0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and welcome,
0:00:27 > 0:00:28a very warm welcome,
0:00:28 > 0:00:31to this special Winter Olympics edition of Pointless Celebrities.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33This is the quiz where all of the questions have been asked to 100 people
0:00:33 > 0:00:36before the show. All our celebrities have to do is come up with the
0:00:36 > 0:00:38answers those 100 people couldn't think of.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Let's meet this evening's Pointless Celebrities.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43APPLAUSE
0:00:46 > 0:00:47And couple number one.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Hello, I'm Robin Cousins, men's figure-skating gold medallist,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Lake Placid, 1980.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58I'm Rhona Howie, skip of the ladies GB curling team that won gold in Salt Lake City.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01APPLAUSE
0:01:03 > 0:01:04Couple number two.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08I'm Graham Bell. I'm a former Olympic skier, five-time Olympian,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10and now presenter of BBC's Ski Sunday.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14And I'm Amy Williams, a gold medallist of the skeleton
0:01:14 > 0:01:17in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19APPLAUSE
0:01:22 > 0:01:24- Couple number three. - Hi, I'm Jenny Jones,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I am a bronze medallist from the Winter Olympics in Sochi,
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Russia, in snowboard slopestyle.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm Clare Balding.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'm the only one here who hasn't competed at a Winter Olympics.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36I'm a complete fraud, but I have presented a few of them.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE
0:01:41 > 0:01:43And finally, couple number four.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44Hi, Wilf O'Reilly.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48I won two gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1988, when the sport was a
0:01:48 > 0:01:51demonstration sport, of short track speed skating.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52Hi, I'm Jayne Torvill,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55and in 1984, I won a gold medal in ice dancing
0:01:55 > 0:01:58with my skating partner Christopher Dean.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00APPLAUSE
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Thank you all very, very much indeed. A warm welcome to Pointless.
0:02:05 > 0:02:06It's lovely to have you all with us.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09We'll get a chance to chat a bit more throughout the show as it goes
0:02:09 > 0:02:12along. So that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14He's got skeletons in the closet,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16but it hasn't been snowing much lately, so he hasn't been able to ride them.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Hiya. Hello, everybody, good evening.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:25- Well, how exciting is this?- I know!
0:02:25 > 0:02:26So great, I love the Winter Olympics.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29And what a line-up. Actually, when they go through the list of
0:02:29 > 0:02:31achievements, it is very, very impressive, isn't it?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34- It really is.- So many Winter medals.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37As you would expect, it's going to be an enormously competitive...
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Well, before the show we always go to talk to people and every single pair
0:02:40 > 0:02:41has pointed to one of the other pairs and said,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44"They're the most competitive ones. Oh, they're competitive!"
0:02:44 > 0:02:46So you know that they all are.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48It is going to be quite something, I think.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Thank you very much. As today's show is a celebrity special, each of our
0:02:51 > 0:02:53celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57We start off today with a jackpot of £2,500.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58There we are.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01APPLAUSE
0:03:01 > 0:03:02Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10All you have to remember is this -
0:03:10 > 0:03:13it's the pair with the highest score at the end of each round that will
0:03:13 > 0:03:15be eliminated. So keep your scores as low as you dare.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Best of luck to all four pairs.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Our first category this evening is...
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
0:03:25 > 0:03:26who's going to go second,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29and whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37OK, and the question concerns
0:03:37 > 0:03:40proverbs and sayings about the weather.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- Richard?- We talk an awful lot about weather in this country,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45so on each board, we're going to show you seven proverbs or sayings
0:03:45 > 0:03:46from the Oxford Book Of Proverbs.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48They are all missing one word.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Can you fill in those words, please?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Thank you very much indeed.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55We are looking for you to supply the missing word in these proverbs or
0:03:55 > 0:03:56sayings about weather.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Here is our first board of seven.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59And we've got...
0:04:20 > 0:04:22I shall read those all again.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Rhona, welcome to Pointless. Very good to have you here.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Now, I have to ask, how do you get into curling?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48I think it was my brother that got me started.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50I was leaving school, so I was quite a late starter,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53looking for something to do at weekends when I was leaving school,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55so I thought I would take up curling.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Was there a local club, a team, nearby?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00There was a club just ten minutes from where I stayed, so...
0:05:00 > 0:05:04And how do you know that you are really good at curling,
0:05:04 > 0:05:06and not just quite lucky?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08From my perspective, I really enjoyed the strategy of the game,
0:05:08 > 0:05:11because every game you play is different.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14It's like snooker. You're looking at angles of shots.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17So I liked the strategy and how to call the game,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19to play it tactically.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- So, yeah.- That's why every time it's on, every time we do one,
0:05:22 > 0:05:23we've done well at a few Olympics,
0:05:23 > 0:05:27people start watching and go, "This is fairly simple." And then literally by the final ends,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30everyone's going, "Oh, my goodness, I cannot believe what's happening here."
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- It is, it's incredibly tactical, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36- But you don't spot it immediately. - It is very technical and tactical,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39because the technical side, obviously, a millimetre difference in your slide -
0:05:39 > 0:05:40because you're sliding on Teflon -
0:05:40 > 0:05:44so a millimetre wrong there makes a big difference at the far end of the ice.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45Yeah, very good.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49OK, Rhona, what are you going to go for from our weather sayings?
0:05:51 > 0:05:55I'm going to go "red sky at night, shepherd's delight".
0:05:55 > 0:05:58OK, red sky at night, says Rhona.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Let's see how many of our 100 people said sky.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08I didn't even have time to say it's right, but it is right.
0:06:08 > 0:06:1289 of our 100 people liked red sky at night.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14It's a big score, that, isn't it?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Goes at least back as far as the Bible, that expression.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21- Does it really?- It does indeed, yeah, in Matthew's Gospel.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23It's not exactly that, it doesn't rhyme in quite the same way,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- but it's similar.- There we are.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Thank you very much indeed.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Graham, welcome to Pointless, great to have you here.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32You skied in five Winter Olympics.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34- Yes.- Starting in '84. - Yes, Sarajevo, '84.
0:06:34 > 0:06:40I was there with Jayne when she skated the Bolero with Christopher.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42I was, I was...yeah, it was my first Olympics. It was great.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Talk me through what's happened. Skiing has changed a lot since then.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Massive. I did five Olympics as an athlete,
0:06:49 > 0:06:51and then this will be my fifth -
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Pyeongchang will be my fifth as a presenter for the BBC.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- And there's so many new sports that have come in.- Yeah.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02You know - all the freestyle sports. Snowboarding came in.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06It's just so much bigger than it was back in the '80s.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08What's the difference between the comment...
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Do you still get very heavily involved? Of course you do.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Yeah, I mean, I get to ski the course with a camera before the race,
0:07:14 > 0:07:17which is kind of like doing a pit walk in Monte Carlo,
0:07:17 > 0:07:21except you are doing it at 70mph,
0:07:21 > 0:07:24with a camera, trying to talk on the way down.
0:07:24 > 0:07:29Blimey. Graham, are you going to find one of these that will beat sky?
0:07:29 > 0:07:32They are not as easy as they might have been, I have to say.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34I was expecting a slightly easier board.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Yeah, I might take a bit of a chance.
0:07:36 > 0:07:44I'm going to go for, "If Saint Paul's Day be fair and clear, it will betide a happy year."
0:07:44 > 0:07:47- You're going for the rhyme there? - Yes.- Or do you actually know that?
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- No idea.- You are going for the rhyme, OK. A good hunch to follow.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Clear, let's see if that's right,
0:07:51 > 0:07:53let's see how many of our 100 people said clear.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55- Yeah, it must be. - INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:07:55 > 0:07:58It's right, and it beats 89.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Look at that, 15.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06APPLAUSE
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Very well done indeed.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Yeah, very well played, using your brain there, as well.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15It's clearly a rhyme there somewhere - what else could it be?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18The 25th of January, Saint Paul's Day.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20And if Saint Paul's Day be cold or rain,
0:08:20 > 0:08:23then very dear will be the price of grain, so they say.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27- There you go.- Thank you very much, Richard.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Now, Jenny, welcome to Pointless - great to have you here.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Now, I want to ask you about the Olympic Village.
0:08:33 > 0:08:39Fill us in. Is it a place of serene calm and Zen-like focus?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Is it a bit of fun? Or is it a total riot?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44I'd say it's a mixture of all three of those.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47So, when we first arrived, everyone is quite nervous, stressed,
0:08:47 > 0:08:51and focused. For me, the snowboarding was the first event,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53so a lot of us had finished.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55It's like A-levels, isn't it?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57You've finished, and everybody else has still got to work.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Yeah, so it was a bit like, woohoo!
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Do you get people coming in, saying, "Guys, I've got an event tomorrow."
0:09:03 > 0:09:04- "Just tone it down."- Yeah.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Yeah, you've got to tone it down. You've got to respect the other athletes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09They've worked four years to go to an Olympics.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13They don't want to hear you, you know, stumbling down the corridors.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Bet they still did! LAUGHTER
0:09:16 > 0:09:17What do YOU know?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Now, Jenny, I was reading your CV -
0:09:19 > 0:09:23it looks to me a little bit like you had kind of given up
0:09:23 > 0:09:26before your sport became an Olympic event.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29I hadn't given up, but I had ten years as a professional snowboarder.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33And, yeah, I managed to win three golds at the X Games,
0:09:33 > 0:09:34which was the pinnacle of our sport.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36And I was, like, "OK, I think..."
0:09:36 > 0:09:38- Thinking about winding it up.- Yeah, "I think I'll wind down now."
0:09:38 > 0:09:42And then I got a phone call on my birthday, in my 30s,
0:09:42 > 0:09:44going, "Hey, your event's in the Olympics."
0:09:44 > 0:09:47You thought, "Aw! Back to training."
0:09:47 > 0:09:51- I was like, "I'd better patch up my knees."- Yippee! Yeah.- Yeah.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55No, I definitely... And then, to be able to go to an Olympics and represent your country...
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- And then a medallist, for goodness' sake, so all worth it.- Yeah.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Now, Jenny, back to our weather board.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04OK. So, the one that I knew has already gone.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08This is a guess, but "any port in a storm".
0:10:08 > 0:10:09I feel like I've heard it before.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Any port in a storm, says Jenny.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Let's see how many of our 100 people agree with Jenny.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18It is any port in a storm.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- Yeah, well done.- Down it goes, 65, not bad.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Not bad at all.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25APPLAUSE
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Safe and sound, Jenny. Well played.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28I think those snowboard events and lot of the X Games events
0:10:28 > 0:10:30have been transformative to the Winter Olympics,
0:10:30 > 0:10:34which are always brilliant. But now they have an extra little something as well.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37There's four or five events which is must-see television now, which
0:10:37 > 0:10:39didn't used be there 12 years ago.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Jayne, welcome.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44- Hi.- Welcome, welcome.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Now, really, we've already referenced it -
0:10:46 > 0:10:49it's almost impossible to talk about the modern Winter Olympics without
0:10:49 > 0:10:52talking about Sarajevo in '84.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Your gold there, I would say, kind of set the whole thing alight.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Do you get a sense of that now?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01I guess so, because people still remember it and talk about it,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04and they know where they were, where they were watching it,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07so it is very endearing that it is still talked about.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10And are you going to be involved in Pyeongchang this year?
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Yes, I'll be working up in Salford as part of the commentary team.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17So you will be commentating from there, from Salford?
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Yes.- Do you have multi-screens in front of you there?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22I think we take the highlights and have a look,
0:11:22 > 0:11:23because of the time difference.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27We take the highlights and then we look and we talk about what we've
0:11:27 > 0:11:30seen and try and explain some of the results, etc.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Very good. OK, now, Jayne, let's turn to our weather board.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35You are the last person to have this board. If you want to,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38you could go through it and fill in all the blanks.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Well, every cloud has a silver lining.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Sorry, I thought you were saying that conversationally, sorry.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47LAUGHTER
0:11:47 > 0:11:49I was thinking, "I know, yeah, it's a bit of a bore, but still...!"
0:11:49 > 0:11:51LAUGHTER
0:11:51 > 0:11:55- Sorry.- Maybe "as the day lengthens, so the sun strengthens"?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Yeah, it does... Oh, sorry.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58LAUGHTER
0:11:58 > 0:12:01I don't really know the first one.
0:12:01 > 0:12:06So I'm going to go for "September wind soft till the fruit's in the loft".
0:12:06 > 0:12:08September wind, says Jayne.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12- Bit of a guess.- Let's see how many of our 100 people went for wind.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17- No.- Not wind.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- I'm so sorry.- As it happens, not wind.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- What is it?- That scores you 100 points.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25It's not a lot more than red sky at night scored, actually,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28so you're all in quite good company at the top of the board as well.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- 100 points for that.- Yes, it's a tough board there,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33because there is three obvious ones and then the others are very difficult.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37It might as well be September wind - it's September blow soft,
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- till the fruit's in the loft. - Oh, well, it's the same thing.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Apparently. That was the 17th.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Sorry, what is the advice we're meant to take from that? Sorry.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- If in September, it do blow soft...- Yeah.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51..then - till the fruit's in the loft.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Yeah...I'm looking for the advice.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- Because the wind will blow the fruit down.- The wind will blow the fruit off the trees.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Strong wind will make all the fruit come down early.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02I see, so it's a whispered prayer to the wind.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Blow soft, till the fruit's in the loft.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Exactly. The fruit's in the loft was the 17th-century version
0:13:07 > 0:13:09of Cash In The Attic - it was the same show.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12LAUGHTER
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Blow would have scored you three points, if you said that.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Funnily enough, the top one really, really is the wind,
0:13:17 > 0:13:21because it's "when the wind is in the east, tis neither good for man nor beast".
0:13:21 > 0:13:23That would have scored you 30 points.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26"Every cloud has a silver lining" - no point going for it, really -
0:13:26 > 0:13:28it would have scored 96 points, that one.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32And "as the day lengthens" - this is good advice to anybody going to Pyeonchang -
0:13:32 > 0:13:34also good advice to anybody going to Salford -
0:13:34 > 0:13:38"as the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens".
0:13:38 > 0:13:40That would have scored four points.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Thank you very much indeed.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44We are halfway through our round. Let's take a quick look at those scores.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- 15, what about that? Graham, very well done indeed.- Excellent.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Graham and Amy, looking very strong indeed on this.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Then we travel quite a long way, it must be said, from 15 up to 65,
0:13:52 > 0:13:54where we find Jenny and Clare.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58- That's fine.- No short hop up to 89, where we find Rhona and Robin,
0:13:58 > 0:14:02and then up to 100, where we find Jayne and Wilf.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06So, but no, what's nice about this is there's nothing foregone about
0:14:06 > 0:14:08our conclusions here. Wilf, you're going to have the new board,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11so find a nice low-scoring answer there and you should be fine.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13We're going to come back down the line now.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Can the second players please now step up to the podium?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Let's put seven more proverbs and sayings up on the board.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Here they are.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44I'll read those again.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59There we are.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Wilf, welcome to Pointless. So TWO gold medals.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04That's correct, yeah.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09But for a sport that was a demonstration sport, so explain that to me. That sounds very unfair.
0:15:09 > 0:15:15- Well, at the Olympics, obviously, they have probably 80 or 90 different sporting events.- Yeah.
0:15:15 > 0:15:21And every Olympic Games, the host country or the host city is allowed to introduce an Olympic event.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24And when I competed in Calgary, the Canadians were very
0:15:24 > 0:15:26good at short track speed skating.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30So they introduced short track speed skating to the Olympics then,
0:15:30 > 0:15:34and obviously, after my successes in '88,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38the IOC made that decision to include it as a full medal event.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42But the gold medal you've got is a sort of demonstration gold medal.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44That's correct. What was quite nice,
0:15:44 > 0:15:48when they had the award ceremony that was at the Olympic Plaza,
0:15:48 > 0:15:51there were 100,000 people there -
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Tomba was presented with his medal prior to me.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56They played the national anthem.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58So, in terms of it all being real,
0:15:58 > 0:16:02because we didn't have internet at that particular time,
0:16:02 > 0:16:06so I remember my first telegram I received from Queen Elizabeth
0:16:06 > 0:16:08congratulating me, from Margaret Thatcher...
0:16:08 > 0:16:12So it was all very real from that point of view.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Well, fantastic, very well done, Wilf.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17There you are, on 100 points. We need a low score from you.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20What are you going to go for on this board?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Um, I'm sort of depending...
0:16:25 > 0:16:30- April showers.- "April showers bring forth May flowers." April showers.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32OK, no red line for you as you're the high-scorers.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Let's see how far down the column we get with showers.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40It's right.
0:16:40 > 0:16:4270.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45170 is your total.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48There is one scenario in which you might stay with
0:16:48 > 0:16:50us at the end of this round. Richard?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52That was written by Thomas Tusser,
0:16:52 > 0:16:57who was a poet and farmer in 500 Points Of Good Husbandry in the 16th century.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01- Thank you. Clare.- Hello. - Welcome.- Thank you.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Welcome. Let's just talk about your brilliant broadcasting career.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07So, you start. Obviously, racing is in your blood.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10You grew up surrounded by horses and racing.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Did you actually want to go into racing broadcasting,
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- or was that something... - No, not at all,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17I didn't have any plans to go into radio or television.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20I wanted to write and then I got a chance to go into radio,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23started as a trainee in BBC Sport, then got a chance to go on telly,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26and somehow, amazingly, have clung on in there.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Hardly! I was going to say you've taken over, but that sounds terrible,
0:17:30 > 0:17:34but how did that happen? How did you get from racing to Winter Olympics?
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Mainly because of 5 Live.
0:17:35 > 0:17:41So I did a lot of other sports on the radio, and that just gave me a much broader experience,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44and I really like the challenge of doing things that none of us know
0:17:44 > 0:17:47much about, because I think it is all about telling stories.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50So if I'm doing the swimming in London, or the cycling in Rio,
0:17:50 > 0:17:54or I'm doing slopestyle, or I'm doing snowboard cross,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57I want people to really care about the competitors.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01So I'll try to set it up, then I'll ask an expert who really knows what they are talking about.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06So, Amy and I were out at the skeleton, watching Lizzy Yarnold win her gold last time,
0:18:06 > 0:18:08and essentially she's the expert -
0:18:08 > 0:18:11I need to get everything out of her to share with the audience,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13and I just need to ask the right questions.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17I could learn a thing or two from you. Now, Clare, you are on 65,
0:18:17 > 0:18:20which means you are actually through to the next round, even if you score
0:18:20 > 0:18:22100 points, which I know you won't.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- I might.- With that pressure off, what are you going to go for?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Well, I could therefore be obvious and still go through,
0:18:27 > 0:18:31but I'll just take a half a chance given that it's a Winter Olympic special,
0:18:31 > 0:18:34and go "north wind doth blow, we shall have snow".
0:18:34 > 0:18:36It stands to reason.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39- And even if it's wrong, it doesn't matter.- Exactly.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Snow, says Clare. No red line - you're already through.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Let's see how many of our 100 people said snow.
0:18:50 > 0:18:5263. Not bad at all.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Taking your total up to 128.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Nobody here, fortunately, has chionophobia.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Chionophobia, which is the fear of snow.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05It would be a bad thing to get as a Winter Olympian.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- Halfway through your life.- Or would be really good - just really quick down the mountain.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10- To escape.- To escape the snow.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Perhaps the greatest downhill skiers of all time have all had chionophobia, thinking,
0:19:14 > 0:19:18- "Get me off this!"- Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Amy, welcome back.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22- Thank you.- Good to have you here again.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Now, the skeleton - how do you get into that?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27What is your route to skeleton?
0:19:27 > 0:19:31For me, it was living in the right place at the right time.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34At Bath, we have a skeleton start track.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37It was built before the Salt Lake City games in 2002.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41And bobsleighs and skeletons, kind of slot on - it's like sort of train tracks,
0:19:41 > 0:19:45where a different kind of sled goes on and you can just practice that sprint start.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48So I got into it just by being nosy one day and having a go.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51This is not on snow at all - it's just on tracks?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53It's just on rubber mat and track.
0:19:53 > 0:19:59And then I joined in with an army ice camp and took myself actually on the ice in Lillehammer.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02What had you done before that? Had you done some tobogganing?
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Down my back garden, I always had a very steep back garden, and we used to,
0:20:05 > 0:20:08as kids, actually, get manure bags, stuff them with newspaper,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11and go from the top of the garden to the bottom.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13It's better on a bin bag than on an old sled.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16- It's better on a bin bag! - Yeah.- That's another Oxford proverb.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18LAUGHTER
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Amy, what would you like to go for?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23You are on 15, so you are straight through, doesn't matter what you do.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Yes, Graham did very well.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Well, the two I would have said have already gone
0:20:27 > 0:20:29but I'm going to go for it and say
0:20:29 > 0:20:33"lightning never strikes the same place twice".
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- Oh! Robin looks so uncomfortable now.- Sorry, Robin.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Three for three - it's all right.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43OK, lightning never strikes the same place twice, says Amy. Let's see,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45no red light for you, you're already through -
0:20:45 > 0:20:47let's see how far down the column we get with lightning.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55- Ooh!- 89, the go-to high score, I think.
0:20:55 > 0:20:5789 takes your total up to 104.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00And that expression obviously is nonsense, because it often strikes...
0:21:00 > 0:21:04- The Empire State Building, for example, gets hit over 100 times a year.- All the time.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06It famously hits the same, you know, it'll hit the same places.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Thank you, Richard. Robin.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- Mmm. - Robin, Robin, Robin, I'm so sorry,
0:21:12 > 0:21:15you just had your answer stolen from under your nose there.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17- Three of them.- Really?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Robin, when you went out to Lake Placid in 1980,
0:21:21 > 0:21:25how big was Team GB, or whatever we were called in those days?
0:21:25 > 0:21:28- Oh, it was...- The British delegation.- A good size.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30We were represented in quite a few sports that were there.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32And, erm...
0:21:32 > 0:21:35- It's not actually the size, it's the camaraderie of the team.- Yeah.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38I think what's started to happen now, certainly,
0:21:38 > 0:21:43is that all the athletes spend more time with each other away from
0:21:43 > 0:21:46their given disciplines and there's a camaraderie.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Because even though you are so focused on your own sport,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52it's nice to realise that someone else is doing exactly the same
0:21:52 > 0:21:55that you have done, either off ice, off ice camps,
0:21:55 > 0:21:58training camps, wherever it is.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01That when you get to your field of play you are all focused on the same
0:22:01 > 0:22:04thing, and that's just delivering what you've trained for all your life.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06That's where you find out the metal of the performer,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08is whether they can cope with it.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Because you can do all the European Championships,
0:22:11 > 0:22:13all the World Championships, all of the Grand Prix,
0:22:13 > 0:22:16but there is nothing like being part of an Olympic team.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Oh, lovely thing.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Very well put, Robin. It's the snow, I think.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Fortunately we have no competitors here,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28because I didn't want to put the fear of God into them,
0:22:28 > 0:22:30but it is about being an Olympian,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- there's something very unique and very special about it.- Very good.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35This board is all yours, Robin.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38If you want to go through it and fill in all our planks
0:22:38 > 0:22:40you'd be very welcome.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43"Rise before seven, fine before 11."
0:22:43 > 0:22:44I don't know.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47"Sunny June sets all in tune."
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I'm going to say "let's make hay while the sun shines".
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Make hay while the sun shines.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55With our high score, I know, but...
0:22:55 > 0:22:57There you are, you're on 89,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00you have to score 80 or less to stay with us.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Make hay while the sun shines.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04If that's right, let's see how many of our 100 said it.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09It's right.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10- 86.- Ooh!
0:23:10 > 0:23:1286!
0:23:12 > 0:23:14There we go.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Very, very close indeed.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17That takes your total up to 175.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Robin, if you could see the look on Wilf O'Reilly's face right now.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26That's a tough board to be left with.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28What would you say, something before seven?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- I was thinking rain. - It is rain, actually.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33It sort of clears out again. It's absolute nonsense.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35It would have scored you 33.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36You won't get this.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39I was going to say a shower, but it's not going to be that.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41It is a dripping June, sets all in tune.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43How lovely. Four points for that.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47"So many mists in March, so many frosts in May,"
0:23:47 > 0:23:49would have scored you four points.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52So those two four-pointers, very well done if you said one of those.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Thank you very much, indeed.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57We're at the end of our first round, we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs. I can't bear it.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Robin and Rhona.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Oh, it's been lovely having you here.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Lovely having you nearby.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06- My nearest contestants. Thank you so much for playing and for playing so well.- Thank you.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Please come back again. In the meantime, thank you so much.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Robin and Rhona! APPLAUSE
0:24:10 > 0:24:11Oh, well.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15For our remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23And suddenly there we are, cruelly cut down to three pairs.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26And at the end of this round, I hate to tell you,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29it will be down to two pairs. We'll have to say goodbye to another pair.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Amy and Graham, keep this form up, I don't think it's going to be you.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Graham, our lowest individual scorer.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Amy and Graham, our lowest combined scores.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39But well done everybody, you've made it through.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Best of luck for this next round.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Our category for Round Two this evening is...
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Summer Sports Tournaments.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53who's going second and whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:25:00 > 0:25:03to name as many teams
0:25:03 > 0:25:07at the 2018 FIFA World Cup as they could.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11- Richard?- Yes, we're looking for the names of any of the 32 teams who
0:25:11 > 0:25:15qualified for the men's FIFA World Cup in 2018, please,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18any of the 32 teams who have qualified.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Graham?
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Erm...
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Belgium?- Belgium.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Let's see how many of our people said Belgium.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34It's right.
0:25:39 > 0:25:4022 for Belgium, not bad at all,
0:25:40 > 0:25:42a good start to the round.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Yeah, packed full of English Premiership players, the Belgian team.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Best ever result was fourth in 1986.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Now, Jenny.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Portugal?- Portugal, says Jenny.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Let's see how many of our 100 people said Portugal,
0:26:00 > 0:26:04- let's see if it's right.- I don't think it will.- It's fine.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06It is right!
0:26:06 > 0:26:0922 is the only score we have posted at the moment.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Portugal scores 41, not bad at all.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Not bad.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Well played, Jenny.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19It's deceptively tricky, this one, isn't it?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- Yeah.- Your brain starts playing tricks on you.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24- Kept saying all of the main ones. - Absolutely that.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26They won the Euros in 2016, Portugal,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29so will be hoping to do well in 2018.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Thank you very much, Richard. Wilf, now.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Wilf.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38I'm going to go for Saudi Arabia.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Saudi Arabia, says Wilf,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42let's see how many of our 100 people said Saudi Arabia.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Very good indeed.
0:26:48 > 0:26:5141 is our highest score, 22 is our low, you've passed the high score,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53you've passed the low,
0:26:53 > 0:26:55we have a new low score. Very well done, Wilf.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Five for Saudi Arabia.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04I said it was deceptively tricky, not for Wilf, though,
0:27:04 > 0:27:05that's a great answer, well played.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Their first World Cup for 12 years.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Thanks very much, Richard.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12We're halfway through the round. Before we head back down, let's have a recap of the scores.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Five, the best score of the pass, Wilf, very well done indeed.
0:27:14 > 0:27:1622 is where we find Graham and Amy.
0:27:16 > 0:27:1941 is where we find Jenny and Clare.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Clare, a little bit of work to do to make sure you're still with us at
0:27:23 > 0:27:24the end of the round.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27We're coming back down the line. Can the second players step up to the podium.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32OK, Jayne,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35we are looking for the name of any team that has qualified for the
0:27:35 > 0:27:37FIFA World Cup Finals in 2018.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Erm...
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Did England?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46England, says Jayne.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Well, shall we find out?
0:27:47 > 0:27:50You are on 5, ideally you would score 35 or less with this answer,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52let's see if you do.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54There is your red line. That's what 35 looks like.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57How many of our 100 said England?
0:27:59 > 0:28:00It's right.
0:28:01 > 0:28:0385, there's your answer.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Taking your total up to 90.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08However, with Wilf's excellent low score before, that's not bad,
0:28:08 > 0:28:10it all averages out pretty well.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12England will be there, of course.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Sometimes when they repeat these shows,
0:28:14 > 0:28:16we're putting this out before this World Cup,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18they will repeat it no doubt after the World Cup
0:28:18 > 0:28:21so I'd just like to say really, really unlucky, England,
0:28:21 > 0:28:22losing to Saudi Arabia in the last 16.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25LAUGHTER
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29- Clare?- Yes.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32There you are on 41. 48 or less keeps you in the game.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35- OK. It needs to be a good one. - It needs to be a good one.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38I have a friend who plays for a team that I know has qualified,
0:28:38 > 0:28:39and that is Australia.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Australia, says Clare, here is your red line.
0:28:43 > 0:28:44- Good.- Not too low, actually,
0:28:44 > 0:28:48if you get below that with Australia you are through to the head-to-head.
0:28:50 > 0:28:51It's right.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56And you're through! Very well done indeed.
0:28:56 > 0:28:5715!
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Brilliant.
0:28:59 > 0:29:00Taking your total up to 56.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02APPLAUSE
0:29:02 > 0:29:03Well done.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Well played, Clare, the Socceroos.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08- Who's your friend, just so we can keep an eye out?- Jackson Irvine. - Jackson Irvine.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Oh, that's a proper Aussie name, isn't it?
0:29:11 > 0:29:14- Thank you very much, Richard. Amy, now then, Amy.- Yes.
0:29:14 > 0:29:19You can get away with scoring 67, or less, and still be in the game.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Great low score from Graham in the first pass there.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23I really don't have a clue.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27However, I'm going to pluck a country and hope they have a team,
0:29:27 > 0:29:29and I'm going to go for...
0:29:31 > 0:29:34I don't know! I'm going to go for Croatia.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Croatia, says Amy. Sounds good to me.
0:29:36 > 0:29:38- They've got a good team. - Here is your red line.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42Let's see if you can get below that red line with Croatia. Let's see if it's right, obviously,
0:29:42 > 0:29:44but let's see how far down the column we get if it is.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46How many people said Croatia?
0:29:48 > 0:29:50It's right.
0:29:50 > 0:29:51And you're through.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53Very well done, indeed.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56And down it goes to 8.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Second lowest score of the round,
0:30:00 > 0:30:03taking your total up to 30, the lowest total of the round.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06Well done, Amy, made it unnecessarily stressful for Graham,
0:30:06 > 0:30:09because you could have said France, Germany, Spain, or Brazil,
0:30:09 > 0:30:12all would have seen you through. They all would have scored few enough points.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15France would have scored 64, Germany 59, Spain 52,
0:30:15 > 0:30:17Brazil only scored 47 points.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19Now, there's no pointless answers at all.
0:30:19 > 0:30:20There's two three-point answers.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22It goes to show what a good answer Saudi Arabia was.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Two three-point answers, one is Senegal,
0:30:24 > 0:30:27and the other is a country that loads of you are about to go to,
0:30:27 > 0:30:29South Korea. It would have also scored you three points.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Four points for Colombia and Costa Rica.
0:30:31 > 0:30:35Five for Saudi Arabia, for Serbia, Nigeria, and Panama.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38A tiny country which has qualified this year.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40Six for Peru, Denmark, Switzerland.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43Seven for Egypt, Iran, and Uruguay.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45Eight for Morocco and Tunisia, alongside Croatia.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Nine for Japan, 12 for Iceland.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52Very good answer, Saudi Arabia, very good answer Croatia, it turned out.
0:30:52 > 0:30:53Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56That means we are at the end of our second round,
0:30:56 > 0:30:58which also means we have to say goodbye to another pair.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02Jayne and Wilf, the highest and lowest scorers in that round, I'm afraid.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06We have to say goodbye to you. It's been lovely having you here. Please come and play again.
0:31:06 > 0:31:10- Thank you very much.- Thank you. - You've been fantastic. Jayne and Wilf!
0:31:10 > 0:31:12APPLAUSE
0:31:12 > 0:31:15For our two remaining pairs it's now time for the head-to-head.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Well, congratulations, Amy, Graham, Clare, and Jenny,
0:31:22 > 0:31:23you are now one step closer to the final
0:31:23 > 0:31:27and a chance to play for that jackpot which currently stands at
0:31:27 > 0:31:29£2,500.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31APPLAUSE
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Now we have to decide who's going to go through to the final to play
0:31:34 > 0:31:37for that jackpot. We do it by making you go head-to-head.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38It's now the head-to-head,
0:31:38 > 0:31:41it means you can start playing as a pair.
0:31:41 > 0:31:42You can chat before you give your answers.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46The first pair in this round to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48Best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.
0:31:54 > 0:31:58Here is your first question, and it concerns...
0:32:02 > 0:32:05- Richard?- I'll show you five pictures now of famous landmarks with images
0:32:05 > 0:32:10being projected onto them. Can you tell us in which cities you would find these landmarks?
0:32:10 > 0:32:11Thank you very much, indeed.
0:32:11 > 0:32:15Let's reveal our five landmarks and here they come. We have got...
0:32:46 > 0:32:48There we are. Amy and Graham, you are our low-scorers,
0:32:48 > 0:32:50so you will go first.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Right. I think it's Montreal.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56- Go for it, go for it.- Yeah.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59We're going to take a bit of a risk. We're going to go Montreal.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01Montreal for which one, sorry?
0:33:01 > 0:33:03- E.- E, the one with the Canadian flag on it.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05I was aware,
0:33:05 > 0:33:09I was aware of that. So, Clare and Jenny.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12I think A is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. B we're struggling with.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15D is Battersea Power Station, so it's London.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18And C is obviously Sydney Opera House.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20Just on the basis that people might not know
0:33:20 > 0:33:23- that it's Battersea Power Station. - No!- Yeah, go London.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26Because it's not Big Ben, and it's not as obvious as Sydney.
0:33:26 > 0:33:27It won't be as...
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Our only chance is if they are wrong.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31So I think we'll go...
0:33:31 > 0:33:33- Yes, happy...- Yeah.- ..now?
0:33:33 > 0:33:35Happy now?
0:33:35 > 0:33:37- Yeah.- We'll go D, London. - D, London.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39Specifically Battersea Power Station.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43OK, so we have E, Montreal, D, London.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Amy and Graham have said Montreal,
0:33:45 > 0:33:48let's see how many of our 100 people said Montreal.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55- Oh!- It's not Montreal.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58Oh, Clare, Clare "tactics" Balding. Look at that!
0:34:00 > 0:34:03She and Jenny have gone for D, London,
0:34:03 > 0:34:06and, well, let's see what happens, London.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11It is London, very well done.
0:34:11 > 0:34:12Oh!
0:34:12 > 0:34:14That paid off in spades.
0:34:14 > 0:34:1649 for London.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17All it had to be was right.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21It means Clare and Jenny, after one question, you are up 1-0.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23That was very well played. Nice tactics, indeed.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25We'll leave the Canadian one until the end.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27You were right about Brandenburg Gate, as well,
0:34:27 > 0:34:30that is Brandenburg Gate, so that's Berlin,
0:34:30 > 0:34:31that would have scored 33.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36Now, B, the mountain is a clue, actually, it's very hard, though.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Very hard to see what the building is, but that's in Bern,
0:34:38 > 0:34:40the Swiss capital.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43- Well done if you said that. - I was there last week.
0:34:43 > 0:34:44She was there last week!
0:34:44 > 0:34:46I recognise the mountain.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48- Is that the Matterhorn? - The mountain's the Matterhorn.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50You're the only person who is looking at that going,
0:34:50 > 0:34:52"I recognise the mountain!"
0:34:53 > 0:34:55That is good specialist knowledge.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57C, of course, is Sydney, Sydney Opera House, that's a big scorer,
0:34:57 > 0:34:59it would have scored 87.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02And E, that's the Canadian parliament building,
0:35:02 > 0:35:05so it's in the Canadian capital, Ottawa.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07That would have scored 10 points.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Thanks very much, Richard. OK, here comes your second question.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13Clare and Jenny, you get to answer this one first, but Amy and Graham,
0:35:13 > 0:35:16you have to win this one to stay in the game. So, good luck.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Our second question today is all about...
0:35:20 > 0:35:23- I don't know if that's a good thing. - Winter Olympics.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25- CLARE:- This is fine.- Richard.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27Five clues now, to facts about the Winter Olympics,
0:35:27 > 0:35:29can you give us the most obscure answer?
0:35:29 > 0:35:32OK, now, I could read out the questions here,
0:35:32 > 0:35:35but why would I do that when I've got someone far better equipped?
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, everybody.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Hello.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Have you got your questions there?
0:35:48 > 0:35:50- There they are. - I do. Here we go.
0:35:50 > 0:35:56The year in which I represented Great Britain at ski jumping at the Winter Olympics.
0:35:56 > 0:36:01Soohorang, the mascot for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games
0:36:01 > 0:36:05is this type of cat.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09The city in which the 2014 Winter Olympics were held.
0:36:09 > 0:36:15The sport in which Robin Dixon and Tony Nash won gold in 1964.
0:36:15 > 0:36:20And finally, the maximum number of players per team
0:36:20 > 0:36:25allowed on the ice at any time in Olympic ice hockey.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28There we are. Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, ladies and gentlemen!
0:36:28 > 0:36:30APPLAUSE
0:36:39 > 0:36:43OK, I'll read those out for you one more time on the board here.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46Can I just say, he was very good at that, so you should be careful.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49- A little bit.- That's all I'll say.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12There we are. Clare and Jenny, you get to go first.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15- OK, we...- We don't really say them all.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17Don't say them all.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19We will go for the sport in which Robin Dixon and Tony Nash
0:37:19 > 0:37:22won gold in 1964, two-man bob, so, bobsleigh.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25Two-man bob. OK. Now, Amy and Graham,
0:37:25 > 0:37:27do you fancy talking us through the rest of that board?
0:37:27 > 0:37:30Well, I was 100% sure of that one.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33We knew that one.
0:37:33 > 0:37:37The year Eddie jumped in Calgary, it was '88.
0:37:37 > 0:37:41- The mascot.- Soohorang, it's kind of a black and white...
0:37:41 > 0:37:44- I've seen it...- ..Lynxy kind of...
0:37:44 > 0:37:46- Snow Leopard.- Kind of snow leopard type of thing,
0:37:46 > 0:37:48which we don't really know.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50Sochi was 2014.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52Maximum number on a team.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Is it six?
0:37:54 > 0:37:55Are you saying six?
0:37:55 > 0:37:57- But I'm not...- I think it's more.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59I think seven.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02We're going to guess at seven on a team in ice hockey,
0:38:02 > 0:38:04and if I'm wrong, then...
0:38:04 > 0:38:06- We're going home.- Yeah.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08So, we've got bobsleigh and we've got seven.
0:38:08 > 0:38:11Clare and Jenny have gone for bobsleigh
0:38:11 > 0:38:13for Robin Dixon and Tony Nash.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15Let's see how many of our 100 people said bobsleigh.
0:38:18 > 0:38:19- It's right.- This is us.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27Look at that! Seven, very well done indeed.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Seven for bobsleigh.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34OK, that is what you have to beat.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38Seven is what you have to beat, with seven, which is your answer.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41Let's see how many of our 100 people said seven for the number of ice
0:38:41 > 0:38:44hockey players per team allowed on the ice at any one time.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Is it right?
0:38:48 > 0:38:51- Oh, bad luck! - It's six, isn't it?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Bad luck. Well, you stuck your neck out there.
0:38:53 > 0:38:54I'm sorry it didn't pay off.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57But very well done, indeed, Clare and Jenny,
0:38:57 > 0:39:00because after only two questions you're straight through to the
0:39:00 > 0:39:03final, 2-0. APPLAUSE
0:39:07 > 0:39:09Yeah, it was six, but you had to go for it.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12It was one of those risky ones. It was going to be six or seven.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Funnily enough, nothing you could have done,
0:39:14 > 0:39:17because Nash and Dixon was the best answer on the board.
0:39:17 > 0:39:19It was unstoppable. If you had said six for the one down the bottom
0:39:19 > 0:39:21there it would have scored you 11 points,
0:39:21 > 0:39:23so would not have seen you through.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26The year, this is another very good answer, actually, it was 1988,
0:39:26 > 0:39:28it would have scored you 8 points.
0:39:28 > 0:39:32Very exciting. The mascot is a white tiger.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34What does Soohorang mean?
0:39:34 > 0:39:37- What does Soohorang?- Yeah. - It comes from...
0:39:37 > 0:39:40Rang is tiger, and sooho is white.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42LAUGHTER
0:39:45 > 0:39:50The city in which the 2014 Winter Olympics were held is
0:39:50 > 0:39:54Sochi, of course, that's the biggest scorer up there, 25 points.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58Our leaving pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm afraid,
0:39:58 > 0:40:01Amy and Graham, it's you. You came into it our low scorers.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03You've been amazing the whole way through the show.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06And, you know, you've taken risks on both of these questions,
0:40:06 > 0:40:08and you could have easily got that right.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11Nothing you could have done against Clare and Jenny in that second question.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15It's been wonderful having you. Thanks for coming to play. Amy and Graham!
0:40:15 > 0:40:17APPLAUSE
0:40:19 > 0:40:22For Clare and Jenny it is now time for our Pointless final.
0:40:26 > 0:40:30Congratulations, Clare and Jenny, you fought off all the competition,
0:40:30 > 0:40:32and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40- Exciting.- Whoo!
0:40:40 > 0:40:44Steady now. You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your
0:40:44 > 0:40:47charities. And at the end of today's show the jackpot is standing at
0:40:47 > 0:40:49£2,500.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55Well, you know, every pair playing on this evening's show,
0:40:55 > 0:40:58apart from yours, had one player in who'd played before.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00And experience, it turns out, counts for nothing.
0:41:00 > 0:41:05There we are. What would you like to see in this last round?
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Winter Olympics again.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09- Yes.- Summer Olympics.
0:41:09 > 0:41:10Commonwealth Games.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12OK, well, four things will appear on the board behind me.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14You just have to choose one of those.
0:41:14 > 0:41:16The one that scares you the least.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Let's see what's on today's board
0:41:18 > 0:41:21and I hope there's something that you don't mind too much.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32London train stations.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Have you lived a lot in London?
0:41:34 > 0:41:36Yeah, I live in London.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39We'll go the names of London train stations in popular culture.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42OK, that's what it's going to be.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Living in London is not going to help you with this one, I'm afraid.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49But, but I think there's three nice questions here.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51We're looking for any of the following, please.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54Any of the cast of the ITV series Victoria,
0:41:54 > 0:41:57anyone who has been in two or more episodes of the show Victoria.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00Anyone in the cast of either of the Paddington films,
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Paddington and Paddington 2, according to IMDb.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05Or we're looking for any word of six letters or more
0:42:05 > 0:42:09in the Abba hit Waterloo, apart from the word Waterloo.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12Anyone who's been in two or more episodes of Victoria.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14The cast of Paddington, or Paddington 2,
0:42:14 > 0:42:16or words of six or more letters in Waterloo.
0:42:16 > 0:42:20Thank you. As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22And all you need to win that jackpot for your charities
0:42:22 > 0:42:24is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27Clare, you look like you've got a question, or are you just...
0:42:27 > 0:42:30- I'm just raring to go.- 60 seconds going up on the clock right now.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33For formality's sake I'm going to say, "Are you ready?"
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Yes!
0:42:35 > 0:42:38In which case, let's say your time starts now, shall we?
0:42:38 > 0:42:41We have to get a pointless answer so go through Waterloo.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43"Finally." "Mistake."
0:42:43 > 0:42:45You keep singing that.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57Go on, keep going. Keep going.
0:42:57 > 0:42:58It's the only part that I know.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00But keep going if you can.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Erm...
0:43:02 > 0:43:05THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:43:11 > 0:43:13- What else?- I think I've got one.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16Do we have one for cast of Victoria? Have you seen...?
0:43:16 > 0:43:18I have seen Victoria, but I won't know a pointless answer.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21I think in Paddington, I think Imelda Staunton plays the aunt.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24It's either Imelda Staunton, or Miriam Margolyes.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26We just need a third.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28- We can do two for Paddington, if we like...- Ten seconds.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32..but all the people I know in Paddington I slightly think everybody is going to know.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35But it is a lovely film.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37Anyway, have we got anything for...
0:43:37 > 0:43:39"Mistake," did you say?
0:43:39 > 0:43:42OK, that is your time up. This is the first time in,
0:43:42 > 0:43:44what, 1,400 shows?
0:43:44 > 0:43:46You've delegated. Our pair has delegated.
0:43:46 > 0:43:50- One person has been sent off to do a task.- You sing Waterloo!
0:43:50 > 0:43:53I have literally no idea what you're going to come up with,
0:43:53 > 0:43:56but let's hear your three answers.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58"Looking" as a word in Waterloo.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01- Is that too basic? - It's brilliant.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03I think that's brilliant. Really brilliant.
0:44:03 > 0:44:07In Paddington, I think Imelda Staunton plays
0:44:07 > 0:44:10the great aunt, is it great aunt, or grandmother?
0:44:10 > 0:44:12- You're going to say Imelda Staunton.- Imelda Staunton.
0:44:12 > 0:44:14And I'm just going to say Miriam Margolyes
0:44:14 > 0:44:17might have been in one of the two Paddington films somewhere.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19And if she wasn't she should have been.
0:44:21 > 0:44:22Fair enough. Fair enough.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25Of those three which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:44:25 > 0:44:27- "Looking."- No!- "Looking" goes last.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29Yeah! I think it's a great answer.
0:44:29 > 0:44:30We're going to put "looking" last.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Least likely to be pointless?
0:44:32 > 0:44:36Well, if Imelda Staunton's right, it probably won't be pointless.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39We'll put Imelda Staunton first and Miriam Margolyes in the middle.
0:44:39 > 0:44:42Let's put those answers on the board in that order and here they are.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44We have got...
0:44:47 > 0:44:49Well, very, very best of luck.
0:44:49 > 0:44:51Three cracking answers on the board.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54One of these might be pointless and might win that jackpot for your
0:44:54 > 0:44:56nominated charities. Which charities are you playing for?
0:44:56 > 0:44:59- Clare?- I'm playing for the Helen Rollason Cancer Charity.
0:44:59 > 0:45:02She was, as you know, the first woman to present Grandstand,
0:45:02 > 0:45:04she worked on many Winter Olympics,
0:45:04 > 0:45:07was a friend of mine, and a great heroine of mine,
0:45:07 > 0:45:10and when she died they set up a charity in her name to help people with cancer.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11Wonderful.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13APPLAUSE
0:45:16 > 0:45:18And Jenny, which charity are you playing for?
0:45:18 > 0:45:21It's Snow Camp, which supports underprivileged young people
0:45:21 > 0:45:25and gives them a chance from inner cities to come and try
0:45:25 > 0:45:28snowboarding and take them all the way out to the mountains.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30Fabulous.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32APPLAUSE
0:45:32 > 0:45:33Two excellent charities there.
0:45:33 > 0:45:37Let's hope one of these answers at least will be pointless and will win that jackpot for them.
0:45:37 > 0:45:39Your first answer was Imelda Staunton.
0:45:39 > 0:45:43This was the one you thought was probably least likely to be pointless.
0:45:43 > 0:45:45If it is pointless it will win that jackpot for your charities.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48Let's see how many of our 100 people named Imelda Staunton as a cast
0:45:48 > 0:45:50member of Paddington, or Paddington 2.
0:45:55 > 0:45:57It is right.
0:45:57 > 0:45:58Imelda Staunton, absolutely right.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01All it has to be now is pointless to win that jackpot for your charities.
0:46:01 > 0:46:02Down goes Imelda Staunton.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05Through the teens. Into single figures.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07Still going down, still going down, still going down.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09You have done it!
0:46:09 > 0:46:11Brilliant stuff.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16- Absolutely brilliant. - Oh, my God, I'm so pleased.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Well done.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Fantastic. We've got all that money for our charities.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25Absolutely fantastic! Imelda Staunton was a pointless answer,
0:46:25 > 0:46:28which means you win that jackpot of £2,500 for your charities!
0:46:28 > 0:46:30Clare and Jenny! Fabulous!
0:46:30 > 0:46:33No, no, I think yours will be good too, you know.
0:46:36 > 0:46:40I mean, was it ever in doubt with the combination we have in front of ourselves?
0:46:40 > 0:46:43- Very, very impressive.- Well done, yes, she plays Aunt Lucy in both of those films.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47If we'd had to go to your other answers, Miriam Margolyes was an incorrect answer.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50And "looking" was also an incorrect answer, I'm afraid.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52I don't know what song you were singing.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55But the good news is it doesn't matter.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58We'll take a look at the pointless answers in the different categories?
0:46:58 > 0:47:01We'll start with the cast of Victoria. Some big names here.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06Everyone who's been in two or more episodes apart from Jenna Coleman,
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Diana Rigg, Tom Hughes, Rufus Sewell and Peter Bowles.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11Well done if you said another one.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13So many amazing actors in the Paddington films.
0:47:13 > 0:47:16Amazing films, both of them.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19Let's take a look at a few. Joanna Lumley plays Felicity Fanshaw,
0:47:19 > 0:47:22she was a pointless answer. Sally Hawkins plays Mary Brown.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24Sanjeev Bhaskar, Alice Lowe was a pointless answer.
0:47:24 > 0:47:25Eddie Nestor, Eileen Atkins,
0:47:25 > 0:47:29Geoffrey Palmer, Jamie Demetriou, Jessica Hynes.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32Jim Broadbent is a pointless answer, Matt Lucas is a pointless answer,
0:47:32 > 0:47:34Meera Syal, Michael Gambon, Richard Ayoade,
0:47:34 > 0:47:37and big Tom Davis is a pointless answer there, as well.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40And now, let's take a look at the words of six letters or more in Waterloo.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43Looking is so close, see.
0:47:47 > 0:47:52I can't believe finally is pointless because it's so early in the song.
0:47:52 > 0:47:55Imagine if you hadn't just won the jackpot how furious you'd be now.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58I would have said, don't say finally, it too obvious.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00No kidding. Chance, facing, and giving were also pointless answers.
0:48:00 > 0:48:02Very well done if you got one of those at home.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:48:04 > 0:48:08Thanks once again to our brilliant winning players, Clare and Jenny,
0:48:08 > 0:48:11who go away with today's jackpot of £2,500 for their charities.
0:48:11 > 0:48:12Very well done, indeed.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14- APPLAUSE - Thank you.- Thank you.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18Join us next time when we will be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20- Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye.
0:48:20 > 0:48:22And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.