Euro 2016 Pointless Celebrities

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome

to this special Euro 2016 edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the game where we are aiming for the obscure and ignoring the obvious.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

-And couple number one.

-I'm Steve Wilson.

I'm a football commentator for Match Of The Day

and author of the latest Match Of The Day book.

I'm Gabby Logan and I'm a BBC sports presenter.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Iain Dowie,

ex-footballer and manager

and most famous for scoring an own goal at Stockport.

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-Hi, I'm Neil Lennon.

Former player at Celtic, former manager of Celtic and Bolton.

Couple number three.

Hello, I'm Jason Mohammad

and I'm the presenter of the BBC's Final Score.

Hi, I'm Daniel Gabbidon, ex-professional footballer.

Wales, West Ham, Cardiff, to name a few teams.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Kevin Kilbane, former Republic of Ireland footballer.

Hi, I'm Stephanie Roche, current Republic of Ireland footballer

and also playing for Sunderland Ladies.

Thanks very much to all of you.

Very warm welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here.

We'll get to chat to each of you throughout the show.

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

A one-man European think tank

who always gets his balls in the back of the net.

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

-Hiya!

Hey, everybody. Good evening.

Good evening to you. Now, this is going to be a cracker, I think.

Not only is everybody here a sportsperson,

super competitive, but as the eagle eye would have spotted,

they all represent four nations

that are playing in the Euro 2016 tournament.

We've got England, we've got Northern Ireland,

we have Wales and we have Ireland on that podium.

So, not only are they immensely competitive

just in and of themselves, they're also playing for their nations,

which is going to be quite something.

I hadn't thought of all that extra pressure on them.

-Oh, it's a lot of pressure.

-So much pressure!

I'd rather be you or I in this particular situation.

Imagine standing behind one of those podiums. Terrifying.

-And look at this.

-Look at it!

This is the real Euro 2016 trophy, the actual real one.

-You know what? I'm looking at that.

-Whoop, whoop!

-I know, exciting.

It's amazing, when we had the FA Cup on before,

there were security guards who sit in the audience

in case you want to steal it.

I'm looking here, there is a lady in an orange jacket.

I don't think you're a security guard, madam.

So, if we want to steal this at any point - it might be the only way

England get their hands on it - then we should do it.

-If you distract us...

-OK.

-If someone gets a pointless answer.

-Whoosh!

-Whoosh, straight off.

-Look at that.

-What do you think of it?

I think it needs some flowers in it. AUDIENCE LAUGHS

Do you not think?

-It's full of flowers. Literally full.

-I think big tall ones, though.

-I think those pansies aren't going to cut it.

-You're right.

A few people have been on the show before.

Gabby's been on the show before.

Not only did she get through to the head-to-head,

impressive enough in and of itself,

she got through to the head-to-head with Robbie Savage.

-LAUGHTER

-So, this is...

this is how good she is. So, we expect great things.

Jason's been on before, got knocked out slightly earlier.

Kevin has also been in the head-to-head.

There are some experienced Pointless hands here.

Honestly, Round One might be tricky for a couple of people.

If you can get through to Round Two,

everyone will be on safer ground, I promise you.

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 are looking for

those all-important pointless answers,

these being answers that none of our 100 people gave.

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

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

is playing for a nominated charity.

We start off with a jackpot of £2,500. There we are!

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

So, all you have to remember is this.

The pair with the highest score at the end of each round

will be eliminated.

So, just do what you can to make sure

you are not that high-scoring pair.

No conferring till we get to the head-to-head round.

Best of luck to all four pairs. Our first category this evening...

Geography, can you all decide in your pairs

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

And whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

A's in geography, Richard.

On each board, we're going to show you seven clues

to geographical locations, all of which begin with the letter A.

Can you give us the most obscure answer, please?

It's going to be 14 in all to have a go at home. Very best of luck.

So, we're looking for the geographical answers to these clues

and they all begin with A.

Our first board of seven reads like this.

I'm going to read all of those again.

-Gabby?

-Hi.

-Welcome back to Pointless. Great to have you here.

Now, Gabby, you just do kind of everything.

It seems to me, just looking at your schedule for this year.

It's a bit busy.

Well, you've got the Euros, you've then got the Olympics,

-you've got the Invictus Games.

-Mm-hm.

You've had the Six Nations at the beginning of the year.

Your air miles are going to be very impressive by the end of this year?

Yeah, there's a lot of travel. And to interesting places.

But fascinating places. How do you fit it in?

You know, you've got a husband, you've got kids, you've got dogs,

you've got chickens. You've got a whole lot of people

that you've got to look after.

-How do you make that work?

-Just a big juggle the whole time.

-Yeah!

And I live by the blackboard.

I write the blackboard out on a Sunday night,

so that everybody knows what they're doing in the week.

And then when I'm away, I send the blackboard via e-mail

-so my husband has to fill it in.

-That's hilarious.

-That's how we survive - the blackboard.

-Literally a blackboard.

-Yeah.

-That's a really good idea.

-That is a good idea.

-Very good...

I think after this, I could probably kind of

do the controls at Heathrow or something.

I think you could, in your sleep, I'd have thought.

Gabby, how are you feeling about geography?

I'm feeling quite good about these answers, she says.

Some of them are very, very obvious and some of them less so.

I'm going to go for one that I hope is fairly low in the scoring.

I'm going to go for the province in western Canada.

-Alberta.

-Alberta, says Gabby. Let's see if it's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went with Alberta.

It is right.

I think it's going to be

a nice low score, Gabby.

Very well chosen. 31, well done.

Well played, Gabby.

Named after one of Queen Victoria's daughters,

or the middle name of one of her daughters.

Gabby is here sort of representing England

and there is some controversy on the Welsh podium as to whether

-she should be English or Welsh.

-I didn't know that.

-Oh, I see.

Yeah, so we'll get to that.

I didn't know I was English today, can I just declare that?

-I'm Wenglish, so...

-LAUGHTER

-Wenglish is good.

-Wenglish.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much, Richard. Now then, Iain, a warm welcome to Pointless.

-Great to have you here.

-Thank you.

-You've been a player, a manager.

You came to football quite late, cos you were doing

an engineering degree and footballing in your spare time.

-I was, yes.

-And you've now gone into surveying?

-This is what you do now, isn't it?

-Well, yeah, I do a little

-sideline of surveying.

-That's an interesting sideline,

can't think there are many people who do that and football.

-It's nothing to do with engineering either.

-No.

-But will you be going back to football at all?

-Yeah, football

is my biggest love. I love coaching so when that opportunity pops up,

I still do all the games at the weekend

so it's still my biggest, first and foremost, my favourite thing.

Fantastic, do you go out to tournaments still?

Yeah, I'll go to the Euros.

I'm looking forward to that, I'm doing all the Northern Ireland

games. Looking forward to seeing how they get on.

Think they've got a reasonable chance of getting out the group.

Very exciting. Now, Iain. Geography with A's.

Yeah, I'm not too bad.

Gabby having taken my first choice but there we go,

I've got a couple there. I'm going to go with

North African country gained independence from France -

-Algeria.

-Algeria, says Iain.

Let's see if it's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people went with Algeria.

It is Algeria.

31 is our only score at this point.

40 for Algeria.

Yes, the largest country in Africa, Algeria. Northern Ireland

-famously played Algeria in the World Cup, one-all draw.

-Thanks very much,

Richard. Now then, Jason. Welcome back.

What happened last time you were on?

Well, I thought David Essex was out of the pop/culture psyche,

it was famous celebrity West Ham United fans.

I ignored Russell Brand and Len Goodman

and I went for David Essex and lost by two points to Logan and Savage.

And Savage jumped around the set as if he'd won the World Cup.

-Oh, I remember that!

-Yeah, slightly humiliating.

Not that he hasn't got over this yet, by the way.

This was two years ago!

Jason, do you get to choose the matches you cover?

Is there an element of choice in there

or do you have to go off and do what?

Well, Final Score is the fastest goal service on the television,

so you have to do the Premier League, the Championship,

League One, League Two and Scotland as well

so I don't get much choice, really.

I would like to concentrate completely on my football team

but, unfortunately, we have to cover all the rest of the teams too.

Then in the Euros, do you have any choice?

-I'm going to be with the Wales team.

-I guess you go where Wales goes.

I'm in the Wales camp, so bringing all the latest news

-and hopefully we'll be there a lot longer than England.

-Very good!

-Nice to be there!

-That went down well, didn't it?

-Yeah...

Not amongst the Wenglish.

Now, Jason, what would you like to go for on our board?

I'm torn between the Scotland one

and also the world's longest continental mountain range.

I'm going to go for...

the Andes.

The Andes, that was for the world's longest continental mountain range.

Let's see if the Andes is right,

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

67.

67.

Big score, very much the David Essex

of South American mountain ranges, the Andes.

There we go, thank you very much indeed.

Now, Kevin, welcome back to Pointless. Good to have you here.

You know what?

The modern footballer, I think, has many rewards that perhaps

older footballers might look at with envy.

But there is one area in which I think the modern footballer

is poorer than his predecessors

and that is you never really get to make a record any more.

-Ah, yes.

-Do you know what I mean?

-Have you ever gone into a recording studio?

-I have, actually, yes.

-And worn cans?

-I have, actually.

When I was at Preston North End, yeah.

We won promotion years ago, actually. '96, I think it was.

We recorded The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals, yeah.

-Fantastic, and then released it?

-It was released, yeah.

In the Preston charts, it sold like hot cakes, I would think.

Did it trouble the chart compilers?

I don't think so, I don't think it made the top 100. No, I think, 101,

-it skirted on the outskirts.

-Oh, I'd like to hear that!

But, yeah, nearly.

Well, there we are.

Now, Kevin, you are the last person to have this board.

If you felt up to it and you're in the mood,

you could go through and fill in all the blanks for us.

I think I know the Scottish city.

And I think I know the Earth's southernmost continent.

I'll go with the Scottish city.

I'll go with Aberdeen.

Aberdeen, says Kevin. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Ooh! 85 for Aberdeen.

Big score there.

A very big score, that's the Scottish getting their own back

on the Irish for knocking them out of the Euros, Kevin.

The self-sealed envelope was developed in Aberdeen.

-How about that for a fact?

-That's...

-Yeah?

-Every day is a school day, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Let's fill in these.

You would have been better going for the bottom answer,

would have scored you slightly fewer points.

It is Antarctica, of course. That would have scored you 73.

The best two answers are the two that are left.

The desert in South America is the Atacama.

Would have scored you 20. You know this next one? Southern US state.

-It's got Kansas in it and it's...

-Arkansas.

..Arkansas, would have scored 19 points, very well done

-if you said that at home.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Halfway through the round, let's take a look at those scores.

Gabby, what about that? 31, the best score of the pass.

Very good, Gabby and Steve looking strong contenders for Round Two.

Then 40 is where we find Iain and Neil, then 67, Jason and Danny.

Now look, Kevin and Stephanie, you're not that far ahead on 85.

A low score from you, Stephanie, should be enough to keep you in.

-No pressure!

-Best of luck, we'll come

back down the line now. Can the second players please

step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more clues up on the board and here they come.

I'm going to read those all one last time.

Stephanie.

Welcome to Pointless, great to have you here.

I mean, a real honour to have you here.

You, in 2014, scored what was considered to be

one of the best goals of the year.

-Yeah.

-In fact, you were shortlisted, weren't you, on a FIFA...?

Yeah, it was on the top three, actually.

-It was Rodriguez, van Persie and you.

-It was.

-You came second.

I did, yeah. I didn't win, which...

Do you know why I think you didn't win it?

It's cos it was filmed on a mobile phone.

Video recording wasn't great, to be fair. But it was a great experience.

We've actually got it here,

going to have a quick look at it. Look at this.

-It's on a mobile phone.

-Filmed on a mobile phone.

You have to remember that.

Whoa! APPLAUSE

-What about that?

-That was Iain Dowie-like in its precision.

Is the pressure on you now to come up with fancy shots?

Yeah, I think so.

I scored a goal last year against Germany for the Irish team,

which was a bit of a tap-in, so I think people were wondering

why I wasn't scoring screamers every week.

-But every goal counts, as footballers know.

-Absolutely.

That's obviously just one.

We want a Beckham-style halfway-line score, don't we? How fantastic.

-Stephanie, you're the high scorers.

-Yes.

-We need a low score from you.

-How are you finding this board?

-Not very great, to be honest.

It doesn't look very good.

I was going to go for the one that's standing out the most

and that's the microstate between France and Spain.

I'm thinking Andorra.

Andorra, says Stephanie.

There's no red line for you as you're the high scorers

but let's see how far down the column you get with Andorra.

It's right.

39, not bad at all.

Second lowest score of the round so far.

124, your total. You might have done enough there, Stephanie.

A great answer, well played.

The one thing about people who love sport, who grew up with sport,

is they're pretty good at countries and geography

because Andorra, that's just like a team, yeah?

-If you know what I mean.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much indeed.

-Now, Danny, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

Very good to have you here.

-Now, Danny, you retired from football in 2014.

-Yes.

And I guess there's never a good time to retire from football

cos there's always something to look forward to.

"Oh, there's that coming, that coming."

But that was the start of Wales's Euro 16 campaign, wasn't it?

How are you feeling about that?

-Wales going through for the first time.

-It's hard to describe.

Unless you're Welsh, you wouldn't understand

what it's meant for the nation.

I was lucky enough to be in the first couple of qualifying squads,

so I could see what was kind of building,

I could see the atmosphere and how the lads were feeling,

how focused they were.

And I wasn't really surprised that we managed to do it in the end.

So, it's been fantastic watching what the players have been doing

and the nation's really buzzing and looking forward to the summer.

Fantastic, will you be going out?

Yeah, I'm going to be doing some media work

with Talksport following the Wales games and doing some commentary,

so I'm really looking forward to it.

-Very good, and you're newly a father, I gather, Danny?

-I am, yeah.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you very much.

-You taking your baby out with you?

-No, he's...

-Surprisingly, no.

-He's going to stay at home, I think.

He's only three months now,

so he's still becoming accustomed to life and stuff.

Yeah, I'm going to go over for a couple of weeks

-and hopefully, watch the team do really well.

-Lovely.

Now, Danny, you're on 67.

-If you can score 56 or less, you're into the next round.

-Yeah.

I'm struggling a little bit here.

Need something half low.

I'm going to go with the Belgian city that contains

the tomb of painter Paul Rubens.

I'm going to say Antwerp.

Antwerp, says Danny.

Antwerp, here is your red line.

Get below that with Antwerp, you're through to the next round.

How many people said Antwerp?

It's absolutely right.

And it sees you through. Look at that, Danny.

Very well done indeed,

Danny gets 28!

Which is the lowest score of the round so far,

-very well done. 95 your total.

-Well played, Danny. Great stuff.

Again, that thing about being a sports fan.

It might have been an obscure Belgian city

but, you know, it's also a football team.

And it also held the Olympics, Antwerp.

-It's always a good answer for obscure Olympic host cities.

-Always.

Thank you very much, Richard. Neil, a very warm welcome to Pointless.

-Good to have you here.

-Thank you.

-So you're going out for the Euros.

-Yes.

How big is the BBC team? Do you know?

A lot of commentators, pundits. You know, radio as well.

-You could be looking at 50, 60.

-Yeah.

I did the World Cup in Brazil in 2014

and that was a fantastic experience, absolutely fantastic.

How does it work?

Will you stay out just for as long as Northern Ireland's there?

Hopefully, yeah. All the better.

Unlike Danny, who was quite confident about Wales qualifying,

to see Northern Ireland there,

I never thought it would happen in my lifetime again.

But Michael O'Neill's done wonderfully well with the players.

Fantastic, well, it's going to be very exciting.

There you are, on 40, 83 or less gets you through, Neil.

What are you going to go for on this board?

I mean, I think I'm going to go for the English name

for the Australian rock formation

and I'm going to go for Ayers Rock.

Ayers Rock, says Neil. Here's your red line.

If you can get below this red line with Ayers Rock,

nice and high there, you are through to the next round.

How many people said Ayers Rock?

It's right and you are through, 73!

Very well done indeed, 113 is your total. Through you go.

Well played, Neil, safely through.

348 metres high but used to be at the bottom of a sea, Ayers Rock.

-Isn't that amazing?

-What, they just brought it to Uluru?

No, it simply receded. It was underwater.

Wow, I'm just absorbing that, much as the desert did the water.

-How about that, right?

-Look at that.

-Easier to reach the top when it was underwater.

-Oh, much easier.

Yeah.

If you were snorkelling just a few feet,

a few feet of water, Ayers Rock.

You'd think, "It's nice and shallow here." Then, "Whoa!"

as you got to the edge, it would suddenly fall away there.

-Yeah, yeah, different now, though.

-Yeah, it's all changed now.

-Much drier.

-Many, many fewer fish and chip shops as well.

-That's exactly right.

-Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Steve.

-Steve, welcome back.

-Alexander.

-You're also going out for the Euros?

-Yes.

And you've done a phenomenal number of Euros so far, haven't you?

How many have you done?

Every one since '96, so this will be my sixth European Championship.

Wow! Do you have a favourite Championships?

I really enjoyed the last one, actually, I have to say.

I spent a lot of time in Warsaw,

which was a city I hadn't been to before.

And it's wonderful, if you ever get a chance to go to Warsaw,

I recommend it, beautiful.

Completely rebuilt actually by the Soviets, but done brilliantly.

Really? Interesting. So, you get quite a bit of time off.

You can kind of, between games, you can relax a bit.

I spend my time worrying about who's playing left-back for Darlington,

to be honest with you.

We're all worrying about that.

Not the kind of thing that worries too many people

on a Wednesday morning, but it worries me.

And that's how I spend my time.

Very good. Now, Steve, you're on 31.

92 more or less gets you through.

Should be easy.

If you wanted to talk us through the board, feel free.

OK, well, I'm fairly confident on the southwestern US state

with a Z in its name.

Arizona.

I'm struggling with the highest waterfall in Venezuela,

if I'm honest.

I'm racking my brain, I think given time I'd probably get

the Maryland one but it's not coming to me.

And I'm absolutely confident that the Amazon

is the South American river,

because we were nearby it during the World Cup two years ago.

-So, I'm going to go Arizona.

-Arizona, says Steve.

Gabby approves. Now there's your red line, nice and high.

Get below that with Arizona, you're through to Round Two.

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

It's right, you're through, well done.

With room to spare. 68!

Taking your total up to 99.

Well played, Steve.

You would have been all right with the Amazon as well,

although it would have scored more points.

Amazon scored 74.

-The highest waterfall in the world.

-Angel Falls.

It's the Angel Falls, it's in Venezuela, 38.

And the best answer on the board is the capital of Maryland.

It's Annapolis, Maryland.

Very well done if you said that, 14 points.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

We are at the end of our first round

and I'm sorry to say we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs.

It was going to have to be one pair with the highest score

and, Kevin and Stephanie, I'm afraid it's you.

Oh, dear. I'm sorry, you've come all this way.

But it's been wonderful having you on. Please come back and play again.

Stephanie, wonderful having you here for your first time. Both of you,

come back and play again and do better next time. Meantime, thank

-you very much indeed, Stephanie and Kevin.

-Thank you.

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

We're down to three pairs and at the end of this round,

we'll have to say goodbye to another pair

in time for a head-to-head round.

It's all looking very good for Wales, I have to say.

Well done, Danny and Jason, our low scorers in that round.

Best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for Round Two is...

Ah, Sports Personalities.

There we are, Sports Personalities.

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

who's going to go second?

And 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...

People who have finished in the top three

of Sports Personality Of The Year more than once, Richard.

We'll be looking for the name of any sports person who's finished

in that top three more than once,

from 1966 all the way through to 2015, please.

So, anyone who has appeared in the top three more than once.

OK, thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Steve?

-Yes.

OK, I'm going to go with Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton, says Steve.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Lewis Hamilton.

He's right.

That's not bad, it's not bad,

well done, well done. Excellent.

-23.

-That's brilliant.

-I'm glad you got that.

-23 for Lewis Hamilton.

Been in that top three three times and won it in 2014.

Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Neil.

It's a tough one.

I'm going to go same sport

and Nigel Mansell.

Nigel Mansell, says Neil.

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

It's right.

23 is Steve's score.

You passed it.

6 for Nigel Mansell.

That'll do.

Great work there for Neil and Northern Ireland.

-He won it twice and also came third.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now then, Danny.

Anyone who's been in the top three

of Sports Personality Of The Year more than once.

-Pressure's on!

-Yeah.

I'm going to go with the athlete Jessica Ennis.

Jessica Ennis, says Danny.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Jessica Ennis

or Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Well, 23 is our high score,

which you passed.

14, there we are.

Pretty much exactly in the middle.

She's been in the top three four times, Jessica Ennis-Hill,

-but she's never won it.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

We're halfway through the round, let's take a look at those scores.

6, Neil, well done. Best score of that pass, very impressive indeed.

Then we travel up to 14, where we find Danny and Jason.

Then 23, Steve and Gabby.

Now, Gabby, that gives you a little bit of time to think of an ace

low score there, so good luck with that.

Going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so, Jason, remember, any person who is finished in the top three

of the Sports Personality Of The Year on more than one occasion.

Now, Jason, you're on 14, the high scorers are Gabby and Steve on 23.

8 or less definitely keeps you in the game.

I am going to go with Steve Davis.

Steve Davis, says Jason.

Here's your red line. Quite low.

Let's see if Steve Davis can get you

below that red line or close to it.

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

Look at that.

-Ooh!

-Very well done indeed, 9!

I think you've done enough, takes your total up to 23.

Goodness me, no pressure on Gabby now(!) Look at that.

Yeah, he's been on the top three five times, Davis.

-Third twice, second twice and also won it.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Iain. You're on 6, your target is 16 or less.

Got a couple in my mind.

I'm going to go with Steve Redgrave.

Steve Redgrave, says Iain. Here is your red line. If you can get

below that with Steve Redgrave,

you are in to the head-to-head.

How many people said Steve Redgrave?

It's right.

Oh, you've done it!

Look at that, 3 for Steve Redgrave.

A single-figure total, very well done indeed, Iain and Neil.

Tell you what, they're all very good.

There is no mucking about here at all. That's a terrific answer.

Won it, came second and came third, Steve Redgrave.

There we are, thanks very much indeed,

which means, Gabby, we need a pointless answer from you.

And then it's a draw and we'll have an exciting lockdown scenario.

Although we should probably go to penalties if...

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-I feel so guilty.

-So you should.

I was willing Nigel Mansell into your head as well.

But I must have been willing it the wrong way.

I have somebody who I think may be a pointless answer.

I know she's won it, I don't know if she's been in the top three.

My thinking is that Sports Personality

has a habit of kind of...

an Olympic year, Olympians dominate

and this person's an Olympian and did she...?

Would she have made it in two Olympic years?

I don't know if she will have done, sorry.

If I can get a pointless answer, it will go to the top of my CV.

So, she keeps coming into my head.

-I'm going to say Liz McColgan.

-Liz McColgan.

-That's a good answer.

-She's gone for it!

-Wow, I used to love Atomic Kitten.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

Liz McColgan.

You're just going to have to take my word for the fact

-that there is a red line there.

-Yeah, got it.

Let's see if you can get down the column with that.

Best of luck, Liz McColgan, it's exciting.

No.

-Oh, bad luck!

-Can I tell you

who I was going to say? Dame Mary Peters.

Well, there you are.

I'm afraid that scored you 100 points,

takes your total up to 123, I'm sorry to say.

Yeah, she won it once but was never in the top three again.

-What about Dame Mary Peters?

-Exactly the same.

The person I thought you were going to say,

-talking about an Olympian, Fatima Whitbread.

-Ah.

She was a pointless answer.

Quite a few pointless answers. Before we go to them,

I'll take you through some of the low scorers.

You would have got 3 points for Henry Cooper, Linford Christie

and Damon Hill.

You'd have got 2 points for Michael Owen, it'd have scored

you 2 points, as would Bobby Moore and Daley Thompson.

Would've got 1 for Sally Gunnell, would've been a great answer,

1 for Darren Clarke and 1 for Freddie Flintoff and Denise Lewis.

But here are the pointless answers,

all of these would have seen you into a tie-break.

Colin Jackson, pointless answer.

David Wilkie, the swimmer.

Ellen MacArthur never won it but was in the top three twice.

Steve Cram, also a pointless answer. One last pointless answer...

Take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

All fairly low scorers in this round.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of our second round,

the pair we have to send home with a high score of 123,

I'm so sorry, Gabby and Steve, it's you.

Do you know what? That means that Wales last longer in the Euros.

I'm actually quite happy about that, so that's fine, that's fine.

It also means it turns out that Robbie Savage

was doing all the hard work last time.

Yeah. LAUGHTER

-Have I done worse than Robbie Savage?

-Yes!

-Yeah.

Oh, dear, it's been lovely having you on. Come and play again.

-Thank you.

-Gabby and Steve, thanks for playing.

But for Neil and Iain, Danny and Jason,

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

Congratulations, Danny and Jason, Neil and Iain.

You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play

for our jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

We've reached the point where we have to decide

who goes through to the final to play for that jackpot

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

The difference is you can now confer before you give your answers

and the first pair to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot. This is going to be so hard-fought.

Danny and Jason, our low scorers, but Neil and Iain,

your answers in the last round were phenomenal, a total of 9.

-It's your Euro final here.

-Can you imagine if it was?

-Wouldn't that be amazing?

-It would be amazing.

-What's that cup made of, Richard?

-This?

-Yeah.

-You know the tinfoil you get in the kitchen?

-Yeah.

-It's that over cardboard. No, it's made of silver.

-Is it really?

Yeah, yeah. That's why I'm going to nick it on the way out.

And I've thought of the perfect place to hide it

-that no-one will ever find it.

-Where?

Fulham's trophy room. Don't you think?

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Oh, yeah.

Can you imagine if Wales or Northern Ireland

or Ireland or England win it?

-Then we'll like it.

-No, I can't.

-I genuinely can't see that happening.

-It's possible.

-It could happen!

-You know, Greece won it, Denmark won it.

-Yeah, true.

Who's to say? It literally could be anybody. Ah! So excited.

-Wouldn't that be exciting?

-It would be amazing.

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

Here is your first question and it concerns...

Famous Swedes. Richard?

We're going to show you five pictures now

of famous people born in Sweden.

Can you identify the most obscure of these?

Thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five famous Swedes

and here they come.

There you go, five famous Swedes.

Danny and Jason, you've been our low scorers so far

so you will go first.

What do you think?

I definitely don't know A and D.

I know A, I'm sure.

-You know A, do you?

-I've seen him.

Danny thinks he knows A. Come on!

Can't think what his name is.

Is he a singer?

We're going to go B, Bjorn Borg.

B, Bjorn Borg, say Danny and Jason.

Now, Neil and Iain.

Do you fancy talking us through the whole board?

Having a pop at each of them?

Sven, C.

E is Britt Ekland.

I don't think A is Kevin Anderson.

Trying to think who it is.

We're debating whether D

had anything to do with

the Nobel Peace Prize.

We don't know her first name anyway.

-No, let's go E.

-We'll go E, Britt Ekland.

You're going to go Britt Ekland for E.

So we have Bjorn Borg and we have Britt Ekland.

Now, Danny and Jason have Bjorn Borg,

let's see if that's right for B.

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

It's right.

HE SIGHS Score of 72 for Bjorn Borg.

Neil and Iain meanwhile have gone for Britt Ekland for E.

Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Britt Ekland.

It is Britt Ekland.

And it wins you the point,

very well done indeed, look at that.

21.

Which means very well done, Neil and Iain.

-After one question, you are up one-nil.

-Well played, gents.

Let's fill in the rest of this board.

A is the DJ Avicii.

-No, is it?

-Yeah, one point for that.

Very well done if you said that.

Would never have got that.

C is Sven Goran Eriksson.

Scores fewer points than Bjorn Borg, scores you 59.

And D, if you look very closely, guys,

I'm surprised you didn't get it.

-It's a very young Henrik Larsson.

-THEY LAUGH

It's not, really. It's the opera star Jenny Lind.

Jenny Lind and she would have scored you 5 points.

-Very well done if you said that at home.

-Thanks.

OK, so here comes your second question.

Now, Neil and Iain get to answer this one first but, Danny and Jason,

you have to win this one to stay in the game, so best of luck.

Our second question concerns...

Picnic items, Richard.

Going to show you the names of five things you might expect to find

in a picnic but they are in anagram form,

can you unscramble them, please? Good luck.

Let's reveal our five anagrams and here they come. We've got...

Neil and Iain, you'll go first.

Sandwiches. It's sandwiches.

Yeah, so!

Anagrams are not good for us.

It's not a good round for us.

We'll go with sandwiches for the bottom one.

OK, wish dances, sandwiches.

Now then, Danny and Jason,

do you want to have a punt at any of the others?

What are you thinking?

Cheese, grate, pickle.

I don't see any.

There's definitely no cheese up there, Dan!

Oh, this is awful. This is painful.

We're going to be kicking ourselves.

Yeah, we're going to be kicking ourselves

all the way back to Cardiff.

-I can't see any, I can't see an answer.

-No.

-We got one, we got one.

-HE LAUGHS

-What?

-Finally.

-We're going to say scones.

-AUDIENCE: Yes!

APPLAUSE

Thank you. Finally.

Well, I guess if you wait long enough,

anything's going to come, isn't it?

-The problem was that there was no Welsh cakes on the board.

-That's right.

Scones, say Danny and Jason.

OK, so we have sandwiches and scones.

Neil and Iain went for sandwiches, wish dances,

let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people got sandwiches.

Sandwiches is right.

46 for sandwiches.

Danny and Jason have gone for scones.

Let's see if that's right for no secs.

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

It's right.

Oh, 47 for scones!

No way!

Well, you found an answer but very well done indeed.

Neil and Iain, you go straight through to the final.

-After two questions, two-nil.

-Yeah, very well played.

-Now, that's a tough board.

-They are!

-Those other three are tough.

-Seagulls soar, any ideas?

-I got that one, sausage rolls.

Sausage rolls is seagulls soar. Well done if you said that.

10 points for that. Now the other two, lava suck fum.

-It's a piece of equipment rather than a food.

-Vacuum.

-It's a vacuum...

-Flask.

-Vacuum flask, yes.

That would have scored you 7.

And the other one is also a piece of equipment.

It's a very low scorer.

-It's a cool bag.

-Oh, no!

It would have scored you 1 point. That should be easy, right, that?

That was so impossible to see.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

I'm afraid is our Welsh team, Danny and Jason.

-As you said, no Welsh cakes on there.

-Absolutely.

It's not a picnic!

Danny, it's been lovely having you on, Jason.

Please come and play again

but I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you now.

A very impressive performance across the show.

Danny and Jason, everybody!

Well done, well played.

But for Neil and Iain, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Neil and Iain.

You've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

for your chosen charities.

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

Well, what about that?

You've seen off the Republic of Ireland,

you've seen off England, you've seen off Wales and yeah,

Northern Ireland through to the final

of this Euro 2016 edition of Pointless.

-This bodes very well, doesn't it?

-Very.

I've never been so nervous, though.

I've done a lot of things in my career but coming here

-and standing here, I've been shaking all afternoon.

-Really?

-I'm all right now.

-Oh, a very assured performance.

The worst bit, when you give an answer, I look over at Richard

and he's looking like you've said something,

you've committed a heinous crime.

He's looking at you thinking, "It must be wrong."

-It's just my natural look, Iain. I'm sorry.

-It was quite frightening.

Well, very, very best of luck.

Is there anything you badly don't want to see

come up on the board this round?

-Been tough anyway, hasn't it, really?

-Yeah, it has.

-Medieval history, I think.

-OK. Well, let's hope that's not up.

You get to choose, as always, from four options that we put up there.

Let's see what's on the board for today's selection and we have got...

-Right.

-Podium finishers?

-Yeah, I think that might be. Royalty's off.

Are you any good? I'm not the greatest on that.

-Are you good at rock music? Because I'm useless.

-Modern rock music K's.

US crime writers a little bit but I think podium finishers,

-we'll have a better go at that one.

-Yeah.

Podium finishers in 2015.

-OK, podium finishers it is, Richard.

-OK. Very best of luck, gents.

Three very different sports here.

Hopefully, one of these questions suits you.

We're looking for the name of

any athlete who won a medal of any colour

at the Athletic World Championships in Beijing, in 2015.

We're looking for any driver who finished on the podium

during the 2015 F1 season.

So, anyone who finished in the top three in any Grand Prix.

Or we're looking for...

..apart from the UK.

So, athletes who won a medal at the World Championships, any colour,

any driver who finished on the podium

in the 2015 Formula One season

and any country that won a medal at the 2015 Aquatics Championships.

Very best of luck, gents. Best of luck to all of Northern Ireland,

their hopes are resting on you.

Thanks very much.

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?

-Yes.

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

There they are, your time starts now.

Rutherford won gold. That won't

-be pointless?

-No.

-Any driver?

Nico Hulkenberg.

-Hulkenberg.

-I think he's on there.

There's some other ones?

Bottas!

-Bottas with Williams.

-Di Resta?

-Paul Di Resta.

He didn't finish on the podium, though.

-And then countries won a medal at the Aquatics.

-Hungary, Holland.

Hungary are good swimmers.

It's quite obscure.

Erm... I know Hungary...

I think, any other driver.

People like that though, don't they?

Yes.

What do you call him?

He did, didn't he? What's the boy?

-Red Bull, the young kid. He got a podium finish.

-Italian?

Yeah, the young... I forgot his name now.

Can you think of any more athletes?

Yeah.

-Have to be.

-What's her name?

-10 seconds left.

-JT.

Oh, that girl.

Done the... Number two, the hurdles.

She was on the podium.

OK, that is your time up. I now need your three answers.

What would you like to go for?

Countries that won a medal at the Aquatics Championship,

-we're going to go Hungary.

-Hungary.

-We're going to go Nico Hulkenberg.

-Nico Hulkenberg...

For Formula One.

-Max Verstappen, we'll go with.

-Max Verstappen.

-For Formula One.

-For Formula One as well. OK, Max Verstappen.

-Hulkenberg.

Hulkenberg and Hungary.

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

Hulkenberg, I think.

Hulkenberg goes last. Least likely to be pointless?

-We're not sure about Hungary, are we?

-No.

-Shall we put Hungary first?

-Yeah.

OK, well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order then

and here they are, we've got...

Well, very best of luck. Three excellent answers on the board.

If one of them turns out to be pointless

and wins you that jackpot, which charities are you playing for?

Neil, you first.

Mine is St Margaret's Hospice, in Clydebank, in Glasgow.

It's a wonderful place

and it's led by a very formidable lady called Sister Rita.

So, I had to give her a mention.

But the compassion they show to the people in there is fantastic

and it's just an impeccable place.

Excellent, Iain?

Well, my wife had breast cancer six years ago

and she set up a charity called Boot Out Breast Cancer,

it's all run by volunteers

and they've raised an awful lot of money.

Something I'm very closely linked to.

Very good indeed, two fantastic charities there, Neil and Iain.

Let's hope one of these three answers wins that jackpot for you

to split between those charities.

OK, well, your first answer was Hungary.

In this case, we were looking for countries that won a medal

at the 2015 Aquatics Championship.

Let's find out if Hungary is right.

If it is, it then has to be pointless

for you to win that jackpot.

So, for £2,500, let's see how many of our 100 people said Hungary.

-It's right.

-Come on!

OK, Hungary is right,

-all it has to be now is pointless.

-Come on!

Down it goes through the 30s into the 20s,

into the teens, still going down,

into single figures, still going down,

Hungary taking us all the way down!

-AUDIENCE:

-Oh!

-1.

Yeah.

That's a fantastic answer.

Sadly not a pointless answer.

-It just teases you, doesn't it?

-Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your next answer was Max Verstappen.

In this case, we were looking for any podium finisher

during the 2015 F1 season.

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

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

Oh. I thought that might be.

Max Verstappen not a correct answer, which means everything is now riding

on your third and final answer, which was Nico Hulkenberg.

And again, we're looking for podium finishers

in the 2015 Formula One season.

If Nico Hulkenberg is pointless,

you will take home £2,500 for your charities.

Very best of luck. How many people said Nico Hulkenberg?

Oh, no!

Disaster!

Well, three good answers there.

Sadly, we'll discover why from Richard

but those last two were incorrect.

But you came so close with that first answer.

I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer.

So, you don't win today's jackpot of £2,500.

However, as it is a celebrity special, we are going to donate £500

to each of our celebrity pairs to go towards their respective charities.

-BOTH:

-Thank you.

-It's been fabulous having you on.

Neil and Iain, brilliant.

And you both won a Pointless trophy so there you are,

you've got that to take home too.

Oh, gents. That minute is not a lot.

You were exactly down the right lines

with Verstappen and Hulkenberg.

Verstappen was fourth twice in that season,

it's probably the last season he'll ever not be on a podium.

I'll read out the pointless answers in that category,

you'll know all of them, I know you know your F1.

We'll start, though, with the other category, which is medallists.

So, lots of big names here, very few answers at all.

Child and Rooney both won relay bronzes for Team GB.

In fact, everyone apart from Mo Farah, Usain Bolt,

Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Justin Gatlin,

every other medallist was a pointless answer,

so well done if you said any of those.

Now let's take a look at some of the drivers

who would have been pointless answers for you.

Kvyat, who, funnily enough, was second at the Hungary Grand Prix.

Bottas, who I know you were going to say

would have scored you 1 point as well,

would've made it even more agonising.

And the countries that won those

medals, you're unlucky with Hungary.

You also could have had Argentina, Belarus, Denmark, Greece,

Lithuania, Poland, Singapore and Ukraine.

Gents, brilliant performance.

You saw off all the other nations, a huge victory for Northern Ireland

-and sorry we don't send you away with that jackpot.

-Thank you.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard, and thanks very much indeed,

Neil and Iain. A fantastic performance across the show. Neil and Iain.

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.