1980s Pointless Celebrities

APPLAUSE

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

warm welcome to this special '80s edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where the aim of the game

is to score as few points as you can,

and you do that by coming up with the answers

no-one else could think of.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

And couple number one.

Hello, I'm Nicola Bryant,

and my first job was playing Peri in Doctor Who in the '80s,

and I'm still an actor.

I'm Colin Baker, I played the sixth Doctor,

and the fans are still out there rooting for all of us, bless them.

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Couple number two.

I'm Robin Cousins, and I won the men's Olympic figure skating title

way back in February 1980.

And I'm Fatima Whitbread,

I won the women's javelin in 1986, European Championships,

and broke the world record.

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And couple number three.

Hi, I'm Sonia, I'm a singer-entertainer,

and I had most of my hits in 1989 with Stock Aitken Waterman.

And I'm Jaki Graham,

I had top five and top ten hits back in 1985 and '86.

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And finally, couple number four.

Hello, I'm Peter Duncan, I was a

Blue Peter presenter in the early '80s,

and I was in Flash Gordon then too.

Yes. I'm Mark Curry, and I was a

Blue Peter presenter in the late '80s,

for about four years.

Thanks very much, all of you.

We will get to chat to each of you throughout the show as it goes along, of course.

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

His DeLorean was clamped earlier, so he's stuck with us here tonight.

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

Hiya.

Hi, everybody.

Good evening.

Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-The 1980s, how about this for a line-up?

-Yeah.

-At the start of the 1980s, I was at primary school.

And at the end of the 1980s I was at university.

-Yeah, with me.

-That's weird. That's a long old decade, isn't it?

-Wasn't it?

-Blimey, that must have been, what, ten years or something?

-Wow.

-Crazy! But, yeah, look, what a line-up.

We've got world record holders, Olympic gold medallists,

we've got Blue Peter presenters, number one artists,

-we've got Doctor Who, for goodness' sake!

-I know.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, 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 being answers that none of our 100 people gave.

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

Now, as today's show is a celebrity special

and each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity,

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

There we are.

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

So remember this - the pair with the

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

Keep those scores low and you'll be fine.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this evening is...

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 the question concerns...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're simply going to give you seven titles of songs from

musicals on each board, and you need

to tell us the musical they are from, please.

We'll also give you the year that musical was first performed on the London stage.

So, seven songs on the first board, seven on the second,

14 musicals to guess at home.

-Good luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

So, we're looking for the musicals in which you would find these songs.

Here is our first board of seven.

I'll read those all again.

Colin, welcome back to Pointless.

Great to have you here again. Now, when you were Doctor Who,

I would say you were probably the most controversial

-of all the Doctors.

-What do you mean by that?!

It's just that you arrived by shooting the previous Doctor.

-I did.

-That's a way to arrive.

But I was playing a different character then.

But you were quite... I'm sure,

didn't you try and do away with Peri as well?

Well, when I regenerated, I was a trifle unhinged.

-Yes.

-We're talking about the Doctor, not the actor, you understand.

LAUGHTER OK, fair enough.

-That was my logic at the time, anyway.

-Yeah.

How did this go down with the fandom?

Well, as you might expect, it didn't go down very well at all.

I mean, the nice thing is, the fans of Doctor Who

are not people who take these sorts of things very seriously at all.

No, no, no, no, no.

So you were fine. You weren't barracked?

Not in the slightest!

-Now, Colin...

-Anyway.

-..what about these...?

Back to Pointless.

What about these songs from musicals?

I'm toying with one that I'm not too sure about,

because it would be very good points,

but I might become less brave and go for...

I'll go for I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - My Fair Lady.

-My Fair Lady, says Colin.

-Was it worth waiting for?

It most certainly was.

Well, let's find out how many of our 100 people said My Fair Lady.

It's right.

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Well played, Colin. Not a bad start at all.

That original West End cast included Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Mmm. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Robin, welcome back to Pointless.

Now, Robin, I read that your backflip

is still the world-record holder.

-It is.

-Is that in terms of, what was it, the height, or the distance,

-or the...?

-Distance. 19 feet and a half an inch.

Show us, Robin, come on!

-19 feet...

-No, no, no, no.

-Yes.

-But to do that, and on ice!

-Yeah.

-With just thin blades on your feet.

As fast as possible, and just, you know,

cross your fingers as you go over the top.

Wow. Now, Robin, what would you like to go for on our board?

I am actually going to go for the youngest show,

and I'm going to go

It Sucks To Be Me - Avenue Q.

Avenue Q.

Let's see if that's right, Avenue Q. How many of our 100 people said it?

It's right. Well, 23 is our only score at this point,

and you pass 23 quite comfortably.

Look at that.

Very well done indeed, Robin.

That's a terrific answer, Robin.

Very well played. Yeah, performed by human actors alongside puppets.

They cost about 10,000 each, those puppets, to manufacture.

-Wow.

-Yeah.

-There you go. Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Jaki, you have...

I mean, you had a slew of hits over here,

but you also had a number one song

-in the Billboard chart in the States.

-Oh, you know that?

-Didn't you?

-Yes, my darling, yes.

And I had thumbs-up from the original artist as well.

Well, that's it, you covered Chaka Khan.

-Chaka Khan, yes.

-Ain't Nobody.

-Yeah, that's lovely.

-I mean, A, to get to number one in America,

but also with one of their songs.

You know something, I came out in the '80s thinking, you know,

one-hit wonder maybe, but I'm going to embrace everything, darling,

-I'm going to have a good time.

-Yeah.

But, yes, I ended up having a number one

and top fives at home here in the UK, and so on, and top tens...

So, I was here to stay.

-Absolutely.

-And I'm still doing my thing today.

-Superb.

What would you like to go for on our board?

I'm going to go for...

# You've Got to Pick A Pocket Or Two. #

And so I'm going to have to go for that one. Oliver!, please.

Oliver!, says Jaki, for Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two.

Let's see if it's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said Oliver!.

Oh, shoot.

Not bad at all. 77 for Oliver!.

-OK.

-The Artful Dodger in Hebrew is Slippery Roger.

JAKI CHUCKLES

OK! Mark, welcome back to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Now, Mark, you made your first appearance on television

-at the age of seven.

-I did, not in Blue Peter.

-Junior Showtime.

-Yes, Junior Showtime.

Junior Showtime. Now, what did you do between then and Blue Peter?

I kept on working.

I just kept on working.

I was very lucky, cos I left Junior Showtime in something like

1974, '75, and I wasn't cute any more,

I was 15 years old, and I thought...

And I remember my mum saying to me, "OK, that's it, that's it now,

"you've got to get a proper job." And then, very luckily,

I was offered a Saturday morning show on Yorkshire Television again,

which led to me getting a Saturday morning show on the BBC,

so I was part of that BBC children's programme presenters family.

And then I got offered Blue Peter in '86.

So is that something you then auditioned for,

or is it something you were just offered?

Luckily, I didn't audition.

I think, had I auditioned, I wouldn't have got it.

Cos you had to do things like trampolining

and make a Christmas card. He was great at that, but...

So I was offered it because Simon Groom had been there

a long time with Pete, and they wanted somebody the kids knew,

-so I was offered the job.

-Well, Mark, great to have you here.

I think today is the day we'll see you through.

Do you want to talk us through that board, why not?

OK, well, The Barber And His Wife,

I was wondering if that could have been Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Angel Of Music, I thought is that Phantom Of The Opera?

So I'm going to go for a dead cert,

I Feel Pretty, 1958, West Side Story.

West Side Story, says Mark.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for West Side Story.

It's right.

Well, 77 was our high score and you pass that.

Down it goes, still going down.

Look at that, second lowest score of the pass, Mark, for West Side Story.

Yeah, very well played, nicely done.

Actually, you would have done slightly better with The Barber And His Wife,

-cos you're right, it was Sweeney Todd.

-Was it?

It would've scored you 17 points, so it would've been roughly the same.

If I Were a Rich Man?

-Fiddler On The Roof.

-That would've scored 16.

Do you know Angel Of Music?

-It is Phantom Of The Opera, isn't it?

-Yeah, absolutely.

And that would've scored 11 points.

So, five points, best answer on the board, Robin, for Avenue Q.

-Well done.

-Thank you very much.

Well, we're halfway through the round, let's just take

a little recap of those scores. Five, Robin, very well done.

The best score of the pass.

Robin and Fatima looking very strong.

Then up to 20, where we find Mark and Peter.

23, Colin and Nicola.

And 77, Jaki and Sonia.

So, Sonia, all we need from you is a low score

and it might be enough to keep you in the game,

so very best of luck with that.

We're going to come back down the line now. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more song titles from musicals up on the board,

and here they come.

I'll read those again.

-Peter.

-Yes.

-Welcome back.

-Thank you very much.

Good to have you here. Now, you did not one but two stints

-on Blue Peter, didn't you?

-Yes.

What happened there?

Had you basically decided "I'm going to move on now,"

-and then they dragged you back in?

-Well, like you being an actor,

I decided I needed to go off and explore other fertile territory,

and I did that, and then I came back again when the opportunity arose.

-Well, that's nice.

-Yes.

Very nice. But the other thing, of course,

notable thing you've done is you were Chief Scout.

I was, I was talking to Fatima earlier about that.

Yes, I was Chief Scout for five years, from 2007.

That's an incredible position to hold.

Did that come about as a result of Blue Peter, do you think?

Not really. It really came about

cos I made these travel docs about taking my family around the world,

and Scouting is very much about

exploring the world and seeing different things.

That kind of put me in the frame for it, really.

I was sort of vaguely headhunted, as they say,

and then I was the last man standing, I think.

Good for you. Now, Peter, what about this board here?

56 would definitely keep you in the game.

Yeah. Yeah, it's tricky.

I think I'm going to go Do You Hear The People Sing?, Les Miserables.

-I think that's a safe one.

-Les Miserables.

Now, there we are. Red line there.

Get below that, you're through to the next round. How many people said Les Mis?

It's right.

Look at that, through you go.

Surprisingly low score there. 38 is your total.

Yeah, the longest-running musical on he West End stage, Les Miserables.

There we go. Sonia.

Now, Stock Aitken Waterman.

What was that like? I mean, what an extraordinary place to be.

What a great stable to be part of.

Well, it was amazing, you know,

it was, literally... We were called the Hit Factory,

which is what it was, you know?

Every day we'd come in, pass people, and we'd all go in and do our hits.

It was a remarkable, remarkable time to be part of that, you know?

Was it...? I mean, did it feel remarkable to be...?

Cos some of these things were just done in 20 minutes.

Did it feel like a conveyor belt,

or did it feel like you were right at the cutting edge,

-or a bit of both?

-Oh, right at the cutting edge.

You know, to be so young and involved in all that,

and the process was amazing, but unbelievable.

I mean, everything they touched just turned to gold, you know, everything they did.

Fabulous. Anyway, listen, you're the high-scorers

-at the moment, Sonia, on 77.

-Yes.

-We need a low score from you.

How are you feeling about this board?

Well, I do know quite a few of them,

but I'm going to go for something I'm not too sure about.

I'm going to go for Jesus Christ Superstar - The Crucifixion.

OK. It stands to reason, surely, The Crucifixion.

Let's see if that's right. No red lines for you, as you're the high-scorers.

But how many people said Jesus Christ Superstar?

It's right.

Look at that, 33. Very well done indeed.

It takes your total up to a nice neat 110.

Well played, Sonia. Giving yourself a chance there.

Yeah, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the wonderful Tim Rice.

Thanks very much indeed.

Fatima, welcome back.

Tell me first about the javelin.

Where did you first throw, and who spotted you first?

I mean, what was the opportunity for you there?

I watched Mary Peters win the pentathlon,

which is now the heptathlon, in Munich.

That was my chosen sport, really,

I suppose, that's where I wanted to sort of thrive and do well.

So I, fortunately, was adopted by the Whitbread family at 14,

and it took me 12 years before...

It's a long apprenticeship.

..12 years before I actually won my first major title,

which was in 1986.

I actually broke the world record in the qualifying round,

and a lot of people said, "Oh, you got the wrong day.

"Nobody's ever gone back the next day and won."

So I kind of had to sit it out all night long, go back the next day,

and of course I broke the world record, the old world record again,

only to be beaten by the distance that I'd thrown the day before,

so, having won the European title as well.

-So it was quite an achievement in that one weekend, yeah.

-Fantastic.

Fantastic.

Now, what are you going to go for on that board?

I would go for Luck Be A Lady,

and I'm not sure if I'm saying this right, but that's Sinatra.

OK, you're going to say Sinatra for Luck Be A Lady.

There's no red line for you, Fatima, you're already through,

-so it doesn't matter what you score here.

-OK.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Sinatra.

Not Sinatra.

That scores 100 points, takes your total up to 105,

but you're through anyway.

Sorry about that.

-Yeah, safely through.

-I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.

-Thank you.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, then, Nicola.

Welcome back to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Now, I was hearing,

when you auditioned for Doctor Who, I mean,

extraordinarily enough, you auditioned as an American,

which you weren't.

You auditioned as a member of Equity, which you weren't.

You auditioned as somebody who said they could swim, which you couldn't.

I mean, the web of deceit, Nicola, that you spun around yourself.

But, I mean, you landed the part.

Yeah. But the American thing, did the mask ever slip?

How long did you keep that ball in the air?

Well, my... I was approached by an agent.

I was doing Gigi at Webber Douglas, and he'd seen me,

and we were doing the...

No, doing No, No, Nanette, we did the American score.

-Yeah.

-So I was playing an American,

and he wrote me down as American actress.

So then he phoned me up to put me up for the part.

And when he found out I wasn't American, he said,

"Well, look, they're only seeing Americans and Canadians.

"But you're so good at this,

"I'm going to slip you in under the radar,

"and if you get it, I'll take you on as an agent."

And then I'm going on breakfast TV,

so that's my first job, and I'm going,

"I'm not going on with an American accent!"

And he went, "Could you just go on with an American accent?"

And I was like, "What if somebody rings in?!"

Anyone who knows me.

-For example.

-Exactly.

Yeah. Now, then, you're on 23.

This is exciting. The high-scorers are on 110, Sonia and Jaki.

We need a score of 86 or less from you.

Well, Luck Be A Lady Tonight, Guys And Dolls, I think,

and Climb Every Mountain - The Sound Of Music.

I'm humming a tune that sort of fits the words

Can You Feel the Love Tonight,

but doesn't quite, so I think I may be singing a pop song!

I think more people are likely to know

The Sound Of Music than the Guys And Dolls,

so I'll go for Luck Be A Lady.

-Which is...

-Guys And Dolls.

-Guys And Dolls.

Here is your red line. If you get below that with Guys And Dolls, you are into Round Two.

How many people said Guys And Dolls?

Well done! Perfect.

That's a great answer. 14.

Second lowest score of the entire round,

taking your total up to 37, the lowest total of the whole round.

-Very well done.

-Nicely done, Nicola.

You chose the right one of the ones you knew cos you're right about The Sound Of Music,

but would have scored you more points for Climb Every Mountain.

-It would've scored 68.

-Wow.

Now, Can You Feel The Love Tonight is from...?

-The Lion King.

-I don't know if it was the song you were thinking of.

35 points for that.

Electricity, down the bottom, was from...?

-Billy Elliot.

-Billy Elliot. Yep, absolutely.

That would've scored you 7.

Do you know The Chokey Chant?

Well, chokey was a form of punishment.

Oh, I know exactly, it's Matilda.

Exactly right. Miss Trunchbull.

2 points for that. It's the best answer on the board, so very well done if you said that.

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

the pair who are heading home

with their high score of 110, I can't bear it,

-it's Sonia and Jaki.

-Sorry.

-Never mind.

-I'm so sorry.

-Far too soon to be sending you home.

-I have had a good time, though.

It's been lovely having you. Thank you so much for playing.

Please come and play again. I'm sure you'll go much further next time,

but, in the meantime, thanks so much. Sonia and Jaki.

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

And so, suddenly, we're down to three pairs.

It's just what happens, I'm afraid, on Pointless.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

Ooh-er, it's a words round.

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

Where do you want to go?

-I don't mind.

-And whoever is 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

words ending in E-C-K as they could.

E-C-K, Richard.

Yeah, just looking for any word which has its own entry in the British and world English

section of oxforddictionaries.com that ends E-C-K.

No proper nouns, no hyphenated words.

-Very best of luck.

-There we are, thank you very much indeed.

Now, then, Nicola, it's always tough going first...

-Oh, yes.

-..on one of these rounds.

Rubberneck.

To rubberneck! It's what people... Absolutely!

Surely! Rubberneck.

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

It's right!

Look at that, 1!

Look at that!

Very well done indeed! Rubberneck's an excellent answer.

Yeah, well played, Nicola, terrific answer.

To rubberneck, yeah, it means to look at something...

..that you shouldn't really be looking at, maybe.

-Yes, take a prurient interest in something.

-Yes.

-There we are.

Now, Robin.

Mm. Just going to go for a nice easy one.

I give my friend...

..a peck.

Peck. That's nice.

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

61 for peck.

Yeah, a big scorer. It means, obviously, what a bird does.

It also can mean a very small amount. A peck of something.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, then, Peter.

I'm going to go for the word fleck.

Fleck.

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

Is it a word?

Come on! Nought!

38.

Not bad at all.

Yeah, a small patch of colour of light, fleck.

-Thank you very much.

-Pleasure.

-We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at those scores.

1, Nicola, let's not forget that, shall we?

1, what an amazing, lovely low score rubberneck was.

Now, 38 is where we find Peter and Mark.

61 is where we find Robin and Fatima.

Who knows what's good to happen in the next pass,

but, Fatima, you are currently the high-scorers.

A lovely low score from you would be excellent right now.

We're going to come back down the line in now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, Mark, remember, it's words ending E-C-K.

OK, well, I can only think of wreck

cos I am actually a wreck right now!

OK, wreck, says Mark.

Wreck. Here is your red line.

If you get below that red line,

Mark, you are through to the next round.

Let's see how far we get down the column with wreck.

It's right.

Not bad, 54 for wreck.

92 is your total.

Yeah, to destroy, or something that is destroyed, wreck.

Thank you very much.

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

I guess, if I'm looking into the distance when I'm going to throw,

I would see a speck.

A speck. A speck.

OK, here is your red line.

If you can get below that with speck, you're through to the next round.

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

Oh, you've done it! Look at that, 28!

You needed 30, you got 28.

Very well done indeed.

The far distance helped you out there, 89 is your total.

Yeah, a tiny spot, like a small fleck.

Yeah. Now, Colin.

If you can score 90 or less, Colin, you're through to the next round.

Shall I be very brave?

-Yes!

-I think it's one word -

-quarterdeck.

-Let's see, quarterdeck.

Is that right? How many of our 100 people said quarterdeck?

There is your red line.

It's right. And you're through.

Oh, this is good.

It's very good indeed, Colin, look at that, it's a pointless answer! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Which means it adds £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to £2,750, it scores you nothing,

and it leaves your already impressive low total of 1 at 1.

Beautiful work, Colin. Very well done.

That's what happens when you get Doctor Who on the show.

-I know!

-It's the part of a ship where the officers are stationed,

on the quarterdeck. Let's have a look at the pointless answers,

cos there's a few words that we'll all know here.

Not so much first board.

Aleck, which is an Australian word for someone who's a fool.

Hatcheck was a pointless answer.

Littleneck.

Some big words here, though. Namecheck was a pointless answer.

Paycheck a pointless answer, and quarterdeck, we just heard that.

Mm.

-Roughneck. Soundcheck is a pointless answer!

-Oh!

And spellcheck as well, which would have been a lovely one.

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

the pair who are heading home with their high score of 92, I'm afraid, Mark and Peter, it is you.

-Bye-bye!

-Fleck and wreck did for you.

Oh, no, but it's been lovely having you here again.

Please come and play another time.

-Yes!

-And we will see you into the head-to-head, I think, next time.

And then the time after that, maybe into the final, if we're lucky.

-We won't last that long!

-Anyway, it's been lovely having you.

Thank you so much for playing. Mark and Peter, brilliant.

-Thank you.

-Bye!

-APPLAUSE

But for Fatima and Robin, Colin and Nicola,

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

Congratulations, Colin and Nicola, Fatima and Robin,

you are now one step closer to the final,

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £2,750.

There we are.

This is exciting.

Now, we have reached the point when we have to decide

who goes through to the final to play for that jackpot,

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

It's very exciting, because from here on in,

you can start playing as teams,

you can confer before you give your answers,

all is generally marvellous.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

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

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

Films of the 1980s, Richard.

Yeah, we're going to show you five sets of pictures now which provide

visual clues to the titles of films from the 1980s.

Can you tell us what the films are, please?

We will also give you their year of release.

Excellent. OK, so let's reveal our five pictorial clues.

And here they are.

There we go, five clues for you.

Colin and Nicola, you're our low-scorers, so you will go first.

Feel free to confer.

Right, OK,

we're going for D, Caddyshack.

D, Caddyshack, say Colin and Nicola.

Now, then, Fatima and Robin,

that board is all yours.

Do you want to talk us through it?

-ROBIN:

-B is Beetlejuice.

-Beetlejuice, yeah.

-E is Karate Kid.

And C is The Breakfast Club.

A, not sure enough about, so...

-What do you want to go for?

-C or E?

We're going to go with C, we're going to go with Breakfast Club.

OK, Breakfast Club for C, say Fatima and Robin.

So we have Caddyshack and we have The Breakfast Club

Now, Colin and Nicola said Caddyshack for D.

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

It's right.

Down it goes...

That's not bad at all, 29 for Caddyshack.

Fatima and Robin, meanwhile, have gone for The Breakfast Club for C.

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

It's right.

Oh, look at that, it wins!

Very well done indeed, 18 for The Breakfast Club.

Well done, Fatima and Robin.

After one question, you're up 1-0.

You picked very well of the ones you knew.

You were right about Karate Kid, but it would not have won you the point,

cos Karate Kid scores you 46.

You were right about Beetlejuice as well.

That's actually the highest-scorer on the board, would've scored 77.

Now, I think both teams couldn't get the first one.

-It actually took me...

-It took me a long time to get it.

But as soon as you see it... It's a very big film from the '80s.

-It's Dirty Dancing.

-Dirty Dancing.

And that would've scored 31 points.

Thank you there much. Now, here comes your second question.

Now, then, Colin and Nicola, you don't answer this one first,

Fatima and Robin get to do that,

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

-We do, don't we?

-Our second question is all about...

-Richard.

-Yeah, simply going to show you five clues now to facts

about the violin, and whoever gives us the most obscure answer wins the point.

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five clues. And here they come.

I'll read those all again.

There we are.

Now, Fatima and Robin will go first.

-ROBIN:

-You want to do it?

-You go, go for it.

We are going to go for the Italian composer who wrote

the famous violin concertos, and that's Vivaldi.

Vivaldi, say Fatima and Robin.

Vivaldi. Now, Colin and Nicola,

this is the one you have to win to stay in the game.

Would you like to talk us through the board?

-Well, we...

-Yes.

-The first one is Sherlock Holmes.

We think the third one is probably Yehudi Menuhin.

Number of strings, not entirely sure.

I think it's five...

-NICOLA LAUGHS

-Or six! Five or six.

-And then...

-Maybe Yehudi Menuhin?

Yes, he had American citizenship.

-You're an American, you should know!

-I should know! I know all things.

Go on, then, you say it.

-OK...

-And then, if we're wrong, it's your fault!

-AMERICAN ACCENT:

-OK, we're going to go for, like,

the American-born violin virtuoso

awarded an honorary knighthood in 1965 - Yehudi Menuhin.

Yehudi Menuhin, say Colin and Nicola.

So, we have Vivaldi, and we have Yehudi Menuhin.

Fatima and Robin went for Vivaldi.

Let's see if that's right for the composer.

It is Vivaldi.

55 for Vivaldi.

Colin and Nicola have gone for Yehudi Menuhin.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It is Yehudi Menuhin, very well done indeed.

And that keeps you in the game, exactly what you needed it to do.

Down it goes to 12! Very well done indeed.

After two questions, it is 1-1.

Yeah, and both questions have been won by the best answer on the board as well,

so great head-to-head.

The fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, 61 points for that.

The nursery rhyme, it was Old King Cole.

Also would have won you the point, would have scored 38.

And if you'd had to go for five or six, what would you have gone for?

-Six.

-It's four.

LAUGHTER

And that would have scored you, rather aptly, 44.

Thank you very much indeed. So, here comes your third question.

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

jackpot, so best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question today is all about...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're going to show you five traditional nicknames of

countries now. We're also to give you the first letter of those countries.

Can you give us the most obscure country, please?

Whichever team does is going through to play for that jackpot.

-Best of luck.

-OK, thanks very much.

Let's reveal our five nicknames, and here they come.

There we go.

Colin and Nicola will go first.

Well, we're only sure of three, which are all,

most people would be sure of, I think.

So we've got to choose one of them.

And we're going to choose the Land of Fire and Ice, are we?

-Yes, that's fine.

-Shall we?

-Yes.

-Iceland.

-Iceland, say Colin and Nicola.

Iceland, for the Land of Fire and Ice.

Now, then, Fatima and Robin, that board is all yours.

Talk us through it if you can.

-OK.

-What we're saying is the Great White North is Canada.

And we think the Pearl of the Orient Seas is the Philippines.

Philippines, yeah.

Do you have you any idea for the Land of the Thunder Dragon?

Emerald Isle, Ireland.

Yeah. I'm not sure...

Which one do you want to go?

I think we'll go for the Orient Seas. Yeah?

What would you say?

-Yeah, go ahead, then.

-The Pearl of Orient Seas...

-Is the Philippines.

-Philippines.

The Philippines, the Pearl of the Orient Seas. The Philippines.

So, we have Iceland versus the Philippines.

Colin and Nicola have gone for Iceland, the Land of Fire and Ice.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

Look at that, 81.

Yeah, it's very right, is the answer to that.

Now, Fatima and Robin...

..have taken a bit of a punt on the Philippines.

Let's see if that's right for the Pearl of the Orient Seas.

-No.

-It is right! COLIN:

-Well done!

-And it wins you the point, look at that.

-Yes!

-Very well done indeed.

-Wow.

-Down it goes.

Great answer, 9 for the Philippines.

And that means, Fatima and Robin, after three questions,

you are through to the final 2-1.

Terrific head-to-head, well played, both teams.

There is an answer that would have beaten the Philippines.

It's not The Great White North, because that, of course, is Canada.

It's a big scorer, would've scored you 61.

The Emerald Isle, what do you think the Emerald Isle scored?

It's Ireland, of course.

-92.

-97.

97 points.

And the best answer on the board is the Land...

And also the best nickname,

to be honest. If you want to come from any country,

you want to come from the Land of the Thunder Dragon.

It's not Belgium, is it? LAUGHTER

It's got a dragon on its flag, so some people might have got it.

-It's Bhutan.

-Oh, it's Bhutan!

And that would've scored you 4 points, so very well done at home if you got that.

Very nice. There we are, thank you very much indeed.

So the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head, I'm afraid,

Colin and Nicola. What an impressive performance that has been!

But you came up against Fatima and Robin in this round and...

-They're winners.

-There was no stopping them, I'm afraid.

-Winner all the way through.

-We have to say goodbye to you.

We'll see you again next time, I hope, Colin and Nicola.

Thanks so much for playing, meantime, though. Colin and Nicola.

APPLAUSE

-Good luck, good luck.

-But for Fatima and Robin,

it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Fatima and Robin.

You have fought off all the competition,

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities.

And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,750.

Wonderful!

Well, I think this is only fitting.

It is right and proper, you know,

you each won a gold medal in the 1980s,

and here you are winning a Pointless trophy in the 20-teens.

It just seems entirely poetic and right.

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

-Some '80s sport.

-Something we know.

-Yeah!

-Yeah, good.

Today's selection looks like this.

We've got...

We could do rebels in popular culture.

-I think so, yeah.

-OK, rebels in popular culture.

Rebels in popular culture it is.

-Rich.

-OK, very best of luck. Three very different questions here.

We are looking for...

..any feature film made for cinema release that starred Rebel Wilson,

according to IMDb. So any film that Rebel Wilson is in.

Any cast member of the film Rebel Without A Cause from 1955.

Or we're looking for any city that was visited by Madonna

on her Rebel Heart Tour.

It was a big worldwide tour, the Rebel Heart Tour.

She visited all sorts of cities.

We're looking for any city that Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour visited.

So Rebel Wilson films, cast of Rebel Without A Cause,

or any of the many cities visited worldwide by Madonna

on her Rebel Heart Tour.

This is all up to March 2016.

Thanks very much. Now, as always,

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

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

pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yes.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

So if you want to do Rebel Wilson films, you could do Pitch Perfect.

Or if you went Pitch Perfect 2,

or you could do Bridesmaids 2.

Whether people would go for the 2.

That makes them possibly more obscure.

-Cast of Rebel Without A Cause.

-That's James Dean.

-That's about it for me, I don't know who else was in that.

-No, honestly, I can't.

The cities and city states on Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour.

If you went...

Cities and city states?

You could pick somewhere like Vancouver.

-Yeah.

-You've got all the American cities.

-There's lots of states.

Cities and city states.

So Washington, but then...

What do you want to do?

-Two films, and one Madonna?

-Yeah.

We'll just pick two big...

-Ten seconds left.

-Two of the films.

Two films and one city? Which city do you want? Pick a city.

Vancouver? Yeah, Vancouver.

-OK.

-OK, well, there you are,

sounds like you've arrived at your three answers

just as your time runs out. What are your three answers going to be?

And if you could say which categories you're answering.

-Robin will speak.

-We'll take two from the Rebel Wilson films.

-Yeah.

-The first one being Pitch Perfect 2.

-Pitch Perfect 2.

-And we'll do Bridesmaids 2.

And Bridesmaids 2.

-ROBIN CHUCKLES

-And then we're going to take cities

on the Madonna Rebel Heart Tour,

-and we've...

-Vancouver.

-Vancouver.

-Vancouver.

-Brilliant.

Of those three, which do you think is your best shot

at a pointless answer?

Pick one of the Rebel Wilson films.

-Pitch Perfect 2, shall we put that one last?

-Sure.

OK, least likely to be pointless?

-Vancouver.

-Bridesmaids 2.

Bridesmaids 2. OK.

-And Vancouver in the middle.

-Sure.

-OK, there we are,

we'll put those up on the board in that order, then. And here they are.

We've got...

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

Any one of those might be pointless and might win that jackpot for you.

£2,750.

Which charities are you playing for?

-Fatima.

-Kids Inspire, which help develop underprivileged children,

which is based in Chelmsford in Essex.

-Very good. Robin?

-I'm working for the Star Trust,

which does something very similar in the east coast, working

with children who want to better themselves

-anywhere in the BN2 area code.

-Fantastic.

Well... APPLAUSE

Two wonderful charities there.

Let hope one of these answers will win that jackpot for those charities.

Three good answers, I say. Your first answer was Bridesmaids 2.

In this case, we were looking for Rebel Wilson films.

This has to be correct, then it has to be pointless for you to win

the jackpot. So, for £2,750,

let's find out how many of our 100 people said Bridesmaids 2.

An incorrect answer there, I'm afraid.

Which means only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Vancouver is your next answer.

In this case, we were looking for cities or city states included in

Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour.

Vancouver has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

It also has to be correct, let's not forget.

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

For £2,750, could it be pointless?

It's right.

Now, your first answer, Bridesmaids 2,

was an incorrect answer.

Vancouver for Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour,

now takes us down into single figures.

Still going down, down it goes. Looks like you've done it.

You have! Very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE

-Absolutely brilliant.

-Thank you very much.

-Well done, you.

Superb!

What about that?

Congratulations, Vancouver was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with that jackpot of £2,750

for your charities. Very well done.

APPLAUSE

Just time after time, sports people know how to win.

They just do it, they find a way.

Was Vancouver a very last-minute thought as well for that?

That's the one where all the pointless answers are.

Pitch Perfect 2 would've scored 12 points.

The Pitch Perfect films are brilliant, have you seen them?

-No.

-Oh, you'd love them. They're great, aren't they? Really, really funny films.

Now, let's go through the pointless answers in the different categories.

The Madonna one is where there's loads and loads and loads, but we'll start with Rebel Wilson.

Ice Age: Continental Drift, that she is a voice actor in.

What To Expect When You're Expecting also a pointless answer.

Also, A Few Best Men, Fat Pizza, Pain & Gain, Small Apartments

and Struck By Lightning.

All of those were pointless answers.

Now, the cast of Rebel Without A Cause.

In fact, everyone in this cast was a pointless answer apart from

James Dean, Natalie Wood, Dennis Hopper,

Sal Mineo and Nick Adams.

Everybody else was a pointless answer, well done if you said one.

Now, the cities on Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour.

Loads and loads of pointless answers here.

Antwerp, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Auckland, Birmingham, Cologne, Edmonton,

Glendale, Louisville, Macau,

Mannheim, Nashville, Portland, Prague,

Quebec City, San Antonio, San Jose, San Juan, Singapore, St Paul,

Stockholm, Taipei, Tulsa, Turin, Vancouver and Zurich.

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

and congratulations on plucking that pointless answer in the studio.

-Congratulations.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard,

and thanks once again to our winning players, Fatima and Robin,

who go away with today's jackpot of £2,750 for their charities.

Very well done.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time, when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

-..and it's goodbye from me.

Goodbye.