Episode 30 Pointless

APPLAUSE

CHEERING

Thank you very much. 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...

And couple number one...

Hello, I'm Michael, I live in south London

and this is my good friend Julia who comes from Horsham.

Couple number two...

Hi, I'm Bryony, this is my mum Sue, she lives

just outside Coventry and I live in Bristol.

-Couple number three...

-Hello, I'm David, this is my good friend Nick

and we're from Dunstable.

-And couple number four...

-Hello, I'm Gwil, this is my

brother-in-law Howard, he's from Christchurch in Dorset

and I'm from Milton Keynes.

And these are today's contestants...

Thanks very much, we'll find out more about you throughout the show

as it goes along. So that just leaves one more person for me

to introduce - a man so smart if he gathered his thoughts

he'd need an aircraft hanger to store them in -

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

-Hiya. Hi, everybody.

Afternoon.

Hello there.

Hello THERE.

-It's looking very familiar, the first couple of podiums...

-It hasn't changed. Extraordinary.

LAUGHTER

Michael and Julia went all the way to the head-to-head last time.

-They were very, very good.

-Very good.

-Properly good.

Then Michael accidentally said that Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1953,

-which wasn't the best thing you did.

-Not really, no.

Other than that they were terrific, so going to be hard to beat today.

-And on podium two again, got Bryony and Sue.

-Oh, they were unlucky.

-They were unfortunate.

-They were unlucky.

Which means they got knocked out in the first round.

-They got knocked out in the first round.

-Yeah.

But fingers crossed this time, we'll see you going much further, I suspect.

-And what a brilliant end to the last show?

-What an end.

Literally the perfect... If you had to write an episode of Pointless...

-it's the perfect finish.

-Yeah.

-Three brilliant answers,

first one went down to two points...

second one went down to one point,

third one went down to zero, it won the jackpot

and in the perfect way, they ordered things perfectly,

they scored it perfectly,

-that's what we want to see.

-Mmm. That was great.

Well, thanks very much indeed. Now, all our questions on Pointless

have been put to 100 people before the show - our contestants

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

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer -

an answer that none of our 100 people gave

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

As you will have gathered, John and Tina won the jackpot last time

so today's jackpot starts off back at...

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

The pair with the highest score at the end of this round will be

eliminated, and remember, there is to be no conferring.

OK, our first category today is...

Pop music. Very popular on the first podium there...

LAUGHTER

Can you all decide who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

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

OK, the question concerns...

-Richard...

-On each pass we're going to show you the names

of seven hit singles. We need you to tell us the name of the musician

or the band who had a hit with that song, please.

They've all got double vowels in their name, that's either...

A-A, EE, II or OO.

Give us the most obscure answer, you're going to score

fewer points. An incorrect answer will score you 100 points.

There's going to be 14 in all to have a go at at home, so...

A-A, E-E, I-I, O-O.

-No UU's?

-No U-U's.

LAUGHTER

The Vacuum Brothers have not had a top-40 hit so...

LAUGHTER

I think A-A, E-E

II, OO was a Eurovision Song Contest winner in the '70s.

-It should be.

-Thanks very much indeed. Now, we are looking for

the bands or artists with pairs of vowels in their names

who had hits with these songs in the year shown.

Here's our first board of seven and we have...

I'll read those all one last time...

Michael and Julia, you all drew lots before the show

and you are going to go first,

Michael, I've seen people look happier, to be perfectly honest.

LAUGHTER

It's just about the worst board you could give me, actually,

-but erm...

-I'm sorry. Michael, we discovered last time that

-you are a dog walker.

-I am.

-You are a dog walker, you walk them singly.

-I do.

-What did you do before you retired?

I worked for quite a long time for a tyre company,

an administrative clerk, that's all,

and then before that in the travel industry for a fair number of years.

OK, now, let's get this over with.

I have a feeling you might surprise yourself...

I... Surpass yourself, even.

Well, I think I know Save Your Kisses For Me... Er...

Oh, no...

-Was Brotherhood Of Man, I think.

-Brotherhood Of Man, says Michael.

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

It's absolutely right.

-Look at that, Michael.

-Blimey!

As I said...

Surpassed yourself.

Very well played, Michael, yeah, very good,

-that really was a Eurovision Song Contest winner.

-Mm.

-It's actually the biggest-selling winner of all time.

-Good lord.

-Is it?

-Yeah, sold six million copies.

Thank you. Now... Sue, remind us what you do.

Oh, I'm a teacher... No, I'm not, I've retired!

LAUGHTER

-A French and German teacher.

-That's right, thank you.

How long ago did you hang up your mortarboard? Really?

Is that the best I could come up with?

LAUGHTER

-How long ago did you retire?

-Oh, God.

Oh, gosh, about five years now, yes.

And what do you do with your retirement?

-What do you fill your time with?

-I've started to learn tap dancing.

And do ballroom dancing and I do Zumba, which is sort of

keep-fit dancing which is brilliant, as well.

Er, so, Sue...

-What about this board?

-It's terrible for me.

I can only think of one band with a double vowel

who were sort of around in the '60s and '70s

so I don't know which one of the two '70s to choose,

I don't think it's either of them...

so...

Riders On The Storm, maybe... I know it's going to be wrong,

The Moody Blues.

-The Moody Blues.

-I'm sure it's wrong.

OK, well, let's find out if it is. Let's see how many of our 100

said The Moody Blues for Riders On The Storm...

Oh, I'm sorry, Sue, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

Scores you the maximum of 100 points.

It may well not be the last 100 points of the round

-so don't give up hope yet.

-I shouldn't be at all surprised.

The Moody Blues has got two O's in it, so...

Halfway there!

Thanks very much. Nick, welcome to the show.

-Hello, thank you.

-Here from Dunstable.

-Yes, I am.

-What do you do, Nick?

-I'm a pharmacist.

And when you're not being a pharmacist, what do you do?

When I'm not being a pharmacist, erm, I play handball,

-I took this up after the London 2012 Olympic Games.

-Did you?

-I was literally about to say...

-Yes.

Handball, massive uptake, wasn't there?

Yeah, so I watched it on the Olympics.

It looked like a great laugh.

So I thought, "I'll see if there's anything going around."

I moved to take up a job in a new town. Had a look on the internet

-and found a handball club. Yeah.

-OK, Nick, what about this board?

-How do you find that?

-At first look it wasn't great for me

but I think I know two answers. I may know a third one.

But I'm going to have to play to what everyone else has done

and I think as long as I get a right answer I should be OK.

So I'm going to say, 2005's Best Of You was by the Foo Fighters.

The Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters, says Nick. Let's see if that

is right and how many people said it.

Well, you're already lower than our highest score.

Our lowest score so far is 25

and you've passed that too.

Very well done.

That's the way to do it.

Yes, a very good answer, very good song as well by the Foo Fighters.

It's named after... That's what World War II pilots...

They saw unidentified fireballs

over Germany and they named them Foo Fighters.

-Howard....

-Yes.

-Welcome to the show, Howard. Good to have you here.

-Thank you.

-Where are you from?

-I'm from Christchurch in Dorset.

-That's right. And what do you do?

-I'm a freelance software engineer.

-What do you do when you're not doing that?

-Erm, I like to go walking,

do some cycling and I support Rochdale Football Club

and I try and see them whenever they're playing in the South.

-I was going to say, that's quite a long way to travel.

-Yes.

-How come Rochdale?

-There was a group of us at the university,

we all loved our football and one day we decided,

"Wouldn't it be easier, in years to come,

"if we all supported the same team?"

So one day we decided it would be Rochdale

and 35 years later we're still going.

Brilliant, that's nice.

And...children? Have they all become Rochdale fans as well?

They did until they were old enough to have a choice...

-LAUGHTER

-Now they've chosen to go shopping.

-Excellent. Howard, you're the last person to have this board.

-Yes.

-Do you fancy talking us through it

and filling in as many of the blanks as you can?

Erm... Well, yeah, luckily there was a couple left that were in my era.

So I know 9 To 5 - I think that was Dolly Parton.

Night Fever, I think, was the Bee Gees.

And I think that's it, really.

So, erm, I think I would have to probably plump for 9 To 5,

Dolly Parton.

LOW GROAN FROM AUDIENCE

You're going to say Dolly Parton for that.

OK, bit of a murmur from the assembled company here.

I think you might see why in a second. Dolly Parton - is it?

Is that right?

Oh, bad luck, Howard. I'm afraid an incorrect answer...

No double vowels there, that's 100 points to you.

Yeah, you might have been thinking of Dooly Parton?

LAUGHTER

It was Sheena Easton's 9 To 5, I'm afraid.

You were right about Night Fever,

though, could have gone for that - the Bee Gees.

..by Aaliyah.

-Riders On The Storm?

-The Doors.

-Yup.

I Begin To Wonder, everyone will know the name, it was a hit single,

it was a pointless answer, well done if you said...

-Ah!

-Dannii Minogue.

Very well played if you said that.

-Two I's, look.

-There we are. I know she has, I've seen them.

LAUGHTER

She's well known for it.

-Very well known for having two I's.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, we're halfway through the round, let's take a look at the scores...

Nick and David, very well done, very good score.

Michael, as I said, you would surprise yourself, you have.

Thank you.

Sue and Bryony, you have been joined on 100, all is not lost,

Howard and Gwil are also up there,

which means, Gwil and Bryony, it's going to be between the pair of you

to decide who stays and who leaves at the end of the round.

Best of luck, we can come back down the line.

Now, can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, we're going to put seven more songs on the board

and here they are...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Now, Gwil, remember, you are going to try and find

the name of the band or the artist with a pair of vowels in their name

who sang each of these songs and, obviously, you are going to try

and find the one you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

-Gwil, welcome to the show.

-Thank you.

-What do you do, Gwil?

-I'm a management consultant,

for my sins, although I'm not actually in any work right now.

So I'm living a life of leisure...

Living a life of leisure... How do you fill your life of leisure?

Mostly...by playing with my young kids, playing with my guitar.

Playing the piano.

And playing as much tennis as I can in this weather.

Listen, you're joint high-scorer on 100, you have to score low here

if we are to see you beyond the end of this round.

I know one.

So I have no choice... I'll just have to...

see how it goes. So, Cool For Cats...

-Squeeze.

-Squeeze, says Gwil, for Cool For Cats.

No red line for you, as you're joint high-scorers.

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

It's right...

Not bad at all, Gwil.

Well played, Gwil, that's what you had to do. Squeeze are one of those bands,

-you remember every couple of years how brilliant they are.

-Yeah.

And listen to them for a bit and then you forget and then you remember again.

-You've just reminded me again.

-They don't really fit into any sort of...

grouping, did they? They were just, kind of, themselves.

Brilliant band, anyway.

If you don't know Squeeze you should check them out.

-Now... David...

-Hi.

David, what do you do?

I work for Global Radio, revenue management analyst.

-And what do you do when you're not doing that?

-I play the cello.

I've played the cello since the age of eight.

Played in orchestras and chamber music groups, been touring

around Europe, which is really fun. And...yeah, still

continue doing it to this day.

Listen, the good news is you're through to Round Two

even if you score 100 points, but I have a feeling...

-I have a feeling you might be quite good at this.

-Come on, really(!)

LAUGHTER

This is not my round at all.

Luckily, as you say, we're through. I'm going to have to go with

Dancing In The Dark, which I think is in that awful film

and I hope that it's Patrick Swayze and it ends in a double E...

..OK...

LAUGHTER

-OK, now, er, Patrick Swayze.

-Yeah.

Did he sing Dancing In The Dark? No red line for you...

for the... Thank goodness reason that you're already through.

LAUGHTER

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

No, not by Patrick Swayze on this occasion.

That scores you 100 points. Takes you up to 125.

-Sorry, David, that's a gutsy answer, isn't it?

-Yeah.

That's really giving it some.

That's what we call, on this show, having both fingers crossed.

LAUGHTER

-Bryony, welcome back.

-Hello.

-Great to have you back on the show.

Do you know what... When you were on last time, you told us

-that you were a keen theatregoer.

-Yes.

And best of all that you support a lot of fringe theatre.

-Fringe theatres are theatres above pubs and things like that.

-Yes.

Which is where all our really good actors, good playwrights, good

directors, actually start out

and it's through encouragement of people like you that they...

They get to do better, so that's a very worthy and good thing to do.

-Thank you.

-Now, listen, you have a task here.

-I know.

You have a task. Are you up to the task?

I do know a few of the answers...

so it's just thinking which one's going to be the best.

I'm starting to doubt myself but I'm going to go Wicked Game is

Chris Isaaks.

-Wicked Game, Chris Isaaks...

-Isaak.

-..I think that sounds good enough.

Let's see. Obviously, it has to be right, but here is your red line.

Oh, no, bad luck, Bryony, that's an incorrect answer.

Scores you the maximum of 100 points, takes you up to 200.

Sorry, Bryony, can't take it, I'll explain why at the end of the round.

Now, Julia...

SHE LAUGHS

Julia...

Now, here's good news, you're through, you are through to the

next round, so, frankly, you could just cough and you'd go through.

LAUGHTER

But before you do that...let's just recap what you did last time.

You did incredibly well, we had consistent low scores,

-low team scores from you and Michael.

-We were done in by alloys.

-Alloys.

-We didn't know any apart from the very obvious ones.

Um...do you fancy volunteering any answers for this board

-behind me?

-I feel I ought to know who's School's Out

but I can't remember, and as somebody kindly mentioned it...

It's the only one I can think of, I will say Moody Blues again

and take your pick which one I'm going to pick on.

-Let's say School's Out, Moody Blues.

-OK, The Moody Blues says Julia

for School's Out. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it,

no red line, as you're already through.

Not The Moody Blues, scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 125.

I said that I thought Sue's 100 wouldn't be the last

-of the round. I was right. Quite a lot.

-Five out of eight.

-Yeah.

-That's not bad going.

-Not bad at all.

-Not Moody Blues.

School's Out is... You know that?

-Alice Cooper.

-Alice Cooper!

Oh, that's the one I was trying to think of.

OK, you can have the points, then(!) LAUGHTER

-As long as you're not kidding us.

-No, honestly.

All right, you can have it.

LAUGHTER

Wicked Game, it's not Chris Isaaks, it's Chris Isaak.

GROANING

And I'm sorry, I can't take it, it's not fair on podium four

if I give it to you, I'm so sorry.

It would have scored you ten points as well, it's a great answer.

Dancing In The Dark was...

Now, Wavin' Flag was the song that was everywhere during the World Cup,

and it was by...

The one at the bottom... Some people at home would have got this...

In amongst many, many letters...

It's got a couple...

And the top one, I know some people would have got this

and they will be ashamed of themselves... It's...

The younger brother of one of the Backstreet Boys.

Thank you very much indeed. So at the end of our first round, the pair we have to say goodbye...

Oh, I'm so sorry, so unlucky, Bryony and Sue.

Oh, the hardest thing to trip up on as well.

And I'm afraid it means we... end up saying goodbye

to fantastic contestants like you. I'm so sorry but thank you so much for playing,

it's been great having you on the show, Bryony and Sue.

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

So, three pairs remain.

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

pair in time for our head-to-head round.

That was very close.

Very close. Best answer of that round was yours, Nick,

with the Foo Fighters, so, very well done.

But then each pair had a 100-scorer among them.

So quite hard to gauge at this stage who is ahead of the game,

but I think it will be close. Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two is...

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

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

OK, let's see what the question is. Here it comes. We gave 100 people

100 seconds to name as many new countries as they could.

New countries, Richard.

We're essentially looking for any new country that's

come into existence after 1991.

Any nation that's been a sovereign state in its own right and a member

of the UN. Very, very best of luck.

Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Michael...new countries.

Oh, dear. Um... Have a real stab at this one...

Montenegro.

Montenegro, says Michael.

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

-Oh!

-That's good.

Still going down...

Good answer, Michael.

Have you spotted there? That's twice Michael has done that now.

Both rounds he said...

"I'm going to really just have a guess."

And both rounds come out with perfectly adequate answers.

-We look very dimly on that, Michael.

-I'm sorry.

It's absolutely fine, but we have been cracking down on it...

LAUGHTER

I'm just giving you a little warning, if I hear it one more time...

-It's not us, it's the Federation.

-Yeah, they don't like it.

They won't have it, so I will be forced to give you a yellow card if

you do it one more time... I'm so sorry.

If it was just me, I wouldn't, but...

-I understand.

-Yep.

-I deserve it.

I think you do. Keep an eye on your game, that's all.

LAUGHTER

-Nick...

-Um, yeah.

There's a few I can think of but I'm not quite sure

if they're all part of the UN, so it's going to be a bit of a guess.

Most of my geography knowledge about countries comes from sports teams,

so I'm going to go for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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

let's see how many said it.

It's right.

Very well done indeed, Nick.

-Great score, nine.

-That's very well played.

I've said before, loving sport teaches you an awful lot more

than sport, gives you geography and all sorts of different things.

Macedonia - it's got the... Voted the second best flag in the world,

-the Macedonian flag.

-Second best?

-Yeah.

-That's fair enough.

Bhutan is the winner, had the best flag.

-Now then, Howard.

-Yes.

Erm, yes, geography's not my strong point...

so I guess I'll follow the lead of my fellow contestants

-and I'll go for Slovenia.

-Slovenia, says Howard.

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

It's right. Nine is our high score, would you believe it?

And nine our low.

11 our high score, 9 our low...

Another good answer. Seems terrifying, this round,

-but when you start thinking about it, you think, "I do know a few".

-Yeah.

Very well done. Halfway through the round, let's take a look at those scores.

Howard, the best score of that pass, so very well done.

Then up to 9...

Up another 2 to 11, where we find Michael and Julia.

Very, very close you are, but, Julia, you happen to be ahead,

so we need a nice low-scoring answer at the very end of the round,

and hope that's enough to get you back into the head-to-head again.

Going to come back down the line, can the second players please

step up to the podium?

OK, Gwil, we're looking for countries which became member states

of the UN in their own right from 1991 onwards.

Well, in all honesty I don't really have a clue.

Um...so I'm going to have to take a pot-luck guess.

It's something that might work - Bosnia.

OK, Bosnia, says Gwil, Bosnia.

You are the low scorers at the moment, on seven. The high scorers

are Michael and Julia, which means a score of three or less would

prevent you from becoming the new high scorers.

There is your red line.

Let's see if Bosnia can get you down there.

It's right.

Takes your total up to 29.

Yeah, or Bosnia Herzegovina, but Bosnia is an acceptable answer.

David...

Yes, I've got a few that I'm not sure whether they're

before 1991, so I'm just going to have to go...

..Serbia.

Serbia, says David. The high scorers are Gwil and Howard on 29,

so 19 or less gets you through.

Let's see how many people said Serbia.

There's your red line.

It's right.

Very well done. 17, you are through.

26 your total.

We're getting a lot of value out of the former Yugoslavia, aren't we...

LAUGHTER

..in this round. We don't have many Serbian words in the English

language, but paprika is one and, perhaps, more importantly, vampire.

-Yeah.

-That's a big word.

Vampeer. Sorry, I'm just saying it in Serbian, there.

LAUGHTER

Do that again. I wasn't aware you are...

-IMITATES EASTERN EUROPEAN ACCENT:

-Vompeer.

-I thought it sounded more Serbian the first time.

-Vompeer.

I just made it "Wom-peer." I thought it might help it.

Amazing you just pick up on the little nuance(!)

LAUGHTER

-Extraordinary.

-Yeah, now, Julia. Listen...

All joking aside, we have a serious job to do here.

The high scorers are Gwil and Howard on 29. You are on 11,

you have to score 17 or less.

I've run out of Yugoslavian countries. There is

East Timor, I think.

But I'm going to go for South Sudan.

South Sudan, says Julia.

OK, South Sudan. It has to score 17 or less. There's your red line.

Will it get you below that red line, I wonder?

Let's find out - South Sudan.

It's right.

You've done it. Very well done, indeed.

And you are in the head-to-head for the second time.

Very well played. The world's newest nation, South Sudan.

Now, let's take a look at some pointless answers.

All sorts of different ones. Some countries joined the UN,

so they're not necessarily new countries.

Marshall Islands and Micronesia - both in the Pacific.

Monaco joined in 1993, smaller than Central Park, Monaco.

Palau, again in the Pacific.

Let's take a look at the top three answers.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard,

so I'm afraid, at the end of the second round, it's Gwil

and Howard we have to say goodbye to, with a comparatively low...

Sorry, comparatively high score, literally speaking, but low score of 29.

That was just a very, very low-scoring round,

and very close in the end. But this is where we say goodbye, but we will see you again next time,

Gwil and Howard, and we'll look forward to that.

-Thanks very much for playing.

-Thank you.

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

Congratulations, David and Nick, Michael and Julia,

you are now one step closer to the final and a chance

to play for the jackpot, which currently stands at...

We have to decide who's going to play for the money

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

The difference is now you are allowed to confer, and

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

Now, Michael and Julia, you were in the head-to-head only last time,

you are our low-scoring pair.

How do you feel about your rivals today?

Pretty good, pretty sharp.

-We're going to get stitched up by a couple of young boys.

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER

There was a strange look in your eye as you said that, Julia!

-David and Nick...?

-Again, we're going to get stitched up, as well, I think.

LAUGHTER

You've played consistently well, some lovely low-scoring from both pairs.

I always say this, but it's usually the case -

it's always going to be close, but best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

Going to show you five pictures now of fictional bands from different films - we just need you to tell us

the names of the films they are from. Very best of luck.

Thanks very much, Richard,

let's reveal our five fictional bands, and here they are.

We've got...

There we are, five fictional bands.

We're looking for the names of the films they appeared in.

Now, David and Nick, you've played

best throughout the show so far, so you will go first.

OK, we think we know two.

So it's just a case of trying to work out which one

we think is going to be better, so...

Mm, going to go for A, which is School Of Rock.

School Of Rock, say David and Nick for A.

Now, Michael and Julia.

SHE CHUCKLES

Do you want to have a... punt at any of those?

Go on, Julia, I'll leave it to you.

SHE MURMURS

I'm sure you'll do it.

-Ya-ya-ya.

-C, The Blues Brothers or something or other.

-Could be.

-Shall we say that?

-Go on, then, you say it.

-C, The Blues Brothers.

-The Blues Brothers, say Michael and Julia.

So we have School Of Rock and we have The Blues Brothers. David and

Nick said School Of Rock, let's see if that's right

and let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

20 for School Of Rock. Now, Michael and Julia have gone for

The Blues Brothers for C. Let's see if that's right

and how many people said it.

-It's right.

-Oh, God!

So there we are. David and Nick, well done. After one question you are up 1-0.

Well done, David and Nick. Have you seen School Of Rock?

-I love School Of Rock.

-Great film.

-Yeah.

Especially if you watch it with kids.

-It's just a wonderful film. He's brilliant in it, Jack Black.

-Yeah.

B is a pointless answer.

That's the band Stillwater, from...

Very well done if you said that.

Oh, I thought of The Commitments...

So it would have won you the points,

and this last one would have won you the point as well, which is...

-Spinal Tap.

-Yeah.

Funniest film ever made, I think.

Thank you very much. Here comes your second question -

Michael and Julia, you get to answer it first

but you have to win it to stay in the game. Good luck. It concerns...

Going to show you five clues to facts about F Scott Fitzgerald's

novel The Great Gatsby. Can you give us the most obscure answer?

Thanks very much. Let's reveal our five clues, and here they are...

I'll read those all again.

There we are, five clues to facts about The Great Gatsby.

Michael and Julia will go first.

-THEY WHISPER:

-The British-born star was Alan Ladd.

-Really?

-We'll for the... Are you sure?

-Pretty sure the star...

Pretty sure the star was Alan Ladd.

OK, Alan Ladd, the star of the 1974...

-Oh, the '74 film!

-'74, yes. Oh.

Alan Ladd. OK.

David and Nick, talk us through the board if you can.

I have the feeling the director was Baz Luhrmann.

But apart from that... Dave?

I'm drawing a blank on this one, I'm afraid. I've seen the film, haven't read the book,

so I guess I should know more, but I don't.

I would go... I think we should go for the director as we're both,

sort of...

OK, we'll go for the director being Baz Luhrmann.

Baz Luhrmann, you are going to say, for the director of the 2013 film.

Michael and Julia said Alan Ladd, the star of the 1974

film version of the novel. Let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 people said it.

Oh, not Alan Ladd, I'm afraid.

David and Nick, that means you merely have to be correct with

your answer, Baz Luhrmann, and you go straight through to the final.

Let's see if that's right, Baz Luhrmann.

Yep, it's right, very well done.

Wow! Look at that!

That's a great answer.

And it means, David and Nick, that after only two questions you are straight through to the final 2-0.

Well played, gents.

-Julia, that was very unlucky. He did play Gatsby, Alan Ladd.

-Much earlier.

-In '49, unfortunately. The '74 version was Robert Redford.

-Yeah.

Would have scored you 17 points, though. The first name of the author?

-Francis.

-Francis, yes. Would have scored you 9 points. Jordan Baker?

-Tennis?

-No, she cheated at golf.

It would have scored you two points.

It's the best answer up there, actually.

-And the decade the novel was first published?

-1920s.

-1920s, yes.

1925, it was published. Would have scored you 18.

-We would have lost anyway.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

I'm afraid, is Michael and Julia.

Two solid performances in two consecutive Pointlesses

but I'm afraid you haven't made it beyond the head-to-head round.

I'm sorry. But it's been great having you on the show.

Wonderful contestants. Thank you so much, Michael and Julia!

APPLAUSE

But for David and Nick, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, David and Nick.

You fought off all the competition

and you have 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 £1,000.

You've done very well.

Only one appearance on the show, straight through to the final.

Exquisitely handled, which is nothing less than we'd

expect from a handball player, of course!

As always, you get to choose your category,

and here are the four categories you can choose from.

East Anglia, Irish and Northern Irish sport,

literary awards, Shakespeare.

-What do you reckon?

-Well, I did go to university in East Anglia

so maybe that's good one.

-I know nothing about East Anglia.

-I know nothing about Irish sports or literary awards.

-I don't really know much about Shakespeare.

-Up to you.

I'd go either East Anglia or Shakespeare.

If you're happy with East Anglia, I'll go with that.

-Shall we give it a go?

-If you want to.

Let's give it a go. We'll go for East Anglia.

East Anglia it is. Richard.

As so often with these geographical ones,

there's three very different questions,

so hopefully there is something that will suit you.

We are looking for...

Any top-40 single by The Darkness.

They are from East Anglia originally.

So I need a top-40 single from The Darkness, up to October 2013.

Any of the cast of Alan Partridge Alpha Papa according to IMDb.

Anyone with a credited appearance in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa,

or any of the members of Ipswich's 1981 UEFA Cup-winning side.

SCATTERED LAUGHTER

Genuinely, those last two are my perfect questions. Genuinely are.

Top 40 singles by The Darkness, cast of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa,

and members of Ipswich's brilliant 1981 UEFA Cup winning side.

I know people at home will concentrate on different ones there.

Very best of luck at home. Very, very best of luck to you as well.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, as always, you have up to a minute to come up with

three answers and all you need to win that jackpot of £1,000

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

The answers you provide can come from any one of those categories

and how you spread them across the categories is entirely up to you.

It could all come from one of the categories or one from each. Ready?

-As ready as will ever be, yes.

-OK.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. There they are.

Your time starts now.

I love Alan Partridge but I've only seen Alpha Papa once.

-Do you remember anyone in it?

-Colm Meaney.

-That's good.

I can't remember any of the other actors.

-Colm Meaney's quite a big one.

-Top 40 singles. What do you reckon?

Well, there was the obvious one. I Believe In A Thing Called Love.

There was a Christmas one but I can't remember if it was just

Justin Hawkins or whether it's the entire Darkness.

It was called Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End),

-which is interesting.

-I remember that one.

I think it was The Darkness. Do you know any Ipswich players?

I imagine it was the Bobby Robson's side. But I don't know.

OK, we can guess him. So we've got three answers.

Members of the winning side,

does it include members of the management team?

-No, I guess not.

-I think it's going to be players, isn't it?

The Darkness. Let me think.

I think maybe Rebecca Front was in Alan Partridge. I can't remember.

OK, Rebecca Front. And who was the other one? Colm...

-Colm Meaney, but he is a really obvious one.

-OK.

-Ten seconds left.

-It's not any good, is it? Do you know any of these?

-No, I don't.

Shall we go for The Darkness and Alan Partridge?

-We're going to have to.

-That is your time up.

What are your three answers going to be?

Could you say which category they from?

So, for top 40 singles by The Darkness...

-Growing On Me.

-Growing On Me.

-Yes.

-OK, Growing On Me.

-Cast of Alan Partridge, um...

-Was it Colm...

-Colm Meaney was in it.

-He's going to be a really obvious one.

-Colm Meaney.

I can't remember if she was in it or not. Rebecca Front, then.

And Rebecca Front. OK. Three answers there.

Of those three, which do you think is your most likely to be pointless?

I think the only one that is correct is Colm Meaney, so it's that one.

Let's put that one last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Rebecca Front.

-OK. And Growing On Me in the middle.

OK, let's pop those up on the board in that order, and here they are.

We've got Rebecca Front, Growing On Me and Colm Meaney.

Well, very best of luck. Your first answer was Rebecca Front.

The one you thought that was probably least likely to be

pointless but remember, only one of these has to be pointless

for you to win that jackpot of £1,000.

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

I've been to Canada before. I'd love to go back to Vancouver.

I've heard so many good things about it so it would certainly go

-towards a trip to the West Coast.

-Very good. Nick, how about you?

Yes, sort of similar to David, I'm looking to go to New York

with my girlfriend so it would stretch it out a bit more,

-go for a bit longer, have a better stay, really.

-Excellent.

Well, best of luck.

Three good-looking answers on the board there.

Let's hope they're all right.

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

Rebecca Front, your least confident answer.

Obviously it has to be correct, and it has to be pointless

to win the jackpot, so for £1,000,

how many people said Rebecca Front was in the cast of Alpha Papa?

Oh, bad luck. I'm afraid she wasn't.

Which means you only have two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your second answer, Growing On Me.

In this case, we were looking for singles by The Darkness.

Again, this has to be correct.

I didn't even hear you mention it during your minute. Did it suddenly...

I know it's a song by The Darkness but I don't know if they released

it as a single or not, which is the issue, so it's definitely by them.

Well, it has to be correct,

then it has to be pointless to win that jackpot,

so for £1,000, let's see how many of 100 people said Growing On Me.

It's right.

This could be an excellent answer.

David and Nick, your first answer, Rebecca Front, was incorrect

but Growing On Me by The Darkness is going down through single figures.

Still going down...

Oh. One!

GROANS AND APPLAUSE

Good answer. Great score.

But sadly, in this round, it has to be pointless.

So only one more chance.

Everything rides on your final answer, Colm Meaney.

Obviously it has to be right. You're pretty sure it is right.

-You think it might be quite obvious.

-Yes, it is very obvious.

OK, well, let's find out.

If it is pointless, it will win you £1,000.

How many of our 100 people named Colm Meaney

as a cast member of Alpha Papa?

It's right.

So your first answer, Rebecca Front, turned out to be incorrect.

The second answer, Growing On Me, took us all the way down to one.

Your third and final answer, Colm Meaney, still going down.

Still down it goes.

You've done it!

Very well done indeed. That is fantastic. What a great answer.

Very well done indeed.

-I don't know how. He's the main baddie.

-Congratulations.

Colm Meaney was a pointless answer, which means you leave here

with that jackpot of £1,000.

Very well done indeed, David and Nick.

Yes, he's one of the big stars of that film. It's a terrific film.

He's great in it. How close were you to not saying him at all because...?

Very close. Apart from Steve Coogan, I couldn't think of anyone else.

I can think of the characters but I couldn't think of the actual actors.

Funnily enough, the only people who got any points at all in that

category were Steve Coogan, Tim Key, Sean Pertwee and Anna Maxwell Martin.

Every single other person in the film was pointless answer,

including Colm Meaney.

I genuinely saw you just about to say, "We won't go with him at all,

"let's go for a risk."

And I'm very, very glad you stuck to your guns,

because that would have been awful.

Let's take a look at pointless answers

in all the different categories.

Top 40 singles by The Darkness,

both of these from the One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back album.

Girlfriend. Is It Just Me?

Cast of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.

It's almost all of them. There's Colm Meaney, the brilliant Nigel Lindsay.

Those last two have both been on Pointless.

Phil Cornwell and Simon Greenall.

Phil Cornwell plays Dave Clifton, the other DJ. Simon Greenall

is Geordie Michael. Phil Cornwell has been a pointless answer before.

He's the first person ever to have got a pointless answer

and been a pointless answer, Phil Cornwell, which is very impressive.

And let's take a look at the Ipswich team.

There's 11 of them but there's only two pointless answers.

People remember that team so well. I'll go through the team.

John Wark, Terry Butcher, Mick Mills, Eric Gates, Paul Mariner,

Alan Brazil, Arnold Muhren, Frans Thijssen, Russell Osman

and then these two were pointless answers.

Paul Cooper, the goalie, and Steve McCall,

who came in for George Burley. Both of those pointless.

Very well done if you said either of those.

-Good category for you in the end, it turns out.

-Thanks very much.

Well, thanks once again to our winning players,

David and Nick, who go away with today's jackpot of £1,000.

APPLAUSE

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.