Episode 30 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

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

the show where we are always striving to find

the most obscure answers. Let's meet today's players.

-And couple number one.

-Hi, my name's Tom.

This is my girlfriend, Emilia.

I'm from Liverpool and she's from Cardiff.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Chris.

This is my daughter, Laura.

I'm from North Yorkshire and she's from South Shields.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Daryl.

This is my best friend, Hamza, and we're from Edinburgh.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm David. This is my flatmate, work colleague,

friend and life influence, Sam.

We're from London.

Oh, you're from London. And these are today's contestants.

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

We'll find out more about you throughout the show

as it goes along. So that just leaves one more person

for me to introduce. He's here to put his foot down,

and I'm here to ensure it doesn't squash any of today's players.

-It's my Pointless friend. It's Richard.

-Hiya.

Hi, everybody.

Good afternoon to you.

-And to you.

-Two returning pairs from that last show.

Hamza and Daryl on podium two got all the way through

to the head-to-head, so they're going to be tough to beat.

And on podium two, Laura and Chris.

Who did less well last time, I think it's fair to say,

but are very, very keen to do better today.

And today will be a very good day to do well.

Wouldn't it just? We're turning into a bank.

Yes, £7,000 up for grabs,

-which would be very nice to have, wouldn't it?

-Wouldn't that be nice?

-Wouldn't it?

-Oh, how nice.

So, yes, Joe and Josh didn't win the jackpot last time.

We're adding another £1,000 to that.

So, yes, as you've just gathered, today's jackpot starts off,

there it is, officially £7,000.

Very exciting indeed.

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

So the rule is, the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated. That is it.

That's all you have to remember. Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this afternoon is...

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.

-Yeah, actually, on each board, we're going to show you

seven general knowledge questions, but the answer to each of them

is also the name of a book of the Bible.

So can you give us the most obscure answers?

There's going to be 14 in all to have a go at at home,

-very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

OK, let's reveal our first board of clues.

Here they are, seven of them.

I'm going to read all of those again.

Tom, a warm welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Now, you've come from Liverpool.

Yeah, but I'm studying in Edinburgh at the minute.

I see. And what are you studying?

I'm doing a PhD in social policy.

Right. Did you do your degree at Edinburgh as well?

Yeah, I did my undergraduate and my master's degree there as well.

And it's a four-year course.

-Yeah, I know.

-You must have been there for years!

-Yeah!

-What do you like getting up to when you're not working hard on...?

I like football, I like music, I really like theatre...

like acting and trying to write stuff.

-So, yeah.

-And you find time to do all that?

It might be at the detriment of my academic career, maybe.

Well, that's OK. It's the enhancement of your life,

-I should think.

-Yeah, exactly.

Now, do you think when you finally leave Edinburgh, decades from now,

will you...? I mean, you're mostly Scottish these days.

-Yeah, I know.

-Do you think you might stay up there, or do you think

-you'd come back down to England?

-I think, yeah, potentially.

It's a lovely... I really like Glasgow as well.

Yeah, another beautiful place.

But I'd like to move down to Liverpool

for a little bit after that.

OK. Now, Tom, how do you find our board of Bible books?

Yeah, it's OK.

I'm a bit annoyed because I used to get told I look like the lead singer

of The Kooks back when I had really long hair,

but I can't remember his first name.

So I think I'm going to go for another one that I know,

which is the name that goes before Andronicus

to give the title of a Shakespearean tragedy, which is Titus.

Titus Andronicus, says Tom. Titus. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

23. Not a bad start to the show at all.

Nice start, Tom. Yeah, it's a letter in the New Testament.

They did Titus Andronicus at The Globe in 2014.

Over 100 people fainted cos it was so gory.

It is quite gory, yeah.

They didn't hold back on the gore.

No. I imagine if you were in one of those productions,

you're going to keep a tally of how many people have fainted each night,

-and if it's no-one, you're going to feel...

-Yeah, you think you've had

-a terrible... I mean, we're the same with our audience, aren't we?

-Yeah.

Occasionally, you just see them being passed backwards by security.

Thus far, three of them have gone, but the rest, absolutely fine.

There was a really sweet moment a few shows back

when you selected a lady from the front row

and you danced with her very tenderly.

-Yeah, that's exactly...

-Just during the head-to-head round,

and they filmed it beautifully.

Lots of soft fades and, you know, it was nice.

I like it when you go down on your knees in the centre circle there

and you just go like that... And people throw money at you.

I've never known how you do it. It's very magnetic, your personality.

-Yeah.

-It's extraordinary.

-It's just nice to give a bit back, isn't it?

Go down and just be there.

It's not really giving a bit back, is it,

taking money off the audience?

-But I know what you mean.

-Yeah.

-I know what you mean.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Laura, welcome back to Pointless.

Remind us what you do, Laura.

I'm a physio and I work in critical care.

A physio. And what part of physio do you specialise in?

-Respiratory physio.

-I see.

So any lung conditions I tend to deal with

and then any rehab with someone who's been in critical care,

-often need a bit of rehab to get back on their feet.

-OK.

And is that also muscular, spinal and all that kind of stuff as well?

-It can be anything. It's quite varied.

-There we are.

Now, Laura, what are you going to go for on this board?

I think I'm going to go for the bottom one -

the surname of the musician who had a hit with Uptown Girl

and say his surname was Joel.

Joel, says Laura.

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

It's right.

23 is our only score at this point.

53 for Joel.

Yeah, a book of the Old Testament, Joel.

And that is Billy Joel's only UK number one.

There we are. Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Daryl, welcome back to Pointless.

-Hi.

-Here from Edinburgh. What do you do, Daryl? Remind us.

I'm a post office manager.

Managing a post office.

And it's a post office in a shop?

-Yes.

-So you're kind of a shop within a shop.

Have Tom and Emilia ever come to your post office?

Erm... He does look familiar.

I've maybe served him at one point.

No, you're thinking of the lead singer of The Kooks.

Just imagine Tom with slightly longer...

That's probably what it is.

Daryl, what would you like to go for on this board?

Well, it's a bit of a dodgy subject for me.

I think I know one of them, but it's too high,

so I'm going to go for the top one and say Exodus.

Exodus, says Daryl.

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

Well, it's right. 53 and 23, our only two scores...

78 there. That's a relief for Laura.

But a high score for Daryl.

78 for Exodus.

Very hard to say Exodus without then immediately singing

-the Bob Marley song.

-Isn't it just?

-I've got it in my head.

I know there'll be at least a million people at home

-who've got that song in their head right now.

-Movement of the people.

There we are. Thank you very much indeed.

Now then, Sam, a warm welcome to Pointless.

Nice to have you here, Sam. What do you do?

I work at the Science Museum in London.

I'm the... Science communicator would probably be the term.

Now, that's fun.

-Yeah, it is.

-That's fun.

-It's like being a Redcoat.

It's like being a Redcoat, although I wouldn't say that too much

around the Science Museum. But it is,

-you're basically enthusing people.

-Yes.

And people of all ages or do you aim particularly at children?

Well, I work for a department called Punk Science...

-Yeah, now you're talking.

-..the resident comedy team.

So we do adults, teenagers and families mainly.

A bit of slapstick?

Usually, yeah, there's a bit where one of us will fall over or...

Always funny.

We get people to eat bugs, and if they don't eat the bugs,

one of us has to eat the bugs.

-That's good.

-Infra-redcoats would be a good name for them.

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And you could have your name written in infrared

and if people want to know what your name was,

they had to shine a light on it that shows up infrared.

-That's a good idea.

-Yeah.

Now, Sam, what would you like to go for on this board?

This board is all yours.

-You can talk us through it and fill in all the blanks.

-OK.

So the first name of the guy from The Kooks, I believe, is Luke.

I think the main divisions of plays, ballets and operas,

I'd guess at acts.

That's Jude, Hey Jude.

And then it's Mark Spitz.

I'm not too sure on acts for definite,

so I think I'm going to go for The Kooks and say Luke.

OK. Kooks lead singer is Luke, says Sam.

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

It's right.

Lowest score at the moment is 23.

Oh, you've passed 23.

You go down to 8, Sam. APPLAUSE

This is a good score.

Very nice, Sam. Yeah, Luke Pritchard is his name.

Now, you knew all the answers on the board

and you chose the lowest one of the ones you knew as well,

so very, very well done. You couldn't have played it any better.

You were right about acts.

That would have scored you 36.

Hey Jude, big scorer unsurprisingly.

90 for that.

So, well avoided, everybody.

And it is Mark Spitz.

And that would have scored you 51.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, we're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at those scores.

Sam, lowest score of 8, on the far podium.

Then up to 23, Tom and Emilia.

Up to 53 where we find Laura and Chris.

And 78 is Daryl and Hamza.

Hamza, we need a low score from you,

so I hope the next board has something on it

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

I'll read those all one last time.

-Now, David, welcome to Pointless.

-Hello.

Good to have you here. What do you do, Dave?

Well, I work in museums as well. So I do museum education.

I've worked in a number of museums, including the Science Museum.

But you're not currently at the Science Museum?

I kind of am on one day a week, but I've also worked at

-the London Transport Museum and the Design Museum as well.

-Freelance.

-Wow! Moonlighting.

-Yeah, I get around.

But that's nice, all those different disciplines. You must learn so much.

Yeah, I know a lot about some really, I suppose, obscure things.

I don't think anything's going to help me today, though.

Well, you say that.

Transport, these sorts of things come up all the time.

And there's Sam just stuck in his punk science groove.

You're all over the shop. This is wonderful.

Are you doing much the same sort of thing, communicating? Or is it a...

Yeah. So usually we have a subject which we have to, I suppose,

bring to young people,

make sure they understand what's involved with that.

So with the Transport Museum,

I was doing a lot of stuff around transport engineering

-and trying to get young people into engineering.

-Good for you.

Well, listen, you're on 8 -

a wonderful low score from Sam in the first pass -

which means 69 or less sees you very comfortably into Round Two.

Fantastic. Well, I think I know all but one there.

But I'm going to go for the bottom one.

I'm going to go for Matthew.

Matthew.

Matthew Wright. OK. Well, let's see if that's right.

Let's see if you can get below that red line.

It's right. You are into Round Two.

Well done. 30. APPLAUSE

38 is your total.

Well played, David.

Yeah, Matthew Wright, and Matthew, obviously one of the Gospels.

-Thank you very much.

-Pleasure.

-Thank you.

-Now, Hamza.

-Hello.

-Welcome back.

-Thank you.

Welcome back. You've got a little bit of a mountain to climb here.

-Yeah.

-But I think if anyone can, Hamza, I think you can.

Remind us what you do.

I work in the finance and operations department of a supermarket

and I'm a qualified journalist.

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

Trying to find a job in media. In sports journalism?

-Preferably.

-Do you have a blog or something like that?

Yeah, I have a press blog that I write articles

maybe a couple times a week or a month or whatever,

usually on football.

And also I've actually got an open day with the team that I support,

Hibernian, to work on their digital team.

Oh, that would be a dream, wouldn't it?

You'd actually be part of the Hibs team then?

-I wouldn't say this, but, yeah.

-Yeah, brilliant.

OK. Now, there you are, 78, the highest scorers, Hamza.

We need a low score from you.

OK, my mother is an RE teacher,

so when this came up, I thought...

obviously, I thought, "If I get this wrong,

"I'm going to be thrown out of the house when I get home."

I know the second bottom one for definite,

so I'm going to go for that.

I think it's Ruth.

Ruth, says Hamza. Ruth. Let's see if that's right.

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

No red line as you're the high-scorers.

Ruth is right.

60 for Ruth. APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 138.

Still in the game, but that's a high score.

Yeah, he's actually called George Ruth.

And funnily enough, it was a sports writer who gave him that nickname,

Babe Ruth, as well when he signed for Baltimore as a young man.

-Cos he was so young?

-Yeah.

Well, there was a series of young players all signed at the same time.

-They were called Dunn's babes.

-There we are.

-You see, the power of a sports writer.

-There you are.

-There's still 60 people know the name.

-Exactly.

A good sports nickname.

-Now, Chris, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Now, remind us what you do, Chris.

I'm a retired nurse,

so I don't really do very much except keep myself entertained.

And how do you keep yourself entertained?

I like to do Pilates, I like to do yoga...

And how often do you do that?

-Is that every week you do a bit of Pilates and a bit of yoga?

-Yeah.

So that must keep you incredibly fit.

Well, a bit more flexible.

There we are, exactly.

Now, 53 is your score.

84 or less gets you through.

Erm...I know three definitely,

but I don't know what one would be the lowest score.

I think I'll go for Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, and say Genesis.

Genesis, says Chris. Here is your red line.

Get below that with Genesis, you're into Round Two.

Let's see how many of our 100 got Genesis.

It's right and you're through, well done.

Oh, just. 76. APPLAUSE

Cutting it a bit fine, but it's done the job.

129 is your total, Chris.

Yeah, first book of the Bible, of course. And Genesis, the band -

six UK number one albums.

Now then, Emilia, a very warm welcome to Pointless,

lovely to have you here.

-And what do you do, Emilia?

-I'm a politics student at Edinburgh.

-At Edinburgh, which is where you ran into Tom?

-Yeah.

With his sociology?

No, we met through the student newspaper.

Ah. What were you doing on the student newspaper?

I was the editor of the opinion, comment-type section.

Is it quite racy, the opinions, comment-type section?

Sometimes it's a bit...

It needs to be filtered and vetoed, which was my role.

OK. But you've got people all around sending you stuff?

Sending you pictures from late-night bars.

-If only. That would make it a bit more interesting.

-OK.

But it was gossip, basically, was it?

No, it's more kind of opinion pieces on current events.

So political things that happened in the week or university politics,

-things like that.

-I see. Opinion and comment,

not scurrilous gossip from late-night bars at all.

Now, Emilia, you're on 23.

The great news is thanks to...a mixture of thanks to Tom

and the high scores from Hamza and Daryl,

-it doesn't matter what you score here.

-OK.

So talk us through the board, fill in all the blanks

and then pick the one you want to submit.

I think the phone calls one is numbers. You need to dial numbers.

Short sayings...idioms maybe. I don't know.

And I have no idea about the top two,

I've never read those books or watched MasterChef.

So, yeah, to make phone calls, you need to dial numbers. I hope.

Numbers?

Numbers. That was like a line from a film.

"To make phone calls, you need to dial numbers,"

and everyone runs off.

OK, so numbers says Emilia.

No red line for you as you're already through.

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

Look at that, 83.

I thought that could

have gone all the way down, but it didn't.

106 is your score, but you're through anyway.

You thought that was going to go down further than 83?

I thought it might have done.

What, to make phone calls, you need to dial these?

Well...

Or did you think it was going to be operators?

No, exactly, yes.

Yes, you're right. You're right.

Oh, thank you.

Now, let's take a look at these.

-Idioms are short sayings, of course, but this one is...

-Proverbs.

Proverbs, yeah.

That would have scored you 27 points.

Best answer on the board is this next one,

the first name of the author of the Alex Cross series.

I was getting it confused with Alex Rider,

which is Anthony Horowitz, but this is James Patterson.

-Ah.

-So, it would have scored you 10 points if you said James.

-And the first name of the Australian chef...

-John.

Yeah, John Torode. And 35 points for that.

There we are. Thank you very much. Well, at the end of our first round,

the pair we're having to say goodbye to, it's Hamza and Daryl.

One of our returning pairs.

And you did so well last time. I'm sorry.

You know what, you've made a lot of Hearts fans very happy

by being knocked out in the first round.

-LAUGHTER

-I didn't even think of that.

Hamza, Daryl, it's been wonderful having you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Hamza and Daryl.

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

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

Very exciting. Laura and Chris, lovely to have you in Round Two.

And well done, Sam,

our lowest individual scorer there with Luke from The Kooks.

Yeah, best of luck to all three pairs.

We'll have to say goodbye to another pair at the end of this round,

but that's a way off yet.

Our category for Round Two is...

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

-Richard.

-Yeah, looking for the name of any artist or featured artist

who appeared on one of these songs, please.

The 14 most streamed songs of the year,

according to the Official Charts Company.

-Very best of luck.

-OK, thank you very much indeed.

So, Emilia, to you first.

Erm...I'm a bit rubbish at pop music,

so I'm going to go for quite...

Well, what I hope is an obvious guess

and that it won't just be 100, and say Rita Ora.

Rita Ora, says Emilia. Rita Ora.

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

Ohh!

Oh, I thought that was a brilliant answer, Emilia.

Clearly not on that list, I'm afraid.

Scores you 100 points. Sorry.

Yeah, sorry, Emilia. All sorts of big names here, but not Rita Ora.

That was an unfortunate guess.

Thanks very much. Now then, Laura.

This is one of these rounds where I know loads of answers.

And when people start saying them, I'm going to be like,

-"Oh, I should have said that!"

-Hm.

But at the minute, I can't think of any.

I'm going to say...

Miley Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus. OK. Well, let's see if that's right.

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

No!

Bad luck. Miley Cyrus, also an incorrect answer.

Oh, that's a relief for Emilia there.

-A bit of company up there on 100.

-You're welcome!

Thus far, it's terrific stuff. Isn't it?

-It really is terrific stuff.

-Isn't it going well.

Someone's going to get one in a minute, I can feel it in my bones.

Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Sam.

-Sam.

-Yeah. Erm...

Not a great category, but I'm going to tempt fate now

and say I'm going to go safe, so it will probably be wrong.

I'm going to say Beyonce.

Beyonce, says Sam. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right. We've got a correct answer there. Well done, Sam.

Beyonce taking you way down

the tower, down to 18. Well done.

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Yeah, Drunk In Love, a Beyonce song,

-is the 33rd most streamed song of the year.

-There we are.

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

so let's take a look at those scores. 18, Sam. Well done.

Sam and David looking pretty good for the head-to-head at this point.

But I'm afraid 100 is where we find Chris, Emilia and Tom...

So, Chris and Tom, you two have to come up with the lowest possible

scoring streamed song from 2014 as you can. 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. Now, David, remember, we're looking for any artist

who featured on one of the top 40 streamed songs of 2014.

You're on 18. If you can score 81 or less, you're home and dry.

OK. Well, I have the sort of popular culture reference

of a High Court judge, so I'm really not too confident about this.

But I'm going to go for one, which I think

he's probably appeared on a few singles.

I'm going to go for Pharrell.

-Pharrell?

-Hm.

-OK. Pharrell.

Let's see if Pharrell is right.

If you can get below this red line with Pharrell,

you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went with Pharrell.

It's right and you're through.

Well, 18 is what Sam scored. 22 is what you score. Very well done.

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40 is your total.

Well played, David.

Yeah, he's number two on the list with Happy.

-Pharrell Williams.

-Thank you very much.

Now then, Chris.

-Now, we have a contest on our hands here, Chris.

-We do.

This is exciting.

I hardly know what streamed means.

LAUGHTER

But I think there was a very popular song by Robin Thicke,

so I'm going to go with him.

Robin Thicke, says Chris. Robin Thicke.

OK. No red line for you, you're joint high-scorers.

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

Oh, bad luck, Chris.

I'm afraid not 2014.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 200.

That's right, teamed up with Pharrell of course,

but not 2014, I'm afraid.

Thanks very much indeed.

Now then, Tom. You have a target here, which is 99.

-99 or less gets you into the head-to-head.

-Yeah.

-Come on.

-I was going to try and do a risky one

cos I thought Chris would get a good'un,

but I think because of that, I'm going to play it quite safe

and go Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran, says Tom.

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

There's your red line right at the top of the column.

Can you get below that?

You can and you do.

Very well done indeed, Tom. Good answer there. Ed Sheeran.

32. 132 is your total.

APPLAUSE Good work.

Yeah, he had four songs in that top 40, Ed Sheeran,

Thinking Out Loud being the highest placed.

He was actually the most streamed artist of all in 2014.

-Over one billion streams of Ed Sheeran songs.

-What?!

-That's a river, a torrent.

-Over one billion.

It really is. Isn't it incredible stuff.

I'll give you some of the low-scorers

before we do the pointless answers.

3 points for Ariana Grande, Ella Henderson, Pitbull.

You'd have got two points for Magic, Avicii, Meghan Trainor,

Jess Glynne and John Legend.

One point for John Newman, Vance Joy, Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX,

Mr Probz and Imagine Dragons. Bastille also one point.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers now.

Huge number one hit from Duke Dumont - I Got You.

Jax Jones, who's featured on that, was also a pointless answer.

Idina Menzel, who did Let It Go,

would be a pointless answer, from Frozen.

So well done if you said that.

Juicy J, who teamed up with Katy Perry, was a pointless answer.

Kesha. Lilly Wood, who teamed up with Robin Schulz,

was also a pointless answer.

Lorde, who released Royals, that was one of the top 40 streamed songs.

Nico & Vinz. Passenger, who did Let Her Go.

And Route 94, who teamed up with Jess Glynne.

Also OneRepublic - Counting Stars was a pointless answer.

Well done if you got any of those.

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

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Pharrell Williams, there you go, with 22.

Sam Smith, 28. And we know who's top - Ed Sheeran, 32.

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

So at the end of our second round, the pair heading home

with their high score of 200... I'm so sorry, Chris and Laura.

Well, you did twice as well today as you did last time,

but I'm afraid we still haven't got to see you in the head-to-head.

I'm so sorry. But it's been lovely having you on the show.

-Thank you so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Chris and Laura.

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

Very, very well done, Sam and David, Tom and Emilia.

You're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for that jackpot.

That jackpot now being £7,000, just in case we'd forgotten.

But, yeah, very well done having got to this stage,

cos obviously, you can now chat before you give your answers,

play as teams, which is nice.

The first player to win two questions

will be playing for the jackpot.

Well, very, very pleasing that you've both made it.

You've seen off our two returning pairs, which is no mean feat.

And I've just worked out why every time I've seen Sam,

something's been pleasing me about that, and it's because

that pattern on your jumper...

My grandparents used to have some lino with that...

-LAUGHTER

-This is...

-..with that pattern on.

-This is actually my grandad's jumper.

-Is it really?

He gave me it. I thought I'd wear it.

Well, he clearly gets it from the same lino shop

as my grandparents got their bathroom from.

How very pleasing. Anyway, so lovely. Thanks, Sam.

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

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

-Richard.

-Yes. Simply going to show you five pictures now

of famous people called Tony or Anthony.

Can you tell us who they are, please?

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five famous Tonys and Anthonys, and here they are.

There we are. Five famous Tonys or Anthonys.

Now, Sam and David, you're our low-scorers, so you'll go first.

Fantastic. Who do you think?

I think C.

Yeah, I think C.

Do you know D for sure?

We're going to go C.

I used to have his computer games.

It's Tony Hawk.

Tony Hawk, say Sam and David.

Now, Tom and Emilia, talk us through that board, please.

We were going to go for Tony Hawk as well.

B is obviously Tony Blair.

E is Anthony Head, I think.

And I think D... I don't know.

If I was going to guess, it might be Tony Bennett,

but I'm not sure at all.

So I think we'll go for E.

-Yeah? Do you think so?

-Yeah.

Which is Anthony Head.

Anthony Head, say Tom and Emilia.

So we have Tony Hawk and Anthony Head.

Sam and David said Tony Hawk for C.

Let's see how many of our 100 people spotted Tony Hawk.

That's a very good answer.

Very well done, Sam and David.

APPLAUSE

8 for Tony Hawk.

Tom and Amelia have gone for Anthony Head for E.

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

35. APPLAUSE

35 for Anthony Head, which means, Sam and David,

very well done indeed. After one question, you are up 1-0.

Yeah, Tony Hawk, the skateboarder, of course.

Best answer on the board, he is, so very well done.

Couldn't have beaten it.

I love the fact we've got someone from Liverpool on

because I genuinely...

They always say An-thony instead of An-tony.

-I just like it.

-Is that a Liverpudlian thing?

It's always An-thony, isn't it?

I didn't realise it was a Liverpudlian thing, but, yeah.

They always do, always do.

-A is...

-Anthony Perkins.

-An-thony Perkins.

-An-thony Perkins, of course, yes.

Would've scored you 13 points.

We'll leave B for a moment.

-D is...

-Tony Curtis.

-..Tony Curtis.

Would've scored 53.

What do you reckon Tony Blair scored?

Erm... Well, that you're asking means it's remarkable.

So it must either be remarkably high or is disappointingly low.

I'm going to say 98.

-96 points.

-96.

-96 points.

-That's pretty good.

That's very high, isn't it?

That's higher than Gordon Brown would get.

-Certainly. Certainly.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

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

Tom and Amelia, you get to answer it first, but you have to win it

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

German Cities. Richard.

We are going to show you the name of five German cities now

but with alternate letters missing.

Can you tell us the most obscure?

OK. Let's reveal our five German cities, and here they are.

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Tom and Amelia, you will go first.

So, we know the top four, we think,

but we think that the fifth one's going to be the lowest scorer,

which is probably why we don't know it.

-We'll go for the fourth one.

-Yeah, we'll go for the fourth one,

which I'm going to let you say just in case I say it wrong.

-It's Dusseldorf, I hope.

-Dusseldorf, say Tom and Amelia.

Now, Sam and David, talk us through that board.

We know all of them, don't we?

-Well, we do now they've said that.

-Yeah, yeah!

We thought that was Dresden, so we know all of them now.

-It definitely isn't Dresden.

-No.

So, top one, we think Cologne, Stuttgart,

-Munich and...Berlin

-The last one, yeah, Berlin.

-We're going to go for Stuttgart.

-Stuttgart.

So, we have Dusseldorf and we have Stuttgart.

Tom and Amelia said Dusseldorf. Let's see if that's right,

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

-Ooh!

-69 for Dusseldorf.

APPLAUSE

Sam and David, meanwhile, have gone for Stuttgart.

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

It's right.

And it wins you the point.

Look at that. There we are. 56 for Stuttgart.

APPLAUSE Very well done indeed.

That means, Sam and David, after only two questions,

you are through to the final 2-0.

And even more impressive, that's the best answer on the board as well.

On both boards, you got the best possible answer,

so very, very well played.

Again, it's one of those situations

where if your kids are into football,

they learn an awful lot about geography

cos you get to know your cities so well.

Stuttgart. Cologne, of course, another football city.

And Cologne would've scored...

..78. Munich...

..would've scored 91. Biggest scorer up there.

And Berlin...

..as you'll see, it scores 74.

So it scores fewer

than Munich or Cologne.

There's something about the letters that it doesn't quite catch as easy.

-Doesn't leap out, does it?

-Yeah.

Thank you very much, Richard.

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

I'm sorry to say, Tom and Amelia, we're saying goodbye to you.

It's sort of good news, though, cos we get see you again next time.

-Because otherwise it would all have been over in one show.

-Yeah.

Lovely having you on. We'll see you again then.

Tom and Amelia. Thanks very much indeed.

APPLAUSE

But for Sam And David, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Very, very well done, Sam and David.

You've seen off all the competition,

-you have now won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-Yes.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £7,000.

Now...

..someone is going to have to win that sooner or later,

and if not you, who?

You've been our low-scorers in Round One,

our low-scorers in Round Two,

head-to-head, you saw off with no difficulty at all, 2-0.

You've come storming through to the final.

Momentum is behind you here, shall we say.

What would you like to see come up?

I would love David Bowie to come up because that's his department

-and that keeps me off the hook, then I can...

-Oh, I see.

-..shift the pressure a bit.

-Anything that keeps you off the hook, David?

Well, yeah, I think the David Bowie thing, for me,

is good cos I can answer all those questions.

But anything wrestling comes up, I'm just going to stand

somewhere over there and let Sam get on with it.

OK. Let's hope there's something up there that...vaguely suits you.

Best of luck. Here they come.

-Erm, we...

-It's got to be American Films, really, hasn't it?

Yeah. Richard Nixon, definitely not.

Olympic Throwing Events, I mean, just look at me.

I've got no sports expertise whatsoever.

Romantic Fiction, definitely not.

So American Films, it's going to have to be the one.

Well, best of luck. American Films.

We are looking for anybody credited in any of the following three films.

Anyone who acted in the following three films according to IMDb.

Anyone from 1999's American Beauty.

Anyone from American Psycho in the year 2000.

Or anyone from American Graffiti from 1973, please.

So anyone who received an acting credit

in any of those three films according to IMDb.

-Very, very best of luck, gents.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

and all you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready? BOTH:

-Yeah.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK. Harrison Ford was in American Graffiti.

Was he? I've no idea. I've not seen any of them.

-American Beauty, nothing at all?

-No.

-OK.

-The Mena Suvari one?

-That's the one with Kevin Spacey.

-Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari...

-Yeah.

I've got no idea about...

So Harrison Ford for American Graffiti.

-Ron Howard was in that one.

-Ron Howard was in it?

-I believe so.

-American Psycho's Christian Bale, isn't it?

-Yeah. Who else is in it?

I've no idea.

-Apart from Christian Bale!

-BOTH CHUCKLE

That's going to be the main person in it.

-I think Harrison Ford.

-Yeah.

-I'm not sure about Ron Howard

because I think he's going to score points in there.

We'll go for both of them cos we haven't got anything else.

And you say... What was the other one in American Beauty?

Mena Suvari, is it?

I think that's her name, how you pronounce it.

-Kevin Bacon.

-Kevin Spacey.

-Spacey, that's it.

-Spacey.

-Bacon's in everything, though.

-DAVID CHUCKLES

-Ten seconds left.

-American Psycho...

-No. I think we're just going to have to go for those three...

-OK.

-..and take the trophy.

-OK, yeah.

OK. You're happy to let the minute run out. There it is.

Let's have your three answers,

-and say which category you're answering in.

-Sure.

-So, from American Beauty, who do you have?

-Mena Suvari.

Mena Suvari.

-And then, from American Graffiti, Harrison Ford...

-Harrison Ford.

-..and Ron Howard.

-And Ron Howard.

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

-Argh!

-I'd say...Mena Suvari.

-Mena Suvari, we will put last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Ron Howard, I think.

Ron Howard, we put first.

OK. Well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order, then.

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

Well, best of luck. Nice big jackpot there.

Let's just imagine one of these answers might be pointless.

What would you do with that jackpot? Sam, to you first.

Well, I owe David some money, so I'd pay him that.

LAUGHTER

I made a New Year's resolution a couple of years ago

to visit a new country every year, so book somewhere.

Probably one of the pointless countries such as...

-Where have you been so far?

-I mean, this is only a couple of years ago.

I'm not very well travelled. So Holland and Croatia and Russia.

Very good.

Now, David, what about you?

I'd probably lend it to Sam.

LAUGHTER That seems to be the pattern.

OK. Well, best of luck.

In the first instance, you've gone for Ron Howard.

We were looking for cast members of American Graffiti.

This was probably the one you thought was least likely

to be pointless, but let's find out.

If it is pointless, it'll win you £7,000.

Let's see how many people said Ron Howard.

It's right.

Now then, if this goes all the way down to 0,

you will leave with a cheque for £7,000.

Simple as that. Down it goes.

Ron Howard into single figures.

Still going down, still going down.

4. This is very good.

APPLAUSE

4 for your first answer.

That's a cracking score by any measure.

-Sadly, it's not a pointless score.

-No.

And for this last round, it has to be pointless.

Your next answer was Harrison Ford,

and again, we were looking cast members of American Graffiti.

If it's pointless, it'll win you £7,000.

How many of our 100 people said Harrison Ford?

Well, it's right.

Ron Howard took us all the way down to 4.

Harrison Ford now takes us down through the 20s

and into the teens.

Into single figures. Down it goes.

6 for Harrison Ford.

APPLAUSE

Also not a bad score.

OK. Everything is now riding on your third and final answer,

which is Mena Suvari.

In this case, we were looking for cast members of American Beauty.

If this is pointless, it will win you £7,000.

How many of our 100 people said Mena Suvari? Is it pointless?

It's right.

Ron Howard took us down to 4.

Harrison Ford, your second answer,

took us down to 6.

Mena Suvari taking us down into single figures.

Down it goes. Passes 6. Passes 4.

-Oh, 2.

-Aw!

APPLAUSE

Wow.

Three very, very good answers.

But I'm sorry to say, you didn't manage to find

that all-important pointless answer.

So I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £7,000.

That will roll over onto the next show. But what a performance.

Absolutely brilliant having you here today,

and you've been so consistently good.

Great answers right the way through the show,

so very well done indeed.

-And you get a Pointless trophy to take home, so very well done.

-Yeah.

Thank you.

That's unlucky, guys. You know what? You covered yourself in glory

throughout the show, and it's a shame not to have them back.

We'll go through the pointless answers

including my favourite named actor of all time

in the American Psycho category.

But we'll start with American Beauty.

Allison Janney. Better known as CJ in The West Wing.

She played the neighbour. Peter Gallagher, Scott Bakula.

Also known for Quantum Leap. Plays Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap.

Wes Bentley at the bottom there. They were all pointless answers.

Everyone enough film was pointless other than Kevin Spacey,

Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari and Chris Cooper.

Everyone else is a pointless answer.

Let's move on to American Psycho.

So, Guinevere Turner, who also co-wrote the screenplay,

and Josh Lucas.

And then Park Bench.

-LAUGHTER

-Brilliant.

-Just brilliant.

Who plays Stash in the film, Park Bench.

What were Mr and Mrs Bench thinking?

-LAUGHTER

-Goodness me.

And Samantha Mathis, also a pointless answer.

Everyone apart from Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon,

Justin Theroux, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny.

They were the ones that scored points.

Everyone else was a pointless answer. American Graffiti now.

Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Kathleen Quinlan,

Wolfman Jack played the DJ.

And only three answers in that film scored any points at all,

and they were Harrison Ford, Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Sam and David,

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

Thank you for playing. Sam and David, great contestants.

Unlucky there.

Well, sadly, Sam and David didn't win our jackpot today, which means

it rolls over onto the next show when we will be playing for £8,000.

Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.