Episode 29 Pointless

APPLAUSE Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong. And welcome to Pointless,

the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

-And couple number one.

-Hi, my name's Laura. This is my mum, Chris.

I live in South Shields and she lives in North Yorkshire.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Josh and this is my friend Joe.

-We're both from Birmingham.

-Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Lyndsay.

This is my sister, Alison. We're both from York.

-And finally, couple number four.

-Hello, my name's Hamza.

This is my friend Daryl. And we're from Edinburgh.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, all of you. A warm welcome to the show.

We will find out more about you throughout the show

as it goes along.

So that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He is Osman, hear him roar. It's my Pointless friend. It's Richard.

-Hiya. Hello, everybody!

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-Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

Now, we haven't given away the jackpot for a little while.

-No, I've noticed that.

-Have we?

We've had a run of failures.

And we've got two pairs back from the last show.

We've got Lyndsay and Alison, who got all the way through to the

head-to-head. Played very, very well.

They're going to be strong today.

And Joe and Josh, who got knocked out in Round Two.

We welcome new podiums one and podium four.

I always think it's a bit unfair

-when new pairs have to go on podium one.

-Yes.

I always think we should force returners to go on podium one.

Oh, do you think?

You can't, though. I tried to get it through

-and the Court of Human Rights ruled against me.

-LAUGHTER

All I'm saying is, Laura and Chris,

if it was up to me, you would not be on the first podium.

-That's all I'm saying. But my hands are tied.

-There we are.

Well, thank you very much indeed.

Now, Colin and Chris didn't win the jackpot last time,

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

look at this, at £6,000. There we are. You see...

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

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OK, so all you have to remember is this. The pair with the

highest score at the end of each round will be eliminated.

You just have to make sure you are not that pair.

Best of luck with that. Our first category for Round One today is...

Africa. 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...

..as they could. African countries that come alphabetically

before Kenya, Richard.

Yeah, I have nothing to add to that other than by country,

we mean a sovereign state that is a member of the UN in its own right.

In its own right. Look at that. What about that?

-Thank you very much indeed.

-Pleasure.

-There we are.

So before K-E in the alphabet. Laura, a warm welcome.

Here, from South Shields. What do you do, Laura?

-I'm a physiotherapist.

-How long have you done that for?

I qualified in 2011.

Do you have a consulting place where you practise, or do you

roam around freely with your table?

I'm in critical care, so for the NHS.

I see, on the NHS, right you are.

And what are your interests, Laura?

Well, I've got two small children and I work full-time, so

my interests are pretty limited to children-related activities.

Yes, I should think so. How old are your children?

-I've got an eight-year-old and a 17-month-old.

-Lovely.

-Congratulations. 17 months, sleeping...

-Yeah.

..all that sort of thing? All perfect? Wonderful.

-Now, Laura.

-Yeah.

African countries.

Now, normally, African countries,

-that's where most of our pointless answers come from.

-Yep.

Well, when we were deciding who was going to come first, I was like,

"I only know a minimal amount."

And thankfully, my answer fits in this category.

-So I'm going to say Ghana.

-Ghana, says Laura. Ghana.

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

It's right.

40 for Ghana. Not bad.

Gets us off to a good start. 40.

Yeah, in Western Africa, Ghana.

-It was named after the American actor James Garner.

-Yes.

LAUGHTER

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

Welcome to Pointless again. Remind us what you do.

I study business at university.

What are your interests when you're not studying, Joe?

I'm interested in football, mainly,

and other sports. I do play football now and again.

-OK, do you travel at all, Joe?

-Not really.

I rarely get out of Birmingham, to be honest.

-It is nice to have you here in Elstree.

-Why would you need to?

-Why would you need to?

-The Venice of the West Midlands.

We'll go with that, won't we? The Venice of the West Midlands.

Joe, now, what would you like to go for?

I'm going to go for the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Democratic Republic. There was a little "ooh" from the audience

there and a quizzical expression from Josh as well.

Let's see, Democratic Republic of Congo,

is it right? How many of our 100 people said it?

It's right.

40 is our only score at this point, and you pass that with DRC.

Look at that, down we go,

to 11. Well done, Joe, good answer.

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Great answer, Joe, yeah, very well played. Used to be Zaire, of course.

Which people still give as an incorrect answer to this day.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now then, Alison.

Welcome back to Pointless. Great to have you here.

Remind us what you do, Alison.

I work at a sports centre that's attached to a secondary school

doing admin, and I teach some fitness classes.

So that's quite clever.

It basically runs as the school's facilities during termtime?

-And during the day.

-And school hours.

-Yeah.

So everyone does quite well out of that?

Must have amazing facilities for the school.

It is very good facilities for the school, yeah.

And your interests outside of school and gym hours?

Yeah, I still do a lot of that kind of stuff.

I like exercise and I'm quite into learning about nutrition

and things like that.

Is that something you teach at the facility as well? No.

Yeah, a little bit, yeah.

We help people lose weight and things like that so...

Excellent. OK, Alison, what would you like to go for?

Purely because I lived there for a couple of years,

-I'm going to say Gabon.

-Gabon.

OK, well, let's see how many of our 100 people said Gabon.

It's right. Well, 40's our high score,

and you pass it.

11 is our low score, and you pass it.

Gabon on 8, very well done indeed.

Yeah, managed to have only two presidents in 50 years, Gabon.

Omar Bongo was president for 40 years.

Good stuff, thank you very much indeed. Now then, Daryl.

A warm welcome to Pointless. From Edinburgh.

-What do you do up in Edinburgh, Daryl?

-I manage a post office.

-Most post offices now, they're quite big affairs, aren't they?

-Yes.

There aren't many small post offices left.

Well, ours is split into two

because we're in a retail shop, so

we open your normal sort of 9.00 till 5.30,

and then the retail are open till ten at night,

so it's small but split.

Small but split, I see. And what are your hobbies, Daryl?

I like playing a lot of golf, football.

-I like to play badminton, sports related.

-Very good, OK.

Daryl, what would you like to go for?

African countries that come before Kenya.

I've told myself this whole time I was going to play safe,

but I'm going to take a risk. I think it's a country.

And I'm going to say the Central African Republic.

You THINK it's a country!

The Central African Republic, says Daryl. Let's see if it's right.

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

Well, our low score at this point is 8.

Central African Republic is 10.

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10 for the Central African Republic,

it's just going up all the time.

It's been in double figures a couple of times recently,

the Central African Republic. Amazing.

I mean, imagine, look back to sort of 2010 or something,

and imagine that!

People would rub their eyes in disbelief, wouldn't they?

-Extraordinary.

-So there has been evidence of human settlement in that

-area for over 8,000 years.

-Thank you very much.

Well, we're halfway through Round One,

so let's take a look at those scores.

8, the best score of that pass. Well done.

Alison and Lyndsay once again

reigning supreme at this point. Then up to 10, where we find Daryl

and Hamza. Up to 11, Joe and Josh, lovely and close.

Oh, and then there's Laura

and Chris, I'm afraid at 40, quite a long way ahead there.

Now, Chris, a nice low score from you

could keep you in the game, so good luck with finding

a nice low score in those African countries.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, now, Hamza, remember we're looking for any African

country that comes before Kenya alphabetically.

Welcome to Pointless, Hamza. What do you do?

I work in the finance and operations department of a supermarket.

But I recently got my master's degree in journalism,

so I'm trying to find a job in the media somewhere.

So you're keeping up the supermarket job for now

-until you find...

-Until I can find my dream job.

What would it be ideally? What bit of journalism?

I'd love to be able to write about football,

but my actual dream job is making up questions for Pointless.

I'd like to be the one who makes them up.

That would be the ultimate dream, wouldn't it?

Yeah, it would be a dream.

Was it any particular kind of journalism you

-did your degree in?

-Just general journalism.

I tried to focus it more towards sports so...

I see, so how do you break into sports journalism?

Try and do match reports, sort out work experience,

unpaid obviously, and then hopefully your name gets kept around

and try and get your foot in the door somewhere.

He seems too well adjusted to be one of the Pointless

question setters to me.

-You know what they're like.

-I do.

-Hamza, what would you like to go for?

-You're on 10.

The high-scorers are Chris and Laura on 40,

so 29 or less would get you through.

I'm doubting myself a little bit because I know it used to be

a territory of Portugal, but I'm going to go for Cape Verde Islands.

Cape Verde. Cape Verde.

OK, here is your red line. If you can get below that with Cape Verde,

you are through to the next round.

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

It's right.

Now, I think this is going to go

a long way down. Look.

2. Very, very well done indeed,

Hamza. That's a great answer.

Takes your total up to 12,

sees you very comfortably through to Round Two.

Well played, Hamza. It's a lovely answer.

Bronagh, who is in charge of all our questions, will be

noting your name down, I'm sure of it.

It recently changed its name, actually, to Cabo Verde,

but it's still called Cape Verde Islands as well.

-There we are. Thank you very much. Now, Lyndsay.

-Hello.

Lyndsay, welcome back. Lovely to have you with us again.

Remind us what you do.

I'm self-employed

and I make fancy walking sticks.

I'm a bit of an actor.

I'm also a trapeze performer.

-I'm a circus performer.

-Amazing!

-And you performed at the Paralympics at the Closing Ceremony?

-I did.

-The Opening and Closing.

-What were you doing?

Aeriel work, I was on a trapeze flying around in the air

and I was on a harness.

And I did a rather silly stunt with a motorbike

and a trapeze in the Closing Ceremony

where the high wire

went right across the stadium.

And I was underneath a motorbike,

-and Coldplay were underneath me, so all was good but...

-Wow.

They were holding on, too?

-They were looking to catch me...

-Now, that's a gig.

-..when I fell down.

-Wow.

It was quite surreal, to be honest.

Because when you were so high, and it was dark, you couldn't actually

see people's faces, and it was a bit like flying over someone's garden.

And you could look down and see the grass beneath you and it was great.

-It was great fun.

-Just an extraordinary experience.

-Yeah.

Absolutely incredible. Lyndsay, brilliant.

There you are on 8.

Excellent low score from Alison in the first pass.

If you can score 31 or less, you are through to Round Two.

I'm struggling a little bit here. I hope I'm not going to fluff it up.

There's a couple of obvious ones left that I think I'm going

to have to go for. And out of those, I will go for Algeria.

Algeria, says Lyndsay. OK, here's your red line.

Get below that with Algeria, you are through to Round Two.

Let's see how many people said Algeria.

It's right.

41. 41 takes your total up to 49.

I think that's good enough.

Gives a bit of hope to podium one there.

-Yes, the largest country in Africa, Algeria.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, Josh. Remind us what you do.

I'm a marketing apprentice for a builders merchant.

So you've just left university, is that right?

No, I never actually went to university.

I did apply, and then I had a bright idea to scrap it all

and took a gap year to Australia instead.

-Very sensible, and gone into an apprenticeship.

-Yes.

-And enjoying it?

-Yes, very much so.

Very good indeed. What are your hobbies, Josh?

I like to do a lot of racket sports.

-Drinking with mates.

-Good.

-I can't lie.

Now, you're on 11.

The high-scorers are Lyndsay and Alison on 49,

so if you can score 37, you're through to the next round.

I think this is one.

Um...

It's by its French name, which I can't pronounce.

But it's the Ivory Coast, or Coasty Ivyar,

or however you pronounce it.

The Ivory Coast, or Cote d'Ivoire to give it its French name.

There we are. Your line is there.

You go below that line, you are into Round Two.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Cote d'Ivoire.

Very well done.

Good answer, look at that! 12.

23, the total on podium two, there.

Not bad, at all.

Yeah, also on the coast of Western Africa, Cote d'Ivoire.

It's another good answer. More and more people do apprenticeships.

Seems to be a very positive thing.

-People seem to have very positive things to say about them...

-Yeah.

-..whenever they come on the show.

-They do, they do.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Chris. Welcome to Pointless.

From North Yorkshire? Were you originally from Tyneside?

-Well, no, I'm from Tyneside.

-You're from Tyneside.

But where are you in North Yorkshire?

What took you down there?

I'm in Leyburn, and I went there

cos I took early retirement, and I moved there with my husband

-to live in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

-Heaven. Lovely.

-And it's proved as lovely as you thought it would be?

-Oh, it's great.

Oh, how nice! What do you like to get up to in the Dales?

Well, not much because I've retired.

But I keep busy by doing Pilates and yoga.

I like to bake. I like to paint.

And I'm going to try to volunteer somewhere, soon, hopefully.

Wonderful. Now, Chris, we have a challenge on here.

You have to score 8 or less.

What would you like to go for, Chris?

I'd like to go for Eritrea.

Eritrea. Eritrea.

Ooh, that gets a little murmur from the audience.

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

There is your red line, get below that,

you remain with us at the end of the round. Good luck.

It's right.

Oh, no! 14 for Eritrea.

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54 is your total, Chris.

It's a surprisingly big score for Eritrea, I have to say,

on the Horn of Africa.

Its name comes originally from the Latin for the Red Sea, which is

where it's located.

Now, there's only one pointless answer on the board,

and that is the Comoros, so very well done if you said that.

Three volcanic islands just off the coast of Africa, Comoros.

Now, you'd have got 2 points for Equatorial Guinea, for Djibouti,

for Guinea-Bissau, and we already heard Cape Verde - terrific answer.

3 points for Benin and Burundi.

You'd have got 9 points for Burkina Faso.

You'd have got 12 for Guinea.

You'd have got 20 for Gambia, 21 for Cameroon, 24 for Congo,

which is different to DRC, you'd have got 25 for Angola,

28 for Botswana, 30 for Chad.

Let's take a look at the top three answers.

There's Algeria, 41. Ethiopia, 47.

And at the top, Egypt on 53.

There we are. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

with a high score of 54, which isn't a high score at all,

void is just comparatively high. It's Chris and Laura.

I'm so sorry. I think it's that being on the first podium there.

It's always tough. You just get less time to think.

-We'll say that, yeah.

-We'll see you again next time,

when I'm absolutely certain you'll do much, much better.

But meantime, thanks so much. Chris and Laura.

Lovely to have you on the show. APPLAUSE

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

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Very well done, everyone. We've made it through to Round Two.

Very exciting. Seen off one pair already.

Sadly, we'll have to say goodbye to another couple

at the end of this round. But, Hamza and Daryl,

hats off to you, our lowest team score there.

Fantastic. Best of luck to all three pairs, though.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...

Academy Awards. 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, and the question concerns...

-Richard.

-On each board, we're going to show you the surnames of six

people who were nominated in one of the four acting

categories at the ceremony held in 2015.

You just need to give us their first name, please.

-Very best of luck.

-OK, thanks very much.

So let's reveal our first board of surnames, and here they come.

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

We are looking for the first names of each of these actors.

Josh, we come to you first.

I know... I think I know three.

It's which one I think's going to be the lowest.

I think I'm going to go with...

-..Emma Stone.

-Emma Stone, says Josh. Let's see if it's right.

Let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

That is a great answer, Josh,

very well done indeed.

4 for Emma Stone.

Great answer, Josh, and you've saved anyone else

the embarrassment of going for Sharon.

-So that's very good, yes.

-LAUGHTER

Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Birdman.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Now, Alison.

-What would you like to go for?

-Yeah, this isn't great for me.

I only know two really obvious ones.

I'm just go to have to go for one of those

and say Benedict Cumberbatch.

Benedict Cumberbatch, says Alison.

Let's see how many of our 100 said Benedict.

It's right.

62 for Benedict Cumberbatch.

Big score, there.

Nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Imitation Game.

I would've thought that he would have scored more.

I would have thought so. You wouldn't confuse it

with any other Cumberbatches.

Well, that's it. You're not thinking,

-"Is it Sharon Cumberbatch?"

-No.

-No.

-No.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Daryl.

This board is actually all yours.

If you wanted to talk us through it and fill in all the blanks,

you'd be extremely welcome.

Well, Emma Stone was my answer.

I knew Benedict.

Meryl Streep.

I think... I mean, I don't want to fall into the Sharon Stone

sort of category, but I think I'll go for Robert Duvall.

Robert Duvall, says Daryl.

Robert Duvall. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right, well done.

35, not bad at all there, Daryl, well done.

Well played, Daryl.

Received his seventh acting nomination for his part

in The Judge in 2015. Robert Duvall.

Let's take a look through the rest of these.

You're obviously right about Meryl Streep,

but you did well to avoid it as well because it's a big scorer.

She outscores Cumberbatch. 81 points there for Meryl Streep.

-Cotillard.

-Marion?

-Marion Cotillard.

Absolutely. 15 points for that.

-And Arquette.

-Patricia.

22 points for Patricia Arquette.

-She won the Best Actress for Boyhood.

-Thank you very much.

-It's a great film, Boyhood.

-It is a good film.

Thank you very much. Well, we're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. Four, well done, Josh and Joe.

Excellent scoring there.

Very much at the top of the tree at this point.

Then 35 is where we find Daryl and Hamza.

62, Alison and Lyndsay. So, yes, Lyndsay,

we need a low score from you on the next board.

Let's hope there's something up there you like the look of.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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

and here they are.

We've got...

I'll read those again.

Always nice saying "and more" at the end.

But, yes, no more, that's the end. So, Hamza.

Remember, we are looking for the first names of these actors.

They were all Academy Award nominees in 2015.

I've a feeling I know more than I think I know.

But I'm going to have to play it relatively safe

-and say Bradley Cooper.

-Bradley Cooper, says Hamza.

OK, here's your red line.

If you can get below that red line with Bradley Cooper,

you're through to the next round. Let's see how many people said it.

Not bad. 37.

Takes your total up to 72.

Nominated for Best Actor for American Sniper, Bradley Cooper.

-Thanks very much, Richard. Now, Lyndsay.

-Hello.

Lyndsay, you're on 62.

If you can score 9 or less,

that's the kind of territory we're in at the moment.

OK. It's difficult.

I was happier on the other board.

I'll tell you what I'm going to go for.

The bottom, Julianne Moore, she was in a movie called Still Alice.

OK, Julianne Moore. Let's hope that is right. There is your red line.

Get below that with Julianne Moore, you're through to the next round.

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

18.

Takes your total up to 80.

Yes, she won the big one, the Best Actress for Still Alice,

-Julianne Moore.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Now, Joe.

You're on 4.

If you can score 75 or less, you're into the head-to-head.

-Do you want to talk us through that board?

-I think I know three.

I know... I think it's Keira Knightley.

Might be Tommy Jones.

But I'm going to go for Ethan Hawke.

Ethan Hawke, says Joe. Ethan Hawke.

Here is your red line, nice and high.

If you get below that with Ethan Hawke,

you are into the head-to-head.

Let's see how many people said Ethan Hawke.

It's right.

And you're through.

47 for Ethan Hawke.

Takes your total up to 51.

And he was also nominated for Boyhood.

Let's take a look through the rest of these. Pike.

-Rosamund.

-Rosamund Pike for her role in Gone Girl. 26. Now, Jones.

Not Tommy Lee Jones.

It's Felicity Jones for her role in The Theory Of Everything.

6 points for that.

And Keira Knightley, you're absolutely right about.

-A big scorer, though - 78.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So at the end of our second round, the pair who are heading

home with a high score of 80... I'm sorry, Lyndsay and Alison, it's you.

-You were our low scorers last show.

-I know.

I'm sorry. I thought you were going to go through to the final

this time, but I'm afraid this is where we say goodbye.

It's been lovely having you on the show.

-Thank you very much, thank you.

-Lyndsay and Alison.

APPLAUSE

But for Hamza and Daryl, Joe and Josh,

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

APPLAUSE

Well, congratulations, Joe and Josh, Hamza and Daryl.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for this jackpot,

which is currently standing at £6,000.

OHS AND APPLAUSE

Now, something has to be done about that jackpot.

And this is where you have a chance to do that thing.

You can start playing as pairs now.

You can chat before you give your answers.

First player to win two questions will be

playing for that £6,000 jackpot.

Well... And it's our first all male head-to-head

for quite a long time now.

Joe and Josh, obviously not newcomers to the show,

and here you are as our low scorers.

Hamza and Daryl, if you don't make it through to the final this time,

you'll get another crack at it next time.

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

APPLAUSE

Here comes your first question, and it concerns...

Pedal Power, Richard.

Yeah, we're going to show you five pictures now of pedal-powered

modes of transport. You just need to tell us what they are, please.

-Very best of luck.

-OK, thank you very much.

Let's reveal our five pedal-powered

modes of transport, and here they come. We've got...

There we go. Five modes of pedal power.

Joe and Josh, you're our low scorers, so you'll go first.

THEY WHISPER

THEY CONTINUE WHISPERING

We're going to go for A as a tandem bicycle.

OK. A tandem, say Joe and Josh for A.

Now, Hamza and Daryl, do you want to talk us through that board?

If I had to guess, B would be a lean bike, or something.

C will probably be a mountain bike, D is a penny-farthing and

E is a BMX.

So, a wee bit stuck between two.

What do you think?

THEY WHISPER

-I think D.

-You go for it, man.

-D, penny-farthing.

-You are going to go D, penny-farthing?

So we have tandem and we have penny-farthing.

Joe and Josh went for tandem. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said it.

-It's right. Oh, hee-hee, look at that. 89.

-Oh, God!

89 for tandem.

OK, now, Hamza and Daryl have said that D is a penny-farthing.

Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said penny-farthing.

Yes, it's a... Oh, look at that! 90!

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

Very well done indeed, Joe and Josh. Fabulous.

Lovely low score there, 89. After one question,

you are up 1-0.

Funnily enough, the other two you knew would have won you the points.

Cos C is a mountain bike, but

would have scored you very, very low

in the context of this round, 84.

And E, the BMX, an even lower 76.

There's one very good answer on the board, and it is B.

-Do you know what those are called?

-No, I've heard.

I know, it's sort of unbearable, isn't it? They're called recumbents.

-Recumbent.

-Recumbent. And that would have scored you 7 points.

-Take a look at the tandem.

-These two people are so happy.

-How happy is he? Considering that they're in the countryside...

-Yes.

What is it that he has seen to make him look that...? I mean,

literally he's, like, ecstatic.

I'm not being funny. If you're a photographer

and someone is looking that happy about something,

take a picture of the thing he's looking at.

-That would be my note.

-OK.

Also, while we're on it,

how determined is the penny-farthing driver there? Look at that.

-Yes, he's very determined. But also...

-He's got no time to laugh.

What were they thinking with the penny-farthing?

I just don't know.

-I mean...

-Are you lowered onto a penny-farthing?

-Me? Yeah.

You'd be fine, you could just... RICHARD LAUGHS

-For us, a penny-farthing would be a tandem.

-Yes.

LAUGHTER

You can just sit over the back wheel, there.

Just put a handlebar for me on the back one. There we go.

Thank you very much indeed. So here comes your second question.

Hamza and Daryl, oh, that was needle, wasn't it?

That first one there.

Hardly a cigarette paper between you.

Hamza and Daryl, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

But you get to answer it first, which I think is a good thing.

It concerns...

Members Of Groups, Richard.

I'm going to show you five sets of first names now,

of people all of whom are in the same group or band.

You just need to name that group or band, please.

OK, let's reveal our group first names, and here they are.

We've got...

I'm going to read all of those again.

Hamza and Daryl, you go first.

THEY WHISPER

THEY CONTINUE WHISPERING

I'm going to go for the second bottom one, which is the Sugarbabes.

Sugarbabes, say Hamza and Daryl. Sugarbabes.

Now then, Joe and Josh, what would you like to go for?

I think we're going to go for the second one as Kings Of Leon.

Kings Of Leon, say Joe and Josh.

So we have Sugarbabes. We have Kings Of Leon.

Now, Hamza and Daryl went Sugarbabes for Mutya, etc.

Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

14 for the Sugarbabes.

Meanwhile, Joe and Josh have gone for the Kings Of Leon,

for the second one down.

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

That's right.

Now, is it going to beat the Sugarbabes?

Yes, it is. Look at that!

Very well done. 4.

The Kings Of Leon. Superb.

All of which means, Joe and Josh, after only two questions,

you are through to the final, 2-0.

Yeah, Kings of Leon's a very good answer.

They're three brothers - Caleb, Jared, and Nathan -

and Matthew is their cousin, the Followills.

And Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan, all of whom were replaced at some point.

They used to have fights terribly, didn't they, the Sugarbabes?

There were always different versions of the Sugarbabes.

They're like Trigger's Broom now.

They're still the Sugarbabes, but none of the original parts remain.

-I think things got tasty every now and again.

-I think they did.

Talking of things getting tasty, ABBA, up the top there.

-There we are.

-They certainly fought every now and again.

95 points for ABBA. How about that?

-Even more than a penny-farthing.

-THEY LAUGH

If you ever wanted to know the question of what's more famous,

ABBA or a penny-farthing, you've just found out.

Now, Lindsay, Edele, Keavy and Sinead,

the first four singles all went to number one.

And they are B*Witched.

It would have scored you 10 points.

-And Rochelle, Una, Frankie, Mollie and Vanessa...

-The Saturdays.

..are the Saturdays, and that would've scored you 24.

So Kings Of Leon, best answer on the board.

Nothing you could have done about that.

Thank you very much. So the pair leaving us

at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm afraid,

Hamza and Daryl. But it's good news, really,

because this is just your first shot at Pointless.

Next time, you can come back, clean sweep all the way through to the

final, I'm sure. We'll look forward to that very much indeed.

But meantime, thanks very much, Hamza and Daryl.

APPLAUSE

But for Joe and Josh, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Joe and Josh, you have fought off all

the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

Let's just remind ourselves.

The jackpot at the end of today's show is standing at £6,000.

There we are.

APPLAUSE

Now, I mean, obviously, any jackpot we can give away is a nice

thing to be able to take home,

but that really would be fantastic to take home.

Josh, just before we started recording this round,

I heard you calling Joe Waffle. Is that right?

-Is that your nickname, Waffle?

-Yeah, it is.

How did you come by that?

When I was younger, in reception... Well, my last name is Wassell.

So it was the closest thing. That's what I tell people, anyway.

You could have called yourself Waffle. On the show.

The badges stretch to that.

Yeah, well, there you are. We'll call you Waffle from now on.

I'm really sorry we weren't calling you Waffle all this time.

He's going to fall out with me because he asked me not to do it.

-Oh, the last thing you want to do is fall out with Waffle.

-LAUGHTER

-I know, I know.

-Let's keep Waffle happy.

So, today, I think we've put you through your paces.

Obviously, we're not just going to give that kind of jackpot away.

We had to make sure you knew your African countries

between A and K. We had to make sure you knew your Oscar nominees,

your pedal-power modes of transport

and then your members of groups, all of which you did.

So, very, very well done.

Anything you'd like to see come up in this last round?

As long as it's not French pronunciation, I might be all right.

OK. Yes, Cote d'Ivoire springs to mind. OK.

Joe, anything you'd really love to see up there?

Probably American sports teams would be quite good.

Well, they do come up from time to time.

My favourite American sports team - the San Diego Waffle Lions.

LAUGHTER

Love those guys.

Well, let's hope one of these four categories up here suits you.

Sometimes they're quite baffling.

But anyway, here we go. We have got...

I'm only thinking of one here, and that's tennis.

-If you're confident on anything else...

-Are you sure?

-Yeah.

-Winter. I mean, it's a season.

-How strong are you on tennis?

-I'm quite good.

-Are you sure?

I'm best at tennis, out of those four, yeah.

-HESITANTLY:

-Eh, OK.

-Grand Slam Tennis, please.

-Grand Slam Tennis, it is. Richard.

The Waffle has spoken. Grand Slam Tennis, it is.

We're looking for any of the following three, please, gents.

We're looking for any female winner of the US Open in the Open era,

that's from 1968 through to the 2014 tournament.

We're looking for any male winners of the French Open in the Open era,

'68 through to the 2015 tournament.

Or any winners of the Wimbledon mixed doubles

title in the Open era, '68 to 2015. Both names needed.

Female winners of the US Open, male winners of the French Open and

both names of winners of the Wimbledon mixed doubles.

Very, very best of luck.

OK. Now, as always, you've got up to one minute

to come up with three answers,

and all you need to win that jackpot is for just

-one of your answers to be pointless. Are you ready? BOTH:

-Yeah.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

Female winners, we could go for Kim Clijsters.

Male winners, the French Open, I'm thinking Marat Safin.

And the bottom one, I'm thinking Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic.

You know you certainly...

-Can you think of better?

-Nothing that good, no.

LAUGHTER

Tim Henman, I know he didn't win Wimbledon,

but did he win the French? Did he win anything?

I don't think he won a major.

Mixed doubles, I couldn't even guess.

No, that's the only one I know for definite for mixed doubles.

Female winners of the US Open. Sue Barker won the French Open.

-But did she win the USA Open?

-I don't think so.

-I know for a fact she only won one.

-She only won one.

Do you just want to go for those for our...?

Yeah, cos they're better than what I'm going to come out with.

-OK, ten seconds left.

-Yeah, that's fine.

You're happy to go for it.

OK, we'll stop the clock.

There we are, the clock is stopped. What are your three answers?

And if you say which category you're answering.

For female winners of the US Open, we're going to go for Kim Clijsters.

For male winners of the French Open we're going to go for Marat Safin.

Marat Safin.

And winners of the Wimbledon mixed doubles title

in the Open era, we're going to go for

Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic.

Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic.

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

Probably Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic.

Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic. OK. We'll put those last.

Least likely to be pointless.

The least confident one I'm on, the one I think of is Marat Safin.

Marat Safin, we'll put first.

OK, well, lets put those answers up on the board in that order then,

and here they are.

We've got...

Three very good answers up on the board.

Now, if one of those happens to be pointless,

what would you do with that jackpot?

6,000 quid to split between you.

Joe, you first.

Between our group of mates,

there's always talk about going on holiday, so I'd probably

keep it for that, just so it's covered if it ever happens.

Very good. Josh.

Something similar.

I'd love to do an interim holiday and travel across Europe.

-Oh, this is before you do the big mates' holiday?

-I hope so.

-An Interim. Yeah.

-I'll put a bit aside.

OK, well, best of luck. Three good answers on the board there.

In the first instance, we were looking for winners,

male winners of the French Open. You have gone for Marat Safin.

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

said Marat Safin.

If it's right and pointless, it will win you £6,000.

Bad luck, OK. First answer, incorrect,

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

Your next answer was Kim Clijsters.

In this case, we were looking for female winners of the US Open.

If this is pointless, it will win you £6,000.

How many of our 100 people said Kim Clijsters?

It's right.

Marat Safin was an incorrect answer, your first answer.

Kim Clijsters now takes us down through the teens.

Do we get to single figures? Yes, we do.

Down it goes, still going down,

-still going down, still going down.

-Oh, no!

1 for Kim Clijsters. AUDIENCE OOHS

Oh, my God!

APPLAUSE

That's a fantastic answer. Fantastic.

Sadly, though, in this last round,

we're only interested in pointless answers.

Happily, though, you've got one more answer on the board.

Everything is now riding on it. Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic.

If this is right and if this is pointless,

you will leave here with £6,000. Very, very best of luck.

We were looking for winners of Wimbledon mixed doubles titles.

Jamie Murray, Jelena Jankovic. Is it pointless?

It's right.

Your first answer, Marat Safin, was incorrect.

Your second answer, Kim Clijsters,

took us all the way down to 1.

Jamie Murray, Jelena Jankovic now

taking us down through single figures.

Passing... Oh, no!

APPLAUSE

Oh, I'm so sorry. Two very, very good answers there.

And Kim Clijsters, so unlucky there.

To get all the way down to 1 is cruel, I'm afraid.

But I'm afraid you just didn't manage to find that

pointless answer that we needed.

So I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £6,000.

That will roll over onto the next show. But it's been brilliant

having you on, guys. Thank you for playing.

Brilliant contestants, Joe and Josh.

You get a Pointless trophy to take home as well,

so very, very well done.

APPLAUSE

That is unlucky with Kim Clijsters.

I knew you'd go for a Belgian, Waffle.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, 1 point. You now have a stock answer

for all tennis questions which is...

-It's Margaret Court.

-Who also would have scored 1 point.

-Oh, no, she always does.

-Yes, she always, she always does.

Let's take a... I warn you now, there's going to be

names you know in all of these categories.

You know, you did the best you could.

Safin, never been in a French final, let alone won one.

Let's take a look at the female winners of the US Open.

You could have had Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario,

Gabriela Sabatini, Hana Mandlikova Sam Stosur.

Also could have had Svetlana Kuznetsova.

A couple more 1-point answers. Another Belgian,

Justine Henin. And Martina Hingis would have scored you 1.

You would have got 2 for Tracy Austin,

3 for Monica Seles and Lindsay Davenport.

Now, male winners of the French Open.

Again, lots of pointless answers here.

Carlos Moya. Gustavo Kuerten, would have been a pointless answer.

Ken Rosewall won the first one of the Open era.

The Frenchman Yannick Noah.

You could have had Albert Costa. You could have had Andres Gomez.

Gaston Guadio, Guillermo Vilas.

You could have had Juan Carlos Ferrero,

Mats Wilander, who won it three times. Michael Chang, very famously

won it at a very young age. He would have been a pointless answer.

Thomas Muster and Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

All pointless answers.

Very well done, if you got one of those. Now, the mixed doubles.

Funnily enough, Yankovic and Jamie Murray were the

highest scorer of anyone in this category.

Very few scorers on this one.

Here's a few. Fred Stolle and Ann Jones.

She won the singles title in the same year.

Ilie Nastase and Rosemary Casals. John Lloyd and Wendy Turnbull,

Mark Woodforde and Martina Navratilova.

She also won it with Paul McNamee, who was a pointless answer,

and Jonathan Stark. That was a pointless answer as well.

The only ones that scored any points at all were Jamie Murray

and Jelena Jankovic.

Leander Paes and Martina Hingis,

Jeremy Bates and Joe Durie.

Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova.

The only ones that scored anything at all.

Very, very well done at home if you got a pointless answer.

And very unlucky to Josh and Waffle for just scoring 1.

Thanks very much indeed.

Well, unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Joe and Josh,

but it's been brilliant having you on the show.

-Thank you for playing.

-Thank you very much.

-Joe and Josh.

APPLAUSE

Well, sadly, Joe and Josh didn't win our jackpot today, which means

it rolls over on to the next show, when we will be playing for £7,000.

Join us next time, see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.