Episode 54 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong. Welcome to Pointless,

the show where we are always striving to find the most obscure answers.

Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

-Couple number one.

-Hi, I'm Julia,

this is my mum, Linda, and we're both from near Glasgow.

Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Lucy, this is my friend Adam and we're from Birmingham.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Mathew, this is my girlfriend, Danniella.

She's from Manchester and I'm from Lancaster.

And, finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Sean, this is my partner, Matt, and we're from Leicester.

These are today's contestants. APPLAUSE

Thanks, all of you.

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

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Here to help our players beat overwhelming odds

to take home our trophy, odds so massive, in fact,

he assures me they're almost one in four,

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

-Hiya.

-Hi, everybody. Afternoon.

-APPLAUSE

-Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

It would be a good day to take home that trophy

-cos the jackpot is coming up nicely.

-Yes.

And quite an open field cos we have two pairs coming back

from the last show but neither got through to the head-to-head.

We've got, on podium one, Round Two for Julia and Linda

and on podium two, Round One for Adam and Lucy.

-Not just Round One, but the 200 Club as well.

-Mmm.

So, we're always on 400 Club alert

when a couple come back after being in the 200 Club.

Welcome to podiums three and four.

Hopefully, you could take some money home with you

-at the end of today's show.

-Exciting times.

You know what? We live in very exciting times.

-Don't we?

-I don't think it's an overexaggeration to say

it might be the most exciting episode in the history,

not just of Pointless, but of all television.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, yes, Viv and Rosie didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another £1,000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off...

Look at that.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

APPLAUSE

As ever, remember the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated,

so your only job is to make sure you are not in that pair.

Our first category for Round One this afternoon is...

It's a Words round.

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

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

Words ending "gent". Richard.

Yes, any word which has its own entry

in the oxforddictionaries.com English language section, please,

that ends "gent" up to the beginning of March, 2015.

No proper nouns, no hyphenated words

and we won't accept the word "gent" itself.

-Mmm.

-Mmm.

-Sorry, just thinking.

-I know you're thinking.

-Yeah.

-It's quite nice for you, this one. I think you've got...

-Yeah.

You write down the one you think I'm going to come up with. Brilliant.

-Julia, welcome back.

-Thanks.

-It was Round Two last time.

-It was.

Remind us what you do.

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

-You're up in East Kilbride.

-Yes.

-What do you like getting up to up there?

Um, I like football. I go to football when I can.

-I support Motherwell Football Club.

-Very good.

I have two young sons who keep me incredibly busy.

-Who are three and one.

-Yes.

-Callum and Fraser.

-Yes, that's right.

Very good. Callum, Fraser, be good. LAUGHTER

-Yeah, that'll help cos...

-That'll really help, yeah(!)

LAUGHTER

Now, Julia, we're looking for words ending "gent".

I had a word that popped into my head straightaway,

so I think I'll go for that. "Insurgent".

"Insurgent", says Julia.

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

It's right.

Not bad at all! 12, Julia. What about that?!

APPLAUSE

12 gets us off to a rollicking start.

Great start on podium one, Julia. Very well played.

Yes, it's essentially anything that's inside a doctor.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Lucy, welcome back.

-Hello.

-Remind us what you do, Lucy.

-I'm a physiotherapist.

-I work with amputees.

-That's right.

And in your spare time, Lucy, what do you get up to in Birmingham?

Doing a bit of sewing and dressmaking and also pub quizzes.

-So what's the next step on the sewing thing?

-I think a top's next.

-A top.

Yeah, you can cut it all out and pin it onto the material.

-Have you got a machine?

-Yes.

See, that's quite fun, anyway, even if it's a disaster.

-It's quite fun making stuff with a machine.

-It's fun having a go.

Exactly. Now, Lucy, words ending "gent".

Um, I think I'm going to go with "Tangent".

"Tangent", says Lucy.

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

12 is all we've got so far.

"Tangent" is at 20. There we are. Not bad.

APPLAUSE

Well played, Lucy. Avoided that 400 Club as well.

That's a man who works in a salon.

LAUGHTER

Thanks very much indeed. Mathew, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. Where are you from?

-I'm from Lancaster and I live and work in Aberdeen now.

-I see.

-And what do you do in Aberdeen?

-I'm a trainee accountant.

-How long are you training for?

-I've been a trainee for one year

and I've got two more years left before I qualify.

And you get your exam to be a chartered accountant, is that right?

-Yes.

-And they're impossible.

-They're really hard, yeah.

I've just had a couple recently. They're tough.

Mathew, what do you like doing to take your mind off the accountancy?

I like going to the gym, running, keeping healthy.

Quite into making nutritious meals, cooking, things like that.

-Nutritious meals?

-Yeah.

You went for nutritious over and above delicious, Danniella.

-Are they very nutritious?

-Yeah.

-Um, hopefully.

Listen, Mathew, words ending "gent". What are you going to go for?

-I've been racking my brain. I think "Cogent".

-"Cogent". Ooh, "Cogent".

Very nice. Let's see how many of our 100 people said "Cogent".

Well, our high score is 20, our low score is 12.

You passed the high and the low. 11, look at that. Very well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

-Good word.

-Yeah, good answers all round here.

That just means a middle distance runner.

LAUGHTER

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, Sean, a very warm welcome to Pointless. What do you do, Sean?

-I work in IT.

-In IT. Within a business or...?

-Yeah, within a business.

-And what does the business do? Whose IT?

-We provide LPG to domestic and commercial business.

-I see.

-When you're not working in IT, what thrills you?

-A couple of things.

I do sleight-of-hand magic as a hobby for about seven years.

-That's fun. Are you a member of the Magic Circle?

-Not yet.

-Not yet.

-Not yet.

-How do you become...?

-Or maybe we're not meant to know how you become a member.

-I don't know.

-Does an owl come and...

-I hope so.

-...drop off a message?

If it doesn't, I'll be disappointed.

Can you apply or do you have to audition?

I presume you send some sort of fax or something, I don't know.

-A fax, yes - that's exactly what it will be(!)

-Yeah, you send a fax.

OK, now then, Sean, words ending "gent".

Unfortunately, my first word that I thought of was "Insurgent"

and that was taken from me, so I'm going to go with "Stringent".

"Stringent". "Stringent", says Sean.

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

It's right. 20's the high score still, 11 is the low.

You pass the high score, you pass the low.

2! Look at that!

APPLAUSE

Sean, fantastic. 2 for "Stringent".

He said he'd do something spectacular.

"Stringent", a very good answer. Almost made the column disappear.

LAUGHTER Thank you, Richard.

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

Sean's 2 there, very much the best

of that round so far.

Then up to 11, Mathew and Danniella,

up to 12, Julia and Linda

and then up to 20, Lucy and Adam.

So, Adam, think hard.

It's got to be a nice low score to keep you in the game,

so best of luck. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Matt, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here. What do you do, Matt?

I'm a sales coordinator for a ticketing company.

-Theatrical ticketing company?

-For box offices, music venues,

-arts organisations...

-Where's that? All over the UK?

-All over, yeah.

We've got about 70 arts organisations.

Do you ever have any of those ticket releases where they release them

and they're all gone in 40 minutes?

-Um, yeah, some of our venues are quite popular.

-That's exciting.

Matt, when you're not doing that, what do you like to get up to?

-I get involved in musical theatre.

-Brilliant.

-We do about two shows a year.

-Excellent.

Sean has set you up so well. There you are on 2.

If you could score 17 or less, you are definitely into the next round.

Um... Yeah...

I don't know whether to play it safe or not but I think I am

-and I'm just going to say "Sergent".

-"Sergent".

OK, "Sergent" says Matt.

You have to get below this red line

to get through to the next round. Let's see if "Sergent" is r...

I'm just looking at Sean's face.

Sean had this face on, Matt. I don't know what it means but it was...

LAUGHTER

-Why, is it wrong?

-I think that's good, isn't it?

Yeah, well, let's see. "Sergent".

"Sergent".

-Oh.

-Why...?

Oh, Matt, I'm sorry. I'm afraid "Sergent"

doesn't finish like that.

I don't want to give it away but it's not how it ends.

Spoiler alert. I'm afraid that scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 102.

Yeah, ends "eant", I'm afraid, "Sergeant".

So a great answer in words ending "eant".

LAUGHTER

But you know, sometimes you've got to answer the question on the board.

-Yeah.

-That's just...

LAUGHTER Yeah, yeah.

OK, thank you. Sorry. Now, Danniella, welcome.

What do you do, Danniella?

I just graduated from uni.

-What were you studying at uni?

-Accounting and finance. So much fun!

Oh! There you are. Is that how you met, studying accountancy?

-No, we met at a uni party.

-That's nice, very nice. Good.

Far more fun than meeting on the accountancy course.

What are you going to go and do, Danniella,

now you've finished your studying?

-Probably start training at another accounting firm, hopefully.

-Right.

I quite like programming nowadays. I've got an app on the App Store.

I had to do it for school, for uni,

and it's kind of stuck with me now, this whole programming thing.

OK, very good. Now, Danniella, you're on 11.

The high-scorers, on 102, are Matt and Sean.

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

I'm going to go with the funny word from Anchorman

where he smells the perfume and it's "Pungent".

"Pungent". "Pungent", says Danniella.

Gets a nod from Mathew.

Nice high red line for you. You just have to get below that.

Let's see if you can.

Very well done indeed.

10.

APPLAUSE

-21's your total. Through you go.

-Well played, Danniella,

and you beat Mathew by 1 point as well which is terrific.

"Pungent" which is somebody who likes making puns.

-The worst sort of people in the world!

-Oh!

Oh, I can't bear it.

Stop making puns and stuff, you pungents! Oh!

LAUGHTER Adam, welcome back.

-Hello.

-Remind us what you do.

-I'm a press officer for a charity,

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Indeed. And in your spare time, Adam?

I'm an armchair sportsman but since joining the charity,

I've started taking part in a few more challenges.

You got out of the armchair? That's good.

Got out of the armchair onto the streets.

Onto the...onto the streets. Challenges like what?

I've done a 10K muddy obstacle course,

running through Leicestershire,

and I've got the Three Peaks coming up soon as well.

So less of the armchair, Adam, this is verging on the active!

-Dangerously!

-Almost.

-Yeah. Now, you're on 20.

-81 or less is what you have to score.

-Yeah.

After... I've got a few that I think could be low scores

but after last time's disaster, I'm going to play it safe, I think.

-I'm going to say "Regent".

-"Regent," says Adam.

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

There's your red line, nice and high.

Well done. "Regent" does it for you.

APPLAUSE 36. Takes your total up to 56.

-You are through.

-Safely through. Very well played.

-Someone who... You know what a regent is.

-Yeah.

-Don't you?

-I like a regent.

-Yeah.

-Good. Now, Linda, welcome back.

How many of your words have been stolen by other people?

-None.

-That's good.

-Well done, you, for saying that.

-I was really worried.

Linda, lovely to have you back.

Remind us what you like getting up to.

I enjoy a lot of music-making but, other than that,

I enjoy cooking and I enjoy walking

-and I also enjoy DIY and decorating.

-Good for you.

You're in loads of different choirs, lots of choral groups.

You've got a small unit that you sing with

-and you're in a choral society.

-Yes.

What's the most exciting thing you've sung?

The most exciting thing I've sung is probably the Verdi Requiem.

That's exciting, yes. Very exciting. The Dies Irae from that

get the hairs on the back of your neck up, doesn't it?

What are you going to go for? You're on 12.

If you can score 89 or less, you're through.

It's words ending "gent".

I hope this will score 89 or less. "Intransigent".

"Intransigent". There we are. A hammer to crack a nut, Linda.

But yes, there's your red line.

If you get below that with "Intransigent",

you are through to the next round.

Very well done indeed.

Look at that! 2, Linda!

Worth waiting for. You're up there with Sean.

Takes your total up to 14, lowest total of the round.

Brilliant stuff on podium one.

Very good. It's the name for a conductor

on a train if they've still got them.

-Now, do you have an answer?

-Yeah, I do.

I was rather hoping Matt might have taken...

Just put an A in front of "Stringent" to make "Astringent".

-I tell you something...

-That wasn't the one I was going for though.

-Was it not?

-Is that the one you've written down?

-It is, yeah.

-Look at that. "Plangent" was mine.

-Do you know what? I wrote down two.

-Did you?

-Genuinely wrote down two.

-I wrote down "Astringent"...

-Yeah.

-..which is a pointless answer.

-But I wrote down another one on another bit of paper.

-Yeah, go on.

This is a name for the sort of person who likes to plan

-and it's "Plangent".

-Look at that! You got them both!

-There you go.

-"Plangent" scored 4 points.

-4, that's hopeless!

But I wrote that down at the start of the round

and when "stringent" came out, I wondered...

I thought you might do "unstringent" at first

because I know what you're like sometimes.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

"Astringent" - there you go.

Counteragent is a very good answer, isn't it?

"Fulgent", which is you at the end of a meal.

Those are all the pointless answers you could have had.

Let's look at the top three answers,

the ones most of our 100 people said.

"Regent" the third biggest answer of all. 36.

-Agent 48 sounds like a book.

-Yeah, quite a good one, too.

-Agent 48.

Urgent 37 sounds like a terrible top line of a dating profile.

LAUGHTER

That's excellent. Thank you very much indeed.

So, we're at the end of our first round

and I'm so sorry, Matt and Sean,

it's you to whom we have to wish farewell.

Listen, "Stringent", Sean, hats off to you, sir.

"Sergent" - listen, we'll see you again next time, Matt.

There'll be plenty of opportunity to put that behind you.

Thanks very much for playing. Matt and Sean, everyone.

Great contestants.

APPLAUSE

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

APPLAUSE

We're down to three pairs.

At the end of this round, we'll have to say goodbye to another pair.

Julia and Linda, very, very well done.

Lovely low score with "Intransigent" from you, Linda.

So, our lowest team score

and lowest individual of our remaining players with you, Linda.

And Danniella and Mathew, very well done.

"Cogent", "Pungent" - great words there. And Adam and Lucy, well done.

This is what Round Two looks like.

-I hope you like what we've done with it.

-Very exciting.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...

Famous People. Can you decide in your pairs

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

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

OK, and the question concerns...

People born in 1956, Richard.

On each pass, we'll give you six clues to famous people

who will be or would be celebrating their 60th birthday in 2016.

There will be 6 on each pass, 12 in all to have a go at home.

-Best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our first board of 1956 births.

I'll read those one last time.

Julia, over to you.

I know two for definite and I'm really frustrated

cos I do know a third and I just can't get the surname at all.

So, I will say the former tennis player

who became host of A Question Of Sport is Sue Barker.

Sue Barker, says Julia.

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

It's right.

55.

55 for Sue Barker. APPLAUSE

Well played, Julia.

The wonderful Sue Barker,

who I always threaten to replace you with.

-Yeah.

-If you ever get out of line.

-LAUGHTER

-Thanks, Rich. Now then, Adam.

-Yes.

My mind's gone blank. I know the first names of a couple.

There's only one I know for sure, so I'm going to have to say it.

Back-to-back Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump is Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks, says Adam. Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right. 55 was our high score.

76 is now our high score.

APPLAUSE

-Two big scorers now. His first Oscar nomination was for Big.

-Ah.

-Where he plays a child trapped in an adult body.

-Very good.

-Lovely film.

It is a sweet film. Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Mathew, this board's all yours.

If you fancy it, you can talk us all the way through it.

I was really hoping that those two wouldn't be said.

I'm really trying to think of the film director

for the Olympic Games opening ceremony

and I should know it but it's just gone out of my head,

so I'm going to have to take a complete guess at the model

cos I don't know that either. Twiggy.

OK. OK, Twiggy, says Mathew.

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

Oh, not Twiggy, Mathew, I'm afraid. Scores you 100 points.

Did you hear the light chorus of disapproval from the audience?

-I did, yeah.

-They weren't happy about that.

-The answer to that one is...

-Jerry Hall.

-Jerry Hall, of course.

Quite a big scorer, 46.

The one everyone's struggling with, the British film director?

-Danny Boyle.

-Danny Boyle, yeah.

20 points for that. The screenplays for Four Weddings?

-Richard Curtis.

-Would have scored 19.

The best answer on the board is the bottom one

and that is the American crime writer Patricia Cornwell.

-But even that scores 10, so quite a high-scoring board there.

-Thank you.

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

55, Julia, there we are. Best score of the pass. What about that?

Very well done, Julia and Linda,

our low-scorers at this point.

Then up to 76, Adam and Lucy. Not bad, as it turns out.

Mathew and Danniella, there you are on 100.

Danniella, let's hope you can find something on the next board

that you like the look of that's a nice low scorer.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put six more clues up on the board and here they come.

I'll read those all one last time.

-Danniella.

-Um...

I know a couple but I think I'm going to go with the one

I think people know less, maybe, I don't know.

For the first one, Walter White, Bryan Cranston.

Bryan Cranston, says Danniella.

No red line for you, as you're the high-scorers. Bryan Cranston.

Let's see how far down the column we get with that.

It's right.

That's a good answer. Look at that. Very well done indeed, Danniella.

That could keep you in the game,

you never know. 113 is your total.

Well played, Danniella, given yourself a real chance there.

He won three back-to-back Emmys for his role as Walter White.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Lucy.

You have to score 36 or less.

I liked the first board much more. I knew more on those.

I think I'm going to go for the actress who was born in Liverpool

and starred in Sex And The City

and say Kim Cattrall.

Kim Cattrall, says Lucy. Here's your red line.

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

How many people said Kim Cattrall?

You've done it. Very well done indeed! 27.

APPLAUSE 27 takes your total up to 103.

A much stronger performance on this pass. Well played.

She originally turned the role down

but then Darren Star persuaded her to do it.

Why did she turn it down, I wonder?

Perhaps she felt the book wasn't for her but it turns out the series was.

There we are. And it was, very much, for her.

Now, Linda. 55 is your score.

57 is your target.

-Do you fancy talking us through the board?

-Um, not especially.

There are two that I know.

The star and director of Braveheart was Mel Gibson.

But the one I'm going to go for is the Swedish tennis player

who's Bjorn Borg.

Bjorn Borg. Here is your red line.

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

It's right.

Very well done. Ooh, look at that!

53. 57 is what you needed.

APPLAUSE 108 is your total.

Very, very close totals in the final reckoning.

It was. It would have been even closer if you'd gone for Mel Gibson

cos it would have seen you

knocked out by 3 points. 61 points for Mel Gibson,

so you did well choosing Borg. The Sex Pistols singer?

-John Lydon.

-John Lydon. That would have score you 25.

I'm surprised some of these people are 60, are you?

-Yes!

-We keep thinking, "Surely they can't be 60."

This next one, I can't believe he's 60 either. Sang the opening line.

-It's Paul Young.

-Paul Young.

-He's been on the show.

-He has been on the show. 5 points. Ironic surname.

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER There you are. Thank you, Richard.

At the end of our second round, I'm sorry to say, Mathew and Danniella,

it is you who we are saying goodbye to.

Lovely to have you on so far. We will have you back next time

and I'm sure you'll go even further than the second round.

I hope so. In the meantime, thanks for playing, Danniella and Mathew.

APPLAUSE

But for Adam and Lucy and Julia and Linda,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Julia and Linda, Adam and Lucy.

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

for our jackpot which, let's not forget, is standing at £4,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This is the bit where you can start playing as a team.

You can chat before you give your answers.

First pair to win two questions plays for that jackpot.

There's something very nice about this.

Our two returning pairs. It's nice, isn't it?

Like a sort of reunion, isn't it, from the last show? Fabulous.

Great to have you all here.

We've never seen you play as pairs together,

so who knows what you'll be like,

but I have a hunch this should be quite close.

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

APPLAUSE

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

-Royal Tours, Richard.

-I'll show you five pictures taken from tours

undergone by members of the British royal family.

You need to tell us the countries

in which the following photographs were taken.

By country, we mean a sovereign state

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

Thank you very much indeed. Let's reveal our five royal tour pictures.

There we are. Five royal tours.

Julia and Linda, you've been our low-scorers, so you get to go first.

INAUDIBLE DISCUSSION

OK. We're going to go for E and say Russia.

E, Russia, say Julia and Linda.

Now, Adam and Lucy, do you fancy talking us through the board?

Um... B is Egypt, I think.

C, they're on the Great Wall of China.

I'm not sure about A. We're debating D.

We think it's a Pacific country but we're not 100% sure so...

-Think we'll say B?

-B, yeah.

-B and Egypt.

B, Egypt.

So, in the order they were given, Julia and Linda said E, Russia.

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

It's right.

52 for Russia.

APPLAUSE

Meanwhile, Adam and Lucy have said that B is Egypt.

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

It's right.

Very well done. Wins you the point.

There we go. 31. APPLAUSE

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

Very well played. Now, A is a better scorer than both of those.

-Surely Ireland.

-It IS Ireland, of course it is.

Would have scored you 12 points.

C, as you say, they're on the Great Wall of China. That is in China.

That would have scored you 82.

They went there and did a coach trip with a lot of other couples.

That's when they got left at the end of...

They were supposed to meet at Gate F and they went to Gate E.

Fine, they got found, there was no problem at all. Now, D.

You said it's somewhere in the Pacific and you're quite right.

It IS somewhere in the Pacific,

somewhere very dear to us on Pointless.

Not only is this a trip to Tuvalu...

Tuvalu is the answer.

..one of our 100 people got that.

-That is pretty good going, isn't it?

-That's good.

-Well done to that one person.

-Very good indeed.

-That's extraordinary Pointless knowledge.

-There we are.

-Having fun there, aren't they, Wills and Kate?

-Yeah. Nice.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Julia and Linda, you have to break back here.

They get to answer first, but you have to win this one

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

-Flightless birds, Richard.

-Five clues now to flightless birds.

You just have to give us the most obscure one.

Thank you very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five clues and here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

Adam and Lucy will go first.

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OK.

I think we're going to go with the bird which shares its name

with an umbrella-wielding DC Comics villain and go with penguin.

Penguin, say Adam and Lucy.

-Now, Julia and Linda, talk us through that board, if you can.

-Um...

We know the second one's the kiwi.

And I should know the third one

but I'm desperately trying to remember the Titans' names.

So, we're going to go for the fourth one,

the land speed record for a bird, which we think would be ostrich.

-Ostrich.

-Yes.

So, we have penguin and we have ostrich. Adam and Lucy said penguin.

Let's see if that's right for the DC Comics villain.

Let's see penguin - how many people said it?

It's right.

45.

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45. Now, meanwhile, Julia and Linda have gone for ostrich,

the land speed record-holding bird.

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

It is right.

-Oh!

-56 for ostrich.

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All of which means, Adam and Lucy, very well done.

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

Well played, Adam and Lucy.

An ostrich can reach a top speed of 43mph.

It has a cruising speed of 31mph as well,

which is why you can't ride one in a built-up area.

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The black-plumed Papua New Guinea native,

renowned for its powerful kicks, is the best answer on the board.

-It's a cassowary.

-Mmm.

-Well done if you said that.

Would have scored you 2 points.

The New Zealand native bird is the biggest scorer on the board,

unsurprisingly - kiwi. 71.

And the South American bird, named after the Titan is the rhea. Rhea.

-That would have scored you 9 points.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

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

Julia and Linda. Such a great performance on the show today,

but I'm afraid this is the end of the road for you.

Our low-scoring pair, in the head-to-head and everything

but it's been great having you on. Thank you for playing.

-Julia and Linda, great contestants.

-Thank you.

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But for Adam and Lucy, it's now time for our Pointless final.

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What about that?

Adam and Lucy, 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

and, at the end of today's show, our jackpot stands at £4,250.

There we are. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Last time you were on, you left in Round One.

-You were 200 Club members as well.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

We've put that behind us, haven't we, pretty swiftly?

What would you like to see us put up for you in this last round?

Despite what happened in the last game,

African geography would be brilliant.

-Lucy, what would you like to submit as your...?

-Maybe human body?

-Bones, that kind of thing.

-That would be great, wouldn't it?

Human Body and Bones and African Geography.

What more could you ask for? We put four up on the board.

There'll be something that you'll be able to answer,

fingers crossed. Here is today's selection.

Pretty much everything you asked for up there on the board.

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-What do you think?

-Um...

-Not boxers.

-Not boxers.

-So, 1930s or literature.

-Absolutely no idea.

Would you feel more comfortable with 1930s?

-Yeah, cos it could be random so we might know something.

-The 1930s.

-1930s. Very, very best of luck. Richard.

-It is quite random.

Three very different areas here. Best of luck, though.

We are looking for any author of the first ten Penguin books.

They all came out in 1935,

so any authors of the first ten Penguin Books.

We're looking for any actor or actress

who won a Best Actor or Best Actress Oscar during the 1930s.

That's from the awards in 1930 to the awards in 1939.

Or any country that won a gold medal at the 1932 or 1936 summer Olympics.

So, first ten Penguin authors,

Best Actor or Best Actress Oscar-winners

and any country that won a gold medal

-at the '32 or '36 summer Olympics.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

All you need to win that jackpot - nice big jackpot today, £4,250 -

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-As we'll ever be.

-Yeah.

OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. Your time starts now.

-Any ideas?

-Penguin books. It could just be any classic book.

Wind In The Willows was written in the 1800s,

so it could be Kenneth Grahame. But that's the only book he did.

What about Oscar-winners? You're quite good at that.

-Not from the 1930s, I'm not. Um...

-There's people like...

When was Gone With The Wind? How far back was that? Is that...?

-It was a bit later than that, wasn't it?

-But what was earlier?

-We could just name random countries.

-OK.

What if we do Kenneth Grahame,

-just because he wrote a classic book in the 1800s.

-Yeah.

-Um...

-Countries?

-Cos Charles Dickens won't be pointless. Countries...

-What do you think?

-Um...

Obviously Great Britain, the US...

Would somewhere like South Africa or...?

-How many would have been in there then?

-Ten seconds left.

-It's tough.

-We could name...

-Ukraine?

-Mmm.

-Did that exist then?

-Yugoslavia.

OK, I'm sorry to say that is your minute up.

-That's the quickest minute ever, isn't it, that one?

-Yes.

I now need three answers from you, I'm so sorry.

From the author of the Penguin books, I'll say Kenneth Grahame.

-Kenneth Grahame, OK.

-Um, the countries... Two countries?

-Yeah.

-I don't now.

-We'll say South Africa.

-South Africa.

-And, um...

-Algeria.

-Algeria.

-Who knows?

-Exactly. Who knows?

-Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Go on.

-Kenneth Grahame.

-Kenneth Grahame goes last.

-Least likely to be pointless.

-Algeria.

Algeria goes first and South Africa goes in the middle.

Let's pop those answers up on the board in that order then

and here they are.

Very, very best of luck. Three answers on the board there.

Who knows, one of those could be pointless.

If it were to be, it would win you £4,250. Now, THAT is a jackpot!

Adam, what would you do with your share of that?

Got a holiday coming up, so go towards that.

-Lots of things to do round the house.

-Wonderful. Lucy?

I think I might put it towards a new car.

I've got a nice little car at the minute,

-but maybe a slightly bigger one.

-OK, good stuff. Very best of luck.

Your first answer was Algeria.

In this case, we were looking for countries that won a gold medal

in the 1932 or the 1936 Olympics.

It has to be pointless for you to win,

so for £4,250, let's see how many people said Algeria.

Ooh, bad luck.

Algeria. Incorrect. Not a pointless answer,

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

Your next answer was South Africa. Once again,

we were looking for gold medal winners at the 1932 or 1936 Olympics.

Is it pointless? Is it correct?

For £4,250, let's see how many people said South Africa.

It's right.

Your first answer was Algeria, which was incorrect.

South Africa, though, is absolutely right,

going down into single figures. Down it goes, still going down...

CHEERING Very well done indeed!

-Absolutely brilliant!

-Thank you.

-Fantastic! Very good.

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-Unbelievable!

Well, my goodness, congratulations. South Africa was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with the jackpot of £4,250.

-Very, very well done indeed.

-African countries!

That came out of a clear blue sky, didn't it? Fantastic!

-Richard, what about that?

-Very, very well done!

Now, you have somebody to thank for the money that you just won there

and that man is called Lawrence Stevens.

He won a gold medal for South Africa in 1932

and little did he know that...85 years later,

he'd be winning you that cash. So, thank you, Lawrence.

Thank you to anybody who's related to Lawrence Stevens.

That country winning a gold medal is a great question for people.

It's one where actually you can get lucky and get a pointless answer,

cos there's some quite big countries in it.

Let's look at the pointless answers in all the categories.

We will start first with the Penguin books.

Only two answers scored any points at all -

Agatha Christie and Ernest Hemingway.

Both those would have scored you points. Everyone else was pointless.

Compton Mackenzie - his book Carnival.

Dorothy L Sayers was a pointless answer.

EH Young, who wrote William, which is number eight in the collection,

and Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater.

Eric Linklater also a pointless answer.

Well done if you got any of those ones. Some very good answers there.

Now, any Best Actor or Best Actress Oscar-winner.

Charles Laughton was a pointless answer.

He played Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIII.

Claudette Colbert who won for It Happened One Night

which did a clean sweep of all the big Oscars, It Happened One Night.

Mary Pickford won in 1930.

Luise Rainer won twice in a row, in 1937 and 1938.

Every single answer was a pointless answer there,

apart from Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy,

Paul Muni and Katharine Hepburn, so well done if you know your Oscars.

Let's look, finally, at these countries

cos there's all sorts of them.

Netherlands was a pointless answer. They won for track cycling.

Ireland would have been a great answer. Well done if you said that.

Robert Tisdall, who won for the 400m hurdles.

India won a hockey gold.

Turkey won Graeco-Roman wrestling - of course! How could we forget?

Other answers there - Czechoslovakia, Egypt,

Estonia, Norway and, of course, South Africa.

I always play along. You know those occasions where people get 1, 1, 1?

-Mmm.

-It's the first time I've done it. I got three 1-point answers.

I went for Hungary, Finland and Argentina

and all of them scored 1 point,

so I don't win anything at all. I'm gutted.

I forgot about Lawrence Stevens. But congratulations.

Well done if you got one at home

and congratulations for Lawrence Stevens

-and to the two of you for your win.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Thanks, once again, to our winning players, Adam and Lucy,

who go away with today's jackpot of £4,250.

Very well done indeed.

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Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge

-to the test on Pointless. It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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