Children's TV Pointless Celebrities

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

A very warm welcome to this special children's TV edition of

Pointless Celebrities, the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

Couple number one.

Thank you, yes. My name is Anthea Turner and this is Andy Crane.

And we used to do children's TV, together, on odd occasions.

We did. We did.

We did stuff in the Broom Cupboard.

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Easy now.

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Couple number two.

Hello, Alexander. I am Justin Fletcher and this is Gemma Hunt.

And we are also children's television presenters for CBeebies.

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Couple number three.

My name is Dave Benson Phillips and this is Mr Gareth "Gaz Top" Jones.

-Full title.

-Full title tonight. Full title.

Yeah, I am a children's TV presenter and voice-over artist.

And what do you do? What do you do? He's a legend, this guy.

-SPEAKS UNINTELLIGIBLY

-He does the voice for me.

-Yeah, he does.

-I just mime. What do I do?

I stay out of trouble and make programmes

and I do a bit of acting, you know. The usual nonsense.

He's legendary.

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And finally, couple number four.

Hello, we are Team Sally and Geoffrey.

I'm Sally James and I'm probably best known for being

-the presenter of Tiswas, which was fairly popular in the '80s.

-Yeah.

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And my partner is the wonderful Geoffrey Hayes, who did

over 20 years presenting that wonderful programme, Rainbow.

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Oh, thank you.

Thank you very much, all of you.

We'll find out more about you throughout the show as it goes along.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Fumbling around with fact like a lustful teenager on the back

row of the cinema, it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya.

Evening, everybody. Evening.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening to you too.

Wow, this is going to be fun.

-Look at podium four!

-I know.

Can you believe it? Sally and Geoff, Tiswas and Rainbow on podium four.

Everyone else might as well go home right now.

See you later!

-They might as well, there we go.

-I like the fact that Dave is pretending to walk off, like

that's not what you'll be doing in a round's time anyway.

-LAUGHTER

-I thought you would bring that up.

We've got a few people that have been on before.

Sally has been on before. Got through to the head-to-head.

-Anthea has been in a final.

-Yeah.

And Dave Benson Phillips has been on before.

-He got knocked out in Round One.

-Yeah.

-With Pat Sharp.

-Yeah.

-Now he tells me!

-Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's very, very rare.

It's very rare, Dave, that someone gets knocked out in Round One twice.

But you never know, right?

No pressure, Mr Osman, thank you very much.

Good luck.

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Thanks very much, Richard.

As usual, all of today's questions have been put

to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants here are looking for those all-important pointless

answers - answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Find one of those and 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.

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

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

All you have to remember, Dave, is the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

OK, our first category today is...

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

who is going to go second?

That's not generic at all, is it?

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 as many

words ending in ...OUT as they could.

Words ending in ...OUT. Richard.

Yeah, we are looking for any word with its own entry in the

oxforddictionaries.com English language section that ends ...OUT.

As always, no proper nouns, no hyphenated words.

-And that's up to March 2015.

-Thank you.

So then, Anthea. of all the many things you've done,

what are the things you look back on and think, oh, that was fantastic?

Making Tracy Island. On Blue Peter.

Blue Peter is the gift of all children's television programmes.

And to have made Tracy Island was just the best.

That's got to be worth a bomb, surely.

Surely that's worth a lot of money.

Yeah, maybe one day. One day I just might need it.

I love the fact that you didn't go, "It hadn't occurred to me."

-You just went, "Yep."

-Absolutely.

"What do you think it's doing in my loft?"

Anthea, what are you going to go for? A word ending ...OUT.

Is this in the English dictionary?

How about cop-out?

OK, let's see if cop-out is in the dictionary.

If it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

Oh, Anthea.

-There is your answer.

-It's not in the dictionary?

I'm afraid it's been left out.

It's in you dictionary. It's not in the Oxford English Dictionary.

-Cop-out.

-Cop-out.

It's two words, I'm afraid.

-So both of those words are in the dictionary.

-Yes. But not together?

But not together. Listen, it may not be the last 100 points of the round.

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-LAUGHING:

-So...

Good luck, Andy.

Thanks, Alexander, yeah. Cheers.

Gemma. Welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here. Ah!

Wonderful.

CBeebies royalty, I would say.

How did you first get into children's telly?

I started in kids' TV about 12 years ago, on CBBC.

Kind of doing the Broom Cupboard.

Doing the presentation links in between programmes.

Started on Independence Day 2003. Worked there for a good few years

and then started at CBeebies about two years ago,

working alongside the likes of Justin.

Fabulous. Actually, I said royalty. You've been to Buckingham Palace.

You hosted.

-Yeah, I presented live for the Queen's 80th birthday.

-How was that?

On behalf of CBBC. Yeah, amazing.

Didn't actually get to officially meet the Queen,

but she was kind of like in our compound. And she is tiny.

She is really little. Yeah, it was really lovely to see her.

Queen, small. I'm going to store that one away.

Now, Gemma, words ending ...OUT.

-I'm going to go with clout.

-Clout, says Gemma. Clout.

Let's see if that's right,

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

That's all right.

Not bad at all.

Yeah, safe answer, Gemma. Well played. Clout.

You know what clout means.

-Clout.

-Clout. Very good. Dave. Nice shirt, Dave.

-Thank you very much.

-There is a nice sheen on there.

-It is, it's lovely.

-It's beautiful.

It's lovely. When I move like that, it's kind of nice.

Oh! Now, Dave, nice to have you here.

You are an inductee on the Children's Walk of Fame.

Yes! Yes, that was a real surprise when I was told that some years ago.

How and where is that?

It's at Drusilla's, I believe.

It's myself, Sooty, Peter Rabbit, I believe you are in there as well.

Yeah, you're in there. You're both in there.

Thrown the apple of discord in there.

Am I the only children's presenter who doesn't know there is a

children's presenters Walk of Fame? I'd no idea there was such a thing.

-Oh, ah...yeah, yeah...

-Gareth is in there.

Sally and Geoffrey, they are definitely there.

I'm in there. Xander, you're in there, aren't you?

Yeah, not yet, but I've been invited.

-Dave.

-Yes.

-Dave. Anthea has done you a massive favour here.

I think you're going to see the light of Round Two.

This is my hunch. What are you going to go for?

OK, I've given it a lot of thought.

Knowing me, it's going to be a high one.

Without.

Without. Without, says Dave. Let's see if it's right, let's see how

many people... I think we know it's right.

-Let's see how many people said it.

-It's going to be a high one.

Well, it's right.

33.

Actually, our lowest score so far.

Damage limitation. Perfectly good answer. Without.

Again, you don't need a definition.

-No. Nuh-uh-uh. Geoff.

-I've just thought of another one.

-Alexander.

-Geoffrey, how lovely to have you here.

-Thank you.

-An icon of our childhood.

When you made Rainbow, how were those puppets operated?

-Were they hand...

-Hand-held.

Hand-held. So people were lying just below you.

Yeah. But my job is to make you believe that they are actually real.

So, first of all, I got to act with them as if they are real people.

Bungle was real though, right?

-Oh, he was real. Yes.

-Oh, good. Good. Just checking that.

I think we all know about Zippy.

Zippy is not real because people don't have zips.

-Bungle... Yeah, I think we agree was a...

-Well spotted, Richard.

-Thank you.

-Well spotted, yeah. Well done.

So, Geoffrey, words ending ...OUT.

Right.

Can I have sprout?

-If you like.

-As in the vegetable.

-Yeah, sprout.

Let's see if it's right, let's see how many of our 100 said sprout.

It is right.

38 is our highest score. You passed it.

33 you passed. 24.

Fabulous.

Famously, no-one likes sprouts. 24. Backed up.

You don't hear people say "Can I have sprouts?" very often, do you?

-No, you certainly don't.

-Very rarely. Very well played.

-Thank you.

Very good. Look, we are halfway through the round already.

We had better take a look at the scores.

24, Geoffrey. The best score of the pass so far.

Geoffrey and Sally looking supreme at this point.

Then up to 33, where we find Dave and Gareth.

Then up to 38, Gemma and Justin.

Anthea, I don't know how that happened.

-Well, I know exactly how that happened. But, yes.

-You know exactly how it happened.

We need a minus score from you, Andy, when it comes to you.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-Really, really good luck with that.

-Thanks.

We are going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Sally. Welcome back. How far did you go last time?

-I did get to the head-to-head.

-There we are.

And then it all went a little bit pear-shaped.

OK, listen, lovely to have you here. Obviously representing Tiswas.

Indeed.

Tiswas wasn't your first flan-throwing experience, was it?

You did Saturday Scene.

Yes, but that was very dry and clean.

-There were no flans there whatsoever.

-Oh, really?

No, no. My first flan-flinging experience was definitely Tiswas.

That is where I learned the art of chucking a bucket.

Very valuable skill.

How do you do that, in fact, to get the optimum...?

It takes a long time. You must get the angle right.

You must have the right amount of water.

And you've got to get the swing right.

It's a bit like golfers' practice.

Bucket throwing, it doesn't just happen.

-No, it wouldn't.

-There is a lot of training involved.

Yeah, very good.

Now, Sally, words ending ...OUT. You have to score 75 or less

with this to get to the next round.

I'm going to go with devout.

-Oh, very good.

-Oh!

-Oh!

-Good.

We like it and the audience like it.

Yes, very good.

That is good. There is your red line.

Get below that with devout and you're through to the next round.

Very good.

Look at that.

There we are, there we are.

There is your reward, Sally, for devout. Well done.

8 takes your total up to 32.

I mean, look at podium four. That is just sheer class, isn't it?

Untroubled by anything. It's amazing. They make it look so simple.

-Funny how old people react, isn't it really?

-What?!

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Thanks, Richard. Gareth, welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here.

Thank you for having me.

Science, of course, was your bent, wasn't it?

Yeah. Science and engineering.

Yeah. Did you start off in science before going into television?

I did two things. I worked in a laboratory in a quarry in North Wales.

Studying powders and stone and rolled as...

Hold on, studying... What are you talking about? Studying powders?

-What's this?

-Turning stone into powders and...

Oh, I see. Not blowing up stone or anything?

-No, no. Well, I did actually blow up a mountainside once.

-By accident?

As part of the project, yes.

Reduced some Welsh limestone to agricultural lime.

Then measured it, mixed it

and used some of it to make hot rolled asphalt.

I used to design roads, as well. All that. Aircraft.

I was interested in model aircraft so, yeah, engineering and science.

You can see why he's so good on television, can't you?

He is just brilliant. Yes.

Now, Gareth, you are on 33.

The highest-scorers remain Anthea and Andy on 100.

So 66 or less gets you into the next round.

-Do you want a Welsh word or an English word?

-English.

An English word.

I think just in the interest of keeping you in the...

If it was a Welsh word, it would be brithyll.

If it's an English word, it's trout.

Trout. Let's see. There is your red line. It has to get below that.

Trout. Trout.

It's right.

You've done it. Well done. There we are.

Slipped through the net.

35.

-Relief.

-68 is your total.

Well played, Gareth. Yeah.

It's a type of fish, I can exclusively reveal.

-ANDY:

-Sharp as a tack, that boy. Sharp as a tack.

Thank you very much. Justin.

Hello.

Justin, what a warm welcome this is to you.

Great to have you on Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Proper kids' show royalty.

But how do you get out of the house? I mean, what do you do?

How do you go out? Do you wear a disguise when you go?

It's amazing what a baseball cap can do.

But no, I've been doing children's television for about 25 years now.

And, you know, everyone knows I love it. I love what I do.

I reinvent myself, you know, every few years. I keep fresh.

Not just presenting,

but obviously I do a lot of character work in my sketch shows.

And then obviously we have the wonderful

Something Special show with Mr Tumble.

-We've been shooting that now for 15 years.

-Brilliant.

Yeah.

You have to score 61 or less. With this word ending in ...OUT.

I'm going to play safe, I suppose. I'll go about. See how we go on.

About. OK. About. Here is your red line, Justin.

If you can get below that with about, you are into Round Two.

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

Yep, you've done it. Well done.

Just. 51.

Takes your total up to 89.

About is the 45th most common word in the English language.

Wow.

Totes is second.

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Thanks. Andy, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

Thank you for having me.

You also acted a lot with puppets.

-Just the one.

-How was that?

Actually, there were a few over the years,

but there's one that everybody remembers.

There were lots of puppets that arrived before

-the green-haired duck. But he's the one everybody remembers.

-Yes.

Little Edd. With two Ds.

-Quite right.

-And Edd was the star of the show, frankly.

Edd and all the other puppets were the stars of the show.

Andy, listen, I don't know how to break this to you

but you are the high-scorers.

Yeah, without even me bothering.

But you've had a little bit of time to think of a really good answer.

Maybe a pointless answer that will add some money to that jackpot.

I can tell you there are 37 pointless answers.

I'm sorry to be so glamorous and showbiz about this,

but, you know, the terracotta tiles need resealing

and I've got to put some more grout in between the tiles.

OK, grout.

No red line for you, sadly, Andy, because of your high score.

I'm really sorry. But let's see how many people said grout.

It is right.

28.

-28.

-It'll do.

-Yeah.

-It'll do.

128 is your total.

Yeah, big scores everywhere there.

There's loads of words you're going to know.

Sally is the only one who got under 10.

So many words that people will know.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

The ones that none of our 100 people said.

All of these would have added money to the jackpot.

Buyout would have been a pointless answer. Gadabout.

-ANDY:

-Logout!

-Logout.

-Computer every day.

-Logout.

Let's take a look at some more. Passepartout, payout, printout.

All of these are pointless. All those ones with ...OUT on the end, Anthea.

Shutout, turnabout, turnout. Runabout is a pointless answer.

Waterspout is a pointless answer. We'll take a look at the top three.

The ones that most of our 100 people said.

About is the third biggest score of all, about. 51 points.

Shout, 55. And right at the top, lout. 55 as well.

-Lout and shout, the biggest scorers.

-Thank you very much indeed.

At the end of our first round,

the pair we are sending home with a high score of 128, I'm so sorry.

Your approach was commendable.

-It was. Wrong, but commendable.

-LAUGHTER

I'm a trier.

-Exactly. Come back and try again next time.

-Yes. I will.

On somebody else's team, please.

LAUGHTER

You can see Andy thinking, "I might bring Edd the Duck next time."

LAUGHTER

-With two Ds.

-Two Ds.

-Two Ds.

-Two Ds.

Andy and Andrea, it's been lovely having you on. Thank you so much.

-Nice to see you.

-Thank you.

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

We are now down to three pairs.

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

But the headline news there, Sally and Geoffrey, no surprises.

Our runaway stars. Absolutely fantastic. Lovely low scores there.

Dave, welcome to Round Two. Lovely to have you here still.

And I just think, yeah, Gemma and Justin, Dave and Gareth,

we need to up our game a bit.

Now we know the calibre of the performance over

there on the far podium. Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

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

who's going to go second?

Whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

MURMURING

Famous people known by three names.

On each board we are going to show you six clues to famous people,

all of whom have three-word names.

You just need to give us the most obscure person.

There's going to be 12 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

OK, we are looking for the famous people described by these clues.

Here is our first board of six.

GARETH CHEERS

I'll read those all one last time.

Gemma.

There are three that I think I know.

But I'm going to go with Tanni Grey-Thompson.

-The retired Paralympic athlete.

-Tanni Grey-Thompson.

OK, let's see if that pays off.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Tanni Grey-Thompson.

It's right.

24. Very well done indeed, Gemma.

Great start to the round.

Great answer, Gemma. An 11-time Paralympic gold medallist.

Six-time London Marathon winner as well. Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Gareth.

I have to admit to being utterly stumped here.

It leaves me only one choice. Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, says Gareth. Let's see if that's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Catherine Zeta-Jones.

It's right. 24 is our only score at this point.

57 for Catherine Zeta-Jones.

That's all right.

Phew.

She is named after both of her grandmothers.

Catherine Fair and Zeta Jones. That's nice, isn't it?

Aw, that's nice.

Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Sally. This board is all yours.

How much would you like to talk us through it and fill in the blanks?

Do you know what? The absolute irony here is that my middle son,

Nick, is a massive Arsenal fan and last night he said, "Mum,

"would you like me to go through all the Arsenal players with you?"

And I said, "What is the likelihood of that coming up?"

So I don't know who that player is.

The Strictly Come Dancing is obviously Craig Revel Horwood.

The actor is Daniel Day-Lewis.

I think I'll go with Craig Revel Horwood.

OK, Craig Revel Horwood, says Sally.

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

57 is our high score at this point.

And you pass it, well done.

You chose very wisely.

37. 37 for Craig Revel Horwood.

You chose the right one of the ones you knew there.

Cos you were right about Daniel Day-Lewis.

He would have scored you 74 points.

Good.

Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Your son is currently screaming at the television the name

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

-Of course.

-I knew it!

-It would have scored you 11 points.

The model at the bottom. I bet you know this one.

-Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

-Is the right answer.

6 points. Best answer on the board.

Thank you very much. We are halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at the scores.

24 the best score of that pass. Very well done, Gemma.

Then up to 37, where we find Sally and Geoffrey.

Then 57, Gareth and Dave.

Dave, let's hope there is a nice low-scoring one on the next

board that will keep you in the game. We'll come back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put six more clues up on the board. And here they are.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Geoffrey, what would you like to go for?

OK, I'll go for the top one, I think.

Iain Duncan Smith.

Iain Duncan Smith, says Geoffrey. Here is your red line.

If you get below that red line, you are through to the head-to-head.

How many people said Iain Duncan Smith?

60 for Iain Duncan Smith.

97 is your total.

That's a pretty big score, I think, for Iain Duncan Smith.

I think maybe because he is known by those initials, IDS, possibly.

-Yes, maybe that's it.

-That's a big score.

-A big score. Now, Dave.

-Sir.

A lifeline there, Dave.

39 or less is your target.

Right.

OK, SBC, Sasha Baron Cohen.

Sasha Baron Cohen for SBC. Sasha Baron Cohen.

-Cohen. Welsh. He is Welsh.

-He is Welsh, yeah.

-He's Welsh.

Let's see if it's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Sasha Baron Cohen.

There is your red line.

It's right.

44.

44 takes your total up to 101.

-Don't worry.

-Yeah.

That was very, very close indeed.

Justin's got a real chance now on podium one as well.

But, yeah, Sasha Baron Cohen.

-Thanks, Richard. Now, Justin.

-Hello.

-That board is all yours.

Would you like to talk us through it and fill in all the blanks?

Yes, well, I did know the top one. So that's gone.

I think I'm going to go for the actress that played Queen Elizabeth,

Helen Bonham Carter.

OK. OK. Here is your red line.

You have to get below that with Helen Bonham Carter.

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

-Oh, no!

-Justin, I'm so sorry.

So nearly right. But I'm afraid, incorrect.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 124.

Yeah, I'm really sorry. Just to be fair to the other teams.

She's so famously Helena Bonham Carter. Really, really sorry.

I can't believe I just knocked Mr Tumble out because of one letter.

LAUGHTER

Helena Bonham Carter would have scored you 70 points.

So it would have seen you through. Big scorer.

Let's fill in the rest of these.

The Conservative Prime Minister is Alec Douglas Hume.

-DAVE:

-Douglas Hume, isn't it?!

-25.

The former spouse of Ashley Cole,

she is very famous, but very few people got the full name.

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini.

Is correct. Fernandez-Versini.

18 points.

And the best answer on the board...

-Sam Taylor-Johnson.

-Sam Taylor-Johnson, the artist,

now film director.

5 points. Very well done if you said that at home.

There we are. Thanks very much indeed.

At the end of our second round,

oh, I'm afraid, Justin and Gemma, we have to send you home with your high score of 124.

Beats everyone else.

I'm so sorry. It's been wonderful having you on the show.

Please promise you'll come back and play again.

Absolutely. We'll be back and I will learn my actresses' names better.

Thanks so much, Justin and Gemma, wonderful contestants.

But for Sally and Geoffrey, Dave and Gareth,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Sally and Geoffrey, Dave and Gareth.

You are now one step closer to the final and

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

This is the round 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.

The big difference is,

you are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.

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

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

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

GROANING

Oh, no!

What?

Popular choice. Richard.

Yep, going to show you five stills now from Disney animated films.

I need you to tell us the most obscure film you see up here.

We've also given you the year of their release in brackets.

-Very best of luck.

-Oh!

OK, let's reveal our five stills. It will be fine.

Here they are. We have got...

There we are. Five stills from five Disney films.

Sally and Geoffrey, you are our low scorers so you will go first.

What do you think?

-Do you like D?

-Go for D, yeah.

OK, we are going to go D.

Pocahontas.

D, Pocahontas, say Sally and Geoffrey. D, Pocahontas.

Dave and Gareth, the board is all yours. Talk us through it.

Go on, tell him.

OK...

OK, here we go. C, I want to call it Brother Bear.

C, Brother Bear.

We have Pocahontas and we have Brother Bear.

Sally and Geoffrey said Pocahontas for D.

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

It's right.

76 for Pocahontas.

Now, Dave and Gareth,

taking a bit of a punt here, have said Brother Bear for C.

Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Brother Bear.

-Don't look.

-No. I'll tell you. Don't.

It's right.

And you win the point.

Oh, this is very good. Come on.

Oh, mate!

15 for Brother Bear. Very well done indeed, Dave.

Which means, after one question, Dave and Gareth are up 1-0.

A great answer, Dave, well done.

There is only one answer on the board that would have beaten that

and that is B. It's based on Oliver Twist and it's Oliver & Company.

Oh!

It would've scored 5 points.

You went for exactly the right one.

-Saved.

-The first one is obviously Bambi.

What do you think Bambi scored, Xander?

87.

99.

LAUGHTER

How about that? 99 points.

The only other one, E, is Robin Hood.

Would have scored you 50 points.

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

Dave and Gareth, you get to answer it first. But, Sally and Geoffrey,

you have to win this one to stay in the game. So best of luck.

It concerns...

-Oh, dear!

-Foxes. Richard.

Yeah, I was going to present this round but I was, you know,

I go out clubbing a lot, I just do.

And last night I bumped into an old friend of ours.

And I thought I would invite him to do this question for us.

Oh, no!

Here we go.

Hello, 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, 'ello!

Hello, everybody.

How lovely to be here on such an intellectual programme. High IQ.

High IQ?

-I like you too.

-HE LAUGHS

Boom, boom!

OK, so, the questions, Basil. Do you want to read them?

I'd love to read them. OK.

-There you go.

-Fantastic. Well, Basil, thank you very much indeed.

Real treat to have you on the show.

-I love you all.

-APPLAUSE

Thanks so much.

OK, I will read through those very, very quickly one last time.

Dave and Gareth, feel free to confer.

There's only two we are certain of.

And of those two, the one, two, three, fourth one down

would be the one. Fantastic Mr Fox.

Fantastic Mr Fox, say Dave and Gareth. Fantastic Mr Fox.

Basil is nodding. You mustn't nod. We've got to keep jeopardy.

HE GASPS

That's better.

LAUGHTER

Sally and Geoffrey, the board is all yours. Talk us through it.

We know the third one, which we think everyone will know, which is

obviously vixen. The name of the most common

fox species, red fox?

-Yeah, let's go for that.

-OK, we are going to go with red fox.

OK, red fox, say Sally and Geoffrey. Red fox.

Fantastic Mr Fox and red fox.

Dave and Gareth said Fantastic Mr Fox.

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

There's going to be loads.

It is right, Fantastic Mr Fox.

And it scores 45.

APPLAUSE

Meanwhile, Sally and Geoffrey have said the red fox.

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

-It's right.

-It's right.

It has to beat 45.

And it will!

-32.

-APPLAUSE

There we are. After two questions, it's 1-1.

Very, very well played. I'm guessing you are a red fox, Basil.

Well, I'm an urban fox.

Or if you stick an E at the end, an urbane fox.

LAUGHTER

Do you know the answers to these, Basil?

I do know some of the answers.

-Would you like me to help you out?

-That would be amazing.

If you know the stage name of the

-British singer who goes by the name Foxes.

-Louisa Allen.

That would have scored?

That would have scored 3.

Well done. 3 points for that.

The name of the smallest fox in the world?

Yes, this is quite easy. This is the fennec fox.

The fennec fox and that would have scored?

That would have scored 10 points.

And the name given to a female fox, we did hear it from Sally.

-Vixen.

-Vixen, and that would've scored?

-72.

-So would have seen you knocked out if you'd said that.

-Shall we say thank you to Basil?

-Thank you very much, Basil.

-Thank you very much.

-APPLAUSE

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

OK, here comes your third and final question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for that

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

Things you'd find at a circus. Richard.

We are going to show you the names of five things you might

find at a circus. But they are in anagram form.

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

-Very best of luck to both teams.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our five anagrams and here they are.

We've got...

Sally and Geoffrey will go first.

It's ridiculous, they just don't come.

-So I think we'll go with the top one.

-Yeah.

We'll go with unicycle at the top.

Unicycle. Unicycle, say Sally and Geoffrey.

Now, Dave and Gareth.

We have a choice. There are two that we have nailed. We think.

And I'm obliged to see this because my son is a ZAP TREE artist.

-Oh.

-He is actually a trapeze artist.

OK, so we've got trapeze and we have unicycle.

Sally and Geoffrey said unicycle. Let's see if that's right,

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

I think trapeze will be higher.

It's right, well done.

27 for unicycle.

I hate you.

Now, Dave and Gareth have gone for trapeze for ZAP TREE.

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

I was thinking the bottom one.

-Which was acrobat.

-Yeah, yeah...

It's right.

Oh!

-67 for trapeze.

-APPLAUSE

Which means, Sally and Geoffrey, very, very well done indeed.

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

Funnily enough, the other one you knew, acrobat,

also wouldn't have got you through to the final.

-It would have scored you 41 points.

-OK.

But the other two answers would have seen you into the final.

They are both lower scorers.

SMARTER GIN. Xander, do you know that one?

Ringmaster. GROANING

25. And the best answer. It's quite an apt anagram, this one.

Contortionist.

Contortionist. 6 points. Very well done if you said that at home.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

Dave and Gareth, but very exciting head-to-head that was.

That could have gone either way. Well done.

Very, very close scoring. Brilliant having you on the show.

Thank you so much.

Come and play again. Dave and Gareth, great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for Sally and Geoffrey, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Sally and Geoffrey. You 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 stands at £2,500.

Yes, indeed.

-Sally, head-to-head last time.

-Yes.

One step better.

I know. I really thought we were going out on that foxes question.

I still can't quite believe that we are standing here.

Yeah, I'm glad you took that risk. Really paid off.

-Geoffrey, very well done.

-Thank you.

Lovely having you here and great answering the whole way through.

Low score after low score.

As you know, you get to choose your category from the four

we put up on the board.

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

Today's selection looks like this.

Do you fancy Sporting Halls Of Fame?

Go for it, yeah.

I think we are edging towards Sporting Halls Of Fame.

We are going to go down fighting.

OK, Sporting Halls Of Fame it is.

Yeah, I think for a sports fan it's probably the right choice.

I'm going to give you three different options now.

Take your answers from any of these. We are looking for...

Up to the class of 2014. Any athlete who is in the Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame in athletics, golf or cricket.

-I wish you the very, very best of luck.

-Thanks, Richard.

As always, you've got up to one minute to come up

with three answers.

All you need to win the jackpot for your charities is for just

one of those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Are we ready?

-Just about, yeah.

-We are ready.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are, your time starts now.

What are your thoughts, Geoffrey?

Because I don't have very many here.

Should we try golf first?

OK, tell me what you're thinking.

No, they want us to hear... They want to hear.

-I'm thinking Tiger Woods, but...

-That's going to be a big one.

..it'll be rather high, I think.

Have you got anybody else? I can't think of anybody.

I'm really struggling here.

Cricket Hall of Fame.

Denis Compton maybe.

Denis Compton.

But do you think that'll be quite high?

Can you think of anyone older?

He's quite old. He's dead and gone now.

OK.

IAAF Hall of Fame members.

INDISTINCT SPEECH

Decathlon...

Ten seconds left.

-This was a bad choice. We should have got with sitcoms.

-Yeah.

Hall of Fame members...

OK, your time is up. Let's just have some names.

-We've done so badly.

-Don't worry, you had a minute thinking about it.

Maybe something good will come out of that.

What are you going to give me?

What, like something might pop into my head?

-Yeah.

-OK, Cricket. Sir Garfield Sobers.

OK, Sir Garfield Sobers.

-Fatima Whitbread. Shall we do that one?

-Yeah, OK.

OK, Fatima Whitbread. We have Sir Garfield Sobers.

-And then a golfer.

-Denis Compton.

Denis Compton. There we are. Three answers.

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

-Gary Sobers.

-OK, Gary Sobers we'll put last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Fatima Whitbread.

-Fatima Whitbread we will put first.

OK, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.

And here they are. We have got...

Very best of luck.

Let's hope one of those at least is pointless

and wins the jackpot for your charities.

What charities are you playing for? Sally, you first.

I'd like to play for Help For Heroes, please.

Very good indeed. Geoffrey?

Mine is a children's charity. It's called Phab. P-H-A-B.

Excellent.

APPLAUSE

As I say, let's hope at least one of these answers is pointless

and wins that jackpot for your charities.

Your first answer, the one you thought was probably least

likely to be pointless, was Fatima Whitbread.

In this case, we were looking for inductees in the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Let's see if it's right. If it's pointless, it will win you £2,500.

How many people said Fatima Whitbread?

Oh!

Incorrect.

Fatima Whitbread is not a pointless answer.

That means you have only two more chances to win today's jackpot.

Your second answer was Denis Compton.

In this case, we were looking for cricketers from the

Cricketing Hall of Fame. Let's see how many people said it.

If it's pointless, it will win you £2,500.

How many people said Denis Compton?

It's right.

Fatima Whitbread, your first answer, was incorrect.

Denis Compton is right.

Taking us down through the teens

and into single figures.

Still going down.

Still going down. Oh, 1.

-APPLAUSE

-1 for Denis Compton.

That's a great answer.

But not pointless,

which means you only have one more shot at today's jackpot.

Your third and final answer, the one you thought was

probably most likely to be pointless, was Garfield Sobers.

Let's see if it's right.

It will win you £2,500 if it's pointless.

How many people said Garfield Sobers?

It's right.

Fatima Whitbread, your first answer, was incorrect.

Your second answer, Denis Compton, took us

agonisingly close, down to 1.

Now Garfield Sobers taking us down

into single figures.

-Oh, 5.

-GROANING

-Bad luck.

-APPLAUSE

Great answers of yours, though.

Three good answers. Unfortunately, not a pointless answer among them.

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

But, as today's show is a celebrity special, we are going to

donate £500 to each celebrity pair for their respective charities.

-So there we are.

-Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

It's been fabulous having you on the show.

Sally and Geoffrey, thank you so much for coming on.

Remember, you do get to take home a Pointless trophy.

-Lovely!

-Yeah!

-Thank you.

-Brilliant, Richard.

Yeah, I think it was the right category for you.

I think, you know, if you'd had another 30 seconds

or 60 seconds you'd have got some of the names on this list.

It was the luck of the draw, I think.

I'll take you through some of the pointless

answers. We'll start with athletics.

I know some people at home will have got loads of these.

The American discus thrower Al Oerter.

Edwin Moses, the hurdler. Went nearly ten years unbeaten, Ed Moses.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the American heptathlete.

Pavvo Nurmi, the Finnish long-distance runner.

You also could have had Alberto Juantorena, Emil Zatopek,

Noureddine Morceli, Sergey Bubka. Lots of good pointless answers there.

Let's move on to golf.

Betsy Rawls and Fred Couples are pointless answers.

George HW Bush, funnily enough.

Harry Vardon. Some of the older players.

Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Jean Sarazen also pointless answers,

well done if you said any of those. And cricket.

Again, all sorts of pointless answers on cricket.

Let's see a few of them. Allan Border, the Australian batsman.

Clive Lloyd, the West Indies captain.

Curtly Ambrose, the West Indies bowler.

Len Hutton is a pointless answer.

Wally Hammond a pointless answer. Adam Gilchrist,

Wasim Akram, Steve Wall, also pointless.

Very well done if you got any of those at home.

Very, very well played throughout the entire show.

It's been a pleasure having you both here.

-BOTH:

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Richard.

APPLAUSE

Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Sally and Geoffrey.

But as Richard says, such a pleasure having you here.

Thank you so much for playing. Sally and Geoffrey.

-BOTH:

-Thank you.

-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.