Episode 25 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, welcome to Pointless.

This is the show where all the questions have been asked

to 100 people before the show.

All our contestants have to do is come up with the answers

no-one else could think of. Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Sarah and this is my fiance, Stuart

-and we're from Buxton in Derbyshire.

-Couple number two.

I'm Katie. This is my work colleague, Richard,

-and we're from West Yorkshire.

-Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Louise and this is Peter. And we're from Solihull.

-And, finally, couple number four.

-Hi, Alexander. I'm Rob.

This is my friend, Adrian, and we're from Kettering.

And these are today's contestants.

APPLAUSE

Thanks very much.

We'll find out more about you throughout the show.

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

He holds the knowledge of an entire nation in his hands.

His soft, soft hands.

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

-Hiya.

APPLAUSE Hi, everybody.

Afternoon.

-Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

-Three returning pairs coming back.

We saw them all last time. We've got Katie and Richard,

got all the way through to their head-to-head.

Did very well, didn't they?

In Round One, we lost Peter and Louise. On podium one, there,

Stuart and Sarah who got through to Round Two.

Now, Steve and Lindsay got through to the final last time.

Gents on the last podium,

Adrian and Rob, I hear you're Birmingham City fans, is that right?

-I am, yeah.

-The jackpot question last time

was Birmingham City managers.

Off the top of your head, what might you have gone for?

I like a bit of Freddie Goodwin.

You would've just walked away with the jackpot

if you'd done that, which is more than we can say

for Steve and Lindsay who didn't, you'll be delighted to hear.

Brilliant, thank you very much indeed.

Now, Steve and Lindsay didn't win the jackpot last time so we add

another £1,000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off at £3,000.

APPLAUSE

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

APPLAUSE

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

at the end of each round will be eliminated. That's it.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our category for the first round today is -

words.

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. Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many words

ending in R-A-M as they could.

R-A-M. Richard.

We are looking for any word in the Oxford Dictionary Of English,

please, that ends R-A-M.

As always, no proper nouns, no hyphenated words, either.

Just any words ending R-A-M.

The last three times we've done this I've guessed your word.

I'm going to write down, again, what I think your word is going to be.

And at the end of the round... ALEXANDER SIGHS

-OK.

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

OK. Sarah, welcome back.

Remind us about yourself.

I'm a student at the University of York studying English.

-English literature? Enjoying it?

-Yes, very much so.

So, what sort of things do you get up to in York?

Um, I go running quite often but a lot of the time I'm in the library.

-Reading lots of exciting things.

-Very good.

Good, well, that's very good.

Now, Sarah, words ending in R-A-M.

I've had a few floating around in my head

but I've got one that I think might be quite low.

I think that's mammogram.

Mammogram. Mammogram, says Sarah.

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

It's right.

I have a feeling we might see the jackpot go up a little bit here.

Oh, 6 for mammogram.

APPLAUSE

You know what, the words round are the ones where it's hardest

to be on that podium one, so that's a terrific start, Sarah, well played.

-Very good indeed. Now, Richard, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Richard, remind us what do you do?

-I work in engagement for the NHS.

-What does that mean?

-It's the opposite of Katie.

Katie tells people things, I listen to what they say.

And then you go back and tell someone else or do you just...?

-You're just a release valve?

-Yeah, yeah, we go back

and then we make decisions on what people have told us.

And looking at what might be best to provide services

so we can make them better for the people that use them.

Well done. All I'm going to say. That's a great service, Richard.

Good for you. What are you going to go for, words ending R-A-M?

My mind was awash with four-letter words until I heard mammogram

and then I thought of something that rhymes with mammogram

which is anagram.

What about that? Anagram, says Richard.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Well, we had 6 for mammogram.

22 for anagram.

APPLAUSE

Richard is essentially being haunted by 22.

LAUGHTER

That was the prime number you gave us on the last show, wasn't it?

Yes. Thank you.

Louise, welcome back to Pointless.

Remind us about yourself, Louise.

So, I work in IT in the retail sector,

mainly for the large supermarkets.

OK, and when you're not doing that, Louise?

I hang around men in short shorts.

-That's right, you're a director of a rugby team.

-That's correct.

-How are they doing?

-We're doing all right, we finished sixth this season

-so we've had a good season.

-Excellent.

Now, we're looking for words ending R-A-M.

I'm going to go for hologram.

Hologram, says Louise. Hologram.

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

Hologram down to 3, best score so far, very well done.

-APPLAUSE

-Very well done indeed, Louise.

Well done, Louise.

Yeah, a photograph that produces a 3-D image

through the use of science.

That is science well used.

That's how that works.

You essentially take a photograph with a camera,

then you add science. And then when you look at it it's like, whoa!

-3-D.

-What, they soak it in science and then...?

What they do is they get a scientist in and give him or her

the photograph and they then turn it into a hologram so it becomes 3-D.

Cor, I didn't realise what the science was. It's great to hear.

-Yeah, no, it's interesting, isn't it?

-Almost blinded me with science

-there but it was...

-Any more science questions you want answered

-just ask me.

-I shall.

Whoa, science. It's reassuring, isn't it,

to know that somebody knows the answers?

Rob, great to have you here. What do you do, Rob?

Alexander, funnily enough, I'm head of commercial operations

at the Science Museum Group.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Even you must have some questions you want to put to Richard.

Oh, this is a terrific turn of events.

LAUGHTER

How fantastic. That's a fun thing to do. How long have you done that for?

Only six weeks, I'm new to the job but if you spend money

at one of our museums that's probably my responsibility.

Very good.

How many actual scientists like Richard do you have at the museum?

Actual scientists, I couldn't begin to guess.

I could tell you, eight.

LAUGHTER

Rob.

-Words ending R-A-M.

-Yeah, tricky one. I've got a couple of...

..slightly dubious ones but I think I'll plump for one I'm confident in.

I'll try ashram.

-That was going to be my answer.

-Oh, was it?

-Yes.

-So, if I've written down ashram here...

-Yeah.

-Yeah, I haven't.

-Oh!

LAUGHTER

But you can't have that answer so you have to think of another one.

I'll think of another.

I think I've thought of the one that you'll have thought of.

LAUGHTER

-Pew!

-Ashram, says Rob.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Well, 3 is our lowest score so far.

Ashram goes to 2.

Very well done indeed, Rob. Best score so far.

Well played, Rob, great start.

Religious retreat, especially in south-east Asia.

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

Let's take a look at those scores.

2, the best score of the pass. Well done, looking particularly strong.

Up to 3 where we find Louise and Peter.

6, Sarah and Stuart.

Oh, Richard and Katie,

way out in front there with 22.

Katie, you're going to have to ride to the rescue again,

good luck with that. We're going to come back down the line

now, can the second players please step up to the podium.

OK. Adrian, remember, we're looking for words in

the Oxford Dictionary Of English that end with the letters R-A-M.

-Now, Adrian, what do you do?

-I'm a GP.

And what you do in your spare time, Adrian?

-GP, spare time?!

-Ah, yes.

-Couldn't resist that. No, mainly sport.

Over the years, cricket, golf...

Football, rugby but, er,

age and bad knees, it's just golf that I play nowadays.

OK, words ending R-A-M.

Rob did fantastically well, first round,

-do you think you can better it?

-Er, I don't think I can better it.

I've got a couple of really dodgy ones which I'm not going to go for

but staying medical with electrocardiogram.

SCATTERED LAUGHTER

We're hoping Dr Hyphen isn't at home, aren't we?

-Electrocar...

-Not in my textbooks, he isn't.

OK, fair enough. That's me told.

There's your red line, get below that

and you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said electrocardiogram.

It's right.

It's right.

You're through to the next round

and it's a Pointless answer, very well done.

Electrocardiogram.

Adds £250 to today's jackpot. Takes the total up to £3,250.

It scores you nothing.

It beats Rob and it leaves your total at 2. Very well done indeed.

That is terrific work. Very well played.

-They're good on podium four, aren't they?

-They are.

-They're well clever.

-I know,

I wouldn't have had the neck to risk it.

LAUGHTER

You would have gone for it but you weren't gutsy enough to go for it?

-Is essentially what I'm saying.

-Oh.

-There you go.

-Oh, no! Electo-digadig-aah!

-I overestimated you.

-You overestimated me.

-Yeah, there you go.

-I've still got a good'un.

-I'm going to write another one.

-Cos I've had to change it,

so maybe I wasn't giving the right electrocardio impulses.

-OK, I'm going to write down something else.

-OK.

Now, Peter. Welcome back.

And remind us what you do, you're retired.

I've retired now. When I was working, I was a procurement officer

and I'm also a Birmingham City supporter

and I probably would have known one of the two Birmingham City managers.

Birmingham City getting a lot of representation, isn't it?

Aren't they just.

-Who would you have gone for?

-Gary Pendrey.

-Pointless answer.

There you go.

Can you follow that up with another Pointless answer for this round?

-Doubtful.

-Come on, Peter.

-I'm going to go for telegram.

-Telegram.

Telegram, says Peter.

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

There's your red line, get below that, you're in Round Two.

It's right.

-33 for telegram.

-APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 36.

A new high score.

Yeah, a big scorer for telegram, as you might expect.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Katie. Welcome back.

You've been handed a massive lifeline there by Peter.

So, 13 or less and you can ride to Richard's rescue.

So, remind us what you do.

I'm a communications manager in the NHS.

So, I tell the public things and I tell our staff things, as well.

So, not a lot of listening, then?

Well, I listen to Richard, occasionally.

Does she though, Richard? Does she, does she?

No, no. It's a good job cos I'm mainly wrong so...

LAUGHTER

There you go. Katie, what are you going to go for?

I'm going to go for something with lots of Ls in it

and that's parallelogram.

Parallelogram, says Katie.

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

There's your red line, get below that, you're in Round Two.

-Well done, you're through!

-APPLAUSE

6!

-6 for parallelogram.

-Yeah, good work from Katie, again.

That's essentially two telegrams next to each other.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, Richard. OK, now, Stuart.

-Hi.

-Welcome back.

Now, remind us what you do.

Heavy goods driver.

And in your spare time, football's a big part of your life.

-What sort of... Do you play, do you coach, do you manage?

-Yeah.

I've done it all but I'm getting towards the end now of my playing

-so I'm actually going into refereeing, I think.

-Wow.

Have you done it... Have you registered as a referee?

-It's up-and-coming.

-Oh, right, good.

That's going to take a bit of guts, that, isn't it?

I'm not the referee's best friend when I play so...

LAUGHTER

Oh, right. So, poacher turned gamekeeper, there we are.

Very good. Well, there you are. Listen, you're on 6.

There's every chance that if you can score less...

Well, if you score less than 29, you are through to the next round.

-I think there's every chance you will do that.

-Right.

I've had a few but I'm going to use a little bit of someone else

and go with cardiogram.

Cardiogram. I like what you've done there. Cardiogram.

There's your red line, you have to get below this, if you do,

you're in Round Two. How many people said cardiogram?

It's right.

-Well done, you're through.

-APPLAUSE

1!

Very well done.

Second lowest score of the round.

Takes your total up to 7. Sees you comfortably through.

Well played, Stuart, very sneaky, as well.

I think you'll make a terrific referee.

LAUGHTER

-So, before I do the Pointless answers, have you got...

-Yeah. OK.

It's between pictogram

-and radiogram.

-OK.

-What are you going to go for?

-Go for pictogram.

-Oh, Richard.

-APPLAUSE

There you go. Let's take a look at some of the Pointless answers.

Cablegram. You could have had centigram.

Diram would have been a very good answer, currency, of course.

Echocardiogram, lexigram. You could have had pangram.

Preprogram would have been a Pointless answer.

Stereogram and videogram, all of those are Pointless answers.

Let's take a look at the top three scorers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Dram, 59.

Cram, 61.

And pram, 62.

Thanks very much. So, at the end of our first round, the pair

who are heading home, with a high score of 36, I'm afraid,

-Peter and Louise, again, it's you in Round One.

-Oh, no.

Listen, Peter and Louise, you've been lovely.

Thank you for playing,

I'm sorry we're saying goodbye far too soon but there we are.

-Great players, Peter and Louise.

-APPLAUSE

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

OK, so three pairs remain.

At the end of this round we will have to say goodbye

to another pair. Adrian and Rob, electrocardiogram. Just fantastic.

Stuart and Sarah, lovely low-scoring as well from you and,

Katie and Richard, once again, Katie,

heroic work there rescuing Richard at the last minute.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

SOME PEOPLE LAUGH

Politicians. A bit of a groan from the audience.

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...

Politicians who were born in Wales. Richard.

On each pass, we'll give you six descriptions of politicians

who were born in Wales, you just need to tell us who they are.

There's going to be 12 in all. So very, very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So let's reveal our first board of six and here are the clues.

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, then, Sarah.

Oh, gosh. Not many that I like.

I'm going to have to take a total guess at

the Conservative Chancellor and Foreign Secretary

and say George Osborne.

George Osborne says Sarah, let's see if that's right. George Osborne.

Oh, not George Osborne, I'm afraid. Scores you 100 points there.

Yeah, not a correct answer, I'm afraid,

-for a number of reasons there.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much indeed.

Now, Richard.

Right, well, being in the NHS we should know

the Labour Minister of health during the establishment

of the NHS in the 1940s

and I'm hoping that it was the great, er, Bevan.

-I'm going to need a name.

-I think it's Aneurai Bevan.

Aneurai Bevan says Richard, let's see if that's right

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

-APPLAUSE

-8.

8.

Yeah, I'm just about going to give you that,

it was on the absolute edge of acceptability.

Aneurin Bevan or Nye Bevan, Aneurai Bevan, that's, I think...

Er, thanks very much indeed. OK, now, Rob, the board is all yours.

Do you want to talk us through it and then fill in the blanks?

I'd love to fill in the blanks, yeah, if I could.

Leader of the Labour Party is Neil Kinnock...

..but the one that I know, I think...

Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

Julia Gillard says Rob, Julia Gillard.

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

It's right.

Well, 8 is our best score for Nye Bevan,

you pass that, 7. Very well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

7 for Julia Gillard.

Well played, Rob. Yeah, she was born in Barry in 1961.

-Now, the Tory Education Secretary '86 to '89.

-Kenneth Baker?

Kenneth Baker, yup.

That would have scored you 3 points.

You're absolutely right about Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party,

of course, 20 points for that.

Let's go down to the Labour Home Secretary next.

That was Merlin Rees, would've scored you 1 point.

-And this last one, this is a pointless answer.

-Is it?

This is one of the key moments

in 20th-century British political history,

led almost directly to Thatcher's downfall.

-Yeah, the dead sheep, Geoffrey Howe.

-Geoffrey Howe, yup.

Pointless answer, very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much indeed. OK, let's take a look at the scores.

We're halfway through the round. 7 the best score of that pass,

very well done, Rob and Adrian.

Then up to 8 where we find Richard and Katie,

very close there at that end of the table

then up to 100, I'm afraid, Sarah and Stuart.

Who knows what might happen?

Maybe you can redeem yourselves, Stuart, but it's all

going to be on your shoulders, 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 six more clues up on the board and here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

OK, now, Adrian, you're on 7.

92 or less gets you through to the next round.

Yes, erm, I can picture a Spitting Image puppet of this chap,

so I'm to go for Tarzan and that is Michael Heseltine.

Michael Heseltine says Adrian,

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

There's your red line. Get below that, I think you might,

and you're in the head-to-head.

It's right and you're through, well done.

-APPLAUSE

-20.

20 takes your total up to 27.

Well played, Adrian.

Yeah, a very famous Spitting Image puppet.

They call him Tarzan because his best friend was a chimpanzee...

LAUGHTER

..famously.

Very good. Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Katie, what are you going to go for?

-You're on 8, you have to score 91 or less.

-Yeah.

I'm just going to have a complete guess and go for

the Labour Chancellor, one of the Gang of Four and say David Steel.

OK, David Steel says Katie.

There's your red line.

If you can get below that, you're in the head-to-head.

Let's see if David Steel's right.

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

Scores you 100 points and takes your total up to 108.

However, the round is not yet over.

Yeah, I'm afraid he was not Labour,

not a Chancellor and not a member

of the Gang of Four, I'm afraid. LAUGHTER

Other than that it's a George Osborne of an answer.

LAUGHTER

Thanks very much. Now, Stuart, the board is all yours.

Do you fancy talking us though it?

Erm, it won't take very long.

I don't know any politicians rather than anything else.

Welsh First Minister and say

George Osborne again.

LAUGHTER

OK, George Osborne. Might be a chance for you here, Katie.

Erm, don't want to promise anything but...

George Osborne, there's your red line.

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

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

No. Nope.

There we are. The newest members of the 200 club.

There we are, Stuart and Sarah, I'm afraid. Yes, incorrect answer there.

Yeah, George Osborne is many things but not Welsh First Minister,

I'm afraid.

Now, the Welsh First Minister is

Rhodri Morgan and it was a pointless answer.

-Wow.

-Yup.

-Wow.

-The Labour Chancellor...

-Roy Jenkins.

-Roy Jenkins, yup.

2 points. Labour Deputy Prime Minister for ten years.

-John Prescott.

-John Prescott.

Would have scored you 11 points. The Speaker of the House of Commons.

I have a cheating answer. I have Lord Tonypandy but he wasn't called

-that...

-He wasn't called that, what he, originally? It's George Thomas.

-George Thomas, well done.

-Thank you.

-There you go.

-2 points for that and the Conservative leader?

-Michael Howard.

Yeah, lots more of them born in Wales than you think, aren't there?

Michael Howard, 3 points for him.

-So Rhodri Morgan the best answer there.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

with our high score of 200, it's Stuart and Sarah.

Politics, I'm going to say, I think, safely,

-not your subject.

-No, not at all.

-No shame in admitting it.

-No. No.

Anyway, listen, I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you.

It's Round Two again. It was Round Two last time, I think.

But it's been great having you on the show. Stuart and Sarah.

-Cheers, thank you.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Adrian and Rob, Katie and Richard,

you're now one step closer to the final

and the chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at...

APPLAUSE

Well, I think this will be quite close. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

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

Historic flags. Richard.

We're going to show you five pictures of flags now for countries

that no longer exist. Can you tell us what those countries are, please?

-Or what those countries were. Good luck.

-Oh, the flag of Atlantis!

LAUGHTER

OK, let's reveal our five flags and here they come. We've got...

There you are, five countries that no longer exist.

And there are their flags.

Now, Adrian and Rob, you've been our low-scorers, so you will go first.

(A is East Germany and...C is the USSR.)

(What about A, West Germany?)

We're not fantastically sure about all of those

but we're going to go with E and Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia say Adrian and Rob for E. Yugoslavia.

Now, Katie and Richard, do you want to talk us through the other flags?

No.

LAUGHTER

We think A might be an East or a West Germany,

B looks like it might be a kind of Asian country that no longer exists.

-C, didn't know whether it was like USSR or...

-Shall we go A?

We're going to go for A and East Germany.

East Germany say Katie and Richard, East Germany.

OK, so we have Yugoslavia and we have East Germany.

Adrian and Rob said Yugoslavia, let's see if that's right,

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

It is right, very well done indeed.

That's a good score, look at that,

-6, very well done indeed.

-APPLAUSE

Katie and Richard, meanwhile, have said that A is East Germany.

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

It is right.

-27, not bad.

-APPLAUSE

Not bad but very well done, Adrian and Rob,

Yugoslavia wins that for you. After one question, you're up 1-0.

Yeah, very well played. Now, B. Yeah, it is an Asian country.

It would be very gutsy for a European country to have that as a flag.

LAUGHTER That'd be saying something.

You'd have to have a spectacularly good zoo before that

became your flag.

Yeah, it is the flag of Siam.

Which, of course, is modern-day Thailand.

Would have scored you 1 point.

C is the Soviet Union, of course.

Would have scored you 53.

-And the best answer there is D, it's a terrible flag.

-Mm.

It looks like a... Sort of like a replacement-window shop

on your local high street, looks like the logo they might have.

But it's now part of Malaysia and it's Sarawak.

And if you said that, you just got a pointless answer,

so very well played.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. OK, here comes your second question.

Katie and Richard, you have to win this one to stay in the game

so best of luck. It concerns...

"And The" bands. Richard.

Going to show you titles of five singles now all recorded by groups

who had "and the" in their names,

can you tell us who the bands were, please?

OK, here are the five singles.

I'll read those all one last time.

Katie and Richard go first.

-(The first one's Adam & The Ants.)

-(Yeah, yeah.)

-(Siouxsie & The Banshees.)

-(Blockheads.)

-(Blockheads.)

(So which one do you want to go for?)

We know a few but we think we're going to go with

Hong Kong Garden and Siouxsie & The Banshees.

Siouxsie & The Banshees say Katie and Richard,

Siouxsie & The Banshees.

Now, then, Adrian and Rob, talk us through the board.

Wish we could. Erm, Adam & The Ants for the first one,

Ian Drury & The Blockheads for the third one, Brian Blessed,

perhaps, for the bottom one if he was, er...

-LAUGHTER

-..in a band in the '60s, maybe.

We'll have to go with the third one, I think.

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Drury & The Blockheads.

OK, Ian Drury & The Blockheads say Adrian and Rob.

Katie and Richard have gone for Siouxsie & The Banshees,

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

let's see how may people said that.

It's right.

And it's a good score,

look at that, 29, very well done.

APPLAUSE

Adrian and Rob have gone for Ian Drury and the Blockheads.

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

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

AUDIENCE: Oh!

I'm afraid that is an incorrect answer.

So, yes, that means Katie and Richard, very well done,

you're back in the game. After two questions, it's 1-1.

Yeah, I'm sorry, guys, Ian Dury & The Blockheads,

not Ian Drury & The Blockheads.

Wouldn't have won you the point anyway

cos it would have scored you 49 points.

Prince Charming was Adam & The Ants, you knew that one.

Would have been a big scorer, though. Would have scored you 63.

You're Speaking My Language is a good answer,

it's the actress Juliette Lewis.

She had a band called Juliette & The Licks.

Would have scored you 2 points. Would have been a very good answer.

It would be good if this was Brian Blessed,

it might have been an English version of Bob Marley & The Wailers -

Brian Blessed & The Shouters.

But it wasn't. It's B Bumble & The Stingers.

Would have scored you 9 points.

So very well done if you said that at home.

Thank you very much indeed.

OK, so here comes your third question.

Whoever wins this one goes through to the final

and plays for the jackpot.

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

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-Arsenal FC.

-I'm trying to work out if that got a more disappointed

reaction than Politicians. It was close.

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now, they're facts about Arsenal FC

and the team that gives us the best answer's

going through to play for the jackpot,

so very best of luck to both teams.

OK, thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five clues and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, Adrian and Rob, you will go first.

-(Became manager in '96.)

-(Are we sure it's '96?)

(I think that's going to win it.)

OK, erm, we think the year in which Arsene Wenger became

Arsenal manager was 1996.

1996 say Adrian and Rob, 1996.

Now, Katie and Richard, talk us through the board if you can.

Erm, the common name of the ground, I think, is Highbury.

The Dutchman I think is Dennis Bergkamp, the home-shirt sleeves

I think were white and the club

in '79 I think might have been Sunderland but...

-Just go for one you know.

-One I know.

I'm going to go for the predominant colour of the sleeves being white.

OK, white say Katie and Richard.

OK, so Adrian and Rob have gone for 1996,

let's see if that's right for the year Arsene Wenger took over.

Oh, that's a great answer.

2, very well done indeed.

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Wow.

Katie and Richard, meanwhile, have gone for white, the predominant

colour of the sleeves in the '13/14 season.

It's right.

24.

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24, which means, Adrian and Rob, very well done.

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

That's a terrific answer, Adrian and Rob, very well played.

Now, you're right about 1979, Sunderland did play in that

final but it was Alan Sunderland who scored the winning goal

for Arsenal against Manchester United.

Would have scored 4 points. The Dutchman was Dennis Bergkamp.

Scored 13 and Highbury the ground would have scored you...

..16. So best answer on the board, 1996.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

I'm afraid, Katie and Richard.

This is becoming a habit saying goodbye to you at the end

of this round but you've done very well, all the same.

I'm sorry you didn't make it through to the final round eventually.

Thanks very much for playing, Katie and Richard.

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But for Adrian and Rob, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Adrian and Rob, you fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

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

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You've done incredibly well.

And we've given you a pretty broad range of subjects

and you've been our low-scorers at the end of every single round.

As always, you get to choose your category from the four options

we give you. Let's see what we've got on the board today.

Well, there's...

Mythology, movies, thriller writers. Rugby union?

I'm a rugby league man myself.

He does have his faults but rugby union, it's got to be.

OK, rugby union.

I'm sure you'll be fine if you know anything about rugby.

Three different questions about tryscorers from different years here.

We are looking for the name of anybody from England, Scotland,

Ireland or Wales who scored a try at the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

We're looking for anyone who scored a try on the 2009 Lions Tour

to South Africa in the ten games there.

Or we're looking for anybody, simply, who scored

a try in the 2014 Six Nations.

So 2003 World Cup - England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Lions tryscorers in 2009 or anybody who scored

a try in the 2014 Six Nations.

-Very best of luck.

-OK, as always,

you've got up to a 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?

-Yeah.

-OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are.

Your time starts now.

2009 was Matt Dawson.

'97...2014.

Did Brad Barritt score?

-Erm...

-It's only... It's not just England, though.

Yup, OK.

Jonathan Davies. Going back to the 2003 World Cup.

Just go through the nations. Was Gregor Townsend playing then?

Shane Horgan.

-For Wales...

-Who were the England backs?

-World Cup...

-Jason Robinson for 2003 World Cup.

-Yeah.

-Erm...

-Tindall.

-Mike Tindall.

What about the back row? Who was in the back row?

-Mick Hill didn't score. Neil Back.

-Neil Back for 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Ten seconds left.

-We'll have Neil Back, we'll have...

-What about Wales?

I think Shane Horgan'll score the point.

OK, that is your time up, so I now need your three answers

and if you could say which category you're answering, that'd be great.

OK, we'll start off with the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

That will be Shane Horgan.

-Shane Horgan from the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

-Yup.

-2003 Rugby World Cup again, Jason Robinson.

-Jason Robinson.

-Gregor Townsend.

-OK, 2009 British and Irish Lions, Gregor Townsend.

Gregor Townsend.

OK, so, of those three,

which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Shane Horgan.

-Shane Horgan goes last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Gregor Townsend.

-Gregor Townsend.

OK, well, let's pop those answers up on the board in that order,

then, and here they are.

We have got...

Well, best of luck.

Three good answers up on the board there.

Now, remember, only one of them has to be pointless to win that jackpot.

Quite a nice jackpot now - 3,250 quid.

What would you do with that, Adrian?

Erm, well, my daughter's desperately after a new

handset for her phone, so I think there's no

way in the world that that isn't going to happen.

And my son's at university crying poverty,

so I think he'll get a slice as well and then probably

-a weekend break for me and the missus.

-OK, Rob, how about you?

Big TV so I can rewatch some of those rugby matches and

remember who the tryscorers really were and probably a family holiday.

-A road trip across the States.

-Excellent, lovely.

Well, very, very best of luck.

Let's hope one of these answers wins that jackpot for you.

Your first answer, the one you thought was least likely

to be pointless was Gregor Townsend.

In this case we were looking for Lions tryscorers,

let's see if it's right

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

For £3,250.

OK, not Gregor Townsend then.

Not a pointless answer,

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

Your second answer was Jason Robinson.

In this case we were looking for the tryscorers

in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Let's see if it's right.

Again, if it's pointless, it'll win you that jackpot.

So, for £3,250, let's see how many people said Jason Robinson.

OK. We are now on safer ground.

Gregor Townsend, your first answer,

was incorrect.

Jason Robinson now taking us

down through the teens into

single figures, still going down.

Down it goes.

Still going down to 3. Jason Robinson.

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-Low-scoring. Surprised how far down that went.

-Very.

Not pointless though.

So everything is now riding on your third and final

answer which is Shane Horgan.

It has to be right, then it has to be pointless

for you to win that jackpot.

So let's find out, for £3,250, how many people said Shane Horgan?

It's right.

Now, Gregor Townsend was incorrect,

Jason Robinson in the event took us

all the way down to 3,

Shane Horgan now taking us into single figures.

Down it goes, still going down, passes 3,

still going down, you've done it! Very well done indeed. Fabulous.

You can forget about Ian Drury.

Ah, very well done.

Wow, congratulations.

Shane Horgan was a pointless answer

which means you go home with our jackpot of £3,250.

Very, very well done.

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Yeah, brilliantly played. You've been terrific all the way through.

Whether you said Ian Drury or Ian Dury, who cares now? Who cares?

You won that jackpot. And I think you knew Gregor Townsend.

I think you meant to go for the 2003 answer.

Would have been a pointless answer if you had done.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

Any rugby fan worth anything will have got pointless answers

in all of these. There's so many pointless answers.

You said one of these guys in your 60 seconds as well.

You said Neil Back.

You could have had Vickery, Moody, Girvan Dempsey.

The only ones that scored points, in fact,

Brian O'Driscoll would have scored you 5, Will Greenwood 4,

Robinson and Dallaglio 3, 1 point for Shane Williams, Mike Catt.

Matt Dawson, Ben Cohen, Mike Tindall and Josh Lewsey -

everybody else who scored a try there was a pointless answer, so well done

if you said any of them.

Let's take a look at the Lions.

There's so many pointless answers here.

Again, the only ones who scored points - Brian O'Driscoll,

again, our leader, 12 points and 2 points for Shane Williams.

1 point for Rob Kearney as well.

Let's take a look at the last category.

Scorers in the 2014 Six Nations.

In fact, everybody apart from George North who would've scored 5,

3 points for Owen Farrell and Luther Burrell,

2 points for Sam Warburton, Manu Tuilagi,

and 1 for Johnny Sexton, Danny Care and Chris Robshaw.

Every single other tryscorer was pointless,

well done if you got any of those. And congratulations in the studio.

You've been brilliant from start to finish.

Thanks very much indeed and thanks once again to our winning

players Adrian and Rob who go away with today's jackpot of £3,250.

Very well done.

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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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