Episode 2 Pointless

Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and a very warm welcome to Pointless,

the show where obvious answers mean nothing

and obscure answers mean everything.

-Let's meet today's players.

-APPLAUSE

-And couple number one.

-Hello, my name's Rayne.

This is my colleague Sean and we both work in East London.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Chev.

This is my husband Danny and we're from Carlisle.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Kate. This is my friend Fred.

I'm from Leeds and Fred's from Hertfordshire.

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Alex and this is my mum, Angela and we are from Warrington.

-And these are today's contestants.

-APPLAUSE

Thanks, all of you.

We'll get to know more about you as the show goes along.

So, that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Hunting down the facts and strangling them with his bare hands,

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

Hiya. Hi, everybody. APPLAUSE

-Afternoon. Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

What an amazing show we had last time!

On podium one, we had Rayne and Sean who were incredibly strong,

properly strong, pointless answers, all sorts of good answers.

But they came across an even stronger pair, Jackie and Donna.

Started with a pointless answer,

finished with a pointless answer, won the jackpot.

Deservedly so as well. Absolutely terrific.

But Rayne and Sean, unlucky to come against them in that show.

I think they're going to be very difficult to beat in this one.

Angela and Alex, we didn't see too much of you last time.

Fingers crossed we'll see a little bit more this time.

-But should be a cracking little show.

-Fabulous.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

All our questions are put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants need to find the obscure answers

our 100 people didn't get.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

and answer that none of our 100 people got,

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

Now, Jackie and Donna won the jackpot last time,

so today's jackpot starts off back at £1,000.

There it is. Right, if everyone's really, let's play Pointless.

APPLAUSE

OK, all you need to remember is that the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

Best of luck. Our first category today is...

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Yeah, good. Band Members, Eponymous Debut Albums. That's what it is.

-Richard.

-Yeah, on each pass, we're going to show you seven bands

who released eponymous or self-titled debut albums.

We're just going to give you the surnames of the members

of those groups, so can you work out what the band is, please?

There's going to be seven on each pass.

14 in all to have a go at, at home.

I've got it. Brilliant.

We're going to give you the names of the band members, the surnames.

You have to tell us what the name of that band

and thereby, the name of their eponymous first album.

OK, our first board of seven reads like this...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Seven bands with just their members' surnames.

-Sean, welcome back. You did so well last time.

-Thank you.

Fantastic performance. Remind us what you do, Sean.

-I'm park ranger at Mile End Park.

-A park ranger.

How long have you been doing that?

-Ten years.

-Is it quite nice? It's nice to be out in the open air.

It's lovely.

It's quite free, with many different aspects of the job

so it's never boring.

And you get to see the park growing and changing all the time.

It's changed a lot in ten years.

-And what are your interests outside the park?

-I like to read.

I listen to some music, but none of those bands there.

-Anything there jumping out at you?

-Two.

One, I think I know for sure. One, I'm... I'm going to guess.

I'm going to go for Tyler, Perry, Hamilton, Kramer and Whitford.

And I hope it's Aerosmith.

Aerosmith, says Sean. Let's see if Aerosmith's right.

Let's see how many people said Aerosmith.

Absolutely right, Sean.

-Good answer. Very well done.

-APPLAUSE

Great start to the round and the show. 12 for Aerosmith.

Great answer, Sean. Great start to the show again.

-Yes, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, leading up the group there.

-OK.

-Now, Chev, welcome.

-Hiya.

-I love Chev. What's that short for?

-Chevonne.

-Chevonne? Nice chevaux on your top there, also.

-Thank you.

Now, Chev, what do you do?

-I'm a team leader in a kitchen.

-That's a fun thing to be.

-Blooming hard work, I've had thought.

-It is hard work.

-In a kitchen in a restaurant or...?

-It's in a pub in Carlisle.

Right you are. Now, Chev. Bands.

I think there's maybe two I know, but I think I was listening to one

on the radio coming up on the train, so I'm going to go with that one.

Morrissey, Marr, Rourke, Joyce.

-The Smiths.

-The Smiths, says Chev. Let's see if that's right.

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

Good.

APPLAUSE

40 for The Smiths.

Yeah, a big score for The Smiths.

Steven Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce, of course.

Number two, their debut album got to.

-Thank you very much. Kate, welcome.

-Hello.

-Great to have you here.

-You are a student.

-I am.

-Where are you a student?

-At the University of Birmingham.

-And you are studying what?

I'm studying geography with a year in computer science.

Which year are you in at the moment?

I'm in my third year, which is computer science.

The year in computer science.

-Are you longing to be back in geography?

-Yeah. I can't wait.

-How long till you're back there?

-After summer, so...

-Oh, goodness.

Well, best of luck with that.

What do you like getting up to at Birmingham when you're not studying?

I do cheerleading with the uni.

-Which is fun, but I broke my wrist the day before...

-That will happen.

-..our audition for this.

-You want a lighter pompom, is my advice.

You can get a lot of sprains there. as well.

Also, in a high wind, I don't know if you've experienced this,

but some of those pompoms can catch a draught.

And there's hell to pay. Not at the time, but later on.

I'm just warning you.

-Yeah.

-OK. So, yes, bands. Music, a big interest of yours?

Well, I thought it was, and then I saw that. So, thinking again.

I'm going to take a wild guess.

Jagger, Richards, Jones, Watts, Wyman.

Just go for The Bee Gees.

OK. Let's see if that's right. The Bee Gees.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said The Bee Gees.

-I'm sorry.

-I knew that.

-I'm afraid that is not The Bee Gees.

That's going to score you 100 points. Sorry.

Yeah, sorry, Kate. The Bee Gees would be Gibb, Gibb, Gibb.

LAUGHTER

Wow, that sounds like a weird Scout thing, doesn't it?

-Thanks. Angela, welcome back.

-Hi.

Now, Round Two it was for you last time. That was a pig, wasn't it?

-That board?

-Not a good board.

-Oh, dear, oh, dear.

Remind us what you do, Angela.

I work in a central planning department

for a high street retailer

-that I'm not going to mention.

-Excellent.

Do they sell lots of things? Is it a broad range of things they sell?

-Absolutely.

-Or is it quite... Not a stationer's?

No, not a stationer's.

-Not a computer...?

-We touch on computing.

Basically I was wondering if there was any kind of discount we can get.

LAUGHTER

-They touch on computing.

-They touch on computing.

-Touch.

-Well, you could certainly do with a new computer.

-Yeah, if you've got...

-Come and see me later.

-If you've got a computer that actually works,

-that would be amazing.

-Or just a computer lead would be good.

Just something to plug it in would be lovely.

Anyway, now, Angela. You're the last person to have this board.

You can fill in all the blanks.

Not a chance. This is not my forte at all.

I think Jagger, Richards, Jones, Watts and Wyman

were The Rolling Stones.

-Is that the one you're going to say?

-It's the only one I can think of.

You're going to go for The Rolling Stones. Does that ring a bell, Kate?

-Yeah. Now it does.

-Let's see if it's right.

-KATE:

-I knew that!

Let's see how many people said The Rolling Stones.

Oh!

-It's a lot better than 100, Angela.

-APPLAUSE

-83 for The Rolling Stones.

-Yeah, a lot of our 100 knew that.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman.

Let's look through the rest of these.

Let's start with the second from bottom

because it's got my namesake in there.

Anderson, Butler, Gilbert and Osman.

-Know that one?

-I do know that one.

-He's not just your namesake, it's your brother.

-It is my brother.

Yeah. That's my lovely big brother, Mat. Hello, Mat, if you're watching.

And it's Suede. And their debut album was called Suede

and would have scored 13.

Beat Aerosmith, Mat!

You beat Aerosmith. How about that?

The bottom one is Rage Against The Machine.

Would have scored you three. Manson, Erikson, Marker and Vig.

It's Shirley Manson.

-It's Butch Vig and it's Garbage.

-Yes.

Would have scored you eight. Now, MacFarlane, Savage and Gibson

is the best answer on the board by a mile.

There's a chance, a very off chance, that Fred might know that one

-because they're from your home town of St Albans.

-Erm...

-No.

-I'll give you a clue. I'll tell you the name of the album.

The album's called... LAUGHTER

-The album's called Friendly Fires.

-Oh, right.

Friendly Fires is the answer to that one.

And one point, so very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much indeed. We're halfway through the round.

Let's look at those scores.

Once again, Sean and Rayne leading from the front there,

very well done indeed. Lovely low score of 12.

Then we step up quite considerably, up to 40, where we find Chev and Danny.

Up to 83 where we find Angela and Alex.

Then, I'm afraid, up to 100 for Kate and Fred.

Don't despair though, because actually you're only 17 ahead

of your nearest rivals so it's all still to play for.

We're going to come back down the line.

Second players, please step up to the podium.

OK, let's put seven more bands up on the board, and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Remember, we are looking for the names of the bands

composed of these members and you are going to find the one

you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

-Alex. Welcome back.

-Thank you.

-You are at university.

-You're taking a year out, a year's placement.

-I am.

Tell us something else about yourself, Alex.

I played to a reasonably high level of badminton when I was younger.

I represented the county, Cheshire,

for a number of years, till I was about 18.

And then hung up my racket when I went to university.

Will you be taking it down again when you come back?

I would have thought so, yeah. When I've got a bit more time.

Good stuff. OK, well, you're on 83.

The high-scorers, Fred and Kate on 100.

-16 or less definitely sees you through.

-Yeah. Erm.

I was a lot better on the other board.

I really should know the bottom one, but I'm going to have to go

for the only one I'm certain of, May, Mercury, Taylor and Deacon.

And I hope that's Queen.

You're going to say Queen. Let's find out if it is Queen.

Let's find out how many people said Queen. There's your red line.

Well, it's right.

-That is a high score.

-APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 156.

Yes, it is a big score again.

Actually, on that first album, John Deacon is credited as Deacon John.

-Cos the others thought it sounded cooler.

-I think they're not wrong.

And he was quite new to the band so he said, "All right."

Interesting. Thank you. Now, Fred. Welcome.

-You're also a student at Birmingham.

-Yeah.

-What do you study?

I study political economy.

-Good stuff. In your third year?

-Third year.

Are you going to go political after it do you think?

Or is it just something you're...?

It was something I was interested in, but I think...

After three years, I now have no further interest!

-Hopefully, I'm going to try and do a master's after.

-OK. In...?

-In economics.

-OK. Good stuff.

Now then, Fred. There you are. You're on 100. Alex and Angela, 156.

So 55 or less and through you go.

Now, I was much better on the last board,

but I'm going to take a stab in the dark.

Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy and Thompson.

And I'm probably going to go with Kaiser Chiefs.

OK, Kaiser Chiefs, said Fred.

Let's see if that's right.

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

There's your red line.

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

Scores you another 100 points. Takes your total up to an unbeatable 200.

-Sorry.

-Yeah, roughly the right vintage for Kaiser Chiefs,

but that would start with Wilson, I'm afraid.

Now then, Danny. Listen, I've got great news. You are in Round Two.

-Good, good.

-Listen, I just want to let you know the glad tidings.

You're in Round Two.

Danny, what do you do? I know the answer to this.

-You manage a kitchen.

-Yep.

What are your interests aside from the kitchen?

Er, football and travel, preferably the two together.

I've sent myself the aim of going to all, I think

there's 50 countries in Europe now, by the time I turn 50.

I've been to 32 and I've got 14 years to go.

-And you're trying to take in a game while you're there?

-Yeah. If I can.

Good stuff. OK, now, Danny. There you are. You're on 40.

Doesn't matter what you score, you're through to the next round.

But I think you might have some good answers here.

I have a hunch you might be quite good at this.

The first board, I knew four of them.

This board, one stood out instantly.

Because they are my favourite band.

So I'm going to go with Squire, Brown, Mounfield and Wren.

-And The Stone Roses.

-Abso... Maybe. Absolutely maybe. Let's see.

Is that right, and how many of our 100 people said The Stone Roses?

Oh, it's a lovely low score. Look at that. Very well done.

-Takes your total up to 50.

-APPLAUSE

-Our lowest total so far, Danny, well done.

-Well played, Danny.

The wonderful Stone Roses.

Yeah, after that first album, they signed to Geffen for 20 million

and then didn't make another album for five years.

Wow.

Thanks very much. Now, Rayne.

The main issue is, you are also through. This is the main issue.

The side issue is, can you score the best score of the round?

The lowest score? The lowest score to date is Danny's actually.

Like Danny, I had four on the first round

and I suspect it was the same four.

Going from the top, that's Duran Duran.

I think the one on the bottom is possibly Elastica.

Clapton/Baker must be Cream.

As we're through, we'll go for Elastica.

You're going for Elastica. No red line, you're already through,

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

It's absolutely right.

Well, ten is our lowest score so far.

Are you going to go down below that?

-Oh. Joint lowest.

-APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed. 22.

The lowest total score of the round.

Yeah, another terrific answer there.

Justine Frischmann as you say,

Donna Matthews, Annie Holland and Justin Welch.

Who used to be my brother's flatmate, many, many years ago.

Ten points for them.

Actually, the Clapton, Winwood one? It's not Cream. It's Blind Faith.

And it scores a very low four points. Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thompson.

-It's Franz Ferdinand.

-It's Franz Ferdinand, yeah. Alex Kapranos.

Would have scored you five.

Right at the top, you were quite right.

Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Rhodes, Le Bon is Duran Duran.

Would have scored you 47, so a big score.

And Lynch, Lynch, O'Carroll, Armaou.

Is B*Witched. Of C'est La Vie fame.

Three points for that, so B*Witched is the best answer on the board.

-Well done if you said that.

-Thank you, Richard.

So at the end of our first round, the pair heading home

with their unbeatable score of 200, I'm afraid, is Fred and Kate.

Well, I'm sorry, yes. You know, you took a punt.

You did exactly what you needed to do. We'll see you again next time.

We look forward to that.

-In the meantime, thanks for playing. Fred and Kate.

-APPLAUSE

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

And so only three pairs remain.

At the end of this round, we'll have to say goodbye

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

Well, Rayne and Sean, very well done.

Some lovely low-scoring once again from you there.

Chev and Danny, no slouches either.

Danny particularly, lovely low score there. Angela and Alex... Phew.

-Phew.

-Phew is all I'm saying. But it all changes. Completely new round.

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

Politics. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going first, who's going second?

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

OK, so our question concerns...

The G20 summit of 2013. Richard.

We are about to show you a photograph of some of the people

who attended the G20 summit in St Petersburg in 2013.

We just need you to name any person you're about to see in the picture.

Don't worry, there's some very famous people there.

Some good pointless answers but there's some well-known ones, too.

Thanks very much. We're looking for the names of any of the people

pictured in this image.

And here they are.

There we are.

Who are all these people? Rayne.

OK. I feel I should be much better than this.

I could probably make guesses on most of the countries.

I think I can only name four people.

-Let's go for Angela Merkel.

-Angela Merkel, says Rayne.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, Chancellor of Germany. Formerly a quantum chemist, Angela Merkel.

I get the feeling we might run out of obvious answers towards

the end of this round, don't you?

Now then, Chev.

I only know two.

And they're so obvious, but I'm going to have to go with one.

Barack Obama.

Barack Obama, says Chev.

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

It's ri...

-Didn't even have time to say it was right, but it is.

-APPLAUSE

-91 for Barack Obama.

-Yeah. President of the United States. There he is.

Of course, lost his record for the most tweeted photograph ever

after his 2012 election victory.

Ellen DeGeneres beat it with her Oscar selfie.

She's not there though.

This is actually a selfie taken by a very long-armed man

who's just out of shot. LAUGHTER

-Now then, Angela.

-Yes.

-Angle-a, I nearly called you, sorry. Angela.

Er, yes. There's four on there that I know. Two have gone.

Do I need to give a Christian name as well? I fear you do, yeah.

I'm going to say David Cameron then.

OK, David Cameron, says Angela.

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

Yep, it's right.

-APPLAUSE

-Jeepers creepers!

It's interesting more of our hundred recognised the US President

than our own Prime Minister.

Yeah, it might be because he's slightly...

Obama's right in the front, isn't he? Cameron's slightly behind.

But at least he didn't get beaten by Angela Merkel.

-That really would have been...

-That really would be terrible.

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

All of them quite high, but the best score, as ever,

to the first podium, Rayne and Sean. Well done, Rayne.

69 there, not bad at all.

Then up to 88 where we find Angela and Alex.

Up to 91, Chev and Danny.

So, Danny, it's between you and Alex in the next pass. Best of luck.

We're going to come back down the line.

Second players, step up to the podium.

OK, we're looking for the names of any people pictured here.

Alex, you're on 88.

Little bit lower than the high score, Danny and Chev on 91.

What are you going to go for?

I'm struggling. The three that I knew are the three that have gone

and I assume that's like most people but maybe not.

So I'm going to have to take a guess.

And let's go with...

..John Smith.

SHE LAUGHS

-Yes, because that is a common name right over the world.

-LAUGHTER

There is your red line, down there. Right at the bottom of the column.

Let's see if John Smith's right.

Bad luck, Alex. I'm afraid that is an incorrect answer.

Scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Thanks to Angela's low score, relatively low score

in the previous pass, you may still get through to the head-to-head.

-We will discover. Richard.

-Yes, sorry, Alex.

That's John Smith's hand there, just out of shot.

OK, now, Danny.

Mmm.

Quite glad Alex said John Smith

because it leaves the only one I'm pretty sure of.

I'm going to go for a man whose country I've been to twice.

Which is Russia. And Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin, says Danny. OK. There is your red line.

You merely have to get below that and you are in the head-to-head.

Let's see if Vladimir Putin is right.

It is, of course, and you are through. Very well done.

Vladimir Putin.

-Wow, soaring down the column. Look at that.

-APPLAUSE

-Takes your total up to 127.

-Yeah, there he is in the front row.

Very well played. Did exactly what you needed to do.

OK. Thanks very much. Now, Sean. Listen, good news.

You're through to the next round.

You are through, even if you score 100 points,

which I don't think you will.

I think you'll be able to come up with a name.

All right. I'm going to try...

I don't even know if the guy's in the picture to be honest,

but I'm just going to say Francois Hollande.

Francois Hollande. Let's see. Francois Hollande, is he there?

No red line for you as you're already through.

No, Francois Hollande, not there.

Unfortunately, scores you 100 points. Takes your total up to 169.

Couldn't matter less. You are already through.

Yeah, sorry, Sean. Perfectly good guess though, Francois Hollande.

This was in St Petersburg and they told him it was in Moscow as a trick.

LAUGHTER

Just going, "I'll give them 15 minutes. Then I'm getting my car."

Tough round. There's not many other scorers in there,

so I'll just go through everyone from the bottom left upwards.

Enrique Pena Nieto, the President of Mexico.

Next to him is Lee Hsien Loong, who's the PM of Singapore.

Both of those pointless answers. Another pointless answer,

the lady in red there, is Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil.

Then we have Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,

the President of Indonesia. He was a pointless answer as well.

You got Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey who was a pointless answer.

Manmohan Singh of India, he would have scored you two points.

The Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr.

He was a pointless answer.

Ban Ki-moon. Some people might have got him. One point Ban Ki-moon got.

The Secretary General of the UN. Jim Yong Kim from the World Bank.

You've got Jose Angel Gurria of the OECD,

both of those pointless answers.

Another pointless answer, the Governor of the Bank of England now,

Mark Carney and, to finish off the line,

you've got Hailemariam Desalegn, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

All of those were pointless.

Thank you very much.

So, at the end of our second round, the pair heading home

with their high score of 188, I'm afraid, is Alex and Angela.

-That was really tough.

-That was tough.

-That was very tough.

Apologies. Fun, but tough.

No shame at all on leaving in that round,

but it's been lovely having you on both shows.

-Thanks so much. Alex and Angela.

-APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Chev and Danny, Rayne and Sean,

you are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for the jackpot which currently stands at £1,000.

This is where we have to decide who gets to play for that jackpot

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

The difference is you can now confer before you give your answers, and

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

You've both played incredibly well.

I wonder who is going to win this tussle. It's going to be an epic.

-Let's play the head-to-head.

-APPLAUSE

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

-Christmas, Richard.

-Ah, that's nice, isn't it? Do you feel all seasonal?

We're going to give you five clues now to five facts about things

to do with Christmas. You just have to give us the most obscure answer. Good luck.

OK, let's reveal our five Christmas facts and here they come.

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now then, Chev and Danny,

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

(The film is Miracle On 54th Street or 52nd Street, I'm not sure.

(52nd or 51st.)

Right. Not totally sure whether this is right.

The '94 film featuring Coles Department Store

and staring Mara Wilson.

Miracle On 51st Street?

Miracle On 51st Street.

OK. Miracle On 51st Street. Rayne and Sean, the board is all yours.

Talk us through it and fill in any blanks you can.

I think the third one could possibly be The Nutcracker Suite.

I think the decade, for some reason, 1860s?

We all know that Christmas dinner is eaten on the 25th of something.

-And we think the film is called...

-Miracle On 34th Street.

-So we'll go for...

-Miracle On 34th Street.

-Miracle on 34th Street.

OK, so we have Miracle On 51st Street.

-Just round the corner, well...

-LAUGHTER

A few blocks down, we have Miracle On 34th Street.

Now, Chev and Danny said the Miracle On 51st.

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

No.

Doesn't necessarily mean Rayne and Sean are right, of course,

but let's find out. Miracle On 34th Street, they've said. Is that right?

How many people said it if it is?

That's right. 34th it is.

-Good answer.

-APPLAUSE

The Miracle On 34th Street. Very well done.

-After one question, you are up 1-0.

-Yeah, very well played.

Not 51st Street, I'm afraid.

Roadworks on 51st Street, everyone diverted down to 34th Street.

I think because it was Christmas.

I think there was something going on there.

Now, what did you think it would be, the eight?

-Lords?

-No, I...

-And you think?

-I think it's maids a-milking.

It is maids a-milking. Eight maids a-milking.

But very hard to remember those ones. 21 points for that.

The ballet by Tchaikovsky, you're right, was The Nutcracker.

Would have scored you 37. The decade wasn't the 1860s. It was the 1840s.

-Oh, right.

-Would have scored you three points.

And the date Christmas dinner is traditionally eaten is, er...

How many people got this. Let's have a guess, shall we?

Surely 100?

It's not 100. It beats David Cameron, but not by much.

91. LAUGHTER

-Wow.

-91. I suppose, you might think the question's so obvious...

They might think it's a trick question.

-Or people might eat their Christmas dinner on a different date.

-True.

"What date do I traditionally eat it?"

I mean, some people... Yeah, it's true.

Thank you, Richard. So, here comes your second question.

Chev, Danny, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

-But Rayne and... Rayne and Shine...

-LAUGHTER

..will be, er...

I'm glad you've said that.

For two shows now, every time we've heard "Rayne and Sean",

I've been singing Rain Or Shine, the Five Star song.

-Every single time.

-They will get to go first.

OK, here it comes. Best of luck. It concerns...

Down On The Farm. Richard.

We're going to show you five terms now associated with farming

but we put them in anagram form.

Can you unscramble them and give us the best answer? Good luck.

OK. Let's reveal our five anagrams and here they come.

All to do with farming.

OK, Rayne and Sean will go first.

(First, third, fourth... Haven't got the second of the fifth.)

We're going to go for "hob mince traverse" - combine harvester.

Combine harvester, say Rayne and Sean.

OK, now, Chev and Danny, the board is all yours.

Erm...

"Gyp sit," we would hope is pig sty. "Raw soccer" is scarecrow.

"Natal otter pop" is meaning absolutely nothing at the moment.

-So, scarecrow?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, we'll go with scarecrow.

You're going to go for scarecrow.

OK, so we have combine harvester and we have scarecrow.

Rayne and Sean said combine harvester.

Let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

-32 for combine harvester.

-APPLAUSE

Now then, Chev and Danny have gone for scarecrow. "Raw soccer."

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

It's right.

It's got to beat 32.

And it does, well done. Back in the game. Good stuff, Chev and Danny.

-That's what we needed from you.

-APPLAUSE

-After two questions, it's one all.

-Well played, Chev and Danny.

Well chosen, as well. The top one is hay bale.

That would have scored you 46.

You're right about pig sty, but a big scorer, pig sty.

The biggest on the board, in fact. Would have scored you 69.

Now this bottom one is a pointless answer.

If I give you a clue? It's a machine for planting potatoes.

-It's a potato...planter.

-Potato planter, absolutely right.

Pointless answer. Very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much indeed. OK, it all comes down to a third question.

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

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

Critics And Reviewers, Richard.

We're just going to show you five pictures of famous critics

and reviewers. You just need to identify the most obscure one.

The team that does is going through to play for the jackpot,

-so very best of luck.

-Thank you very much.

Let's reveal our five critics or reviewers and here they are.

We have got...

There we are. Five critics or reviewers.

Chev and Danny, you will go first.

-(E, I think, is Garry Bushell. He does sport and films.

-Yeah, OK.)

I'm going to go with E and is it Garry Bushell?

Garry Bushell, say Chev and Danny. Garry Bushell.

Now then, Rayne and Sean. Talk us through the rest of the board.

Right. We like to think we know them all.

I think that's Miranda Sawyer. That's the amazing Brian Sewell.

That's the guy who took over from Philip French, Mark Kermode.

And that's Jay Rayner

and I have absolutely no idea what order people will know those in.

OK, let's go...

-SEAN LAUGHS

-Mark Kermode.

OK, you're going to say C is Mark Kermode.

So we have Garry Bushell. We have Mark Kermode.

Now, Chev and Danny said Garry Bushell for E.

Let's see if E is Garry Bushell. Let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

-Garry Bushell, ten.

-APPLAUSE

Little bit scared now.

OK, so, Rayne and Sean meanwhile have said that C is Mark Kermode.

Let's see if that's right

and let's see how many people said Mark Kermode.

It's right.

It's got to go down below ten. Let's see where it stops.

-Oh, 22 for Mark Kermode.

-APPLAUSE

Oh, my Lord.

Which means...after three questions, Chev and Danny,

you are through to the final, 2-1.

Yeah, Mark Kermode the biggest scorer on the board, actually.

He does an awful lot of TV.

Four of the people up there do a lot of television.

There's one who's a brilliant writer, and you knew exactly who she was.

She's Miranda Sawyer and she was a pointless answer.

-ALL:

-Oh!

-Would have seen you in the jackpot round

and would have added £250 to the jackpot.

B is Brian Sewell.

The art critic and TV presenter. Would have scored you 15.

And Jay Rayner there who is a restaurant critic,

also on TV a lot, and he would have scored you 13 points.

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

I'm afraid, Rayne and Sean. You knew all of those answers.

It is hard though. It's very hard when the pressure is on,

the lights are shining on you, you've got to pick.

Very hard to know.

It's been a pleasure having you. Rayne and Sean.

-Thank you so much.

-APPLAUSE

But for Chev and Danny, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Chev and Danny.

You've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy, so very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,000.

There it is. Well, you've defied the odds there.

I think it's your lucky horse top there, Chev.

I think that's what it must be. Very, very well done.

As always, you get to choose your category for this last round.

You have four options to choose from. They are...

British thriller writers, not my type of reading.

-No, I've got no idea.

-Cliff Richard.

-No.

-It's going to have to be the football.

-The football one.

OK, you're going to go for football.

-19th-Century Football.

-Yep, three different options here.

Football fans at home I suspect will do rather well on this.

One of those ones where if you know your lists, you might do quite well.

We are looking for...

Any team who won the English FA Cup in the 19th century.

We're looking for any English Football League team

from the 19th century, so anyone who played

in the top tier of English football up to the 1899 season.

Or we're looking for any teams in the inaugural season

of the Scottish Football League, which was 1890-'91.

So, any 19th-century FA Cup winner,

19th-century top-tier English football team

or any teams in the inaugural season of the Scottish Football league.

-Very best of luck.

-OK, thanks very much.

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

and all you need to win

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-OK. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

-Right, go on, then.

-19th-century FA Cup winners.

There was the Royal Engineers. The Wanderers.

-Er...

-Are these their actual names?

-Yeah, yeah.

Blackburn Rovers won the double.

Er...

19th-century English Football League teams.

Only 12 started the first ever one.

I think Preston were definitely in it. Bolton Wanderers.

-What about any Scottish ones?

-Scottish ones...I'm not so sure on.

Right. Well, go on the other two and we'll pick three.

Yeah. Er...

We'll go for the Wanderers.

Royal Engineers...for the cup winners.

-And the 19th-century...

-Maybe Carlisle?

-No, no. We're after.

Come after.

WHISPERING

-I'd say...

-Ten seconds left.

-Right, OK. All down to you.

-Cheers.

-OK, have you got your three, do you think?

-Yeah, we have.

Well, we will stop the clock.

Let's have your three answers then.

-We're going to go for two in the first category, the cup winners.

-OK.

-And the are the Royal Engineers.

-The Royal Engineers.

-And the Wanderers.

And the Wanderers.

And 19th-century English Football League teams. Glossop North End.

Glossop North End.

Of those three - they all sound brilliant, by the way -

which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Er... I'll go with Royal Engineers.

-Royal Engineers, we'll put last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Glossop North End.

Glossop North End. OK.

Let's pop those answers up on the board in that order.

And here they are. We have got...

Well, very, very best of luck.

Three very good-looking answers up on the board there.

Your first answer was Glossop North End.

The one you thought was probably least likely to be pointless.

Only one has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

£1,000, it's not our biggest ever jackpot, but still!

Nice thing to take home in your back pocket.

What would you be doing with that, Chev?

We took our son to Disneyland in Paris and he absolutely loved it,

so we'd like to go to the one in Florida with him.

-Put it towards that.

-OK. Anything else, Danny?

Well, I'd love to go on a mad tour of Europe

doing a few more football grounds,

but no, I'll take the family holiday.

OK. Well said, Danny. Well said. OK, very, very best of luck.

Glossop North End, your first answer.

In this case, we were looking for 19th-century Football League teams.

Obviously, it has to be correct,

then it has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

So for £1,000, let's see.

How many of our 100 people said Glossop North End?

It's right.

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

The next thing it has to be is pointless.

If this goes all the way down to zero, you leave here with £1,000.

Still going down.

It's done it. You've done it. Very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE

Excellent. Florida, here we come!

-Very well done.

-Still have two answers left!

-Oh, well done!

-Oh, very well done. Congratulations.

Glossop North End was a pointless answer,

which means you leave here with £1,000.

-APPLAUSE

-Fantastic, Chev and Danny.

-Well done!

Absolutely brilliant. Well done.

Glossop or Glossop North End just couldn't have come better, could it?

Wanderers - pointless answer.

Won the very first FA Cup, Wanderers. And Royal Engineers -

pointless answer! APPLAUSE

Brilliant! Oh.

Oh, well done.

Very, very well played.

There's lots of pointless answers up here in the different categories.

Let's take a look. So other 19th-century FA Cup winners.

Blackburn Olympic would have been a pointless answer.

Old Carthusians was a pointless answer.

Oxford University also a pointless answer.

Let's take a look at the teams who played in the English League in the 19th century.

Bury would have been pointless, Darwen would have been a good answer.

There's Nottingham Forest again. Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Accrington. You could have had Newton Heath who became Manchester United

but were Newton Heath at the time, and Small Heath, as well.

And the Scottish League.

A few good answers here as well. Abercorn, who were from Paisley.

Dumbarton were there. Third Lanark.

Again, it's one of those ones,

if you look at your football lists, it's one that you remember.

Vale of Leven also a pointless answer.

A couple more on that list.

Cambuslang or you could have had Cowlairs, as well.

All of those pointless answers, well done if you said that.

But very, very rare on this show to get three pointless answers.

Very, very impressive. I'm sorry it's such a small jackpot.

It seems a shame, but absolutely brilliant. Congratulations.

-Thank you.

-Thanks very much.

Thanks to our winning players, Chev and Danny,

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

-Very well done indeed.

-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.