TV Winners Pointless Celebrities

Thank you very much indeed. I'm Alexander Armstrong.

And a very warm welcome to this special TV Winners edition

of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where the more obscure your knowledge, the better your chances

of winning. Let's meet today's pointless celebrities.

And couple number one...

Hi, I'm Jane Devonshire and I won MasterChef 2016 this year.

I'm Simon Wood and I won MasterChef in 2015.

Couple number two.

Hello, I'm Yasmina, and I won The Apprentice many moons ago in 2009.

And I'm Lee McQueen and I won it even more moons ago

because I won it in 2008.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Sam Bailey and I won The X Factor 2013.

I'm Michelle McManus and I won Pop Idol in 2003.

And finally couple number four.

Hi, I'm Jermain Jackman and I won The Voice 2014.

I'm George Sampson and I won Britain's Got Talent in 2008.

Thank you all very much. A very warm welcome to Pointless.

Lovely to have you here. We'll get a chance to chat to each of you

throughout the show as it goes along.

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

More BFG than BGT, it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya, hey everybody.

Good evening.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-Wow, everyone a winner.

-I know.

-That's quite impressive.

The biggest shows on British television as well.

We've got Britain's Got Talent, we've got X Factor, MasterChef, Apprentice, everything.

It's like the Champions League.

This now, they are all winners, but only one pair is going to win this.

Every single person here has proved themselves already on incredibly

difficult shows, so they've all got, they've all got mettle.

-It will be very interesting to see who comes out on top.

-Very good.

They've all got mettle. I like that.

-Yeah, you like?

-Oh, I do.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, 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 are 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,

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.

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

This is the rule you have to remember.

The pair with the highest score at the end of each round will be eliminated.

The highest score, so keep your scores down.

Very, very best of luck to all four pairs.

No conferring, sadly, until we get to the head-to-head round.

OK, our first category this evening is...

Famous People. Famous People.

Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first and who is going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Actors Known By Their Middle Names.

-Richard.

-On each board we're going to show you seven real names of famous actors.

Professionally, they all use their middle names,

but we're going to show you their real names.

Can you tell us who they are? We're going to show you one of the films they have appeared in as well.

There are going to be 14 actors to guess at home, so very best of luck.

So we are looking for the names of these actors who are known by their middle names.

Let's reveal our first board. Here they come.

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

Simon. Welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. Now, MasterChef.

Watching it at home, it seems fine.

It seems absolutely fine. But you can see the hands of contestants,

knives... Is it the most terrifying thing you've ever done?

It's far worse than what you see on the TV.

-Is it?

-Far, far worse, yeah.

Even when you're in pairs and you're in restaurants,

you go in to do service, you do lunch service in a restaurant.

I mean, that must be the stuff of nightmares.

-I mean, thrilling...

-Yeah, it's terrifying.

You just have to be bold, I guess, is the way to approach it.

Go for it and don't look back.

Simon, what are you up to at the moment?

I'm the executive chef at Oldham Athletic Football Club.

-Lovely.

-And I'm looking to open a restaurant in Manchester.

Very good. Now, Simon, we come to the middle names of these people.

-What would you like to go for?

-Rosalie A MacDowell, Groundhog Day.

And I'm going to go for Andie MacDowell.

Andie MacDowell, says Simon.

OK, Andie, let's see if that is right for MacDowell.

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

It's right.

37.

37 for Andie MacDowell.

Nice start, Simon. Tough on that first podium.

In her first-ever role, which was in Greystoke,

her southern accent was so thick,

Glenn Close redubbed every single one of her lines.

So it's not her voice at all.

-There you go.

-What do you know?

-I know that now!

-There you go!

Very good. Lee, welcome to Pointless.

-Xander, how are you doing?

-Great to have you here.

The Apprentice, my goodness, then you went on to work for Lord Sugar.

-I did, yeah.

-Was he still Sir Alan in those days?

He was Sir Alan, yeah. And then halfway through my tenure he changed to Lord Sugar.

How long did you work there?

Two and a half years. We set a business up,

a digital media business up from scratch.

What's the record? What's the longest any Apprentice winner has worked?

Three years. But I was there two and a half years so...

The thing with The Apprentice is it's groomed for you

to be an entrepreneur.

You learn the skills, like an apprentice essentially,

and you go off and essentially do your own thing.

So did you actually learn proper business things from doing it?

100%, yeah.

As a viewer, I kind of watch it for the comedy!

Yeah, of course!

But what you've got to remember is that The Apprentice isn't real life

business when you're watching on TV.

It's like an assessment centre and what Lord Sugar's doing is assessing

whether or not you're good enough to actually be paid a six-figure salary

to come and work for him. And where you really learn is when you set the

business up with him and utilise his contacts and his experience and that

-is when you're learning.

-So that is invaluable, isn't it?

-Totally.

Now, Lee, middle names of our famous actors.

There's two that I want to choose.

So I'm going to choose Eldred G Peck, Roman Holiday.

And the answer being Gregory.

Gregory Peck, says Lee.

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

It is Gregory Peck.

37 is our only score.

65.

65, no way of knowing but that's a high score there.

He famously was in To Kill A Mockingbird and the actress who played his daughter, Mary Badham,

they stayed friends until the day he died

and she always called him Atticus and he always called her Scout.

That's so sweet!

-Thank you very much indeed.

-Pleasure.

Now, Sam, welcome to Pointless.

Wonderful to have you here.

-Thank you.

-Now then, where to begin?

I mean the X Factor, here's where we're going to start.

When you applied, actually, did you apply? Were you scouted?

I applied in my front room. We was watching the year before,

the live shows and my kids were laughing their heads off.

It's the first time they'd sat down and watched the show and they was

laughing and I just thought, in the ad breaks it says,

"Do you think you've got the X Factor? Blah blah blah."

So I thought, right, that's it.

So I got the iPad and I went like that and I went, I've applied!

And then I got a thing through.

Because obviously I was in prison so I had to get a lot of time off.

Working in the prison!

-Prison officer!

-Sorry, yes, working as a prison officer,

which I miss dearly by the way.

But, yeah, I was working and I got a call.

Obviously I couldn't take my phone into work and I came out and I had a

-voicemail call saying we want you to come to London, and the rest is history.

-Amazing.

-It's great to have you here. What would you like to go for?

-I've been looking at this, right,

and trying to work out the name of the game kind of thing.

The third one down,

I'm going to say Chinatown and I'm going to say Faye Dunaway.

Faye Dunaway, says Sam.

She doesn't say Faye, she says Faye Dunaway?

She's not entirely sure.

I'm not sure whether that's her name or not.

For some reason it's calling me out.

We'll put it to the tower, let's see what happens.

How many of our 100 people said Faye Dunaway?

It is Faye Dunaway!

It is Faye Dunaway. Very well done to you. 77 is what you score.

Not bad at all.

Yeah, well played, Faye Dunaway. It's a lovely... I was going to say

-a lovely film, Chinatown, it's not lovely but it's very good.

-It's a good film.

Very good. Thank you, Richard.

Now then, George, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. George and I met doing the Royal Variety Show.

-We did.

-In what year was that?

-2008.

-You were still at school.

-I was, yeah.

-What was it like having to go back to school on Monday morning after that?

I think I did one day of school after that.

-Oh, really?

-I went in,

did the one day and I was shipped off to the tour and joined the West End.

That was it, joined the circus!

-Basically, yeah!

-And you kind of have...

You were in that 3D film.

-StreetDance.

-Exactly, so you had that.

And now you've sort of broken through, you did Waterloo Road.

The acting's been quite good to me.

Hasn't it just? You've clearly been good to it. Emmerdale now.

I've enjoyed it. I've just finished on Emmerdale.

It's been a good year and I'm enjoying it.

Fantastic. Good for you, George.

That's just opened so many doors for you, hasn't it?

-Yeah, absolutely.

-It's been superb.

Now, George, you're the last person to have this board.

-Yeah.

-So if you wanted to you could go right the way through and fill in

any of those middle names that we haven't yet had.

Looking at it thinking there are obvious ones that I would like not to pick.

But then I don't know the rest.

So I'm kind of going between do I take a guess or do I go with the ones that I think I do know?

I would rather get an answer right, I think, so I'm just going to have

to go for Die Hard and go for Bruce Willis.

Bruce Willis. OK, Bruce Willis, says George.

Well, they've been quite high scores up to this point.

77 is quite a high score so even if you score 100 you are not too far

ahead. Anyway, let's see, Bruce Willis, I'm sure it won't score 100.

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

It's a good answer. It scores you 85, not bad at all.

I think you did exactly the right thing there, George,

given the other scores as well, giving Jermain a good chance there.

Funnily enough, the other obvious one which is Brad Pitt up the top

would have scored slightly fewer points, 81.

Not a huge difference. The other two answers are the best answers on the

board. We will go to Mary R Byrne, a brilliant comic actor, Mary R Byrne.

-Rose Byrne.

-Rose Byrne, yes.

Have you ever had one of those?

-Nasty things!

-And Mary E Fanning.

She is Dakota Fanning's sister.

I can't remember her name.

She is Elle, and that would have scored you three

so very well done if you said that at home. Thank you very much.

Well, halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at our scores. What about that?

Simon's 37, the lowest score of the round by quite a distance.

-Good start.

-Yeah, very well done indeed.

It's all in the correct order in fact.

Up to 65 where we find Lee and Yasmina, 77 where we find Sam and Michelle.

85 is where we find George and Jermain.

Before the show I was saying what a brilliant podium

that was to be on. And they were saying no,

because all the good answers have gone by the time it gets to us.

I said no, no, no!

-It forces you...

-But then Jermain gets the first choice next time.

That's true. So yes, Jermain,

you will get the first choice of the new board so you have to get a nice,

-low score on it so good luck with that.

-No pressure!

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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

We've got...

I'll read those all again.

Now remember, we are looking for the middle names by which these actors

are better known.

Jermain, welcome, great to have you here.

My goodness, The Voice.

That was a huge show, wasn't it?

It was crazy being on that show, crazy.

I bet. And will.i.am, presumably he's still on your speed dial these days?

Absolutely, I get to call him when I'm over in the States

and we meet up and chill and we do music as well.

You see, that's really nice.

And Jermain, what are you up to at the moment?

-I'm writing a new album as well as studying Politics at Leeds University.

-That's right.

-So how far's that gone?

-I'm going into my second year this coming September.

Excellent. Jermain, what would you like to go for here?

You are the high-scorers at the moment.

Yes. I do know a few on the board thanks to my mum!

But I think I'm going to go for The Butterfly Effect and Ashton Kutcher.

Ashton Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher, says Jermain.

No red line for you because you're the highest scorers

but let's see how many of our 100 people went for Ashton.

It's right.

This is a good answer, Jermain, look at that, 32, very well done indeed.

In fact our lowest score of the round so far, so well done.

117 is your total.

Well played, Jermain, that should keep you safe and sound.

He was originally considered to be Batman,

Ashton Kutcher, before Christian Bale got it.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Michelle.

-Michelle. Welcome.

-Thank you.

Actually, I was just reading out Little Voice there.

-You've done Little Voice.

-I did.

-When did you do that?

We toured 2008. We toured all over the Far East.

It was the most incredible tour. We were in Singapore, Thailand...

It was the most incredible three months of my life, actually.

And you've sort of been bitten by theatre now, haven't you?

Yeah, I won away back in 2003, if anyone remembers that time.

But no, I went back to Scotland,

so I've worked for Radio Scotland and STV up there. I interviewed

you guys when you came up a couple of years ago.

-Yeah, yeah.

-And now I'm touring.

I've got my one-woman show.

It's my third year at the Edinburgh Festival.

So this is the third instalment in a trilogy of one-woman shows.

Michelle, what would you like to go for?

You are on 77. If you can score 39 or less,...

It needs to be quite a low score.

I know. I'm trying to think because there's a lot of obvious ones on the board.

I'm tempted to go for Romancing The Stone because it's an older movie,

and I love it, actually. It's one of my favourites,

but I don't know whether people...

I'm going to go for it. Kathleen Turner.

Kathleen Turner, says Michelle.

Here is your red line.

You have to go below that red line to stay in the game.

-I don't know if it will.

-Let's see how many of our 100 people said Kathleen Turner.

It's right.

Look at that, 40.

40, which takes you up to 117. You are joining Jermain and George on 117.

You are joint high-scorers.

Yeah, Kathleen Turner, well played.

She also played Chandler Bing's dad in Friends.

-Oh, yes.

-In a number of episodes.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Yasmina, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here.

-Thank you.

-You also went on to work for Lord Sugar.

Same as Lee. You are going to get the same banter here but we worked on a company...

It was like a digital signage company.

So I worked for him for about a year and a half, two years.

What are you up to, Yasmina, at the moment?

I promote enterprise,

so I help people start businesses and I start businesses myself,

so I'm a bit of a start-up queen.

It was a real life changer for you, doing The Apprentice, was it?

Hugely. Yeah, hugely.

-I get to come and do stuff like this. So...

-Yeah. Well, there you are.

Exactly. All the networking going on in the green room,

-you wouldn't believe.

-Business cards flying everywhere.

What would you like to go for? You are on 65, Yasmina.

51 or less gets you through.

OK. So, um...

I'm thinking to do a safe bet.

And let's go Legally Blonde with Reece.

OK, Reese Witherspoon, says Yasmina, for Legally Blonde.

Here is your red line. You have to get below that red line.

Let's see what happens when we say Reese Witherspoon.

-It's right.

-Keep going.

It's high.

It's 74. 74,

taking your total up to 139.

Yeah, that her mother's maiden name,

Reese, and her middle name and now her professional name.

-That's nice.

-That is nice.

Yeah. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Jane.

-Hello.

Well, listen, I'm going to welcome you with a piece of very good news.

It doesn't matter what you score, you are going to get through to the

next round because Simon scored so few points in the first pass,

37 has got you through, which is great news.

Now, Jane, what was the story behind your application to MasterChef?

Did you... Had you been waiting to pluck up the courage and then thought,

-"Yes, I'm going to do it?" What happened?

-No, not at all.

We've always watched it with the family because I think

it's a great show to watch with the kids and stuff.

But literally last summer,

a rainy summer's day and over the holidays and my 14-year-old, 13 then,

said, "Oh, come on, Mum, let's do this."

He kept on saying enter MasterChef.

And I literally filled it in as a bit of a joke, really.

We had a bit of fun. We spent an hour and we just filled the form in.

And just thought it would disappear off into the ether. And that would be it.

So, what are you doing now? You're doing lots more cooking on a much more senior level, then?

Well, I'm still finding my feet.

And to be suddenly doing TV and press stuff for different people,

it's all very new, and magazines and all sorts of stuff like that.

-It's very exciting.

-Finding my feet at the moment.

Quite right. Well, enjoy. Enjoy them once you've found them!

-Yes!

-Jane, this board is all yours.

You are already through, so it doesn't matter what you score here.

But if you wanted to talk through those blanks and fill them in for us, that would be great.

I think I might know them all.

Jude Law and Sean Connery,

Jane Horrocks and I think it's Rooney Mara.

But I'm not 100% sure.

But as we are already through, I might as well go for it, hadn't I?

Rooney Mara, says Jane.

As long as we are already through and you're not tricking me!

No red line... No red line for you as you are already through.

But let's see how far down the column we get with Rooney Mara.

I think it might be quite a good one.

It's right.

Now, up to this point,

32 is our lowest score and you've passed that by miles.

Look at that, down to seven. Very well done indeed, Jane.

Lowest score in the first pass, lowest score coming back.

44 is your total.

That's a lovely finish to the round, well played.

You knew all the others as well.

Barbara J Horrocks is of course Jane Horrocks.

That would have scored you 56.

At the top there, Dave Law is Jude Law.

66. Do you think he would have been less successful if he was Dave Law?

I think he probably would have.

-Jude was quite key.

-It's quite a cool name, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-And what do you think this last one scored?

I would... I'm going to say 94.

It's 89. 89.

There we are.

Thank you. We are at the end of our first round.

And the pair we have to say goodbye to with a high score of 139,

I'm afraid, Yasmina and Lee.

I know. I don't know what we do about this.

-What do we do? Can we not stay?

-Well, normally we send people...

I'd be very happy for you to stay because it just seems a shame to break up this...

Our strategy in The Apprentice is don't get fired in the first week.

-And now look what's happened.

-We've just got fired on the first round.

-Yay!

-Aw!

Thank you so much for playing, Yasmina and Lee.

Wonderful contestants. Wonderful contestants.

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

And so we're down to three pairs and at the end of this round,

we're going to have to say goodbye to another. I think we might just...

-We could just chat.

-That would be nice.

And then we don't have to lose anyone.

I've got a good question, though.

-Have you?

-Yeah.

I suppose we should probably do it.

Well, listen... All I'm going to say now is, no hard feelings.

We don't really want to lose anyone.

That is the point. Everyone did so well there.

Jane, though, hats off to you. Seven points...

-Thank you.

-..for your answer. By far and away the best score of that round.

Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

Hm. 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...

..as they could.

-Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds. Richard.

-Yeah, we are simply looking

for any of the 26 countries who took part in the grand final

of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016, please.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Simon. We come to you first.

Countries. Basically it's just have a guess...

Just take pot luck on a country that's roughly in Europe

although by no means exclusively.

I'm going to say Ukraine.

Ukraine, says Simon.

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

It's right.

Good answer. 32 for Ukraine.

Yeah, they were the winners of it, Ukraine.

Their song was about the deportation of the Tatars in Crimea under Stalin.

-Mm. Wow!

-How about that?

Yeah. Now then, Sam.

My heart is pounding right now.

For one of two reasons.

-Yes, go on.

-One, this could be a really stupid answer

and I'll make a complete fool of myself on TV.

Or reason two, let's mention that.

It's a really good answer...

But I think I'm just going to say it.

-Come on.

-I don't know if I'm true on this.

Because I missed it because I was on tour, so I want to say Australia.

Australia, says Sam.

Let's see what happens when we say Australia.

It's absolutely right.

Australia is right. 32 is...

Oh, 56 for Australia.

-56. Good answer.

-And they came second.

So we are going first, second...

If we can do the top six, I'll be very impressed.

-Jermain.

-Yeah.

I didn't get a chance to watch this either.

-That's diplomatically put.

-And... This is an absolute guess.

And I apologise if I get it wrong.

-Azerbaijan.

-Azerbaijan, says Jermain.

Sounds like... I think Azerbaijan sounds sort of right, doesn't it?

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

It is right. 56 is our high score.

Which you pass. 32 is our low score.

Which you pass. Azerbaijan takes you down to seven.

There we are. Very well done on the far podium there.

He's doing well, Jermain, isn't he? Yeah, they came 17th, Azerbaijan.

Former winners.

Thank you very much. Let's take a quick look at those scores.

Seven, the best score of that pass.

Very well done, Jermain.

I think Jermain and George, you might well be in the head-to-head

on the strength of that.

Then we travel up to 32, where we find Simon and Jane.

And then up to 56, where we find Sam and Michelle.

Michelle, you are out in front at the moment but I bet you've got a good answer.

You're going to need it to keep you in the game.

We are going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Now, George.

-Remember, we are looking for any country that competed in the grand final...

-Yes.

-..of the 2016 Eurovision Song contest. Did you watch it?

-No.

I am taking a guess.

-OK. Good.

-But I feel better in my guess now after Jermain's brilliant answer.

He has set you up very nicely there.

-Yes.

-I mean, ideally, you would score 48 or less,

which I think is eminently doable.

-You think.

-OK.

I'm going to just go ahead and say Greece.

You go ahead and say Greece.

There's your red line, George. If you get below this red line with Greece,

you are through to the head-to-head immediately.

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

Argh!

Ah! Well, that's interesting.

Evidently, an incorrect answer. That scores you 100 points, George.

I'm sorry. It takes your total up to 107. However, the game is not yet over.

Yeah, sorry, George. They often do qualify.

But they were knocked out in the semifinals this year, Greece.

Thanks, Richard. Michelle.

Now, you need to score 50 or less.

I know. I'm trying to think of a really obscure country and I'm probably

going to get it wrong. Maybe I should just play it safe...

I'll go for Armenia.

Armenia, says Michelle.

Here's your red line. If you can get below this red line with Armenia, you are into the head-to-head.

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

It's right.

And it's a good score.

Look at that. One!

One point for Armenia, takes your total up to 57.

Very well played. Yeah, they came seventh with Love Wave.

Thank you, Richard.

-Jane.

-Hi.

Jane, you are on 32.

So, 74 or less gets you through.

74 or less.

-Did you watch?

-No, I've never seen it.

-Sorry.

-It's a song competition. It's very popular.

I'm going to go with Slovenia.

Slovenia. There's your red line, Jane.

Nice and high. If you can get below that with Slovenia,

you're through to the head-to-head round.

How many people said Slovenia? Is it right?

Oh, no!

This is great news on the far podium, less good news on the near.

-Sorry.

-Oh, Jane, I'm afraid Slovenia - not in the grand final.

Maybe I should watch the Eurovision Song Contest!

132 is your grand total.

Yeah, also knocked out in a semifinal, I'm afraid.

Now, there were no pointless answers at all.

The best answer anyone could possibly have given was Armenia.

So, well done, Michelle. That's the best answer out of any of them.

A few other low scorers. Three points for the Czech Republic.

Five points for Serbia. Five points for Georgia,

who are the country that the United Kingdom gave 12 points to, nobody else did.

Some sort of indie song.

Well done, UK. Lithuania,

Azerbaijan and Bulgaria would have scored you seven.

Cyprus 12, Latvia 13.

Those are the best scorers.

Let's take a look at the high-scorers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Germany, 66.

United Kingdom 75.

That's the best we've done Eurovision for a while.

And... And we got beaten by France.

France scored 80.

How about that? When did that start happening?

Thank you so much, Richard. Well, we are at the end of our second round

and I'm afraid, Jane and Simon, we have to say goodbye to you.

I knew it was going to be painful.

It's been such a treat having you on.

Thank you so much for coming and playing.

You've been brilliant. And I'm just sorry...

-You didn't watch Eurovision.

-I know.

But there we are. Slovenia let you down...

-Next year.

-But thanks so much for coming on.

Come and play again, please. In the meantime, thank you so much, Jane and Simon.

But for Michelle and Sam, George and Jermain,

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

Congratulations, Michelle and Sam, George and Jermain.

You're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our

jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

There it is.

So, this is the bit where we decide who goes through to the final

to play for that jackpot and we do it by making you go head-to-head.

But the big difference is you are now allowed to confer.

You can play as a team. It takes a lot of the pressure off.

First pair to win two questions will be playing for the jackpot.

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

Here is your first question and it concerns...

Skyscrapers.

-Richard.

-We'll show you five pictures of skyscrapers and

give you alternate letters of their names.

Can you tell us what they are called, please?

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

We have got...

There we go. Five skyscrapers.

Now, Michelle and Sam, you've been our low scorers throughout the show so far, so you will go first.

Feel free to confer.

I think we need to go for the most obvious one because I don't know.

What do you think?

I think I might...

We're going to cover the obvious one that we know and that's E,

-and that is the Shard.

-You're going to say the Shard.

OK, Michelle and Sam say the Shard.

Now, George and Jermain,

do you fancy talking us through the board and having a punt?

Here's the thing, we know some of them.

-We know B.

-The Empire State Building, but C is the one that I fancy.

I don't actually know it but looking at the letters,

I think I can work out what it is.

-Yeah, we'll go for C.

-We'll go for Elephant Tower.

Elephant Tower. So, we have the Shard and we have Elephant Tower.

Michelle and Sam said the Shard for E,

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

It's right.

Not bad, 46 for the Shard.

Now, meanwhile George and Jermain have taken a punt on C and said Elephant Tower.

Elephant Tower, let's see if that's right.

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

It is right.

And it wins you the point.

Oh, and how. Look at that, down to three.

Very well done indeed. Elephant Tower.

A risk worth taking there and it means George and Jermain,

after one question, you are up 1-0.

That was beautifully done.

Well done for working it out and also well done for going for the risk as well.

That was exactly the right thing to do.

Nothing else fitted and it looks like an elephant.

-It does.

-It's in Bangkok.

-A...

-Petronas.

It's the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

I love the Petronas Towers. They're very beautiful, I think.

11 points for that.

B is the Empire State Building.

Everyone knew that, a big scorer, would have scored 73.

-Now, D.

-I'm going to take a punt on this one.

The first word, we can work out.

I think is turning.

Turning is the first word.

So, if it's turning, I was initially thinking maybe it's toro,

it could be Spanish.

But then if the first word is turning...

It's in Malmo in Sweden, this building,

and you can see what it does.

It's the Turning...

..Torso.

Torso, and it's a pointless answer as well so very well done if you said that at home.

Thanks very much indeed.

Now, here comes your second question.

Michelle and Sam, they will be answering it first,

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

Our second question is all about...

Strictly Come Dancing.

Simply five clues now to facts about the TV show, Strictly Come Dancing.

Rather than have me read them out, which would be fun,

not nearly as much fun as having Claudia here,

so Claudia is going to read out the questions.

Hello, Xander, hello Richard, I'm so sorry I'm not there, but hello.

I have five questions about Strictly Come Dancing.

OK, so first question, what is the title of the US version of the show?

What is the surname of married professional dancers,

Kevin and Karen?

What is the name of the trophy awarded to the winners?

Which Wanted singer won the competition in 2015?

Which presenter took over as host of It Takes Two in 2011?

Enormous luck. I'm not sure I could answer all of those but that is because I'm very thick!

Have a lovely evening. Bye!

OK, I'll quickly read those again.

George and Jermain, we come to you first.

I don't think, I'm not too sure if this is right but I'm going to go for a guess

and it's the title of the US version of the show.

Is it Dancing With The Stars?

Dancing With The Stars, say George and Jermain.

Dancing With The Stars.

Now then, Michelle and Sam, do you want to talk us through that board?

The name of the singer who won the competition was Jay,

but I don't know his surname.

The name of the trophy, I think it's the Glitter Ball,

but the presenter who took over as host of It Takes Two,

I don't know whether it was Zoe Ball or Claudia because Claudia moved over when Bruce left,

didn't she, and she does the main show now?

Do you think it is the Glitter Ball, the trophy?

I think it's the Glitter Ball trophy.

We'll go for the Glitter Ball.

You're going for the Glitter Ball. So, we have Dancing With The Stars and we have the Glitter Ball.

George and Jermain went for Dancing With The Stars,

the US version of the show. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

It is Dancing With The Stars.

36.

36 for Dancing With The Stars.

Michelle and Sam meanwhile have gone for the Glitter Ball,

the name of the trophy awarded to the winners.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for the Glitter Ball.

It is the Glitter Ball.

Oh, and that wins you the point, well done.

Down to 20 with the Glitter Ball.

Well done, Michelle and Sam, back in the game.

Which means after two questions, it's 1-1.

Very nicely played. Neither team absolutely certain of their answer there but both absolutely right.

The surname of the married professional dancers Kevin and Karen is Clifton.

That's the best answer up there. It would have scored you seven.

The Wanted singer is Jay, it's Jay McGuinness.

It would have scored you 12 and the presenter who took over,

you're quite right, it was Zoe Ball, and she would have scored you 29.

Thanks very much indeed.

OK, here comes your third question, this is the decider.

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

jackpot, so best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question is all about

Skeleton Jokes.

-Richard?

-Yeah, we're going to show you five set-ups now to jokes about

skeletons and we're going to give you alternate letters of the punch lines.

Can you tell us what the punch lines are, please?

-Good luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

I shall read those all one last time.

Michelle and Sam?

This is a dream for me because I've got a really good skeleton joke.

-And it's not up there?

-It's not up there.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

I want to say...

We're going to go for who was the greatest skeleton detective,

Sherlock Bones.

Sherlock Bones

go Michelle and Sam.

Now, George and Jermain,

do you want to talk us through the rest of our skeleton jokes?

Yeah, so the top one, it's got to be spare ribs.

The second one has got to be dead ringer.

The living room, Sherlock Bones.

I don't know about the bottom one, that's the only one

we're a bit uncertain of but if we were going to go for any...

-Is that bottom one sculptures?

-No.

-Which one do you want to go for?

-I'd say dead ringer.

-I'm happy. You make the decision.

-We'll go with dead ringer.

OK, dead ringer. So we have Sherlock Bones and we have dead ringer.

Now, Michelle and Sam went for Sherlock Bones,

the greatest skeleton detective.

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

It is Sherlock Bones.

44.

George and Jermain meanwhile have gone for dead ringer -

what do you call a skeleton who presses a doorbell?

Let's see how many of our 100 people said dead ringer?

It is dead ringer.

And it wins you the point, very well done.

21 for dead ringer.

Very well done indeed.

George and Jermain, that means after three questions, you're through to the final, 2-1.

Now, what do skeletons order at a restaurant? Spare ribs.

You did well to avoid it because it would have seen you get

knocked out because it would have scored you 16 points.

What room can't skeletons go into? The living room.

65 points for that.

And Jermain was actually right about the last one.

Yeah, sculptures.

Well, it's skull. It should be skull-tures.

Perhaps that's why it only scored two points, skulltures.

Thank you very much. So, the pair leaving us at the end of

the head-to-head round, I'm sorry to say, Michelle and Sam,

our lowest scoring, our golden pair, we have to say goodbye to you.

It's been brilliant having you on.

Thank you so much for coming and playing and playing so well.

That was a brilliant head-to-head as well.

Really close there. Come and play again.

Meanwhile, thanks so much indeed, Michelle and Sam.

Thank you. Well done, boys.

But for George and Jermain it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, George and Jermain.

You have 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.

Now, what about that? And, you know, it was the winners' show.

You were all winners tonight and now here you are.

We've had some great answers. We had a near...

A very near slip-up in the first round.

I think the first two rounds we JUST got through.

Yeah. And it really helps when you can confer as well.

That takes a lot of pressure off.

In this last round, we put four things up on the board.

You choose the one that scares you the least, is basically how it works.

-OK.

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

Today's selection is this...

Wow. I couldn't tell you who John Grisham is, so we're going to avoid that.

Brothers, is that, like, just famous brothers?

-I don't know.

-It'll be something weird like what's your uncle's pet dog's sister's something...?

I like the look of Bodily Song Titles, I'm not going to lie to you.

-How many part of the body...?

-Shall we go with that?

How many parts of the body are there?!

There are loads!

Are you comfortable with that? Can I throw this to Mr Osman?

-What do you think?

-Yeah, let's go.

Yeah, let's go for Bodily Song Titles.

Yeah, I think you've given yourself a chance there.

We are looking for any UK top 40 single up to the end of March 2016,

according to officialcharts.com,

with any of the following words in its title, please.

So any UK top 40 single with...

So up to the end of March 2016, any UK top 40 single with any of those words in the title.

The very, very best of luck, gents.

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

All you need to win that jackpot for your charities is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Are you ready for your minute to start?

-Yes.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK, so, eye - you're looking at Eye Of The Tiger.

Kylie Minogue, It's In Your Eyes.

OK.

Erm, what else?

-I mean, somebody has got to have had a song called In Your Arms, haven't they?

-Yeah.

Or In My Arms, or something like that.

Hand...

-I don't know any.

-OK.

That's great(!)

Hand...

-OK, I've got three answers...

-OK.

-That I think...

I'm pretty sure Lady Gaga will come up with something with "hand" or...

There's the Jess Glynne Hold My Hand.

Is that Jess Glynne? I think it is.

# Hold my hand... #

That's the one. I wasn't going to sing it.

-Yeah, I think I've got...

-Ten seconds left.

I've got three answers so I think we go for them.

-Kylie Minogue's probably going to be the best bet.

-OK, cool.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-We'll go...

OK, you're happy? Your time is running out...

Oh, now!

There we are. Now, what are your three answers going to be?

-Hold My Hand.

-Hold My Hand.

By Jess Glynne, I believe.

-Eye Of The Tiger.

-Eye Of The Tiger.

And It's In Your Eyes.

-Now, of those three, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-It's In Your Eyes.

In Your Eyes goes last. Least likely to be pointless?

-I think Eye Of The Tiger.

-Eye Of The Tiger.

And then the other one...

-Hold My Hand.

-Hold My Hand in the middle. 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 there. Three good answers there. Now,

if one of these turns out to be pointless and wins you that jackpot,

that £2,500, you will split it between your charities.

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

-Mine is the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

-Excellent.

-Jermain, how about you?

-Mine is the Amy Winehouse Foundation.

-Wonderful.

Two wonderful charities there.

Let us hope at least one of these answers is pointless and will win that jackpot for your charities.

So we turn to your answers. Your first answer is Eye Of The Tiger,

and in this case we're looking for UK top 40 hits with eye or eyes in its title.

This was your least confident to be pointless.

Let's find out what happens when we say Eye Of The Tiger.

If it is pointless, it'll win you £2,500 for your charities.

How many people said it, The Eye Of The Tiger?

It's right.

Now all it has to do is go down to zero and you will leave here with that jackpot of £2,500.

Down it goes... Oh, it's 42.

You said that was going to be a big score.

-That's not a bad start.

-Not a bad start at all, it's under 50.

Anyway, not a pointless answer so we move onto your second answer which is Hold My Hand.

We've now moved on to the songs with hand or hands in the title.

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

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Hold My Hand.

It's right. Eye Of The Tiger, your first answer, took us down to 42.

Hold My Hand passes 42, as we would expect.

Down it goes through the teens...

Into single figures. Still going down. Down it goes.

Still going down... One! We stop on one.

Oh, what a turnaround though, from 42 down to one.

All moving very much in the right direction, I would say.

Sadly, though, not a pointless answer,

which means we move on to your third and final answer, which is It's In Your Eyes.

This was your most confident shot at the pointless answer.

So, very, very best of luck.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said It's In Your Eyes.

Is it pointless?

Well, it's right.

Your first answer, The Eye Of The Tiger, was on 42 and we pass 42.

Hold My Hand took us all the way down to one.

We're now in single figures. Down we go with It's In Your Eyes.

We pass one... Yeah!

That's a pointless answer. Very well done. Fantastic.

Very well done indeed.

What about that? Congratulations. It's In Your Eyes was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with that jackpot of £2,500 for your charities. Very well done indeed,

Jermain and George.

Very well played, gents.

Well, you were unlucky with Hold My Hand only scoring one point.

But It's In Your Eyes, you got very, very lucky.

Not a Kylie hit,

but in 1996 Phil Collins had a number 30 hit

with It's In Your Eyes.

And that is what's just won you the money.

But do you know what? You earned every penny of it, the way you got here, as well.

And, you know, you obviously know your stuff, too.

So congratulations.

Very impressive. It's one of those ones -

-it's impossible to think of them in the 60 seconds.

-I know.

There's loads. I'll give you a few of them here anyway.

We'll start with pointless answers for Eye.

Cotton Eyed Joe by Rednecks is a pointless answer.

Dancing With Tears In My Eyes, Ultravox.

Dry Your Eyes by The Streets was a pointless answer.

We Close Our Eyes, Go West.

Eye Know by De La Soul.

Eyes Wide Shut, JLS. Gary Gilmore's Eyes by The Adverts.

Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me was a pointless answer.

We will move on now to Arm.

Fewer on this category.

Die In Your Arms by Justin Bieber was a pointless answer.

Morrissey's I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris.

The brilliant Lemonheads with Into Your Arms, that's a pointless answer.

When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart,

that's by Cliff Richard.

This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race, by Fall Out Boy.

Also You Held The World In Your Arms by Idlewild.

All of those pointless answers.

Now Hand or Hands...

He's Got The Whole World In His Hands is a pointless answer.

Touched by the Hand of God, New Order.

Hand On Heart, Olly Murs.

And Second Hand Rose, which is Barbra Streisand.

Place Your Hands by Reef also a pointless answer there.

So very well done if you got any of those at home and a terrific

performance and a well-deserved jackpot at the end as well, gents. Well played.

Thanks very much, Richard, and thanks once again to our winning

partnership here, George and Jermain,

who go away with today's jackpot of £2,500 for their charities.

Very well done indeed.

Such a pleasure having you on the show.

Very well done. 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.