Episode 42 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

and welcome to Pointless, the quiz show where the aim is to score as few points as you can.

To do that, you need to come up with answers no-one else can think of.

Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Jonny and this is my friend Gahit, and we're from east London.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Jason.

This is my fiancee Sandra, and we're from West Wickham in Kent.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Sophie.

This is my mum Jan, and we're from East Sussex.

-And finally, couple number four.

-Hi, I'm Chris. This is my dad Laurence,

-and we've come from Preston.

-And these are today's contestants.

APPLAUSE

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

That just leaves one person for me to introduce.

Give a man a fact and he'll look clever for a day.

Teach a man to find facts and... Well, just look what happens.

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

-Hiya.

APPLAUSE

Hi, everybody.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

-What a lovely show last time.

We had Keith and Lee, who were terrific throughout,

very good pair, and they sailed through the jackpot round.

They did terrifically well, gave us so many pointless answers,

in the end only nominated one, but took home the jackpot,

on a darts player as well,

so they were delighted. It was a really good show.

Coming back from that show, we've got Jan and Sophie.

We didn't see quite so much of Jan and Sophie as we'd like

because we gave them a horrible Round Two question,

and we've also got Laurence and Chris as well,

who'll want to go one step further than last time, I suspect.

But Round One, I tell you now, it's going to cause trouble.

-OK.

-I tell you already, it's going to be trouble.

OK... Thanks very much, Richard.

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

Contestants need to find the obscure answers those 100 people didn't get.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

and each time that happens, we will add 250 quid to the jackpot.

Keith and Lee won the jackpot last time,

so today's jackpot starts off back at £1,000.

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

APPLAUSE

OK, in this first round, I'll take 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 make sure that's not you.

OK, our first category today is Chemistry.

Chemistry. 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 chemical compounds.

Chemical compounds. Richard.

On each pass, we'll give you seven formulas for chemical compounds.

We need you to tell us the name of the elements that make up that compound, please.

Sometimes there's two, sometimes three. You'll see the formula.

We need the name of the individual elements that make up the compounds.

There'll be 14 in all to have a go at at home.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

We're looking for the names of all the individual elements that make up

these chemical compounds, and here is our first board of seven.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

OK, now then, Gahit and Jonny, you all drew lots before the show today.

You are going to go first. Jonny, welcome to Pointless.

Good to have you here. Jonny, what do you do?

I work in the glamorous world of higher education, as a PA.

-To whom are you PA?

-To the dean of the school.

-Wow, that's fun.

Now, is that the dean who's in charge of discipline?

-The top dog.

-OK, so you send out all the memos

-saying said people have been naughty...

-Yeah, been naughty...

Summoned to the Dean's office. What do you do in your spare time, Jonny?

I'm a big music fan,

film, theatre, reading.

-Not chemistry.

-Not chemistry.

I wouldn't even know where to start there.

I'm going to take a wild guess,

and I'm really sorry, Gahit,

CaO,

calcium and oxygen.

CaO, calcium and oxygen.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Let's see if that's right, though,

and if so, let see how many people said calcium and oxygen for CaO.

It is right. Very well done, Jonny.

27. There you are. Great score.

APPLAUSE

Maybe this is easier than I thought.

-Well played, Johnny. You're a relieved-looking man there.

-Yeah!

The compound itself is calcium oxide, which we also know as quicklime.

-Nice. I like it when a compound has a nickname.

-Yeah, exactly.

It makes it a bit more pally, more friendly. I like that. Quicklime.

-Yeah, exactly.

-See, quicklime, very happy with that.

-That's easy.

-Calcium oxide, I'm a bit...

-Whoa!

-I'm a bit on edge.

-Yeah.

-Thank you. Now, Jason, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

Good to have you here. What do you do, Jason?

-I work for a housing association.

-In what capacity? What's your...?

I pretty much support the business by writing all our policy

-and procedure documents and giving advice.

-I see.

When you're not doing that, Jason, what do you like to get up to?

I currently, I'm trying to train and do mixed martial arts...

-Mixed martial arts?

-Mixed martial arts.

Is that a sort of pick and mix?

-Yeah, because one would just be boring.

-Wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

But how does the person you're fighting know

-which of the many martial arts you are...

-That's the point, you see.

That's how it's clever. They don't.

But I'm not that good either, so...

So you go off down a tae kwon do route,

and then suddenly, muay thai!

LAUGHTER

Yeah. Pretty much.

You'll, I hope, have approved my move, my manoeuvre there.

-Technique was flawless.

-It was flawless, yeah!

OK, Jason, how's your chemistry?

Uh... I did it at school,

and haven't touched it since. Um...

I think KCl will be

potassium and chlorine.

KCl, potassium and chlorine.

Let's see if that's right, potassium and chlorine.

It is absolutely right.

Well played, Jason.

Well, 27 is our low score at the moment. You've passed that.

18!

APPLAUSE

-Potassium and chlorine.

-Very well played, Jason.

Potassium chloride is the compound,

and the nickname for that is Big Steve.

LAUGHTER

-You see, nicer?

-Yeah, it's lovely, very friendly.

Not that nice, Big Steve, cos Big Steve can be quite threatening.

Big Steve, well, only if you add alcohol.

-Never do that.

-Thanks very much.

-Now, Jan, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Tell us what happened last time.

I invented a tennis player.

That's right! We served up tennis for you.

And you gave us Assaggi.

-Yes.

-There's actually a very good restaurant in London called Assaggi.

-It is, isn't it?

-It's a really good restaurant.

My mouth is now watering even at the memory of Assaggi.

We should go to Assaggi after this. Is it As-sah-gy or As-saggy?

I've never known. As-sag-aye

-or assegai, I think you say.

-Whatever way you want to do it.

-OK.

Now then, Jan,

so what are the elements that make up these chemical compounds?

Well, chemistry is

slightly worse than my tennis.

-LAUGHTER

-So...

Jan, can I just say, factually, that's impossible.

LAUGHTER

I'm afraid it's not.

Um, I don't actually know any of them,

so I'm going to have to guess, um...

LiCN, lichmun and carbon.

Lichmun...carbon.

-LiCN. Lichmun carbon.

-STIFLED LAUGHTER

-OK.

-Let's see that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said lichmun carbon for LiCN.

It's...

I don't know how that's wrong, but somehow it is!

Lichmun carbon, I'm afraid, an incorrect answer, Jan,

scoring you the maximum of 100 points. I'm sorry.

Now, one of two things has happened here, Jan.

Either you've just made up an element,

or while we've been talking, you've just discovered a brand-new element.

And if you have,

that's the first time that's ever happened on Pointless.

-Yeah.

-You never know what's behind those podiums.

We do, actually, yeah.

Let's hope there are some lichmun deposits around, I have to say.

LAUGHTER

-Yeah, interesting. Thanks very much indeed. Now, Chris.

-Hello.

Chris, hello to you. Tell us what happened last time with you.

-Last time we managed to get through to the head-to-head.

-Yeah.

Which we were pleased about.

Unfortunately, we didn't quite make it through to the final.

-Hoping to do a bit better this time.

-Hoping to do better. Now, Chris,

remind us what you do.

Uh...I work in business services.

Let's leave it at that, shall we?

We got into terrible trouble trying to work out what you did last time,

-and to be honest, you didn't help us much!

-No, sorry.

In your spare time, what do you get up to, Chris? What are your hobbies?

We know about your footballing prowess.

Yeah, you've heard about that. I won't go on any further about it.

If anyone would like to see it, press the red button now.

The last show is probably still on iPlayer, isn't it?

It is, yes, and if you get through to about five minutes,

and watch until about 47 minutes,

you'll get quite a lot of Chris's footballing.

-I'll try and keep it shorter this time.

-Yeah.

I volunteer at the youth club at my church

and I have been known to pick up a guitar and annoy my friends with it.

-By playing.

-By playing it? OK,

not by, not by tickling them with the fretboard.

Now, then, what are you going to go for on this board, Chris?

Well, I do know a number of them,

I think. The top one, I believe, is silicon oxide,

then we've got lead sulphide.

I believe the next two are mercury and selenium,

but that's the one I'm not sure of,

then we've got lithium, carbon and nitrogen,

and gold iodide.

-Wow, so he's not going with the lichmun.

-Not going with lichmun.

OK, what are you going to go for?

Of those, which do you think will be the lowest score?

By the way, I'm impressed so far.

I don't know if any of those are correct,

but it sounds pretty plausible.

I feel like I'd kick myself if I went for it and it was wrong,

or I didn't go for it and it was right, so I'm going to go for...

..mercury selenium.

Which is...

HgSe.

HgSe, mercury selenium, says Chris.

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

let's see how many of our 100 people said mercury and selenium.

It's right! Very well done indeed.

Down it does, shooting past all our other answers.

Brilliant, very well done, Chris.

That's a very good score.

APPLAUSE

5 for mercury and selenium.

Terrific work, Chris. Very well done.

He means business today, Chris, doesn't he?

-You ever seen a more relieved-looking father?

-No!

And you took us through the board perfectly as well. Very well done.

Silicon and oxygen up at the top there

would have scored you 20 points.

Lead and sulphur

would have scored you 25 points.

You were right about lithium, carbon and nitrogen.

That would have scored you 10,

and at the bottom, gold and iodine,

it's the best answer on the board,

actually, down at the bottom.

What is gold iodide?

It's a compound of gold and iodine.

That would be my answer as well.

It's actually gold monoiodide, but...

Yes, now it makes perfect sense, yes, the monoiodide.

-Yes.

-Yeah, so... Yeah, exactly.

-Yes.

-So you would go to the pub,

you'd say, "Can I get a pint of gold monoiodide?"

Take it home very carefully, quite expensive.

-They say, "That'll be 400 million, please." "Thank you."

-There you are.

Thank you anyway, Richard. We're halfway through the round.

Let's look at the scores. 5 the best score of that pass.

Very well deserved, Chris. Fantastic chemistry knowledge.

Then we travel up to 18 where we find Jason and Sandra,

up to 27 where we find Jonny and Gahit,

and then up to 100 where we find Jan and Sophie.

Now, Sophie, you are a long way ahead.

Luckily, I think you're going to be red hot on this.

-LAUGHTER

-Ready?

-Mm-hm(!)

-I don't believe you.

I think you'll be absolutely brilliant on this. Best of luck.

We're coming back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more chemical compounds on the board

and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those one last time.

Now then, we are looking for the individual elements

that make up these chemical compounds.

Laurence, you've got a fantastic head start courtesy of Chris.

-I need it!

-Laurence, I'm going to commend you on your shirt.

We had a cracking shirt from you last time.

Are they brother shirts, sister shirts,

do they come from the same collection, or are...?

-Probably cousins.

-They're cousins.

-Not from the same place?

-No.

-Do you remember where that one came from?

-Is it from abroad?

-This one might be from Portugal.

-Very nice.

-Yes, it does... It does look Portuguese, now he says that.

-Mm.

-Yeah, I can confirm that.

-What do you do with your time, Laurence?

My wife and I like to go narrow boating. I also like horse racing.

Do you go to the races a lot, or do you just follow it?

No, I've been a few times.

I did once win a phone-in quiz, a phone-in competition, rather,

where you phoned in and if you were successful,

-the company put £500 on a horse for you.

-Wow!

-And the horse obliged at 8-1.

-Ooh!

-Is that the biggest win you ever had?

-Oh, yes, by a long way.

Wow, good stuff. Now then, are you going to win big on this board?

-There is another Tim Wonnacott segue.

-That's really good.

-That's good, isn't it?

-Is that your impression of Tim Wonnacott?

I wasn't really putting my all into that, I'll be honest.

-RICHARD LAUGHS

-Do you want to see it?

-Yeah.

I don't know, I haven't really done it before.

-AS TIM WONNACOTT:

-The big question is, though, are you going to win big on this board?

LAUGHTER

-How's that?

-Yeah, it's terrific.

If you know who Tim Wonnacott is, it's very good.

-There we are. Laurence?

-It's a long time since I did chemistry.

I would go for CuCl, copper chloride.

Copper and chlorine, says Laurence. Well, you are on 5.

If you can score 94 or less, you'll avoid becoming the new high scorers.

Here's your red line.

Get below that...you're home and dry. Let's see.

Copper and chlorine, is that right for CuCl?

Well done. And you're through.

14.

APPLAUSE

19 your total there, Laurence.

Well played, Laurence, a very good answer

from someone who sounded so nervous, I have to say.

Yes, terrific answer. Copper chloride, that makes.

Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Sophie, welcome back to Pointless.

We really haven't served up your ideal subjects.

What would have been perfect for you, Sophie?

-Pop music, TV, something frivolous.

-Yeah.

-But not this.

-Not this.

When did you last do chemistry?

Supposedly, when I was at school,

but I spent most of my school lessons passing notes and gossiping.

-I didn't pay much attention in chemistry.

-You see?

I don't really recognise anything up there, so... Whoops!

OK, well, you are the high scorers,

so what are the elements that make up these chemical compounds?

Yeah... I think we are going to be part of the 200 club as well. I'm...

I have a vague recollection that Fe might be iron,

although I don't know, so I'll go for that one,

FeS2, and guess that it's iron and...

-..sulphur, something like that?

-Iron and sulphur, says Sophie.

Iron and sulphur for FeS2. Let's see if that's right.

No red line for you.

Let's see, though, how far down the column that goes. Iron and sulphur.

It's right!

It's a good answer. 26. Very well done, Sophie.

APPLAUSE

126 is your total.

Now, you MIGHT still be in with a shout, you never know.

-That might be JUST enough.

-Yeah, well done, Sophie.

If that sees you through, that will be one chemistry lesson you paid attention to, terrific.

-Iron disulphide.

-Yeah.

-I don't need to tell you, right?

You don't need to tell me about iron disulphide!

-Yeah.

-Now then, Sandra. Sandra, welcome to Pointless.

-I know...

-Listen, I have wonderful news for you.

-I know!

Wonderful news, you are through to the next round.

-Is chemistry a friend to you?

-It is not a friend!

-I haven't touched it for 21 years.

-What do you do, Sandra?

I work... This is how I met Jason, I work for a housing association too.

I'm a housing officer, so I'm meant to follow his rules, but...

Is he a good person to work for?

I work in a regional office. He's at head office

and I'm in a regional office, so we don't have a lot of...

-That's probably as it should be.

-The best way to be.

-No, that's good.

-How is your sort of loose memory of chemistry?

-I think I know two.

But...I could be making them up.

But I will go for, which I believe is PtCl2, as potassium and chloride.

OK, potassium and chloride, says Sandra.

No red line for you - you are already through,

but let's see if that's right for PtCl2.

-Oh!

-It sounded good.

-They do sound good.

We'll discover why that's wrong, but evidently it is.

That takes your total up to 118.

It sounded really good.

It sounded really good when we had it on the last board as well.

Oh, did we? Shame on me!

That was KCl, potassium chloride.

-That wasn't your answer, was it?

-It was.

-Oh, it was his answer!

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER

-Oh, well.

-Well...

-There we are.

-A good way to introduce myself!

-Gahit, welcome to the show.

-Thank you.

-Great to have you here.

Now, you are all but through to the next round.

It all rides on you getting a correct answer.

This is actually very, very exciting. The high scorers on 126 are Sophie and Jan.

You are on 27, so 98 or less gets you through, but it has to be right.

What do you do, Gahit?

I work for a big publisher as a program manager.

OK. What are your fascinations when you are not doing that?

Well, I've got a bit of a Lego obsession,

-so I like building Lego models.

-Really?

-Yes.

Nowadays, it seems you can only sort of buy...

When we were little, we had massive boxes full of Lego

that you could do what you liked.

-Now you kind of buy Lego to make sets.

-Yes.

So do you buy sets or do you buy just all the kit

and make anything you like?

I'm probably not clever enough to make my own,

but I follow instructions and make sets.

Yeah, no, I do all our children's Lego building.

-Theoretically, they help me!

-LAUGHTER

-No way! No, you can't have them helping!

-No.

Because they'll put stuff in the wrong place.

"What are you doing? No, no, no! You can help me by sitting there!"

For eight hours while I finish this.

And every so often you go, "Oh, I'm looking for one of those,

"I'm looking for one of those. (It's there.) Look, where is it?

"Oh, it looks like that. (It's there.) No, there!

"Thank you very much indeed. Thank you." That's helping, isn't it?

-Oh, I love it.

-What's the best thing you've built from Lego?

-I've got a Lego VW camper van, which is a brilliant...

-Full-size?

-Yeah, I was going to say...

-I wish! No, it's about that big.

-That'll do.

-But it's brilliant.

-Pretty good.

Very detailed, I like that.

So we are looking for the individual elements

that make up these chemical compounds.

There's two up there I thought I knew.

-LAUGHING:

-One of them was the potassium chloride answer.

The only other one I think I might know is the top one,

so HBr, hydrogen bromine?

OK, hydrogen and bromine, says Gahit.

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

Here's your red line. Up it goes. Is it right? That's the key question.

It's right! Very well done! Phew!

8! That's a great answer! Great score, Gahit, well done.

8 takes your total up to 35.

Well played, Gahit. Nice way to finish the round.

I thought that round would cause more trouble than it did, I have to say.

As soon as that board came up looking like

an international departures lounge, I thought we'd be in trouble.

Let's go through the ones that we haven't done yet.

Silver, nitrogen and oxygen there, second one down,

would have scored 15.

It is platinum and chlorine, the second one down.

Platinum, not potassium. Potassium is K. 2 points for that.

We've got beryllium and fluorine.

Would have scored 4 points.

And right at the bottom, there,

barium and sulphur. We've had a lot of sulphur.

5 points for that.

So platinum chloride is the best answer on that board.

And that's what you put in a really posh swimming pool, isn't it?

Yeah, platinum chlorine, yeah.

-It's like the best.

-Yeah, it's amazing.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Well, at the end of that round, I'm sorry to say, Jan and Sophie...

We gave you tennis last time and this time

we've only gone and given you chemical compounds. I'm sorry.

We could given you much nicer things.

What a terrible welcome that was to Pointless.

Anyway, it's been lovely. Sorry we have to say goodbye,

-but Sophie and Jan, thanks for playing.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

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

So, three pairs remain.

Obviously, at the end of this round,

we'll be saying goodbye to another pair.

Very well performed there, Gahit and Jonny.

I think you did very, very well, considering neither of you

-was particularly confident.

-Not at all.

-Not at all.

Jason... Sandra, let's try not to give the same answer

-as Jason this time, eh?

-LAUGHTER

But, Chris and Laurence, once again, our lowest-scoring pair

and, in fact, Chris

our lowest-scoring individual contestant,

so very well done over there on that last podium.

I think this will be close. The best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two is...

Directors.

Can you decide who is going to go first, who is going to go second?

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

OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

..as they could.

Spielberg films since 1990, Richard.

We are looking for the name of any full-length feature film

made for cinema release for which

Steven Spielberg received a director's credit

from the beginning of 1990

all the way through to February 2013, please. Best of luck.

OK. Thanks very much.

Looking for any film directed by Steven Spielberg since 1990.

Gahit, you are going to go first.

Now, films, it's a thing people ask for

again and again and again on Pointless.

Everyone says it's the category they'd be most happy with.

-Is that going to be fair for you?

-It should be.

I go to the cinema a lot, I'm a big cinema fan.

And I've got lots of Spielberg films in my head right now,

but I'm not sure how low they will score.

So I'm going to say AI.

AI, says Gahit. AI. Let's see if that's right

and, if it is, how many of our 100 people said AI.

It's right.

4! Very well done, Gahit! That's a great answer. 4 for AI.

Well played, Gahit.

Yeah, originally developed by Stanley Kubrick

but he handed it over to Spielberg in 1995.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Jason, is this good for you?

I thought films would be.

My mind has kind of gone blank with Spielberg films.

Some are coming into my head that I think are before then.

It was such a good score, I think I've got to try and...

maybe try and follow it, so I'm going to go with...

-Amistad.

-Amistad!

After all that preamble, Jason,

-I was expecting something really much less obscure.

-Sorry.

That, that is a good answer. I think!

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

It is right.

Gahit's low score of 4 currently looking very good indeed.

Let's see what Amistad does to it.

Look at that! A pointless answer, Jason!

Very well done indeed.

That adds £250 to today's jackpot, takes the total up to £1,250.

It scores you nothing. Very well done indeed, Jason.

That's a brilliant answer, Jason. Very, very well played.

Yeah, from 1997, Amistad. That's why it got no points.

I missed dat, you missed dat... LAUGHTER

-Chris?

-Well, the pressure is on.

-It sure is! Yeah, look at that!

4 and 0. Is this good for you, Chris?

There was one that came into my head that I think,

after the two good scores, I may as well have a go with.

I'm going to say...Simone.

OK, so Chris is saying Simone.

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

Oh, no! Bad luck, Chris!

You were doing something very, very clever there,

very sensible, proper, good Pointless tactics,

but I'm afraid an incorrect answer

scores you the maximum of 100 points. I'm sorry.

Yeah, sorry, Chris. You had to go low, you knew you had to.

Yeah, not a Spielberg film. Al Pacino was in it.

It is S1m0ne, a play on Sim One.

Thank you. Now, OK, we're halfway through the round.

Let's look at those scores.

Jason and Sandra, very, very strong indeed in that pass.

A lovely low score of 0,

then up to 4 where Gahit and Jonny are to be found

and then, very brave, Chris,

but I'm afraid, as I said, incorrect.

That scores you 100 points.

That's put you a long way ahead of the field.

Now, Laurence, I'm not even going to ask the question.

I think I've got my answer there.

We'll come back down the line now. Best of luck, Laurence.

Will the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so we are looking for films directed by Steven Spielberg

released since 1990.

Laurence, you are on a lovely high score there of 100.

Yeah, I know all the obvious ones, I think they will be too high.

We'll try...

War Horse.

War Horse, says Laurence.

No red line for you as you are the high scorers,

but let's see if that's right and how many people said War Horse.

It's right.

6!

Not bad, Laurence. Not a bad score at all.

106, though, is your total.

It's a really good answer, Laurence,

but it's not going to be good enough, I'm afraid.

14 different horses played the role in the film,

-including one horse who also played Seabiscuit.

-No!

-Yeah.

-That was a long time ago. That's a veteran actor.

-Yeah, it is.

Finder is the name of the horse. Very much the Morgan Freeman of...

Yes, of the equine acting world.

Yeah. Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Sandra?

Listen, you're through. This is good. This is great news.

As you can see, I'm just the baggage here. He is the brains, I'm the...

-whatever I am.

-Well, listen,

-War Horse scored only 6.

-I know.

-This is good news.

There's a couple in my head, but it's just thinking of dates

and whether they are from 1990, but I'm going to...

-I'm going to just say Schindler's List.

-Schindler's List, says Sandra.

Let's see if that's right. No red line, as you are already through,

but let's see how many people said it.

27 for Schindler's List. Takes your total up to 27.

Well played, Sandra. Amistad would have been a better answer, though,

Surprised you didn't go for that.

Yeah, it's from 1993. It's the first black-and-white film

-to win a Best Picture Oscar since 1960.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, Jonny. You are also through

to the head-to-head.

So we want any Steven Spielberg film since 1990.

Yeah, I've got a couple.

As we're through I'll take a bit of a punt.

I think you should. Let's try and get another pointless answer.

Pretty sure he directed a really bad film called Munich.

-Munich. Sounds good. What d'you think, Jason?

-It's feasible.

Let's see if it is feasible. Let's see if it's correct. Munich.

How many people said it? You're already through so no red line.

It's right!

Amistad took us all the way down to pointless.

Let's see if Munich can do the same.

Yes, it does! Very well done indeed, Jonny.

A pointless answer which adds

another £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to £1,500 and scores you nothing.

And it leaves your total at 4. Very well played indeed, Jonny.

-Fantastic.

-Terrific work, Jonny.

We've had two pointless answers now,

and there's only three on the whole list.

So well done if you said either of those two, or...

The Terminal, the Tom Hanks film, the other pointless answer on the list.

Amistad, Munich and The Terminal. 16 films in all on the list.

Other low scorers, The Adventures of Tintin would have scored you one,

Minority Report and Hook,

they both would have scored you one point as well.

You'd have got two points for The Lost World: Jurassic Park

and Catch Me If You Can.

You would have got four points for AI, we've already seen,

and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

You'd have got five points for War of the Worlds and 12 for Lincoln.

Let's look at the top three answers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Saving Private Ryan with 19.

Jurassic Park with 21.

-Right at the top, Schindler's List with 27.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of that round, I'm sorry to say it's Lawrence

and Chris, surely the favourites coming into this show,

our head-to-headers last time, and I'm sorry to say

we have to send you away at the end of the second round this time.

It's been wonderful having you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Lawrence and Chris.

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

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Congratulations, Gahit and Jonny, Jason and Sandra,

you're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £1,500.

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Now, we need to decide who's going to play for that money,

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

The difference is you're now allowed to confer.

Sandra, this is great news, isn't it?

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

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

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

Buildings and Landmarks of the USA, Richard.

We're going to show you five pictures

of famous American landmarks and buildings.

We need you to give us the name by which they're most commonly known.

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five buildings or landmarks from America,

and here they are. We have got...

There we are, five buildings or landmarks from the USA.

Now, then. Gahit and Jonny, you have played best throughout the show,

so you get to go first.

OK, we're going to go for C, Alcatraz.

C, Alcatraz, say Gahit and Jonny.

C, Alcatraz.

Now, Jason and Sandra, can you talk us through the rest of the board?

Maybe.

Er, A should be Mount Rushmore.

-Should be?

-Yeah!

-Um, Sandra knows B.

-Well, I don't.

I think it's the OK Corral or something, I don't know,

but not sure.

D looks like a clock and bell so it could be the Liberty Bell.

-And I suppose E is the Empire State...?

-Yeah.

I don't think it'll beat it, but we'll go with A

just to be on the safe side, Mount Rushmore.

OK, Mount Rushmore, A, say Jason and Sandra.

So, we have Gahit and Jonny saying Alcatraz prison.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

14.

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14 for Alcatraz.

Now, Jason and Sandra have said Mount Rushmore for A.

It should be Mount Rushmore, says Jason.

Let's see if it is Mount Rushmore, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

Is it going to beat Alcatraz, though?

I don't think so, no. 33.

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Which means, Gahit and Jonny, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Well played. Let's fill in the rest of this board.

Now, B, it's not the OK Corral, it's the Alamo.

Only four people could remember the Alamo.

D is where the Declaration of Independence was signed.

It's also where the Constitution was drafted and signed.

It's in Philadelphia and it's Independence Hall.

That's a pointless answer, so very well done if you said that at home.

And E is the Empire State Building.

Would have been too many points, though, would have scored you 61.

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

Jason and Sandra, you get to answer it first,

but you have to win this one to stay in the game.

Best of luck. It concerns...

Debut Album Titles, Richard.

Going to show you the titles of five debut albums by well-known artists,

but we've missed out a word from each one.

Can you fill in that word, please?

OK, let's reveal our five debut album titles and here they are.

I'll read those all again.

Jason and Sandra, you go first this time.

-What d'you think?

-I know the first one, the third one. Yeah.

OK, erm, I think I know a few of them, but we're going to

go for the Definitely, which is Definitely Maybe.

Definitely Maybe, say Jason and Sandra. Definitely Maybe.

Now, Gahit and Jonny, can you talk us through the board?

Well, I think A Girl Called Dusty.

Erm, I don't know Please Please Please.

Erm, don't know Chasing,

and I think we're going go with Boy In Da Corner for the bottom one.

Boy In Da Corner, 2003. So we have

Definitely Maybe and Boy In Da Corner.

Jason and Sandra said Definitely Maybe.

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

It is right.

51, quite a high score there.

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So, Gahit and Jonny, if Boy In Da Corner is right, it probably

has a good chance of beating that. Let's find out if it is right.

It is right. If that goes down beyond 51 you are in the final,

and it does, very well done indeed.

Look at that, 5, brilliant!

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Well played. After only

two questions, Gahit and Jonny,

-you are through to the final 2-0.

-Well played, gents.

-That was the debut album by...?

-Dizzee Rascal.

Dizzee Rascal, yeah, absolutely. You were right about

A Girl Called as well, would have been a very low score,

A Girl Called Dusty by Dusty Springfield,

would have scored you three points.

Please Please is a big score, it's Please Please Me by the Beatles.

Would have scored you 47.

Now, Chasing, a lot of people at home will be saying "Pavements".

It's not Pavements, not Adele. Adele's first album was 19.

It's not Chasing Cars either,

that's not the name of the Snow Patrol album,

they'd been around for years and years by 2008.

It's a pointless answer, it's by the Saturdays, and it's Chasing Lights.

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

I'm afraid it's Jason and Sandra. Two perfectly reasonable answers,

but they were just quite high scorers.

But the good news is we get to see you again next time.

We look forward to that very much.

Jason and Sandra, thanks very much for playing.

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But for Gahit and Jonny, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Gahit and Jonny, you've fought off all

the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

Fantastic! You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,500.

You've done so well.

So, so well. We've had a pointless answer, Munich!

What a brilliant answer that was! Lovely, consistent low scoring.

Very impressive indeed, and then 2-0 in the head-to-head.

Simply no arguing with that.

What would you like to see come up in this last round?

-Well, we've already had music and film.

-Literature, maybe?

Literature, maybe, or... Yeah, keep an open mind.

Music and film would have been my top two, and they've already been.

Best of luck. As always, you kick off this round

by choosing your category,

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

I know nothing about motor sport.

No, nothing about sport. French Culture, nope.

-Disco Hits could be...

-We met at a disco nightclub.

Yeah, we met at a club called Horsemeat Disco,

-so let's go Disco Hits.

-Called Horsemeat Disco?

-Horsemeat Disco.

-That's honest, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-OK, fair enough, so Disco Hits.

There we are, they've gone with Disco, Richard.

Here are your three categories, guys. Very best of luck.

We are looking for the name of any...

So, any UK Top 40 album or single by Rose Royce, Kool & The Gang

or Earth, Wind & Fire.

Very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed. OK, as always,

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

All you need to win that jackpot of £1,500 is for just

one of those answers to be pointless. Now, remember,

the answers you give can come from any of these categories.

They could all come from one, if you like, or one from each,

two from one, one from another, it's entirely up to you.

-Are you ready?

-BOTH: Yep.

OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are.

-Your time starts now.

-OK, so there's Car Wash by Rose Royce.

Celebration by Kool & The Gang, September or...

erm, what else is by Earth, Wind & Fire? Fantasy? September.

-Boogie Wonderland.

-That's too obvious.

-I think they're all quite obvious.

-Yeah.

Don't know any more obscure ones. D'you know, erm...?

-What else did Kool & The Gang do? I've gone blank.

-Erm...

-Yeah, they're the only ones that I know.

-Yeah.

I've gone completely blank, I'm really sorry.

I think September or Fantasy might be more obscure than the others.

-They didn't do Rasp...no, that was Boney M.

-Yeah, that was Boney M.

So, shall we, erm, d'you think, I think

-September and Fantasy will be more obscure.

-What was the third one?

So, September and Fantasy from Earth, Wind & Fire,

Kool & The Gang, Celebration. Car Wash from Rose Royce.

Let's say Car Wash from Rose Royce and the two Earth, Wind & Fire.

-OK, yeah.

-OK.

-OK, you're happy? You've selected your three.

OK, we'll stop the clock there, then.

What are the three answers you're going to give me?

-We're going to go for Car Wash by Rose Royce.

-Car Wash by Rose Royce.

-September by Earth, Wind & Fire.

-September by Earth, Wind & Fire.

-And Fantasy...

-And Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire.

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

-I think September.

-Yeah.

-September we'll put last. Least likely?

-Car Wash.

-Car Wash, we'll put first.

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

and here they are. We have got...

Very, very best of luck. Your first answer was Car Wash.

If this is correct and it is pointless, you'll win that jackpot.

-What will you do with £1,500, Gahit?

-Erm, I think I'd like a holiday.

A bit obvious but it'd be nice.

No, still, a worthwhile thing to spend that sort of windfall on.

Jonny, how about you?

Yeah, a holiday would be nice as well, and I've got to,

like, pay off my overdraft and other mundane things like that.

Good, nice to be able to do that. Three good answers on the board.

Let's hope at least one of those is pointless for you

and wins that jackpot. Your first answer was Car Wash.

This was the one you thought was least likely to be pointless.

Let's find out, was Car Wash a Rose Royce UK Top 40 hit?

Well, it's right.

That was the first thing it had to be.

The second thing it has to be is pointless.

That is the only thing that will win that jackpot for you on this.

Down it goes, 24 for the Car Wash.

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I think we'd all have been a bit surprised

if that had gone all the way down to zero. So, not a pointless answer.

Two perfectly good answers left on the board, though.

Your second answer was Fantasy.

Let's find out. For £1,500,

was Fantasy a UK Top 40 hit for Earth, Wind & Fire?

Well, your first answer, Car Wash, took us down to 24.

Fantasy, your second answer, takes us past that,

down into single figures, doing very well indeed.

3 for Fantasy.

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That's more like it.

If we plot a line from 24 to 3,

your third answer surely has to be pointless. So, let's find out.

Your third answer, the one you thought was your best shot

at a pointless answer, September by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Let's see, for £1,500,

if it was a UK Top 40 Hit for Earth, Wind & Fire.

Yes, it was.

OK, so Car Wash took us down to 24,

but then we were on surer ground when Fantasy took us down to 3.

Your third and final answer, September, taking us down, oh!

4 for September, I'm sorry.

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Three very good answers there,

two of them lovely, lovely low scores there.

3 and 4, you'd be delighted with that at any other point in the game.

Sadly, though, in this round it's only pointless answers we're interested in.

I'm sorry to say you didn't manage to find that crucial pointless answer,

which means you don't win today's jackpot. That will roll over onto the next show.

We've really enjoyed having you on the show, you've done so well,

and you get to take home a Pointless trophy each

-for your trouble, so there you are. Well done.

-Thank you for having us.

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Sorry, Jonny. Nice reason for going for the category, though.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers and hope none of them

are too familiar to you. Let's start with Rose Royce.

I Wanna Get Next To You was a single,

their debut album was In Full Bloom,

Is It Love You're After, It Makes You Feel Like Dancing,

all of those were pointless.

Well done if you said any of those.

Kool & The Gang, (When You Say You Love Somebody) In The Heart

was pointless, In The Heart, the album, was also pointless.

Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin')

some people at home might have got as a pointless answer.

Straight Ahead, Tonight, you could have also had Big Fun,

you could have had Steppin' Out, you could have had Summer Madness.

All of those were pointless answers for Kool & The Gang.

And for Earth, Wind & Fire,

the top two are albums, Faces and I Am.

And then two singles, Let's Groove and Saturday Nite

also a pointless answer for Earth, Wind & Fire.

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

-Saturday Nite you knew.

-Saturday Nite.

-Never mind.

-Too late now.

Oh, bad luck, it's always tough when you know some of those answers.

Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Gahit and Jonny,

but we've loved having you on the show.

Thank you both so much for playing so well.

Brilliant contestants, well done.

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Sadly Gahit and Jonny didn't win our jackpot today, which means it

rolls over onto the next show, when we will be playing for £2,500.

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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.