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Thank you very much indeed. Hello. I'm Alexander Armstrong, and welcome to Pointless, the show | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
where the more obscure your knowledge, the better your chances of winning. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
Let's meet today's players. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
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-And couple number one. -Hello. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
I'm Maud, this is my friend Peter, and we're from Whitley Bay. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
Couple number two. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
Hi, I'm Ben, this is my girlfriend Sara, and we're from London. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
Couple number three. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
Hi, my name's Gilly, this is my friend Caz, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
and we come from Shepperton, in Surrey. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
And finally, couple number four. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
My name is Michael, this is my friend Pete, and we're from Burnley, in Lancashire. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:53 | |
And these are today's contestants. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
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Thanks very much. We'll find out more about you throughout the show as it | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
goes along, so that leaves one more person for me to introduce. He's as modest as he is athletic. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:06 | |
-It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard. -Hi. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
APPLAUSE Hey, everybody. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
-Good afternoon. -Good afternoon. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
We cannot go a single second further without | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
-talking about Michael's performance on the last show. -We can't. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
Because it was very unusual, a very unusual performance. A real mix. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
Yes, it was. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:24 | |
Because Round One, which was US States, Michael gives us | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
the best possible answer on the whole board, literally a great answer. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
-Yeah. -So you think we're set fair. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
And then the second round, essentially we asked him | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
which William, which William wrote the play Hamlet... | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
CHUCKLING | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
And he said William Tell. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:43 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
That's an unusual performance. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
Because we've seen answers like that before, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
but not after someone has just given us the best answer on something else. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
So literally, I have no idea how you are going to perform today. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
-It's going to be fascinating. -Thanks very much indeed, Richard. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
As usual, all of today's questions have been put to 100 people before the show. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Our contestants here are on the hunt for those all-important | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
pointless answers, that's the answers none of our 100 people gave. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
Each time that happens we will add £250 to the jackpot. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
Now, Jake and Rhys didn't win the jackpot last time | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
so we add another £1,000, so today's jackpot starts off at a | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
respectable £3,250. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Now, the pair with the highest score at the end of each | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
round will be eliminated. Just make sure that's not you. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
Our first category today is... | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
Award-winning Music. Can you decide who's going to go first, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
who's going to go second? | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
OK, and the question concerns... | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
-Best Contemporary Songs, Richard. -On each board we are going to show you the names of seven songs. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
They all happen to have won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
We'll tell you who released the songs, but we've left one | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
word out of the titles. We need you to give us that word, please. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
There'll be seven on the first board, seven on the second, 14 in all to have a go at at home. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Very best of luck. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
OK, so we are looking for the words that complete these songs. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
Here's our first board of seven. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
I'll read those all one last time. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
-Maud. -Hi. -Welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
What do you do, Maud? | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
I am a student at the University of Manchester. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
-I do maths and philosophy. -And what year are you in? -My second year. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
-Are you loving it? -Mostly, yeah. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
It's hard, it's hard. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
-It's hard work. -Yeah. -Very hard. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
Maths and philosophy, the clue is in the title, Maud. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
I love that you're called Maud, by the way, that's a great name. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Well, I got it for my birthday. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:04:26 | 0:04:27 | |
That's good. That's good. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
It also took me nearly three seconds to work that out. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:04:32 | 0:04:33 | |
Now then, we are looking for words completing all these song titles. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:38 | |
-What do you think? -I don't think I know any of them. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
-I'm just going to have to take a guess. -I fear you are, I'm so sorry. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
-All Around The World. -All Around The World, Lisa Stansfield. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
All Around The World. It sounds reasonable enough, doesn't it? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
Let's find out. Surely it's All Around The World. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
If it is, let's see how many people said it. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
It is All Around The World. Well done, Maud. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
66. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:06 | |
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Nothing wrong with 66. Excellent start to the show. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
Yeah, number one in 1989 and won Best Contemporary Song in the 1990 awards. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:18 | |
-Thanks, Richard. Now, Sara, welcome. -Hi. -What do you do, Sara? | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
-I'm an event manager. -What kind of events do you manage? | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
-Mainly corporate. -Sort of evening events... -Through the day. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:30 | |
-Conferences. -How many a year do you do? | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
Oh, a lot. We do...up to five a day. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
No! That's terrible. That's a pretty punishing routine, isn't it? | 0:05:37 | 0:05:42 | |
-It is, yes. -Blimey. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:43 | |
What do you get up to, to take your mind off event managing? | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
-Although you love it, of course. -I like to cook a lot. -Good. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
-Yeah. -Anything else? | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
-I'm hoping contemporary music might come in at some stage. -Yeah. -Yeah? | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
-You're not feeling too bad about this board? -I know a couple. -Good. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
Erm... I'm going to go for | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
-Manic Street Preachers, A Design For Life. -Design For Life. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Design For Life. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
It's right. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
-27. -APPLAUSE | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
Good answer, Sara. 27 for Design For Life. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Yeah, the song won the award in 1996. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
The Manics opened Cardiff Library. They were the official openers of it. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
They've got a plaque which says, "Libraries gave us power," which is the first line of that song. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
Thanks very much indeed. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
-Now, Caz, welcome. -Hello. -Lovely to have you here. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
What do you do, Caz? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
I'm a sports massage therapist. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
-Wow. I'm unpacking that. Sports... -So not nice massages. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
No, exactly. People get referred to you, pretty much. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:56 | |
Nobody goes there for fun. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
-Not really, no. -They limp in and then dance out, presumably. -That's right. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
-They pirouette out. -Yeah. Good stuff. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
There's that board. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
What do you fancy on there? | 0:07:08 | 0:07:09 | |
There's two that I'm a bit more confident with, | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
-so I'll go with the one I'm more confident with. -What's that? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
Which is... | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
It's Alright (Baby's Coming Home.) | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
It's Alright (Baby's Coming Home.) | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
OK, let's see if that's right. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:25 | |
Let's see how many of our 100 people said home for that. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
-Oh! -Oh, I'm sorry, Caz, I'm sorry. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
I'm afraid an incorrect answer scores you 100 points. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
Sorry, I'll give you the answer in a moment, just in case Pete wants to have a go at the same one. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
-Now, Pete, welcome back. -Thank you. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
Listen, Pete, you didn't put a foot wrong last time. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
-It was all looking great, wasn't it? -It was. -Ah! | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
Remind us what you do, Pete. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
I'm a home-based cruise specialist, so I sell cruises from home. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
That's right. Do you do those quite sort of... | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
erudite cruises, where | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
-people go off and they're lectured by people? -Yes. -You do those ones? | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
-Yeah, do all those. -Fantastic. You should do one of those. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
-Do you think? -Yeah, yeah. -What would I do? -You could host a cruise. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
-You'd be brilliant. -That's a good idea. Let's do that. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
We'll have a chat later, we'll go round the fjords. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
I'd like that, go up to the Arctic Circle, or something. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
-That would be quite fun. Let's do that. -Go visit the avocets. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
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-Lovely idea. -Do you know what, they'd take up all the deck space, wouldn't they? | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
-A bit lazy, avocets. -Some of them aren't. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
Some of them are on the ship working as cleaners and all sorts of things. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
That's true. That's true. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
So, Pete, yes, now. This board is all yours. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
Talk us through it. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:45 | |
Well, I knew the two that had gone, the rest I'm not that sure. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
I don't know the top one. I think Lana Del Rey might be Video Star. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
Climie Fisher might be Love Changes Everything. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
Not sure on the other one, if it's Baby's Coming Back, | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
instead of Baby's Coming Home. I think I know the Radiohead one. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
I'm not 100% sure but I'm going to go for Karma Police. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
OK, Karma Police, says Pete. Let's see if that's right, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
let's see how many of our 100 people said police. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
It's right. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:13 | |
Well, 27's our low point, and you've passed that. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
10. There we are. A new low watermark, Pete. Well done, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
10 for Karma Police. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
Well done, Pete. Won in 1997. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
And he's right, Caz, it was Baby's Coming Back, the Eurythmics. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
-Which is a part of the body. -It is. -It's a key... | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
If someone comes in with a problem with a sacroiliac, or something... Goodness me. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:40 | |
It would have scored you, if you had said Baby's Coming Back, 25 points. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
So, would have been a perfectly good answer. Now, it's Grounds For... | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
-Divorce. -Divorce, by Elbow. Would have scored 14. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
Now this is a massive hit everywhere, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
but our 100 didn't do very well on it. Video Games, Lana Del Rey. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
Would have scored 8 points, | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
so it's the best answer on the board. And Love Changes Everything, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
Climie Fisher. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
Would have scored you 68, so that's the biggest scorer. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
I think they were mixing it up with the other Love Changes Everything, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
-gave it a bigger score than you might think. -Thank you very much. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
We're halfway through the round, let's take a look at those scores. 10, the best score. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
Pete, very well done. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:16 | |
Then up to 27, where we find Sara and Ben. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
66, Maud and Peter. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
And then 100, Caz and Gilly. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
Who knows what the next board is going to be like, | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
but a nice low score from you will help, I'm sure. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
Best of luck. We're going to come back down the line. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
Can the second players please step up to the podium? | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
OK, we are going to put seven more songs up on the board. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
and here they come. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
We've got... | 0:10:42 | 0:10:43 | |
I'll read those all one last time. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Remember, we're looking for the blank word that completes the song title. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
Michael, we are | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
going to put all talk of William Tell to one side for now. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
Thank you. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
So you are also involved in cruises as well. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
I am, yes, from home as well. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
-How many a year do you actually go on? -Two last year. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
-One to the Mediterranean and one to the fjords. -The fjords. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
When you were in the fjords, did lots of people in the evenings gather and go, | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
"I wish there were a couple of people talking to us, maybe?" | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
I don't know, one quite tall. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
MICHAEL LAUGHS | 0:11:43 | 0:11:44 | |
-Was there an obvious gap in that market? -I'm afraid not, no. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
We could do, "Would anyone like to hear a lecture on what it's like to | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
"work with Ben Miller?" | 0:11:50 | 0:11:51 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
-Because that's... -Yeah. -That's one you could do. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
-You could do what it's like to work with me. -I could do that. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
I could do, "What's it like when all doorways are slightly too short for you?" I could do that. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
-LAUGHTER -On a ship, that's going to be an | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
acute problem, isn't it? | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
I would have thought... But, yeah, it's a fairly acute problem anyway, if I'm honest. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
-Yeah. -At least everyone is bending over on a ship. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
Cos... | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
They're low, they've got low ceilings on ships. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
I hear what you're saying. So, Michael. Listen, there you are. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
You're on 10. 10. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
Pete has as good as carried you through to the next round. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
Before you've even given an answer. 89 or less sees you through. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
-What do you make of this board? -I know quite a few on there. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
I'm going to play safe and go Two Tribes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
Tribes, says Michael, for Frankie Goes To Hollywood. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
Let's see if it's right and how many people said it. There's your red line. Nice and high. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
Very well done, you're through. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
-Quite high. -59. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
Takes your total up to 69. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:13:00 | 0:13:01 | |
One of the top 30 selling singles in UK history, | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. How about that? | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
How about that? Thanks, Richard. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
Now, Gilly. Now, now. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
What we need from you is a very low score. Gilly, welcome. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
-What do you do? -I'm a registrar. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
-How long have you done it for? -I've only been doing that for two years. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
Fun, though. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:23 | |
Yes, loving it, love it, love my weddings, really love my weddings. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
Presumably, you're not allowed to be at all emotional. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
You have to be very much above it all. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
You are supposed to be, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:33 | |
-but I'm afraid I have given in a couple of times. -Aw. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:38 | |
-One goes with the flow. -Absolutely right. Very nice. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
-OK, you are the highest scorers. -I know, I know. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
What we need from you here, a low score. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
How do you like this board? | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
There's a couple of quite obvious ones. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
I think I'm going to go 7 Days, Craig David. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
7 Days, Craig David. Let's see if that is right. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
No red line for you, I'm afraid, as you are the high scorers, but how many people said 7 Days? | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
33. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:10 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
133 is your total. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
He was an answer on the last show, wasn't he? | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
He was a question on the last show, in fact. Craig David singles. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
-That was a big scorer though, 7 Days. -Thank you very much, Richard. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
-Now. Ben, great news. -Hi. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
Whatever happens, whatever happens between now and the end of the round, you are in Round Two. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
-Right, that's excellent. -Yeah. You are going straight through. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
Ben, what do you do? | 0:14:36 | 0:14:37 | |
I have just finished a job doing policy work for a charity, | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
and I'm starting, in two days' time, | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
with a PR firm, so I've got two days off. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:48 | |
-Two days off, so you come here. -They were so excited. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
-Oh! Well, thank you, we are very excited, actually, as well. -I'm all right. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
To come and fill those two days with us. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
Good luck with it. I hope it goes well. | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
-Bit of a change of direction. -Yeah. It's the same sort of work. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
-It's research based. -Excellent. I hope it goes well. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
Listen, you are through, as I say, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
but a lovely low score from you at this point would just impress us. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
All right, OK. Well, I'll do my best. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
Des'ree, she's brilliant. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
So I think I'm going to have to go for You Gotta Be. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
You Gotta Be, says Ben. You Gotta Be. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
No red line, because you're already through. Let's see how may people said be, for Des'ree. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
Absolutely right. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
Wow, look at that, four! | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
That is a great answer. 31 is your total. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
The lowest of the whole round by a long way. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
Well played, Ben. Won that award in 1994 and in 1995. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
She went on tour in the States with Seal | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
and that song was released over there at the same time. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
It stayed in the chart for 19 months. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
-That's a big hit. -Oh yes, you've got to be pleased with that. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:04 | |
Yes, thank you. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
I was going to do a joke about teachers. How did I do in my exam? | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
You got a B. I can't really think of how to do it. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:17 | |
What did... Oh, here's a joke! | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
What did Des'ree's maths teacher tell her | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
when she asked how she'd done in her GCSE? | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
-I don't know. -He said, you got a B! | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
Thank you very much, thank you, thank you. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
-That's good! -I appreciate that. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
It's one of those things. Sometimes, spontaneously, stuff comes to me. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
Thanks. Now Peter, welcome. Lovely to have you here. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
-What do you do, Peter? | 0:16:50 | 0:16:51 | |
I just left university recently | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
-so I'm sort of in the murky bit. -What was your degree? | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
-English literature. -Open ended, it could go anywhere. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
-I might even go back and do something different. -Really? | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
-What would you say were your fortes? -Fortes? | 0:17:08 | 0:17:13 | |
-I'm a big fan of American sports. Geography. -OK. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:18 | |
I'm trying to think of a job that would involve all of those. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
-Quarterback at the Minnesota Vikings. -There you go. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
Some travel involved in that, certainly. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
-They are lacking in that position. -Yeah. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
OK, now Peter, you're on 66. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
The high scorers are Gilly and Caz on 133. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
Actually, you have to score 66 or less, the score but Maud scored. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:40 | |
The score that Maud scored! | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
There's only two there that I know. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
and Travis, Why Does It Always Rain On Me? | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
I'm going to go with Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
Take Me Out, says Peter. There is your red line. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
If you get below that with Take Me Out, | 0:17:58 | 0:17:59 | |
you're through to the next round. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
It's right, and you're through. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
Oh, very, very well done indeed. Look at that, 14. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:15 | |
They all applaud while you scored what Maud scored on the board! | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
I think people missed that through the applause. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
No, I think that's probably as it should be. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:24 | |
I thought it was very good. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
You were right as well about Why Does It Always Rain On Me. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
-Were you tempted to go for that? -No. -It would have knocked you out. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
It's a huge scorer, it would have scored you 75 points. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
How about that? | 0:18:37 | 0:18:38 | |
The top one, You Win Again. That would have scored 62. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
-Do you know the Ash one? -Shining Light. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Yes, that would have scored 14 points. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
There we are, thanks very much indeed. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
At the end of our first round, | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
the pair heading home with a high score of 133 is Gilly and Caz. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
I'm sorry. It was that Eurythmics one. Baby's Coming Home. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
That would be nicer than Baby's Coming Back, wouldn't it? | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
-Baby's Coming Home, that's nice. -It needs to be rewritten. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
Well, they should get on to that immediately. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
In the meantime, it's been lovely having you on. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
We look forward to seeing you again, Gilly and Caz. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
-Thanks very much for playing. -Thank you. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
So, three pairs remain. At the end of this round, | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
we'll have to say goodbye to another pair. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
Well, Pete and Michael, you've survived for now. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
Two Tribes was quite a high score over there. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
Ben and Sara, well done. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
You got a B! | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
In fact, you got an A, A starred is what you got, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
but that was a great answer. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
You were our low scorers jointly as well. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
Peter and Maud, very good, good solid play there. Very well done. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
Keep that up and you should be in the head-to-head, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
but best of luck to all three pairs. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
Our category for round two today is golf. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first, | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
who is going to go second | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
and whoever is going first, please step up to the podium. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many top 100 golfers | 0:20:12 | 0:20:18 | |
at the beginning of 2014 as they could. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
The top 100 golfers at the beginning of 2014. Richard? | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
We're looking for the name of any golfer | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
ranked in the world's top 100 at the end of the week ending | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
5 January 2014, so any male golfer in the world's top 100. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
There are over 70 pointless answers on this list, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
so plenty of room to get some pointless answers. Good luck. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
Thanks very much indeed. Now, Maud, are you happy with this? | 0:20:43 | 0:20:48 | |
No, I'm going to have to say Tiger Woods. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
Tiger Woods, says Maud. Let's see if that's right. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Tiger Woods. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
It's right. Still going down. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
63, not bad at all. That's fine. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
A lot better than 100. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:05 | |
14 major titles for Tiger Woods, | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
including being the first man to hold all four at the same time. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
Thank you very much indeed. Ben. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
I'm going to have to go for somebody who I hope is still playing. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
Vijay Singh. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Vijay Singh, says Ben, let's see if that's right | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
and let's see how many people said Vijay Singh. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Oh, Ben! Oh, I'm afraid there's your answer. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
I'm afraid not a correct answer. That scores you 100 points, sorry. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
He was in that world top 100 for many, many years | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
but hasn't been for a little while, I'm afraid. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
Thanks, Richard, now, Pete, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
-how do you feel about golf? -That's not the worst subject for me. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
Good, hurray! What are you going to go for? | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
I think I'm going to go for Justin Rose. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
Justin Rose, says Pete. Let's see if that's right. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
Let's see how many of our 100 people said it. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
It is, of course, right. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
Well, 63 is our low score so far, but you've passed that, | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
-very comfortably. Look at that. Justin Rose down to 14. -APPLAUSE | 0:22:07 | 0:22:12 | |
Well done on the far podium, there. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
Yeah, he was ranked number four at the beginning of 2014. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
First Englishman in 43 years to win the US Open. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
Thanks, Rich. We're halfway through the round. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Let's take a look at those scores. 14, the best score of that pass. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
Pete, well done. You and Michael looking supreme at this point. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
Then, up to 63, where we find Maud and Peter. Then, up to 100. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
Ben, I'm sorry. That was a brave try. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
Sara, luckily, your golf knowledge, I know, will get you through. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:40 | |
So, good luck with that. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:41 | |
Can the second players please step up to the podium? | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
OK. So, Michael, we are looking for any man who's | 0:22:48 | 0:22:52 | |
featured in the world's top 100 | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
golfers at the start of 2014. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
I know quite a few golfers, but I'm going to play it safe. Lee Westwood. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
Lee Westwood, says Michael. There's your red line. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
If you get below that, you're through to the next round. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
Let's see how many people said Lee Westwood. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
Look at that. Through you go, into the head-to-head. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
It's another good answer. Nine! | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
-Best score of the round so far, Michael! Well done! -APPLAUSE | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
23 is your total. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
Former world number one, Lee Westwood. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
There's such an opportunity to add money to the jackpot, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
if you know your golfers on this round. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
-But you've got to get yourself through. -Thanks very much. Now, Sara. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
Am I right in guessing this isn't your favourite round? | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
-It's not my favourite, no. I have no idea. -OK. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
-No idea, as in making up names, no idea? -Yes. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
I think my favourite moments in Pointless are those that | 0:23:49 | 0:23:54 | |
flow from this. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:55 | |
I could go for a standard name that may or may not be a person. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:59 | |
Go for an un-standard name. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
We'll go for Veron Chuttlebutte. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
-Veron Chuttlebutte. -Yes. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
The question being, is Veron still playing? Well, let's find out. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
Veron Chuttlebutte. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
No red line for you, as you're the high scorers, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
but let's see how many people went with Veron. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
I'm afraid, an incorrect answer, but by far the most enjoyable | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
incorrect answer we've had for a long time. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
-Yes, bad luck. -I'm afraid it's Veron SHUDDLEBUTTE. I couldn't accept it. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
World number 19. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:40 | |
-Now, Peter. -Yeah. -I have enormously good news for you. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:46 | |
-You are through to the head-to-head, whatever happens. -That's good. Um... | 0:24:46 | 0:24:51 | |
This isn't the best subject... I've got a couple of names. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
I'll say Padraig Harrington. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
Padraig Harrington. Let's see if that's right. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
No red line for you, you're already through, but let's see if Padraig | 0:24:59 | 0:25:03 | |
Harrington's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
Ooh! | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
I'm afraid an incorrect answer. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
Scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 163, | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
but you're already through anyhow. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:14 | |
Padraig Harrington's one of those guys who was world top ten, | 0:25:14 | 0:25:19 | |
won Majors, all sorts of things, has had an absolute terminal decline. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
I suspect he'll be back in the top 100 at some point, | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
but he's not there at the moment. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
There's all sorts of pointless answers. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
I think, unfortunately, a tough round for the people here, | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
but for people at home, well done if you said any of these: | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
There's lots of other names on the list. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
David Lynn, Dustin Johnson, Charl Schwartzel, Jason Duffner, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
all sorts of names up there. Very well done if you said any of those. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
Peter Hanson, the Swede, is up there as well. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
Let's take a look at the biggest scorers. Heard two of them already. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:12 | |
Thanks very much indeed, Richard. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:19 | |
So, at the end of our second round, the pair heading home | 0:26:19 | 0:26:23 | |
with their high score of 200, it's Sara and Ben. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
Well, you'll be back next time, when I imagine there'll be no golf. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
There'll be plenty of things that are perfectly Sara | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
and Ben compatible. And I hope we'll see you go much further. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
It's been a pleasure having you on thus far. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
-Sara and Ben, thanks so much. -APPLAUSE | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
But for Pete and Michael, Peter and Maud, | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
it's now time for the head-to-head. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
Congratulations, Pete and Michael, Peter and Maud, | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
you are now one step closer to the final | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
and a chance to play for our jackpot, which current stands at: | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
So, here is where we decide who goes through to the final | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
and plays for that jackpot and we do that by making you go head-to-head. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
You're now allowed to play as a team for the first time | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
and you can confer. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:14 | |
The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
I think this is going to be a very exciting head-to-head. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
-Best of luck to both pairs and let's play it. -APPLAUSE | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
Here comes your first question and it concerns: | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
Newspaper columnists. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
We're going to show you five pictures of people who write regular | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
columns in UK newspapers. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:40 | |
Can you identify the most obscure of these? | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
Thanks. OK, let's reveal our five columnists and here they are. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
OK, there we are. Five columnists. Pete and Michael. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:10 | |
Struggling on this one, but we think B is Peter Hitchens. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
OK, straight in there. Straight in there. B, Peter Hitchens, | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
say Pete and Michael. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
Now, Peter and Maud, do you want to talk us | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
through the rest of the board? | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
We only know C and D, Victoria Coren and... | 0:28:25 | 0:28:30 | |
Liz Jones and I am absolutely kicking myself because I do | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
know who A is, but her name has completely vanished from my head. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:37 | |
So, I think we're going to go for C and say Liz Jones. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
C, Liz Jones. So we have Peter Hitchens, we have Liz Jones. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
Now, Pete and Michael went for Peter Hitchens for B. Let's see if that's right | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
and if it is, let's see how many people said Peter Hitchens. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:52 | |
It's right. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
-Eight. -APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
Very well done. Good answer. Well chosen. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:09 | |
Peter and Maud, meanwhile have said that C is Liz Jones. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Liz Jones. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:17 | |
It's right. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:20 | |
Oh, close! Very close. 16 for Liz Jones. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
But Pete and Michael, you win it with Peter Hitchens. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
After one question, you're up 1-nil. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
Actually, A would have won you the point. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:36 | |
Writer of the brilliant How To Be A Woman, it's Caitlin Moran. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:39 | |
She would have scored you seven points. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:41 | |
Well done if you said that at home. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:44 | |
Great book as well, if you don't have it. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:46 | |
D is Victoria Coren Mitchell. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:48 | |
She would have scored 32, she's the biggest scorer up there. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:51 | |
-And the lowest scorer is E. Do you know him? -Excellent. Hugo Rifkind. | 0:29:51 | 0:29:55 | |
Hugo Rifkind, he would have scored you two points. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:59 | |
Thank you very much, Richard. Here comes your second question. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:02 | |
Peter and Maud, you get to answer it first, but you have to win it to stay in the game. | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
Best of luck. It concerns: | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
-Norway. -Yeah, we're going to give you five clues now to facts about Norway. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:15 | |
Can you give us the best answer up there? Good luck. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:18 | |
OK, let's reveal our five clues and here they come. We have got: | 0:30:18 | 0:30:22 | |
I'll read those all one last time. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
Peter and Maud, help yourselves. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
-I'm not sure about the currency. -What do you want to do? | 0:30:58 | 0:31:02 | |
The land border? | 0:31:02 | 0:31:04 | |
Yeah. OK, um... | 0:31:04 | 0:31:06 | |
We're going to go with the land border one and that's Finland. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:10 | |
Finland, say Peter and Maud. Finland. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
Now, Pete and Michael, talk us through what you can on that board. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:18 | |
The currency's the krone, with a K. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
The capital city's Oslo. We're not so sure of the others. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:24 | |
-Go for the currency. -We'll go for the currency, Krone. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:27 | |
-Norwegian krone. -Krone, say Pete and Michael, for the currency. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:32 | |
OK, so, Peter and Maud said Finland was the other country sharing | 0:31:32 | 0:31:35 | |
an eastern land border. Let's see if that's right | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
and if it is, let's see how many people said Finland. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:42 | |
It's right. | 0:31:42 | 0:31:43 | |
-40. -APPLAUSE | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
40 for Finland. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
Pete and Michael have said the krone is the unit of currency. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
Let's see if that's right, let's see how many people said it. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
It's right. It has to beat 40, though. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:04 | |
And it doesn't, I'm afraid. 54, which means | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
well done, Peter and Maud. Back in the game you come. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
After two questions, it's one all. | 0:32:10 | 0:32:12 | |
Let's fill in the rest of this board. You're right about the capital city, | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
it's Oslo. A bigger scorer, though - it would have scored you 76 points. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:19 | |
And the Conservative party leader... | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
is Erna Solberg. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:23 | |
The second female Prime Minister in Norway. Two points for her. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
And the king who ascended to the throne was King Harald the fifth. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:31 | |
That would have scored you seven points. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
So, Erna Solberg, "Iron Erna", they call her, | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
was the best answer there. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:37 | |
Thanks very much indeed. OK, here comes your third and final question. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:41 | |
This will decide who goes through to the final and plays for that | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
jackpot. Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns... | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
Astronomical terms, Richard. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:52 | |
We're about to show you five terms now used in astronomy, | 0:32:52 | 0:32:54 | |
but we've removed alternate letters. Can you fill in those gaps? | 0:32:54 | 0:32:57 | |
-Best of luck, both teams. -Thanks very much indeed. | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
Let's reveal our five astronomical terms and here they come. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:03 | |
We've got... | 0:33:03 | 0:33:04 | |
I'll read those all one final time. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:17 | |
There we are. Five astronomical terms. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:28 | |
Pete and Michael, you will go first. | 0:33:28 | 0:33:32 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
The fourth one's the best one. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:38 | |
Right, we're going to go for the fourth one down, | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
which is meteorite. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
Meteorite, say Pete and Michael. Meteorite. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
Now, Peter and Maud, talk us through the board. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
Fill in as many blanks as you can. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
The middle one is annoying me. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
The bottom one is supernova, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
and there is eclipse, there is | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
something galaxy, I don't know... | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
Oh, spiral. Spiral galaxy. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:02 | |
-Do you want to go for that? -Yeah. OK. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
We're going to go for spiral galaxy. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
OK, spiral galaxy, say Peter and Maud. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:10 | |
So, we have meteorite and we have spiral galaxy. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
Pete and Michael said meteorite. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:16 | |
Let's see if that's right and let's see how many people said meteorite.. | 0:34:16 | 0:34:20 | |
It's right. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
Wow. Low score. Look at that, ten for meteorite! | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:34:29 | 0:34:30 | |
Peter and Maud, meanwhile, have gone for spiral galaxy. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
Let's see if that's right and if it is, | 0:34:38 | 0:34:40 | |
let's see how many people said it. Spiral galaxy. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:42 | |
It's right. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
Now, meteorite scored ten. Spiral galaxy, | 0:34:49 | 0:34:51 | |
oh, scores 11! | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:34:53 | 0:34:54 | |
Unlucky, guys. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
Really unlucky. Really unlucky, that. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
Well done, Pete and Michael. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:01 | |
After three questions, you're through to the final, 2-1. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
-Slight surprise result, there. -Do you think? | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
-Well, I suppose galaxy is... -And there's two words missing. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:10 | |
It's unusual, these, when things are missed out, | 0:35:10 | 0:35:12 | |
because it's not just how common the word is, | 0:35:12 | 0:35:14 | |
it's how difficult it is to spot. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:15 | |
-Yeah. -Because, for example, I think you knew supernova, | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
and that would have scored six points. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
That would have seen you into the final. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
Eclipse would have been too many points. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:26 | |
That would have scored you 40. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:27 | |
And there's a word for the boundary between the light side | 0:35:27 | 0:35:30 | |
and the dark side of a planet or other body, | 0:35:30 | 0:35:32 | |
and it's a terminator, and it's a pointless answer. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:35 | |
Well, thanks very much. At the end of our head-to-head, | 0:35:37 | 0:35:39 | |
the pair we're saying goodbye to is Peter and Maud. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:42 | |
Well, you did very well there. Three great answers. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:45 | |
Don't be too downcast, though, because you'll be back next time | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
and we will look forward to seeing you, then. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:49 | |
I'm sure you will do even better, | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
but thanks very much for playing so well today. Peter and Maud! | 0:35:51 | 0:35:55 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:35:55 | 0:35:58 | |
But, for Pete and Michael, it's now time for our Pointless final. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
Congratulations, Pete and Michael. You've seen off all the competition | 0:36:04 | 0:36:08 | |
and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
You now have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot, | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
and, at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £3,250. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:23 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:36:23 | 0:36:25 | |
Well, who would have thought this was going to be the outcome? | 0:36:28 | 0:36:31 | |
Who would have thought? You have done very well, you really have. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:34 | |
What's the sort of thing you'd like to see come up? | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
You know what they're like, these final rounds. They're sometimes tricky, | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
the categories we put up on the board. What would you like to see appear up there? | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
-I would dream of football or geography. -Football or geography. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
-Or maybe both. Sometimes the two combine. -Maybe both, yeah. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
As always, you get to choose your category. They're about to appear on | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
this board behind me. Let's see what we've got for you today. | 0:36:52 | 0:36:55 | |
Up there, we have world footballers. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
That's kind of geography and football, isn't it? | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
-Well...Lulu! -Yeah, it's a tricky one, really. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:10 | |
Yeah, I think we'll go for world footballers, please. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
-World footballers, it is. Richard. -OK, best of luck, guys. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
In December 2013, the Guardian newspaper published | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
a list of the 100 best footballers in the world, 2013. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:21 | |
We are looking for anybody on that list who has represented Brazil, | 0:37:21 | 0:37:26 | |
internationally, anyone who has represented Italy, | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
internationally, or anybody who has represented Spain, internationally. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:34 | |
So, any Brazilian, Italian or Spanish international on the list | 0:37:34 | 0:37:37 | |
of the 100 best footballers in the world, 2013. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
Very best of luck. Nice category. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
OK. As always, you've got up to one | 0:37:43 | 0:37:45 | |
minute to come up with three answers. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:47 | |
All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
-to be pointless. Are you ready? -Yes. -Yes. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:54 | |
Your time starts now. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:56 | |
-OK. -Brazil. -Right, let's go through Brazil. | 0:37:56 | 0:37:59 | |
-David Luiz. -So, we'll take the obvious. -Who's that? -David Luiz. | 0:37:59 | 0:38:02 | |
-Do you think he's in the top 100? -Yeah. I would have said so. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
-Right. -Liverpool mid-fielder. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:07 | |
-Lucas Leiva? -Yeah. OK. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:08 | |
-Italy. -Pirlo. -Who's the striker? | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
Uh... | 0:38:14 | 0:38:15 | |
-I don't think...I'm not so sure. -Right. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
-I would have said Pirlo... -Pirlo. -...was one of them. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
I think they're going to come from Spain, to be honest with you. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
-What about Juan Mata? -Juan Mata. -Yeah. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:26 | |
-Iniesta. -Do you think...might be in there? | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
I think he could be, yeah. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
What about Valdes? | 0:38:30 | 0:38:31 | |
-Victor Valdes, that's a good... -Do you want to go Victor Valdes? | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
-I think so. -Yeah. Victor Valdes. -Second choice, obviously. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
Yeah, but it's the top 100 footballers in the world. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:42 | |
What about Iniesta? | 0:38:42 | 0:38:44 | |
Ten seconds left. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:47 | |
Let's go with Valdes...Lucas Leiva... | 0:38:47 | 0:38:49 | |
-Lucas Leiva, yeah. -..and... | 0:38:49 | 0:38:52 | |
-Juan Mata? -Pirlo. -Andrea Pirlo. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
OK, that's your time up. I now need your three answers. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
What are they going to be? | 0:38:59 | 0:39:00 | |
OK, so, for a Brazilian, we're going to go for Lucas Leiva. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:03 | |
-Lucas Leiva. -Italian, we're going to go for Andrea Pirlo. -Andrea Pirlo. | 0:39:03 | 0:39:08 | |
-And for Spanish, we're going to go for Victor Valdes. -Victor Valdes. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:13 | |
Now, of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer? | 0:39:13 | 0:39:17 | |
-Valdes. -Valdes goes last. Which is your least likely? -Andrea Pirlo. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:21 | |
OK, lets put those answers up on the board in that order, | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
and here they are. We have... | 0:39:24 | 0:39:26 | |
Well, very, very best of luck. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
Your first answer, you said Andrea Pirlo. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
You thought this was probably your least likely to be pointless. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
Remember, only one of them has to be pointless for you to win that | 0:39:39 | 0:39:42 | |
jackpot. It's turning into quite a decent jackpot now, 3,250 quid. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
What would you do with that, Pete, if you won it? | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
I think I'd probably go on holiday, quite predictably. | 0:39:48 | 0:39:51 | |
I think I'd go to Vegas. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:52 | |
It's somewhere I've always wanted to go and I've just never got to. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:55 | |
-OK, Michael? -I think I'd do a cruise around the Caribbean. | 0:39:55 | 0:39:58 | |
Never been to the Caribbean, but a nice cruise round the Caribbean. | 0:39:58 | 0:40:00 | |
Excellent. Andrea Pirlo is your first answer. Let's find out. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
Obviously, it has to be right, then it has to be pointless for you | 0:40:03 | 0:40:06 | |
to win the jackpot. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
For £3,250, how many people said Andrea Pirlo? | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
Well, it's right. That was the first thing it had to be. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
Now, if this goes all the way down to 0, you leave here with £3,250. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:20 | |
Andrea Pirlo, now going down into the teens. Down into... | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
Not quite single figures. 11. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
-APPLAUSE -OK, fair enough. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
You were just finding your range there, weren't you? | 0:40:29 | 0:40:32 | |
That wasn't a serious pointless answer, was it? | 0:40:32 | 0:40:34 | |
-That was just filling a place. -Yeah. -Yes. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:37 | |
Your second answer was Lucas Leiva. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
Again, this has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
Let's find out, for £3,250, how many people said Lucas Leiva. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:48 | |
Is it pointless? | 0:40:48 | 0:40:49 | |
Oh... | 0:40:52 | 0:40:54 | |
I'm afraid it's not pointless. I'm afraid it's not correct. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
Everything is now riding on your third and final answer, | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
which was Victor Valdes. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:03 | |
It have to be right, first, then it has to be pointless. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
If it is both of those things, you will walk away with £3,250. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:10 | |
Let's find out if Victor Valdes is pointless. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:13 | |
Well, your first answer, Andrea Pirlo, | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
took us down to 11. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:21 | |
Your second answer, Lucas Leiva, took us nowhere, I'm afraid, | 0:41:21 | 0:41:24 | |
but your last answer is taking us down through single figures, | 0:41:24 | 0:41:27 | |
down it goes, still going, you got it! | 0:41:27 | 0:41:29 | |
-APPLAUSE -Very well done indeed! | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
Fantastic! That's brilliant. Very well done. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
Congratulations. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:37 | |
Get in! | 0:41:39 | 0:41:41 | |
Wow! | 0:41:41 | 0:41:42 | |
Many, many congratulations, Pete and Michael. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:48 | |
Victor Valdes was a pointless answer, which means you go home | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
-with our jackpot of £3,250. Very well done. -Fantastic. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
Talk about the perfect category coming up. That's great for you. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:03 | |
It could have been Shakespeare, for goodness' sake! | 0:42:03 | 0:42:06 | |
Then we would have been in trouble. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:07 | |
-Pete, I think you are the Liverpool fan, aren't you? -I am. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:10 | |
And Lucas, not in the world's top 100 players. Won't be a big shock to you. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:15 | |
But let's take a look at some people who were, | 0:42:15 | 0:42:17 | |
and who were pointless answers. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:19 | |
Brazilians, Dante, the Bayern Munich defender was a pointless answer. | 0:42:19 | 0:42:22 | |
Diego Costa, who now actually plays for Spain. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
Marcello, Marquinhos, also a pointless answer. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:27 | |
Also could have had Thiago Silva, there. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:30 | |
Marquinhos plays for PSG, as does Marco Verratti, | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
also a pointless answer. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:35 | |
And the Lazio goalie, Federico Marchetti. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:38 | |
Let's take a look at the Spanish players. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:41 | |
Isco, the Real Madrid midfielder was there. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:44 | |
Michu of Swansea. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:45 | |
Santi Cazorla of Arsenal and Victor Valdes, the Barcelona goalkeeper. | 0:42:45 | 0:42:49 | |
Very well done, if you got some of those at home. I know football fans | 0:42:49 | 0:42:52 | |
will have aced that, and it came along at a very nice time. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
-Two very nice guys, so I'm very pleased for you. -Thank you. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:57 | |
Thanks very much, Richard. Well, thanks, once again, to our winning | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
players, Pete and Michael, who go away with today's jackpot of £3,250. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:04 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to | 0:43:09 | 0:43:12 | |
the test on Pointless. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard... | 0:43:12 | 0:43:14 | |
-Goodbye. -..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:17 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:43:17 | 0:43:19 |