Reality TV Pointless Celebrities

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Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and welcome to this special reality TV edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where the more obscure your knowledge,

the better your chances of winning.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

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-Couple number one.

-Hello, I'm Ruth Badger.

-And I'm Solomon Akhtar.

-TOGETHER:

-We're from The Apprentice.

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-Couple number two.

-I'm Carl Fogarty.

-I'm Jimmy Bullard.

-And we're from...

-The jungle.

-I forgot what we were from then.

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-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Craig Phillips.

-I'm Nikki Grahame.

And we're from Big Brother.

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-And finally, couple number four.

-Hi, I'm Jamie Laing.

-And I'm Alex Mytton.

-And we're from Made In Chelsea.

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Thanks very much. We will find out more about you throughout the show.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Together, we're like a pair of aging rockers and, as such,

he'll be doing an incredibly self-indulgent 14-minute fact solo.

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

-Hiya. Hi, everybody.

-Good evening.

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-How are you?

-I couldn't be better.

-Well, this is going to be...

-What's the word? Fun?

-That's a word. That's it.

-It should be great fun.

You would expect, I think, podium one to win, wouldn't you?

-Apprentice contestants.

-They've got the will to, I think.

They're used to this sort of drama and jeopardy.

Yeah, we can handle the pressure.

We are going to fire one of you after Round One, just so you know.

-That one.

-We'll see.

I suggest we just get on.

OK, let's get it done.

As usual all today's questions have been asked

to 100 people before the show.

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

the answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Each time that happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.

As today's show is a celebrity special,

each of you is playing for a nominated charity,

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

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If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

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All you have to remember is that the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

Also, there is to be no conferring until we get to Round Three.

Our first category this evening is...

Famous People. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going first, who's going second?

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

OK, the question concerns...

-Famous Divas, Richard.

-On each board,

we're going to show you seven clues to famous female singers.

You have to name the most obscure that you can.

There will be seven on each board, 14 in all to have a go at home.

-Best of luck.

-Fabulous. Let's reveal our first board of seven divas.

I'll now read that again.

Whoa, thank you very much. APPLAUSE

Solomon, Solomon, here from The Apprentice.

Before you went onto The Apprentice, you were already an entrepreneur.

You had great success. Did The Apprentice help at all?

-Did you learn stuff from it?

-I learnt how to write a business plan

cos that was the reason I got fired, so...

-That was basically it.

-That's basically it.

You could have just had a meeting with someone,

-or done a day-long course, couldn't you?

-Yeah.

My business plan was three pages. I kind of mucked up a bit.

OK. Now, Solomon, the board, it's all yours.

So, I'm finding this quite hard cos I'm not really a singer, so...

You know what, you don't really have to be a singer to...

Yeah, but I'm just thinking, yeah...

So, I'm thinking I want to go with the top one. Is that the answer?

-Um, you then have to give the answer.

-OK.

So, um...

So, I'm pretty sure Dirrty and Beautiful were sung

by that woman called Britney Spears.

-No! They weren't!

-OK. LAUGHTER

Oh, my God!

-That singer Britney Spears.

-Can I change my answer?

No, course you can't! Britney Spears, says Solomon.

Let's see if it's right

and how many of our 100 said Britney Spears.

The suspense is killing me here.

-Oh, Solomon, I'm so sorry.

-Shocking!

-I'm so sorry.

An incorrect answer there,

-scores you 100 points.

-That's shocking!

I cannot believe you got fired, Solomon.

-I find that extraordinary(!)

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Good start to the round, anyway.

-Carl.

-Yes.

-We've got reality show royalty here.

-Thank you, mate.

That crown - they give you a crown. What's it made of, the crown?

-Kind of like flowers and soil and weeds and stuff.

-Did you keep it?

-It died. It didn't even make it to the airport, no.

-Really?

-I wasn't allowed to go through customs with it.

-Oh!

Now, Carl, back to your former career,

-if you can remember back before the jungle.

-Yes.

You were the most successful Superbike champion of all time.

I can just about remember that.

I've had a few crashes and bangs on the head,

but I can just remember I used to race motorbikes.

What's the fastest you've ever been on a bike?

I think the fastest probably I did, back in my day,

was about 190 mile an hour down the long straights

on circuits like Hockenheim and Monza,

but nowadays, the guys are up to 215 now.

Now, Carl, this board. It's all got a lot easier now, thanks to Solomon.

Yeah, I know two or three, maybe four, but I'm going to go with -

it might be a bit lower point-scoring

than the other two that I'm confident of -

and that is "Angela Bassett played this singer

"in the biopic entitled What's Love Got To Do With It."

-I think that's Tina Turner.

-Tina Turner, says Carl.

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

It is right.

38. Not bad, Foggy, 38.

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Well played, Carl. She's had over 30 UK Top 40 hits, Tina Turner.

-Never had a number 1.

-Thanks, Richard.

Craig, welcome here.

The first ever winner of Big Brother over here.

-Did life ever go back to normal after that?

-Not really, no.

-It's been quite busy for over 15 years now.

-Yeah.

-You were a very successful builder before that.

-Yeah, before.

I imagine you going back on the site,

-you couldn't pretend nothing had changed.

-Not really, no.

I bet you your quotes went up. LAUGHTER

I got too busy doing makeover shows,

I didn't get the time to go back onsite

and work for the public no more.

Now, Craig, 100 and 38 -

-they're the only two scores we've got so far.

-OK.

How are you feeling about this board?

I think I know three, possibly four of them on there.

I'm going to go for the fifth one down,

the country singer famous for her blonde wigs

and rhinestone costumes who played at Glastonbury in 2014.

-Can I say Dolly Parton?

-You can say Dolly Parton, Craig.

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

It is right.

Oh, 75! That's OK. APPLAUSE

It's not the highest score.

75's fine.

She was absolutely amazing at Glastonbury as well.

-Incredible show she put on.

-Yeah. Thanks, Rich.

Jamie, welcome to the show. Good to have you on Pointless.

-Thank you for having us.

-You are the heir to the McVitie's biscuit empire.

-Um...

-Is this true?

-I don't... I mean... I don't know.

-I don't know.

-Yes.

-Yes?

-That's exciting.

-Cos we are big fans of biscuits.

-Love biscuits.

LAUGHTER We are so excited about that.

Have you grown up surrounded by biscuits?

Yeah, I had lots of biscuits when I was young,

lived in a biscuit house... It was great.

-At my wedding, there'll just be biscuits...

-Crumbs.

-Crumbs everywhere.

-That's going to be amazing.

-I can't wait!

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-Well, good luck to you, Jamie.

-Thank you.

-What about this board here?

There's only been two correct answers,

so there's quite a lot for you to choose from still.

I think I know one.

I'm going to go for the top one,

American singer who had number one hits with Dirrty and Beautiful.

-I think it's Christina Aguilera.

-Christina Aguilera, says Jamie.

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

100's our high score. You passed that instantly. 38 is our low.

-Look at that, you passed it!

-Come on!

-25!

-Come on!

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Jamie, 25 for Christina Aguilera.

Well played, Jamie. I could have sworn it was Britney Spears.

-There we go.

-Let's go through the rest of this board.

Played the lead in The Rose was the Divine Miss M, Bette Midler.

Would have scored 12.

-The Swedish singer was Agnetha Faltskog, previously from Abba.

-Yes.

Would have scored you 4. The French singer?

-Edith Piaf.

-Edith Piaf, 45.

And the actress, director and singer?

-Barbra Streisand.

-Barbra Streisand. And that would have scored you 5.

So, Agnetha Faltskog is the best answer on that board.

-Well done if you said that at home.

-Thank you very much.

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

Well done, Jamie. 25, the best score of that pass.

Then up to 38, we find Carl and Jimmy.

75, where we find Craig and Nikki,

then up to 100, where we find Solomon and Ruth.

So, Ruth, you're not THAT far out in front

but you know what we need.

-A low score.

-A miracle.

-Good luck with that.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Let's put seven more divas up on the board and here they come.

Here we go, one more time.

-Alex, warm welcome to Pointless.

-Hello.

Made In Chelsea, how did that start for you? What happened?

My ex-girlfriend was actually on it and I think they wanted

to cause some drama and then I came into it, basically.

-Do they just follow you the whole time?

-It's quite invasive.

So I wake up and there's a camera, go to sleep, there's a camera.

No, it's not that bad. It's quite full-on, though.

-Now, Alex.

-Yeah.

-You're on 25.

The high-scorers are Ruth and Solomon.

-We're doing well.

-Incredibly well. Lovely low score from Jamie.

We need 74 or less if you want to avoid becoming the new high-scorers.

OK, I think I know two.

I'm going to go with second from bottom, which is Rihanna.

Rihanna. Diamonds, Rihanna. Here's your red line, nice and high.

If you get below that, you are definitely in the next round.

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

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

17! APPLAUSE

It's the lowest score of the round so far!

-42 is your total.

-We've rigged it. It's rigged.

Very well played, Alex.

She's got a tattoo which says, "Never a failure, always a lesson."

She's got it tattooed under her neck backwards,

-so it reads forwards in the mirror.

-Thanks very much indeed. Nikki.

How lovely to have you here on Pointless.

-Thank you.

-A warm welcome to you.

Was Big Brother a good thing, would you say?

Are you glad you did Big Brother?

I absolutely loved it, I really did.

I've watched every show, so I'm happy that I did it

and it definitely changed my life for the better.

OK, very good. Nikki, you're on 75.

The high-scorers, you're only 24 points behind them.

What are you going to go for?

So, I'm stuck between two at the moment -

I think I'm going to go with the last one and say Annie Lennox.

Annie Lennox. Now, I said only 24 points behind.

Of course, 75 is 25 behind 100, but she wants to score 24 or less

to avoid equalling them, is what I meant.

There is your red line.

If you can get below that, you're in very good shape.

Let's see how many said it.

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Not bad. You're still in the game, very much.

-147 is your total.

-Yeah, correct answer,

just three less famous than Dolly Parton, Annie Lennox.

-72's a big score.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much. Jimmy.

-Hello.

-Welcome.

-Thank you. Thanks for having us.

-It's nothing but a pleasure.

-Very good.

-You're a retired footballer.

-Yeah.

You're very young to be a retired footballer, Jimmy.

Yeah, it doesn't last forever, does it? That's the problem.

It doesn't, but where does it go from here?

-Are going to do management, Jimmy?

-I would love to be a manager one day.

It's in me, but I need to get my badges

and you have to do a lot of paperwork for that

and I'm not really made for that.

Jimmy, you are actually through to the next round,

doesn't matter what you score.

-Yes!

-I bet you've got a good answer.

-I've got to be honest,

I'm struggling here.

So I'm going to take a guess and go for the top one.

I'm going to go Taylor Swift,

but I know she's not a country singer but I have to give an answer,

-so I'm going to go Taylor Swift for the top one.

-Taylor Swift.

No red line for you, but let's see

how many of our 100 said Taylor Swift?

-It's absolutely right.

-Is it right? Get in there!

-Get in there!

It's a good score.

-24 for Taylor Swift takes your total up to 62.

-Yes!

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-Well played, Jimmy.

Only the second Fulham player we've had on Pointless Celebrities

-after George Cohen.

-Oh, really?

-Yeah.

Taylor Swift started out purely as a country singer,

now there's still a bit of country in what she does.

-Thank you. Ruth.

-Yes.

You didn't win The Apprentice but you have just gone on.

-You've had a stonking career since The Apprentice.

-Some might say, yes.

Massive. So what are you up to at the moment?

I run my own businesses now, so I'm all over the country doing business,

-which is what The Apprentice was about when I went in.

-Did it help?

Great experience, very competitive,

takes you out your comfort zone, taught me loads,

especially how to argue - sorry, negotiate - in a boardroom,

-but great experience for me.

-And put the name of Badger out there.

-Put the Badger out there.

-Absolutely.

You are no longer the high-scorers.

You were - thanks, Solomon. No longer.

You have to score 46 or less to stay with us.

Do you think you can do it?

I know one answer off that board, where the others I'd be guessing.

But I'm definitely going to go for number two, which is Amy Winehouse.

OK. Amy Winehouse. There is your red line.

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

Let's see if it's right. Amy Winehouse for Frank.

It's right.

Well done, you've done it! Still with us! Look at that!

6, the lowest score of the round. Very well done indeed, Ruth.

Takes your total up to 106. APPLAUSE

An even better answer than Bette Midler, it turns out.

Very well played, Ruth.

Let's look through the rest of these.

-The Greek singer is...

-Nana Mouskouri.

-Nana Mouskouri.

She would have scored you 38.

-Do you know the star of the West End musicals?

-Elaine Paige?

It is Elaine Paige. 4 points as well,

so it's the best answer on the board. And the singer?

-Cher.

-Cher. That would have scored you 40.

Thank you, Richard.

At the end of our first round, the pair who are heading home,

I'm so sorry. Nothing wrong with your answers,

They were just high-scorers.

-That's OK.

-We've enjoyed it anyway.

Lovely having you on the show.

Nikki and Craig, everyone.

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

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Suddenly we're down to three pairs.

At the end of this round, we'll be down to two pairs,

in time for our head-to-head round.

Our category for Round Two is...

Words.

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

Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

A-R-K. Richard.

We're looking for any word in the English language that ends -ark.

That's any word with its own entry in the English language section

of oxforddictionaries.com, as of March, 2015, that ends -ark.

No proper nouns, no hyphenated words or anything like that,

but any word that ends -ark. Best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed. Solomon, we come to you.

-I've got one.

So, I obviously know a lot of words and I'm thinking of an animal.

-Do you want to hear it now?

-Yes.

-Aardvark.

So, I was saying. I know, so, hopefully, fingers crossed...

-Is it right? Is it that thing, etc?

-Please be right.

Well, it is a right word, right?

-It IS a right word.

-I think that might be pointless.

Yes!

21 for aardvark! APPLAUSE

Not bad, Solomon, not bad. 21.

-Nocturnal burrowing mammal.

-There we are.

-From Africa.

Carl, there we are. Carl, what would you like to go for?

I'm not sure I can have Noah's Ark.

-Or could you?

-It has to be one word.

Bark?

LAUGHTER

-What?

-OK.

-Bark, like a dog barks. Bark.

-No?

-Let's see if bark is right.

Obviously it's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said bark.

Come on!

Oh! APPLAUSE

Oh, dear, oh, dear. This is one of those few occasions

where bite would actually have been worse than bark, but...

I thought it would be lower than that.

Bark is, of course, the noise made by an aardvark.

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-Alex.

-Yes.

-What would you like to go for?

-I'm going to go with lark.

-That was the other one.

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

-CARL:

-Please be lower. Higher, sorry.

83! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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I mean, genuinely,

who would have thought Solomon would be the lowest scorer by a mile?

LAUGHTER

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

21, well done, Solomon.

Solomon and Ruth very much at the top of the table.

Then up to 79, Carl and Jimmy,

then up to 83 where we find Alex and Jamie.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, Jamie, a word ending -ark. A nice obscure word ending -ark.

You're the high-scorers, so it needs to be low.

-I'm going to go for remark.

-Remark, says Jamie.

That's earned you an "Ooh"

-from our audience.

-Thank you.

No red line for you as you're the high-scorers,

but let's see how far down the board you get with remark.

21's our lowest score so far

and you pass it. Look at that.

-Come on!

-Well done.

APPLAUSE 95 is your total.

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

As so often before, it all comes down to Jimmy Bullard now.

LAUGHTER

-Come on then, Jimmy.

-I don't even know if this is a word.

It's sounding good already.

15 or less is what you've got to score, Jimmy.

-Oh, come on, this is so embarrassing.

-Come on, mate.

-Is stark a word?

-Why would that not be a word?

-It's just not a word that I've used before.

-You just have.

-But I'm going with it.

-That's a good one.

Stark. Here's your red line.

You've got to get below that to stay in the game.

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

-It's right.

-It's right.

-Come on!

-Oh, 30!

-Oh!

-Well done, mate.

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-109 is your total.

-This is fantastic.

The good news is, though, we've finally solved the mystery

-of whether stark is a word or not.

-LAUGHTER

When would you use a word like that? What does it mean?

Stark, staring bonkers, maybe.

OK, like my mate.

That'll do, yeah. Thank you. Now, so, Ruth.

-87 or less.

-Um, I'm going to go for... Argh...

Er...mark.

-Mark.

-That's definitely got to be higher!

LAUGHTER

Living on the edge, living on the edge.

There's your red line. You've got to get below that.

At least it means something.

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

-You've done it.

-Ooh!

-Just.

-73.

-No way!

-Playing it safe?

-Takes your total up to 94.

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That might be the worst Words round we have ever had, I think.

LAUGHTER

Let's take a look at the pointless answers. Quite a few.

Fingermark, paperbark.

Sitzmark is the impression left in the snow

when a skier falls over, apparently, a sitzmark.

I didn't know we had a word for that.

Telemark is a skiing turn

and woodlark, also a lovely pointless answer.

-Well done if you said any of those.

-Thank you, Richard.

At the end of our second round,

the pair heading home with our high score of 109,

-I'm sorry, Jimmy and Carl.

-Cheers, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Nothing wrong with your answers. SPARSE APPLAUSE

-That was a token clap. Come on!

-LAUGHTER

Listen, you must come back and play again and do better.

-I'll bring a different partner.

-It's been lovely having you on.

Jimmy and Carl.

Cheers, guys, thanks.

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For Jamie and Alex, Solomon and Ruth, it's now time for our head-to-head.

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Congratulations, Jamie and Alex, Solomon and Ruth,

you're one step closer to the final

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

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This is the point where we decide who goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot and we do that by making you go head-to-head.

But you're now allowed to confer before you give your answers

and the first pair to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot. Simple as that.

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

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

Meeting the Queen, Richard.

I'm going to show you five pictures of famous people meeting the Queen,

but who is she shaking hands with, please?

OK, let's reveal the five people shaking hands with the Queen

and here they are.

There we are. Five people meeting the Queen.

Jamie and Alex, you've been our low-scorers in total,

so you will go first.

I reckon we either go for E or C.

-C is slightly under the radar.

-Hardly.

-Hardly, but more under the radar.

-OK, let's go with C.

-We're going to go with C.

-Jamie and Alex, what are you going to say?

-Do you want to say it?

-I'll say the first name, you can say the second.

-Perfect.

-Fearne.

-Cotton.

-Fearne Cotton, say Jamie and Alex.

Fearne Cotton. Solomon and Ruth, talk us through the rest of the board.

-OK, which ones do you know?

-So...

-Can I say the names?

-You can.

-You've got Liam Nielson.

-Which one's he? A?

He's A, but I don't know

if you'd recognise him off that picture, so I think we should go A.

-I trust the Badger.

-And you're going to say A?

-Yeah. Liam Nielson.

-Liam Nielson.

OK, so we have Fearne Cotton and Liam Nielson.

In the order they were given, Jamie and Alex said C, Fearne Cotton.

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

Come on.

Come on! Come on!

Come on, mate! Yes!

There we are. 16.

Is that under the radar enough for you, Jamie and Alex?

-I feel like that is very stealth, very stealth of us.

-Very stealth.

-Stealthy.

-Solomon and Ruth have gone for Liam Nielson for A.

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

-RUTH:

-Oh!

-JAMIE:

-Yes!

-Oh, I'm sorry.

-In every other instance, always trust the Badger. On this one...

-Never do.

Very well done, Jamie and Alex. After one question, you're up 1-0. Richard.

-Yeah, Liam Neeson, of course.

-Oh!

-So, we're still in the game?

-I pronounced it wrong.

-It's not pronunciation.

Nielson is a different surname, pronounced Nielson.

And Liam Neeson, if you'd said Neeson,

would have scored you 43 points.

-B is the best answer on the board, actually.

-Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, would have scored you 5 points.

D is Angela Merkel.

She would have scored you 56.

And the biggest scorer on the board is E.

It's Lady Gaga and would have scored you 65.

Thanks very much. Here comes your second question.

Solomon and Ruth, you answer this one first,

but you have to get win it to stay in the game.

Second question concerns...

-Richard.

-We're going to play you a little extract

from five Eurovision Song Contest winning songs.

We need you to tell us the name of the country

that released these five songs, please.

OK, so let's play our five excerpts. Here is the first excerpt.

We have got A.

# Wishing wells, wedding bells

# Early morning dew

# All kinds of everything

# Remind me of you... #

Here's B.

# ..Loin d'ici

# Ne partez pas sans moi

# Laissez-moi vous suivre

# Vous qui volez vers d'autres vies

# Laissez-moi vivre... #

C.

# You threw me down but

# I'm gonna fly

# And rise like a phoenix

# Out of the ashes

# Seeking rather than vengeance

# Retribution, you were warned... #

Here's D.

# My, my

# At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender

# Oh, yeah

# And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way... #

And here is E.

# Hard rock hallelujah

# Hard rock hallelujah... #

There we go. Five excerpts from Eurovision winners.

Solomon, Ruth, what are you going to go for?

-Um... Oh, no!

-I...

-I know the last one. I can hear...

-Shall we flip a coin?

-No.

I can actually hear the last song because it's a mad video,

so I can see it in my head.

-I think go with your gut feeling on this one.

-Right.

I'm going to punt it. I'm going to say E and I'm going to go Norway.

E, Norway, say Solomon and Ruth.

Now, Jamie and Alex, talk us through the rest of them.

Do you want to begin?

We were trying to pick out languages and I believe B was sung in French,

but other than that it was all English.

And then you thought E... He went, "E, it's Scandinavian."

-Scandinavian. Swedish, maybe.

-I think we go B then.

-We'll go B, French.

-You're going to say B, France.

-France.

So, we have E, Norway, B, France. Solomon and Ruth said E, Norway.

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

No. Jamie and Alex said B, France.

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

It only has to be right for you to win the point.

No, both wrong.

Which means, after two questions, Jamie and Alex, you're still up 1-0.

People at home screaming, "Please just go for Abba. Go for Abba."

We didn't know where Abba were from. We couldn't remember.

-RUTH:

-They're Danish, aren't they?

-Sweden.

-Swedish? I said that!

The first one... Let's take a tiny listen to them. A.

-# Wishing wells... #

-It's Dana for Ireland.

Ireland would have scored you 66.

B is not France, it's Celine Dion singing for Switzerland.

It would have been a good answer and scored you 11.

The third one was Conchita Wurst, very famously,

and Austria the answer there.

Austria would have scored you 27.

D, Abba, from Sweden, we discover. Sweden would have scored you 81.

And E.

Everyone's right, it's Scandinavian, but it's Lordi from Finland.

That would have scored you 39.

Lordi, indeed. OK, here comes your third question.

Jamie and Alex, you get to answer it first but Solomon and Ruth,

you have to win it to stay in the game, so best of luck.

It concerns...

-Zoo animals.

-We're going to show you the names of five zoo animals now.

I wish we hadn't done this now, but we put them in anagram form.

Can you unscramble them and give us the most obscure answer, please?

And when I say please, I mean PLEASE.

LAUGHTER

Thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five anagrams. We've got...

-Jamie and Alex, your go first.

-My spelling is so bad.

WHISPERED DISCUSSION

-Shall we go with the second one?

-Is that how you spell it?

-I think so.

-How sure?

-90%.

-OK, for 90% I'd say it.

If you're wrong, I'm going to be furious.

Um, number two we think is alligator.

OK, Jamie and Alex are saying alligator for "A trial log".

-Solomon and Ruth, the board is all yours.

-OK.

-Talk us through it.

The second one up is meerkat.

I kind of think "ark meet" is a real animal anyway.

-Yeah, let's... Shall we go...?

-LAUGHTER

-We'll go for meerkat.

-Meerkat.

-Please.

You're going for meerkat. So, we've got alligator and meerkat.

Jamie and Alex said alligator. Let's see if that's right

and how many people said alligator.

16.

APPLAUSE

-Now, Solomon and Ruth...

-Oh, it IS us!

-Yeah.

-Come on!

-I wondered why you weren't celebrating.

Solomon and Ruth have gone for meerkat for "ark meet".

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

It's right. Oi, look at that. 83.

Very well done. APPLAUSE

After three questions, we've finally got there.

Jamie and Alex, you are through to the final, 2-0.

The best answer on the board, gents, so very well played.

The top one is rhinoceros.

Would have scored you 26. The middle one, chimpanzee.

Would have scored you 38.

-And at the bottom...?

-Antelope.

-Antelope.

That would have scored you 19.

So alligator, best answer up there.

So, the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round,

-I'm sorry, Solomon and Ruth, it is you. You made it this far.

-Yay!

It's been such an experience having you on the show.

LAUGHTER

-Please come back and do it again.

-Never, never!

Thanks for playing, Solomon and Ruth.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

But for Jamie and Alex, it's time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Well done, Jamie and Alex. What about that?

You've seen off I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here,

you've seen off The Apprentice in the head-to-head

and you saw off Big Brother. Fantastic.

You have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-We feel honoured.

-Ecstatic.

-So you should.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

for your charities, which is very exciting.

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

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We'll put four things up on the board. Let's see today's selection.

The Year 2008. Everything else seems a lot bigger.

-Can you do any X Factor winners?

-Yes, but let's go 2008, I reckon.

-We'll go The Year 2008, please.

-There we are, Richard.

Good luck. Three very different categories here,

so take your answers from any of these, however you want to do it.

We are looking for anybody who was nominated

for a Best Actor or Best Actress Oscar in 2008

or a Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor,

so any of those acting categories.

We're looking for any act

who had one of the 50 best-selling albums of 2008.

Or we are looking for any country which won a gold medal

at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, apart from GB.

So, any actor or actress Oscar nominees,

any acts who had the 50 best-selling albums

or any gold medal-winning countries at the 2008 Olympics.

Best of luck, guys. I hope there's good categories in there for you.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

All you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-No.

-Not at all.

Not ready at all. This is really hard.

OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. Your time starts now.

What's a good gold-winning, obscure...?

OK, you think of that one, I'll think of... OK, Oscars.

What was in 2008? Was it Schindler's List, something like that?

-No, that's a lot older than that.

-I don't think it IS that much older.

Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

thirteen, fourteen, fifteen - seven years ago.

2008 - was that when they brought out the first Batman?

Batman? That didn't win an Oscar.

The, um... So, best-selling albums in 2008.

Who was big in 2008?

Seven years ago, who were you listening to?

-Um... Adele might have had...

-Adele.

-Amy Winehouse.

-The computer A Dell.

-Adele.

Um... OK, I reckon we go Amy Winehouse for...

OK, Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse.

Medals would be, what really random country?

-Shooting - who's good at shooting?

-Ten seconds left.

Finland. Amy Winehouse, Finland and let's go for, actor would be...

OK...

-Daniel Day-Lewis for the actor, I don't know why.

-OK.

OK, that is your time up. I now need your three answers.

What are you going to give me?

-So, for one of them, because he's won loads...

-Daniel Day-Lewis.

-Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor.

-Acts with the best-selling...

Then we're going gold medals, we'll just pick two. Gold medals, come on.

-Switzerland.

-OK.

-They could have.

-Switzerland.

-Switzerland.

-And we'll go for someone like...Kenya.

-Kenya.

OK, Switzerland and Kenya are our gold medal winners.

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

-I think Kenya.

-OK, shall we put Kenya last?

-Yeah, let's put Kenya last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Daniel Day-Lewis.

-Daniel Day-Lewis we'll put first.

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

-Three good answers, I'd say, on the board.

-Do you think so?

-I think so.

The question is, will any of them be pointless?

If any of them IS pointless, you will win that jackpot for your charities.

What charity are you playing for, Jamie?

My charity is Rays of Sunshine,

which is a charity which brings a bright light

to really poorly kids aged from 3 to 18.

-Alex?

-Mine is Cancer Research UK.

-Very good.

APPLAUSE

Fingers crossed, fingers crossed. As I say, three good answers there.

Let's hope one of them is pointless

and you can take that jackpot home for those charities.

Your first answer was Daniel Day-Lewis.

In this case, we were looking for 2008 Oscar nominees.

Remember, it has to be pointless for you to win.

Let's find out how many of our 100 people

said Daniel Day-Lewis for £2,500.

-It's right.

-It's right!

-Daniel Day-Lewis is right.

This has to go all the way down to zero

and you will leave here with that jackpot for your charities.

Down it goes through the teens into single figures. Still going down.

-1!

-No!

-1!

-I can't believe it!

-APPLAUSE

-I can't believe it!

-No!

-Unbelievable!

-One person got Daniel Day-Lewis.

-I'll find that one person.

-Who is that one person?

-LAUGHTER

-Was it Daniel Day-Lewis?

-Daniel Day-Lewis himself!

Oh, bad luck. Not a pointless answer,

which means you only have two more shots at the jackpot.

-That's so unfair.

-Your next answer was Switzerland.

We were looking for medal winners at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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

Let's see, for £2,500, how many people said Switzerland.

Is it pointless?

-It's right.

-It's right again!

Daniel Day-Lewis took us all the way down to 1.

Switzerland now taking us down through the twenties and the teens.

-Come on!

-Down it goes. Still going down.

-Come on!

-No!

-What?!

-1.

-What?!

-This is rigged. I can't believe it.

APPLAUSE

Oh, no. Daniel Day-Lewis again with Switzerland!

Everything is now riding on your third and final answer, Kenya.

-No way.

-This isn't fair. Can we do it again?

-Who said Switzerland?

-Well, YOU did!

I know, but that was so random and pointless.

LAUGHTER

Kenya is your third and final answer. This has to be pointless, come on.

To win the jackpot of £2,500, how many people said Kenya?

Is it pointless?

-It's right.

-Come on!

-Daniel Day-Lewis was right. That took us down to 1.

Switzerland was right. That took us down to 1 as well.

-Kenya has to be pointless.

-Come on!

Into single figures. Still going down...

-No!

-No!

-No!

-Bad luck!

-What?!

-I can't believe it!

APPLAUSE

Listen... APPLAUSE

OK, you didn't win the jackpot, but three excellent answers there,

-considering how you felt when you started that minute.

-Yeah.

You managed to get three brilliant answers that took us

right down to the bottom end of the column. I'm so sorry.

That means you don't win today's jackpot of £2,500. I'm really sorry.

However, as it is a celebrity special and everyone's playing for a charity,

we're going to donate £500 to each celebrity pair

for their respective charities. So, you get that

and you've been brilliant right the way across the show,

so can hold your heads up high

and you get a Pointless trophy to take away.

-Thank you.

-So, it's all good.

APPLAUSE

-I can't believe it.

-I can't believe that!

The gold medal-winning countries had the pointless answers

cos 53 countries won a gold medal at those Olympics

and 30 of them were pointless

and one of the countries that was pointless was Finland.

-Oh, we said that.

-We said Finland!

Which you said and I was just waiting.

-I was waiting for you to read it out and you didn't do it.

-Oh, no!

Let's look at the pointless answers in the different categories.

There'll be ones you know in all of these.

We'll start with actors and actresses.

Let's move on to the best-selling albums.

N-Dubz, unbelievably, was a pointless answer.

Celine Dion, Chris Brown, Enrique Iglesias, Il Divo,

Mark Ronson, Will Young - well done if you said any of those.

And the gold medal-winning countries. As I say, there's loads.

There's 30-odd countries here.

You could have had Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Denmark,

North Korea, Norway, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

and our good friends in the Netherlands.

All of those were pointless answers.

It's been a pleasure having you on the show

and I'm so sorry. 1, 1 and 4 is terrific work in that final round.

Thanks very much. We have to say goodbye to you, Jamie and Alex.

But brilliant having you on the show.

Great performance and thank you so much for playing.

-Jamie and Alex, brilliant.

-Thank you.

-Thanks.

APPLAUSE

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

-It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.