've got three very, very strong pairs today.

Let's fill in the rest of this board.

Chappy did a very, very nice job indeed.

You're right about John Major.

You were right to avoid it as an answer

because it would have scored you 46 points.

You were right about Prince Edward as well

and right to avoid that too

because it would have scored you 55 points.

But I wish - I wish - you'd said 1999

because it was 1997.

I would have loved to see the look on Sammy's face.

-LAUGHTER

-'97.

That would have scored you 5 points.

Thanks very much, Richard. Let's take a look at the scores.

8 - the best score of that pass, Chappy. Well done.

Chappy and Sammy looking very good at this point.

Then up to 18, where we find John and Eleanor.

Then up to 30, Joe and Jason. Very close, actually.

Jason, you are ahead, though, so we need a low score from you.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put six more clues from the '90s up on the board

and here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

There we are.

Sammy, remember, we are looking for these events in the 1990s.

Right. You always watch this and hear people say,

"The other board was great for me."

It was. It actually was.

So, I might be going with a slightly easy answer here.

I'm going to say the White House intern

was Monica Lewinsky.

Monica Lewinsky, says Sammy. You want to be scoring 21 or less.

There's your red line.

Get below that, you're into the head-to-head.

Let's see how many of our 100 said Monica Lewinsky.

Well, it's right.

Still going down, Sammy. Look at that.

36. Not bad at all.

APPLAUSE Not bad.

44 is your total.

Not too much damage done there, Sammy.

Yeah, he genuinely excelled as a saxophone player, Bill Clinton.

Was thinking of doing it professionally,

then met President Kennedy when he was a teenager.

Bill Clinton, not President Kennedy.

And that's the thing that set him on the path to politics.

-His sax playing was really good?

-Yeah.

-He could have been Kenny G.

-LAUGHTER

Wow. That's a career to walk away from, isn't it?

-Maybe it's not too late.

-Take it up again.

-Take it up. Should do.

-Yeah.

-He should do. Now, Jason.

-OK.

A little bit of pressure on here suddenly.

The pressure is mounting. You have to score 13 or less.

Pff. Um...

I don't know any of them. History is not a strong point.

I'll have a guess at the Olympic Games

and say Madrid.

Madrid for the Olympic Games in 1996, says Jason.

Let's see if that's right. Here is your red line.

Let's see if Madrid can get you anywhere near that.

Bad luck, Jason. I'm sorry, that's an incorrect answer.

Scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 130.

Yeah, sorry, Jason. Not Madrid, I'm afraid.

I'll give the answers at the end of the pass.

-Thanks very much. Now then, Eleanor.

-Yes.

-Great news.

-Yes.

Doesn't matter what you score,

you are in the head-to-head for the second time.

-Fantastic.

-Do you want to talk us through the board?

I know a couple of them. By the way, I was also born in the '90s.

Only by three months, but still.

Wet Wet Wet I think is Love Is All Around.

I'm going to go for Crocodile Rock and Rocket Man and say Elton John.

Elton John, says Eleanor. No red line. You're already through.

Let's see how many people said Elton John.

55. APPLAUSE

55 takes your total up to 73.

Well played, Eleanor.

I apologise for not realising you were born in the '90s.

I thought you were born in the 2000s. That's what I thought.

-Well saved.

-That's the mistake that I made.

Let's look at the rest of these.

The city that hosted the Summer Olympics was Atlanta.

-The Wet Wet Wet song?

-Love Is All Around.

Love Is All Around.

-The second daughter of the Duke of York?

-Eugenie.

Eugenie, yes.

This is the best answer on the board, perhaps unsurprisingly.

The number of years Nelson Mandela spent in prison was...?

-27.

-27 is the right answer.

Well played.

Good. Thank you very much indeed.

At the end of our second round, the pair who are heading home

with their high score of 130, I'm afraid, Jason and Joe.

Well, you hadn't, till this point, put a foot wrong.

-You were doing extremely well and then, yes, Atlanta.

-History.

History. He did...

Oh, I thought you were going to say, "Before my time..." there

for a moment or two. Luckily, you didn't.

But it hasn't been entirely in vain.

Joe's got himself several interviews lined up.

Let's hope so.

We'll give you the details as you step off the studio floor.

We'll look forward to seeing you again next time.

Thanks very much, Jason and Joe. APPLAUSE

But for Sammy and Chappy and John and Eleanor,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Sammy and Chappy, John and Eleanor.

You're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £1,000.

You know the rules.

The first pair to win two questions goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

OK, here is your first question and it concerns...

-Richard.

-I'm going to show you five images now of famous characters

from film or TV who are green.

Can you identify the most obscure?

OK, let's reveal our green characters and here they are.

There we go.

Five famous green characters.

Now, Sammy and Chappy, you've been our low scorers

throughout the show so far so you will go first.

-What one?

-Green Lantern?

I think so. Just double-checking.

We know them all so this is a hard one

cos I don't know which one will be the lowest.

We're going to go with C - the Green Lantern.

The Green Lantern.

C - the Green Lantern, say Sammy and Chappy.

Now, then, John and Eleanor, that board's all yours.

Talk us through it.

The only one I think would beat that is the one we don't know.

I'm going to have to go with Rex, B.

You're going to say B - Rex.

OK, so, we have Rex and we have the Green Lantern.

Now, Sammy and Chappy said the Green lantern.

Let's see if that's right for C.

If it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

32. APPLAUSE

32 for the Green Lantern.

Now, John and Eleanor, meanwhile, have said Rex for B.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 said Rex.

It's right.

Look at that! What a surprise. There we go.

22 for Rex.

APPLAUSE

Which means, John and Eleanor, you've nicked it.

After one question, you are up one-nil.

Well played. It's already a good round.

You think you knew D.

-What would you have said for D?

-Oscar the Grouch.

It's the right answer and would have scored 10 points.

-THEY GROAN

-Sorry.

Kermit... Big scorer, Kermit.

..would have scored you 83 points.

Princess Fiona from the Shrek films.

Thanks, Richard.

OK, here comes your second question.

John and Eleanor, you get to answer this one first.

But, Sammy and Chappy, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

So, best of luck. It concerns...

Simply going to give you five clues now,

the answers to which are all things that share their name with...

-BOTH:

-..figures from classical mythology.

We can all join in with that next time.

OK, let's reveal our five clues and here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

Now, John and Eleanor will go first.

We think we know them all,

but we're judging that the second bottom one is the most difficult.

We're going to say Atlas.

The Atlas Mountains, say John and Eleanor.

The Atlas Mountains.

Now, Sammy and Chappy, that board's all yours.

The top one is Juno.

The second one is Apollo.

-The Disney dog...?

-Is Pluto.

-Pluto.

And the 2012 Ridley Scott film...?

-Is Prometheus. Which one do you reckon?

-Prometheus.

The bottom one, Prometheus.

Prometheus. OK, you're going to go for Prometheus.

We have Atlas. We have Prometheus. John and Eleanor went for Atlas.

Let's see if that's right for the mountain range.

It is right.

27. APPLAUSE

27 for the Atlas Mountains.

Meanwhile, Sammy and Chappy have gone for Prometheus.

Let's see if that's right for the Ridley Scott film.

How many of our 100 said Prometheus?

It is right.

It's going to be close.

Oh, and it wins!

Ooh, well done.

6 for Prometheus. APPLAUSE

There we go.

You have broken back. After two questions, it's one-all.

Best answer up there.

Once again, the team that went first knew the best answer,

didn't give it and the other team have snuck in.

The other answers. We've heard all of them.

We knew this was going to be a bruiser and so it is proving.

It all comes down to this third and final question. The decider.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...

Indian cuisine, Richard.

Yeah, we're going to show you the names of five Indian foods or dishes

as they appear on the BBC Food website.

But we have put them all into anagram form, I'm afraid.

You need to unscramble them. The team that gives us

the most obscure answer is playing in today's final.

Very best of luck.

OK, let's reveal our five anagrams and here they are.

Now, Sammy and Chappy, you will go first.

THEY WHISPER

Yeah, got that one. I'd say the first one you said.

The third one down.

OK, we're going to say the third one and paneer.

Paneer, say Sammy and Chappy. Paneer.

Now, then, John and Eleanor.

Do you fancy talking us through the board?

We don't know the top two.

The second bottom one is samosa

and the bottom one is roti.

-We'll go for roti.

-You're going to go for roti?

-Mm-hmm.

So, we have paneer and we have roti.

Paneer, say Sammy and Chappy. Let's see if that's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said paneer.

It's right.

20 for paneer.

APPLAUSE

John and Eleanor have gone for roti.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said roti.

It's right.

35 for roti. APPLAUSE

Well done.

Very well done, Sammy and Chappy.

After three questions, you are through to the final two-one.

Very well played. A terrific head-to-head. Really was.

Those top two are tricky, aren't they?

Let's fill these two in.

-It's hard, isn't it?

-I know.

-Naan bread.

-No!

-Really?

Naan bread for 14 points.

Con me naughty would score you 2 points.

-Do you know that?

-No.

-You've had it many times. Many, many times.

We've all had it many times. It is...

-..mango chutney.

-Oh, no! That's brilliant.

2 points. Well done if you said that.

There we are. Thanks very much indeed.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round,

I'm so sorry, John and Eleanor.

You've been twice into the head-to-head round.

Nothing wrong with your Pointless performance at all.

It's been such a pleasure having you on the show,

but I'm afraid you never made it through to the final. I'm so sorry.

Thank you for playing. John and Eleanor, great contestants.

APPLAUSE

INDISTINCT SPEECH

But for Sammy and Chappy, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Sammy and Chappy. You have fought off the competition

and have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,000.

There it is.

Do you know, I'm thrilled.

I'm really thrilled that you're through to the final.

You completely deserve it. Such strong play.

I mean, really bright answering the whole way through. Clever.

You had us in the first round, frankly.

But we're sort of devastated you're not going to be back next time.

-I know.

-I know.

-Bittersweet.

Now, as always, you get to choose your category

from the four things that we put up on the board behind me here.

Let us hope there is something up there you like the look of.

OK, today's selection looks like this. We've got...

It's going to have to be, isn't it?

-That's the only one that it can be.

-It's the only one. Yeah.

-Just checking - it's UK Number One?

-Yeah.

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-What, not Shakespeare?

-OK, yeah.

-UK Number One Singles.

-Yes, please.

-Yes, please.

-OK, Richard.

-OK, very, very best of luck.

You've been terrific all the way through.

Hopefully, your luck will hold.

We are looking for any UK number one single,

up to April 2015, with...

So, any one-word UK number one single up to April 2015

beginning with A, B or C.

When songs have brackets, we ignore the brackets.

Anything outside.

If it's got one word outside the brackets, we accept it.

Double A-sides, they both count as separate answers.

-Very, very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers

to be pointless. Are you ready?

Yeah.

-As ready as I'm going to be.

-Yeah.

OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

-Albatross.

-OK.

-Baby Love, I think, was for...

-Hang on, that's two words.

-Oh, sorry, yeah.

-Stop that.

Um...

Things like Always, Crazy. Things like that.

Yeah.

-I think the...

-I was trying to narrow it down with bands. Beatles.

Think the Beatles have got a lot of number ones.

Everything I think of has got two words.

-Everything I'm thinking of has got two words as well.

-Yeah.

-Think of just words, then.

-Albatross.

-Albatross.

Blue. That just sounds like something...

Blue (Da Ba Dee Da Ba Da).

-But it's just Blue.

-Yeah, say Blue. Great.

And also...

Is Barbie Girl one word or two words?

I think it might have been two words, but I'm not sure.

-Right.

-Um...

California. Californication. Anything California-based.

Don't think it was number one, Californication.

Ten seconds left.

I've got six songs on my iPod all called California.

-Shall we just say that?

-Yeah.

Um... There's four of them seconds.

Right. Right. Albatross...

-OK, that's your time up.

-What was the B one?

Your three answers. What are you going to give me?

I think we might be giving you one from each one, just by accident.

What about that!

-We're going to go with Albatross.

-Albatross.

-Blue.

-Blue.

-Blue.

And what was the C one?

-What did we...? Oh, California.

-California.

-Simply cos I've got about six songs on my...

-Loads of songs.

..MP3 player that are called California.

-Surely one of them has been number one.

-Yeah.

OK, of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Albatross cos we know...

-Albatross, the first one you said? Brilliant.

We'll put that third. Least likely to be pointless?

-California.

-California, we'll put first.

-Just a wild guess.

Then Blue goes in the middle.

OK, let's pop those answers up on the board in that order then.

And here they are.

Now, three perfectly good answers up there.

Let's hope at least one of those is pointless.

You can go away with today's jackpot.

It's 1,000 quid. What would you do with that, Sammy?

We're going to America in two weeks.

We're going to Nashville,

so we'd probably use the extra money to go to Memphis

and go to Graceland. That would be nice.

Chappy, how about you?

-Probably some booze for the train.

-LAUGHTER

That is such a good idea, isn't it? Some booze for the train.

It's a long journey back to Newcastle.

OK, very, very, very best of luck.

We were looking for UK number one singles

beginning with A, B or C.

Single words.

California was your first answer.

Bit of a punt just cos there are lots of songs called California.

It stands to reason maybe one of them might have been number one.

Let's find out. If it's right, if it's pointless, it wins you £1,000.

How many people said California?

No.

OK, that's fine. California was just holding a place there.

Let's be plain. Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your second answer was Blue.

Again, UK number one beginning with the letter B.

It has to be right, then it has to be pointless

for you to win that jackpot.

For £1,000, how many people said Blue?

It's right.

Blue is right.

Your first answer, California, was incorrect.

Blue is now taking us down through the 30s and 20s.

Into the teens. Into single figures.

Down it goes. Still going down.

You've done it! Very well done indeed!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That is wonderful. Very well done indeed.

-Superb.

-Thank you!

-Brilliant.

SAMMY LAUGHS

Well done! Congratulations! Blue was a pointless answer.

That means you go home with that cheque.

You're going to Memphis. You can drink wine on the train.

-Train booze.

-Listen, have some crisps.

-Yeah!

-Push the boat out.

-Oh! Posh ones!

-Oh, brilliant.

-That is terrific stuff.

Very, very well played. Well deserved, as well.

I'd have been furious if you left the show without the jackpot.

Albatross would have scored you 1 point.

California - never a number one single.

The Phantom Planet version, which is a lovely song,

was a top ten hit, but nothing else, I'm afraid.

Let's look through the pointless answers in the different categories.

Some good ones up here.

Airplanes - BOB featuring Hayley Williams.

Tony Christie and Peter Kay -

Amarillo that was called without the brackets.

Angelo by Brotherhood Of Man.

Apache by The Shadows.

You also could have had America by Razorlight

or Angel by Shaggy.

Let's take a look at B.

Beetlebum by Blur was a pointless answer.

Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal.

Bombastic by Shaggy.

Bulletproof by La Roux.

Also could have had Barbados by Typically Tropical,

Blame by Calvin Harris,

Blockbuster by Sweet and Burn by Usher.

Also, Ellie Goulding had a number one with the same title.

Songs beginning with C.

Cannonball - the Little Mix cover of that.

Changes - Kelly and Ozzy Osbourne did a cover

of the David Bowie song Changes. Got to number one.

Changing, which was Sigma and Paloma Faith very recently.

Colourblind, which was Darius. He had a number one with that.

You also could have had Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan,

Closer by Ne-Yo

and Crossroads by Blazin' Squad.

Very well done if you said any of those. I know, right?!

Very well done if you said any of those at home.

-But Blue, you never thought that would win you money, right?

-No.

What about that?

Thanks once again to our brilliant winning players,

Sammy and Chappy, who go away with today's jackpot of £1,000.

Brilliant.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge

to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

APPLAUSE