Episode 53 Pointless

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

Welcome to Pointless - the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

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Couple number one.

Hi. I'm Rosie and I'm from Washington, near Newcastle

and this is my best friend Viv and she's from Lincoln.

Couple number two.

Hello. I'm Adam. This is my friend Lucy and we're from Birmingham.

Couple number three.

Hi. I'm Linda.

This is my daughter Julia. We both live just near Glasgow.

And, finally, couple number four.

I'm Zechariah, this is Joe. We're both from Barnet.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much to all of you.

We will find out more about you throughout the show as it goes along.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He thinks that I don't know the guy making those crank calls to me

about obscure Nobel prizewinners is him.

It's my Pointless friend Richard.

Hiya!

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-Hello, everybody.

Afternoon to you.

-And to you, sir.

-We have two returning pairs from the last time.

They both make names for themselves in different ways.

I have to say, on podium one, Viv and Rosie.

-They were really genuinely very good, weren't they?

-Yeah.

Got knocked out 2-1 in that head-to-head. Very unlucky.

One of your answers just a tiny, tiny bit wrong.

But they are very, very strong, I'm afraid, everyone.

Joe and Zechariah will tell you that.

They, of course,

also wrote themselves into the annals by joining the 200 Club.

Gents, congratulations.

Membership cards are in the post.

But, again, very good. We've got two new pairs. Welcome. Welcome.

-Let's just have fun, shall we?

-Let's just have fun.

-Let's have fun out there.

-Come on. Don't you think? If not now, when?

Exactly right. You know, I know it's pressure.

I know all that kind of stuff. But... You know, life is for living.

It is. Thank you.

That said, it be nice to see Joe and Zechariah

getting back into the 200 Club, as well.

Two shows in a row. Can you imagine?

Were running out of our 200 Club shields.

We had a job lot of them sent over.

Obviously, when you join the 200 club you get an umbrella, a shield,

a certificate.

-Stick of rock.

-You get a...

A little handkerchief and a... and a tie.

-There's a baseball cap.

-There is.

-Yeah.

-Says 200. But, I tell you what,

as you know, the meetings of the 200 Club,

it actually gets quite full quite early.

So you have to turn up quite early. The 400 Club, though, still room.

Still room there, gentlemen.

There we go. Thanks very much indeed.

Now, Andy and Lynne didn't win the jackpot last time.

So we add another £1,000 to that.

Today's jackpot starts off, look at this, £3,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

There we are.

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

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So, remember, all you have to remember, in fact,

is that the pair with the highest score at the end of each round

will be eliminated.

That is it. Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this afternoon is...

famous places.

Can you all decide in your pairs

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

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

OK. The question concerns...

African Geography.

African Geography, Richard.

We're going to show you the names of seven places or landmarks.

We just want you to tell us the name of the country they are situated in.

Please. As always, by country we mean sovereign state

that's a member of the UN in its own right.

Thank you very much indeed.

So, we're looking for the country in which you would find these landmarks.

Here's our first board.

Looks like this.

I'll read those all one last time.

-There we are. Viv, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Now, you scored a pointless answer last time.

-I did! I'm so proud.

So are we. So are we!

Surely got to take it one step further this time.

Things could change now. They could start going downhill.

Well, we'll see. I'm quietly confident.

Remind us what you like getting up to, Viv.

Well, I like bird-watching

and reading a lot, Scandinavian novels, particularly.

And I play short mat bowls, which is a type of carpet bowls.

-Which you took up quite recently.

-Well, a couple of years ago.

I must just say, our oldest member is 101.

-Wow.

-So I feel a spring chicken.

That's LONG mat bowls, isn't it? That's something.

Now, Viv, what are you going to go for?

Right. Well, I know three definitely,

but they are all going to be the highest scorers, I think.

So, I'm going to go for the Ruins Of Carthage. Tunisia.

-Tunisia.

-Yes.

-Says Viv, the Ruins Of Carthage.

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

It's right.

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Not bad at all. Good start to the round and, indeed, the game.

Well played, Viv. Started off where you left off last time.

Terrific stuff.

The Ruins Of Carthage also a great name for a heavy metal band.

Oh! Wouldn't it, though? Wouldn't it?

AUDIENCE CHUCKLES

HE GROWLS LIKE A HEAVY METAL SINGER

Tell you what, I was...I was not looking forward to your album,

but now I am.

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-There we are. Now, Adam.

-Yes.

-Welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

Great to have you here from Birmingham. What do you do, Adam?

I'm a press officer at a charity.

Excellent. Can we ask which charity?

It's the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Rospa, for short.

Very good. Is it working? Accidents being prevented?

-Yes.

-Well, that's down to you.

-We can always do more.

Which is why we are in a job.

-Very good. Well, you've just done a bit of your job just then.

-Thank you.

You probably just prevented an accident

in some corner of the country, just by being here.

Adam, what are your interests?

Typical armchair sports fan.

I'd love to be able to play more sport

but I can't play football to save my life, unfortunately.

Which sports do you particularly like from the armchair?

Football. West Bromwich Albion fan.

Like a lot of rugby.

Cricket, when it's on.

OK. Now. Adam.

African landmarks?

It's not great. I knew three for sure, one of them has gone.

I think I know one, so it's a case of whether I go for that.

I'm going to give it a go.

The Yankari National Park, I think, is in Namibia.

Namibia, says Adam.

I'm trying to see if I can see any telltale nods

from anyone along the line.

No-one's giving anything away. Let's find out if Namibia's right.

Let's see how many people said it.

AUDIENCE GROANS

I'm sorry, too. I'm afraid that's 100 points. Namibia, an incorrect answer.

-Sorry, Adam. It sounded very convincing.

-Didn't it?

It really did. I bet most people at home went, "Oh, that's good."

And now, 100 points, I'm afraid.

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

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Julia, welcome.

Great to have you here, from Glasgow. What do you do, Julia?

I'm a civil servant working for the Scottish government.

Very good. And what are your interests

when you're not keeping the government going?

I've got two young sons. So, they keep me very busy.

-Very occupied. How old are they?

-Three and one.

-Oh, yes.

Very occupied. Yes. Very good. Will they be watching now?

-Yes. I'm sure they will.

-What are they called?

-Callum and Fraser.

Callum and Fraser. Ooh! You'd never guess they were Scottish.

-Hi, Callum and Fraser!

-Good Scottish names. That's great.

Callum and Fraser. Hi, Callum and Fraser.

Now, Julia. African landmarks.

-Yes, this is not...

-It's not the easiest first round we've ever had.

-Is it?

-It's really, really not.

There's only one that I would guess at.

The rest, I honestly have no idea.

So, I will say, Table Mountain, South Africa.

South Africa, says Julia, for Table Mountain.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said that?

It's right.

72.

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A lot better than 100, Julia.

Damage limitation there. Not a bad tactic at all. Table Mountain.

There's only one of them, so you have to book very early.

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Thank you very much, Richard.

-Zechariah, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Great to have you here again.

-Now, remind us what you do.

-I'm a student. Economics and maths.

-Economics and maths. How many years is that course? Three?

-Three.

-Which year are you in?

-I'm about to start my third.

-OK. Enjoying it?

-Loving it.

-Where are you doing that?

-At Queen Mary.

-Right. I see. OK.

And when you're not doing economics and maths,

-what do you like getting up to?

-I'm very interested in music.

I play guitar,

and I do a lot of youth work in my spare time, as well.

Ruins Of Carthage,

would you be interested in auditioning for that, Zachariah?

-We've...

-We'll talk later.

-OK. We'll chat later. Yeah.

We've also got to swap the details about the shield for the 200 Club.

I'm expecting that to actually come now.

Now, that board is all yours. If you want to talk through it, feel free.

OK. So I would have imagined that

Jemaa El-Fna Square is in Morocco.

Yankari National Park, probably Nigeria.

Avenue of the Baobabs, Mozambique. I would have guessed,

but I seem to remember learning about the Masai tribe in Kenya.

-So, Masai Mara National reserve, Kenya.

-Kenya. Says Zachariah.

Let's see if that's right

and if it is let's see how many of our 100 people said Kenya.

It's right.

71. Not bad.

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Actually, third lowest score of the round so far.

Yeah. Home of the wildebeest migration,

which is also not a bad name for a band.

Let's go through these answers.

Actually, you could have got a much lower score

because you were right about Nigeria, the Yankari National Park.

That would have scored you 22. You were right about Morocco.

Jemaa El-Fna Square

That's a very good score. Ten points.

The other two, Makgadikgadi Pans is in Botswana.

Would have scored you 15.

And the top one, the Avenue Of The Baobabs,

-Um...

-You're doing that like you knew it.

-Oh, sorry. No, no, no.

I was hoping some country beginning with M would suddenly just come.

-It is Madagascar.

-That would have scored four points.

That's the best answer up there.

There we are. Thank you very much indeed.

So, we're halfway through the round,

so let's take you a look at those scores.

Well, Viv! You see, there you were not that thrilled with 26

but the best score, by a margin, in the round so far.

Then we scoot up to 71. Where we find Zechariah and Joe.

Up to 72, Julia and Linda. Then 100, Adam and Lucy.

Well, listen, you're not that far ahead. It's quite nice.

Quite a nice gang of you at the back there.

Yeah. But a low score from you is what we need

to keep you in the game. So, good luck with that.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Let's put seven more landmarks on the board and here they come.

We've got...

Here they come again.

Joe, welcome back.

Now, Joe, remind us what you do.

I'm a management consultant for a financial services firm.

That's right. And what do you do when you're not doing that?

I do a lot of sport. I did a triathlon. I play a lot of football.

Golf. We've got a big football tournament, actually, coming up,

-in Berlin in a month.

-Oh, now, that's fun. You'll travel out there?

-Is this five-a-side?

-This is 11-a-side.

-11-a-side.

How many people are competing in that?

I think... Well, it's not just football -

I think there's 60-something countries across all disciplines.

-Wow!

-So, there'll be, like, 3,000 or 4,000 athletes.

-So I'm looking forward to it.

-Brilliant. Fantastic.

Gosh, best of luck with that.

Now, it's quite precarious.

As I pointed out, all very close, the scores at the top.

There you are, on 71.

High-scorers, Lucy and Adam, on 100.

So, 28 or less. Would keep you in the game for sure.

Yeah.

Well, there's one obvious one.

I could probably take a stab at most of them,

but I'm going to go with the top one, which I think I know.

-I think it's Mali.

-Mali, says Joe. There's your Red Line.

Get below that with Mali and you are into the next round.

How many people said Mali for Timbuktu?

It certainly right.

It's nice and close to the line.

Oh, it takes you over the line!

Very well done indeed.

That's 16. Lowest score of the row so far.

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87 is your total. Very well done.

Well played, Joe. Great answer. Timbuktu.

It's twinned with Hay-on-Wye.

-That's right.

-That's nice, isn't it?

It really is.

Hay-on-Wye, of course, has lots of second-hand bookshops.

Timbuktu has a lot of libraries.

It's a very learned ancient city.

-Is it genuinely true?

-Yes. It is genuinely twinned, yes.

That's hilarious!

Do you know what? Some friends of ours who live...

Where do they live? Cambridgeshire.

They put up, it's not them, but in their village,

tiny little village called Stoke Doyle,

somebody put up a sign saying, "Twinned with Barcelona"

underneath Stoke Doyle.

Then somebody knocked it over -

a council contractor chopping the hedge knocked it over,

and then put a posh proper one up, saying, "Twinned with Barcelona."

-So they have an official sign.

-No! That's hilarious.

Saying they're twinned with Barcelona. And they're not.

Anyway, there we go.

Now, Linda, welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here.

What do you do, Linda?

I work part-time as a chief invigilator in a secondary school.

Very good indeed. Invigilating, of course,

as I have said before, these days...

You used to be able to read a book.

-Or do marking. You can't any more.

-No.

-You've just got to look

-and hand out paper.

-Yes. That's right.

Now, Linda, what do you do for fun?

For fun? Music, and more music, and still more music.

What sort of music?

-I sing in a choir and in a small group.

-Lovely.

And enjoy going to concerts as well.

So, what's the small group? Is that like...

The small group, we go around singing at women's guilds

and charities and so on.

Sometimes we sponsor ourselves for charity.

Very good. What's the larger group?

The large group is a choral society.

-We do concerts.

-I see. That's lovely. So, big choral works.

-Really good fun getting your teeth into.

-It is, yes.

-OK.

Now, Linda, on 72, the highest score, is still Lucy and Adam on 100.

-So, 27 or less gets you through.

-Right.

There's one I definitely know, or I could take a guess.

I will go for a guess.

And I will try the Kigali Memorial Centre...

and Rwanda.

Rwanda, says Linda. Now, here is your Red Line.

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

It's a bit of a punt.

I'm just going through my mental Rolodex. It's quite slow.

See if I can think of any other African countries beginning with R.

Sounds great to me. Anyway. Let's see if Rwanda's right.

Let's see how any of our 100 people said it, if it is.

It's right.

Very well done indeed.

Ooh! 29!

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I think that's good enough. Takes your total up to 101.

Yes, the only African country beginning with R.

-Kigali, of course, is its capital.

-Excellent. Very good.

-Thank you very much.

-Pleasure.

Now, Lucy, welcome.

Also here from Birmingham.

What do you do in Birmingham?

I'm a physiotherapist.

Are you? Because my back is killing me.

As regular viewers will know,

it is something I do bang on about quite a lot.

What sort of physiotherapy do you do?

Not really backs. I'm better if you've had your leg amputated.

LAUGHTER

My leg has been somewhat missing.

-So... Right, I see.

-Prosthetic.

-Mainly after surgery, but also prosthetic rehab...

-I see.

..I Spend a lot of time doing, getting people up and walking again.

-Very good. And prosthetics - so amazing these days.

-They are.

That must be quite rewarding, actually.

-As people learn how to work them.

-It's lovely.

What do you do for fun, Lucy? What are your hobbies?

I've recently started sewing and dressmaking.

Started trying to make myself some things and learn a new skill.

Anything of your own manufacture that you're wearing today?

-Definitely not.

-OK. If you get... For the next show, maybe?

-OK, Lucy, you aren't the

-high-scorers. No.

What we need from you is a pointless answer. That's your target.

Right. Erm, there's two that I know,

but neither of them are going to be anywhere near good enough.

I think I'm going to go for Fish River Canyon and Nairobi.

Nairobi. Fish River Canyon. Nairobi.

Your Red Line is there, you just can't see it.

It's at the bottom of the column.

Let's see, though, if Nairobi is right.

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

AUDIENCE GROANS

Oh, Lucy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

There's a shield on its way for you, I promise. I'll sort that out.

That's scores you 100 points. Takes your total up to 200.

Yes. Sorry, Lucy.

We will have a slight postmortem on that answer at the end of the pass.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Rosie.

Welcome back. Here from Washington.

Now, remind us what you like getting up to in Washington, Rosie?

Well, as well as bird-watching, I love gardening.

I only have a small garden, back and front,

but I spend a lot of time in there, planting flowers

and spending a fortune - which my husband doesn't like.

Now, do you have flowers...

How early in the year do the flowers start and how late do they go until?

-Snowdrops.

-Snowdrops.

And go all the way through.

-Do you have those roses that stay flowering all the way through?

-Yes.

Yeah. The autumn roses are lovely.

Are you the pride of your road, though?

Does everybody stop and stare?

They do, actually. Particularly in the spring.

It's a great service you're doing for everyone.

Anyway. Listen. You're our low scorers.

And, also, it doesn't matter what you do score

because you're through to the next round anyhow.

If you fancied it, Rosie, you could talk us through the board.

I thought, maybe, Fish River Canyon's in Nigeria?

Pyramids Of Giza, I guess, are Egypt.

Kilimanjaro, is that Tanzania?

Nubian Desert, Somalia?

I'm going to go for the Omo River,

which I'm going to guess is in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia, says Rosie. No Red Line for you. You're already through.

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

Absolutely right.

26. Exactly the same score as Viv. Very well done indeed.

Taking your total up to 52.

The lowest total of the round. Well done.

Well done, Rosie. Yes, the Omo River.

Some of the very earliest fossils of Homo sapiens

-are found by the Omo River.

-"Omo" Sapiens.

-"Omo" Sapiens. Yeah...

-Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah.

-Yeah!

195,000 years old...they were.

-Wow.

-Amazing, isn't it?

-Wow.

And those are fossils, so if you add the age that the person was,

-it is 195,000 and, like, 70 years old.

-Wow.

-It's incredible, isn't it?

Now, let's clear up where this Fish River Canyon is.

200 club there.

-Adam, I wonder if you might have a guess as to where it is.

-Namibia.

It is in Namibia. That is exactly where it is.

Could have given yourself a chance

if you said that, it scored 6 points.

It's a very good answer. The Pyramids of Giza are in Egypt.

Big scorer, would have scored 75.

Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania.

That would have scored 32.

Now, Nubian Desert. It is not Somalia.

-Any ideas?

-Sudan.

Yes, Sudan is the right answer, well done. 30 points for that.

So the best answer on the board, ironically, Namibia.

There we are, thanks very much.

At the end of our first round, the pair we are saying goodbye to,

with their high score of 200, is Lucy and Adam.

Yes, I'm afraid that was a tough board, that was tough.

But we had some fun guesses, though.

We will see you again next time,

and I'm quite sure you'll go much, much, much further.

-In the meantime, thanks for playing, Lucy and Adam.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

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

And now we're down to three pairs, at the end of this round,

we'll have to say goodbye to one of the pairs in front of me.

Viv and Rosie, you've done it again. Very well done.

Our lowest combined score.

Joe, our lowest individual score with Mali, so very well done.

And, Julia and Linda, just well done. Just lovely to have you here.

LAUGHTER Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

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

Artists with one of the biggest-selling albums

of the millennium, Richard.

Yes, in March 2015, The Official Charts Company

released the list of the 50 top-selling albums

of the millennium.

50 top-selling albums since the first week of 2000.

We're looking for any act who had an album on that list, please.

It might have been released before the millennium,

but it is just sales from the first week of 2000 onwards.

-Any of the acts on that list.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, Rosie...

an act on that list. Top 50 albums.

Um, I'll try Robbie Williams.

Robbie Williams, says Rosie. Robbie Williams. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Robbie Williams.

It's right.

That's a very good score, Rosie, very well done indeed.

12 that scores you. APPLAUSE

He actually had four albums on that list, which is pretty good going.

The highest was 21 with Swing When You're Winning.

Thanks very much, Richard. Now then, Linda.

-I'll go down the same route and try Take That.

-Take That, says Linda.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people TOOK that.

It's right, very well done indeed. Well, 12 for Robbie.

26 for Take That.

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And they also had four entries on the list as well, Take That.

Number 13 with Beautiful World, that was their highest entry.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, Zechariah, what would you like to go for?

I would have liked to have gone for Take That. I can't now.

I'm going to go with Kylie Minogue.

Kylie Minogue, says Zechariah. Of course.

Kylie Minogue, surely.

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

-Oh!

-(What!)

Oh, not Kylie Minogue.

There we are. Scores you 100 points.

Not Kylie, I'm afraid, Zechariah.

They are making a sneaky bid for the 400 club,

aren't they, those two? You can... That's what's happening.

Of course they are. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Well, we are halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. 12, Rosie, once again,

Rosie and Viv.

Just absolutely...

I mean, I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say.

The lowest scorers once again.

And then up to 26, where we find Linda and Julia.

Then up to 100, where we find Zechariah and Joe.

Now, Joe, these rounds can sometimes have some surprising answers.

So, if we have a low score from you,

it might be enough to keep you in the game, so best of luck.

Come up with one of those if you can.

We are going to come back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Right, Joe.

Um, yeah.

So, I've obviously got a few names in my head.

-Let's go with Eminem.

-Eminem. Eminem.

No red line for you, you are the high-scorers.

But let's see how many of our 100 people said Eminem - if it's right.

It's right.

Good answer, Joe.

Look at that, 2!

Very well done indeed. APPLAUSE

Now, that could keep you in the game.

Very well played, Joe.

Terrific answer. Number 20 on the list with The Marshall Mathers LP.

Thanks very much. Julia. Julia, we have a target now.

You have to score 75 or less.

I think this is probably going to score quite highly,

-but I'll say Beyonce.

-Beyonce, says Julia.

Well, as I say, 75 or less gets you through.

There's your red line coming on now.

Let's see if Beyonce can get you below that.

Oh!

Oh, Julia.

Oh, Beyonce!

How did that not happened? Anyway, we will discover that.

Scores you 100 points - takes your total up to 126.

Joe and Zechariah, so relieved behind you there. Richard.

If you could see the expressions on their little faces...

LAUGHTER

..you wouldn't feel so bad. Yeah, no Beyonce, I'm afraid.

-No Kylie, no Beyonce.

-Interesting. OK, thank you.

Now then, Viv. Listen, I've got great news for you.

-You are in the head-to-head for the second time.

-Hurray!

And possibly as our low scorers once again, but let's see.

What are you going to go for?

Well, not a brilliant subject for me.

I'm hoping this is safe. I'm going to say Rihanna.

Rihanna, says Viv. No red line for you, you are already through.

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

It's right. Very well done indeed.

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Superb. Once again our lowest scorers,

28 for Viv and Rosie. Brilliant.

-How good are Viv and Rosie?

-Just great.

-They keep at it.

Yes, two entries in that top 50 for Rihanna.

Now, there's a few pointless answers. Let's take a look at them.

Christina Aguilera, 40th on the list.

David Gray, who is eighth on the list with White Ladder.

Dido is fifth on the list,

the fifth biggest-selling album of the millennium, Dido, with No Angel.

She is also 11th on the list for Life For Rent.

Guns N' Roses were number 50 on the list.

The brilliant Keane, 14th, with Hopes And Fears.

Norah Jones is on the list, 18th, with Come Away With Me. Two more.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, By The Way.

And Texas, 42nd on the list, with their Greatest Hits.

Let's take a look at the top three.

Take That, at 26.

Coldplay, of course, 29. Had three albums on that list.

Adele, number one bestseller, and the biggest scorer on the round.

-She had two albums in that list as well.

-Fabulous.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

We are at the end of our second round,

and I'm afraid it's time for us to say goodbye to Julia and Linda.

Yeah, Beyonce. I'm...I'm flabbergasted.

But she wasn't on the list.

We will see you again next time, Julia and Linda.

Look forward to that very much indeed.

But in the meantime, thanks for playing, Julie and Linda.

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

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Very well done, Viv and Rosie, Joe and Zechariah.

You are now one step closer to the final,

and the chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £3,250.

-AUDIENCE:

-Woo!

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Well, you know the deal here. You can start playing as a team.

First pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

Well, very, very best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

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Here comes your first question. And it concerns...

Honorary Knights And Dames, Richard.

We are going to show you five pictures of people

who have been made an honorary knight or dame.

That is someone who is not a citizen of the UK.

You just need to give us the most obscure answer, please.

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's show our five pictures of honorary knights or dames,

and here they are.

We've got...

There we are, five honorary knights or dames.

Viv and Rosie will go first.

-SHE WHISPERS:

-D.

-Yeah.

Right, do you want to say it?

OK, we are going to go for D, Andre Previn.

Andre Previn, say Viv and Rosie. Andre Previn.

Now then, Joe and Zechariah, do you fancy talking us through that board?

Yes, it's not great.

Obviously we know E. I feel like I recognise C,

-but I think we will have to go for Angelina Jolie.

-OK, E,

Angelina Jolie. So we have Andre Previn and Angelina Jolie.

Viv and Rosie said Andre Previn.

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

It most certainly is right. Look at that.

Nice low score. Well done.

13 for Andre Previn.

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Joe and Zechariah have said E is Angelina Jolie.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is,

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

39. APPLAUSE

That's lower than I was expecting there.

But very well done. Viv and Rosie, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Well played again, Viv and Rosie.

There is one answer up there that would have beaten your score.

It is not the first one, that, of course, is Steven Spielberg.

And he would have scored you 22 points.

It is not the third one.

The third one, he was the US Secretary of State...

-Colin Powell.

-Colin Powell.

He would have scored you 25. It is the second one.

She was born in Dublin. Mezzo-soprano. Ann Murray.

And she was a pointless answer, so, very well done if you said that.

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

Joe and Zechariah, you get to answer it first, but you have to win it

to stay in the game, so best of luck. It concerns...

Protected Foods Or Beverages, Richard.

We'll show you the names

now of five protected foods or beverages from the UK.

It'll give you the first word of their name

and then just a few initials to help you along.

Can you identify them, please?

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five clues to protected food and beverages,

and here they are.

I'll read those all again.

There we are.

Now then, Joe and Zechariah.

THEY WHISPER

Again, there's only one that we can probably get.

We'll for Anglesey sea salt.

Anglesey sea salt, say Joe and Zechariah.

Now, Viv and Rosie, do you fancy talking us through the board?

I wish I could.

The top one, I'm going to kick myself.

I think it's butter, Rutland butter.

Stornoway black something

but we're going to go for Fal oysters.

-Fal oysters.

-Yes.

So, Anglesey sea salt, Fal oysters.

Anglesey sea salt. say Joe and Zechariah,

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

It's right.

60 for the sea salt.

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Viv and Rosie meanwhile have gone for Fal oysters.

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

Very well done!

Very well done indeed, 23. No arguing with that.

And it means Viv and Rosie, after only two questions,

-you're straight through to the final, 2-0.

-Very well played again.

Now you do know that third one down.

-It is black, and it's black...

-Pudding.

-..pudding.

Stornoway black pudding, of course it is.

It would have scored 46 points.

-Now, the second one is not Rutland butter.

-Bitter?

Rutland bitter.

Very nearly Rutland butter.

Rutland bitter would have scored you four,

actually the best score on the board.

And the top one, Fenland... what food fits in there?

Anybody?

AUDIENCE: Celery.

Celery, say the audience, and they are quite right.

-Never heard of it.

-Six points.

-I mean, I've heard of celery!

LAUGHTER

It was the first vegetable to have protected status in the UK.

I can't believe that wasn't on the news.

I know, extraordinary!

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

I'm afraid the pair leaving us - I mean, an heroic performance.

You dodged the 200 club, the 400 club, should I say,

and here you are in the head-to-head -

but I'm afraid not going through to the final.

It's been great having you on both shows.

Thanks so much for playing, Joe and Zechariah!

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-Well done.

-Thanks.

But for Viv and Rosie, it's now time for our Pointless final.

So many congratulations, Viv and Rosie, you've finally done it.

You've fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

Wow!

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £3,250.

There it is.

Now, 250 of those pounds are down to you, Viv,

and your pointless answer last time round.

Now, anything you particularly would like to see?

You've been so strong across so many categories.

-I like history.

-History.

-Natural history, nature, those sort of things.

-Yeah.

OK, well, let's see what today's choices are.

Let's hope there's something you like among these four...

Britain in World War II?

-It is history, but I like older history.

-I know you do.

-Um...but the rest could be dodgy.

-I know.

-Yeah.

-All right.

We'll go for the top one, Britain in World War II.

-Britain in World War II, Richard.

-Very best of luck.

Three very different questions here. Hopefully one of these suits you.

We're looking for any word of five letters or more

that appears in the lyrics of We'll Meet Again, the song from 1939,

other than "again" obviously.

We are looking for the name of any aircraft

from the RAF or the Luftwaffe,

according to the RAF website, that fought in the Battle of Britain.

Or we are looking for anyone according to IMDB, any actor

who had a credit in the David Lean film In Which We Serve, from 1942.

So, words of five or more letters in We'll Meet Again,

Battle of Britain aircraft from the RAF or Luftwaffe

and the cast of In Which We Serve. Good luck.

Thanks very much, Richard.

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

All you need to win that jackpot

-is for just one of those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

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

Your time starts now.

-Right, do you know any from the bottom one?

-Um...no.

-Right, forget that, then.

-I don't know what it is!

-It's a film.

-I know THAT!

All right, forget it. Battle of Britain aircraft.

There are some obvious ones,

there's the Lancaster, Messerschmitt, Spitfire...

What did you fly in? When you did your...

-Oh, the Gypsy Moth - that's the First World War.

-Ah!

Don't worry!

So, we've got those.

Right, We'll Meet Again...

Isn't it, "We'll keep flying through, just like we always do"?

Flying?

-Well...

-I think it's "flying through".

"We'll keep flying through..."

Right, what are we saying? "We'll meet again, don't know where,

-"don't know when, but..."

-"I know we'll meet again some sunny day."

"Sunny".

-So it's "sunny".

-Ten seconds left.

-"Flying..."

-And, say...

-Messerschmitt...

-Lancaster?

-OK, Lancaster.

-All right, OK.

OK, that's your time up.

What three answers are you going to give me?

Right, two from the lyrics...

-And they are?

-..from We'll Meet Again. Flying...

-Flying.

-..and sunny.

-Sunny.

-Yeah.

-OK.

And the other?

-One aircraft, Lancaster.

-Lancaster.

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

Sunny, because I've just realised one of them's wrong!

So we will say "sunny" is the best shot.

OK, sunny goes last.

-Least likely to be Pointless?

-Flying.

-Flying.

Probably flying - OK, and then Lancaster in the middle.

Let's pop those answers up on the board

and here they are in that order.

We've got flying, we've got Lancaster and we've got sunny.

Very, very best of luck. Three answers up there.

Let's hope at least one of those is pointless and you win the jackpot.

What would you do with it, Viv?

Right, one of my dreams is to spend a long weekend

in the Gritti Palace in Venice,

staying there - one of the most expensive hotels.

I love Venice, and I try and go every year.

I'd go back with my good friend here.

Lovely. Rosie, how about you?

Yeah, well, that's that spent.

LAUGHTER

But, yeah, we both, we do both share a love of Venice.

We've actually got it planned,

coming up in the next few months, so...

-Wonderful.

-..it would be great.

-Wouldn't that the lovely?

Well, very, very best of luck.

Fingers crossed one of these answers is pointless.

Your first answer was flying - in this case we were looking

for words of five letters or more from the lyrics of We'll Meet Again.

Let's see. It has to be pointless for you to win the £3,250.

Let's see how many people said, "flying".

Oh, bad luck.

I think you had a hunch

that was probably not going to be a correct answer.

Unfortunately not a pointless answer either,

which means only two more shots at today's jackpot.

The Lancaster was your next answer.

In this case who were looking for Battle of Britain aircraft.

Let's see, it has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

For £3,250, let's see how many people said, "Lancaster".

Oh...

-Surprising.

-Mm!

Well, we'll hear all about that at the end of the round, I guess.

Which means only one more shot at today's jackpot.

Everything is riding on your third and final answer, which was "sunny".

We're back on we'll meet again lyrics of five letters or more.

Sunny, it has to be pointless for you to win.

For £3,250, how many people said, "sunny", is it pointless?

It's right.

Well, your first answer was, "flying",

which turned out to be incorrect

and Lancaster I'm afraid also turned out...incorrect.

46 for sunny.

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Oh, I'm so sorry.

That is so against the grain of your, of your Pointless career so far.

I mean you have been low scorers after low scorers

after low scorers - but, valiant attempt,

-and you get a Pointless trophy each to take away.

-That's the main thing.

And you have been absolutely wonderful on the show.

I'm afraid, yes, no jackpot, as there was no pointless answer.

That rolls over on to the next show.

But, yeah, wonderful to have you, here, Viv and Rosie. Richard?

Yeah, it's a real shame - you know, you've been brilliant

on so many categories through two shows now,

and just a tough one at the end, it's very, very bad timing.

Now there's pointless answers on all the different categories.

There's two key lines on We'll Meet Again

where all the pointless answers were.

One is, "They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go

"I was singing this song."

"They'll", "happy" and "singing", all pointless answers.

And also, "Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away."

And "skies" and "drive", also pointless answers.

Those were all the pointless answers for We'll Meet Again,

as we see here.

"Drive", "happy", "singing", "skies" and "they'll".

Now we'll go onto Battle Of Britain aircraft.

The Lancasters, they were longer range things.

The were along lots of the bombing raids in Europe,

but they weren't part of the Battle Of Britain,

according to the RAF website.

The Bristol Beaufighter, the Gloster Gladiator,

I know lots of people had got. The Heinkel HE 111.

The Messerschmitt 110 as well. The Zerstorer

A few others you could have had there -

I know some people love military aircraft -

you could have had the Boulton Paul Defiant.

The Bristol Blenheim and the Dornier Do 17,

so very well done if you said any of those terrific answers.

And now, let's take a look at In Which We Serve.

Ballard Berkeley of course went on to play the Major in Fawlty Towers.

Daniel Massey, Derek Elphinstone, Joyce Carey,

everyone was pointless in that film

other than Noel Coward and Richard Attenborough, both scored eight,

John Mills seven, Celia Johnson three and Bernard Miles, one.

Very well done if you got any pointless answers at home.

You've been brilliant for two shows.

Thank you for entertaining us so much

and sorry we didn't serve you up with a better category.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Rich.

Well, unfortunately we have to say goodbye to you, Viv and Rosie,

but it's been wonderful having you on both shows.

Thank you so much for playing. Viv and Rosie, great contestants.

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Well, sadly, Viv and Rosie didn't win our jackpot today

which means it rolls over to the next show

when we'll be playing for £4,250.

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Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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