Episode 39 Pointless

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

Welcome to Pointless, the quiz that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

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-And couple number one.

-Hello there, my name's Ciaran.

This is Patrick, and we're school friends from London.

-Couple number two?

-I'm Bread and this is Tony

and we are brothers-in-law from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.

-Couple number three?

-Hi, I'm Abi. This is Alix, my daughter,

and we're from Coombe Bissett near Salisbury.

And finally couple number four.

Hi, I'm Sarah, this is my husband, Mike.

We're from Ellesmere in Shropshire.

These are today's contestants.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thanks all of you, we'll find out more about you throughout the show.

That leaves one more person for me to introduce.

They broke the mould when they made him.

And I think we're all grateful for that.

It's the storage, isn't it? It's my Pointless friend. It's Richard.

Hi, everyone. Hiya.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Afternoon to you.

-And to you.

-Er, it should be a good show.

We had Sarah and Paul last time, they took on Winston Churchill

in the jackpot round, which proved a little bit too much for them.

It was a tough one, wasn't it?

We've only got one team back from that show, and that's Tony and Bread.

And we sort of got to the bottom of why Bread is called Bread.

We waited for most of the show

and it was a slightly disappointing answer, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-It was just sort of because he is.

Cos his brother was called Meat Loaf.

-So he's called Bread? Bread Loaf?

-Yeah, or just Bread.

-Just Bread.

What kind of show have we got today?

The first round I like very much, some people won't like it,

but you can't please everyone all the time, can you?

There we are, no, you can't, you just can't.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. All our questions on Pointless

have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants need to find the obscure answers

those 100 people didn't get.

Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer that

none of our 100 people gave, and each time that happens,

we will add 250 quid to the jackpot.

Sarah and Paul didn't win the jackpot last time, so we add

another £1,000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.

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

OK, in this first round, I want an answer from each of you,

but there is to be no conferring. Whichever pair has the highest score

at the end of the round will be heading home.

So do what you can to ensure it's not you.

Our first category today is World Champions.

World Champions. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

UK Sporting World Champions And Their Sports.

We're going to show you the names of seven UK world champions.

You just need to tell us the sport in which they've been a world champion.

There's going to be 14 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

OK, so tell us the sports in which these people

have been world champions, and here's our first board.

I'll read those one final time.

There we are. Seven world champions, we just need their sports.

Ciaran and Patrick, you all drew lots before the show today

-and you are going to go first. Ciaran, welcome.

-Thank you.

-From London.

-Yes.

-You haven't had to come far.

-Not far at all.

-What do you do?

-I'm a writer,

I write children's books and television.

So what children's books do you write?

I've got some books called Genie In Training and Genie In Trouble,

there's three about genies, and there's four about dinosaurs.

How's your sport, Ciaran?

It's not great, I'll be honest, but I do know a couple up there,

-so I think I'm going to play it safe.

-What are you going to go for?

I'm going to go for Peter Ebdon and snooker.

Peter Ebdon, snooker, says Ciaran.

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

39, not bad.

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-Not bad.

-Well played, Ciaran, solid start.

He won the 2002 World Snooker Championship, beat Stephen Hendry.

Went on a strict diet to achieve it, gave up liquorice all-sorts,

-that was the key, he said.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, then, Bread. We discovered something about you last time.

We discovered a few things. You answer to Craig as well.

-That is my proper name, yes.

-How many people call you Bread?

-Everyone, nearly.

-Everybody. Now, Bread, remind us what you do.

I'm a manager in the drinks dispense industry.

Now, that sounds fun. What exactly does that mean? What do you do?

We install beer pumps, basically, in the bars.

OK, in your spare time, what do you get up to?

I follow cricket

and I also follow football, which was my downfall on the last show.

Oh, yes, it was, Round Two. Frank Lampard.

We were looking for captains.

Anyone who had captained England more than five times.

Frank Lampard, four times.

What are you going to do now?

We have a board full of champions there.

I know a few, but I'm going to go for Dennis Priestley and darts.

Dennis Priestley and darts says Bread.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said darts.

21.

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21 for darts.

Well played, Bread, won in 1994. You know they've all got nicknames,

-what do you think Dennis Priestley's nickname is?

-The Menace, is it?

Dennis the Menace, yeah, Dennis the Menace Priestley.

-He wears red and black stripes on stage, as well.

-That would do it.

-Like Dennis the Menace.

-Thank you very much. Now, then, Abi.

Welcome to Pointless, good to have you here. What do you do?

-I'm a school nurse.

-A school nurse.

Of all the people who come to you at school,

how many of them are just trying to get out of class?

It does depend on whether it's decent lessons

or if it's raining outside, I must admit.

What do you like doing when you're not nursing?

I'm very much into village life, we live in a small village.

I thought you were going to say Village People there,

just for a brief moment. Village life.

I am in the local drama club and I enter the flower show.

I enter against my mother most of the time, we're quite big rivals.

-OK, who usually wins?

-Me.

-Good.

Now, Abi, we just want the names of the sports in which these

people have been world champions.

Considering they're all supposed to be world champions,

I haven't heard of many of 'em.

But I think I'm going to go for Jackie Stewart, motor racing.

Jackie Stewart, motor racing, says Abi.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said motor racing.

It is, of course, right.

Ooh, look at that, 85.

Wow, well, it's still a correct answer.

Yeah, won the Formula One World Drivers Championship in '69,

'71 and '73, Jackie Stewart. Also a very, very good clay pigeon shooter.

-Very good marksman.

-So he is, yeah.

-Thanks very much. Now, Mike.

-Hello.

Welcome to you. What do you do?

I'm retired, but most of the things I do are to do with

the game of bridge, duplicate bridge.

I organise...

You've already lost me on "duplicate bridge".

It's when people play against each other in competitions.

-National competitions, local competitions.

-I see, OK, good.

They all play exactly the same hands, though, that's the point,

so you can test exactly who's done the best around the country.

I see, that's right, I see, right.

-That makes sense, I thought you were joking.

-No, no.

Yes, now, that does make sense. So, Mike, what did you do before that?

Er, I was a teacher in sixth form college. I taught psychology.

I don't usually tell people that.

Why wouldn't you tell people that, Mike, cos it's interesting?

-Well, they all go...

-MIKE GASPS

Anyway, listen, here you are. You've got this board.

There are still four unanswered people there.

-Do you think you could take us through them?

-Yeah, most of them.

Beth Tweddle is, I think, a gymnast.

I'm a bit scared by Jackie Stewart being so high,

it always seems to be the '60s and '70s things get huge scores.

John Conteh was a boxer, a light heavyweight, I think.

I think I'm going to go for Karen Briggs.

Sarah will probably not talk to me if it gets the 100.

But I think she was involved in judo.

You're going to say judo for Karen Briggs.

Bread is nodding, for what it's worth.

Let's find out if Bread is right, and Mike is right.

Judo for Karen Briggs, how many people said that?

It is right.

Well, 21's our lowest score so far.

You've passed that very comfortably.

5, well done.

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Good answer, 5 for judo.

-It raises the question of why Bread didn't go for it, doesn't it?

-A bit.

-Don't you think?

-Yeah.

-Did you know that one, Bread?

An inkling, but I didn't want to risk it.

Fair enough. Well played, Mike, a terrific answer.

Took us very nicely through the board, as well.

He's going to be good, Mike, I think.

-Bridge players are usually very clever.

-Of course, yes.

They do those cruises and everything as well, don't they?

You can play bridge on cruises.

Play bridge on the River Kwai if you really want to.

LAUGHTER

Let's go through the rest of these.

Beth Tweddle, you're right, is a gymnast.

She would have scored 47 points, pretty big score.

John Conteh, he is a boxer and he was a light heavyweight as well,

a world champion, 49 points.

And Nick Matthew is the best answer on the board,

and he is a squash world champion.

Would have scored four points, very well done if you said that.

Thanks very much. We're halfway through the round,

let's look at those scores. 5 was the best score of that pass, Mike.

Very well done, Mike and Sarah

can feel quite pleased with themselves on the back of that.

Then up to 21, where we find Bread and Tony. 39, Ciaran and Patrick.

And then 85, Abi and Alix.

So, yes, that was a high score.

Alix, how good's your knowledge

-of world champions?

-I don't know.

Possibly not very good, so we'll see.

OK, well, very best of luck with this next board.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more world champions up on the board

and here they come. We have got...

I'll read all of those one last time.

We're looking for the sports in which these people have been world champions.

Sarah, you want to find the lowest scoring

answer on that board.

Sarah, do you also help in the bridge world?

Yes, I'm a tournament director alongside Mike a lot of the time,

although I do work on my own as well.

-But you enjoy it?

-Oh, yeah.

We wouldn't do it if we didn't enjoy it.

Very good. Sarah, what are you going to make of this board?

Oh, I'm pleased there are a couple of names that I recognise,

and I'm very pleased that Mike got such a low answer

because it means I don't have to

worry quite so much.

If you can score 79 or less, you're through to the next round for sure.

I'm just going to go for Victoria Pendleton, cycling.

Victoria Pendleton, cycling, says Sarah. Here comes your red line.

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

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

It's right. And you're through.

Ooh, 73, well done.

That did exactly what it needed to do,

78 is your total.

Retired after the 2012 Olympics.

Thanks very much. Now, Alix,

welcome to the show,

what do you do?

I'm a student at the moment.

What do you do in your spare time?

I help organise music events,

I'm part of a local group called Hijack, so I do that.

We have a little radio show, as well, so, it's good, it's fun.

What sort of music events are those?

All sorts, we do open mics once a month,

so, for local performers to come around and all sorts.

We have, we had a metal night and we had, like, acoustic acts,

-so we have a complete range.

-Excellent. Good stuff.

What we need from you, Alix, is a very, very low score.

I recognise quite a few names,

and there are a couple I know for sure, but what with our score being

quite high, I think I'm going to take a punt on Alistair Brownlee

and say I think he was triathlon.

Triathlon says Alix for Alistair Brownlee.

No red line for you, you're the high scorers.

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

It's absolutely right, Alix, very well done.

25.

25 takes your total up to 110.

Well played, Alix, yeah, two-time world champion so far.

Also won gold at the 2012 Olympics.

-His brother won bronze, Jonny Brownlee.

-That's right, thank you.

Now, Tony.

Welcome back. So, yes, what happened last time?

-We went out on our strongest round.

-Mmm.

And you were so easily in, you could have gone for a really...

Peter Shilton was your answer, wasn't it, in that round?

It was a fantastic low score.

Tony, what are you going to go for on this board?

Erm, I know quite a few of them,

but I'm going to go for James Toseland and motorcycling.

Motorcycling, says Tony, for James Toseland.

You want to be scoring 88 or less to get through to the next round.

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

It's right and you're through. Well done.

It's a very good answer, 12.

That takes your total up to 33.

Well played, Tony, World Superbike Champion, of course, 2004, 2007.

-He's married to Katie Melua.

-I did not know that.

-Yeah.

-Did you know who he was?

-I did not know that either.

LAUGHTER

But I didn't know she was married to a superbike champion.

She did "nine million bicycles in Beijing,"

-didn't she?

-So she did.

-Anyway, that's nice, isn't it?

-That is nice.

-Two people found love.

-Yes, and two so different people.

But you don't know who James Toseland is.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much. Now, yes, Patrick.

Patrick, welcome to the show. What do you do, Patrick?

I'm a data analyst for part of the Department of Health

-called Public Health England.

-What are your hobbies, Patrick?

Quite like a lot of theatre, go to a lot of live music,

play quite a lot of five-a-side football.

Favourite band at the moment?

-The National.

-The National.

-Yeah.

-CONSPIRATORIALLY:

-Tell me about the National, Richard.

They're like an American sort of, slightly indie, slightly rock,

very intelligent, very intellectual sort of rock band.

But, you know, with, like, kind of an arena feel as well.

You'd like them very much.

Shh.

-The National, love them. Love the National.

-LAUGHTER

Brilliant. That is, yeah, good. When did you last see them?

-Did you see them when they were last over?

-Er, yes, yeah.

OK, there we are. Patrick,

that board is all yours.

-Talk us through it.

-Ben Ainslie is sailing,

but I won't go for him, I think that'll be too high,

so I'm going to go for James Cracknell, rowing.

James Cracknell, rowing, says Patrick.

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

There's your red line, that's what you have to get below.

It's right.

You've done it.

Very well done indeed, 47.

86 your total, Patrick. Well done.

Well done, Patrick. Funnily enough,

Ben Ainslie would have scored you almost exactly the same.

He is sailing, but would have scored you 48 points.

The other two are the best two answers. Liam Tancock is a swimmer.

Would have scored you 4 points.

And Nora Perry is the best answer up there,

she won two World Doubles Badminton Championships.

So Badminton would have scored you 3 points.

Thanks very much indeed. At the end of our first round,

I'm sorry to say it's Abi and Alix who are going to be leaving us

with their high score of 110.

Nothing wrong at all with either of your answers.

Jackie Stewart was just a very

-expensive one.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, who knew?

I knew Beth Tweddle, but I thought more people would know her.

Oh! Well, there we are, you've learned something for next time.

We'll look forward to seeing you when you come back,

Abi and Alix, but thanks very much for playing. Great contestants.

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

So, three pairs remain. At the end of this round,

we'll have to say goodbye to another pair in time for our head-to-head.

Mike, by a distance you had the best score in that round with judo,

that was a great answer.

But the brother-in-laws from Mansfield

are our lowest scoring pair, Tony and Bread,

so they would appear to be the pair to beat.

Best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for Round Two is...

US Politics. We got a groan and a tut from our audience here.

Can you decide in your pairs

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

And whoever's 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...

..as they could. US presidents with one or more repeated letters

in their surname, Richard.

We're looking for any US president

who has one or more repeated letters in their surname.

Those letters don't have to be consecutive, just so as anywhere

in their surname there's the same letter twice, we'll accept it.

Very best of luck.

-OK, Patrick.

-Yes.

-Patrick.

How's your knowledge of US presidents?

Er, I've got an idea or two. I think they might be quite large.

I'm going to go for Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton says Patrick. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

47.

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-47 for Bill Clinton.

-Bill Clinton, yeah, he's got two Ns in his name.

Fourth letter, seventh letter.

-Boom.

-There we are.

-Yeah.

-You plotted those accurately, you got them spot on.

-Yeah, thanks.

Four and seven, choom!

-Choom, what a salvo.

-Yeah, not bad, was it?

-Down it goes.

-Laser-guided.

-I like that.

-Yeah.

Bread.

-Yeah.

-Bread.

So, we want the name of any US president

whose surname contains one or more repeated letters.

I've got a couple but I think they're going to be quite high.

-It's going to have to be Abraham Lincoln.

-Lincoln, says Bread.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is,

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

52, not bad at all.

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-Not bad, 52 for Lincoln.

-Yeah, two Ls, first and sixth.

Two Ns, third and seventh.

XANDER EXHALES

Did you see that?!

That's good. That is good.

-That is good.

-Thanks.

I didn't even think of the Ls.

-I hadn't thought of them!

-There you go.

-Isn't that weird?

He's well stocked with repeated letters, Lincoln.

OK, good. Now, Mike,

I have a feeling you're going to be good at this.

He does bridge, you know. He runs bridge.

-Mike, does he?

-Yeah.

-I didn't know that.

-Duplicate bridge.

-Duplicate bridge?

Do you know that one, where they all do,

it's basically the same across the country?

It's so they can do tournaments

and they know that everybody's got the same hand, so, yeah.

Did you know you can do cruises where you can play bridge? Did you know that?

-I dare say you could probably do bridge on the River Kwai!

-Ohh!

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

-Yeah, yeah.

-That is so quick.

-I know.

-Anyway, sorry, Mike, where were we?

-Great joke.

LAUGHTER

-James Buchanan.

-James Buchanan says Mike. Let's see how many of our

100 people said... I'm not going to say

"Let's see if it's right," I know it's right, Mike said it.

Let's see how many people said James Buchanan.

It's right.

Look at that, 1, Mike!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Frankly, I thought it deserved to go all the way down,

but it's still pretty good, Mike. 1 for James Buchanan.

Yeah, As five and seven, Ns six and eight.

That's a terrific answer. I'm getting so obsessed with doing that

I forgot to say that was genuinely a great answer, Mike.

-Very well played.

-Thanks very much indeed.

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

1, unsurprisingly, the best score

of that round, Mike, fantastic.

Then up to 47 where we find Patrick and Ciaran.

Then just up a notch to 52, where we find Bread and Tony.

So, Tony, what we need from you is a really good answer.

-Something a bit like James Buchanan.

-I'll try.

OK, best of luck. We're going to come back down the line,

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

Now, then, Sarah.

We're looking for the name of any US president whose surname

-contains one or more repeated letters.

-Yeah.

Well, again,

Mike's made my life a little bit easier,

I don't have to find something very obscure, I don't think, I hope.

I'm going to go for FDR, Franklin Delaney Roosevelt.

FD Roosevelt, says Sarah. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

There's your red line, if you get below that with FDR,

you are through to the head-to-head.

It's right, obviously.

You are through, quite obviously.

14, very well done indeed.

15 your total.

Nicely done, Sarah.

Os two and three, Es five and seven in Roosevelt,

and it's Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

but, er, it's a

perfectly acceptable answer.

Thanks very much. Now, Tony.

-Yeah.

-Tony, you're the high scorers. Have a look at Ciaran first.

Just have a look at Ciaran.

Is that the face of a man who's got a brilliant president

with repeated letters in his surname?

Might be better than the one I've got.

-At least you've got one.

-Yeah.

- Um, Sarah pinched mine. - Sorry!

I thought that was going to be the name of your president!

I was thinking, "That can't be right...

"They haven't had a female president!"

Don't you remember Sarah Pinchmine? She was a Republican...

LAUGHTER ..president in the 1860s.

How shaming, I'd forgotten her(!)

Um, what are you going to go for, Tony?

I'm going to go for Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin, says Tony. Benjamin Franklin.

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

but let's see how many of our 100 people said Benjamin Franklin.

Ooh, bad luck, Tony.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Takes your total up to 152.

Yeah, there's Ns four and eight in Franklin,

but he was never a president.

One of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin,

-but never a president.

-Seen that picture on t' dollar.

I know he looks all presidential, doesn't he? Turns out he wasn't.

Yeah, he was arrested

for impersonating a president at one point.

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, yeah.

He especially had some of the letters in his surname duplicated.

He used to travel round the world saying,

-"Yeah, I'm President Franklin."

-Yeah!

"Perhaps you've seen me on one of my notes."

"Yeah, that's me. I'll sign it for you, there you go."

Cost him an absolute fortune.

I bet it would have done. It would have.

-Now, Ciaran, you're home and dry.

-Hah, yeah, so that's good!

Which is good.

Even if you score 100 points, you are in the head-to-head,

which is nice to know.

-However, I think, being a writer and all that...

-Yeah.

..somehow that'll give you a bit of American...

-Not many American presidents in kids' TV.

-No.

-No. Not that many.

I was thinking - I had a few, I had John Kennedy, James Carter,

and I had Ronald Reagan.

And I was trying to think of Eisenhower's first name,

but I couldn't.

So, I'm going to play it quite safe and just go for Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan, you're going to say.

Ronald Reagan. OK, well, let's see if that's right,

Let's see how many people said Ronald Reagan.

No red line, obviously, because you're through.

It is right.

37, well done.

37 - 84 is your total.

Very well played, Ciaran, that's all you had to do.

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

which shows you what a good answer James Buchanan was.

Let's take a look at the pointless answer.

Franklin Pierce would have been a pointless answer.

Well done if you said that.

Now, Benjamin Harrison was a US president,

would have scored you 1 point,

Martin Van Buren would have scored you 1 point as well.

Other low answers you could have given -

Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, John Quincy Adams and James Monroe

all would have scored you 2 points, well done if you said any of those.

You'd have got 3 points

for Millard Fillmore, William Henry Harrison or William Howard Taft.

Let's take a look at the biggest scorers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

There's Bill Clinton, 47. Abraham Lincoln, 52.

And right up the top, there is Barack Obama, 57,

with an A third and fifth.

OK, thank you very much, Richard.

At the end of that round I'm sorry to say it's Tony and Bread -

oh, crumbs.

It wasn't meant to end here again! Surely.

I'm so sorry. But Tony and Bread,

it's been great having you on the show.

Thanks for playing. Great contestants, Tony and Bread.

Thank you very much.

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

Congratulations, Mike and Sarah, Patrick and Ciaran,

you're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play

for our jackpot, which currently stands at £2,000.

So, now we have to decide who's going to play for that money,

and to do that, you're now going to go head-to-head.

But the difference is, you're now allowed to confer.

So, you can share all your wisdom before you give your answers,

and the first pair to win two questions will be

playing for that jackpot. Well, Patrick and Ciaran, very well done.

Congratulations. A solid, solid performance throughout.

But Mike, I have to say you are the star of the show so far.

You've scored 6 points in the first two rounds.

6 points, judo and James Buchanan, between them.

Nothing too shabby about your answers, either, Sarah,

but Mike, he knows quite a lot, is what I'm saying.

So, yes, Patrick and Ciaran, good luck with that.

-Thank you.

-I think this promises to be a very exciting third round.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

Film couples. Richard.

We'll show you five stills from films now,

with one part of a romantic coupling cropped out.

Can you tell us the actor who is missing from each, please?

Thank you very much. So, let's reveal our five stills.

And here they come.

There we are. Five stills from films.

Now, Mike and Sarah, you played best throughout the show so far,

so you get to go first.

THEY WHISPER

-Just E, then?

-Yeah.

OK, we're going to go for E and John Travolta.

OK, E and John Travolta.

Now, Patrick and Ciaran, the rest of the board is yours.

Talk us through as many of them as you can.

OK, I'm fairly certain D is Meg Ryan, B is Patrick Swayze,

not sure who C is at all.

But I think we're going to go - we think A is Andie MacDowell

in Groundhog Day.

-So A, Andie MacDowell.

-You're going to say Andie MacDowell for A.

So, we have John Travolta and Andie MacDowell.

Now, Mike and Sarah have said John Travolta for E.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

79, John Travolta.

Patrick and Ciaran, meanwhile, have said Andie MacDowell for A.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said Andie MacDowell.

Absolutely right.

And you win that question, well done.

8! Very well done indeed.

Very well done, Patrick and Ciaran.

After one question, that means you're up 1-0.

Well played, Patrick and Ciaran.

You're quite right, Groundhog Day, there. 8 points.

There's only one answer that would have beaten it, actually, it's not B.

B, there's Jennifer Grey alongside Patrick Swayze,

as you said. Would have scored 53,

it's in Dirty Dancing, of course.

Now, C, that is James Bond.

It's George Lazenby

getting married to Diana Rigg.

Very well done if you said that.

5 points.

And D is Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, alongside Billy Crystal.

And she would have scored you 28.

Thanks, Richard. So, here comes your second question.

Mike and Sarah, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

Good luck. It concerns...

-The Netherlands.

-Yeah, good evening to all our viewers

-in the Netherlands. There are plenty, they get the BBC over there.

-No!

Yeah, you get tweeted all the time from people in the Netherlands.

When I get tweeted and it's in really good English,

-that's presumably...

-That's it.

-Dutch viewers.

-That's when you know.

-Wow.

-Exactly. We'll to show you five clues

to facts about the Netherlands,

you need to tell us the most obscure answer. Best of luck.

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

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, five clues to five facts about the Netherlands.

Patrick and Ciaran, you go first this time.

THEY WHISPER

I think we're going to go for the city that is the seat of government

for the country, and we think that's The Hague.

The Hague, say Patrick and Ciaran, The Hague.

Mike and Sarah, you can talk us through the rest of the board,

if you like.

Well, I think it's guil... Is the currency guilders?

-Guilders.

-I don't know...

Capital city's Amsterdam, Mike's trying to remember the footballer,

but I don't think he's getting there.

-I think guilders would be better, anyway.

-Yeah.

OK, so our answer is, main unit of currency, which is the guilder.

The guilder, say Mike and Sarah.

So, we have The Hague versus the guilder.

Patrick and Ciaran said The Hague, let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

33.

Mike and Sarah have gone for the guilder.

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

It's right.

It has to beat 33 if you're to stay in the game -

and it does! Very well done. Ooh, it's close.

28, very well done indeed.

I knew this was going to be close, and it is.

Mike and Sarah, you're back in the game. After two questions it's 1-1.

It's a good head-to-head, isn't it? Two good teams here.

The capital city, you were absolutely right, was Amsterdam.

Would have scored you too many points, though.

Would have scored you 69.

The best answer on the board is the Dutch flower garden,

it's the Keukenhof, would have scored you 5 points.

-And the Dutch footballer - Mike, any guesses on that?

-Johan Cruyff?

Not Cruyff, it's after his time.

-CIARAN:

-Ruud Gullit?

Not Ruud Gullit either -

it is Marco Van Basten.

He would have scored you 8 points.

OK, so it all comes down to a third question.

Whoever wins this one goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot. Best of luck to both teams.

Our third question concerns...

UK forests. Richard.

We'll show you the names of five forests,

that are located within the United Kingdom,

but we've left out alternate letters from their names.

Can you fill in the gaps, please?

OK, let's reveal our five forests, with clearings.

And here they are. We have got.

Whew. I'll read those all again, without the blanks.

There we are.

Five forests. Mike and Sarah, you get to answer first this time.

-You don't want to try the Welsh one? It's your specialist subject!

-I know!

-You're supposed to do the Welsh ones.

-Yeah, I know.

-OK, in that case, it'd better be the fourth one.

-I'm not sure...

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-The Forest of Dean.

Forest of Dean.

Forest of Dean, say Mike and Sarah.

Now, Patrick and Ciaran,

do you think you can talk us through the rest of that board?

We know number two's Sherwood Forest.

Don't know the first or the third,

so we're going to have to go for the fifth,

which we think is Epping Forest.

OK, Epping Forest, say Patrick and Ciaran.

So, we have Forest of Dean and we have Epping Forest.

Mike and Sarah have said Forest of Dean, let's see

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

It's right.

39.

39 for the Forest of Dean.

Is that going to beat Epping Forest,

or is Epping Forest going to beat that?

Patrick and Ciaran, let's find out.

It's right.

Now, 39 is what you have to beat...

Ooh, 48.

There's your answer.

And there are our finalists. Very well done, Mike and Sarah.

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

Great head-to-head, very well played both teams.

Now, there's two answers there that would have won it for you.

Sherwood Forest is correct, but it is a big scorer.

Would have scored you 56.

There's a forest in Wiltshire called Savernake Forest,

would have scored you 6 points, and this last one, I have a feeling,

Mike and Sarah, you were having a think about going for this one.

-Yeah... I think it might be Gwydyr Forest.

-Gwydyr Forest in Wales.

Welsh one, yes.

Yeah, it's virtually the only thing that could fit those letters,

and it is Gwydyr Forest, and it's a pointless answer.

-Agh...

-You got the point, anyway. You did the sensible thing.

-Yeah.

-But very well done if you got that at home.

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

are, I'm afraid, Patrick and Ciaran. But an honourable performance.

Ooh, that was close. Very close.

I mean, the second and third answers, really extremely close.

But we have to say goodbye to you.

The good news is, we get to see you again next show,

where I'm sure you'll do just as well, if not better.

But thanks very much for playing meantime.

-Patrick and Ciaran.

-Thank you.

But for Mike and Sarah, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Mike and Sarah. 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,

and at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £2,000.

Well, you've done incredibly well.

Your first appearance on Pointless. Straight through to the final.

You made it look very, very easy.

Some great answering from both of you, particularly you, Mike.

What would you like to come up in this round?

-Sarah, anything in particular?

-Literature, maybe.

-Mike?

Not films.

-Words, perhaps? Words would be good.

-Mm.

OK, best of luck.

As always, you kick this round off by choosing a category.

You have four options to choose from, and they are...

HE CHUCKLES

OK...Well, I don't think either of us know anything

about Russian culture, do we?

-Do you want to do Oscar-winning film directors?

-No.

But I guess that's probably the one thing

-we might both be able to say something about.

-OK.

Despite what I said, Oscar-winning Film Directors.

Oscar-winning Film Directors it is. Richard.

OK, here are the three options you've got.

Take your answers from any of these.

We're looking for any feature film made for cinema

release for which Oliver Stone has been credited as director,

or for which Francis Ford Coppola has been credited as director,

or for which Robert Zemeckis has been credited as director.

So, any feature film made for cinema release up to March 2013

for which any of these three gentlemen were credited as director.

Very, very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, as always,

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

To win that jackpot of £2,000,

just one of those answers needs to be pointless.

Remember, the answers you give can come from any of these categories,

and it's up to you how you spread them across.

They can all be from the same category,

you can have one from each, two from one, one from another -

it's entirely up to you. Are you ready?

As we'll ever be, I think.

It's going to be a quiet minute, I think.

OK, well, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

-Any ideas?

-Um... Oliver Stone's Platoon. Um...

-Right. Not going to be pointless!

-No, it's not going to be pointless.

But I don't...know.

-Um, Robert Zemeckis, do you know...

-No, nothing at all.

-..the name at all?

-No.

-You're just hopeless!

-Francis Ford Coppola?

-Apocalypse Now? Was that his?

-I don't know.

-We're not doing very well, are we?

-No.

Um, we're probably better off making something up.

Did Coppola do... Is that The Godfather?

Um...probably.

Possibly, yes. I think you might be right.

Well, it'd be Godfather I and Godfather II!

-Oh...

-Platoon.

-We didn't choose the right subject.

-We didn't.

Well, no, there wasn't one.

-Ten seconds left.

-No more time. We'll go...

-We're ready.

-OK, you're ready.

-Yeah.

-Yep.

All right, we'll stop the clock.

There we are, your time's up, anyway.

-I now need your three answers.

-OK.

-Oliver Stone, Platoon.

-Platoon.

And Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather I and Godfather II.

-Godfather I and Godfather II.

-Yep.

Of those three, would you like to nominate one

to be your best shot at a pointless answer?

Well, we know Oliver Stone's correct.

-Shall we put Platoon last, then?

-Yes.

-Perfect.

-Yeah, go on.

-And which is your least likely? Shall we say...?

-Godfather I.

-Godfather I.

OK, let's put those up on the board in that order, and here they are.

We have got The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Platoon.

Very best of luck, Mike and Sarah. Your first answer was The Godfather.

This...obviously, if it's correct and it's pointless,

will win you that jackpot of £2,000.

I mean, let's just say everybody forgot about The Godfather...

Which they might have done!

What would you be spending that money on?

Early on in our relationship,

it's alleged that I offered to take Sarah to Venice,

cos she said she'd never been.

Now, I've denied this, but should we win £2,000, I think

this might be an alleged promise that might be kept.

Very good. Sarah, anything else you'd like?

No, getting to Venice would be good.

Good. OK, well, let's hope.

-Take our trophy on the Continent.

-Mm.

Perfect. Send us back a photograph. It'd be nice.

OK, so, let's find out - The Godfather,

for £2,000, is that a Francis Ford Coppola picture?

-Well, the answer is yes, it is.

-At least it's right!

That's the first thing it had to be, was correct.

The second thing it has to be is pointless,

and that will involve it going down to zero.

Oh, 32.

32 - it's not a bad score.

-No! I thought it'd be higher.

-I have very good news for you.

Sequels always score less.

-Mm.

-How much less, I don't know. But let's find out.

The Godfather Part II, again, for £2,000, let's find out,

is that another of Francis Ford Coppola's pictures?

Yes, it is.

Well, The Godfather took us down to 32,

Godfather Part II takes us down...

Past 32, look at that, true to form.

Oh, into the teens!

12. Look at that, good lord.

It's all moving in the right direction.

OK, well, your final answer was Platoon.

-You put this third because you knew it was right.

-Yes!

Well, still, I think it's a great answer.

Let's find out, though, if it's pointless.

If it is, you will win £2,000.

Is Platoon an Oliver Stone film?

Well, yes, it is.

Your first answer was The Godfather, which took us to 32.

Your second answer, The Godfather Part II took us down to 12.

Platoon passes the first of those...

Not the second, I'm afraid. 15.

Well, three perfectly good answers,

considering you were on pretty thin ice, there.

-Mm.

-It was not a category you enjoyed, particularly.

-No.

I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer,

which means you don't win today's jackpot of £2,000.

That will roll over onto the next show.

But we really enjoyed having you on the show,

and you performed so well throughout it.

You can walk with your heads held high as you leave the studio,

and, of course, with your Pointless trophies held above them.

-So, very, very well done indeed.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Unlucky, Mike and Sarah. You played terrifically well throughout.

Anyone who really knows their films would have won the jackpot here,

because there's some big films on these lists.

Let's start with Oliver Stone.

His big scorers were - Platoon was his biggest of all.

JFK and Born On The fourth Of July were other big scorers,

but here's some pointless ones from him.

The American football drama Any Given Sunday,

his film all about George W Bush, W, would have scored you nothing at all.

Would have been a pointless answer. His follow-up to Wall Street,

Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps was a pointless answer.

World Trade Center.

Also you could have had Salvador and Talk Radio, they were both pointless.

Now, for Francis Ford Coppola the three Godfather movies

were his biggest scorers.

Apocalypse Now, which you almost went for, would have scored you 6.

But here are the pointless answers for him.

Jack, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Outsiders

and his version of the John Grisham book The Rainmaker.

Robert Zemeckis, whose big scorers were the Back To The Future films

and Forrest Gump, those were the biggest scorers for him.

But there's some big pointless answers here as well.

His animated version of Beowulf was a pointless answer,

Contact, Death Becomes Her was a pointless answer,

Romancing The Stone was a pointless answer as well.

So, well done, if you knew your films it was a great category to have.

Tough luck in the studio. But been absolutely lovely having you here,

-so thanks ever so much for playing.

-Thank you.

Unfortunately, we have to we have to say goodbye to you,

but we've loved having you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Brilliant contestants.

Mike and Sarah.

Well, sadly Mike and Sarah didn't win our jackpot today,

which means it rolls over onto the next show,

when we will be playing for £3,000.

Join us next time to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.