Episode 31 Pointless

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Thank you very much, indeed. Hello.

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

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

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

I'm Rich, this is my wife Abby and we're from Hertfordshire.

-Couple number two.

-I'm Brendon. I'm from Hampshire.

This is my sister Angela and she's from Cheshire.

Couple number three.

I'm Arwel and this is my good friend Steve

and we both live in Southfields in southwest London.

-And, finally, couple number four.

-I'm Nic. I'm from Ruislip.

And this is my friend Kit from Hampshire.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, all of you.

We'll find out more about each of you throughout the show, as it goes along.

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

He's Stephen Hawking's phone-a-friend, but he's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya. Hiya.

-Hello there.

-Hello there.

-What a run of shows we've had.

-I know.

Recently this happened and it's happened again -

three times in a row we've given away the jackpot.

Never given it away four times in a row before in history,

so we could make Pointless history today if one of you can manage it.

Our returning pairs had very different shows last time.

Angela and Brendon very, very unlucky to be knocked out in our film round.

Brendon gave us a great answer

that was just outside of what it needed to be.

But a very valiant wrong answer.

Whereas Kit and Nic had one of the more ironic exits we've ever had

because Nic lost in a round of Famous Nicks, which was, you know,

if you're going to go out on something, why not go out on that?

So it should be a cracker today. But if we can win the jackpot today, that'll be four in a row.

-Never been done before.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

All our questions on Pointless have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants have to find the obscure answers those 100 people didn't get.

Of course, everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

that being an answer that none of our 100 people gave

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

Now, Ross and Laurie won the jackpot last time,

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

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

So, basically, all you need to remember

is that the pair with the highest score at the end of each round

will be eliminated,

so do everything you can to make sure that's not you.

Our first category today is...

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

who's going to go second, and whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

Children's TV Shows, Richard.

Yeah, something for everyone on this round, I hope.

On each pass we're going to show you descriptions of seven famous children's television shows.

You just need to tell us the name of the show.

There's going to be 14 children's television shows in all to get at home. Good luck.

Thanks very much, indeed.

So we're looking for the children's TV show described by each of these

clues and here's our first board of seven.

We've got:

I'll read those all one last time.

-Abby, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Now, what do you do, Abby?

I work in book publishing as a marketing manager.

-What sort of books particularly? Do you specialise?

-Educational books.

So mainly English language teaching products

to help foreigners, basically, learn English.

What are your interests, outside of publishing?

I love travelling, so I've been to Mauritius and New Zealand

and America.

So I'd like to kind of, obviously, if I win the jackpot,

I'd like to travel a bit more and see a bit more of America.

-OK. I like the way you say 'I' not 'we'.

-No, just me on my own.

-OK.

Now, Abby, what are you going to go for on this board?

-How many of those do you think you know?

-Yeah.

It's tricky for me and my heart sank when I saw Children's TV Shows

because I'm not great at that category.

But I'm going to go with an obvious one because I know it's correct

and go with Byker Grove for the Newcastle youth club.

OK, Byker Grove says Abby.

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

It is right.

63 for Byker Grove.

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Yeah, it closed its doors for the last time in 2006, Byker Grove.

Thanks very much, indeed.

Angela, welcome back. So remind us what you do, Angela.

Um, well, obviously I like reading, I like sport, particularly tennis.

I used to do a lot of baking. I don't do that so much any more.

But I still do make a lot of preserves.

OK.

Which if you don't mind a preserve in a sticky jar, you can have one.

Be quite hard to have a preserve in a non-sticky jar.

Yeah, but sticky on the outside, I mean. My jars are always sticky.

OK, well, there we are. Angela, there is your board. Help yourself.

Right. I'm... It's not great

but I think I've got to go back to the one

that I think my children watched

and I think it's the one with Chris Tarrant.

-And I think that was Tiswas. But I could be wrong.

-Tiswas says...

Let's see. How many of our 100 people said Tiswas?

It's right, of course. Well, 63 is our only score. You've passed that.

48 for Tiswas.

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Yeah, Tiswas for This is Saturday, Watch and Smile.

Yes. Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Arwel. What do you do, Arwel?

I'm retired now. I used to be a town planner.

I thought you were going to say town crier!

THEY LAUGH

-Um, a town planner.

-Yeah.

-Was that fun?

It was hilarious for a while, yeah.

I bet it was hilarious. A bit of a headache.

I mean, a lot of things you have to sort out as a town planner.

-Especially the enforcement work.

-Yeah.

What do you do now, without town planning to occupy you?

I'm living a life of blissful relaxation,

playing music, playing snooker.

Lovely.

Arwel, what are you going to go for?

The only one I knew was Tiswas.

Um, I'm going to have a crack at number two and say Movie Magic.

Movie Magic.

Well, let's see if that's right

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

Oh, I'm sorry, Arwel.

That is an incorrect answer

so that scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Sorry, Arwel.

I'll give you the correct answer at the end of the pass.

-That's a shame.

-That is, yeah.

-Ah, well.

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Nic, welcome back. Now, yes, remind us what you do.

-I'm a science teacher.

-Indeed you are.

Which do you prefer, because obviously you specialise in biology

for the older kids but you teach sort of more general science.

Yeah, I love teaching chemistry, actually,

because you get to blow up stuff.

I was going to say, surely that's the best answer, yeah.

-Yeah, lots of fire.

-Yeah.

Setting fire to kids' hands with methane bubbles.

-It's brilliant.

-That's just brilliant.

Um, yes. Now, Nic, this board is all yours.

Do you fancy talking us through it?

Um, I think possibly the last one may be Peppa Pig

but I'm going to go for the first one because I can remember watching

it when I was younger and I think it's called Fun House.

-Fun House says Nic.

-Yeah.

-Let's see if Fun House is right.

Let's see how many people said it.

It is indeed right. Well, 100 is our high score. You've passed that.

48 is our low. You passed that a long time ago. 23.

Very well done, indeed.

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Good work, Nic.

Well played, Nic. Yeah, an iconic, very messy game show, Fun House.

They've had it all over the world.

A ten-year-old Luis Suarez was once on the Uruguayan version of it.

-I'd love to see that.

-I'd love to see that as well.

Didn't even get sent off. It's unbelievable.

Uh, you were actually right about the bottom one.

It would have been an even better score, Nic, because it is Peppa Pig.

It would have scored you 9 points.

Now, the quiz show, it's not Movie Magic...

-Screen Test.

-Screen Test, yeah.

A lot of people of a certain age would have aced that. 3 points.

And the Melvyn Hayes series was Here Come The Double Deckers.

-Yes, I do remember that.

-11 points for that.

-And, of course, the comedy series...

-Rentaghost.

-Rentaghost, yeah.

34 points for that.

So Screen Test actually the best answer on the board.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at those scores.

-23, Nic, well done. This is more like it, you see.

-Yay!

That feels good on the last podium there.

Yes, looking very strong, indeed.

Then we go up to 48 with Angela and Brendon. Then 63, Abby and Rich.

And then Arwel and Steve,

you're on 100 there.

Now, Steve, anything could happen on the next board.

If we had a lovely low score from you

maybe it will keep you in the game till Round Two.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more kids TV shows up on the board.

And here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

-There we go. Now, Kit, welcome back.

-Thanks, Xander.

Now, we hardly, we hardly got to know you in the last show.

It was Round One and then...

HE BLOWS

-Blink of an eye.

-It was, almost. It was, almost.

We chatted a bit about your career change from science teacher

and then your move across to the drama department

where you are presumably king of all you survey.

Uh...yes.

Yeah, well, that's good, that's good.

-Tell us what you like to get up to.

-Um, well, I do quite like cycling.

I've got several bikes and me and the lads will all go cycling.

-Oh, that's serious cycling. "Several bikes".

-We do a bit, yeah.

So if someone asks you to go on a bike ride, you'll ask what

-kind of terrain they're going on, what sort of length?

-Which bike?

-Spare bike, road bike, mountain bike?

-Spare bike?

You wouldn't take a spare bike as a first choice, surely? That would be madness.

Yeah, you'd tow it behind your main bike. I would go on motorbike.

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Yeah. That's definitely the one I'd go on. Yeah, good. OK, Kit.

There you are. You're on 23. The high score is on 100.

It's Steve and Arwel.

76 or less gets you through to the next round.

OK, um, I do know a few of these

because I own a television and children,

so I think there's a few I know.

I'm going to go with, um...

..uh, Bagpuss as

Professor Yaffle, Gabriel, Madeleine and the mice all waking up.

The wonderful Bagpuss. Let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

There's your red line. Get below that with Bagpuss, you're through to the next round.

It is right and you are through.

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35.

-58 is your total.

-Well done, Kit. They only made 13 episodes of that.

Bagpuss was supposed to be ginger but turned out pink

because the manufacturer sent the wrong cloth.

And they offered to replace it and Pete Firmin, who made it, said, "No, I quite like it."

I love it. Yeah, it's good.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Now, then, Steve.

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

-I'm a consultant for the music business.

-Now, that's fun.

Which branch of the music business?

Well, currently I'm working with some new artists,

helping to launch them.

So what's the biggest band you've had a hand in?

Ooh, uh. Oh, um...

..Pink Floyd, I suppose. Kate Bush.

I knew he was going to say something like that.

He was very modest, understated...

A band you might have heard of, probably not - Pink Floyd.

They were originally supposed to be called Ginger Floyd weren't they, and...

They got the cloth wrong, yeah.

Now, Steve, you're the high scorers at this point, on 100,

so we need a low score. How do you find this board?

Uh, I've got a few,

so it's a question of really trying to find one which is a lower score

and so I'm taking a bit of a chance but I'll go for the top one

and say Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch," said Steve.

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

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

It is right.

20.

120, Steve. Well done.

Well played, Steve. It's a very good answer.

Yes, she had two 500-year-old aunts in that show.

Well, Melissa Joan Hart opened a sweet shop in California

called Sweetharts.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Brendon. Brendon.

Welcome back to the show. Tell us about yourself again.

I'm a management consultant.

-I do specifically what they call corporate health checks.

-OK.

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

Pleasure time, I like pool, snooker, tennis if the weather's good enough.

Brendon, the board is there. What are you going to go with?

Hmm, the only one I really knew was the top one. Um...

HE SIGHS

I don't know, really, any of them

but I'm going to say that the puppet show first screened in 1950

featuring Teddy and Looby Loo was Sooty.

OK, Sooty says Brendon. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said it. There's your red line.

If you get below that red line, you are through to the next round.

But let's see if it's right.

No, I'm afraid an incorrect answer, Brendon.

Sores you the maximum of 100 points, takes your total up to 148.

-You could still be in with a chance, though.

-Yeah. Sorry, Brendon.

Last time you were terrifically unlucky. This time, yeah...

HE lAUGHS

..not so much.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Now, Rich, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-We have a game here.

-We do.

-We have a game.

-What do you do, Rich?

-I work for a cricket charity.

-That's fun.

What particularly do you do?

I oversee our inner-city project,

so we work in sort of socially deprived areas

getting kids into cricket, off the streets and sort of educating them.

Good job to do. Rich, what do you do in your spare time? Cricket must be an interest of yours.

Yeah, I love sport generally, so I like going to watch football,

I like going to watch cricket in the summer.

Excellent. OK, now, what you have to do is score less than 84.

That is all you have to do. That board is all yours. Dive in.

A couple have gone I knew.

The locomotive one, the only thing that springs to mind there

would be Thomas the Tank Engine but I don't remember anything about Wales in that

from when I last watched it about 20 years ago.

Puppet show, again, not sure.

The next one I think might be The Clangers, maybe, but I'm not sure.

The one that I think I know, that I'm going to go with,

is the sitcom written by Tony Robinson.

Maid Marion and her Merry Men.

Maid Marion and her Merry Men, says Rich.

Let's find out if that's right and if it is, let's see how

many of our 100 people said Maid Marion and her Merry Men.

There's your red line.

Get below that and you are through to the next round.

It's right...and you are through. Very well done, indeed, Rich.

8.

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8 takes your total up to 71, sees you through.

Yeah, very good answer there. Let's fill in the rest of this board.

The animated series, not Thomas the Tank Engine.

-It is of course...

-Ivor the Engine.

Yeah. Would have scored 27.

-The puppet show was...Andy Pandy.

-Andy Pandy.

-Yep.

Would have scored 43. You were absolutely right about The Clangers.

Would have scored you 48. Do you know that bottom one? That's a tough one.

It's the best answer on the board. It's Box Of Delights.

-We've got that on DVD.

-5 points.

Very well done, if you said that.

Thank you very much, indeed.

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

our high score of 148, I'm sorry Brendon and Angela, it is you.

I'm so sorry we have to say goodbye to you so soon, Brendon and Angela, but thanks very much for playing.

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

OK, now, three pairs remain.

Obviously at the end of this round we'll have to say goodbye to another

pair. Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

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

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

OK and the question concerns:

American Sportsmen, Richard.

In a moment, Xander's going to show you four sporting achievements.

We're looking for the name of any American man who has achieved

any of these things post-war, please.

So post-war up to March 2014,

any American man who has achieved any of the following four things.

OK, so we're going to put four winning categories up on the board

and remember, they're going to stay up on the board the whole way through the round.

You just have to name any American man

who has won one of these four categories.

Let's see what those are.

I'll read those all again.

Abby.

I think I'll go with Gentlemen Singles at Wimbledon

and go with Andre Agassi.

Andre Agassi, says Abby.

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

It's right.

12.

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Not bad. Good start to the round, I say, Abby. 12 for Andre Agassi.

Yeah, he only won it once in 1992, beat Ivanisevic.

Thanks very much, Rich. Arwel.

I'll go for the swimming one, I think, and I'll try Mark Spitz.

Mark Spitz says Arwel. Let's see if that's right.

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

Well, 12 is our only score so far. Mark Spitz passes 12 down to 8.

Very well done, Arwel.

Yeah, he won seven golds

and set seven world records at the 1972 Olympics, Mark Spitz.

Thanks very much, indeed. Now, Nic.

I'm hoping that Lleyton Hewitt has won

the Gentleman's Single at Wimbledon.

-Lleyton Hewitt you're saying.

-Oh, no! No, he's Australian.

Oh, no! What have I done?

Let's, for fun, ask the column is it a right answer?

Oh, I'm sorry, Nic.

As soon as I said it. I'm really sorry.

You had a little bit too much time to think there.

That's scored you the maximum of 100 points.

Yep, you knew what you did.

He's Australian, I'm afraid, Lleyton Hewitt.

But, you know, people make mistakes, as I'm sure you tell your pupils

every day when they've accidentally forgotten to do their homework.

They are always forgiven.

I'm sure you always say to them, "We all make mistakes.

"Very easy in the heat of the moment to do something wrong.

"To have not done your homework,

"to have messed up an experiment, to have set fire to the lab.

"Very, very easy to do."

They always say, "Read it twice," don't they?

"Read the question twice."

In the exam that's exactly what you do.

All you've got to do is just make sure you know...

You've got plenty of time, just make sure you know exactly what they're

asking you and you cannot go wrong, kids. That's the thing.

That's the beauty of it. And that's what all good teachers will tell you.

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

8, Arwel, the very best score of that round.

Not just the best, the VERY best.

Then up to 12 where we find Abby and Rich.

Up to 100, I'm sorry, Nic and Kit. I'm sorry.

Kit, at the very least, we're going to need a low score from you.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Now, Kit, so we want the name of any American man who's

won in any of these categories.

OK. I was going to play it safe but now I really can't,

so I'm just going to throw caution to the wind

and say something which I've got a name in my head

I think he could have been a swimmer, could have been American - Matt Biondi.

Matt Biondi says Kit.

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

No red line for you, as you're the high scorers, but let's see if Matt Biondi's right.

It is right.

Still going down, Kit. Still going down. Look at that!

It's a pointless answer!

That is fantastic, Kit!

It scores you nothing, it adds £250 to today's jackpot -

takes that up to £1,250.

It leaves your total at 100.

That was the very first thing you had to do, Kit,

was score as low as you could.

That's a terrific answer, Kit. Yeah, very well played.

-Won the gold in 1988 in the 100m freestyle.

-Thanks very much, indeed.

Well, Steve.

Steve, how are we feeling about this?

I think I've got a right answer.

Whether it's the best answer, we'll see.

I think I'll go for the Open Golf Championship and say Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods, says Steve. Here's your red line. Nice and high.

Get below that with Tiger Woods, your in the head-to-head.

Let's see how many of our 100 said Tiger Woods.

It's right and you're through.

34.

42 is your total.

Yeah, he won the Open in 2000, 2005 and 2006.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Now, Rich.

Again, this is the contest right here.

You have to score 87 or less.

I think I'm going to go for Open Golf Championship

and I'm going to say Ben Curtis.

Ben Curtis, says Rich. There is your red line.

Get below that with Ben Curtis, you're in the head-to-head.

How many of our 100 people said Ben Curtis?

It's right and you're through. Well done.

Still going down.

It's another pointless answer! Very well done, indeed, Rich!

That adds another £250 to today's jackpot.

It takes the total up to £1,500.

It scores you nothing and it leaves your total at a perfect low 12.

Very well done, indeed, Rich and Abby.

Yeah, a very good answer.

I suspect a lot of golf fans would have gone for Ben Curtis as well.

Extraordinary story. In 2003 he won the Open at Royal St George's.

Turned up an absolute no-hoper. Absolute. No-one knew who he was.

I think a golf writer said, "It's not just the greatest upset

"in the history of golf, greatest upset in the history of all sports," he said.

Then the next year a guy called Todd Hamilton came along and did exactly the same thing.

He was also a pointless answer, Todd Hamilton, unsurprisingly.

But a terrific answer. Let's take a look at some other pointless answers in the different sports.

Bobby 'Joe' Morrow, the sprinter, would have been a very good answer.

Two Wimbledon winners here.

Budge Patty - mmm, Budge Patty - and Dick Savitt.

Uh, next page. Justin Leonard, another golfer

would have been a pointless answer.

There's Matt Biondi. Great answer. Rowdy Gaines as well.

Well done if you said him.

A few more golfers to come.

Stewart Cink was a pointless answer, as was Tom Lehman.

You also could have had Mark Calcavecchia.

Todd Hamilton would've been a pointless answer as well.

And Tony Trabert as well, who won Wimbledon.

Very well done if you said any of those.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard.

So at the end of our second round, the pair heading home with our high score of 100...

Oh, I'm sorry. What a score of extremes that was.

Thanks very much for playing. It's been lovely having you here.

I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you, but brilliant contestants.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

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

Congratulations Rich and Abby, Arwel and Steve.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at the much enhanced £1,500.

Now, this is the point where we have to decide

who gets to play for that money

and we do that by making you go head-to-head.

Of course, the difference is, you're now allowed to confer.

You can have a chat before you give your answers.

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

jackpot. I suspect this is going to be quite a tight contest.

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

OK, here is your first question and it concerns...windows.

Windows. Richard.

We're going to show you pictures of five different types of window now.

We've also given you the first letter of what that window is.

Can you give us the most obscure window, please?

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Let's reveal our five windows.

And here they are. We have got...

A, begins with P.

B begins with D.

C, begins with L.

D, begins with S.

And E, begins with F.

Now, Rich and Abby, you've been the low scorers throughout the show so far so you will go first.

RICH: Ah, we're between two

and we're going to go A, porthole.

Porthole. Porthole say Rich and Abby. Now, Arwel and Steve.

Do you want to talk us through all the others? You can do all your thinking out loud now.

-ARWEL:

-D is a dormer window, I think.

We're not sure on answer C, the one beginning with L.

-STEVE:

-D is a sash window.

-D is a sash window.

And we're going to go for E, which is fanlight.

Fanlight say Arwel and Steve. So we have porthole versus fanlight.

Rich and Abby said porthole. Let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

Ooh, that's a high score.

A high score for porthole, which means Arwel and Steve,

fanlight only has to go below that for you to win this point.

Let's see how many people said fanlight.

It's right and it wins it. Well done.

12. Very well done, indeed. 12 for fanlight.

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Good answering there on the blue podium.

That means, Arwel and Steve, after one question you're up 1-nil.

That's a great answer. I always like it when it adds up to 100 as well.

It's quite nice, isn't it?

It doesn't happen very often, so it amuses me.

B, you're right, is dormer.

That would have scored you 51.

You also knew D, which, as you say, is sash.

Another quite big scorer, though. It would have scored you 64.

Now C, you get them in churches, obviously...

-It's a lancet.

-It is a lancet window.

-And it's a pointless answer, as well. So well done.

-OK, thanks very much.

Well, here we go. Here comes question two.

Rich and Abby, you have to win this one to stay in the game, so best of luck.

It concerns...roast dinners.

CHUCKLING

Oh, a roast. I'm starving. Roast dinners.

We're going to show you five items traditionally eaten in a roast dinner

now but they're in anagram form.

Can you unscramble them, please?

OK. Let's show you the anagram forms of these roast dinner items.

And here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, Arwel and Steve, you will go first this time.

-ARWEL:

-Should we go for turnips?

THEY WHISPER

OK, so we will go for number two, which is roast potatoes.

Roast potatoes, the second one down. Roast potatoes say Arwel and Steve.

So, Rich and Abby, talk us through the board.

-RICH:

-It's the bottom two that we're struggling with. Um...

I think there's something fried on there.

So we've got parsnips or Yorkshire pudding.

-ABBY:

-Yep.

-Yorkshire pudding?

-Yeah, let's go with that.

-OK, we're going to go with the top one.

-We're going to go Yorkshire pudding.

-Yorkshire pudding. We have roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding.

Now, Arwel and Steve went with roast potatoes.

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

It's right.

63 for roast potatoes.

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Now, Rich and Abby, meanwhile, have gone for Yorkshire pudding.

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

It's right.

And it wins it for you. Well done.

That's what you needed there, Rich and Abby.

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You're back. After two questions, it's one all.

Good stuff there.

The bottom two were the best answers, the low scorers.

Cos raps spins is parsnips.

A big scorer. Would have scored you 57.

Now, same tunic. Any idea with that?

-No. Meats...

-You'd have it with lamb.

Oh, mint sauce.

Mint sauce, yeah. That would have scored you 7.

And the bottom one, once you work out the word...

The word fried is in it but that's a red herring, really.

The word beef is also in it and it is beef dripping.

6 points. Well done if you said that.

Do you have beef dripping with a roast dinner?

I mean, you have beef dripping as a by-product.

SHE LAUGHS

I wouldn't have said I go, "Mmm! All the trimmings!

"Put back the potatoes. I'm going to have more beef dripping...on my beef. Mmm!"

"Mmm. Tuck in. Yum. Oh, just a spoon for me. Ooh, it's hot!"

I'll tell you what, for the next show,

why don't you work out a series of anagrams for things?

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-OK.

-OK?

-Yeah, yeah.

-OK. Good. I look forward to those.

LAUGHTER

That'll be really good, won't it? "It's a tennis player."

"Let's have a look at the anagrams. Mohn JcEnroe is the first one."

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"Mandy Urray. Mandy Urray is our... Who could that be?

"Who could it be?"

It's not the quality... The anagrams are wonderful.

It's beef dripping's inclusion as something in a roast dinner.

I think that's a fair comment to make.

"And Stiffe Graf."

LAUGHTER

That's a good name.

I was at school with her.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Here comes your third question.

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

Best of luck to both pairs.

OK, it concerns...

-GCSE science, Richard.

-Oh, I wish Kit and Nic were still here.

This will be fun.

I'm going to give you five clues now

that are topics on the GCSE science curriculum.

Can you give us the best answer to one of these, please?

Best of luck to both teams.

Thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five clues. And here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, Rich and Abby, you will go first this time.

THEY WHISPER

-ABBY:

-I think we're going to go the third answer,

'cause we're not entirely sure.

There's a couple that we're a little bit edgy about.

So we're going to go with sedimentary

for a major group of rock types.

Sedimentary say Rich and Abby. Now, Arwel and Steve.

What are you going to go for? The board's all yours. Talk us through it.

-ARWEL:

-Well, our answer's just gone, so...

-STEVE:

-I think the first one might be pituitary.

And the last one is alternating current.

We're so not sure on the first one, so we'll go for the last one,

alternating current.

Alternating current say Arwel and Steve.

OK, so we have sedimentary versus alternating current. Let's see.

Sedimentary said Rich and Abby. How many people said that?

It's good.

That's a nice low score.

Look at that, 17. Very well done, indeed.

17 for Rich and Abby.

Arwel and Steve, that's what you have to beat with alternating current.

Let's see if you can do it.

It's right.

It has to go all the way down to...

Oh! 57!

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Which means, Rich and Abby, very well done, after three questions,

you're through to the final, 2-1.

Yeah. Amazingly, sedimentary is the best answer on the board.

Nothing you could have done, unfortunately. It even beats DNA.

The large gland, you were thinking of maybe going for the pituitary,

it was the pancreas, I'm afraid.

It would have scored you 54 points.

It is deoxyribonucleic acid

and 18 of our 100 knew that,

so that's pretty good going.

And the main layer of the earth

between the crust and the outer core is the mantle.

And that would have scored you 28.

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard.

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

are Arwel and Steve.

Well, perfectly good answers in that round

and you got an early lead there.

Anyway, the good news is, we get to see you again. Thank goodness for that.

It's been lovely having you and we get the pleasure of that next time.

Thanks very much for playing, Arwel and Steve.

Thank you.

But for Rich and Abby, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Rich and Abby.

You've seen 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 £1,500.

One and only appearance on Pointless. For one day only.

You've come through low scorers every single round.

You've had great scores.

One of our two pointless answers on the show, Rich. Very well done.

OK, well, as always, you get to choose your category.

There are four options for you to choose from. Let's see what they are.

How do you feel about action directors?

-Not my strongest suit when it comes to film.

-No?

-We have been to New Zealand.

-New Zealand could be anything.

But it could be anything.

-It could be sport.

-It could be sport. What do you want to chance?

I don't feel great on action directors.

I think we'll go New Zealand and take a chance.

-OK.

-Yeah?

-I'm happy with that. Yep.

OK, we're going to go New Zealand and hope there's some sport question in there.

OK. I'm sure there will be. Richard?

Yeah, people have worked out that code by now.

If you put a part of the world on there,

there's usually a sport one in there somewhere.

Let's take a look at your three different questions,

all very, very different.

We are looking for...

All of these are as of January 2014.

Very best of luck.

OK. Now, as always, you've got up to one minute

to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers

to be pointless.

Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

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

Your time starts now.

We forgetting prime ministers completely?

-Yeah, no prime ministers.

-How are you on Crowded House?

-Not amazing.

OK. I could probably come up with some answers.

-I was hoping for cricket more than rugby.

-Do you know your All Blacks?

Yeah, I can name some, I'm thinking. I might not get the names all right.

I'm thinking Keven Mealamu might be one. Ma'a Nonu is another. Um...

Who's the captain who spear tackled Brian O'Driscoll? Um...

Don't ask me about that.

Um, there's Sivivatu, but I'm not sure of his first name.

Richie McCaw, Dan Carter are pretty obvious ones.

Um...I'm definitely thinking we'll go... Are you happy to go three?

-Three rugby players?

-Yeah.

Do you know any Crowded House?

-I only know Weather With You...

-Yeah, exactly.

-I can't think of any others.

-Ones that aren't going to be pointless.

-OK.

-Let's go the All Blacks.

-So I'll go Ma'a Nonu, I think's one.

-Keven Mealamu, I think, will be another option.

-Ten seconds left.

Maybe go with someone older. Grant Fox, I think. OK, we've got enough.

I trust you.

OK, there we are. The clock is now running down and your time is up.

That was impressive with time to spare.

What are your three answers going to be?

Um, I have a lot of friends who are big rugby fans

who would be shouting and screaming when they watch this.

-But I'm going to go with Grant Fox...

-Grant Fox.

-Keven Mealamu.

-Keven Mealamu.

-And Ma'a Nonu.

-And Ma'a Nonu.

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

I think, if I've said the name right, Keven Mealamu.

Keven Mealamu. We'll put him last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Grant Fox.

-Grant Fox.

-We'll pop him first.

-I'm not sure.

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

We have got Grant Fox, Ma'a Nonu and Keven Mealamu.

Very, very best of luck. Three good answers up there on the board.

Let's hope they're all correct, let's hope at least one of those is pointless.

If one of those is pointless,

you not only go home with £1,500 jackpot,

you also go down in history

for being our fourth consecutive pointless,

the very first time we've given the jackpot away

in four consecutive shows.

OK. £1,500. What would you do with that? Abby, you first.

Um, we'd definitely buy a new car.

We've got a white Fiesta at the moment but it's rusting

and it lets water in and it's just kind of falling apart,

so we really need to get a new car.

Yeah, it's 14 years old,

so I'd like to get a new car before it's old enough to drive itself.

LAUGHTER

Yeah. Well, very, very best of luck.

Grant Fox was your least confident answer.

Remember, only one of them has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

Let's find out, is Grant Fox right? Is it pointless?

If it is, it'll win you £1,500.

Ooh, no!

Grant Fox, for reasons we will soon discover, an incorrect answer.

So only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your second answer was Ma'a Nonu.

Let's find out if that's right, then let's find out if it's pointless.

If it's both of those things, you will leave here with £1,500.

How many people said Ma'a Nonu.

It's right.

Your first answer, Grant Fox, was incorrect

but Ma'a Nonu is absolutely right.

Down it goes into single figures.

Still going down. Still going down.

You've done it!

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Very well done, indeed.

Fantastic. That's brilliant. Brilliant.

Very well done.

That is superb. Congratulations.

Ma'a Nonu was a pointless answer,

which means you go away with that jackpot of £1,500

-and it's goodbye to the rusty Fiesta.

-Yes!

Oh, that's brilliant. Well done, Rich and Abby. Richard?

Four shows in a row. Four shows in a row. You've done it. Congratulations.

Keven Mealamu, also a pointless answer. So very well played.

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Grant Fox only played 46 times, so that's a terrible answer.

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What is wrong with you? You mentioned Dan Carter as well.

He would've scored you a few points, and a couple of others you mentioned.

But let's take a look through the pointless answers in the different categories.

Here are the All Blacks.

Byron Kelleher would have been a pointless answer.

Sean Fitzpatrick. 92 caps for Sean Fitzpatrick.

The most capped prop, Tony Woodcock, would have been a pointless answer.

The brilliant number 8, Zinzan Brooke, also a pointless answer.

Well done if you said him.

Prime ministers of New Zealand. I mean, you could've...

I know you concentrated on the All Blacks,

but you could have probably gone through the board here.

Helen Clark, of course, Clarky.

Sewell, the Sewellmeister was there.

Shippers, Jenny Shipley.

And Seddo, Richard Seddon, he was also there.

All of them pointless. Amazing stuff from the guys there.

And UK Top 40 singles by Crowded House.

Distant Sun, Instinct, Locked Out and Nails In My Feet.

None of the big ones there, really, but I know that Crowded House fans would've got a couple of those.

But congratulations. Four shows in a row. When's it going to end?

Thanks very much, indeed, Richard.

Thanks, once again, to our winning players, Rich and Abby,

who go away with today's jackpot of £1,500.

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

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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