Episode 6 Pointless

Thank you very much indeed.

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

the game where you're always aiming for the lowest score.

Let's meet today's players.

Couple number one.

Hello, I'm Marilyn. This is my husband Steve

and we're from Maidenhead in Berkshire.

Couple number two.

Hello, I'm Dave. This is my friend James

and we're both from South Wales.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Ryan. This is my friend Mags and we're from Dunfermline.

And finally couple number four.

Hi, Alexander. I'm Keith. This is my son Daniel

and we're from Shenstone in Staffordshire.

And these are today's contestants.

APPLAUSE

Thanks, all of you. 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.

Fact checker, part-time fireman, current Fulham & District

Under-45 mixed martial arts champion

and compulsive liar, it's my Pointless friend. It's Richard.

Hiya.

APPLAUSE Hi, everybody. Hiya.

-Afternoon.

-And to you.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

-Going to be a good show, isn't it?

-I think so.

-I am bang up for it, are you?

-Yes, I am.

-I am absolutely stoked for it.

-I am slap bang up for it.

-It is going to be awesome.

-Awesome.

-I will be shocked if this is not awesome.

-Oh!

I will be shocked, I will say right now,

if this isn't the greatest episode of Pointless of all time.

LAUGHTER

I can think of seven... No, eight good reasons...

LAUGHTER

-Who were you undecided about there?

-I'm not going to go into that!

We have got Mags and Ryan back from last time who got all the way

through to the head-to-head and lost 2-1 on the head-to-head

so they are very good. They're going to be tough to beat

and we didn't see as much of James and Dave as we wanted,

did we, in the last show?

-We missed out on their radio voices.

-I know!

They have both got great radio voices.

-RADIO VOICE:

-They met working for local radio.

-I'm looking forward to hearing that a lot through today's show.

-So am I.

I suspect you'll go further than last time, guys. Fingers crossed.

-Fingers crossed.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, every question's been asked to 100 people before the show.

Today's contestants are looking for 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, Alan and Jill didn't win the jackpot last time

so we add another £1,000 to that so today's jackpot

starts off at £2,250.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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

Now, the pair with the highest score at the end of the round

will be eliminated and also do remember there is to be

no conferring during the round.

OK, our first category today is...

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Famous people with the initials SS.

Yes, we're going to show you seven clues on each pass

to people whose initials are SS.

Can you give us the most obscure answer, please?

There's going to be 14 people in all to guess at home. Very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed.

OK, so we're looking for these famous people whose initials

are SS, and here is our first board of seven clues.

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, Marilyn and Steve, you all drew lots before the show today

and you are going to go first.

Marilyn, you have stepped up bravely to be the first person to kick off

this great, historic episode of Pointless.

-Welcome to the show, Marilyn. It's lovely to have you here.

-Thank you.

-What do you do, Marilyn?

-I'm retired.

-What have you done?

I used to work for the Fire Brigade

-in an administrative capacity.

-So you answered the phone?

No, I did everything but slide down poles really.

Basically everything but... Did you ever go out for fun on a call-out?

I did once go on a call-out.

Did you ever go out by accident on a call-out

because you were still in the fire engine?

I've never called them out either!

What do you get up to with your retirement?

What do you like to do with your time?

We love to travel.

We had a marvellous trip to the USA last year for three months.

-Wow, that's a proper trip, isn't it?

-Yes, we did.

We touched the Canadian border, the Mexican border

and we put a foot in the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

At the same time?

-Yes, it was a terrible stretch!

-LAUGHTER

So, Marilyn, what about these SSes?

Yes, well, I don't know many of them.

Um...

I think I'm going to go for the composer of Sweeney Todd

and say Stephen Sondheim.

Stephen Sondheim, says Marilyn.

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

It's right.

Wow, very well done. 13, Marilyn.

That's a great start to the show.

-Stephen Sondheim.

-APPLAUSE

Yes, also wrote the lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy.

-Stephen Sondheim.

-Stephen Sondheim.

-Stephen Sondheim.

-Stephen Sondheim!

Sorry, that's not the right voice, sorry. Completely wrong.

You trying to do your radio voice?

-Stephen Sondheim.

-That's good.

Stephen Sondheim.

And the name of that gentleman?

It was Mr Stephen Sondheim.

-Oh, yes, oh, that's good.

-That's the end of an anecdote.

And that was a little guy called Stephen Sondheim.

Oh!

-Ah, Dave. Welcome back to the show.

-Thank you.

Thank you. Oh, he's...

They met doing hospital radio.

Stephen Sondheim.

-Oh, yes! What were we playing at?

-That's better.

What time were your shows on hospital radio?

-You do a show at the weekends still, don't you?

-Yeah, I do.

Eight until 12, Saturday and Sunday morning.

You live where, Dave, sorry?

It's in a little town called Pontypool which is about

-half an hour north of Cardiff.

-Good stuff.

OK, now, we're looking for people with double-S as their initials.

I'm going to go for the actress who won the 2013 Best Actress

BAFTA for her role in Mrs Biggs.

I think it was Sheridan Smith.

Sheridan Smith. Well done, Dave. That sounds good.

Let's see if it's right

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

It's absolutely right.

13 was our best score.

You passed that, 12!

APPLAUSE

-Well played, Dave.

-Phew!

Great answer. Great actress as well. She is brilliant in everything,

-isn't she, Sheridan Smith?

-Always good, yes. Thanks very much indeed.

-Now, Mags, welcome back to the show. So, last time, head-to-head.

-Yes!

Now, what happened?

Well, they weren't really our best rounds. In the head-to-head we got

Andrew Flintoff and then we had to answer questions

about Oprah Winfrey.

-But this is fun!

-This is quite good, yeah! This is quite good.

I'm going to have a punt at the original bassist

for the Beatles who I think was called Stuart Sutcliffe.

Stuart Sutcliffe, says Mags.

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

It's right, of course.

Well, 13's our highest score, 12's our low,

so quite a narrow field there.

Well, you beat both of them, down to 10.

APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed, Mags.

Really well played, Mags, yeah. He met John at Liverpool College of Art.

Keith, welcome to Pointless.

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

I'm a retired bank employee for want of a better word.

And what do you do with your retirement? What are your hobbies?

I have a musical interest, sing and play guitar, mandolin.

-Also have an interest in archaeology.

-Do you play in a band?

-I've played in a duo with a friend, Jeff, for 30 years nearly.

-Right!

-What are you called?

-Deja Vu.

-I am sure I have seen them before!

LAUGHTER

Now then, Keith, you're the last person to have this board.

Do you fancy talking us through it? Maybe filling in all the blanks?

I think I know every one that's left.

I knew the bottom one, Stuart Sutcliffe.

I think the actress who played Louise, was that Susan Sarandon?

Lead singer of the Noisettes, Steve Strange comes into my head

for some reason but I'm not sure.

I think Sylvester Stallone is the fourth one.

I'm going to go for a punt here -

Nottingham Forest, I think that's Steve Stone.

OK, Steve Stone. Let's find out if that's right

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

It's absolutely right, very well done, Keith.

10 is our low score at the moment, 13 our high.

Oh, you pass all of them, down to 9!

Very well done. What a round!

APPLAUSE

It started well and just got better and better.

A fantastic score. 9 for Steve Stone.

I said it would be a good show. Really four very good answers.

Seven up there, there's a couple of obvious ones.

You've all avoided the obvious ones. You've all got correct answers.

It doesn't happen very often in rounds like this, does it?

Let's take a look at those obvious ones.

You're right about Susan Sarandon. She was in Thelma and Louise.

She would have been a slightly higher scorer than the ones we had though, 43.

You're right about Sylvester Stallone as well, of course.

Rocky and Rambo, he would have scored 54.

Now the lead singer of the band the Noisettes,

not Steve Strange, who was Visage amongst others, it was...

and very well done if you said this, Shingai Shoniwa.

-That was on the tip of my tongue there.

-One point, one point.

-Very well done if you said that.

-Thanks very much.

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

Well, as I said, it started well and got better. 9, Keith and Dan.

Well done, Keith. Great answer there.

Keith and Dan looking very strong at the moment and then

not that far behind them, Mags and Ryan on 10.

On 12 we find Dave and James.

And then on 13, Marilyn and Steve.

I mean, it could be anyone's but, Steve, you are nominally ahead so,

a nice low score from you should see you through to the next round.

Best of luck. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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

and here they come. We have got...

I will read those all one last time.

There we are. Seven famous people with the initials SS.

Now, Dan, you're going to try and find the one

that you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Dan, welcome to the show. What do you do, Dan?

I'm currently studying at the University of Derby,

-studying popular music.

-So, what do you cover?

What are your specialist areas in that?

Well, I'm a guitarist and singer myself and I write my own music.

I've played in a band at home for four years called -

also have a French origin name - Cul-De-Sac.

-Who came up with the name?

-We had a little word association game

and I think the first four weren't allowed to be repeated

in front of my parents or anyone's brother or sister

so I think we had to go with something a little cleaner.

Have you got a sort of logo for the band as well, maybe?

It's not one of those T signs that you get on the road

with a red dot, it's not one of those, don't worry.

OK. Dan, what are you going to go for?

Well, I was quite glad when it got towards the bottom

cos I saw one I thought, "I actually know this one,"

so I'm going to go for the Scottish singer who fronts Texas

and that's Sharleen Spiteri.

Sharleen Spiteri, very well done. Let's see if that's right

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

There's your red line, very low.

Let's see how far down the column Sharleen Spiteri gets you.

34. 34 takes your total up to 43, Dan.

Yes, another good answer

but it's the biggest score yet, Sharleen Spiteri.

That's a big score, isn't it, compared to the others?

Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Ryan, welcome back. Welcome back.

-Hello.

-Welcome back. So, yes,

-a tough, tough time you had of it.

-Very tough.

-That was tough.

We had British Soap Awards winners of best actor and actress

and everyone scored 100.

Anyway, you came through smiling and here you are again.

A nice low score there, the high scorers at the moment -

Dan and Keith on 43, you're on 10, so 32 or less sees you through.

It's going to get far higher, I'm afraid.

I've made a fatal error in going second.

-I knew six of the seven on the first board.

-Oh, no!

The one I was banking on has just been taken.

I was going patriotic but it's gone.

So, I'm going to go with Jaws and Jurassic Park,

that's Steven Spielberg.

Steven Spielberg, says Ryan. Let's see if that's right

and let's see how many people said it. There's your red line,

get below that and you are through to the next round for sure.

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

It's right!

55.

APPLAUSE

55 takes your total up to 65. That could be enough to see you through.

Richard?

He's godfather to Drew Barrymore

and Gwyneth Paltrow, Steven Spielberg.

Wow! Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, James. Welcome back, James, good to have you here.

Now, Dave still working in radio.

Have you abandoned your radio career altogether, James?

-About 20 years ago, yes.

-Oh, dear.

Do you ever listen to the radio and think...

-RADIO VOICE:

-"That's rubbish. I could do better than that."

Well, I definitely had a face for radio but, no, I'm quite happy.

I wouldn't say that! Not at all.

I mean, a face for radio in that maybe headphones would sit

quite comfortably on it but in no other sense, certainly.

Well, the high score is now Ryan and Mags on 65.

You want to score 52 or less to get through. I think you can do that.

Well, I hope so.

The tennis Grand Slam winner was Stan Smith.

Stan Smith. Let's see if that's right,

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

There's your red line. Below that you are in the next round.

Very well done, you're through.

11! Good answer.

Very well done, takes your total up to 23, the lowest total so far.

Well played, James. The quality answers continue. Yes, Stan Smith.

Now, Steve. Steve, you're the last person to have this board.

Welcome to the show, Steve. Now, how did you and Marilyn meet each other?

We met, Marilyn advertised for a man and I was looking for a woman

so I went to the library. I couldn't be bothered to buy the paper.

Read the local paper and the rest, as they say, is history.

How long had you been looking down the column in the paper?

Or was it just the first time you looked and there it just leapt out?

-Pretty well!

-A beam of light shone through the library window

-and lit up.

-That's it.

-It was a good day for me, it was a good day.

-Lovely.

Well, Steve, there you are, you're on 13.

The high score is still Ryan and Mags on 65.

51 or less sees you through.

-Why not talk us through the board if you can?

-Yes.

Well, the top one I don't know.

Catherine Tramell, I think, has to be Sharon Stone.

The assassin of Robert Kennedy I'm thinking is Sirhan Sirhan

and the English artist I believe Stanley Spencer.

I think I will go for Stanley Spencer.

That sounds like the right one to me.

Stanley Spencer. There's your red line.

If you get below that with Stanley Spencer you are in Round Two.

Let's see how many of our 100 said Stanley Spencer.

It's right!

And you're through to Round Two.

Very well done. That's a good answer.

Down it goes. Continues down to 3.

Takes your total up to 16. Now, that is the lowest total of the round.

-Very well done, Steve.

-Well played, Steve, well played, everybody there.

Yeah, the chapel where he used to worship's now

the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham. Well worth a visit.

Three points. You were right as well about Sirhan Sirhan.

Would have scored you 9 points. Would have been a very good answer though.

You were right about Catherine Tramell. It was Sharon Stone.

A lot of points there though, 53. Do you know the top one?

Steven Soderbergh.

Steven Soderbergh, yes, which would have scored 14,

so the best answer up there is Stanley Spencer. Well played.

Thanks very much indeed.

So, the end of our first round, the pair who will be leaving us

with their high score of 65 is Ryan and Mags. Head-to-head last time.

-Gutted.

-I'm sorry.

I'm afraid Steven Spielberg was a big high score.

Mags, did you know some lower scores on that board?

As soon as he said Stanley Spencer I knew that one as well

but it wouldn't have been a good board for me, that.

We've come up against good opposition today.

-We've peaked!

-Graciously said. This is where we have to say goodbye.

It's been lovely having you. Thanks so much for playing, Ryan and Mags.

APPLAUSE

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

And so three pairs remain. Some great work there.

Marilyn and Steve, two great answers from you, lovely low scores there.

Also Steve Stone,

a great answer for the Nottingham Forest footballer.

Very well done. I wouldn't want to call it at this stage.

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

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

who's going to go second?

Whoever's going first please step up to the podium.

OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

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

2013 Miss World contestants, Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for the name of any nation represented

in the Miss World pageant 2013.

Any nation represented in that pageant.

For once we don't mean members of the UN who are a sovereign state

because certain of the nations weren't.

OK, so there we are. Steve, Miss World 2013.

This is the one you have been praying for, isn't it?

-I didn't even know it was still going, to be honest.

-Nor did I!

I'm going to pick somewhere in South America. I'm going to say Venezuela.

Miss Venezuela, says Steve.

Let's see if Miss Venezuela was taking part in 2013 Miss World

and, if she was, let's see how many people remembered her.

Good answer, Steve. Miss Venezuela.

Takes you all the way down to 9.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, Karen Soto was Miss Venezuela.

Her favourite novel is

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Wow. Now, James,

any nation represented in the 2013 Miss World competition.

I'm going to go for

Miss Bolivia.

Miss Bolivia. OK, let's see if that's right and, if it is,

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

Yup, she was there.

Well, 9 for Miss Venezuela.

Ooh! Look at that! 2 for Miss Bolivia!

-Splendid!

-Well said.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, well played, James. I have very little information on Miss Bolivia, I'm afraid.

I don't know what her favourite novel is.

AUDIENCE CHUCKLES

Sorry.

Dan, will you be answering this on any authority at all, or...?

Sort of. I've got a little bit of a logic

and it stays in the South America theme.

-Yes.

-And I was thinking Shakira?

-Yeah.

-And I think she's from Colombia, so Miss Colombia?

Miss Colombia. OK.

Well, we've gone Venezuela to Bolivia, and now we go to Colombia.

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

You are right, Dan. Good logic.

9 for Venezuela. 2 for Bolivia.

Let's see how far down Colombia goes.

One! Very well done! The trend continues!

Great answer, Dan.

-Yeah, absolutely. We don't really take it too seriously any more over here, do we, Miss World?

-No.

-Which I think is probably good.

-Yes. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores. 1, the best score of that pass.

Very well done indeed, Dan. Up to 2, where we find James and Dave.

Then up to 9, where we find Steve and Marilyn.

Marilyn, it seems to be a bit of a...guessing game at this stage

but good luck with your guess. Let's hope it's a low-scoring one and that it'll keep you in the game.

We'll come back down the line now. Can the second players step up to the podium?

OK, Keith, we are looking for any nation that was represented at the 2013 Miss World competition.

I'm going to go across a bit of water.

I'm going to go for Miss Philippines.

Miss Philippines, says Keith.

The high scorers are Marilyn and Steve on 9. You're on 1.

So a score of 7 or less should see you through.

There's your red line. Miss Philippines, let's see how many said that if it's right.

It's right.

Very well done. 9, it scored.

Which takes your total up to 10.

Yes, actually, Miss World, Miss Philippines. Megan Young.

It's a lovely old Filipino name(!)

LAUGHTER

Thanks, Richard. Now, Dave.

Dave... There you are on 2.

Keith and Dan our current high scorers on 10,

so 7 or less, again, same target as Keith had.

I'm going to have a punt...

..at Miss New Zealand.

Miss New Zealand. OK. There is your red line.

If you get below that with Miss New Zealand... What do you think, James?

It's a brave...very brave move.

OK, let's see. Miss New Zealand.

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

It is right.

Still going down. Still going...

Ooh! 11.

11 takes your total up to 13. That could be enough.

-Yes, Miss New Zealand. Do you miss New Zealand?

-Do I miss New Zealand?

-Oh, a bit, yeah.

-Yeah, me, too.

-I've never been but I do. Ah!

-I do.

Now, Marilyn, it's over to you.

We have a contest on our hands here, Marilyn, because you're on 9,

the high scorers are Dave and James on 13. So your target is 3.

Well, I'm going to stick with South America

cos I know they take Miss World very seriously there.

I'm going to go for...

-..Miss Guatemala.

-Miss Guatemala, says Marilyn.

Let's find out. Is that right and, if it is, how many people said Miss Guatemala?

It's right.

It's right...

Oh, you've done it, look at that! 1 for Miss Guatemala!

Marilyn, very well done indeed!

That takes your total up to 10 and sees you into the head-to-head.

-That's great work, Marilyn. Well done, you.

-Well played, Marilyn.

-Yes, she's Karla Loraine Quinto. She's an interior designer...

-Is she?

-..Miss Guatemala, yeah.

-Good for her.

-She is.

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

It's name a country, really.

Miss Nepal, she won Beauty with a Purpose this year.

-Is that a subcategory, then?

-Yeah, it is, yeah.

Miss Uganda, who...she's got a degree from Greenwich University,

Miss Uganda. So she's a Brit, really.

She's not really. She's from Uganda but she studied in the UK.

And to make up for the fact that

we've just had to do a round about beauty queens,

the first round of the head-to-head,

I'm revisiting one of the classic Pointless rounds of all time.

-What do you think about that?

-I-I'm beyond words.

We've got some genuine, proper beauties in the first question of the head-to-head.

I'm looking forward to that very much indeed. Thank you very much.

So, we've come to the end of our second round and I'm sorry to say,

with a score of 13...

When was that, when was that an excommunicable score?

I am so sorry. It's been great fun having you on the show. You've been such good sports.

Thanks so much for joining us. Dave and James, great contestants!

APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Marilyn and Steve, Dan and Keith.

You're one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £2,250.

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

and to do that, you are going to go head-to-head,

but this time you're allowed to confer.

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

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

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

LAUGHTER

-Yeah, you like?

-I love.

-Yeah, I thought you would.

We're going to show you five pictures of salad leaves now.

We need you to identify the most obscure of these salad leaves.

Very best of luck.

Well, now, let's reveal our five salad leaves.

Here we go. Hold on to your hats! Here they come.

A-ha.

-Aw!

-Ah, look...

-Aw!

-Mm-hm.

Oh...

Aw!

There we are.

Marilyn and Steve, you've played best throughout the show so far so you will go first.

-MARILYN:

-(I've forgotten the first one.)

-(D is lollo rosso.

-Yeah...)

We're going to go for C, rocket.

C, rocket, you're going to say.

Now, Dan and Keith. Do you want to talk us through the rest of the board?

-Hmm...

-I wish we could.

Erm, we've seen A in the bags of salad we've had.

I don't think it's beetroot, though.

Beetroot's got the same kind of leaves

-but I don't think you put that in salad.

-No, you wouldn't.

B, I think, is iceberg lettuce, they call it. C is right, is rocket.

D is... Is it BABY spinach or just...?

-E looks like baby spinach. E?

-Yeah.

We'll go for E, and that's baby spinach.

OK, you're going to say baby spinach.

So, we have rocket and we have baby spinach.

Marilyn and Steve said rocket for C. Let's see if that's right

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

It's right.

Quite a high score for rocket there.

Now, Dan and Keith have said spinach, baby spinach, for E.

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

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

It's right.

Ooh, it wins you the point! What about that!

Spinach down to 36.

Well played, Dan and Keith.

That means after one question, you are up 1-0.

Yeah, actually spinach there, without a sense of scale.

It's identical to baby spinach.

Let's go through the rest of them.

Now, A, it is a member of the beet family.

It's the Swiss chard.

Would've scored you six points.

B is iceberg.

Actually would've scored fewer points than rocket.

Would've scored 49 points.

And D, I think you knew that, Marilyn.

-It's lollo rosso.

-It IS lollo rosso.

-Would've been a very good one to go for.

-He talked me out of it.

-Oh, Steve!

-Steve! What were you thinking?!

-Would've scored 11 points.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, here comes your second question.

Dan and Keith, you will get to answer this first but,

Marilyn and Steve, you have to win it to stay in the game,

so good luck. It concerns...

We're going to show you five words relating to armour now

but we've removed alternate letters from each of the words.

Can you fill in those gaps, please?

OK, let's reveal our armour with missing bits, and here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Five pieces of armour.

Dan and Keith, you will go first.

-Right. Right...

-We know a couple.

OK.

We'll go for the bottom one and say helmet.

OK, you're going to go for helmet. Dan and Keith say helmet.

Marilyn and Steve, talk us through any of the others you might know.

I think the top is visor.

The second is greave.

The third is gauntlet.

I don't know what the next one is,

and, yes, the bottom one's helmet.

-Are you sure about greave?

-Yeah. I think so.

-Yeah. Go for that one?

-Go for it.

-Greave.

-OK, greave, say Marilyn and Steve.

Dan and Keith said helmet. Let's see if that's right

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

It's right.

But it's high.

80.

Meanwhile, Marilyn and Steve have gone for greave.

Let's see if that's right

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

Absolutely right and it wins you the point.

Oh, that's a good score, look at that! Greave!

Ooh! 8!

APPLAUSE

-Very well done, Marilyn. Well done not listening to Steve!

-Yes!

-You're learning!

-I'm learning now!

-Exactly what you needed to do.

After two questions, you're back up 1-1.

Very well played there. Runs from the ankle to the knee, the greave.

Goliath was said to have worn a greave, presumably two.

Visor is the right answer.

It's a big scorer, though, as you would suspect.

Would've scored you 83 points.

Gauntlet, also correct answer.

Gauntlet would've scored... Actually, it's not a bad scorer, gauntlet.

Would've got you 12.

And the last one is a pointless answer.

It's worn on the forearm and it's a vambrace.

Vambrace. Very well done if you said that.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. So, here comes the third question, the decider.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...

-Richard.

-Just going to give you five clues now to facts about bees and their honey.

The team that gives us the most obscure answer's going through to play for the jackpot.

-Very best of luck.

-Let's reveal our five clues, and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Five clues to facts about bees and their honey.

Marilyn and Steve, you will go first this time.

-Well, I'll let you decide this time. Yes, first one, I think.

-OK.

We think that the honeybee secretion is royal jelly.

Royal jelly, say Marilyn and Steve. Royal jelly.

Now, then, Dan and Keith, the board is all yours.

Like the last round, we know a couple

which may be high-scoring, I think.

The bottom one, obviously, is mead.

Second from the bottom is hexagonal shape, I think the shape is.

The term for a male honeybee, I think drone,

but I think that's a wasp. So we'll go for the second one down.

I think... Was it The Flight Of The Bumblebee? I think it was.

You're going to say the bumblebee.

OK, so we have royal jelly and we have bumblebee.

Marilyn and Steve said royal jelly. Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many people said royal jelly.

It's right.

20 for royal jelly.

Now, Dan and Keith, let's see how many you can score for bumblebee.

Flight Of The Bumblebee. How many people said it?

It's right.

Ooh! 44!

APPLAUSE

44. Very well done, Marilyn and Steve.

After three questions, you are through to the final 2-1.

Royal jelly was actually the lowest scorer there.

Nothing you could've done. They're all quite high scorers.

In fact, they go up and up as we go through the board.

The common term for a male honeybee is a drone, actually,

but would've scored you 51 points.

The geometric shape is the hexagon.

That would've scored you 60.

And 69 points for mead.

The four-letter alcoholic drink.

-People know their bees, don't they?

-Mm, they do. Thanks very much.

So, at the end of our head-to-head round,

the pair who'll be leaving us are Dan and Keith.

Well, you did very well. Three perfectly good answers.

Did you know... Did you then know some of those other ones, the other bits of armour?

-Only... Gauntlet came to me but greave...

-Hard to see, though.

I thought it was royal jelly that was the secretion.

We were hoping they wouldn't go for it.

Had we gone first, I think we might have taken a punt on that, but, no.

-Worthy winners.

-It's good news for us as we get to see you again.

Otherwise it would all have been too brief, just one appearance. We look forward to it.

Dan and Keith, meantime, thanks for playing. Great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for Marilyn and Steve, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Marilyn and Steve. You've seen off all the competition

-and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-Marvellous!

-Many congratulations.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands

at £2,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well, you've done very, very well indeed.

Two great answers in the first round

if you cast your minds back to our double Ss.

Stanley Spencer and Stephen Sondheim, and that sort of set the course for the rest of the show.

What would you like to see come up? Steve, what would be good for you this round?

Well, maybe science.

Politics, possibly. Something like that. Wildlife.

Two things that people hardly ever say. Politics!

-Marilyn, how about you? Anything else?

-Politics, yes. History.

Good stuff. Well, best of luck.

As always, you kick this round off by choosing the category you want to answer under.

And here are your four options.

-It'll have to be religious history.

-I think so.

-Religious history.

-Don't know a thing about sport!

We don't know anything about religious history so we'll choose that!

LAUGHTER

I don't think anybody would ever pick it

-so I'm sure everybody wants to know what the questions are!

-Yes!

-So we'll go for it.

OK, well, maybe somewhere in there there'll be a nice category...

-There might be.

-You never know.

-..that will reward your bravery.

-Very well done. Religious history, Richard?

-Here's your three chances.

You'll be able to have a crack at a couple of them, I suspect.

We're looking for any name that's been used by at least one Pope

in the last 500 years.

We're looking for the name

of any Archbishop of York in the last 500 years.

Or we're looking for the name of any Archbishop of Canterbury

of the last 500 years.

So any name used by at least one Pope

or any Archbishop of York or Archbishop of Canterbury

in the last 500 years. Very, very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, as always, you've got up to one minute, with three answers,

and to win that jackpot, all you need to find is just

one pointless answer. Now, do remember,

answers you give can come from any of those categories.

It's up to you how you spread them.

They can all come from the same one or one from each.

Two from one, one from another. Entirely up to you. Are you ready?

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

Your time starts now.

-Sixtus. Sixtus for papal names.

-Yup.

Archbishop of York...I don't know.

John Sen...tano.

The current one. What's his name? John Sentum...?

Sent...

Archbishop of Canterbury, erm...

There's an Archbishop...

Fisher?

I don't know his first name. What was his name? The first name?

-I think papal names.

-Some papal names.

-Yeah.

-Sixtus.

-Sixtus. Ignatius?

-Ignatius.

Um...Leo?

That's a common one, isn't it?

-Alexandra?

-AlexanDER.

-Alexander.

Yeah, that's a common one. Sixtus, Ignatius.

One other that's not too common.

-Was there a Sixtus?

-Ten seconds left.

Sixtus. We'll go for that. We'll go for Leo, shall we?

-Sixtus...

-Ignatius.

-..Ignatius and Leo.

-OK.

OK, there we are.

Your minute is up just as you landed on your three answers.

What are they going to be?

-Sixtus.

-Sixtus.

-Ignatius.

-Ignatius.

-And Leo.

-And Leo.

And these are all under which category?

-The first category, papal names.

-Papal names, OK, very good.

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

-Sixtus.

-Sixtus.

-Don't you?

-Which is your least likely?

-Leo.

-Leo.

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

We have got...

Well, very, very best of luck.

Your first answer was Leo, the one you thought was probably

least likely to be pointless, but, remember, only one of those answers

needs to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

It's £2,250. Quite a nice jackpot. What would you do with that, Steve?

Well, we'd like to...

visit some Michelin star restaurants, I think,

-and some good nights out.

-Very nice.

-Both like eating.

Marilyn, anything else you've got your eye on?

I'll go to another Michelin star restaurant!

-A different one from Steve?

-No, no, no, together!

-Oh, I see, right.

Fair enough.

OK, well, all of your answers are under the category of papal names

in the last 500 years. Your first answer, Leo, let's find out.

It has to be correct, then pointless for you to win the jackpot,

so for £2,250, let's see how many people said Leo.

It's right. That was the first thing it had to be.

The second thing it has to be is pointless.

If it goes all the way down to zero, you will leave with £2,250.

It's still going down. Down it goes. Still, down it goes!

You've done it!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed! That's brilliant.

Fantastic!

I can't believe it!

-Oh, congratulations!

-Amazing!

-And you thought that was your LEAST likely to be pointless.

-Yes!

-Well, there we are!

It was a pointless answer, which means you will be leaving here with £2,250.

Very well done indeed.

-How about that! That was good, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-Leo's a great answer.

Ignatius would've been an incorrect answer. I know they're saying...

Pope Francis, they thought maybe he was going to take the name Ignatius.

He didn't in the end.

Sixtus...

423 years ago there was a Pope Sixtus

and it's a pointless answer as well. Very well played.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Let's take a look at some of the other papal names that would've been pointless answers.

You could also have had Clement, Julius or Marcellus.

So very well done if you said any of those.

Michael Ramsey, who went on to be Archbishop of Canterbury,

would've scored you points in that category, though.

Geoffrey Fisher, one of the more recent ones.

All pointless. Well done if you said that at home and congratulations in the studio. That's great.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Well, thanks once again to our winning players, Marilyn and Steve,

who go away with today's jackpot of £2,250. Very well done indeed!

CHEERING AND 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.