0:00:19 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong.
0:00:24 > 0:00:29Welcome to Pointless, the quiz show where we are always striving to find the most obscure answers.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Let's meet today's players.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37And couple number one.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Hi, Xander. I'm Aggie. He's Richard.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42And we're a brother and sister combo from Bristol.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Couple number two.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Hello. I'm Pam. This is Abby.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48We're mother and daughter.
0:00:48 > 0:00:49Couple number three.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51I'm Andrea and this is my boyfriend, Alex.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Couple number four.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hi. I'm Jo. This is Mathew. We're a couple from London.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58And these are today's contestants.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00APPLAUSE
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Thanks, all of you. We'll find out more about you throughout the show.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08That just leaves one more person for me to introduce -
0:01:08 > 0:01:12a man so clever, he can talk his socks onto his feet without even bending down.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14It's my Pointless friend - it's Richard. Hiya.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Hi, everybody.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17Hiya.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23It would be lovely to be able to do that!
0:01:23 > 0:01:25For you, that's quite a journey, isn't it?
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Yeah, but I've got pretty flexible hamstrings,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30so it's not too bad for me.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Two returning pairs from last time. Jo and Mathew did very well - got through to the head-to-head,
0:01:34 > 0:01:35so they'll be tough to beat today.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37But Pam and Abby are back as well.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40I mean, they were trouble last time.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44They caused a lot of trouble, but it's lovely to have them back, isn't it? Absolutely, yes.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48I was quite glad they got knocked out because it meant we'd see them again.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Thank you - I think!
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Thanks very much.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55All our questions on Pointless have been asked to 100 people before the show.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Our contestants need to find the obscure answers those 100 people didn't get.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer -
0:02:00 > 0:02:03an answer none of our 100 people gave. Each time that happens,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05we will add ?250 to the jackpot.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Suzanne and Gary didn't win the jackpot last time,
0:02:07 > 0:02:12so we add another ?1,000, so today's jackpot starts off at ?4,500.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14CHEERING
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28In this first round, I'll take an answer from each of you, but there's to be no conferring.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32At the end of the round, whichever pair has the highest score will be heading home.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35So make sure that's not you. Our first category today is...
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Fiction. Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going second.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48OK. And our question concerns...
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Literary works with one-word titles. Richard.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57On each pass, we'll show you seven literary works with one-word titles
0:02:57 > 0:02:59and the year in which they were released.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03We need you to tell us the name of the author. 14 in all to have a go at at home.
0:03:03 > 0:03:04Thank you very much indeed.
0:03:04 > 0:03:09We're looking for the authors of these literary works, and here's our first board of seven.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23I'll read those all one last time.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Now, Aggie and Richard, you all drew lots before the show and today you are going first.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Aggie, welcome to the show. Thank you.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Great to have you here, from Bristol. Great to be here.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47And what do you do, Aggie? I'm that dreaded thing - a civil servant.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49But I can tell you what I do.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Phew! What is it?
0:03:50 > 0:03:54I work at planning inspectorates and we listen to appeals.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59We hear appeals from people who have had planning applications turned down by their local councils.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03OK. Now then, Aggie, what do you make of this as a subject?
0:04:03 > 0:04:07I studied English at university, so I hopefully know some of them.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10I'm going to go...
0:04:10 > 0:04:12I think for Atonement
0:04:12 > 0:04:15and Ian McEwan. Ian McEwan, says Aggie.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Let's see if that's right for Atonement, and if it is, let's see how many people said Ian McEwan.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22It's right.
0:04:28 > 0:04:297.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Good answer.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41A wonderful book and adapted into a film in 2007 as well, with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Thanks, Richard. Pam.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Yes. Welcome back to Pointless. Thank you.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Great to have you here again. Now, what happened last time?
0:04:49 > 0:04:52It was missing members of bands
0:04:52 > 0:04:54that sunk me.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56And I think this is going to sink me as well.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58The unsinkable Pam, surely?
0:04:59 > 0:05:04Now listen, last time we discovered that the two big things in your life
0:05:04 > 0:05:06are cranes...
0:05:06 > 0:05:08and gears.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Well...mechanical engineering.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Mechanical engineering, yeah.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14And frogs. And frogs.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18Of course. And other things as well - knitting...
0:05:18 > 0:05:21And lots of strange things. Heavyweight boxers.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Heavyweight boxers.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24LAUGHTER
0:05:24 > 0:05:27I don't bother with the young ones.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29It's the big boys.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30OK.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Pam, when you say heavyweight boxers are your hobby,
0:05:34 > 0:05:36just...
0:05:39 > 0:05:41I don't know any personally, I'm sorry.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Pam, what are you going to go for on this board?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47I'm afraid this is a guess. It's not a guess, but I'm sorry, Abby.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Ulysses, James Joyce.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51James Joyce for Ulysses, says Pam.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said James Joyce.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Absolutely right.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03That's a fantastic answer, Pam - 31.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13I never doubted for a second you were going to do that, Pam.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16You know exactly what you're doing, don't you? She does.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20You're doing what Ali did against Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Pretending you know nothing.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Thanks very much. Now, Andrea.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Andrea, welcome to the show. Good to have you here. What do you do?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31I am head of music at a radio station in Brighton.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Now, that's a fun job.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36I listen to pop music all day and I get paid.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40But head of music, so you decide what's on the playlist? Mm-hm.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43We have lots of specialist shows, but in daytime, it's all my fault.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47Good stuff. Now, Andrea, we want the author of these literary works.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51I'm only certain on three, and two of those have gone,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54so I'm going to have to go for one which I think is quite obvious.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57And I'm going to go for Emma
0:06:57 > 0:07:00and Jane Austen. Emma, Jane Austen, says Andrea.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Jane Austen.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Absolutely right.
0:07:12 > 0:07:1335.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22The last novel published during her lifetime. Her longest one as well.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27Someone has counted and there are how many kisses in the entire works of Jane Austen?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29How many kisses? Yes.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Two. 14.
0:07:30 > 0:07:3214. There we are.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33Now, Mathew.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Remind us what you do. I'm an IT professional.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Remind us what you get up to when you're not doing IT.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43I like cooking, and at university, with a few of my friends, used to run the Kung Fu Society.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Do you still keep up your kung fu?
0:07:45 > 0:07:49I don't, unfortunately. I don't have time. You must have been pretty good to run the society.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53No, not really! I love the way Jo went very quietly...
0:07:56 > 0:07:58So not that good?
0:07:58 > 0:08:01No, I got beaten up by someone very small once
0:08:01 > 0:08:05and that was embarrassing. In front of the whole class.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08So it happened in a kung fu class? I see, right.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Not just on the street.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14So what are you going to go for, Mathew?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17I think it's an obvious one, but I'll have to play it,
0:08:17 > 0:08:19because I don't know the others.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22I'm going to go Dracula, Bram Stoker.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Bram Stoker, says Mathew, for Dracula.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many said Bram Stoker.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Absolutely right.
0:08:30 > 0:08:3235 is our high score, 7 our low.
0:08:32 > 0:08:3444 for Bram Stoker.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Not bad. Four correct answers.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46I know. Sometimes you do these rounds, you get blank faces, so well done to all four of you.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Let's fill in the rest of the board, though.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Cranford?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Oh, Lord, it's...
0:08:52 > 0:08:54You do know it.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Shall I tell you? Yeah. Elizabeth Gaskell. Yes.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59Would have scored you 10 points.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Ivanhoe? Sir Walter Scott. Yes.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Would have scored you 32. Now, Bleachers, I bet you don't know.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08I don't know that. It's a John Grisham novel.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Would have scored 3 points - the best answer up there. Very well done if you said that.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Thanks. Let's look at the scores. We're halfway through the round.
0:09:14 > 0:09:167 the best score of that pass, Aggie.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Very well done indeed. Nicely chosen. Then up to 31,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23where we find Pam and Abby. Exactly the order we went.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Up to 35, Andrea and Alex,
0:09:24 > 0:09:27and up to 44, Mathew and Jo. You're not way ahead, Jo.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29But you get first pick of the next board.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Make sure you use it wisely.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35We'll come back down the line. Can the second players please take their places at the podium.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41We'll put seven more literary works on the board. Here they are.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56I'll read those all one final time.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Now, remember, Jo, we're looking for the authors of each of these works.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14You need to find the one you think fewest of our 100 knew.
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Now, what do you do, Jo?
0:10:15 > 0:10:18I work in IT as well.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19I'm a technical evangelist.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Exactly. A technical evangelist.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Remember that. First time I ever heard it was on the last show.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27When you're not doing that, what do you like to do?
0:10:27 > 0:10:28I like cooking as well.
0:10:28 > 0:10:34What's the best thing she cooks, Mathew? It's got to be probably spaghetti bolognese, I have to say!
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Really? Yeah!
0:10:35 > 0:10:37He's just downplaying my talents.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Jo, spaghetti bolognese?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42It is pretty good. Fair enough.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44You are the first one to have this board.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Let's pick a nice juicy answer there.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Literacy is really not my strong subject, so...
0:10:52 > 0:10:57Rebecca, I guess, one of the Bronte sisters,
0:10:57 > 0:10:59so I'll say...
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Charlotte Bronte. Charlotte Bronte, Rebecca, says Jo.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09No red line for you as you are the high scorers.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15I'm really sorry, Jo. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Scores you the maximum of 100 points.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18I'm afraid, you being the high scorers,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22that can only mean one thing. 144 is your total.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Sorry, Jo. It goes to show how well everyone did in the first round
0:11:24 > 0:11:27that just one wrong answer and that's it,
0:11:27 > 0:11:31especially after the head-to-head last time. I'll give you the correct answer at the end of the pass.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35Now, Alex. Alex, welcome to the show. Good to have you here. What do you do?
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Most of the time, I'm a student doing a Masters at Sussex Uni.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42What's the Masters in? Music and sonic media.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44What kind of music?
0:11:44 > 0:11:48A lot of it is composing to media and to film and so on.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51With a view to maybe doing that one day, which would be nice.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54What are you going for? The good news is you're already through.
0:11:54 > 0:11:59I'm lucky that I knew two of those, because this is not my strong subject.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02But I knew two, so I'll be able to say at least one.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05I'm going to go for Popcorn and Ben Elton.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Ben Elton, says Alex, for Popcorn.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11No red line - you're already through.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Absolutely right.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Very well done. Look at that - 7.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Very impressive. 7 for Popcorn takes your score up to 42.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Very well played. Another good answer.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Yes, Ben Elton from 1996, Popcorn.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Thank you. Now, Abby.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Abby, hello. Hello.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Remind us what you do.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41My main day job, I've been a photographer for 25 years,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44doing portraits and babies and stuff.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48But I've recently done a side job as well, which is quite entertaining.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52I've been working in a call centre for a television sales channel.
0:12:52 > 0:12:57Wow! So it's incoming calls from people wanting to buy stuff.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Who've just seen the thing on the telly? Yes - "Want it, want it!"
0:13:00 > 0:13:03So that's actually quite fun and you get some quite interesting calls.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06I bet you do! Now, you're already through. Good news.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10You are through. So we want the authors of these literary works.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12What are you going to go for?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14I was going to go for Popcorn, so that's a shame.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17I think I know two.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19One of them I only know the surname.
0:13:19 > 0:13:24So I'll go for... I think Carrie is Stephen King. Stephen King,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27says Abby, for Carrie. Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many said it.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Again, no red line, as you're already through.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Absolutely right.
0:13:38 > 0:13:4031.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42You've matched Pam's score.
0:13:42 > 0:13:4362 is your total.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46That was his first published novel, Carrie.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51Fourth novel he'd written, first one anyone published. At one point, he threw his only copy in the bin.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53And his wife said, "Get it back out. You never know."
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Carry on.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57LAUGHTER
0:13:57 > 0:13:59That's very good!
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Thanks. Now, Richard. Hello.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Richard, welcome to the show.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06You are also from Bristol. I am. What do you do?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08I do the same thing as my sister does.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11I'm a civil servant and I work in the planning inspectorate.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Do you work together? We're in different sections.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16It's probably for the best. Yes.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Imagine...you wouldn't want to come up against Aggie, would you? This is it.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23That would be terrible!
0:14:23 > 0:14:25How are you feeling about this round, Richard?
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Um...I think I know two.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Maybe three.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33I think Trainspotting might be Ian McEwan.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36I think Rebecca is Daphne du Maurier.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Twilight, I haven't got an idea.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Lolita is Nabokov.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Nabokov, his surname.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47And Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51So I'm going to go for Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Robert Louis Stevenson, says Richard for Kidnapped. No red line - you're already through.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58But let's see how many people said Robert Louis Stevenson.
0:15:03 > 0:15:0453. Gosh, that's a popular one.
0:15:08 > 0:15:1353, interestingly, is the highest scoring correct answer we've had this round.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Takes your total up to 60, but you are easily through.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17It is a big score. Impressive name recognition.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Going through the ones you said...
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Rebecca, you're absolutely right - Daphne du Maurier.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24That would have scored you 37.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Now, Trainspotting was not Ian McEwan. Irvine Welsh. Irvine Welsh.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Would have scored you 7 points.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34Twilight - Stephenie Meyer. That would have scored you three points.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Now, Lolita - it is written by Nabokov.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40It's a Russian Christian name. It's either...
0:15:41 > 0:15:43It's...it's...
0:15:43 > 0:15:44It's not Ivan.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47It's...it's...one of those...
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Welcome to Let's Guess Russian First Names.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Wouldn't take long. It's Vladimir. Vladimir!
0:15:54 > 0:15:57That would have scored 15 points.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59So the best answer up there is Stephenie Meyer.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Good. Thanks very much, Richard. So at the end of our first round,
0:16:03 > 0:16:06oh, Jo and Mathew, I'm so sorry.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09I am so sorry. Weren't you head-to-head last time? Yeah.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12And I think I knew the Stephenie Meyer one as well.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15It was in the back of my head. I know. It's tough, though.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Well, I'm really sorry we have to say goodbye to you.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22You did so well last time. I honestly thought you were going to go right through this show.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24But I'm afraid not. We have to say goodbye.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Thanks for playing. Jo and Mathew - great contestants.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29APPLAUSE
0:16:30 > 0:16:33But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round 2.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40And so now we're just down to three pairs.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Obviously, there's only going to be room for two pairs in the head-to-head,
0:16:43 > 0:16:47so we'll have to say goodbye to another pair at the end of this round.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Well, Pam and Abby.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Nice play. Thank you. Nice solid performance. Thank you.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Consistent, good answers. James Joyce particularly good there, Pam.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Aggie and Richard also quite close to you there.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00And then Andrea and Alex.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Lovely performance. Popcorn was a cracking answer.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07You've all done well. Best of luck to all three pairs.
0:17:07 > 0:17:11This is going to be exciting. Our category for Round 2 is radio.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Radio. Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26OK, let's find out what that question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:17:26 > 0:17:28to name as many...
0:17:30 > 0:17:32BBC Radio 2 presenters. Richard.
0:17:32 > 0:17:38We're looking for the name of any presenter who presents their own show regularly on BBC Radio 2.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41And that's according to the Radio 2 website.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Not looking for presenters of one-offs
0:17:43 > 0:17:45or short series or anything like that.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Just anyone with a regular show on BBC Radio 2. Very, very best of luck.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Thanks very much indeed.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53OK, Richard.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Richard, do you listen to the radio? I do.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Which station? I don't listen to Radio 2 any more.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Right. OK.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Um...
0:18:03 > 0:18:06I think I'll go for Simon Mayo.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Simon Mayo, says Richard. Simon Mayo.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Is it right? How many people said it if it is?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Absolutely right.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Very well done. 10 for Simon Mayo. Good score.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Well played, Richard. Simon Mayo presents the drivetime show.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32He spent many years on Radio 1 as well.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35And he does a film review show with Mark Kermode on 5 Live.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Thanks, Richard. Now, Abby.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Abby, do you listen to Radio 2? I do, actually.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42This is good.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44I'm hoping I should be all right on this.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47I'm trying to think of one of the less well known ones,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50so I'm going to go for Alex Lester, who I think is on about 3am.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Is that...? I think.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Is that when you listen?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Well, when I'm driving back from the call centre, you see.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59I finish at two, so, yeah.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Alex Lester, says Abby. Let's see if Alex Lester's right
0:19:01 > 0:19:05and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said that. Sounds brilliant.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Absolutely right. Look at that. Alex Lester.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Let's see if it pays off. Look at that - 2! Very well done, Abby.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17CHEERING
0:19:21 > 0:19:23I doff my cap to you, Abby. 2 for Alex Lester.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Well played, Abby.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Yeah, he presents from two o'clock until five in the morning.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31He's one of the longest-serving presenters on Radio 2.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Andrea.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Radio, you see! If I get this wrong, it'll be very embarrassing!
0:19:38 > 0:19:41You shouldn't get this wrong. You should have a great answer.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Do you listen to Radio 2? I do, and I love Simon Mayo,
0:19:43 > 0:19:45so you nicked my answer!
0:19:45 > 0:19:50Yeah, there's quite a few. It's just I'm wondering which is going to be...
0:19:50 > 0:19:52I think...
0:19:52 > 0:19:56The one I'm going to go for is on at the weekends, so I'm hoping that's less obvious.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Maybe.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01I'm going to say Dermot O'Leary. Dermot O'Leary, says Andrea.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Let's see if Dermot O'Leary's right. Let's see how many people said it.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08It is right.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Now, 10 is our high score, 2 is our low.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Dermot taking us down through the teens...
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Oh, look at that.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Smack bang in the middle there.
0:20:18 > 0:20:206 for Dermot O'Leary.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Well played, Andrea. As you say, he presents his live music show on the weekends.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Thanks. We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at those scores.
0:20:29 > 0:20:322 the best score of that round, Abby. Well done. Keep that up
0:20:32 > 0:20:35and you should be straight through to the head-to-head.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Then up to 6, where we find Andrea and Alex,
0:20:37 > 0:20:40then up to 10, where we find Richard and Aggie.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41So quite neatly spaced there.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45But Aggie, we need a particularly low-scoring answer from you,
0:20:45 > 0:20:46to make sure you remain with us.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50We'll come back down the line. Can the second players please step up to the podium.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55OK. So, Alex.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56We're looking for Radio 2 presenters.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00You're on 6. The high scorers at the moment are Aggie and Richard on 10.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04If you want to avoid becoming the high scorers, a score of 3 or less will keep you safe.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05OK. Um...
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Well, I'm hoping he still does it.
0:21:08 > 0:21:13I think the country and western show is hosted by Bob Harris.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17Bob Harris, says Alex. Here comes your red line.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20It's very low. But let's see if Bob Harris can get you somewhere down there.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23It's right.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Oh!
0:21:30 > 0:21:33I think that's probably good enough - 4.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34Takes your total up to 10.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Well played. Yes, Whispering Bob Harris presents the country show.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Thanks. Now, Pam.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47I don't listen to the radio at all, I'm afraid.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50So I'm going to punish Abby now, I'm afraid.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53I'm going to say Tim Vine.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Tim Vine, says Pam. Tim Vine.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59OK, well, the high scorers jointly at the moment,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Aggie and Richard and Alex and Andrea, are on 10.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05You're on 2, so a score of 7 or less is what you need.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Tim Vine, says Pam. There's your red line.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Let's see if it's right. If it is, let's see how many people said Tim Vine.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18Oh, bad luck, Pam! I'm sorry. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Scores you the maximum of 100 points
0:22:20 > 0:22:22and takes your total up to 102.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Sorry, Pam. Tim Vine does many things with much skill,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28but he doesn't have a Radio 2 show, I'm afraid. Sorry.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Thanks very much.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Now, Aggie, Radio 2.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Yes...not really my thing.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39But...
0:22:39 > 0:22:43I will have a punt. I'm afraid we might get 100 on this.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Graham Norton.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Graham Norton, says Aggie.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Now, you're on 10. The high scorers are Pam and Aggie on 102.
0:22:52 > 0:22:5591 or less is what you need.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57So, essentially, this just has to be correct.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Pure guess.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Graham Norton. Does he have a show on Radio 2
0:23:01 > 0:23:03and if he does, how many people said Graham Norton?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07It's right, and you're through. Very well done.
0:23:12 > 0:23:137.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20Well said, Aggie. 7 takes your score up to 17 and sees you into the head-to-head.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25Graham Norton presents a Saturday morning show. Obviously somewhere in the back of your mind.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Now, Pam, it wasn't Tim Vine you were thinking of - it's Jeremy Vine, isn't it?
0:23:28 > 0:23:30It's his brother who presents on Radio 2.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Would have scored 20, so would have been too many.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Let's take a look at the pointless answers.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38Clare Teal presents Big Band Sounds.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Dave Pearce does a Saturday night dance show.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46Diane Louise Jordan does a sort of a religious hour on Sunday mornings.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Frank Renton does classical big-band music.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Huey Morgan used to be in Fun Lovin' Criminals.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54He does a show. Jools Holland does a show on Monday evenings.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Russell Davies does a Sunday night show.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Steve Lamacq's Rock College, and Trevor Nelson does the Soul Show.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03All of those would have been pointless answers.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Let's look at the top three answers -
0:24:04 > 0:24:06the ones most of our 100 people said.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08The lovely Ken Bruce. He's been on here.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Lovely, he was. He would have scored you 24.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Terry Wogan would have scored you 27.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15He does a show at the weekends now.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18And right at the top, Chris Evans would have scored you 46.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Thanks very much indeed, Richard.
0:24:20 > 0:24:25So, Pam and Abby, I'm afraid that means you'll be leaving us this round.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28It was Round 2 last time as well. I know.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29What can I say?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Oh, dear, I'm so sorry!
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Anyway, it's been lovely having you on the show.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Thank you for playing. Pam and Abby - lovely contestants.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:24:39 > 0:24:42But for the remaining two pairs, it's now time for our head-to-head.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Congratulations, Andrea, Alex, Aggie and Richard.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54You're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,
0:24:54 > 0:24:56which currently stands at ?4,500.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02We need to decide which pair will play for that jackpot,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04and to do that, you're now going to go head-to-head.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06The difference is, you're now allowed to confer.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that money.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Well, you've seen off our two returning pairs.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Very, very well done indeed.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17I think this will be very exciting. Let's play the head-to-head.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26OK, here comes your first question, and it concerns...
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Movie silhouettes and shadows. Richard.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34We'll show you five pictures of silhouettes or shadows
0:25:34 > 0:25:38from scenes in movies. Can you name the films, please? Good luck.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Wow!
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Never dome this before.
0:25:40 > 0:25:45Let's reveal our five movie silhouettes or shadows. And here they are.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46We've got...
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Ah, yes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08There we are. Five silhouettes or shadows from movies.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Andrea and Alex, you've played best so far,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12so you get to go first.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16(I think E is Nosferatu.)
0:26:16 > 0:26:18THEY WHISPER
0:26:24 > 0:26:26We're going to go for E
0:26:26 > 0:26:29and I think that's Nosferatu.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Nosferatu, say Andrea and Alex.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35Now, Aggie and Richard, the board is all yours. Talk us through it.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37We were going to say that.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41I thought A might be The Exorcist, but I'm not sure.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44C is ET and D is Fantasia.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Not sure about B.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49What do you think - Fantasia?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Yeah. We'll say that D is Fantasia.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Fantasia, say Aggie and Richard, for D.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59So we have Nosferatu and we have Fantasia.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Andrea and Alex said Nosferatu.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people said that.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07It is right.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Look at that - 18.
0:27:15 > 0:27:1718 for Nosferatu. That looks pretty good to me.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Aggie and Richard have gone for Fantasia.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it. Fantasia.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27It's right.
0:27:31 > 0:27:3326.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Quite close.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Very well done, Andrea and Alex. After one question, you're up 1-0.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Well played, both teams. I think I heard you say all the answers in your deliberations.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47A was The Exorcist.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Would have scored you 24 points,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52so much the same as you got.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54B, I think Andrea had an idea on?
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I'm pretty sure that's Sunshine.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58That's right. Danny Boyle's film Sunshine
0:27:58 > 0:28:00would have scored you 3 points.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01Would have been a great answer.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03C is obviously ET.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06It's a big scorer, as you can imagine.
0:28:06 > 0:28:0889 points for ET.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Thanks very much indeed.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12So here comes your second question.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16Aggie and Richard, you have to get this one to stay in the game, but you do get to answer first.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It concerns...
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Songs with numbers in their titles. Richard.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26We'll show you the titles of five songs, all of which have a number in their title,
0:28:26 > 0:28:28but we've removed it. Can you fill it in, please?
0:28:28 > 0:28:31OK, let's reveal our five numbers with numbers removed.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33And here they are. We have got...
0:28:44 > 0:28:46I'll read those one last time.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56Aggie and Richard,
0:28:56 > 0:28:57you go first.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00(When I'm Sixty-Four.)
0:29:00 > 0:29:02THEY WHISPER
0:29:08 > 0:29:12We're going to try the Blur song and say it's Song 2.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15Song 2, say Aggie and Richard. Song 2.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19Andrea and Alex, the board is yours. Talk us through it.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22Yeah, that's Song 2.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Obviously, When I'm Sixty-Four by the Beatles.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Now, the Temptations one...
0:29:28 > 0:29:30Is it Cloud Nine? I'd guess at Cloud Nine.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32I'd guess it, but I don't know it.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35The Johnny Cash one, despite this shirt, I don't know!
0:29:35 > 0:29:39I was hoping you'd know, because that's the only one I'm not sure of.
0:29:39 > 0:29:40And what's the Script one?
0:29:40 > 0:29:42The Script one is Six Degrees Of Separation.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Shall we go for the Script? Yeah.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49I think we'll go for Six Degrees Of Separation, the Script.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52Six Degrees Of Separation.
0:29:52 > 0:29:53Aggie and Richard have said Song 2.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Song 2.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Look at that - 18.
0:30:09 > 0:30:1118 for Song 2.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15Now then, Andrea and Alex have said Six Degrees Of Separation by the Script.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said that.
0:30:21 > 0:30:22It's right.
0:30:24 > 0:30:25Now, where's that going to stop?
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Look at that - 19!
0:30:31 > 0:30:32Wow!
0:30:34 > 0:30:36I said this was going to be a close head-to-head.
0:30:36 > 0:30:41Couldn't be closer. After that, well done, Aggie and Richard - you're back in the game.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42It's 1-1 after two questions.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Pretty high-quality stuff so far. Yeah.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48You were probably both best to avoid the obvious ones.
0:30:48 > 0:30:53When I'm Sixty-Four by the Beatles would have scored you 75 points.
0:30:53 > 0:30:58The other one - it's less well-known, but Cloud Nine from the Temptations
0:30:58 > 0:30:59would have scored you 81 points.
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Now, the best answer on the board by a long way
0:31:02 > 0:31:05was 25 Minutes To Go by Johnny Cash.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07No guessing that one if you didn't know it.
0:31:07 > 0:31:093 points. Very well done if you said that at home.
0:31:09 > 0:31:13Thanks, Richard. So here comes your third question. This is the decider.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Extreme weather. Richard.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27We'll show you five clues to facts about extreme weather.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Can you give us the most obscure answer? Very best of luck to both teams.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34Thanks. Let's reveal our five clues, and here they come. We have got...
0:31:56 > 0:31:58I'll read those all one last time.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Now then, Andrea and Alex, you go first this time.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27THEY WHISPER
0:32:35 > 0:32:39OK, I think we're going to have to go with the country
0:32:39 > 0:32:41and say Iceland.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45You say Iceland - the country with the volcanic eruption. Iceland.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Now then, Aggie and Richard,
0:32:47 > 0:32:49talk us through the rest of the board.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53Do you know the name of the Oscar documentary? Don't know that.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56I could guess at the century of Britain's worst recorded storm.
0:32:58 > 0:32:59But I'm not revealing that yet.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02And I think a pluviometer is used to measure rain.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06The BBC weatherman was Michael Fish.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Which everybody should know.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Which do you think?
0:33:10 > 0:33:14I think pluviometer is used to measure rain.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Aggie and Richard are saying the pluviometer is used to measure rain.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19So, we have Iceland versus rain.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22This to decide who goes through to the final.
0:33:22 > 0:33:23Andrea and Alex said Iceland.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Iceland.
0:33:29 > 0:33:30It's absolutely right.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Oh, that's a high score! Look at that - 74.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38Aggie and Richard have said a pluviometer is used to measure rain.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said rain.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44It's right.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47And it wins you the point. Very well done indeed.
0:33:47 > 0:33:4842.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Which means, Aggie and Richard, after three questions,
0:33:55 > 0:33:57you are through to the final 2-1.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Yes, it was the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, of course,
0:34:00 > 0:34:02as you were probably about to tell us.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03LAUGHTER
0:34:03 > 0:34:06Now, you both knew the Al Gore film about climate change,
0:34:06 > 0:34:09but neither team could remember the title.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11It was An Inconvenient Truth.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15Would have been a terrific answer. Would have scored you 6 points.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18Now, Richard, you had an idea on the century of the storm.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Something in my mind said it would be the 17th century.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25Nearly. It was actually 1703, so the 18th century.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28Yes, it cut across huge swathes of East Anglia.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30It would have scored you 5 points.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33It destroyed 400 windmills. It destroyed most of them
0:34:33 > 0:34:38by burning them down, because of the friction of the sails spinning so wildly, they caught light.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40That's a storm. That IS a storm.
0:34:40 > 0:34:41That is a storm.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44And the BBC weatherman - it was Michael Fish, of course.
0:34:44 > 0:34:45Actually only scored 65 points.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48So that is good news for Michael Fish.
0:34:48 > 0:34:49A third of us have forgotten.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Poor old Michael Fish. We've just reminded everyone again.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56Thanks. So, at the end of our head-to-head round,
0:34:56 > 0:34:59I'm afraid the pair heading away is Andrea and Alex.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02But it's good news for us, because we get to see you next time.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06And we will look forward to that. You've played so well throughout the show today.
0:35:06 > 0:35:11I'm sure you'll do even better next time. Thanks very much for playing. Andrea and Alex.
0:35:11 > 0:35:12APPLAUSE
0:35:14 > 0:35:17But for Aggie and Richard, it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22Congratulations, Aggie and Richard.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26You've seen off all the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at ?4,500.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39CHEERING
0:35:39 > 0:35:42That's turning into quite a decent little jackpot there.
0:35:42 > 0:35:46You've done pretty well. What would you like to see come up in this last round?
0:35:47 > 0:35:50Bit of sport, because he's very good at sport.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54Maybe music, film...
0:35:54 > 0:35:57perhaps something a little bit off the wall, maybe,
0:35:57 > 0:35:59that we could have a go at.
0:35:59 > 0:36:00But we'll see what happens.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02Best of luck. As always, you start this round off
0:36:02 > 0:36:05by choosing a category. You have four options. They are...
0:36:12 > 0:36:15You reckon Alan Bennett? Well, if you know.
0:36:15 > 0:36:16AGGIE LAUGHS
0:36:16 > 0:36:17Urm....
0:36:17 > 0:36:19It depends what it is.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22We can have a go at Alan Bennett, then.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25OK. We'll try Alan Bennett, Xander, please.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29OK. "We'll try Alan Bennett and if we don't like it, we'll have something else!" Yes!
0:36:29 > 0:36:32We'll have a go. You'll try Alan Bennett.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36OK, here are your three options. Hopefully, there's something here for you.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39We are looking for the name of any of the original cast members
0:36:39 > 0:36:42of the National Theatre production of The History Boys.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44So any of the actors who were in that play, please.
0:36:44 > 0:36:50We are looking for any actor who has a credit in the film version of The Madness Of King George.
0:36:50 > 0:36:51Or we're looking for anyone
0:36:51 > 0:36:54who delivered any of the Talking Heads monologues
0:36:54 > 0:36:55that Alan Bennett wrote,
0:36:55 > 0:36:58other than Alan Bennett himself. We won't accept him.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01So anyone who acted in the original stage production of The History Boys,
0:37:01 > 0:37:04anyone in the film of The Madness Of King George
0:37:04 > 0:37:07or any Talking Heads monologue actors.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08Best of luck, and good luck at home too.
0:37:08 > 0:37:12Thanks. Now, as always, you've got up to a minute to come up with three answers.
0:37:12 > 0:37:17All you need to win that jackpot of ?4,500 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19Your answers can come from any of those categories.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21It's entirely up to you which categories.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24It can be all three from one, one from each. As I say, up to you.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Are you ready? Yes. We are.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. Your time starts now.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33History Boys. James Corden definitely was in it.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35Richard Griffiths. Yeah.
0:37:35 > 0:37:39I'm not sure if Frances de la Tour was,
0:37:39 > 0:37:43but she's definitely in the film. It may well be that she was in that.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Madness Of King George, I'm thinking Nigel Hawthorne.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48Helen Mirren.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50Um...
0:37:50 > 0:37:52I'm trying to think who else might have been in it.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Could be any amount of English actors.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Talking Heads monologues... Definitely Dame Thora Hird was one.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Patricia Routledge. Patricia Routledge.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04So maybe if we...
0:38:04 > 0:38:08I think The Madness Of King George might be fairly high.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12We could go for maybe James Corden,
0:38:12 > 0:38:14Frances de la Tour
0:38:14 > 0:38:16and maybe Patricia Routledge.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18Or...
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Ten seconds left. Dame Thora Hird.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22Which do you think? Um...
0:38:22 > 0:38:26Just trying to think of anyone else in The Madness Of King George.
0:38:26 > 0:38:27Er...
0:38:29 > 0:38:31That's your time up.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35I now need your three answers. When you say what your answers are, say which category.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37Well, we'll say from The History Boys,
0:38:37 > 0:38:40James Corden. James Corden.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43Frances de la Tour. Frances de la Tour.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45And from Talking Heads,
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Patricia Routledge. Patricia Routledge.
0:38:47 > 0:38:51Now, of those three answers, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:38:51 > 0:38:54Well, if it's right, Frances de la Tour.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57Frances de la Tour we shall put last.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Which is your least likely? Patricia Routledge. Patricia Routledge.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03OK, let's pop those up on the board in that order.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07We have Patricia Routledge, James Corden and Frances de la Tour.
0:39:07 > 0:39:09Very, very best of luck.
0:39:09 > 0:39:11Three pretty good answers up there.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Your first answer was Patricia Routledge.
0:39:13 > 0:39:18Now, if this is correct and it is pointless, you will leave here with a jackpot of ?4,500.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21That's quite a nice jackpot. What would you do with that?
0:39:21 > 0:39:25Well, I've just had part of my roof mended,
0:39:25 > 0:39:27and that could go towards the rest of it.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29Good.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32Good use for ?2,250.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34Nice and safe. Yes, exactly.
0:39:34 > 0:39:35Safe as houses. Aggie.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38Well, Xander, I'm a bit of a Cumberbabe.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40You like cucumber, yes.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43No, a follower of Benedict Cumberbatch.
0:39:43 > 0:39:44Right.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47So I would probably come to London, have a mini-break,
0:39:47 > 0:39:51go to the theatre... And hang about on set. Hang about on set.
0:39:51 > 0:39:52As one does.
0:39:52 > 0:39:53Stalking. OK. Now...
0:39:53 > 0:39:55LAUGHTER
0:39:55 > 0:39:58Let's find out. Patricia Routledge, your first answer. For ?4,500,
0:39:58 > 0:40:01was she in one of the Talking Heads?
0:40:04 > 0:40:05She was.
0:40:06 > 0:40:07I think you knew she was.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10The question was whether or not this was going to go down to zero.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12Well, it's going through the 20s,
0:40:12 > 0:40:14through the teens, into single figures...
0:40:14 > 0:40:16Down she goes... Oh, 5.
0:40:16 > 0:40:175 for Patricia Routledge.
0:40:24 > 0:40:255 - not a bad score at all.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28Your second answer was James Corden.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30Again, if this is correct and it's pointless,
0:40:30 > 0:40:33you will win that jackpot. So for ?4,500,
0:40:33 > 0:40:36was James Corden in the original cast of The History Boys?
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Yes, he was.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Your first answer, Patricia Routledge, took you down to 5.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45James Corden
0:40:45 > 0:40:48is now taking you down through the 30s, into the 20s,
0:40:48 > 0:40:49down into the teens... 15.
0:40:52 > 0:40:57I'd say probably a very memorable character actor from that cast.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00But still, not a bad score at all.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03So everything is now resting on your last answer,
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Frances de la Tour. You're not sure if this is absolutely right.
0:41:06 > 0:41:12If it is right, it could be a lovely low score. It could even possibly win you that jackpot.
0:41:12 > 0:41:13Let's find out.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15Your last chance. For ?4,500,
0:41:15 > 0:41:19was Frances de la Tour in the original cast of The History Boys?
0:41:21 > 0:41:22Yes, she was.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Your first answer, Patricia Routledge, took you down to 5.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28James Corden took you down to 15.
0:41:30 > 0:41:31Frances de la Tour taking you down
0:41:31 > 0:41:33into single figures. Down she goes...
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Yes, she's done it! Very well done indeed!
0:41:35 > 0:41:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:41:40 > 0:41:41Very well done!
0:41:41 > 0:41:43Fantastic!
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Thank you! Fantastic!
0:41:52 > 0:41:54Well, congratulations - Frances de la Tour!
0:41:56 > 0:41:58A correct answer. A pointless answer,
0:41:58 > 0:42:01which means you go home with that jackpot of ?4,500.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04This is great news for your roof.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08Not so great for Benedict! Interesting news for Benedict Cumberbatch.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10But very, very well done all round.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12That's fantastic. Richard.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16Yeah, how about that? What could be more British than someone who works in planning regulation
0:42:16 > 0:42:19winning an episode of Pointless with an Alan Bennett question?
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Very impressive. I'll give the pointless answers
0:42:22 > 0:42:25to all the different categories here. Some brilliant actors up here.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28So, for History Boys actors, you could have had
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Clive Merrison, who plays the headmaster.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33Dominic Cooper was a pointless answer. There's Frances de la Tour.
0:42:33 > 0:42:34And Samuel Anderson.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37In fact, everybody except James Corden, Richard Griffiths
0:42:37 > 0:42:39and Russell Tovey were pointless.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42So anyone in that cast apart from those three was a pointless answer.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44The Madness Of King George actors.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Adrian Scarborough. Geoffrey Palmer was a pointless answer.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50Janine Duvitski. Julian Rhind-Tutt - he was a pointless answer.
0:42:50 > 0:42:51Well done if you said any of those.
0:42:51 > 0:42:55And three wonderful actors in the Talking Heads series.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57David Haig was a pointless answer.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00The lovely Penelope Wilton and Stephanie Cole as well.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Congratulations if you got any of those at home.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05Congratulations in the studio - that was terrific work. Thanks.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09Well, thanks once again to our winning players, Aggie and Richard,
0:43:09 > 0:43:12who go home with today's jackpot of ?4,500. Very well done.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:43:16 > 0:43:20Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard... Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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