Formula One Pointless Celebrities

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

and a warm welcome to this special Formula One edition

of Pointless Celebrities, the show where the aim of the game

is to find the most obscure answer possible.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

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And couple number one.

I'm Allan McNish and I am a retired racing driver

and now part of the BBC Formula One crew.

I am Claire Williams

and I am the deputy team principal of Williams F1.

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Couple number two.

I am Murray Walker. I am a retired advertising executive

and I am with my mate, Nigel Mansell.

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I am Nigel Mansell.

I am one of the fastest racing drivers in a taxi, you can say,

and I am with my dad.

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Couple number three.

Well, I am with Christian Horner,

who is the team principal of Red Bull, but maybe

he would rather be the team principal of Mercedes right now.

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Started well, that, hasn't it?

We are getting on very well already.

This is the only lady that can deal with Eddie Jordan

and David Coulthard - Suzi Perry.

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And finally, couple number four.

I am David Coulthard.

I am an ageing ex-racing driver and a proud member of

the BBC Formula One coverage, along with Suzi and Allan,

and occasionally Mark, and occasionally Nigel.

And Murray is the legend!

I am Mark Webber and I am currently driving for Porsche

in the World Endurance Championship and also every now and again

catching up with these guys in the BBC.

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Thanks very much, all of you.

We will find out more about all of you throughout the show as it

goes along. That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He is such an incredible machine,

he once refuelled himself in a record 1.8 seconds.

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

Evening, everybody.

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Wow, what a line-up.

This is going to be super competitive, I think,

our F1 special.

Because not only are they all sports people and very competitive people -

they all work together, as well, so it is so much worse.

Someone is going to win. Someone is going to have to.

As usual, all of today's questions have been

put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants are looking for those all-important pointless answers -

those being the answers that none of our 100 people gave.

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

Now, as today's show is a celebrity special and each of our contestants

is playing for a nominated charity,

we start off with a jackpot of ?2,500. There we are.

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

OK. Now, all you have to remember is this - the pair with the highest

score at the end of each round will be eliminated.

You just have to make sure you don't have the highest score.

Go for those low scorers. You've got that, Nigel.

Mark is across that, so is David.

Remember also that there is no conferring in our first two rounds -

you are on your own. Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this evening is...

Cinema. Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first,

who is going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Films with US cities in their titles. Richard.

On each board we are going to show you the names of seven films.

We have missed out a word from each of those films

and that word in each case is the name of a US city.

Can you find the most obscure of those, please?

Seven on the first board, seven on the second,

14 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

OK, what are the missing US cities from these film titles?

Here's our first board of seven.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Allan, welcome to Pointless. Thank you.

Great to have you here. How many times have you won Le Mans? Three.

Blimey! What's the secret?

Making it 24 hours, keeping it going absolutely flat out.

Which is the toughest hour? Oh, all through the night.

That's when you are sleeping, so just that last part of it.

Now, Allan, what about these films?

Well, I am going to go for The...Kid. The Cincinnati Kid.

The Cincinnati Kid, says Allan.

Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said The Cincinnati Kid.

You see, that's a good answer, Allan.

Look at that - 21.

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Excellent answer, excellent start to the show.

Great answer, Allan, very well played.

Puts pressure on the rest of them.

Plays a poker player, Steve McQueen.

It's actually because I'm old, that's the reason I know it.

Allan, we are all old.

Oh, we are, aren't we? We are old, yeah.

You and I certainly are. Yeah. Thank you, yeah.

Now, Nigel, a very warm welcome to Pointless.

Obviously the second most successful Grand Prix driver of all time,

but what I want to ask you about is the moustache.

Because back in the 1980s you were the champion of the moustache.

You kept the flag flying for moustaches, you and Tom Selleck.

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And now moustaches are suddenly rushing back into fashion.

Where has it gone?! I rest my case.

You had better speak to my lovely lady in the audience.

Just got to come back at the end of the year for another programme.

You are a trailblazer, or just completely out of sync.

I'm not quite sure, one of the two.

Nigel, what would you like to go for on this board?

None of the above.

Because it is such a fantastic film and I hope it was made

so many years ago people might forget -

Sleepless In Seattle.

Sleepless In Seattle, says Nigel. Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Sleepless In Seattle.

84!

84 for Sleepless In Seattle.

Yes, 16 people forgot it. Yeah.

And, yeah, that was it.

Can I have another go? I wouldn't, if I were you.

OK.

Suzi, very warm welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here. Thank you.

Now, growing up, was motorsport always a passion of yours?

Yeah, it was always on in the house, Formula One.

But it was bikes where I was led first.

I spent about 14 years covering two-wheeled action and this

is my third year in Formula One and it is fantastic, I am loving it.

OK. Now, Suzi, what would you like to go for on this board?

Um... I think I will go for...

..Chicago, Catherine Zeta Jones and Renee Zellweger.

Chicago, says Suzi.

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

It's right. 84 is our highest score, you passed that.

21 is our low.

31. Really not bad at all.

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Good score for Chicago.

Yeah, good score, good answer. Well played, Suzi.

Won six Oscars, including Best Picture.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

David, welcome back. Do you like our laurel wreaths, by the way?

Do I like laurel wreaths?

Yeah, these laurel wreaths we've got. Absolutely.

When I was young in karting we used to get a laurel wreath

and I have a bunch of them still from back in the '80s.

I was going to say, what do you do with them?

Well, we were from a poor family so we used to boil the leaves,

make soup and then just keep the cork thing behind as a memory.

Who was your inspiration when you were growing up?

Who got you hooked on Formula One?

Well, I grew up listening to Murray and James and watching Nigel,

and so I'm an unashamed Nigel fan.

So to be this close to him...

This is the closest I am allowed to come to him,

actually, otherwise I will start stroking his arm.

But that was the generation. I was born in '71,

so I really started to focus on Formula One in the '80s. Excellent.

Now, David, this is your board. You are the last person to have it,

so if you want you can go all the way through it and fill in the blanks.

I'd love to do that.

I think a safe answer is the top one,

but for some reason I think there is something on the 3:10

and I think it begins with a B, but I am not confident.

Then it's Gangs Of New York,

but I think it is something like 3:10 To Bellum, or something.

Is that even a city? But I'm going for the top one, like I said.

OK, New York, says David.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Gangs Of New York.

There we are, 66, not bad.

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Well played, David. Let's take a look at that 3:10.

If you had gone for 3:10 To, what would you have gone for?

Bellum or something. 3:10 To Bellum.

If you had said that, you would have got 100 points.

It's the 3:10 To Yuma.

3:10 To Yuma. Ah, OK.

The one at the bottom, the Johnny Depp film,

is Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

It would have scored you 39, as opposed to

Fear And Loathing In Las Depp, which starred Johnny Vegas.

And the second one down... ..is Talladega.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Will Ferrell.

15 points. It is a very funny film, that, as well.

You would love it. It is set in Nascar. Thank you very much.

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

Allan, look at that - 21, the lowest score of the pass.

Allan and Claire looking very strong at this point.

Then up to 31 where we find Suzi and Christian,

66, David and Mark,

and then up to 84, Nigel and Murray.

So, Murray, we are going to need a low score from you in the next pass.

We are going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. We are now going to put seven more films up on the board

and here they are.

We have got...

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

Now then, Mark, welcome to Pointless.

I read somewhere that you said you had to leave Australia in order

to further your Formula One career. Is that true? Absolutely.

It is a long way to travel, mate,

if you want to race over here every second weekend.

So, yeah, left when I was pretty young.

But there is still a fairly healthy F1 base, isn't there, in Australia?

No. Really, not at all? No.

This is the place to be. UK - all the Formula One teams

are based here, all the junior categories.

So, yeah, finally got over here. It was good. Finally got over here.

And you competed in Le Mans this year, didn't you?

Yes. How did that go?

Pretty well. The team, we managed to get first and second -

our sister car won the race, we were in second place.

It's a sensational race - 24 hours, obviously,

about 3,000 miles, fast as possible.

Well, congratulations. Now, Mark, you are on 66,

the high-scorers at the moment are Murray and Nigel on 84.

If you happen to score 17 or less

you are definitely into the next round.

Miami. For which one?

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Mr Vice. OK, Miami Vice, says Mark. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that with Miami Vice,

you are through to the next round. Let's see how we do.

It was right.

Oh! 75.

75, taking your total up to 141.

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Yeah, big score.

Talking of big, Mark, who is the tallest ever F1 driver?

You must be close. Yeah, probably up there.

I think James Hunt was pretty tall. Yeah.

Were you ever tempted, Richard? To F1? Yeah.

Yeah, I drove a couple of seasons in the late '80s, yeah.

I drove a Ligier.

Thank you very much, Richard. LAUGHTER

Christian, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

Now, you retired from driving at the age of 25.

Why that early?

I mean, some people haven't even hit their stride by that stage.

It's quite simple, really - I wasn't quite good enough

so I decided I had better do something else.

So I ended up running a team

and then going into Formula One and these two were our first

couple of drivers, pretty much,

so you can see why we didn't win much.

There you are on 31.

It doesn't matter what you score, you are still in the next round.

What would you like to go for, Christian?

Well, there's two I'm looking at, which is

the one from the bottom or one at the top.

I'm thinking the one at the top.

I am going to go for the Dallas Buyers Club. The Dallas Buyers Club.

No red line for you as you are already through.

Let's see how many of 100 people said the Dallas Buyers Club.

It's right.

Nice. My goodness.

27. Very well done indeed -

second lowest score of the round so far.

58 is your total.

Well played, Christian, great work on podium three there.

It won Oscars for both of those gentlemen, as well.

Thank you very much indeed. Murray, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. Thank you.

You started commenting on racing in 1948, is that right?

It is right, yes.

My dad was a professional racing motorcyclist

and I tried to follow in his footsteps,

confident that I would show the old man how it should really be done.

I very rapidly discovered I wouldn't.

You know what they say - those that can, do

and those that can't, talk about it. And I started talking in 1948.

And you haven't stopped since, Murray. And I'm still doing it!

What would you like to go for?

Well, I was hoping and praying that I wouldn't get any questions

first of all on modern pop music and secondly on films,

and look what I've got.

But to my consternation, I actually know three of those.

I am going for number two, partly because I had a crush on

Jean Arthur when I was a boy, and it's Mr Smith Goes To Washington.

Washington, says Murray. Mr Smith Goes To Washington.

Here's your red line. If you get below that, you are in Round Two.

Let's see how many people said Washington.

It's right.

There we are, well done. Mr Walker goes to Round Two.

18.

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102 is your total.

Well played, Murray.

It is actually the best score of the entire round so far,

so very, very well played. Very good, thank you.

Claire, welcome to Pointless. Hello, thank you.

Lovely to have you here.

The world of Formula One, it is still very...

It is less blokey than it was,

but it still is quite a sort of blokey world, isn't it?

It is, there are a lot of blokes in it, but there are also more women

coming in to Formula One now, which is great.

And we have a female test driver in our line-up.

As deputy principal of the team,

what are your particular duties on a day-to-day basis?

I deputise for my wonderful dad, who has been racing in Formula One

for 40 years, but has handed a little bit of the reins over to me.

So I have a lot of responsibility for day-to-day

running of the race team

and then I also am responsible for bringing the money into our team -

keeping us racing, effectively, at the end of the day. Very important.

OK, good news - you're already through to the next round,

it doesn't matter what you score.

Do you fancy, for fun, talking us through that board

and filling in all the blanks?

Boston Strangler, Beverly Hills Cop - loved that movie

when I was a kid - no idea what the Cary Grant one is

and I am wondering if Meet Me In... San Francisco, because of the song?

I don't want to take a risk so I'm not going to go for the top one.

I think I might go for Boston Strangler.

The Boston Strangler, says Claire. No red line, you are already through.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said The Boston Strangler.

52.

Very well done indeed. 73 is your total.

Well played, Claire. Safely through.

Let's take a look at the rest of these.

You are right about Beverly Hills Cop,

and that would have scored you 48.

It is not Meet Me In San Francisco, the Judy Garland film...

St Louie? St Louis, yeah. Louis, rather, sorry.

49 points for that and The... Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Story, about how they came up with the cheese,

and that would have scored you 20 points.

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

the pair who are heading home with a high score of 141 - David and Mark,

I am sorry, it is you. No worries. I am sorry.

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Thanks so much for coming to play, though. Please come and play again.

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

And so we are suddenly down to three pairs.

At the end of this round we will have to say goodbye to another pair.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

Oh, no. It is a Words round.

Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first,

who is going to go second?

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

Words ending in -ane, Richard.

We are looking for any word in the English language that ends -ane.

That is any word on the website oxforddictionaries.com

in the English language section that ends -ane.

As always, no proper nouns, no hyphenated words,

anything like that.

I can tell you there are over 70 pointless answers on this round,

lots and lots of words out there ending -ane.

OK, thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Claire, always tough going first.

I have one. You've got one? I do.

It is a bit motorsport related, sorry to be boring. Octane.

Oh, octane. That is brilliant.

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

Apparently so. It appears we had that.

It is a very good answer. Look at that, Claire.

5! Very well done indeed.

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Cracking start to the round. Octane.

I was wondering how long it would take a roomful of Formula 1

professionals to come up with octane and it was immediate.

Excellent. Murray.

Erm...

The thing that horses have - mane.

Mane, says Murray.

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

Oh, 58.

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58 for mane. Can we have another go?

I think octane must have been stolen from Murray at the last moment.

I think so. Thanks very much indeed. Suzi.

It is funny, isn't it? When you are sitting at home

watching this programme you will be churning out words,

tonnes and tonnes of words, shouting at the TV.

When you are standing here you are thinking,

"Is that A-I-N or A-N-E?"

The most simple of words. Erm...

I think I might go for insane.

Insane. Insane, says Suzi,

and thank you for watching it at home.

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

It is right. Well, 58 is our high score.

You pass it.

39 for insane.

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Well played, Suzi.

I hope that is what you're going to be driving Mark and David

for the rest of the season when you point out quite how badly they did.

Thank you very much indeed. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. 5, Claire, very well done indeed -

the best score of that pass by a margin.

Claire and Allan looking pretty good for the head-to-head at this point.

Then up to 39 where we find Suzi and Christian.

Up to 58, Murray and Nigel.

We need a low score from you, Nigel, in the next pass.

Best of luck with that, Nigel. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Christian.

Christian, words ending -ane.

-Ane. -Ane.

Mundane. Mundane, says Christian.

OK, here is your red line.

If you can get below this red line with mundane...

Quite low, but mundane might do it for you.

Let's see if it can.

Very well done indeed. 11.

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50 is your total.

You can see, can't you,

that Christian and Claire are very much the brains behind this sport?

It becomes apparent.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Nigel.

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Nigel, you are our high-scorers, so we need a really low score from you.

Any word ending -ane.

Pane. Pane?

Yeah, but I don't think that's correct.

OK, pane, says Nigel.

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

No red line for you as you are the high-scorers.

100.

Oh, my goodness!

50 for pane.

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108 is your total.

Yeah, pane, as in a sheet of glass, say.

There we are. Thank you very much.

Allan, it doesn't matter what you score,

you are still through to the next round. Because of the delightful...

Exactly. Exactly, Claire's fantastic answer.

OK, well, I will go for an easy one, then.

Because we are always going down the fast lane, so lane.

Lane, says Allan.

That got a tut, I can't believe it. Lane got a tut!

No red line for you, you are already through.

Let's see how many of 100 people said lane.

72.

77 is your total.

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Now, there is a couple of racing drivers here.

Nigel and Allan, I will test you on this.

If you got a series of very tricky, intricate bends, what is that?

Corners. Chicane. Corners!

Chicane would have scored you 2 points and, Nigel,

have you ever lost control on standing water?

Aquaplane. Aquaplane, which would have scored you 1 point.

Did you know I was a ventriloquist as well?

That was pretty good projection!

Both of those would have been very good answers.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

Balletomane, somebody who likes ballet.

Bibliomane, someone who likes books. Elastane...?

Someone who likes elastic.

Someone who likes elastic, exactly(!)

Frangipane is a lovely answer - well done if you got that -

an almond paste. Isooctane would have been a pointless answer.

Your engineers would have got isooctane.

Landplane is a pointless answer.

Let's look at the top three answers. Some of these will be familiar.

These are the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Sane would have scored you 51 - I remember those days!

Mane, 58.

And right at the top, lane. Biggest scorer of all - 72.

We wish to appeal.

He wishes to appeal. I wish to appeal.

The three digits you had in front,

we thought it could only have three letters.

And your appeal is what?

Exactly that, and you can have many more.

You definitely can,

but is your appeal that I said you could only have three letters

or that you doesn't listen properly to the question?

I'm just trying to get the measure of the appeal, Nigel.

He's dealt with people like you before, you know.

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So, at the end of our second round the pair who are heading home -

I'm sorry - with a high score of 108, Nigel and Murray, it is you.

It has been such a pleasure having you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Nigel and Murray, everyone. Thank you.

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Right, for Suzi and Christian, Claire and Allan,

it is now time for our head-to-head.

Very, very well done, Suzi and Christian, Claire and Allan,

you're one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot

which currently stands at ?2,500.

This is where we decide who goes through to the final and plays for

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

But the big difference is - you can now confer.

I think this is going to be very close and extremely competitive.

I'm looking forward to it. Let's play the head-to-head.

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

Sporting Brothers. Oh, no.

Just going to show you five images now of Sporting Brothers.

We just need you to give us the surname of the most obscure, please.

Very best of luck. OK. Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five images and here they come. We have got...

And...

There we are. Five sets of Sporting Brothers.

Suzi and Christian, you're our low scorers so you will go first.

Well...

A is simple. C is all right, D's OK and E is an interesting one.

That might be the way to go.

We think that A are the Brownlee brothers, the triathletes.

The Brownlees, say Suzi and Christian for E. Brownlee.

So, Claire and Allan...

Which one do we want to go for?

C. C. So we'll go for C.

The Charlton brothers.

OK, you're going to say the Charltons.

So we have Brownlee, we have Charlton.

Suzi and Christian said Brownlee for E. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 agree with them.

It's right. Very well done.

17 for Brownlee. Not bad at all. That's a good score.

Now, meanwhile, Claire and Allan

have said it's the Charlton brothers in C.

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

It is right.

58. Very well done indeed, Suzi and Christian.

After one question, you are up 1-0.

Now let's look through the rest of these. A is Underwood,

the Underwood brothers, which scored you 25 points.

No.

The best answer on the board is B and that is the Manning brothers,

Eli and Peyton Manning, the American football stars. 4 points.

Well done if you said that.

And D, of course, is David Coulthard and Mark Webber.

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It is the Klitschko brothers, Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko

and that would have scored you 20.

Thank you very much. OK, here comes your second question.

Claire and Allan, you get to answer it first, but you have to win it

to stay in the game, so best of luck. It concerns...

Songs With Girls' Names.

Richard.

We'll play you five clips now of songs with girls' names in their title.

We need you to give us the full title of these songs, please.

OK, let's listen to our five clips and here they come. We've got A.

# Well, sometimes I go out by myself

# And I look across the water

# And I think of all the things what you're doing

# And in my head I paint a picture... #

Here's B.

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MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH

Here's C.

# You've been running all over town

# Ooh, I guess you've gotta put your flat feet on the ground

# Sing it to me one more time, girls... #

Here's D.

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And here's E.

INTRO PLAYS

MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH

OK, now, Claire and Allan, you are to go first.

C. And... Sally. Mustang Sally.

Mustang Sally. That's the right name, right? Yeah, yeah. That's right. Mustang Sally.

Suzi and Christian.

We know A, B and D. You can talk through them all if you like. A is...

A is Amy... Amy Winehouse, Valerie. A is Valerie.

B is Eric Clapton, Layla. Layla.

C, Mustang Sally. D... Billie Jean.

Billie Jean, Michael Jackson.

So we don't know the name of E.

We'll have Valerie. We'll go for Valerie. OK, so, A, Valerie.

So we have Mustang Sally and we have Valerie.

Claire and Allan said Mustang Sally. Let's see if that's right for C.

Let's see how many people said Mustang Sally.

Keep going, keep going, keep going. Down, down, down, down, down.

33.

It's going to be close.

Meanwhile, Suzi and Christian have said Valerie for A.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people agree with them.

It's right. Ooh, 73. That's a high one.

Well done, Claire and Allan. That's exactly what you needed to do.

You're back in the game after two questions. It's 1-1.

Very well played. There's only one answer that could have beaten Mustang Sally.

That was E, so let's take a little listen to all of these songs

we haven't heard the answers to, so B...

Layla. Of course, Derek And The Dominos, would have scored you 51.

So it would have been a better answer than the one you gave us.

Still wouldn't have won you the point.

D you also knew, which is of course Billie Jean, Michael Jackson.

And that would have scored you 80 points.

Now we all know the tune to E - very, very familiar.

It's by the Allman Brothers. And very well done if you knew.

It's called Jessica. Jessica.

14 points for that.

I'm amazed 14 people knew it.

Now, here comes your third question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot for their charities.

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...

Oh, no! Malaysia. Rich, OK.

Well, it's somewhere you've all been, I'm guessing.

We are going to show you five clues now to facts about Malaysia.

You just need to give us the most obscure answer, please

and the team that does will be playing for the jackpot, so best of luck.

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

We've got...

I'll read those all again.

Suzi and Christian will go first.

I think the skyscrapers is quite an easy one.

It's too obvious, yeah.

And probably the currency... Shall we go for the shoes?

Do you know who the shoes are?

Er, yeah. OK.

I... I think your wife would know, as well. Oh, really? Yeah.

You should buy her some.

Thank you very much.

All right, Geri. Right, come on - let's go with the shoes.

Er, well - Jimmy Choo.

OK, you're going to go for Jimmy Choo. Yep.

Jimmy Choo, say Suzi and Christian. Now, then, Claire and Allan,

talk us through that board.

Skyscrapers are the Petronas Towers.

The Malaysian unit of currency is the ringgit and KL is Kuala Lumpur.

There's only a certain number of months with 31 days,

so you could bring that down and then try and work it out,

if you wanted to.

I'd go for the currency question,

cos it think it'll be...

Do you? Yep.

Currency? I would go for the currency.

Ringgit. The ringgit, OK. We have Jimmy Choo, we have ringgit.

Now, Suzi and Christian said Jimmy Choo for the shoe designer.

Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Jimmy Choo.

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OK.

28 out of 100 knew Jimmy Choo.

Now, Claire and Allan have said the ringgit is the unit of currency.

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

This is it.

It's right.

Wins the point for you.

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5 for the ringgit.

Which means - very well done, Claire and Allan -

after three questions, you are through to the final, 2-1.

You can tell when people spend a long time in Malaysia

when they don't think ringgit is an obscure answer.

They go, "That's ringgit, everybody knows that."

Let's take a look through all the answers.

The skyscrapers are the Petronas Towers.

17 points for that.

The city is Kuala Lumpur.

Would have scored you 68.

Malaysian Independence Day is August,

that would have scored you 4 points.

So the ringgit almost the best answer on the board.

There we are. Well, thank you very much.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round -

they were our low scorers throughout the show - Suzi and Christian,

but we have to say goodbye.

It's been wonderful having you on the show. Thank you for playing.

Thank you. APPLAUSE

But for Claire and Allan, it's now time for our Pointless final.

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Very, very well done.

Claire and Allan, you've fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

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

and, at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at ?2,500.

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Well, on this special Formula One edition of Pointless,

I have to say you have driven the track absolutely impeccably.

Beautiful, haven't put a foot wrong.

Beautiful cornering, wonderful acceleration.

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

Motorsport. Yeah, F1.

Interesting. Surprise, surprise(!)

Any other areas of interest that you would be confident in?

Er, currencies of the world.

Good. Listen, we're going to put four choices up on the board there.

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

Today's choices look like this.

That's really bad.

They're the worst possible categories - for me, anyway.

I don't know for you, Allan.

I'm Scottish, so European Football Leagues

doesn't actually go much further than UEFA at the moment.

Is Flying...? What's Flying going to be?

LAUGHTER What is Flying going to be?

Shall we risk flying, just for giggles?

Guys, you've just been lapped by Murray Walker.

LAUGHTER

I'm sorry.

We're going to try and fly high in Flying. Flying it is.

There we go. APPLAUSE AND WHOOPING

Best of luck. Three very different questions

in very different areas here.

I hope that one of them suits you. Let's take a look.

We are looking for the name of any UK RAF station

listed on the RAF website, so any RAF station in the UK.

We are looking for the name of any actor who was in Top Gun,

so any actor, according to IMDb, who was in Top Gun.

Or we're looking for any UK top 40 single up to May 2015

that contain the word "fly" or "flying" -

it can be part of a longer word.

So any UK RAF stations,

any actors in Top Gun,

or any UK top 40 single containing the word "fly". Very best of luck.

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

and all you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Are you ready? Yes. Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are, your time starts now.

I have no idea, I wish my dad was here, cos he would know everything.

Cast of Top Gun - how about Meg Ryan?

Everyone always remembers Kelly McGillis.

And Tom Cruise, and Val Kilmer. Yep. Maybe Meg Ryan.

Singles containing "fly".

Is that from this year, singles containing "fly"?

For ever, up to May 2015.

I know Fly Me To The Moon.

I didn't know that, so that's a good one.

Lossiemouth RAF station.

What's the UK one where we go testing?

You're right, what it is?

You've got Brize Norton. Brize Norton.

What's the B? It starts with B and it's just south of you

and I went there in 1993.

When you were about 15.

Uh... Oh, no! I'll come back to that.

Dad's going to kill me.

What is it? Cos no-one will know that.

Ten seconds left. Thank you.

Right, what's your cast of Top Gun? Come back to that one.

Meg Ryan. Yep. Singles - Fly Me To The Moon.

And UK RAF... Let's go Benson.

OK, that, I'm afraid, is your time up.

I now need your three answers.

Cast of Top Gun - Meg Ryan. OK, Meg Ryan from Top Gun.

Fly Me To The Moon, which everybody knows.

Fly Me To The Moon.

The only other thing I can say is the RAF station being Lossiemouth,

but the one is with B.

Say that one, say that one. Lossiemouth.

Lossiemouth RAF station.

OK, there are three answers.

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

Lossiemouth, or...? Lossiemouth. OK, Lossiemouth goes last.

Least likely to be pointless?

Least likely? Meg Ryan.

Meg Ryan goes first and we put Fly Me To The Moon in the middle.

Let's pop those up on the board in that order and here they are.

We've got Meg Ryan, we've got Fly Me To The Moon

and we've got RAF Lossiemouth.

Very, very best of luck.

Three good answers on the board.

There's nothing to say one of those won't be pointless

and won't win that jackpot for you.

Now, which charities are you playing for? Claire.

Um, I feel like I should apologise in advance,

because we're not going to win, but the Spinal Injuries Association.

Allan? Headway, a head injuries charity.

Very good, two excellent charities there.

APPLAUSE

Let us hope that one of your answers,

at least one of your answers, will be pointless and will win that

jackpot for those deserving causes.

OK, in the first instance this evening,

we were looking for cast members from the film Top Gun.

You've gone for Meg Ryan.

If it is pointless, it will win you ?2,500 for your charities.

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

It's right. Nervous, really nervous.

This just has to go down to zero and you'll leave with ?2,500.

Look at, down it goes, still going down, through the teens,

into single figures, still going down, still going down!

Look at that! AUDIENCE GROANS

APPLAUSE You were...

You were absolutely right.

Very well done.

That's a great answer, fabulous scoring there.

Lovely low scoring, but it's not pointless. Gutted.

We are only interested in pointless answers,

which brings us onto your next answer, Fly Me To The Moon.

We were looking for top 40 singles with the word "fly" in their title.

Again, it has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Fly Me To The Moon, for ?2,500.

Oh!

Oh.

Maybe it didn't make it to the UK charts.

Maybe it never did, I don't know. Who knows?

Anyway, it all means you only have one more shot at today's jackpot.

Everything is riding on your third and final answer,

which was RAF Lossiemouth.

This was your most confident shot at a pointless answer.

If this scores nothing, you leave here with ?2,500 for your charities.

How many people said RAF Lossiemouth? Is it pointless?

It's right.

Meg Ryan was right and took us all the way down to one.

Fly Me To The Moon, we don't yet know why, but it was incorrect.

RAF Lossiemouth now takes us down into single figures...

Oh, no! AUDIENCE GROANS

8. Oh!

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Gutted.

Listen, two very, very good answers there.

Meg Ryan, that was so unlucky not to get a pointless answer there.

I'm afraid you didn't manage to find

that all-important pointless answer itself,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of ?2,500.

However, as it is a celebrity special,

we are going to donate ?500 to each celebrity pair

for their chosen charity. Thank you.

Yeah, terrific performance.

We'll go through some of the pointless answers

and we'll go through some of these RAF stations, as well.

Let's take a look at those first.

These were all pointless - RAF Benbecula.

You could have had RAF Donna Nook, which is a bombing range.

RAF Fylingdales, a radar base. RAF High Wycombe.

Loads of others - Boscombe Down,

Prestwick was a pointless answer. Buchan.

Let's take a look at Top Gun.

Everyone in that film was pointless,

other than Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards,

Tom Skerritt and Meg Ryan - who, as you know, scored 1.

Singles containing "fly".

Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins.

Seal's Fly Like An Eagle,

our Eurovision entry, Flying The Flag, and 10CC's I'm Mandy Fly Me.

You could have had Butterfly On A Wheel by The Mission,

Miley Cyrus, Fly On The Wall,

I'll Fly For You, Spandau Ballet,

lots of pointless answers. Well done if you said one of those.

Really, really unlucky getting 1 point in that jackpot round.

Thank you so much for playing. Thank you. Thank you.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you,

but it's been fabulous having you on the show.

Thank you so much for coming and playing

and being such excellent contestants. Claire and Allan.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time

when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard... Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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