Episode 20 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless,

the game where you are always aiming for the lowest score.

-Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one.

Hello. My name's Gail and this is my husband Ken

-and we are from Warrington.

-Couple number two.

Hi. My name's Jo. This is my friend Suzy and we're from Bristol.

-Couple number three.

-Hi. I'm Paul. This is my cousin Ray.

I'm from Glasgow, he's from Liverpool.

-And finally, couple number four.

-Hello. My name's Jon.

This is my BFF forever, Olly, and we're from Cardiff.

-And these are today's contestants.

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

That just means one more person for me to introduce.

They call him The Doctor because he worked very hard at school

and he looks lovely in white. It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

APPLAUSE Hiya. Hi, everybody.

-Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

-How are you?

-I mustn't grumble.

We've only got one returning pair today.

They did very well last time, didn't they? Paul and Ray.

They went through to the head-to-head and we were surprised

when they got knocked out as well. Got a pointless answer from Ray.

It's going to be tough for our new pairs.

Have you noticed, quite often these days when we have friends on, they look like each other?

You think they're going to be brothers and sisters

-and I think Jon and Olly look like they are. Don't you think?

-Yeah.

They kind of look like they're brothers.

I also worry, because you know BFF means best friend forever...

-He then said forever.

-..but Jon said he was his BFF forever.

-So, there's an extra F in there.

-Forever, forever, forever, forever.

-We'll see.

-Always and forever.

There's a proper old-school Pointless round coming up in Round One today.

Brilliant. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

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

Today's contestants are looking for a pointless answer,

an answer that none of our 100 people gave

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

Now, Sarah and Lisa didn't win the jackpot last time

so we add another £1,000 to that.

Today's jackpot starts off at...

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

Now, remember, the pair with the highest score

at the end of this round will be eliminated

and there is to be no conferring between you during the round itself.

OK. Our first category today is...

Geography. 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. Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

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

Countries that start with two consonants. Richard.

We're looking for any country whose name begins with two consonants, please.

Anyone whose conventional short-form name begins with two consonants.

As always, a country means a member of the UN

that's a sovereign state in its own right.

The only countries we won't allow on this are Saint countries,

so if they start with the St for Saint, we won't allow them.

Anything else, just two consonants at the beginning of their name, please.

-Very best of luck.

-OK. Thanks, Richard. Good round.

-Interesting. It gets you thinking.

-Yeah. It's already got me thinking.

Now, you all drew lots before the show and Ken and Gail,

you are going to go first today.

-What do you do, Ken?

-I'm retired.

-What did you do?

-I was a nurse.

What do you do now you are retired?

I'm still a nurse. I'm a nursery nurse but I don't get paid.

So the only difference is you still go out and work but you...

No, I look after five grandchildren.

We're heavily involved with our grandchildren, so...

-You stay in and work.

-Yeah.

-That's nice. Very good.

-What do they call you?

-Anything they like!

-Oh, really?

-Do they have a name for you, though?

-I'm Grandad, yeah.

-Just Grandad. OK.

I know that sounds obvious but sometimes people have nicknames for their grandads.

-They do. I bet you did, didn't you?

-Oh, yeah!

-What did you call your...

-No. It is too embarrassing.

-I'm not going to go there.

-Go on.

-It's only between us. Just between us.

-No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

-No, no.

-Did you have to call him Lord?

-LAUGHTER

-No! They were very sweet nicknames.

Your Majesty?

No. Anyway, Ken, what are you going to go for?

I'm going to go for Papua New Guinea.

OK. Little bit of an intake of breath there from our audience.

Papua New Guinea, says Ken. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Papua New Guinea.

I'm sorry to say that's an incorrect answer

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

Sorry, Ken. It begins P-A.

P-Papua New Guinea would have been a correct answer.

-Thanks, Richard. Suzy, welcome to the show.

-Hello.

-And you are from Bristol.

-I am.

-Yes.

-What do you do in Bristol, Suzy?

-I'm a financial adviser.

-How long have you done that for?

-I've been an adviser for a year

-but worked for the company for about seven years now.

-Is it fun?

-Do you like that?

-Yeah, it is fun.

More enjoyable than people probably realise.

OK. So slightly enjoyable. What do you do in your spare time, Suzy?

I'm a bit of a karaoke queen so I like to go to the pubs

-and do a singsong.

-What's the track of choice?

It's always a Mariah Carey song.

My favourite would have to be Dream Lover by Mariah Carey.

-Not easy to sing those songs.

-No, they're not.

-I probably don't sing them well either.

-OK.

Suzy, what about countries beginning with two consonants?

There's a few I can think of.

I'm thinking that I was going to go obscure

but I might go safe now because of Ken.

Sorry, Ken. So I'm going to go for Chile.

It's good. It's good.

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

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

-Very well done indeed.

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-12 for Chile.

-Well played, Suzy. Exactly the right tactics there.

It's difficult, this round, because a lot of the old Pointless favourites you can't use.

You can't have Tuvalu. You can't have Vanuatu.

We're going to have to get to know some new friends.

-But it's good. Shake them up a bit.

-Exactly.

-Thanks very much. Paul.

Welcome back. You stormed it last show until the head-to-head.

-We gave you Scouts.

-No use at Scouts. Failed the medical.

Remind us what you do, Paul.

I'm a company director, importing artificial grass

-and clothing and all sorts of stuff.

-Artificial grass and clothing.

It's nice cos Jo's actually wearing a jumper made of artificial grass.

-It's one of mine.

-That is imported by you.

-Where did you get that from?

-That's from China, that particular one.

-That's China green.

-China green. Very nice. A lovely green.

Very nice. Now, then,

Paul, we want the name of any country

whose name begins with two consonants.

I'm going to say Grenada.

Grenada, says Paul. OK.

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

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

It's right. I think this is going to be a typically low score from Paul.

And it is! Look at that, 4. Very well done indeed!

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Well played, Paul. A nice way to start the show again.

It's had all sorts of names over the years.

-Christopher Columbus called it Concepcion.

-I wonder why.

-Thanks very much indeed. Jon.

-Hello.

-Welcome to the show.

-Here from Cardiff.

-Indeed. Thank you for having us.

With your brother/best friend. I mean, seriously!

How are you not brothers? Surely!

Unless my mother and father aren't telling the whole truth

and nothing but the truth then I don't know.

-I don't think we are.

-How long have you known each other?

-17 years.

I think maybe that's right.

Maybe they were, in the same way that dogs...

Owners of dogs start to look like their dogs, you know,

you start to look a bit like your best friend.

Anyway, I'm not saying who's the dog, who's the owner?

You can work that one out yourselves. What do you do, Jon?

-I'm an estate agent.

-Excellent.

-AUDIENCE GROANS

That gets a groan from the audience!

But if you had to be shown around a house by anyone, surely by Jon!

-That would be fine. Do you enjoy that?

-I do, yeah.

-Really good fun, yeah.

-Do you have all the patter?

-I do.

-Tan shoes, spiky hair. Leather coat.

-Nice.

Now, then, Jon.

We are looking for countries that start with two consonants.

I'm going to say Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan.

Let's see if that's right

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

It's right.

Look at that! 4! Very well done, Jon.

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-Great answer, Jon.

I think you should get a special prize, Jon,

because Kyrgyzstan starts with eight consonants.

That's pretty good going, isn't it?

Pretty hard to start anything with eight consonants.

Obviously, Y fills in as a vowel on this. Sort of a supply vowel.

-It's a supply vowel.

-If the other vowels are ill or inconvenienced...

But we all know it's a consonant so we would all muck about.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks very much indeed. So, yes, Kyrgyzstan.

Good answer. Halfway through the round. Let's look at those scores.

4, the best score of that round.

Jon and Olly and Paul and Ray jointly occupying

that nice low position and up to 12, Suzy and Jo

also looking pretty good there.

And then I'm sorry, I'm afraid you took one for the team there, Ken,

and right now you are way out in front. But who knows, Gail,

anything could happen in the next pass. Best of luck.

We are going to come back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. So, we are looking for any country that has a name

starting with two consonants. Olly, welcome to the show.

-What do you do in Cardiff, Olly?

-I'm a marketing consultant.

-For whom?

-I work with the Big Local App.

-How is it going with the app?

-Very well.

-Is the app called the Big Local App?

-Yeah.

-I see.

I thought, in the Cardiff area, it was the biggest app.

-But no, it is the Big Local App.

-Yeah, that's the app.

-And what are your hobbies, Olly?

-I play rugby.

-Of course.

-That is my hobby. That's as far as it goes.

-That's pretty good.

Now, listen. Jon has set you up very, very well.

Lovely low score of 4. Do you think you can keep up...

-or keep down, I should say, that scoring?

-No.

LAUGHTER

But I will give it my best shot.

Listen, the high scorers, Ken and Gail, on 100.

If you can score 95 or less, you are in the next round.

-Come on, Olly.

-Czech Republic.

Czech Republic is all he said. He's only said that!

Here is your red line.

If you get below that with Czech Republic, you're in Round Two.

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

Through you go, Olly.

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-22 is your total.

Very well done. Good answer.

Well played, Olly. Two consonants, see. Right at the front. C and a Z.

It's got quarter of the amount of consonants at the beginning

of Kyrgyzstan but it's still a correct answer.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Ray, you are from Liverpool.

And you told us last time about your genealogy.

-What else do you like to get up to?

-I like to play tennis.

I like to read. I doing a lot of voluntary work.

-Keeps me occupied in my retirement.

-Excellent.

And are you a voracious reader? Do you read widely?

I like crime and thrillers mostly but I like, also, biographies.

OK, good stuff. Well, countries starting with two consonants.

Do you think you can equal or even better Paul's brilliant answer?

I don't know if I can equal or better it

but I'm going to go for Bhutan.

Bhutan. Bhutan. OK. There's your red line. Nice and high.

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

I think you might.

It's right. You're through.

Surely that's going to go down lower than 4. Surely. Surely! 5!

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Takes your total up to 9. Very well done.

A single-figure total.

-Something to be very proud of in this round. Richard.

-Bhutan.

-I imagine it's lovely. I haven't been.

-Thanks very much indeed.

-Now, Jo.

-Hello.

-Jo, you are from Portishead.

-Yes.

-What do you do, Jo?

-I'm a training consultant for a software company.

And what do you do when you're not consulting?

-In my spare time I'm a bit of a football fanatic.

-Are you?

-What's your team?

-Chelsea.

-OK.

-Oh!

-Didn't like that to my left, did he?

-I heard that.

-No, I just...

-Sharp intake of breath.

-It's informative.

-That's all, it's instructive.

-OK.

Why Chelsea, from Portishead?

I have been since I was little.

-Supported them since I was young, so...

-OK. Fair enough.

Now, what about countries starting with two consonants?

I thought of a few.

I don't think any of them are going to be overly low, to be honest,

but I'm going to go with Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and... It's a good answer.

Good answer. Trinidad and Tobago often features

on the low-scoring boards at the end of these rounds.

Let's see if it does today. There's your red line - quite nice and high.

Let's see if you can get below that with Trinidad and Tobago.

Well done. You're in Round Two.

-3! Look at that!

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The lowest score of the round. Very well done indeed.

Takes your total up to 15, Jo and Suzy.

-Brilliant.

-Well played, Jo. Terrific answer. Very well done.

Trinidad, originally, was called the Land of the Hummingbirds.

Why didn't they stick with that?

Cos the Land of the Hummingbirds and Tobago didn't sound so good.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Gail, I'm sorry to say...

-You waited so patiently.

-I know.

-I'm afraid you are the high scorers.

You're a casualty of the first podium. Now, Gail, what do you do?

-I'm retired.

-And what do you do with your time now you're retired?

I spend a lot of time... Well, I'm a potter.

-My hobby is pottery.

-On a wheel?

-No. Hand-thrown pottery.

I spend quite a lot of time doing that,

along with organising Ken.

-Ken has an allotment and I sort of manage...

-Do you?

..what goes on at the allotment without physically getting involved.

-LAUGHTER

-This is news to Ken.

OK. Gail, we want the name of any country

whose name begins with two consonants.

-What's your answer going to be?

-Syria.

We like that. Syria.

Let's see if that's right.

No red line for you, I'm afraid, as you're the highest scorers.

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

It's right.

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-I can't believe it!

4! Joint second lowest score of the whole round.

-104 your total.

-Great finish to the round, Gail. Well played.

Ken, if you had your time over,

we'll just give you one more chance, what would you have said?

Off the top of my head, Sweden.

Sweden would have scored you 28 points

so you would have been knocked out anyway.

-That was off the top of my head.

-I hope that makes you feel better.

Now, there's no pointless answers at all.

There's a couple of low-scorers.

Jo's was the best of the round but there are a couple of scores

that are even better than that. Two ones. Let's take a look at them.

Sri Lanka and Brunei. Both would have scored you 1 point.

-Oh!

-Djibouti would have scored you 2 points.

It also would have got 2 points for Rwanda or Myanmar.

3 points for Swaziland. 4 points Philippines.

5 points Bhutan, Ghana.

6 for Chad, 7 for Cyprus. Those are the best answers out there.

Let's take a look at the top answers, the ones most of our 100 people said.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our first round, I'm afraid the pair heading home

with a high score of 104, it's Gail and Ken. I'm so sorry.

-You've only just got here.

-I know.

-And we're sending you back.

I'm sorry but we will see you again next time,

when let's hope you will go much, much, much, much further.

I've no doubt. Anyway, thanks very much for playing, Gail and Ken.

-Great contestants.

-APPLAUSE

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

OK. So, three pairs remain.

At the end of this round we'll be saying goodbye to another pair.

Suzy and Jo, very, very well done. Very strong play.

Paul and Ray, brilliant. 9. A single-figure total.

Jon and Olly, great work. Well done to you as well.

You were the high scorers of the remaining pairs but still,

two very good answers, Kyrgyzstan especially.

I think this is going to be very close.

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

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going to go second?

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

OK. And the question concerns...

Yeah. We're going to show you the name of six TV shows on each pass

which are all adapted from novels or series of novels.

We need you to give us the name of the author of those novels, please.

It's going to be 12 authors to guess at home. Very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed.

We're looking for the author of the original novel on which these TV shows are based.

And here is our first board of six.

I'll read those all one last time.

-Now, then, Suzy.

-Hmm. I've just started watching Game Of Thrones.

I've watched all the first and second series

but I've not read the book and I can't remember the author's name.

There's a couple of others I know.

But I think I'll just play safe for now - I think it's safe -

and go for Midsomer Murders and say Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie, says Suzy, for Midsomer Murders.

There's a bit of a murmur from the audience here.

Let's find out what that murmur means. Agatha Christie. Is it right?

How many people said it if it is?

Oh, no! Suzy!

I'm afraid not Agatha Christie, as it turns out. Yeah.

That scores you 100 points.

It may well not be the last 100-pointer of this round,

-so don't lose heart.

-Sorry, Suzy.

Lots of murders in Agatha Christie

and lots of gentle English villages but none in Midsomer, I'm afraid.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Paul.

I just have an instinct you're going to be good at this? No?

-Not a reader, I'm afraid.

-No.

OK. Well, is Inspector Morse Colin Dexter?

Colin Dexter, says Paul, for Inspector Morse. Ray's nodding.

Let's see if that's right

and how many people said Colin Dexter for Inspector Morse.

It's right. Very well done.

-25. Good work, Paul.

-APPLAUSE

A good answer for someone who knew nothing about it, isn't it?

Colin Dexter. Well played.

14 million people tuned into the final episode of Morse.

Thank you very much indeed. OK. Now, then, Jon.

Who wrote the original novel that these TV series were based on?

-How are we feeling?

-Struggling.

-Oh, yeah.

-Toughie.

-Oh, yeah.

This is music to Suzy and Jo's ears.

The only thing...of an inkling, a smidgen

and a guess at Jane Austen for Great Expectations.

-There's that murmur.

-LAUGHTER

Jane Austen for Great Expectations.

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

Oh, no. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Suzy and Jo are back in the game because that is an incorrect answer

-that scores you the maximum of 100 points.

-It's difficult.

I'm trying to think how an estate agent might

break the news of what a terrible answer that was.

I would say...

Quite a spacious answer in need of some improvement, I'd say.

LAUGHTER

I'd say that answer's a doer-upper. LAUGHTER

It's Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

would have scored you 83 points. A lot of people know it.

-Now, do you know Game Of Thrones? George RR Martin.

-No.

Would have scored 1 point. Very good answer. Well done if you said that.

I bet you know Gormenghast.

-Is Mervyn Peake.

-Mervyn Peake, yeah. Would have scored you 11.

Roots down the bottom is Alex Haley.

Would have scored you 5.

Midsomer Murders is a pointless answer,

so very well done if you said Caroline Graham.

I didn't know that. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

We are halfway through the round. Let's take a look at those scores.

Paul and Ray once again leading from the front.

Should be leading from the back with Pointless, isn't it, really?

A low score of 25 is what I mean. Very well done indeed.

Then up to 100, where we find Jon and Olly and Suzy and Jo.

So it's Olly and Jo, a tussle between the pair of you.

Olly, you will go first, so choose carefully.

We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Let's put six more TV shows on the board and here they come.

I'll read those all one last time.

-OK. Now, then, Olly.

-Yeah.

-Olly.

Remember, we are looking for the author of the original novel

on which these TV shows are based.

I haven't really got a clue, to be honest.

Never read any of those books either.

But as Jon said it, I'll say it -

Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice.

Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen, says Olly.

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

let's see how many people said Jane Austen.

Very well done, Olly.

This time Jane Austen gets you down the column.

49, under 50, as well. Look at that.

APPLAUSE

I'll take that.

Happy days.

That would have been much better if you'd pretended you knew it

and just said, "Oh, I cannot believe Jon, it's an obvious one,

-"we all know it's Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, so let's get this over with." Wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

Rather than saying, "I don't know.

"I never say the same name."

ALEXANDER CHUCKLES

Well, still, there you are, 149 your total.

Er, Ray...

I think this is going to be good for you,

the great reader that you are.

You're through to the head-to-head, that's the most exciting thing.

Good news, through to the head-to-head.

Yeah, there's a couple there I'm quite confident about

and there's one I'm not sure about.

I'm wondering whether to take a punt on it.

Erm...

I think I'll go for it. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy.

Baroness Orczy, says Ray. No red line because you're already through.

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

Absolutely right.

-Seven.

-APPLAUSE

That'll do. It takes your total up to 32, Ray, well done.

Well played, Ray, continuing your great run.

She wrote a series of Scarlet Pimpernel novels

but the first one very much the most successful.

Thank you, Richard. Now, then, Jo.

We have a contest on our hands here.

We know exactly what you have to score - 48 or less.

-How are you feeling at this stage?

-I don't know any of them.

Literature is not my forte, unfortunately.

I am going to have to guess one.

I'm going to go The Ruby In The Smoke, Martina Cole.

Martine Cole for The Ruby In The Smoke.

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

There's your red line. Get below that and you're in the head-to-head.

No, bad luck.

An incorrect answer scores you the maximum of 100 points

and take your total up to 200.

Sorry, Jo, I literally cannot believe Jon and Olly

have got through that round.

LAUGHTER

One of the most extraordinary things I've seen in Pointless history.

I hesitate to say "very well done", but very well done.

Er, let's go through the rest of this.

Now we'll start with the most obvious one, Jane Eyre.

-Charlotte Bronte.

-Charlotte Bronte, of course.

It would have scored you 36.

-Brideshead Revisited?

-Evelyn Waugh.

It would have scored you 23.

-Sharpe. Do you know, Sharpe?

-I was in it!

LAUGHTER

-Think of the script.

-I know exactly what he's called.

Erm, Cornwell.

Yeah, absolutely, Bernard Cornwell and would've scored you 8 points.

And The Ruby In The Smoke - it's not by Martina Cole,

it's by Philip Pullman

and would have scored you 2 points, best answer up there.

Thank you very much indeed. At the end of our second round,

the pair heading home with their high score of 200,

our newest members of the 200 club, Jo and Suzy.

Oh, I'm sorry, that wasn't a good round for you.

If you had gone the other way round, would it have been any better?

Did you know any of the others on the first board, Jo?

I knew the Charles Dickens one.

Suzy, how was the second board? Any easier?

I've known Charlotte Bronte but whether or not I would've got it under pressure, I don't know.

Yeah, it's harder under pressure. The good news is, we'll see you next time.

Look forward to that. Thanks, Jo and Suzy, great contestants.

APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Paul and Ray, Olly and Jon,

you're one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at...

£3,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

and to do that you are now going to go head to head.

The difference is, you're allowed to chat before you give your answers.

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

Well, Paul and Ray, you were here last time

in exactly that position, as our lowest scoring pair.

What do you make of your rivals today?

-I think this is going to be tough.

-I think it could be.

They were very lucky in that second round, but they were very good in the first round.

Yes, anything could happen.

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

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

Comeback Kids, Richard?

This is some good news about wildlife.

In 2013, the Wildlife Comeback Report was published

and it's animals that in the last 50 years

have made a significant comeback across Europe,

in terms of numbers. We're going to show you five of those animals now

and give you the first letter of their name, as well.

Can you give us the most obscure of these?

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

-Aw...

-Oh, look.

-Aw...

-Aw...

-Oh.

-Yeah...

Aw, aw, aw...

Don't jump!

LAUGHTER

-It's all right, it's the first floor.

-All right, fine.

Yeah...

OK, there we are, five animals that have come back from the brink of extinction.

Paul and Ray, you played best throughout the show so far so you will go first.

We'll try D and say ibex.

Ibex. Ibex, say Paul and Ray.

Now, then, Jon and Olly, do you want to talk us through the board?

We think A is wild boar.

B, not sure.

-C is what we're going to go for, I think.

-We think that's bison.

But I think theirs is going to be slightly better than that.

It's a good answer, that.

-We might as well have a guess.

-Just go for it, mate.

We'll say C, bison.

OK, C, bison.

So we have D ibex, and C bison.

So Paul and Ray said D was an ibex.

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

It's right.

26.

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26, not bad. Olly and Jon have gone for bison for C.

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

It's right.

-Oh!

-60.

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Which means Paul and Ray, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Well played, Paul and Ray. All five of these animals thriving in Europe now, which is nice.

The ibex, don't worry about him in that window,

they're incredibly acrobatic creatures.

They can climb cliff faces, all sorts of things.

I go to the Ibex cinema in London, have you been there?

Yeah, yeah. A bit noisy is my only complaint.

-A little bit, isn't it?

-And the snacks aren't all they might be.

Now, A, I think both teams know is the wild boar.

It's a big scorer, it would have scored you 68 points.

B, you'll know the name, it would have scored you 9 points.

That's a wolverine.

-Is it?

-Yeah.

-It's cute, isn't it?

-Aw.

-Cuter than you think.

It doesn't look like that in the X-Men.

And E is the spoonbill.

Of course it is.

That would have scored you 19 points.

I'm glad they're all back from the brink. Nice to have them back with us.

There are so many wild boar now, they're starting a culling programme.

And they make quite nice sausages.

That's nature for you, though, isn't it?

-That is nature.

-There we are, thanks very much indeed.

Here comes your second question, Olly and Jon.

You get to answer this one first but you have to win it to stay in the game.

Best of luck. It concerns...

Events in the Royal Calendar. Richard?

We're going to show you five events in the Royal calendar

where senior members of the Royal Family appear.

We've left out alternate letters from each one. Can you fill in the gaps?

OK, thanks very much, let's reveal events from the Royal calendar

with missing bits and here they are.

I'll read those all again.

Olly and Jon, you will go first.

-Oh.

-Tough.

-Yeah.

We don't know any.

We are struggling again here.

We are going to have to have a guess.

Royal something...

Just say an answer, mate..

Paramaribo?

Nice little pointless answer there.

The Royal Paramaribo

-is what you're going to go for for the first one?

-Yeah.

-Are you sure you have said that right?

-It's all I've got.

OK, Royal Paramaribo.

Paul and Ray, an open goal.

Well, the second one is Remembrance Day.

Do you just want to go for that one?

The third one, the State Opening of Parliament.

Trooping the Colour...

We'll go for Remembrance Day.

OK, Remembrance Day, say Paul and Ray.

Olly and Jon have said the first one is the Royal Paramaribo.

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I have got to thank you for that, that's a good answer.

Who cares if it's wrong?!

Let's see how wrong it is.

Yeah, there we go.

So Paul and Ray, you merely have to be correct with Remembrance Day

and you go through to the final.

Let's find out if it's right, Remembrance Day.

It's right.

There we are, 19, very well done.

The key thing is, it was correct. Paul and Ray, only two questions into the head-to-head,

you are straight through to the final, 2-0. Well done.

Well played, let's fill in the scores for the ones you mentioned.

You mentioned the third one which is the State Opening of Parliament.

It would have scored you more points.

It would have scored you 30.

Trooping the Colour, you're right about as well.

It would have scored you even more, 49.

Do you know the top one?

-Yeah, Royal Variety Performance.

-Royal Variety Performance, yeah.

It would have scored you 23.

And the bottom one is the best answer on the board...

-The Royal Maundy Service.

-The Royal Maundy Service, yeah.

That would have scored 2 points.

-Very well done if you said that.

-Thank you very much indeed.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm afraid, it's Olly and Jon.

Paul and Ray, they're like a machine.

They're very, very good at this.

Also, you weren't so good.

I can't pretend it was entirely down to Paul and Ray.

Listen, the good news is, we get to see you again

and we get even more of this next time, which I'll enjoy very much.

-Olly and Jon, it's been great having you on the show.

-Thank you.

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But for Paul and Ray, it's now time for our Pointless final!

Congratulations, Paul and Ray, 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...

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Well, you stormed through both shows.

You got to the head-to-head last time

and you were the lowest scoring pair and then you lost 2-0,

and this time you won.

I think you'd be hard pressed to lose this one.

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Anyway, here you are, deserved all the more

for having done so well in two shows.

What would you like to see come up in this round? Any particular strong suits?

I would like something to do with movies or actors,

something like that. Or history.

-OK, Ray?

-Politics would be OK for me.

I know it won't be tennis, I know it won't be countries,

-so politics will be OK.

-OK, well best of luck.

As always, you choose your category and here are your four options.

You have got...

It picks itself, British Actors.

British Actors, they do pick themselves, don't they?

-And us too.

-OK, now Richard?

Guys, very best of luck. We're giving you three different options.

We're looking for any feature film made for cinema release for which any of the following actors

received an acting credit.

We're looking for any Bill Nighy films.

We're looking for any Julie Christie films

or any Rachel Weisz films.

Any film for which any of those three received an acting credit, please.

Guys, we won't accept About Time because it was released after the poll was put to our 100 people.

We also won't accept This Is Not An Exit for Rachel Weisz.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

and to win the jackpot all you need to do is find just one pointless answer among those three.

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

It's up to you how you spread them across the category. It can all be Rachel Weisz.

It can all be Julie Christie, one from each, entirely down to you.

-Are you ready?

-Yeah.

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

There they are, your time starts now.

-Bill Nighy, he was in Valkyrie.

-Right.

Julie... Let me think.

-Julie Christie, Don't Look Now.

-I don't know.

Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener,

or any of the Mummy films.

Bill Nighy did one, did a real obscure war film.

Another war film about the SS.

Bill Nighy was in that film, The Boat That Rocked.

-Was he in that?

-Yeah, probably.

And he was in the one about the hotel place in India.

-What was that?

-The Marigold Hotel.

The Marigold Hotel.

-I think Valkyrie.

-OK.

Julie Christie, Don't Look Now.

Oh, she was in that one where the guy comes back,

Warren Beatty comes back to Earth.

Ten seconds...

What was that one called?

He comes back, he was a baseball player and he comes back to life.

I don't know.

Er...

OK, there is your time up.

I now need your three answers. What are you going for?

-Bill Nighy, Valkyrie.

-Valkyrie.

Julie Christie, Heaven Can Wait.

-Heaven Can Wait.

-And Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener.

The Constant Gardener for Rachel Weisz.

OK, so one from each category.

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

-Probably the Julie Christie one.

-OK, Heaven Can Wait.

We'll pop that last. Your least likely?

The least likely is Rachel Weisz, I think, because that was a big movie.

The Constant Gardener, we'll pop that one first.

We'll put them on the board. Here they are.

Some cracking answers up there. Let's hope they're all correct

and let's hope at least one of them is pointless.

Now, your first answer was The Constant Gardener.

Remember, only one of these answers has to be pointless

to win that jackpot. £3,250, it's getting quite tasty, that jackpot.

What would you do with your share of that, Paul?

My son is 17 and he's learning to drive.

It would go towards the insurance. Not all, but it would go a long way.

-Ray?

-It will go toward spending money for a holiday in Australia

-which is coming up.

-Good stuff.

OK, well, two good things to be spending your prize money on,

three good answers on the board.

Your first one was The Constant Gardener.

Remember, it has to be right

and then it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

Let's find out, for £3,250,

how people named The Constant Gardener as a Rachel Weisz film?

It's right!

Well, if this goes all the way down to zero,

you leave here immediately with £3,250.

It's taking us down through the teens, will it go to single figures?

7.

7, not bad at all.

Probably the one with the most mainstream of those answers, I'd say.

Only seven people got that, that's really not bad at all.

Another great score. Sadly, not a pointless answer

which means only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your second answer of the day was Valkyrie.

Again, this has to be right and it has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

For £3,250, let's see how many people named Valkyrie

as a Bill Nighy film.

It's right.

Now, your first answer was The Constant Gardener,

that took us down to 7.

This time, Valkyrie takes us down into single figures.

You've passed 7 down it goes, still going down.

-You've done that! Very well done, indeed.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-That was brilliant, very well done. Richly deserved.

-Thank you.

Brilliantly played all the way through.

Congratulations, Paul and Ray, Valkyrie was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with a jackpot of £3,250.

You played so well.

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How about that? There is a perfect way to play Pointless

and that's to come on show one, get through to the head-to-head,

wait for the jackpot to go up, come back again,

get through to the final and do it.

And to do it by giving great answers all the way through,

by being thoroughly nice guys all the way through, as well.

Very well played. He played Friedrich Olbricht in Valkyrie.

Heaven Can Wait, also a pointless answer.

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I think the war film you are thinking of with Bill Nighy

might have been Glorious 39.

It was also a pointless answer for Julie Christie, because she was also in it.

If you had thought of that, I don't know where we'd have been.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

There are lots of pointless answers here.

I suspect people at home might have done quite well.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a pointless answer.

Notes On A Scandal would also have been a pointless answer,

he plays Cate Blanchett's husband in that.

Valkyrie, I Capture The Castle.

You could've had Arthur Christmas, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1.

You could've had Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End...

The Constant Gardener Bill Nighy's in. He would have been a pointless answer for that question.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Phantom Of The Opera,

lots of pointless answers for Bill Nighy.

Let's take a look at Julie Christie.

Finding Neverland would have been a pointless answer. Hamlet.

Heat And Dust, Troy and all sorts of amazing films.

You also could have had Demon Seed, Fahrenheit 451.

You could have had Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban,

McCabe And Mrs Miller, lots of pointless answers there.

And Rachel Weisz, Constantine, Runaway Jury,

the John Grisham adaptation.

The Deep Blue Sea and The Lovely Bones was a pointless answer.

I suspect people would have got that at home.

Very well done, for two pointless answers in the studio.

-Congratulations, guys.

-Thanks.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Thanks once again to our winning players, Paul and Ray,

who go away with today's jackpot of £3,250.

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Join us next time, when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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