Sports Personality of the Year Pointless Celebrities

Thank you very much. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and a very warm welcome to this

Sports Personality of the Year edition of Pointless Celebrities -

the show where the aim of the game is

to find the most obscure answers possible.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

Couple number one.

My name's Geoff Thomas,

and I received the Helen Rollason award back in 2005.

I'm Jayne Torvill, and together with my partner, Chris,

we won the Sports Personality of the Year award in 1984.

Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Paula Radcliffe

and I won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2002.

I'm Mary Peters and I won Sports Personality of the Year in 1972.

Couple number three.

Hello, I'm Robin Cousins

and I won Sports Personality of the Year in 1980.

Hello, I'm Fatima Whitbread and I won in 1987.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Maggie Alphonsi and I was part of the team that won

Team of the Year in 2014.

I'm Greg Rusedski, I won Sports Personality of the Year in 1997,

a long time ago.

Thanks very much, all of you.

We'll chat to each of you throughout the show as it goes along.

So that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He's got the largest trophy cabinet you have ever seen.

Slightly ostentatious for a 100 metres breaststroke medal,

but there we are. It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard!

Hiya! Hi, everyone.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

-This is fun, isn't it?

-Isn't it!

Everyone here has won an award at Sports Personality of the Year.

-That's quite impressive.

-Yeah.

And I brought along my own Sports Personality of the Year which,

as you remember, I won in '89.

-Yes.

-For that time I was in a pub in Oxford and there was a German guy

and it's winner stays on.

And this German guy was beating everybody, everybody.

He was really good. And I went and beat him,

so we got the table for the evening

and won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year,

to the annoyance of David Beckham.

But there it is. It's going to be a lovely show.

We've had many people here on before, but some newcomers.

Paula Radcliffe is new, Geoff Thomas, we welcome, podium four,

two newcomers there.

-Quite a strong team there on podium four, I think.

-Mm.

Very strong team.

So it should be a cracker. If you stay in long enough,

there'll be some sports stuff.

We're not going to start with sport though.

-That would be crazy.

-OK.

-Will it?

-Yes.

-Yes, I think, maybe.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, as usual, all of today's

questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants here looking for those all-important pointless

answers, these are answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Find one of those and we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Now, as today's show is a celebrity special and each of our celebrities

is playing for a nominated charity,

we are going to start off with a jackpot of £2,500.

There we are.

Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

So, as ever, it's the pair with the highest score at the end of each

round that we will be eliminating, the pair with the highest score.

So keep your scores nice and low and it'll be absolutely fine.

No conferring, of course, till we get to the head-to-head round,

and apart from that, best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this evening is...

Song titles. Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first,

who's going to go second. And whoever's going first,

please step up to the podium.

OK. And our question concerns...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're going to show you a series of song titles on each

board, and they are all Top 40 UK hits.

They've all got repeated words in their title.

But we've missed out what those repeated words are.

Can you fill in those gaps, please?

Excellent, thank you very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our board of songs with repeated words omitted.

And here they are.

What's missing from this?

Jayne, welcome back to Pointless.

Now, Jayne, you've been to the second round, I think, haven't you?

-But never beyond the second round?

-Yes. No.

-Maybe this is the time!

-I doubt it.

-Maybe this is the time.

Now, you and Chris, when you won Sports Personality of the Year,

I think you're the only people

to share a prize in the award's history.

-Is that right?

-Well, we were lucky enough to win it twice,

because we won in 1984, but we also won the team award as well.

Of course.

-Yeah.

-What happens with the trophy?

I mean, do you share that?

Do you have six months of it in your house, and six months with Chris?

The team award, we got one each.

-Very nice.

-But the other one, we didn't.

So I've got them.

LAUGHTER

I like the fact, just before the show,

everyone was looking to find their names on this trophy.

Just to make sure they really are there. It's Jayne and Christopher, 1984.

Oh, that's nice.

It's very sharp, this. Gary Lineker cut himself on it.

On the last Sports Personality of the Year.

-But I have yet to cut myself.

-Wow.

-Because I'm a professional.

You could actually clone Gary Lineker

-from a little bit of his DNA.

-Could do, have done!

The money I'm making out of crisp advertising is unbelievable.

LAUGHTER

Now, Jayne, you and Chris, you appeared in a pantomime last year.

Yes, we did, in Manchester.

And we loved it so much, we're doing it again this year in Bristol.

How are you doing that? You're skating?

We're on roller blades, off ice skates. Yeah.

Wow. Is that almost the same thing?

It's almost. The biggest thing is that they are so much heavier than

ice skates, so you really notice the difference, yeah.

I suppose you can't really get any lateral movement?

-Or maybe you can?

-I've tried it, it doesn't work. No.

-Boom!

-Blimey, you've got to be careful!

Jayne, now, what about our board of repeated word song titles?

What do you want to go for?

I'm going to go for the Beatles,

Please Please Me.

Please Please Me, says Jayne.

Let's see how many of our 100 people agree with Jayne.

Please Please Me.

Well, it's right.

54.

54, not a bad start to the round.

Yes, solid start from the album of the same name, Please Please Me,

which the Beatles recorded in one day

and was at number one for 30 weeks.

And it only got knocked off number one by With The Beatles,

which then was number one for 21 weeks.

-How about that?

-How about that!

They're good, the Beatles. You should check them out.

Oh, yeah, thank you very much, Richard.

-Thank you. Mary, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Now, you were the first-ever winner of Sports Personality of the Year

-from Northern Ireland.

-I was, yes.

It's bit of history. I received my trophy from the Princess Royal,

who won it the previous year.

Is it the previous winner who then hands over always?

-Not always.

-Not always.

-But on that occasion.

-But actually, last year,

-you were on the judging panel, weren't you?

-I was.

-How was that?

Very difficult.

-It must have been.

-I think there were 15 judges and we all had

a different opinion, but we came out with the right result in the end.

Are you locked in until you've reached your conclave of...?

-Absolutely.

-I suppose everybody's watched,

you don't need to be reminded of the contenders, do you?

No, if you've been in sports, you follow it for the rest of your life.

Absolutely. Mary, what would you like to go for on our board?

I wouldn't like to go for any of them, but I've chosen Vera Lynn,

My Love, My Love.

My Love, My Love, says Mary.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for My Love, My Love.

Oh, Paula, I'm sorry!

Ooh! An incorrect answer.

Mary. Not My Love, My Love.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Mary,

we'll give you the correct answer at the end of the pass,

although lovely on the show to have a dame giving a dame as an answer,

-even though it was wrong.

-But the dame-to-dame crossover is nice,

-isn't it?

-Yes. Two dames don't make a right.

-No.

-It turns out.

-In this case, no.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Fatima, welcome back.

Fatima, when you won, you'd come second the year before, hadn't you?

Yeah, actually, it was quite fascinating because I came second to

Nigel Mansell, who won the...

Who didn't win the World Championship that year.

He had a blowout, a tyre blowout.

In '86, I broke the World Record and the next day,

I went back and won the European gold.

In 1987, the year I actually won, was...

fortunately for me, it was Britain's only gold medal that year,

so it was a fantastic achievement, if I say so myself.

Yeah.

Do they let you know?

Is there any sort of indication that you might have won?

They don't say, "Worth turning up, Fatima"?

No, I mean, obviously, at the end of the day, they ask

I think the top six to get ready and prepare a speech of some sort.

Yeah. Having come second the year before, I mean, were you thinking,

"Well, I'm not going to bother with a speech."

"Well, it's all about last year, actually."

Yeah, just crossed some of the words out.

Very, very exciting indeed.

You took the trophy home.

It was a fantastic achievement

for me because I'd always set my sights quite high and, in fact,

I remember Mary Peters, when Mary won the Olympic Games.

I was 11 years old at the time, Mary, sorry to say it,

but it actually shaped the way that I moved forward and I chose to be an

Olympic athlete. I wasn't sure what the event was going to be,

but I wanted to be a Mary Peters.

Oh, fantastic.

Now, Fatima, what would

you like to go for on our board of repeated words?

Tina Charles - I Love To Love.

Love, love. Let's see how many of our 100 people said Love for that.

It's right.

54 is our low score and you pass it.

46 for I Love To Love. Well done.

Well played, Fatima. Yeah, number one single for Tina Charles.

Knocked off number one by Save All Your Kisses For Me

by Brotherhood Of Man.

There we are. Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Maggie, welcome. Welcome.

So, Team of the Year.

-Yeah.

-I mean, presumably they've got to tell the team of the year if

-they've won.

-Well,

they kind of give you an idea that you potentially could win it,

but there's obviously a few other people who are up for the award.

You can't have four different teams there, though.

All the dressing rooms will have gone.

That's very true, especially with a rugby team.

-Yeah, I know.

-There's 15 of us. There's a lot of us.

Backroom staff and everything. That's an enormous number of people.

There is, but I think what's quite interesting is that you know, sort

of, that you're in with a good chance of winning because they come

and film you in action, so you have an idea but it doesn't mean that

-you're guaranteed a win.

-2014 was the year you won.

Was that the year you won the World Cup as well?

I'm glad you mentioned that. Yes.

So, in 2014, we won the Women's Rugby World Cup.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Yeah, I know. What about that?

Very good.

Now, it must have just been the icing on the cake.

Oh, it was amazing because women's rugby is always growing and it's

starting to grow in profile,

but for us to win the World Cup was fantastic.

I chose to retire after that and now I live a life of luxury.

It was great to win it and now the game is getting bigger and better,

-now that it's in the Olympics.

-Fantastic. Fantastic.

Maggie, this is your board.

You're the last person to have it so, if you wanted to,

-you could go through all of those and fill in our blanks.

-OK.

I'm going to go risky.

I'm going to go with Black Eyed Peas - Pow, Pow, Pow.

-Pow, Pow, Pow, says Maggie.

-Pow, Pow, Pow.

OK. Let's see how many of our 100 people said Pow, Pow, Pow.

Punchy answer there, I have to say, Maggie,

but I'm afraid it didn't pay off in this instance.

-100 points for you there.

-Sorry, Maggie.

I have to say, a very classy thing to do, though,

having seen Mary get 100, just think,

"Come on, I'm going to keep her company on 100."

No, the answer to that one is not Pow, Pow, Pow.

This is Basil Brush's favourite answer.

-Boom, Boom, Pow.

-Boom, Boom, Pow.

Black Eyed Peas. Would have scored you 18 points.

Now, let's fill in the rest of these, shall we?

-The top one?

-Wild.

Wild, Wild West.

62. Bowie?

-Ashes.

-Ashes To Ashes.

Would've scored you 46. We will leave Vera Lynn for a moment.

Oasis is Little By Little.

Yeah. That would've scored you 11 points.

Vera Lynn is a pointless answer...

And it's My Son, My Son.

Thank you very much, Richard.

So, we're halfway through the round. Let's take a quick look at our scores.

46 - the lowest score of the pass, Fatima.

Very well done indeed.

Fatima and Robin looking very strong at this point.

As, I have to say, are Jayne and Geoff on 54

because 100 is where we find Maggie and Greg, and Mary and Paula.

So, Paula and Greg, yes,

you're going to have to duke this one out to see who stays with us and

who leaves at the end of the round. Best of luck to both pairs.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

So, let's put seven more song titles up on the board, and here they are.

We have got...

I'm going to read those all again.

Greg...

-Yes.

-Welcome to Pointless.

-Great to have you here.

-Thank you.

-Now, Greg, when you won,

you were the first-ever male tennis player to pick that trophy up.

Yeah, it was in 1997.

I got to the US Open finals that year.

There was a certain rivalry with myself and Tim Henman during that

period, where we were vying for the British number one spot,

so it was a great period in tennis and we're very fortunate that a

certain guy by the name of Andy Murray has come along to surpass

everything that we've done. So, British tennis at the moment is

-doing great.

-Fantastic.

Thanks to the ground work that you put in there.

Who were your fellow nominees when you were up for the award?

I remember... Tim Henman, I finally got him for once.

He finished second, which was very satisfying because usually he

-always did better at Wimbledon than I did.

-There you were. Presumably,

you have to spend quite a lot of time with the other nominees.

-Yeah.

-Sitting around in the green room.

Is it all very good-natured back there?

Yeah, it's all very positive, all very nice.

You don't know what's going to happen, at the end of the day.

You're not sure who's going to win, what's going to happen but what's

great about it is that the public votes for it. As a sportswoman

-or sportsman, it is such an honour to get it.

-Yeah, fantastic.

Now, Greg, you are joint high-scorers at the moment

with 100 points. We need a low score from you

but you've got a brand-new, pristine board.

-Oh.

-What would you like to go for?

OK, I'm going to for one that I know is going to be right,

and I'm hoping somebody else makes a mistake.

So, I'm going to go for Red Red Wine. UB40.

Red Red Wine, says Greg.

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

No red line for you as you're joint high-scorers.

Oh.

84. 84.

-184 is your total.

-Yeah, big score.

Correct score, but a big score, though.

Written by Neil Diamond originally, Red Red Wine.

Greg's little thing here, he's the first one on the bottom row,

Greg Rusedski. That's where you are.

At some point, it's going to catch up.

I reckon, I've just been looking at the trophy,

they've got 12 more years before they need a new trophy cos

-there's only 12 more spaces left.

-What if they put another tier on?

-Another...

-Well, I guess they're going to have to, right?

-Yeah.

-Oh, yes, they'll just do that.

That's much simpler than getting a whole new trophy.

-Then they can do it forever.

-Oh, they can.

It's going to become enormous, though.

At the moment, Greg's got no-one next to him.

You've got Michael Owen one side of you and no-one on the other side.

That is a bad dinner party.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Robin, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Welcome back to Pointless.

Obviously, you had your fantastic career as a figure skater,

and then you've gone on to a second career.

Just an enormous success as an impresario.

Well, pff...

Is that the wrong word, impresario?

It's a very nice way of putting that I have been fortunate to do

something I love every day of my working life.

Absolutely right. You've got these production companies, haven't you?

Ice production companies.

And work with various production companies around the world.

So, yes, I've been very lucky that I get to continue, in the afterlife,

doing what I did in my competitive career.

You've got two. One's called Ice Majesty.

-What's the other one called?

-Ice Majesty, Electric Ice,

and the latest project was

-putting the herd from the Ice Age movies onto ice.

-Amazing.

-Well, best of luck with that.

-Thank you.

-The good news for you, Robin,

you're already through. Doesn't matter if you score 100 points here.

-Yes.

-You and Fatima will be going into Round Two.

What would you like to go for?

There was an iffy one, but I'm going to go for Hippy Hippy Shake -

-Swinging Blue Jeans.

-Hippy Hippy Shake, says Robin.

No red line for you, you're already through,

but let's see how many of our 100 people said Hippy.

Look at that. Down it goes to 50.

Good score there. Taking your total up to 96.

Well played, Robin.

The Beatles did a version of that as well.

Again, check them out if you haven't.

I must. Yeah, everyone says they are great.

Very good. From Liverpool.

There we are. Thank you, Richard.

Paula, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here, Paula.

My goodness, you have won so many extraordinary awards.

You still hold the record for women's marathon.

Where, amongst all your accolades,

would you say Sports Personality of the Year stands?

I think it stands really, really high up there because

it's an award that you can do, as a sports person,

where you're used to being able to control our results and do

the best we can, and do what we can to win something.

With Sports Personality of the Year, you can really do nothing.

You're just relying on the support of the public.

That's a really good point.

I know this... We know this from Pointless Celebrities when we have

sports personalities on. Any sort of sports personality on the show.

The rivalry is something that is unequal to any other show we do.

So, there you all are, and there's nothing you can do at all.

No. No, you're just relying on people.

Is it quite relaxing? Maybe that's quite nice.

Yeah, I think it is quite relaxing.

It's out of your control.

It makes it more of an honour.

It's a huge honour then, to win it,

because people have taken up the time to pick up the phone or to fill

in the coupon and vote for you.

Fantastic. So, who do you think's going to win this year, Paula?

THEY LAUGH

It's going to be so tough this year.

I think whoever you ask is going to have a really good person

to put forward from different sports.

To pick one above another is going to be so hard,

because we've seen such amazing performances.

I think Tom Cairney, the Fulham captain, would be,

to me would be a good shout.

I think he's done terrifically, just behind the striker there.

-Him or Mo Farah, one of those two.

-One of the two.

Paula, what would you like to go for?

You have a target of 83 or less.

I don't know. I know that I really don't know. I have no clue.

I'm just going to have to guess, I'm afraid.

And I'm just going to guess with It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World.

Man's, Man's, Man's World. Complete shot in the dark for Paula there.

Here is your red line. If you can get below that red line,

you're through to the next round.

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

It's right, and you're through.

Very well done indeed, Paula.

Down to 25.

Our lowest score of the entire round.

In fact, the entire game so far.

That's taken your total up to 125 and sees you through.

Yeah, very well done, Paula.

Written by James Brown and his then-girlfriend as well.

They wrote it together. She came up with the title and he then,

ironically, wrote it.

-Took it over.

-Nice.

-But she got half the money for it, so...

-That's good.

-Yeah.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Geoff, welcome to Pointless.

Good to have you here. Great Crystal Palace superstar.

Superstar.

Famously, never lost a match while wearing an England shirt.

-Nine times. No.

-But...

all of that's been eclipsed by the fact that you are now...

You've become a cycling charity fundraiser.

Extraordinary. You've raised millions of millions of pounds,

and you've cycled colossal distances.

How did this come about? What was the thing about cycling?

Really, it was...

What could I do after football?

My knees, my ankles, everything was shot.

Getting on a bike and engaging with various different people from all

different walks of life and bringing them together.

Raising money but, more importantly, raising awareness about the cause.

I was diagnosed in 2003 with blood cancer and, ever since then,

it's working with the professors and scientists, and asking, "What next?"

My part is to shout about it and do crazy things on bikes.

See what happens next year.

And you've got another ride planned, have you?

It's in the planning stages, but very near being signed off.

We're talking about doing all three Grand Tours next year.

-Wow.

-Which is obviously Italy, France and Spain.

Yeah, it's going to be a tiring year next year.

Fantastic. Best of luck with that.

Good news, Geoff, you're already through to the next round.

That takes a bit of pressure off. Do you fancy having a go through the

board and answering any of those?

Not really.

No, I think the only one I know is Bob Dylan.

I think I know. Lay Lady Lay.

Lay Lady Lay. Let's see how many people said that.

No red line for you. You're already through.

It's right.

43. Very good indeed.

Takes your total up to 97.

Well played, Geoff. Let's fill these in, shall we?

We'll start at the bottom.

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.

-Say Say Say.

-Say Say Say.

Would've scored you 13.

Kiss?

-Crazy Crazy Nights.

-Oh, of course.

Would've scored you 20.

And the top answer is a pointless answer...

-Round and Round.

-Round and Round by New Order.

Very well done if you said that at home.

Thank you very much indeed. So, at the end of our first round,

the pair we have to say goodbye to with their high score of 184,

Greg and Maggie, I'm afraid it is you.

Yeah, Pow, Pow, Pow.

That's what I'm going to be ordering tonight.

Bad luck. It's been lovely having you here.

Will you please come back and play again?

-Thank you for having us.

-I'm sure you'll go much further.

Thank you so much, Greg and Maggie.

APPLAUSE

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

So, we're down to three pairs and, at the end of this round, obviously,

we are going to have to say goodbye to another pair. Fatima and Robin,

our lowest combined score there in the first round,

so very well done. Paula, you were our lowest individual score,

so very good indeed. It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World.

Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

Can you all decide, in your pairs, who's going to go first,

who's going to go second? Whoever's going first,

please step up to the podium.

OK, let's find out what the question is.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

-Richard.

-Yeah, simply looking for the name of any nation

which competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics

beginning with one of those letters, please.

Any member nation of the IOC who competed at the Olympic games.

Thank you very much indeed. Jayne.

Um... I've gone completely blank.

Luxembourg.

Luxembourg, says Jayne.

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

It's right.

Down it goes... Oh, look at that.

7. Very well done indeed, Jayne.

7 points for Luxembourg.

Well played, Jayne. They had ten athletes, won no medals.

There we are. Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Paula.

-I'm going to go closer to home. I'm going to go Monaco.

-Monaco.

"Closer to home." It is home!

Monaco, says Paula.

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

It's right. Well, 7 for Luxembourg.

3 for Paula.

Very well done indeed.

Monaco, a great answer there.

Yeah, it's a terrific answer. Once again, no medals, though.

-Yet to win a medal.

-How many athletes from Monaco?

-8,000.

-Wow.

-And yet not a single medal.

Fatima.

I think I'll go for Yemen.

Yemen.

There you are. You got the Pointless buzz there, Fatima.

Yemen. Let's see how far down the Pointless column we get with that.

Yemen.

It's right. 7's our high score.

3 is our low score.

34 for Yemen!

See, that's one of those weird answers.

Quite an obscure country but, the second it came up,

I thought of Yemen as well. You see Y and it comes up.

It's one of those ones that's at the forefront of your mind.

It feels like an obscure answer, but it's quite a big score.

Mm. There we are. Thank you very much, Richard.

We are halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

3, Paula, very well done.

The best score of the pass there,

putting Paula and Mary at the top of the table.

7's where we find Jayne and Geoff.

34 is where we find Fatima and Robin.

Robin, let's have a nice, low score from you and see if it's

enough to keep you in the game.

Good luck with that. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Now, Robin, there you are on 34.

Our high-scorers.

We need a low score from you here.

I'm going to go for Macedonia.

Macedonia, says Robin.

Macedonia. No red line for you as you're the high-scorers.

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

It's right.

Well, 3 is our low score to date.

6 is what you get from Macedonia.

Very well done. Takes your total up to a nice, round 40.

Yeah, a very good answer. Again, no medals.

We haven't had any medals at all in any of our answers.

They've only ever won one medal at all, Macedonia,

which was a bronze in wrestling in 2000.

On Macedonian Pointless,

Macedonia Medallists is an incredibly short round.

Essentially, podium one goes for the one guy and then everyone else is

like, "Well..." It's really hard work.

He's won the Macedonian Sports Personality of the Year every year

from...

Literally, it's just his name over and over, and over again.

-Wow.

-Amazing, isn't it?

You present the Macedonian Pointless, don't you?

-I do. Yes.

-You'll do most of them if they ask you.

In our off-season, I go down there.

-Yeah.

-Nice.

-In your slightly broken Macedonian.

-But they don't seem to mind.

-It's getting better.

-Is it?

Go on.

Yay! It's Alexander Armstrong...

-HE MUMBLES ..Pointless.

-That's good.

APPLAUSE

Not really. Mary.

I'm going to go for L, Lebanon.

Lebanon, says Mary.

You're on 3, the high-scorers are Fatima and Robin on 40,

so 36 or less get you through.

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

There is your red line.

It's right.

Through you go. Very well done indeed.

4. Superb answer there, Mary. Taking your total up to 7,

which I suspect will be the lowest score of the round.

Again, no medals at all for L, Lebanon.

El Lebanon is, of course, what they call it in Spain.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Geoff, you're on 7.

You need to score 32 or less.

I'm going to go pretty safe, I think,

but hopefully stay above that red line.

I'm going to go with P, Paraguay.

Paraguay, says Geoff.

A nice murmur from the audience there.

Here is your red line. If you get below that with Paraguay,

you are into the next round,

taking Jayne to her highest Pointless level.

-No pressure.

-So, good luck with that.

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

It's right.

You are in the head-to-head. Very well done indeed.

Down it goes to 3.

Very good scoring there.

Joint lowest score of the round, 10 is your total.

Terrific work, Geoff. And we've gone through all six answers without a

single medal as well. No medals for Paraguay, apparently, either.

Before we do the pointless answers, there's a few,

I'll take you through the low scorers cos I know people would

have guessed stuff at home.

2 points for Palau, Lesotho, Chad, Maldives,

Myanmar, Costa Rica, Mali, Congo.

2 points also for the Central African Republic.

1 point for Malawi, Mauritania, Micronesia, Laos, Cayman Islands,

Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea,

Palestine, Mozambique and Puerto Rico.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

The ones that nobody said.

Very well done if you said one of these.

Cabo Verde, the Cape Verde Islands.

Chinese Taipei, who won three medals...

And Mongolia, who won two medals as well.

We'll just take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So, the end of our second round,

I'm afraid, Fatima and Robin,

we have to say goodbye to you with your high score of 40.

Nothing wrong with 40 but just some incredibly low scores elsewhere,

I'm afraid. But it's been lovely having you back.

Thanks so much for coming to play. Please come and play again,

-Robin and Fatima. Thank you.

-Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, it's now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Jayne and Geoff, Mary and Paula,

you are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our

jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

This is where we decide who goes through to the final to play for

that jackpot for their charities

and we do that by making you go head-to-head. Basically,

the first pair to win two questions will go through to the final and

play for the jackpot. Well, this is very exciting.

Mary and Jayne, you have been here before,

but you've never taken a trophy home. So here's a thought.

One of the pairs will be having to find space in their trophy cupboard

for that little Pointless trophy. See if you can fit it in anywhere.

Anyway, very best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here is your first question, and it concerns...

We're going to show you five pictures now of famous lions,

tigers or bears from TV or film,

can you identify the most obscure of these, please?

Thank you very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five pictures of lions, tigers and bears.

Here they are.

Our five famous lions, tigers or bears from television.

Now, Jayne and Geoff, you are our low scorers, so you will go first.

Feel free to confer.

The first one's Winnie the Pooh.

No, it's Tigger. I don't know B.

C is Bungle.

Bungle.

I'm not sure of E.

I'm going to have to go with A, Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.

OK, Tigger, say Jayne and Geoff.

Now, Mary and Paula. Do you want to talk us through

the rest of those lions, tigers and bears?

Is it that? I don't know.

You can talk us through them all, if you like.

-Me?

-If you like, between you.

This is where we decide whether to risk or go safe because, obviously,

I know that D is Paddington.

I've no idea what B is.

C is Bungle.

And I think E might be Aslan.

Is Paddington less known than Tigger, to go safe?

I would go C.

-Do you think it is?

-Yeah. I don't know.

-Shall we go for Aslan?

-OK.

Do you think C? Do you think it is Bungle?

Yeah.

OK, I'm going to go E with Aslan.

E, Aslan. So, we have...

We have A, Tigger, from Jayne and Geoff,

and Aslan from Mary and Paula for E.

In the order they were given, Jayne and Geoff said Tigger for A.

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

It's right.

71.

71 for Tigger.

Mary and Paula, meanwhile, have gone for E and said Aslan.

Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

And it wins you the point.

Very, very well done indeed.

Down to 39.

And it means, after one question, Mary and Paula, you are up 1-0.

Well played, Paula. Would have won the point with Bungle as well.

He would've scored you 43 points.

He looks quite menacing there, Bungle.

-Doesn't he?

-I've always thought Bungle was quite menacing.

Something about him that you just think that you wouldn't want to

-catch him on a bad day.

-It's not just the...

It's the point, slightly, but...

D, you were right to avoid.

It is Paddington, of course, but it's a huge scorer.

Would've scored you 95 points.

The best answer is B and it's the tiger from The Life Of Pi.

It had a person's name. It had a...

-First and second name.

-Yeah, he gets mixed up, I think,

with the person who registered him, so it's a tiger called

-Richard Parker.

-Richard Parker.

Would've scored you 7 points.

Very well done if you said that.

-Best answer on the board.

-There we are.

Very good. Thanks so much, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Now, Jayne and Geoff, you have to win this one.

Good luck with that. But Mary and Paula get to answer first.

Our second question today is all about...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're going to give you five clues now to facts about

the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Except I'm not going to give you the clues,

we've got someone far better than me to do that.

We have Sir Steve Redgrave here

who, of course, won it in 2000.

Hi, Alexander and Richard, good to be part of the show.

Here are my five questions on the Sports Personality of the Year.

The Odyssey Arena, in 2015,

which city was that ceremony taking place in?

Who was the Olympic champion and Tour de France winner in 2012

that went on to win the award?

Which athlete beat Roger Bannister

to the first Sports Personality award?

Which boxer was named the Sports Personality of the Century in 1999?

Which member of the Royal family won the award in 1971?

Good luck.

OK, I'll read those all one last time.

I'm going to go Chris Chataway to

win the first Sports Personality of the Year, beating Roger Bannister.

Chris Chataway, say Mary and Paula.

Now then, Jayne and Geoff, that board's all yours.

Do you want to talk us through it?

You go. Do you know what that first one is?

We think we know where the first one is.

The first one, we think, is Belfast.

Or Glasgow.

One of the two. Of course it was Belfast.

Belfast.

The second was Bradley Wiggins.

The boxer...

I'm guessing would be Muhammad Ali.

Would it be Princess Anne?

-Yeah.

-OK.

We are going to go for Princess Anne.

OK. Princess Anne. So we have Chris Chataway and Princess Anne.

Mary and Paula said Chris Chataway beat Roger Bannister to win the

first-ever title. Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right.

That's a great score.

Look at that. 7. Very well done indeed, Mary and Paula.

Chris Chataway scoring 7 there.

Jayne and Geoff, meanwhile, have gone for Princess Anne.

Let's see if that's right for the member of the Royal family

who won the award in 1971.

It is Princess Anne.

High score, though. 65.

Which means, very well done indeed, Mary and Paula.

After only two questions, you are straight through to the final, 2-0.

Yeah, very well played. That's the biggest scorer on the board,

the one you went for.

You would've got fewer points if you had gone for Bradley Wiggins,

because he would've scored you 34. Still wouldn't have won.

You would've got even fewer points if you'd gone for Muhammad Ali,

because he would've scored you 31.

Belfast is the correct answer...

and would've scored you 6 points.

Really?

Turns out that the Odyssey Arena is less famous than Princess Anne.

There you go.

Thanks very much indeed. So, the pair leaving us at the end of

the head-to-head round, I'm afraid, is Jayne and Geoff.

Jayne, incrementally, you are getting there.

I'm getting there. I've had a lovely time.

-Thank you.

-Before you go, who are your tips for this year?

Who do you think's going to win?

As I think Paula said,

it's just so difficult because the team's done so well,

and also the Paralympics.

We're going to have loads of medals as well.

It should almost be, like, a Team GB award, really.

Yeah, pretty much. And across so many sports as well.

It's been a great year.

Fantastic. So, you're not going to stick your neck out?

-No.

-Geoff? Geoff, do you want to make a prediction?

I just think somebody who has been the top of his game for such a long time

-is Mo Farah.

-Yeah.

He keeps pushing gold-medal performances year-on-year, so...

-I'm going for Mo.

-Going for Mo?

Well, not long to wait now till we find out.

It's been lovely having you on the show.

Please come and play again, Jayne and Geoff.

APPLAUSE

But for Mary and Paula, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Mary and Paula,

you've fought off all the competition and you have won

our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win

our Pointless jackpot for your charities.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,500.

Look at that. Done with such consummate ease.

There we are. Actually, no,

we had a slight wobble in the very first round,

but still you wrestled that back fairly, fairly safely.

Absolutely fantastic.

Great to see you on winning form again, each of you.

Anything you'd particularly like to see come up in this last round?

Definitely not music or films.

OK, not music or films.

-Paula?

-Yeah, probably not too much history either.

Yeah, Thomas the Tank Engine trains.

Now that would be nice, wouldn't it?

As always, you get to choose your category from the four we put up on

the board behind me.

Let's hope there's something up there that you like the look of.

Today's selection reads like this. We've got...

I don't know the Formula 1.

Fictional spies, it's going to be tough, isn't it?

Christmas? There's going to be songs in there, though, isn't there?

Yeah. We'll try it.

-We'll go with Christmas.

-You're going to go with Christmas.

Seasonal... Seasonal choice. OK, Christmas it is.

Absolutely. Very, very best of luck. Here are your three options.

Hopefully one of these will suit you. We are looking for...

Any of the cast members of the wonderful Christmas film Elf

from 2003, according to IMDB.

The best Christmas film, in my opinion.

Apart from maybe It's A Wonderful Life.

We're looking for any Christmas number one,

according to the Official Charts Company,

from 1952 all the way through to 2015, please.

Or we looking for any piece of festive music that was included in

the Songs of Praise Christmas Big Sing in 2015.

So, the cast of Elf, any Christmas number one or Songs of Praise

Christmas Big Sing 2015 pieces of festive music.

-Very best of luck.

-Now, as always,

you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win the jackpot is for just one of your answers to be

pointless. Are you ready to start?

No.

LAUGHTER

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

OK. There's your 60 seconds. Your time starts now.

The only one I know is Do They Know It's Christmas

-but everyone knows that.

-Songs of Praise...

Sorry, we're trying to think. We don't know any of the cast of Elf,

so we're stuck there.

Songs of Praise Christmas Big Sing...

Do you know any?

I don't even know what that is.

-You mean...

-You mean...? Sorry, can I ask -

you mean Christmas carols that were played on Songs of Praise?

-Exactly.

-Oh, yeah.

-In 2015, yes.

Festive songs, yeah.

Silent Night, maybe?

-Yes.

-So we've got to pick some not known ones.

INDISTINCT CONVERSATION

-Ten seconds left.

-Shall we go with number ones?

Do you know one?

No. I know one and it is Do They Know It's Christmas but that's one

everyone is going to know.

OK, that, I'm afraid, is your minute up.

I'm now going to need your three answers and if you say which

category you're answering, that would be great.

White Christmas, for a Christmas number one.

White Christmas.

Away in a Manger for Songs of Praise.

Away in a Manger.

Silent Night from Songs of Praise.

Away in a Manger and Silent Night for Songs of Praise.

And we have got White Christmas for Christmas number one.

Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer,

-do you think?

-White Christmas.

OK. White Christmas goes last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Away in a Manger.

-Silent Night goes in the middle.

Let's put those answers up on the board in that order then.

Here they are. We have got...

Well, very, very best of luck.

Now, if one of these answers turns out to be pointless and you win

that jackpot, which charities are you playing for?

-Mary.

-The Mary Peters Trust, which helps young sports people in

-Northern Ireland raise their game to a higher level.

-Very good indeed.

-Paula, how about you?

-Asthma UK.

Basically, showing children, especially,

that they can control their asthma and not let it control and take over

-their lives.

-Very good indeed.

APPLAUSE

Two wonderful charities there.

Let's hope one of these answers is pointless and will win the jackpot

for those charities. Well, best of luck.

Your first answer was Away In A Manger and, in this case,

we were looking for festive songs included in the

2015 Big Sing on Songs of Praise.

If this is pointless, it will win you £2,500.

How many of our 100 people said, Away in a Manger?

No.

Bad luck. I'm afraid not Away In A Manger.

Incorrect answer. We move swiftly on to your next answer,

which was Silent Night.

Again, we were looking for festive songs included in the Big Sing.

Let's see if this is right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Silent Night for £2,500.

Is it pointless?

It's right.

Now, your first answer, Away In A Manger, was incorrect.

Silent Night is absolutely right.

Down it goes. If this goes down to zero,

you leave here with £2,500 for your charities.

20. 20 for Silent Night.

So, everything is now riding on your third and final answer,

which is White Christmas. In this case, we were looking for

any Christmas number one in the UK top 40.

If this is pointless, it wins you £2,500 for your charities.

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

Oh, no.

Oh, bad luck.

Bad luck. I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that all-important

pointless answer, so I'm afraid you don't win that jackpot of £2,500.

However, as today's show is a celebrity special,

we are going to donate £500 to each celebrity pair for their respective

charities, so there you are.

APPLAUSE

I'm sorry you didn't get that jackpot,

but it's been tremendous having you here.

And you get to take home a Pointless trophy each, so there you are.

Thank you very much, Mary and Paula.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, White Christmas was never a number one.

Number 5 is the highest it ever got to, the Bing Crosby hit.

Let's have a look now at the cast of Elf.

Ed Asner, Jon Favreau, who directed the film as well...

Mary Steenburgen.

Peter Dinklage, better known these days for Game of Thrones.

Everyone apart from Will Ferrell, James Caan,

Zooey Deschanel and Bob Newhart.

Everyone else was a pointless answer there.

Christmas number ones is the sort of category people are desperate to

come up, so I'll go through all of the scoring answers here because I

know people will be shouting answers at the screen.

There's some pointless answers there.

Do you know The Beatles?

Do They Know It's Christmas was the biggest scorer on 27.

11 - Mistletoe and Wine.

7 - Merry Christmas Everyone, Shakey.

6 for Mr Blobby.

You'd have got 5 for Merry Christmas Everybody, Slade.

Mary's Boy Child, 5 as well.

Stay Another Day - East 17, 4.

2 for Mull of Kintyre, Hallelujah, and Killing In The Name.

1 for Can We Fix It? - Bob The Builder.

1 for Earth Song. 1 for When We Collide, Matt Cardle.

1 for Mad World, Gary Jules.

1 for Goodbye, Spice Girls.

1 for Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).

1 for Two Become One by the Spice Girls,

and I Have A Dream by Westlife also scored 1.

Everything else was a pointless answer.

Loads of Beatles tracks in there. Elvis tracks, all sorts of things.

Songs of Praise now.

Songs in the festive music from the Christmas Big Sing.

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

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

And thanks very much to our finalists, Mary and Paula.

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.