Episode 25 Pointless

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

the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

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Couple number one.

Hi, I'm Sonny, this is Alec and we're work colleagues from Glasgow.

Couple number two.

Hi, my name's Keeley, this is my friend and work colleague Amanda

-and we're from Leeds.

-Couple number three.

Hi, my name's David, I'm from Stockport.

This is my friend Tracey, she's from Manchester.

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Dean and I'm here with my quirky friend David

and we are from Weston-super-Mare.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks, all of you,

we'll get to know more about each of you later on in the show

so that just leaves one more person for me to introduce,

sharper than a needle factory, wiser than an owl sanctuary

and shrewder than a whole collection of small mole-like mammals

native to our woodlands, it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya. Hi, everybody.

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-Afternoon to you.

-And to you.

We've only got one returning pair on today's show

and they were very, very unfortunate on the last one,

they got knocked out in the first round, which normally is a bad sign

but actually their opponents got 3 points,

2 points and 1 point between them.

6 points between three different pairs so it was very,

very difficult for you to go through.

So, hopefully, David and Dean, we'll see a bit more of you today.

A good show last time, wasn't it?

Joe and Jenny did very well, they were unlucky in the jackpot round.

-They were.

-So, the jackpot is building up a little bit.

-It certainly is. Oh, yes.

-Not crazy yet.

I'll tell you something, we've gone David crazy.

-We've had Davids show after show.

-We have and now we are...

-It's become a festival of David.

-..25% David now, aren't we?

-Yeah.

We have had a lot because we had a whole team that was David, didn't we?

-Yeah.

-From Cumbernauld and Gourock.

-Dave and David.

-Yeah, Dave and David. They were both called David, weren't they?

-Yeah.

Well, one of them started calling himself "Dave" which I'm thankful.

-Same flavour though.

-They were father and son though,

does that count as the same David?

-Yeah, that's true. Anyway, let's play the game.

-Let's do it.

Thanks very much. Now, all our questions on Pointless have been

asked to 100 people before the show. As ever, the aim of our contestants

here is to find a pointless answer,

that's an answer that none of our 100 people gave

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

Now, Jenny and Joe, as you'll have gathered, did not win

the jackpot last time so we add another £1,000 to that

so today's jackpot starts off at £5,750.

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

OK, now the pair with the highest score at the end of this round

will be eliminated and also remember at all times there is

to be no conferring during the round itself.

OK, our first category today...

Yep, it's Pop Music. 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...

Solo artists with a UK number one in the 1970s. Richard.

Yeah, just simply looking for any solo artist who had a UK

number one in the 1970s, so it's any number one single credited to

just one sole person please.

Any of those solo artists please, very, very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Alec and Sonny, you all drew lots before the show

and today you're going first. Alec, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you very much.

-Good to have you here. You've come from Glasgow.

-Yep.

-What do you do?

-I manage a bar in Glasgow.

-That's a fun job, isn't it?

-It is a fun job.

-Of all the cities to manage a bar in.

-It's interesting, that's it.

-Aw, I bet it is. Is it your place? No.

-No, I don't own it, I manage it.

You manage it and how long have you been doing that?

-I've been there for five years so.

-OK, is it a good place?

-It's a lovely place.

-Do you run a good bar? Sonny says no.

Just because I'm the boss, I have to tell him what to do.

-What does it specialise in? Cocktails?

-Yeah, cocktails.

It's kind of cafe bar and then cocktails at night, yeah.

We do good drinks, we've won a few awards back in the day,

-and we've done well.

-Well, listen, OK, solo artists from the 1970s.

I'm just going to warn everyone now, Mr Osman will not take kindly

to anyone saying "That is before my time".

-Seriously, we've had yellow cards produced.

-I did, yeah,

I produced a yellow card for someone saying

they didn't know anything about any subject

and then getting great answers and I nearly produced a yellow card for

someone saying, "It's before my time" but I am in the mood to produce

a yellow card for the next person who does it.

-OK, consider yourselves warned.

-I won't say a word.

-OK, Alec.

I think I'm going to have to go quite safe

because I think Sonny will be quite good at this

and I'm going to go for, I think he'll have had a solo hit by now,

by this point and I think it would be Rod Stewart.

Rod Stewart says Alec, let's see if that's right,

let's see how many people said Rod Stewart.

It's right.

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-25.

-It's OK.

-Not bad.

Yeah, five number one singles in the 1970s for Rod Stewart.

He had Sailing, Maggie May, all sorts.

Ah, now then, Amanda, welcome to the show.

Great to have you here. What do you do, Amanda?

-I'm an education officer.

-Up in Leeds?

-Yeah, yeah.

We work with young people that are involved with

-the criminal justice system.

-Right.

-So it's accessing education

for them because a lot of them aren't in education.

-Right, OK, it's quite challenging.

-Mm.

What do you do to get away from all of that?

Erm, go to gigs, go out with friends, cook.

-All kinds of things really.

-OK, Amanda, 1970s.

-Yeah.

-1970s.

Right, I'm sort of like torn between two,

but I'm going to go with this one that sort of first

sprang into my head and that's Little Jimmy Osmond.

Little Jimmy Osmond. No relation, has a D on the end.

Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Little Jimmy Osmond.

It's right.

Well, 25 is our only score so far.

Where will you be in relation to that? You pass it.

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-And how! Look at that. 5.

Exemplary work there, Amanda. Very well done.

Very good answer, Amanda. Yeah, it was Christmas number one in 1972

that was, he was nine years old at the time,

still the youngest person to have a solo number one hit.

-Now then, Tracey.

-Hi.

Welcome to the show, good to have you here from Manchester.

What do you do, Tracey?

I'm a credit controller in a manufacturing company.

And what do you get up to in your spare time?

-I'm a very keen amateur photographer.

-Very good.

What's the most exciting thing you've photographed?

-Probably my friend's wedding in September.

-Very nice.

-Yeah.

And it's quite tough doing that at a friend's wedding,

-because you're kind of on duty...

-Very difficult.

-..aren't you?

Yeah, so I didn't charge her for it.

-Did they get a bit blurry as the evening goes on?

-No, no, no.

-OK.

-No, I was very well-behaved.

-Very professional.

-Yeah.

So, Tracey, there we are.

-We're in the 1970s, we're looking for UK number ones.

-Yeah.

I'm sorry, Dave, it's a bit of a gamble and I don't know

if he did have a number one but I'm going to say Gilbert O'Sullivan.

Oh, what a great answer.

Gilbert O'Sullivan, surely he had a number one, it's a whole decade.

-Let's find out. Gilbert O'Sullivan, is that right?

-No.

-It's absolutely right.

-Oh, my God.

-Tracey, that's a great answer.

Well, 25 our high score, you pass that.

5 is our low score, you pass that, 4!

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Very well done.

-Yeah, 1972 he had a number one hit with Clair.

-Is it Clair? Yeah.

That's exactly right, yeah.

He tried to sue his record company in 1978,

it took six years for the case to come to court.

Absolutely derailed his career.

Wow, David K, welcome back, our returning pair, there they are.

-How is it, David?

-Fine.

-All good? You feeling good about today?

-Certainly am.

-It was unfortunate last time,

even before you'd answered you were out of the game, I'm afraid.

-That was quite a historic round.

-It was. Three pointless answers.

-Yeah.

-Now David, tell me about yourself. What do you get up to?

-I'm retired.

-What do you get up to though?

-What do I get up to?

In my spare time, I'm in two choirs and I'm also a TV extra.

-Oh, are you? Now, that's fun. Do you enjoy it?

-I do, yeah.

What's the most exciting thing you've been involved in?

I've been Richard Wilson's body double in Merlin.

-We've all done that, yep.

-Have you done that one?

I've been Richard Wilson's body double,

-I do his hand modelling as well, you know.

-I did that as well.

Anyway, so then, David, what are you going to go for?

I've got two in my head, going to have a stab,

because there's some low answers again.

-Yeah.

-Gary Numan.

Gary Numan.

Oh, that's good, I hope. Let's find out.

Gary Numan, is that right?

Too long.

It's right! Very well done, David.

1! Our lowest score so far, very well done indeed.

That's a great answer.

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That's a terrific answer, David. Very well played.

His first two number one hits were both in 1979, Are "Friends" Electric?

-and Cars.

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

Let's take a look at those scores as they stand.

Best score of that pass was yours, David K, very well done,

that puts you and Dean in a pretty strong position at this stage.

Then up to 4, we find Tracey and David A.

Up to 5, where we find Amanda and Keeley

and then 25, Alec and Sonny.

Now, you are quite far ahead there, Sonny, it's not devastating

but what we'll definitely need from you is a low score

so get thinking of your 1970s solo artist.

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

can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, Dean. We're looking for solo artists who had a UK number one.

Dean, you have the face of somebody who's got a great answer.

I think I know that face, that's somebody sitting on a...before that,

before that, can we commend you on the cake you brought last time?

-It was delicious.

-Thank you, thank you very much.

-Yeah, fantastic.

Iced by Dean. I mean, how long did it take you to ice that cake?

It took a week.

Obviously, not continuously a week but you have to do a bit,

go back, let it dry, paint it, go back, let it dry,

all that sort of thing so it took about a week to make it.

It took me all of about four and a half minutes to eat the whole thing.

-And you survived.

-Yep, so far. It's all good.

Dean, so yes, there you are, you're on 1.

-Lovely low scoring there from David.

-Yeah.

The high scorers on 25, Sonny and Alec so 23 is your target

-if you want to avoid becoming the new high scorers.

-OK.

Well, I've got two people in my mind.

One of them is a bit of a risk,

because David's done so well I don't know whether to take that risk

so I'm not going to.

And I'm going to go for Kate Bush.

Kate Bush, Kate Bush.

Here's your red line, if you can get below that, you're in Round Two.

Let's see if Kate Bush can get you down there.

It's right.

And it does, look at that!

What a great answer, 6!

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6 takes your total up to 7 and you are in Round Two.

Well played, Dean.

From 1978, Wuthering Heights, she was the first woman to have a

number one single with a song that she'd written in chart history.

-Really? 1978, first time that happened?

-Amazing, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

-She shares a birthday with Emily Bronte.

-That's nice, isn't it?

-That's nice.

-Nice.

-OK, thank you very much now indeed. Now, David A.

-Hiya.

-David A.

Ah, what does the A stand for?

-Adsett.

-You had to think about that.

-I was wondering whether to lie.

Oh, right. You should've said "Armstrong",

-that would've seen you through to the Final Round.

-That's a point.

David, what do you do?

I'm a list clerk at a retail place,

so we just get a lot of information up, see it gets validated

and make sure people get some money.

Sounds great.

The place where I work, they're OK.

What do you do when you're not doing that, David?

I go and watch County play, I go and...I sleep a lot,

lounge around, listen to music, read books, things like that.

-David, who's County? Is that Notts County?

-No, Stockport.

-Stockport, OK.

So, David, what are you going to go for?

There you are, you're on 4. The high scorers are still Sonny and Alec.

I've got two in my head.

Two sort of classic family ones,

but one of them's a bit dodgy

so I'm going to say JJ Barrie.

JJ Barrie.

JJ Barrie, there's your red line, let's see if JJ Barrie's right

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

I hope they do.

Very well done, you're through!

1! Look at all this low scoring.

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5 is your total, David.

Well played, David, that's a terrific answer, yeah.

Well done for remembering that from 1976, it's that song No Charge,

do you remember? About the little boy who's telling his mum all the chores

he's done, he's saying, "Look, this is what you owe me." Then she goes

through all the things she does for him and says, "No charge."

It's quite something.

I'm glad it's brought you some happiness anyway

at some point in your life.

Yeah, JJ Barrie, he went on to write Peter Pan after that,

-but apart from that he's done nothing.

-Really not much at all.

Thanks very much indeed. Keeley, welcome to the show.

Great to have you here. What do you do, Keeley?

I'm a children's centre manager in Leeds.

So, you work alongside Amanda?

-Not any more, we used to.

-Ah.

Yeah, I've sort of moved jobs about three weeks ago.

What do you like doing in your spare time, Keeley?

Listening to music, playing games, going out, socialising as you do.

-Very good.

-Watching cartoons.

-Watching cartoons and afternoon game shows.

-Yes.

You had a little bit of time to think of a good answer,

-the scoring's been fantastically low.

-Yeah.

I've got a few names but I don't know if they were number ones

so I'm just going to go for it and go for Bonnie Tyler.

-Bonnie Tyler.

-Yeah.

-Surely.

-Got to be.

-Surely.

-Hopefully.

There's your red line, Keeley, if you can get below that red line

with Bonnie Tyler you are in the second round.

Sonny and Alec will be watching this very closely indeed. Is it right?

How many people said Bonnie Tyler?

No.

-Ooh.

-Oops.

-Not Bonnie Tyler as it happens.

That scores you the maximum of 100 points,

-takes your total up to 105.

-Sorry, Keeley, that's unlucky.

No number ones in the '70s, I'm afraid,

It's A Heartache was her biggest hit in the '70s.

-Total Eclipse Of The Heart was '80s.

-'80s, yeah.

-Sonny, phew!

-I know, tell me about it.

-Phew! Sonny, welcome.

Welcome to the show, great to have you here and you work in Alec's bar?

-Yes, I do, yeah.

-Is he a good boss? He seems a genial kind of fella.

He's a very good boss, yeah.

Yeah, very good and what's your particular job there?

-I work there part-time, I'm also at university.

-And you do all the...?

-Yeah.

-Can you do lots of clever...?

I suppose the word you'd use which we don't really like is "mixologist".

-Yeah, I don't like that word either.

-I don't like it, mixologist.

-I suppose it accurately describes what you're doing.

-I guess it is.

-So, now, Sonny.

-Yes.

-What a lifeline.

-Absolutely.

Keeley has done you a great favour there, 105 is their score,

you're on 25 so 79 or less sees you through.

Yeah.

-Yes.

-What's it going to be?

I'm very glad that I'm not going to have to risk my risky answer

so I'm going for one that I'm fairly confident,

-I'm going to say Alice Cooper.

-Alice Cooper.

-Yep.

There's your red line, Sonny, let's see if Alice Cooper's right,

let's see if you can get below that red line with it.

Oh, no!

Oh, no, Sonny.

Oh, I'm sorry.

An incorrect answer, maybe no number ones in the '70s,

-I'm afraid that's... Ooh, Keeley and Amanda.

-That was my other answer.

-Oh, really?

-Yeah.

-So, both of yours were wrong.

200 Club!

An exciting bit of drama at the end of the round there,

real sting in its tail there, I'm afraid an incorrect answer

scores you 100 points, takes you up to 125 and out of the game.

Sorry, that's really unlucky,

he had a number one in the '70s with School's Out

but that was with his band, I'm afraid, wasn't as a soloist.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers though.

Well done at home if you got some of these.

Ring My Bell by Anita Ward, Billy Connolly had a number one

single in the '70s with D-I-V-O-R-C-E,

Carl Douglas, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting, weren't they just?

Charles Aznavour had a hit with She.

Freda Payne, Band Of Gold,

I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor.

Lee Marvin, Wandering Star. Stand By Your Man, Tammy Wynette.

Telly Savalas, had that spoken word number one.

Let's take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Elvis Presley with 27.

There's Bowie with 28, now who do you think is top

on that list?

Oh, Cliff Richard, yeah.

-Cliff Richard with 45 points.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. So, at the end of our first round,

the pair heading home with their high score of 125, I'm so sorry,

Sonny and Alec. You were doing all the right things though,

you were trying to find nice obscure answers

and they were just so obscure they were wrong.

But we get to see you next time

when I'm sure you'll do much, much better.

An ill-deserved early send off,

but it's been great having you on the show, we'll see you then.

-Sonny and Alec.

-Thank you.

-Thanks so much.

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

Three pairs remain, obviously at the end of this round,

we'll be saying goodbye to another pair

in time for our head-to-head round.

Well, Davids, very well done, you share the glory,

our two lowest scores in that round.

Two low scores of 1. JJ Barrie.

Good Lord. And Gary Numan, so, yeah, thank you for that.

Very well done indeed.

Not too bad there apart from Keeley but, you know, it was fine,

it was fine and you gave us a fantastic bit of drama at the end,

so thank you for that.

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

European Languages.

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Spanish words for elements. Richard.

On each pass we're going to show you the Spanish words for six elements

from the periodic table, you just need to tell us

the English equivalent, please.

There's going to be 12 in all, 12 elements to guess at home.

-Good luck, everybody.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, we are looking for the English translations of these Spanish words

for chemical elements and here's our first board of six.

I'll read those all one last time.

I won't read them a third time

because we don't need another "hierro".

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OK, now, Keeley.

There's only one I could guess at

and it's probably the most obvious on there, I'm afraid.

So, I'm going for mercury.

OK, mercurio.

Says Keeley, she thinks that is mercury. Let's see if that's right

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

68.

-It's not 100.

-It's not 100.

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68 for mercury.

Here's a good trick question for you,

which planet do you think mercury is named after?

I... Erm... I know the one that you're wanting me to say,

but maybe that's the answer. Maybe it's a double-bluff.

-Mercury, Richard.

-It is named after Mercury.

-Oh, right, there we are.

-It's fairly obvious.

-Yeah.

I wouldn't have thought it would take you so long to...

I mean, that's its name.

If you are a quizmaster, it's a very good...it's a good one to put.

You'll be surprised the amount of people who go, "Well, can't be

-"Mercury then or they wouldn't have asked the question."

-Yeah.

Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Tracey.

Tracey.

Couldn't be any worse, I don't even know the periodic table in English.

So, I've got absolutely no chance in Spanish.

Erm, I'll say hierro, silver.

Hierro, silver. Complete guess?

Massive guess, yes. Getting 100 points.

Let's see if that's right hierro, silver.

-Aw, bad luck.

-Not silver.

For a moment, I thought that might've been right, you never know.

Hierro, I guess not silver.

I'm afraid an incorrect answer scores you 100 points.

Sorry, Tracey, I'll give you the correct answer to that one

at the end of the pass. Might not be the last 100 points we score.

-Hopefully not.

-So, David K, you're the last person to have this board.

Do you want to just talk us

through it and see if there's anything that springs to mind?

It's gone from bad to worse, hasn't it, really?

Erm, boro, I don't know if there's an element called borium.

The only other one I can have a go at is platinum, plomo.

Plomo, platinum says David. Plomo.

-Complete guess.

-OK, platinum, let's see if it's right,

let's see how many people said platinum.

I'm afraid not.

That is an incorrect answer, scores you the maximum of 100 points.

I've a hunch I might know what plomo is.

-Yeah, plomo's one of the easier ones up there.

-Yeah.

-You think it's...?

-Lead.

-Lead, exactly, because it's PB, comes from plumbum which is

where we get the word plumber from as well,

they used to deal with lead pipes.

Plomo would've scored you 20 points if you've said lead.

The top one, oro.

Gold.

It's gold, yes and that would've scored you 23 points.

The next one you've just got to put one letter on because it's boron

and that would've scored you... It's annoying when I say it, isn't it?

It would've scored you 15 points.

Now hierro is, it's iron, that would've scored you 10.

And estano.

If you know the way the Spanish language works, you'll know it's tin.

That would've scored you 4 points, the best answer up there,

well done if you said that.

-So, our 100 did fairly well in that.

-Yeah, not bad, there we go.

Thank you very much indeed.

Our 100 didn't do badly...

not so sure about in the studio but let's take a look at those scores.

The best score of that pass was yours, Keeley, 68.

Look at that, it's a change from the last round, isn't it?

-Absolutely.

-And then we travel up to 100 where we find

Tracey and David A

and David K and Dean.

Dean and David A, it is between you, I would say, in the next round.

Best of luck, 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 Spanish words on the board and here they come.

We've got...

I'll read those one more time.

Dean, you are looking for the English translations of these

Spanish words and obviously you're going to try and find the one

you think the fewest of our 100 people knew,

once again Dean has that confident look of a man with a good answer.

Yeah, OK. Er...

A complete guess, obviously.

I'm going to go for litio and I think that might be lithium.

It stands to reason, doesn't it?

No red line for you as you're the joint high scorers

but let's see if it is indeed lithium and how many people said it.

It is.

How about that? 18.

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Pretty good going, Dean.

Well done, Dean, yes, slightly easier board this time.

It's the lightest of all the solid elements,

it's what makes red fireworks red,

lithium.

-Didn't know that.

-Yeah.

-Thank you.

-Now, David A.

-Hiya.

You have a target now. 118 is the high score.

If you can score 17 or less, you will be through to the next round.

I'm even worse at science than Tracey so...

Oh.

I've no idea. Radio, radium. I don't even know if that's an element.

-Radium. Radium.

-Yeah.

-Says David A. There is your red line,

if you get below that red line with radium, you're in the head-to-head.

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

It's right.

Oh, 27.

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Takes your total up to 127,

but the round is not over yet.

Yeah, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie, radium.

-Slightly easier this board, isn't it?

-It slightly easier, yeah.

We're not allowed a third person saying I don't know anything

and then getting a right answer here by the way, Amanda, just to warn you.

-I'm not getting a right answer.

-Amanda, there you are, you're on 68.

The high scorers now David A and Tracey on 127

so 58 or less sees you through.

Do you want to talk us through the board?

Yeah, I think the top one cobre could be copper. Plata, platinum.

Yodo, something from Star Wars, I think,

I'm not sure if it's an element.

Erm, osmio,

what do you think to that one, Kee?

Oh, you can't confer, can you?

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, I'm torn.

I don't know what yodo is and I don't know what osmio is,

I'll go for... Platinum might be a bit easy, might it?

I'll just do it.

-Er, cobre, copper.

-Cobre, copper.

-Yeah.

-Says Amanda.

-Cobre.

Here comes your red line, if you get below that,

you're in the head-to-head.

Let's see how far down the column copper takes us.

It's right.

You've done it!

Good answer. 22.

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-Takes your total up to a nice, neat 90.

-Well done, Amanda.

I did say really clearly beforehand,

I said I don't want the third person in a row saying,

"I won't get a right answer" and then getting one to which you replied,

"I won't get a right answer."

You then got a right answer, that's a yellow card I'm afraid, Amanda.

I'm so sorry, it's only the second one we've ever had but you know what?

I laid it out clear for you.

I said, "Don't say you're not going to get a correct answer

-"and then get one." Xander, you saw me?

-Yeah, I did, I did.

You saw what will happen.

If you want to appeal, you've got 15 days to appeal

and we can send it for video evidence, but I promise you,

that your punishment will be increased if it goes,

if we have to go to appeal and it's found that you're incorrect.

Would you like to appeal?

Yes, I'll change my answer back to yodo, the Star Wars character.

Best fill in the rest of this. Osmio is my favourite element, osmium,

Little Jimmy Osmium I call it, would've scored you 10 points.

Plata, not platinum so, lucky you didn't go for it,

as in the River Plate in Argentina, it's silver, would've scored you 6.

-And the yodo, again if you know your Spanish...

-Iodine.

-Iodine, yeah.

And that would've scored 3 points,

that's the best answer up there, well done if you said that.

-We all got through that all right, didn't we?

-Yeah, I think so, yeah.

Well, not all of us.

A couple 100 points and a yellow card, apart from that.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our second round, I'm afraid the pair heading home

with a high score of 127, it's David A and Tracey.

You didn't do badly, you really didn't do badly.

Obviously, hierro was not silver which I thought was

unkind of it frankly, but radio,

that was a fantastic bit of unwitting brilliance there, David.

Said, "I've no idea what this is but radium,

"I think I'm just making it up."

And it was right, anyway, we have to say goodbye to you now

but we'll see you again next time, look forward to that very much.

-David and Tracey, thanks again.

-Thank you.

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

Congratulations David and Dean, Keeley and Amanda,

you're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £5,750.

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

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

the difference is you're now allowed to confer and the first pair

to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

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

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

-Richard.

-We're going to show you five pictures now of film directors,

they've all got BAFTA fellowships.

-Can you name the most obscure of these?

-Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five BAFTA fellowship film directors

and here they are. We've got...

There we are,

five directors who are all BAFTA fellowship holders.

David and Dean, you've played best throughout the show so far

so you will go first.

-WHISPERS:

-I think I know what B is. He's Neil Parker who directed Evita.

-WHISPERS:

-Yeah, that's right, yeah.

We are going to go for B

and we both think that it could be Neil Parker who directed Evita.

-Neil Parker.

-Yep.

-Neil Parker say David and Dean.

-Now, Keeley and Amanda.

-I'll leave this one for Amanda to choose.

-Crikey. Well, we know two.

-Yeah.

So, I think I'll go, we'll go for, shall we go for C?

-Yeah, go on, then.

-OK. C, Alfred Hitchcock.

-You're going to go for Alfred Hitchcock for C.

-Yeah.

Now, David and Dean have said Neil Parker for B, let's see if

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

Bad luck.

Afraid an incorrect answer which means, Keeley and Amanda,

all you have to be is correct with your answer

Alfred Hitchcock for C and you will win this point.

Is it right?

It most certainly is.

75, but who cares?

It's right which means, Keeley and Amanda, after one question,

-you're up 1-0.

-You're thinking of the right person, David and Dean,

but it's Alan Parker, I'm afraid.

And it would've been a terrific score,

it would've scored you 6 points.

Steven Spielberg

would've scored you 69 points.

Now D is Stanley Kubrick and he would've scored you 8.

And E is Federico Fellini and he was a pointless answer

so very well done if you said that.

-Be very impressed if people have said that at home.

-Yeah.

-Hard to recognise.

-Yeah.

Thank you very much indeed so here comes your second question.

Now, David and Dean, you have to win this one to stay in the game

so very best of luck. It concerns...

Russian History. Richard.

We're going to show you five clues now to facts about Russian history,

-can you give us the most obscure answer?

-Thanks very much.

OK, let's reveal our five clues and here they are. We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, five clues to fact about Russia.

Keeley and Amanda will go first.

-Do you know any of them?

-I know Leningrad, I think.

-That's Anastasia, isn't it?

-What?

-Anastasia is Tsar Nicholas II.

-Right, well, go on, then. Go for that.

-Something like that.

-What? Do we know it?

-Yeah.

-Well, go on, go for that, yeah?

We're going to try the top one and go for Anastasia.

Anastasia you're going to say for the top one. Anastasia.

Now then, David and Dean, do you want to talk us through that board?

-You'll be lucky.

-You'll be lucky, I think.

-Yeah.

We don't know 1980s policy implemented by Gorbachev,

we've no idea or the next one, but the one underneath, "present-day

"name of the city which was renamed Petrograd in 1914" we think was...

-Leningrad.

-OK, you're going to say Leningrad.

Well, Keeley and Amanda have said Anastasia is who Anna Anderson

claimed to be. 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.

Very well done.

31.

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Now, David and Dean have said that Leningrad is the present day

name of the city which was renamed Petrograd in 1914, let's see

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

Bad luck I'm afraid. An incorrect answer there,

David and Dean, which means very well done, Keeley and Amanda,

after only two questions you're straight through to the final,

very well done, 2-0.

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Yeah, very well played this. That is a good answer - Anastasia.

Now the present day name of the city renamed Petrograd is...?

-St Petersburg.

-St Petersburg, yep.

Actually wouldn't have seen you through

because it would've scored you 33 points.

-The 1980s policy?

-Glasnost.

No, Glasnost was the openness, the policy was Perestroika.

-Yep, it was one or the other, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

Would've scored you 12 points.

-The first President of the Russian Federation?

-Boris Yeltsin.

Yeah, Boris Yeltsin, would've scored you 15.

And the name of the leader who was nominated twice

for the Nobel Peace Prize, it's ironic, it's an ironic answer.

-Oh, Stalin.

-Joseph Stalin, yep, and it would've scored you 3 points.

That's the best answer up there, well done if you said that.

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

they've done so well this time, it was first round last time,

head-to-head...

We didn't really give you good categories, did we?

They weren't your strong suits, those ones.

The Neil Parker and the Alan Parker thing I can't believe that wasn't...

-Never mind.

-Yeah, you knew the right answer there, I'm sorry

but I'm afraid on such things do Pointless careers founder.

So, we have to say goodbye to you but thanks so much for playing,

-David and Dean.

-Thank you.

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But for Keeley and Amanda, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Keeley and Amanda, you've 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 £5,750.

This is good.

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Well, what a journey we've taken you on.

We've been through 1970s number ones,

we've been to Spanish elements, we've had film directors,

we've had Russian facts and here you are.

Did you think when...? Keeley,

-it was you I think who said Bonnie Tyler, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

That was the only, that was your only miscue I think, wasn't it?

-Did you think you were going to be here?

-No.

-I've very glad I am though.

-Well, here you are.

Well, very, very well done.

Now as ever, you get to choose the category you're going to be

tested on, you have four choices and they are...

You just choose and I'll go with it,

but don't pick Shakespeare.

I'm going to probably pick Female Actors Who Were Child Stars.

-Go on, then.

-See what we get.

-OK, Female Actors Who Were Child Stars.

-Richard.

-Yeah, very best of luck,

you've got three different options to choose from.

We're looking for any feature film made for cinema release for which

any of the following actresses received a credit.

So, any feature film made for cinema release for which any of these

three received an acting credit, please, up to October 2013.

As always, no TV films, short films, documentaries,

anything like that, but voice performances do count.

Thank you very much indeed.

You've got up to one minute to come up with three answers and all

you need to win that jackpot is just one of them to be pointless.

Remember the answers you provide can come from any of these

categories and how you spread them across the categories

is entirely up to you. They can all come from the same one if you like

-or one from each. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

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

your time starts now.

Christina Ricci, Mermaids, she was in that with Bob Hoskins and Cher.

Yeah.

Drew Barrymore, that new one she's had out about roller-skating girls.

-You do, Keeley, you know. Whip It.

-OK.

-Erm...

We could have Monsters for Christina Ricci.

-Do you know any of Scarlett Johansson?

-No.

That one where she was some kind of, she was wife of some

kind of astronaut or something but I can't remember what it's called.

-Not astronaut's wife but...

-So what we going for? We're going for...?

-Mermaids for Christina Ricci.

-Yep.

-Whip It, Drew Barrymore.

-Yep.

Scarlett Johansson, Scarlett Johansson...

-Do you know any other Drew Barrymore films?

-Er, ET.

-Yeah?

10 seconds left.

Scarlett Johansson, she was Girl With A Pearl Earring, weren't she?

I don't know who she is.

-We need one more. Yeah.

-OK, now that is your time up.

-I now need your three answers.

-OK.

-What are you going to give me?

-Right, first of all, Christina Ricci was in Mermaids.

-Mermaids.

-Yep.

-Drew Barrymore, I'll go with Whip It.

-Whip It.

-Ooh.

Girl With A Pearl Earring, Scarlett Johansson.

-Girl With The Pearl Earring, Scarlett Johansson.

-Yeah.

OK, now which of those do you think is your best shot

at a pointless answer?

I'd say Mermaids with Christina Ricci.

OK, Mermaids we'll put last. Which is your least likely?

-Scarlett Johansson.

-Girl With A Pearl Earring, OK,

we'll pop them on the board in that order and here they are.

We have the Girl With A Pearl Earring,

Whip It and Mermaids.

Now then, £5,750, that's a decent jackpot.

Let's say one of these is pointless and you won that,

what would you do with your split of that, Keeley?

I would probably hire a camper van and take my partner

-and my pops around in the country.

-Lovely. Amanda?

Straight out of this country.

Straight out of this country to Europe, possibly.

Yeah, and go a little bit of sort of, yeah, just round Europe,

probably France, go to Spain, I like Barcelona, go to Amsterdam,

that's me favourite. Erm, yeah, and then just jet back and chill out.

Lovely. OK, well, very, very best of luck.

Three good answers on the board there. The Girl With A Pearl Earring

is the first one, a Scarlett Johansson film.

Let's see if it is correct, let's see if it's pointless,

if it is, it'll win you £5,750.

It's right.

Well, as I say, if this goes all the way down to 0,

you leave here with £5,750.

It's going down through the twenties, into the teens,

into single figures, still.

5! Wow.

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I tell you what, I thought that would be a lot higher.

OK, so your second answer was Whip It.

This case it was a Drew Barrymore film.

It has to be right and it has to be pointless for you to win that

jackpot, so for £5,750,

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

It is right.

So your first answer, which was Girl With A Pearl Earring,

took us down to 5.

Whip It now taking us down. Will it go lower than 5?

It's going down, it's still going down.

1!

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1!

OK, very, very close indeed.

One last chance, everything is riding on your third and

final answer which is Mermaids, in this case a Christina Ricci film.

OK, to win that jackpot it has to be pointless.

Let's find out if Mermaids is indeed a Christian Ricci film,

let's see how many people said it for £5,750.

Good luck.

It's right.

OK, it's right, your first answer, Girl With A Pearl Earring

took us down to 5, your second answer, Whip It took us down to 1.

If this goes all the way down to 0, you leave with that jackpot

and you've done it!

CHEERING

Very good indeed.

Very well done. Brilliant.

Oh, congratulations!

Mermaids was a pointless answer which means you go home

with our jackpot of £5,750.

-Well done.

-Oh, God!

How about that? How about that? You know what?

You've been brilliant fun right from the beginning,

but when the heat was on, you gave us three brilliant answers.

5 points, 1 point, 0 points, that's exactly how to win a

Pointless jackpot, very, very well played, that's terrific work.

Let's take a look at pointless answers from some of the categories.

Most importantly, of course, she was in Mermaids.

Scream was a pointless answer.

Whip It wasn't a pointless answer of course but

Beverly Hills Chihuahua was.

Everyone Says I Love You also a pointless answer.

Music And Lyrics, a pointless answer.

Wayne's World 2, a pointless answer for her.

Let's look at Scarlett Johansson.

Hitchcock was a pointless answer, Match Point,

The Black Dahlia, also a pointless answer and The Prestige.

Some big films from all three there but congratulations, it's so lovely

to see two such lovely winners, really, really chuffed for you.

Thanks very much indeed.

Well, thanks once again to our winning players, Keeley and Amanda

who go away with today's jackpot of £5,750.

Get in!

Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge

-to the test on Pointless. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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