Episode 25 Pointless

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Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to Pointless, the show where the aim

is to score as few points as you can

by coming up with the answers that no-one else can think of.

Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one.

Hi, my name's Jayne. I'm from Whitfield in Kent

and I'm here with my sister Sharon who is from Sheldon in Birmingham.

-Couple number two.

-Hello, my name's Sandra.

This is my friend and colleague Mark and we're both from London.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Bethan and this is Andrea

and we're friends and colleagues from South Wales.

Finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm John from Leeds and this is my daughter Eleanor from Manchester.

These are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much.

We will find out more about you throughout the show

as it goes along. That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He recently got a call about doing Strictly.

They need a body double for the Blackpool Tower.

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

-Hiya. Afternoon, everybody.

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-Good afternoon.

-Good afternoon.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

Excellent. Two returning pairs from last time.

We've got Andrea and Bethan, who were in our head-to-head

against Klif and Jenni.

Klif and Jenni went through to the final

and they got heavy-metal music - Metallica, Aerosmith -

suited them down to the ground.

The first two things out of Klif's mouth in the 60 seconds

were pointless answers. Incredible stuff.

And then at the end of the 60 seconds,

they neglected to say either of them

and gave us three answers that scored,

so they missed out on the jackpot.

Really knew their stuff, so it was tough luck for Klif and Jenni,

-but very good news for everybody who's here now.

-Yes, indeed.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So, Klif and Jenni didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another £1,000 to that,

so today's jackpot starts off, if you please, at £4,000. There is it.

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Right, let's play Pointless.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

All you have to remember is that the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

Our first category today is...

Cinema. Can you decide in your pairs

who's going first, who's going second.

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

And the question concerns...

Richard.

On each board, we'll show you seven clues to films

that include the word "Night" or "Nights" or "Day" or "Days".

You need to name the most obscure of them.

-14 in all to have a go at home. Best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

So, we are looking for the names of these films

and they all feature the words "Day" or "Night".

Let's look at our first board of seven.

I'll read those one last time.

-Jayne, warm welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-What do you do, Jayne?

I work on a dialysis unit at the local hospital in Kent

as an associate practitioner.

Very good. And what are your hobbies outside work?

I enjoy going out on my mountain bike, I enjoy walking.

I've done a few charity rides.

What's the furthest you've done on your mountain bike?

-About 120 miles in two days.

-Ooh!

Stopping off at the different renal units in Kent.

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

-It was cos some of it was off-road

-and quite hilly along the North Downs and stuff.

-Beautiful.

-Now, Jayne.

-Yes.

-Dive in. It's all yours.

OK, I will be diving in but probably not with anything pointless.

I'm going to go for "John Travolta stars in this dance-related film"

-and say Saturday Night Fever.

-Saturday Night Fever, says Jayne.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Saturday Night Fever.

It is right.

56.

Not bad, Jayne, not bad. APPLAUSE

Bear in mind you might have taken an answer off the board

that someone else knew, so that's tactically clever.

Big hit film, also one of the biggest-selling soundtracks

of all time, Saturday Night Fever.

Thank you, Rich. Now, Mark, welcome. Welcome back, I should say.

-Hello, again.

-Mark, remind us what you do.

I work at the Royal Academy of Dance in the examinations department.

How many people who work at the Royal Academy of Dance aren't dancers?

In our office, it's probably just me.

-That is a tough Christmas party, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

The hokey cokey round there must be beautiful!

When you're not doing that, what do you get up to?

-I go to the cinema a lot, actually.

-This is good.

-This is a good round for me, yes.

-This is good. So, there you are.

-There's a board.

-The only one I don't know is probably the lowest,

so I'm torn between two others.

I will go with the oldest one on the list at the bottom.

-It Happened One Night.

-It Happened One Night, says Mark.

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

Well done. Our only score at this point is 56 and you pass it.

Down it goes...

A great answer, Mark! Look at that!

APPLAUSE It Happened One Night scoring you 3.

-That's someone who really does know and love cinema.

-Absolutely.

It's a very impressive answer. And it's got the word "Night" in it.

You see at the end? Right at the end of it there?

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Andrea, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Now, you two were in the head-to-head last time.

-Yeah, it was good.

We were quite surprised we got that far, to be honest.

Yu weren't that far from going through to the final, actually.

Remind us what you do.

I am a statistician at the Office for National Statistics.

-Is that quite fun?

-It is, yeah.

We do a lot of the statistics you see in the news every day.

-We do the census.

-The ONS - we see it all the time.

But do you ever get any statistics that surprise you?

Probably our most exciting release is the baby names one.

That gets a lot of publicity.

People love that, to see what people are naming,

-like weird names they're naming their children.

-Wonderful.

-OK, now, Andrea.

-Yes.

-What are you going to go for?

Unfortunately, this isn't a good round for me.

I'm not very good on films, but I know Bethan is,

so I'm hoping that she can save me in the next one,

so I'm going to go for probably the most obvious one there

and go for the third one down and say Night At The Museum.

Night At The Museum says Andrea.

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

It's right.

46.

It's not the worst score of the round, by any means.

46, Night At The Museum.

They're very good, the Night At The Museum movies.

There's three of them, each of them good. Even the third one is good.

-It's very good.

-That's quite an achievement, isn't it?

-It is.

So, then, John.

A warm welcome to Pointless. Good to have you here.

-Now, you said you were from Leeds.

-Yes.

-But you don't sound like you're from Leeds.

-No, I don't.

I'm originally from Motherwell, just outside Glasgow.

What do you do in Leeds, John? I'm a parcel handler for the Royal Mail.

Which bit of the parcel handling are you involved in?

They come in on lorries, I unload the lorries,

move them to other places in the warehouse then load other lorries.

-That's as complicated as it gets.

-That is how it works.

And what else do you get up to, John?

I play some golf quite badly, but I also like going to the cinema a lot.

Good.

That tees us up very nicely for you to fill in all those missing bits.

OK, the second one down is The Remains Of The Day.

Edward Fox is the assassin in Day Of The Jackal.

I also can't remember the name of the Joaquin Phoenix film,

but the one at the top is the one I'll go for

and that is Dog Day Afternoon, I hope.

Dog Day Afternoon, says John. Let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 people said Dog Day Afternoon.

It is right. 56 is our highest score.

You've passed it. Our low score is 3.

How close to that will you get? 8. Not bad at all, John.

Dog Day Afternoon. Very respectable score of 8.

Good answer, John. So, John and Mark really know their films.

They know all of them apart from that Joaquin Phoenix one.

Let's go through the answers. You're right about Remains Of The Day.

That would have scored 13 points.

You're right about Day Of The Jackal as well.

That scores 20.

This Joaquin Phoenix one, it won't surprise you to know

is a pointless answer and it is We Own The Night.

A pointless answer. Very well done if you got that at home.

Just beat two big film fans there.

We're halfway through the round.

Let's look at those scores. 3, the best score of that round -

so far, I should say. Mark, well done,

putting you and Sandra very strongly ahead.

John and Eleanor, not far behind you.

Then up to 46, where we find Andrea and Bethan.

Well, Bethan, we've heard about your film knowledge.

Looking forward to that in the next pass.

Let's hope we get a low score from you and a low score from you, Sharon.

There you are, the high-scorers on 56.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Let's put seven more Night And Day film clues up on the board

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

I'll read those one last time.

-There we are. Eleanor, now then, you're here from Wigan.

-Yes.

-And what do you do in Wigan?

-I work in Manchester at the moment.

I'm currently a recruitment consultant

but I'm training to be a fully-fledged zoologist.

What stage are you in your training?

I'm trying to beef up my CV at the moment

so I do a lot of data manipulation for my professors.

OK, right, do you share your father's love

-of cinema?

-I do. Not in quite such great depth,

-but I do.

-OK, what are you going to go for?

I'm going to go with the Josh Hartnett film

-and say 30 Days Of Night.

-30 Days Of Night.

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

Let's see how many of our 100 people said 30 Days Of Night.

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

It's right.

It gets you into Round Two.

It's a good answer.

Look at that! 3!

You beat your dad! Look at that! 11 is your total.

Terrific answer.

That's... That's got "Day" and "Night" in it.

-It's got "Day" and "Night.

-Look at that.

Which, unfortunately, means it's worth 6 points. I'm sorry.

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-"Day" and "Night", how about that?

-Bethan.

-Yes.

-Bethan, welcome back.

-Now, ah, it's a film round.

-Yes.

-Bethan loves film.

-So I've been told.

-Bethan, do you work with Andrea at the ONS?

-I do.

We sit on opposite desks.

Wonderful. Now then, Bethan.

You're on 46. The high-scorers are Sharon and Jayne on 56.

9 or less, at this juncture, gets you into the next round.

I think the 1968 one, if I've got it right, is going to be the lowest,

but I don't want to take a huge guess, so I'm going to go

for Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bethan's saying Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Let's see if it's right. Here's your red line. It's quite low.

Let's hope you get a long way towards that or even past it

with Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

It's right.

Not bad at all. Look at that 21. Well done.

APPLAUSE 67 is your total.

Some very good scoring in this round.

One of the iconic films of the '80s. Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

They made a TV series of it as well.

Jennifer Aniston played Ferris Bueller's sister.

-I didn't know that.

-Mmm.

-There we are. Thank you very much, Richard.

Now then, Sandra, remind us what you do.

I am an exams officer at the Royal Academy of Dance.

-I work alongside Mark.

-And when not doing that, Sandra,

what keeps you busy and happy?

I quite like to do a lot of things.

I like to go to the theatre, go to some museums

and I also run marathons as well.

-How many marathons have you run?

-I've run two so far

and I've just found out that I've got into the Chicago marathon.

So that will be your next one?

That will be my next one.

-How soon do you start training for that?

-Quite soon.

I'll need to start in maybe the next month or two.

Wow, good luck with that. You are on 3, by the way.

The high-scorers, on 67 at this point, are Andrea and Bethan,

-so 63 or less gets you into the next round.

-Right.

I know a couple on the board.

I really do like Bond films and I grew up watching Bond films.

The name of that one is escaping me right now. It's really frustrating.

But I think I'm going to go with the bottom one

which is Around The World In 80 Days.

Around The World In 80 Days, says Sandra. Here's your red line.

If you can get below that, you are through to Round Two.

Let's see how many people said Around The World In 80 Days.

Well done.

40.

That takes your total up to 43. APPLAUSE

More good answering

and now it all comes down to Sharon on that first podium.

-A lot of pressure.

-A lot of pressure there, Sharon. Welcome to Pointless.

I'm sorry that this is your first introduction,

to be thrown in at the deep end like this,

but yes, a little bit of pressure on you here.

-Yes.

-Before we get down to that,

what do you do up in Birmingham?

Yes, I'm a duty manager at shelter departments for the elderly.

Very good indeed. And what do you do when you're not doing that, Sharon?

I'm a member of my local gym - not that I go mad there, I must admit.

Do you go there and just stay sane or...?

Yeah, I watch the telly, to be quite honest.

I don't break into too much of a sweat.

A lot of people say they watch Pointless in the gym.

45 minutes is quite a nice little time on the treadmill.

Ah, there we are. Hello, if you're watching us in the gym.

Come on, put the speed up,

just for a minute, then you can go back down again.

Right, Sharon, that board is all yours.

-Do you fancy talking us through it?

-Oh, I'd love to be able to.

Again, the Halle Berry one, that escapes me. I've gone a blank.

And the third one, the Duane Jones one, no.

The top two... Oh, gosh, Jayne, sorry,

cos I think they're both going to be high-scorers

and I shall go for Bill Murray as the weatherman

-and say Groundhog Day.

-Groundhog Day.

You want to be scoring 10 or less with Groundhog Day, I'm afraid.

Who knows? You may. There is your red line.

If you get below that, you are into Round Two.

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

Oh, Sharon, I'm sorry. 73, a big high score

for Groundhog Day, taking your total up to 129.

That means, ironically, you'll be coming back on the next show

-to do exactly the same thing.

-LAUGHTER

It's a higher scorer than the second one down which is Independence Day.

Independence Day still would have scored 41.

The zombie-filled horror film that Bethan almost went for...

-What would you have said?

-Night Of The Living Dead?

It is Night Of The Living Dead. That would have scored 20.

And the Halle Berry Bond film?

-Is Die Another Day.

-Die Another Day. Of course it is. 13 points for that.

So the best answer on that board is 30 Days Of Night.

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

the pair who are heading home with our high score of 129,

I'm sorry, Sharon and Jayne, it is you.

The good news is we'll see you again next time. Look forward to that.

I'm sure you'll go much further. Thanks very much. Sharon and Jayne.

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

We are now down to three pairs.

For our next round, we'll have to go down to two pairs.

But, in the meantime, I've got plaudits aplenty to hand out.

Mark, well done, Eleanor, well done - our joint lowest individual scorers.

John and Eleanor, our joint team low scorers

and to Andrea and Bethan, well done, you made it through.

Bethan, you lived up to your billing. Fantastic.

Best of luck, all three pairs. Our category for Round Two today is...

Flags. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going first, who's going second.

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

Flags Without Stripes as they could.

Flags Without Stripes.

We should call this round Cool Flags cos we're going to show you

15 quite cool flags now and you need to tell us

which country they are the flag of. There's some good ones.

Very good indeed. So, we're going to put an image up with 15 flags on.

That image will stay up the whole way through the round.

You don't have to say which flag you're talking about.

You can just say the name of a country whose flag is on that board.

There we are. Let's reveal our image and here it is.

-Oh, they ARE cool!

-There's some nice ones, aren't there?

I've got an early favourite. OK, now, there we go. Now, Mark.

Yes, not my strongest subject, this. Um...I will...

I'll play what I think is safe...

-..and go with Turkey.

-OK, you're going to go with Turkey.

Mark's going with Turkey. Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right.

Well done. 19 for Turkey.

APPLAUSE Good start to the round.

Well played, Mark.

They love me in Turkey because I'm an Osman

and Turkey is full of Osmans.

They think it's hilarious that I'm not Turkish.

-Thanks very much indeed. Andrea.

-Yes.

-Andrea, are you happy with this as a round?

-Um, I'm sort of...

I think there are two on there I definitely know,

two that I THINK I know, so I think I'm going to try and guess one

and hope for the best and I'm going to go for Malaysia.

Malaysia, says Andrea. Is it on there?

If it is, how many people spotted it?

No, bad luck, Andrea. An incorrect answer.

It may very well not be the last incorrect answer

of the round, so don't despair yet. But that scores you 100 points.

No Malaysia there, I'm afraid. Take solace from the fact that probably

the coolest flag in the world is the Welsh flag.

We're very familiar with it but it's an amazing flag.

-It's a great flag.

-It's crazy.

-I know.

-Now, John.

-Well...

-John.

Before we come on, I said to Eleanor

that all the bad subjects began with an F and this is one of them.

-It's great cos Football's coming up in the next round.

-Not again!

-You know you just did a brilliant Film round, right?

-Oh, yeah.

-No, Cinema, please.

-Oh, OK. Yeah, there you go.

However, I do know one of them

and I'm heartened by the fact that there's a 100 on the board,

so rather than guess, I'll go for Cyprus.

Cyprus, says John. Let's see how many of our 100 people said Cyprus.

It's right. 100 is our high score. You passed that immediately.

19 is our low.

You almost reached that. APPLAUSE

22 for Cyprus.

There's Cyprus, second one in on the bottom row.

They've actually got a map of their country on their flag.

Thanks very much. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores.

19 the best score of that pass, Mark. Well done.

Then we travel up to 22 where we find John and Eleanor

and then up to 100, Andrea and Bethan. Bethan, it's in your hands.

We need a low score and it might be enough to keep you in the game.

Best of luck. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, now then, Eleanor.

-Yes.

-Eleanor, how is Flags for you?

Quite strong until I saw THIS board.

But I've spent a little bit of time in South Africa,

so I'm going to go with South Africa.

You're going with South Africa.

OK, let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 people said it. Here's your red line.

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

Bad luck, Eleanor.

An incorrect answer scores you 100 points. Takes your total up to 122.

You might still be all right.

Eleanor, are you sure it was South Africa you spent a bit of time in?

-I'm quite sure.

-I would have a conversation

-with your travel agent.

-LAUGHTER

OK, now, Bethan.

We need a score of 21 or less from you.

I know one or two of them but I think they'll be quite high scorers,

so I'm going to take a bit of a guess and hope that it's right.

-I will go for South Korea.

-South Korea, says Bethan. South Korea.

Here's your red line. Get below that, you're in the head-to-head.

Let's see how many of our 100 said South Korea.

It's right.

25.

APPLAUSE Takes your total up to 125, Bethan.

Second in there on the second row, South Korea.

Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Now, OK, so, Sandra.

-This is great news. You're in the head-to-head.

-Yeah.

I mean, you're NOT, you're still in this round,

but you will get through to the head-to-head round, I'm saying.

Do you want to talk us through the board at all?

I think one of them might be Trinidad and Tobago

and one of them might be Mongolia.

But I'm hoping this is correct and I'm going to say it

because my brother lives there and say Japan.

OK, Japan, says Sandra. No red line for you.

You're already through. Let's see how many people said Japan.

It's right.

73. High score but who cares? APPLAUSE

You are through to the next round. 92 is your total.

Safely through.

Well, we haven't touched the nine best answers up there.

If people at home have got a low-scorer,

let's find out how you've done. The best answer on the board

is the second on the right on the second row, is Mauritania.

Very well done if you said Mauritania. 1 point for that.

Also 1 point for Grenada which is the first one on the second row.

-That's a good flag.

-Mmm.

1 point also for Guyana which is in the middle of the bottom row.

Eleanor, maybe you were thinking that was South Africa?

It's the one that's most like the South African flag.

-Yeah.

-Guyana, that is.

You'd have got 2 points for Albania which is the bottom right there,

the black and red one.

You'd have got 2 points for Kazakhstan

which is the top middle, the blue and yellow one.

You'd have got 3 points for Macedonia.

Macedonie, trois points.

You'd have got 6 points for Vietnam.

That's the red flag on the bottom row with the yellow star.

You'd have got 11 points for Saudi Arabia,

right next to the Vietnamese flag there.

And you'd have got 34 for China, right in the middle.

You'd have got 8 points for Morocco which is top row, second in.

-And Brazil there would have scored you 58.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

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

with our high score of 125, I'm afraid it's Bethan and Andrea.

Very strong performance across both shows

and I'm sorry you didn't get further than the second round this time,

but you can hold your heads up high

when you talk about your Pointless careers.

It's been lovely having you on the show. Bethan and Andrea.

APPLAUSE

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

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, John and Eleanor, Mark and Sandra.

You're one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands,

in case you'd forgotten, at £4,000.

APPLAUSE

Well, John and Eleanor, your first appearance on the show

and here you are, not only in the head-to-head,

but as our golden couple, our lowest-scoring pair so far.

Mark and Sandra, this is your second time here.

It was Round Two we said goodbye to you last time.

But here you are in the head-to-head.

This is where you can start playing as a team.

You can put your heads together and pool your knowledge.

I think this is going to 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...

Cakes and desserts. Richard.

We're going to show you the names of five cakes and desserts,

but we've missed out alternate letters. Can you fill in the gaps?

OK, let's reveal our five cakes and desserts and here they are.

I'll read those one last time.

John and Eleanor, you've been our low scorers,

so you get to go first.

-Feel free to confer.

-Right, do you know the bottom one?

-I've no idea.

-I know the other ones but I don't know the bottom one.

-What's the second one?

-Oh...

We'll go for the bottom one.

-And that is sachertorte.

-Sachertorte, say John and Eleanor.

Sachertorte.

Now, Mark and Sandra, what would you like to go for?

We'll go for the second one which is...

-blancmange.

-Blancmange.

So, we have sachertorte and we have blancmange.

John and Eleanor said sachertorte. Let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 people said sachertorte.

Down it goes. 10. Very well done. Great score.

APPLAUSE

Mark and Sandra, meanwhile, have gone for blancmange.

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

It's right.

27. 27 for blancmange. APPLAUSE

Which means well done, John and Eleanor.

-After one question, you're up 1-0.

-The other ones scored more points,

so you got the best two answers on the board,

so well played, both teams.

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

Mark and Sandra, you get to go first this time,

but you have to win it to stay in the game, so good luck with that.

It concerns...

Famous Normans, Richard.

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

commonly known by the name Norman. Can you identify the most obscure?

Thanks very much. Let's reveal our five Normans and here they are.

There we go. Five Normans.

Mark and Sandra, you will go first.

-I wish I knew C. Do you know C?

-I have no idea.

We'll go with E. Yeah? We are going to go with E

which we believe is Norman Mailer.

Norman Mailer, say Mark and Sandra. Norman Mailer.

John and Eleanor, talk us through the rest of the Normans, if you can.

A is Norman Wisdom, B is Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf,

D is Norman Cook from The Housemartins

and we just can't place C at all.

I believe we're going to go for Norman Schwarzkopf.

OK, B, Norman Schwarzkopf. Norman Schwarzkopf, Norman Mailer.

Mark and Sandra said Norman Mailer for E.

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

It is right.

Very well done. 16 for Norman Mailer.

APPLAUSE

John and Eleanor have, meanwhile, gone for B, Norman Schwarzkopf.

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

28. APPLAUSE

Well done, Mark and Sandra. You did what you had to do.

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

Two good answers again.

There's a pointless answer up there and you can guess which one it is.

And C is the pointless answer.

He's the American painter and illustrator.

He illustrated the covers of the Saturday Evening Post

for over 40 years.

-Well done if you said that at home.

-Thanks very much.

Here comes your third and final question.

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

Best of luck to both pairs. Our third question concerns...

Cultural Arithmetic, Richard.

We want you to complete the five sums you're about to see,

given in these five clues. The team that gives the most obscure answer

is going through to the final, so best of luck.

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

I'll read those again.

John and Eleanor will go first.

I only know the bottom two. I could take good guesses at the other ones.

-You know the Marie Curie one?

-Yeah.

INAUDIBLE WHISPERING

-We're going to go for the middle one.

-The History?

-Yeah. We're going to say 1.

-1, say John and Eleanor. 1.

Now, Mark and Sandra, the board's all yours. Talk us through it if you can.

The first one we think is 10 years plus 3 general elections, so 13.

The last one would be 2012 minus 1966 which would be 46.

But we're going to go for the Science one

which we think is 2 Nobel Prizes times 100 degrees Celsius, so 200.

You're going to go for 200. So, we have 1 and 200.

John and Eleanor said 1.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said 1.

It is right.

20.

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Now, Mark and Sandra, meanwhile, have said 200.

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

It has to beat 20.

And it does. Look at that! 12! Very well done.

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Which means, Mark and Sandra,

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

Very high quality head-to-head all round. Well played, everybody.

The biggest scorer there is the Olympics and the World Cup one

which you're right was 46.

It would have scored you 42 points. Politics.

10 years plus 3 elections, so the answer is 13. 6 points for that.

This next one, you have to have two very specific genres of knowledge

which don't often coincide,

so you wouldn't be surprised to know this is a pointless answer.

There were 1 Sex Pistols studio album,

4 operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle,

so 5 is the answer there. Very well played if you got that at home.

Thanks very much. The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round,

I'm afraid it's John and Eleanor.

But you played so well throughout the show so far.

We'll see you next time and I'm sure you'll come this far, if not further.

Thanks, John and Eleanor.

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But for Mark and Sandra, it's now time for our Pointless final.

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Congratulations, Mark and Sandra. 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 £4,000.

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We've thrown everything at you. We started off with films,

then we had flags, then we had cakes and puddings,

then we had famous Normans

and then we finished off with maths, cultural maths.

And here you are, still standing, still smiling.

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

I would always like to see film come up, but it's come up once, so...

First you have to choose the category, as you know,

from the four that come up on the board. Let's see what is there today.

-I know nothing about Motown.

-No.

-And I know nothing about Horse Racing.

-Do you know anything about fashion?

-Nothing.

-Nothing.

-Shall we go with 2012 then and see what comes up, I think?

-Yeah.

-We'll go with 2012.

-OK, 2012 it is. Richard.

Very best of luck. Here are your three options.

We are looking for anyone who received a credit

in two or more episodes of the sitcom Twenty Twelve.

We are looking for any Team GB Olympic medallists

from the 2012 Olympics.

That's an individual medallist, please, in the Olympics -

bronze, silver or gold for Team GB as an individual.

Or we are looking for any act who had a UK number one album in 2012.

So, any actors in Twenty Twelve, at least two episodes,

credited in at least two episodes,

Team GB Olympic medallists as individuals

or acts who had a UK number one album in 2012. Best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed.

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 those answers

-to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. Your time starts now.

Right, first of all, Twenty Twelve.

The problem with that, I find I'm getting confused with W1A.

-Is it the television programme?

-Yes.

-Juliet Stevens...?

-Jessica Hynes.

-Jessica Hynes.

-Um...

-Um... Olympic medallists.

-There's Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis.

-Yeah.

-Um...Charlotte Dujardin.

-Yeah.

-That's relatively...

Any medallist though, isn't it?

Yeah, could be Paralympic medallist as well.

-Jade Jones?

-Yes.

-Relatively obscure.

-That could be quite good.

-Um...

INAUDIBLE WHISPERING

Who can you think of in Twenty Twelve?

You've got Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes, David Tennant...

-Yeah.

-Um...

-Ten seconds left.

-We're struggling a bit. Um...

Any more Olympic medallists? Any obscure ones you can think of?

OK, that is your time up, I'm afraid. What are you going to give me?

What are your three answers going to be?

-Shall we go for those two Olympic medallists?

-Yeah.

-So, Jade Jones.

-Jade Jones.

-And Charlotte Dujardin.

-Charlotte Dujardin.

The first one you came up with from Twenty Twelve?

-Jessica Hynes.

-Jessica Hynes.

OK, of those three, which is your best shot at a Pointless answer?

-Charlotte Dujardin.

-We'll put that last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Probably Jessica Hynes.

Jessica Hynes we'll put first.

Let's pop those up on the board in that order and here they are.

Three perfectly good answers up there.

Now, let's just suppose one of those is pointless

and you win that jackpot of £4,000, what would you do with it?

Mark, to you first.

I've been talking about setting up my own political party.

Tell us more.

I don't think I'm well enough served by the political parties we have,

so I thought I'd set up the Marvellously Excellent Party.

Brilliant! Sandra, how about you?

I haven't been to see my brother who I mentioned lives in Japan,

-so I'd probably fly out to see him.

-OK.

Now then, Mark and Sandra, three good answers up there.

Let's hope at least one of those is pointless

and will win that jackpot. Your first answer was Jessica Hynes.

In this case, we were looking for

cast members from the sitcom Twenty Twelve.

It has to be pointless to win the jackpot.

Let's see, for £4,000, how many people said Jessica Hynes.

It's right. Well, if this goes all the way down to zero,

we will send you home with £4,000.

Down it goes, through the teens, into single figures. Still going down.

6 for Jessica Hynes.

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Not a bad start though, I have to say.

Not bad at all. Not a pointless answer, though,

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

Your second answer was Jade Jones and in this case,

we were looking for any medallist from Team GB in the 2012 Olympics.

It has to be pointless, remember.

How many people said Jade Jones? For £4,000.

Well, it's right. Jessica Hynes, your first answer, took us down to 6.

Jade Jones now taking us down through the teens.

Single figures. Down it goes. Still going down.

You've done it! Very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE Brilliant! Absolutely fantastic!

-Very, very well done!

-Thank you.

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Congratulations! Jade Jones was a pointless answer.

That means you are going home with that jackpot of £4,000.

Very well done indeed.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well played.

Jade Jones, the taekwondo gold medallist in the 2012 Olympics.

Charlotte Dujardin would have scored you 1 point.

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

Actors in Twenty Twelve. Let's start with that. Some very fine actors.

Everyone apart from Hugh Bonneville Jessica Hynes,

Olivia Colman, David Tennant and Sebastian Coe

who appeared as himself in that series.

Everyone else was pointless, so well done if you said somebody else.

Team GB gold medallists.

Anthony Joshua, the boxer.

Ben Ainslie was a pointless answer, unbelievably.

Robbie Grabarz the high jumper. You could have had all sorts of answers.

Alan Campbell, Anthony Ogogo, Ed McKeever, Fred Evans,

Gemma Gibbons, Jason Kenny, Max Whitlock, Michael Jamieson,

Nick Dempsey, Peter Wilson, Samantha Murray.

All of those are pointless, so well done if you said any of those.

And acts who had a number one album.

Conor Maynard's debut album was number one in 2012.

Lots of other answers. Bruce Springsteen, Elton John,

Jack White, Jake Bugg, Linkin Park, Marina And The Diamonds,

Newton Faulkner, Nicki Minaj, Olly Murs, Plan B,

Robbie Williams, The Vaccines. All of those were pointless answers.

-Well done if you got any of those at home.

-Thank you, Richard.

Thanks, once again, to our winning pair, Mark and Sandra,

who go away with today's jackpot of £4,000. Well done.

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Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge

-to the test on Pointless. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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