Episode 19 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed.

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

the game where you are always striving to find the lowest score.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hello, my name is Martyn and this is my partner Shirley,

and we live in Cardiff.

Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Julie, and this is my big sister Janet,

-and we live in West Yorkshire.

-Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Martin, this is my friend Bill, and we're from Leeds.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Chris, this is my son James,

and we're from Great Malvern in Worcestershire.

And these are today's contestants.

Thanks very much, all of you,

a warm welcome to Pointless, great to have you here.

We'll get to chat to each of you

throughout the show as it goes along.

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

he's currently gaining weight and learning to salsa for an acting job.

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

Hiya. Hey, everybody.

The learning to salsa is for an acting job - the gaining weight,

that's just getting old.

-That's just eating the salsa.

-Yeah, there you go, exactly that.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you, how are you?

Excellent. Yeah, I'm very well, thank you.

Interesting today.

You'll have spotted it immediately.

Highest ever percentage of Martin we've have ever had on the show.

Look at that!

We are currently operating at 25% Martin.

-Yes.

-The last show - Martin and Bill were on the last show -

-we were 12.5% Martin, briefly.

-Yeah.

-Erm...

-Thanks!

25% Martin now. If both of those teams go through...

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

-Peak Martin!

-..we will be at 33% Martin...

so, if that happens, I'll inform the National Grid just so they know.

LAUGHTER

If both those teams go through to the head-to-head...

HE MIMICS EXPLOSION

..we are 50% Martin.

At that point, just the back row of the studio,

you just need to leave - just cos of the atmosphere in the studio,

we're just going to need a bit of extra room.

-We will be 50% Martin.

-Mm.

Which has never been done

on any British game show in history.

-LAUGHTER

-In history.

How about that? It'll be amazing, won't it?

-Wow.

-Pleasure.

-Thank you, Richard.

Well, Dean and Gary, by the way, didn't win our jackpot last time,

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

at £2,000, there we are.

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

Just remember this,

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

will be eliminated.

That's all. I shall say no more about it.

Best of luck to all four players. Our first category this afternoon...

is Initials.

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. So, our Initials question is all about...

things beginning with the initials HP.

Initials HP, Richard.

Yeah - seven clues on each board.

Every single answer has the initials HP,

so there's going to be 14 in all

to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed. OK, let's reveal our first board of seven clues, and here they are...

I'm going to read those all again.

There we are. Martyn...

-Hello.

-Martyn, welcome to the show.

-Good to have you here, from Cardiff.

-Indeed.

What keeps you busy in Cardiff?

Well, I work for a pension company,

and outside work I like to do, erm... Do sport,

and travel as well.

Very good. Do you go and travel the world, do you have...?

I do, I am one of the oldest backpackers -

I didn't do the gap year when I finished university,

so I travelled about three years ago,

I travelled round the world in my early 40s, for six months.

How IS backpacking in your 40s?

It's good, actually.

Because you do get the credit card out from time to time

-when you fancy a bit of luxury...

-There we are.

Nice hotel room, and, er...

Slum it for a bit and then a bit of luxury at the end of the week, yeah.

Very good. Now, Martyn - HP.

OK. There's a few on there that...

A couple I know, a couple I'm...

If forced to, I would go for -

if I had to.

But I think I'll play a bit safe

and go with the British playwright

who received the 2005 Nobel Prize

for Literature,

-Harold Pinter.

-Harold Pinter, says Martyn -

let's see if that right, let's see

how many of our 100 people said Harold Pinter.

It's right.

42. APPLAUSE

Higher than I thought.

42. You were hoping that would go down a little bit lower.

I thought it might.

You felt it deserved a lower score, Martyn.

He's a Nobel Literature winner!

Yeah, I thought that would be a bit lower, but a nice start.

We talked a little bit about Danny Dyer on the last show...

-We did.

-..and he was in a couple of Pinter plays.

He was, back in the early 2000s.

There we are. Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Janet, welcome back.

Remind us what you do.

I'm a legal secretary for a local solicitor's firm.

A legal secretary for a local CRIME solicitors, we discovered last time,

which is exciting.

What are your interests otherwise?

I'm a Leeds United season ticket-holder,

I like watching tennis,

I like travelling and I like eating out.

Very good.

Now, Janet - HP.

I'll go for the UK rock band -

Humble Pie.

Humble Pie, says Janet,

Humble Pie. That's such a "UK rock band from the 1960s" name!

Humble Pie.

Let's see how right that is,

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

-Look at that.

-Wow.

Look at that! 16. APPLAUSE

There you go - Humble Pie knocking Harold Pinter into a cocked hat,

which incidentally would be another good name, Cocked Hat, for a...

That's another great '60s... Yeah. Humble Pie.

An UMBLE pie is also a genuine pie, made of kind of...innards -

-hearts and livers and kidneys.

-Mm.

You're making it sound delicious. LAUGHTER

I'm not really big on innards...

-On offal.

-Giblets and offal. Offal's the word I'm looking for.

-I don't mind offal.

-I bet YOU like a bit of offal.

I love a bit of offal, actually. Ohhh.

When you eat it, do you say, "Oh, you are OFFAL, but I like you?"

LAUGHTER

Constantly.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Martin. Martin, welcome back to the show.

-Thank you.

-Good to have you here. Remind us what you do, Martin.

I'm a stock controller for a dairy company in Leeds.

That is right, you check that stock. So you're basically just checking volumes, are you?

-Yeah. Correct.

-And then off it goes...

-Off it goes. Yeah.

-To the great wide world.

-In a timely manner.

-That's the other thing, of course. Volume and timing.

-Yes.

-Is there anything from your particular dairy

that, er...you take home?

-I don't take any of it home...

-No. LAUGHTER

I purchase some of it from...

-Good.

-..some of the finer supermarkets that stock it...

-That is good.

-..shall we say.

-What do you make of the new world

of coconut milk and almond milk and all this business?

It's mental, Richard.

-That's what it is.

-LAUGHTER

Good to get that from an independent...observer.

Yeah. Absolutely. Mental.

Martin, what will you go for?

I'm going to go for

the England women's footballer

who managed the national team,

-Hope Powell.

-Hope Powell,

says Martin, to the admiration of one and all. Well done.

Yes.

Hope Powell - let's see how many of our 100 people got that.

42's our highest score...

Past it. 16's our lowest score.

Past it. 8 for Hope Powell.

APPLAUSE

Great work, Martin, very well played.

35 goals and 66 caps for Hope Powell.

-She's been on the show, hasn't she, Hope Powell.

-Mm.

-She's lovely.

Her brother is in The Libertines.

The drummer.

-Wow!

-Yeah. How about that?

-I did not know that.

-Good fact, isn't it?

-It's a good fact!

Gary Powell.

Gary Powell is Hope Powell's brother?

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

Now, then, Chris -

a warm welcome to Pointless, lovely to have you here.

-All the way from Great Malvern.

-Yeah.

Oh, lovely Great Malvern. What do you do there, Chris?

Erm... I'm a careers adviser in a couple of schools in Hereford.

So, I just spend my days talking to young people,

finding out what it is they want to do with their lives,

and pointing them in the right direction.

-There you are.

-And it works.

-That's good.

Do you know, actually, a careers adviser at my school did say...

Librarian was one of them, but also television,

actually, funnily enough.

-Did he(?)

-Yeah!

-You should give it a go.

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER

And the librarian thing, I've got that. Shh!

See?

-Shh!

-That's cos you're used to hearing that sound.

-Ah, yes.

-Shh!

-There we are.

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

It's all yours - if you want to fill in all the blanks, you may.

Well, I've lost Hope, unfortunately - cos she was my main bet.

And eating Humble Pie is going to be no good.

So I don't know the Owen Wilson film,

so I'm going to have to go for Hocus Pocus,

the 1993 supernatural Disney film.

Hocus Pocus, says Chris. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

Where is it going to end up?

Oh, it's a good score, Chris.

Look at that, 24 - very well done indeed.

-Wow.

-Hocus Pocus.

Lovely play, Chris. Very well done.

Now, let's fill in these, shall we?

That top one - any idea on the top one?

It's Daniel Radcliffe from The Woman In Black.

-Haley Porter, is it?

-It's so close, so close.

It's Harry Potter, is the answer there.

Would have scored you 94 points. 94.

Now, the best answer on the board,

it won't surprise you, is the second one.

It's Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

-Howard Phillips.

-Three points for that.

And the comedy film - it's another good answer, actually -

-is Hall Pass.

-Hall Pass.

And that scores six points.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

We're halfway through the round,

let's take a quick look at those scores.

To recap, Martin and Bill

looking very strong at this stage,

with a lovely low score of eight,

thanks to Martin's brilliant answer of Hope Powell in that last pass.

Then we travel up to 16,

where we find Janet and Julie, very well done.

Up to 24, Chris and James.

Then up to 42, Martyn and Shirley.

Now... Yes, I know,

Harold Pinter.

I think it's heartening

that so many people knew that,

but I'm sorry you had to bear the brunt of his fame.

So, Shirley, I'm afraid it will fall to you,

you'll be the last person to answer, and I hope there will be something

left on the board that you can score a nice low score with.

Let's hope it keeps you in the game.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put some more clues up on the board - and here they are...

I am going to read all of those again.

Now, then, James.

Welcome. Good to have you here -

with your dad! Now, whose idea was it to come on the show?

-It was his idea, actually.

-His idea.

-Kind of both of us, actually.

-There we are.

James, what do you do?

I'm kind of a technical and sales assistant in an electronics company.

-Right, how long have you done that for?

-Two years.

-Two years.

At any stage, did your dad say,

"Well, electronics company..."?

-No. Not ever.

-Oh, and you have all that expertise!

Every morning at the breakfast table

and you just go, "No, not interested."

James, there we are, we're on 24.

The highest scorers at this end of the run

are Shirley and Martyn on 42,

so 17 or less gets you through.

How are we feeling about this nice new board, James?

Yeah, I think I know a few.

But I think I'm going to go for the top one, the US actress,

and go for Hayden Panettiere.

Hayden Panettiere.

Hayden Panettiere.

It's amazing how many things there are beginning with H and P.

Aren't there?

Well, yes! Hayden Panettiere, says James.

Here is your red line, it's low.

But Hayden Panettiere sounds like a name

that might go low down on the column.

Let's hope it does. How many of our 100 people said it?

James, look at that -

heroic is what that is.

14, takes your total up to 38.

Very, very well done.

Well played, James.

Yes, she's engaged to the boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko,

Hayden Panettiere, who was an answer

in our slightly less successful Things With The Initials WK round.

Yes. Thanks very much, Richard.

Bill.

Welcome back, Bill.

Remind us what you do.

-Retired.

-That's right, you have retired.

-And what did you do before then?

-Lorry driver, bus driver,

I even had a Bentley at one time.

-Now, did you do lorry driving on the Continent as well...

-No, no.

-..or was it just within the UK?

-Yes.

-See, that must've been quite fun, wasn't it?

-It was OK, yeah.

Did you get to see all the same people again and again,

-or was it...?

-Not really, no.

Oh, really? LAUGHTER

I'm trying to work out, is that a good thing or a bad thing,

-that's the thing.

-A good thing.

-A good thing.

But they have some of those routes,

there's that route, the ice road, isn't it, where all the truckers,

-they're almost like family there.

-Yeah.

But, I guess, it's not the same brotherhood.

-I used to do all the docks.

-Ah, right.

-Down here and north.

-Right, I see.

So no brotherhood among hauliers there.

Now, Bill, you're on eight.

The high-scorers still Shirley and Martyn on 42 - so 33 or less.

I will go for the Baroque composer of Fairy Queen.

I think it's Henry Purcell.

Henry Purcell, says Bill.

Let's see if that's right.

Here is your red line.

Get below that with Henry Purcell, you're through to the next round.

How many people said Henry Purcell?

Very well done, exact.

Perfect economy.

25, taking your total up to 33.

Ooh, it's getting very, very close.

Great work, Bill. Henry Purcell,

he was the organist at Westminster Abbey by the time he was 20.

-Amazing.

-That's young, isn't it?

Yeah, very young, and a very forward-thinking composer as well.

-Yeah, tell me about it.

-Very progressive.

He was progressive, also very briefly in the Libertines.

That's right. Yeah.

If you were going to be an instrumentalist in the Libertines,

harpsichordist was absolutely the one to go for, wasn't it?

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, then,

Julie, welcome back.

Welcome back.

Remind us what you do.

I'm a mostly retired accountant.

That's right, a mostly retired accountant, and a fine chef as well.

I wouldn't call myself a chef, a cook.

All right, a cook.

-But you've done a course - you did Raymond Blanc's course.

-I did.

It's quite a long time ago now, but I went there for a week.

I went mostly just so I could eat his food, really.

So while you're there,

-in the evenings you eat all the stuff that...?

-Yeah.

See, that's nice.

Anyway, Julie, there you are, 16.

It's getting tense on podium one, Shirley.

Julie, if you can score less than 25

you're definitely in the next round.

-This is a very hard board.

-It's getting harder, isn't it?

It's getting hard to choose which one.

I may regret this,

but I'm going to go for the U-shaped ramp, and say half-pipe.

Half pipe, says Julie. Half-pipe.

Let's see what age our 100 people are.

-That's it!

-There is your red line.

How many of our 100 people said half-pipe?

-Oh!

-You've done it!

Look at that, you've done it!

Very well done indeed.

24 is your total.

-Wow.

-Very nicely played there.

They do extraordinary stunts on half-pipes,

snowboarding and skateboarding as well.

It's a genuinely beautiful thing to watch.

If you ever watch the X Games,

or now they've got the half-pipe snowboarding

in the Olympic Games as well, in the Winter Olympics.

Genuinely balletic, gymnastic,

creative, incredible stuff.

Thank you, Richard. Shirley...

-Oh, Shirley.

-Hi!

Blame Harold Pinter.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-And his success.

Now, Shirley, I'm afraid you're our highest scorers,

but welcome to the show.

Let's get this chat...

Let's get this chat in before you leave.

-What do you do, Shirley?

-I'm an architect.

-An architect - based in Cardiff?

-Indeed, yeah.

-Where are you from originally?

-Northern Ireland.

That's right, I can just hear that there.

What do you do in your spare time?

I play a lot of tennis, I am captain of my local mixed team

-at my tennis club.

-Do you play doubles?

We play doubles, yes.

-South East Wales league.

-Martyn, is she quite competitive?

-She beats me comfortably.

-OK.

-So, do you ever play as a doubles...?

-No.

-No.

Not as a doubles... No!

I think that sounds like a sensible option.

Shirley, what would you like to go for?

I'm sorry to say that you have no targets

-and no red line.

-No.

That board's all yours -

do you want to talk us through it?

Well, it's Hyde Park,

is the Royal Park.

Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I don't know the film.

And the unit of health...

I'm going to have a guess at that one, cos it doesn't matter.

Hit point?

Hit point.

There was me thinking it was hot paint.

Hit point, let's see, is that right?

No red line, I'm afraid, cos you're already our highest scorers,

but how many of our 100 people said hit point?

-It's right, hit point!

-No!

Oh, 11! Look what a great answer that was!

-Martyn...

-Yeah, I know.

53 is your total.

Very well done.

A great way to leave us, Shirley.

A promise of things to come on the next show as well,

and you've helped us avoid this 33% Martin situation

that we were worried about.

You were right about Hyde Park, of course,

you were right to avoid it as well - very, very big scorer, 87 points.

Rocky Horror Picture Show,

also a big scorer - 53.

Now, do you know this last one?

-The Hudsucker Proxy.

-The Hudsucker Proxy, yeah.

It was their last flop, really. Five points for that one.

Not their last flop, the last one

before they became really mainstream and their films made a lot of money.

-The last one before Fargo.

-That's right, yes.

Thank you very much indeed.

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

with their high score of 50 - it's not that high a score -

but clearly everyone else had revised on their HPs,

which perhaps we should all have done.

But as Richard said, this all bodes very well.

Very good, tactical scoring there,

and good intuitive thinking going through the board.

I'm sure you'll do much, much better next time,

but thanks very much, meantime, for playing.

Shirley and Martyn.

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

And now, magically, we're down to three pairs.

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

but that went very good, that round.

Good round. Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon...

is Board Games.

Board Games. 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 as many...

..as they could.

Properties on the Monopoly board

that do not contain the word "street", Richard.

We're looking for any properties

on the classic London Monopoly board, please.

So that's squares that you can buy

that do not contain the word "street", please.

So any square you can buy that does not contain the word "street".

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

Julie.

I'll go for Pentonville Road.

Pentonville Road. Very good indeed.

Let's see if that's right,

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

Very nice indeed. 10 for Pentonville Road.

Very solid, confident start there.

A light-blue property, £120, Pentonville Road.

Hm. Thank you, Richard. Martin.

Yeah, I've got a couple.

So I'm going to go for the Electricity Company.

The Electricity Company, says Martin.

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

went for that - the Electricity Company.

It's right.

There we are, 11.

-The Electricity Company.

-Yeah, we'll accept that.

The Electric Company - costs £150 to buy.

Although since deregulation, it's now £14,800 to buy.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, James.

I've got a couple.

I think...

I think I'll go for the Angel Islington.

The Angel Islington, says James.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for the Angel Islington.

It's right. Well, 11 is our high score, 10 our low.

24?!

24, what about that? It's just at the top of Pentonville Road as well.

-I know, right?

-I know!

-That's weird.

Although it's cheaper on the Monopoly board - £100.

-These days it wouldn't be, would it?

-No.

-Property prices in the Angel.

-You're on City Road, practically.

-Through the roof!

-Yeah. Thank you very much.

-Pleasure.

Before we head back up the line, let's take a look at those scores.

10 the best score of that pass.

Very well done indeed, Julie.

Then up to 11, where we find Martin and Bill.

Then we hike all the way up the mountain to a 24,

where we find James and Chris.

So, Chris...

my advice to you, in your immediate career,

would be to find a very low-scoring answer on the board.

-Thank you.

-Best of luck with that.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium.

So, Chris, we are looking for Monopoly properties

that do not contain the word "street".

You're on 24, you are our high-scorers.

Right. Erm...OK.

That's narrowed it down. Got to take a bit of a gamble.

I think I'll go for the Water Works.

The Water Works, says Chris.

Well, the Electric Company scored 11.

The Water Works, let's see what they score.

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

Look at that, 13. APPLAUSE

Water more popular than electricity, evidently. 37 is your total.

Again, £150 to buy Water Works,

for what that's worth.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, then, Bill.

You're on 11. If you can score 25 or less,

you are in the head-to-head.

Yeah, Mayfair.

Mayfair, says Bill.

Mayfair. Here is your red line.

Get below that with Mayfair, you are into the head-to-head.

How many of our 100 people said Mayfair?

Ooh! 57.

57, taking your total up to 68.

Yeah, the most expensive property on the board, Mayfair.

£400 that would cost you.

There we are, thank you very much, Richard. So, Janet.

You need to score 57 or less.

-Whitechapel Road.

-Whitechapel Road, says Janet.

Whitechapel Road.

Here is your red line.

You have to get below that red line to be in the head-to-head.

Let's see if you've done it.

Whitechapel Road, how many people said it?

It's right.

You've done it, look at that!

Ooh, by a margin, Whitechapel Road, 17.

Your total is 27.

Very well done.

Yeah, the joint-cheapest property on the board.

We're now going to be 0% Martin.

Can't believe it.

There's no pointless answers at all, I'll give you the lowest-scorers.

You would have got four points for Northumberland Avenue,

eight points for Euston Road and nine points for Whitehall.

They were your best answers.

You would've got 13 for The Strand, 14 for Leicester Square,

17 for King's Cross Station,

21 points for Marylebone Station and Trafalgar Square, 23 for Piccadilly.

Let's take a look at the top three.

32 points for Pall Mall, 44 points for Old Kent Road,

and Mayfair actually the biggest scorer of all, Bill, I'm afraid.

There we are. Thank you, Richard.

So, at the end of our second round,

I'm sorry to say, the pair we have to send home, Martin and Bill.

I was secretly hoping you were going to be finalists, because, you know,

you're the quizzers from last time.

You know, we sent you home a bit early last time.

-It was Round Two then, I'm afraid it's Round Two again.

-Yeah.

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

Bill and Martin, it's been wonderful having you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing. Great contestants.

But, for Chris and James, Janet and Julie,

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

Many congratulations, Janet and Julie, Chris and James.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £2,000.

Well, here we are,

we've reached that lovely, false summit of the head-to-head,

where you can start playing as teams.

You can chat before you give your answers.

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

Well, this is nice, it's a family affair, isn't it?

Very nice indeed.

Father-and-son team versus sisters.

Best of luck to you, Chris and James, and best of luck to you,

Janet and Julie. Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question,

and the first question today is about...

-Statues Of Contemporary Figures, Richard.

-We're going to show you

five statues now of contemporary figures.

-Can you identify them, please?

-OK, thank you very much indeed.

Now, then. Here they come. We have five statues.

There we are.

Five statues there.

Now, Janet and Julie, you are our low-scorers, our golden couple,

so you will go first.

(Do you think we should play safe?)

(I think we should play safe.)

(Let's go for Bobby Moore, then.)

OK. We're going to go for A, Bobby Moore.

A, Bobby Moore, say Janet and Julie. A, Bobby Moore.

Now, Chris and James, do you want to talk us through the rest of them?

Yeah. C is Charlie Chaplin.

D looks ever so much like Cary Grant.

E looks like Amy Whitehouse.

And B is the fellow who used to blow up chimneys,

and I cannot for the life of me remember his name at the moment.

So, which one do you reckon?

I didn't recognise C, but I knew E.

Maybe go E?

-We'll go for D.

-OK, go for it.

-D, I'm going to go Cary Grant.

D, Cary Grant. So we have Bobby Moore and we have Cary Grant.

Janet and Julie said Bobby Moore for A.

Let's see if that's right.

It is, of course, Bobby Moore.

And that goes down to 44.

44, Bobby Moore.

Now, Chris and James have gone out on a real limb here.

You think that D looks like Cary Grant.

Is it, could it possibly be Cary Grant?

It is Cary Grant!

It absolutely is - and guess what, it beats Bobby Moore.

Oh!

Cary Grant was 8, Bobby Moore was more. 44.

Chris and James, after one question, you're up 1-0.

Nicely done, Chris. E was, of course, Amy Winehouse.

It's the biggest scorer there. It's in Camden Market, that statue.

Would've scored 57 points.

C, of course, is Charlie Chaplin.

That's near Leicester Square,

used to be in Leicester Square. 26 points for that.

And you're absolutely right, that's the steeplejack,

Fred Dibnah, yeah.

But scored more than Cary Grant.

-Do you know what?

-Scored nine points.

I thought that was David Hockney.

I thought it was David Hockney as well.

-There you go.

-There you go.

Well...well done, Chris and James.

Now, then, Janet and Julie, this second question,

you have to win this one to stay in the game,

but they get to answer it first.

So, very best of luck.

Our second question this afternoon concerns...

Animated mice, Richard.

We're going to show you the names now

of five animated mice, but in anagram form.

Can you unscramble them and give us the most obscure answer?

Thank you very much, so let's reveal our five anagrams of mice -

and here they are.

We have got...

I'll read those again.

Chris and James will go first.

We can only work out two at the moment,

and I think we'll have to go for Fievel, the second one.

Fievel. Fievel, say Chris and James.

Fievel. Now, Janet and Julie,

do you want to talk us through the rest of the board?

Well, the top one's Mickey Mouse,

and we can only work out the bottom one,

and we'll go for that one, which is Danger Mouse.

Danger Mouse. OK, so we have Fievel and we have Danger Mouse.

Chris and James went Fievel.

Let's see if that's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people went for Fievel.

Oh, that's a good one. Look at that.

Very well done indeed. 10 for Fievel.

Janet and Julie, meanwhile, have gone Angered Sumo,

that is Danger Mouse.

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

It is Danger Mouse.

Down that goes to 39. Well...

..bad luck, Janet and Julie.

Sometimes it can work in your favour going second

when it's an anagram round...

-When you don't know the answers.

-..but I'm afraid, I know...

But, very well done, Chris and James.

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

Very well done.

Yeah, Fievel from An American Tail,

and An American Tail - Fievel Goes West.

And, of course, FIVE ALL adds up to ten, so that's nice.

-LAUGHTER Oh, yeah.

-How about that?

I hope you got - as the voice of Danger Mouse -

I hope you got Danger Mouse.

I did get Danger Mouse. I did. I didn't... I'm still struggling,

I haven't even bothered trying to unpick Simian Cabs

and Zen Posey Glades.

Oh, really? So, Meek Music Yo,

I think we already heard, is Mickey Mouse.

So that is 63 points.

So Zen Posey Glades, you're having trouble.

-Yeah.

-The Z should help you a little bit.

I've got it, I've got it, I've got it. Speedy Gonzales.

-Speedy Gonzales!

-There we are. There we are.

-Well done.

12 points. Now, this last one. You know what?

If you got this, it's very impressive,

because it's a tough anagram

and it's not a particularly well-known animated mouse.

It's no Danger Mouse, shall we say.

-Right.

-But if you know The Rescuers at all,

it is...

Miss Bianca, and that's a pointless answer,

so very, very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

I can't really bear this - our lovely sisters.

You've been in the head-to-head twice

without anything to show for it.

-I feel we've served you ill.

-Oh!

-I'm sorry.

I'm just sorry, but it's been wonderful having you on.

Thank you so much for playing.

Janet and Julie, very strong contestants indeed.

But, for Chris and James, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Chris, congratulations, James.

You have fought off all the competition

and you have 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 £2,000.

Very nice.

I mean, as career advice, I'd say going on Pointless

-would probably be quite a good...

-Yes.

I shall definitely be suggesting it to all of my students.

-A good move.

-Absolutely.

-I mean,

provided they do as well as you've done.

-Yeah.

-That's the thing, I suppose.

-Yeah.

-But well done, you.

I mean, first appearance on the show, right through to the final,

2-0 in the head-to-head -

I mean, there's no arguing with a trajectory like that.

And we've got quite a nice jackpot gathering there

for you to have a go at.

Now, as always, you know what happens in this round -

we put our four things up on the board and they're quite random,

and quite specific,

but if they happen to land within your areas of expertise,

then quids in. So, best of luck.

Today's foursome looks like this...

-CHRIS EXHALES

-Latin American Singers is out.

No. We can't do that. Erm...

-The Letter W could be absolutely...

-Could be anything.

-..anything.

-How are you doing on cricket?

-Cricket, OK.

It's Letter W or Cricket.

Oh, let's go for Cricket In 2015.

Cricket In 2015.

-Richard.

-OK, very best of luck, gents,

here are your three questions on Cricket In 2015.

We're looking for any of the 14 teams

who played at the ICC World Cup.

We are looking for any player from the 2015 Ashes series -

that's anyone named in any of the starting 11

in the men's Ashes series in 2015.

Or we're looking for any player from the 2015 women's Ashes series -

again any of the starting 11s in any of those Ashes matches.

So, any team at the World Cup,

or any player in the 2015 Ashes series for men or women.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much. 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 those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Good. Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK, ICC World Cup, we could have Bermuda, Bangladesh, er...

Scotland, Ireland.

Countries aren't going to be as...

There's not so many of them,

-we need to look at the players from the 2015 Ashes.

-OK.

-2015 Ashes...

-Probably the men's I'd know better, so,

you've got Alex Hales, was he there?

-No. Erm...

-Ginger chap.

-Er... Fielder.

-Er...

-Stokes?

-That's a good one.

Erm...

Australians...

Australians...

Er... Complete blank.

-Erm...

-Yeah.

-Oh, gosh.

-Are you sure on Bermuda?

Cos that was about 2010, wasn't it?

Holland...

-Holland...

-And we know about Zimbabwe?

-Zimbabwe's a good one.

-Erm...

-Players...

-Let me think of players. Australians...

-Ten seconds left.

-..in the 2015 Ashes series, it's going to be...

-I think Stokes is a good one.

-OK. Ben Stokes?

-Too obvious.

-Yeah.

OK. That is your time up. I now need your three answers.

What are you going to give me?

Players from the 2015 Ashes series.

-Steve Marsh?

-Yeah.

-Steve Marsh.

-Steve Marsh.

And then teams from the 2015 ICC World Cup.

-World Cup.

-Er...Zimbabwe?

-Zimbabwe.

-Zimbabwe.

-And...

Bermuda? Bermuda.

And Bermuda. Zimbabwe and Bermuda, and Steve Marsh.

-Yeah.

-Of those three answers,

which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Zimbabwe?

-Zimbabwe we'll put last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Bermuda.

-Bermuda.

-Bermuda. Steve Marsh we bung in the middle.

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

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

Well, very best of luck.

Now, then. Nice jackpot of 2,000 - that's a grand apiece.

What would you do with that? Chris, you first.

Er, well, I've got an allotment that desperately needs a greenhouse.

-Oh, just think of the lovely things you could grow.

-Yeah.

You could grow peaches.

-Ooh!

-Ooh!

Peaches. Oh! Tomatoes, obviously.

-Yeah.

-Mm! Oh, James, we're all winners there, aren't we?

James, what would you do with your grand?

Erm...I still owe him money for a car, so...

-give it straight back to him!

-More peaches(!)

On to the bigger greenhouse!

Oh...excellent!

Well, very best of luck.

Three answers there,

let's hope one of those is pointless and wins that jackpot for you.

Your first answer was Bermuda.

In this case we were looking for

countries that participated in the ICC World Cup.

Let's find out. Has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

So, for £2,000, let's see how many people said Bermuda.

No! Bad luck.

You weren't sure about Bermuda and you put it first for that reason.

So there we are, no great surprises there.

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

Your second answer was Steve Marsh.

In this case, we were looking for

any player from the 2015 Ashes series.

Has to be right, which we're not necessarily sure about,

then it has to be pointless.

If it's both of those things, however,

you leave here immediately with £2,000.

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

-Ooh!

-It's going well(!)

-Oh, dear!

OK, so two incorrect answers.

But they were the two you were quite dodgy about.

-Pretty unsure about.

-So, you know...

-Yeah.

We now move on to firmer ground, I would say, here,

with your third and final answer, which was Zimbabwe.

Again, we were looking for countries

which were part of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2015.

Has to be right - you have a hunch it IS right -

then it has to be pointless.

Both of those things will win you £2,000.

How many of our 100 people said Zimbabwe? Is it pointless?

It's right.

This is good news. Your first answer, Bermuda, was incorrect,

your second answer, Steve Marsh, was incorrect,

but your third answer, Zimbabwe, absolutely on the money.

Down we go into single figures,

still going down, still going down...

Peaches! There we are!

Very well done.

Fantastic. Oh!

Thank you!

Absolutely wonderful!

Congratulations, Chris and James!

Zimbabwe was a pointless answer,

which means you leave here with that jackpot of £2,000.

Absolutely superb.

Well, that's nice, isn't it?

How lovely. And also a perfect father-and-son relationship,

because you both gave one answer that the other one said,

"No, that's wrong." And then teamed up to get one

that was a pointless answer,

so that's father-son relationships the country over.

Steve Marsh isn't right, unfortunately.

Steve Smith would have scored you one.

Shaun Marsh, he was a pointless answer, there's also Mitchell Marsh, who was a pointless answer as well.

Loads of pointless answers in that category.

For the ICC World Cup, there's only three pointless answers.

They were...

And now loads and loads of pointless answers for the Ashes series.

Let's take a look at a few of them...

The Aussie David Warner, the English batsman Gary Ballance.

Mitchell Starc, Steven Finn, the fast bowler, a pointless answer.

Adam Lyth a pointless answer.

Brad Haddin, Chris Rogers, Josh Hazlewood.

Mark Wood, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson.

Nathan Lyon, Peter Nevill, Peter Siddle, Shane Watson -

all of those are pointless answers. So, well done if you got any

of those. Let's move on to the women's Ashes...

Danielle Hazell a pointless answer.

The Player of the Series, Ellyse Perry, was a pointless answer.

Lydia Greenway scored the most runs for England in that series,

also a pointless answer. Megan Schutt. In fact, everybody apart from

Charlotte Edwards, Sarah Coyte and Katherine Brunt - every other player

was a pointless answer, so well done if you got one of those.

But terrific work in the studio. Zimbabwe's won you the £2,000.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Well, thanks once again to our winning players Chris and James,

who go away with today's jackpot of £2,000.

Very well done.

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

the test on Pointless. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.