Episode 26 Pointless

APPLAUSE

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to Pointless, the quiz where we're striving to find the most obscure answers.

-Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one.

Hello. I'm Magnus. This is my wife, Wendy, and we're from Bexhill in East Sussex.

-Couple number two?

-I'm Anna, this is my flatmate Alex and we're from Brighton.

-Couple number three?

-I'm Jess. This is my mum Jan and we're from Clitheroe in Lancashire.

-Finally, couple number four.

-I'm Jonny. This is my friend Robert. We're from Leeds.

-And these are today's contestants.

-APPLAUSE

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

That leaves one person to introduce.

Chipping away at the coalface of our mine of information -

excuse the sooty face and salty language - it's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya. Hello, everyone.

-APPLAUSE

-Good afternoon.

-And to you.

-It's nice weather, isn't it?

Shall we do the show outside for a day?

-Shall we?

-Yeah!

-We've never done that before.

-Let's do that.

If you could carry your podiums outside...

On the last show, a troubling trend continued.

A while back, we had two people who went to my old school in Sussex.

It's a big school, so it's not weird. It's a very big school.

-They got knocked out in the first round both times.

-Yeah.

Last show, we got two more people from my old school, Wendy and Magnus, who are far more my vintage.

I thought, "Here's a chance for redemption."

People can see that Warden Park is not the appalling institution it's been painted.

Then they got knocked out in the first round!

It's like the Somme. They're cannon fodder. Over the top, down they go.

I am very, very hopeful that Magnus and Wendy might go a bit further.

Remember our school motto? Neither do I.

-I'm sure it wasn't about losing in the first round.

-No.

-Mr Trethowan?

-Mr Trethowan was our terrifying head teacher. Yeah.

Imagine him looking at this! Imagine how furious...

-Do you think he's watching this with his mortarboard on?

-I think he probably is. Scowling.

Well, thanks very much indeed.

All our questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants need to find the obscure answers they didn't get.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer, an answer that none of our 100 people gave.

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

Nigel and Gary didn't win the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000.

Today's jackpot starts off at £7,000.

AUDIENCE: Oooh!

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

In the first round, I'll take an answer from each of you. There is to be no conferring.

Which ever pair has the highest score will be heading home.

Our first category today is...

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

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

Our question concerns...

EU capital cities, Richard?

Even more specifically, we're about to show you a map on the board.

We've marked a number of capital cities with red dots.

Tell us what any of those red dots represents, please.

They're all EU capital cities, but which capital cities are there? Very best of luck at home.

Thanks very much indeed. Wendy and Magnus, you all drew lots and today you are going first.

We're going to show you an image and that image is going to stay up

for the whole round - up the line and back down.

Here is our image.

We've taken the country names off as well, Magnus, to make it more fun!

-Magnus, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Good to have you here.

The first round last time didn't do you any favours, "famous Pats".

It was. We didn't have a pointless answer, so that was good,

-but we had two quite high-scorers, so that wasn't so good.

-Yeah.

Two quite high-scorers.

-Magnus, remind us what you do.

-I work for the National Association of Headteachers.

-You're a Trade Union official.

-I am.

When you're not doing that, Magnus, what occupies you?

I like watching sport. I'm a Brighton & Hove Albion supporter.

And I also like baseball.

Good stuff. What are you going to go for from that map?

It looks nice, doesn't it?

I'm going to go for...

-Tallinn.

-Tallinn, says Magnus.

Let's see if Tallinn's right and, if it is, how many of our 100 people said Tallinn.

Ooh! Bad luck!

I'm afraid Tallinn is an incorrect answer. It's a very clever answer!

If that had been right, that would have gone a long way down.

EXHALES

LAUGHTER The curse strikes again.

It's a good answer, isn't it, but... It's the capital of Estonia, but it's not marked on that map.

Why did you take the names of the countries off?

-That was so sneaky!

-We didn't have names of countries on maps when I went to school.

Didn't have the money. Maybe at your school they could afford the names.

I was thinking, how come we've never had anyone from your old school on the show?

Cos they're all in the House of Lords.

-LAUGHING:

-You reckon? Yeah(!)

-Or prison.

-LAUGHTER

Anna, welcome back. Great to have you here. Remind us what you do.

I am a DJ by night and a trainee accountant by day.

-How is your geography, Anna?

-Terrible.

-This is quite scary.

I'd be dreading this.

Sorry, Magnus, but I'm quite glad that you got 100.

Thought you might be. It's a bit less scary now.

I'm going to go for Lisbon.

Lisbon says Anna. Let's see if Lisbon's right.

If it is, how many of our 100 people said Lisbon?

It's right, Anna.

Not bad at all.

There's Lisbon, capital of Portugal.

Jess, welcome to Pointless.

-What do you do?

-I'm an English teacher.

-In Clitheroe?

-Yeah.

-What level of English do you teach?

Secondary up to GCSE, aged 11 to 16.

When you're not teaching, what do you get up to?

I like reading, perhaps unsurprisingly. Running.

I like music, going to concerts, festivals, that sort of thing.

-What about travel?

-I enjoy travelling.

-What about maps?

-Maps?

I'm OK. In the '90s, when computer games had been invented,

there was a game called Europe that we had on the school computers.

-Ooh!

-That's how cool we were(!) We used to play that.

So you're going to be brilliant.

There's one that I know but I'm not sure how to pronounce it.

-I don't want to risk it so I'm going for Riga.

-Riga says Jess.

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

It's right.

Look at that! Very well done, indeed.

Great answer, Jess. Well done.

Great answer, Jess. Capital of Latvia.

Not a million miles from where I think Magnus thought Tallinn was.

Thanks very much, Richard. Jonny, welcome to the show.

-You're from Leeds?

-Yes.

-What do you do in Leeds?

-I'm a customer service advisor for a delivery company.

So you get calls from irate people saying, "Where's my washing machine?"

We deal with the clients rather than the customers.

-So it's more the people that you bought it from.

-I see. Good stuff.

-Well, what are you going to go for?

-It's a pretty good map for me.

But as Magnus got one wrong, I'm wary about making a gamble on one.

Surely, his making a mistake means that even if you score 100...

Even with a map, I don't think Robert will be very good on capital cities!

LAUGHTER So I think it's "get one right".

I'm going to say...

Brussels.

Brussels says Jonny.

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

It's right.

Sensible tactics there, 51 for Brussels.

Yeah, the capital of Belgium. There it is.

The de facto capital of Europe, really.

We're halfway through the round. Let's look at the scores. Five the best score.

Jess, very well done.

Jan, I think, can relax on the back of that.

Then we travel up to 45, where we find Anna and Alex.

Up to 51, Jonny and Robert. Then up to 100, Magnus and Wendy.

Wendy, it's going to get harder, I think, as the round goes on.

So maybe we might have another 100. Let's hope it's not from you.

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

-Now, Robert.

-Hello.

-We are looking for the name of any capital city marked in red on that map.

Jonny... I'm not going to say he gave you the best introduction.

Not really. I think his sole purpose coming on this show was to make me look bad.

-Jonny's nodding.

-I can imagine.

-Robert, what do you do?

I work as a care officer in a secure children's centre.

-In your spare time, what do you do?

-I run a board games club in York.

We play games from all around the world.

British board games tend to be archaic, rolling the dice and moving round the board.

-What kind of games do you play?

-Games based on decision making, interaction, trading, negotiation.

Have you come across a brilliant game called Europe?

It's not one I'm familiar with,

but a game called Diplomacy has given me an answer for this game.

If I remember the Diplomacy map, and hope I got my borders correct,

I'm going to say Warsaw.

Warsaw, says Robert. If you score 48 or less, you're through to the next round.

Let's see if Warsaw can get you down below that red line.

It's right.

Very well done. You're through.

77 is your total.

You got your borders exactly right. There is Warsaw, capital of Poland.

Thanks very much, indeed. Now, Jan.

Jan, welcome to the show. What do YOU do?

-I'm retired now and I don't do much!

-What DID you do?

I worked for a holiday cottage booking company at the call centre, making bookings.

Now you're retired, what is the "not much" you do?

"Pottering" is the word.

A bit of gardening and a bit of walking and a bit of round the house and nothing very much else.

Good, and now how about this geography kind of thing?

I'm going to take a chance.

Thanks to Magnus, I feel brave enough to say...

Ljubljana.

-L-y-ubljana.

-L-y-ubljana, yes.

-You feel brave enough to say it?

There is your red line. Below that, you're through to the next round.

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

It's right and you're through.

-It's a pointless answer!

-FANFARE

Very well done indeed, Jan. First of those we've had for a long time!

That adds £250 to today's jackpot.

It scores you nothing and it leaves your total at five. Very well done!

-Ljubljana.

-Wow! Jan, that's terrific! The capital of Slovenia.

When we talk to the contestants beforehand, Jan was so nervous.

That is a really gutsy answer. Very well played.

Five points on podium three!

You didn't, by any chance, go to Warden Park way back?

Alex, last time you were on the show you wore a Brighton shirt.

-Not a Brighton shirt.

-Not a Brighton & Hove Albion shirt.

What people from Brighton usually wear on this show!

We had a guy on from Brighton. When he came back, he wore an identical shirt in a different colour.

-You have gone for a Hove jacket.

-I suppose I have, yes.

It is a bit Hove. I'd rather mix it up. I'm a buffet man.

LAUGHTER

Now, you're on 45. The high-scorers are still Wendy and Magnus on 100.

54 or less get you through to the next round.

Well, I'm hoping on this one.

I'm not coming up with any great answers.

I'm going to go for...

Copenhagen.

Copenhagen, says Alex. Copenhagen.

There is your red line. If you get below that, you are through.

Let's find out if Copenhagen's right and, if it is, how many people said it.

It's right.

You're through!

21 is what you score.

That "ping" you heard as it went through that red line

was the sound of Mr Trethowan's cane snapping.

He's going to be furious. I'm going to get in trouble as well.

-It's not just you two. I'm going to get it. Ah, man!

-Wow!

-Wowee!

-Wow!

Copenhagen, let's deal with that first. Very good answer.

-The world's best restaurant, Noma, for three years in a row is in Copenhagen.

-Rene Redzepi.

It's just lost its title to a Spanish restaurant in Girona.

Ah, well! Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Wendy.

-Words cannot express.

-Disaster!

-I am so sorry!

Oh, Magnus. I thought Tallinn was such a good answer.

I thought, "Brilliant! Ah, here we go!

"This will be our first pointless for ages."

-And it was the other one!

-Yeah.

-Now, Wendy.

-Yeah.

-How's your geography?

-Doesn't really matter now, does it?

-You know it does!

One of the things you could do

as a last bequest to your fellow players

would be to leave an extra £250 in the jackpot for them.

Could you find it in yourself to do that, Wendy?

I'd love to! But it's not going to happen! So, no.

-I don't think I'm going to have a pointless answer. Sorry.

-OK.

I'm going to go for Stockholm.

-Stockholm, says Wendy. There's no red line for you.

-Yeah.

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

It is right.

Takes your total up to 121.

Beautiful Stockholm. They've sort of held the Olympics twice.

They held it once in 1912.

In 1956, it was in Melbourne, but there are strict quarantine laws.

The equestrian events had to be in Stockholm. Couldn't get into Australia with horses.

Let's go through the board.

There's only one pointless answer on the whole board, Ljubljana.

The only pointless answer up there, so very well done, Jan.

Other good answers - you'll see them come up as I say them.

The capital of Slovakia is there, Bratislava, one point.

Vilnius, another one very near Tallinn.

That might be the one you were looking at, Magnus. Two points.

Bucharest, Romania, would have scored three.

Sofia, Bulgaria, would have scored you four.

Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, would have scored ten.

The top three scorers, Brussels, 51.

Madrid, 65.

Paris, right in the middle of France, would have scored you 87.

At the end of our first round, I'm afraid, the pair heading home with our high score of 121,

-it's Wendy and Magnus.

-Sorry, Richard.

-I'm sorry, too.

That's OK. You know what? We all... We all suffer.

-We have done, too.

-By association.

That's the problem. It's a big school. Friendly enough, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-Nice, but didn't learn a thing!

-LAUGHTER

-Learnt nothing!

That's why I wear Velcro shoes. Didn't learn to tie my shoelaces.

It's an excellent school. Tallinn was a very good but incorrect answer.

We like those incorrect answers. I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you.

It's been lovely having you on the show, Wendy and Magnus.

But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.

There's only room for two pairs in our head-to-head, so we'll have to say goodbye to another pair.

Jan and Jess! What a great first round that was!

Jess, brilliant anyway, but Jan, to top that off with L-y-ub...

-Ljubljana, yes.

-That was fantastic.

And our first pointless for ages, so nice to hear that music again.

Rob and Jonny, good work. Alex and Anna, good work.

It's going to be very hard-fought, but best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for round two...

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

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

And the question concerns...

Television actors, Richard?

We're going to show you some pairs of television programmes.

We need you to tell us the name of the actor who starred in or had a main role in both those programmes.

-There's going to be 12 pairs to have a go at, so very best of luck.

-OK.

Thanks very much, indeed. We're looking for the actor who starred in both TV shows.

Here's our first board of six...

..I'll read those again...

..Six pairs of TV shows. Alex.

OK. There's a couple that I know up there.

A couple I don't.

I'm going to go for Ally McBeal/Brothers & Sisters.

-Calister Flockhart.

-Calister Flockhart says Alex.

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

It's right.

Ooh! It's a good answer!

12 for Calister Flockhart.

Yeah, it's a very good answer.

She was due to marry Robert Downey Jr in Ally McBeal.

They were about to shoot that final episode then he got arrested, so she didn't marry him.

Remember halfway through last Pointless series when I had to do some time?

-Yeah, I do. Which meant we couldn't get married.

-Yeah!

-Yeah.

-Which was slightly annoying.

-Given the money I'd spent on hats.

-LAUGHTER

SIGHS

-One of these days.

-We will. Yeah.

-Now, then, Jan.

-I know a couple as well.

I'm going to go for Butterflies and As Time Goes By,

-Geoffrey Palmer.

-Geoffrey Palmer, says Jan.

Let's see if Geoffrey Palmer's right and how many people said Geoffrey Palmer!

Another good answer!

-Cracking score of eight for Geoffrey Palmer.

-Well played, Jan.

He must be one of our greatest comic actors, Geoffrey Palmer.

-Absolutely.

-Just extraordinary.

-Any time he comes on screen, you think, "We're in for a treat."

-You know you are.

His big hobby is salmon fishing. He says he's got no ambitions in acting but salmon fishing is expensive.

So he said, "These days, I simply act to fish."

Lovely man. Now then, Jonny.

-Jonny.

-It's a horrible, horrible board.

Is it? Oh, no! Did you know some of them?

Calister Flockhart was the only one I knew.

The Young Ones/The New Statesman, probably Rik Mayall.

I imagine that would be high.

It's having a guess at one of the Friends actors for Cougar Town.

The other two, I've no idea.

I'm going to have an educated guess at Lisa Kudrow for Friends/Cougar Town.

Friends/Cougar Town, Lisa Kudrow.

Let's see if that's right. If it is, how many people said Lisa Kudrow?

Oh, no. Bad luck, Jonny. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

It scores you the maximum 100 points.

-Sorry.

-Sorry, Jonny. It was Courteney Cox, I'm afraid.

Would have scored you 25 points.

Six Feet Under and Dexter is Michael C Hall.

He played David Fisher and Dexter, three points.

You're absolutely right about Rik Mayall. 29 points!

It seems extremely low, but even lower -

it seems absurd to me - 14 points for Richard Briers.

Wow!

We're halfway through the round.

Let's look at those scores. Eight, Jan! Very well done.

Once again, the lowest scorer in the pass.

Jan and Jess looking pretty strong, as are Alex and Anna on 12,

in light of Jonny's score of 100.

However, Robert, you'll have first pick of the next board.

Try to find a really low-scoring answer and, who knows? It might be enough to keep you in the game.

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

Let's put six more pairs of TV shows on the board. Here they are...

..I'll read those one last time...

..So, Robert, a new selection. Is that looking better than the last board?

I think there's a 200 Club coming.

I have to do the same logic, guess somebody who I know is in something

and hope that they're in something else.

Spaced/The Royle Family and guess at Simon Pegg.

Simon Pegg, says Robert.

OK. You think 200 Club!

Let's find out.

Yes! I'm sorry, Robert.

Achievement!

There we are, 200 Club today.

Who knows what might happen next time? I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

-Sorry, Robert. He's in Spaced but not in The Royle Family.

-Thanks very much.

-Now, Jess.

-Hi.

-Jess. What do you make of this board?

It's terrible.

I only know one. I'm glad they didn't go for it.

Friends/Episodes, Matt Leblanc.

Matt Leblanc, says Jess. No red line. You're already through.

Let's see how many people said Matt Leblanc.

It's right.

Not bad. 27 your total.

He plays a sort of faded egotistical version of himself, Matt Leblanc, in Episodes, alongside Stephen Mangan.

-Exactly. Now, Anna.

-Hi.

-Hi.

-Hi.

-This board is all yours.

Spaced and The Royle Family is Jessica Stevenson.

I'm going for Rising Damp and The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin

-and it's Leonard Rossiter.

-Leonard Rossiter says Anna.

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

It's right.

31 takes your total up to 43.

-Through you go to the head-to-head.

-Well played, Anna.

It's going to be quite a head-to-head between those two pairs!

Let's fill in the rest of the board. I didn't think this was that hard.

-Downton Abbey/Twenty Twelve?

-Hugh Bonneville.

Would have scored four points.

Spaced and The Royle Family it's Jessica Stevenson or Jessica Hynes, as she is now.

Would have scored you three points. Lovejoy and Deadwood?

-Thingey McShane.

-Ian McShane. I thought it was an easy board.

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-12 points.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer/How I Met Your Mother is Alyson Hannigan nine.

Jessica Hynes, or Jessica Stevenson, was the best answer on that board.

At the end of our second round, I'm afraid it's Robert and Jonny who march off the podium

and straight into our 200 Club - very well done, indeed.

That IS an achievement! The good news is, we see you next time.

In the meantime, thanks for playing, Robert and Jonny.

But for the remaining two pairs, it's time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Jan and Jess, Alex and Anna.

You're one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £7,250.

AUDIENCE: Ooooh!

You're now going to go head-to-head, but you're now allowed to confer.

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

-Alex and Anna, you've been here before.

-We have.

-How do you feel about your rivals?

-A bit scared, actually. They're really good.

-They are quite good.

-Excellent quality.

We've had a pointless answer, "L-yubyana"!

And Jan, you gave us Geoffrey Palmer, which was nice, thank you.

Always nice to have a chance to salute one of our great actors.

I think this is going to be very, very close indeed.

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

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

-..Notting Hill Carnival, Richard?

-We'll give you five clues to facts about the Notting Hill Carnival.

-Give us the most obscure answer.

-Thanks very much, indeed.

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

..I'll read those one last time...

..Jan and Jess, you've played best so far, so you go first.

THEY WHISPER

Right, we only know one.

-What are you going to go for?

-The month is August.

August, say Jan and Jess. August.

Alex and Anna, can you talk us through the board?

-No!

-Not really.

Decade the carnival started, I'd say the '70s.

Park, I was thinking Shepherd's Bush Green, but not sure.

Day of the week, we were thinking might be Monday.

But what we're going to go for

is the band inspired by the carnival to write White Riot.

Which is The Clash.

The Clash, say Alex and Anna. We have August and The Clash.

Jan and Jess say August. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

It's right.

Alex and Anna are saying The Clash for White Riot.

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

It's right.

And it wins you the question.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done, Alex and Anna. You've broken serve and won that question.

After one question, it's one-nil.

That was The Clash's first single from 1977.

The decade the carnival started wasn't the '70s.

It was the '60s - started in 1966. Would have scored you 29.

The day of the week in which the children's carnival takes place,

or the children's day at the carnival, is the Sunday.

That would have scored you 13. This last one is a pointless answer.

It's not one of the big parks.

It is Emslie Horniman Pleasance. Very well done if you got that.

I suspect if you were a regular at the carnival or live in Notting Hill, you might have got it.

-Otherwise, a very tough answer.

-Thanks very much, indeed.

Here comes your second question. Jan and Jess, you have to win this to stay in the game.

It concerns...

-LAUGHTER

-Gym equipment, Richard?

We'll show you five terms for pieces of equipment you find in a gym.

We've removed alternate letters. Can you fill in those gaps?

Let's reveal our pieces of gym equipment. Here they are...

..I'll read those again...

..Alex and Anna, you will go first this time.

WHISPERING

-We're going for the top one, which is cross trainer.

-Cross trainer.

Cross trainer. Now, then, Jan and Jess.

Can you talk us through the board yet?

The second one's dumbell.

Third one's exercise bike. The bottom one's rowing machine.

The fourth one's power... something.

We'll take a guess at four. Is it power flite?

-You're going to go with power flite.

-Oh!

Mmm!

-I've just got it. It's not that.

-Are we too late?

-We're too late.

-Oh, well.

-I'm really sorry.

Power flite.

So, Alex and Anna have said cross trainer.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many of our 100 people said cross trainer.

It's right.

Now, Jan and Jess have gone for power flite.

I just made it up.

I'm so sorry. Let's see, anyway. You never know.

-GIGGLING:

-Maybe it's right!

Power flite - is it right?

-Oh, bad luck. I'm sorry.

-What is it?

You know what it is, Jess.

-I think it's power plate.

-I fear it probably is.

Anyway, Alex and Anna, you won that,

which means you are through to the final two-nil.

It is power plate AND it's the best answer on the board.

Would have scored you 14 points. Very sorry.

-Two seconds too late.

-Less than that, even, I think.

The second you gave the answer you got it.

The other three, dumbell, of course.

Would have scored you 93.

Exercise bike, surprisingly low, would have scored 35.

And rowing machine would have scored you 71.

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

-I'm so sorry, it's Jan and Jess.

-Good luck.

You performed so well throughout the show.

I have no doubt that next time we will see you through to the head-to-head and probably further.

It's been lovely having you on the show. Thanks so much for playing, Jan and Jess.

APPLAUSE

For Alex and Anna, it's time for our Pointless Final.

Congratulations, Alex and Anna, you've seen off all the competition

and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot which stands at...

AUDIENCE: Ooooh!

You've done really well. Sometimes, people make it through and it's a fluke.

Not this time. You've shown your mettle on two Pointless shows.

Head-to-head last time and this time you've come right through to the final.

And an impressive range of knowledge.

What would you like to see come up, Anna?

-Music. Anything to do with music.

-Anything to do with music?

-Yes.

-Alex?

-Yeah, with this new style of end game, I think we'd love to see music come up.

-OK.

Best of luck. You start off by choosing a category.

There are four options. They are...

-Take it back.

-Yeah. Don't know anything about country music stars.

-You said anything to do with music.

-I know.

I don't want to go for country music because, literally, I know Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.

Garth Brooks.

-Let's go for 1990s Britain.

-Yeah, let's.

1990s Britain.

-OK. Richard?

-I think it's do-able, this one.

We're going to give you three categories, the first one is

anybody who held any Cabinet post during the 1990s.

We are looking for any horse which won the Grand National 1990 to 1999.

Or any Nobel Prize winner born in Britain or naturalised British.

Any Cabinet minister, there's lots of them.

Any Grand National winner of the '90s. There's fewer of them!

Or any British Nobel Prize winner.

Very best of luck at home. A varied board so pick your favourite.

Thanks very much, indeed. You've got a minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that nice big jackpot of 7,250 quid,

just one of those answers has to be pointless.

The answers can come from any of these three categories.

All three from one, or one from each. It's completely up to you.

-Are you ready?

-Yep.

-Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

Your time starts now.

Cabinet members could be Nigel Lawson in the 90s? No. He was gone.

-Think of Tony Blair's.

-Tony Blair's? He had Mo Mowlam.

-A blind guy.

-Blunkett.

-David Blunkett.

-Yeah.

-Also him.

I'm going to take a punt because I actually won the Grand National

when I was around a certain age.

-And...?

-It was a horse called Hallo Dandy. I don't know whether it's...

-Hallo Dandy?

-Yeah.

-Let's take it. Hallo Dandy.

Don't know about any British Nobel Prize winners.

-Let's think about some other politicians.

-Other politians?

-We've got Mo... Blunkett.

-Who's the one with the...orange...?

-The... With his wife?

-With his wife?

-Neil Hamilton?

-Neil Hamilton.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-So Neil Hamilton, David Blunkett.

-And Hallo Dandy.

-And Hallo Dandy. What a team they are!

-Yeah, OK.

-Yeah.

-You're happy to go with those?

-Yes.

-There is your time up, anyhow.

-What three answers are they?

-We're going for two Cabinet members.

David Blunkett and we're going to go for Neil Hamilton.

For the 1990s Grand National winner, I don't know about this one at all,

but I'm going to go for Hallo Dandy.

Which is your best crack at a pointless answer?

-Hallo Dandy.

-Hallo Dandy, we'll put last.

-Which is your least likely?

-David Blunkett, I reckon.

David Blunkett, we'll put first. Let's put those up on the board...

Very, very best of luck. Your first answer was David Blunkett.

You thought this was the least likely to be pointless.

-If it is pointless, you will leave with that pretty impressive jackpot.

-Yeah.

-£7,250.

What would you do with that, Alex?

Well, it's a good amount.

I don't think I've been on holiday in four years.

-I'd like to take my girlfriend on holiday.

-Anna, how about you?

Two friends in New York are getting married in October.

I'd really love to go and see them.

Three good answers on the board. Let's hope one of those will win that jackpot for you.

First answer, David Blunkett.

Let's find out, for £7,250, was David Blunkett a Cabinet minister in the 1990s?

It's right.

This has to go all the way down to zero to win that jackpot.

Still going down...

-AUDIENCE GROANS

-Look at that! One!

-Oh, my God!

APPLAUSE My heart just stopped!

Ho ho ho!

One!

David Blunkett a very, very well-known and remembered -

I say remembered - member of Tony Blair's Cabinet just scoring one!

Neil Hamilton is your next answer.

I was thinking somebody who is quite well known.

He's been in the public eye a lot, but if David Blunkett scored one,

who knows what Neil Hamilton's going to score?

Neil Hamilton, for £7,250, was he a Cabinet minister in the 1990s?

Ooh!

There's our answer. Neil Hamilton didn't score you any points.

Wasn't a Cabinet minister in the 1990s.

So your final answer.

Hallo Dandy. This swam in from nowhere.

-This is going to be wrong.

-But you won money on Hallo Dandy?

-I did.

Let's hope you do again!

Let's find out. This is your last shot at that jackpot of £7,250.

Hallo Dandy, was it a Grand National winning horse in the 1990s?

-Noooo! Oh, bad luck, Anna! I'm so sorry!

-It's all right.

AUDIENCE APPLAUDS

That was very exciting! David Blunkett scoring only one point.

-Neil Hamilton, obviously not a Cabinet minister.

-No.

-Ah, yes.

-I remember now.

Yeah, and Hallo Dandy, we'll discover when Hallo Dandy had his moment in the sun.

You didn't find that all-important pointless answer, which means you don't win today's jackpot of £7,250,

which will roll over on to the next show, but you've been brilliant.

And you do get to take home a Pointless trophy. Very well done.

Yeah, Neil Hamilton, never a Cabinet minister.

The fact that Blunkett scored one should tell you

what a spectacularly handy question the Cabinet ministers was.

It might have been an absolute open door to walk through.

Some very, very big names on the list who are pointless.

There's a lot of them, as well. A real opportunity.

Let's look at a few of them...

..Norman Lamont, who was the Chancellor in the '90s.

Peter Mandelson is a pointless answer.

Cecil Parkinson, Clare Short. David Mellor would have won you the money.

Frank Dobson, Harriet Harman was a pointless answer.

John Gummer, Jonathan Aitken, Kenneth Baker, Malcolm Rifkind.

Nick Brown - old friend of Pointless - Robin Cook.

Other than the obvious ones, the only ones that scored any points

Jack Straw, Mo Mowlam - would have scored you one -

Alistair Darling, Chris Patten, John Redwood and Portillo scored one.

William Hague, Virginia Bottomley, Michael Howard.

Very well done if you got some of those.

Let's look at the Grand National-winning horses.

There are five Pointless answers...

..or Royal Athlete.

If you bet on one, they stay with you, so you might have got that at home.

And the Nobel Prize winners - two for Peace and two for Chemistry.

David Trimble and John Hume won the Nobel Peace Prize.

John A Pople and John E Walker both won for Chemistry.

Very well done if you got one of those.

I suspect an awful lot of people just got pointless answers.

You were one point away from one. You've been terrific.

Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye, Alex and Anna.

Thank you so much for playing. Brilliant contestants.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Sadly, Alex and Anna didn't win our jackpot, which means it rolls over to the next show,

when we will be playing for £8,250.

AUDIENCE: Oooh!

-Join us to see if someone can win it. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

-APPLAUSE

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