Episode 36 Pointless

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed! Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless,

where the aim of the game is to score as few points as you can.

You do that by coming up with the answers no-one else could think of.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

My name's Roy and this is my friend Dave and we're from Rugby.

Couple number two.

My name's Lee, this is my sister Anna and we're from Surrey.

Couple number three.

My name's Cheryl, this is my friend Jill and we're from Yorkshire.

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Sally, this is my sister Rosie and we're from Gosport in Hampshire.

And these are today's contestants.

Thanks very much, all of you, welcome to Pointless.

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

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

He sprays knowledge indiscriminately

so he is absolutely the worst person to talk to

if you haven't watched all of Game Of Thrones yet.

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

-Hiya! Everybody, afternoon.

-Good day to you.

-And to you, good day.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

-Excellent.

-Wrong footed by your Edwardian turn of phrase there.

-It was quite formal.

-Yeah, it was.

-It's nice sometimes.

-It's good.

People sometimes say we're too informal.

-They say, "Don't say 'hiya'" and stuff like that.

-Really?

-So I'm going to say "good day" from here on in.

-OK.

Does the day find you well?

I really can't complain, Richard, yeah.

That's very good. Lovely show last time.

We had Chris and Sean, we had quite a different jackpot round, which was all maths.

They won three grand by naming prime numbers, which was quite fun.

We've only got one pair back from that show,

Jill and Cheryl, who got knocked out in Round Two.

We'll hopefully see a bit more of them today. But, yeah, we start anew.

-Let's do it, shall we?

-Let's do it!

-That's not quite Edwardian enough, is it?

-Not quite, is it?

Let's-ith do-it-ith too-ith.

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah, thank you very much indeed.

Now, Chris and Sean won the jackpot last time

so today's jackpot starts off back at...

There it is.

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

OK, remember, the pair with the highest score

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

Make sure you're not in that pair. Our first category today is...

Words. Can you all decide in your pairs

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

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Novels And Song Titles With Shared Words. Richard?

Yes, we're about to show you seven pairs of things.

It's a novel then a song title,

but we've missed a word out of both, but it's the same word.

You have to tell us what that word is.

There'll be seven pairs on the first word, seven on the second

so 14 in all to have a go at home. Very best of luck!

Thanks very much indeed.

So what is the word that is in common and missing

from these novels and song titles?

Here's our first board of seven.

I'll read those all one last time.

-There we are. Now, Dave, welcome to Pointless.

-Hi.

-Here from Rugby.

-Yes indeed, yeah.

-Rugby, which is precisely where?

In the Midlands, very near Coventry and Birmingham.

-What do you do, Dave?

-I'm actually a stay-at-home dad at the moment.

And a stay-at-home dad to how many children?

Two, a boy of ten and a girl of four.

The girl of four is the main troublemaker.

And your hobbies are, Dave, when you're allowed out of home?

I enjoy going to pub quizzes, football,

not so much playing any more.

I help out at a local football team, I'm the secretary.

-And any sport, really.

-OK, very good.

Now, Dave, what's leaping out at you from this board?

Nothing's really leaping out.

I'm not a great fan of literature,

but I have heard some of the songs

so I'm hoping I'm going to go for a song that I've heard of.

I'm going to go for the fourth one,

which is Midnight's Children, I believe,

and Children Of The Revolution.

OK, let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said Midnight's Children Of The Revolution.

It's right.

45, not bad.

Good start, Dave, that's a Salman Rushdie/T Rex mashup right there.

-About time too.

-Mm! Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Lee, welcome. What do you do, Lee?

-I'm a railway alignment engineer.

-Now that's fun, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Basically, you just go, "Left a bit, left a bit. Hang on, right a bit."

It's mostly straight lines.

-It is mostly straight lines, to be fair.

-So you align rails.

-Where do you align them?

-All over the world.

My latest project was in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

I was based in the Dubai office, working on that from there.

Fabulous! Have railways always been a passion of yours?

-Erm, no, to be honest.

-Oh, that's a shame, isn't it?

It is a little bit of a shame.

Were there no rail enthusiasts going up for the job, surely?

Well, maybe, but I must have beaten them to it.

What are your hobbies then, if not railways?

I play football for a five-a-side team, just getting into golf,

still relatively poor, but I'm getting into that.

-Yeah, I'm just into my sports, really.

-OK, very good.

Now, what about this board?

It's not my favourite board, I've got to be honest.

But I think if I had to...

Well, I'll probably go for Brighton and Me Amadeus

and go for Rock.

OK, Brighton Rock, Rock Me Amadeus,

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

It is of course right.

Yeah, a big score.

Graham Greene, of course, Brighton Rock

and Falco - Rock Me Amadeus.

Excellent! Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Jill, welcome back.

Round Two it was, last time, we had to say goodbye to you.

Remind us what you do, Jill.

I work for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service in the control room.

Good for you. And in your spare time, Jill, what do you do?

I've got two young boys who keep me very busy. I like to exercise.

-Erm...

-Perfect! There's enough there.

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

I'm a bit stumped, to be honest.

I think, though, I'm going to go for Fight and Can't Handle Me

and I'm hoping the word will be "club".

OK, Fight Club, Club Can't Handle Me.

Let's see if that's right and if so,

how many of our 100 people said "club".

It's right.

We have a new low score.

Good answer, Jill.

Yes, Club Can't Handle Me, which is Flo Rida

and Fight Club is written by Chuck

and the surname which I can never pronounce.

It's like "pah-loo-nik", but you never talk to someone about him, you just see it written down.

I've read lots of his books, but I couldn't pronounce his surname.

Flo Rida, that's easy.

Even though it's spelled Florida,

it's pronounced "flow rider".

CHUCKLING

Sally...

Welcome to Pointless, Sally. Great to have you here, with your sister.

It's a sibling show, I like this. That's very good.

Now, Sally, what do you do?

I'm a control room operator for the Ministry of Defence Police.

-AUDIENCE MURMURS

-Oh, yes, yes! Exactly!

That's the right reaction. That is fun.

Do you have a big table, and do you have a little

sort of croupier's rake, and do you move things around?

Sadly not, but I do have a picture on the wall with all

-the ships in the dockyard that move around.

-That's good enough.

Erm, what fun! That's fabulous.

-And what do you do when you're not doing that?

-I make jam.

LAUGHTER

-Brilliant. What sort of quantity of jam do you make year on year?

-Lots.

-Vast, vast quantities of jam.

-Really?

I mean, two years ago, I picked 7st of blackberries

and made them all into jam.

Best thing to do with blackberries, really.

I mean, you know, delicious, obviously.

I'm not going to diss a blackberry and apple crumble, obviously.

-Oh, lovely.

-It's fabulous, but blackberry jam! Mmm!

I think blackberry and apple crumble is better than blackberry jam.

-Really? Best format for blackberry?

-I think so.

-OK.

Sally. Erm, what are you going to go for? This is all your board.

-Do you want to talk us through it?

-Ooh...

I definitely know two,

and I'm not sure on one.

-Women In Love, Love of the Common People at the bottom.

-Love, OK.

Sally's going to go for Love. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Well, 25's our... Ooh, look at that, 64.

APPLAUSE

-64 for Love.

-Yeah, another big scorer.

Women In Love by DH Lawrence and Love of the Common People by Paul Young.

One of those two has been on Pointless Celebrities

but I forget which one. It was definitely one of them.

Now, you will know all of these.

You might struggle with the third one down, you'll know the others,

-I know that.

-No, I've got 'em all... Oh, hang on, yes, third one down.

-OK, so the top one?

-House.

Bleak House and House of Fun.

79 points, though. Big scorer.

And the third one? Love...?

Story. Love Story of My Life.

Love Story, Story of My Life, yeah,

Story of My Life is One Direction.

-Er, and Gone...?

-Girl.

The brilliant Gone Girl, and Girl From Mars by Ash.

16 points.

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

let's take a look at those scores.

It turns out 25, Jill, was the best score of the round, very well done.

Jill and Cheryl looking pretty strong at this point.

Then up to 45, where we find Dave and Roy.

64, Sally and Rosie.

And then up to 71, where we find Lee and Anna.

So, Anna, yes, we need a low score from you.

Let's hope you find something nice on the next board.

We're going to come back down the line,

can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, we're going to put seven more novels

and songs up on the board, and here they come.

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Now, Rosie, welcome to Pointless, lovely to have you here.

-What do you do?

-I'm a care support worker for Hampshire Autism.

-Very good, how long have you done that for?

-Only for a month.

And what were you doing before that?

I was in the Royal Navy for 22 years.

Where were you working for the Royal Navy? All over, I suppose.

Er, I went to Gibraltar, I was lucky enough to work at Chequers twice.

OK, HMS Chequers. Erm, hang on, how does that work?

What were you doing at Chequers?

I was a steward.

-I see.

-We looked after the Prime Minister and their guests.

Right you are. OK, well, Rosie, you're on 64.

The high scorers on 71 are Anna and Lee, so, er, ideally,

you'd score six or less to be sure of a place in the next round.

Ideally that would happen, but it's not going to, I'm afraid.

I do know a few.

So I'll go for Wolf Hall, Hall of Fame.

Wolf Hall, Hall of Fame, says Rosie.

Here's your red line, if you can get below that,

you are definitely in the next round.

Let's see how many people said Hall.

It's right.

Wow, look at that, 36, not bad at all.

Second lowest score of the round,

takes you neatly up to 100, Rosie.

-Well done.

-Yeah, a number one book and a number one single there,

the book by Hilary Mantel and the single by The Script and will.I.am.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Now, Cheryl, welcome back.

Erm, there you are, looking very strong, only 74 or less,

-that's all you have to do.

-Things can change.

Oh, no, it's going to be fine. So, Cheryl, remind us what you do.

I'm a finance manager.

That's right, and where do you do your finance managing?

Erm, at a stately home in Yorkshire.

Very good, making sure...

So you're looking at all the visitor numbers and all that sort of thing,

-year on year?

-Not really, I'm actually...

-It's a maternity contract so I'm only there briefly.

-I see.

-I'm having a bit of a life change.

-OK, have you enjoyed it, though?

-I've only just started, really.

-Are you enjoying it, though?

-Yes.

That's good. OK, listen, you're on 25.

74 or less keeps you in the game.

I know quite a few but it's which one is going to be the least...

I think I'm just going to have to go in the middle of the board

and go Tender Is The Night and Night Fever.

OK, Night is what Cheryl is going to go for. Here's your red line.

Get below that with Night and you're in Round Two.

It's right. Through you go...

Ooh, look at that! Just, 68!

APPLAUSE

93 your total. Well done, Cheryl.

Yeah, F Scott Fitzgerald and the Bee Gees,

which, that was the original act.

-Mm!

-That's where the Bee Gees started.

Yeah, they were just the backing band for...

Yeah, then F Scott Fitzgerald got a bit big for his boots,

and the Bee Gees said, "You know what? We can do this ourselves."

And they were right.

-They ended up selling more records than F Scott Fitzgerald.

-Yeah.

When was the last time he had a number one single?

-Long time ago.

-Long time ago.

-Long time ago.

He is actually doing that, er, he's doing that tour with, erm,

-T'Pau and, er...

-Yeah, he does the Great '80s Tour.

-Yeah.

-"Do Gatsby!"

-"Yay, diamond big as the Ritz!"

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

He starts with Gatsby and then he ends, he does

an encore with Gatsby as well, when Carol Decker comes on and joins him.

And, actually, she knocks it out of the park, I have to say.

-Oh, absolutely amazing.

-Every time.

-Yeah.

-Beautiful.

F Scott's still got it, but, you know...

Sitting there with his typewriter.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, erm, Anna.

-Hello.

-Anna, no longer the high scorers.

-Good.

-Can you keep that up?

-Do you think...? What do you do, Anna?

-Er, I'm a head-hunter in IT.

That sounds exciting.

-A head-hunter.

-Yeah, it's OK.

-Where do you do that?

-In London, in Central London.

-Right you are, and what are your hobbies?

Erm, I do a lot of baking,

I pretty much use anyone's birthday as an excuse to bake something.

Do you have a signature bake?

-For a sort of general baking I do a mean lemon drizzle cake.

-Yes.

And I also very recently made my sister a Spongebob cake,

which I'm quite proud of.

Very good indeed.

OK, listen, there you are, 71.

You need to score 28 or less to be sure of a place in the next round.

OK.

I think I know all but one of them.

So, I'm going to hope that you didn't go and ask many

Justin Bieber fans, and go for The Line of Beauty, Beauty And A Beat.

The Line of Beauty, OK, there's your red line.

Get below that with Beauty, you are in Round Two.

Let's see how many people said it.

Look at that, you're through, well done. Very well done indeed.

Seven, takes your total up to 78.

Great answer, Anna, very well played. As you say, Justin Bieber,

and The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst featuring Nicki Minaj.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Roy.

Here you are, waiting patiently to the very end of the round.

Er, 54 or less gets you into the next round,

so this, I hope, takes a bit of pressure off. What do you do, Roy?

Erm, I'm about to start a new job in a few weeks as a nursery assistant.

-Excellent, have you done that before?

-No, it's a career change.

what were you doing before that?

I was working with young people on the Princes Trust programme

to help them get back into education.

And what are your hobbies, Roy?

Erm, I like performing.

I've got a boy band that I'm in, which is like, er, covers.

We do boy band covers, so everything from, like,

-the Monkees up to One Direction and everything in between.

-Fantastic!

-Do you do all the moves, Roy?

-We try and do all the moves.

-Can one of you do a backflip?

-Erm, yes.

-Very important with a boy band.

Only one of us. The others could try.

As long as one of you can do a backflip you've got it made.

That's fantastic. Good stuff, well, what are you going to go for?

Do you want to talk us through the board?

Yeah, erm, I know three of them.

The top one is Day.

Erm, I think the second one is Things.

And I think the bottom one is obviously Wake.

But, erm, I'm going to go with

a song that reminds me of growing up,

so I'll go for the second one down, er,

The God of Small Things, Things Can Only Get Better.

OK, Things, says Roy. Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many people said it.

There's your red line. Get below that, you're in the next round.

It's right.

ROY GROANS

Oh, bad luck, 62. I'm sorry, takes your total up to 107, Roy.

That is a big scorer, I'm afraid.

Yeah, D:Ream, of course, Things Can Only Get Better.

That's the big clue there.

One of our 100 people said Children to that, which is quite sweet.

-God of Small Children?

-And Children Can Only Get Better.

LAUGHTER

That's nice, innit?

Positive outlook.

Erm, you're right about the ones you knew. Remains of The Day Tripper.

That's a big scorer as well, though, wouldn't have saved you, 77.

-The next one down, do you know that one?

-Islands?

Yeah, Andrea Levy novel, Small Island, Island In The Sun,

would have scored 17.

And down at the bottom, one of these took 17 years to write,

I won't tell you which one it was.

Er, it's James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake,

and Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham! 74 points.

There you go, thank you very much indeed.

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

with their high score of 107, it's Roy and Dave.

Ooh, I'm sorry, that was just a high score, God of Small Things.

As Richard said, I think D:Ream probably is what snagged you there.

I think most people might have spotted that, but, erm,

we will see you next time, I hope we'll see much more of you then,

but, meantime, thanks very much, Roy and Dave.

APPLAUSE

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

Three pairs remain. Obviously at the end of this round

we will have to say goodbye to another pair.

But best of luck to all three pairs,

our category for Round Two today is...

Geography.

Can you decide in your pairs who's going first, who's going 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...

..as they could.

Arab Capitals, Richard.

Yep, simply looking for the name of any capital city that's

the capital of an Arab League country at the start of 2014 please.

As always, by country we mean a sovereign state that's

a member of the UN in its own right.

So, any country that's a member of the Arab League

at the start of 2014, what is its capital?

Good luck.

Thank you very much indeed.

Anna.

Yes.

Erm, I'm not actually 100% sure that I know a single one, even though...

..Lee has been working out there for the last four months,

I'm hoping, hoping that it's the capital!

I'm going to have to say Dubai.

Dubai. Dubai, says Anna.

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

Oh, Anna, I'm afraid an incorrect answer. Not Dubai.

Scores you 100 points. Richard.

Yeah, sorry, Anna, not a capital, I'm afraid. Sorry.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Jill, Arab capitals.

-It's kind of like a dream come true, isn't it?

-Erm, er, this is bad.

Erm, I'm not good with geography,

I'm certainly not good with capitals.

The only thing coming to mind is Saudi Arabia, I don't even know

if it's a country or a city.

Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia says Jill.

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

No-o-o!

-This is good.

-It's really good, isn't it?

LAUGHTER It's really good.

See, what we really need in this sort of round is for a lot of these places

to have been in the news constantly for the last three

or four years, then we'd, er...

-Then we'd remember some of them(!)

-Yeah.

-Shame.

-No, that's a country, Saudi Arabia.

-Yeah.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Rosie, what are you going to go for?

-Capital city.

-This is OK for me,

-so I'm going to go for Muscat.

-Muscat.

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

Absolutely right, of course.

There we are. 3, wonderful answer there, Rosie.

More like it.

A terrific answer, Rosie, that's the way to do it.

The capital of Oman, as I'm sure you know.

In fact, it used to be called Muscat and Oman. It's just Oman.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

3, Rosie and Sally, looking very strong on the back of that.

Then, up to 100 where we find Jill and Cheryl, and Anna and Lee.

Cheryl and Lee, it's between both of you.

One of you needs a nice low-scoring answer.

I'm afraid we'll be saying goodbye to the other.

We're going back down the line,

can the second players step up to the podium?

OK, so, Sally, the name of any capital of any member

of the Arab League?

I'm not good on geography, that's why I let Rosie go first.

Um, I think it's already been mentioned today, Riyadh.

Riyadh. Riyadh, says Sally. Here's your red line. Nice and high.

Get below that, and you are definitely in the head-to-head.

Let's see how many people said Riyadh.

It's right, and you're through.

7. Very well done indeed, it takes your total up to 10.

Well played, Anna and Jill, it was there for you.

Lee told us it earlier, he said,

"I've been working in Saudi Arabia, working in Riyadh."

That's the capital of Saudi Arabia.

And it's a very good answer.

But very well for being the fourth person, and going for it.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Cheryl.

Yes. Mm.

What do we need?

You are joint high scorers at this point, so you need a low score.

There's no target, it just has to be low.

I don't even know if they're in the Arab League,

but I'm going to go into Africa and go for Djibouti.

-Djibouti, says Cheryl.

-Take a risk.

OK, Djibouti.

Well, no red line, as I say, because you're joint high scorers.

Let's see how many people said Djibouti.

-It's right.

-My God!

Djibouti is a correct answer, down it goes

to 1, very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

That was fantastic, Cheryl.

Pulled out of the bag just at the right moment. 101, your total.

Terrific answer, the capital of Djibouti.

As you say, just crept into Africa.

You can see why it's a member of the Arab League.

Its main source of production

is salt from the sea.

Mm.

There you go. Very well done indeed, Cheryl, that was a fantastic turn.

Now, Lee. You have to get a pointless answer.

I think if anyone can do it,

-you could, Lee.

-I don't know.

I feel a little bit hard done by, to be honest.

Right, OK.

So I'll hope that the common misconception is that

Dubai is the capital of the UAE, and go with Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi, says Lee.

Abu Dhabi. Now, your red line - it's more of a theoretical red line.

It is there, but it's kind of on nothing.

You just have to hit that, OK?

Best of luck. Abu Dhabi - is it right, how many people said it?

It is right.

-Ooh, bad luck, 13 for Abu Dhabi.

-APPLAUSE

113 is your total.

A great answer, Lee. That round started shakily,

but absolutely sensational from our third answer on. Very well played.

Abu Dhabi, as you say, is the capital, not Dubai.

Dubai is the biggest city in the UAE.

The world's most expensive numberplate was sold in Abu Dhabi.

It is literally just the number 1, and it sold for £7.1 million.

There it is.

Now, there are no pointless answers, so, Djibouti, actually,

the best answer you could have given, alongside Moroni,

which is the capital of the Comoros. So, well done if you said that.

You'd have got two points for Khartoum and Sudan, Manama, Bahrain.

Let's take a look at the top three.

Just heard the third one, Abu Dhabi, 13.

Baghdad would have scored you 17. In Iraq, of course.

And Cairo, the capital of Egypt, with 31.

Thank you very much indeed.

At the end of our second round, the pair heading home

with their high score of 113... I'm afraid it's Lee and Anna.

Well, you did very well there. A great low score in the end.

But, yes, I'm afraid your answer in the first pass

is what's sending you home. But we will see you again next time,

Lee and Anna, I'm sure you'll do much better then.

Thanks very much for playing, Lee and Anna.

APPLAUSE

For Sally and Rosie, and Jill and Cheryl,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Sally and Rosie, Jill and Cheryl,

you are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £1,000.

Jill and Cheryl, one step better than last time.

Nice now you can confer before you give your answers.

You can relax a bit once you make it to the head-to-head.

And Sally and Rosie - first appearance on the show.

Very well done indeed. Our low scorers there.

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

Here comes your first question, and it concerns:

Famous Brendans. A whole board.

A whole board of famous Brendans.

We're going to show you five pictures of famous people called Brendan.

Can you tell us the most obscure, please?

Let's bring on the Brendans. Here they are. We've got:

There you are. A whole bunch of Brendans for you.

Sally and Rosie, you've been our low scorers throughout,

so you will go first.

Haven't got a clue on any of them.

I know B is out of Downton Abbey, but I can't remember his surname.

Take a punt on C, and say Brendan Coyle.

C, Brendan Coyle.

Sally and Rosie say for C, Brendan Coyle.

Now, Jill and Cheryl, the board is all yours.

Talk us through it, if you can?

-We know that A is Brendan Fraser.

-Yeah.

Unfortunately, B is Brendan Coyle.

C is Mrs Brown's Boys, but I don't know what he is.

And we don't know the other two. So we'd go B, Brendan Coyle.

Just to rub it in, you're going to go Brendan Coyle for B.

Sally and Rosie have said Brendan Coyle for C.

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

OK, it's all looking as though Jill and Cheryl might be right.

Brendan Coyle, B - let's see if that's right,

and how many people said it.

All it has to be is right for you to win the point.

5! Very well done. Good low score.

APPLAUSE

Which means, Jill and Cheryl, after one question, you're up 1-0.

Well played, Jill and Cheryl, very nicely done.

Plays Bates, of course, in Downton Abbey, Brendan Coyle.

A, you were right as well.

Brendan Fraser would have scored you more points, though, with 36.

C, you're right, it's Mrs Brown, it's Brendan O'Carroll.

14 points for him.

Does he ever actually look through those glasses?

-I've seen them more often on...

-On the crown of his head.

D is the poet Brendan Behan.

That would have scored you 12.

E is the biggest scorer on the board,

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, 38 points.

Thanks very much indeed. So, here comes your second question.

Sally and Rosie have to win this to stay in the game.

So best of luck. It concerns:

Food and Drink, Richard.

I'm about to show you the names of five locations

associated with particular types of food.

We're going to give you their first and last letters.

Can you tell us what they are?

Let's reveal our five locations. And here they come. We have got:

I'll read those all again.

Jill and Cheryl, over to you.

-I know the top.

-OK, which one...

THEY CONFER AND WHISPER

OK, we think we know the top three,

but we're going to go with the middle one - Madeira, Portugal.

OK, Madeira, say Jill and Cheryl.

So, Sally and Rosie,

over to you. Talk us through that board.

Well, Dijon is the top one for the mustard.

Melton Mowbray for the pie. Madeira is Portugal.

Don't know the Yemen,

but I think the bottom one is Jarlsberg for the cheese.

-So we'll go for Jarlsberg.

-Jarlsberg for the cheese.

So, we have Madeira versus Jarlsberg.

Jill and Cheryl said Madeira, let's see if that's right,

and how many people said it.

It is right.

65 for Madeira.

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Sally and Rosie, meanwhile, have gone for Jarlsberg,

the cheese from Norway.

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

It's right, but it has to score lower than 65, which it does!

Very well done indeed. Down it goes to 44.

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Back in the game, Sally and Rosie have broken back.

Which means, after two questions, it's 1-1.

Well played. A very big score at the top for Dijon.

It would have scored you 94 points.

Melton Mowbray, slightly better answer than Madeira, actually,

would have scored you 56.

Now, one of the original places from where we got coffee was

a port in the Yemen called Mocha.

Mocha was the answer, four points.

Before it came to the UK, it went on to China and became mocha-chino!

GENTLE LAUGHTER

-Very good.

-Yep.

OK! Thanks very much, here comes your third question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final.

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns:

The Year 2,000, Richard?

I'm going to show you five clues now to things, events and people

from the year 2,000.

Can you give us the most obscure answer? Best of luck, both teams.

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal five things from the year 2,000. Here they are. We've got:

I'll read those one last time.

Now, Sally and Rosie will go first.

THEY WHISPER AND CONFER

We're going to try the Russian president.

I think it might be Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin, say Sally and Rosie.

Jill and Cheryl, the board is all yours.

We assume the Roman numerals is MM.

The Democrat defeated - I can't bring his name to my mind.

The city was Sydney.

But we think we'll go with Disco 2000, and Pulp.

You're going to say Pulp. So we have Vladimir Putin versus Pulp.

Sally and Rosie said Vladimir Putin,

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

It's right.

-68 for Putin.

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Jill and Cheryl, meanwhile, have gone for Pulp.

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

It's right.

And it wins you the point.

By quite a margin. Look at that, 21 for Pulp. Very well done indeed.

It means, after three questions, Jill and Cheryl are through

to the final, 2-1.

Very well played there.

You were right about the other ones you knew as well.

Because the city was Sydney.

Actually, it would have been a better scorer as well, with 19.

You were right about the Roman numerals as well.

The most delicious of all the years, M and M! 42 points.

The Democrat defeated - it says defeated, but he actually won

half a million more votes and if you look into the legal challenges, he actually beat him.

It's Al Gore. And would have scored you 18. Best answer there.

Thank you very much indeed.

The pair leaving at the end of the head-to-head round... Sally and Rosie.

Well, you came into this as the low scorers.

Amazing low scores we've had from you throughout the show.

And very, very close head-to-head.

Yeah, Brendan Coyle let you down.

We didn't really recognise any of them, to be honest.

Ah, well. We'll see you again next time.

We look forward to that very much.

Having come this far this time, surely you can go one step further.

Sally and Rosie, thanks so much, great contestants.

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For Jill and Cheryl, it's time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Jill and Cheryl, you've seen off all the competition

and you've 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 £1,000.

Well, one word to say - Djibouti!

Djibouti, whoa! That was an inspired moment there.

Here you are, in the final.

What would you like to come up in this last round?

Well, we pretty much have opposite tastes,

so anything I like, Jill doesn't.

Yeah, we've kind of got everything generally covered.

But not with showbiz.

-I suppose politics wouldn't...

-Politics, and sport.

Sport, generally, no.

-OK, apart from that, everything is great?

-Yeah, we'll have a stab.

Brilliant. As always, you get to choose a category

from the four on the board.

Let's hope there's something up there you like.

Today's selection looks like this:

-Wow.

-Wow. Yeah. OK.

-Well, I'm counting out sport.

-I'm counting out sport, sport's a goner.

-Animals?

-Animals?

-Let's go for it. Yes.

-Animals.

Our fathers will never speak to us again.

Good luck. A couple of unusual little questions in here.

It's dogs, really, rather than animals.

We're looking for three different things.

The title of any of the original seven Lassie films

from the 1940s and 1950s.

Any first dogs since 1977 -

that's any dog belonging to any president since Jimmy Carter.

Or we are looking for any breed of terrier listed on the Crufts website.

So, Lassie films, first dogs and breeds of terrier.

-Very, very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

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

To win the jackpot of £1,000, just one answer has to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. Your time starts now.

-OK.

-Going towards terriers.

-Yes.

-Cairn.

-Yep.

-Boston.

-Yes.

-Boston.

-Yorkshire. Norwich.

What else do you want to go for?

-Yorkshire, don't go Yorkshire.

-No.

-I think maybe Boston.

I was going to say a Boston.

-Cairn?

-I think Cairn. But maybe no.

-Is there a Skye?

-A Skye Terrier, yeah.

I would maybe have gone Norwich, because people think Norfolk,

-but not Norwich.

-OK.

Do you want to go...? Is there any others?

Think of places in England and Scotland!

-Are you happy with Skye?

-Skye and Boston, yeah.

-Skye, Boston.

-They're the only ones I can think of.

-10 seconds left.

-And then we go Norwich?

-Norwich. Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-OK.

OK, sounds like you've decided on your three,

and now your time is up. What are you going to say?

We'll go for the Boston, the Norwich

and the Skye. All breeds of terrier.

Boston, Norwich, Skye.

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

-BOTH:

-Boston.

-OK, Boston goes last. Least likely?

-I'd say Skye.

-I think maybe Skye. Yeah.

Skye goes first, Norwich in the middle.

Let's put those on the board in that order. Here they are.

We've got:

Well, three good answers on the board. The best of luck.

Only one of them has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

£1,000 - nice jackpot to be taking home.

What would you do with that, Jill?

I think we'd probably have a bit of a joint jolly.

Trip down south... Our friend is due a baby at the end of the year,

so maybe a trip down south. Nice hotel, bit of afternoon tea.

Very nice indeed.

Well, in all three cases, we're looking for breeds of terrier.

Your first answer was Skye Terrier. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said it for £1,000. Is it pointless?

It's right.

Now, if this goes all the way down to zero, you will leave here

with £1,000 in your back pockets,

down it goes into single figures, still going down, down it goes.

2!

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-2!

Skye Terrier - a brilliant low score there, but not a pointless answer,

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

Your second answer was Norwich Terrier.

Let's see if it's right.

If it is pointless, it wins you the jackpot for £1,000.

Let's see how many people said Norwich Terrier.

Well, it's right.

Skye, your first answer, took us all the way down to 2.

Norwich Terrier now taking us down through the teens,

into single figures. Down it goes. Still going down...past 2,

to 1!

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It's all moving in the right direction, you have to say.

It's looking very good for your third and final answer,

which is Boston Terrier.

Let's hope this is pointless. If it is, it'll win you £1,000.

Let's see how many people said Boston Terrier?

It's right. Skye, your first answer, took us down to 2.

Then Norwich, your second answer, took us down to 1.

Boston Terrier now taking us down into single figures. Down it goes,

still going down, down it goes.

-2!

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Ooh, that is cruel.

Three excellent answers there. Three lovely low scores

but I'm afraid you didn't manage to find

that all-important pointless answer,

so you don't win today's jackpot of £1,000.

That will roll over on to the next show.

But you have been fantastic. Great show you've had.

Great having you here. You take home a Pointless trophy.

-Thank you very much.

-Thanks.

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Very unlucky - 2, 2 and 1. Not a bad category, Terriers.

I'll take you through the pointless answers in a minute.

There will be some you know, I'm sure.

I'll go through the other two categories.

Lassie films. Lassie was a dog called Pal.

Lassie was a stage name.

You could have had Challenge to Lassie. Courage of Lassie.

Son of Lassie. Pal played Lassie and he played his own son, Laddie!

Now, that's impressive, isn't it?

You wouldn't even get Denzel Washington doing that.

The Painted Hills you also could have had.

Hills of Home, and The Sun Comes Up, they're all Lassie films.

Now, first dogs.

A special doff of the cap to anyone who gets a first dog.

Grits was one of Jimmy Carter's dogs.

Miss Beazley, that's George W Bush.

Ranger, that's George Bush Senior.

Millie, his dog also, a pointless answer.

And Sunny, Obama's Portuguese Water Dog.

He would have been a pointless answer as well.

Now, let's take a look at these terriers.

There's more than on this board, actually.

HE READS OUT THE ANSWERS

You also could have had the Australian Silky Terrier.

The Australian Terrier. The English Toy Terrier.

The Kerry Blue was a pointless answer.

The Manchester Terrier was a pointless answer.

The Sealyham Terrier and the Tibetan Terrier as well. So...

-No, no!

-Yes, I'm afraid so.

Which one is causing you particular grief?

My in-laws have got two Tibetan Terriers!

LAUGHTER

And I really want a Welsh Terrier.

-Not any more, you don't.

-Not any more, no!

-Bad books.

-Thanks very much.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to Jill and Cheryl.

Fantastic having you here. Thanks for playing.

-Jill and Cheryl.

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Jill and Cheryl didn't win our jackpot today,

so it rolls over onto the next show

-when we will be playing for £2,000.

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Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye for me. Goodbye.

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