Episode 40 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and welcome to Pointless,

the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

And couple number one...

I'm Aoife, this is my dad Eoin,

and we're from London by way of Ireland.

Couple number two.

I'm Mikkaila and this is my best friend Jen

and we live together in South East London.

Couple number three.

I'm Robby, This is my brother JD, and we're from Preston.

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Sue and this is my friend Karen and we're from Birmingham.

And these are today's contestants.

Thanks, all of you. We'll find out more about you

throughout the show as it goes along.

So that leaves one more person for me to introduce,

-the man for whom the term know-it-all is a compliment.

-LAUGHTER

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

Hiya. Hi, everybody. CHEERING

-Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

-What a finish to the show we saw last time.

-I know.

-Goodness me.

We had JD and Robby in the head-to-head

against Charlie and Lucy. Three pointless answers,

and in their 60 seconds, three or four more, as well,

they said, during the 60 seconds, didn't they?

-Yeah.

-It was a really great performance.

Great to have JD and Robby back, though.

Sometimes you sense that contestants

-are going to be trouble, troublemakers.

-Yeah.

-Usually people who are well-behaved, don't you think?

-Yeah.

Well, just look on that podium four,

look at Sue and Karen. You just... LAUGHTER

You can just sense sometimes, can't you?

You can sense.

Round One, Round One today.

Oh, I literally...

I cannot wait for your role in Round One.

-I'm so excited.

-Really?

You're going to have such a terrible time in Round One.

-Oh, I can't wait.

-LAUGHTER

Thanks very much, indeed.

Now, Charlie and Lucy, as you've gathered, won the jackpot last time,

so today's jackpot starts off back at £1,000. There it is.

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

OK, just remember, the pair with the highest score

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

Best of luck. Our first category today is...

-So far, so good.

-Yeah, fine so far, right?

-Travel.

-Very happy with Travel.

-No problem.

Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first, who is going

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

OK, and the question concerns...

European railway stations, Richard.

-Nothing so hard about that, is there?

-No, it's fine.

We're about to show you two boards of seven railway stations

from around Europe, but all written in their native languages.

You need to tell us the country in which

each of these is located, please.

So, there's going to be 14 railway stations to get in all.

I'll tell you now, some of them are quite hard to pronounce.

Very best of luck at home. Very best of luck to all our contestants.

Very best of luck to you, Xander.

Thank you very much, indeed.

OK, so we're looking for the countries in which

you'll find these railway stations,

and here's our first board of seven...

We've got...

-HE STRUGGLES WITH PRONUNCIATION

-Dworzec Warszawa Centralna,

-Helsingin Paarautatiseasema...

-LAUGHTER

-..Bucuresti Gara de Nord...

-There you go.

..and...

-Sidirodromikos Stathmos Athinon.

-LAUGHTER

CHEERING

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

Yeah, with apologies to anyone from those countries.

-I'll read them one last time. OK...

-LAUGHTER

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

-Thank you.

-From London, via Ireland.

-Yes.

-How long have you been in London?

I've been in London permanently for three years, now.

And what do you do?

I work in a media agency.

And what are your interests, Aoife?

Well, I'm involved in amateur dramatics,

and I also like languages.

-Excellent.

-Yes.

-OK, now, Aoife, talking of liking languages...

-Mm-hmm.

..how are you feeling about this board?

Erm, I think I could make a guess at all or most of them,

but I'm trying to work out what is safe but hopefully low-scoring,

so I'm going to take a bit of a punt

and I'm going to go for Bratislava Hlavna Stanica.

Mm-hmm.

Erm, and I'm going to say Slovakia.

Slovakia, says Aoife.

Let's see if that's right for Bratislava, Slovakia,

and let's see how many people said it.

It is right. Very well done indeed.

-Down it goes. 20.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well played, Aoife.

Well played, Aoife, great start on that first podium.

Bratislava, of course, the capital of Slovakia.

"Lav" playing quite a big part in the Bratislavan trains, there.

-Yes, two lavs, which is quite handy on a train, isn't it?

-Yeah, yeah.

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah, certainly.

I think I prefer the lav in Hlavna,

cos it takes up more of that word.

Proportionately, probably bigger, a bit more space.

Well, no, but the other one is in first class.

The lav in Bratislava is the loo in first class, which has,

as you know, someone like a piper,

and you know, people with cologne and what have you,

-and the other, Hlavna...

-A piper?

Yeah, a piper, so when you walk in,

they go, "Doo-doo-doo!" LAUGHTER

That is not... Oh,

-they do things so well in Slovakia, don't they?

-Yes, they do.

-Yeah, they really do.

-There we are. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Jen, welcome to the show. Lovely to have you here.

-What you do, Jen?

-I'm a drama and theatre student.

-Excellent.

-Where are you studying that?

-At Goldsmiths in South East London.

That is good. Have you got any particular areas

you want to specialise in?

-I enjoy being a clown...

-Yes.

..and I like doing very dark, slightly twisted comedy.

Marvellous.

OK, well, what do you make of our board of stations, here?

There's a couple I reckon I could guess,

just based on recognising the language.

However, one's jumping out at me

because I'm fairly sure I see a city name I recognise

in it, which is Dworzec Warszawa - the fourth one on the board...

-Yup, got it.

-..which I believe is in Poland.

OK, well, let's find out if it is in Poland,

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

It's right.

Well, 20 is what Slovakia scored...

59 for Poland.

Not bad at all, Jen.

Well played, Jen. Of course, Warsaw being the capital of Poland.

And we can work out...cos I'm guessing Centralna means central...

-You've got to hope it does.

-..so Dworzec must mean railway station.

-That's...

-Maybe it means it isn't central. Maybe it's central-na.

-Oh, not central?

-Yeah, there's a clue there.

-Central? Na.

-LAUGHTER

Maybe that's Polish for east.

Yeah, exactly.

Thank you very much, indeed.

-OK, JD.

-Hello.

-Welcome back.

-Head-to-header last time.

-So close.

Great performance with you. Very close, actually.

Very close head-to-head, indeed.

-Remind us what you do, JD.

-I have two jobs.

My main job, if you like, is an account manager for a company

that supplies promotional products, branded goods that

all sorts of organisations use to promote themselves with...

-Yeah.

-..and I also work behind a bar, as well, at weekends.

Are you a mixologist?

-Erm, I like to think so.

-Very good.

-Can you flair?

-A little bit.

Can you bounce things off your elbows

and catch them behind your head?

The bouncing's not a problem but catching...may...can be.

-Main problem, not being able to see behind your head.

-Yes.

-That's..that is an issue.

-I find that is... Yeah, it always will be.

Now, JD, what about these stations?

-Well, I thought I liked geography...

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

..and I know it's a cliche but the two that I did know have been taken.

-Yup.

-So I'm going to have to make an educated guess.

The bottom one... the Sidirodromikos Stathmos Athinon.

I'm going to say Greece.

Could be Cyprus, but the Athinon - Athens, maybe? So Greece.

Seems reasonable, doesn't it?

Athens, Greece, says JD.

Let's see if that's right for

that station. I'm not going to say it again.

Let's see how many people said Greece.

It's right.

Well, 59 is our high score.

61 is our new high score.

-That's OK.

-It's all right.

-Yeah, I'm going to go on record

and say that wasn't really a punt.

It's sort of written in Greek

and it's got the word Athens in it.

-Well, yeah, but...

-LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, indeed.

-Now, then, Karen, welcome.

-Thank you.

Lovely to have you here from Birmingham, Karen. What you do?

-I'm a retired teacher.

-Oh, ah...

-Oh, I told you they'd be trouble.

I told you they would be trouble. LAUGHTER

Erm, what did you used to teach?

I used to teach English, and now I do a day a week with Sue.

I work in a primary school with family learning,

where parents come in to school to find out what happens in schools,

-and we do fun things together.

-Oh, that's very good.

-So that's just for a day.

-And what do you do with your other days?

-Well, I have practically perfect grandchildren...

-Lovely.

..so I spend quite a bit of time with them,

and I play alto sax in a band called Earth, Woodwind and Fire.

-Wonderful.

-LAUGHTER

Erm, OK, so what are you going to go for on this board?

The whole board is yours, Karen, so feel free to take us through it.

I imagine that the top one might be Germany,

but then it might be Austria.

And the next one could be Italy,

-and the Helsingin...

-..Paarautatieasema.

-Wonderful.

-Yeah.

-Erm...

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

I should know where that is but I can't remember,

so I shall go with the Bucuresti Gara de Nord,

and hope that Yugoslavia still exists.

OK, Yugoslavia says Karen, in hope, but let's see if it's right.

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

-No. Oh, I'm sorry, Karen.

-GROANING

I'm afraid that's a wrong answer, scoring you 100 points. Sorry.

Yeah, sorry, Karen.

Yugoslavia no longer exists, and also,

Bucharest wasn't in Yugoslavia

in the first place, so it's... LAUGHTER

It's in Romania,

Bucharest, capital of Romania,

so the answer there was Romania,

and it would have scored 27.

Helsingin - that's Helsinki.

It's Finland. Would have scored 44 -

another big scorer.

The top one - it's Vienna,

Wien Westbahnhof, so it's Austria.

Would have scored 34.

And the best answer on the board,

the toughest one,

the Gare do Oriente...

is in Lisbon, so it's Portugal.

Very well done if you said that -

4 points.

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

Let's take a look at those scores. 20, well done,

Aoife - the best score of the pass by quite a way.

Then, up to 59, where we find Jen and Mikkaila.

Then, up to 61, JD and Robby,

then up to 100, Karen and Sue. Now, Sue,

you're the first person on the new board,

so find a nice, low-scoring answer when it's all yours,

and hopefully that will get you through to the next round,

but best of luck with that. We're going to come back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more railway stations up on the board,

and here they are. We have...

-Phew.

-LAUGHTER

I'll read those one... No, I'm not sure.

I didn't know on that one. I've got to do it one more time, now.

OK, ahem, here goes...

There we are, with apologies.

Now, Sue, welcome.

-What do you do, Sue?

-I'm a retired teacher.

A retired... What did you teach?

I taught primary schoolchildren, so, three to 11-year-olds.

Do you know Karen from your teaching days, or are you old, old friends?

No, we met each other about six years ago, at work, yes.

At work, excellent. And what do you do

when you're not also helping with the family learning?

Erm, well, I've got... also got a big family. I've got...

-Just had my seventh and eighth grandchild...

-Oh, congratulations.

-..last week.

-Very good.

And Sue, what are your hobbies, other than the grandchildren?

Well, when I get time, I just like...

I like cooking and reading, and perhaps a bit of gardening.

And maybe a bit of inter-railing, I'm hoping?

-Maybe.

-What are you going to go for on this board?

Erm...

I'm hoping that I know that

the capital city of Hungary is Budapest,

-so I'm going to go for that one - Budapest, Hungary.

-OK.

Hungary, says Sue. You're the highest scorers at the moment,

so no red line for you, but let's see how far down

the column you can get with Hungary.

It's right.

-CHEERING

-48.

148, your total.

Still possibly very much in the game.

Well played, Sue, did everything you

could do there, kept yourself in it.

That's Budapest East.

Keleti is Hungarian for east.

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

-Thank you.

-Front-page Robby.

-That's me.

-That's you.

We discovered Robby is studying to be a journalist.

And I'm also Preston's best bikini seller.

-What does bikini selling involve, Robby?

-Modelling.

-Just...

-Do you hold them up and walk them around?

Yeah, and recommending what goes with them...so a good sarong.

Oh, that's... See, that's clever, that's genius. A good sarong.

Two sarongs, of course, you know what that makes?

-Yeah, well, it doesn't make a right.

-LAUGHTER

-Now, Robby, you have to score 86 or less.

-Yeah.

Well, none are jumping out at me, I will be honest with you,

and with the risk of looking silly,

I'm going to have a go at Bahnhof Bern.

I'm going to go with Switzerland.

Switzerland, says Robby.

Switzerland. Here's your red line.

Nothing silly about that. Let's see if you can get below it.

If you can, you're through to Round Two.

It's right, and you're through.

Very well done, indeed, Robby.

By a comfortable margin.

Look at that, 43, taking your total up to 104.

Well played, Robby. Great answer - the capital of Switzerland.

I've been on Swiss trains in my time.

Just, I mean, unbelievable.

So many of them, all on time.

-Lavs everywhere.

-Pipes.

Piper, yeah. ALEXANDER WHISTLES

-Lovely.

-Bit of tss-tss, tss-tss.

Yeah, Swiss chocolate everywhere,

-cuckoo clocks...

-Cuckoo clocks everywhere you turn.

Very good. Thank you very much, indeed.

-Now, Mikkaila, welcome to the show.

-Hello.

-Here from South London.

Erm, and what do you do?

I'm a chemistry technician and a cookery teacher.

-Are they kind of the same?

-I mean, yes.

Practical chemistry is just cooking things up.

Well, that's enormous fun.

That'd be the best place to be in a school is the chemistry lab.

-It's where all the fun happens.

-Yeah, we do all the explosions.

But you have to do all the tidying-up afterwards

and the...ahem... opening windows and...

Yeah, I've got a special cupboard for that, Xander,

-I don't breathe it all in myself.

-That is good.

-It's nice.

-Pleased to hear that.

And what do you do when you're not being a technician, Mikkaila?

Well, I do a lot of cooking, which is good,

cos Jen likes to eat

-too, so...

-Do you do quite experimental cooking?

I do. I like to try

lots of different flavours and kind of put things together

you wouldn't necessarily...

OK, so what are you going to go for?

Well, I'm really terrible at languages

and I've not travelled that much in Europe,

but the way you pronounced the top one...

-I wouldn't bank anything on that.

-LAUGHTER

It's the best I've got.

Erm, it sounded a bit like Copenhagen,

so I'm going to go with Denmark.

Denmark, says Mikkaila.

Well, here's your red line, and if you get below that with Denmark,

you are in Round Two.

Let's see how many people said Denmark.

It's right, and you're through.

Very well done, indeed, Mikkaila.

-APPLAUSE

-29.

29, taking your total up to 88.

Well played, Mikkaila. Great answer.

Do you know, 50% of Danes,

or 50% of people who

live in Copenhagen commute by bike?

And 63% of their Members of Parliament go to work on a bicycle.

-That's quite good, isn't it?

-That is good.

-I have to say,

the way you pronounced that top one, I thought it might be Botswana.

It was anyone's guess, pretty much. It could have been anything.

-Thanks very much, indeed, Richard. Now, Eoin, welcome.

-Hiya.

-Welcome.

How much of your life do you spend saying to people,

"No, it's just Eoin, Eoin, it's just Eoin"?

For the first 16 years of my life,

pretty much all the time, and then - my family's Irish,

they moved back to Ireland, and then I didn't have to.

Hang on, there's a story here.

-Aoife has the most beautiful accent.

-She does.

So do you, of course,

but yours just isn't Irish.

-No, no, no...

-But your name is very much Irish.

-Yeah, I was born in Manchester...

-I see,

-and then...

-..and the family moved back.

-I see, right, so then you grew up... from then on.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-And then came back to England.

-Yeah, to get a job.

Right, and what job have you got?

-I'm a journalist, I'm a subeditor on a newspaper.

-Marvellous.

-Well, have a bit of fun here.

-and talk us through some of these

and see if you can supply the answers.

A love of football generally gets you through

European place-name stuff,

so, Vilniaus is Lithuania, I'm guessing.

Praha is Prague.

Rigas is Riga, which is Latvia,

and Balti Jaam I thought was something you got in a curry house,

-I have to be honest.

-Yeah, do you know,

-it sounds delicious.

-No idea what that is, so I'll...

-Vilniaus, Lithuania.

-Lithuania, says Eoin. Let's see if it's right.

No red line for you, as you're already through,

but how many people said Lithuania?

It's right.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

There we are. 15, the best score of the round and the last one.

-35 is your total.

-Yeah, terrific answer, Eoin, very well played.

And as you say, it's football

with the...you know...

Really, your geography is

extraordinary if you're a big football fan, cos

you're right about Prague as well.

So, Czech Republic, of course.

Praha Hlavni Nadrazi...

would have scored you 23.

You are right about Riga,

which is the capital of Latvia.

Would have scored you 21.

Now, the bottom one,

there is no clue there whatsoever,

so you either know this

or you don't know it,

and 3 of 100 people did know...

it's in Estonia.

Goodness me. 3 points.

Very well done if you said that.

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

the pair who are heading home - they haven't been trouble at all,

they've been good as gold - Sue and Karen.

I'm afraid, Yugoslavia...

Never mind. It means we get to see you again next time.

We'll look forward to that, but in the meantime,

thanks very much for playing, Sue and Karen.

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

And so now we're down to three pairs.

Obviously at the end of this round we will have to say goodbye to one of the pairs in front of me.

Best of luck to all three pairs. The category for Round Two today is...

Awards. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to first, who's going to 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

Mercury Prize - Mercury Music Prize, I beg your pardon - nominees,

Mercury Music Prize nominees as they could. Richard?

Yeah, we're looking for the name of any artist

who's been nominated for the Mercury Music Award for best album,

all the way through from 1992 to the 2013 ceremony, please.

Lots of names on this -

there are over 100 pointless answers on this list.

Oh, time to swell the coffers a bit here, I think.

Aoife, what do you reckon?

Yeah. Yeah, I think I know someone

who I'm pretty sure was a nominee.

I'm going to go James Blake.

James Blake, says Aoife. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right - very well done indeed.

One!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's a fantastic answer. Fabulous low score.

Sorry you didn't get a pointless answer there, but still, hats off.

Very well played, Aoife. He's been nominated twice,

and he won it in 2013 with Overgrown.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Mikkaila. Mercury Music Prize.

Now, I should be able to think of some,

-but my mind's gone blank.

-Over 100 pointless answers,

-that's what the man said.

-I know!

I'm going to say La Roux. I think she was nominated.

-La Roux.

-Yeah.

-La Roux, says Mikkaila. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Very well done indeed. Well, our only score so far is one -

where will La Roux end up?

-It's a pointless answer! Very well done indeed, Mikkaila!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That adds 250 quid to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to £1,250.

It scores you nothing. Very well done - great answer.

Yeah, nominated in 2009 for her self-titled album, La Roux.

I said there's a lot of pointless answers.

-It's a food word, isn't it, roux? So...

-There you go.

-There you are.

And mercury, of course, is a chemistry word, so...

-LAUGHTER

-Double whammy.

-Yeah.

-What about that?

-JD.

-Hello.

Some good answers here, obviously,

so I think another one will be needed.

I'm just trying to think of earlier nominees.

I'm going to say PJ Harvey.

PJ Harvey, says JD. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right. Well, zero is our low score,

one is our high.

Three.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We have a new high score.

We've gone very cool all of a sudden, haven't we, on Pointless?

Yeah, she's been nominated four times. She's won it twice as well - the only person to have won it twice.

Let England Shake was her most recent win, 2011.

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

Mikkaila, very well done indeed -

the best score of that pass was yours,

putting you and Jen in a very strong position.

All the way up to one, where we find Aoife and Eoin,

and then all the way up to three, where we find JD and Robby.

Robby, you are way out in front there. We're going to need

a really low-scoring answer from you in the next pass.

We're going to come back down the line now. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so Robby, remember, we're looking for the name of any act

who has ever been nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.

You're the high-scorers on three.

Right, then. Well, not to put the alarm bells ringing,

-but I don't follow the Mercury Music Prize a great deal.

-OK.

But, erm,

I'm just going to go for a group

which might fit the genre at all,

total guess, and go for The Noisettes.

The Noisettes, says Robby. The Noisettes.

For the sake of argument, you have a red line, which is on two.

You may not see it, but it's kind of there.

More like a red carpet.

Anyway, let's pretend it's there.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said The Noisettes. Is it right?

No, Robby.

Not a bad answer at all, but I'm afraid, as it happens,

not a Mercury-nominated act.

Scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 103. I'm sorry.

Yeah, sorry - terrific band, and sold a lot of singles,

but not had an album nominated for that award, I'm afraid.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Jen - it's good news for you.

-Also feeling super safe, yeah.

-You are through.

Knowing that, why not see if you can equal Mikkaila's brilliant answer,

-get another pointless.

-See, that's tricky, cos my first answer,

Aoife took, and I was like, "I've got that one!

"He went to my uni, nobody knows him!"

Except he did win a Mercury Prize,

-so a few people probably do.

-LAUGHTER

Um... Thinking of a few,

but I think I'm going to go for Muse.

Muse. OK, Muse, says Jen. No red lines, you're already through,

but let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

One!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Giving you a total of one. Very well done indeed, Jen and Mikkaila.

Well played, Jen. Nominated in 2006 for Black Holes And Revelations.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Now, Eoin.

Again, you're through, which is great.

But let's have a pointless answer.

I can think of a few answers that will go fairly low, I think.

It's a question of trying to think of one that's going to be pointless.

Um...

And I'll say The Klaxons.

The Klaxons, says Eoin. Let's see if that's right, let's see how many people said it.

No red line for you, you're already through.

It's right.

Well, our high-scoring correct answer is three.

You've passed that - two.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Taking your total up to three. Very well done.

Well played, Eoin. Yeah, they won it, of course,

with Myths Of The Near Future. Now, there's so many pointless answers here.

Let's take a look at some on the board, then I'll go through some more. You could have had

Biffy Clyro, Black Grape, Catatonia.

You could have had Elastica, Hard-Fi. La Roux we've already had, of course.

The Darkness was a pointless answer, The Zutons, Van Morrison.

You also could have had Asian Dub Foundation, Belle and Sebastian,

Beth Orton, Corinne Bailey Rae, Cornershop, Faithless,

Glasvegas, Goldfrapp - I'm only picking out highlights here.

Hot Chip, I Am Kloot, KT Tunstall, MIA.

Manic Street Preachers was a pointless answer. Mark Morrison,

Metronomy, Maximo Park, New Order, Portishead,

Richard Hawley, Snow Patrol, Super Furry Animals, Talvin Singh,

The Chemical Brothers, The Horrors, The Streets, Tinie Tempah -

the list goes on. There's hundreds of them on that list. Now let's take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Take That with 12.

12 also for Adele.

-And Oasis at the top with 15.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

with their high score of 103 -

I'm so sorry, it's JD and Robby.

I was set for you to go through to the final today, but I'm afraid

they weren't really your categories there.

But thank you so much for playing. Great contestants. Robby and JD.

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But for Jen and Mikkaila, Aoife and Eoin, it's now time for our head-to-head.

Well, congratulations, Aoife and Eoin, Jen and Mikkaila.

You're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £1,250.

What a performance - that second round was incredible.

And if you can do that on your own, think what you can do when you put your heads together.

I think this is going to be very close indeed.

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

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

-screen scientists.

-LAUGHTER

Screen scientists. Richard?

-This is getting ridiculous now, isn't it?

-I know.

-Enough science.

We're going to show you five pictures of screen scientists.

Tell us the name of the film or TV programme on which they first appeared, please.

OK, thanks very much. Let's reveal our five screen scientists,

and here they come. We've got...

There we are - five screen scientists. Now, Aoife and Eoin,

you've played best out of the show so far, so you will go first.

-WHISPERING:

-I know I've seen D and E before.

That's Amanda Burton, that's the sort of a...

THEY WHISPER INDISTINCTLY

We think we know four of them,

and I think we'll go for E, which is Dr Strangelove.

Dr Strangelove, say Aoife and Eoin. Dr Strangelove.

Now, Jen and Mikkaila, talk us through the board if you can.

I don't know the first two.

C, I'm fairly sure is The Fly by David Cronenberg, the remake,

and D is obviously Doc Brown from Back To The Future.

So I think we're going to go with The Fly, C.

OK, The Fly. So we have Dr Strangelove versus The Fly.

Aoife and Eoin said Dr Strangelove - let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

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-27 for Dr Strangelove.

Jen and Mikkaila, meanwhile, have gone for The Fly.

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

It's right.

52.

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Well done, Aoife and Eoin - after one question you're up one-nil.

Yeah, and typically, it's the first two that would have won you the point as well.

A is Amanda Burton in Silent Witness.

Would have scored your 22.

B is CA Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Would have scored you one point, so best answer up there.

And D is of course Doc Brown, as you say,

and Back To The Future is the answer there, and would have scored you 66.

Thanks very much indeed. Here comes your second question.

Jen and Mikkaila, you have to win this one to stay in the game. Best of luck. It concerns...

-Wayne Rooney.

-LAUGHTER

-Wayne Rooney, Richard.

-Yeah.

There'll be five clues to facts about Wayne Rooney -

-can you give us the most obscure answer?

-Thanks very much indeed.

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

I'll read those one last time.

Jen and Mikkaila?

-WHISPERING:

-I only know the third one.

-Coleen?

The age at which he made his debut was really young, he was like 17.

Um, I think the only one we know

is the first name of the woman he married in 2008 is Coleen.

-Coleen.

-Coleen. OK, Coleen, say Mikkaila and Jen.

Now, Aoife and Eoin, the board's all yours.

Right, well, he was born in Liverpool.

I don't know what age he was when he made his England debut.

I'm fairly sure he was sent off against Portugal.

And I should know the last one,

but I sort of forget now,

so I won't take a guess on that.

I'll say Portugal for the national side against which he was sent off.

Portugal. So we have Coleen and we have Portugal.

Jen and Mikkaila said Coleen - let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right.

74, I'm afraid - quite a high score there.

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Aoife and Eoin have gone for Portugal,

the country against whom he was playing when he was sent off

in the World Cup match in 2006. Let's see if that's right, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

Very well done, wins you the point.

Very good work there, Aoife and Eoin.

11 - lovely low score there, and it means after only two questions,

Aoife and Eoin, you are through to the final, two-nil.

Well played, Eoin. It was an infamous sending-off as well -

he supposedly stamped on Ricardo Carvalho,

and that's when Cristiano Ronaldo did his little wink to the camera,

which saw endeared him to the British public.

You're right that he was born in Liverpool.

Would have scored you 56.

If you'd had to have a guess at the age, ladies,

-what would you have gone for?

-Quite young - maybe, like, 21?

-What would you have gone for?

-18.

17, he was. 17 and 111 days.

-I was thinking... Yeah.

-It's very, very young.

Became the youngest scorer about eight months later as well. 26 points for that.

And the club against which he made his debut - he actually scored a hat-trick on his debut

in the Champions League against Fenerbahce.

Would have scored you 4 points, would have been the best answer there.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So at the end of our head-to-head round,

I'm afraid the pair leaving us - it's Jen and Mikkaila.

Well, you've done very well throughout the whole show.

Nothing wrong with either of your answers there, but we'll see you next time.

Look forward to that very much indeed. Jen and Mikkaila, thanks very much for playing.

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But for Aoife and Eoin, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Aoife And Eoin. You fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,250.

Well, I think that was a pretty convincing performance.

Anything you'd particularly like to see come up in this last round?

Er, I'd probably like something geography-based again,

-but it's probably not going to happen.

-Eoin?

Dog-walking.

LAUGHTER

We've had that a few times lately, so...

Well, best of luck. As always, you get to choose your category from the four we put up on the board.

Let's hope there's something up here you like the look of. Today's selection looks like this.

Either American crime writers or FIFA World Cup.

What do you know most about?

Well, you know nothing about the FIFA World Cup.

Yeah, but you probably know a lot about that.

-Cult directors is...

-Whatever you feel most comfortable with, Dad.

-Well, the football's the one I feel most comfortable with.

-Then let's do that.

-Yeah, come on. We're doing it.

-The footy.

-OK, the footy it is. Rich?

Yeah, very best of luck. There were three World Cups in the '90s -

1990, 1994, 1998 - and our questions

are all about those three World Cups. We're looking for...

Any nation that scored five or more goals

in any individual World Cup in the '90s.

We are looking for any players

that played in all three of those World Cups.

Or we're looking for any players that scored for England or Scotland

in any of those World Cups apart from in a penalty shoot out.

So any team to score five or more in any of those individual World Cups,

any players to have played in all three of the World Cups,

or any England or Scotland scorers in any of those World Cups as well.

Very, very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed. OK, as always,

you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of the answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

HE SIGHS

Yeah.

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

-There are just so many!

There they are. Your time starts now.

Right, players that played in all three finals -

well, Germany were in all three,

and I think Lothar Matthaus, Jurgen Klinsmann...

-Yeah, they sound fantastic.

-I know, I'm just saying names.

Players that scored for England or Scotland.

1990... They didn't even qualify in 1990?

-I've no idea.

-Or maybe they did.

Scotland, they never score.

OK. Then go for the top one - just think of...

-Like, Uruguay or something.

-Yes, yes, indeed. OK.

Teams - right, well, I'm going to say Lothar Matthaus

cos I don't know that that's going to be a set,

and I'm also... Klinsmann, everyone knows Klinsmann.

Er... Any team to score five or more goals,

-I might say Cameroon.

-OK.

And I might say, erm...

-And have they scored more than five?

-Yeah, yeah.

-OK.

-Er...

-Ten seconds.

-I'm fairly sure Cameroon

and I'm also going for...

Two seconds.

And that is your time up.

I now need your three answers, and if you could say which category you're answering, that'd be great.

Players that played in all three finals.

-I'll say Lothar Matthaus first, for Germany.

-Lothar Matthaus.

And any team to score five or more goals, I'll say Cameroon.

-Cameroon.

-And Belgium.

-Belgium.

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

-Cameroon.

-Cameroon.

-Cameroon we'll put last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Lothar Matthaus.

-Lothar Matthaus, and then Belgium in the middle.

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

We've got Lothar Matthaus, Belgium, Cameroon.

Three good answers up there on the board.

let's hope one of those is pointless and wins that jackpot for you.

£1,250 quid - what would you do with that, Aoife?

-I would be able to pay off the end of my student loan.

-Hooray!

-Yeah.

That would be nice. Eoin, how about you?

Our elder boy is learning to drive,

so that would probably take up all the insurance, actually.

-LAUGHTER

-OK. Well, best of luck.

Lothar Matthaus was your first - the one you thought was probably

least likely to be pointless. We were looking for players

that played in all three World Cup finals across the 1990s.

Let's see if it's right.

If it is pointless, you will leave with £1,250.

Let's see how many people said Lothar Matthaus.

It's right.

Lothar Matthaus, now going down through the 50s. If this goes all the way down to 0,

obviously you will leave straightaway with £1,250.

Down into single figures, still going down,

to four.

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It's a great answer. Great low score there -

not a pointless answer, though, so only two more shots

at today's jackpot. Your second answer was Belgium.

In this case, we were looking for teams that scored five or more goals in any one tournament.

Let's see if Belgium's right, let's see if it's pointless.

If it is, it'll win you £1,250. How many people said Belgium?

It's right.

Well, Lothar Matthaus took us all the way down to four.

Belgium now taking us down through the 20s and the teens

into single figures. Down it goes,

it passes four, going down,

oh! One!

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Brilliant.

Wow.

One for Belgium. Another brilliant answer.

Not a pointless answer, though.

Everything now riding on your third and final answer, which is Cameroon.

Again, in this case, we were looking for countries that scored five or more goals in any single tournament.

Let's see if Cameroon's right, let's see if it's pointless.

If it is, it'll win you £1,250. How many people said Cameroon?

It's right.

Your first answer, Lothar Matthaus, took us all the way down to four,

followed by Belgium, taking us all the way down to one.

Now Cameroon taking us into single figures - down it goes,

still going down, down it goes, oh!

AUDIENCE: Awww!

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Three brilliant answers there,

but unfortunately you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £1,250.

That will roll over onto the next show.

But we've really enjoyed having you on the programme, and you have been fantastic.

-You get a Pointless trophy each to show for it.

-Brilliant.

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Yeah, it's been a real pleasure having you on. You've been a great team, and that's unlucky.

That 60 seconds goes so quickly, doesn't it? I know there are loads of answers you know.

You were right thinking about the Germans, funnily enough, Matthaus.

Andreas Moller would have been a pointless answer, and Jurgen Kohler.

Also a pointless answer, played in all three World Cups -

-Jurgen Klinsmann.

-Argh!

-Aw!

-THEY LAUGH

So sorry. I think I would have gone with you and thought that more people would have known him,

but actually Lothar Matthaus, the highest scorer of anyone who played in those three World Cups.

Let's take a look at pointless answers in all the different categories.

For teams that scored five or more,

you could have had Chile, Denmark - they scored nine in 1998 -

you could have had Morocco, you could have had Norway,

Nigeria, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia,

who did it twice as well.

Let's take a look at some of those players.

Carlos Valderrama would have been a great answer - remember him?

Enzo Scifo, talking of Belgians, he's a great answer.

Gheorghe Hagi, and also, funnily enough,

Popescu and Dumitrescu, the other two Romanians,

they were also pointless answers. There's Jurgen Klinsmann.

Also there you could have had Zubizarreta, could have had Freddy Rincon,

you could have had Lorenzo Staelens, Taffarel, also a pointless answer.

We'll look at the players that scored for England and Scotland.

Lot of Scots would have got a few of these. Craig Burley, who scored against Norway, pointless answer.

Mo Johnston and Stuart McCall, both scored against Sweden,

were pointless answers. And Mark Wright for England as well.

They're the only four pointless answers on that list, so very well done if you said any of those.

-Unlucky. That is hard, isn't it?

-That really is. I'm so sorry.

Well, unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you,

but you have been absolutely wonderful. It's been a treat for us to have you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Aoife and Eoin - wonderful contestants.

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Well, very sadly, Aoife and Eoin didn't win our jackpot today,

which means it rolls over onto the next show,

when we will be playing for £2,250.

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Join us then, see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

-..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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