Episode 6 Pointless Celebrities

APPLAUSE

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

and a very warm welcome to a special Saturday evening celebrity edition of Pointless,

the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Now, every single question on tonight's programme has been asked to 100 people before the show.

To be in with a chance of winning our final round jackpot,

our celebrities need to come up with the answers that the fewest of those 100 people could think of.

-Let's meet our Pointless celebrities.

-APPLAUSE

First up, please welcome Scott Quinnell and Austin Healey.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Both ex-professional rugby players. Played for Wales and England respectively,

but also played for the British Lions on tour.

And both pundits now, of course. Yes.

Scott, you do quite a lot of the punditry.

Are you good at remembering all your stats

or do you have to have them fed to you?

They get fed to us and some you remember, some you don't.

Some you get spectacularly wrong.

And Austin just tells me that it's just so simple for yourself, isn't it?

Well, most things get fed to me, like you, through the earpiece

-and then you just pretend that it's your knowledge.

-I'm interested in this idea of an earpiece.

-Yes.

-You are massive, by the way.

-Huge.

-He's bigger than you.

He did say he reckons he could have you in a fight.

-We should do the test.

-Let's do this!

-Let's do it now.

APPLAUSE Come on, let's do it.

Fight, fight, fight!

Scott and Austin, a warm welcome to Pointless. It's lovely to have you.

Next up, please welcome Rowland Rivron and Ulrika Jonsson.

-Thank you! Thank you!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

-Wow.

-APPLAUSE

Two all-rounders. Rowland, a comedian, musician,

writer, television presenter.

Ulrika, you've been a weather forecaster, team captain on Shooting Stars,

Celebrity Big Brother. I mean, you cover a lot of bases, the pair of you.

When you say all-rounder, I think you mean jack of all, master of none.

Welcome to Pointless. Rowland, what do you hope will come up today?

I like socialising. Now, will that come up?

In every question. Ulrika, what are you looking forward to?

-Swedish things?

-Yes, Swedish things.

-Type Swedish things in, see what comes up.

-Just anything.

I'm not doing that again. LAUGHTER

Rowland and Ulrika, a warm welcome to the show. It's lovely to have you here.

-Thank you.

-Good luck to you. Next please welcome Tony Blackburn and David Hamilton!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Tony, crowned King Of The Jungle in 2002.

David, you've been on our radios and TV for decades.

Tony, you were the very first voice heard on Radio 1.

Yes, I was. 1967, September 13th, seven o'clock.

-Been talking rubbish ever since.

-But so well!

And David, you worked with Ken Dodd to start with, didn't you?

Yes, Ken Dodd very kindly gave me my nickname, Diddy,

and it's very appropriate this evening because I'm surrounded by giants.

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-David, what are you hoping is going to come up today?

What's going to be your favourite category?

-Chance we could get music, maybe?

-Music would be great, surely.

Tony, any blind spots in the Blackburn repertoire?

-Practically everything, actually.

-Really?

-Yeah.

I watch this show every single evening

and I've never got one round right yet.

So, you know, not that hopeful, but I'm just hoping that I don't let him down too much.

Well, very warm welcome to you, Tony and David. Lovely to have you here.

And finally, we've got Tim Vine and Karen Taylor.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Come on!

-APPLAUSE

Tim, you star in Not Going Out, and in 2004,

you broke the world record for the number of jokes told in an hour.

-I did, briefly, yes.

-Karen, you're an actress and comedian.

-You starred in your own show on BBC3.

-That's right, yes.

-You have a one-year-old child.

-I do, yeah.

-Is it sleeping?

-She's in the dressing room crying at the moment.

-Aww!

I feel really bad! I know they're going to squirt out...

LAUGHTER

-Oh, that was my topic! I remember now!

-LAUGHTER

Good, good. Good.

Karen, what are you hoping is going to come up?

-Film.

-Yep.

-ZingZillas. In The Night Garden. That sort of thing.

-OK. Tim, how about you?

-I like darts. I like playing darts.

I don't really know too much about actual dart players, what their names are,

but if you were to say to me a number between 101 and 170,

-I'd tell you its three-dart finish. Go on.

-122.

Erm, I'd go treble 18, single 18, bull.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-I think I would go treble 20, treble 10, double 16.

-Yes, you could do,

or you could go outer bull, treble 19, double top.

But you don't want to leave yourself on a bull finish. If you're on double 16 finish, at least you're back in...

It's more flash to go bull, double 11, bull, Richard.

-Oh, that's super flash, absolutely.

-Oh, my God.

Yeah, he's right.

Lovely to have you on the show, Tim and Karen.

A warm welcome to you. We look forward to discovering all your hidden knowledge.

There's only one person left for me to introduce.

On the catwalk of Pointless, obscurity is very much in this season

and no-one rocks it like this man. He is my Pointless friend, he's Richard.

Hiya. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-This should be fun, shouldn't it?

-I think so.

-Normally... We're on a Saturday night now, which is lovely.

-Yeah.

Normally Pointless is on during the week, it's this lovely, sleepy backwater,

-and we're very happy where we are.

-We are.

-It's lovely, with all our lovely viewers.

And Saturday night, the BBC are always trying to make us glitz it up a bit.

I have finally agreed to one request from there.

-OK.

-To make us a little bit more Saturday night.

-Yeah.

And I thought because Tony's on, he was king of the jungle,

what I've got here is I've got some bugs. I've got some jungle bugs.

I've got some worms,

I've got some baked crickets, mealworms, giant ants.

And what we're going to do is, every time anybody gives an incorrect answer,

any time anyone scores 100 points,

-Xander is going to have to eat one of these.

-What, I am?

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

You know what? It's Saturday night, isn't it?

-There'll be no need for tea tonight, my friend.

-They're absolutely delicious.

You'll love them.

-No-one's going to score 100 though, are they?

-Oh, yes.

-No.

I've just changed round one to Gregorian chamber music.

LAUGHTER No, round one I think everyone will like.

Everyone's going to do well at round one. It's just a case of who scores lowest.

It should be an absolute cracker. But four great teams, I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

Hopefully you're going to eat something disgusting, as well. Surely.

Thanks very much indeed. All our questions on Pointless have been put to 100 people before the show.

We are looking for obscure answers they didn't get. To stay in the game for a chance to win our jackpot,

all our contestants have to do is score as few points as they possibly can.

What everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer, this is an answer none of our 100 people gave,

and each time that happens, we will add 250 quid to the jackpot.

As today's show's a celebrity special and each celebrity is playing for a nominated charity,

we start off with a jackpot of £2,500.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

OK, in this first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer with your partner.

The pair with highest score will be eliminated. If you give me an incorrect answer,

you will score the maximum of 100 points, so try and avoid those if you can.

OK, our first category is...

Cartoons. 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.

-On each pass, we're going to show you the names of seven cartoon characters.

Just tell us which animal each of these cartoon characters is, please.

We'll show you seven cartoon characters. Pick the most obscure and give us a correct answer.

There'll be 14 in all in this round to guess at home.

-Very best of luck.

-OK. Scott and Austin, you all drew lots before the show and you are going to go first.

So we are looking for the types of animal that these cartoon characters are.

And we have got on our first board...

I'll read those all one last time.

-Scott.

-I know a couple of them.

Er... Shall I go for one of the not so obvious? I go for the biggest?

You want to go for the lowest-scoring one you think you can get.

Yeah. I know what to do, it's just doing it.

LAUGHTER

Is Bullwinkle, is he a moose?

"Is Bullwinkle a moose?" asks Scott. Let's see if he is, and if it is,

how many people knew that answer. Bullwinkle, moose.

-Absolutely right.

-I reckon it'll be a high score.

Ooh, it's not bad, Scott. 24. Not bad at all.

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-24 for moose.

Well played, Scott. That's a very good start. Created by Alexander Anderson Jr.

He created it when he had a dream that he'd played poker with some friends and a moose.

-Fair enough.

-Named after Bullwinkle Motors, which he'd passed and thought was funny.

-Good. Now then, Rowland.

-Yes.

-Rowland.

-Uh-huh!

-ULRIKA LAUGHS

-What do you want?

-An answer.

-OK!

Just the most obscure answer you can find on that board.

Well, I think all of those are fairly well known,

apart from one, which is Hobbes.

And I think he's either a horse or a dog.

Hobbes is a dog!

-He's definitely a horse, then.

-OK, let's find out.

Dog. Is Hobbes a dog?

Let's find out. How many of our 100 said dog?

-No!

-Oh!

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, Rowland. That scores you 100 points.

-Oh, God!

-Thank you!

-Oh, God.

-Thank you!

-APPLAUSE

-I have to say, that's quicker than I expected.

-Yeah.

-Oh, you've gone for a mealworm. That's a millipede, in fact.

-Is it?

-Yeah.

-Oh, God.

-It's not very big.

-Mm! It's very nice!

-It's just a dried baked bean!

-It's actually...

That's really... fine.

-APPLAUSE

-Fine.

-And there's plenty more where they came from.

-Now then, Tony.

I think most of them are quite... Speedy Gonzales...

-Don't give any answers away.

-No, no. I can't.

-LAUGHTER

I think it might be rather a high score, but I think Alvin is a chipmunk.

A chipmunk, says Tony.

Let's see if Alvin is a chipmunk, and if it is, how many people said it.

Absolutely right.

-68. Ooh, that is high.

-APPLAUSE

-Not bad.

-Yeah, correct answer, Tony. Much better than scoring 100.

Alvin and the Chipmunks created in the 50s. There are now movies.

Tim, you're the last person to have this board. You can talk us through it. Fill in all the gaps.

Right, OK. I agree with Rowland. I think Hobbes is perhaps the most obscure one.

And it would be a bit of a guess, but I think I'm going to end up plumping with Hobbes,

from a cartoon called Calvin and Hobbes, I think.

And it's a cat, I think. I think Dumbo's too obvious.

-Am I allowed to go through them?

-Yeah, go through them.

Dumbo's an elephant. Garfield's obvious, it's a cat.

Simba's a lion. I'm not sure about Speedy Gonzales. Is it some sort of roadrunner?

Anyway, I'm going to go for Hobbes, cat.

Oh, no. What a disaster.

OK, you're going Hobbes, cat. Thanks.

LAUGHTER

I thought it was right.

-It's a kind of cat.

-Let's see if it's up there.

OK, let's see if it's a cat, and if it is, how many people said cat. It's not a cat.

-No, it's not a cat.

-Oh, Tim!

I'm afraid, Tim, it's an incorrect answer,

-which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

-I thought it was a cat, too.

-Here we go.

-This time I'm going to have a...

-Why don't you try a baked cockroach?

-I'm going to have a cricket.

I'm going to have a baked cricket. Look at that. All right, here we go.

-Ooh, it's nice!

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

That is quite nice. It's been slightly curried.

This isn't working as well as I'd hoped. LAUGHTER

-That's actually fine.

-Yeah, unlucky, Tim.

Not as bad a wrong answer as Rowland's. It's a tiger.

-And I'm afraid cat is...

-I just feel sorry for my charity,

-the Tony Blackburn Memorial Fund.

-LAUGHTER

-A tiger?

-Yeah.

Let's take a look. And very much the best answer up there.

You were right to have a punt at it. Would've scored seven points.

Dumbo was an elephant. That would've scored you 89 points.

Would've been 11 better than 100, but still...

Garfield is a cat. Another big scorer. 82.

Simba is a lion, would've scored you 73.

And the third best answer on the board, Speedy Gonzales,

he's not a roadrunner, he's a mouse. The fastest mouse in all Mexico.

-Would've scored you 40 points.

-OK.

We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

They best score of that pass was yours, Scott. Brilliant answer.

24. Lovely low score.

We go up from 24 to 68, where we find Tony and David.

And then up to 100, where we find Tim and Karen and Rowland and Ulrika.

So, yes, Karen and Ulrika, it's between the pair of you.

We come back down the line. Second players, take your places.

OK, we're going to put seven more cartoon characters on the board and here they come. We have got...

I'll read them one last time.

There we are. Remember, we are looking for the types of animals that these characters are.

Karen, you're the high scorers. You need to find a really low-scoring one.

-The one the fewest of our 100 people knew.

-I think I know them all apart from one.

So to think of the most obscure one...

I'm going to go for Penfold as a mole.

Penfold a mole, says Karen. Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how many people said it.

Normally there'd be a red line for you, but you're the high scorers, so there is none. Is Penfold a mole?

-No!

-Oh, no!

-I was sure he was a mole!

Oh, my God! We're part of the 200 club. That is what I wanted.

Either the 200 club or winning.

-Well, it's been a complete disaster.

-That scores 100,

-takes you up to 200. The 200 club also. Oh...

-Go on.

You like it. LAUGHTER

Why don't you try a giant ant?

-What, in one of these?

-Yeah.

Oh, God.

Mm.

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Bad luck, yeah. 200 points. Richard.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Karen. I thought he was a mole, as well, if I'm absolutely honest. He's not.

-What is he, then?

-I'll tell you at the end of the round in case anyone else wants to have a crack.

-Oh, yeah.

David. The high scorers on 200 are Karen and Tim. They're out of your reach.

Even if you score 100 points, you'll never overtake them.

So you are through to the next round. But I think you might have a good answer.

Well, I'm going to go for Bambi, which as I remember was a very lovable little baby deer.

OK, deer, says David for Bambi.

Let's see if Bambi was a deer. No red line for you. You're already through.

He's right. Ooh! 89.

-There we go.

-APPLAUSE

That takes your total up to 157.

A big score, but a correct answer. It's all you need to do given that they've scored 100 around you.

-So now then, Ulrika.

-Hello.

-Here we go. The high scorers are Karen and Tim on 200. You're on 100.

A score of 99 or less gets you into the next round.

Is...

-..Pepe Le Pew...

-Mm.

-..a skunk?

-Pepe Le Pew, a skunk.

There is your red line, Ulrika, right at the very top.

If you get below that, you are through to the next round.

Is Pepe Le Pew a skunk? How many people said it if it is?

It's right! You're through! Well done.

-47. Good answer, Ulrika. 47.

-APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 147.

Well played, Ulrika. Good answer and a low answer. He's a French skunk.

-He is. They're the worst.

-Aren't they, though?

-Aren't they?

Won an Oscar, Pepe Le Pew.

-Did he?

-Yeah. Well, not him, the cartoon he was in. He's not real.

Interesting. Interesting.

Thank you very much. Now then, Austin.

You're through to the next round. Even if you score 100 points,

you won't overtake the high score of Karen and Tim.

I thought Penfold was a mole, as well, but...

Can we go for Santa's Little Helper, which is a dog.

Santa's Little Helper. Is it a dog? Let's find out.

Ah, look at that! Yes, it's right. There you go.

-33.

-APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 57. You're through to the next round.

Well played, Austin. Good answer. A greyhound adopted by the Simpsons, of course.

Let's discover what Penfold is.

-So you think he's a mole?

-I'm sure he's a mole, but I know he's not,

-so I'll go with mouse.

-Hamster?

-Penfold is a hamster.

-OK, fair enough.

-Let's let that lie.

Would've scored nine points. Very well done to anyone who got that because nobody, it turns out,

knows what kind of animal Penfold is. Tweety Pie is a bird. Would've scored 79.

Yogi is a bear. Yogi Bear. 92.

-The best answer on the board is Arthur Read.

-Ferret.

-He's from that cartoon Arthur that's always on CBBC.

-Oh, it is him!

-Yeah.

-It is him.

-Do you know what animal he is?

-It's going to begin with an A, isn't it?

-Arthur the...

-It might do.

-Arachnid.

-Arthur...

-Anteater?

If we went through every single word in the English dictionary, it wouldn't take very long to get him.

-Aardvark.

-Aardvark. Absolutely right.

Would've scored you two points. And the round has finished!

Phew! Excellent. Thank you very much, Richard.

At the end of our first round, our losing pair with a high score of 200,

-Karen and Tim.

-I'm so devastated.

-This is very much against the grain.

-I thought you were going to be with us...

-Karen's driven from Aberdeen!

-Can't believe it.

-Unbelievable.

-200?

-The whole family have come down with me.

-Aww.

-Oh, Karen and Tim, it's been lovely having you on the show. Thanks for playing.

It's been brilliant having you. Thanks. Great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining three celebrity pairs, it's now time for round two.

Obviously, there's only room for two pairs in our head-to-head round,

so one of these pairs will be leaving us at the end of this round.

Very best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for round two is...

Capital cities. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

And whoever's going first, step up to the podium.

OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many capital cities beginning with... as they could. Richard.

In a moment, Xander's going to show you six letters of the alphabet.

We need you to tell us any capital city of the world that begins with one of those six letters, please.

So the capital city of any country, that capital beginning with one of the six letters you're about to see.

By country, we mean a member of the UN that is a sovereign state. Very, very best of luck.

OK. Now, let's reveal the six letters. Here they are.

There we are. Scott, capital cities beginning with any of these six letters.

A nice obscure one.

Erm... can we have cartoon characters again?

-LAUGHTER

-A lot easier.

-Er, Oslo.

-Oslo, says Scott. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 said Oslo.

-48. That's not bad.

-APPLAUSE

-48 for Oslo.

-Well played, Scott.

It can be tough on that first podium, so good answer. Capital of Norway, Oslo. Used to be call Kristiania.

Ulrika.

-Yes?

-A capital city beginning with any of these letters.

-OK.

Er, A, Ankara.

Ankara. OK, let's see if Ankara is right, and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Ankara.

Absolutely right.

Ooh, it's a lovely low score.

-Nine! Very well done!

-Well done!

-APPLAUSE

Yeah, well played, Ulrika. Very good answer. Capital of Turkey, of course.

-Used to be called Angora, which is where we get the goat and the rabbit from.

-Oh!

-The goat and the rabbit.

Yep. The Angora goat and the Angora rabbit.

-David.

-Yes.

-What's the most obscure capital city

beginning with any of these letters you can think of?

I fancied an A, as well, and I'm going to take a bit of a flyer here

and say Addis Ababa.

Addis Ababa, says David. Addis Ababa.

Let's see if Addis Ababa is right, and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it.

Absolutely right.

Oh, well done, David! Brilliant answer there! Four!

-APPLAUSE

-Four for Addis Ababa.

Yeah, terrific answer, David. The capital of Ethiopia, of course.

-Its name means new flower.

-That's nice.

Although Addis Ababa is nicer than new flower, even.

In many ways, yeah. Nicer still now we know what it means. So thank you.

-It's my pleasure.

-Listen, well done.

Now, we're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

Best score of the pass was David. David and Tony looking very strong indeed on four.

Up to nine, where we find Ulrika and Rowland.

And then up to 48, where we find Scott and Austin.

Austin, you know what you have to do. A really good, low-scoring answer from you

and maybe it'll be enough to keep you in the game.

We'll come back down the line. Second players, take your places at the podium.

OK, we're looking for capital cities beginning with P, O, L, A, N or D.

Tony, you're on four. You're the low scorers thanks to David.

The high scorers on 48 are Austin and Scott. If you can score 43 or less, you're through.

Er, this is a difficult round, this one. Challenging one, this.

Erm... I think it's a country, but Andorra I'm going to go for.

Tony's going to say Andorra. There is your red line.

If you get below that red line, you are through to the next round.

But Andorra has to be right. How many people said it?

Bad luck, Tony. That's an incorrect answer, which scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 104. But thanks to David's brilliant answer,

that might be enough still to keep you in the game. We'll see. Richard.

-Sorry, Tony. Andorra is a country.

-Yeah.

Now then, Rowland. The high scorers are now Tony and David on 104. You're on nine.

If you can score 94 or less, you're through to the next round.

Good lord. OK, well, erm, I'm not beating about the bush. I'm going to go L, Lisbon.

Lisbon, says Rowland. Here comes your red line.

-Nice and high. If you get below that red line, you're in the head-to-head.

-Thank you!

Lisbon. Is it right? How many people said it?

Absolutely right, and you're through.

-23 for Lisbon.

-APPLAUSE

-Takes your total up to 32.

-Well played, Rowland.

Good answer. The capital of Portugal. A very beautiful city, as well.

Mm. Now then, Austin.

The high scorers are Tony and David on 104.

You're on 48. If you score 55 or less,

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

I've got two. I think one might be above 55,

which is a bit of a risk, which is an A,

and one that I'm not 100 percent sure on, but I think will be below the line.

-What do you reckon?

-Go for it.

We'll go for Lima in Peru.

Lima, says Austin. Lima. There's your red line.

-Below the red line, you stay with us.

-I'm not 100 percent.

Let's see if Lima's right, and if it is, how many of our 100 said Lima.

Yep, absolutely right. Very well done.

And you're through.

-15.

-APPLAUSE

15 takes your total up to 63, sees you into the next round. Richard.

Yeah, great answer, Austin. Very well played. Capital of Peru.

Was founded in 1535. Used to be called the City of Kings.

There were lots of big scorers. These would've got you less than 25.

Dublin, Amsterdam, Prague, Athens.

There's some big scorers but there's loads of pointless answers here.

I'm sure some people would've got some of these at home. Let's take a look.

Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Accra, that is Ghana.

Doha, which is the capital of Qatar.

Lome, that's the capital of Togo.

Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. Niamey, the capital of Niger.

Ouagadougou, which is the best name of any capital city in the world, that's the capital of Burkina Faso.

Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

And the second-best named capital, Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea.

Loads of other pointless answers. Ashgabat, Asmara, Libreville,

-Luanda, Lusaka. Very well done if you said any of those.

-My mum was born in Lusaka.

-LAUGHTER

-Was she?

-Yeah.

-Shame on you.

-Your mum was born in Lusaka?

-My mum was born in Lusaka, yeah.

Let's take a look at the top three answers that most of our 100 people said.

Oslo, 48, the third highest answer of all. Scott gave us that.

Paris, 71. Now, how many people do you think said London?

-It's going to be short of 100 I think, surely.

-It's 82.

-What?

-82.

18 people, when asked to name a capital beginning with L, went,

"Oh... There's Lima. I know that.

"I know Lima. My mum was born in Lusaka, so I'm going to say Lusaka.

-And that's me done."

-Yeah.

-Interesting. 82, London.

-My dad was born in Andorra when it was the capital.

LAUGHTER

The capital of Andorra actually would've been a very good answer,

-would've scored two points, it's called Andorra la Vella.

-Ah.

But when you got your wrong answer, we didn't make Xander eat something.

-Ah, yes!

-Cos in the joy of the round, we forgot.

-Ah, funny, we forgot.

-I can't believe that's four things you've had to eat now.

-Been left under a strong light, have they?

-Hm.

-Do you want any kangaroo bits?

-No, these are fine. This is a cricket.

-Mm.

-It's not, it's a dried baked bean.

APPLAUSE

And I promise, if you watch this show during the week,

we don't make anyone eat anything. Although, perhaps we should start.

No, I think it's fine. Brilliant. Thanks very much, Richard.

At the end of round two, our losing pair with a high score of 104,

it's Tony and David. And a great answer, Addis Ababa.

And you were so nearly right, Tony. You could've scored only two.

-Well, it would've been nice.

-Yeah.

-But I think, in football parlance, it's an early bath.

-Yeah.

Well, it's been lovely having you on the show. Tony and David, thanks so much for playing.

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But for the remaining two pairs, things get more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations, Scott and Austin, Rowland and Ulrika,

you're now only one round away from the final

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

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You're now going to go head-to-head and the first pair to win two questions will play for our jackpot.

You're now allowed to confer. How's it gone? How you feeling, Rowland, Ulrika?

You did pretty well there. Ankara, cracking answer.

-SHE LAUGHS

-Pepe Le Pew, unbelievable!

-The skunk!

-The skunk that stinks.

I think the answer was in the name. Pepe Le Pew.

-Pew!

-Oh, I see. Yeah. Pew mean phew in French, does it?

Well, I have absolutely no idea, and I'm happy in that knowledge.

-Yes.

-Scott and Austin,

very well done there. Fantastic answers. Lima.

-Skin of our teeth.

-Well, Lima. You're the lowest scorers on aggregate.

Lima was OK, but not remembering the birthplace of my mother

-was probably a little bit worse.

-You weren't there, though.

-No, I wasn't.

-Fair enough. Very best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

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Here comes your first question and it concerns...

-SHE LAUGHS

-People born in 1952. Richard.

That's right. We're going to show you five pictures of famous people born in 1952,

the year the queen ascended to the throne. Can you identify the most obscure of these five people?

Let's reveal our five people born in 1952. And here they come. We have got...

There we are. Five people born in 1952.

Now then, Scott and Austin, you've played best throughout the show so far so you go first.

I think the two obvious are going to be... I'm not going to say the names, just the letters.

-The two obvious are going to be C, D and maybe E.

-Yeah.

-If you know A, you're going to win.

-Shall we go for B?

-Do you know A?

-Do I? No.

-Do you know A, Ulrika?

-LAUGHTER

-I think we'll have to go for...

-Yeah. I think we'll go for B.

-Yeah. Jimmy Connors.

Er, B, Jimmy Connors.

B, Jimmy Connors. Now then, Rowland and Ulrika.

Erm, I would've gone for A or E.

And, er, I think I'm going to...

I think we are going to go out on a limb

-and go for A...

-Ulrika has decided.

-Is it Hilary Mantel?

-Hilary Mantel. Jimmy Connors, Hilary Mantel.

-Oh, my God, I might be completely wrong.

So Scott and Austin said Jimmy Connors for B. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, how many people said Jimmy Connors for B.

It's absolutely right.

-26.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Rowland and Ulrika have said Hilary Mantel for A.

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

It's right!

It's right and you've done it! Very well done.

-Oh, one!

-Well done!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed. One for Hilary Mantel.

Which means Rowland and Ulrika, after one question, you are up one-nil. Richard.

Well played, Ulrika. Terrific answer. The author of Wolf Hall and Bringing Up The Bodies, the sequel.

Best answer on the board, that. And what were you going to say for E?

-Isabella Rossellini.

-Absolutely right. That's the second-best answer.

Would've scored you nine points.

B, Jimmy Connors. C, Sharon Osbourne, would've scored you 64.

And let's see if Hasselhoff beat Osbourne.

-David Hasselhoff, 80. He does indeed.

-Wow.

-Good answer.

-Good answer indeed. So, here comes your second question.

Scott and Austin, you have to win this to stay in the game. Good luck.

It concerns...

-Richard.

-We're going to show you the titles of five novels

written by Tom Clancy featuring the character Jack Ryan,

but we've left out a word from each title. Can you fill in the gaps and pick the most obscure?

OK. Thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five Jack Ryan novels

with missing words, and here they come.

I'll read those again.

-And Rowland and Ulrika, you go first this time.

-Really?

-You're sure with... Hunt For Red... Yeah?

-Yes.

-OK.

-No, I mean, if...

-No. No, cos we both think that's right.

-Yeah.

-Ha!

-SHE LAUGHS

We think it's Hunt For Red October.

The Hunt For Red October, say Rowland and Ulrika.

Scott and Austin, the board's yours. Talk us through it.

Austin, talk us through it!

Clear And Present Danger. We're not going for that.

Did he write Red Heat? I think we're going to have to go for Clear And Present Danger

cos I'm not sure of the other ones.

-We need one.

-Is it The Sum Of All Hearts?

-No, we're not going with that one cos you don't know.

-Clear And Present Danger.

Clear And Present Danger, say Scott And Austin. Rowland and Ulrika have gone for The Hunt For Red October.

Let's see if that's right. How many people said it?

-82.

-APPLAUSE

82. And Scott and Austin have said Clear And Present Danger. Let's see if that's right.

Will it beat 82 if it is?

Absolutely right. And, yes, it does. Very well done.

Down it goes. 57.

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Very well done. That's exactly what you had to do, Scott and Austin.

You're back in the game. After two questions, it's one-all. Richard.

-Well played, guys. If you had gone for The Sum Of All, what would you have gone for?

-Is it Hearts or Evil?

You'd be going home. It's The Sum Of All Fears.

That would've scored you 29 points.

The other two are the best two answers on the board,

so very well done anyone at home who got either of these.

Rainbow Six. That would've scored ten points.

And Red is the best answer on the board. It's Red Rabbit,

which would've scored you four. We'd have been here all day guessing that.

Mm. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Here comes your third question. This is the decider. Whoever wins this

goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot for their charities.

The third question concerns...

Back To The Future films. Richard.

Yeah, the winner of this point is going through to play for the jackpot round, so best of luck.

We're going to show you five clues to facts about the Back To The Future trilogy.

Which of these answers is the most obscure?

Thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five clues to facts about Back To The Future. And here we have them.

I'll read those one more time.

Now then, Scott and Austin, you go first again this time.

I could take a good guess at the first one, we know the second one, which is pretty obvious.

-And the last...

-And we know the last two.

BOTH: What?

-So...

-Let's not go for the one in the middle, then.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

-Name of the town... I think we should go for the dog.

-I think so, too.

-OK.

-OK.

We'll go for the dog and he was called Einstein.

The dog was called Einstein, say Scott and Austin.

Now then, Rowland and Ulrika, take us through the board.

Ah, that'll be quick.

The year in which part 1 initially started, I thought it was about mid-70s. 76.

-No. All right.

-50s.

-Is it? No, he goes back to the 50s.

-OK, 19...

-No, but hang on.

-Marty McFly I think is the baddie in it.

-Yes, he is.

-I'm not sure. I might be wrong. Town where the film's set, no idea.

-McFly!

-Yeah.

Dog, they've got that. So I think we can only go for the bottom one,

which is the car.

-And it is?

-A DeLorean.

-DeLorean, say Rowland and Ulrika.

Scott and Austin have said Einstein was the dog. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

Absolutely right.

-12!

-APPLAUSE

12 for Einstein the dog.

Brilliant low score there.

Will DeLorean, the make of car, beat 12, I wonder?

Let's find out how many people said DeLorean.

It's right.

-Ahh!

-49.

-APPLAUSE

Very well done. Scott and Austin, after three questions, you are through to the final 2-1.

Yeah, Einstein was a terrific answer. Well done.

There's only one answer that would've beaten it. Let's go through all of them.

-The year in which it initially starts.

-'85.

-You'd have gone for '85.

-You'd have gone for...

-'76.

-80-something.

-'85 is the correct answer.

Would've scored 14 points. Marty McFly, he's the hero, not the baddie.

-Oh, is he?

-Oh, it's Michael...

-Michael J Fox.

Would've only scored 33 points, though, so quite a low score.

And the best answer was the name of the town where the films were set. Hill Valley.

-Oh, yeah!

-Hill Valley.

-Would've scored four points.

Very well done anyone at home who got Hill Valley. That's a terrific answer.

Thanks very much indeed. So our losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, Rowland and Ulrika.

-Aww!

-You did so well, though. Hilary Mantel, brilliant answer

in that first question. And, yeah, not bad answers at all.

Correct answers all the way through. Brilliant scoring throughout the show.

-I'm sorry we have to say goodbye, but it's been brilliant having you.

-Thank you for having us.

-Rowland and Ulrika.

-Thank you!

-APPLAUSE

-But for Scott and Austin, it's now time for our Pointless final.

-APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Scott and Austin. You've fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

So, you now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your nominated charities.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £2,500.

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Well, here you are! You've done fantastically! We've thrown everything at you.

-Come sailing through. How was it?

-Tough.

-THEY LAUGH

-I'm glad I answered most of them. But, er...

-I think we've done a lot for Anglo-Welsh rugby relations.

Yeah. I've never been this close enough to catch you,

-which is quite nice.

-Unfortunately, you're close enough to hit me.

Well, good luck. The rules are very simple.

To win the money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer. We haven't had any today.

You only have to find one now and you will leave with that money for your charities.

First you've got to choose a category. Your choices are these.

80s music we'd be OK on.

We'd be all right on 80s?

Me, I'm not all right on any music.

I'm thinking 80s music or Formula 1.

-I'm hopeless at music.

-Are you?

-Yeah. And I'm not great at Formula 1.

-Right.

Shall we choose two others, then?

Shall we go Formula 1 or 80s music?

-Are you good at 80s music?

-Let's go 80 music.

-80s music.

OK. Best of luck. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many acts who had a UK number one album in the 1980s as they could.

Acts who had a UK number one album in the 1980s. Richard.

We're looking for any act who had a number one UK album

between January 1980 and December 1989, please.

Any act who had a UK number one album. Very best of luck.

OK, you now have up to one minute to come up with three answers

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

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

-OK.

-Adam And The Ants.

-Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

-Yeah.

Adam Ant. Deacon Blue. INXS.

-Er... Simple Minds.

-Bananarama.

-Would they be number one? Album?

-Album?

-Yeah. Album, number one.

Er... Bucks Fizz.

Yeah, that could be a good one. Did they go to number one with an album?

-They probably did.

-Probably did, yeah.

-Er, Queen.

-Erasure.

Erm... The Police.

Erasure. Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Jimmy Somerville, what was his band called?

The Com... Commodores. Commodores?

-Erm...

-Erm...

# Don't leave me this way # He sang that.

-Right, I think we'll go Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Erasure and...

-Adam And The Ants.

OK, that's your time up.

We were looking for acts who had a UK number one album in the 1980s.

-I now need your three answers.

-So, we'll go for Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

-Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

-Erasure.

-Erasure.

-Adam And The Ants.

-And Adam And The Ants.

-That's the only one I ever bought in the 80s.

-That was the first thing I thought of.

-Brilliant.

-After what you've been eating, that's why.

-HE LAUGHS

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

Er, I think maybe Adam And The Ants.

OK, we'll put them last. Which is your least likely?

-Erasure.

-OK, Erasure we'll put first and Frankie in the middle.

OK, let's put those up on the board in that order, and here they are. We have got...

OK, we were looking for any act that had a UK number one album in the 1980s.

Erasure was your first answer. You said this was your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot,

£2,500 for your charities. What are your charities? Scott?

-Mine's Make A Wish Foundation.

-Excellent.

-Mine's the Rainbow Children's Trust.

-Very good indeed.

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Well, very, very best of luck.

Three brilliant answers there. Surely one of those will win that jackpot for those charities.

Let's see. Your first answer, Erasure.

Is it right? Is it pointless?

It's right.

It's right. If this goes all the way down to zero,

you are leaving here with £2,500 for your charities.

Down it goes into single figures. Still going down!

-Oh!

-Oh, you're having a laugh!

-APPLAUSE

-One!

-That's not fair!

One. Oh, that's a brilliant answer, though.

-And that was your first one. Your least likely you thought to be pointless.

-Wait till I find them!

Wait till I find them!

Oh, I tell you.

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer. You only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Frankie Goes To Hollywood, your next answer.

We're looking for acts that had a UK number one album in the 1980s.

This has to be right and it has to be pointless. If it's both, you leave with £2,500.

How many people said Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

It's right.

Now then, Erasure took us all the way down to one.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood is taking us down into the 20s, into the teens,

into single figures, down it goes! Still going down!

-Whoa! One again!

-APPLAUSE

I'm not having this!

It's the same fella.

I tell you what, two brilliant answers. One!

-You didn't ask Tony Blackburn, did you? Unbelievable.

-LAUGHTER

OK, so only one more chance to win today's jackpot.

OK, we're looking for acts that had a UK number one album in the 1980s.

Your third and final answer, your most confident answer, was Adam And The Ants.

-Last chance.

-This is Scott's answer.

-It's a good answer, it's a great answer.

-Thank you.

To win that jackpot of £2,500, it has to be pointless.

Let's find out. Did anyone say Adam And The Ants? Good luck.

It's right.

So Erasure took us down to one.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood took us down to one.

Adam And The Ants, down it goes, into single figures!

If this takes us to zero, you leave with...

Oh! No!

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Who is this person?

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer.

I'm really sorry. Three fantastic answers. I can't believe they weren't pointless.

You don't win today's jackpot of £2,500. But you do go home with a Pointless trophy each.

-So very well done.

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And as it's a celebrity special,

we are going to donate 500 quid to each celebrity pair for their charities.

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That is tough luck, guys. We've done about 400 of these shows.

That's the second time I've ever seen someone get one, one and one. That is terrifically unlucky.

A couple of your answers were close to pointless.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood wasn't a pointless answer but Holly Johnson had a solo number one in the '80s,

he was a pointless answer. And Vince Clarke from Erasure,

his other band Yazoo also would've been a pointless answer.

During the minute, you did mention a pointless answer, Deacon Blue.

Deacon Blue? But they're massive!

They're brilliant. Dignity is the best song ever written.

I'm going to say 100 people disagreed with you.

We can look into the stats of 100 people, I can tell you those three people were all different people.

So we're after three of them now.

Exactly. There are so many pointless answers here.

I'll try and get through a few of them, and you're going to know most of the names, as well.

So let's just get it over with, shall we?

AC/DC, Back In Black in 1981.

-Barbra Streisand.

-Eurythmics?

-Eurythmics had two number one albums in the 80s, was a pointless answer.

Five Star, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney had four number one albums in the 80s.

He was a pointless answer. John Lennon was also pointless.

Status Quo had an album called 1982 in 1982.

Tears For Fears had two number one albums. The Beach Boys.

There's loads of others, Alison Moyet, Barry Manilow, Def Leppard,

ELO, Holly Johnson we've heard,

Iron Maiden, Lionel Richie, New Order, Paul Simon,

-you could have had Pink Floyd, Prince...

-Communards?

-..Sade, Shakin' Stevens. No Communards.

No Bronski Beat, which was Jimmy Somerville's other band.

Soul II Soul, The Smiths, The Style Council, Thompson Twins, T'Pau,

-Tracy Chapman, Transvision Vamp, all of those pointless answers.

-Bangles?

-The Bangles not there.

-No? Cut that out, then.

-At least that's something.

But lots of pointless answers. Very well done if you said those at home.

Genuinely the most unlucky I've ever seen anyone be on this show.

-That makes it all right, then.

-Tough luck.

Yeah! And Eurythmics a pointless answer and Erasure not?

-I can't believe that.

-Very strange. Well, we have to say goodbye to you.

It's been brilliant having you on the show. Thank you both so much for playing.

-Excellent contestants.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So all that remains is for me to say thank you to all our celebrity pairs,

Tim and Karen, Tony and David, Rowland and Ulrika,

and, of course, our brilliant finalists, Scott and Austin.

Join us next time when we'll put more obscure knowledge to the test.

-Meanwhile it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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