Episode 29 Pointless

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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.

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And couple number one.

Hi, my name is Jason and this is my friend Sara

and we're from the University of York.

Couple number two. Hi, my name's Eoin.

This is my wife, Cliodhna.

We're from Dublin but we live in South London.

Couple number three. Hi, I'm Joan. This is my daughter Lorna.

We come from Shetland but Lorna lives in Edinburgh now.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Steve and this is my wife Anne and we're from Bristol.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, all of you.

We'll find out more about you throughout the show as it goes on.

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

He runs like clockwork. Our very own Swiss timepiece.

Intricate, delicate and neutral in World War II,

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

Hiya. Hi, everybody.

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Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

How are you? Very well, thanks.

Are you sure? Yeah, really well.

Oh, that's terrific news. I'm so pleased. Yes.

Two returning pairs from last time. Lorna and Joan are back with us...

Yes. ..from Shetland.

Oh, I keep forgetting. We're meant to...

We've got to say Shetland or the Shetland Islands.

But not THE Shetlands? That's right.

Cos I know there's one of the things you're not meant to say,

I can't think of which one it is. I'm aware now forever.

There'll be panic in your eyes when you have to talk about Shetland.

The Shetland Isles.

I hope you haven't had to go back in between shows.

No. That's good. That is good.

And also Anne and Steve are back.

Anne and Steve got through to Round Two last time, so no-one

here has been in a head-to-head as yet, so a wide open field.

Exciting. Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Jonathan and Bethan didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another ?1,000 to that. This is good news.

Our jackpot today starts off

at ?2,000. There it is.

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

Now, for the benefit of our newcomers,

remember that the couple with the highest score at the end

of each round will be eliminated.

That's all you have to remember. Best of luck.

Our first category today is...

Literature. Oh, Eoin's furious.

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Authors And Their First Names.

Yeah, on each pass we're going to give you

the surnames of seven authors and the name of a book they wrote.

You need to tell us the first name by which they're commonly known.

There's going to be seven on each board,

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

And we've taken all the novels...

There was a nice list that The Daily Telegraph did,

100 books you should read,

and all the novels are taken from that list.

Excellent. Thank you very much.

So we're looking for the first names of these authors

and here is the first list of books,

seven on the first board.

I'll read those one last time.

So there we go.

Sara. Yes. A very warm welcome. Thank you. ..to Pointless.

You are at university with Jason. Yes. What are you reading?

Well, I've just finished at university actually.

Jason finished a year ago, so, yeah.

What have you just taken your degree in?

Linguistics. Linguistics.

So we're both good with words.

OK, but these are words in the English language then? Yeah.

Interesting. So little nuances, things like that.

You'll pick up on things like Les Miserables?

Yeah, terrible Anglicisms of French words. What are your hobbies, Sara?

I like going to nice restaurants. I've got a massive list...

Hang on, just a quick straw poll -

who DOESN'T like going to nice restaurants?

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Everyone in the room. I can't believe that. Just embarrassed me there.

Now, Sara, what are you going to go for? I know a few.

So, I might play it slightly safe

and go for Margaret Atwood

for The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood, says Sara. Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many people said Margaret.

It's right.

23.

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Good start to the round, Sara,

23 for Margaret Atwood.

Good start, Sara.

Whenever we talk about Margaret Atwood

we talk about that brilliant thing she invented where

she can sign books from anywhere in the world. Yes!

She's got a thing where you write in ink on a tablet and it appears.

"She" can. How do you know it's her?

Maybe there's CCTV of her? Yeah...

So she says, "Who's it for?"

And the person says, "Oh, it's for Claire."

There's a ten-second delay on the satellite... And then...

..and, weirdly, the pen moves. Yeah, clever, isn't it?

And she writes books. Now that IS clever.

And she does that, I'm told, literally there and then.

Typewriter. Typewriter.

A series of tiny trained spiders she's got

who write her books for her.

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Thank you very much indeed.

Now then, Cliodhna. (PRON: Cleaner) Yes.

I don't think we've yet on Pointless, in however many hundred shows

we've made, yet had someone whose name was also a job.

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I'm going to think of some. Jim Trainer.

That's rubbish. Oh, JIM Trainer.

Jim. Not, it doesn't quite work.

Bill...

That's not a job.

What job is that? The Bill. The Old Bill.

Yeah, we must... There must have been.

Just play among yourselves.

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Um, Cliodhna, welcome. Lovely to have you here. What do you do, Cliodhna?

I went back to school a couple of years ago

and I retrained as a barrister,

and practised in Ireland for a few years before coming to the UK.

So now I will retrain as a barrister here,

but I'm in regulatory compliance at the moment.

How different is Irish law from UK law?

The law itself is quite similar, but the set-up is quite different.

All barristers in Ireland are sole traders,

we don't have the concept of chambers or affiliated groups.

I see. You've kind of got to recalibrate then?

We have to recalibrate, yeah.

What are your interests outside of the law?

I like outside, so I like to walk.

We brought our bicycles from Dublin when we came,

so you'll see me around South London on my bicycle,

complete with a basket at the front and a basket at the back.

And we play a bit of softball and I like to read a little bit as well,

particularly crime novels.

Well, this is just perfect. Beautiful segue, for which, many thanks.

What would you like to go for?

I know a few on the board.

I'm going to take

a little bit of a gamble.

I'm going to go for

Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose.

Umberto Eco, says Cliodhna. Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many people said it.

23's our only score so far.

Umberto passes that with ease

down to 12. Very well done.

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Good answer, Cliodhna. Welcome to Pointless. Very good stuff.

I've thought of somebody whose name was also a job, that we've had on.

Clark.

That's all I got, though. Oh, that's good. It's not bad, is it?

Not bad at all.

Because IT Professional is not a first name, unfortunately.

Not yet, no.

Joan, welcome back, and you are from... Oh, I must get this right.

You are from the land of Shet. That will do.

I'm not sure it will, actually.

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That doesn't sound quite so good, does it, coming off the tongue?

They don't put that on the tea towels, do they? The Land of Shet.

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Do you think they'll market well?

I don't know, it could look good on a bumper sticker.

Joan, you were a primary school teacher... I was, yes.

..and you have retired now and you cruise? If I can do, yes.

Sounds like you're having a wonderful retirement.

Yes. A busy retirement but thoroughly enjoying it.

Very good indeed. And what other things do you like to get up to?

Obviously Shetland, the Shetland Isl...

th-the Shetland Isles...

I'm sorry, this is a terrible thing to ask,

but I haven't been up that far north.

Is it cold? I'm going to come to that. LAUGHTER

Your hours of daylight. Yes.

Do you get shorter hours of daylight there or is it much the same as here?

Well, at the moment, coming up to the longest day,

it'll be more or less light for 24 hours, seriously, yes.

It'll maybe get a bit grey around midnight or so for an hour

and then the sun's back up again.

You must get beautiful skies.

You get beautiful sunsets, beautiful skies, yes. Wonderful.

It's worth it. OK, Joan, what about this board?

Erm, I know a few.

I'm deciding what one I go for.

I think I'm going to go for

Salman Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie, says Joan.

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

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65, quite a high one for Salman Rushdie.

It is a high score, isn't it? Joan, you mustn't leave us

in Round One again, promise,

for a number of reasons.

Thank you very much.

Now, Anne, welcome back. Round Two for you last time, was it?

Yes. Now, what was it? What happened in Round Two?

You didn't give an incorrect answer, did you?

No. Before I came here I was worried about giving the wrong answer

or not having an answer, but after the last show I realised it's not...

Well, it's about that, but also it's about choosing the answer

because I knew a few of them, but I just chose the high score.

It's really hard to know though.

With limited time and with the light shining down on you, it's hard

under that pressure to think which is going to be the lowest-scoring one.

But you've got the same job here, Anne. Do you fancy talking us

through that board?

The first one is Virginia.

Then you've got Victor

and then Graham, so again...

You're missing one off there.

I don't know that one.

I don't know that one. Hopefully I'm

picking the right one this time.

I'm going to go for Graham.

Very good. Graham Greene.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Graham Greene.

It's right. Well, 65's our highest score, which you've passed,

23 is the next... 41.

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41 for Graham Greene. Not bad.

Yeah, he was apparently an intelligence officer

for MI6 during the war, briefly, Graham Greene,

out in Sierra Leone.

It's a wonderful book, Brighton Rock,

like a lot of his novels, actually. 41 points there.

So you were absolutely right about Virginia Woolf - 58.

Let's go down to Hugo, which is...

Victor.

Victor Hugo - 50 points.

And Things Fall Apart,

this is the best answer on the board perhaps unsurprisingly.

Chinua Achebe. Very well done if you said that at home,

3 points. Thanks, Richard.

We're halfway through the round, so let's take a look at those scores.

12, the best score of that pass.

Cliodhna, very well done to you.

Up to 23 where we find Sara and Jason.

41 is where Anne and Steve currently reside,

and then you're not too far ahead, Joan and Lorna, on 65,

but Lorna, we really have to have a low-scoring answer from you.

I think it's worth pulling out all the stops. I really do.

We can't be sending you back up to the Shetland Islands so soon.

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

can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, well let's put seven more novels up on the board, and here they are.

I'll read those again.

So, Steve, welcome back.

We discovered last time you were a lecturer at the Open University.

That's right.

How do all the lecturers at the Open University get together?

Is there a virtual OCR or something?

You have to go in a few times a week for the big meetings,

where you decide what to do with the teaching material.

You go up there together. Where is it based? Milton Keynes.

I see. So you to and fro into Milton Keynes quite a lot? We do, yes.

Are people generally very open when you get there?

I'd say ajar. OK.

Steve, aside from that, what are your hobbies?

I spend a lot of time with my job sitting down in front

of a computer so I like to play lots of sport when I can,

especially football and cricket.

Very good. OK, you're on 41.

The high-scorers are Lorna and Joan at this point on 65.

23 or less is your target.

OK, well I'm stuck between two

and I'm wondering whether to gamble

or not as we got quite a high score

from the first round.

I think I'll go for...

Doris Lessing.

Doris Lessing, says Steve.

Here comes your red line. Get below that with Doris...

That sounds funny, doesn't it?

..and you are through to Round Two.

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

I think that might be rather a good answer, Steve...

and so it proves. 20. Needed 23.

61 is your total. Well played, Steve.

The winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The oldest ever recipient of that award.

Mm. Thanks very much. Now, Lorna.

Lorna, so, you have left the Shetland Islands

and you have relocated to Edinburgh.

Yes. What do you do there?

I work as an early years practitioner, so with

children under school age, and I'm also doing a Masters as the moment.

And doing your Masters. How much longer on your Masters?

Just my dissertation. Just that to go. When's the deadline for that?

A couple of months. Two months. OK.

Are you good at knuckling and down and doing that? Yeah.

If I know there's a deadline to meet, I'm pretty much organised.

Pretty much organised? Well, try to be.

In other words you've cleared the three days before delivery.

That sounds fine by me! Yeah, that's fine.

And what are your hobbies, Lorna?

Well, I have two children, so I spend a lot of time...

Well, my youngest, we like to do a lot of outdoor things,

so cycling, walking.

My oldest, she's 19, so doesn't want to spend much time with me.

But otherwise, I go to the gym, I enjoy going camping -

we just came back from a weekend at Loch Lomond, which was lovely.

Midges? No, no midges. None?

No, lots of rain, so that cancelled out the midges.

It is one or the other, generally, isn't it? Very nice, though. Good.

Lorna, what are you going to go for? You are the high scorers.

We have to have a low score from you.

It's the worst board I could have.

I'm not good at literature.

I know a few,

but they're going to be big answers.

But rather than getting 100

I'm just going to go for Thomas Hardy.

Thomas Hardy. OK, well,

good damage limitation there. Let's see.

Thomas Hardy. Is it right? No red line for you as you're the high

scorers, but let's see how many people said Thomas Hardy.

53.

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Takes your total up to 118.

Could still be in the game. Just about still in the game.

Yeah, he was an architectural draughtsman before he was

a full-time writer, Thomas Hardy. He was the Margaret Atwood of his day.

Mm. Thank you very much. Now, Eoin,

a warm welcome to you.

What do you do, Eoin?

So, I work for a big insurance company

for the assistance part of the business, so we help people

if their car breaks down or there's a problem in their home. Oh, nice.

You are the first port of call for people in trouble.

People who are much more skilled than me in the team.

But it should be you -

I would love to hear your voice.

Something's wrong, you want to hear Eoin on the phone.

That is very reassuring.

I'm told I've good phone voice, but apparently take all day

on the phone.

If you break down you've probably GOT all day,

haven't you?

Eoin, aside from that, what pleases you?

Well, we're enjoying exploring London since we moved over.

Used to play a lot of rugby,

now I watch it from the safety

of the stands, and my main sporting activity now is I play softball,

and so I play in Hyde Park every Sunday with

a bunch of American friends and love that game, and a bit of fine dining.

Very good indeed. Now then, Eoin, you're on 12,

which means you can't lose, even if you score 100 points.

How are you feeling about this board?

Little bit better about it than

when I found out about the subject,

cos there are still one or two

up there that I've read,

so, erm, I'm going to go for

Jack Kerouac for On The Road.

Jack Kerouac. No red line, you're already through.

How many people said Jack Kerouac?

29. Not bad.

Takes your total up to 41.

It was sort of written on a scroll, On The Road.

It was written on a 120 foot-long piece of paper. Is it?

Yeah, just a continual thing that went through his typewriter. Wow.

Thanks, Rich. Jason, a warm welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

So you finished university last year. That's right, yes.

What were you reading? The same as Sara, Linguistics. Very good.

What do you do now? What are you doing with your degree?

So, at the moment I'm putting it to some good use.

I'm currently an English language tutor

for an online-based company...

It's not the Open University, is it, in Milton Keynes?

No, it's a company based in France, a tutoring company. OK.

But you tutor online, through Skype and stuff like that?

Yeah, it's a similar service. It's like a WebEx service,

where you can see the presentation on both sides of the computer

and you get to teach clients from all over the world who have

many different motivations to learn English. OK.

English as a foreign language essentially.

Essentially. Very good. OK. You're on 23.

You have to score 94 or less.

Talk us through that board.

When I saw the topic Literature,

this was literally one of the worst

topics I could've had.

But I think I know two of them.

I'm going to go for the answer

John Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck, see if that's right.

Here's your red line, nice and high.

Get below that and you're into Round Two. Is John right?

It is.

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68, your total. Well done.

When he wrote it he said,

"It's not the great book I had hoped it would be.

"It's a very run-of-the-mill book." Then it won the Pulitzer Prize

for Literature and has become one of the great classics of all time.

As he got the prize, did he say, "But it's terrible!"? Yes.

Yeah, he sent it back.

He said, "I didn't even write it on a scroll, just on bits of paper."

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Erm, now... Bronte?

Oh, that's the only one I don't know.

I mean, I know, but I don't know which one of the...

Emily Bronte, of course, Wuthering Heights. 60 points for that.

At the bottom?

Ian.

Ian McEwan. Would've scored you 24.

The best answer on the board, Gibbons...? Stella.

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. That would've scored 8.

Well done if you said that. Thank you very much.

Well, we are at the end of our first round,

and I almost don't want to say this

but the pair who are heading home, and I really do mean heading home...

How many different modes of transport

do you have to take to get there?

Four? Five? Well, we did boat and train and plane and bus to get here.

Oh, and taxi.

And skidoo at the far end.

And a skidoo at the far end, yes.

Lorna and Joan, it's been magnificent having you on the show,

and I'm so sorry we're sending you home far too early,

but thank you for playing. Lovely contestants.

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

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And so suddenly, we are down to three pairs just like that!

At the end of this round we'll be saying goodbye to another pair.

Well, I have to say, Cliodhna and Eoin, that was just fantastic.

Lowest individual score from you, Cliodhna, with Umberto Eco,

and lowest joint score as well.

But the remaining pairs very, very close indeed,

so who knows what could happen in this round?

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

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

who's going to 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 of

the biggest selling albums of 2014

as they could. The biggest selling albums of 2014, Richard.

We are looking for any band or artist who had

one of the top 40 bestselling artist albums of 2014 according

The Official Charts Company, please,

so any band or artist of one of those top-selling albums.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. OK. Now, Jason.

Jason. I think this is a good round for me.

I'm quite into a lot of the recent music.

So I'm going to go for Wanted On Voyage by George Ezra.

OK, George Ezra, says Jason. Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many people said George Ezra.

It's right.

Great answer, Jason.

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George Ezra scoring you 3 there. Well played, Jason.

That's the third bestselling album of 2014, Wanted On Voyage.

That's impressive, isn't it? Mm. Well done, Jason, well done, George.

Exactly. Very good indeed. Cliodhna.

What would you like to go for? This is not a good round for me at all.

I'm going to play... I don't really know. I'm going to go for a...

popular artist. I'm going to go for Beyonce.

Beyonce, says Cliodhna. Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Still going down, Cliodhna.

7! Very well done indeed.

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You look surprised by that,

but that's a great answer and a great score.

24th bestselling album, called Beyonce.

Thanks, Rich. Now then, Anne.

Not a good one for me, I'm afraid.

Erm, I am going to go for Jason Derulo, though.

Jason Derulo, says Anne. Let's see if that's right,

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

Oh, bad luck, Anne. I'm sorry.

I'm afraid Jason Derulo is an incorrect answer

and that scores you 100 points.

Sorry, Anne. Not close, I'm afraid. 2013 he had the album Tattoos out,

but wasn't really troubling the charts in 2014 so much.

We're halfway through the round,

so let's take a look at those scores. 3, Jason.

Very good answer with George Ezra.

Lovely low score, putting you and Sara

in pole position at this point,

then up to 7 where we find Cliodhna and Eoin,

and then up to 100, Anne and Steve. So, yes, Steve,

a nice, low score might help.

But yes, best of luck.

We're going to come back down the line now,

can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. So, Steve, we're looking for any band or artist who had

one of the top 40 bestselling albums of 2014.

We need a low score from you.

If you score 6 or less, who knows -

it could keep you in the game.

If you scored 2 or less, it'd be brilliant. It would.

If you could score minus 94...

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Has anyone ever scored a minus in this?

I don't believe they have.

We'd have to dig down. You never know in this business, do you?

Never say never. Never say never.

Steve, what are you going to go for?

OK, well, I'm clutching at straws, so...

I've got that album! That's not the title of the album,

that's what I'm doing.

So I'm going to go for something that my oldest daughter has

and I'm going to say Lawson. L-A-W-S-O-N.

Lawson, says Steve. Lawson. No red lines, you're the high scorers -

let's see how many people said Lawson.

Oh, bad luck, Steve,

I'm afraid an incorrect answer. A good answer but a bad answer,

if you see what I'm saying. That scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 200.

Yeah, again didn't release an album in 2014, I'm afraid, but your

daughter will be delighted that you said them on television,

I'm certain of that.

Eoin. On that news, you now know that you are through to the head-to-head.

But let that not stop you from finding a pointless answer

if you possibly can. Very little chance of a pointless answer.

2014 not my era, although I am alive in that era.

LAUGHTER

But I'm going to go...

It may be safe, may be wrong, but I'll try Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran. Safe, some might say.

Ed Sheeran. No red line, you're already through.

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

It's not wrong.

28.

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35 sees you comfortably through.

The biggest-selling album of the year, Ed Sheeran, yeah.

Thanks, Rich. Now, Sara.

Sara, again, good news for you. You are already through.

Erm, what would you like to go for?

Well, I know a lot about pop music,

it's my favourite kind of music.

Erm,

I'm going to play it slightly safe and go for Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift, says Sara. OK. No red line, you're already through.

Let's see how many people said Taylor Swift.

12.

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12 takes your total up to 15.

Well done.

Yes, her album, 1989 it was called,

it was the 11th biggest selling album of the year.

The top four bestselling albums of the year, the chart's been dominated

by female soloists for a long time,

but last year the top four were all solo males.

So we already had number one,

which was Ed Sheeran. Number two was Sam Smith.

Number three was George Ezra,

and Paolo Nutini was the fourth bestselling album of the year.

One point if you said Paolo Nutini.

There's a few other one-pointers before we go to the zeros.

I'll give you a couple of two-pointers -

two points for Avicii, The Script, The Vamps, George Michael

and Arctic Monkeys.

One point for London Grammar, Bastille, Michael Buble,

Elbow, Five Seconds Of Summer or Pink Floyd.

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

There's quite a few of them.

AC/DC was a pointless answer, Rock Or Bust. Barbra Streisand.

Bette Midler.

Dolly Parton and Blue Smoke, her greatest hits.

Foo Fighters, Sonic Highway, Imagine Dragons were in that top 40.

Kasabian also in it.

Neil Diamond was the 40th biggest selling,

and Royal Blood was also a pointless answer.

Well done if you said any of those.

Let's take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Ed Sheeran, there he is, 28 points.

Sam Smith, 35...

..and One Direction, 36.

Thank you very much, Richard. So at the end of our second round

I'm sorry to say,

our second and final returning pair

of the show leaving,

with a high score of 200 as well.

Steve and Anne, it's been wonderful having you on. Thank you for playing.

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

Congratulations, Cliodhna, Eoin, Sara and Jason.

You're now one step closer to the final

and that chance to play for our jackpot, which still stands at...

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You know the deal here - you're going to go head to head,

you're now allowed to confer.

First pair to win two questions play for the jackpot.

Well, what a strong performance both of you have had.

Really low scores throughout the game so far.

Yeah, quite hard to call. I mean, Cliodhna and Eoin,

you are our lowest-scoring pair,

you're the golden couple, as we call them, so you have a slight advantage.

But yeah, I wouldn't want to call this at all.

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

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OK, here's your first question, and it concerns...

Films By Harry Potter Actors.

Going to show you five pictures now of actors who've appeared

in the Harry Potter films.

We're going to show them in other films.

We need you to name the films, please. Best of luck.

Thanks very much. Let's reveal our five films and here they come.

We've got...

There we are.

So, Cliodhna and Eoin, you've been our low scorers throughout

the show so far, so you will go first.

(A - go for A.)

THEY WHISPER

Er, we know a couple.

We're hoping that the best one of

the ones we know is A, Die Hard.

Die Hard.

Die Hard, say Cliodhna and Eoin.

Now, Sara and Jason.

We know a few.

B is Mamma Mia!, I think.

C, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

And what did you think E was?

E was The Woman In Black, I think.

Yep. So...

Do you want to go for that?

Shall we?

Yeah.

We'll go for E. The Woman In Black.

The Woman In Black, say Sara and Jason.

So, Cliodhna and Eoin said Die Hard.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE

24 for Die Hard.

Sara and Jason meanwhile have gone for The Woman In Black, for E.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE

40 for The Woman In Black.

Which means, Cliodhna and Eoin,

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

Well, you made the wrong choice there,

cos Grand Budapest Hotel would have scored you 20, I'm afraid.

Would have been a great answer. Ralph Fiennes there.

B, Julie Walters

and she's in Mamma Mia!

63 points for that.

And D is Helena Bonham Carter in Dark Shadows.

3 points for that, very well done if you said that.

Very good. OK, here comes your second question now.

Sara and Jason, you get to go first,

but you have to win this one to stay in the game. Best of luck.

It concerns...

Sporting Abbreviations. Richard.

Going to show you five abbreviations now which represent the usual

English name of five sporting organisations.

We just need you to tell us what the abbreviations stand for, please.

OK, let's reveal our five abbreviations. Here they come.

Sara and Jason will go first.

OK, so, um...

We know a few of them

but I think we'll go for WTA

as the Women's Tennis Association.

Women's Tennis Association say Sara and Jason.

So, Cliodhna and Eoin,

the rest of the board is yours.

Talk us through it. So I think UFC

is Ultimate Fighting Championship.

CAF, football.

Maybe South American,

so Confederation...

Or maybe African, I'm not sure.

National Football League,

International Olympic Committee.

Go for the first one?

We'll go for the first one,

Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Ultimate Fighting Championship.

So we have Women's Tennis Association

and Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Now then, Sara and Jason said Women's Tennis Association, let's see

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

It's right.

Good answer. APPLAUSE

Good answer. 21 for WTA.

Now, Cliodhna and Eoin

have gone for Ultimate Fighting Championship for UFC.

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

It is right.

And it wins, very well done indeed.

15!

Good work, Cliodhna and Eoin.

It means after only two questions you're straight through to the final, 2-0.

Two very good answers there, well played, both teams.

The NFL is the National Football League, American football.

73 points for that. The IOC,

the International Olympic Committee.

That would have scored 42.

Eoin, if you'd been forced to have a go at CAF...?

Er, Confederation of African Football?

Is the correct answer - would have scored you 4.

Very well done if you said that at home. Thanks very much, Richard.

So our pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm afraid Sara and Jason.

Very strong performance the whole way through.

Nothing wrong with either of

your answers in this head-to-head, either.

Just Cliodhna and Eoin managed to get under you there in each case.

But you're going to be back next time, which is great news for us

and I'm sure you'll go just as far, if not further.

Meantime, thanks very much, Sara and Jason.

APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Cliodhna and Eoin!

You have seen your competition off pretty comprehensively

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 ?2,000.

APPLAUSE

Well, pretty clean work you've made of that, I have to say.

Low score after low score then through to the head-to-head,

2-0 in the head-to-head.

Then through to the final. That's...

I've said this before and been wrong,

but that's usually the set-up for a nice jackpot win.

What would you like to see in this last round to make that happen?

Facts about Dublin. Irish actors.

Rivers through Dublin!

Yeah! Mountain ranges in Ireland. Anything like that!

We're not fussy! OK, very good.

Well, as always, as you know, you get to choose

your category from the four behind me.

Today's selection looks like this.

We have...

Oh, gosh. Erm...

What do you think?

I think Animated Films, we might have a chance. OK, yes.

Animated Films? Yes, please. OK, there we go.

OK, we are looking for the name of

any character in any of the following three films, please.

So the name of any voiced character in any of these films.

It has to be the name of any voiced character

in any of those films, please.

Not generic characters like "Farmer" - it's got to be

the name of a character and that is according to IMDb.

Very best of luck.

OK. Now, as always, you've got up to a minute

to come up with three answers, and all you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Are you ready? Yes.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

Your time starts now.

Do you have any idea?

There's Sulley in Monsters, Inc...

Anna and Elsa obviously, in Frozen.

I didn't know that, but that's great! Chicken Run, I think...

I think Mel Gibson played somebody like Butch or... OK.

..something like that, but those two characters in Frozen...

Everybody knows those characters. Except me! Except you!

Monsters, Inc, Sulley is all I know.

We could chance Butch on Chicken Run,

then pick one of the ones... Anna?

Great subject to pick

when we've no kids! So, er...

We're limited. Yeah. We'll go for those three.

Are you happy? Are you going to bail out at that point?

Yeah, we're quite limited, so...

OK, we'll stop the clock.

Your three answers are, just to be sure...?

We're going to go for Butch, which is our risky one.

From? Chicken Run.

Butch. Sulley,

from Monsters, Inc... Sulley.

And Anna from Frozen.

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

The first one, Butch. Butch goes last. Least likely to be pointless?

Either of the other two! Shall we put Anna first? BOTH: Yes.

OK. Let's put these answers up on the board in that order

and here they are.

We've got Anna, we've got Sulley

and we've got Butch.

Well, very best of luck.

Before we find out what these answers have scored,

I want to ask you what you would do with the money if you won.

I would put it towards a moped.

A moped?

Yes. I think I've reached the age where I can resign my bicycle

and I can get a motorised bicycle.

An electric bike.

Anything with a motor on it so I don't have to cycle it!

Eoin looks really stunned by that! "I had no idea, you never said!"

Eoin, what would you like?

I think I'd certainly put it towards a crash helmet for your moped...

And then a big lock, and not give you the key!

I think if we won the jackpot, we'd have a really fancy meal somewhere,

and we're going on holidays

and might be a few upgraded rooms and stuff like that. Excellent.

Very good indeed. OK, your first answer, Anna,

the one you thought was least likely to be pointless.

In this case, we were looking for named characters from Frozen.

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

you will win ?2,000. How many people said Anna?

It's right.

OK, if this goes all the way down to zero, you leave here with ?2,000.

Anna now taking us down through...

27. Not as bad as I thought! APPLAUSE

27 - not a bad score.

In the normal run of things you'd be happy with that,

but sadly in this round, it's pointless or bust.

And that is bust. So you only have two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your next answer was Sulley -

in this case we were looking for characters from Monsters, Inc.

It has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot,

so for ?2,000, let's see how many people said Sulley.

Again, it's right.

Your first answer, Anna, took us down to 27.

Sulley taking us through the 40s and the 30s...

Ooh,

at 27 again.

That is either very good grouping or we've got a dicky tower.

LAUGHTER

But very good indeed. 27 again. Good score.

We now come to your third and final answer.

In this case, we were looking for characters from Chicken Run

and you have gone for Butch.

This was the one you thought was probably most likely to be pointless.

Let's find out for ?2,000 how many people said Butch -

is it right, is it pointless?

No! Bad luck!

Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck.

Well, I'm so sorry. Two good answers there, but I'm afraid

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

which means you don't win today's jackpot of ?2,000 -

that will roll over on to the next show.

But what a performance across the show!

I mean, really very strong indeed.

You will get your Pointless trophies each to take down the pub

and show everyone, but thank you so much, it's been brilliant having you here.

Richard. Yeah, unlucky.

It's a tough final category for you, especially as we've almost been drowned out

by the noise of hundreds of thousands of under-tens

screaming the names of Frozen characters at us, I'm sure of that.

Let's take a look first at Chicken Run.

A few pointless answers here - Bunty, voiced by Imelda Staunton,

Fetcher, voiced by Phil Daniels, Fowler and Mac.

Those are the only pointless answers for Chicken Run

so well done if you got one at home.

Now, Frozen...

You could've had Bulda, Gerda, who's a servant, Kai, you could

have had Oaken, who's the owner of Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna.

You also could have had the Duke of Weaselton and Pabbie.

The big scorers there, Elsa - would have scored you 38.

We've had Anna already, Olaf would have scored you 18,

Kristoff, 9, Hans, 6. Those are the ones that scored,

everything else was pointless in Frozen.

And Monsters, Inc - this is more my kids' era...

It's a lovely film.

Bile, Charlie,

Flint and Fungus.

Very different film from Frozen, isn't it?!

Also could have had George, Henry, Needleman and Smitty.

Very well done if you got any of those at home

and tough luck in the studio.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to you, Cliodhna and Eoin,

but it has been fantastic having you on the show. Thank you so much

for playing. Cliodhna and Eoin - great contestants.

Well, very sadly, Cliodhna and Eoin

didn't win our jackpot today which means it rolls over on to

the next show, when we will be playing for ?3,000.

ALL: Oooh!

Join us next time to see if someone can win it. Meanwhile,

it's goodbye from Richard... Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me - goodbye.