Episode 43 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and welcome to Pointless, the show

where the more obscure your knowledge, the better your chances of winning.

Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Maddy, I'm from London, this is my boyfriend Sam,

-and he's from Kent.

-Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Stuart from Fleet in Hampshire,

and this is my best mate Dave, who is from Welling in Kent.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Louise, this is my dad Adrian, and we're from Cardiff

-and Swansea.

-And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Rachael, this is my colleague Cassandra,

and we are from Hertfordshire.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, all of you. We will chat to each of you throughout the show as it

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

A smouldering screen siren, with a sharp suit

-and an even sharper tongue, it is my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

-Hiya.

-Hi, everybody. Afternoon.

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-Hello there.

-Hello.

-That jackpot is ticking up nicely. I wouldn't mind winning that.

-No.

-Between the two of us, we probably could win it.

-Mm, yeah. Yeah, maybe.

Let's call off the rest of the show.

-No.

-No. We mustn't do that.

We've got two returning pairs from last time.

Maddy and Sam on podium one got knocked out in Round Two.

And on podium two, Dave

and Stuart got all the way through to the head-to-head.

Unlucky to get knocked out as well.

I always like it when we have friends on the show who

look like they could be brothers. Don't you think...

-They sort of look like brothers.

-They could.

Round One, I almost guarantee we are going to learn a new word.

What about that? A new word. That's just great.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Pippa and Helen didn't win the jackpot last time, which

means we add another £1,000 to it, so today's jackpot starts off at £6,250.

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Ho-ho! Right, if everyone is ready, let's play Pointless.

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As I am sure you all know, the pair with the highest

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

No conferring until we get to the head-to-head.

Our first category today is...

Definitions. Can you all decide in your pairs, who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Oh, there we go. Polysemous words.

-Pol...

-Polysemous.

-Polysemous.

-Merry Polysemous, everybody.

And to you. LAUGHTER

Yes, "polissimus", or "poly-seemus" words.

Simply, words that have multiple meanings,

so they can be defined in different ways. That's all that means.

It's a nice word that we've all learned.

So on two boards, we are going to show you seven lists of definitions of words.

You just need to tell us which words they are defining, please.

There are going to be 14 in all to have a go at, at home.

-Very, very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

So we are looking for the words that have these multiple meanings,

and here is our first board of seven.

I'll read those all one last time.

Sam, welcome back. Remind us what you do.

I'm a civil engineering student at the University of Leeds.

-In my spare time I tutor maths as well.

-You tutor maths.

-I do, yes.

You're a fool for the thing. You can't get away from working.

-No, I'm a workaholic.

-A workaholic. And how are your tutees?

They are fantastic. I tutor at A-level and at GCSE.

It is brilliant, it is really rewarding.

If you are doing it one-on-one, which presumably you are,

-you actually really do see marked improvement.

-You see progression.

-They have no option but to pay attention.

-Exactly.

What Sam says, they do. Very good. Now, Sam,

Sam, polysemous words.

I'm glad you described what polysemous meant. I know a couple.

I might play it a little safe.

-I'm going to go for the bottom one and say prune.

-Prune. Let's see.

How many of our 100 people said prune?

Oh, phew, it's right. It's right.

47. APPLAUSE

47. I guess that's a good score. A lot better than 100.

-Good start, Sam. It is a fun round, isn't it?

-It is fun.

It instantly looks impossible,

-and then you can sort of wade your way through it.

-Yeah.

Stuart, welcome back.

-Stuart, remind us what you do.

-I'm happily retired now, Xander.

I like "happily retired". Very good. What adds to your happiness?

One of the things I do is count cows on a regular basis.

-This is to go to sleep?

-No.

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I volunteer for the local wildlife trust,

and there's a group of us who go over to the local common

and basically count the Highland cattle we've got grazing over there.

-You know that's not a real job, don't you?

-Counting cattle?

You know they are just saying, "God, Stuart has turned up again"?

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"I tell you what, tell him and the others, tell him to go count the cows.

"OK, and when they count them, tell them, next week, count them again.

-"Just in case we lose some."

-Just in case, because sometimes we lose them.

-But does the number change...

-Yeah, we've got 18 grazing at the moment.

-It's exciting. Highland cattle.

-Highland cattle, yeah.

-Lovely to see Highland cattle.

-They are beautiful, yeah.

-Now, Stuart, all this polysemy behind me.

-What are you going to go for?

-OK, I know a couple of them.

-They are easy when you're sitting at home.

-Aren't they just?

But I will go for the tree variety,

-the second one from the bottom, as plain.

-Plain.

I like that very much, Stuart.

Let's see how many of our 100 people liked it, too. Plain.

It's right.

Well, you've passed 47, our only score.

Down you go to 23 with plain.

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Well played, Stuart. I thought that might score a few more.

But they often use them in cities

-because they are very pollution resistant.

-Very good.

OK, Adrian, a very warm welcome to you here on Pointless.

-Adrian, what do you do?

-I'm a songwriter and music producer.

Now that's fun. We have far too few of those on Pointless.

What sort of songs do you write and produce?

A bit of everything, really, but mainly pop, RnB,

-dance music.

-OK. Are there any songs we will know that are...

Unfortunately not.

At the moment.

But I've got to get some hits because I've got a daughter here.

-I've got to leave her my PRS cheques, you know?

-Yeah.

XANDER LAUGHS

So, have you got various artists you write for on a regular basis?

Yes, I do... With the internet now, I can sort of get in touch with

people in America.

They send me the stuff over here, and I do the producing.

See, that's fun, isn't it? Very good.

-Now, Adrian, polysemous words.

-Yes.

I'm liking polysemous a lot. What are you thinking?

I think I'll go with a North American porch with steps,

and to bend forwards and downwards. Stoop.

Stoop. Stoop.

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

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

Look at that. Very good indeed. 47 is our highest score, which you've passed.

23 is our lowest score, which you've passed. 21.

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Well played, Adrian. Very nice answer.

It is one of those words we learn from American TV, isn't it?

-Always sitting out on stoops.

-Now, OK, so, Cassandra, welcome.

A very warm welcome to you. What do you do, Cassandra?

-I work for the local government as an HR advisor.

-Excellent.

-What are your hobbies?

-Ranging, really.

I like literature, so a lot of reading. Going to the theatre.

And a bit of dating, but I'm trying to ease off that a little bit now.

A bit of dating. Trying to ease off the dating.

But you can combine dating with theatre.

Dating with reading not so much, I suppose. I don't know.

That would be a nice thing, a meeting of minds.

You can just sit in easy silence and read books. Ah, it would be nice.

Now, Cassandra, this board is all yours,

-if you felt like talking us through it.

-I think I know three of them.

So I think the first one is hide.

I think the "flutter one's eyelashes" is to bat.

I think the next one might be log, but I'm not sure.

So I think I'm going to go for "flutter one's eyelashes" and bat.

You're going to go for bat. OK, bat, says Cassandra.

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

It's right!

Well, 47 is our high, you've passed that.

Look at that! Lowest score of the round so far. 16 for bat.

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Great answer, Cassandra, well played. Best answer of the round.

I didn't get that one at all. I really didn't.

I was sitting there thinking, badger. Do you badger one's eyelashes? I don't think you do.

-You probably could.

-Bat completely passed me by.

You were right about the other two you gave us answers for.

Hide is the top answer. And hide would have scored you 42.

The biggest answer of all is log, the record of events

and to cut down an area of forest, would have scored you 66. And this is the best answer.

You know what to give way under pressure is.

-I was going to say "to cave". It is not that, obviously.

-It is not.

-It is buckle.

-Oh, of course!

-Buckle is the answer. 1 point for that.

Very well done if you got that.

Yes, I was thinking of the wrong kind of frame. What a fool.

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

Let's take a look at the scores. 16. Well done, the best score of that

round. Then up to 21, where we find

Adrian and Louise. 23, Stuart and Dave.

And then 47, Sam and Maddy.

Now, Maddy, we have to have a low score from you,

we can't be sending you home at the end of this round.

Good luck with that. I hope there is something on the next board you like the look of.

We are going to come back down the line, can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, we're going to put seven more meanings up on the board, and here they are.

I'll read all of those one last time.

-Now then, Rachael. A warm welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-This is a fun round, isn't it?

-Ye-ah.

Now, come on. This is great fun.

-What do you do, Rachael?

-I work in HR with Cassandra.

-I see. How long have you worked there?

-For a year now.

And what are your interests outside of HR?

Well, I've got a very sort of clever house rabbit at home that

-I've trained to do tricks.

-Really? What kind of tricks can your rabbit...

-A house rabbit?

-A house rabbit.

-That's a rabbit that lives in the house?

-Yes.

-Completely tame, house-trained?

-Yes.

-Really?

-Litter-trained.

Well, that's the first trick you've taught it. What other tricks?

-He knows his name, he comes when he is called.

-What's his name?

Mr Pepperpot. It's his official title.

His official title, of course, yes.

And if you say "turn" to him, he turns on the spot.

And he knows the command "up" as well.

-He jumps up unto like a plinth that we've got.

-A special plinth.

That's fantastic. Has it got a Doric top,

-the plinth?

-Not really.

-No.

-More square.

-More just a square.

-Just so he can access it.

-OK.

Listen, if you win the jackpot,

maybe you could upgrade the plinth somewhat for Mr Pepperpot.

-You can get agility sets, so maybe.

-An agility set.

-Yeah.

-Cones, hoops.

-Oh!

Now, Rachael, you are on 16.

Great score from Cassandra in the first pass.

-What would you like to go for on this board?

-OK.

There's a couple that I know.

I'm going to go for the top one, and I'm going to say cob.

Cob. Cob, says Rachel. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that, you are definitely into the next round. How many of our 100 said cob?

It's right.

Ooh-ee. 56. APPLAUSE

That seems very high indeed.

72 is your total.

Yeah, I think quite high.

I think maybe because the male swan is such an exacting clue

so you know it is cob.

It's got all sorts of meanings, cob, actually.

You could have filled a whole board with meanings of cob.

Yeah. Such is the polysemous nature of the...

Etc. Yeah. OK, now, Louise, welcome to Pointless.

-Great to have you here.

-Thank you.

-What do you do, Louise?

I work for a not-for-profit organisation

and we bring digital opportunities to the community.

-I see, to get people onto computers.

-Yeah.

People doing all sorts of things.

Is that generally people sort of over a certain age, do you find?

No, kind of right from children and young people as well.

OK, very good.

What are your interests when you're not doing that, Louise?

Erm, when I'm not doing that,

I teach drama to children and young people.

-Excellent. How long have you been doing that for?

-For ever.

For ever, it's the same stage school that I went to

when I was young and I've never really left.

Ah, that's nice.

Do they work towards plays and things like that

-or is it just a nice workshop-type?

-A mixture of both.

So, yeah, we do some full-scale stuff as well,

so it's great to see them. They're fab.

Brilliant. Brilliant. Now, you're on 21.

At the moment, the high scorers are behind you,

Cassandra and Rachael on 72.

50 or less gets you through. What are you going to go for?

I'm going to go for...

a machine used for moving objects and a type of bird,

erm, which is crane.

Crane, says Louise. Here's your red line.

If you can get below that with crane, you're through.

How many of our 100 people said crane?

Oh, look at that. 56. APPLAUSE

Well, the far podium's through.

You are now on 77.

The world's tallest crane is a climbing crane.

They use it in Saudi Arabia.

They're building a thing called the Kingdom Tower.

It can go up to a kilometre high and still carry 18 tonnes of weight.

Wow...

-Er, now, Dave.

-Alexander.

-Welcome back.

Remind us what you do, Dave.

I'm also happily retired like my esteemed friend here.

What happiness do you find in your retirement?

I've got my rock music club that I'm involved in -

the Wrinkly Rockers Club.

I'm also involved in a greyhound syndicate.

We have four greyhounds, a bunch of ex-colleagues of mine,

-and we travel the country watching the greyhounds.

-That's fun.

-So how often do they race?

-Once a week.

-Once a week?

If you're lucky sort of thing. But we had one of ours

get to the quarterfinals of the English Greyhound Derby

two years ago, so we really were living the dream at one point.

That's good. A lovely way to go round the country as well.

-You must get to know all sorts of places.

-Yeah.

-And people as well.

Fantastic scene, I should think, the greyhounds gang.

Now, there you are on 23.

We need 53 or less from you.

Right, OK. Well, this is a better board for me than the last one.

I literally only knew one.

I'm going to have to take a slight punt.

I'm going to go for the fourth one down - to enjoy oneself socially,

a din, a type of bat - and that, I think, is racket.

Racket, says Dave. OK, here is your red line.

If you can get below that with racket, you are into the next round.

How many people said racket?

Well done, you're through.

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Takes your total up to 47.

Well played, Dave. Again, has lots of other meanings.

-In America, it's a snow shoe, a criminal enterprise.

-Hmm.

-All sorts.

Maddy, welcome back. Welcome back.

Now, then, you have to score 29 or less.

Just to think about that. Just to think about that.

-Now, remind us what you do, Maddy.

-I'm also at the University of Leeds.

I'm doing French there.

-French, about to go out on your year out.

-Yes, off to Versailles.

-See, that's nice, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-And have you got a job sorted there?

Yes, I'm going to be a teaching assistant

in a primary school over there.

-Excellent.

-Only about 12 hours a week, so free time.

Quite a lot of free time and a wonderful place to be based.

How is your conversational French?

It's decent, but I think at the moment I'm so used to either

English people speaking French

-or my lecturer speaking very slowly for us.

-Yeah.

So I think once I get out there and actually hear French people...

-Get immersed in it.

-It might be a little bit, erm...

Well, it won't take you long to be completely bilingual,

I'd have thought. Anyway, there you are, 47.

We have to have 29 from you. What are you going to go for?

Do you want to talk us through all of this board?

So I know all but one, I think.

To deceive is kid. Growth of fungi would be mould.

And I think that the one after that is bill.

But I'm not sure whether that is a Medieval weapon.

I know there's the bill and it is a beak,

but I might as well take a punt on that.

I'm going to say bill.

You're going to say bill. OK, Maddy, here's your red line.

You're getting a sort of nod of consent I think

-from your fellow players.

-Good!

I think it's a good thing. Let's see how many of our 100 people said bill.

It is a Medieval weapon, look at that.

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Look at that. 14.

14, in fact, the best score of the whole round.

So well done. 61 is your total.

Very good answer indeed.

Actually, you knew an even better answer cos mould,

-which you also knew, is the best answer on the board.

-Oh, really?

-Yeah, mould would have scored you 8 points.

-Wow.

Would've been a great one.

Kid, you're correct about that.

That's a bigger scorer, though, would've scored 35.

-And the one at the bottom?

-Bore.

-Bore is the answer. Of course it is.

Would've scored 33.

You know there's a Dull Men's Club of Great Britain?

It's got 5,000 members

and they have a calendar every year of the 12 dullest men in Britain.

Last time, they had on it a brick collector,

a roundabout enthusiast and a drain spotter.

Listen, you're talking to February. LAUGHTER

Thanks very much indeed.

At the end of the first round, they pair who are heading home

with their high score of 77 - you're not way out in front there.

That was a very exciting and close first round.

Well done and thank you to all of you.

But, Louise and Adrian, I'm afraid we have to say goodbye,

but we'll see you again next time. Look forward to that.

In the meantime, thanks very much. Louise and Adrian.

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

What about that?

Just like that, one of our pairs has just disappeared into thin air.

Not really. They've been released back into the community.

Erm, at the end of this round,

we will be saying goodbye to another pair.

I don't know which pair that is going to be,

but very well done, Dave and Stuart, for our lowest team score.

Very well done to Maddy for our lowest individual score.

And very well done to Cassandra and Rachael. Welcome to Round Two.

Great to have you here. Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...

1980s Sportsmen. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first, who is to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Golfers and snooker players from the '80s.

An absolute nightmare round for some people,

dream round for others. I know that.

We're going to show you two pictures now.

One is of the 1989 European Ryder Cup team,

one is of Barry Hearn's Matchroom stable of snooker players from 1988.

We need you to give us the names of any of the people

you see from either photo, please.

OK, here are the images.

Oh, beautifully arranged. Look at that, a crescent of snooker players.

There we are.

OK, now then, Maddy... Oh, it's like a dream round this, isn't it, Maddy?

-Such a dream, yeah(!)

-Yeah.

It's what I was hoping for.

Right, so, I think I'll just make up a name.

Are you going to make up a golf name or a snooker name?

It's important.

I'm going to go for the one with the nice 'tache in the top picture...

You don't have to be that specific. You could just make up a name.

It doesn't even have to be sport-specific either.

I will go for Adrian...

-Sportsman.

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Oh, now, Maddy, I see what you've done there.

I see what you've done. You've just ruined your paper, haven't you?

Just handed it in with a...across it.

Adrian Sportsman, I think all but impossible.

Anyway, we'll find out, shall we?

Let's see how many people said Adrian Sportsman.

No.

I'm sorry. Adrian Sportsman, perhaps unsurprisingly,

an incorrect answer, scoring you 100 points, Maddy.

Yeah, although it does look like him, doesn't it?!

It does look a bit like him. But, yeah, he of course was table tennis,

but you can see the likeness.

-Goodness me, could almost be brothers.

-Yeah.

-Thanks very much. Now, then, Dave.

-Xander.

-Pick a sportsman.

Not Adrian.

Well, compared to the last round, this is much easier for me.

I don't play golf and I play bad snooker.

I'm going snooker and I'm torn between two of them.

I'm going to have a go at the snooker player in the top left,

who I think is Tony Meo.

Tony Meo says Dave.

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

It is Tony Meo, absolutely.

Well done, Dave. APPLAUSE

Tony Meo

gets you 4 points.

Great answer, Dave. Very well played.

Was the youngest player ever to make a 147.

Ronnie O'Sullivan overtook that record.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Cassandra.

-Yes.

-Who would you like to go for?

-I don't really remember many of these people.

-OK.

But I think I know a few, so I'm going to go for the golf.

And I think there's Seve Ballesteros.

Seve Ballesteros, says Cassandra.

Ooh, there's a murmur of appreciation for Seve Ballesteros' name.

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

Well, absolutely right. You already beat our high score.

The low score is 4.

29 for Seve Ballesteros. Well done. APPLAUSE

Good score over there on the far podium.

Great score, Cassandra. Really good damage limitation

in this round as well. Probably the most charismatic

and maybe best European golfer there has ever been.

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

Let's have a quick look at that scoreboard.

Dave and Stuart, looking very strong at the moment on 4.

Then up to 29, Cassandra and Rachael, likewise in the context of 100,

I'm afraid, on the near podium.

Adrian Sportsman not coming through for you there, Maddy, I'm afraid.

But, Sam, it could be back in your hands.

There's a chance you might be back in the game,

but if that is the case

then we will need a low score from you, so best of luck with that.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so remember, we are

looking for the names of any of these snooker or golf players.

Rachael, you're going to try and find a nice low score there.

70 or less gets you through.

Some of the ones that I had are gone,

but I'm going to go for a snooker player.

I'm going to go for Jimmy White.

Jimmy White says Rachael. Jimmy White. Here's your red line.

If you can get below that with Jimmy White, you're home and dry.

Let's see how many people said Jimmy White.

It's right.

Very well done, through you go, Rachael.

Good score. 36. APPLAUSE

65 is your total.

Runner-up in the World Championship six times.

Never won it, Jimmy White. There he is, second from the right.

He's the only person who's not standing in height order.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, then, Stuart...

Yeah, it's a fairly good round for me.

I think I might go fairly safe here

and I will go for the Ryder Cup and Mark James.

Mark James. Mark James says Stuart. Here's your red line.

Lovely and high. 95 or less gets you through.

How many of our 100 said Mark James?

It's right and you're through.

Oh, it's another good answer. Look at that.

They're unstoppable. APPLAUSE

3, best score so far.

Takes your total up to 7,

our only single-figure total.

Great score on that second podium there.

There he is in the back row, second from the left.

One of the moustachioed players.

Went on to become Ryder Cup captain as well.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, then, Sam.

Oh, it hasn't panned out as I thought it might.

I'm afraid you haven't been handed that lifeline

-and you are our high scorers.

-Not to worry.

-But I do worry!

Sam, do you want to talk us through the remaining people?

I know both sports,

you can have quite a longevity in those sports,

so I'm going to pick somebody who might be quite old now

and might have been kicking around in the 1980s.

I think the top one might have Willie Thorne there, but I'm going

to go for the bottom, try and get an extra £250 and maybe say Sandy Lyle.

Sandy Lyle, says Sam. Sandy Lyle.

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

Oh, bad luck, Sam. I'm afraid not 250 for the pot, but 200 club for you.

Willie Thorne would've scored you 34 on the top there,

but would've been a perfectly good answer.

Now, let's go through all of these. So we've had Tony Meo.

Next to him is Terry Griffiths. He would have scored you 10.

There's Willie Thorne. Then Cliff Thorburn is the one who looks

suspiciously like Adrian Sportsman.

In the middle there, Cliff Thorburn, and he would have scored you 21.

There's Steve Davis, of course, in the middle. 67 for Steve Davis.

Next to him, Neil Foulds. Neil Foulds would have scored 2 points,

actually the best answer on the snooker players board.

And next to Jimmy White, slightly out of height order,

is Dennis Taylor who would have scored you 36,

the same as Jimmy White.

Now, the golf team. There's Sam Torrance on the back left.

He scored 6 points.

Then next to Mark James, you've got Christy O'Connor Jr,

who'd score you 1.

Next to him, a very young-looking Jose Maria Olazabal

who would have scored you 2.

Next to him is a pointless answer.

In fact, the next four are all pointless answers,

so well done if you said

Jose Maria Canizares,

Howard Clark, Gordon Brand Jr

and Ronan Rafferty. All four of them, pointless answers.

You've then got Bernhard Langer.

Would have scored you 6 down the bottom there.

Nick Faldo would have scored you 22.

Tony Jacklin, the captain, would have scored you 11.

And next to Seve, you've got Ian Woosnam

and he would have scored you 10 points.

Very well done if you got any of those pointless answers.

Thanks very much, Richard.

At the end of our second round, the pair we are sending home

for good this time, I'm afraid to say, Sam and Maddy.

It's been Round Two every time for you.

I'm sorry you never got to see the giddy heights of the head-to-head,

but it's been great having you on the show. Thank you so much.

Sam and Maddy. APPLAUSE

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

Well done, Dave and Stuart, Cassandra and Rachael.

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

for that jackpot which, let's remind ourselves, is standing at the moment

at £6,250.

There we are.

Now that is worth playing for. So is every jackpot, worth playing for.

What am I talking about? But that is a very exciting jackpot.

Now, you know the rules.

One pair will go through to play for it.

We decide which pair it's going to be by making you go head-to-head.

You can now play as teams.

First pair to win two questions has a crack at that jackpot.

Well, there's a lot to play for. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

Life Songs, Richard.

We're going to show you the names of five songs now,

all of which contain the word life. We need you to tell us the artist

who had a top 40 hit with these songs in the years shown, please.

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

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now, Dave and Stuart, you're our low scorers, so you will go first.

THEY CONFER QUIETLY

Yep, not a bad board, given I said I like music,

so there's about two or three of them there.

The one I'm going to go for is the second one down,

Life In A Northern Town,

which I think is Dream Academy.

Dream Academy say Dave and Stuart. Now, then, Cassandra and Rachael.

Talk us through that board.

-Erm, well, the first one we think is Elton John.

-Yeah.

David Bowie, Life On Mars?

But we're quite confident about the bottom one -

Life Is A Rollercoaster being Ronan Keating.

Ronan Keating. So we have Dream Academy and we have Ronan Keating.

Dave and Stuart said Dream Academy. Let's see if that's right

and let's see how many people said it.

Look at that. There we go. 2.

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Dream Academy, that's a great answer. What a lovely song as well.

Cassandra and Rachael have gone for Ronan Keating

for Life Is A Rollercoaster.

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

That's a great answer as well.

Look at that, down it goes. 7.

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So close!

Two great answers, but Dave and Stuart,

you win it with Dream Academy.

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

And the best two answers on the board as well,

so well played, both teams.

Circle Of Life, you're right, is Elton John.

That would have scored you 22.

Life On Mars is David Bowie.

The biggest score up there, would have scored you 33.

-And Walk Of Life?

-Dire Straits.

-Dire Straits.

That would have scored 23.

Wonderful. Thank you very much.

OK, now, here comes your second question.

Cassandra and Rachael, great low scoring there.

I'm afraid they just beat you that time, but you get to go first,

so maybe you can nab the lowest score on the board.

Best of luck. It concerns...

UK Horse and Pony Breed, Richard?

We're going to show you the names now of five UK horse or pony breeds,

but we've missed out alternate letters.

Can you fill them in, please?

OK, let's reveal the breeds and here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

Cassandra and Rachael will go first.

WHISPERING

OK, we don't really know any of them.

But the fourth one, we think, is Exmoor.

OK, you're going to go for Exmoor.

Now, then, Dave and Stuart, talk us through all the others if you can.

Don't know the top one.

Second one, I guess, is New Forest.

Third one is Shetland and I think the bottom one may be Clydesdale.

We'll take a bit of a punt and go Clydesdale.

You're going to say Clydesdale. So we have Exmoor and we have Clydesdale.

So, Cassandra and Rachael said Exmoor. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people agree with them.

It's right.

15. Very well done indeed.

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Dave and Stuart, meanwhile, have gone Clydesdale.

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

It's right.

38. That's what you needed, Cassandra and Rachael. You're back in the game.

-After two questions, it's one-all.

-And given you only knew one of them,

you actually knew the best answer on the board, so that's handy.

Yeah, Exmoor ponies.

They're believed to be the oldest true descendants of the ponies

that were wild in Britain 100,000 years ago.

-Wow...

-The Exmoor ponies.

The top one, Dartmoor, was the next best scorer.

Would have scored you 17. New Forest, of course.

And that would have scored you 47.

And it is Shetland as well

and Shetland would have scored you 33.

Thanks very much, Richard. OK, here comes your third question.

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

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...

Herbs and Spices, Richard.

We're going to show you five pictures

of herbs and spices used in cooking.

Can you identify them, please?

We're going to give you the initials as well.

OK, let's reveal our five pictures and here they come. We've got...

There we are. Five herbs and spices.

Dave and Stuart will go first this time.

We'll go for B, horseradish.

B, horseradish.

Now, Cassandra and Rachael, talk us through the board.

OK. A, we think, is oregano.

D is cinnamon.

E is star anise, but we're going to go for C, which we think is hyssop.

Hyssop.

Hyssop. So we have horseradish, we have hyssop.

Dave and Stuart said horseradish.

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

It's right.

It's right and scores 49.

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Now, then, Cassandra and Rachael have said hyssop for C.

Now, I have a hunch if this is right, this might be going a long way down.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said hyssop. Is it right, though?

It is right!

That's a good answer.

And it beats horseradish. Down it goes. Hyssop's a great answer.

5, well done. APPLAUSE

Which means, after three questions, Cassandra and Rachael,

through you go to the final 20-1.

The best two answers on the board again

and Rachael and Cassandra - all three questions,

you've picked the lowest possible score you could have done.

Terrific head-to-head. Let's fill in the rest of these.

A is oregano and it would have scored you 67.

-One of our 100 people said origami.

-LAUGHTER

You sort of know what they mean.

D is cinnamon. It was the biggest scorer of all.

That would've scored you 74.

And E is star anise.

-And that would have scored you 59.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

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

-Dave and Stuart. I'm so sorry. Head-to-head twice.

-Yeah.

And this time as the favoured, golden couple.

That was a very exciting head-to-head.

Well done to both pairs, but, Dave and Stuart, we have to say goodbye.

It's been lovely having you on both shows.

Thanks so much for playing. Great contestants.

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But for Cassandra and Rachael, it's now time for our Pointless final.

What about that?

Cassandra and Rachael, you've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy, so very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

our massive Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show, it stands at £6,250.

So impressive.

So consistently good throughout the show and what about that?

You saw off our returning pair in the head-to-head.

Absolutely fantastic.

Anything you want to see come up in this last round?

If the back catalogues of any '90s boyband comes up,

then I'm afraid we're going to absolutely go for it.

You're going to nail it.

-Yeah, we'd be good at that.

-OK, well, very best of luck.

Let's see what your choices are today.

There are four of them as ever.

Initially, I'd say The X Factors,

but I'm wondering whether it isn't as it seems.

Yeah. We'll rule out horse racing.

-Nope.

-X Factor?

-X Factor. OK. We'll go for X Factors.

-X Factors it is.

-Richard.

-OK, three very different questions here.

I suspect a couple of these might suit you. Very, very best of luck.

£6,250 up for grabs. Here are your three choices.

We're looking for...

Any UK top 40 single by Liberty X...

We are looking for any tracks from Ed Sheeran's X album

on its initial release

or we're looking for anyone who's been in the top three

of any series of X Factor up to 2014 please.

So Liberty X, top 40 singles, tracks on the original release

of Ed Sheeran's X or anyone who's been in the top three

in any series of X Factor up to 2014, very best of luck.

OK, now, as always,

you've got up to one 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.

-Yes.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK, Liberty X, I can think of... I think it's Got To Have Your Love.

-OK.

-Which was a cover.

-Monday Monday. Did they do Monday Monday?

-No!

-Was that the other one?

-X Factor finalists, I think we've got people like Same Difference.

-Oh.

-Erm...

-Was Ella Anderson in the final?

-Who?

-Ella Anderson?

-No, not in the final three.

-Was she not?

-No.

Erm... We've got... Who else was in it?

-Andy Abrahams. Er, Journey South.

-Andy... Journey South, yeah.

-We've got...

-What about Ed Sheeran?

-I haven't listened to the album yet!

-THEY LAUGH

I'm thinking of some other years.

Erm, we had Rhydian and Leon Jackson, but...

Leon Jackson, did he...?

He won it, though, and I don't know whether that's obvious then.

-Rhydian, would people remember Rhydian?

-The hair. Yeah.

Erm, I'm thinking...

Ten seconds left.

I think we should go for Journey South

and maybe the Liberty X single Got To Have Your Love.

And another X Factor.

OK, that's your time up.

Tell me your answers and say which category you're answering.

OK, so we're going to go for the UK singles

by Liberty X, Got To Have Your Love.

Got To Have Your Love, Liberty X.

-X Factor finalists, we're going to go for Journey South.

-Journey South.

And we're going to go for... Leon Jackson.

Leon Jackson as our two X Factor finalists. OK, of those three,

which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

I think the single by Liberty X, Got To Have Your Love.

Got To Have Your Love goes last. Least likely to be pointless?

-BOTH:

-Leon Jackson.

-There's our first.

OK, well, let's pop those answers up in that order then,

and here they are.

We've got Leon Jackson, Journey South and Got To Have Your Love.

Three great answers up there.

Now, if one of those happens to be pointless

and you walk away with that jackpot -

let's just remind us ourselves, £6,250 -

what would you do with that? Cassandra, you first.

My mum's got a brother in New Zealand

who she hasn't seen in about 25 years and it's very important

that she gets to see him, so it would definitely go towards that.

Wonderful. Rachael?

Well, initially I thought about

maybe some new raised beds for my garden.

-Well, that's nice, isn't it?

-Possibly the agility set for Mr Pepperpot.

I was thinking, yes, raised beds.

Keep things out of Mr Pepperpot's reach.

But maybe, if it's 6,000, then a holiday would be lovely.

To see the northern lights. I've always wanted to see those.

Oh, well, let's hope, fingers tightly crossed,

that one of these answers - at least one of these answers - is pointless.

Now, in the first instance, we were looking for X Factor finalists,

the last three in the X Factor.

Leon Jackson was your least confident answer.

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

so for £6,250, let's see how many people said Leon Jackson.

It's right.

Now, if this goes all the way down to zero,

you will leave here with £6,250. Leon Jackson goes down through the teens.

We're into single figures. Down it goes.

Still going down, still going down.

You've done it! First answer! APPLAUSE

Absolutely brilliant.

Very well done indeed.

Brilliant!

Absolutely fantastic.

A pointless answer, Leon Jackson.

You've just won that jackpot of £6,250. Superb!

And given you want your mum to go to New Zealand,

worth noting that Journey South also a pointless answer.

Very well done. Er, Got To Have Your Love by Liberty X...

1 point, come on!

-What are you playing at?

-Well done!

You know, it's very interesting.

If you talk about things like X Factor, shows like that,

people think you're dumbing down.

You've shown throughout this show, you know about all sorts of things.

You happen to know about that as well

and there's a lot of pointless answers

that people at home will have got. But let's start with Liberty X.

Top 75 singles. Only three pointless answers here.

Well done if you got any of those.

Now, Ed Sheeran's "Multiply" album.

We called it X just because it fits in with the title of the category.

But only two pointless answers there.

Runaway and The Man, both pointless answers.

Lowest scorers were Fire Love for 1

and 2 points for Photograph, I Am A Mess and Tenerife Sea.

Those were the best scorers apart from those pointless ones.

Now, X Factor. Loads of pointless answers here.

Amelia Lily, Ben Mills, Christopher Maloney, Fleur East,

Jahmene Douglas, Luke Friend, Marcus Collins, Steve Brookstein,

Tabby Callaghan and someone else you mentioned, Same Difference,

also a pointless answer.

Very well done if you got any of those at home and congratulations.

What a brilliant performance all the way through the show.

Thank you, Richard.

Well, thanks once again to our brilliant winning players,

Cassandra and Rachael, who go away with today's jackpot of £6,250.

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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.