Episode 24 Pointless

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed.

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

the game where you're always aiming for the lowest score.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Shelley, this is my wife Mel, and we're from Brighton.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Lucie and this is my dad Martin,

-and we're from Leeds.

-Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Liam, I'm with my girlfriend Amber

and we're both from Gloucester.

And, finally, couple number four.

Hello. My name is Lee, this is my friend Rebecca,

she's from Margate and I'm from Colchester.

And these are today's contestants.

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

Lovely to have you here.

We'll get to chat to each of you throughout the show

as it goes along, so that just leaves one more person

for me to introduce.

He's harder to read than a broadsheet in a bumper car.

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

Hiya. Hey, everybody.

Good afternoon. I'll tell you what is hard to read -

a broadsheet in a high wind.

Have you ever done that?

-Yeah.

-Oh, God, that's irritating.

-Or a broadsheet when you've got young children.

-Yes.

-Or, a broadsheet when you've got a cat.

-Yes. LAUGHTER

Now, three returning pairs from our last show.

Martin and Lucie got through to the head-to-head,

Amber and Liam knocked out in Round One,

so, hoping to see more of you this time,

and Rebecca and Lee knocked out in Round Two.

And we welcome Shelley and Mel.

It's seems unfair that they're on podium one, doesn't it?

-A little bit.

-Given everyone else has been here before,

that seems a little harsh.

-There it is. That's the business we're in, right?

-It is. LAUGHTER

Oh. There's a consolation, though, for everyone.

Sarah and Maria didn't win the jackpot last time,

which means we add another £1,000 to it,

so today's jackpot starts off at £2,250.

There we are.

That's a silver lining.

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

OK. So, the pair with the highest score at the end of each round,

remember, will be eliminated, so keep your scores as low as you can.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is...

It's a Words round. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

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

OK. Let's find out what the question is.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many words ending in "ibe" as they could.

Words ending in "ibe", Richard.

Yep, looking for any word which has its own entry in the British

and World English section of OxfordDictionaries.com, please,

that ends "ibe".

As always, no proper nouns,

no hyphenated words, and, for any Liverpool fans out there,

"Jordon Ibe" is not a word. It's not a word, I'm afraid.

-LAUGHTER

-I'm sorry.

-Thank you.

-Oh, you look like you've already got one.

-No, I haven't.

-Lucky you're not on podium one, then.

-I know!

-Can you imagine?

Imagine, what must be going through Mel's head right now?

-LAUGHTER

-Oh...

Mel, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here from Brighton.

What keeps you busy in Britain, Mel?

A bit of photography, a bit of kick boxing.

Not at the same time, surely? LAUGHTER

Those are going to be blurred pictures, aren't they?

-A little bit, yeah.

-What kind of photography do you like to do?

I've just started out, so, landscapes, and, to be honest,

probably Shelley's cats, as well.

Maybe Shelley's cats within the landscape.

They're practice subjects.

That's good. Oh, don't tell them that!

They are not going to enjoy that at all.

-Now, Mel, on the business of these words ending "ibe"...

-Yeah.

..how have you done?

Absolutely terribly.

Erm...

SHE TAKES A DEEP BREATH

I can only think of Bible...

and that doesn't even work...

so I might go home now.

OK. Right, well, let's get it over with, Bible.

Let's see what happens when we say Bible, to the column.

-Yeah, I'm sorry.

-Yeah.

I'm sorry, Mel.

I'm sorry, and it happens on our first podium as well.

Anyway, Bible, I'm afraid, is an incorrect answer.

I'll go get the bus ticket ready.

It's one of those rites of passage, Mel,

to score 100 points on the first podium of Pointless.

You'll always be able to say you've done it.

-Well, yeah.

-That's the good news.

And, you know, you can join me if you want later.

Yeah, I think Shelley is not looking certain about that prospect.

ALEXANDER LAUGHS Lucie, welcome back to Pointless.

Lovely to have you here again from Leeds.

Remind us what you do.

I'm a politics student at Leeds Uni.

That's right, in your second year.

-Mm-hm.

-Very good.

What do you think you're going to do when you finish your degree?

I'm going to do the typical gap year, to be fair.

Oh, tell me what the typical gap year is.

Just go to Thailand, find myself...

Oh, brilliant. Very good indeed.

Anything to do with politics, you think,

when you come back from Thailand?

Do you think you'll go into politics in any way?

-Hopefully.

-Oh, that's good. Good.

Now, Lucie, words ending "ibe".

Mm-hm. I think I'm going to go for subscribe.

Subscribe, says Lucie.

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

-Ooh.

-APPLAUSE

24.

24 for subscribe.

Yeah, to receive something by paying regularly in advance.

Subscribe.

You know, to subscribe.

-Thank you.

-As in, "I subscribed...that time."

"Remember that time you subscribed?"

That would be using it in a sentence.

You've said "subscribe" so many times now, it's just a noise to me.

LAUGHTER

Well, it is a noise, to be fair.

-It is.

-That's what it is.

That's what words are.

-You know that, right?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

Thank you very much. OK, now, Amber.

-Hello.

-Amber, welcome back.

Pleasingly, on the same podium as last time.

Yeah, hopefully it'll be lucky this time.

Yes, it was a Round One exit last time.

Well, let's hope we avoid that. Amber, remind us what you do.

I'm a student at the University of South Wales, studying science.

-Studying science, and thinking of going on to do marine biology?

-Yeah.

Do you know which department of marine biology you will study

in the huge realm of marine biology?

I'd love to work in, like, conservation,

and just ensuring that we keep our oceans the way they are

and stop polluting them.

Very good indeed.

A very worthy pursuit, Amber.

Now, what would you like to go for?

Erm...

It's probably going to be really high,

but I'm going to go with tribe.

Tribe, says Amber.

OK, tribe. Let's see how many of our 100 people said tribe.

APPLAUSE

66 for tribe.

Yeah, a social division,

usually based around families or communities.

-Thank you, Richard. Now, Lee, welcome back.

-Thank you.

Good to have you back. Now, Lee, remind us what you do.

I'm a play worker for a before and after-school club.

That's just lovely. What sort of age are the kids you have there?

Primary, so, four to eleven.

-The full gamut.

-That's great.

-How long have you done it for?

-Just over two years.

-See, that's nice. So you've got to know them really quite well?

-Yeah.

Do you plan much in advance, or do you do it by the seat of your pants?

Yeah, we tend to change the themes around every week,

or every two weeks, and keep things...

keep it interesting for them.

And a master of flapjacks, I happen to know.

I'm sorry. No, I haven't sampled them. I just...

-A master of flapjacks?

-Yeah.

Is that an official title conferred by some City of London guild?

-That's right.

-Yeah.

-MFJ.

That is what's on my badge.

LAUGHTER There we are. Exactly.

Lee, what would you like to go for?

I was really looking forward to Words,

and this isn't what I was...

Do you know? I normally like a Words round.

I'm now... I'm... Yeah.

This isn't the best one I was hoping for,

but I'm going to go for a division above subscribe and go for scribe.

Scribe. Scribe, says Lee.

Let's see if it's right,

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

39.

39 for scribe.

Yeah, a person who copies out documents.

Scribe.

-I mean, I have got one.

-Have you?

-Yeah, I have got one.

-OK.

-Yeah.

Have you written one down for me?

-I have, yeah.

-Yeah, OK.

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

The best score of the pass was yours, Lucie. Very well done indeed.

24 for subscribe.

Then we go up to 39, where we find Lee and Rebecca.

66, Amber and Liam.

Oh, and Mel and Shelley on 100.

I'm sorry. It's just tough.

It's just that first podium - it happens all the time.

Shelley, a brilliant low score from you

is possibly all you might need.

You never know. We're running out of nice, easy words ending "ibe".

You'll be surprised what might happen in the next pass.

Good luck. Anyway, we're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Rebecca, welcome back to Pointless.

Remind us what you do.

I'm a performance artist.

A performance artist.

Now, what is your normal performance artist costume?

-Erm...

-Are you a boiler suit type performance artist?

I could be. You know, I feel I have many shades within me, but...

Well, the last performance that we did, we wore running clothes.

We ran and ran and ran until we vomited.

-Was that the... That was the piece, was it?

-It was...

-Yeah. To be honest, yes, it was.

-LAUGHTER

How far do you have to run before you're sick?

I'm genuinely not very fit at all, so not very far.

We did the beep test, you know, that infant school kind of thing,

where you run and it goes boop, boop, boop,

-back and forth between a wall and another wall.

-Yeah.

And you just keep doing that,

and Lee read insulting things while I ran.

-LAUGHTER Now, Rebecca.

-Yes.

There you are on 39.

Our high-scorers are Shelley and Mel on 100

-so 60 or less keeps you in the game.

-Mm-hm.

Yeah. I have a risky one, but I'm not feeling wild.

I'm feeling very sane, so I'm going to go for imbibe.

Imbibe! Nice.

Let's see how imbibe does.

Here's your red line. Get below this line,

and you are through to the next round.

Well done, Rebecca.

30 for imbibe.

69 is your total.

Well played, Rebecca. Again, that is to drink alcohol - to imbibe -

but also to take on information, just, sort of,

-you know, almost by osmosis.

-Hmm...

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Now, Liam. Welcome back.

-Thank you.

Remind us what you do, Liam.

I study aeronautical engineering at the University of South Wales.

Oh, that's just great fun.

So, I mean, what sort of things do you...? Are you part of design?

Is that the sort of thing you do? Or is it more about the science behind?

Yeah, yeah, this... My course is mainly focused on the design,

so the design of jet engines.

-Yeah.

-Or we do aircraft materials,

-and we, sort of, look into things like that.

-Right.

-So, materials is another fascinating thing to go into...

-Yeah.

..which then overlaps with the engines,

cos you need to improve materials to improve the engine performance.

Wow, and the interesting thing is, during your working life,

there will undoubtedly be huge inventions and discoveries

and, you know, all sorts of things that will make massive differences.

Yeah, I know, and hopefully I'll always be in a job.

Aeronautics, yeah.

Fantastic. That's going to be an interesting time.

Now, there you are on 66.

Still Shelley and Mel, our high-scorers, at this stage,

which means 33 or less gets you through to the next round.

Yeah, we're running out of the simpler ones now,

and I'm going to say describe.

Describe, says Liam.

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

There is your red line.

Describe...

Just gets you through. Look at that.

There we are at 27 for describe.

Very well done indeed. 93 is your total.

Yeah, describe - to describe.

LAUGHTER

-I've got it now. Martin, welcome back.

-Alexander.

Remind us what you do, Martin.

I am the electrical engineering manager

for a large health care provider.

Very good. Your hobbies, Martin, when not...?

I play a bit of golf. Erm...

Well, I play a lot of golf -

about as much golf as what I can, to be honest.

I like to cook.

I go to the gym, watch a lot of sports, that sort of thing.

-I see, so largely a sports and food-based free time.

-Yes.

There we are. Perfect, perfect. Who could ask for anything more?

Now, there you are on 24.

It's getting a little bit itchy for Shelley and Mel, I have to say,

at this end of the line.

They have been the high-scorers for quite a while now.

If you can score 75 or less,

you are through to the next round.

From what Lucie said earlier, I'm going to go for unsubscribe.

There we are - my favourite button at the bottom of an e-mail.

24. Here is your red line.

If you can get under that with unsubscribe,

you are through to the next round.

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

Very well done indeed, Martin.

Oh!

2.

Now, there we are.

Very respectable indeed.

Takes your total up to 26.

Isn't it lovely when you have a session

-of unsubscribing on your e-mails?

-Yeah.

-It's like putting the bins out or something, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

I love it. Although sometimes when you click on it,

it sends you to their website

and says you have to put your e-mail address,

-and you think, "Hold on a minute. What's this about?"

-No, no, no.

But then I don't, and you think,

"Hold on, that means they can keep e-mailing me."

-I don't know what to do in that situation.

-I know, yes, it's tricky.

It's awkward now, isn't it?

It is, it is.

Shelley, I'm so sorry.

I'm afraid you're doomed, as far as this game is concerned.

LAUGHTER I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I can't sugar-coat it, Shelley.

That's just how it is. What do you do, Shelley?

I'm a reporting manager for the Environment Agency.

Down in... Based in Sussex?

It's a national role, but, yeah, I'm based in Sussex.

-Right, I see.

-Yeah.

-And what are your interests, Shelley?

I play a lot of hockey,

and, yeah, just, sort of, generally keeping fit.

Very good. Very good indeed. OK, now, you're the high-scorers,

so, yes, I'm afraid whatever you come up with,

it's going to be pyrrhic.

OK. We'll go out in a blaze of glory.

You know, it's probably wrong, but - inscribe.

Was that inscribe or enscribe?

-Oh, inscribe?

-Inscribe.

-Inscribe.

-Inscribe, yeah.

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

No red line, etc.

APPLAUSE 12.

See, that's a lovely low score, there.

12, taking your total up to 112.

Yeah, when you write in your study, that's inscribe,

and when you write in your garden, that's outscribe.

-LAUGHTER

-It's not really.

Now, what was your one?

Circumscribe.

Circumscribe.

Really? Well, I didn't guess that.

-Oh, no. That would have scored you 4 points.

-It's not a bad answer.

-It's not bad.

-You haven't got a pointless answer for ages.

-I know.

-Do you know what I thought you were going to go for?

-What?

Mistranscribe.

-Clever. Oh, you flatter me.

-Do you wish you'd gone for that now?

-I do, so much.

-Well, it would have been incorrect.

-It was an incorrect answer. I guessed...

-LAUGHTER

-I guessed you were going to get too cocky.

-Oh.

And I guessed you'd think of transcribe, and then you'd think,

-"Hold on a minute. What about mistranscribe?"

-Untranscribe!

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-You could have had retranscribe -

that's a pointless answer - but no mistranscribe.

Let's take at the pointless answers.

There's a few of them up here.

You unsubscribe when you've oversubscribed.

-Yeah.

-Postscribe - that's someone who writes a postscript.

It's actually someone who writes something afterwards.

Reimbibe would have been a lovely answer.

-That's what we all enjoy doing.

-Yeah.

Reinscribe would have been a lovely one.

There it is.

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

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

And right at the top, look, tribe with 66.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our first round,

the pair who has to go, with their high score of 112,

I'm afraid, Shelley and Mel, it is you.

I'm so sorry. Far too soon to be sending you away,

but you'll be back next time.

We'll look forward to that very much indeed.

In the meantime, thank you very much, Shelley and Mel.

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

Well, look at that. We're suddenly down to three pairs,

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

but 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,

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

-Richard.

-Yeah, on each board we're going to give you six descriptions

of pieces of art that were famously sold, and we need you to tell us

the artist of each one, please.

We're going to give you their initials as well,

so, with 12 artists to guess at home, very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our first board of artworks,

and here they are.

I'm going to read those all again.

Lucie.

Yeah.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

So, where do you want to go on this board?

SHE LAUGHS

I think I'm going to go for the portrait of the artist's doctor,

and say Vincent van Gogh, just cos I've got

no clue about anything else.

Vincent Van Gogh, says Lucie.

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

45.

-Not bad. More than halfway down the column.

-Not too shabby.

-Yeah.

The Portrait Of Doctor Gachet -

he's looking unhappy and carrying a foxglove,

which is toxic, but...

-Yeah, digitalis.

-Mmm.

You don't want to be wafting that around round too much, do you?

Exactly. We're in the wrong business, aren't we?

Look at that, 82 million.

Well, you're not - you're forever drawing.

I do do doodles, yeah, I'll give you that,

but I haven't sold one for even over a million yet.

-LAUGHTER

-The highest price for any of my doodles is £875,000

-at the Biennial in Basel last year.

-Yes.

-What a show, though - that was something else.

-Well, you know.

I sell a lot, but, you know, never over a million.

Never over a million?

Stick at it. Stick at it, Richard. LAUGHTER

Now, Liam...

Yes.

I'm probably going to have to go for the most obvious one left on there,

so I'm going to go with painting of flowers on a pond, Claude Monet.

Claude Monet, says Liam.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Passes 45.

32 for Claude Monet.

Not bad.

Yeah, The Water-Lily Pond from 1919.

He was a very keen horticulturalist, he created the water-lily pond

-that he painted so often by diverting a stream.

-Thank you.

-Now, Rebecca.

-Yes.

-This board is all yours.

OK. Do you want me to run down the board?

-Yes, please!

-The first is, I think, Paul Gauguin,

and the one I'm actually going to go for,

cos I confess I don't know the bottom two, is Mark Rothko.

Mark Rothko, says Rebecca.

Mark Rothko. Let's see if that's right,

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

Please don't be wrong, Rebecca.

-It is Mark Rothko.

-Oh, phew.

Well, 45 is our high score.

You pass it. 32 our low score.

You pass it.

Look at that, 10 for Mark Rothko. Very well done indeed, Rebecca.

Good work.

Yeah, "No 6 (Violet, Green And Red)".

Imagine how much he'd have got paid if he put even more colours in.

-I know, I know.

-It's amazing.

He didn't really like to sell a lot of his work when he was alive.

When he died, he had hoarded nearly 800 paintings.

-ALEXANDER GASPS

-If you see the sort of prices that his work goes for...

-Yeah.

Well, it was the best-ever episode of Cash In The Attic,

let's put it that way.

LAUGHTER

The two Tahitian girls, you're absolutely right - Paul Gauguin.

22 points for that. Two men playing cards...

-Paul Cezanne?

-Paul Cezanne, yes. 6 points.

Yeah, best answer on the board. And the bottom one?

-Edvard Munch.

-Edvard Munch, absolutely right.

16 points for that.

Thank you very much. OK, let's take a look at the scores.

We're halfway through the round.

We have 10 over on the far podium there -

Rebecca and Lee looking pretty strong.

Then up to 32, Liam and Amber are there,

and then 45, is where we find Lucie and Martin.

So, Martin, very best of luck

with finding a nice low score, so we can see you in the head-to-head.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. We are going to put six more clues up on the board,

and we have got...

A painting of the American flag sold for 36 million? Oh, cheap(!)

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

-Lee.

-Yes.

-Now, then, you're on 10.

45 is the high score.

If you can score 34 or less, you are definitely in the head-to-head.

OK. Erm...

I'm good for two of them.

I am going to go for...

..the fibreboard covered in drips of brown and yellow paint,

which is by Jackson Pollock.

Jackson Pollock, says Lee.

Here is your red line.

If you can get below that red line with Jackson Pollock,

you are well on the way to the head-to-head.

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

Very well done. LEE EXHALES

APPLAUSE 14, good work. 24 is your total.

The lowest total of the round.

Yeah, "No 5, 1948", that was.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Amber,

ideally you would score 12 or less with this.

I don't think that's going to happen.

I think I only know one,

the cubist painting, as Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso, says Amber.

Here is your red line.

If you can get below this with Pablo Picasso,

you're through to the head-to-head.

It's right.

40, taking your total up to 72.

He's had the most paintings stolen of any artist, Pablo Picasso.

Over 1,000 of his works have been reported stolen.

So, either he's unlucky or there's an insurance thing going on there.

LAUGHTER Yeah. Were they stolen from him?

No, I think, from different...

Yeah, from different places.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, then, Martin, there you are on 45.

If you can score 26 or less with this answer,

you remain with us for the head-to-head.

Do you fancy having a crack at any of those?

Talk through as many as you feel like.

OK. I'll talk through the two that I know,

the cubist painting and the fibreboard...

-LUCIE GIGGLES

-Apart from that,

-I'm afraid I'm a bit out of luck here.

-Ah, OK.

I'll have a stab at the painting of the American flag,

and say James Joyce.

QUIET LAUGHTER

Why not? James Joyce.

There's your red line.

Let's see what happens when we say James Joyce.

-No, it's a writer.

-No. Bad luck, Martin.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer. 100 is what it scores,

so it takes your total up to 145.

Unlucky, Martin. I like how on these boards you look at 36 million

-and go, "That's cheap."

-I know! Exactly, yeah.

-Blimey.

It was Flag, and it was by Jasper Johns,

and it would have scored you 9 points.

Now, the top one, portrait of the wealthy society woman?

-Is Klimt.

-It is Gustav Klimt. Absolutely right.

It would have scored you 6 points.

Three paintings of a famous artist...

It's paintings of Lucian Freud.

Oh, Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon, yup.

That would have scored you 10.

And the nude painting - this is the best answer up there,

and it is Amedeo Modigliani.

Very well done if you said that - 1 point.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our second round,

the pair who are heading home with their high score of 145,

I'm afraid it's Martin and Lucie.

Well, it was the head-to-head last time, Martin and Lucie -

I'm afraid Round Two this time.

It's been lovely having you on both shows.

I'm sorry to say goodbye,

but thank you so much for playing, Martin and Lucie.

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

Congratulations, Rebecca and Lee, Amber and Liam.

You are now one step closer to the final,

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £2,250.

Well, here we are in the head-to-head,

which means you can confer before you give your answers -

and the first pair to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. Let's play it.

OK. Here is your first question,

and it concerns...

-Richard.

-We're going to show you five stills now from films

which won at least one Oscar at the 2016 awards.

Can you identify these films, please?

OK, so what are the films from which these stills come?

And we have got...

There we are.

Five stills from films

that were 2016 Oscar winners.

Rebecca and Lee, you are our low-scorers, so you will go first.

-OK.

-We're going to identify E,

which is Bridge Of Spies.

Bridge of Spies for E, say Rebecca and Lee.

Now, then, Amber and Liam, that board's all yours.

Talk us through it.

We went to see B in the cinema,

and, for the life of us,

we can't remember it.

LAUGHTER

D is obviously The Reverent,

but we're going to go with A

as being Room.

Room. OK, A, Room.

So we have Bridge Of Spies and we have Room.

Now, then, Rebecca and Lee went for Bridge Of Spies for E.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE 16.

16 for Bridge of Spies.

Amber and Liam, meanwhile, have gone for Room for A.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right...

..and it wins you the point. Look at that.

There we go. 6 for Room. Very well done indeed.

And it means Amber and Liam, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Very well played. So, Room,

it's Brie Larson who won

Best Actress in that,

and Bridge Of Spies, Mark Rylance

who won Best Supporting Actor.

-Have you seen Bridge Of Spies?

-Yeah.

-He is brilliant in that.

-So good.

He is so amazing.

-That's it.

-That's the title of the film, there you go.

-It obviously had a big impact(!)

-LAUGHTER

It would have scored you 15 points.

That's Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander,

who won Best Supporting Actress.

The Hateful Eight, the Tarantino film.

Ennio Morricone won for Best Score.

5 points for that.

And D...

That's Leonardo DiCaprio winning Best Actor for...

-The Revenant.

-The Revenant, yeah.

Not The Reverent, but The Revenant,

and that would have scored you 36 points.

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

Amber and Liam get to answer it first,

but, Rebecca and Lee,

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

so very, very best of luck. OK.

Our second question is all about...

-Richard.

-I'm going to give you five unique middle names

of presidents here. We need you to tell us their full names, please.

-We're giving you their initials too.

-OK. Thanks very much, Richard.

So, let's reveal our five presidents and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Amber and Liam will go first.

Yeah. OK.

We only know the two obvious ones,

so we're going to go with the bottom one,

as Barack Hussein Obama.

OK, Barack Obama, say Amber and Liam.

Now then, Rebecca and Lee,

do you want to talk us through that board?

We've got John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Dwight David Eisenhower?

And Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I think we're going for the top one, aren't we?

Yeah, let's go for Eisenhower.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, let's do it.

-You're going to go for...?

-Dwight David Eisenhower.

Dwight David Eisenhower, say Rebecca and Lee.

OK, so we have Barack Obama and Dwight Eisenhower.

Amber and Liam went for Barack Obama.

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

It's right.

75.

Meanwhile, Rebecca and Lee have gone for Dwight Eisenhower.

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

It's right...

and it wins you the point.

Very well done, indeed.

APPLAUSE 32...

..which means you're back in the game,

and, after two questions, it's 1-1.

They're weirdly more confusing this way round, aren't they,

when you see the middle names?

Yeah, Dwight D Eisenhower.

Ronald Reagan, you're absolutely right,

would have scored you 38.

JFK, John F Kennedy,

would have scored you 88.

-And...

-Herbert Hoover.

Herbert Hoover, yeah,

and that would have scored you 15 points.

Thank you very much indeed. So, here comes your third question.

Whoever wins this one goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot. Best of luck to both pairs.

Our third and final question is all about...

-Richard.

-We're going to show you the titles now of five songs

that begin with one of those words.

We need you to fill in the rest of the title, please.

Very best of luck.

OK. Let's reveal our five songs, and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Rebecca and Lee, you will go first.

-WHISPERING:

-Yeah, yeah. OK.

Not Rizzle Kicks?

No, it doesn't matter about Rizzle Kicks.

-OK.

-OK.

We are going to go for Jump In My Car by Mr David Hasselhoff.

Jump In My Car, David Hasselhoff, say Rebecca and Lee.

Now, then, Amber and Liam,

do you want to talk us through the board?

No.

So, we know... We know the top one.

-"Run The World (Girls)", we think it is.

-That's it.

And that's all we knew. We knew Jump In My Car,

but, other than that, we don't have any idea.

So, we're going to go with "Run The World (Girls)".

"Run The World (Girls)".

So we have Jump In My Car and "Run The World (Girls)".

Rebecca and Lee had Jump In My Car for David Hasselhoff.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE 39.

Not bad.

Amber and Liam, meanwhile,

have gone for "Run The World (Girls)" for Beyonce.

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

It's right...

..and it wins you the point.

Very well done indeed.

17 for that, which means, very well done, Amber and Liam,

after three questions, you go through to the final 2-1.

Well played. The bottom two answers would have beaten Run The World.

Walk Like An Egyptian, The Bangles, is the biggest scorer.

That would have scored you 47.

Now, the bottom one, Rizzle Kicks, do you know that one?

I don't know the Rizzle Kicks one.

It covered EMF, and it's Skip To The Good Bit.

-Oh, right, yeah.

-That would have scored you 15.

And Walk Like A Panther.

Yeah, co-written by Jarvis Cocker - made in Sheffield, that one.

2 points, so very well done if you said that.

Excellent. Thank you very much indeed.

So the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm afraid,

Rebecca and Lee. You came into this round as our low-scorers.

I'm afraid you leave without getting to the final

and taking back a Pointless trophy,

but it's been wonderful having you on both shows.

Thank you so much for coming to play, Rebecca and Lee.

But, for Amber and Liam, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed.

Amber and Liam, 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 £2,250.

CHEERING

Well, what a turnaround. What about that?

It was Round One we had to say goodbye to you last time,

and this time through to the final.

I mean, there were some testing moments in there.

The head-to-head was by no means a walk in the park,

but you came out smiling, and here we are.

-I know.

-Sending you back home with at least a Pointless trophy

to your name and maybe a jackpot, as well.

Anything you'd particularly like to see come up in this last round?

Liam's good at sports.

I've been waiting for sport to come up, and it hasn't yet.

-So...

-Right.

..but then, all the pressure will be on me, and I don't like that.

Amber, anything you'd like?

Maybe anything to do with music.

Sport and music.

One of those two. Let's hope one of those at least is on the board.

Today's selection looks like this.

We've got...

-Hmm.

-Well...

-I don't know.

-What are we going to do?

-I don't like any of them.

Um...

Is there any you could...

Literally, no. Either way, we're just going to be making up answers.

So...

-Let's do...

-Jazz albums?

Yeah, let's do it. 1950s jazz albums.

1950s jazz albums.

Very, very best of luck. Let's hope there's something here for you.

Very best of luck. We're looking for any track that appeared

on the original release of any of the following three albums, please.

We're looking for any track on...

Any tracks on the original releases of those three albums, please.

Thank you very much, indeed.

As always, you've got 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?

-Yes.

-I guess so.

-OK.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are, your time starts now.

Maybe we should have picked something else.

Shall we go with...

We're going to be making them all up, anyway, so...

I can't think of what Nina Simone sings.

We'll just go with Time Out, for Time Out, a song called Time Out.

Um...

Um, I don't know.

I feel like I should know who Nina Simone, is but I don't.

-This is bad.

-I can't even think of any jazz songs.

My mind's gone completely blank.

I don't know.

Um, I'm just going to make something up.

Just say Time Out.

Probably, Stop The Clock or something a bit jazzy.

That sounds jazzy, Stop...

Stop The Clock.

-One more.

-Let's just say, All That Jazz.

All That Jazz, yeah.

OK, are those the answers you're going to go with?

-Shall we just... We can stop the clock.

-Yeah.

..to coin a phrase. OK, let's have your three answers.

-OK, I think we're going with Time Out.

-Time Out, yeah.

-Time Out from the album, Time Out?

-Yeah.

Stop The Clock can be from Time Out, as well.

Stop The Clock from Time Out.

And All That Jazz, let's do Nina Simone.

And All That Jazz on Nina Simone's album.

Of those three, any you want to nominate as your best shot?

-Time Out?

-Time Out, you put last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Stop The Clock.

-Stop The Clock, OK.

Let's put those answers up on the board in that order. Here they are.

We've got...

Well, very best of luck. Three answers there.

Who knows? Maybe one of them could turn out to be right,

and better still, might turn out to be pointless.

If that were to happen, you would leave with a jackpot of 2,250 quid.

What would you like to do with that, Amber?

We want to go on holiday this year.

-So it would probably go towards that.

-Excellent, Liam?

Yeah, it would have to be the same.

If there was any left over

then probably towards a car or something, but, yeah.

Well, very, very best of luck.

Your very first answer was Stop The Clock.

In this case, we were looking for any track on the album Time Out

by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

If this is right and it's pointless, it'll win you £2,250.

Let's see what happens when we say Stop The Clock.

No, bad luck. I'm afraid, not Stop The Clock.

Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your next answer was All That Jazz.

On this occasion we were looking the tracks on The Amazing Nina Simone,

by Nina Simone. It has to be right,

it has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

So for £2,250, let's see if anyone said All That Jazz.

Bad luck. I'm afraid everything is now riding on your third and final

answer, which is Time Out.

In this case we were looking for tracks on the album Time Out,

by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Let's see what happens.

Is it right, will it win you £2,250?

No, bad luck. Bad luck.

That was a game attempt, it was a very tough, tough board that.

Faced with something you didn't know,

so I'm afraid you didn't manage to find the pointless answer

that would have won you today's jackpot of £2,250.

That will roll over onto the next show.

It has been brilliant having you on both shows.

We hardly saw any of you, first show,

but this show it's been a tour de force from you -

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

Amber and Liam.

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you very much.

Well played, Amber and Liam.

A really tough round for you.

I tell you what, it's been sticking around on the board for a long time,

so, thank you for taking it off, finally.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers, shall we,

in the different categories. We'll start with Sarah Vaughan.

Also could have had He's My Guy, It's Crazy, and You're Not The Kind.

Very well done if you got any of them.

Dave Brubeck Quartet now, Take Five was the big track off this album.

And Strange Meadowlark.

Those were the five pointless answers there.

The Amazing Nina Simone.

A few more pointless answers here.

You could have had, Children Go Where I Send You.

Chilly Winds Don't Blow, Theme For The Middle Of The Night,

Willow Weep For Me and You've Been Gone Too Long.

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

Thanks very much indeed, and thank you, Amber and Liam.

I'm sorry you didn't win our jackpot today -

which means it rolls over onto the next show

when we will be playing at £3,250.

APPLAUSE

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

-In the meantime, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.