Episode 36 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to Pointless,

the show that makes big winners out of the lowest scorers.

Let's meet today's player.

APPLAUSE

-Couple number one.

-Hi, my name is Laura.

This is my boyfriend, Danny, and we're from Glasgow.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, my name's Iqra and I'm from Leicester.

This is my friend, Emily, from Cumbria.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, my name's Tom.

This is my friend and colleague, Louise, and we're from Belfast.

-And finally, couple number four.

-Hi, my name's Katy.

This is my dad, Stan, and we're from Stoke-on-Trent.

These are today's contestants. APPLAUSE

Thanks very much and we'll find out more about you

throughout the show as it goes along.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Completely bird-brained,

but that bird happens to be a crow that's made its nest

out of the complete works of Noam Chomsky,

-it's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya. Afternoon, everybody.

-Hiya.

-APPLAUSE

-Good afternoon.

-Good afternoon to you.

-What a finish to the last show.

-Yeah.

-We were in history-making territory.

We'd given away the jackpot five times in a row. Six is the record.

Vinay and Helen got through to the final.

There's a category that comes up every now and again -

Sport In Leeds. And weirdly, no-one's gone for it.

But we said to Vinay and Helen, "What would you like?"

They said, "Sport would be good."

And they are from Leeds, Leeds and Bradford.

Vinay stepped up to the mark,

said, "We will go with '80s Award-winners, please."

And proceeded to get three incorrect answers. It was a shame.

-They were lovely, weren't they?

-They were.

And I thought it was an unusual decision, I have to say,

and I'm enjoying the looks on everyone's faces,

pretending to be sympathetic,

-but thinking, "Ooh, that's lovely. Two grand for us!"

-There we go.

Yes, Vinay and Helen didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another £1,000 to that,

so today's jackpot is, as Richard rightly says, £2,000.

There we are. APPLAUSE

If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

APPLAUSE

Welcome to our three new pairs.

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

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

No conferring in the first two rounds, please.

Our first category for Round One today is...

Hit Singles. Can you decide in your pairs who's going first and 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...

Michael Jackson Top 40 singles that start with the letters A to M.

Yeah, any single released by Michael Jackson that reached the UK Top 40

whose title starts with the letters A to M, inclusive, please,

up to May 2015.

So, any song released by Michael Jackson

or on which he is the lead credited performer up to May 2015.

Best of luck.

OK, so Michael Jackson hit singles from the first half of the alphabet.

Laura, a warm welcome, from Glasgow. What do you do, Laura?

I'm a student at Stirling University.

-I do film and media there.

-What year are you in?

-Just finished second year.

-Stirling is beautiful.

-It's gorgeous.

-How lovely to be there.

-Uh-huh.

And not too far from home if you want to trog back over there.

-Yeah, the views are a lot nicer in Stirling.

-Yeah.

-How's that going, film and media? All good?

-Yeah, it's wonderful.

It's a great campus and we get to study abroad as well.

Have you worked out where you're going to go?

Yeah, we're going to Madrid.

Luckily, we got into the same university in Madrid,

-so we'll be going there in a few months.

-Fantastic.

-You've got a whole year there?

-No, just a semester.

Do you know what you'll be specialising in?

In our last year, we get to choose

to either do a dissertation or production,

so we'll definitely go for the production side.

-Does anybody choose dissertation?

-I know.

Make a documentary or write 10,000 words.

LAUGHTER Laura, what would you like to go for?

Michael Jackson - is this a good category for you?

I've got one in mind, but I'm not sure if it placed in the Top 40.

It's one of these ones you always hear on the radio

every now and again. I'm going to go with Dirty Diana.

Dirty Diana, says Laura.

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

It's right.

15. Not bad!

Good start to the round, Laura. Well done. Dirty Diana.

Yeah, a number 4 hit from 1988.

Thanks, Rich. Now, Emily, welcome back.

Remind us what you do, Emily.

I'm a medical student at the University of Leicester.

And what are your hobbies, Emily?

I play quite a bit of hockey in my spare time

with the medics hockey team. I'm generally quite into sports.

I'm doing the Great North Run in September.

-Have you done that length of run before?

-Oh, no, never.

-OK, that's 13 miles, isn't it?

-13.1, yeah.

-13.1.

Important that 0.1.

That's going to be the toughest 0.1 of a mile you've ever run.

-Probably is.

-When do you start preparing for that

-or have you already?

-In theory, I have, but in practice, not so much.

-That's OK. You don't want to start too early.

-No, it's a start.

Emily, Michael Jackson. What are you going to go for here?

I'm not sure if this is right,

but I only really know the obvious ones,

so I'm going to go with Earth Song,

cos I seem to remember quite a dramatic video.

Earth Song, says Emily. Let's see how many people remembered Earth Song.

It's right. 15 is our only score so far.

Earth Song scores 29. APPLAUSE

Number 1 single, Earth Song.

It was about a weekend he spent with a JCB in his back garden.

-LAUGHTER

-Doing some landscaping.

With his friend Diana.

And she got soil all over her which gave him another idea for a song.

-Yeah. Thanks, Rich. Now, Louise.

-Hi.

-Welcome to the show.

Here from Belfast. What do you do, Louise?

-I work in the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

-That's exciting.

Which department of the museum?

Front of house, so I'm the first smiley face you see as you come in.

That's nice! You're trying to encourage people

-to become friends of the museum, no doubt.

-Absolutely, yes.

-To gift aid their donations, all of that.

-Of course.

Free entry, of course, into the museum in Belfast.

-You get that these days.

-Well, I know.

What are your interests outside the museum?

The usual - reading, watching films

and I've been a member of the Girls' Brigade since I was two years old.

-And you still are now?

-I am a leader now, for the last ten years,

-but I've been in it since I was two.

-That's fantastic!

-Do you get any sort of longevity award for that?

-No, but they should.

-They should!

-Yeah!

-Yeah.

Louise, what would you like to go for in the Michael Jackson category?

I think I'm going to take an early risk

and I hope this is the title and it's a Top 40,

but I'm going to try Ben.

Ben, says Louise. Tom is nodding.

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

It's right. 29's our high score at this point and 15's our low.

You passed 29. 28, well done. APPLAUSE

Very well played.

-Number 7 hit in 1972.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Katy, welcome to the show. Good to have you here from Stoke-on-Trent.

-What do you up there?

-I work on a construction site.

I'm a site administrator, so it's basically me and 100 men.

-I was going to say. How is that?

-It can be entertaining.

-You learn some interesting language.

-Do you keep them in order?

-I try to.

-It's very difficult, but, you know.

-When did you start?

I've been in construction for about eight years now.

-It must have been quite tough to start with, wasn't it?

-It is.

-It's an unusual environment but there's a lot of good banter.

-I bet.

And it has its good moments and it's great seeing it come together.

-You see it from the ground up, so...

-Good stuff. Michael Jackson.

It's one I feel I should know more of.

I don't know if I've made this up in my head.

I've convinced myself it's a Michael Jackson song,

so I'm going to go with Human Nature.

Human Nature, says Katy. Human Nature.

How many of our 100 people said that? Is it right?

Oh, Katy. I'm afraid there is your answer.

It's an incorrect one.

-Scores you 100 points.

-It's a good wrong answer.

Human Nature, a track from Thriller,

but not a UK Top 40 single, I'm afraid.

Thanks, Richard.

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

15, the best score of the pass, Laura, so well done.

Looking pretty strong at this point. As are Louise and Tom on 28

and Emily and Iqra on 29,

all thanks to Katy's incorrect answer and a high score of 100.

It's going to get much harder, this round, I think, in the next pass.

But we'll see. Who knows? If Stan can find a nice low score,

there might be a chance of you still being with us

at the end of the round. Best of luck.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

So, Stan, warm welcome to Pointless.

-What do you do?

-I'm a street scene neighbourhood manager

for a local borough council.

Street scene? What, really, does that mean?

It's a made-up name for the amalgamation of the parks department

-and the street cleansing department.

-I see.

Do you look after window boxes and planters and things like that?

Bigger scale than that. We've got a place called the Queens Gardens

-where we've just put in 27,000 bedding plants...

-Right.

-..which I design.

-See, that's nice.

So, do you have a background in horticulture?

Yeah, when I left school, I studied horticulture.

When you're designing individual beds, do you change it every year?

Yeah, we go to the seed trials to see what new varieties come along

and try and come up with a theme.

For our council, it's 25 years we've been in Britain In Bloom,

-so everything's silver this year.

-Fantastic.

So I have to find plants that are silver or whitey-silver.

-Just spray them silver.

-Yeah, that's the easy way.

That's what I would do.

Stan that sounds great. Now, Michael Jackson.

-Is that a topic dear to your heart?

-Not really, no.

-OK.

I did know a couple which have gone, as Kate's already said,

so I'm going to have to go with something obvious.

I'll go for Billie Jean.

Billie Jean, says Stan. No red line for you as you're the high-scorers.

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

It's right.

-Ah.

-42.

142 is your, I'm afraid,

unassailable total there.

Number 1 single from 1983.

Billie Jean, better known as Bill, who then went on to marry Ben.

LAUGHTER

Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Tom. This is good news.

It doesn't matter what you score now,

-you are going to be in the next round.

-Phew!

Phew, indeed. Tom, what do you do in Belfast?

Like Louise, I work in the museum sector,

but I work across all the different ones that are linked

to the Ulster Museum, so in and out of all of them.

-You're across the national museums?

-Yeah.

-So where else are they?

-There's the Ulster Folk And Transport Museum

and the Ulster American Folk Park.

Louise, just block your ears for a moment.

Do you have a favourite museum?

Yes, I do, but I don't know if I should say,

but no, my base of operations is the Ulster Folk And Transport Museum,

-so I have to go with my home base.

-And where's that based?

-Just outside Belfast in Holywood.

-Right you are.

Now, Tom, we're looking for any Michael Jackson UK Top 40 single

that starts with letters A to M in the alphabet.

-It's a dream round, isn't it?

-Actually, it wasn't a bad round.

A good friend of mine was a big fan growing up.

I had a few quite obvious ones, but seeing we're through,

I'm not 100% sure it was a Top 40, but it's called Cry.

Cry, says Tom.

No red line cos you're already through,

but let's see if anyone said Cry.

It's right. Good answer, Tom.

1. What about that? APPLAUSE

1, taking your total up to 29. Great scoring there, Tom.

That's a terrific answer.

From 2001, got to number 25.

If you think about how many hits he had,

-that's not one of his biggest ones.

-No, by no means. Now, Iqra.

Again, already through, which is marvellous news.

Iqra, remind us what you do.

I'm a medical student at the University of Leicester.

That's right. But also, you were saying you play rugby.

We do play rugby. We sort of learn as we go along.

What position do you play?

We don't like to give positions cos then we can all be equal.

Er, yeah, I'm not... LAUGHTER

It doesn't have to be an unequal game if you play in positions.

-So, it's a free-for-all?

-Yep!

-It's basically one big scrum.

It's whoever can catch and throw the ball.

LAUGHTER OK, that's an interesting structure.

And how does that work?

-Do people score?

-Yeah, we score tries.

-Yeah, yeah, good.

How do you line out then?

What positions do you stand in for kick-off and things like that?

Oh, we do scrums, yeah. So, some of us do play in the scrums.

I think Emily plays on the wing.

Oh, it sounds like you HAVE got positions,

just no-one's really told you where you play, that's all.

Well, the position you're in at the moment is very strong,

in that you are through to the next round,

no matter what you score, which is great news.

What would you like to go for, Iqra? We had 1 point from Tom.

I bet there are some pointless answers there.

I don't think these are going to be pointless.

I have a few in my mind, weirdly all beginning with B,

-but I'm going to go for Bad.

-Bad, says Iqra. No red line.

Let's see how many people said Bad.

40.

Takes your total up to 69.

APPLAUSE

-It's nice that's a reassuringly bad score for Bad as well.

-Mmm.

-If you know what I mean.

-Quite low.

Thank you, Richard. OK, now we come to you, Danny.

You've been waiting patiently all this time.

Good to have you here. What do you do, Danny?

As well as being at university with Laura, studying film and media,

I also work part-time in a high street betting store as a cashier.

-Is that fun?

-It's really fun. I have an interest in sport, so...

That's good.

Do you get to watch it or you hear it over the wire?

-Bit of both, depends which channel stuff is on.

-Yeah, very exciting.

What are your interests outside the betting?

Film - I watch a lot of films.

Play football quite a lot, seven-a-side, five-a-side.

Very good. Good news is you're also through to the next round,

no matter what you score.

But maybe you've got a good answer there.

Maybe not!

Er, there's one left, really, that I know

that I'm going to have to go for which is Man In The Mirror.

Man In The Mirror, says Danny.

No red line again because you're through,

but let's see how many people said Man In The Mirror.

It's right.

There we are. 28.

Takes your total up to 43.

Safe and sound. We have the top 5 answers.

You've given the five highest-scoring answers.

Beat It would have scored 25, Black Or White - 19,

but apart from that, we've had the five biggest.

I'll go through some low scorers before the pointless ones.

You'd have got 2 points for Ain't No Sunshine, 2 for Gone Too Soon,

2 for Jam, 2 for Love Never Felt So Good.

You'd have got 1 point for HIStory,

Another Part of Me and Give In To Me.

And here are our pointless answers. Five of them.

Ghosts was a double A-side with HIStory.

There we go. Thanks, Richard. At the end of our first round,

the pair we're going to be saying goodbye to, I'm afraid,

over on that far podium, from Stoke-on-Trent, Stan and Katy.

I'm sorry. Michael Jackson was not what you wanted in your first round,

but you'll be back next time when I'm sure you'll get much further.

Thanks for playing. Stan and Katy.

APPLAUSE

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

APPLAUSE

Now we are down to three pairs. At the end of this round,

we'll have to say farewell to another of the pairs in front of me.

Tom, hats off to you. Lowest individual scorer of that round.

In fast, Tom and Louise with the lowest combined score as well.

Laura and Danny, Iqra and Emily, well done, you made it through.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...

It's Football.

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...

Footballers And Their Clubs, Richard.

On each board, we'll show you the initials of six footballers

and next to those initials,

the names of three clubs for which they played sequentially.

You need to tell us who the players are

and give us the most obscure answer.

There's going to be six on each board to have a go at home.

We are looking for the footballers represented by these initials,

who played for these trios of clubs.

Trios of Clubs - two of my favourite biscuits!

LAUGHTER

Here is our first board of six and we have got...

I'll read those again.

There we go. Danny. This is just lovely, isn't it?

Er, I think so, yeah, it is.

I think I know five of them and I will go for...

AC Milan, Barcelona and Newcastle United.

-Patrick Kluivert.

-Patrick Kluivert, says Danny.

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

It's right.

Well done, Danny. That's a good answer.

Down it goes to 2! Very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE

-Off to a rollicking start.

-Well played, Danny.

The Dutchman Patrick Kluivert, who was assistant manager

of the Netherlands team as well at the 2014 World Cup.

-Thanks, Rich. Now, Emily.

-Mmm-hmm.

Um, yeah, football's not really my thing,

but I think I know a few of them. Don't know whether to gamble

and go for the bottom one cos I think I might know it.

Yeah, I'm going to gamble and go for the bottom one.

-Diego Forlan.

-Diego Forlan, says Emily. Let's see if that's right.

-Danny, what do you think about that?

-She might be right, yeah.

OK, well, let's see if Diego Forlan is right

and how many people said it if she is right.

It's right.

Good answer, Emily. Down it goes. Diego Forlan. Still going down.

5! Very well done indeed! APPLAUSE

Terrific answer, Emily. Very well played.

The Uruguayan striker, Diego Forlan.

I used to love him when he played over here.

He scored against Fulham once. I didn't like him so much then.

-But otherwise...

-Yeah.

-Thanks very much, Rich.

-Now, Tom, the board's all yours.

-Yeah, it was a great board for me.

Unfortunately, the two answers that are gone are the ones

I would have went for, had I the choice.

So, Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Stoke - that's Peter Crouch.

Sporting Lisbon, Man United, Real Madrid - Cristiano Ronaldo.

United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy - David Beckham.

But, just based on being a player from a different age,

I'll go for Nottingham Forest, Manchester City, Sampdoria -

-Trevor Francis.

-Trevor Francis, says Tom.

Let's see how many people said Trevor Francis.

It's right. Well, 2 and 5 are our scores so far.

Trevor Francis, not bad at all.

8. Well done, Tom. APPLAUSE

That's a terrific answer as well.

The best three answers on the board, so very well played, all teams.

When he went to Notts Forest,

he was the first ever million-pound footballer.

Went there from Birmingham City.

You got the rest right, but chose the correct one, as you suspected.

Peter Crouch would have scored you 18. Not a huge score.

Ronaldo would have scored you 33. Cristiano Ronaldo.

And David Beckham would have scored you 74, a punishing score.

-So, brilliant work by all three pairs there.

-Thanks, Richard.

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

2, Danny, the best score of the pass. Well done, you. 5, Emily and Iqra.

Not bad at all. And then 8 for Tom and Louise.

Very, very close indeed. Not much in it at all.

But, Louise, let's hope there's a nice low score on the board there

that will keep you in the game.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put six more trios of clubs up on the board

and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those one last time.

-So, Louise.

-I can't think of anything worse!

Um...

I'm going to take a punt

at the Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Celtic

and guess Robbie King.

Robbie King, says Louise. No red line for you as you're the high-scorers.

Let's see if Robbie King is right.

No, I'm sorry. Not Robbie King.

That scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 108.

Sorry, Louise. The initials are perfect though.

You're absolutely spot-on with those,

-but not the right answer, I'm afraid.

-Iqra. Good news.

It doesn't matter what you score, you will be in the head-to-head.

What are you going to go for?

I feel like I should know these, but nothing's coming to mind.

I think I have the last name of the Napoli, Parma, Chelsea.

Zabaletti.

-But I'm going to have to guess the first name.

-First name?

Something Italian, um...

-Gianno Zabaletti.

-You're going for Gianno Zabaletti.

Gianno Zabaletti. Let's see if that's right.

No red line, you're already through.

Scores you 100 points. Takes your total up to 105.

But you're already through.

And again, very inventively wrong, I would say.

And I'm also hearing that Fulham have just put a bid in

for Robbie King and Gianno Zabaletti, so that is terrific news.

-Thanks, Rich. Now, Laura.

-Yeah.

How's that board for you?

-Is there anything you know on there?

-Well, Celtic, I should know.

Danny's a massive fan. His whole family's massive Celtic fans.

So, I'm going to take a guess at that.

I have no idea about the other ones, so this is OK.

-I'm going to go Robbie Keane.

-Robbie Keane?

-Keane.

-OK, Robbie Keane.

No red line. You're already through. Let's see if Robbie Keane is right.

No, bad luck. Another 100 points. 102 is your total,

but you're through.

You're not far off at all. It's not a bad answer at all. It's Roy Keane.

Roy Keane was the answer to that one.

Would have scored you seven points.

Tom, is there any you want to have a go at?

I think I know the rest of them. The top is John Barnes.

John Barnes, and that would have scored you...

-8 points.

-And then Michael Owen.

-Michael Owen.

And Michael Owen would have scored you 19.

-Jurgen Klinsmann.

-Jurgen Klinsmann is absolutely right.

-Would have scored you 5.

-Thierry Henry.

Of course it's Thierry Henry. That would have scored you 36.

-Now, the mystery man at the bottom?

-Gianfranco Zola.

Gianfranco Zola, and that would have scored 25.

The best answer, Jurgen Klinsmann. Well done if you said that at home.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So, the pair leaving us at the end of our second round,

I'm afraid, it's Louise and Tom. Oh, Tom, and you knew all of those!

We'll get to see you again next time and I'm sure you'll get much further.

-Thanks very much, Louise and Tom.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

For Iqra and Emily, Laura and Danny, it's time for our head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Laura and Danny, Iqra and Emily.

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

for our jackpot which currently stands at £2,000.

APPLAUSE

You know the story. You can now chat before you give your answers.

The first player to win two questions will be playing for the jackpot.

Laura and Danny, well done. Your first appearance on Pointless

and you made it through to the head-to-head as our golden couple.

Iqra and Emily, good to have you here in the head-to-head.

I have to say that football round was very much a game of two halves.

Some lovely silky skills as we went up the line

and then some pretty flat-footed answers as we came back down.

But who cares? You can now put your heads together, pool your knowledge.

This should, I hope, be a close round. Let's play the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

Tabloid Ballets, Richard. This sounds like fun.

We're going to show you five tabloid star headlines now, which outline

the plots of works that have been performed by the Royal Ballet.

-Can you tell us what the works are, please?

-Thanks very much indeed.

Here come our tabloid headlines and they are...

There we go. Now, Laura and Danny,

you've been our low-scorers across the show,

so you will go first. Feel free to confer.

Er...we're going to go for D.

The Nutcracker.

OK, The Nutcracker, say Laura and Danny.

Now then, Iqra and Emily, talk us through the rest of the board.

I wish we could.

Um, OK, so obviously know C.

Do you have any idea what A is?

Is it some sort of fairy tale?

I think it is.

Are we going to have to go for C?

Mechanical Girl... Do we know who that is?

Could be anyone.

-No, we'll have to go for... Shall we go for C?

-Yeah.

-We'll have to for C. Romeo And Juliet.

-OK, Romeo And Juliet.

So we have The Nutcracker and Romeo And Juliet.

Laura and Danny said The Nutcracker.

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

It's right.

46 for The Nutcracker.

APPLAUSE

Iqra and Emily have gone for Romeo And Juliet for C.

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

66. There we are. Well done, Laura and Danny.

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

-Well played.

The first one does sound like a fairy tale,

-one of the great fairy tale of all time.

-The Sleeping Beauty.

The Sleeping Beauty.

That would have scored you 47 points,

so it wouldn't have won you the point.

Let's leave B for a moment and go down to E...

..which is Coppelia. Very well done if you said that. 12 points.

And B, based on the Pushkin novel.

-Onegin.

-Onegin, yeah.

Very well done if you said that. It's a pointless answer.

-Or One Gin.

-One Gin.

-LAUGHTER

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

Iqra and Emily, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

You get to answer it first but you have to win it. It concerns...

Tigers.

We're going to show you five clues now to facts relating to tigers -

cool! You just have to give us the most obscure answer, please.

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

I'll read those again.

Iqra and Emily, you will go first.

OK, we know a few of them,

but I think we're going to go for the top one as Life Of Pi.

Life Of Pi, say Iqra and Emily.

Laura and Danny, the board's all yours. Talk us through it.

Lions and tigers.

Yeah, well, so, I was thinking the top one,

I think it IS the Life Of Pi,

but I don't know if the name of the tiger is the Pi, I don't know.

-Um, do you know the band?

-I do, I just can't remember.

-Er, OK, I think we should probably just...

-Survivor.

-Survivor, OK.

Right, that'll probably be lower than lion and...

-We'll go for Survivor for the band.

-You're going to go for Survivor,

Laura and Danny. Survivor. So, we have Life Of Pi and we have Survivor.

Life Of Pi was Iqra and Emily's answer.

Let's see how many people said that.

20. APPLAUSE

Not bad. 20 for Life Of Pi.

Now, Laura and Danny have gone for Survivor.

Let's see if that's right for The Eye Of The Tiger.

It IS right.

-Oh!

-28 for Survivor. Not a bad answer,

but Iqra and Emily, you've done what you needed to do.

After two questions, it's 1-1.

The best two answers on the board as well, those two. Continent is Asia.

That would have scored you 57.

Lions is, of course, the answer to the next one.

Would have scored you 74. 26 people nonplussed by that question.

Is it a buffalo? I don't know. What is it?

And the answer to the last one is, of course, Shere Khan.

That would have scored you 41.

Thank you, Richard. Here comes your third question.

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

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

Dietary supplements, Richard.

I'll show you five products which are traditionally used

as dietary supplements, but we've missed out alternate letters.

Can you fill those letters in?

OK, let's reveal our five dietary supplements with missing bits.

Laura and Danny will go first.

OK, we're really only sure of two

and we think one of them's going to be quite high.

The other one probably will be as well.

We'll go for the second one and folic acid.

Folic acid, say Laura and Danny.

Iqra and Emily, talk us through that board if you can.

We think we should know more of these than we do.

We think the top one could be ginseng.

But would that be a supplement? It's a thing, isn't it?

I think the last one is too obvious to go for, cod liver oil.

I feel like the G one could be gluto something.

Gluco something.

-Glucosaide...?

-Gluco... Glucoside?

OK, we'll go for the first one as that thing that exists, ginseng.

Ginseng, the thing that exists.

OK, so we have folic acid and we have ginseng.

Laura and Danny said folic acid.

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

28.

APPLAUSE

OK, Iqra and Emily, our medical students, came in with ginseng.

Let's see how many people said that.

Yep, there we go. 52. Very well done, Laura and Danny.

-After three questions, you're through to the final, 2-1.

-Well played.

There's a couple of answers that would have beaten you.

Cod liver oil certainly wouldn't have done. It's the biggest scorer.

72 points for that. The one beginning with G, do you know that?

-Very good for the joints. Glucosamine.

-Look at that.

11 points for that. And this next one is a type of algae.

5 points for spirulina.

-Ah. Ooh, that sounds nice.

-5 points.

Any of those health food shops,

virtually everything you get's got all those things in it.

-It's also a wonderful ballet as well, Spirulina.

-Spirulina, it's lovely.

-I went to see that at the...

-Starring the jester Glucosamine.

-Yes, ha-ha, he's a cheeky one, isn't he?

-Isn't he, though?

Little Glucosamine, grrr.

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

I'm sorry, Iqra and Emily. You made it through to the head-to-head,

which was better than last time,

but I'm afraid Laura and Danny just pipped you in each instance.

Nothing wrong with your answers,

but I'm afraid, 2-1, we can't argue with that.

Thanks very much for playing. Iqra and Emily.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

But for Laura and Danny, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Well done, Laura and Danny! What about that?

Your first appearance on Pointless

and you've shot straight through to the final

and you have taken the coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to play for our jackpot

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,000.

APPLAUSE

Well, it's been a solid performance, I'd say.

It wasn't easy at any point,

but we had a lovely low score from you with Patrick Kluivert there.

Anything you particularly want to see in this last round?

Well, film would definitely be good.

We both study film, so we might have some obscure knowledge there.

-That would be good.

-I guess football would still be good for you.

-Football again, yeah.

-He has enough knowledge for the two of us, so...

OK, very best of luck.

You get to choose your category from the four that we put up on the board.

Let us hope there is something you like the look of. We've got...

-Well...

-Er...

-Well, Horse Racing's a no-go.

-Horse-racing's a no-go.

1940's Oscar Winners - that could be good. It's a bit...

-It's a bit earlier than what we...

-We just said we wanted Film.

I know, but it's a bit earlier than what we study.

We kind of do the popular stuff. American Novelists - hit and miss.

-I think it should be...

-OK, let's go for Oscar Winners.

-It has to be Oscar Winners.

-Yep.

-OK, 1940's Oscar Winners it is.

Best of luck. We're concentrating on the Oscar ceremonies

between 1940 and 1949, inclusive, and we are looking for any...

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of the answers

-to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

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

-OK, can you think of any films?

-Ben-Hur?

-Oh, good one, yeah.

-Ben-Hur.

-Um, Casablanca... Might be a bit too...

-No, Casablanca.

-Casablanca's fine.

-Bogart.

-OK, Humphrey Bogart. Um...

-Gregory Peck, maybe.

-OK. Um...

-Ingram...

-Directors.

-Is it Bergman? Ingrid Bergman.

-Ingrid Bergman.

These are all really big, aren't they?

Cos it's like Casablanca and stuff.

-Aye, but people might not know.

-I know, I know.

What about directors? Do we know any directors?

-Casablanca. That's terrible. We should know.

-Oh, what's the...?

-What you thinking?

-Films like Spartacus, maybe?

-OK.

-Um...

-Oh, what's the guy called?

-I think Ben-Hur's quite good.

-Ben-Hur.

-Ben-Hur. Um...

-Too early for Brando?

-Ten seconds left.

-I'm thinking A Streetcar Named Desire but that..

-A Streetcar Named Desire, maybe.

-Maybe Vivien Leigh.

-Vivien...

-I think we should go for Vivien Leigh, maybe.

-Right, OK.

-OK, that is your time up, I'm afraid. Ooh, that went flying past.

-It did.

What are the three answers you're going to give me?

-We'll go for Ben-Hur?

-Yeah.

-Um, Best Picture, we'll go for Ben-Hur.

-Ben-Hur.

-Best Actor Oscar Winner...

-Vivien Leigh.

-Vivien Leigh.

-Vivien Leigh.

-And one last one.

-And we'll go for...Spartacus?

-Spartacus for Best Picture as well.

-Spartacus.

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

-Spartacus?

-Probably Spartacus.

-Spartacus goes last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Vivien Leigh.

-Vivien Leigh we'll put first.

Let's put those answers up in that order and here they are.

Very best of luck. Three answers up there.

Let's hope one of them is pointless.

If it is, it will win you that jackpot of £2,000.

What would you do with that, Laura?

Er, £2,000, we would probably take a holiday to Poland.

I'm originally from Poland and I'd quite like to take him

to go and see where I'm from and stuff, so I'd like to take him

and show him my primary school and stuff.

-£2,000 would do great for that.

-Danny, how about you?

If I'm allowed to have a say in where the money goes,

I'd probably like to go to America, maybe, if that would cover it.

Maybe Hollywood to see the film sets and stuff. We love films, so...

Poor Laura. She wants to take him to her old primary school

-and he goes, "Er, maybe Hollywood!"

-I know, right?!

LAUGHTER

Well, let's hope one of these answers wins that jackpot for you.

In the first case, you have gone for Vivien Leigh.

We were looking for Best Actor winners at the Oscars from the 1940s.

Let's see if it's right. It has to be pointless for you

to win that jackpot, so for £2,000,

let's see if anyone said Vivien Leigh.

Yeah. I have a hunch I know why that might be wrong, but we will see.

Richard will explain at the end.

But, unfortunately, that is not a pointless answer.

Two more shots at today's jackpot. Your next answer was Ben-Hur.

We were looking for Best Film Oscar winners from the 1940s.

Let's see if that's right. For £2,000, how many people said Ben-Hur?

Bad luck. An incorrect answer also, which means everything is now riding

on your third and final answer which was Spartacus.

Again, it has to be right,

then it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

So, for £2,000, let's see how many people said Spartacus.

Ooh, bad luck!

-APPLAUSE

-Oh, well.

-Oh, well.

-Bad luck.

Well, you had a good shot at that, but I'm afraid...

-It was a tough one, that.

-Yeah.

-That was tough. 1940s.

Well, Richard will talk us through them

and we'll see what those pointless answers looked like.

It'll be interesting to see how many you might have been close to.

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find it on the day,

so I'm afraid you don't win the Pointless jackpot.

That will roll over onto the next show,

but a strong performance across the show. You can be proud of that.

And you get a Pointless trophy to take home each, so well done.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, valiant effort.

Spartacus and Ben-Hur both eligible for the 1961 Oscar ceremony

but Ben-Hur won it.

And Vivien Leigh did win an Oscar in 1940

but Best Actress, of course, rather than Best Actor.

I know, these days, we use "actor" as interchangeable,

but in the Oscars, they still have Best Actor and Best Actress,

so we were looking for Best Actor Oscar winners.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend. Ronald Colman for A Double Life.

Also could have had Broderick Crawford,

Fredric March and Paul Lukas. All of those were pointless answers.

Well done if you said any of those. Let's take a look at Best Picture.

All tough answers there, I think. Ones that scored points there -

Casablanca, which you mentioned, would have scored you 9 points.

Rebecca, How Green Was My Valley, Hamlet, Going My Way

Mrs Miniver and The Lost Weekend - all of those scored points.

And you asked who the director of Casablanca was.

It was Michael Curtiz and it would have won you the jackpot

-cos he's a pointless answer.

-Oh!

-And Joseph L Mankiewicz also.

Very well played if you got any of those at home

and unlucky in the studio.

Tough category, actually, even for film students.

Absolutely. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Laura and Danny,

but it's been wonderful having you on the show. Laura and Danny.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

Sadly, Laura and Danny didn't win our jackpot today,

which means it rolls over onto the next show

when we will be playing for £3,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Join us then, see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

APPLAUSE