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APPLAUSE

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Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome

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to Pointless, the show that makes big winners

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out of the lowest scorers. Let's meet today's players.

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APPLAUSE

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And couple number one.

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Hi, I'm Dom, and this is Mike, and we're housemates from Brixton.

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-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Carly and this is Rakesh,

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we're husband and wife from Bristol.

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Couple number three.

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Hello, my name is Shaun, this is my wife, Corrina,

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and we're from Bournemouth.

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And finally, couple number four.

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Hi, I'm Patricia, this is my daughter Ames,

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and we're from Beccles in Suffolk.

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And these are today's contestants.

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APPLAUSE

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Thanks very much to all of you. A warm welcome to Pointless.

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We'll get to chat to each of you throughout Round One.

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

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Yes, he HAS been working out, thanks for noticing!

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

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Hiya. Hi, everybody.

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Afternoon.

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-Good afternoon to you.

-Good afternoon.

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Well, this is Brixton v Bristol v Bournemouth v Beccles.

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-That's quite fun, isn't it?

-All the Bs, yeah.

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Now, really interesting end to the last show.

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Mike and Jim got through to the final.

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One of their questions was words ending and beginning in W.

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And you know in families sometimes, where you get a word wrong

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or you hear a word wrong? Now, you get those little kind of things

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on your nail, they're called whitlows.

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-Yeah.

-And that was a pointless answer.

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And the good news was, Jim knew what they were called,

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but in his family they'd always called them wicklows.

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So it was an incorrect answer.

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He'd spent his entire life quite rightly calling them a wicklow,

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cos that's what his mum had called them,

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and that's what he'd learned them as, and it cost him £1,250.

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-Oh.

-Ohhh.

-That's...

-GROANING

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Listen how gutted everyone here sounds!

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The audience actually ARE gutted, to be fair, but no-one on the podiums.

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Two pairs are coming back, on podiums three and four,

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and fingers crossed we'll seem them more.

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Neither pair got into the head-to-head on the last show.

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So it should be a cracker.

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Thanks very much. Well, as you've gathered, Mike and Jim

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didn't win the jackpot last time, which means we add another £1,000

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to that. So today's jackpot starts off at £2,250.

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There we are.

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

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So here is the only thing you have to remember -

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

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eliminated. That is it. Other than that, you're on your own.

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Best of luck. Our first category this afternoon...

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is Football.

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Football. Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

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who's going to go second?

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

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

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We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

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as many teams above Scotland in the Fifa rankings as they could.

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Teams above Scotland in the Fifa rankings.

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-Richard.

-Yeah, as of January 2016 Scotland were ranked number 52

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in the world, in men's international football.

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Looking for any of the 51 countries that were ranked above them, please.

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OK, thanks very much indeed.

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Any of the 51 countries ranked above Scotland.

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Mike, welcome to Pointless, good to have you here.

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From Brixton in London. What do you do, Mike?

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I'm a credit controller for an insurance firm.

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OK. How long have you been doing that?

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-Nearly two years now.

-And when you stop controlling credit, Mike,

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what do you like doing?

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Erm, going to the gym, playing squash,

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going out with my friends at the weekend, that sort of thing.

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OK, very good. Now, you and Dom, you said were housemates?

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-That's right.

-How long have you known each other?

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-Since we were about 12, actually, we went to school together.

-Oh, that's nice.

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-Long-time friends.

-Yeah,

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so for quite a long time. We've been travelling together as well,

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lived together for about two years.

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Excellent. Good stuff. Now, football, I'm guessing,

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might be quite a good category for you?

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Yeah, I think so, hopefully.

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Fifa rankings, what are you going to go for?

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Erm, can I go for Romania, please?

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Romania, says Mike.

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Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Romania.

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It's right.

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Look at that, 2!

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Very well done indeed, Mike! Great answer,

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excellent start to the game.

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Yeah, qualified for the World Cup seven times, Romania.

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Very good start to the show, well played.

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Thanks, Richard.

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Now, Carly, welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here.

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-What you do in Bristol?

-I'm a clinical trials pharmacist.

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R-R-Right. Tell me what that means, tell me exactly what you do.

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Erm, so I'm a pharmacist by trade, er,

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but I kind of manage the drugs side of...

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drugs that are in the clinical-trials stage of development.

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-I see.

-And I work in a big hospital trust.

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I see, OK, Carly, and what do you like getting up to aside from that?

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Erm, we like travelling, I love just as many places as I can go to,

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really. Do a bit of cooking.

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Very good. Now, how are we feeling about our Fifa world rankings?

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Er, not great at football, I'll be honest.

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Um, so not really sure, so I might play a little bit safe.

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-Italy?

-Italy, says Carly.

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

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It's right.

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Well, 2 is our only score at this point.

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Italy stops at 48.

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Yeah, ranked one place above Romania, in 15th, Italy,

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in January 2016.

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Thanks very much, Richard. Shaun, welcome back.

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-Thank you.

-OK, so remind us what you do down in Bournemouth.

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I work at Bournemouth University, I work in the media school there.

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And you're a tutor?

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Yeah, technical tutor, yes.

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Do you tutor small groups of people or do you tutor one-on-one or

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-do you...?

-It is, it's classes that range roughly between 14 to 20,

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seminar groups, as they're called.

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I see, and what's your specialist area of knowledge?

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I enjoy video production, so I enjoy working with the cameras,

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editing as well, I'm a qualified editor.

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OK. Very good. The technology's always changing, isn't it?

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It is. As a university you try and stay, if not ahead of the game,

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at least on top of the game, as it changes,

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so you try and change equipment and techniques and things like that.

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So, Shaun, anyone higher than Scotland in the Fifa world rankings.

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Erm, I am going to go for an African nation,

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and I'm going to go for Ghana.

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Ghana, says Shaun.

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Sounds like an informed choice, that, Ghana.

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Let's see if it's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

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It is right. 48's our high score at this point,

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which you pass. 2 is our low.

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Which you've passed! Very well done indeed, Shaun.

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That makes up for last time, I think, does it not?

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That's a pointless answer, it adds £250 to today's jackpot -

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takes the total up to £2,500, scores you nothing.

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Very well done indeed, Shaun, fabulous work.

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Terrific work, Shaun, it's a great answer. 33rd in the world.

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There we go. Patricia, welcome back.

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-Hello.

-Lovely to have you back.

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Round Two, we had to say goodbye to you last time.

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Remind us what you get up to in Beccles.

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I'm a teaching assistant,

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I'm the mother of five children and grandmother of one, Eli,

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so I'd like to say hello to Eli if I could.

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Hi, Eli. So when you teach, when you assist with the teaching,

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are there any special disciplines that you have or do you just teach

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-across the board?

-Erm, I specialise in science.

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I'm also a science instructor, which means I teach very small groups

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of children who don't work so well in a big classroom of students.

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Good stuff. OK, now, Patricia, what would you like to go for?

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Er, well, I'd like to say goodbye to everyone,

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because I think I'm going again.

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Um, I will try Portugal.

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Portugal, says Patricia. Let's see if that's right,

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

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It's right. Well, 48 is our high score still.

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Portugal passes that, look at that.

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28 for Portugal.

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Not bad at all, 28 for Portugal.

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Yeah, ranked number seven in the world, Portugal -

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perennial underachievers, though, really,

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given the talent they've had over the years.

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

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Let's take a look at those scores. Shaun, how about that?

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A pointless answer there, very well done indeed.

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Shaun and Corrina looking very strong at this point.

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Then up to 2, where we find Mike and Dom. Up to 28, Patricia and Ames.

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Not bad, you see there, Patricia, after all.

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And then 48, I'm afraid, Carly, that is our high score so, Rak,

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we need a nice low score from you. Very, very best of luck with that.

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

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Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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Ames, welcome back to Pointless.

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-Hello.

-Remember, we're looking for any national team that is above

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Scotland in the Fifa rankings.

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Now, remind us what you do, Ames.

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Erm, I'm an admin assistant for a medical centre.

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That is right, and what are your hobbies outside that?

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Erm, writing, crochet, puzzle books!

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Now, let's go back to the writing.

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You say you're writing a screenplay at the moment?

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Yeah. I have a particular love for comedy ever since I saw the amazing

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series Spaced when I was 16,

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and since then I've been dead set on making people laugh for a living.

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So what stage are you at with the screenplay? How far have you got with it?

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Erm, so I have the basic outline of the story.

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I'm a bit Tarantino, when it comes to conversation,

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I need to bring it back a little bit, it's a little bit lengthy,

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but nothing that a bit of editing won't help.

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Excellent. Well, best of luck with all of that, Ames,

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and best of luck with your answer now.

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We have a high score which is 48, you're 28.

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19 or less gets you into the next round.

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I've got a couple of answers but I don't know whether

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I should risk it. But then I think, "You're only here once,"

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but then I think, "My mum will kill me." Erm...

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-Yeah.

-I'm going to go safe.

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I'm going to go for Holland.

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Holland, says Ames.

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OK, let's see if Holland is right. Here is your red line. If you can

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get below this red line with Holland,

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you are through to the next round.

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There it is.

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43.

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43, 71 your total. I mean, you might have kept yourself

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in the game there, Ames, we shall see.

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But best of luck anyway, 71.

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Yeah, the Netherlands, really, so apologies

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to our Netherlands viewers, but we always accept Holland, don't we?

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Thanks very much, Richard.

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Now, Corrina, that was a very helpful score from Shaun, fantastic,

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pointless scoring indeed there. Corrina, remind us what you do.

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Erm, I work in academic operations, also at Bournemouth University.

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And the operations that you're involved in are what, exactly?

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Not on the kind of surgical one,

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it's more kind of implementing strategy.

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-Right you are.

-So making sure it happens.

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OK, and your hobbies outside of university work?

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We've got two dogs, so I love going out to the beach and walking them

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in lovely Bournemouth and the New Forest and...

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-What kind of dogs are they?

-They're two pugs.

-Awww.

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-Yeah.

-OK, well, listen, there you are on nothing,

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the high scorers on 71 are behind you - Ames and Patricia.

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If you can score 70 or less, you are through to the next round.

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Yes, I'll apologise to Shaun in advance.

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He loves football, I hate football, I know nothing about it,

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so I'm just go to take a complete punt and go for...

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-Spain.

-Spain, says Corrina.

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Shaun gives that a firm nod.

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Here's your red line, all you have to do is get below that. Spain.

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How many people said Spain?

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It's right.

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And you're through. Very well done.

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54. 54 your total.

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Yeah, it's all you had to do. Well played.

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Yeah, ranked number three in the world, Spain.

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Thanks, Richard. Now, Rak, welcome to Pointless. Good to have you here.

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What do you do, Rak?

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I'm an IT project manager for a local procurement organisation.

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Now, Rak, what do you do when you're not procuring?

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Well, recently I've taken up running.

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I joined a local running club,

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so they've got us on a couch to 5K course, as it were,

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so they've taken us to 10K and they've got a load of us

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up to entering a half marathon later this year.

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You're starting to get into serious training for that?

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-Yeah, you wouldn't guess it, but, you know.

-I would. I would, Rak.

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Look at that. So, yes, your times are getting better,

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everyone else in the club... I suppose you're all doing it at the same time,

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-is it quite competitive?

-Well, it's quite a friendly club, so everyone goes at their own pace.

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Most of our ethos is, just get around, doesn't matter how long,

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just get around, and that's kind of mine.

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As long as I finish it, that's my goal.

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Good for you. There you are on 48.

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If you can get 22 or less with this answer,

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you are into the next round, Rak.

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Not one of my strongest subjects, I must admit,

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but I'm going to take a guess with Ukraine.

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Ukraine. There is your red line. Get below that with Ukraine,

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you are into Round Two.

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It's right.

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And you're into Round Two.

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And it scores you 6.

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Very well done indeed, that was a canny guess there, Rak.

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54 is your total - you join Corrina and Shaun.

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That's a strong answer for someone who's not confident on football.

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Well played. Yeah, 29th in the world at the start of 2016.

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Thanks very much, Richard.

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Now, Dom, welcome to Pointless, good to have you here from Brixton.

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-And what you do, Dom?

-I work in market research.

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In any particular area of market research or...?

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-All sorts. Lots of TV...

-You see, that's fun.

-Also banking, all sorts.

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At any stage have you ever given 100 people

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-100 seconds to come up with...?

-Not quite!

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But hopefully 1,000 people ten minutes maybe, so...

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I mean, is that based on sort of survey work, is that how you...?

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Yeah, so some of it's focus groups and some of it's actually kind of

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predicting... So you'd ask 1,000 people and you've got to guess what

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-they'd answer.

-OK, now, Dom, great scoring from Mike in the first pass.

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2 is the score on your podium. 71 remains our high score,

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Ames and Patricia at the far end there.

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What would you like to go for? 68 is your target.

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I don't know much about football but I'm going to take a punt,

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slightly, but I think it will be right.

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I'm going to go for Sweden.

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Sweden. Now, here is your red line.

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Quite forgiving, in terms of its height up the column.

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

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Well done, Dom.

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Good enough.

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Better than good enough.

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Look at that, down we go to 15. Giving you

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a total of 17, which is the lowest score by some margin, of the round,

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-very well done.

-Yeah, very well played.

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Now, there's all sorts of pointless answers out there.

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Before we get to them, just a few other ones.

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We can use the home nations in this, it's not the UK any more, so Wales,

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for example, would have scored you 34 points,

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Northern Ireland would have scored you 7 points - both would have been very good answers.

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Do you know who the number-one ranked team in the world were at the start of 2016? I'll give you a clue.

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So, third was Spain, second was Argentina.

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Highest ranked in the world, anybody?

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-Belgium.

-Belgium is the right answer,

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Belgium ranked number one in the world, absolutely.

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That would have scored you 30 points, Belgium.

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A couple of low scorers -

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2 points for Paraguay, Ecuador, Hungary, Algeria, Costa Rica,

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1 point Senegal and South Korea.

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Now let's take a look at those pointless answers.

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Albania, the Cape Verde Islands

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have had an extraordinary rise through the rankings.

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Congo.

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Finland, there's Ghana, Guinea.

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Iran, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Very well done if you said any of those at home.

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Thanks very much indeed, Richard. So at the end of that round, the pair we've got to say goodbye to,

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I'm afraid, on that far podium, it's Ames and Patricia.

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-Oh, I'm so sorry. It's been lovely having you back but it's just been a bit brief.

-It has!

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Just not our category, the worst one that could possibly come up,

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so just the luck of the draw today.

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I'm afraid it always is, yes, but it's been lovely having you here,

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-thank you so much for playing. Ames and Patricia.

-Thank you.

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Good luck, everyone.

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

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Well, three pairs remain.

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

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Well done, Mike and Dom, nice low combination of scores there.

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But hats off to you, Shaun, for our pointless answer there,

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very well done indeed.

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Best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for Round Two is...

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Music.

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Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

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who's going to go second? And whoever is going first,

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please step up to the podium.

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OK, and the question concerns...

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Musical Instruments.

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-Richard.

-Going to show you six clues on each pass to musical instruments.

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We're also going to give you the first letter of those instruments,

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so it's going to be six on the first pass, six on the second,

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12 in all to guess at home. Good luck.

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Thanks very much, so let's reveal our six clues,

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and here they come. We have got...

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I'm going to read those all again.

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-Dom.

-OK. I think I've got a few of them, but out of all of them

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I think I'm going to go for the second one,

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and I think that's a theremin.

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A theremin, says Dom.

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A theremin. Good answer.

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

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It's absolutely right.

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10.

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There you are, 10 for theremin.

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Yeah, invented in 1920 by Leon Theremin.

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You hear them on all sorts of cool bands' tracks.

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Beach Boys used to use them, all sorts of people, yeah.

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That's right, yeah. Sounds more like something you'd be prescribed than something you'd play, doesn't it?

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-Theremin, yeah.

-There you are. OK, now, Rak.

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What would you like to go for?

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OK, there's a couple on there, possibly a bit risky.

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I'm going to go safe, I'm going to go, percussion instrument that takes

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its name from the Greek for "wood" and "sound" -

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-xylophone.

-Xylophone, says Rak.

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

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It's right.

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62 for xylophone.

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What were the other 38 thinking when they see a word beginning with X?

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-There aren't many of them.

-No.

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-And it's an instrument.

-Yep. It is...

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I wonder if anybody didn't get xylophone but did get theremin?

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GIGGLING

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That's a crossover I'd like to see.

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Mmm. Isn't it? Anyway, there we go.

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Shaun, this board's all yours.

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Talk us through it and fill in the blanks.

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I'd love to but I can't.

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Er, the top one is harp,

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I think the third one is oboe

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and the fourth one is bagpipes.

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I'm not sure on the REM instrument,

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so I'm going to go for the national symbol of Ireland, and say harp.

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Harp, says Shaun.

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

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Well, 62...

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hoo-hoo-hoo...

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WAS our high score. 82, I'm afraid, is now our high score.

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Yeah, the bad news is oboe would have been a much better scorer.

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Oboe would have scored you 58 points.

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The good news is bagpipe would have been a much bigger scorer

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cos bagpipe, the score there is very, very mighty -

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-94 points.

-Look at that.

-And do you know the REM one?

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-It's a mandolin.

-It is a mandolin, yep, and would have scored 34.

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So theremin best answer on the board.

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Thanks very much, Richard.

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So, we're halfway through the round, so let's take a quick look at those

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scores. 10, well done, Dom.

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Dom and Mike are on 10, looking very strong contenders at this stage for

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the head-to-head. Then up to 62, where we find Rak and Carly.

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Then up to 82, Shaun and Corrina.

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Yes, now, about that 82, Corrina.

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We need a low-scoring answer.

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How's your musical instrument knowledge?

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-Awful.

-OK, well, this will be fun!

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We're going to come back down the line now. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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

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Let's read all of those again.

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OK, so remember we're looking for the names of musical instruments

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described by these clues.

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Corrina, you're our high scorers, we need a low score.

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Well, good luck with that!

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Erm, I think I only know a couple on there,

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and as my best friend played this instrument when I was growing up,

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I am going to go for clarinet as the woodwind instrument

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-on Woody Allen's Manhattan.

-OK, clarinet, says Corrina.

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

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

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It's right.

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It takes you down to 47,

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-which takes you up to 129.

-Yeah, sometimes

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you have to hand it to our 100 people. One of those 100 people thought that was recorder.

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Wow. Beginning with C as well, that's impressive.

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Beginning with C, yeah. That's going it some.

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It's actually a basset horn.

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-Excuse me?

-It's a basset horn, which is a tenor clarinet.

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OK...

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OK, there we go.

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It's all the sort of fun stuff you learn, isn't it, Carly, on

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Pointless? There you are, 62.

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129 is the high score behind you.

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If you can score 66 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

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I'm going to be honest - again, not a good subject.

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I'm going to go for the bottom one,

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woodwind instrument that shares its name with a narrow wine glass,

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-and flute.

-Flute, says Carly.

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Flute. Let's see how many of our 100 people went for flute.

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Here's your red line. Get below that, head-to-head awaits.

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It's right.

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Ow-haw, he-he!

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Great news for the far podium there,

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but I'm afraid we suddenly have a new high score there of 149.

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-Wow, 87.

-Yeah, invented in the 1830s.

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You don't think of musical instruments being invented, really,

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-do you?

-No.

-You sort of feel like they were always there.

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I guess they were. But there was a sort of flauto traverso, which is a wooden...

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-Sort of like the recorder.

-Yes,

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the modern version of it was from the 1830s.

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-Yeah.

-The flauto...?

-Traverso.

-Flauto traverso.

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-Flauto traverso, yes.

-That's like, erm, Viennetta.

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-Oh, it's delicious.

-I like the mint one.

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-That's my favourite.

-There we go, thank you very much indeed.

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Now, Mike, the drama that's been going on on those two podiums

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means that you are actually through to the head-to-head,

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almost on a bye, you might call it. So if you wanted to, you could just,

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for fun, fill in the gaps for us.

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Erm, well, the second one is drums, I'm pretty sure,

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because I saw the film recently.

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I think that one is probably going to be a high scorer.

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And I wasn't sure if the top one was either viola or violin, maybe,

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and I don't have a clue on the remaining two, actually.

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So I can't even fill them in for fun.

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I'll go for drums to be safe.

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Drums, OK. Drums, that Andrew studies in Whiplash.

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Let's see if that's right. No red line, you're already through.

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Ooh, not bad. Not bad at all. 35, look at that.

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There we are. 45 your total, the lowest total of the round.

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-Well done.

-Yeah, now, you'll be able to go through this board

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like a hot knife through butter,

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will you not? Played by Paganini...

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Is the violin.

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Big, big scorer, though.

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Scores you 80 points.

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-Yo-Yo Ma?

-Is the cello.

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Cello. 32 points.

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And this is a lovely word as well, the German one?

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-Is the glockenspiel.

-Glockenspiel, yup.

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And that would have scored 38. So cello, the best answer on the board.

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Thanks very much indeed. Well, we are at the end of our second round,

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and what a dramatic second pass that has been.

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I'm afraid, Carly and Rak, you end up the high scorers there,

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so we have to say goodbye, but it's been great having you on,

0:24:550:24:57

-we'll see you next time. Thanks for playing. Carly and Rak.

-Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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But for Shaun and Corrina,

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Mike and Dom, it's now time for our head-to-head.

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Congratulations Mike and Dom, Shaun and Corrina,

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you are now one step closer to the final,

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and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £2,500.

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There we are.

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Well, here we are at the head-to-head, which means

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you can confer before you give your answers,

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and the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that

0:25:300:25:33

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

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Here is your first question. And it concerns...

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Famous Browns. Richard, Famous Browns.

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Yeah, we're going to show you five pictures of famous people who share

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the surname Brown. We just need you to tell us who they are, please.

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We need first name and surname, please.

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Thanks much indeed. Let's reveal our five Browns, and they are...

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There we go, five Browns, five Browns.

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Mike and Dom, you've been our low scorers so you will go first.

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Go for that.

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I think C might be Ian Brown.

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You're going to say Ian Brown. C, Ian Brown.

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Now then, Shaun and Corrina,

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do you want to talk us through those other Browns?

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I think you've got Bobby Brown, A.

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Melanie Brown, B.

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James Brown, D.

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No-idea Brown, E.

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We'll go with A, Bobby Brown.

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Bobby Brown say Shaun and Corrina.

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So we have Ian Brown, we have Bobby Brown.

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Mike and Dom said Ian Brown for C.

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Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Ian Brown.

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It's right.

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Not bad. 21.

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21 for Ian Brown. Meanwhile,

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Shaun and Corrina have gone for Bobby Brown for A.

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

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went for Bobby Brown.

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Ooh, very well done indeed, you've nicked it there.

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12 beats 21, which means Shaun and Corrina, after one question,

0:27:440:27:47

-you are up 1-0.

-Took us through the board very nicely, there,

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apart from that last one.

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That last one is actually the best answer on the board as well,

0:27:510:27:54

so we will get to him.

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B, you are right, is Melanie Brown.

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Or Mel B, as she is better known.

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58 points for that.

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Now, D, of course, is James Brown.

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He is a big scorer, as you can imagine.

0:28:030:28:05

53 points. Now, I bet you know E.

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Everyone knows the name.

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-Oh, we do.

-So many of you will have read his books.

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-It is the author of The Da Vinci Code, and much else...

-GASPING

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I know!

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Dan Brown. 1 point for Dan Brown.

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-There we are.

-I wonder if that will be a disappointment for him.

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Ian Brown - much more famous than Dan Brown.

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There we are. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

0:28:270:28:29

OK, so here is your second question.

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Mike and Dom, you have to win this one, but you don't answer it first.

0:28:310:28:34

Shaun and Corrina will get first dibs on this one, so best of luck.

0:28:340:28:38

Our second question concerns...

0:28:380:28:40

Days of the week, in Italian.

0:28:430:28:45

-Richard.

-Yep, the good news is we're now going to get Xander to read out

0:28:450:28:48

five days of the week in Italian, in his VERY best Italian accent,

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and you just have to tell us which English days they refer to, please.

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OK, and here are those days of the week in Italian.

0:28:570:29:00

We've got...

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I'll read them again.

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APPLAUSE Oh, thank you!

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That's nice.

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OK, Shaun and Corrina will go first.

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I've got no idea.

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Well, despite the fact that we went to Italy,

0:29:270:29:29

we clearly took no attention at all.

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You were having such a lovely time, you literally didn't know what day

0:29:310:29:34

-of the week it was!

-Very true, yeah, definitely.

0:29:340:29:36

-Yes.

-We don't know, but we're going to guess that Domenica is Tuesday.

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-Yes.

-Domenica, Tuesday, say Shaun and Corrina.

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Now then, Mike and Dom. Talk us through those days of the week.

0:29:450:29:49

Well, I actually think Domenica is a different day.

0:29:500:29:53

-I think it's Sunday.

-I think it's Sunday as well.

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I think Lunedi is Monday.

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I think Martedi is Wednesday, and Sabato might be Saturday.

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Shall we go for Lunedi?

0:30:020:30:04

Yeah, let's go for Lunedi. Monday.

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-Monday.

-We have Domenica and Lunedi.

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Domenica is what Shaun and Corrina thought was Tuesday.

0:30:080:30:11

Let's see if they're right, let's see how many people went for it.

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No, I'm afraid it's not Tuesday.

0:30:180:30:20

I suspect Mike and Dom know what it is.

0:30:200:30:23

Monday is what Mike and Don have said for Lunedi.

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Let's see if that is right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Lunedi.

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It's right. Well, all it had to be was right.

0:30:340:30:36

And that it was, which means, Mike Dom, you're back in the game.

0:30:370:30:40

-After two questions it's 1-1.

-Yeah, Lunedi, day of the moon, or Monday.

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Very similar to the French, a lot of these, cos Martedi is Tuesday,

0:30:440:30:49

would have scored you 56.

0:30:490:30:51

Domenica is, you're absolutely right, Sunday -

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like the French, Dimanche, 54.

0:30:540:30:56

Giovedi?

0:30:560:30:58

-Thursday.

-Yeah, that's right, like the French Jeudi, yeah.

0:30:580:31:01

Would have scored 43, and you're right about Sabato as well,

0:31:010:31:04

it is Saturday. And that would have scored you 63.

0:31:040:31:08

Thanks very much, indeed. Now, it all comes down to the third question.

0:31:080:31:12

This is the decider - whoever wins this will go through to the final,

0:31:120:31:15

so best of luck to both pairs.

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The third question today...

0:31:160:31:19

is all about Star Trek.

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Star Trek. Richard.

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Yeah, simply going to give you five clues now to facts about

0:31:220:31:25

the Star Trek franchise. Just need to give us the most obscure answer.

0:31:250:31:28

-Very best of luck, both teams.

-Thanks very much indeed.

0:31:280:31:31

Let's reveal our five facts, and here they are.

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Clues, I should say. We have got...

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I'm going to read those all one last time.

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There we are. Mike and Dom will go first.

0:32:030:32:05

I think you've got one.

0:32:050:32:07

I think the second one might be Data.

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OK, Data.

0:32:110:32:13

-Yeah. Bit of a punt, though.

-Data, say Mike and Dom.

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Data. Shaun and Corrina, over to you.

0:32:150:32:18

I know Leonard McCoy is Bones.

0:32:200:32:22

I don't know the year. I'm going to have a punt on the subtitle

0:32:220:32:26

of Star Trek V.

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-The Voyage Home.

-The Voyage Home, say Shaun and Corrina.

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So we have Data and we have The Voyage Home.

0:32:320:32:35

So, Mike and Dom have gone for Data, the android character played by Brent Spiner.

0:32:350:32:39

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

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It's right.

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There we are. 20.

0:32:500:32:52

Meanwhile, Shaun and Corrina have gone for The Voyage Home

0:32:560:33:00

as the subtitle of the 1989 film Star Trek V.

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Let's see if that's right. The Voyage Home.

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Oh, bad luck.

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I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer which means, well done,

0:33:100:33:13

Mike and Dom, after three questions you are through to the final, 2-1.

0:33:130:33:16

Very well played, really unlucky with Voyage Home.

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That's Star Trek IV, I'm afraid.

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Star Trek V was The Final Frontier.

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And would have scored three points as well, a terrific answer.

0:33:240:33:27

Mr Spock's home planet.

0:33:270:33:29

Is Vulcan. 49 points for that.

0:33:290:33:32

The year in which the original TV series debuted...

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If you'd have to guess?

0:33:350:33:36

-What do you reckon?

-'60s, isn't it?

0:33:360:33:38

-Yeah.

-'68?

0:33:380:33:40

'66. I would have guessed '68 as well.

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Four points for that, and you're right, Leonard McCoy's nickname is Bones.

0:33:420:33:46

Big scorer, though, would have scored you 53.

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Thanks very much, indeed, Richard.

0:33:490:33:50

So, the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head around, it's our

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pointless-scoring couple Shaun and Corrina, I'm so sorry.

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Well, you took a brave punt there with Voyage Home.

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Sadly, that was the precursor to your very own voyage home.

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But it's been wonderful having you on both shows, thank you so much

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for playing, wonderful contestants. Shaun and Corrina.

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APPLAUSE

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But for Mike and Dom, it is now time for our Pointless final.

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Congratulations, Mike and Dom.

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You have seen off the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

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You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

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At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,500.

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Well, what about that - you came, you saw, you conquered,

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a stealth raid on the Pointless trophy cupboard there.

0:34:440:34:47

Fantastic, your first and only appearance on the show,

0:34:470:34:49

starting off with a lovely low score with Romania,

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and we've had consistent good scoring all the way through. 2-1 in the head-to-head.

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Really fantastic. Anything you particularly want to see come up in this last round?

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-I quite like food, I guess, would be good for me.

-Some food would be nice, that would be lovely.

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-I think we'd all like a bit of that. Anything else?

-We've already had football,

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which would have been good for me. Maybe something geography-based.

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Nature, maybe.

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-Like a bit of nature.

-It's all around us, Dom.

0:35:130:35:16

Well, listen, as always, you get to choose the category from

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the four that we put up on the board. Let's hope there's something

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up there that might yield something you like the look of.

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Today's selection looks like this.

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We've got Nora Ephron Films, the Rugby World Cup,

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the Great Offices Of State, and Latin American Singers.

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So... I don't know any Latin American singers, really, apart from Shakira, so...

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If you have the Rugby World Cup you're going to have to essentially do it on your own.

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Shall we go for the Rugby World Cup?

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-We could at least guess some nations, maybe.

-Let's go

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-for the Rugby World Cup.

-Rugby World Cup.

-OK, Rugby World Cup it is.

0:35:500:35:52

-Richard.

-We had a rugby question in the jackpot round

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recently and got three pointless answers from it,

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so fingers crossed this is as useful to you.

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You're looking for any of the following, please.

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We're looking for any of the 31 players named in the England squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

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On August 27th, as that's when the squads were revealed.

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Any of the 31 Scotland players who were named for the 2015 Rugby World Cup,

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or any of the 31 Wales players, please, for the 2015 World Cup.

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So, any of the 31 players in any of those squads plus any replacements who were called up later,

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so long as they played a match.

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If they didn't play a match, we'll not count them, so very, very best of luck.

0:36:260:36:29

Thanks very much, Richard. Now, as always,

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

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need to win the jackpot is just one of those answers to be pointless.

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-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-OK. Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. There they are.

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-Your time starts now.

-I don't know any, so you're free to do whatever

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-you please.

-I can think of loads but I can't think...

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I don't know some that will be pointless.

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I feel like there's going to be loads of Welsh players

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called Alun Jones or something, Alun Wyn Jones, Rhys Jones...

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I'm not sure. I met James Haskell once, I know him.

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-Maybe.

-As a sort of nostalgic choice.

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-Can't you think of anyone?

-No, I can't at all. Sorry.

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Let's go... James Haskell, Dan Cole maybe...

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And I'm pretty sure there's a Welsh one called Alun Wyn Jones.

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-They're all popular, aren't they?

-I think there's one called Rhys Webb, who's Welsh, maybe.

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-Yeah?

-Ten seconds left.

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Rhys Webb, James Haskell, and Dan Cole.

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-Dan Cole's big, isn't he?

-Yeah. You haven't really helped, here!

0:37:380:37:41

No!

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OK, there we are, I'm afraid, that's your time up. I now need your three answers.

0:37:430:37:46

-What would you like to go for?

-Yeah, so we'll go for Dan Cole and James Haskell for England.

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-Dan Cole, James Haskell...

-And Rhys Webb for Wales.

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-And Rhys Webb.

-If he's real.

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

0:37:560:37:59

-Well...

-I haven't heard of Rhys Webb, so...

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I've got a feeling I've made him up, so...

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-We'll go for Rhys Webb.

-We'll put him last.

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-Least likely to be pointless?

-Probably James Haskell.

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-James Haskell.

-Maybe Dan Cole.

-Dan Cole.

-OK, Dan Cole first,

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James Haskell in the middle. OK, well,

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let's put those up on the board in that order, then, and here they are.

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We have got Dan Cole, we've got James Haskell, and we have got Rhys Webb.

0:38:180:38:22

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

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What if one of those were to be pointless and you won that jackpot?

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What would you do with that money?

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£2,500.

0:38:310:38:33

-Mike, you first.

-I was going to say it's Dom's birthday,

0:38:330:38:36

so we should have a good celebration for that, I guess.

0:38:360:38:39

That's quite a good celebration, isn't it?!

0:38:390:38:41

Yeah, Dom, anything you want to add to that?

0:38:410:38:43

-Well, I actually thought we were going to Colombia together, so that's news to me, so...!

-Oh, yeah.

0:38:430:38:48

-Maybe I'll just be going on my own.

-Maybe!

-We can go together still.

0:38:480:38:51

-Thank you.

-We could combine the two.

0:38:510:38:53

You could have your birthday celebrations in Colombia.

0:38:530:38:55

-Absolutely.

-I'm sure the budget will stretch.

0:38:550:38:58

There we are. Very best of luck. Your first answer was Dan Cole.

0:38:580:39:02

In this case, we were looking for England players from the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

0:39:020:39:05

Only one of these has to be pointless for you to win

0:39:050:39:08

that jackpot of £2,500, so let's see how many people said Dan Cole.

0:39:080:39:11

Is it pointless?

0:39:110:39:12

Well, it's right.

0:39:160:39:17

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

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If this goes all the way down to zero, you leave here with £2,500.

0:39:210:39:24

Dan Cole, in single figures, down it goes, still going down.

0:39:240:39:27

Oh, what about that?!

0:39:270:39:29

Dan Cole scoring 1!

0:39:290:39:30

OK.

0:39:330:39:35

That has changed the complexion of these things, slightly, I think,

0:39:350:39:37

hasn't it? Dan Cole you thought there was no chance of that going so far down.

0:39:370:39:41

You thought that was your least likely to be pointless.

0:39:410:39:43

Very impressive low score there, obviously not pointless.

0:39:430:39:46

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

0:39:460:39:48

Your next answer was James Haskell.

0:39:480:39:51

Once again, we were looking for England players in the 2015 World Cup.

0:39:510:39:55

James Haskell. If this is pointless, it wins you £2,500.

0:39:550:39:58

How many people said James Haskell?

0:39:580:40:00

Well, James Haskell, unsurprisingly, is also right.

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But Dan Cole took us all the way down to one.

0:40:070:40:09

Where is James Haskell going to take us?

0:40:090:40:11

We go down through the teens, into single figures,

0:40:110:40:13

James Haskell going down, still going down...

0:40:130:40:16

1! Followed by 1!

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APPLAUSE

0:40:190:40:21

Wow.

0:40:210:40:23

OK...

0:40:230:40:25

Very exciting indeed, this has become.

0:40:270:40:29

Now, you only have one more shot at today's jackpot.

0:40:290:40:31

-Everything is now riding on a name that you're not entirely sure if you made it up.

-Yeah!

0:40:310:40:35

OK. Rhys Webb was your third and final answer,

0:40:370:40:40

the answer that obviously -

0:40:400:40:43

depending on whether or not the man exists -

0:40:430:40:46

you thought was probably your best shot at a pointless answer.

0:40:460:40:50

-Yeah.

-Rhys Webb.

0:40:500:40:52

In this case, we were looking for Wales players in the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

0:40:520:40:55

Let's find out. Rhys Webb, does he exist?

0:40:550:40:57

Rhys, if you're watching, I'm really sorry about this, by the way.

0:40:570:41:00

For £2,500, is Rhys Webb pointless?

0:41:020:41:06

It's right! Rhys Webb is a correct answer.

0:41:090:41:11

Now, Dan Cole took us all the way down to 1.

0:41:110:41:14

James Haskell took us all the way down to 1.

0:41:140:41:17

Rhys Webb now takes us down through the teens, into single figures,

0:41:170:41:19

down it goes, still going down!

0:41:190:41:21

-You've done it!

-Yes!

-Very well done indeed!

0:41:210:41:24

CHEERING

0:41:270:41:29

What about that?! Congratulations! Rhys Webb is a pointless answer,

0:41:320:41:36

which means you go home with that jackpot of £2,500.

0:41:360:41:40

Very, very well done indeed.

0:41:400:41:42

That's brilliant. Very well played.

0:41:420:41:43

Even better news for Rhys Webb, who's just discovered he exists.

0:41:430:41:46

That must be... He must've been on the edge of his seat,

0:41:460:41:49

thinking, "Oh, goodness me."

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Loads and loads of pointless answers.

0:41:510:41:53

If you know your rugby, there's so many of them.

0:41:530:41:55

We'll start with the England squad.

0:41:550:41:56

Loads of other answers.

0:42:000:42:02

Ben Morgan, Danny Care, Geoff Parling, Joe Launchbury, Jonny May,

0:42:020:42:06

all sorts of answers down there.

0:42:060:42:07

In fact the only ones that scored points were Farrell, Robshaw, Brown,

0:42:070:42:11

Ford, Burgess, Easter, Noel,

0:42:110:42:12

Haskell, Marler, Ben Youngs and Tom Youngs.

0:42:120:42:14

The Scotland players.

0:42:140:42:16

Everyone there was pointless apart from Laidlaw, Ford, Denton,

0:42:190:42:22

Fraser Brown, Duncan Weir and Sean Maitland.

0:42:220:42:24

Very well done if you said any other answers. And Wales.

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Big names here.

0:42:270:42:30

Everyone pointless there, apart from Sam Warburton, Alun Wyn Jones,

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who you were thinking of going for, Halfpenny, George North, Dan Biggar,

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Lydiate, Roberts, Hook and Gethin Jenkins.

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Every other name pointless.

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Gents, great category for you, and congratulations.

0:42:410:42:43

Took full advantage, there.

0:42:430:42:45

Thanks very much, Richard, and thanks once again to our winning players,

0:42:450:42:48

Mike and Dom, who go away with today's jackpot of £2,500.

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APPLAUSE

0:42:520:42:56

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

0:42:560:42:59

to the test on Pointless.

0:42:590:43:00

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

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And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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