Episode 41 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

and welcome to Pointless,

the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

-Couple number one.

-Hi, Xander, I'm Shelima,

and this is my husband Wilfred,

and we're from Buckhurst Hill in Essex.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Lucy, this is my dad Steve,

and we're from Falkirk.

Couple number three.

Hello, I'm Sidra, this is my sister Ghausia, and we're both from London.

And finally, couple number four.

Hello, my name's Megs, this is my friend Brenda,

and we're from Newcastle upon Tyne.

And these are today's contestants.

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

It's great to have you here. We'll get to chat to each of you

throughout the show as it goes along.

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

Here to ask the questions, despite the fact that the main question

he asks himself is "what would Beyonce do?"

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

Hiya. Hey, everybody. Welcome along.

-How are you, sir?

-I'm very well, thank you.

Excellent. Now, we've got two returning players

from the last show. Brenda and Megs are back.

Now, I was amazed, they got knocked out in Round One.

-It seemed like they were with us for a long time.

-I know.

You made a big impression! But knocked out in Round One.

So hopefully... Goodness knows the impression they'll make

-if they stick around longer.

-I know.

-They'll dominate.

-They might.

-Yeah, they may...

We might suddenly, kind of, be in the shadows slightly.

-We might be.

-It's the truth. So very best of luck to you.

Wilfred and Shelima got through to Round Two.

Now, in that show we had lovely Misha and Anna.

They got through to the final round.

It was one of those weird jackpot rounds where we said,

"What would you like to come up?"

And they said, "Sport or music would be good."

And we put the four categories up -

there's a sport category and music category,

and so they both look at all the categories, and go,

"We will go for... historical fiction, please."

LAUGHTER

And, unsurprisingly, did not get a jackpot answer.

-But it was unusual, I thought.

-It is.

-It's an unusual choice.

People are very shy of the areas that they feel they should know.

I think that's right, they get nervous.

They think, "If I fail on something I know,

"it's worse than failing on something I don't know."

-I can see that.

-I think that's right.

-I see that.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Anna and Misha didn't win the jackpot last time,

as you'll have gathered, so we are adding another £1,000 to that.

So today's jackpot starts off, would you believe it, at £2,000.

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

So, remember this,

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

will be eliminated. No conferring until we get to the third round.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is...

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Richard.

On each board we're going to show you seven clues

to people who've won more than one Olympic gold medal.

You just have to name who they are, please.

So there's 14 multiple Olympic medallists

to guess at home. Good luck.

Thanks very much indeed. So who are these people?

Here is our first board of clues, and it reads much like this...

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

-Wilfred.

-Yes.

-Welcome back to Pointless.

-Thank you very much.

-Wilfred, remind us what you do.

-I'm an account manager.

You are an account manager, very good, indeed.

Do you know what I love about Wilfred and Shelima,

is when you're painting at home,

Wilfred can do all the bits above the cornice,

and Shelima can do the bit by the skirting board!

-We've actually just done that at my mum's house.

-Have you really?

-Yeah!

That's just perfect, you've got all the bits covered there.

Fantastic. Now, Wilfred, what would you like to go for?

Well, this is not my category, so I'm going to go

for the very obvious one, which is the first athlete to win the gold

in 100 metres and 200 metres, which is Usain Bolt.

Usain Bolt, says Wilfred.

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

It's right.

52, not bad.

52.

Yeah, when he recorded his world-record of 9.69,

when that was the world record, he did it with his shoelace undone.

-Wow.

-Yeah.

-It goes to show, doesn't it?

Fantastic. Thank you very much, Richard.

-Now, Steve, a warm welcome - from Falkirk.

-Yes.

-What do you do, Steve?

-I'm retired now. I used to be a dentist,

but I've forgotten all about that now.

Have you really? How quickly?

How many weeks before you couldn't remember which tooth was which?

Oh, about three or four maybe, at the most!

I bet you were a wonderful dentist, Steve.

-How many years did you do it for?

-I don't know, 30-odd.

Not quite 40, but 37, something like that.

-Wow. Many mouths you've had the pleasure to know.

-Thousands.

Steve, what would you like to go for on our board here?

I think I'll go for the Finnish male athlete who won five gold medals

at the 1924 games as Paavo Nurmi.

Paavo Nurmi says Steve. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

That is a wonderful answer, Steve! Very well done, indeed.

Three for Paavo Nurmi.

That's great work, Steve. Very, very well played.

Yeah, Paavo Nurmi used to be on the Finnish banknotes,

he was such a huge star over there, before they introduced the euro.

Thank you, Richard.

Sidra, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. What do you do, Sidra?

-So I've just qualified as a doctor.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE There we are, quite right!

-So when will you be starting?

-In a couple of weeks' time.

-Wow. That's exciting. Whereabouts?

-In Essex.

In Essex. Was that where you would've liked to have gone?

Yes, it's quite close to home.

-You have a choice, do you?

-Yeah. Well, we get randomly allocated,

it kind of depends on a few arbitrary tests.

-I mean, so it could have been... You're from London?

-Yeah.

I mean, might it have been Aberdeen or Inverness, or something?

-Quite easily.

-Really? Excellent. Good for you, Sidra.

Now, what would you like to go for on our board here?

I think I'll go for the British female cyclist,

and go for Victoria Pendleton.

Victoria Pendleton says Sidra.

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

It's right. 52 is our highest score, and you pass it.

Look at that, down we go to 33.

APPLAUSE

Not bad at all. 33 for Victoria Pendleton.

Well played, Sidra. Yeah, two golds and one silver

for Victoria Pendleton, and has since gone on to ride horses.

-Hasn't she?

-Yes, ridden in genuine professional races,

-which is terrifying.

-Terrifying.

-Yeah.

OK, Brenda, welcome back.

-Hello.

-From the Hexhamshire Lasses, as we discovered.

This is a chapter of the Morris dancing.

-Shall we let it pass?

-Is that right?

I was with Tyne Bridge Morris.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Tyne Bridge Morris. That's right.

-He's a lovely guy, Tyne Bridge Morris! Yeah.

-Nice fella.

-How long were you with him for?

-Oh, a while!

XANDER LAUGHS

Now, tell me, your uniform at Tyne Bridge, bells?

Clogs, clogs with bells on.

And how many of you are in the Tyne Bridge Morris?

Well, you do it in teams of six or eight.

-Right, I see.

-Or multiples thereof.

Anyway, there we are. Brenda, you're the last person to have this board.

Would you like to talk us through it?

Right, the top one, I believe,

is a lovely, lovely man called Daley Thompson.

The second one I should know who it is,

because I watch the Tour de France, but I can't remember it.

I thought it was Mark Spitz, but that begins with an S, the swimmer.

And the Romanian gymnast was Nadia Comaneci.

Now it's a toss-up between Daley and Nadia.

-Nadia Comaneci.

-Nadia Comaneci says Brenda.

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

It's absolutely right.

Well, 52 is our highest score, and you pass that unsurprisingly.

-33 you pass. 28 for Nadia Comaneci.

-Not bad.

-Not bad at all, Brenda.

28.

You picked the right one out of her and Daley,

because Daley Thompson was actually the biggest scorer on the board.

53 points for Daley Thompson.

It's Sir Chris Hoy is the cyclist, so not a Tour de France cyclist.

He would have scored you 44. And the US male swimmer?

-Michael Phelps.

-Michael Phelps, yeah. He would have scored you 25.

So Paavo Nurmi, Steve, the best answer on the board.

-Very well played.

-We're halfway through the round,

let's take a look at the scores. 3 was the best score of that pass.

Steve, very well done indeed.

Steve and Lucy, I think you shall go through to Round Two.

28 is where we find Brenda and Megs.

33 is where we find Sidra and Ghausia.

Wilfred and Shelima, 52, quite a high score there.

Shelima, a little bit of pressure on you there

to find a nice low-scoring answer,

but good luck with that. We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more clues to multiple gold medal winners

at the Olympics up on the board - and here they are.

We have...

I shall read those all one more time.

So, Megs, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-So, Megs, we've talked about the Morris.

-Yes.

-The Morris, if I may abbreviate.

-Yes, we have, yes.

-What else must we know?

-Well...

Some important facts about Megs' life.

You need to know that I'm in a ukulele ensemble,

and our title is Misspent Uke.

Oh! How long have you been part of that?

-Eight years.

-Did you just take up the uke then, or...?

-Yes, yes.

-Brilliant.

-It's only got four strings.

Well, exactly, it's nice and easy to play.

-They're fun though, aren't they?

-Yes.

Can you dance and play the uke at the same time?

-You could play for the Morris.

-You could.

I'll just try it. Yeah, you probably could.

-Yes, you probably could!

-That would be amazing!

APPLAUSE

Can I just check what day this is happening?

I don't think I'm free, but...

Thank you very much. Now, Megs, what would you like to go for?

There you are on 28. If you can score 23 or less,

even at this stage, you'll be through to the round.

It's all very well being a Morris dancer and a ukulele player,

but you've got to know stuff!

I don't know stuff!

I'm going to go for the bottom one, which I'm hoping is Bradley Wiggins.

Bradley Wiggins. Let's see if it's right.

There is your red line.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Sir Bradley Wiggins.

-Oh, that's a good answer, 39.

-Not bad.

I think that's good enough, Megs.

That will take your total up to 67.

Well played, Megs.

He nearly turned down his knighthood, Bradley Wiggins.

Do you know who persuaded him to take it?

-Paul Weller.

-Oh, that's right, yes.

-Funny.

-I like that, yeah.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Ghausia, welcome to Pointless.

Lovely to have you here. What do you do, Ghausia?

I study natural sciences.

-At university?

-Yes, at UCL.

-At UCL.

So what stage are you at in your course?

So, I'm about to start my masters next year.

Oh, I see, so you've just graduated.

Wow. The academic qualifications on that podium are pretty impressive!

-So you're about to start your masters.

-Yeah.

Where will you be doing that?

I'll be carrying on at UCL, so I'm doing a masters in chemistry.

I see. What aspect of chemistry?

-Organic chemistry.

-Organic chemistry. Excellent.

Well, good luck with the masters. That sounds interesting.

Now, 33 is where you find yourselves.

Your target is 33 also, should you not want to become high-scorers.

The previous board was better for me.

I only know one on here, and that's the US tennis player,

and I'm going to go for Venus Williams.

Venus Williams says Ghausia. OK, here is your red line.

Let's see how close to that red line you get with Venus Williams.

It's right.

Not bad, 47 for Venus Williams.

It takes your total up to a lovely round 80.

Well played, Ghausia. Another good answer.

-They're surprisingly low, some of the scores...

-I know.

..for some well-known people.

There we are, thank you very much indeed.

Lucy, a warm welcome to Pointless.

-Here from Falkirk.

-Yep.

-And what do you do, Lucy?

I'm a web communications officer at the University of Strathclyde

-in Glasgow.

-And what do you do for fun, Lucy?

I absolutely love musical theatre,

and I'm a member of a local amateur society and we do a musical

and a pantomime each year.

Fantastic. What have been your favourites so far?

We just did Sunshine On Leith, which was absolutely...

-I love Sunshine On Leith!

-Yeah.

For you to do something in your own accent, and...

-Yeah.

-..sing The Proclaimers songs.

-The Proclaimers!

-The audience were having a great time, as well.

-Fabulous.

-Yeah, it was really special.

Love that. OK, there you are on 3.

80 is our highest score.

if you can possibly find yourself scoring 76 or less,

you are straight through to the next round -

I don't think that should challenge you too much.

I think I'm going to go for the US athlete

who won heptathlon in the long jump in 1988

and say Jackie Joyner-Kersee?

-Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

-Yeah.

-OK, let's see if that's right.

Here is your red line. Get below that with Jackie Joyner-Kersee,

and you are through to the next round.

How many of our 100 people said it?

It's right. Through you go! Very well done, indeed.

I think that's going to be a very good score.

Down it goes, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Down to 5!

Which means you're in a single-figure score total of 8.

Very impressive indeed on podium two.

-That's really impressive from the two of you.

-Yeah.

-Very well played.

Good answer. Sunshine On Leith, by The Proclaimers,

one of the few songs that always sends a shiver down my spine.

-Aw.

-Don't you think? It's such a beautiful song.

Yeah. It is a lovely song, and maybe one for the uke band, I think,

-I'd suggest.

-Oh, a uke version of any Proclaimers hit

-would be worth listening to.

-Yeah. Lovely.

Thank you. Now, Shelima, welcome back to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Remind us what you do, Shelima.

I'm an accountant, but I'm working in project management.

That's right. And what do you like getting up to when you're not doing

-that?

-So we've got a 20-month-old son,

-so he takes up a lot of our time.

-Lovely. What's his name?

Noah Xander!

-Xander?

-Yeah, as a middle name.

-Ah, Noah Xander. Very good!

Good work, Noah!

Very good. 20 months, it is a great age, as well, isn't it?

-Yeah, it's fantastic.

-Very good.

-Now, Shelima.

-Yes.

-You're on 52.

We have a bit of a match on our hands here.

There's no way we can be saying goodbye to you

at the end of this round, that's simply not going to happen.

27 is your target, so we need 27 or less from your answer.

There's two up there that I know.

I think the British rower is going to be Steven Redgrave,

or Steve Redgrave...

..and the Australian male swimmer would be Ian Thorpe.

I think Will would probably know the speed skater,

because it's quite big in Holland.

I will go with Steve Redgrave.

Steve Redgrave says Shelima.

OK, now, here comes your red line.

It's... It could be higher.

I'd like to see it higher.

But anyway, let's see what happens.

Let's see how close to it we get with Steve Redgrave.

53 for Steve Redgrave...

APPLAUSE

..taking your total up to 105.

Yeah, a big score for Steve Redgrave.

It sounded like the audience thought you should have gone for Ian Thorpe.

So, you needed to score 27 points to be in the next round.

Ian Thorpe, it's a correct answer, would have scored 26 points.

AUDIENCE GASP

-Oh, no!

-So sorry!

Would have been exciting.

As Shelima said, Wilfred, speed skating is huge in the Netherlands.

-Do you know that one?

-Bonnie Blair.

-Bonnie Blair.

And that's a pointless answer.

Imagine if you'd gone the other way around!

-Aw!

-There it is, that's the luck of the draw. Really, really unlucky.

Very well done if you said Bonnie Blair at home -

-and the US male athlete is...

-Carl Lewis.

-Carl Lewis.

-And he would have scored you 32.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our first round,

the pair we have to say goodbye to is Shelima and Wilfred. I'm so...!

Oh, and you...! Think of the glory you would have been in line for!

I'm so sorry. Anyway, let's not think about that too much.

It's been brilliant having you on the show.

I'm sorry we're saying goodbye to you so soon,

but thank you so much for coming to play. Wilfred and Shelima!

APPLAUSE

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

We're down to three pairs, and I'm afraid this continues,

we're going to be squeezing and squeezing.

At the end of this round we'll be down to two pairs. I know, so cruel!

-But, Lucy and Steve, very well done.

-Thank you.

Very much top of the class in Round One.

Let's see if you can keep that up. Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon 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, let's find out what the question is.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many words in the Nato alphabet...

..as they could. Richard?

Yep, we're simply looking for any of the 26 words that are used

to represent letters in the Nato phonetic alphabet

that contain any of those letters in them,

so it can just contain one of them.

So, any of those 26 words that contain the letters N, A, T or O.

Thank you very much indeed.

-Now, Lucy...

-Erm, I think I'll go for Hotel.

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

It's right.

34 for Hotel.

APPLAUSE Seems fair enough.

-Yeah, well played. And do you know what letter that represents?

-I'm...

-"O".

-"H".

-Yeah.

-Oh, yes!

I see what you mean! I'm so sorry. I am so sorry!

-Yes.

-I'll quiz you on all of them as we go through.

I hope you do. I hope you do.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Sidra.

I'm not 100% sure on this one, but I'm going to give it a go.

-Foxtrot?

-Foxtrot, says Sidra.

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

APPLAUSE

53.

The Royal Navy in World War I had their own version of this alphabet,

and F was Freddie

and H was Harry in that.

-Interesting.

-Yeah.

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

Now, Brenda.

Echo.

Echo.

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

It's right.

33!

APPLAUSE There we are, 33.

-Very well done indeed.

-Yeah, the World War I equivalent was Edward.

Thank you very much, Richard. We are halfway through the round,

so let's take a quick look at those scores.

33, Brenda, very well done indeed, the best score of the pass.

34 is where we find Lucy and Steve.

53 is where we find Sidra and Ghausia.

So, yes, we are going to need a low score from you, Ghausia.

Good luck with that. We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

-Megs.

-Hello.

So, remember, we're looking for words in the Nato phonetic alphabet

that include the letters N, A, T or O.

My husband's going to kill me if I get this one wrong,

because we bought a mug last year with all of the letters.

-So, I'm going to go for Bravo.

-Bravo, says Megs.

Bravo. Here is your red line.

If you can score 19 or less with Bravo,

you are definitely through to the head-to-head.

How many people said Bravo?

40 for Bravo. Not bad! Takes your total up to 73.

Not bad.

And that equivalent was Butter.

So, they weren't all boys' names.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Ghausia, your target is 19 or less.

XANDER EXHALES

I'm not sure about this one, but I'm going to go for Juliet.

Juliet. Juliet, says Ghausia.

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

There is your red line.

It's right.

It's a good answer. Look at that, down to 23!

That's a really good answer - our lowest score of the round so far.

Takes your total up to 76. Is it enough, I wonder?

All of the Nato alphabet is also designed to be able to be spoken

by Spanish and French speakers as well.

And with Juliet, it's one of the ones where in French,

they'll spell it with a double T

to remind French speakers to pronounce the T.

So, not to call it "Juli-eh".

-Clever.

-Yeah, how about that?

-Thank you.

Now, Steve, there you are on 34.

76 is the high score at the moment. So 41 or less gets you through.

I'll go for Uniform.

That's good. Oh, that is good. Uniform, says Steve.

There is your red line. If you get below that red line with Uniform,

you are through to the head-to-head.

How many of our 100 people said Uniform?

That is right.

Our lowest score so far is 23...

Well, you're through to the head-to-head, you've passed 23.

Uniform scores 11.

Steve, that takes your total up to 45. Very impressive indeed.

Very well played, and the World War I equivalent was Uncle,

-as in Uncle John. Uncle Johnny!

-LAUGHTER

Now, let's take a look... It's one of those interesting ones -

obviously there's no pointless answers here

because it's quite a closed group of words,

so it's working out what's going to be the lowest scorer.

There are two words from the Nato phonetic alphabet

which scored 9 points, the two best answers you could have come up with.

-If you had to go for one?

-Victor would be a good one?

-Victor is one of the best answers.

-Is it? Good.

-Victor, for 9 points.

-Good.

Victor and X-ray are the two best answers

-you could have come up with.

-Good.

-9 points.

10 points for Yankee. Then we've Uniform, which is a great answer.

15 for Papa, 16 for Sierra, 18 for Kilo, 18 also for India.

Romeo would have scored you 22, Lima would have scored you 23.

25 for Oscar.

You would have got 27 for Golf, 29 for November, Charlie 43, Tango 43.

And let's take a look at the top three scorers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said when they were asked online.

44 of our 100 said Delta.

Then there's that Foxtrot, which is a punishingly high score, 53.

Beating that, even, Alfa - on 59.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our second round,

the pair who are heading home with our high score of 76,

Ghausia and Sidra, I'm afraid it's you -

but we'll see you again next time. I'm sure you'll get much further.

But in the meantime, thanks very much for playing, Ghausia and Sidra.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Lucy and Steve, Brenda and Megs.

You are now one step closer to the final

and the chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £2,000.

There we are.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So, now we're in the head-to-head, it means you're allowed to confer

before you give your answers, and the first player to win

two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

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

Here is your first question, and it concerns...

-Richard?

-We're going to show you five cartoon characters

from films now.

We want you to tell us the name of the singers

-who voiced these characters, please. Good luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our five cartoon characters, and here they are.

We have got...

There you are.

Five cartoon characters voiced by singers.

Lucy and Steve, you've been our low scorers, so you will go first.

-LUCY WHISPERS:

-I know them all. Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake...

Erm, we are going to go for B, which is Boo-Boo,

and I think it's Justin Timberlake.

Justin Timberlake, say Lucy and Steve.

Justin Timberlake. Now, Brenda and Megs...

..do you want to talk us through that board

-and have a shot at some of them?

-We don't know A.

C we think's Miley Cyrus, D's Rihanna and E's Katy Perry.

-We'll go for Katy Perry.

-E, Katy Perry.

So, we have Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry.

Lucy and Steve said Justin Timberlake for B.

Let's see if that is right.

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

Look at that, 12 for Justin Timberlake!

Very well done indeed, Lucy and Steve.

Brenda and Megs, meanwhile, have gone for Katy Perry for E.

Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

-Oh!

-42 for Katy Perry.

There we are, well done, Lucy and Steve.

After one question, you are up 1-0.

Yes, and as we've come to expect from Lucy and Steve so far,

that's the best answer on the board as well. Could not have been beaten.

-A is...

-Taylor Swift.

-..Taylor Swift.

Would have scored you 28.

C is Miley Cyrus.

She would have scored 37. And D is...?

-Rihanna.

-Rihanna.

-She would have scored 46.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

OK, here comes your second question.

Brenda and Megs, you get to answer it first,

but you have to win it to stay in the game. So, best of luck.

Our second question this afternoon is all about...

Northumberland!

Oh, well, that's nice!

-Richard? Nice for you, as well.

-Nice for me, too, yeah!

How about that? We're going to show you five clues now

to facts about Northumberland.

Can you give us the most obscure answer, please?

Thank you very much. OK, let's reveal our five clues,

and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read all of those one last time.

Brenda and Megs, it's over to you.

THEY CONFER

We're going to for the hills.

-Cheviot.

-The Cheviots.

-The Cheviots.

-The Cheviot Hills.

There we are, the Cheviots. Now, Steve and Lucy,

do you want to talk us through the board?

The top one's Hadrian's Wall. I knew the Cheviots.

Lindisfarne will be the island.

Robson Green is the extreme fishing presenter.

-Lindisfarne.

-Lindisfarne, we'll go for.

Lindisfarne. OK, so, Lindisfarne for Holy Island.

We have Cheviots and Lindisfarne.

Brenda and Megs said the Cheviots - let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

-There we go, well done.

-Not bad.

-14 for the Cheviots.

Lucy and Steve, meanwhile, have gone for Lindisfarne.

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

It's right.

29 for Lindisfarne.

Very well done indeed, Brenda and Megs.

As you should have done, you won that answer -

and it means that after two answers it's 1-1.

Yeah, always randomly allocated, these questions as well,

but sometimes... sometimes it does come up.

It's weird, isn't it, when it happens?

But you've got to take advantage, and you did.

-The "Chiviots", you're saying.

-Mmm.

"Chiviots", rather than the "Cheeviots" or the "Chevvy-ots".

-Cheviots.

-Cheviots.

-It's not the best answer on the board, actually.

We'll get to what that is in a moment. The Roman wall first -

it is Hadrian's Wall.

It is the biggest scorer, would have scored 57.

And the TV presenter is, of course, Robson Green.

He would have scored 45.

But the best answer is the official county town.

-I mean, interesting. We wouldn't really necessarily know it.

-No.

I'm guessing it's Alnwick, I'd have thought.

-Alnwick, you think.

-Morpeth?

-Or Morpeth, yeah.

-Or Hexham?

OK, the answer is...

-..Morpeth.

-Oh, well done, Brenda!

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-That's where the Morpeth Lasses come from.

-Exactly.

Would have scored you 4 points, as well.

Very well done if you said that at home.

So, we are now... We're facing our third question.

Whoever wins this one goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot. Very, very best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question is all about...

-Richard?

-We're going to give you alternate letters now

of things or terms that can be associated

with US Presidential Elections. Can you work out what they are, please?

-Good luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our various terms - and here they come...

So, I'll read those again.

There we are. Lucy and Steve will go first.

-The top one's caucus...

-Yeah, what's the second one?

-Convention.

-I'd go with caucus.

We'll go for number one, caucus.

Caucus, say Lucy and Steve.

Now, Brenda and Megs.

I knew that.

The next two, I don't know.

I know who Obama represented, but we're going to go for the day,

which is Super Tuesday.

Super Tuesday. So, we have caucus and we have Super Tuesday.

Lucy and Steve said caucus. Let's see if that's right.

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

Caucus! 22!

That's not good enough, I don't think.

Brenda and Megs have gone for Super Tuesday.

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

It's right.

-Oh!

-27 for Super Tuesday.

Which means, very well done, Lucy and Steve,

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

They did leave the door open slightly for you

because there's an answer up there

that would have seen you through to the jackpot round.

Democratic Party would have scored too many points.

That would have scored 58 points.

The formal admission of the president-elect

is the inauguration. That would have scored 46.

But it's this next one's that's the best answer on the board.

-Convention.

-It's the convention, yep.

That would have scored you 12 points.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

I'm sorry to say, Brenda and Megs. We have to say goodbye to you now.

-It's been such a treat having you on the show.

-Thank you.

Thank you so much for coming and playing and adding so much to it.

-Brenda and Megs.

-Thank you.

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But, for Lucy and Steve, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Lucy and Steve.

You've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-That's what we came for.

-Perfect.

Better still, you now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,000.

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Well, this happens every so often,

we have a little stealth raid down from Falkirk,

straight through every round,

and off you go, lifting your trophies above your head.

-Anyway, well, you know what happens in this last round.

-Yep.

We'll put four categories up on the board

and we hope there's something there that you'll feel comfortable with.

Let's see what today's selection looks like. We have got...

-Well, not Post-Punk...

-No, not Post-Punk Albums.

-And definitely not US Crime Writers.

-No.

-We said not film.

-No.

So, will we go The "Good", The "Bad" And The "Ugly"?

The "Good", The "Bad" And The "Ugly".

-We'll see what's there.

-Who knows?

OK. Who, indeed, knows? First time we had it on the board, in fact.

Yes. Hopefully, one of these will suit you.

We are looking for any of the following, please.

We're looking for... UK top 40 single

by the US band Good Charlotte up to May 2016.

We are looking for the name of any character

who's appeared in five or more episodes of Breaking Bad.

So any character in five or more of those.

Or we're looking for any actor who appeared

in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly, according to IMDb.

So, UK top 40 singles by Good Charlotte,

the name of any character from Breaking Bad,

five episodes or more, or the cast of Coyote Ugly.

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that jackpot is for just one of your answers

-to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK. I only know Coyote Ugly.

Yes, we'll go for that then.

Adam Garcia.

John Goodman.

And, then, there's a girl in it that's in Blue Bloods

and she's Tom Selleck's daughter, and she was in the Sex And The City.

-And I can't remember her name!

-I don't know any...

-Tyra Banks was in it.

-Right, well, that'll do.

-Yeah.

-That's the three.

-Let me just think...

-Right, OK.

..if I can think of this girl's name.

I'm hopeless at these categories.

She was one...

The main girl was called Violet

and she's got a really French-sounding name.

-Well, you've got three, anyway.

-I know.

Because I don't know anything about Good Charlotte

-and we never watched Breaking Bad.

-Never watched Breaking Bad.

Everyone's going to be, like, "Why did you not watch Breaking Bad?!"

Yes, that's right. Well, what are your three that you've got?

-Ten seconds left.

-Tyra Banks, Adam Garcia and John Goodman.

-Right...

-We'll have to go with them.

-We've got the three.

-OK, you've got your three as your minute runs out.

-Yeah.

Let's have those three answers.

-OK.

-John Goodman.

-John Goodman.

-Adam Garcia.

-Adam Garcia.

-And Tyra Banks.

-Tyra Banks.

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

-I think Tyra Banks.

-Tyra Banks goes last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Adam Garcia.

-Adam Garcia, we'll put him first.

OK, well, let's pop those answers up on the board, then,

and here they are. We have got Adam Garcia, we've got John Goodman,

and we've got Tyra Banks.

Well, you found three answers, which is good.

Who knows? One of these might turn out to be pointless.

If one of these wins that jackpot for you, £2,000,

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

I want to go to all 50 American states by the time I'm 50.

I've been to 23 so far.

So, I would use it for a bit of an American road trip.

Very good indeed. Steve, how about you?

Well, actually, Lucy has a big birthday coming up very shortly,

and I think we'll have a nice family weekend away somewhere

or other to celebrate her birthday.

Very nice, indeed. OK, well, very, very best of luck.

Three good answers there. Let's see what happens.

Adam Garcia. In this case, all three cases,

we were looking for cast members of Coyote Ugly.

Adam Garcia was your first answer.

The one you thought was least likely to be pointless.

Let's see how many people said it.

If it is pointless, it'll win you £2,000.

Well, it's right.

Adam Garcia now takes us down

through the bottom half of the column.

If it goes down to pointless, it wins you £2,000.

We're in the teens. We're going down in single figures.

Still going down. 5 for Adam Garcia. Wow!

-Well, very much the star of the film, Adam Garcia...

-Yeah.

..and only five of our 100 people got him.

So, I think we can be a little bit more excited

-about your next two answers.

-Hopefully.

Not a pointless answer, obviously.

So, we move to your next answer which was John Goodman.

Let's see how many people said this.

Again, we're looking for cast members of Coyote Ugly.

If it is pointless, it wins you £2,000.

How many people said John Goodman?

It's right.

Adam Garcia took us all the way down to 5.

John Goodman now takes us down through the teens.

Into single figures. Down we go.

We pass 5 to 4.

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-Oh, well done.

Not a pointless answer. So, we move swiftly on

to your third and final answer, which is Tyra Banks.

This was the one you thought was most likely to be pointless.

Let's find out. If Tyra Banks is pointless, it will win you £2,000.

How many people said Tyra Banks?

OK, we're off. Adam Garcia scored 5.

John Goodman took us down one click to 4.

Tyra Banks now takes us down through the 20s.

Into the teens. Down we go into single figures.

-We pass 5, we pass 4...

-Oh!

-At 2!

Hard luck.

Well, considering you, kind of, only had one engine to fly on, there,

of those three options, you did incredibly well.

Three very nice low scores there.

Well, listen, I'm afraid you didn't manage to find

the all-important pointless answer.

So, I'm afraid, you don't win today's jackpot of £2,000.

I have to say, you would have richly deserved if you had.

That will roll over onto the next show -

-but it's been brilliant having you here.

-Thank you.

Thank you for coming along and just being such a dynamo

the whole way through this show. Low score after low school -

-and you get a Pointless trophy.

-Hooray!

-That's all we came for.

Thank you. Well done, Lucy.

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Yeah, it was a great performance throughout. Very well played.

I think the other actor you were thinking of

-was Bridget Moynahan...

-Yes!

-..and she was a pointless answer, I'm afraid.

-Oh, no!

That would have been an absolute cracker.

We'll go through the pointless answers now.

We'll start with Good Charlotte. Five pointless answers here.

You could have had...

..or Hold On.

Very well done if you said one of those.

Any character from Breaking Bad...

Now, if you've seen it, you will get loads here

because lots of the big characters are pointless answers.

Let's take a look at a few of them. Gus Fring was a pointless answer.

An amazing character. Hank and Marie, the Schraders,

were both pointless answers.

Walter White Jr, who was Walter White's son in it.

Everybody in Breaking Bad apart from Walter White, Skyler White,

Saul Goodman, Jesse Pinkman and Brandon Mayhew.

Every other character who's been in five or more episodes

was a pointless answer. So, well done if you got one.

Now, the cast of Coyote Ugly.

There's Bridget Moynahan. Johnny Knoxville was in the film, as well.

Melanie Lynskey. Michael Bay is in the film.

Everybody... We've had four names mentioned already.

The only other two people who scored points,

LeAnn Rimes would have scored you points and Maria Bello.

-Everybody else a pointless answer.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

Well, Lucy and Steve, very sadly they didn't win our jackpot today

which means it rolls over onto the next show

where we will be playing for £3,000.

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Join us then to see if someone can win it.

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

-Goodbye.

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

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