Chefs Pointless Celebrities

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and a very warm welcome to this

special celebrity edition of Pointless -

the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

Couple number one!

I'm Rustie Lee, you might have seen me on TV-am all those years ago,

and I do a lot of cooking.

With me today is the lovely Anthony Worrall Thompson, who is fantastic.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Couple number two!

My name's Theo and this is my friend Rachel, and we're both cooks.

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

Putting it mildly!

And couple number three.

I'm Jean-Christophe Novelli and this is my dear friend, Paul Rankin,

who has been, for the first time ever,

a Michelin Star chef in Belfast, and Northern Ireland.

-Very good indeed.

-AUDIENCE: Woo!

And our fourth and final couple.

OK, my name's Aaron Craze, I presented Junior Bake Off,

I'm also a chef.

-This is John Whaite, he won Bake Off, the adult one.

-Oh, yes.

More grown up than me.

-But, yeah, we're the Bake Off...

-The Bake Off Boys.

-Very good indeed.

-Like Jedward, but better hair.

And these, ladies and gentlemen, are today's Pointless celebrities,

we'll be finding out more about all of you throughout the show.

There's only one person left to introduce.

He's so smart that when he agreed to donate his brain

to medical science last week

they immediately started building a bigger lab.

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

-Hiya.

Hi, everybody. Hiya.

Ahhh. So, chefs, what a load of talent we've got here.

Who's cooking though?

LAUGHTER

Do you ever get the sense that Rustie might be trouble?

Always.

-I've always had that sense.

-I'll need to keep an eye on her.

Luckily, she's got Anthony with her.

Yes.

I'm slightly in awe, I know there's an awful lot of Michelin Stars here

and I know they're difficult to get, I get it.

It takes a while to get a Michelin Star -

but John won Great British Bake Off!

Come on!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Amazing. Amazing. And a deserved winner, as well.

Absolutely, and of course we've had Mary and Paul on the show.

Yeah, but we put them through the mill. Don't you worry about that.

Good, good.

So it should be a cracker, and the first round, I thought,

because we've got a lot of chefs, I'd do a food first round.

Then I thought, "No, you know what? I won't."

LAUGHTER

-So it's tangentially related to food, but not a food question.

-Excellent.

Well, all our questions on Pointless have been put

to 100 people before the show, our Pointless celebrities here

must find the obscure answers our 100 people didn't get.

Everyone's looking to find a pointless answer,

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 is a celebrity special,

each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity,

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

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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

OK, in this round I'll take an answer from each of you,

but there's no conferring.

Whichever pair has the highest score at the end of the round

will be eliminated, so try and make sure that's not you.

OK, our first category today is...

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

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

Our question concerns...

-A food question, you see.

-It's kind of food.

-Yeah.

On each pass I'm going to give you the titles of

seven different films, but I'm going to leave a word out of each title

and that word is a food or foodstuff.

Can you give us the most obscure film you see, please?

Give us a nice obscure answer, you'll score fewer points,

give us a wrong answer and you'll score 100 points.

There's going to be 14 films to guess at home, good luck.

OK, thanks very much. So, we are looking for the foods

that complete these film titles, and here is our first board.

I'll read those all again.

-OK, now then, Rustie.

-Oh...

Rustie, welcome to Pointless, it's lovely to have you here.

Thank you so much. Can I have the answers?

LAUGHTER

What are you up to at the moment, Rustie?

Well, I've been extremely busy

sorting so many different things out, I'm doing cookery demos,

I've had a new hip done, I'm all over the place!

-How is the hip, is it all right?

-It's all right now!

The hips, for a chef, are going to take a bit of punishment.

You need the hips!

What about...?

Can I go with James and the Giant...

Is it a peach or something like that?

-You're going to go for James and the Giant...

-Peach.

Peach, says Rustie, let's see if it's right,

and if it is let's see how many of our 100 people

said James and the Giant Peach.

Come on. It's not moving!

LAUGHTER

It is now! Oh, 89.

-ANTHONY:

-We're out, we're out.

See you! Bye!

And to think I thought Rustie was going to be trouble.

-Couldn't be more wrong.

-89.

-Yeah, it's a right answer though, better than scoring 100.

-True.

James and the Giant Peach, based on the Roald Dahl story.

Thank you. Theo.

-Hello.

-Welcome to Pointless, great to have you here.

Of course you have your own restaurant on Park Lane,

you've had it for some years now. Also a Michelin Starred chef.

-That's correct.

-Very good indeed.

Now then, how are you on food-related film titles?

Well, I'm trying to find the least obvious one,

and the only one I can think of... Well, there's a few I can think of,

but I'm going to go for A Fish Called Wanda.

A Fish Called Wanda, says Theo.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 said A Fish Called Wanda.

Oh! Ee-oh! Wow.

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

I tell you what, that's right, Theo.

Only two better than wrong, though. 98 that scores you.

Well, I'll say what I said to Rustie, it's better than 100.

LAUGHTER

-High score, isn't it?

-That's a MASSIVE score.

I was thinking people would have forgotten about that.

-A Fish Called Wanda?

-Yeah.

-That's higher than UK Prime Ministers score.

-Yeah, it is, yeah.

OK, there we are.

Jean-Christophe Novelli, welcome, welcome, welcome, great to have you,

also representing the Michelin Starred end of our restaurateurs.

How are you, Jean-Christophe?

I was actually wondering

if there's anything French in the filming...titles.

Well, they certainly have this food in France.

-LAUGHTER

-OK.

I think I pretty much remember my grandmother watching this,

in French, I think it's Duck Soup.

-Duck Soup.

-1933.

Duck Soup. I like the way he adds the date - the date's already there!

-Duck Soup, says Jean-Christophe -

-The one that goes quack-quack, yeah?

That's a duck, yep.

You're not going to get any extra marks for that, but thank you.

Let's see if it's correct,

and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Duck Soup.

-It's absolutely right.

-Yes!

Smashing through the low score of 89.

Oh, Jean-Christophe...

21!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

You've broken into new territory here, Jean-Christophe.

This is almost like a normal round of Pointless. 21, great score.

Terrific answer, Jean-Christophe, well done.

It's a Marx Brothers' film.

Duck soup, is that a thing, guys?

-Oh, we love duck soup.

-For sure.

-Every day we eat duck soup.

LAUGHTER

Aaron, great to have you here.

Obviously you present Junior Bake Off.

-How's that going?

-Really well.

I can't believe how great the kids are.

I couldn't bake a cake when I was ten, they follow the recipes,

they've got their own recipes, it's fantastic.

You trained with Jamie Oliver at 15, didn't you?

-Yeah, ten years ago.

-Now then, Aaron.

can you think of the foods that complete these film titles?

OK, so, I know all of them.

But...

Know what I'm going to go with? Pineapple Express.

OK, Pineapple Express, says Aaron, let's see if that's right,

and if it is let's see how many of our 100 said Pineapple Express.

It's absolutely right.

Boo-ya!

-CHUCKLING:

-Down to 13, very well done indeed.

Best score of the round so far, Aaron, Pineapple Express, 13.

Well played, Aaron, great answer.

also it helps all the people at home

who were thinking, "POLAR Express? "Who's eating polars?"

OK, Aaron, do you want to fill in the rest while we're here?

OK, Children of the Corn.

Absolutely right, would have scored 30 points.

-Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.

-Quite a big score that - 50.

Do you know the other one? Best answer on the board, this.

-Horror film.

-Erm...

-I don't know that one.

-Cherry Falls.

It would have scored 5 points, well done if you said that at home.

Very good, thanks, Richard.

Halfway through the round, let's take a look at the scores.

13 very much the best score, Aaron and John looking very strong.

Then up to 21, where we find Jean-Christophe and Paul.

Up to 89, Rustie and Anthony, and then up to 98, Theo and Rachel.

Cor, high score, wasn't it?

Best of luck, Rachel, we need some very low scoring from you...

-No pressure.

-..to keep you in the game.

We're going to come back down the line, can the second players take their places at the podium?

OK, so we're going to put seven more films on the board with food

missing from their titles, and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Remember we are looking for the foodstuffs

that complete these film titles.

-Now, John.

-Yes.

-John.

What were you doing before the Bake Off?

-I was doing my law degree.

-You finished that?

I finished the finals of my degree during the final

-of the Bake Off, as well, so it was an intense year.

-Wow.

And then I was working in a bank,

and now I'm doing my recipe book for baking, so...

Excellent.

Did you get on as well in your law degree as you did in Bake Off?

I did, I got a first in my degree, yeah.

-APPLAUSE

-What a year. Good stuff.

I think it was the sugar, you know, from the cake,

-it got me through it.

-Anyway,

there you are on 13, the lowest scorers.

The high-scorers at the moment on 98 are Rachel and Theo.

If you can score 84 or less, John,

-you're through to the next round.

-OK.

Well, a lot of these films were before I was even born,

which is quite sad.

I'm going to go for Chicken Run.

Chicken Run you're going to go for, 2000.

Here's your red line.

If you get below it you avoid becoming the new high-scorers.

Chicken Run, let's see if it's right, how many people said it.

Absolutely right - and you're through, very well done.

Ooh, down it goes, 29.

42, your total, John, very well done.

-AARON:

-Law degree!

Well played, John, safely through. It was Aardman's first

full-length feature film, starring Mel Gibson.

-Thanks very much, Richard. Now then, Paul.

-Dude.

Great to have you here, I'm a massive fan of your soda bread.

Good man! I was up all night baking it last night.

I'm a big fan of him calling you "dude".

We don't get that very often.

No, I don't think I've ever been called "dude" ever on this show.

You guys need more dudes, don't you?

Yeah, certainly he needs more dudes(!)

They're cool, but they're kind of square, too, aren't they?

LAUGHTER

You're cool, though, I did say you're cool.

Dude.

Paul, Northern Ireland's first Michelin Star was yours.

Yeah, it was a bit lucky, that, I think.

Actually, just before I got the Michelin Star I was going to

change the whole restaurant, go commercial,

then I got this telephone call, it was my manageress crying,

saying, "We've got a Michelin Star."

And I'm going, "That's no good, we have to change everything!"

So yes, it was a joy to get that, it was great.

Very good, congratulations also on your lovely low score,

courtesy of Jean-Christophe in the first pass.

How are you feeling about this board?

I'm not quite sure what to choose,

because I've been quite surprised by some of the scores.

I'm going to choose one which was quite a small movie

from years ago, the answer's one of

the most popular food things in the world,

so I'm going for Mystic Pizza.

Mystic Pizza, says Paul, let's see if it's right,

and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it.

There is your red line -

get below that, you're through to the next round.

Absolutely right, Mystic Pizza sees you safely through.

38 for Mystic Pizza.

59 your total.

Well played, Paul and Jean Christophe, good team there.

Yeah, set in Mystic, Connecticut.

It's Matt Damon's first ever film, he's got one line in it.

-What's his line?

-He says, "Mom, do you want my green stuff?"

LAUGHTER

There's a good line.

-Not bad, is it?

-Not bad at all.

-Rachel.

-Yes.

Ooh, you're the high-scorers.

-Oh!

-I'm feeling the pressure!

Welcome to the show, Rachel, lovely to have you, how are you feeling?

-Erm, great!

-Are you happy with what we've served up for you so far?

Yeah, I'm OK.

Of course, you're a graduate of the famous Ballymaloe Cookery School.

-Yes.

-Darina Allen's cookery school in Ireland.

What do you get up to when you're not cooking?

Oh, when I'm not cooking I'm thinking about food.

LAUGHTER

-Eating it, talking about it...

-Dreaming up recipes.

-Yes, yeah.

-ANTHONY:

-You need to get a life.

LAUGHTER

No, what do I do? I like eating and drinking with my friends...

I don't know, what do I do?!

-You've got three children.

-Three children, Yes!

There you go! There we are.

Well done. Three children.

Now, we're looking for the foods

that will complete these film titles. How's this as a round?

Are you feeling comfortable with this board?

Yeah, this board I'm slightly better with than the last.

I am going to go for a film that actually I did enjoy,

I'm going to go for Layer Cake.

-Layer Cake?

-Yeah, 2004.

-Ooh, Anthony not pleased with that choice at all.

Layer Cake.

You're the high-scorers, no red line for you, I'm afraid.

Layer Cake, let's see if it's right, let's see how many people said it.

It's right - oh, no!

AUDIENCE: Ohhh

-No.

-LAUGHTER

-Wow.

-I thought that was a slightly obscure film.

I thought it was slightly obscure. 85?! Wow, that's a high score.

I was going to go for Mystic Pizza but then...your man.

Sorry, babe.

-Big score, isn't it?

-85, takes your total up to 183.

That might be the biggest score we've ever had without an incorrect answer in it.

-Yes.

-It's a Daniel Craig film, that was the role

they say persuaded the Bond producers to give him the role of Bond.

Really? And Matthew Vaughn, as well, directing.

-It's a good film, isn't it?

-A cracking film, yeah.

Well, thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, we have a game on our hands, Anthony.

The high-scorers on 183 are Rachel and Theo.

You're on 89, if you can score 93 or less

you're through to the next round.

Talk us through the board.

-Well, I don't watch films.

-Ha!

-That's a good start.

I've stayed at the Hill, I think, if that's the same name.

Em, I'm going to go for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. OK, there is your red line.

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

We've had some very high scores.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Shall we see if it's right and how many people said it?

RUSTIE SCREAMS AND LAUGHS

-APPLAUSE

-Wow.

I don't think I've ever seen that before.

I think that's Pointless history. I've never seen that happen before.

-A correct...

-I thought it was one of the older films!

I thought, "Ah, someone's going to miss it."

A correct answer that scores 100,

100 of our 100 people got that.

That takes your total up to 189.

I think that's slightly more honourable

than getting it wrong and scoring 100.

-Just slightly.

-Oh, that is so funny.

Just after I'd seen the biggest score without an incorrect answer,

it's beaten, how about the 100 points for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids?

That's name recognition.

Now, Anthony, if you had gone for Strawberry Hill...

..you would have just scored 100 points, as well.

It's Hamburger Hill, would have scored 15 points.

And the other two are very low answers -

Canadian Bacon, 8 points, a film directed by Michael Moore,

the only drama he's directed, John Candy's last film.

And very well done to anyone who got I Am The... Any ideas?

-We'll be here all day, it's I Am The Cheese. Anybody?

-Wow.

-One person knew it, I Am The Cheese. Sounds good, though.

-Yeah.

Weirdly, there wasn't an I Am The Cheese 2.

Strange. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our first round the pair who'll be leaving us,

with their high score of 189, is Anthony and Rustie,

I can't believe it!

-Two perfectly acceptable answers...

-Oh!

-It's been lovely, thank you.

-It's been fabulous.

Anthony hasn't even got to use his glasses, he brought them...

and he hasn't even had to put them on - oh, there we are!

Aww, Anthony and Rustie, it's been fabulous having you,

I can't bear to say goodbye to you,

it's a complete waste of your being here.

-No, it isn't. It's been a joy.

-Albeit for only one round,

but thanks so much for playing, Anthony and Rustie.

CHEERING

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

Well, sadly at the end of this round another pair will be leaving us.

Oh, Rachel and Theo, you must have thought that was you last round.

-Layer Cake? 85?

-I was surprised.

Yeah, I was surprised by A Fish Called Wanda, as well.

98 for A Fish Called Wanda, crazy.

One of our highest-scoring rounds ever I think.

-It was pretty high-scoring.

-Yeah. Absurd.

Layer Cake getting 15 less than Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,

-at least, that's something.

-Yeah, that's true.

Wow. Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two is...

-Oh!

-Theo delighted with that, as is Aaron.

Can you decide in your pairs who's going to play first, who's going to play second.

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

OK, so our question concerns...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're about to show you a series of the London 2012

commemorative stamps featuring gold-medal winners from the 2012 Olympics.

We need you to tell us the name of anybody that features

on any of these stamps, please. Apart from the Queen, I guess.

But anybody who features on the stamps you're about to see, very best of luck.

OK, thanks very much. Let's see the stamps, here they are.

There we are, nine stamps there,

and those stamps remain up on the board through the round,

you just have to name any single person who is on those stamps.

-OK, Theo, how do you feel about this?

-Um...

Was that despair at the beginning of the round?

THEO LAUGHS

I think I'm going to go for the top right,

I'm going to go for...Zara Phillips.

Zara Phillips, says Theo, let's see if that's right

and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it.

Ooh. An incorrect answer, Theo, that scores you 100 points.

We'll discover shortly why. Richard.

Yeah, so sorry, Theo, I'll give the correct answer

at the end of the round, in case anyone else wants to have a go.

She was a silver medallist at the 2012 Olympics, not a gold.

Now then, Paul.

Well, I think I've just learned a lesson from Theo,

I think I'll go for the stronger, more obvious ones.

It's just trying to decide which one is the least obvious.

So I'm going to go for Sir Chris Hoy.

Sir Chris Hoy, says Paul.

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

Absolutely right.

-Yes, yes.

-Wow, 34, very well done, Paul.

Very well played, Paul.

Yeah, won his sixth gold medal at the London Olympics.

Now then, Aaron.

Can you name any of these gold medallists from London 2012?

I know...either their second name or one of their first names.

There's a couple there, obviously I know who they are,

but they're going to be the top ones.

The girl that done taekwondo,

I know her first name, I just can't...

for the life of me remember her last name.

I suppose I can't go any worse than Theo.

LAUGHTER

-So...

-You won't score more than that, certainly.

-You know what?

I'm going to have to go for Mo Farah. Because...you know.

-One person might not know who he was.

-OK, you are going to say...

Mo Farah.

OK, let's see if that's right

and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Mo Farah.

Absolutely right.

What?!

-45.

-Are you serious?

45.

-That's a surprise.

-Yeah, he won the 5,000m and 10,000m, Mo Farah.

-But only 45 points.

-Thanks, Richard.

We're halfway through the round, let's take a look at the scores.

34, very much the best score of that pass, Paul, very well done.

Jean-Christophe's job has been made considerably easier by that,

as I would say has John's, as Aaron scored 45.

-Theo and Rachel! Ooh, 100!

-Not good.

Is not good. No, is not good.

-I'll be honest.

-But Theo, it's only two more

than you scored last time, so it could be worse.

-I feel much better now, thank you.

-LAUGHTER

But who knows? It's getting harder with

each of the easy ones being taken off the board.

So, Rachel, if you have a good answer, you never know,

it might be enough to keep you in the game.

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

Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

-OK, now, John?

-Yes.

-John, you're on 45.

The high score is Rachel and Theo on 100. If you can score

-54 or less...

-We're all right?

-You're in.

-Sound, um...

Well, I'm not sporty at all, so this is going to be tricky for me.

So I'm going to have to go for an obvious one

-and I'm going to have to go for Jess Ennis at the top.

-OK.

Jessica Ennis, says John. Here's your red line. Get below that

with Jessica Ennis, you're through to the next round for sure.

Let's see how many people said Jessica Ennis.

It's right.

Ooh, you've done it. Look at that.

31!

-CHEERING

-Come on! Yes!

31 takes your total up to 76.

Jess Ennis heptathlon gold medallist. Sports questions, when we do them,

-they always score much lower than you think, don't they?

-Hmm.

-Always.

People who love sport know everything about it,

and people who don't know anything literally couldn't care less.

Now then, Jean-Christophe...

Jean-Christophe, did you follow the Olympics?

Well, I did try and, um...

But this left me with, er, quite a bit of a tricky situation.

Well, you're on 34,

thanks to Paul's good answer in the first pass.

The high scorers remain Rachel and Theo on 100.

If you can score 65 or less...

-..you're through.

-Um, obviously, sadly, I do not remember

three of them left, except the one which obviously is the most obvious.

And, also, not only somebody I admire watching,

I even spent all night watching him playing when he was in the USA, um...

He's obviously the one and only best ever British tennis player...

-Andy Murray.

-Andy Murray, says Jean-Christophe.

Oh, bad luck, Rachel.

Jean-Christophe says Andy Murray. Get below that red line

with Andy Murray, you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said Andy Murray.

It's right.

You've done it. You are through to the head-to-head.

53 is your score. 87 is your total.

Well played, Jean-Christophe, did exactly what you needed to do there.

Andy Murray won the gold in the men's singles.

Now then, Rachel.

Oh, it's bad news!

I'm afraid you're already the high scorers

and you haven't given your answer yet.

Did you have any other answers?

Um...

The, the girl...

the taekwondo girl in the bottom left, I watched that fight

and I actually cried when she... Remember when she won,

and she threw her helmet up in the air?

SHE SIGHS And I can't remember her full name!

LAUGHTER

Erm...

Cara Philpott for the taekwondo.

Cara Philpott?

AUDIENCE MURMURS

Cara Philpott, let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said it if it is.

Ooh! Bad luck, Rachel! I'm afraid an incorrect answer,

Cara Philpott, which scores you the maximum of 100 points,

taking your total up to 200.

Very much the highest score possible.

LAUGHTER

RICHARD LAUGHS: Yeah, that... Although, again,

not much higher than their first round score

and that got them through, so they might have squeaked through.

-You never know.

-Yeah.

Unlucky with Cara Philpott. You obviously saw it

and something stuck in your head.

It's Jade Jones. LAUGHTER

Jade Jones?!

Oh, my goodness!

-And there she is. Jade Jones would've scored you 5 points...

-Oh!

..so it's a terrific answer.

As you can imagine, there are some pointless answers up there,

and mainly amongst those teams.

There's two pointless answers in the men's rowing fours.

You've got Alex Gregory and Tom James.

They're both pointless. The other two guys in the rowing fours -

Andrew Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed - both would've scored you 2.

Er, in the dressage,

there's a pointless answer there - Carl Hester.

Laura Bechtolsheimer, she would've scored you 2 points.

And you could've also had Charlotte Dujardin would've scored you 2.

In the women's team pursuit, you've got Joanna Rowsell

and Dani King

and Laura Trott.

Joanna Rowsell and Dani King would've scored you 1.

Laura Trott would've scored you 6.

And, right in the top left-hand corner there, for 9 points,

is our gold medallist boxer, Nicola Adams.

So, well done if you said her.

-Well done to all our gold medal winners.

-Well done indeed!

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So at the end of Round Two,

our losing pair, with their high score of 200,

I'm sorry to say, it's Rachel and Theo.

Oh, bad luck, bad luck. See, I could've sworn

that was Zara Phillips. Isn't it funny?

-It looked just like her.

-Well, yes, it does.

It was the hat that did it.

-LAUGHTER

-Yes, the hat(!)

RACHEL: Same hat!

-Oh, bad luck.

-And the medal, I knew it was a silver medal.

I thought silver medal.

-And no, it's a gold.

-Yeah.

-Oh, well.

-Dressage, there we are.

I think a lot of people at home would've said Zara Phillips, as well.

-Thank you.

-You won't be the only one by a long chalk.

-Yeah.

-And of...

-And Cara Philpott(?)

-No!

-I think you might be the only person to have said Cara Philpott.

-Do you know someone...?

-It just occurred to me how close Cara Philpott is to Zara Phillips.

-LAUGHTER

-Ah! The two answers!

-RACHEL LAUGHS

-Yeah! Very good!

-Do you know someone called Cara Philpott?

-LAUGHS: No!

That's just an ingeniously put together name. Thank you.

The genuinely funny thing is somebody at home will be called Cara Philpott.

-"It's me! It's me!"

-Statistically, there will be somebody.

-Yeah, there will be.

-Hi, Cara!

-Cara, hi!

-RACHEL LAUGHS

-Brilliant.

I'll tell you, if there is a Cara Philpott at home, take up taekwondo.

LAUGHTER

Prove us wrong.

Absolutely right. Thanks very much indeed.

Such a shame to be saying goodbye,

Rachel and Theo, lovely having you on the show.

-Thank you!

-Great contestants.

-APPLAUSE Thanks, Theo.

-Thank you.

But for the two remaining pairs,

they're about to get one step closer to the final and a chance

of taking home our jackpot as we enter the head-to-head.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well, congratulations, John and Aaron, Paul and Jean-Christophe.

You are now only one round away from the final and a chance

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

AUDIENCE: Woo!

Obviously, only one pair can play for that money,

so to decide which pair, you are now going to go head-to-head.

The great news is, Paul and Jean-Christophe, you are now allowed to confer.

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LAUGHS

That's good. You can put your heads together.

I can't understand a word he says. LAUGHTER

I was just thinking the same thing!

You are now allowed to confer.

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

So, how's everyone feeling?

John and Aaron, you've done fantastically well,

-some great low scores there.

-Yeah. It's just pot luck.

-Yeah.

-Hope our luck don't change now we're on the ground floor.

-Touch wood.

Pineapple Express - one of the best scores of the whole game.

Duck Soup, as well, from Jean-Christophe.

-No wrong answers between you.

-Black and white, 1933.

There you go!

I feel quite lucky to be here.

-Why?

-To have made it.

-Yeah.

I thought Anthony and Rustie and Theo and Rachel were quite unlucky.

-I think they probably were.

-I mean, Rachel and Theo...

-AARON:

-Worst scores ever!

-They were rubbish!

LAUGHTER

It was good to get rid of the troublemakers first.

LAUGHTER

JOHN: You've seen nothing yet.

Well now, very, very best of luck to both pairs,

let's play the head-to-head.

OK, here comes your first question and it concerns...

Children's games, Richard.

Yeah, we'll show you a list of five traditional children's games now,

but we've left each alternate letter out. Can you fill in those gaps

and identify the most obscure of these? Good luck.

OK, thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five children's games

with missing alternate letters and here they come. We have got...

I'll read all those again.

Phew! John and Aaron, you played best throughout the show so far,

so you go first.

THEY CONFER

Right, OK.

-Kiss chase.

-Kiss chase, OK.

-John and Aaron say kiss chase.

-Popular game when I was younger.

Now then, Paul and Jean-Christophe?

Hopscotch.

Paul and Jean-Christophe going for hopscotch,

so we have kiss chase and hopscotch.

John and Aaron went first with kiss chase.

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

Absolutely right.

-35.

-How's that?

-Yeah, yeah. APPLAUSE

35. Are you happy with 35?

-Seems a reasonable score?

-Great, let's bring it back. Great game.

OK, now, Paul and Jean-Christophe have gone for hopscotch.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is,

how many of our 100 people said hopscotch.

It's right.

-Ooh!

-AUDIENCE: Ooh!

Quite a high score there.

So well done, John and Aaron, after one question, you are up 1-0.

They still look super cool, though!

-These guys are used to being under such pressure.

-Yeah.

It's hard to get them. You guys are so used to being in kitchens.

John won Great British Bake Off!

He's used to having Mary and Paul looking over.

He doesn't care about us, does he?

-LAUGHTER This is nothing to him!

-Nothing!

It's absolutely nothing. Let's fill in the rest of this board.

Er, the top one is hide and seek.

That would've scored 49 points.

Er, the next one down is sleeping lions.

Would've won the points, would've been 2.

And another very low scorer, and it's another foodstuff, chefs -

sardines -

that would've scored 4 points.

So those two would've been very good answers.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Here comes your second question.

OK, Paul and Jean-Christophe, you have to win this question

to stay in the game. What's wrong, Jean-Christophe?

I knew sardines.

-LAUGHTER

-I knew it.

-LAUGHTER CONTINUES

-Well, listen...

If you know any of these next ones, you should say,

because you need to win this question!

On this next board, I'll reveal all of the answers and then just honestly

tell me which ones you knew and we'll give you the points.

LAUGHTER

Here comes your second question. Paul and Jean-Christophe,

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

-Let's go for it.

Good luck. It concerns...

West End musicals. Richard?

Yes, we're now going to describe five West End musicals.

Can you give us the most obscure of these?

Which musicals are we describing here?

OK, let's reveal our five musicals. Here they come.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, five clues to musicals in the West End.

Now then, Paul and Jean-Christophe, you get to go first this time.

THEY CONFER

We're between three of them.

Er...

Obviously, the third one is obviously obvious.

-It is the most obvious.

-It is.

-Um...

-I'm not absolutely sure about the other two,

-but I think it's worth, we need to take a risk.

-OK. What shall we do?

-PAUL WHISPERS

-OK, let's do that.

-Yeah?

So we think, er, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is Grease.

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Grease.

Now then, John and Aaron?

-You can talk us through the board, if you like. Speak out loud.

-OK.

We think the first one's Shrek.

The second is Chicago.

The third is Lion King.

Fourth, the boys have said.

Um, the fifth is...

I know this one! I've seen it the other day going up the escalator.

-Um...

-So what do you reckon between those top three?

-Which is the most obscure?

-Well, er...

Because everyone knows Lion King, don't they?

-I don't know.

-Shrek, would they know?

Would they know it was based on...

I reckon maybe Shrek or Chicago.

-Chicago?

-Yeah.

-No, everyone knows that. Shrek? Shrek!

-Shrek!

-Shrek!

-Shrek! You're going to say for the top one.

-The ogre, yeah.

OK, John and Aaron saying Shrek.

Now, Paul and Jean-Christophe, this is the one you have to win.

You've said Grease for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

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

Ooh, bad luck!

-I'm afraid that's wrong.

-Agh!

-Which means, John and Aaron,

you just have to be right, no matter what it scores.

-OK.

-You just have to be right and you're through to the final.

Shrek, is it right, and how many people said it if it is?

Go on!

-Absolutely right.

-Ooh, yeah!

Oh, it's low! It's low!

-7 for Shrek! Very well done indeed!

-CHEERING

But all it had to be was right, which is what it was.

So, John and Aaron, after only two questions,

you are through to the final. 2-0, very well done.

Yeah, very well played. The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons,

a huge hit musical, it's Jersey Boys.

-Ah!

-I said that, didn't I?

-Yeah.

Would've scored 15.

Um, yes, the Elton John one, everyone did well to avoid it,

a big scorer, it is The Lion King, of course, would've scored you 66.

Includes the songs All The Jazz and Class again would've scored

more points. It is Chicago, but would've scored 33.

The bottom one is a pointless answer.

Before I reveal it, Jean-Christophe, do you know this one?

LAUGHTER

It's, er, it's Ghost the Musical.

Ghost the Musical - a pointless answer.

Very, very well done to anyone who got that.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. At the end of our head-to-head round,

I'm afraid our losing pair is Paul and Jean-Christophe.

You've done so well, done so well to come through all this way.

-We've enjoyed it very much.

-Yeah.

-Brilliant having you on the show.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-Paul and Jean-Christophe.

-CHEERING

But for John and Aaron, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, John and Aaron, you've fought off

all the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophies.

You've a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities.

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

APPLAUSE

Well, you've aced it. You've aced it.

You were the low scorers in every single round.

And a 2-0 victory in the head-to-head.

Absolutely fantastic. Now, John, first in your law degree,

you won the Great British Bake Off,

and, just the crowning glory, you're a finalist on Pointless!

-Lifelong ambition, seriously.

-There you go! There you go!

You get a Pointless trophy, fantastic!

Aaron, what are you up to at a moment?

Just finished... I've been around the world filming a cooking show

-and in the kitchen every day as well.

-There we go.

Very best of luck to you.

Anyone want to nominate something you'd like to see in this round?

Um...food?

-Yeah, maybe something with cakes.

-Cakes!

-Cakes, yeah, that'd be good!

-That'd be good.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-And Mary and Paul.

Very good. The rules are simple.

To win that money, find a Pointless answer.

Do that and you will go home with that £2,500 for your charities.

Firstly, you've got to choose a category and here they are.

Here are your five choices.

-Right.

-I'll probably...

-I'm guessing international politics is a no-go.

-I was going to pick that.

-Were you?

-If you're not happy with it...

-No.

-No!

-I like... I think actors... I don't know, I'm into my movies.

I don't know what you...

OK. So probably either that or album charts is best,

because I've never read a Scandinavian book, um,

and cricket, no, I'm not into that.

-So it's between album and actors.

-It is, yeah.

-What do you think?

-If you're confident on actors...

-Well, I'm not...

-..I'll tag along.

-The thing with music, I'm not up to date with the stuff out now.

-Right.

But then, but albums are a tough one, you know who it is,

but they have weird names and could be anything.

-Actors I'm more comfortable with.

-OK, let's do actors. Agreed?

-Yeah.

OK, actors it is. Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

as many Oscar-nominated actors of the 21st century as they could.

Oscar-nominated actors of the 21st century, Richard?

We're looking for the name of any actor nominated

for a Best Actor Academy Award, or Best Supporting Actor Academy Award,

all the way from the 2000 ceremony through to the 2012 ceremony,

so any actor nominated for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor.

Very, very best of luck, guys.

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

and all you need to win that £2,500 for your charities

is for just one of those answers to be Pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

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

There they are, your time starts now.

-Last King of Scotland?

-Who was that?

-Larry Fishburne?

-Was he in that?

-Yeah.

-It was James McAvoy and...

-Larry Fishburne. The big guy.

-Was it?

-Yeah.

-Oh, yeah, yeah.

-Um...

-He was also in Panic Room, um...

The obvious, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, have they been?

-Um...

-Quick, um, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Larry, um...

-Um... Tom Hardy?

-Tom Hardy? Has he? Has he?

-Oh! Oh! Keith Ledger! Did he? Did he get something?

-Keith Ledger?

-Heath Ledger?

-Heath Ledger, that's it.

-Maybe, yeah.

-George Clooney! For that one...

-Burn After Reading?

-Yeah, yeah!

-That one?

-Yeah, and the one where his wife leaves him.

-That's Burn Before Reading.

-Ten seconds to go.

-Yeah.

-Or Burn AFTER Reading.

-Before or after. They burnt it.

-Either way.

-Um...yeah, one of those.

-OK, right.

OK, there we are. Time is up.

We were looking for Oscar-nominated actors of the 21st century.

I now need your three answers. What are they going to be?

OK, so Larry Fishburne...

Larry Fishburne.

-Heath Ledger?

-Heath Ledger.

Heath Ledger.

-And...George Clooney.

-George Clooney.

And George Clooney. OK, of those three, which do you think

is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Probably the first one.

-Larry Fishburne.

-Larry Fishburne.

OK, we'll put him last. Larry Fishburne last.

Which is your least likely to be pointless, do you think?

-Probably Georgie boy.

-George Clooney we'll put first, OK.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

We'll just pop those up.

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

We were looking for Oscar-nominated actors of the 21st century.

George Clooney you said was your least confident shot

at a pointless answer. You only have to find one pointless answer

to win that jackpot for your charities,

so let's see how many people said George Clooney.

It's right.

Down it goes. George Clooney, taking us down into the '40s,

into the '30s, still going down, into the '20s, into the teens!

15.

-APPLAUSE

-15.

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer,

but actually, George Clooney, if you think about it,

probably one of the biggest names of this century,

I would have thought, in cinema, so only 15 people said,

so that's quite a good sign, I would say.

That promises quite well for your next two answers.

So only two more chances to win today's jackpot.

What are your charities? John?

-The Macmillan Trust for me.

-Very good indeed.

-Aaron?

-Er, the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy.

Very good indeed. Very well done. Two excellent charities there.

APPLAUSE

Well, let's hope one of these two remaining answers

wins that jackpot for those charities.

We are looking for Oscar-nominated actors from the 21st century.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer Heath Ledger.

Has to be correct and it has to be pointless

for you to win that jackpot, so, for £2,500,

let's see how many people said Heath Ledger.

Absolutely right.

Now then, George Clooney took us all the way down to 15.

Heath Ledger, I wonder if he can take us all the way down to nothing?

Still going down, still going down...

-You've done it!

-CHEERING

Fantastic. That's fantastic!

Very well done indeed. That's brilliant.

CHEERING CONTINUES

-Massive!

-Thanks to you.

So Great British Bake Off and now the Pointless trophy and jackpot.

-Very well done. Congratulations.

-The Fabulous Bake Off Boys.

-That's what they call us.

-Yes. LAUGHTER

Aw! It is now.

Heath Ledger, a pointless answer, which means you leave here

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

Very, very well done indeed, John and Aaron.

You played so well throughout the entire show. Richly deserved.

Well played. You've been terrific throughout.

Great category for you and lovely to see the money

-go to such deserving causes. Well done.

-Thank you.

Yeah, Heath Ledger won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009,

posthumously, of course, for the Joker.

He was also nominated for Best Actor in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain.

Now, your other answer, Larry Fishburne, or Laurence Fishburne,

wasn't in The Last King of Scotland. You're thinking of Forest Whitaker.

-Yes!

-He would've been a pointless answer, Laurence Fishburne wasn't,

but it doesn't matter, because you won the money anyway.

Let's take a look at some of the other pointless answers.

Benicio Del Toro won Best Supporting Actor for Traffic.

Geoffrey Rush nominated a couple of times,

including for The King's Speech.

There's Heath Ledger, who just won you the money.

Ian McKellen been nominated twice, including for Gandalf.

Jamie Foxx, who won for his portrayal of Ray Charles.

Jean Dujardin! We had Charlotte Dujardin earlier.

He's Jean Dujardin, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 2012 for The Artist.

He was a pointless answer.

Jim Broadbent, er, who won for Iris.

Kenneth Branagh has been nominated five times.

And Michael Caine won in 2000 for The Cider House Rules.

There's loads of other pointless answers actually.

I'll go through a few of them.

Albert Finney, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray would be pointless.

Clive Owen, Christoph Waltz, Eddie Murphy, Jack Nicholson,

Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Wahlberg,

Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, all sorts of pointless answers.

Very well done if you said any of those,

but the important one was Heath Ledger.

-Very well done, guys, that's terrific.

-Nice one.

Absolutely fantastic. Thanks again to our winning players,

John and Aaron, who go away with today's jackpot

of £2,500 for their charities. Brilliant work.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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.

CHEERING