Episode 5 Pointless

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Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and welcome to Pointless,

the quiz show where we are always striving to find the most obscure answers. Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one.

Hello, I'm Keith, this is my son Dayle, and we're from Coventry.

Couple number two. Hi, my name's Ryan, this is friend Chris, and we've come from Somerset.

Couple number three. Hi, my name's Naomi, this is my brother Will, and we're from Worcestershire.

And finally, couple number four. Hello, my name's Sophie,

this my husband Alex, and we're from Whitley Bay.

And these are today's contestants. APPLAUSE

Thanks, everyone. We'll get to know more about you throughout the show.

That just leaves one more person to introduce. He won't take no for an answer.

Unless the question happens to be, "How much nonsense will Richard Osman put up with?"

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

Hi, everyone. APPLAUSE

Good afternoon to you. And to you. Great show today.

We've got two returning pairs. Dayle and Keith got knocked out very early in the last one,

but Sophie and Alex got through to the head-to-head, so they're the pair to beat.

Round one some people are going to absolutely adore.

It's one of those ones where there's some real specialist knowledge required.

They'll also be some easy answers, as well, but people with proper specialist knowledge will love it.

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

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

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

Each time that happens, we will add £250 to today's jackpot.

Estelle and Cath 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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Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless. APPLAUSE

OK, in this round, I'll take an answer from each of you

but there is to be no conferring.

At the end of the round, the pair with the highest score will be heading home.

Our first category today is...

It's flags. Decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

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

OK, and our question concerns...

Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. Richard.

We're going to show you 25 flags now up on the board.

They're all flags of countries which are crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn or Cancer,

but you'll recognise them by the flags. Some of them, anyway.

Can you give us the most obscure of these?

By country, we means a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right.

Thanks very much. OK, we're going to put this image up on the board and here it is.

There are all the flags we would like to have identified.

Flags of nations that lie on the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Now then, Dayle and Keith, you all drew lots before the show and today you are going to go first. Dayle.

Remind us what you do. I'm a computer technician.

But in your spare time, you are one of this country's most prolific songwriters.

You have, in the space of less than two years, written over 65 songs. Yes.

That's incredible going!

Being honest, of those songs, how many are you really, really proud of?

Probably about four or five at the most.

That's pretty good going still, four or five hit songs.

I'm... You know, you've got your friend over in America who sings them for you.

Yes. What kind of music?

I've covered every genre apart from classical, cos there are no words, obviously.

OK, Dayle, there are your flags.

There are your flags.

I think I know a few of them.

I'm not sure whether I should take a bit of a punt or go safe.

I'm going to take a punt on Bahamas.

The Bahamas, says Dayle. Let's see if their flag is up there,

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

It's right!

Look at that! Two! Brilliant start to the show, Dayle. Very well done indeed.

Lovely low score. Two for the Bahamas. APPLAUSE

Yeah, very well played from that first podium. There it is,

the second from left up the top there, the Bahamas.

As I say, there's some tough ones up there.

I think there's a few easy ones so you can get out of the round unscathed,

but the people who really know their stuff will be trying to go through all of these.

Anyone who gets all 25 of these

will have been doing very, very well indeed. There's some real toughies.

Thanks, Richard. Chris, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here. What do you do?

I work for a famous shoe company.

What do you do for the shoe company?

I basically supply shoes to the countries in Asia,

South America, Australia, New Zealand, China, all sorts of different countries.

Do you get to travel to all these places? I do eventually.

I've only just recently joined my new section

and I'm off to China later on in the year.

That's very exciting. What are your hobbies when you're not doing shoes?

I'm a big football fan. I support Yeovil Town,

which I go to home and away.

I also play cricket for a local cricket side

in the summer when I'm not watching football.

OK. So how's your knowledge of flags?

Not too bad. Again, because I love football,

a lot of these countries are popping up that I recognise the flags.

I think I'm going to go with Angola. Angola, says Chris.

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

Ooh. Bad luck, Chris. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Yeah, sorry, Angola not up there, I'm afraid, and also not on either of those tropics, I'm afraid.

Thanks, Richard. Will, we come to you. Welcome to Pointless.

Good to have you here. What do you do? I am an industrial designer

and I'm involved with lightweight hybrid railway vehicles.

Not anything about that that doesn't excite me. That is brilliant.

Lightweight hybrid... Hybrid!

Lightweight hybrid railways vehicles. Flywheels.

Wow! But these are not passenger vehicles, are they? Yes, they are.

I eat my words. They are. They can carry 60 people

but using an engine from a car. Get out of town! True.

Will, that's incredible.

And it's hybrid? What are the things that make up the hybrid?

The hybrid bit is a flywheel. It's all in the flywheel. It's all in the flywheel!

But that is quite exciting, genuinely. All bluster aside, that is... With a car engine?

Yeah. To be driven just by a single person? A car engine in a pick-up truck might carry two people.

In a train, with a bit of clever engineering, 60 people.

OK, anyway, listen, we are talking about flags now. How are you on flags?

Goodish. I'm going to say this one for my globe-trotting uncle.

This is the kind of round where a globe-trotting uncle is quite handy.

I'm going to say Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia. Let's see if that's right,

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

Absolutely right.

Well, two is our lowest score so far.

Saudi Arabia almost down there, six.

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It is always good to have a globe-trotting uncle,

for many reasons. There it is, second row down, two in.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Alex.

Alex, welcome back.

Now, how are we feeling about flags?

OK. Actually, I did geography when I was at uni.

So I should be all right at this.

I think there's a couple of safe ones that I can see,

but the one that I'm going to go with is slightly more risky,

but I believe it's OK. I'm going to say Mexico.

Mexico, says Alex. Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it.

It's absolutely right.

Very well done. 13 for Mexico. APPLAUSE

Another good answer. The Mexican symbol comes from the Aztec myth

that the Aztecs were to settle as soon as they saw an eagle on a cactus eating a snake.

And where they settled became Mexico City.

Thanks very much. We're halfway through the round, let's look at the scores.

Two the best score of that pass, Dayle, by a long chalk.

Well, quite a long chalk. A medium-sized chalk.

But a cracking score. That puts you and Keith in a pretty commanding position at this stage.

Then up to six, where we find Will and Naomi.

Up to 13, where we find Alex and Sophie.

And then I'm afraid it's way up to 100, where we find Chris and Ryan.

That may well not be the last incorrect answer of the round, Chris.

Ryan, as long as you get a nice low score,

that might be enough to keep you in the game.

Let's see. Best of luck. We'll come back down the line. Second players, step up to the podium.

Sophie, we're looking for the countries to whom these flags belong.

There they are. You're on 13. If you can score 86 or less

with this answer, you are through to round two.

Now, Sophie, remind us what you do. I'm a midwife.

That's right. And remind us what you get up to in your spare time.

Well, I'm currently training for the Great North Swim,

which is a mile-long swim in Lake Windermere.

I say training in the loosest sense of the word.

Mostly working on the carb loading at the moment.

And going to the pool from time to time. Yeah.

Is there a routine you have do, a schedule you have to follow

to work up to your mile? There probably should be

but it's a little bit hit and miss, I would say, currently.

Hit and miss is probably what they would advise.

You don't want to be doing your full mile now. That would be madness. I'll just gently work up to that.

Yeah. Quite right. Good stuff. Now, what about these flags?

This is just horrible for me.

Erm... I'm really struggling.

There is one that I do know for sure,

and seeing as we only need a relatively high score,

I am going to try and play it safe and I'm going to say Australia.

Australia, says Sophie. Let's see if that's right, and if it is,

how many people said it. Here's your red line, nice and high. Get below that, you're in round two.

It's right and you're through.

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50 for Australia, takes your total up to 63.

Well done, Sophie. Well played, Sophie. Very smart tactics there.

You did exactly what you needed to do. There it is, bottom right.

Thanks very much. Now then, Naomi.

Naomi, what do you do? At the moment, I'm a full-time mother.

I've got a seven-month-old baby. Lovely. Getting any sleep?

Erm, sometimes, but not every night.

No. What did you do before you were a mother?

I was working in a library as a library assistant, and before that, I was a police officer.

We've had a lot of library assistants on the show.

Did you enjoy the library? Yes. Nice and quiet after being a police officer.

Definitely a very good change. I enjoyed working with books rather than criminals.

Do you think you'd go back to either of those? Yes, I'd work in a library again. I love working with books.

Very good. Well, you're on six. If you can score 93 or less,

you are through to the next round, nice and easy.

Erm... You say it's nice and easy,

but I'm slightly nervous that I might get it totally wrong.

Erm... But I'm going to say Argentina.

Argentina, says Naomi.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many people said Argentina. Here's your red line, nice and high.

There we are, through you go to the next round. Good answer.

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18 takes your total up to 24. APPLAUSE

Well played again. There's the Argentinean flag.

The blue and the white represent the clear skies and the snow of the Andes.

And the sun there, they had the first mass demonstration in favour of independence on a cloudy day

on May 25th, and then the sun poked through the clouds,

and the sun represents that very sun. Wow.

So then, Ryan. Now, you know what you have to do here. You're the high scorers on 100.

Ryan, what do you do? I actually work for a very famous shoe company, as well.

The same very famous shoe company for whom Chris works?

Up until recently, yes, but now a different one.

Oh. So, yeah, we were colleagues for a while down in Somerset.

And what do you do, Ryan? I'm a national account manager,

so essentially, my job is to sell various different products,

apparel and footwear, to the clothing industry in the UK.

So you don't get to swan around like Chris? Actually, yeah, I do.

I manage to get quite a lot around Europe and stuff like that.

I'm off to Milan in a couple of weeks' time and then Davos at the end of the year.

That's fun. That's good. And are you specifically shoes or clothing as well?

I do clothing and footwear. Good.

And your hobbies? I like a bit of singing. I play the guitar.

If there's a karaoke party, you won't get me off the mic.

I'm a specialist in Mustang Sally,

The Power Of Love by Huey Lewis And The News, songs like that.

I'm glad you've told us this cos we will be keying these up for later.

Oh, yeah. Good. Now, Ryan, what are you going to go for?

It has to be low-scoring. Yeah, this is going to be tough.

The only possible scenario in which you can survive

is you score two or less

and then Keith has to score 100.

Right, I'm just going to have to go for broke. I'm going to try Uruguay.

Uruguay, says Ryan. Uruguay. No red line for you as you're the high scorers.

How many of our 100 people said Uruguay? Is it right?

Ooh, bad luck, Ryan! Bad luck.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, takes your total up to 200.

Yeah, the flag not up there, Ryan, but I think both of you on that podium, you've played ever so well

and you both went for good answers. I would say unfortunate members of the 200 club.

Also, Uruguay is too far south to be on one of the tropics.

Thanks. Now, Keith.

Keith, what happened last time? Sitcoms. Not good.

They didn't help you at all, did they, sitcoms?

No. There were easy ones, but... we didn't know any of the hard ones, unfortunately. Yeah.

Yeah, they were big scorers, those.

Flags? How do you feel about flags?

I'm happy. I'm just going to play it safe because I can.

You can. Or... Here's what you could do, Keith.

You are through to the next round come what may,

cos the high scorers, Ryan and Chris, are way out of your reach on 200.

You could try and find a pointless answer

and that would add 250 quid to the jackpot.

Erm, could do. Erm...

You do what you like, Keith. I'm going to go with Chile.

You're going to go with Chile. OK. Chile, says Keith.

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

No red line for you, you are already through.

It's right!

Very well done. Seven. Look at that.

Brilliant answer, Keith. APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to nine, the lowest total of the round by a long margin.

Yeah, very well played on podium one. Again, the Chilean flag there

on the second row up, first from the left.

The white, again, is the snow of the Andes.

The blue, again, is the sky.

The red is the blood split in the struggle for independence.

And the star is a sign of honour and progress.

That's the Chilean flag for you. That's why I haven't done that for every flag,

cos virtually all the stories are the same. Right. There are a couple of pointless answer.

Very well done if you said either Mali, there's Mali. Very well done if you said that.

And the other pointless answer was Madagascar.

There's the Madagascan flag. Terrific work if you said any of those.

And the top three scorers, South Africa, which would've scored you 36,

Brazil, which would've scored you 48,

and Australia was our biggest answer of all for 50.

Very well done to anyone who got many of those.

They were tough. Yeah, they were tough.

There's some hard... If you know all of those flags, you must know pretty much all the flags in the world.

Which some people do. Which some do. Thanks, Richard.

At the end of our first round, the pair heading home with a high score of 200, it's Ryan and Chris.

I'm sorry. Yes, well, two incorrect answers there,

but for the right reasons, as Richard said.

You were doing exactly what Pointless wants you to do, find a nice obscure answer,

which bodes very well for your next appearance, when I'm sure you'll do much better.

Meantime, thanks very much for playing. Ryan and Chris. APPLAUSE

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

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

we'll be saying goodbye to yet another pair. Very best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for round two is...

Literature. 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.

And the question concerns...

Literary characters, Richard.

We're going to give you the first names of a series of principal characters from different books.

We need you to give us the surnames. There'll be six on each pass,

12 in all to have a go at at home. Thanks.

So we're looking for the surnames of these literary characters.

And here's our first board of six.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Six literary characters that need a surname.

Dayle, what is the most obscure of those you can give us?

Er, I only know two of those.

Er, but I think... Well, I hope the most obscure of those two...

..would be Vito Corleone from The Godfather.

Corleone, says Dayle, for The Godfather.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said Corleone.

It's right.

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20 for Corleone.

Yeah, sold over 21 million copies, that book.

Now then, Will.

Will, what do you make of this board?

I'm better off with flags.

Pretty colours, shapes, patterns, that sort of thing.

But... I'm going to have a go at Atticus Finch.

Atticus Finch, says Will, from To Kill A Mockingbird.

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

It's right.

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11 for Atticus Finch. Very well done indeed.

Yeah, the only novel published by Harper Lee

and Atticus Finch the hero of it, the hero lawyer, played by Gregory Peck in the film version. Thanks.

Now then, Sophie. You're the last person to have this board,

so if you fancied it, you could talk us through all the gaps.

I don't think I'll be able to talk us through, really.

There's only one that I know for sure,

cos the other two that I knew have gone,

but I think that'll be a very high scorer,

so I'm maybe going to...

..have a bit of a risk

and go with Becky from Vanity Fair

as Granger.

Becky Granger, says Sophie.

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

Bad luck. Bad luck.

Becky Granger an incorrect answer, scores you the maximum of 100 points.

I'm sorry, Sophie. The principal character in Vanity Fair is Becky... Sharp. Becky Sharp, yeah.

Would've scored you five points, would've been a very good answer.

Played by Reese Witherspoon in the most recent film adaptation.

Now, the one at the bottom is the one everyone has avoided.

It's better than getting 100 points, but would've been a big scorer. Ebenezer Scrooge.

Would've scored you 83 points.

The top one, from Grapes Of Wrath, is Tom Joad. Would've scored you one point.

And John Grisham's The Firm, the hero of that is a pointless answer.

Very well done if you said Mitch McDeere.

Mitch McDeere, no points at all. Played by Tom Cruise in the film.

Thanks. We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

11 the best score of that pass, Will. Well done.

Then up to 20, where we find Dayle and Keith.

Then I'm sorry to say, up to 100, where we find Sophie and Alex.

Well, it may not be the last high score of the round.

Alex, at the very least, we need a low score from you and we'll have to hope that's enough to keep you in.

We'll come back down the line. Second players, take your places at the podium.

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

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, six literary characters looking for surnames.

Now then, Alex, you're the high scorers.

We need a low score from you.

How are you feeling about that board generally?

Terrified. HE LAUGHS

Erm, that's a tricky board.

I think Sophie did the right thing having a bit of a punt

in that last round.

I think there's one that I might know.

But I wouldn't even be sure of that.

And given that I've kind of got to try and pull something out of the fire here,

I'm just going to take a bit of a punt, as well.

And it really is a punt. I'm going to say for Brideshead Revisited...

..I'm going to go with... Hardy.

Charles Hardy. That's got an air about it. Charles Hardy.

It has an air about it, certainly. Charles Hardy.

You're the high scorers so there's no red line for you. We just have to hope it goes a long way down.

We also have to hope it's right. Charles Hardy. Is it right?

Oh, bad luck. An incorrect answer, Alex, which means you score the maximum of 100 points,

taking your total up to 200. Sounds convincing, though.

Does sound convincing. I convinced myself. Charlie Hardy.

Charlie Hardy and Becky Granger. I'm delighted to announce they're getting married.

LAUGHTER Aww! That'd be nice, wouldn't it? That would be nice.

There, now, Naomi.

Good news. You're through to the head-to-head.

However, we will need an answer from you for this round.

How do you feel about this as a category? It's good. I should know books,

having worked recently in a library, but I don't know all of them,

so I'll just have to think which one is the lowest.

I'm going to say Mark Darcy for Bridget Jones's Diary.

Mark Darcy, says Naomi. Let's see if that's right, how many people said it. No red line, you're through.

It's right.

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18 takes your total up to 29.

Well played. Based on Pride And Prejudice, of course,

so Fitzwilliam Darcy becomes Mark Darcy.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Keith. Again, you are through to the head-to-head.

Even if you score 100, you won't overtake the high score of 200.

But that board is all yours, Keith. If you felt like filling in the blanks, that'd be great.

Erm, I'd love to fill in the blanks, but I can't.

I don't know any of them whatsoever.

So I'm just going to come up with a mad name,

I'm going to say Charles Macintosh. Charles Macintosh for...

Brideshead Revisited. Let's see if Charles Macintosh is right.

It wasn't Charles Hardy. Let's see if Charles Macintosh fits the bill.

No. Bad luck, Keith.

An incorrect answer, scores you the maximum of 100 points,

takes your total up to 120. Couldn't matter less. You are through already.

I wonder if anyone can work out statistically how long we'd have to stay here

just naming random English surnames until we got the right one.

It's actually Charles... Do you know this one? Ryder.

Charles Ryder, yeah. Would've scored you two points, so worth going for for both teams.

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? Prefect. Ford Prefect, yes.

Would've scored 22. Albus...

Dumbledore. Dumbledore, yep. That would've scored 28.

Surprisingly low score. Do you know Beth?

Erm...

It's Beth March. Beth March. That would've scored you seven points.

And the top one, it's Milo Minderbinder.

That's a pointless answer, if you said it, so very well done.

Thanks. So, at the end of our second round,

I'm afraid, Alex and Sophie, this is where we have to say goodbye,

but you've played so well. Head-to-head last time.

And this time, very creditable show in the first round.

I'm afraid it was this second round, though, where you met your 200 club membership.

But it's been great having you. Thank you so much for playing. Alex and Sophie.

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

Well, congratulations, Naomi and Will, Dayle and Keith,

you are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot, which stands at £2,000.

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Now, to decide which pair's going to play for that money, you're now going to go head-to-head.

But the big difference is, you are now allowed to confer.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for the 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... The Beatles.

The Beatles, Richard. I'm going to give you five clues

to facts about The Beatles. Can you give us the most obscure answer?

OK, let's reveal our five clues. And here they are.

I'll read those all one final time.

Now then, Naomi and Will, you've played best throughout the show so far so you get to go first.

THEY WHISPER

We're going to risk and we're going to say,

for the first single in '62,

it's a bit of a guess, but Please Please Me.

Please Please Me, say Will and Naomi, for the first single.

Now, Dayle and Keith, the rest of the board is yours.

I think the musician who bought the Beatles catalogue

would be Michael Jackson. Title of the song

that was originally called Scrambled Eggs, I think was Yesterday.

Hey Jude was Julian.

Which one will we go for? THEY WHISPER

We're going to go for the title of the song that was originally called Scrambled Eggs, Yesterday.

Yesterday, say Dayle and Keith. Yesterday.

Now, Naomi and Will have said Please Please Me, the first single released in October 1962.

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

Bad luck. I'm afraid an incorrect answer, which means, Dayle and Keith,

you merely have to be correct with Yesterday, and if you are, you will win the point.

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

Absolutely right.

Look at that! Very good score indeed!

Five! APPLAUSE

Five for Yesterday. Which means, after one question, Dayle and Keith, you are up one-nil.

Well played, Dayle. Radio 2 voted it the greatest song of the 20th century.

And Rolling Stone and MTV voted it the greatest pop song of all time.

You know that Scrambled Eggs thing? I just don't know if I believe that.

To me, it sounds like a bit of McCartney modesty.

"Yeah, yeah, just say scrambled eggs."

They say, "Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs," were the original lyrics to it.

Right. OK.

And who are we? Who are we? Exactly right.

Now, the first single, it wasn't Please Please Me. That was their second single.

It was also the name of their first album. It was Love Me Do. Ah, yeah. 17 points for that.

The producer who signed the band to EMI? George Martin. Famous lifetime producer. Yeah, George Martin.

Would've scored nine. Dayle was right about Hey Jude.

It was written about Julian Lennon. That would've scored 51.

You're right about Michael Jackson, as well, Dayle.

Well done. That would've scored you 40 points.

Well done if you got all five of those.

Thanks very much indeed. So, here comes your second question.

Will and Naomi, you have to win this one to stay in the game. It concerns...

Famous people born in the UK. Richard.

I'm going to show you five anagrams of famous people born throughout history in the UK.

Can you unscramble them and give us the best answer?

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

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Now, Dayle and Keith, you will go first this time. THEY WHISPER

We'll go Battier Export, Beatrix Potter.

Battier Export, Beatrix Potter.

Now then, Naomi and Will.

The board is all yours. Talk us through it. Hm.

It won't be a very long chat, I'm afraid. We're a bit...

I think the bottom one is fairly high, William Shakespeare.

We're going to discount that one. Yeah.

The one above, naturalist, I think we might go with that one.

I think we're going to go with Charles Darwin.

It's safe and probably too high, but we'll give it a shot.

OK, Charles Darwin. So we have Beatrix Potter versus Charles Darwin.

Dayle and Keith said Beatrix Potter. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

It's right.

Wow! Look at that! Four! Very well done indeed.

Four for Beatrix Potter. APPLAUSE

Naomi and Will have gone for Charles Darwin. Let's see if that's right and how many people said that.

You want to be winning this one to stay in the game, remember.

It's right.

It's got to get down to four. Is it going to make it down there?

It's going to be...

13. APPLAUSE

13 for Charles Darwin. Which means, Dayle and Keith, after only two questions,

you are straight through to the final two-nil. Well done.

Yeah, well played. Scrambled eggs and a scrambled children's author seeing you through to the final.

The scores actually go all the way up the board, so we'll start at the bottom.

You're right, I Am A Weakish Speller was William Shakespeare.

Would've scored 30.

Have you got Now Ace Saint?

Isaac Newton. It is Isaac Newton, yeah. Isaac Newton would've scored seven.

And the only answer that could've beaten Beatrix Potter, it's up the top there, presenter,

an anagram of Bushy Crofter. You all know him.

Yeah. It's Bruce Forsyth.

Bruce Forsyth would've scored you two points. So very well done if you got that at home.

They're hard. When you get them, you just feel so pleased with yourself.

Thanks very much, Richard. So, at the end of our head-to-head round,

the pair we're saying goodbye to, I'm afraid it's Naomi and Will.

Not bad. Please Please Me, you were only out by one single there. That was their second.

It felt good to be near. Yeah. And Charles Darwin, a cracking answer, too.

But you were up against Dayle and Keith who were almost the lowest scorers possible in each question.

Four and five there. So, yes, you just came up against this machine.

But the good news for us is we get to see you again next time, Naomi and Will. We look forward to that.

Meantime, thanks very much for playing. Naomi and Will. APPLAUSE

But for Dayle and Keith, it's now time for our Pointless final.

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Congratulations, Dayle and Keith, you've seen off all the competition

and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy. Well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

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

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Well, I have to say, I'm not surprised to see you here.

I think your course was set from the first round.

Wonderful, wonderful low scores with the flags there.

You've done so well today, really, really well.

What would you like to see to crown the day off?

What would be the best possible category for you in this round?

Erm, pop music, geography.

Football. Football. Football.

For both of us, probably music or geography.

Geography would be the better option for us. OK.

Well, best of luck. As always, you kick this round off by choosing a category, and here are your options.

Football? If it's winners, we can probably do something there.

Fashion, do we look like we have a clue?

France. No. Driven through it, don't want to go back.

DAYLE LAUGHS Erm...

Easy listening music...

Easy listening? Do you want to go football? Yeah. OK.

We'll go with the Super Bowl. Super Bowl. OK. The Super Bowl it is. Richard.

Yep. We're looking for any answer in any of these three categories.

If you know about the Super Bowl, it's a good round.

We're looking for any team that has ever taken part in a Super Bowl final.

We're looking for any player who has ever won the MVP in the Super Bowl.

And we are looking for any towns and cities

that have hosted a Super Bowl final.

So any teams that have ever played in the final, any MVPs,

or any towns and cities that have ever hosted a Super Bowl.

Best of luck at home and very, very best of luck in the studio.

Good luck, guys. OK. Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.

And to win that jackpot of £2,000, just one of those answers needs to be pointless.

The answers you give can be from any of these three categories.

It's up to you which categories they're from.

It can be three from one category, two from one, one from another, it's entirely up to you.

Are you ready? Yeah. Yes. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

Towns and cities, you could pick any city in America.

THEY WHISPER

I know teams that have been in the Super Bowl.

You can go through the likes of the Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins.

THEY WHISPER

Dolphins probably too obvious. Dallas Cowboys.

New England Patriots. Pittsburgh Steelers.

Joe Montana.

Teams in the Super Bowl final. Right.

Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah.

Sure it's the Dallas Cowboys? Mm.

We've got 16 seconds. Er...

Ten seconds left.

Chicago Bears.

OK, that's your time up. I now need your three answers. What are you going to say?

Er, we've got Pittsburgh Steelers. The Pittsburgh Steelers.

And will you say which category they are?

We're going for the teams in the final. Teams in the Super Bowl final. Pittsburgh Steelers.

Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys.

And I think they are called the Chicago Bears.

And the Chicago Bears. Of those three, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

If it's correct, Chicago Bears.

Chicago Bears we'll put last. Least likely?

Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh Steelers we'll put first.

We'll put those up on the board in that order. And here they are. We have got...

Well, very, very, very best of luck. Your first answer was the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Now, if this is correct and it is pointless, it will win you £2,000.

What would you do with that, Dayle?

I would probably disappear somewhere and lay on the beach

and decide what to do with the rest of it while I was there.

Good answer. Keith? Er, well, I'd like to go see my cousin in Canada,

which I've never met. It could go towards that, which would be cool.

Very good. Well, very best of luck to you. Three good answers on the board.

Let's hope at least one of those is pointless.

As I say, if this is pointless, your first answer, the Pittsburgh Steelers,

it wins you the jackpot. So for £2,000,

have the Pittsburgh Steelers ever been in a Super Bowl final?

It's right. Now, down it goes through the 50s.

Through the 40s. If this goes all the way down to zero,

you leave here with £2,000. Into single figures. Still going down.

Oh, look at that! One! APPLAUSE

One!

That's a fantastic answer. Very, very well done indeed.

Lovely low score there. Sadly not pointless.

So only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your second answer was the Dallas Cowboys.

Obviously it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

So for £2,000, let's find out, have the Dallas Cowboys ever been Super Bowl finalists?

Again, it's correct.

Your first answer, the Pittsburgh Steelers, took you all the way down to one.

Your second answer, the Dallas Cowboys,

now taking you down through the teens, into single figures.

Seven. APPLAUSE

OK, now everything is riding on your third and final answer, the Chicago Bears.

This was the one you thought was your best shot at a pointless answer.

Let's find out. If it's right and it's pointless, it wins you that jackpot.

So for £2,000, have the Chicago Bears ever played in a Super Bowl final?

Again, it's right. Your first answer, the Pittsburgh Steelers,

took us all the way down to one.

The Dallas Cowboys took us down to seven.

Here come the Chicago Bears, taking us down to...

Oh, no, nine! APPLAUSE

Oh, bad luck. Well, I tell you what, three brilliant answers there.

Three fantastic low scores.

You'd be very pleased with that at any stage of the game.

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

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that vital pointless answer

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

That rolls onto the next show. But we have really enjoyed having you in the studio.

It's been brilliant having you and such a good performance.

And you do, of course, get to take home a Pointless trophy each, so very well done.

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I thought you were going to win it there, guys.

If you know about the Super Bowl, I'm going to read out some names, you'll recognise most of them, I'm afraid.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers for teams who've played in a Super Bowl final.

The Atlanta Falcons would've been a pointless answer,

the Denver Broncos won it a couple of times,

the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oakland Raiders. You could also have had

the Baltimore Colts, the Buffalo Bills, the Carolina Panthers,

you could've had the Cincinnati Bengals or the Indianapolis Colts.

You could've had the LA Rams, the Minnesota Vikings,

you could've had the Philadelphia Eagles and the San Diego Chargers,

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Tennessee Titans. All pointless. Well done if you said those.

Let's take a look at some of those Most Valuable Players.

Aaron Rodgers, who played for the Packers.

The very first MVP, Bart Starr, also for the Packers.

Joe Namath, who played for the New York Jets.

And Troy Aikman of the Dallas Cowboys, funnily enough, he was MVP.

You could also have had Emmitt Smith, Terry Bradshaw, he was pointless.

Well done if you said those. Let's take a look at some of the towns and cities that hosted the Super Bowl.

You could've also had Arlington, Glendale and Pontiac, as well. All of those pointless answers.

I'm sure some of those, especially the teams, would've rung a bell with you.

Well, unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Dayle and Keith,

but we have really enjoyed having you on the show. Thank you for playing and playing so well.

Thank you. Thank you. APPLAUSE

Well, Dayle and Keith didn't win our jackpot today,

so it rolls over, which means on the next show we will be playing for £3,000.

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Join us next time. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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