Episode 10 Pointless

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed.

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

where the aim of the game is to find the most obscure answer possible.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hello, I'm Charlie, and this is my dad, Chas, and we are from London.

Couple number two.

Hi, my name is Deborah, and this is my daughter Maxine,

-and we're from Muswell Hill.

-Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Max, this is my dad, Adrian,

and we're from Trowbridge in Wiltshire.

And, finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Duncan, this is my girlfriend Tori,

and we're from North London.

And these are today's contestants.

Thanks very much, all of you. A warm welcome to the show. We'll get to

chat to each of you a bit throughout the show as it goes along.

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

He's a man who really makes you wonder what's on the other side,

and I don't mean BBC Two.

-It's my pointless friend, it's Richard.

-Hiya.

Hi, everybody. Afternoon.

-Good afternoon to you, sir.

-And to you.

It's nice - on the first two podiums there, we've got a father and son,

-and a mother and daughter, that's always nice.

-That's nice.

Although a cautionary tale from the last show, because we also have a

father and son on podium three, our only returners,

-and it was a tricky show for them.

-Mm.

Max, unfortunately, told us that Zaphod Beeblebrox was a character

in Pride And Prejudice. That was awkward, so I think maybe

we haven't seen the best of Max, and we will today.

Welcome as well on podium four, another new pair,

it's going to be a cracker, some great questions.

-Let's get going, shall we?

-Oh, let's do it.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, Nigel and Sue didn't win the jackpot last time, which means we

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

at a rather pleasing £4,000. There we are.

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

OK, remember this - the pair with the highest score at the end of each

round will be eliminated, so just make sure you're not that pair.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today...

It's a Words round.

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

and 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 give 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many words ending in EM as they could.

Words ending in EM.

Yeah, we're looking for any word that has its own entry in the

British and World English section of oxforddictionaries.com, please,

that ends EM. No proper nouns, no hyphenated words, please.

Very best of luck.

Got one.

Thank you very much.

Chas, welcome to Pointless. Good to have you here, sir.

-What do you do?

-I've been in public relations for about 30 years,

and for the last few years, I have been a stake holder manager

-for railway companies.

-That's fascinating.

-Where is that based?

-Based in the City of London, although obviously,

the rails stretch further around the country than that.

Well, you would hope they would.

They've got to go somewhere.

What are your interests when railing is a thing of the day?

Well, my time is mainly taken up with chauffeuring and clearing up

after teenagers, but when I get a chance, I like detective fiction,

and also when I actually do get a chance to get out,

I go to rock concerts. And they are mainly rock guitarists

aged over 60, they tend to be nowadays.

Excellent. Which is your favourite rock guitarist aged over 60?

Probably, for the overall ambience, that would be Bruce Springsteen.

Excellent. Excellent.

-How many times have you seen him?

-About a dozen to 15.

That's pretty good. Now, Chas, what would you like to go for?

Always tough kicking these Words rounds off.

Really struggling, I'm afraid, but I'm going to go for

- I think I might be right - xylem.

Xylem, says Chas. Let's see if it's right,

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

It's right.

It's a Pointless answer! Very well done indeed, Chas.

That adds £250 to today's jackpot, takes the total up to £4,250,

it scores you nothing, and gets us off to a rollicking start.

That is a lovely start, Chas, very well played.

-Yeah, do you know what xylem is?

-Charlie will, he's a chemist.

It's essentially the bit of a plant where the nutrients and water

come up from the soil, xylem.

You would think - it was quite risky - you would think maybe

it was UM, but it's not, it's EM. Very well played.

Very good. Very strong.

That sets the bar at the right sort of height for everyone.

Keep that up, and that jackpot's going to be enormous by the

end of the round! Now, Deborah, a very warm welcome to Pointless.

-What do you do, Deborah?

-I'm an event planner.

That's... Well, I was about to say that's fun -

I happen to know how hard event planners work.

Erm, yes. Very early starts.

Very, very late finishes.

Are these sort of conference type events that you're doing?

-They're mostly social, actually.

-In that case, that is more fun.

21st birthday parties, later life weddings, as I like to call them.

Second, third or fourth round, that kind of thing!

-You specialise in later life weddings?

-I do!

Oh, well, that is more fun, isn't it?

-How many across a year, how many do you think you do?

-Well, 10 to 12.

That's fun. That is fun.

I imagine over the summer, it gets particularly busy.

It does get very busy in the summer, yeah.

Now, then, Deborah, words ending EM.

Well, I think Chas has set the bar high, so I am going to try

the first word that popped into my head, I am going to try theorem.

-Theorem.

-Yes.

It's getting nods from everyone. Theorem.

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

8. Not bad at all, Deborah, look at that.

8 for theorem. APPLAUSE

Yeah, a general proposition to be tested, a theorem.

-It's going well, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

-Everyone's very clever.

They're very clever.

-Very impressive, everybody.

-I'm looking forward to Max and Adrian,

because I know they have ground to make up.

-Oh, yeah, they've got a lot to prove.

-They have.

-Here we go.

That's going to be fun.

-Max, welcome back to Pointless.

-Hiya.

-Now, we discovered last time you are a student.

-Yes.

-And you're studying... remind us.

-Journalism.

-Journalism, you have just done your first year.

-Yeah.

-Where are you studying it?

-UWE, in Bristol.

Excellent. How are you finding Bristol?

Interesting, yeah, it's a nice city to live in.

I'm used to the country, so moving to a city was quite a shock.

-Not too far from Wiltshire, is?

-No, it's not too bad.

So you can get home if the laundry really badly needs to go...

-Every weekend.

-Yeah! That's good.

-Seriously, how often are you back home?

-Every other weekend.

There we go. A bit of home cooking.

Now, Max, look how low these lovely scores have been.

What are you thinking of?

Not sure if it's going to beat them,

-but I am going to go for modem.

-Modem, says Max.

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

11 for modem. Not bad at all.

APPLAUSE

Good answer, Max, well played.

Yeah, modulation, demodulation. That's what it's short for.

There you go. I didn't know that.

-Did you not?

-I didn't know that.

-Beyond that,

I couldn't tell you what modulation and demodulation are.

Modem sort of tailed off as a word. We don't really talk about modems

-any more, do we?

-Less so. Max still does.

Max is still on dial-up.

-Yes.

-It means all sort of other things,

it's not just to use it in computers.

OK. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Duncan, a warm welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

What do you do, Duncan?

I'm an account manager at a software company.

-And where is that based?

-In London as well.

I see. And how long have you been there?

A couple of years, so came straight out of uni, did that,

don't really know what happened, just fell into a job.

And what is it, any particular type of software they specialise in?

-Encryption software.

-Very important to all others.

Duncan, what are your interests aside from that?

Most of my spare time is spent, I suppose,

watching or playing sports, so football throughout the winter,

a bit of cricket over the summer, and a very fair weather golfer

as well, so occasionally get the clubs out when the weather's nice.

-Only very fair weather.

-23 degrees and above.

That's fair enough.

Now, some lovely low scores so far, Duncan.

-What are you thinking of going for?

-Yeah, some really good scores, so...

I'm going to take a little bit of a gamble - Requiem.

Requiem.

There we go. Very nice indeed.

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

Look at that, not bad at all.

6, our second lowest score there, Duncan.

Very good. APPLAUSE

It's a really good round, everybody.

Very well played. Yeah, a Mass for the souls

of the dead, a Requiem, or a token of remembrance.

Thank you very much, Richard.

We're halfway through the round, let's take a look at those scores.

0, the best score of that pass, Chas. Very, very well done, xylem.

Superb, then up to 6,where we find our Requiem score there.

Well done, Duncan and Tory. Up to 8, where we find Deborah

and Maxine, and then up to 11, where we find Max and Adrian.

Not much in it at all, but Adrian, you happen to be out in front there,

so we need a low score from you, so 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?

Tori, welcome to Pointless. Good to have you here. What do you do?

I'm a personal assistant at a software company,

so I just basically run people's lives.

This isn't the same software company as Duncan?

It's not but maybe I should help him out.

I see. Now, what are your interests?

So, I quite like playing golf,

so me and Duncan go and play a lot if we can but in London

there's not many courses,

so normally we go back to Oxfordshire, where our parents live.

But that's quite a fair weather thing as well.

These fair weather golf courses in the country getting really

crowded as soon as the temperature goes above 23.

Now, what would you like to go for?

You're on 6, the high scorers are on 11.

If you scored 4 or less you'd definitely be in the next round.

I'm having a bit of a mind block but I'm hoping it is...emblem?

Emblem, says Tori. Let's see how many of our 100 people said emblem.

There is your red line, quite low.

Let's see how close you can get to that with emblem.

15 for emblem.

21, giving Adrian something to aim for.

Yeah, a distinctive badge or heraldic device, an emblem.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Adrian, there we are, you've gotta score 9 or less.

Remind us what you do.

Business development manager for a fire sprinkler company.

What are your interests?

Football, golf and running.

OK, so very sporty in your interests.

Yeah. Me and Max actually played in the same football team this year.

-That is...

-He's like the Peter Pan of Pointless, he really is.

-Yeah.

Now, Adrian, there you are, you're on 11.

You know what you have to score, have you got something you think

might get you down to that bottom end of the column?

I've got a safe word but I don't think we can take the chance.

I'm going to go for reem, as in reem of paper.

OK. Reem. Let's see how many of 100 people said reem.

There's your red line. Is reem right? Let's find out.

It is right.

Oh, and it gets you through. Very well done. 6 for ream.

Taking your total up to 17.

It's not a ream of paper, that's spelt differently but there is

reem, fortunately for you, R-E-E-M, which is a large kind of horned ox.

Often mentioned in Hebrew literature.

-I make them out of papier mache.

-I know, I understand.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Maxine, welcome to Pointless.

-What do you do?

-I'm an HR manager for a fashion company.

That's fun. How long have you been doing that?

-Almost eight years now.

-What are your interests?

-Presumably fashion...

-Yeah, fashion but I think my passion is baking.

OK. Do you have any particular kind of baking....?

I like baking sort of gluten free, dairy free, sugar free treats.

I like "treats" at the end of that!

All of those things missing and still delicious.

Now, words ending EM.

Our high score is 21, which means 12 or less gets you through.

Gosh, I'm finding this one quite tricky.

I've got two and I think they're probably both quite high scoring.

But I'm going to go with stem.

Stem, says Maxine. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that with stem, you are through to the next round.

How many of our 100 people said stem?

38 for stem.

That takes your total up to 46.

Lots of definitions of stem but it's the main body or shoot of

a plant or shrub.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Charlie.

Welcome to Pointless. What do you do, Charlie?

I'm currently a student enjoying a gap year.

-Oh, that's fun. At the end of being a student?

-Yes.

-About to go to university.

-Oh, I see, right, you haven't yet.

Do you know where you're going to be going to university?

-Nottingham.

-What will you be doing there?

-Biology.

Very good. How have you spent your year off?

Um...first couple of months I spent working in retail which

essentially was a plan to accrue some life skills.

-And also some well-needed cash.

-Yeah.

Since then I've not been to South America and found myself

or anything, none of that sort of stuff.

-Have you found yourself?

-No, no, not yet.

I shouldn't look, if I were you. I shouldn't look for years.

-That's what our name badges are for.

-Yeah, yeah.

Now, Chas has set you up beautifully there, lovely low score from him.

45 or less keeps you in the game,

which I think should be no stretch for you.

I'm quite tentative with this but following on from the

biological theme, I'm going to go for phloem.

Phloem, says Charlie.

(Quite good on podium one, aren't they?)

Here is your red line, not far off halfway down the column.

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

It's right.

Very well done indeed.

It's a pointless answer!

Very well done indeed.

That adds £250 to today's jackpot, takes the total up to...

Scores you nothing,

leaves your total at nothing and is all round very impressive.

That's turned out nicely on podium one.

Phloem, that's the vascular system in plants as well.

Phloem and xylem is the name of our rap duo as well.

Nice to give it a bit of publicity.

-Do you have an answer?

-Yes.

-It's not as good as phloem and xylem.

-No. Diadem.

-As in, like a jewel.

-Yeah.

-Would have scored you 10.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-The other one I had was ahem.

-As in - ahem!

-Yeah.

-Would have scored you 5 points.

-Better than diadem.

-I thought you were going to say ecosystem.

-That would have been so clever.

-I overestimated you.

Not for the first time. When am I going to learn?

-I know, come on.

-Lots and lots of pointless answers.

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

Biochem...short for biochemistry.

Brainstem, very well done if you said that.

Overesteem, which is essentially what I gave you when I

thought you'd say ecosystem.

Queem - that's whose picture is on forged banknotes.

LAUGHTER

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

the ones most of our 100 people said.

Thank you very much indeed.

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

with a high score of 46, it's Maxine and Deborah.

Stem did for you, I'm afraid.

I was going to say ahem, that was my other one.

-I probably should have said that.

-You should've.

Anyway, we'll see you next time, I'm sure you'll get much further,

but thanks very much, Maxine and Deborah.

APPLAUSE

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

We are down to three pairs and at the end of this round we will

have to say goodbye to another of our pairs.

Well, two headline stories there. Adrian and Max in Round Two, lovely.

And Chas and Charlie know a lot about biology and spelling.

So, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Proper old school Pointless today. We're just going to show you some

lists of cities in different countries of the world,

we need you to tell us the countries that these cities are in.

Six on the first board, six on the second,

-12 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much.

We're looking for the countries in which you would find these cities.

And here is our first board of six.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Chas, we come to you first.

Erm...

I do know two or three of them but...as to what might score low...

I will go for Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria - South Africa.

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

It's right.

71 for South Africa.

Yeah, Chas hitting the nail on the head there cos the board,

it's all up there but really hard to work out which is the most obscure.

Thank you very much. Adrian.

Yeah, I think I'm going to have to just play it safe as well.

I'll go for the top one, which is Italy.

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

It's right. 71 is our only score so far.

61 for Italy.

For example, I would have thought that would score higher than

-South Africa. But it seems not.

-Thank you, Richard.

Tori, what would you like to go for?

This board is all yours, so if you really wanted to show off,

you could take us through all of them.

The second one, I'm not sure, maybe Japan or something.

Then the last one I think is Poland. I think I'm going to go for...

-the third one, Belgium?

-OK, you're going to go for Belgium.

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

Bad luck, I'm afraid. Not Belgium. Scores you 100 points.

Sorry, Tori, it's not Belgium, it's right next door.

It's the Netherlands.

That would have scored you 58.

If you had gone for the bottom one, Poland,

you'd have done a bit better, not hugely - 85 points.

The biggest scorer up there.

-Chengdu, Shenzhen, Tianjin?

-China.

-Yep.

Would have scored you 66. And Hamilton, New Plymouth, Rotorua?

-New Zealand.

-Yeah. That's the best answer on the board.

-That would have scored you 31 points.

-Thank you, Richard.

We're halfway through the round, let's take a look at those scores.

61, the best score of the pass, well done.

Adrian and Max looking strong at this point.

Then up to 71 where we find Chas and Charlie and then 100.

You're not that far ahead but you are ahead, so, Duncan,

we need a low score from you on the next pass. Good luck with that.

We're going to come back down the line,

can the second players please step up to the podium.

OK, let's put six more lists of cities up on the board,

and here they come. We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Duncan, that's the board you have to deal with.

And somehow you're going to have to work out which is going to be

the lowest-scoring answer there.

Right. I think I know a couple of them.

I think the second one down, I think that's Bangladesh.

OK, no red line for you as you're the high scorer.

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

Bad luck, I'm afraid that's not Bangladesh.

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

Yeah, Bangladesh and Belgium and also another word I heard you

whisper beginning with B sees you in the 200 Club.

LAUGHTER

Thanks, Richard.

Max, listen, you're going through to the head-to-head, doesn't matter

what you score here,

but a chance here for you to get a nice low score if you want.

I'm going to go for Faro, Porto and Albufeira - only because we went

on holiday to Albufeira not long ago - so we're going to go Portugal.

Portugal, says Max. No red line, you're already through.

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

It's right.

68.

Not bad at all. 129 is your total.

-Well done, safe and sound. Was it nice?

-Yeah, lovely.

-They can recommend it.

-Excellent. Now, Charlie, there you are on 71.

Doesn't matter what you score, you're through.

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

I'm fairly confident on a few of them.

Malmo, Gothenburg and Helsingborg I think is Sweden.

Kolkata, Lucknow and Bangalore I would guess India.

Third one down, somewhere South American but...too much of a risk.

Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal is Canada

and Graz, Linz and Salzburg is Austria, I think,

so I'll go for Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal, Canada.

OK, Canada, says Charlie.

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

90. Big score on Canada.

Taking your total up to 161. But you're through.

Isn't that interesting?

Cos of all the ones you knew, that's the highest score.

All the others would have scored you slightly lower.

Malmo...

It is Sweden.

Kolkata, etc, is India.

Down the bottom, you're quite right, it's Austria.

The best answer on the board is Recife, Manaus and Salvador.

-Football fans will have remembered some of these cities.

-Brazil.

Yeah. Would have scored you 7 points.

Very well done if you said that at home.

Thank you very much. At the end of our second round,

the pair we're sending home with a high score of 200,

Duncan and Tori.

Great to have you on, far too soon to be sending you away but we'll

see you again next time for your second shot at the Pointless Final.

But thanks very much, Duncan and Tori.

APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Adrian and Max, Chas and Charlie,

you're now one step closer to the final and

a chance to play for that jackpot which is currently standing at...

You've reached the head-to-head which means you're now allowed

to confer and the first pair to win two questions will go through to

the final and play for that jackpot.

Chas and Charlie, you've just hit the ground running here.

First round, straight out of the traps.

Two pointless answers in that round. Very impressive.

You've added 500 quid to the jackpot.

And you're not even our low-scoring pair. This is just ridiculous

cos that honour falls to Adrian and Max who we had to say goodbye

to last time in the first round.

But this time, oh, complete vindication. How are we feeling?

-Relieved.

-Yeah.

-Very good.

But I think this is going to be very close indeed.

Two fantastic pairs going head-to-head.

Best of luck to both pairs. I wouldn't want to call it.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

We're going to show you five pictures of famous people who

were expelled from school at some point.

I don't know why. Different reasons. We'll find out as we go along.

Can you identify the most obscure of these, please?

And I'm pretty sure they're all reformed characters,

let me just put that in right now.

-Take a look.

-OK, let's see. Here are our five expellees.

There we are, five people who were expelled from school.

Adrian and Max will go first. Feel free to confer.

THEY WHISPER

I want to go for one, Max wants to go for a different one!

Whose choice are you going with?

Yours.

We'll go...A, Roger Daltrey.

A, Roger Daltrey. Chas and Charlie,

do you want to talk us through the board?

We knew Roger Daltrey.

D is Salvador Dali.

E is Owen Wilson.

C is Humphrey Bogart.

B is an actress who was in some Harry Potter films and in

Happy Valley recently. Can't think of her name.

-I'm not sure.

-Who do you think we should go for?

-I think D.

-OK, we'll go for Salvador Dali.

OK, D, Salvador Dali. So we have Roger Daltrey and Salvador Dali.

Adrian and Max said Roger Daltrey for A.

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

Roger Daltrey is right.

54.

Chas and Charlie have gone for Salvador Dali for D.

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

It's right.

Has to beat 54, and it does!

Salvador Dali, down he goes to 32.

Goodness me, well done.

Chas and Charlie, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Well played. Roger Daltrey was expelled for smoking.

Salvador Dali was expelled for extravagant behaviour.

It must have been quite extravagant.

-Yeah.

-Did it include stealing sausages?

Or melting clocks. "Who's melted this clock?

"Dali, I'm looking at you."

Were you having an argument about which one to go for?

-Yeah. The other was Owen Wilson.

-I thought that would be higher.

Should always listen to your dad.

Cos Owen Wilson would have scored you...

Would have won you the point.

He was expelled for stealing a teacher's textbook

so he could do his maths homework cos it had all the answers in it.

-Expulsion?

-Yeah.

-That's an expulsion crime, is it?

I think maybe if you're cheating on a test,

that's about as bad as it gets.

-I guess.

-Wait till you hear what Humphrey Bogart got expelled for.

He was actually the biggest scorer of all.

He was expelled for pushing a teacher into a pond.

-Oh!

-Which you mustn't do.

-I don't want anyone pushing teachers into ponds.

-Don't do that.

-No. That's wrong, right?

-It is.

-Pushing teachers into a pond.

Boy, is it wrong.

This other person, I don't think it's the person you think it is.

I think Shirley Henderson is the actress you're thinking of

who was in Harry Potter and Happy Valley. This is Tori Amos.

She was expelled from a musical academy,

genuinely for musical insubordination.

-That's what she was expelled for.

-Musical insubordination.

Musical insubordination. How about that?

Which I think is probably a good thing.

I think of all the things - don't push teachers into a pond,

but by all means be musically insubordinate.

Mm. Thank you, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Now, Adrian and Max,

this is awkward cos Chas and Charlie get to answer this first.

You have to win this point to stay in the game. So very best of luck.

Our second question is all about...

Simply going to give you five clues to facts about the NHS.

Can you give us the most obscure answer?

OK, here are our five clues.

And they are...

I'm going to read all of those again.

Chas and Charlie will go first.

THEY WHISPER

We'll go for the fourth one down, the surname of Aneurin,

he was Aneurin Bevan.

Bevan, say Chas and Charlie.

Adrian and Max, that board is all yours. Talk us through it.

NHS stands for National Health Service.

Think the Prime Minister was Clement Attlee

-and the bottom one is 911.

-That's American. 111.

We're going for Prime Minister anyway.

We'll go for the Prime Minster when the NHS was launched,

-Clement Attlee.

-So we have Bevan and Clement Attlee.

Chas and Charlie went for Aneurin Bevan.

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

24.

Now, Adrian and Max have gone for Clement Attlee.

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

Oh, look at that! 25!

25 for Attlee. Oh, 24 for Bevan.

Very well done, Chas and Charlie, that was close.

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

What a great head-to-head, terrific stuff.

I would love it if Attlee and Bevan were still around.

Imagine the cabinet the next day.

Attlee saying, "I totally outscored you on Pointless."

And Bevan would be like, "I got like 24, though."

And Attlee would go, "They had to give your first name, even."

And Bevan would be like, "Listen, I'm doing the health service."

And Attlee would go, "Ahhh!"

That's what would happen.

Shall we fill in the rest of these? There's one very good answer there.

National Health Service would have scored...

Bad work from 12 of our 100 there.

Max, you're quite right to tell your

dad 111 is the three-digit number.

And the best answer, a pointless answer, the man who took over,

he joined the NHS as a graduate trainee in 1988 and now runs

the whole thing. It's Simon Stevens.

Very well done if you said that at home. I imagine lots of people

who work for the health service might have got that one.

Thanks, Richard. So, the pair leaving us, our golden pair,

Adrian and Max. Doesn't get any closer than that second question.

It's been great having you on both shows.

Thanks so much for playing, Adrian and Max.

APPLAUSE

But for Chas and Charlie it's now time for our Pointless Final.

Congratulations, Chas and Charlie, you've seen off all the

competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the

end of today's show the jackpot is standing at...

A nice proportion of that - well,

a portion of that jackpot is your work, so very well done indeed.

First round, two pointless answers.

You started with two pointless answers, wouldn't it be nice

if you could finish off with another pointless answer?

That'd be good. So what would you like to see come up?

Biology fell very nicely for you with the EM words in the

first round. What would you like to see come up in this last round?

I'd like to see detective fiction

but only certain authors cos my knowledge is a bit limited.

OK. Charlie, how about you?

Frankly, I'm just a bit overwhelmed to have got this far.

Um...science, geography is quite strong but...

-We'll just have to wait and see, I think.

-OK, very best of luck.

Let's hope there's something up there on the board you like

the look of. You get to choose from the four we put up.

Today's selection reads like this. We've got...

-I think prog music.

-Going to try for prog music.

-OK, prog music it is.

-Slightly tricky choice.

There's no kind of vanilla options up there.

Very best of luck. Hopefully one of these will suit you.

We are looking for the name of any UK top 40 album by Yes,

the name of any UK Top 40 album by Peter Gabriel,

and the title of any tracks on the original release of

Pink Floyd's The Wall. So UK Top 40 albums by Yes or Peter Gabriel

and the tracks on the original release of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much.

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?

-Absolutely.

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

Your time starts now.

I think we're going to have to look at Pink Floyd cos I don't know...

-Do you know any tracks on The Wall?

-I think...

I'm not sure about The Wall.

-I was thinking Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

-That's not on The Wall.

What do you think about Yes albums?

Tales From Topographic Oceans, Close To The Edge...

I'm trying to think of... The Yes Album is one of them.

-But that's a bit obvious.

-Peter Gabriel, I've got no idea.

Peter Gabriel? There was one called Peter Gabriel.

I think there was one called So.

I feel like I should know the tracks on The Wall but none

-are coming to mind.

-One Peter Gabriel and two Yes.

The Yes Album is a bit too obvious, isn't it?

-Ten seconds left.

-Yeah. I... OK.

Let's go Peter Gabriel and then two of the Yes albums.

-I'm happy with that.

-Yeah.

I think they're all going to be a little bit...

OK, that is your time up, I now need your three answers.

-OK, we'll go for So by Peter Gabriel.

-So.

Tales From Topographic Oceans by Yes.

Tales from Topographic Oceans.

And Close To The Edge by Yes.

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

-Tales from Topographic Oceans?

-We'll put last.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-So.

OK, let's put those answers up in that order and here they are.

We have got...

Very best of luck. Three good answers on the board.

If you were to win that jackpot of £4,500,

what would you like to do with it? Chas, you first.

It's not a question of what I'd like to do with it, but our bedroom

windows desperately need replacing, so it'd go towards that.

OK. Charlie, how about you?

I'd likely spend the money on a trip to New York with my girlfriend,

so slightly more exciting.

Some windows and a trip, that's great. OK, best of luck.

Let's hope one of these answers at least is pointless and will win

that jackpot for you. Your first answer was So.

In this case we were looking for Peter Gabriel UK Top 40 albums.

It has to be right and pointless for you to win that jackpot,

so for £4,500, let's see how many people said So.

It's right.

It just has to be pointless now.

Takes us down through the 30s, into the 20s,

still going down through the teens,

into single figures.

Down it goes to 6, that's a great score.

That's not pointless but I'd take some consolation that it

tells us what our 100 people knew about prog rock albums,

if only six of them got So.

It's looking quite good for your subsequent answers, in my opinion.

Your next answer is Close To The Edge.

In this case were looking for Yes UK Top 40 albums.

If this is pointless it will win you £4,500.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Close To The Edge.

Is it pointless?

It's right.

Your first answer took us all the way down to 6.

Close To The Edge takes us down through the teens and into

single figures. Still going. Passes 6. Down it goes to 4.

APPLAUSE

It's all moving in the right direction.

Your third and final answer was Tales From Topographic Oceans.

In this case we were looking for Yes UK Top 40 albums.

If it's pointless it will win you £4,500.

It will sort out those windows, it'll get you to New York.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Tales From Topographic Oceans.

Is it pointless? For £4,500...

It's right. Your third correct answer.

Your first answer took us down to 6, your second answer down to 4.

Tales From Topographic Oceans into single figures now,

passes 6, passes 4.

CHEERING

Well done. Superb.

DROWNED OUT BY APPLAUSE

Congratulations.

Tales From Topographic Oceans was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with that jackpot of £4,500.

Goodness me. That's the way to play Pointless - come on, do one show,

start off with two pointless answers,

finish with a pointless answer,

put all three of your answers in the right order for jeopardy.

Perfect. Number one album from 1973, Tales From Topographic Oceans.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers other people might

have got at home.

Heaven & Earth, Tales from Topographic Oceans there.

Everything apart from Close To The Edge, Fragile, Yessongs, Drama

and The Yes Album, would have scored you 1 point.

We'll move on to Peter Gabriel.

Hit, New Blood, Peter Gabriel Plays Live

and Shaking The Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats

were all the pointless answers there.

Tracks on Pink Floyd's The Wall. Lots of pointless answers here.

Also Don't Leave Me Now, Empty Spaces, Is There Anybody Out There?

was a pointless answer. Nobody Home, One of My Turns, Outside The Wall,

Stop, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives,

The Show Must Go On, The Thin Ice, The Trial, Waiting For The Worms

and Young Lust also a pointless answer.

Very well done if you got any of those at home and terrific,

faultless Pointless performance there from our father-and-son team.

Thank you, Richard, and thanks once again to our winning players,

Chas and Charlie, who go away with today's jackpot of £4,500.

Very well done.

APPLAUSE

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.