Episode 29 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

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

where we are always striving to find the most obscure answers.

Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Simon.

And this is my friend and colleague Dave. And we're from Bristol.

Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Carole. This is my friend Judy.

-And we are from Kent.

-Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Ellie. This is my friend Luke.

And we are students at Warwick University.

-And finally, couple number four.

-Hi, I'm Lucy.

This is Harry, and we're family friends

from Radcliffe in Manchester.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, all of you.

We'll find out more about you as the show goes along.

So that just leaves one person for me to introduce.

He's training me up to be clever on what he calls my thickness routine.

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

Hiya.

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-Good afternoon.

-And to you.

-What a lovely show last time.

Wasn't that nice?

With Wayne and Laura, who are lovely and walked away with a jackpot.

It was only £1,000, but they deserved it.

They were very, very good. We've got Carole and Judy back from that show.

We gave them a football question, wasn't their ideal.

Did rather well on it, but did get knocked out.

Hopefully, Round One better for you today.

We've also got Luke and Ellie back, who got through to that head-to-head.

So they played very well. Going to be a cracker, I think.

OK. Well, thanks very much.

Now, Wayne and Laura won the jackpot last time,

so we start off again with a jackpot of £1,000.

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

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

round will be eliminated, remember that

and do everything you can to make sure you are not in that pair.

Our first category today is...

History. Can you all decide

in your pairs who's going first, who's going second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Significant events and their monarchs, Richard.

Yeah, on each pass, we'll show you significant events in history,

also the years they occurred in.

Tell us the name of the British

or English monarch on the throne at the time, please.

Need name and regnal number, where appropriate.

So it's going to be 14 dates and 14 monarchs to get at home. Good luck.

OK, so who were the monarchs on the throne when these events took place?

Here's our first board of seven events.

And we have...

I'll read those one last time.

-David, welcome.

-Hello.

-Great to have you here. Where you here from?

-We're here from Bristol.

-From Bristol.

And what do you do down in Bristol?

-I am a design engineer.

-Are you? Can I ask, what do you design?

It's in communications. So that is about as much as I can say, really.

HE MUMBLES

-What do you do when you're not doing that, David?

-I do all sorts.

-I make model airplanes.

-More design engineering at home.

-Yes.

-And I do flight simulation on the computer.

-OK.

You never really like stopping working, do you?

OK, now, David... David, what are you going to go for on this board?

-HE SIGHS

-It's a bit tricky, to be honest.

Um...

I'm going to have to have a fairly safe guess that the publication

of Darwin's Origin Of Species, that would be Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria. Seems fair enough. Let's see if it is right.

Let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

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34 for Queen Victoria.

-David, very well played.

-Thanks very much.

I don't have very much to say about the Origin Of Species or

Queen Victoria.

Both perfectly solid.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Carole, welcome back.

Remind us what you like getting up to, Carole.

We travel the underground and write books about it.

And I also work for the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Yeah, so far you have written books about the Northern line

-and the Jubilee line. Is that right?

-Yes.

So you just go through one station at a time and spend...?

-It depends how interesting they are.

-Right.

If there is a lot to see, then

it'll be just the one station. But if there is not much there...

What sort of things have you written about?

Are these sort of just curious facts about things

or things you've discovered?

-People that we meet.

-I see, OK.

We write about the station, the platform,

odd things that we discover.

For instance, the Stephens' Ink Museum.

Wow.

-What about that? Where was that?

-That was at Finchley.

Sorry, is that a zinc museum or an ink museum?

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-Ink.

-The zinc museum is next door. That's fun.

-Oh.

Ink Museum, just your kind of thing. Anyway, Carole, board.

Board of history.

Board, that sounded like I'd had enough of Carole's stories about...

I didn't mean that. I mean, the board of clues there.

Well, I have a feeling that slavery abolition

was also Queen Victoria.

-So that is going to be your answer?

-Yes.

-Queen Victoria for 1833.

Let's see if that is right.

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

Oh, I'm sorry, Carole.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

1837,

Queen Victoria took to the throne.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Luke, welcome back.

-Thank you very much.

-You had a stratospheric

early career in Pointless.

Right through - low-scorer, low-scorer in the first two rounds,

then into the head-to-head. And then a 2-nil defeat.

It didn't fall our way, unfortunately.

No, I'm afraid it didn't. It didn't. Luke, remind us what you do.

I am an English literature student at the University of Warwick.

Very good. And what sort of things have you been getting up to?

Fantastic art centre there, of course.

-Have you been seeing many things there?

-A few plays.

Lots of student productions going on at Warwick.

-Have you been involved in any?

-I haven't personally.

I've got a lot of friends who have.

They recently put on Sweeney Todd. Critically acclaimed.

Recommend anybody to go and see anything at the Warwick Arts Centre.

A bit of a shameless plug.

No, it is a great place, Warwick. I love Warwick.

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

I think I'm going to play it relatively safe

and go for the Gunpowder Plot, 1605, and say James I.

James I, says Luke for the Gunpowder Plot.

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

Absolutely right.

Look at that, 14.

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14 for James I.

Best score so far.

-Yeah, very well played. He was James VI of Scotland.

-Indeed.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Harry. Welcome to the show.

Lovely to have you here from Manchester. What do you do, Harry?

-I am contentedly retired.

-Oh, that is nice. Contentedly retired.

That's the best kind of retired. What did you do before?

I was an electronics and computer engineer.

And how do you fill your retirement, Harry?

I like sports, outside.

Not as much activity these days,

but I am quite active with my local canal restoration society.

That is interesting. What sort of things do you do?

-Are you just restoring the banks and that kind of thing?

-We do all sorts.

A typical term is, "Come and join us for a dirty weekend."

-LAUGHTER

-We recently had a project

which we built the world's first

-full-sized bridge out of Meccano.

-Excellent.

-I mean, there's miles and miles of canals.

-There's a great deal, yes.

Yeah. So plenty of work to do yet, I should think.

-Keep us amused for a while yet, yes.

-Excellent.

Well, good for you, Harry. There is your board.

Do you want to talk us through it?

World War II, I think, is George VI.

Margaret Thatcher, I think, is Elizabeth II.

Slavery, I'm not sure.

Or Trafalgar, I'm not sure.

The Civil War, I think, was Charles I.

I'm going for Charles I for the Civil War.

OK, Charles I, says Harry. Let's see if that is right.

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

Well, 34 is our high-scoring correct answer.

You passed that. 14, our low.

You are pretty much halfway between.

23. Very well done, Harry, good answer.

Yeah, well played, Harry, good answer.

You're right about George VI as well, at the outbreak of World War II.

He would have scored you 33.

Now, the election of Margaret Thatcher,

obviously it is Queen Elizabeth II, but look at the score for this.

65 points.

What that tells us... Genuinely, what that tells us -

because people know that answer - is people panic

when they see information delivered in an unusual way.

So if you say to anybody, "Who was Queen in 1979?"

It's going to get 100.

The second you say, "Who was Queen when Margaret Thatcher was elected?"

they go, "That's too complicated, I can't do it. No, I can't do it."

People panic when they receive information in that way.

Slavery, abolitioners, actually - William IV.

Would've scored you 3 points. Very good answer.

And the Battle of Trafalgar was...

George III?

It was George III, yeah.

Best answer, actually - 2 points.

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

We are halfway through the round.

14, the best score of that pass.

Luke and Ellie once again. Supreme

at this point. Then up to 23,

where we find Harry and Lucy.

34, David and Simon. Then up to 100, Carole and Judy.

Oh, Judy, we can't say goodbye to you at the end of this round.

Let's hope there's a lovely low score on the next board that you,

and only you, know. Good luck with that.

We come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more historical events up on the board.

And here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, Lucy, we come to you. Welcome, Lucy, lovely to have you here.

What do you do, Lucy?

I work for a market research company that does

-research for pharmaceutical companies.

-I see.

-So you are getting all the data back and you are processing that...

-Yeah.

-..and passing it on to the drug companies.

-Yes.

-Excellent.

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

I am into languages. I did French and Italian

-at university and I like travelling. I lived in Florence.

-Lovely.

-I am into music, reading, theatre.

-Excellent.

-Well, how's your history?

-Um...

I knew more on the other board.

Um...

I think the only one that I'm 100% sure on is

the defeat of the Spanish Armada and Elizabeth I.

Elizabeth I, says Lucy.

You have to score 76 or less to be sure of a place in the next round.

There is your red line. Let's see if you can get below that

with Elizabeth I.

Well done. You have done it. Good answer.

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48 is your total.

Well played, Lucy. Safely through. Yeah, Elizabeth I.

She changed her name, of course,

cos she used to just be called Elizabeth.

Of course.

-That's right.

-And then she got a branding agency in.

-Yeah, yeah.

They said, "Call yourself Elizabeth I."

And she was like, "Are you sure?"

And they went, "Yes, it sounds amazing

"because it's like primary, the first one."

She was like, "All right, I will.

"It'll cost me a lot to change my stationery."

But worth it, I think, because she has become much more famous.

Yeah, like it.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Ellie, welcome back.

Exemplary performance up to the head-to-head last time.

-I'm hoping you'll repeat that and go one step further.

-Hopefully.

Now, remind us what you do. You are at Warwick.

-I'm a history student.

-That's exactly right!

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-So...

The last board was better for me, but I think I'm going to go for...

I wrote my dissertation on the Reformation, so I think I'm going

to go with the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries.

-And go for Henry VIII.

-Henry VIII, says Ellie.

-You have to score 85 or less.

-Yeah, playing it safe a little bit.

Surely you will get below that red line with Henry VIII.

Let's find out if you do.

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

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50 is your nice,

-round total.

-Very well done.

Especially if you've written a dissertation on the Reformation,

that's route one information we're asking for. But well done.

Do you know how many people they estimate

he executed during his reign?

Henry VIII.

-ALEXANDER SIGHS

-Um, maybe...

It was either something massive or something surprisingly small.

Maybe it was only...

-..40.

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

Do you know what? It was 72,000.

AUDIENCE GASPS

-Wow.

-Yeah.

That's a lot of people. Ellie could probably name all of them.

But I won't ask you to.

-Easy, easy.

-OK. Thank you very much indeed.

OK, so, Judy...

Judy, so far, I was rather hoping that somebody might stumble,

there'd be a massive high score and you'd be through.

I'm hoping that, too.

Well, it may yet happen.

Judy, what we absolutely, absolutely require from you is a low score.

But remind us about yourself, Judy. Obviously, we know about your books.

Have you done publicity and things for the books?

We were on The One Show.

-We were filmed singing a silly song going along on the Tube.

-That's fun.

Did anyone give you some money?

Everybody looked terribly embarrassed

and looked the other way and tried to distance themselves from us.

The One Show had the same branding agency as Elizabeth I.

-Did you know that?

-Yes.

-When it came out, it used to be called The Show.

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

I'm going to go for signing of the Magna Carta and King John.

King John, says Judy. Let's see if that's right.

No red line for you, I'm afraid, as you are the high-scorers,

but let's see how far down the column you get with King John.

122. You are still in with a chance.

Given yourself a chance there.

Yeah, there's four remaining copies of the Magna Carta.

-The Government got one of them insured for £30 million.

-Wow.

Now, Simon.

-Hello.

-Simon, welcome. Lovely to have you here.

What do you do, Simon?

I'm a sales and marketing manager for an electronics company.

A lot of electronics going on.

-Nothing to do with David?

-We are, actually, yes.

-Oh, I see. I see.

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Simon, what do you do in your spare time?

I'm an active member of our local church. I run a youth group.

We also have a six-year-old daughter,

and she takes up a lot of our time.

-And I also play a lot of squash nowadays as well.

-Very good.

Now, Simon, you have to score 87 or less.

It's... Yeah. There's not a lot left on that board.

-It's looking a bit tricky.

-This is very difficult for me.

We need a correct answer from you. That's essentially what we need.

Talk us through the board if you can, Simon.

Not much I can talk about.

Um...

My guess is Einstein's proposal of the theory of relativity

may be George V.

Great Fire of London, Charles II.

I'm not too sure about the other two.

I'm going to go - Great Fire of London and Charles II.

Charles II for the Great Fire of London.

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

There's your red line.

It's right. And you are through, very well done indeed, Simon.

Look at that, 11.

-11 for Charles II. 45, your total.

-Great answer, Simon.

Very well played. You picked the right one as well

because the Einstein one was actually Edward VII.

Would've scored...

18 points. Columbus' discovery of the New World was the reign of Henry VII.

Scored you 4. And the 1707 was Queen Anne.

Scored you 9 points. So Henry VII, the best answer up there.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. At the end of our first round,

the pair heading home with their high score of 122...

I'm so sorry, Judy and Carole, it's you again.

Far too soon, as I say, to be saying goodbye.

It's been wonderful having you.

Thank you for coming and joining us and playing.

-Judy and Carole, lovely contestants.

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

And so, three pairs remain. At the end of this round,

we'll have to say goodbye to another pair. That was very close.

Our three surviving pairs within 5 points of each other.

Simon, lowest individual score, very well done.

Simon and David, lowest combined score as well.

Then Lucy and Harry. Then Luke and Ellie.

Lowest score halfway through the round

and then the highest remaining three at the end of the round, Luke.

I don't know what we can attribute that to.

But anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

It's Pop Music.

Can you all decide who's going first, who's going second?

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

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

We give 100 people 100 seconds to name...

Artists who released the biggest selling singles of 2013, Richard.

We're looking for the answers behind any of the top 40 selling

singles of 2013 in the UK, please.

So anyone who released one of the top 40 best selling singles of 2013.

Where it's one act featuring another, they all count as separate answers.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So, Simon, to you.

-What are you going to go for, Simon?

-I'm going to go for Rihanna.

Rihanna, says Simon. Let's see if Rihanna is right.

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

It is right, well done, Simon.

29 for Rihanna.

Yeah, she had two hits in that top 40.

I won't mention them cos they both involve other people as well.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Ellie.

Hm. Uh...

Kind of a lot of things coming to mind,

but then I'm thinking maybe they're a bit too obvious, I don't know.

So I think I'm going to go for not so much a singer but a producer

who has sort of released them, so I'm going to go for Avicii.

Avicii, says Ellie.

Avicii, let's see if that is right, let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

29 is our only score at this point,

and you passed it.

Very well done indeed. Avicii down to 2!

That is a great answer, Ellie.

-Very well done indeed.

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Yeah, well played, Ellie.

That is Swedish DJ Tim Bergling. He actually had the

third biggest-selling song of the year with Wake Me Up.

Charges a quarter of a million dollars for a DJ set.

-There you go.

-For one night.

-There. You. Go.

Interestingly, a few years ago...

I say a few years ago, probably about 20+ years ago,

they made it compulsory for all Swedish schoolchildren to

-take up a musical instrument.

-OK.

And the result is, a generation later,

the top music producers in the world are all Swedish.

-All Swedish?

-Yeah.

-Is that right?

-Yeah.

There we are. Thank you very much indeed. Now, Lucy.

-Lucy, what are you going to go for?

-I've got a couple in mind.

There is one, but I'm not 100% sure on,

so I don't know to take the risk... I think I'll try it anyway.

I'm going to say Bastille.

Bastille, says Lucy. Bastille. Let's see if that is right.

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

It's right. Good answer.

Well, 2 is our lowest score so far.

You pass the high score of 29.

3. Very well done.

Lovely and close at the bottom there.

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3 for Bastille.

Had an amazing time recently, sold over two million

copies of Pompeii, which is the single in this top 40.

Also spent over six months in the top ten of the album charts.

Big hit in America.

-Good song.

-Good song. Good band.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. We're halfway through,

let's look at those scores.

Once again, Ellie and Luke,

commanding position there. Lovely low score of 2 from Ellie.

Then up to 3, where we find Lucy and Harry.

Then we up to 29, Simon and David.

So, David, get thinking. We need a nice low score from you.

At the very, very least.

I don't understand what this means.

Surely that means it is all a bluff.

You've got a brilliant answer there. Best of luck.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Harry, we are looking for any artist or group who had

one of the 40 biggest-selling singles of 2013.

There were three categories that I wasn't looking forward to

-before the show, and this is one of them.

-Oh, Harry!

I'm going to go for Katy Perry.

Katy Perry, says Harry. Let's see if that is right.

There you are, on 3. You have to score to 25 or less.

Let's see if you can do that with Katy Perry. Is it right?

There is your red line.

It's right.

That is a good answer, Harry. Will it get you below that red line?

Yes, it will.

9 for Katy Perry.

Very well done indeed. 12 is your total.

That is a very good answer for someone who wasn't looking

forward to the category. Yes, she had a huge hit with Roar.

It is the sixth biggest-selling single of 2013.

She's got a cat called Kitty Purry.

MILD LAUGHING

-Good.

-Nice, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Thanks, Richard. Luke.

-Right, well, I have a few things buzzing around my head.

-OK.

I think I'm going to play it relatively safe again

and say Daft Punk.

Daft Punk, says Luke. Let's see if that is right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it. There is your red line.

It is right.

And it gets you through, very well done indeed.

6 for Daft Punk.

I thought that was going to be a high score there.

That takes your total up to 8.

Very well done.

Yeah, that is the second biggest-selling single of 2013.

Yep, Get Lucky.

-That was only the second biggest?

-Hm.

-Wow.

-There was a bigger seller.

-There's a surprise in store.

-Hm. Thank you. Now, David.

-Oh, dear.

-David, David...

I have grave news, David. I'm afraid

you won't be joining us in the head-to-head.

You're the high-scorers. Still, we would like an answer from you.

Well, I wouldn't have come up with a spectacular answer anyway.

I was thinking somebody like Caro Emerald or Ed Sheeran or

someone like that, so I'll say Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran, says David. Ed Sheeran.

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

No red line for you, as you are the high-scorers.

Bad luck, David, not Ed Sheeran.

Good guess, though.

Scores you 100 points, takes your total up to

-129. I've just thought who the biggest seller was.

-Have you?

Unlucky, David. Caro Emerald also would have been an incorrect answer.

-So the number one selling single of that year?

-Robin Thicke.

-Robin Thicke. And Pharrell, again.

-Of course, yeah.

Both of the top two selling singles of the year -

Get Lucky and Blurred Lines. If you had said Robin Thicke,

it would've scored you 15 points.

If you'd said Pharrell, it would've scored you 4 points.

A very good answer.

There's lots of pointless answers here. Very well done

if you said any of these.

Talking of DJs, you could've had...

Eminem, he featured on one of Rihanna's singles in that top 40.

Lots of other answers you could've had. Akon.

You could've had Disclosure for a pointless answer. Duke Dumont.

You could've had Imagine Dragons. You could've had Lumineers.

Macklemore was a pointless answer.

OneRepublic, also a pointless answer.

Sam Smith, who sung with Naughty Boy, was a pointless answer.

So lots of pointless answers there. Let's take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Robin Thicke, with 15. Blurred Lines, of course.

One Direction - 24. They are always up there, aren't they?

And Rihanna, actually the biggest scorer of all - 29.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. At the end of our second round,

I'm afraid the pair who are leaving us with their high score of 129

is David and Simon. Well, that was a tough round

for you, that one. But you did pretty admirably all the same.

It all bodes very well for when we see you next time.

We look forward to that.

David and Simon, thanks very much for playing.

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

Congratulations, Luke and Ellie, and Lucy and Harry,

you are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £1,000.

Luke and Ellie, you were here last time.

You were in that position.

You were our low-scoring pair in the head-to-head last time.

How are you feeling this time?

-More confident.

-I was going to say more nervous.

-Oh, really?

-A good blend.

-You can put your heads together,

so somewhere in the middle.

-Teamwork.

-Exactly. And, Lucy, hi. Well done,

your first appearance, straight to the head-to-head.

Very good. I think this is going to be very close.

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

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

Chief Secretaries to the Treasury, Richard.

Yeah, proper glamour round, this one.

We'll show you five people who have held the cabinet post

of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Can you to tell us who they are, please?

OK, let's reveal our five Chief Secretaries to the Treasury.

And here they are.

We have got...

There we are.

Luke and Ellie, you have played best throughout the show so far,

so you will go first.

THEY WHISPER

OK, we only think we know two from the board,

but we are going to go with A - Yvette Cooper.

A - Yvette Cooper, say Luke and Ellie. Yvette Cooper.

Now, Lucy and Harry, the board is all yours,

talk us through it if you can.

Not sure about A. B is Michael Portillo.

C... No.

D is John Major.

And E is Danny Alexander.

So we're going to go for E -

-Danny Alexander.

-E - Danny Alexander.

So we have Yvette Cooper and Danny Alexander.

Luke and Ellie have said Yvette Cooper.

Let's see if that is right for A.

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

It's right.

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Yvette Cooper, good score.

Lucy and Harry, meanwhile, have said that E is Danny Alexander.

Let's see if that is right.

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

It's right.

It's going to be close.

Oh, 16 for Danny Alexander.

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Well done, Luke and Ellie. After one question, you are up 1-nil.

Two good answers there. There is only one better one on the board.

It's not B. That is Michael Portillo. Would have scored you 53.

Best answer, as you'd imagined, is C.

It's the person Danny Alexander took over from. It was...

-David Laws.

-David Laws, yep. Would've scored you 6 points.

And... John Major, what do you think he would score?

-5(?)

-HE LAUGHS

An 88, he scored.

-How many?

-88.

-88.

-That's not too bad, is it?

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

Lucy and Harry, you have to win this one,

but you get to answer it first, so best of luck.

It concerns...

Words without vowels, Richard.

We are going to show you five definitions now of words which don't

have vowels in them - A, E, I, O, U.

Can you tell us what the words are, please?

OK, let's reveal our five clues. And here they come...

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Now Lucy and Harry will go first.

-WHISPERS:

-The bottom one is nymph.

And then lynx. Crypt.

I don't know the Welsh one.

If you know the music one, go for that.

OK.

We're going to go for the bottom one.

I think it's nymph.

Nymph, say Lucy and Harry. Nymph.

Now, Luke and Ellie, over to you.

The board's all yours, talk us through it if you can.

The top one is rhythm.

I think I know the second one, but I'm not 100% sure.

I think it's spelt something like

C-W-Y-C-H, or something.

Don't know the third one.

I think we're going to go for the fourth one with lynx.

Lynx. So we have nymph vs lynx.

Lucy and Harry said nymph. Let's see if that's right.

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

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51. Meanwhile, Luke and Ellie have gone for lynx.

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

It is right.

Oh, 70 for lynx.

Which means... Well done, Lucy and Harry.

After two questions, it's 1-all.

Yeah, some big scorers on this board.

Funnily, rhythm is a better answer than lynx.

Still wouldn't have won you the point. It would've scored you 53.

This next one down, you weren't a million miles away.

It was voted Wales' favourite word in 2007.

And its cwtch. C-W-T-C-H.

And would've scored 13 points.

And the other one, of course, is crypt.

And that is the biggest scorer. Scored you 84.

There we are.

Thanks very much indeed. So here comes your third question.

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

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

-The TV series The Office, Richard.

-Yep.

Five clues here to facts about the TV series The Office.

-Very best of luck to both teams.

-Thanks very much indeed.

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

I'll read those all one last time.

Luke and Ellie, you'll go first.

THEY WHISPER

OK, we think we're going to go for the second one -

item of Gareth's stationery - which is the stapler.

Stapler, say Luke and Ellie. Stapler.

Now, Lucy and Harry, the board is all yours.

Talk us through it if you can.

This is NOT a good subject.

The bottom answer is Ricky Gervais,

the others we're not sure of. So...

-Do you want to guess at another one?

-Croydon?

-Yeah, why not?

We're going to say the town in which the series is set is Croydon.

OK, Croydon, say Lucy and Harry. So we have a stapler vs Croydon.

-You can't say that every day.

-No, you certainly don't.

Luke and Ellie have gone for a stapler. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

Very well done, 16. Good answer. Stapler.

Lucy and harry, meanwhile, have decided Croydon

is where The Office is set. Let's see if that's right,

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

No, I'm afraid not Croydon. Which means...

Luke and Ellie, very well done.

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

Yeah, good head-to-head. You were right to avoid Ricky Gervais.

54 points he would've scored you.

I know Ricky watches this show.

He says he always watches it in the bath.

-Oh, yes. He shouldn't, it's very dangerous.

-You think?

What if it fell in?

-He might miss the jackpot round.

-RICHARD LAUGHS

That's true. He's probably thought of that.

-He's got his television safely secured.

-I'm sure of that.

Is my guess.

-Yeah.

-You never know, though.

But hopefully, you've got all of these ones.

The town in which the series is set is not Croydon, it's Slough.

Would've scored you 20 points, though.

Now, the answer David Brent first gave to a quiz question,

who the leader of Cuba was... It was a pointless answer.

Very well done if you said Fray Bentos.

That was his answer. LAUGHTER

Very well played. And the first name of Dawn's fiance was Lee.

That would've scored you 6 points.

We should make a film of a stapler vs Croydon.

-That's a gr...

-Like a big monster film.

Who would you back, stapler vs Croydon?

-Well, it's going to be a big stapler.

-Well, I'm guessing. Obviously.

Well, I would imagine the stapler is winning

and then someone comes in to save the day.

-Of course.

-No spoilers, but...

-Yeah.

-That would be the way I'd do it.

-Last minute, it runs out of staples. Ah! That's it.

-That's good.

Just when it's coming in for the big bite.

The big... Crack!

-It's already stapled Croydon to Purley.

-Rrr... Rrr...

Let's do that. Let's pitch that.

-OK.

-Ricky, you in, you in?

When he gets out and his fingers have stopped being quite so...pruny.

-Yeah.

-He'll be on to us. OK, thank you very much indeed.

Well, that's the end of our head-to-head round.

I'm afraid the pair leaving us

at the end of that round are Lucy and Harry.

It is actually good news for us - we get to see you again next time.

If you'd gone to the final, that would've been it. Far too brief.

We look forward to that. Lucy and Harry, thanks for playing.

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But for Luke and Ellie, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Luke and Ellie, you've fought off all

the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

So very well done.

You now have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

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

Well, here you are. Eventually.

Head-to-head last time as our low-scoring pair. Then you left.

Head-to-head this time as our low-scoring pair.

And through to the final.

Well, as always, you get to choose your category.

Let's see what today's selection is.

SHE SCOFFS

I think we are going to have to go for...

Films released in the UK in early 2014.

OK. Films released in the UK in early 2014. Richard.

Yeah, best of luck.

We are looking for the name of any actor who was

credited by IMDb as appearing in...

So, any actor in any of those three films, please, according to IMDb.

Very best of luck.

As ever, you have got up to one minute to come up with three

answers. All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of them

to be pointless. Are you ready?

-(Yeah.)

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

Your time starts now.

-OK, so in The Wolf Of Wall Street...

-Margot Robbie.

Margot Robbie and Joanna Lumley are in the Wolf Of Wall Street.

In The Monuments Men, I know that John Goodman is in it.

Matt Damon would be a big score.

-George Clooney.

-I'll tell you who is in it, the guy who plays...

Hugh Bonneville is in The Monuments Men.

-Yeah.

-I'm pretty sure.

And The Grand Budapest Hotel has got Ralph Fiennes.

We would have Adrien...

Adrien...

What's his face? From the... From...The pianist.

-Brody?

-Adrien Brody is in The Grand Budapest Hotel.

And so is Owen Wilson.

But I think we should go for Joanna Lumley in The Wolf Of Wall Street.

OK. Do want to go for Adrien Brody?

Hugh Bonneville in The Monuments Men. No?

-I don't know, I think we've said more obscure ones.

-Ten seconds left.

-And in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Adrien Brody.

-OK.

-Yeah? Happy with that?

-Yes.

-Yes. Good.

-OK, that is your time up.

I now need your three answers.

OK, so, from The Monuments Men, we are going to go for Hugh Bonville.

-Hugh Bonville or Bonneville, yeah.

-Bonneville, OK.

Good.

Actors in The Grand Budapest Hotel,

-we're going to go for Adrien Brody.

-Adrien Brody.

And then actors in The Wolf Of Wall Street,

-we're going to go for Joanna Lumley.

-Joanna Lumley.

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

I haven't seen any of them, so you go.

I think...

-Joanna Lumley.

-OK, Joanna Lumley we put last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Hugh Bonneville.

-Hugh Bonneville.

Hugh Bonneville. OK, let's put those up on the board in that order, then.

And here they are. We have got

Hugh Bonneville, Adrien Brody,

Joanna Lumley.

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

Remember, only one has to be

pointless for you to win that jackpot.

Not our biggest jackpot, 1,000 quid, but nice to take home.

What would you do with that? Ellie, you first.

Probably I'd quite like to spend it on travelling,

kind of seeing all my friends after university.

I've been wanting to get Interrailing for quite a while,

so kind of put that towards the fund.

Yeah.

Luke, how about you?

I'm getting married in December, so I'd probably put it

towards the wedding fund, get that bit more extravagant, you know?

Push the boat out.

Very good indeed. Well, best of luck.

Three good answers, as I say,

let's hope one of them at least wins that jackpot for you.

Your first answer, the one was probably least likely to be

pointless, was Hugh Bonneville.

In this case, we were looking for actors in The Monuments Men.

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

to win the jackpot of £1,000.

Let's see how many people said Hugh Bonneville.

Well, it's right.

Now all it has to be is pointless.

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

Down it goes, through the 20s

and into the teens.

And into single figures. Still going down...

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3, not bad. Not a bad score by any stretch of imagination.

But, sadly, in this last round, we are only interested in pointless

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

Your second answer was Adrien Brody.

In this case, we were looking for actors in The Grand Budapest Hotel.

It has to be pointless to win that jackpot. Very best of luck.

Let's see, for £1,000, how many people said Adrien Brody.

Well, it's right.

Your first answer, Hugh Bonneville, took us all the way down to 3.

Your second answer, Adrien Brody,

now taking us down through the teens

and into single figures.

Still going down. Down it goes. Still going...

You've done it! Very well done indeed.

You've done it. Fantastic, well done.

-Brilliant.

-Thank you very much.

-Brilliant. Fantastic work.

Hey-hey!

Stop dancing.

Congratulations.

Adrien Brody was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with our jackpot of £1,000.

Very well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

That's terrific. Well played, Luke and Ellie. Well deserved.

And your other answer, Joanna Lumley, also pointless.

Very well done.

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Let's take a look at all the pointless answers from the different

categories. We start with The Monuments Men.

You could've had Jean Dujardin, who won the Oscar for The Actor.

You could've had the lovely Miles Jupp,

comedian in Rev and all sorts of things.

And Nick Clooney plays George Clooney as an older man.

Aptly so, cos he's George Clooney's dad.

In fact, you could've had everybody in that film

apart from George Clooney - 24, Matt Damon - 15, Bill Murray - 4,

Cate Blanchett and Hugh Bonneville - 3, and John Goodman - 2.

Everybody else was pointless.

Let's take a look at The Grand Budapest Hotel.

There is Adrien Brody at the top.

Again, anybody apart from Ralph Fiennes - 16,

Bill Murray - 6, Owen Wilson - 3,

Tilda Swinton - 2,

and 1 for Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton.

And the final one, Wolf Of Wall Street.

There's Joanna Lumley.

Jon Favreau was an actor, also a director.

-Forever in his debt cos he directed Elf, Jon Favreau.

-Oh, yes.

Kyle Chandler, who's in Friday Night Lights.

And another wonderful director and comedian and actor,

Rob Reiner, who did Spinal Tap.

Everybody there pointless apart from Leonardo di Caprio,

who would've scored you 59. Jonah Hill would've scored you 4.

And then 1 point for Matthew McConaughey, Margot Robbie,

who you mentioned, and Jordan Belfort, who wrote the book

and has a little cameo in that film.

Thanks very much indeed.

Thanks again to our winning players, Luke and Ellie,

who go way with today's jackpot oh £1,000. Very well done.

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Join us next time when we'll put more obscure knowledge to the test

-on Pointless. Meanwhile, it is goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.