Episode 5 Pointless

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

Welcome to Pointless, the show where we are always striving to find

the most obscure answers.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hello, I'm Andrea, this is my daughter Erin.

-And we're from Cirencester.

-Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Tess, this is my friend Stevie and we're from Essex.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Darren, this is my friend Sam.

we're school friends and we're from Leeds.

And couple number four.

Hi, I'm Wendy, this is Joe, my friend and work colleague

and we're from Swindon.

-And these are today's contestants.

-APPLAUSE

Thanks very much, all of you.

We'll get to know more about each of you as the show goes along

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

They say he never sleeps. They are, of course, wrong.

He's always asleep and we're his dreams.

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-It's my Pointless friend, Richard.

APPLAUSE Hiya. Hi, everybody.

-Good afternoon, how are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

Excellent. Lovely show last time -

Paul and Grace who beat Tess and Steven in the head-to-head last time.

They joined the 200 club in the head-to-head,

which I'm not sure has ever been done before.

So it's sort of very impressive to get there and then the 200 club

so it almost doesn't count, I don't think.

We also had Wendy and Joe who got knocked out in the first round.

Hopefully we'll see a bit more of them this time.

Unlucky to be knocked out in the first round.

But everyone here is a bit giddy because just before the show...

One of our contestants is a magician and showed us a trick

and everyone's now very excited.

-Hmm.

-It was amazing, wasn't it?

-It was incredible.

(We should get him to do a trick on the show.)

-Him or her, yeah.

-Him, I was thinking.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

No, I was like doing suspense as to who it might be.

Oh, so you don't know who...

-Who could it be?

-Who could it be?

-Is it Wendy? Oooooooooooh.

-Is it Erin? Ooooooooh.

-Ooooh.

-I don't know. We'll find out.

-We will, yeah.

-Very exciting.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Paul and Grace didn't win the jackpot last time

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

APPLAUSE

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

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

will be eliminated.

Those are the only rules.

Our first category today is...

History.

Can you all decide in your pairs who'll go first, who'll go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

A's in history.

-Richard.

-We are going to give you seven clues on each pass

to answers there which are events, people or places in history

that begin with the letter A.

You just have to give us the most obscure answer.

It's going to be 14 in all to have a go at at home.

Thanks very much. So we're looking for these people, places or events.

They all begin with A and here's our first board of seven.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are.

Now, Andrea, you're welcome to the show, lovely to have you here.

-What do you do, Andrea?

-I am a personal injury lawyer.

Well, cos I was just going to say,

I've got this thing in my neck at the moment,

I'm pretty sure it's just from saying, "There's your red line."

It could well be. That's repetitive strain.

Yeah, that's happened at work and it's really debilitating me.

I can't do anything else at all.

-And just now I had a trip or fall.

-Did you?

I could be your girl then.

When you're not doing that, Andrea, what are your hobbies?

I have an allotment which...

I grow lots of vegetables and flowers.

I am the Siddington allotment champion 2013.

-What won it for you?

-The pumpkin, I think.

-ALEXANDER GASPS

-I had a pumpkin that was...massive.

-Very nice. OK, now, Andrea.

-Yes.

This board behind me, they all begin with A.

What are you going to go for?

Um...well, I'm struggling a little bit which I'm ashamed to say

but I think I'm going to...

I'm going to play safe and go with Prince Albert.

Prince Albert says Andrea. Let's see if that's right,

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

-Oomph.

-APPLAUSE

Wow, you played it safe there. Look at that. 90 for Prince Albert.

Big score but very well played. Did what you needed to do.

Steven, welcome back.

Now, remind us about yourself, Steven.

I'm a computer nerd from Essex. I like cars, video games.

Mainly nerd things, really.

The one thing you're leaving out though

-is you got through to the head-to-head last time.

-We did.

Yeah. You got to be hoping to go a bit further today?

-We'd like to.

-Are you happy with the board?

-Have we served up a nice board of A's for you?

-It's OK, I think.

-OK.

I'm going to try for a lower answer.

So I think the American ship sunk during the 1941 bombing

of Pearl Harbor was the Arizona.

The Arizona says Steven. The Arizona.

Let's see if that's right

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

Well, 90 was our high score.

7.

Yeah, very good answer, yeah.

Another ship, the Oklahoma, also capsized

but that doesn't begin with A.

In fact, the very next day America voted to join the war.

Thanks very much indeed.

-Now, Sam. Welcome. From Leeds?

-Yes.

-What do you do, Sam?

-I work in the betting and gaming industry.

In which bit of the betting and gaming industry?

-Do you work out odds?

-No, I work in online poker.

OK. I see. So you design programmes or you run the programmes?

We don't look after the poker product as such,

-we look after the customers that play it.

-OK. Very good.

-Yes.

And what are your interests aside from that?

-A lot of sport, mainly football.

-Right you are.

-Did you study history?

-I did.

-Did you get any A's in history?

-No, I didn't.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-It's not a good board, I must say.

-That was a groan.

I mean, it was deserved but it was a groan.

Yes, what are you going to go for, Sam?

I'm going to pin my hopes on one that I've just probably

thought of now which is the country invaded in 2001

as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

-And I'm going to go for Afghanistan.

-Afghanistan says Sam.

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

It's right. Well, 90 is our high score, 7 our low.

Where does Afghanistan take us? Down to 27.

APPLAUSE

Well chosen, low score.

Well played, Sam, yeah, a good answer.

That's the official US government name for the war in Afghanistan -

-Enduring Freedom.

-Enduring Freedom.

-Yeah. And now, Joe.

-Yes.

Now, last time you were the second lowest scorer in Round One.

-The second lowest score. You scored only one.

-I did.

And still you had to leave.

-Nothing wrong with Wendy's score...

-No.

..it was just everyone else scored really low.

So I kind of feel in the balance of things,

-Pointless kind of owes you one.

-That would be nice.

I don't know if Pointless is going to pay up.

Pointless is notorious for welshing on its marker but there we are.

What do you make of history?

It wouldn't be my favourite subject

but there's a couple I think I still know.

I'm assuming that the country where the British established

-their first penal colony would be Australia.

-Yeah.

The only other one I think I know...slightly risky...

is the city which was the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr,

which I think was Atlanta.

Atlanta, says Joe. Atlanta, very good.

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

let's see how many people said it.

Well, 90 is our high score, you whizz past that.

27 the next one, you whizz past that. 7 our low score.

No, down to 14.

-Very well done indeed, Joe.

-APPLAUSE

-14.

-Well played, Joe, another very good answer.

Let's take a look at the rest of these.

The ancient Greek king of Macedonia was Alexander the Great.

That's 18 points. You're quite right about Australia.

That would have scored you 70 points so you did very well to avoid it.

And the English novelist who's going to be featured on the next £10 note.

-Jane Austen.

-Jane Austen. So Austen the answer there. 15 points.

So best answer up there, Stevie, is Arizona. Well played.

Thanks very much indeed. OK, well, let's take a look at the scores.

We're halfway through the round,

the best score of that pass was yours, Steven, well done.

Steven and Tess looking very strong at this stage.

Then up to 14 where we find Wendy and Joe. Up to 27, Sam and Darren.

And then Andrea and Erin,

I'm afraid, 90.

-You must've known loads of others on that board.

-I did, I just panicked.

-Panicked.

-It's podium one.

Podium one will do that to people, I'm afraid.

I'm so sorry.

Anyway, listen, who knows what might happen in the next round? Erin...

I could just have a moment.

You might, you might just come up with something fantastic.

Best of luck. We're going to come back down the line now.

Could the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more clues up on the board and here they come.

I'll read those all one last time.

Remember, we're looking for these people, places or events

who all begin with the letter A.

-Wendy. Welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Now, Wendy, remind us what you do.

-IT finance manager.

And tell us more about yourself.

Outside of work I love playing badminton in a league.

-You play in a league?

-Yes.

-Competitive badminton?

-Mixed and ladies.

-Hmm, very good. There you are.

You're on 14, the high scorers are on 90, Erin and Andrea.

75 or less gets you through.

I'm going to have to play safe and hope that someone slips up.

Because if I take a risk with Joe's brilliant score

she is, generally, not going to get me home, basically,

and she's got the car keys so I'm going to have to go

with the country in which Adolf Hitler was born.

-And say Austria.

-Austria, says Wendy. There's your red line.

Get below that with Austria and you're in the next round.

Let's see how many people said Austria.

It's right.

-80.

-APPLAUSE

80 takes your total up to 94, Wendy.

Yeah, big score but probably the sensible thing to do there.

He spent most of his childhood in Linz in Upper Austria.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Darren, welcome to the show.

What do you do, Darren?

-I'm a magician.

-I knew I'd get it out of someone.

-Oh, well done.

-Did you see how I asked? I had to...

-It was amazing.

Cos Xander does a lot of that psychological...

-So you probably didn't even notice what he was doing.

-No, he was good.

-Yeah.

-Yeah. Darren, he's amazing. He is absolutely fantastic.

-Darren, tell us a little bit about your magic.

-When did you start?

I've been doing magic for 20 years.

Began by receiving a magic set when I was five years old

and I've performed and loved it as a hobby ever since.

-Have you brought any magic with you?

-Yes, I've brought one trick.

-Could we have a quick trick?

-Go on.

-Can I throw you these really quick?

-Whoa! There we go. Yeah.

-That's a pointless deck of playing cards.

-A pointless deck of...

-Yeah, I say that because they're invisible.

I want you to give the cards a shuffle and then fan them out

in front of you so you can see the fronts and I can see the backs.

-OK.

-And the reason I do this is so you can choose any card

in the pack and that I don't influence you in any way,

you can choose one and take it out.

-OK.

-Show me.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

Now, I have my deck of cards here which is exactly the same as yours

except they're real and from a completely face up packet

and one card face down, the card that I thought you might choose.

So everybody gets to the end of the trick together.

Can you name the card that you chose?

Well, as you all saw, it was a Jack of diamonds.

-The Jack of diamonds?

-The Jack of diamonds.

There should be one card in this pack face down.

There, that's the only card in the pack that's face down.

-And do you want to come and take it out?

-Yeah, yeah.

Queen of spades. That's unbelievable.

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-It's not, it's the Jack of diamonds.

-Look at that. It's amazing.

-APPLAUSE

Wow.

That's fantastic. Fantastic.

So, Darren...history.

-History.

-It's one of my worst subjects.

-Is it?

But I think possibly I'm going to go for the system of racial segregation

in post-war South Africa and say apartheid.

Apartheid says Darren.

Well, the high scorers are Wendy and Joe on 94.

66 or less gets you through. Here's what 66 looks like.

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

Apartheid.

It's right.

-Through you go. Just. Look at that.

-APPLAUSE

66 you needed. 61 you got. 88 is your total.

Yeah, good answer. Safely through.

Lasted the best part of 50 years, officially, that system.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Tess.

-Hello.

-Tess, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Remind us what you do, Tess.

-I'm a tax adviser. Not for HMRC.

Right. And how do you and Steven know each other?

We met through his lovely Mrs Dominique.

We go to a rather bonkers dance class together

and I went round to meet their cat and Stevie was a bonus so...

And how did you end up here then?

We went out for a meal with our respective other halves

and got talking and got talked into it basically.

-Of course, it's everyone's favourite show.

-Aww.

Well, listen, you have to score 86 or less to get through.

-I know, and it could be a challenge.

-Really?

There's a couple I think I know but I really don't...

I'm just glad Stevie did so well in the first round cos it gives me

-a bit of breathing space.

-OK.

So, I am going to go for the battle in the Hundred Years' War

in which Henry V led the English to victory

and I'm going to say Agincourt.

Agincourt, says Tess. Agincourt.

Here's your red line, get below that with Agincourt, you're in Round Two.

Let's see how many people said Agincourt.

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

-27.

-APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 34.

Yes, led the English to victory over the French in 1415.

Thanks very much indeed.

Now then, Erin, what do you do?

-I'm training to be an opera singer.

-Are you? Where are you training?

I'm about to start training

at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Brilliant, have you been up there?

-You've auditioned...

-Yeah, I've done my auditions, looked around.

-Do you know who your teachers will be?

-I don't yet.

You get like a trial session with each of them

and then you can decide who you want.

-Very exciting indeed. What are your other interests?

-Football.

I have a season ticket at Reading, been going there since I was five.

Wonderful. So there we are.

You're on 90, you're the high scorers. You have a way out here.

-Uh-huh.

-You have a way out here. It involves scoring 3 or less.

But I think you can do it. Erin, talk us through the board.

Oh, I wish I could.

I actually only know, well, I only think I know one on there

and I'm not even sure it's right.

But the only Greek mathematician I can think of off the top of my head,

and I'm not even sure, is Aristotle so I'm going to go for that.

Aristotle?

I know I've got the wrong end of the word I've started...

-But, yeah, that's the only...

-The totle?

-Yeah.

OK. Well, let's see if Aristotle...

Let's see if Aristotle's right. There's your red line.

Let's see what happens.

No, I'm sorry, not Aristotle. That scores you 100 points.

-Takes your total up to 190.

-Sorry, Erin.

As you say, you got the wrong end of the word

and I can't give you any credit for getting the right start of the word,

we've told you what it begins with. ERIN LAUGHS

Yeah, Aristotle was a philosopher and scientist. This is Archimedes.

Archimedes.

That would have scored you 35. The Germanic tribe...

it's where we get the name England from.

-The Angles.

-The Angles, yeah. Would have scored you 12.

-The Pope. Best answer up there.

-I don't know.

Pope Adrian. Would've scored you 5. And the city is Alexandria.

And that would have scored you 15.

Thank you very much indeed.

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

with their high score of 190, I'm afraid, Erin and Andrea.

Prince Albert.

-I don't know what he thought he was doing scoring 90 there.

-I know.

-He let me down.

-He really did. I'm so sorry.

But, yeah, it's all his fault. We have to say goodbye to you now.

-But you'll be back next time.

-Thank you.

And I'm sure you'll go much, much further.

Thanks very much for playing, Erin and Andrea.

APPLAUSE

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

And so we're down to three pairs.

At the end of this round we have to say goodbye

to another pair in time for our head-to-head round.

Tess' team, lovely low score there.

Arizona, the ship at Pearl Harbor. Very well done.

Sam and Darren, not bad at all.

-And Wendy and Joe, through you come to Round Two.

-Yay.

-Yay.

Here's what it looks like. It's great to have you here.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

Can you all decide in your pairs who'll go first, who'll go second?

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many British celebrities

under 30 on the 2013 Rich List as they could.

ALEXANDER REPEATS QUESTION

Richard.

Yeah, Heat magazine published their 30 richest celebrities under 30 list.

It's all musicians and actors, there's no sports stars or royals

or anything like that in it, so who are those 30 richest people under 30?

When there's a band involved, we need individual members.

They all count individually

so there's slightly more than 30 names on the list.

Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed. Tess.

-Hmm.

-Fun round.

-Yeah.

-Isn't it?

-Could be.

-It's fun.

-Um... What are you thinking of?

-I am going to say...

-Emma Watson.

-Emma Watson.

Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many

of our 100 people said Emma Watson.

It's right.

-20.

-APPLAUSE

Good answer. 20 for Emma Watson.

Well played, Tess, she's number five on that list.

-She's estimated to be worth £27.9 million.

-Wow.

She was my little next door neighbour.

-So you knew her before she even had the role?

-Yeah.

Thanks very much indeed.

-Sam.

-Hmm.

I'm going to hope that One Direction

have made enough money to be on this list.

So I'm going to name a member of One Direction and I'm going to say...

-..Zayn Malik.

-Zayn Malik. Oh, he picked the right one.

-Yeah, he's our favourite.

-He picked the right one.

Zayn Malik, says Sam...

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

It's right.

Well, 20 is our only score so far. Zayn passes that.

-Oh, 5. Look at that.

-APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed, Sam.

-Oh, we love Zayn, don't we?

-Yes, we do.

Yeah, worth a fortune as well. Spells his name with a Y,

but originally, it was spelt with an I.

He changed it. Thought it looked better.

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

Hopefully, someone that's under 30,

but I'm not sure if the person I'm thinking of

may have just topped over that.

-I'm going to go with Adele.

-Adele, says Wendy. Adele.

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

It's right.

Look at that. 23 for Adele.

-APPLAUSE

-Not bad at all.

Yeah, sixth on the list. 27.5 million, she's got.

She's got ten Grammys, she's got an Oscar,

-all by the age of 25.

-Wow.

-Not bad going, is it?

Not bad going at all. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

While we're halfway through, let's take a look at those scores.

5, Sam. Look at that. 5 for Zayn Malik.

Great answer there. Then up to 20, where we find Tess and Steven.

Then up to 23, where we find Wendy and Joe.

Joe, we just need a nice, obscure answer from you

to keep you in the game.

We're going to come back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

-OK, so, Joe...

-Yes?

-..you're the high scorers.

-We need a nice, obscure answer.

-I'm kind of struggling a little bit.

I've gone a bit sort of braindead,

but I'm going to go for another One Direction member

and say Niall Horan.

-Niall Horan.

-Yeah.

-Niall Horan, says Joe.

I like what you've done there. I think this could be good.

Well, no red line for you as you are the high scorers,

but let's see how far down the column we get with Niall Horan.

It's right.

Well, Zayn scored 5.

What is Niall going to score?

4.

APPLAUSE

4 for Niall takes your total up

to 27. Very well done.

Someone put a piece of half-eaten toast of his up on eBay.

-Of Niall's?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Went for £475,000.

-No, it didn't.

-Of course it didn't. LAUGHTER

I was going to say, that sounds like a granary slice.

Anyway, there we go.

OK, Darren, you want to score 21 or less.

Well, Sam's given such a good answer

that I think I should just get one that I think is on the list

and so stick with the magic theme and go Daniel Radcliffe.

Daniel Radcliffe, says Darren. OK, let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said Daniel Radcliffe.

There's your red line.

It's right.

26.

26, taking your total up to 31.

You are the new high scorers.

Yeah, he's second on the list, Daniel Radcliffe.

He's worth £56 million, they reckon.

-And he's a friend of Pointless.

-He is a friend of Pointless.

-A fan of the show. We love Daniel Radcliffe.

-We do.

Sometimes, I think I like Daniel Radcliffe more

than I like Zayn Malik and that is saying it.

-I mean, you know how much I like Zayn Malik.

-Yeah, yeah.

-You've seen my shrine, right?

-Shrine? It's more than that.

-It's a temple now, isn't it?

-It is a temple.

But, yeah, Daniel Radcliffe I think even edges him out.

There we go.

Steven, now, right, here we are.

We have a game on our hands here. You have to score ten or less.

Ten or less, Steven. Ten or less. Come on. You can do it.

-I'm going to have to go a bit weird.

-Mm-hm.

I don't mean me weird, but a weird answer.

That's a bit disappointing, but yes.

So, Tinie Tempah, please.

Tinie Tempah.

OK, Tinie Tempah. What do you think, Tess?

I'd have probably gone Professor Green, but I don't know.

OK. Well, listen, there's your red line.

Get below that with Tinie Tempah, you're through to the next round.

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

-Oh!

-Ooh!

I'm sorry, Steven. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

Scores you the maximum of 100 points. 120 is your total.

-Not so Tinie Tempah.

-No. Well, no, young enough.

He's 25, but, yeah, not rich enough, I'm afraid.

He's got plenty of money. Don't worry about him.

But, yeah, not on the list of 30.

He's going to be in a massive temper now.

LAUGHTER

Even worse, Stevie, if you'd gone with

Tess's answer of Professor Green,

you also would have scored 100 points cos he's not on the list either.

Now, let's take a look at some of the pointless answers.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the actor, was on the list.

Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys - worth over 10 million.

Duffy, the Welsh singer, also on the list.

Gemma Arterton, another actress. She was on the list.

James Morrison, the singer-songwriter.

Joss Stone, the singer.

Katie Melua, another singer. Marvin Humes from JLS.

The other members of JLS - JB, Ashton and Oritse -

all scored 1 point.

Don't know what happened. Poor old Marvin.

And Nadine Coyle from Girls Aloud.

A few other pointless answers you could have had -

Emily Blunt, Florence Welch from Florence And The Machine.

You could have had Mika. You could have had Coleen Rooney as well.

They all would have been pointless.

I'll give you another few of these low scorers.

Carey Mulligan is a low scorer at 1 point.

Leona Lewis, 1 point. Nicola Roberts, 1 point.

Andrew Garfield, 1 point. Lily Allen, 2.

Calvin Harris would have scored you 2 points.

Charlotte Church scores 3 points.

Some of these people are quite surprising, aren't they?

Louis Tomlinson from One Direction, 5 - the same as Zayn.

Keira Knightley would have scored you 5.

Liam from One Direction would have scored you 6.

And the top three, let's take a look.

Well, we've seen the top two - Daniel Radcliffe and Adele.

And the only missing member of One Direction was Harry Styles

and he would have scored you 21 points.

-There's the other two there.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

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

with the highest score of 120,

our head-to-headers from last time, Steven and Tess.

-It wasn't to be.

-Oh, I'm sorry.

Emma Watson just turned out to be quite a high scorer there.

-Yeah, sadly.

-And Tinie Tempah just...

I'm going to have a much bigger temper when we've left the set.

Well, it's been lovely having you on both shows.

Thank you so much for playing. Steven and Tess!

APPLAUSE

But for Joe and Wendy and Sam and Darren,

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

Well, congratulations, Sam and Darren, Wendy and Joe.

You're now one step closer to the final and the chance

to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

APPLAUSE

Well, this is more like it, Wendy and Joe.

Round 1 last time. Here you are in the head-to-head.

And the great thing is, you can now chat.

You can pool all your knowledge

and I think you'll be a real force to be reckoned with.

Sam and Darren seem to have magicked their way

into being our golden couple, the lowest-scoring pair.

But, no, you haven't put a foot wrong at all.

Some great answers from you as well.

I think this will be very close. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

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

1960s Film Posters. Richard.

We're going to show you five 1960s film posters now,

but we've removed the names of the films.

Can you tell us what they are, please?

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

We've got...

So, there we are. Five film posters from the 1960s.

Sam and Darren, you've been our low scorers throughout the show

so you will go first.

I don't know any there.

I think C might be The Time Machine by HG Wells.

I know that's a book by him.

I think B might be... I don't know if it's Lawrence Of Arabia or not.

Just go with the one you're the most confident with.

Um, we are not 100% sure of any of the five

so we're going to have

to take a bit of a guess at C

cos it's an HG Wells

and say The Time Machine.

The Time Machine, say Sam and Darren.

The Time Machine.

Now, Wendy and Joe, that board is all yours.

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

We think the first one, A, is probably Bonnie And Clyde.

B may be Lawrence Of Arabia.

Not sure about C and E,

but we're going to go for D, which we think is My Fair Lady.

My Fair Lady, say Wendy and Joe. My Fair Lady.

So, we have The Time Machine versus My Fair Lady.

Sam and Darren said The Time Machine.

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

It's right.

It's a good answer. Look at that. Down to 12.

Very well done indeed, Sam and Darren.

APPLAUSE

Meanwhile, Wendy and Joe have said that D is My Fair Lady.

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

My Fair Lady.

It's right.

Is it going to beat 12?

Ooh, 36 for My Fair Lady.

APPLAUSE

Well done, Sam and Darren.

-After one question, you're up one-nil.

-Well worked out, gents.

Only one answer would have beaten The Time Machine.

We'll get on to that in a moment.

We'll take you through the first couple.

You're right about Bonnie And Clyde.

Would have scored too many points, though.

Would have scored you 30.

You were also right about Lawrence Of Arabia.

That's the biggest scorer of all, though. Would have scored 52.

And the last answer is the best answer.

There was a comedy sketch troupe named after this film.

It's The League Of Gentlemen.

3 points. Very well done if you said that.

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

Wendy and Joe, you get to answer it first,

but you have to win it to stay in the game so best of luck.

It concerns...

The Human Lungs.

I'm going to show you five clues, some facts about the human lungs.

Just need to give us the most obscure answer.

OK, let's reveal our facts and here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

OK, Wendy and Joe, it's over to you. Feel free to confer.

-So, the bottom one is the TB.

-Yeah.

And the one above is oxygen.

Yeah? It takes oxygen from

-the blood, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

Um, we're going to go for the bottom one,

which we think was TB - tuberculosis.

TB, say Wendy and Joe. TB.

Now, Sam and Darren, the board is yours.

Do you want to do some talking through it

and some thinking out loud?

Um, yes. Top one, I'm not sure about.

Um, the dome-shaped muscle,

I believe, is the diaphragm.

Um, I think what we're going to go for,

it might be right, is the tiny air sacs in the lungs.

-I think alveoli.

-Alveoli.

OK, so, we have tuberculosis and we have alveoli.

Wendy and Joe said tuberculosis. Let's see if that's right

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

It's right.

39.

-APPLAUSE

-39 for tuberculosis.

Sam and Darren have gone for alveoli.

It sounds like a brilliant answer.

-How confident are you?

-Not very.

OK, well, let's find out if it's right.

If it's right, that'll be good news. Alveoli, is it right?

It is right.

And you are through to the final.

Very well done indeed.

-20 for alveoli. Good work.

-APPLAUSE

Which means, Sam and Darren, after only two questions,

you're straight through to the final two-nil.

Terrific answer, alveoli.

Delicious as well with some lemon, olive oil, a little bit of Parmesan.

Absolutely lovely.

The membranous sac is the pleura. There's two of them.

Pleura would have scored you 7 points.

The dome-shaped muscle, you were absolutely right, was the diaphragm.

That would have scored 35 points.

Actually would have still won you the points.

And during respiration, they remove carbon dioxide from the blood,

but that's 52 points so pleura is the best answer up there.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

I'm afraid it's Wendy and Joe.

-You've done so much better this time.

-Yeah.

We actually got to see a bit more of you.

Did you know other ones in the film poster round?

We wouldn't have got that last one, no.

-Not the one to beat Time Machine, no.

-No? OK.

Oh, well, you have played so well and it's been lovely having you.

Thank you for playing.

-Wendy and Joe, great contestants.

-Thank you.

-Well done, guys.

-Good luck, guys.

But for Sam and Darren, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Sam and Darren.

You fought off all the competition

and you've 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 £2,500.

APPLAUSE

Well, well done. I mean, well done, you.

Some good scoring throughout.

You weren't the lowest scorers in the first two rounds,

but then you came into the head-to-head two-nil.

HG Wells, that was an inspired guess, The Time Machine there.

Have you seen The Time Machine?

No, never seen it, but I think I read the book,

possibly in English literature at school.

And it looked like a kind of scenario from the book?

We weren't born until 1988

-so we struggled with '60s posters.

-Yeah.

With respect, we weren't born in the '60s either, were we?

Yeah, that's a good point.

-But we had a good crack at it as well.

-Yeah!

-Yeah.

Richard doesn't like people saying that.

(He doesn't like that.)

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

We hope for some sport.

-That was what we've been hoping for all the way through.

-Best of luck.

As always, you get to choose your category

from the four we put up on the board.

Let's see what the four are.

We've got...

-Brilliant.

-Almost everything you asked for, I think, isn't it?

LAUGHTER

-What do you know about MPs?

-Not much.

Royal births, deaths and marriages?

-Not much about them either.

-HE LAUGHS

-I think it's got to be one of them two.

-You choose.

Let's go Royal Births, Deaths And Marriages.

-Royal Births, Deaths And Marriages. Richard.

-OK, good luck, gents.

Sorry there's no Sport there for you. Here's your three choices.

We're looking for the years of death

of any British monarch from the House of Hanover,

so from George I to Queen Victoria.

We're looking for the years of birth

of any monarch from Henry III all the way through to Elizabeth I.

Or the years of marriage of any of George VI descendants.

So, the years of deaths

of any monarch from George I to Queen Victoria,

years of birth of any monarch from Henry III to Elizabeth I

or the years of marriage of any of George VI descendants.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, as always, you've got up to one minute

to come up with three answers.

All we need is for just one pointless answer among those three

-and that will win you that jackpot. Are you ready?

-Yes.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

Right, I remember when

Queen Victoria died.

-That was 1901.

-Right, OK.

-Um...

-Years of marriages, I suppose, is the one after that.

-Right.

-I don't actually know any years of birth from the Tudors.

-No.

As far as I can help you is that

Kate and William

got married in 2012.

What about Charles?

-Charles and Camilla?

-Um...

Or Charles and Princess Diana?

I'm not sure what Princess Diana and Charles was.

I think it was before we were born, wasn't it?

-But I'm not 100% sure.

-Yeah.

Charles and Camilla, shall we take a guess? I think that's about 2005.

It was around the Grand National.

-Oh, yeah, cos it changed, didn't it?

-Yeah.

-2003.

-When they changed the Grand National?

-That was 2003.

-No, it wasn't.

-No?

-No.

-It was later than that.

-2005.

It must have been 2003.

I think it was 2006.

I think earlier than that.

10 seconds left.

It was 2003...

-I'd say 2006.

-2006 was...

-All right, yeah, we'll go for it.

You know better than me.

OK, that's your time up.

I now need your three answers. What are you going to go for?

OK, we're going to go for year of death of Queen Victoria as 1901.

1901.

And then we will possibly go for some marriages.

Charles and Camilla possibly 2003.

2003.

And should we do another one for Charles and Camilla

or should we try...? Someone will know Will and Kate.

So, shall we hedge our bets?

So, we'll try...

We'll try and hedge our bets and say 2005 as well.

2005. OK, so, we've got Queen Victoria's death - 1901.

2003 and 2005 as two possible dates for Charles and Camilla.

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

Well, we only know one of them is right

-so we'll put Queen Victoria last.

-OK, Queen Victoria.

So, 1901 goes last. Least likely?

-2003.

-2003.

-2003, we'll put first.

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

And here they are. We've got the following dates...

OK, let's say one of these answers does win that jackpot for you.

2,500 quid - quite a nice jackpot. What would you do with it?

Um, well, me and Sam and seven of our other friends

are all going to Las Vegas in a few weeks' time

so we'd probably take it along with us for some extra spending money.

-Very good indeed. Sam?

-Yeah, pretty much the same

or I might even treat myself to a season ticket at Leeds United.

OK, well, very, very best of luck.

We are looking, in this case,

for the date of the wedding of Charles and Camilla.

Let's find out if it's right, 2003. Let's find out if it's pointless.

If it's both of those things, you will win £2,500.

No.

OK, the first of the bets you're hedging is wrong.

Not a pointless answer. Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

The second bet you were going to put on Charles and Camilla was 2005.

Let's see if that's right.

If that's right and it's pointless, you win £2,500.

Let's see if it's right. How many people said 2005?

It's right!

2005 was right.

Well done for sticking to your guns there, Darren.

Your first answer, 2003, was incorrect.

2005 now taking us down through single figures. Down it goes.

Going down, down. You've got it!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Very well done indeed.

Oh, superb. Very well done. Fantastic work.

-Cos of the Grand National!

-Oh, congratulations.

2005 was a pointless answer,

which means you leave here with the jackpot of £2,500.

APPLAUSE

I was sure it was later than that. I was thinking, "2005? No, no, no."

We're big horse racing fans

and they moved the Grand National half an hour

-to get into their wedding.

-Very inconsiderate.

So, I knew it was around about the time

that Hedgehunter won the Grand National so that's what we went for.

-LAUGHTER

-Well remembered. There you go.

You can tell you're both betting men. You essentially placed a spread bet

on when Charles and Camilla got married.

It was 2005. But very well played.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers

on all the different categories.

Years of death of any British monarch in the House of Hanover.

1727 was George I and then you've got George IV in 1830.

They were the two pointless answers.

Quite a few pointless answers on the years of birth on the next one.

1442 was Edward IV. 1491 is Henry VIII.

1533, Elizabeth I. 1537 was Edward VI.

Lots of other answers there.

1207, 1239, 1284, 1367,

1457, 1470 and 1516.

Well done if you said any of those.

You'll know which monarch you were referring to.

And the marriages. 1960.

That was Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones.

1992, Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence.

1999, that was Prince Edward

and Sophie Rhys-Jones.

And there's 2005.

You also could have had 1993 - Viscount Linley and Serena Stanhope -

or 1994, which was Lady Sarah to Daniel Chatto.

Very well done if you said any of those at home.

Very, very skilfully played jackpot round, if I may say so.

Thanks very much indeed.

Well, thanks once again to our winning players,

Sam and Darren, who go away with today's jackpot of £2,500.

-Very well done.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.