Episode 68 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thanks very much indeed.

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

This is the show where all the questions have been asked

to 100 people before the show, and all our contestants have to do

is come up with the answers no-one else could think of.

Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

And Couple Number One.

Hello, this is my great aunt Ellen, she's from Essex.

I'm Matt and I'm from Kent.

Couple Number Two.

Hi, I'm Jim, this is my wife Jacqueline,

and we've come from Motherwell in Scotland.

Couple Number Three.

Hi, I'm Vicky, this is my work colleague Ann,

and we're from Liverpool.

And Couple Number Four.

Hi, I'm Charlie, this is Ashley, my son, and we're from Cardiff.

And these are today's contestants.

APPLAUSE

Thanks very much all of you.

We'll find out more about you throughout the show.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach,

but for him, it is directly through his cerebral cortex.

It's my Pointless friend. It's Richard.

Hi, everyone. Hiya.

APPLAUSE

-Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

You know before the show we always talk to the contestants, that's

always nice, you have a little chat, find out about them, what have you.

Normally people are very nervous, aren't they?

People say, "I'm very nervous about coming on the show..."

You're talking about me? Yes, I am.

People worry cos, you know, you come on the show...

I've had a drink, I'm fine.

LAUGHTER

-But today, quite the opposite, I have to say.

-Really?

Today I think it's going to be quite a battle. I've been along the line.

Charlie, confident, cannot wait for it to begin. Raring to go.

Jim said the same, Jim is bang up for it.

On Podium One, Ellen,

cos Podium One is the scariest place of all,

she said, "I don't care where I am. "Got to be somewhere."

It's not going to be one of those scaredy-cat little shows, OK,

where people sort of...

Tentative little answers. It's going to be boom, boom, boom.

It's going to be like the Dutch team of 1974, total football.

It's going to be total Pointless. Totally Pointless, we could say that.

Excellent, I can't wait. Thanks very much, Richard.

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

Our contestants need to find the more obscure answers

those 100 people didn't get. Everyone is trying to find

a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave.

Each time that happens we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Chris and Beth didn't win the jackpot last time so we add

another £1,000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off at £3,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

OK, the pair with the highest score at the end of the round will be

eliminated, and there is to be no conferring during the round.

Best of luck all four pairs. Our category for Round One is...

Popular Culture. Can you all 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...

Groups of Seven, Richard.

Yeah, in a moment, Xander's going to show you

five different groupings, each of which have seven members.

We need you to give us any members

of any of the groupings you're about to see. Very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed. As Richard mentioned,

we're going to put five different groupings.

All will become clear when they appear on the board.

They will remain on the board for the whole round, they'll stay up

as you go up the line and stay up as we come back down.

So they won't be changing halfway through the round.

And our five groupings read like this...

Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands,

Enid Blyton's Secret Seven,

quite a lot of overlap between the two.

LAUGHTER

S Club 7, Seven Dwarfs

and Von Trapp Children.

I'll read those all one last time.

-There we are.

-And for a couple of those,

Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands and S Club 7,

we need first names and surnames please.

I won't for example, though, need surnames for the Seven Dwarfs.

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-Although I do know them.

-I bet you do.

There we are. Five groupings of seven.

Ellen and Matt, you all drew lots before the show

-and today you're going first. Ellen, what do you do?

-I'm now retired.

I took early retirement from the civil service last year,

from the Crown Prosecution Service.

And what do you do with your retirement now?

I belong to our church choir,

so, we have recently performed at Brentwood Cathedral, a cantata

-by one of our parishioners who wrote it 25 years ago.

-Very nice.

-Are you a soprano or an alto?

-Soprano.

-Soprano?

-Yes.

-Now, Ellen, what about these groups of seven, they're all fun.

-Right.

Lots to play with.

I'm old enough to remember Elizabeth Taylor

and the Seven Dwarfs, but not young enough, really, for S Club 7.

I think I'm going to go with Michael Wilding,

-for Elizabeth Taylor's husband.

-Michael Wilding says Ellen.

Michael Wilding, let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Michael Wilding?

It's right. I think it is quite a good answer, Ellen.

This might go quite a long way down. And it does. Look at that!

Four! Very well done indeed. What a great start.

-Very well done, Ellen.

-Her second husband, that's a very

good answer on podium one. You were right about not being

scared of being on podium one. It's a terrific answer.

19 years older than her.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Jacqueline, welcome.

-Thank you.

Jacqueline, do you know what I really like?

There are lots of things I like about you and Jim,

-but probably the best thing is your surname.

-Yes.

-The surname Armstrong.

-Yes. And what was your maiden name, Jacqueline.

-Armstrong.

-You see? You see that?

-That's good.

She married Jim, obviously for his looks, but also for his name.

For his surname. Also, it's said beautifully in that accent.

-That's lovely.

-Yes, much nicer than I say it. Say it again.

-Armstrong!

-IN A SCOTTISH ACCENT

That's great. Armstrong. Oh!

-You're jealous now, aren't you?

-That IS nice.

I might get you to do that for me, I might have it as a ringtone.

-THEY LAUGH

-Armstrong. That's lovely. Jacqueline, what you do?

-I'm a civil servant.

-OK, good.

And what are your hobbies? Well, I like to go on holiday a lot.

We go to New York on holiday quite a lot of times.

-You go back and back and back to New York?

-Back to the same place.

-How long have you done that for?

-Ten years.

-Ten years, you're becoming New Yorkers!

-Almost!

Anyway, what about these groups of seven, Jacqueline?

OK, well, I'm going to try Rachel Stevens, from S Club 7.

Jacqueline is going to say Rachel Stevens.

Let's see if that's right, and if so,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Rachel Stevens?

It's right.

19. 19 for Rachel Stevens.

Well played, Jacqueline. A good start from everyone, isn't it?

Yes, she had a solo career as well

and came second on Strictly Come Dancing.

-There we are. Good. Right. Ann.

-Hi.

-Ann, you and Vicky are our only returning pair.

-True.

-What happened last time?

-The first round.

-It was first round.

-It was Olympians.

-It was Olympians.

-It was an answer.

-Yes, it was wrong.

-It was wrong. It was Daley Thomson.

-It wasn't badly wrong.

-Five medals.

And we had Mark Spitz, which was quite a high score,

but Daley Thompson, as Richard said, though, it was a good wrong answer.

-What are you going to go for?

-Hopefully not a good wrong answer.

-I'm going to go for Louisa von Trapp, I hope.

-Louisa Von Trapp.

-The forgotten Von Trapp, hopefully.

-Louisa.

-Forgotten, as in you just made it up or...

-Possibly.

-OK.

Let's find out. Louisa Von Trapp.

It's right.

That's a pointless answer, Ann! Very well done indeed!

That's a GOOD correct answer!

It adds £250 to today's jackpot and takes the total up to £3,250.

-And it scores you nothing. Very well done indeed.

-Well done.

She really was the forgotten von Trapp child, wasn't she? Terrific.

Played by Heather Menzies.

She later married the American actor Robert Urich,

who she met on the set of a corned beef commercial.

-That story just gets better and better and better.

-I know, yeah.

-It keeps on giving, doesn't it?

-Yeah, fantastic. Thank you. Ashley.

Welcome to the show. What do you do, Ashley?

I'm a student at the University of the West of England.

-And what are you studying?

-Biomedical science.

-Wow.

-What year are you in?

-First year.

I say wow to that, that strikes me as, if he'd said history or, I

don't know, maths, I would have gone oh, OK, but biomedical science, wow.

-That's a lot fancier than it is.

-It involves lots of teat pipettes.

-Yeah.

-And things and that?

-Yeah.

-Wow.

What's the most exciting thing you have done so far?

Just mixing with lots of like tissues and seeing them

-under the microscope.

-See, it doesn't get any worse!

That's just great, isn't it? Wow! Very good.

Now then, Ashley, how do you find these groups of seven?

As embarrassing as it is,

the only one I have a vague idea about is S Club 7.

But, I think I'm going to go for, not 100 percent on this,

-Bradley Washington.

-Bradley Washington, Says Ashley.

Let's see if that's right and if so, let's see how

many of our 100 people said Bradley Washington.

No! Not Bradley Washington, I'm afraid!

Ashley, I'm really sorry, that is an incorrect answer,

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

Yes, sorry, not Bradley Washington, I'm afraid. Good name though.

-It IS a good name.

-Really good name for like a character in a book.

-Yes.

-Great.

-Like a hero.

-Yeah.

What's this new guy, that you've met, what's he called?

-He's called Brad Washington.

-Senator Bradley Washington.

That's not going to end well.

Anyway, there we are, we're halfway through the round,

we'll have this chat later. Let's have a look at those scores.

The best score of that was yours, Ann. Very well done.

Ann and Vicky looking very strong, as indeed are Ellen and Matt on four.

And then we travel up to 19 to Jacqueline and Jim,

and then I'm afraid to say, it's up to 100. Oh, Ashley.

Great name, Bradley Washington. Thank you for that.

But Charlie, you have got a bit of an uphill battle here.

Best of luck. We'll come back down the line now, can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so we're looking for the name of any member of any of these

groups of seven, Charlie.

-Charlie, welcome to Pointless, great to have you here.

-Thank you.

You're starting with a little bit of a handicap there of 100 points.

-Tell us about yourself, Charlie? What do you do?

-I'm a bus driver.

Are you? Which route do you drive? Have you been in Cardiff or...?

I do Cardiff Airport,

-we go from Cardiff Bay all the way up to Cardiff Airport.

-That's nice.

The outward journey, lots of people are really excited cos they're going on holiday.

And still people buzzing when they come back as well!

Buzzing, that's a nice way of putting it. Drunk. He means drunk.

-Too polite!

-OK, Charlie, there we are, we have these groups of seven.

Let's have a nice, low scoring answer from you.

Unfortunately, I'm struggling to help him here.

Obviously, I'm going to have to go into the dwarfs, truth be told.

He's going into the dwarfs!

LAUGHTER

-I'll just have to go for Sneezy.

-One of the great dwarfs.

Sneezy, says Charlie.

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

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

It's right.

-44. That takes your total up to 144, Charlie.

-A big score, Charlie.

A pretty big score. Yeah, with the dwarfs.

His surname is Andersen.

-E-S-E-N at the end, I think?

-Yes. Sneezy Andersen.

-Sneezy Andersen. Thank you very much indeed.

-Pleasure.

-Vicky.

-Hello!

I have great news for you. You're through to the next round.

Thanks to Ann's brilliant answering,

and Charlie and Ashley's wrong but lovely answering.

Now, then, Vicky, remind us what you do?

I run a mentoring project for ex-offenders in Liverpool.

So, that sort of just covers all aspects of their lives,

-just to try and get them...

-Back on the right foot and...

-Back on the right foot. Good stuff. How long have you done that for?

-Two and a half years now.

-That must be quite rewarding in its way.

-Sometimes.

-Sometimes.

-And quite challenging at other times.

-Yes, but really good work.

Good work, yes, definitely that. Well, there you are on nothing.

Now, Vicky, I think you might have a good answer to one of these.

Yeah, I quite like The Sound Of Music, the Von Trapp children,

I do quite like them a lot.

A lot of my dresses are made out of second-hand curtains. So...

-So are mine!

-I'm going to go for Brigitta.

-Brigitta. OK.

Let's find out. No red line for you as you are already through,

but let's find out how many of our 100 people said Brigitta?

Well, it's right.

Two! Fantastic, Vicky. The pair of you.

Absolutely knocked this round out of the park. That takes your total up to two.

-Very well done.

-Very well played, Vicky.

Great work from our returning pair.

Yes, played by the English actress, Angela Cartwright,

went on to become a photographer.

And then married Senator Bradley Washington.

LAUGHTER

-Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Jim?

-Hello.

-There you are on 19.

You're also through to the next round. This is great news.

Jim, what do you do?

I'm a communications officer for a department of the civil service.

Partially. Took semiretirement last year.

And pursuing a career in photography.

-You still do that sort of semi-professionally, do you?

-Pretty much, yes.

-Do you take your cameras out with you to New York as well?

-Constantly.

I've actually sold a few pictures there and it's quite nice to

go back and see them hanging up on walls, so I'm quite proud of that.

-Do a lot of gigs as well.

-Right, really?

-So you're right in the mosh pit with your...?

-Pretty much.

-Backstage, taking photographs as if I'm in the band, you know.

-Fabulous.

What's the best band shot you have managed to get so far?

Technically, it's probably not the best shot, but a picture

of Lou Reed that I took in 2008, it was part of a crowd of 700.

-A very tiny venue. In New York. Sadly, he's passed away.

-Yeah.

Very good. Jim, you're through, as I say, to the next round already,

but let's have a good answer from you.

I was thinking about going for an Elizabeth Taylor husband but,

given the fact that we're through, my strategy was not to guess.

-I'm going to say one of the seven dwarfs is Doc.

-Doc! Doc, says Jim.

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

Sneezy got 44. Be interesting to see how Doc does against Sneezy?

He's right.

54.

-54. Takes your total to 273, Jim.

-Well played, Jim.

-The French call him Prof!

-They just have to be different.

They do have to be different, don't they? His surname is Carmichael.

-Matt.

-Hello!

-Welcome! You've been so patient.

You've been waiting quietly there, thinking of brilliant

answers to these questions,

when it turns out your through already, so there we are.

It's all good news. Matt, what do you do?

I am a student at Canterbury Christ Church University, studying business

studies and marketing and I also work part-time in a supermarket.

-Which bit of the supermarket do you work in?

-The fresh department.

Nice to be in the fresh department. The stale apartment is terrible!

Ohhh! But the fresh apartment, very good. What are your hobbies, Matt?

I'm a keen footballer and I also enjoy my kayaking,

and when time permits, I also like to play a bit of golf.

-Kayaking?

-Yes.

-That's quite fun. How often do you do that?

-Nearly every day.

Or every other day, really. I try to get out on the water.

OK, well, Matt, let's have a good answer from you.

Your great aunt has left you in very good shape there. On four.

But as I say, you are already through.

Well, I'm a keen S Club fan,

I could probably sing quite a few of their songs, but I'm going to

go play safe with one of the Seven Dwarfs and say Sleepy.

Sleepy, says Matt. Let's see if that is right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Sleepy.

He's right. Well, 54 was Doc. Oh, look at that, 66 for Sleepy!

-It takes your total to 70.

-Yes, another big score, Sleepy Sanchez.

LAUGHTER

Now, we had a pointless answer in this round,

I'll take you through the different categories. There's only three overall.

In the Von Trapp children, Luisa was the only pointless answer,

so, very well played there. You'd have got one point for Friedrich.

Two for Marta, five for Kurt, seven for Gretel

and 14 for Liesl.

The husbands of Elizabeth Taylor, there is a pointless answer,

John Warner would have been a pointless answer. Well done if you said that at home.

Other low scores, Conrad Hilton would have scored two,

Larry Fortensky, two. Mike Todd, five.

The Seven Dwarves, they are all quite high scorers.

The lowest got 40 points and that was Bashful.

Full name is Sir Rodney Bashful Snell. LAUGHTER

For the Secret Seven, there is a pointless answer,

-I didn't remember the names of the Secret Seven at all, do you?

-No.

Famous Five I can do, but Secret Seven, pointless answer, Colin.

I don't know of you would have said Colin?

You would've got a point for Pam, Barbara or Jack, two for Janet,

three for Peter and six for George. Doesn't ring a bell at all.

I've read all of those books. And S Club 7,

There's two very low scores, one of who is actually Bradley McIntosh.

Bradley McIntosh was the person you were thinking of.

Tina Barrett also would've scored you one.

You'd have got two points for Paul Cattermole, three for Jon Lee,

four for Hannah Spearritt. Would've got four for Jo O'Meara

and 19 as you've already seen for Rachel Stevens.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard,

so at the end of our first-round, I'm afraid the couple

we have to sent home is Charlie and Ashley, with a high score of 144.

You didn't do badly. Sneezy was a good answer.

I'm afraid, but Bradley Washington,

a great addition to the world, but alas, not a member of S Club 7.

Anyway, listen, we'll see you next time, Charlie, Ashley, we look forward to that very much indeed.

-But meantime, thank you for playing, Charlie and Ashley.

-Cheers.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

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

Three pairs remain, obviously at the end of this

round, we have to say goodbye to another pair.

I wonder which pair that is going to be?

Ann and Vicky, on the strength of that, I don't think it's going to be you!

What a performance! You were out first round last time!

This time, you only scored two. You've come back with a vengeance.

Jim and Jacqueline, it's really nice,

you've come down from the top and I can now see your footwear!

Those are two pairs of excellent shoes you've got!

Matt and Ellen, very well done to you.

Yes, pretty close between and Jim and Jacqueline, but anyway,

best of luck to all three pairs, our category for around two is...

Cricket. It's Cricket.

Decide on your pairs, who's going first and 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 2013 cricket County Championship sides as they could.

2013 cricket County Championship sides, Richard.

We want the name of any county who took part in the County Championship in 2013, please.

That's Division 1 or Division 2.

-Very, very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, then, Ellen, do you follow cricket at all?

I like the test side, yes.

And obviously, I like the captain of England.

County cricket, though, it's a slightly different world, isn't it?

Yes, but Alastair Cook is the captain of Essex,

as well as England. So, I think I've got to go with Essex.

You're going to go with your captain, your captain

and you're going to say Essex.

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

It's right.

26.

-26.

-Well played, Ellen.

Graham Gooch used to play for Essex, scored over 30,000 runs for Essex.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Jim.

Clearly, being a Scotsman, I know everything there is to know

-about cricket!

-Take that as read, Yeah.

-However...

I might just go for the county part rather than the cricket part

-and say, Northamptonshire.

-Northamptonshire, says Jim.

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

It's right. Well, 26 is our only score so far for Essex.

You passed that with Northamptonshire, down you go.

Very well done indeed. 14.

Good call, Jim.

Well played, Jim, got promoted to Division 1 in 2013,

also won the Twenty20 Cup as well, Northamptonshire. Northants.

-Northants.

-It's one of those things that some counties get properly

-abbreviated, don't they?

-Let's not do that yet.

-I was just about to launch into, "Like for example"...

-Well, indeed!

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Ann, cricket?

Not a strength.

So, I'm going to follow Jim's lead and just pick a county.

-I'm going to go Somerset.

-Somerset, says Anne. Let's see if that is right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Somerset.

Absolutely right.

30.

30.

Yes, very well played. Formed in 1875 out of a team called

-the gentleman of Somerset. It's nice, isn't it?

-Very nice.

When we were growing up, they had Sir Viv Richards,

and Ian Botham and Joel Garner, an amazing team.

Thank you very much indeed. Well, we're halfway through the round,

let's take a look at the scores as they stand. 14, the best score, Jim.

You see, you see what being Scottish has done for you?

Put you right at the head of the field. Very well done indeed.

You and Jacqueline looking pretty strong.

Then, up to 26 we have Ellen and Matt.

Then up to 30, we find Ann and Vicky, all quite close.

But Vicky, you ARE out in front, so we need a nice,

low score from you in the next part. Good luck.

We come back down the line now, can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, Vicky, there you are, the high scorers on 30.

We're looking for any 2013 County Cricket Championship side.

And obviously, you're going

to try and find the one the fewest of our 100 people knew.

-Now, do you know any more about cricket than Ann?

-I'm stumped.

-Hey!

-LAUGHTER

-Like that.

I'm just going to go with the first thing that's

come into my head which is Warwickshire.

Warwickshire, says Vicky!

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

but let's see how many of our 100 people said Warwickshire?

Absolutely right, of course.

18.

-18 takes your total to 48.

-Very well played, Vicky.

Yes, and of course, that is

the county that Brian Lara was playing for when he scored his 501.

Still the biggest individual innings in English cricket,

in fact, in all first-class cricket.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Jacqueline.

You are on 14, the high scorers are Vicky and Ann on 48

so 33 or less sees you through.

-Do you know any more about cricket than Jim?

-No, not a thing.

He did very well. Northants, what a good answer.

Unfortunately this will be my worst category. I'm going to say Cornwall.

OK, Cornwall says Jacqueline. Here's your red line.

Get below that, you are through to the head-to-head.

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

Bad luck, Jacqueline.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

scores the maximum of 100 points.

Takes your total up to 114.

Sorry, Jacqueline, that's unfortunate.

They don't play first-class cricket, I'm afraid.

Matt.

You're on 26,

the high scorers are now Jacqueline and Jim on 114.

87 or less sees you into the head-to-head.

You follow cricket a bit, don't you?

I love all kinds of sport, adventurous. Cricket, rugby,

all the outdoor stuff. I do follow the County Championship quite a bit.

Where would you imagine would be the lowest scoring counties?

I'm trying to think.

Obviously the highest would be Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham.

I think some of the lowest scorers, Kent from where I'm from,

not that great a cricket side at the moment.

Maybe Sussex, possibly Derbyshire,

but I'm going to go with where I live and go with Kent.

You're going to go with Kent.

OK, there's your red line.

Let's see if that's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Kent.

It's right, of course.

APPLAUSE

There we are, 28 for Kent, not bad at all.

-Takes your total up to 54.

-Very well played, Matt.

I was just thinking there's only 18 answers here,

18 first-class counties, so there's no pointless answers,

so it is a question of which teams do people know more about.

Matt obviously knows his cricket

because you said the top three would be Yorkshire, Lancashire

and Durham, and they are the top three in that order as well.

Very impressive. Let's take a look at the bottom three.

These are the best answers. Quite difficult to work out which would be most obscure.

Jim will be very pleased at one of these.

The best answer of all is Derbyshire. Well done if you said that.

Then Worcestershire and Northamptonshire,

so a terrific answer.

Other low scores, Gloucestershire for 15,

Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire both would have scored 17,

18 for Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Middlesex 20,

Hampshire 21.

Sussex would have scored you 27, Surrey 30.

Durham would have scored 30, Lancashire 39 and Yorkshire 45.

Thanks very much indeed.

At the end of our second round, the pair leaving us

with a high score of 114 is Jacqueline and Jim.

Jim, you did very well, and Jacqueline, that wasn't a bad guess.

Might you have gone for any other counties?

Derbyshire would have been good.

You mentioned Sussex and Kent and I did think about them.

We'll see you again next time. Thanks very much for playing.

APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, you are now one step closer to the final

and the chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £3250.

APPLAUSE

We need to decide who's going to go through to the final

and play for that money and you are now going to go head-to-head.

The difference is you are now allowed to confer.

Play as a team and the first player to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot.

I think this is going to be very close. Let's play the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Here comes your first question and it concerns

types of tea. Types of tea, Richard.

I'm going to show you the names of five teas now

but we've removed every other letter.

Can you fill them in and give the most obscure answer?

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five types of tea and here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, five types of tea. Now, Ann and Vicky,

because you've played best throughout the show so far,

you get to go first.

Ann doesn't drink tea, which is unfortunate,

but we're going to go for the bottom one, jasmine.

Ann and Vicky have gone for Jasmine.

Matt and Ellen, do you fancy talking us through that board,

seeing how far you get.

Not particularly, no. I could give you the top one.

I know the second one. The second one I think is English breakfast.

The first one we believe is peppermint.

Which are you going to go for?

Shall we go for peppermint then, please?

You're going to go for peppermint.

We have jasmine versus peppermint.

Ann and Vicky said jasmine, let's see if that's right

and if it is, how many people said jasmine.

It's right. Look at that, 89.

Wow. 89 for jasmine. Matt and Ellen meanwhile have gone for peppermint.

Let's see how that does, how many people said peppermint.

Wow, two very high scores there, but Ann and Vicky,

yours is the less high which means after one question you are up 1-0.

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Matt and Ellen, English breakfast would have scored you 22.

22 points, a much better answer.

The other two are quite hard, a one-pointer and a pointless one.

The one-pointer is Nilgiri, an Indian tea.

Would have scored you one point.

The bottom one, you can work out the words essentially.

This is what you'd be stuck behind if you were on holiday to St Petersburg.

OK, caravan.

To St Petersburg.

Russian caravan! There we go!

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

-It sounds delicious.

-It does, doesn't it!

It's a blend of China tea and the exhaust fumes of a Russian Caravan.

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

Matt and Ellen, you get to answer this one first but you have

to win it to stay in the game. Best of luck. It concerns...

-Richard.

-I'm going to show you five pictures of famous people now

who hold a Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Can you identify the most obscure of these?

OK, thanks very much, let's reveal our five award holders.

and here they come. We have got...

There we are, five people who hold the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Matt and Ellen, you will go first.

We're going to go for C and Jim Rosenthal.

C, Jim Rosenthal, say Matt and Ellen.

Anna and Vicky, do you fancy talking us through the board

and supplying the names to the other four?

-We know Ben Fogle.

-Do you!

Not yet, but...

E is Kelly Holmes, I believe.

B, his name is completely escaping me.

Harry...Judd? Harry Judd?

Harry Judd, so which one do you want to go for?

-Go with that then.

-Harry Judd for B.

So Matt and Ellen have said Jim Rosenthal,

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

It's absolutely right, of course. Down it goes.

Nice low score,

look at that, 17.

17 for Jim Rosenthal.

And Ann and Vicky have said Harry Judd, a great friend of the show.

Harry Judd.

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

Absolutely right.

Ooh, it does it for you! Harry Judd gets six.

Six for Harry Judd. Very well done indeed, Ann and Vicky.

After only two questions you are through to the final 2-0.

Very nicely played by Ann. We saw the moment where his name came to you!

It's lucky it did because the other ones you knew, Ben Fogle you knew,

he would've scored too many points, 59.

And you also knew Dame Kelly Holmes and she would have scored you 41.

Neither of those would have won the point.

D was a pointless answer.

He was the first winner of the apprentice, Tim Campbell -

very well done if you said Tim Campbell, a pointless answer.

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

I'm afraid the pair leaving us are going to be Matt and Ellen.

You've done incredibly well for your first appearance on pointless.

Right through to the head-to-head.

Slightly tough categories for you but that tea category really tough.

But you should have gone with English breakfast!

Anyway, maybe that would have seen you through to the final

but the good news is we get to see you again next time. We look forward to that very much indeed.

Matt and Ellen. Thank you for playing.

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But for Ann and Vicky it's time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Ann and Vicky. You fought 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 £3,250.

Well, what an amazing performance, what a turnaround!

All thoughts of Daley Thompson can be banished after today!

Anyway, as ever, you kick off this round by choosing a category

and you have four options to choose from. They are...

I don't know what chick lit is, do you?

Chick lit will be novels, Bridget Jones kind of stuff, I imagine.

-Religious history.

-Not too good for me. Drummers?

-We are going to have to, aren't we?

-Yes.

-Drummers, please.

You are going drummers. They're going Drummers, Richard.

We are going to give you three different categories here.

We are looking for...

Any drummer worth 50 million or more, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Any very, very rich drummer.

Apart from Phil Collins, we won't accept him because we are

looking for any album that's been a top UK 40 hit for Phil Collins.

Or we are looking for any Carpenters single.

Any top 40 UK hit by the Carpenters. Any rich drama worth 50 million

or more, any album by Phil Collins or any Carpenters single.

Very best of luck.

Thanks very much, Richard.

As always, you've got up to a minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win the jackpot is for just one to be pointless.

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

It's entirely up to you how you spread them across the categories.

They could all come from one category, entirely up to you.

-Are you ready?

-BOTH: Yes.

OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock. Your time starts now.

Rich drummers, I only know Roger Taylor.

Charlie Watts, The Rolling Stones. Mick Fleetwood.

-Phil Collins albums, any good?

-No!

I know the big ones, Face Value and No Jacket Required.

-Carpenters singles, any good?

-Er, I can sing a few.

Calling Occupants? Was that them? That might be worth a punt. Um...

I don't know if it's Calling Occupants.

We'll say the full title.

-Rich drummers I think we should go with Mick Fleetwood.

-Do you reckon?

I think one of the sort of...

You know, more obscure American bands would be...

We don't know them!

Mick Fleetwood, Calling Occupants, any other Carpenters single?

-Um...

-Most obscure one you can think of.

Ten seconds left.

Close to you.

-On Top Of The World.

-That would be well-known.

-OK, that's your time up.

I now need your three answers. What are you going to give me?

We are going to go Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft.

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft.

-We are going to give Mick Fleetwood for a rich drummer.

-Mick Fleetwood.

Yeah, Carpenters single, I think we will have to go

On Top Of The World.

And On Top Of The World, another Carpenters single.

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

Calling Occupants, probably.

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft we will put last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-On Top Of The World.

OK, we'll pop that up first.

Let's pop those answers up on the board in that order and here they are.

Well, very best of luck. Your first answer was On Top Of The World.

Remember, only one of these answers has to be pointless for you

to win the jackpot, £3,250.

What would you do if you won that, Ann?

-I'll let Vicky answer first.

-Because your answer's better?!

-My answer relates to hers.

-Oh, I see.

I have tasked myself next year to raise £1,000 for animal

charities and I wanted to do that by wearing a huge dog costume

and I think I would buy the dog costume if I won!

Or, short cut. Give the money to the animal charity!

That's no fun!

The dog costume because the capacity to wear more, I feel!

And I would love to sponsor Vicky and then spend the rest unwisely.

Spend it unwisely, I like the sound of that.

OK, your first answer was...

Carpenters singles and you've given us On Top Of The World.

You thought this was your least likely to be pointless but let's find out.

If it is pointless, it will win you the jackpot, so, for £3250,

how many people said On Top Of The World?

-Ooh.

-Titling issue.

I'm guessing that's a titling issue.

It's very easy to fall foul of titling issues with

names of singles, isn't it? Obviously not a pointless answer.

Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your next answer was in the category of rich drummers.

Drummers worth over 50 million. Let's find out.

Mick Fleetwood has to be pointless to win the jackpot.

For £3,250, how many people said Mick Fleetwood?

Oh, no. I think the answer is he hasn't.

I'm not sure he made all that much money, Mick Fleetwood.

I think he spent a lot.

Ill-advised business ventures but I don't think he ever made that much.

Only one more shot at today's jackpot.

Your final answer, Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft.

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

It is, of course, a Carpenters single, let's find out

if it's pointless. If it is, you win the jackpot.

For £3,250, how many people said Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft?

It's right!

It's a correct answer,

unlike your first answer On Top Of The World which was incorrect.

Your second answer Mick Fleetwood also incorrect.

Calling All Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft takes you down to two. Oh!

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Close.

That was getting very close indeed but I'm sorry to say not quite

pointless which means you didn't manage to find the all-important

pointless answer which means you don't win today's jackpot of £3,250.

That will rollover to the next show but it's been great having you on the show.

-And you do take home a pointless trophy. Very well done.

-Thank you.

Yeah, that was tough luck. It was a titling issue.

It is just called Top Of The World and would have scored six points

anyway so it wouldn't have been a pointless answer.

Mick Fleetwood not on that list, but before we weep, he is worth 8.5 million.

He isn't worth 50 million, I'm afraid.

A couple of the answers you gave in your 60 Seconds wouldn't have been pointless but good answers.

Charlie Watts would have scored six and Roger Taylor, five.

There's some big answers on the drummers list,

I suspect some people at home will get a pointless answer here.

Very well done if you said Don Henley of The Eagles.

The fourth richest drummer in the world. Larry Mullen Jr of U2.

Rick Allen of Def Leppard. Stuart Copeland of The Police

and you are saying the more obscure American bands would have been right.

Alex van Halen from Van Halen would have won you the money.

Carter Beauford from The Dave Matthews Band - very well done if anyone said that.

Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers,

Joey Kramer from Aerosmith, Tommy Lee from Motley Crue,

Bill Ward from Black Sabbath as well.

Phil Collins does appear on the list,

these are four of his albums all of which are pointless.

Both Sides is pointless. His first solo album after leaving Genesis,

Dance Into The Light, was pointless. Hello, I Must Be Going!

Testify also a pointless answer

and Carpenters singles...

I Won't Last A Day Without You was pointless. Solitaire, also.

Superstar was a pointless answer and

There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World) was a pointless answer.

Well done if you got any of those at home,

I suspect some people did and tough luck in the studio. You've been brilliant today.

Thanks for a much indeed, Richard.

We have to say goodbye to Ann and Vicky.

It's been great having you on the show.

Thank you both so much for playing. Great performance.

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Sadly Ann and Vicky didn't win our jackpot today which means

it rolls over on to the next show when we will be playing for £4,250.

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!

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