Olympic Golds Pointless Celebrities

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Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a warm welcome

to this special Olympian edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where we are always striving

to find the most obscure answers.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

And couple number one.

Hi, my name's Marlon Devonish.

I'm most well known for the four by one relay back in 2004.

Yeah, hi. My name is Jason Gardener,

and like Marlon, I was on the same team which won gold.

Couple number two.

I'm Mary Peters and I won a gold medal in the Munich Olympics

in 1972 in the pentathlon.

And I'm David Wilkie and I won gold in the 200m breaststroke

in Montreal in 1976.

-Couple number three.

-I'm Tanni Grey-Thompson.

I'm a Paralympic athlete and I won 11 gold medals.

Hi, I'm Sally Gunnell, a 400 hurdler and the only woman to win world,

European, Commonwealth and Olympic titles so far.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Tessa Sanderson.

I've competed in six consecutive Olympic Games

from 1976 to 1996,

and I'm still the only one to have won an Olympic throwing gold medal.

Hi, I'm Aled Davies

and I won the London 2012 Paralympic gold medal in the discus.

I'm currently the world record holder.

Well, thank you very much, all of you.

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

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

Beating smart aleck to silver and clever Dick to bronze,

it's our golden boy, my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya. Hey, everybody.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

This is going to be very competitive, I think.

I was just doing some totting up.

You know, between the ten of us - us two and our eight contestants -

eight of us have got Olympic gold medals.

-LAUGHTER That is amazing.

-Isn't that amazing?

-Amazing.

-If I just picked two people at random out of this ten -

say I pick Tanni and me -

-Tanni and I have got 11 gold medals between us.

-Between you?

-Yeah.

-Isn't that incredible?

-Incredible.

-It's going to be a cracker.

We've got a few people who've been on before, like Tessa.

She got all the way through to the head-to-head.

Dame Mary also came on, got through to Round Two.

Sally came on last time with Linford.

-Yes.

-And you got knocked out in Round One.

-It can only get better, surely.

-You would hope so.

You would think that Tanni Grey-Thompson

was an upgrade on Linford, wouldn't you?

-LAUGHTER

-You would hope so.

Although Linford will come back at some point with someone else

and then we'll be able to see. Should be an absolute cracker.

The first round, everyone here should -

-should - be pretty good at.

-Good luck with that.

As usual, all of today's questions

have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants are looking for

those all-important pointless answers.

These are answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Find one of those and we'll 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're going to start off with a jackpot of £2,500.

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

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This is the only rule you have to remember.

It is this and nothing else.

The pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated,

so keep those scores as low as you can possibly make them.

Very, very best of luck.

Oh, and no conferring for the first two rounds.

Our first category this evening is...

There we go. The Olympic Games.

-Surprise.

-Can you 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...

Olympic host cities that contain the letters G, O, L or D. Richard.

Yeah, we're simply looking for any official city

which has hosted a Summer or Winter Olympic Games -

this is before Rio in 2016 -

that contain one of those letters and its name, please.

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Jason, a warm welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

You, as of last year, are now president of UK Athletics.

-I am indeed.

-That's a huge honour, isn't it?

-Yes.

What does that involve from you? What do you do?

Well, I'm pretty much an ambassador for our sport

in the UK and internationally.

So, a very prestigious role to be elected to take on.

Wonderful. Also, I want to ask about this two-man bobsleigh thing.

Yeah, that's actually probably one of the best experiences of my life.

Yeah, when I retired, we got together -

four guys from different sports with no experience of bobsleigh -

and seen if we can be competitive.

I paired with actually one of my team-mates,

Dean Macey from athletics,

and we were a formidable team who were very competitive

and, in fact, we were offered a chance to go on a European tour,

but I don't think my body would be able to take

-another gruelling Olympic campaign.

-Quite. Yeah. There we are.

OK, now, Jason, slightly tough going first, always.

Just a little bit less time than everyone else to think,

-but what would you like to go for, Jason?

-L - Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, says Jason. Los Angeles.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Los Angeles.

Not bad. 32. APPLAUSE

Gets us off to a good start. 32 for Los Angeles.

Yeah, held the Summer Olympics twice, Los Angeles.

And that's got an L at the beginning of its name

and it's also got an O in it and it's got a G in it.

-It doesn't have a D.

-If anything, overqualified, I'd say.

-Yeah, it's got an awful lot of those letters in it.

-Fabulous.

Thank you very much.

Mary, a very warm welcome back to Pointless.

Munich '72 was the year of your gold.

As a pentathlete, I always wonder, do you have one of the disciplines

-that you like a little bit less than the others?

-Oh, yes.

My long jump was weaker than the other four events.

-And you always just sort of hoped for that one to be behind you?

-Yes.

Oh, dear. And last time you were here, we discussed the...

You have so many honours now in Belfast.

You have a stadium named after you at Queen's University.

You're Lord Lieutenant of Belfast.

You have the Freedom of Belfast. What else are they going to confer?

How's that bridge - the Mary Peters Bridge -

coming on, I wonder? LAUGHTER

I was honoured with the Companion of Honour

in last year's New Year's Honours list, as well,

-which was wonderful.

-Oh, wonderful. Mary, what would you like to go for?

I'd like to go for O, as well, and I'd like to choose Tokyo, 1964.

Tokyo, says Mary. Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Tokyo.

Good answer. Look at that. APPLAUSE

Passes 32. We now have a new low score. 24.

Very well played. As you say, 1964.

-Also due to hold it again in 2020, Tokyo.

-Yeah.

There we are. Thank you, Richard.

So, Sally, Barcelona '92 hurdles.

I mean, what on earth must that be like?

SHE LAUGHS Does life ever,

-ever feel the same after that?

-Um, your life changes

overnight completely and nobody can, you know, get you prepared for that.

-No.

-So, it is amazing. And I always wish I had a little box

that I could have put that whole situation in

cos you're just, you know, going around with this biggest grin

and you can't really take it all in,

so I always wanted a little box that I could take it in

and share it with or look at later, really.

-That whole experience was amazing.

-I mean, do you remember?

You're capable of remembering that spirit of things?

You do, but I think, as you get older and the time,

you remember things from the video or you remember things

from what you've seen in pictures rather than...

Sometimes, you've just got to take yourself back

and think about the little things

that you haven't thought about, which are nice.

Incredible. Now, Sally, what would you like to go for?

OK, I'm going to go for O as well, and I'm going to go for Stockholm.

Stockholm, says Sally.

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

Well, it's right. 32 is our high score, 24 our low.

Passed 32. You've passed 34. Look at that.

Oh, stopped at 3.

APPLAUSE Look at that.

Fantastic scoring there on podium three.

That's a great answer, Sally. Over 100 years ago - 1912, Stockholm.

And it's got an L in it, as well. It's got an O and an L.

-Get out of town!

-It's not bad, is it?

-No.

I'm going to have a look through and see if anything's got all four.

-Los Angeles was pretty good.

-Pretty good. Thank you, Richard.

-Tessa, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Now, then, 1984 Los Angeles was your time.

Now, I was looking up, you seem to have every kind of honour going.

You have all the BEs. You have M, O, C.

What happens when you get a cluster of those? Which is the most senior?

-CBE.

-CBE. Does that mean you then move the others to one side?

There I was, thinking I was only 22 as well and done all of that.

-What can I say?

-What can you say?

-Never mind. I'm much more older now.

LAUGHTER All right. So, Tessa,

what are you up to at the moment?

I'm working on a fitness video to come out at the end of the year.

-Is this your first fitness video?

-Yes, it will be.

Did somebody not beat a path to your door years ago and say,

-"Make a fitness video"?

-Well, see, I have been working quite hard

-on more like a dance routine now...

-Right.

..you know, with Brazilian girls, so I hope that will make an impact.

And what else have I done? Just lots of other things, actually.

Looking forward to Rio.

Might be going there to do some things with the Games.

-So, it's all good.

-Very good. Congratulations.

Now, Tessa, what would you like to go for?

Well, so many have gone for a lot of the things I would have said,

especially Jason who went for LA.

-Um...

-Sorry.

-..I will go for my first Olympics,

-which was Montreal.

-Montreal, says Tessa.

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

-It's right. 32 still our high score.

-Come on. Come on.

-3 our low.

-You passed 32.

-Come on. Come on.

Down to 19 for Montreal. Not bad.

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-Not bad.

-Not bad.

-19.

Well played, Tessa. Yeah, the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Thanks very much. Well, we're halfway through the round,

so let's take a quick look at those scores. 3.

Sally, very well done.

Sally and Tanni looking very strong at this point. Then we travel

quite a way up to 19, where we find Tessa and Aled.

Then up to 24, Mary and David, and 32, Jason and Marlon.

I mean, you're not way out in front, but, Marlon,

we need a low-scoring answer from you to keep you in the game.

Very, very best of luck with that. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

-There we are. Aled, very warm welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Now, London 2012...

-Yeah.

-..was your gold.

But most exciting - of all of our contestants today,

-you're actually going out to compete in Rio.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Hoping to defend that gold medal.

-Absolutely.

-So, what's your schedule between now and then?

-A lot of training.

I'm actually heading out to America to do two months of training

and then coming back and wrapping myself up in cotton wool

-so I don't get injured.

-Yeah, absolutely.

-What's the climate like in Rio?

-To be honest, I try to follow it,

-but it's all over the shop.

-Oh, is it?

Sometimes, it's raining, there's thunderstorms,

-but I'm hoping it's just going to be high 30s, sun's out.

-OK.

That's not going to be too much of a challenge?

-No, no, no. Definitely not.

-OK, very good.

Now, Aled, 19 is your score.

At the moment, Marlon and Jason are our high-scorers on 32,

so 12 or less keeps you in the game.

-So, I'm going to go with Seoul.

-Seoul, says Aled.

-Good man.

Seoul. Here is your red line. If you can get below

this red line with Seoul,

you are through to the next round.

How many of our 100 people said Seoul?

Not bad at all. 17. APPLAUSE

I think you've done enough to see yourselves into the next round.

-36 is your total.

-Yeah, another very good answer, Seoul.

-1988 Summer Olympics.

-Thank you very much indeed.

-Tanni, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Great to have you here.

Now, 11 gold medals. SALLY CHUCKLES

-Yeah, I did five Games. I did a lot.

-11 gold medals, though.

-Yeah.

I mean, that is just a phenomenal achievement.

-Do you keep them all together?

-Erm, they're in a rucksack.

-Right.

LAUGHTER

-You're now... You sit in the House of Lords.

-Yeah.

Very heavily involved. Now, do you enjoy that?

-It's an amazing place to be.

-Yeah.

I mean, it's slightly quirky and a bit strange

and we have very strange rules, but people listen to what you say -

mostly, they listen to what we say -

so it's actually an incredibly interesting

and fascinating place to be.

You've thrown yourself into public life.

A whole, you know, wonderful new career for you there.

Oh, it's a fantastic opportunity and, you know,

I actually went to the Lords to do all the legislation

that sort of revolved around 2012,

like Sunday trading and road closures and all that cool stuff,

and then have sort of ended up doing other things, as well.

Fantastic. Well, many congratulations.

36 is our high score at the moment. There you are on 3.

32 or less guarantees you a place in Round Two.

-I'm going to go for Rome.

-Rome.

Rome, says Tanni. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that red line with Rome,

you are through to the next round.

How many of our 100 people said Rome?

It's right.

You're through. Very well done indeed.

-17.

-Hey! Well done.

20, your total. APPLAUSE

Great answer, Tanni. That's from 1960.

They were originally, Rome, due to have the Olympics in 1908

-and it had to be moved. Do you know why it had to be moved?

-No.

Cos Mount Vesuvius erupted.

-Wow.

-How about that?

-How about that?

-Yeah.

-Poor Rome.

Yeah, it's all right. I think it survived.

LAUGHTER Thank you, Richard.

Now, David, very, very warm welcome to Pointless.

Montreal '76 was your year of glory.

You were the first swimmer to swim in a swimming cap and goggles.

I was, and the reason for the cap was because I had rather long hair,

being a bit of a rebel at university in Miami.

So, the cap sort of streamlined me.

And goggles, I wore those way back in 1970 at the Commonwealth Games

because I hated the chlorine in my eyes.

You know, you'd come out of a training session,

your eyes would be streaming because of the chlorine reaction.

So, I used to have this old sort of swimming mask,

you know, that I used to wear.

My coaches said, "David, you know, you're taking the mickey

"wearing that in training. That's all you've got?"

And they got smaller and smaller and now they all wear them, so...

They also, I noticed, they shave all their hair off.

Did it ever occur to you?

-Cos you swam in full moustache.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

-I mean, Mark Smith started that,

but I didn't take that after him.

No, we shaved every single part of our body

apart from what was under our swimming trunks,

but that just made you go a little bit faster.

Do you ever think maybe if you'd shaved off here,

you might have shaved off a few seconds, as well?

I don't think so. It's not that thick.

And I swam breaststroke, so my head was above the water.

-There we are.

-Yeah.

-It's lovely to have you here, David.

-Thank you.

-There you are on 24.

The high score is still Aled and Tessa at this stage on 36.

-11 or less is what we require from you.

-OK.

I'll go for Sochi.

Sochi. Sochi, says David.

Here is your red line. If you can get

below that with Sochi,

you are through to the next round.

-It's right.

-It's right.

It's low.

You've done it. Look at that.

Very well done indeed. 9 is what you got.

APPLAUSE 11 was what you needed.

Up to 33, you go.

Yeah, 2014. That still only scored 9 points. Amazing.

-Extraordinary.

-Sochi in Russia.

-Thank you, Richard.

Marlon. Marlon, a very, very warm welcome to Pointless for you.

Now, tell me, in the relay, I always imagine

that's kind of double the pressure for relay running

cos it's kind of a...

It's an individual sport and a team sport,

so you have sort of the pressure of all your other runners

as well as the pressure you put on yourself. Is that...?

-Well, actually, it's actually the opposite.

-Really?

You get to share the stress between the four of you.

So, you go through the different call rooms,

then you go through the warm up area,

then you go through to the stage area

and you can share the stress together,

-so it's not that bad at all.

-All right.

So, it's a bit like us doing a double act.

Oh, yeah. Very similar. Except we endlessly drop the baton.

-I do, don't I?

-Yeah.

-I do. LAUGHTER

Um, Marlon, also, you've been coaching sprinting

-at Gloucester rugby team.

-Yes, I am.

-How has that been?

It's absolutely amazing. Really enjoying my time out there.

-It's a different capacity, obviously, with athletics.

-Yeah.

So, working with the boys is exciting

-and the guys are doing really well.

-Any of them getting close to you?

-Um...

-No.

-I'm a lot older now than I used to be, so...

-LAUGHTER

-Not quite. Nearly.

-OK, now, you have a job on your hands here, Marlon.

-I know.

You know what we need from you. It's a score of 3 or less.

-3 or less.

-Come on, Marlon.

-Oh, good luck.

-3 or less?

-LAUGHTER

I'm going to take a slight guess and say Berlin.

Berlin, says Marlon. Here is your red line.

If you get below that with Berlin, you are through to Round Two.

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

It's right.

Still going down. Still...

Oh, no. 18, Marlon. APPLAUSE

It was a good guess. Very gutsy move.

-Takes your total up to 50.

-Unlucky, Marlon.

Yeah, held the 1936 Olympics.

See, they were due to hold the 1916 Olympics,

and that got cancelled. Can you guess why that was?

-Was it cos of war?

-It was cos of the war. Exactly that.

-It only just got through in '36.

-Yeah, didn't it just?

-Yeah.

Now, the answers you could have given that would have got 3 or less.

Mexico City would have got you 3. Helsinki - 3.

A couple of Winter Olympics cities would have got you 2 -

Sarajevo and Calgary. Amsterdam and St Louis

were the lowest-scoring Summer Olympic cities.

Both would have scored you 1.

Sapporo also would have scored you 1.

Here's the pointless answers. They're all Winter Olympic venues...

Lake Placid was a pointless answer. Quite a recent one, that.

Nagano. Squaw Valley. There's two more...

Very well done if you got one of those.

Let's take a look at the top three answers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said...

Los Angeles is the second biggest scorer of all with 32.

-And London, unsurprisingly, up the top with 88.

-There we are.

Thanks very much, Richard. At the end of our first round,

the pair we have to say goodbye to with their high score of 50...

It's not that high a score. It's just higher than everyone else.

But Marlon and Jason, I'm afraid it's you.

It's been brilliant having you here.

Sorry to send you home far too soon, but tremendous play.

Marlon and Jason.

Never mind. Thanks very much.

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

And so we're down to three pairs.

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

to another of our Olympian pairs in time for our head-to-head round.

-Well, very well done. Sally...

-I'm still here.

-..hats off to you.

-We made it.

-Not just still here. Lowest score of the round.

-I know.

-3 - Stockholm.

But well done to all three pairs and best of luck for this round.

Our category for it is...

Natural History. 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, and our question concerns...

Famous Animals. Famous Animals?

Yes, I don't know if that is natural history, is it? Or it's celebrity?

-Or a bit of both?

-Yeah, a bit of each.

On each board, we're going to describe six famous animals.

You need to tell us what type of animal they are, please.

We're going to give you the initials, as well.

So, just what types of animal are they?

There'll be 12 in all to have a go at at home, so very best of luck.

OK, so, what types of animals are these?

I'm going to read all those again quickly.

Mary.

I'm going to go with Keiko and okra.

Okra. OK, let's see if that's right.

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

-Oh!

-Oh, no, Mary.

-I'm so sorry. I'm afraid not okra.

-Oh.

-That scores you 100 points.

-Yeah, sorry, not okra.

-Okra is a vegetable.

-LAUGHTER

-Ladies' fingers.

-A delicious one.

And if you were offered it free, you'd take it,

but not the star of Free Willy.

-Sally?

-Um, I'm going to go

with the last one and Jane Goodall,

and I think

-it's a chimpanzee.

-Chimpanzee, says Sally.

Let's see if chimpanzee is right.

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

It is right.

53 for chimpanzee. APPLAUSE

Well played, Sally. Yeah, David Greybeard.

He would strip twigs

and use them as, like, sort of

fishing spikes in termite nests.

Clever.

Aled, this board is all yours. Do you want to talk us through it?

Um, well, I was going to go for orca,

but I think I'm going to go for the...

Is it panda? Xiang Xiang?

-OK, you're going to say panda.

-Yeah.

OK, let's see how many of our 100 people said panda.

It's right.

Ooh-hee-hee! Look at that. 84. APPLAUSE

That brings Mary and David rather more into the game there.

But 84 - quite a high score.

Yeah, and the other one you were going to go for -

it's not okra, it is orca -

-and actually would have been a much better scorer.

-Yeah.

You would have got 58 points for orca. There it is.

-The Tamworth Two...

-Pigs.

-..were pigs.

-78. Punxsutawney Phil...

-Groundhog.

..is the groundhog from Groundhog Day.

38 points for that.

You can probably hazard a guess at this one - Huberta.

-Hyena?

-It's not a hyena.

-It's not a horse?

-It's not a horse, actually.

-Oh, Huberta the horse!

It is quite hard to...

Well, it's going to be something alliterative anyway, isn't I?

-Cos it begins with H.

-A hippo? It's not a hippo.

-It's a hippo.

-No, it's not!

-Yeah, it is a hippo. 14 points.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, well, we're halfway through the round,

so let's take a look at those scores.

Quite high-scoring, that round.

Sally, 53, you got,

but that's our low score, so, well done.

Once again, Sally and Tanni

looking very strong. Up to 84, where we find Aled and Tessa.

And then, not that far ahead, we find Mary and David.

Now, David, you're the high-scorers, but not by too much,

so a low score from you could easily keep you in the game.

Best of luck. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. We're going to put six more clues to Famous Animals

up on the board.

And here they are. We have got...

Now, Tessa, to avoid becoming the new high-scorers,

you will be wanting to score 15 or less.

SHE LAUGHS That's asking a lot, I think.

Erm, I think there's only one I think I know on there

and I'm not sure if it's right.

I'm going to go for Mr Magoo.

Monkey.

Mr Magoo, monkey. Surely monkey.

Mr Magoo monkey. Let's find out if it's right.

There is your red line.

If you get below that, you are definitely in the next round.

Let's see how many of our people said monkey.

-Oh!

-Oh, no.

Not monkey, Tessa.

Oh, that brings David and Mary

very much back into the game there.

184 is your total.

-Yeah, not monkey. A good name for a monkey, though.

-Oh, isn't it?

-Mr Magoo the monkey.

-Yeah.

-I don't think you'd get a pardon, do you?

-I think it'd be a bit too naughty.

-Oh, yes.

-Don't you think?

-A bit cheeky.

-A bit cheeky.

-Tanni, you're through.

-OK.

-Even if you score 100 points you are still in the head-to-head.

-Oh.

-Oh, that's nice.

-So that takes a bit of the pressure off.

-Relax.

Erm, oh...

I'm going to go for Elsa

who was orphaned

and the subject of the book.

-So it's lionise.

-Elsa was a lioness, says Tanni.

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

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

It's right. Oh! 83 for Elsa.

APPLAUSE

There we are. But you're through.

136 is your total.

Yeah, she used to sleep on camp beds rather than the floor, Elsa.

That's what she preferred.

-And good luck getting her down, by the way.

-Yeah.

-Can you imagine?

Like, with a dog, you can say, "No, you don't sleep there."

-If Elsa wants to sleep on a camp bed...

-Yeah, I'll go on the floor.

-It's fine.

-Yeah, you're fine. I've got a little blow-up bed anyway.

I'll sleep on that, Elsa.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, David, back in the game after that score from Tessa.

100 is your total, 184 is the highest score.

83 or less gets you through.

Do you want to talk us through that board, David,

and fill in some of our blanks?

Unsinkable Sam, I mean, I would be thinking about a cat

but I think a lot of people will know G, London zoo.

-We need how many, 83?

-83.

I'm going to go for G, gorilla.

Gorilla, says David, at London zoo.

Sharp intake of breath from someone in the audience there.

I'm hoping that's for a good reason.

There is your red line. Let's see if gorilla is right.

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

It's right. And you're through.

Very, very well done indeed. 71. APPLAUSE.

Not too much to spare but good enough.

171 is your total.

Well played, David. Through by a fingertip there. Very well done.

Yeah, Guy the gorilla. Do you know why he was called Guy the gorilla?

-No.

-He arrived in London Zoo on the 5th November

-so they named him after Guy Fawkes.

-There we are.

Let's fill in the rest of these.

-David, you're right about the cat.

-Cat, yeah.

It would've been a perfectly good guess

-and would've scored you 47 points.

-Yes.

-Unsinkable Sam.

-Cher Ami.

-A pigeon.

-A pigeon, yeah.

-Oh.

-Would have scored 25.

Yes, porpoise was never going to be right there.

-No, no, no.

-LAUGHTER

-Knut, do you remember that story?

-Oh, polar bear.

-Yeah, the lovely polar bear.

-Lovely Knut.

Would have scored you 56.

Now, this isn't a monkey,

it's the best answer on the board by some way.

It's such a good name for this animal as well.

-It's a m...

-Marmoset?

-No.

-M...

-M... Mo...

Mon...

-Mong...

-Mon...goose.

-Mongoose.

-Mongoose. Wow, well done. It is mongoose.

-That didn't take me long.

-1 point. 1 point, you would have got.

-Wonderful.

-Fantastic.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our Second Round...

-Oh, well.

-I'm so sorry, Tessa and Aled,

we have to say goodbye to you with your highest score of 184.

-Never mind.

-Oh, but that was close. Look at those scores.

-It's been lovely having you here.

-Lovely to be here.

I was thinking third time lucky, Tess.

I was sure there was a place in the final for you.

I was hoping but, you know.

-Good luck to you guys.

-You'll just have to come back.

-Thanks so much. Tessa and Aled.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

But for Sally and Tanni, David and Mary,

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

Congratulations Sally, Tanni, David and Mary.

You're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £2,500.

There we are. APPLAUSE

Well, this is the point where we decide who goes through

to play for that jackpot and we do it by making you play as teams.

You go head-to-head, first pair to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot.

But the big difference is you're now allowed to confer which is lovely.

-So, you can chat before giving your answers.

-That's good.

Well, Sally and Mary, you've both been on Pointless before

-but I don't think either of you have been as far as the head-to-head.

-No.

-Definitely not.

-No, it's exciting, isn't it?

-Yes. It's very exciting.

Very, very good indeed.

Well, we've had strong performances from each of you

so I think this should be pretty close.

I'm sure it will be competitive anyway. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

People Who Share A Name With The NATO Phonetic Alphabet. Richard.

Yes, we're going to show you five pictures of famous people now.

They all share a name with a letter of that alphabet.

Just tell us the most obscure of these five people, please.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

We've got...

There we are.

Five people who share their name with a letter

of the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Now, Sally and Tanni,

you've been our low-scorers so you will go first.

-Which ones that one?

-Erm...

Oh, no.

-No, go with A.

-Yeah, OK.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, I think so.

We're going to go for A

and the answer is Romeo Beckham.

Romeo, says Sally and Tanni.

Now, David and Mary, do you want to talk us through the others?

THEY LAUGH

You're joking. Erm...

We're going to go B, Oscar - Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde.

So, we have Romeo and we have Oscar Wilde.

Now then, Sally and Tanni... Oh, Tanni, talking of names,

I read somewhere Tanni, actually, is a nickname, isn't it?

-Yes.

-You weren't christened Tanni.

No, I was christened Carys

but I've got an older sister who didn't like the name

and so, sort of, a day in just changed it

and screamed the house down until everyone called me Tanni.

-MARY LAUGHS

-That's it.

-That's lovely.

-And that's what you are now, that's what everyone calls you.

-Yeah.

OK. So, Sally and Tanni have gone for Romeo.

Let see if that's right for A.

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

It's right.

-Ooh.

-24. APPLAUSE

24 for Romeo.

How's that going to fare against Oscar

which David and Mary have said for B.

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

It's right.

-Ooh.

-Oh!

-Oh, look at that. 33 for Oscar.

-APPLAUSE

-Well done.

Very well done Sally and Tanni.

-After one question, your up 1-0.

-Well played.

The bottom line of that board is quite tough, isn't it?

C, in fact, is a pointless answer.

It's the American singer-songwriter

India Arie.

Well done if you said that. Terrific answer.

Next to her is...

-Juliet Stevenson.

-Juliet Stevenson.

Would have scored you 9.

And Neighbours fans will know E.

It's Delta Goodrem.

7 points for that.

There we are. Thank you, Richard.

So, here we go, second question time.

David and Mary, you get to answer this one first,

but you have to win it to stay in the game so very best of luck.

It concerns...

John Williams Film Themes. Richard.

We'll play you five clips now

from film themes composed by John Williams.

You need to tell us the name of the film

-for which they were first composed, please. Good luck.

-OK.

So, let's hear our five clips.

And here they come. We've got A.

Here's B.

Here is C.

Here is D.

And here is E.

OK.

Now, David and Mary, which is the most obscure of those do you think?

Well, I'm not very good at these film themes.

The only one I really would hazard a guess at would be A, Star Wars.

A, Star Wars, say David and Mary. A, Star Wars.

Sally and Tanni, do you want to talk us through the others?

-Oh, talk us through!

-Oh.

-Gosh.

You don't have do but you could always just hazard a guess.

Well, we think E might be Jaws.

-D, we both... Like, it's some kids film.

-Yeah, but I don't know it.

-We really can't think what it is.

-Yeah.

So, we're going to go for B. You got this, go on.

-Jurassic Park, B.

-B, Jurassic Park.

So, David and Mary said A was Star Wars.

A, Star Wars. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Star Wars for A.

-Oh.

-Ooh.

-Bad luck.

Not Star Wars, I'm afraid.

Meanwhile, Sally and Tanni have gone for B, Jurassic Park.

Let's see if that's right.

Let's how many people went for Jurassic Park.

If it's right, you will go through to the final.

It is right!

Very well done indeed.

28 for Jurassic Park. APPLAUSE

Very well done.

And it means, Sally and Tanni, that after only two questions,

you are straight through to the final, 2-0.

Very well played. David and Mary, I'm with you on those,

I'm terrible at them. There's something...

-You kind of recognise them but...

-Yeah.

I thought A was Star Wars as well.

-A was...was it E.T.?

-E.T.

-E.T, yes.

-Yeah, I thought so.

E.T. the first one. I'm terrible...

I literally have, kind of... You know, I can't do them at all.

-15 points for E.T. as well.

-15!

So, C, let's have a little listen to it.

-It's 11 points if you said Schindler's List.

-Oh.

Oh, we did get it, you said that.

Now D, let's hear a tiny bit.

You said it's from a kids film.

Home Alone.

-Ah.

-Oh, OK.

-I've watched that so many times.

-Anybody get that out there?

3 points that would have scored you. So it's a terrific answer.

And E, I did get this one.

-Oh, yes.

-Yeah.

-I thought you, as a swimmer, David, might have got this.

-LAUGHTER

-Jaws?

-Jaws.

-Yeah, exactly.

And Jaws would have scored you 38 points.

Why am I so terrible at that?

If these things have got lyrics and stuff, I'm good, but that's...

That first one, is there not a little motif in E.T.

that sounds a bit like the motif from Star Wars?

Do you know, there are sort of slightly Superman-y, E.T.ish,

Star Wars-y crossover. Just little bits with John Williams.

-He's ripping himself off so that's OK, right?

-Well, exactly.

-Autoplagiarism, nothing wrong with that.

-Sorry?

-Autoplagiarism.

-Oh, autoplagiarism, sorry.

-LAUGHTER

-I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Well, thanks very much indeed, Richard.

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

David and Mary, I'm afraid it's you.

-Never mind.

-Lovely to have you with us this evening.

And I'm sorry we didn't get you through to the final,

-but, Mary, it's one step better than last time.

-Yes.

Next time you both come, I'm sure it will be the final, nothing less.

But in the meantime, thank you so much. David and Mary.

-Wonderful.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

Thanks a lot. Well done.

But for Sally and Tanni, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Sally and Tanni,

you have reached the final.

You 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.

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

APPLAUSE

Well, I think we've tested you,

I think we've tested you fairly thoroughly.

We had Olympic Host Cities to start with, Famous Animals,

then we had Phonetic Alphabet,

people who share their names with them

and John Williams Soundtracks.

What would you like to see come up in this last round?

-Not athletic and not politics.

-Yeah, that would be good.

-Anything but that.

-Anything but, yeah.

-Anything else but.

-Yes. Anything but our spheres of expertise. OK.

-Yes.

As always, you know what happens,

we put four categories on the board

and we just have to hope there's something

you quite like the look of in there.

Let's see what today's selection looks like.

We've got...

Wow.

-TANNI LAUGHS

-So we've got to pick one of them?

-Kind of, yes.

-Are we choosing?

Royal Families, well, I think we might be all right on that.

You've had dinner with the Queen a few times, you'll be right.

LAUGHTER

-Pub sports? A bit of darts, that might be.

-Bit of darts, bit of pool.

Snooker. We might be all right at that one. Shall we go Pub Sports?

-Yeah, go on.

-Come on then.

-Yeah.

-OK, Pub Sports, here we come.

OK, very best of luck.

Three different questions all on different pub sports.

The first one is, we're looking for the name

of any world chess champion, please, from 1886 through to 2015.

We are looking for any snooker world champion

from 1977 through to 2015.

Or we're looking for any non-English darts world champion, please,

from 1978 up to 2015 in either PDC or BDO.

So, world chess champion, snooker world champions

or non-English darts world champions.

-Best of luck.

-Thanks very much.

Now, as always, you've got up to a minute

to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that jackpot for your charities

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Ready? Yes.

-Yes.

-OK.

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

-Right.

There we are. Your time starts now.

So, snooker world champions.

-I'm thinking Steve Davis...

-He won't be pointless.

-..Ronnie...

-O'Sullivan.

-..O'Sullivan,

John Parrott.

Who's the guy with the big glasses?

-Taylor. Yeah, Dennis Taylor.

-Dennis Taylor.

-Let's do that. Dennis Taylor will be a good one.

-Dennis Taylor.

Do you know any non-English darts world champs?

-Not a clue. World chess champions.

-World chess champions?

Who's that Russian guy who played against the computer?

I know the guy, I wouldn't know his name.

Oh.

-Snooker, let's go back to snooker.

-Snooker.

We've got three answers there. Anybody else within snooker?

-Non-English darts...

-Hurricane Higgins.

-Oh, yeah, Alex Higgins.

-Alex Higgins.

He's not going to be pointless. Oh.

World chess.

-That is so hard.

-10 seconds left.

-Who was the one that was on Sport Relief?

-Oh.

We're going to have to just go with

-world...snooker world champions.

-Yeah. Oh, isn't this pointless.

OK, that is your time up.

I now need your three answers.

What are you going to go for?

-And if you say which category you're answering.

-OK.

-So, it's going to be snooker.

-They are all going to come from snooker.

-Mm-hm.

-So, we're going to go with Dennis Taylor.

-Dennis Taylor, yeah.

-Dennis Taylor.

-Dennis Taylor.

-Alex Higgins.

-Alex Higgins.

-Shall we go John Parrott?

-Yeah.

-I think he's world. He must've done.

-Yeah.

-Let's go John Parrott.

-Let's go for that.

And John Parrott. OK, of those three, which is your best shot

-at a pointless answer, do you think?

-Dennis Taylor.

-Dennis Taylor.

Dennis Taylor we put last. Least likely to be pointless?

-John Parrott.

-Parrott, yeah.

-John Parrott we'll put first.

And here they are.

We've got John Parrott, Alex Higgins and Dennis Taylor.

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

If one of those turns out to be pointless,

you will win that jackpot for your charities.

What charities are you playing for? Sally, you first.

I'm the Chestnut Tree House which is a children's respite

for children that are terminally ill down in Brighton area.

Tanni?

Mine is the Snowdon Trust who help support disabled people

into higher and further education.

Wonderful.

APPLAUSE

Two very good charities there.

Let's hope one of these answers will win that jackpot

for those charities. Very, very best of luck.

Your first answer was John Parrott.

In all three cases here we're looking for world snooker champions.

John Parrott, you thought, was probably your least likely

to be pointless. Only one of them has to be pointless, remember,

for you to win that jackpot. So, let's find out

how many of our 100 people said John Parrott.

For £2,500, is it pointless?

It's right.

All it has to be now is pointless and you will leave here

-with that jackpot of £2,500 for your charities.

-No.

John Parrott now taking us down through the teens.

-Into single figures. 7 for John Parrott. What about that?

-Wow.

APPLAUSE

-Well done.

-That's a great score.

-I know.

-Annoyingly in this last round...

-Quite.

..we only want pointless answers though

so I'm afraid you have two more shots at today's jackpot.

Alex Higgins is your next answer.

Again, it has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

So, for £2,500, let's find out how many of our 100 people named

Alex Higgins as a world snooker champion.

It's right.

John Parrott, your first answer, took us all the way down to 7.

Alex Higgins now takes us down through the 30s and the 20s,

into the teens... Ooh, 14.

-APPLAUSE

-We're doing pretty well.

These are all great scores.

You'd take that score any time in normal game play.

Sadly, as I mentioned,

it's only pointless answers in this last round.

So, your third and final answer is what everything is riding on.

Very, very best of luck. Dennis Taylor.

We're looking for world snooker champions.

If nobody mentioned Dennis Taylor, you leave with £2,500

for your charities.

Let's see how many people said Dennis Taylor.

It's right.

John Parrott, your first answer, took us down to 7.

Alex Higgins, your next answer,

-took us down to 14.

-Come on!

Dennis Taylor passes 14. Passes 7.

Oh, no! Four.

APPLAUSE

Three excellent answers there.

I'm afraid, though, there wasn't a pointless answer among them,

I'm sorry to say.

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

However, as it's a Celebrity Special,

we are going to donate £500 to each celebrity pair

for their respective charities. So, there you are.

-It has been brilliant having you on.

-Thank you.

And you get a Pointless trophy to take home. So, there we are.

-APPLAUSE Absolutely wonderful.

-Really good.

Yeah, it's been great fun and great that between the four us,

we've still got those 12 gold medals. It's lovely, you know.

-LAUGHTER

-It's nice. Nice for us.

Now, I know lots of people at home,

if you love any of these three things,

you'll have been shouting out pointless answers.

So let's take you through the different pointless answers.

If you know your chess,

you'll definitely have got a couple of these.

One of the most famous chess players of all time

Jose Raul Capablanca was a pointless answer.

Two very, very recent world champs here,

Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik.

And widely considered to be the first ever world champion,

Wilhelm Steinitz, also a pointless answer.

The only ones who scored points there,

Gary Kasparov was the one you are thinking of

who played against the computer, he scored a lot of points,

Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov,

Anatoly Karpov, Magnus Carlson, also Tal, Lasker and Botvinnik,

all of those scored points.

Everyone else was a pointless answer.

Snooker world champions,

there's only one pointless answer on the whole board.

Sorry to break this to you.

Ken Doherty was the only one up there.

1 point for Neil Robertson, Joe Johnson, Sean Murphy,

Peter Ebdon, Stuart Bingham.

2 points for John Higgins and John Spencer

also would've been a very good answer there.

Steve Davis, the biggest scorer of all.

Now, non-English darts world champions.

And you'd have won it with

the 2015 world champion, Gary Anderson, amazingly.

Les Wallace, McDanger they called him

Christian Kist, also,

and Leighton Rees, the Welshman,

also would have been a pointless answer there.

The only ones that scored points, Jocky Wilson, Raymond van Barneveld,

Michael van Gerwen, John Part,

Tony David and Jelle Klaasen, they all scored points.

Very well done if you got a pointless answer at home.

It's been a terrific show and I'm sorry we didn't give you

the final question you wanted.

Thanks, Richard, and thanks once again, Sally and Tanni.

-It's been lovely having you.

-Thank you.

-It's been great.

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.

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