Episode 46 Pointless

APPLAUSE

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

Welcome to Pointless, the game where we aim for the obscure

and we ignore the obvious. Let's meet today's players.

-And couple number one.

-Hi, my name is Judith and I live in Cornwall.

And this is my sister, Ann, and she lives in Sheffield.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Grace. This is my husband, Gareth.

-And we are from Bolton.

-Couple number three.

Hi, Xander, my name is Chris. This is my girlfriend, Cat.

-And we are from Glasgow.

-And finally, couple number four.

Hi there. My name is Dave. This is my friend Gareth.

We are from County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

And these are today's contestants.

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A very warm welcome. Thank you very much.

We'll find out more about you throughout the show.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce,

so smart, I just smile and nod. That's all I can do.

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

-Hiya. Hi, everybody.

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-Good afternoon to you, sir.

-Top of the afternoon to you.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

-Lot of beards on today's show.

-Yes, yes.

-It hasn't passed my notice.

-I'm feeling underdressed.

Not just little beards, but some very, very impressive ones as well.

Also a lovely sort of UK spread of locations as well.

From Cornwall to Glasgow to County Antrim...

-A little bit of everything.

-A little bit of everything.

I bet when Chris came on the show,

-he thought he'd have the most impressive beard.

-Yes.

I bet he didn't think he'd be third, gents.

LAUGHTER

I bet he didn't think he'd be going back to Scotland

with a bronze medal. I'm almost certain of it.

Anyway, there we are. Thank you, Richard.

Mary and Esther got through to the final,

but didn't win the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000 to that.

So today's jackpot starts off with rather an exciting £2,000.

There we are. APPLAUSE

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

Well, three pairs of newcomers to the show. Welcome to you all.

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

at the end of each round will be eliminated. You just

have to do everything you can to make sure you are not that pair.

No conferring till the head-to-head round. Our first category today is...

Pop Singers. Can you decide

who's going first, who's going second?

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

OK. And the question concerns...

One-word UK Hit Singles. Richard.

In a moment, Xander is going to show you the names of six music acts.

We are looking for any UK top 40 single by any of those acts

up to March 2015, please, which has a one-word title.

-Perfect.

-That's all you need.

-There we go. As Richard mentioned,

we'll put the names of six acts on the board.

They don't change halfway through the round. So bad luck.

If you don't like it, you'll have to lump it.

It goes all the way up and back without a change of board.

We just want a one-word single from any one of these acts.

Here they are.

There we are. Simple as that. And a very warm welcome to the show.

-Here from Sheffield.

-I am.

And what keeps you busy up in Sheffield, Ann?

Well, I was a retired nurse. I am a retired nurse.

And now, I am really a full-time golfer.

A full-time golfer. How long since you retired?

Oh, it's about ten years.

-Oh, and the golf you love?

-Golf, love.

-Lots of friends in the golf club?

-Absolutely.

-Oh, that is rather a nice life, isn't it?

-It is, it is.

-Very good.

I mean, do you miss life on the ward?

-Not at all. Not in the slightest.

-Not even slightly.

-No.

And aside from golf? Or is it not even worth going there?

-Is there any life aside from golf for you?

-I dance as well.

I enjoy dancing.

-Dancing and golfing. Ann, it just gets better and better.

-It does.

-Right on the edge of the peaks there.

-Absolutely, yes.

-Beautiful.

Now, Ann, single-word singles from any of these artists.

Um... Michael Jackson, Bad.

Bad, says Ann. Bad.

Let's see if that's good.

It is good.

Not bad at all, Ann. Gets us off to a good start there.

32 for Bad.

A good start with Bad.

-Yes, from 1987, number three single.

-Hm. Bad start. BAD start to the show.

Now, Grace, welcome.

Welcome here from Bolton. What do you do, Grace?

-I am a youth and children's worker.

-Excellent. In what context?

Not in a school's context?

I work for nine churches and five schools, so I cover quite a big mix.

So, working for schools and churches? Do you get any days off at all?

-Saturday, maybe?

-I get one day off a week.

-Whoa!

-Yeah.

-And you chose to come here on it, isn't that nice?

-I know.

Thank you very much indeed.

Grace, what interests you outside of your work?

-Well, I have three children, so they take up a lot of my time.

-Indeed.

But when I do get time to relax,

-it is mainly eating lots of chocolate...

-Perfect.

..and watching TV.

Excellent. Excellent, excellent. Now, Grace, one-word hit singles.

I can think of a few.

It is a bit difficult to know

which one to go for.

I think I'm going to go for Judas,

by Lady Gaga.

Judas. Judas, says Grace. Let's see if that's right.

If it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Judas.

It's right.

32 is our only score at this point.

You pass it.

Oh, and how you pass it. 3 for Judas.

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-Well done.

Good answer.

That is a terrific answer, Grace. Very well played.

-Top 10 hit from 2011 for Lady Gaga.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Chris, welcome back. Chris, remind us what you do.

I work for a telecommunications provider helping businesses

with their bills.

-And a very keen football fan?

-Yes.

-A fan of Liverpool?

-Yes.

-Interestingly enough. How often...

Do you watch them play at home

or do you tend to watch them when they are away?

-Mainly in Liverpool. I get down five or six times a season.

-OK.

-So quite a bit.

-And aside from football, what excites you?

Watching Pointless.

This is just marvellous. Thank you. Yeah.

APPLAUSE Well done.

-A finalist I think, Richard.

-Yeah, I think so.

I'm just going to change a couple of the rounds later on, just to...

LAUGHTER Chris, what would you like to go for?

I know a few, but they are very, very obvious.

I'm trying to think of the least-obvious most obvious one.

I think I'll go for Robbie Williams and Angels.

Angels, says Chris.

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

let's see how many of our 100 said Angels.

It's right.

APPLAUSE 44.

44 for Angels.

Yeah, and he got to number four in 1997.

OK. There we are.

Good. Now, Gareth... Look at this, we've got two Gareths.

-I know.

-I mean, we've never had double Gareth before.

I don't think we ever have had double Gareth.

I don't think we've had a surfeit of Gareth before.

I know the EU asks us to keep it to one Gareth per show maximum. But

you know what, sometimes we don't do what the EU tells us, Gareth. OK?

And this is one of those occasions.

It is indeed. OK. So, Gareth M, welcome to the show.

Great to have you here. What do you do, Gareth?

-I work for a company that builds trailers for lorries.

-Very good.

-What are your interests, Gareth?

-I play drums in a band.

-What kind of band is it?

-Rock band. Rock covers.

Drumming, that keep you fit? They always say drummers are

-the most fit members of a band.

-That's what they say, yeah.

You've got to lug all that kit around.

Do the others help with that?

-Guitarists, singers...

-Can't believe that!

-Now, Gareth.

-Yep.

-What are you going to go for?

I was going to go straight on a punt for Madonna.

Whether it was a hit single, I'm not too sure.

So first round, I'll play it safe. Robbie Williams, Millennium.

Millennium, says Gareth. Millennium.

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

It's right.

Not bad at all.

Look at that, 13.

And that is the most played song at millennium celebrations.

-Isn't that weird?

-That is weird, isn't it?

-I was thinking it would be sort of maybe the Olympics...

-No, no, no.

He's going to make another fortune in about...984 year's time.

-Something like that.

-Thank you very much.

We're halfway through the round. Let's look at those scores.

3, the best score of the pass, Grace.

Very well done indeed to you.

Then up to 13 - well done, Gareth - where we find David and Gareth.

Then up to 32 - Ann and Judith, not bad.

Then 44, Chris and Cat out in front.

Cat, I've said this to you before in previous shows,

we need some Cat magic at this point. Yes, when we come back down,

a nice low-scoring one-word single, please.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Now, David, a warm welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

What do you do, David?

I am a warehouse supervisor for an online retailer.

And how do you and Gareth know each other?

We've been friends for longer than I care to remember.

Right. And your interests, David?

-I also play in a band, but a different band.

-A different band.

-A rival band.

-No.

-Don't say what you play, I'm going to try and guess.

-Bass guitar.

-No.

-Ah!

-Oh, can I guess? Drums as well.

-No. Two pointless answers.

-No.

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-Guitar.

-Well, yeah, by...

-By process of elimination. Well, we got it.

-Guitar!

-Yes! Well done.

-Thank you. That is the definition of too kind.

Now, David, there you are, on 13.

The high-scorers at this point are Cat and Chris on 44.

30 or less is what we need.

As you can probably tell by looking at us,

this wouldn't be our style of music.

It's interesting, that. What is your style of music, David?

-Rock.

-Rock, hm.

-I know a few, thankfully.

But I'm going to plump for David Bowie and Heroes.

Heroes, says David. Sounds good to me. Here is your red line.

If you can get below hat with Heroes, you're definitely in the next round.

How many people said Heroes?

It's right.

Well done, you're through.

That's a great answer. 6! Best...

Second-best, I should say, score of the round so far.

-19 is your total.

-Yeah, another good answer.

Very well played on that final podium.

-Guess what number that got to on the charts.

-Seven.

-24.

-No!

-Yeah, there you go.

-There you are. Thank you. Extraordinary.

-Now, Cat...

-Hey.

-Welcome back.

-Now, Cat, we discovered last time you make candles.

-Yes.

-And also models out of wax.

-Yes.

Now, when you're making models out of wax...

Do you make sort of toys and animals?

Yeah, I mean, I've done like a bunny candle before and I've done

a Pointless podium candle as well, so that's kept me busy.

When you do the bunny candle,

-I mean, is the bunny sort of sitting on its...?

-Yeah.

-I suppose...

It sits on its back legs

and then the wick comes out between its two ears.

-Very good.

-It looks OK.

-Very good. I suppose you could get one of those...

You know those plaster cast things

you used to get when you were younger?

I've got a couple of silicone moulds which I start off with,

-but then the rest of it is just done by hand, so...

-Very good.

OK, now, Cat, you're on 44.

You are currently the high-scorers.

-You know what we need.

-Yeah.

I've got a couple of safe options.

Since we are the high-scorers,

I think I'm just going to have

to take a risk.

It is an older song and it was done by Katy Perry and 303.

And it's Starstruck.

Starstruck. Starstruck.

OK, no red line, you are the high-scorers,

but let's see how far down the column you can get with Starstruck.

It's right.

3 is our lowest score at this point.

That's what you need, Cat!

That is absolutely superb!

It scores you absolutely nothing and adds £250

to today's jackpot, takes our total up to £2,250.

It leaves your total at 44 and earns you a massive pat

on the back from all of us.

-Very well done indeed.

-Terrific answer, Cat.

And as you said, it is 303 featuring Katy Perry.

So it is a very, very good answer.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Gareth.

Gareth Thomas, what a... I think

we should have some sort of Thomas family commemorative,

I don't know, like a tankard or something. Or something.

-Is he from THAT Thomas family?

-Yes.

Gareth's father - I think this is right - is the Reverend Tom Thomas.

-Reverend Tom Thomas.

-The Rev Tom Thomas.

-A Pointless hero.

A Pointless hero from many series ago.

-But we've had two of your brothers on, I think.

-Yes.

-We have had a cousin of yours on.

-Yes.

-I don't think any of them have yet covered themselves in glory.

-No.

We're hoping that we might be the ones to do it.

Oh! Gareth, the best of luck.

So is there a sort of interfamilial thing where you all discuss...?

Very much. It's a huge competition, this.

So what's the best of your siblings? What's the best performance?

From your family, I should say.

The best performance, I think, was from my brother Hugh

and my cousin Owen, who got to the head-to-head.

-OK.

-So no Pointless trophies in the family?

-No.

-OK.

-Gareth, what do you do?

-I am a vicar.

-Another...!

LAUGHTER

-Is there anyone in your family who isn't a vicar?

-Only my brother Ben.

He's the one with the brains.

Ah!

Yes. OK. So we've had the brains and the spirit.

And a bit more spirit to come.

Now, Gareth, wonderful low score from Grace on the first pass there,

which puts you in a very strong position.

40 or less gets you through.

Come on, spirit of Thomas.

That might not be a good spirit to have.

I'm going to go for Madonna and Vogue.

Vogue, says Gareth T.

Here's your red line. Get below that with Vogue, you're into Round Two.

-Well done, you're through.

-Just.

25, takes your total

up to 28.

Well played, Gareth. Another number one single, that one, from 1990.

Could he be the greatest Thomas of all time?

Could be. Could just be. Thank you. Now, Judith, a warm welcome.

-Here from Cornwall.

-Absolutely.

-From Cornwall.

What do you get up to down in Cornwall, Judith?

Well, I actually work in Plymouth now.

-I've gone back to work, and I work for an IT company.

-Right.

And you cross the border into Plymouth every day.

-Yeah, they allow me in.

-Smuggling tin in your pockets.

And you are working in IT there?

-Yes.

-Have you always been in IT?

-No.

-Or is this something you trained up to?

-No.

I've only recently gone back to work, having worked

-with my husband for 12 years renovating properties.

-Right.

Now then, Judith, this is very exciting.

You are on 32. You have to score

-11 or less.

-No pressure.

What are you going to go for? You can do some thinking out loud, I think.

Most of my answers, actually, have gone.

And they weren't great, to be honest.

Vogue was the one I was actually

hoping for, but I'm afraid...

So I think it is

the title of a song,

so I'm going to go for Pressure, David Bowie.

-OK, Pressure.

-Mm-hm.

-OK, here is your red line.

If you can get under that with Pressure, you're doing very well.

Let's see if it is right.

No, I'm sorry, Judith. Bad luck.

Always tough being on that first podium.

Usually cos you have to go first, but sometimes cos you go last

and all your answers get nicked.

Scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 132. I'm sorry.

Yeah, Under Pressure, I'm afraid. David Bowie and Queen.

And they don't take one word each either. Otherwise...

-Otherwise it would be perfect. That'd be handy, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

Lots of pointless answers out there. I'll go through them by act.

David Bowie. Pointless answers - Seven and Survive.

His biggest scorer was Starman -

would only have scored you 8 points.

Katy Perry - only one pointless answer, and that was Starstruck.

Very well done, Cat

Lady Gaga has a few pointless answers - Chillin,

Hair and LoveGame. For Madonna, the pointless answers were...

Celebration. So a well-known song was a pointless answer.

Erotica, also a pointless answer.

Fever, Gambler, Jump, Rain and Secret.

All of those were pointless answers. Michael Jackson -

pointless answers for History, Ghost, Jam and Why.

For Robbie Williams, pointless answers - Radio, Feel, Rudebox...

There are some big singles here.

..Lovelight, Freedom, Misunderstood and Tripping.

All of those were pointless answers.

Very well done if you said any of those.

Thanks very much. At the end of our first round, the pair heading home,

I'm afraid, with their high score of 132 is Judith and Ann.

I'm sorry to send you home so soon in this game, but you will be back.

-I'm sure you'll do much better.

-Thank you.

-We look forward to that.

Judith and Ann, in the meantime, thanks very much.

APPLAUSE

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

And so suddenly, we are down to three pairs.

At the end of this round, we will say goodbye to another pair.

Well, I've got all sorts of congratulations to hand out.

The beard brothers over there on the far podium, very well done to you.

Our lowest team score. Very good.

Cat, again and again and again,

you just ace it on the individual low scores. Absolutely fantastic.

Consistently impressive.

And Grace and Gareth, you are inching ever closer to Thomas family

and Pointless annals. You are doing incredibly well.

This is very exciting indeed. Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...

Chapter Titles. Can you all decide 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...

Books By Chapter Titles. Richard.

On each board, we want you to identify six novels

just from some of the chapter titles in those novels.

We are also going to give you the name of the authors in brackets.

Six on the first board, six on the second.

12 in all to have a go at at home. Good luck.

So we are looking for the books that have these chapter titles.

Here is our first board of six.

I'll read those again one last time.

Grace, you are up first.

Thank you. I know a few of these, it is just trying to work out...

There all quite obvious ones.

I'm trying to work out which one is the lowest one.

I think I'll go for the second one down, the Playing Pilgrims,

and say Little Women.

Little Women, says Grace. Little Women. Good answer, I reckon.

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

It's right.

There we go, Grace. Very well done indeed.

15, great start to the round.

Well played, Grace. Yeah, Little Women. So it has endured.

She wrote it in a few weeks.

It has endured and will endure for centuries to come.

I'm sure it will. Richard, thank you.

-Now, Chris. Chris...

-Possibly the worst round you could've given me.

I have not read any of them. Unsurprisingly.

But I think I know two.

So the one that will probably score less - Ahab, The Mast-head,

The Whiteness Of The Whale. Obviously, Moby-Dick.

Obviously Moby-Dick, says Chris. Moby-Dick.

Let's see how obvious it is.

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

It's right.

38. Not bad, Chris.

Not bad at all.

Yep, damage limitation, we would call that.

Inspired by a true story, Moby-Dick was.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. OK, now, David.

David, do you fancy talking us through that board

and supplying all the missing answers?

I was sure of two. One is gone.

The top one should be fairly obvious, I think.

That's A Christmas Carol. The fourth and fifth I don't know.

And the last one, I think, is The Hobbit.

But it might be one of the other of the trilogy. When I'm just...

I'm going to go with The Hobbit for the last one.

OK, David says The Hobbit.

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

It's right. Well-chosen.

Not bad at all. 24.

24 for The Hobbit.

Well played, David.

I suspect that is such a low score because it could've been...

There are other Tolkien books that you could imagine those chapters

titles might have been in. But it was The Hobbit.

Now, the top one, you're right, it is A Christmas Carol.

But you are right to go for the one you went for

cos that would've scored you 46. The fourth one down, Xander?

-Is The Wizard Of Oz.

-The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

The WONDERFUL Wizard Of Oz.

Would've scored you 45. And the other one?

-Lord Of The Flies.

-Lord Of The Flies, of course.

Everyone did it at O level, or GCSE. 19 points for that.

So Little Women is the best answer on the board, Grace. Well played.

There we are. Thank you very much. Let's look at those scores.

Well done, the Thomas family, there.

15. Lovely low score. Up to 24, where we find David and Gareth M.

And then up to 38, Chris and Cat.

Cat, I say this to you every time,

every time you do it. We have got to have you in the head-to-head.

Because always a low score from you.

Best of luck with the next board. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, we're going to put six more chapter titles up on the board,

and here they are.

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Remember, we are

looking for the books that have these chapter headings.

And Gareth M, you are going to find a nice low-scoring one.

OK, I know quite a few of them.

But I think I'll go for the fourth one down -

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, says Gareth. Here is your red line.

Quite low. If you get below that,

you're definitely in the head-to-head.

How many people said The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe?

It's right.

Not bad, 38.

62 is your total.

When he was four, CS Lewis announced to everyone he wanted to be called

Jacksie, after the name of a dog that he liked.

It was shortened to Jack, fortunately,

-but he was known by that for the rest of his life.

-Jack, it was.

Jacksie to his friends.

Now, Cat, you know what we need from you. You know what we need.

-You have to score 23 or less. I know you can do it.

-Thanks. Thanks.

Well, I think if we get through this round,

I'll need to stop making candles

-and become a magician anyway.

-LAUGHTER

There is only one I don't know from there.

I do quite enjoy my books.

And I think that will be the best scorer.

But I'm going to go for Lewis Carroll

and Through The Looking Glass.

Through The Looking Glass, says Cat.

Through The Looking Glass. There is your red line.

If you get below that, you are into the head-to-head.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Through The Looking Glass.

Oh... Bad luck, Cat. That, I'm afraid,

is 100 points.

-Takes your total up to 138.

-Yeah, sorry, Cat.

I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.

Thanks very much. Now then, Gareth.

Before you give an answer, let me just...let me

just share the news with you. This is another Thomas head-to-head.

We are looking at another Thomas head-to-head.

That's all I had to say.

-Will you talk us through the board, please, Gareth?

-I would that I could.

It's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the top.

I really feel I should know the second one, but I don't.

I think it is Alice In Wonderland, the third one down.

It is Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone from JK Rowling.

And I don't know Gillian Flynn.

And I think I am going to go for

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, says Gareth.

No red line for you, as you are already through,

but let's see how far down the column we get

with Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

33 is your total.

Well played, Gareth. Great partnership on podium one as well.

Now, let's fill these in. It is Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

That would have scored you 45. The next one, Kenneth Grahame?

-The Wind In The Willows.

-Is The Wind In The Willows,

of course it is. It would have scored you 37.

Now, the Lewis Carroll one.

It's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, I'm afraid.

That was the follow-up, the one that you gave us.

43 points for that.

And it is the biggest book of the last few years, huge film as well.

-Gone Girl.

-Gone Girl is the answer to the bottom one.

Best answer on the board, 7 points.

Thanks very much, Richard.

At the end of our second round, the pair heading...

I'm so sorry, Chris and Cat.

So nearly in the head-to-head there.

And we have had such a strong performance from you

across the two shows you've been in. I'm sorry we say goodbye to you now.

Thank you. It's been lovely having you on. Cat and Chris, everyone.

APPLAUSE

But for Gareth and David, Grace and Gareth, it is

now time for our head-to-head.

Very well done, Grace and Gareth, Gareth and David.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £2,250.

APPLAUSE

Well, you know the score at this point.

You are allowed to start playing as teams.

First player to win two questions plays for that jackpot.

Well, very well done. I mean, it's Gareth on Gareth. It is a Garethon.

Very exciting. And also very exciting to have the Thomases here,

and in the golden couple status there.

So very, very well done indeed. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

Famous People Born In Chicago.

We'll show you five pictures now of famous people who were

-born in Chicago. Can you identify the most obscure?

-How exciting.

Let's reveal our five famous Chicagoans. And here they are.

There we go.

Five famous people born in Chicago.

Grace and Gareth, you are our low scorers, so you will go first.

THEY WHISPER

I think we will go for E - Hugh Hefner.

Hugh Hefner. Hugh Hefner, say Grace and Gareth.

Now, Gareth and David,

talk us through as much of the board as you can, of the rest.

Well, I think we know them all apart from B,

who we have no idea about. A's Harrison Ford.

C is Gillian Anderson.

We think D is Michael Flatley.

The Riverdance man.

-Flatley?

-We'll go Flatley, D.

-You're going to go with Flatley?

OK, Flatley. We have Hefner and Flatley.

Now then, Grace and Gareth said Hugh Hefner for E.

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

It's good.

27 for the Hef.

Now, Gareth and David have gone or the Flat. D - Michael Flatley.

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

It is right.

It's got to beat 27, though.

Oh, it does! There we go,

Michael Flatley. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Which means, Gareth and David, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Terrific answer. Took us through the board nicely as well, apart from B.

You are right about A - Harrison Ford.

Only scored 65 points, actually.

I thought he might score more than that.

C, you are correct, is Gillian Anderson.

She would have scored you 18 points.

Would have been an even better answer than the one you gave.

But B is the author of Jurassic Park,

-the creator of ER, all sorts of things.

-Ah!

-Michael Crichton.

-Michael Crichton. It is a pointless answer.

So very well done if you said that.

Excellent. Thank you very much. OK, here comes your second question.

Grace and Gareth, you need to win this one to stay in the game.

But Gareth and David will be answering it first.

It concerns...

The Letter X. Richard.

We are going to show you five clues now that relate to the letter X,

you just need to give us the most obscure answer you can.

OK, let's reveal our X clues. And here they come.

I'll read those all one last time.

Gareth and David will go first.

THEY WHISPER

I think we know four, but we are going to go for the chemical

element beginning with X. And I think it is xenon.

Xenon. Xenon, say Gareth and David. Xenon.

OK, now then, Grace and Gareth, do you want to talk us through

all those clues to see how many of them you can answer?

Well, we know the number of X chromosomes in a female is two.

Sequence used to represent Morse code, no idea.

Ten is the number represented by X in Roman numerals.

And I think it is nine for the telephone.

You think...?

Well, it is either the top or the bottom, so go for it.

-Go.

-No, no pressure(!)

-HE LAUGHS

I'll... We'll go for

nine being the number that it normally appears on.

Nine on the telephone keypad. We have xenon and we have nine.

Now then, Gareth and David said xenon. Let's see if that's right.

And if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said xenon.

It's right.

36.

36 for xenon. Now, Grace and Gareth,

you have to win this one to stay in the game,

so best of luck.

You have gone for the number nine,

the number on which the X appears on the standard keypad.

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

It's right!

Now, it has to beat 36... Oh! 51.

51. Well, very well done, Gareth and David.

That means, after only two questions, you are through to the final, 2-0.

Well played, gents.

The curse of the Thomases continues, I'm afraid.

I mean, it really does, cos if you had said two chromosomes on the

top one, you'd have won the point, because it would have scored you 24,

I'm afraid.

There is a very big scorer on the board, that is

the number that X represents. It represents ten, of course.

And 78 people said that.

The sequence used to represent X is dash-dot-dot-dash.

And if you got that, you just got yourself a pointless answer,

so very well played.

Very good indeed. Thank you, Richard.

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

our low-scoring pair throughout the show.

Our Thomases. Our returning family.

You are almost part of the Pointless family, I'd say.

It is great news for us, it means we get to see you again next time.

We look forward to that very much

and hope very much that you go one step further

and break the family record.

But in the meantime, thanks very much for playing.

Grace and Gareth, wonderful.

Thank you. Thanks again.

All the best, guys.

But for Gareth and David, it is now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Gareth and David.

You've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,250.

APPLAUSE

Well, that was very exciting.

And pretty decisive in the head-to-head there.

You did very well indeed. You've done very well across the show.

We've thrown all sorts of things at you.

We had single-word song titles. We've had chapter headings,

where you had to guess the name of the book.

We had famous people from Chicago.

And we had the letter X.

I mean, is there anything we haven't touched on, I wonder?

-From the world of knowledge.

-Yes.

-Anything you'd like to see?

What if we get onto shaving?

-Ohh!

-What's that?

-This is the hairiest jackpot round we've ever had.

-It is, yeah.

Officially now.

Now then, what would you like?

I mean, I'm guessing music would be good. Rock music.

But what other topics would you like us to...?

Comic books, superheroes,

-movies...

-American sports. American geography.

OK. Well, listen, these are things

that sometimes feature on these rounds.

Wouldn't it be brilliant if one of those things was up there for you?

Let's see what today's choices look like and let's hope there's

something you like the look of, Gareth and David. We've got...

Politics, Philosophy and Economics,

which is pretty much what you asked for(!)

-Stephen King?

-Why not?

-Stephen King films.

-Stephen King films.

Stephen King films it is.

Very best of luck, gents.

We are looking for any actor credited by IMDb for appearing

in any of the following three films, please.

Anyone who appeared in the 1976 film Carrie.

Anyone who appeared in the 1980 film The Shining.

Or anyone who appeared in the 1986 film Stand By Me.

So, any cast member of Carrie, The Shining or Stand By Me.

-Best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

You've got up to a minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that jackpot - £2,250, lest we've forgotten -

is just for one of those answers to be pointless.

Just one of them. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yes.

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

Your time starts now.

-I'm not too sure about Carrie. The Shining...

-No.

-Scatman Crothers,

-he played Dick.

-Did he?

-Yeah, in The Shining. Stand By Me...

-Kiefer Sutherland.

-Jerry O'Connell, who was the father.

-Right. River Phoenix, obviously.

-Kiefer Sutherland.

It's been so long since I've seen it.

Obviously, Jack Nicholson.

-Shelley Duvall.

-Shelley Duvall.

-Yeah.

-Kathy Bates is all I know from...Carrie?

-No.

-That was the car.

-It wasn't that, it was...

-Misery.

-Carrie... John Travolta, he was in it.

-Was he?

-Yeah.

Sissy Spacek was Carrie.

Um... William Katt was in Carrie.

-He was the blonde hair...

-Right.

-Ten seconds left.

-Scatman Crothers for The Shining.

-Jerry O'Connell.

-Jerry O'Connell for Stand By Me and William Katt...

-Go for it.

-..for Carrie.

-That'll do.

-OK, you've got your answers

by the sounds of things.

There is your minute up. Let's have those answers,

and say which film you're answering for.

OK, Carrie, we'll go for William Katt.

-William Katt.

-Yep. The Shining, Scatman Crothers.

-Scatman Carruthers.

-Crothers, C-R.

-Crothers. Scatman Crothers.

-That's the one.

Scatman Carruthers, I was at school with him.

-Stand By Me, we'll go for Jerry O'Connell.

-Jerry O'Connell.

-O'Connell, yeah.

-For Stand By Me.

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

Probably say William Katt.

OK, William Katt goes last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Scatman, in case it's not even right?

-Yeah.

OK, Scatman Crothers goes up at the top.

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

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

Well, best of luck.

Now, if one of those is pointless and wins that jackpot for you,

what will you be doing with your prize money?

I'll give some to Mum and Dad.

And I'll probably put it towards a new bicycle for road racing.

-Very good.

-For triathlon.

-David, how about you?

I think, probably, I would spend it on going away

on a wee family holiday.

I have a wee two-year-old son. So take him away for a trip somewhere.

-Lovely.

-Somewhere warm.

-Very nice. Well, best of luck.

Let's hope one of these answers wins that jackpot for you.

OK, your first answer was Scatman Crothers.

In this case, we were looking for cast members of The Shining.

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

If it is both of those things, you leave here with £2,250.

How many people said Scatman Crothers?

It's right.

That's a good answer.

Now all this has to do is go down to zero

and you will leave here with £2,250. Down it goes.

Through the teens. We get to single figures?

Yes, we do. Down it goes. Still going down...

-2! AUDIENCE:

-Oh!

APPLAUSE

-2 for Scatman Crothers. Oh, that's a good answer.

-Yeah.

-That is a great answer.

-He does exist.

-Irritatingly, not a pointless answer, though.

-Yeah.

Which means you only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

Your next answer was Jerry O'Connell.

In this case, we're looking for cast members of Stay By Me.

If it's pointless, it will win you £2,250.

How many people said Jerry O'Connell?

It's right.

Your first answer, Scatman Crothers,

took us all the way down to 2.

Jerry O'Connell, now taking us down

through the teens and into single figures.

Still going down... Will it go pass 2? No!

It sticks at 2.

APPLAUSE

Two excellent answers there. Two really good low scores.

Now, everything is riding on your third and final answer, William Katt.

You had no hesitation putting William Katt last.

So you sort of sensed it was a slightly more obscure answer

-than the two we've had so far.

-Yeah.

Let's hope that pays off on the column.

If it is pointless, it will win you £2,250.

How many people said William Katt?

How many people named William Katt, I should say,

as a cast member of Carrie?

It's right. So, Scatman Crothers took us to 2.

Jerry O'Connell took us to 2.

William Katt takes us down through the teens.

Are we into single figures? Yes, we are.

Will we pass 2?

Yes, we will! Yes! You've done it!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Very, very well done. Brilliant.

-Thank you so much. Thanks.

Fantastic. Congratulations. A very popular win there.

William Katt was a pointless answer.

Yes, there is going to be a road racing bike for your triathlon.

There's going to be a lovely trip for your son.

Fantastic, you are taking away that jackpot of £2,250.

Very well done, Gareth and David.

APPLAUSE

Very well played. Yeah, William Katt played Tommy Ross,

Carrie's date in that film.

It seemed like a nice category for you.

Can I commend you on turning up with those wonderful beards?

And also for getting through to this final round

and ordering your answers properly.

-That's what we like, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Maximum jeopardy. Low scorer, low scorer, pointless answer.

It makes it very exciting for people at home. Some people don't do it.

They put their pointless answer first.

Also, can I commend you for introducing the world to anyone

who doesn't know Scatman Crothers?

-It is such a brilliant name.

-LAUGHTER

Do you know Scatman Crothers' other claim to fame?

Voice of Hong Kong Phooey.

He is the voice of Hong Kong Phooey, absolutely he is.

A multi-talented gentleman, Scatman Crothers.

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

We will start with Carrie.

Every answer, in fact, apart from

Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie...

They were the only ones who scored any points at all in that one.

The Shining.

Everyone in that film was pointless other than Jack Nicholson,

Shelley Duvall, Barry Nelson, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers.

Of course.

And our final one is Stand By Me.

It is one of my favourite films ever, Stand By Me.

Everyone on that film was pointless other than

River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, and surprisingly

Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry O'Connell

and Richard Dreyfuss. Everybody else was a pointless answer.

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

But, gents, thank you so much for entertaining us so mightily.

Thank you so much for such a brilliant end to the show as well.

-Congratulations.

-Cheers.

APPLAUSE

Well, thanks once again to our winning pair, Gareth and David,

who go away with today's jackpot of £2,250.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

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

-on Pointless. Meanwhile, it is goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it is goodbye from me. Goodbye.