Episode 9 Pointless

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Thank you very much. Hello.

I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless -

the show where obvious answers mean nothing and obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players!

And couple number one.

I'm Matt and this is my gorgeous wife Claire

-and we're from Lincolnshire.

-Couple number two.

Hello, I am Sally-Anne.

This is my colleague, Sally. Sally is from Leamington Spa.

I'm from Warwick.

-Couple number three.

-Hello, my name is Tom.

This is my housemate Alex and we are studying together in Liverpool.

And finally. Couple number four.

My name is Gary from South London.

This is my friend and colleague Eamann from Belfast

and we are both based in Banbury.

And these are today's contestants.

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

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

The man who brings nous to the house. It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard!

Hiya! Hi, everybody.

Good afternoon to you. We have a nice little jackpot bubbling up now.

-It is worth winning, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Particularly worth winning when it's a little bit higher.

Two returning pairs from the last show.

Gary and Eamann got knocked out in Round Two. Joined the 200 club.

And on podium one, Matt and Claire got through to the head-to-head, played very well as well.

The first question today, it's a really good one,

it's going to be easy to get a big answer, very easy.

Lots of easy answers in this first question

but anyone who goes for a risky answer... It's going to be...

Playing along at home, it's going to be an interesting round.

Interesting. Thank you very much, Richard.

Linda and Jess didn't win our jackpot last time which means we add another thousand pounds.

Today's jackpot starts off at £5,000! There we are.

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

Remember, the pair with the highest score at the end of each round

will be eliminated. Make sure your scores are low.

Best of luck to all four pairs, our first category this afternoon is...

Travel. That's nice.

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

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many of the

most visited countries worldwide as they could.

The most visited countries worldwide.

We're looking for the name of any of the 20 most visited countries

worldwide in 2014, according to the UN World Tourism Organisation.

Any of the 20 most visited countries worldwide.

We mean sovereign state, a member of the UN in its own right.

It is one of those ones where at home it is quite fun to play.

There is no jeopardy in going for an obscure one.

-Quite tough in the studio, isn't it?

-Yes.

When it's that thing of top 20. Yes. There's decisions to be made.

It's the sort of round you wouldn't really want to go first on.

It is the sort of round I wouldn't want to go eighth in.

That's true. Eighth. Or first!

Luckily, no-one has...

Oh! Now, Claire. Welcome back.

Remind us what you do, Claire.

I am a teaching assistant in a secondary school.

Does that mean you cover all the disciplines or...? Yes.

Yeah, I go into any subject area.

Do you have a specialist area?

-I like sciences. And space, particularly.

-Science and space.

Perfect.

In your nice school holidays, what do you like getting up to?

Mostly, because I've got three children,

we mostly do children stuff.

Very good. OK, now, Claire, the time is on us.

We are looking for the world's most visited countries.

I kind of thought of a country,

whether a lot of people go there, I would imagine they do. Um...

-I'm going to go for Spain.

-Spain. Spain.

OK, let's see how good an answer Spain is.

How many of our 100 people said it?

It's right.

Yeah, I'll take that.

You'll take that. Good. 67.

-She will take it.

-It is third on the list.

The third most visited country in the world. 65 million tourists.

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

Sally-Anne, a very warm welcome to you. Lovely to have you here.

What do you do in Warwick?

I am a secretary for a patent attorney's.

Now, that is fun. A patent attorney's secretary.

Were you ever called upon to, then, if somebody is developing

something too similar to something, you hold a patent for...

We do deal with infringements, yes.

Infringement. That is the word I should have come up with!

"Somebody comes up with something!"

Sally-Anne, what would you like to go for,

which country would you like to go for?

Um... I would like to go for Kenya.

Kenya. Can I salute the risk-taking?

-I'm hoping it's not a risk!

-Let's see if Kenya pays off.

Let's hope it does.

Oh, Sally-Anne. I feel bad about all that preamble.

I was saying that in the hope it would score you pretty much nothing.

-I'm afraid it scored you pretty much everything.

-Yeah, thanks(!)

Hang on... I didn't award the 100 to you. Anyway, there we are. 100.

-I'm merely commenting.

-Yeah, sorry, Sally-Anne.

Not on the top 20, Kenya.

Thank you very much indeed. Alex, a warm welcome to Pointless.

-What do you do?

-I am a student in Liverpool.

-What are you studying?

-Medicine.

-And what year are you in?

-I am in year number six.

I took a year out to do another degree.

So, you've already done another degree, just for fun! What was that?

-That was pharmacology.

-I see. Still part of medicine.

Have you decided now which sphere of medicine you're going into?

I'm still not completely sure but I'm thinking cardiology.

It is quite practical.

Kind of like rewiring a car or something.

Yes, what do you do when you're not doing that?

Well, my main hobby is sport. Definitely football.

I spend a lot of my time doing that.

But I've been trying to pick up something a bit more interesting.

-Have you heard of parkour?

-Parkour.

The art of falling over balletically.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been doing recently.

Trying to find empty parks and going around uni after hours.

Can you throw yourself around and all that stuff?

-I can throw myself around but not very successfully.

-OK.

Alex, what are you going to go for?

OK, so I'm going to go for something which maybe not many English people go to.

But throughout the world I think a lot of people probably go to Mexico.

Mexico. Mexico, says Alex. Let's see if he's right.

Let's see how many people said Mexico.

It's right! 100 was the high score - you passed that.

67 was our low - you passed that as well.

We have a new low. 29. Well done. Mexico.

10th on the list, Alex. Very well played. 29 million visitors.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Gary. Welcome back.

I noticed you varied your introduction very slightly

from last time. Last time you were both from Banbury.

This time I notice you're from south London but now working in Banbury.

What has Banbury done since we last saw you?

Well, I work for the church in Banbury.

We moved there for that reason. My wife and I and our son.

So, did the church approach you and say, you will be in Banbury...

The church I work for is specifically in Banbury.

It is Banbury Community Church

so it's quite a small affair but we have a nice community feel.

How did you come across that?

I previously worked in the outdoors,

I've done youth work for quite some time and

so I was looking for churches who were advertising for youth workers.

I see, and that's how you found Banbury. Now, Gary,

what are you going to go for?

OK, I am not sure if this is on the list or not.

-I'm going to say Brazil.

-Brazil.

OK, let's see if that is right

and how many of our 100 people said Brazil.

It isn't right, Gary. Brazil didn't make the top 20.

That scores you 100 points but you're in good company.

And I suspect that won't be the last 100 of the round.

Yeah, really unlucky.

At home you can say Brazil all you like and change your mind

but you can't do that on the show.

Not in the top 20. I would have thought it was.

You would have thought.

-What with the carnival and everything.

-Exactly.

We are halfway through the round.

Let's look at the scores as they stand.

29, the best score of that pass. Alex and Tom.

Looking pretty certain of a place in Round Two at this point.

We travel up to 67, Claire and Matt, ditto, I would say.

But then Gary, Eamann and Sally-Anne

and Sally all tied on 100.

Eamann and Sally, it's going to be between the pair of you to come up with the low score here.

Best of luck.

We are coming back down now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Eamann, welcome back. Remind us what you do.

Yeah, I'm the church coordinator for the same church Gary works at.

And your interests out of the church world are what?

I have a 15-month-old so my interests are work then come

-home and see him.

-I'm trying to remember, is he toddling yet?

Yes, sort of walking.

Yeah, he is toddling and saying his first wee words now.

See, that's kind of a wonderful stage. He sleeps well?

-When he sleeps, he sleeps well.

-That's good, for those short hours.

He sleeps quite well through the night.

Yeah, I just don't do so good in the mornings.

Comes around far too quickly.

You're on 100, joint high-scorers.

That means there's going to be no red line for you.

But what are you going to go for, it has to be a low scorer.

I am going to go, because it's a throughfare for the Pacific,

I'm going for Japan.

Japan, says Eamann. No red line.

Let's see how far down the column you get with Japan.

It's right. Well, 100 was our highest score so far.

31, not far off the low score.

131 for Eamann and Gary.

Yes, a good answer.

It scores 31, which is quite a lot, but it was 20th on the list, Japan.

It just gets in under the wire. 13.4 million visitors.

Interesting. Thank you.

Now then, Tom. Welcome.

You are studying with Alex, which means you are also a medic.

-In your sixth year?

-Yeah, exactly the same.

In fact, I met Alex on day one of the course about five years ago

so followed the same route.

-Have you done pharmacology as well?

-I have.

-Parallel careers.

-And they have the same haircut!

-I know!

I had it first!

Slightly annoying when Alex adopted it like that?

It's been going on for some time now so I'm kind of used to it.

Fair enough. And what realm of medicine will you go into?

I'm not sure myself but I've really enjoyed working with children

so paediatrics at the moment is my favourite.

Strong contender there.

Now, Tom, the great news is even if you score 100 points,

you are still through to the next round

but wouldn't it be satisfying to get a lower score than Alex?!

It would!

So, I've got a few safe ones rolling around in my mind

but now we are through, I might as well roll the dice a bit. Um...

In which case I am going to say Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka. OK.

Let's see if Sri Lanka is right, no red line for you,

you're already through. Let's see how many people said it.

Hm, interesting. I liked that answer.

I thought it was a very good choice but I'm afraid it didn't make it into the top 20.

It scores you 100 points, your total is 129 but you are through.

Yeah, another good wrong guess. That's three good wrong guesses.

Not in that top 20, I'm afraid.

Hm, OK. Now, Sally.

Welcome to the show.

Good to have you here from Leamington Spa. And what do you do?

I am also a patent secretary at the same firm as Sally-Anne.

-And you're friends through work?

-Yes.

-How long have you worked together?

-About seven years now.

-Very good.

And what are your interests aside from the world of patent?

I have to confess I am a huge Cliff Richard fan.

And I go to an awful lot of concerts

and I've recently just come back from his vineyard in Portugal.

-I was going to say, have you tried his wine?

-Yes.

-Do you buy his wine?

-Yes.

-Ha-ha. Not a fan?

-Not of the wine, no.

-Not of the wine.

-I prefer drinking champagne.

-Quite right!

Now then, Sally.

You have to score 30 or less otherwise

you will become our high-scorers.

-It is tough, that.

-It is.

I was going... I had some safe answers but

that's not going to...

Cut the mustard, as it were.

I shall go for Croatia.

Croatia.

Croatia, says Sally. OK. Here is your red line.

If you get below that with Croatia that would be brilliant.

Let's find out how many of our 100 people said Croatia.

Oh, Sally, I'm afraid not Croatia. Beautiful place.

-Have you been to Croatia?

-Going next year.

-Well done.

Absolutely beautiful. You won't regret that at all.

I am sorry, though, that Croatia didn't do better for you here.

That's 100 points, taking your total up to 200.

You had to go for a risk, Sally, so unlucky.

All four of those wrong answers, people at home will have been

confidently saying them up to the point they got 100.

-It is a tough, tough round to be in.

-Very tough indeed.

-Now, Matt, welcome back.

-Hello again.

We discovered last time that you run the IT

at a school in Lincolnshire.

When you're not doing that, what are your interests,

you have lots of interesting interests.

I like photography, I've got a fancy big camera.

I like home-brew, I like to LARP - Live-Action Role-Play...

-Stop there! Let's go back to the LARP. Live-Action Role-Play.

-Yes.

Is this something Claire is happy you talking about?

-Possibly not! But we are committed now, aren't we?

-I think we are.

Tell us how it happens, what do you do?

It is Dungeons & Dragons but away from the table so instead of sitting

around rolling the dice, instead you're dressed as the character

and act it all out like improvising a play without a script

and with everybody else doing the same thing.

-They are all playing a character.

-Dressing up?

-Yes.

It is quite Game of Thrones, medieval fantasy.

Does that mean you have a wardrobe full of medieval garb?

I have a drawer stuffed full of it... Charity shop...

-And you work in IT, you say?!

-Who would have thought?

Geeky hobbies for the IT geek. Mind-blowing.

You meet up with other friends?

One of my friends is mad enough to have spent the last ten years

building a medieval tavern and a few huts.

RICHARD LAUGHS

Hang on, it is just an excuse, it's getting drunk in a fun way,

-isn't it?

-Getting drunk and pretending to be someone different.

So hard to read Claire's face during this entire conversation!

After five years of marriage, she is resigned to it by now, I'm afraid.

There we are.

Matt, great news, it doesn't matter what you score,

you are through to the next round, which is good.

So, you can have a bit of fun with this.

Maybe see if you can find a nice low score.

You have no idea how relieved I am

because you would hate to go eighth in a round like this!

You would have to be a right mug.

Playing it more dangerously,

I am going to go with the student gap year theory of Thailand.

Thailand, says Matt.

We can forgive him all the LARP now.

-Well, only if it scores points.

-If it's right!

Thailand, is it right, how many of our 100 people said Thailand?

It's right!

34. Very good score.

Taking your total up to 101.

24.8 million visitors, 13th on the list. Well played.

There's no pointless answers at all. There's a couple of very low ones, though.

If you had to go for a low one, it's tricky, isn't it?

Brazil, Croatia, all these...

-Israel?

-Israel not on the list.

I will tell you the low ones. One point if you said Saudi Arabia.

17th on the list.

Two points if you said South Korea, which was 18th on the list.

And three points if you said Malaysia, which was 11th.

Those are the best three answers you could have given.

Austria would've scored seven.

I guess people go in the summer and winter so that adds up.

Ten points for Poland and ten points for the Netherlands.

You would have got 20 points for Turkey, 22 points for Russia,

36 points for Greece.

37 for Canada and Germany.

42 for China, 60 for the United Kingdom.

You would have got 63 for Italy, let's look at the top three...

Spain, we already heard, was third with 67.

Then France, 71.

And the United States at the top on 87.

But France is the most visited country.

France is number one on the list.

United States is number two, and Spain is three on the list.

-China in fourth.

-Where does Great Britain come?

Great Britain is eighth on the list.

-32.6 million visitors.

-That's OK.

All of whom are very welcome. Thank you for coming to see us.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

The pair we are sending home with a high score of 200 is Sally and Sally-Anne.

I am so sorry we are saying goodbye so soon

but we will see you again next time. We look forward to that.

Thanks very much, Sally and Sally-Anne.

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

Well done, everyone. We are here in Round Two. Very well done indeed.

You will notice one of our pairs has disappeared.

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

I don't know who that's going to be but best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is... Performers.

Performers. Could you decide in your pairs who's going first and second?

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

And the question concerns...

Star Wars actors. Star Wars actors.

-Richard.

-We're going to give you six clues on each pass.

The answer to each of those is somebody

who has been in one of the Star Wars films or credited.

There's six on each pass, 12 in all to have a go at at home.

Thank you very much indeed.

Let's reveal our first board of six and here they are...

There we are. I will read those all one last time...

-I am surprisingly pleased at this.

-Good.

-Um...

I have actually met him as well,

when I was about five so I am going to go for "Played

"the Green Cross Code man in a series of public information films."

-David Prowse.

-David Prowse.

David Prowse. Let's see if that's right for the Green Cross Code man.

Let's see how many people said it.

It's right!

17!

-17.

-A very good answer. He didn't voice Darth Vader but he played him.

He just played him. I didn't realise he didn't voice him.

If Dave Prowse had voiced Darth Vader it would be,

-WEST-COUNTRY ACCENT:

-"Luke, I am your father!"

More's the pity, is all I'm saying. Thank you, Richard. Now, Tom.

Yeah, it's not a fantastic board for me, to be honest.

I have seen all the Star Wars films but not for a little while.

I know a couple of them.

And the one I'm going to go for is the Life's Too Short actor

-and I am going to say Warwick Davis.

-Warwick Davis, says Tom.

Let's see if it's right

and if it is, how many people said Warwick Davis?

It's right!

Not bad, 14, Tom.

14 for Warwick Davis.

Well played, he appeared in the Phantom Menace and lots of roles -

-Wicket in Return Of The Jedi, which was shot in this very studio.

-No!

Yeah, the Ewok scenes.

-Shot in this studio.

-Did you know that?

I didn't. There you go.

There we go. Very exciting. Eamann, this board is all yours.

Do you want to talk us through it and fill in the blanks?

Yeah, I think I can have a stab at most of it.

I think the puppeteer was Jim Henson.

I think the Black Swan actresses is Natalie Portman.

And Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction was

played by Samuel L Jackson. I am a massive Tarantino fan.

I'm going to pick that as my answer.

I don't know General Zod, though.

Samuel L Jackson, let's see how many of our 100 people agree with Eamann.

It's right. So, 17 is our highest score,

14 is our low score.

You pass them both!

Leave them in your wake, Eamann.

Well done. Nine for Samuel L Jackson.

Good answer, plays Mace Windu in the first three films,

or the second three films, however you want to judge it.

Now, it wasn't Jim Henson.

It was Frank Oz, so lucky you avoided it.

Frank OZ would have scored six points.

The best answer on the board. You're right about Natalie Portman.

-She would have scored you 39. And General Zod...

-Terence Stamp.

Terence Stamp and that would've scored you ten.

We are halfway through the round.

Let's look at the scores. Nine, Eamann.

The best score of the pass,

Eamann and Gary looking very strong at this point. Up to 14, Tom and Alex.

17, Claire and Matt. Very nice and close together.

Anything could happen in the next pass.

But Matt, we need a low score from you as you happen to be

out in front. We are 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 clues up on the board

and here they come. We have got...

I will read those all one more time.

Now then, Gary.

You are the low scorers at the moment.

Should you score seven or less,

you would be certainly through to the next round.

I know two of the answers and I'm torn between which one to go for.

The Lion King is one of my favourite movies of all-time

so I'm going to go with that and say James Earl Jones.

James Earl Jones, says Gary. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that with James Earl Jones,

you are definitely in the head-to-head.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said James Earl Jones.

Look at that. You've done it! You needed seven, you scored six.

-Taking your total up to 15. Very well done.

-Well played, Gary.

And he was the voice of Darth Vader.

Of course he was!

-Not David Prowse.

-Not Dave Prowse, no.

-No, no.

But a fine combination the two of them made, I have to say.

-Yes.

-The physicality of Dave Prowse and the amazing voice.

Thank you very much indeed.

Alex, what are you going to go for?

Well, I was much happier with the last board

but fortunately for me there is still one I think I know.

And that is the top one - Bryan Mills and the Taken films -

-I think is Liam Neeson.

-Liam Neeson, says Alex.

So the highest scorers are Matt and Claire at this point

with 17, which means you need to be scoring two or less, ideally.

There is your red line.

Let's see how far down the column you get with Liam Neeson.

Not bad. 20, taking your total up to 34.

He played Qui-Gon Jinn.

Every time a Liam Neeson film starts on telly I think, "I'll watch this."

I will always watch a film that has a picture of Liam Neeson on the cover in a long coat.

Always.

There we go. Matt, we have a contest right here.

What we need from you is a score of 16 or less.

Nothing more than that otherwise we have to say goodbye.

Now, talk us through that board.

This will blow your mind

but as an IT geek I am quite a Star Wars fan, surprising.

-Just hold on a sec. Wow!

-I know. I know, right?

Imagine that Venn diagram, it must be tiny.

I'm breaking all the stereotypes.

Matt, you're feeling quietly confident.

Yeah, I mean the third one, this isn't my answer, because it

will be a high score, is Alec Guinness playing Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Married Paul Simon, I don't really know but I would guess

if I had to and I don't, Carrie Fisher.

I don't know the bottom one, I don't know what role she played in Star Wars,

but I know she wrote and directed Lost In Translation, Sophia Coppola.

Sophia Coppola, very well done indeed. Good answer.

Here is your red line. Not too bad, in the context of things.

Let's see if Sophia Coppola can get you below that.

Very well done indeed. You have done exactly what we needed.

Scored you nine, takes your total up to 26.

Very well played. She is in Phantom Menace, Sophia Coppola.

If you had guessed Carrie Fisher, you would have been right and it would have seen you through.

A correct answer scoring 11 points. Not a bad answer at all.

Alec Guinness would have seen you knocked out

because he would have scored you 31. And right at the bottom...

-Harrison Ford.

-Harrison Ford, of course. That would've scored 24.

The best answer on the board is James Earl Jones.

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

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

with their high score of 34, Alex and Tom.

Nothing wrong with that score, incidentally. Very nice score, perfectly respectable.

We will see you again next time and on the evidence of these

first two rounds, I'm sure we will see more of you, then.

But for Gary and Eamann and Matt and Claire,

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

Very well done. Matt and Claire, Gary and Eamann.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £5,000.

Well, you know what the deal is here.

You play as a team from here on in.

The first player to win two questions plays for the jackpot.

I think now you start playing as teams,

this should be very close, very exciting.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here is your first question and it concerns...

Amazonian Animals. Amazonian Animals. Richard.

We will show you five pictures of animals

who are found in the Amazonian rainforest. Identify them, please.

We are giving you their initials as well.

OK, let's reveal our five Amazonian animals and here they are.

We have...

There we go. Five Amazonian animals.

Matt and Claire, you are the low scorers so you go first.

Feel free to confer.

(Yeah, I think D is the lowest scoring one as well.)

(I know the first two as well.)

(And toucan. The bottom one's an eagle but I don't know what.)

-We are going to go for D, capybara.

-Capybara.

Capybara, say Matt and Claire.

Now, Gary and Eamann, talk us through the rest of the board.

Well, I know the first one

but it's going to be a high scorer which is toucan.

-Do you know any?

-Um...

When they come up, I will know them.

Maybe C is some kind of leaf carrying ant.

That is certainly what they are doing in the picture! Yeah.

I try to look for clues where I can!

I think maybe we should go for A in case D is wrong.

-We will say A, toucan.

-Toucan.

So we have capybara and we have toucan.

Matt and Claire said capybara for D, let's see if it's right

and how many people said capybara.

It's right. That's a capybara.

28.

28. Now then, Gary and Eamann have gone for the toucan.

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

It is... Ha-ha! Look at that.

89. People know their toucans!

Very well done indeed, Matt and Claire.

-After one question you are up 1-0.

-Let's fill in these gaps.

Now B, you can work this out. It is quite a low score.

Amazon River Dolphin.

That would've scored 15 points.

It would have been a very good answer. C is a leaf-cutter ant.

He has made a little plectrum!

That would have scored you 21.

And E is the best answer on the board. It is an eagle.

It is a harpy eagle. One point. Well done if you said that.

The capybaras, you don't know what size.

You don't see what it's against there but they are quite big.

They are the biggest rodent in the world.

And an animal ten years ago we wouldn't have known but all zoos

tend to have a capybara because they are cute

and we have all seen them.

There we go. Thanks very much indeed.

Here comes your second question.

Gary and Eamann, you get to answer first but you have to win it to stay in the game.

It concerns...

Christmas Cake Ingredients!

We are going to show you five ingredients from Delia Smith's

Christmas cake recipe but we have put them in anagram form.

-Can you tell us what they are, please?

-What about that?

Jumbled up ingredients for Christmas cake. Here they are.

Let's reveal them.

Gary and Eamann will go first. Feel free to confer.

(I know the first two.

(The top one is brandy. The next one is butter. Um...)

I got those.

I think we are struggling a bit here.

We know a couple but we think they are probably easy ones.

-What one shall we go for?

-Um... I think the top one.

-The top one and say brandy.

-Brandy, say Gary and Eamann for DRY BAN.

Brandy.

Now, Matt and Claire, do you want to talk us through the rest of them?

Well, the second one is butter, that will be a high scorer.

The bottom one is currants.

The fourth one...

We thought might have the word dried in it.

It is that G that's thrown us.

Dried mixed spice or something like that

but there's a G that I can't account for.

And TABLE CRACKLE frankly sounds like how you decorate around.

Which one do you want to go for?

The bottom one, CARS TURN, is currants.

Currants.

OK, so Gary and Eamann went for brandy, let's see if that's right.

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

Yes, DRY BAN is indeed brandy. Ironically. 56.

56 for brandy. Now then, Matt and Claire have gone for currants.

Currants at the bottom. CARS TURN.

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

It's right. Will it beat 56? It does. Very well done indeed.

Oh, look at that. Easy. 20 for currants.

Which means very well done indeed, Matt and Claire.

After only 22 questions, you are through to the final 2-0.

Let's fill in these gaps, butter is number two.

And that would've scored you 75. TABLE CRACKLE...

is black treacle. It would've scored seven.

I've just worked this final one out but through sheer brute force like an Enigma machine.

Because you have to work out, there are various words in there

and when you put them together, you are right about mixed -

that is in the middle - it is Ground Mixed Spice.

And it's a pointless answer. Very well done if you said that at home.

That would be very impressive. There we are.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round is Gary

and Eamann. Absolutely nothing wrong with either of your answers.

It is just Matt and Claire found form this time. Capybara.

There is nothing really you could do there.

Might you have just got one - the Amazon River Dolphin?

I had it just after we gave our answer. C'est la vie.

They played better than us today.

I'm afraid Gary and Eamann, this is where we have to say goodbye.

It has been a real treat having you both on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Gary and Eamann!

But for Matt and Claire it is now time for our Pointless final.

Many, many congratulations, Matt and Claire.

You have seen off all the competition

and you have finally won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing,

let's remind ourselves, at £5,000.

Now, last time, in our last Live-Action Role-Play,

you took on the part of vanquished foe in the head-to-head.

This bit of role-play, here you are conquering heroes.

No arguing with 2-0. Absolutely fantastic.

Really good scoring all the way through.

Any particular things you would like to see come up?

Film credits, TV credits, that sort of thing.

Anything that refers to IMDb in Richard's spiel.

Anything you want to see, Claire?

-Michael J Fox films would be a good one for me!

-OK, best of luck.

Let's see what today's choices look like. We have got...

-Hm...

-Wow.

Well, not Jockeys.

I don't have a lot in common with jockeys, as you might...

Latin American Singers is going to be weird '50s singers,

Enrique Iglesias and Julio Iglesias.

I don't listen to enough Radio 4 - for my sins.

I think we just have to...

We have to go Austen On Film and hope for the best

that one of them is, "This person starred in an Austen film and also did these other things."

-Yes, we will go for that.

-Austen on film it is. Richard.

Very best of luck. According to IMDb...

We are looking for anybody credited with

acting in any of the following three films.

Emma from 1996.

The 2007 film Becoming Jane or 2005's Pride And Prejudice.

Anyone credited by IMDb in any of those films. Very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

You have got up to a minute to come up with three answers.

To win that jackpot, just one of your answers must be pointless.

Are you ready?

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. Your time starts now.

-Any ideas?

-I was going to start naming random British actors and hope for the best.

I would say Jim Broadbent. He normally sneaks in a few.

Which one would you say Jim Broadbent?

-Maybe Emma is the earliest one.

-Yeah, or Pride And Prejudice.

It is 2005, Pride And Prejudice. It is the later one.

Yeah, Jim Broadbent for Emma.

Ewan McGregor might have popped up in a bit part or something.

Yeah, go on, then.

It is worth a punt. Um...

-Who else?

-And the female parts. I'm trying to think.

-Emma Thompson?

-Emma Thompson, which one would you think?

Becoming Jane.

-Pride And Prejudice, was that the Keira Knightley one?

-I think so.

-It isn't the Colin Firth one.

-It might be him.

I thought that was earlier, Colin Firth.

-That wouldn't be a pointless answer anyway.

-Emma Thompson.

-10 seconds left.

-Becoming Jane.

Jim Broadbent in Emma and Emma Thompson Becoming Jane.

-I think they are our best bets.

-I genuinely don't know.

That is your time up.

Let's have your three answers,

I'm sorry it wasn't a better category for you.

Let's hear your answer and which film you're talking about.

-So we are going for Jim Broadbent in Emma.

-Jim Broadbent.

-Ewan McGregor in Emma.

-Ewan McGregor.

-And Emma Thompson in Becoming Jane.

-Emma Thompson.

Of those three, which is your best shot, do you think, at a pointless answer?

-Pick one.

-Jim Broadbent.

-Jim Broadbent goes last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Emma Thompson.

We will put her first.

Let's put those answers on the board and here they are...

Firstly, very best of luck. A pretty nice jackpot, £5,000.

What would you do with that, Matt?

Well, we are going to Disney World in a couple of weeks.

So, definitely some spending money there.

OK, very best of luck.

In the first instance we were looking for actors in Becoming Jane

and you have gone for Emma Thompson.

It has to be correct, then it has to be pointless but for £5,000,

let's see how many people said Emma Thompson.

I'm afraid not Emma Thompson. I'm afraid not Emma Thompson.

This is my shocked face.

Not in Becoming Jane which means you only have two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your next answer was Ewan McGregor

and in this case we were looking for actors in the 1996 film of Emma.

Again, a bit of a guess, Ewan McGregor. Who knows?

Let's hope it's right and then let's see where we end up after that.

For £5,000, how many people said Ewan McGregor was in Emma?

Oh, it's right!

Ewan McGregor is a correct answer. He is in Emma.

Emma Thompson, it turns out, was not in Becoming Jane.

Ewan McGregor was very much in Emma. Down it goes. Oh, two!

XANDER LAUGHS

Wow! Now, that is exciting. There you are. He was in Emma.

Sadly, two of our 100 people knew that.

Everything is now riding on your final answer.

Congratulations on a good low score there.

You have gone for Jim Broadbent and you wanted him

to be in Emma as well. 1996. That would be great.

Let's see if it's right.

For £5,000, is it pointless, Jim Broadbent in Emma,

how many people said Jim Broadbent?

No, bad luck. Bad luck. That would be too good to be true, wouldn't it?

I tell you what, that was exciting!

Ewan McGregor in Emma back in 1996.

-Who knew?

-Only, literally only 2% of the people we polled.

We have thoroughly enjoyed having you on both shows,

really great contestants. Brilliant answering all the way through.

Very well done.

You get to take home a Pointless trophy but not the jackpot.

Very, very well done. Matt and Claire.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers

and plenty of names you do recognise. Three good guesses.

Let's start with Emma.

Alan Cumming is a pointless answer.

Greta Scacchi, Jeremy Northam, Ruth Jones.

Two other good pointless answers in this.

Emma Thompson's sister, Sophie Thompson,

and Emma Thompson's mum, Phyllida Law, were both pointless answers.

Everybody apart from Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor

and Toni Collette were pointless answers.

Well done if you said one. Let's move on to Becoming Jane.

You could have had Helen McCrory, Ian Richardson, James Cromwell, Laurence Fox.

Some brilliant actors in all of these films.

Anna Maxwell Martin is in it, loads and loads of good people in there.

Everyone apart from Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith

and Julie Walters, everybody else was pointless.

Pride And Prejudice now.

Jena Malone, Matthew MacFadyen, Penelope Wilton, Talulah Riley,

everyone in this film apart from Keira Knightley. She scored 20.

Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench,

Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander and Carey Mulligan.

Those were the ones that scored points.

Very well done if you got one at home.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Matt and Claire.

It's been fabulous having you on both shows.

Thank you for being brilliant contestants. Matt and Claire!

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Sadly, they didn't win our jackpot today, which means it rolls over

onto the next show when we will be playing for £6,000.

There it is.

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

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

-Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!

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