Episode 18 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and welcome to Pointless, the show where the aim

of the game is to score as few points as you can - and you do that

by coming up with the answers no-one else could think of.

Let's meet today's players.

-And couple number one.

-Hi, I'm Nihar, and I'm from Radlett,

and this is my friend, Parus, and he's from Wembley.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Simon, this is my wife, Rachel, and we're from West Yorkshire.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, my name is Steve. This is my friend, Kayvon, and we're both from Poole.

And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Chloe, I'm from Birmingham, and this is my friend, Natasha, and she's from Surrey.

And these are today's contestants.

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

We'll get a chance to chat to each of you throughout the show as it goes along.

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

Breathing down our necks like a weirdo on the Tube,

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

Hiya.

Hey, everybody. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Breathing down your necks

like a weirdo on the Tube.

-Goodness me.

-Yeah.

-I'm too tall to breathe down your neck,

I'd be breathing on the top of your head, to be fair.

Which is less scary. Lovely show last time.

Just Parus and Nihar back from that, got knocked out in Round Two.

Lovely to have you back, gents.

Lovely to have three new pairs with us.

Who knows what joys they will bring us?

Round One... Round One, every single person I think, all eight of you,

are going to go, "What?"

And I would say 97% of people at home are going to go, "What?"

But all will be revealed.

OK. Looking forward to that.

Oh, this is exciting. Leona and Tony didn't win the jackpot last time.

I mean, not exciting for them, but for you, it's exciting,

because it means we add another £1,000 to that, and today's jackpot

therefore starts off at £2,750.

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

As if you needed reminding,

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

eliminated, so just keep your scores low and you'll be fine.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is Places.

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

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Ha-ha-ha! What?! Unusual Demonyms.

-You know what demonyms are, don't you?

-Yeah.

You know demonyms - they're like jeans.

No, a demonym is simply a description,

it's the word that is used when we describe where someone is from.

OK? And on each board I'm going to show you seven descriptions of where

someone is from in the UK, seven different places, the demonym.

You'll see it when you see the board, and we've all learned a new word as well, haven't we, which is

nice. Seven on the first board, seven on the second, 14 in all to have a go at, at home.

-Very best of luck.

-OK, thank you very much.

Let's reveal our first board of demonyms, and here they are.

We've got...

HE READS THE CLUES

I'm going to read those one last time.

Parus, with you.

Remind us what you do, Parus.

I'm a facilities manager for Loughborough University, based in London.

But the Loughborough base in London -

does Loughborough have bases elsewhere in the world?

No, so this is the first satellite campus and it's based on the

-Olympic Park in Stratford.

-So as facilities manager,

you're running around getting everything up and running.

Are they linked directly by all sorts of cables to the hub of Loughborough?

We are in the fastest-connected building in Europe.

It's the old Broadcast Centre, where the Olympics were broadcast from.

Good stuff. OK, now then, Parus.

This is fun, isn't it?

I can think of a few of them.

It's just a question of which ones I'll get lower on.

I'm going to go with the top one, and say that's from Canterbury.

Cantabrigian, from Canterbury.

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

-Oh!

-Yes.

You'd be absolutely right to think that.

I'm afraid it's 100 points, Parus.

Yeah, sorry, Parus, I don't know if it's good news or bad news to know

that 52 of our 100 gave the same answer as you,

but it's still wrong.

Thanks very much. Rachel, welcome to Pointless, here from West Yorkshire.

-Yes.

-What keeps you busy in West Yorkshire, Rachel?

I work as an administrator for a physiotherapy company.

A physiotherapy company.

-Yes.

-So how many people are in the company?

Oh, lots and lots.

So it's a company, not a practice?

No, they've got 15 practices, up and down the country...

Oh, I see what you mean.

That IS a company. My goodness, a lot of stuff to administer there.

-Yes.

-What are your interests, Rachel?

I like to read a lot,

especially true crime and historical books,

and I have recently started gardening,

much to my mother's delight.

-That's nice.

-She's been trying to make me be a gardener for a while.

Are you a plant gardener, or a veg and fruit gardener?

Oh, gosh, no. Plants, and hope that it lives.

That's nice. Now, Rachel, what would you like to go for on our board?

I think I only do know one, and I'm not sure if it's right,

but I'm going to try Manx and say Isle of Man.

Isle of Man, says Rachel, for Manx.

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

83.

Well, that's nice, some company for Parus there.

Not too far away, and it's better than 100.

There is a breeding colony of 100 wild wallabies on the Isle of Man.

Two escaped from a zoo, and there's now a wild colony.

-That's sweet, isn't it?

-There's going to come a point where it's going to be quite annoying.

Do you think? At what point? How many wallabies is annoying?

-I don't know.

-100 wallabies - sweet.

100 wallabies, 100 breeding pairs of wallabies.

There's 100 wild wallabies.

100 wild wallabies. That's fine.

-Yeah.

-That's nice.

But if two became 100 that quickly,

-you've got to wonder how quickly 100 will become...

-Well, it would be

50,000, wouldn't it, if it continues at that rate.

-Exactly, yeah.

-Yeah.

Of course, Isle of Man gives the lie to the old proverb "no man is an island".

It does.

It does. Thank you very much, Richard.

-Pleasure.

-Now, Steve, welcome.

Good to have you here, from Poole.

-That's right, yeah.

-What do you do, Steve?

-I'm a civil servant.

And what are your interests, Steve?

Well, before... A couple of years ago I retired,

but I used to be a national level trampoline gymnast.

Did you really?

-I did, yes.

-That's amazing.

And that really is fantastic, like a sort of wallaby

from the Isle of Man.

Indeed.

That's extraordinary. So how did you do?

What level did you reach?

So I reached national level,

I represented England internationally on a couple of times,

-a couple of occasions.

-That's just extraordinary.

Congratulations. So how do you do that, as a trampolinist?

Do you do it as a solo trampoliner and it's your performance that's marked?

That's right, yeah, essentially there's different disciplines.

You can do synchronised, where you've got a partner,

but I specialised in just individual trampolining.

Very impressive, Steve.

Anyway, now, can you impress us with these demonyms?

Probably not.

I'm going to do my best, and it might mean we join the 100 Club,

but when I was an apprentice in the civil service, I had a colleague who

I think might be one of these.

He was from Barrow-in-Furness, so I think Barrovian might be that.

Barrow-in-Furness.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Barrow-in-Furness.

It's right, it is Barrow.

41.

The best score so far, Steve.

-Very well played, we had a couple of Barrovian jackpot winners, didn't we?

-We did.

-A little while ago.

They had a question about Barrow, about Barrow Football Club,

and one of them's father had been captain of Barrow Football Club,

and one of them's son was a season-ticket holder of Barrow Football Club.

Mm. Although, in FURNESS, they did know a lot about it.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much. Now, Natasha, welcome to Pointless.

Good to have you here. What do you do, Natasha?

I am business support for a recruitment company.

I see, and what excites you when you're not doing that?

Shoes.

Very good. Do you have lots and lots of pairs of shoes?

I do have lots and lots of pairs of shoes, yes.

What's the most exciting pair you have?

I've just ordered a snakeskin pair.

-In which colour?

-Black, it's a bit boring.

Just like mine, I can't believe it.

Now, Natasha, what would you like to go for? This board is all yours if

you fancied going through all these demonyms?

Um, Dundonian I would maybe guess at maybe Dundee.

Oxonian, I would go for Oxford.

So I'm going to go with that one, Oxford.

Oxonian, Oxford, says Natasha.

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

It's...

I didn't even have time to say it was right, but it is right!

91 is what it scores you.

I honestly thought that board was going to be slightly easier.

There's some very, very big scores up there.

That's one of them, Oxford.

Another huge score, Dundonian, of course, Dundee.

That would have scored you 88.

-Cantabrigian...

-Cambridge.

Cambridge. That would have scored you 25.

-Salopian...

-Shropshire.

That would have scored 34.

Now, there is a tough one on the board, Silhillian.

-Solihull.

-Ah, Solihull.

-Yes, of course.

-That would've scored two points, so that's a terrific answer. Well done if you said that.

-Well done if you are one, as well, a Silhillian.

-Yes. Well done.

Thank you very much, well, we're halfway through the round, let's took a quick look at our scores.

Look at that, 41 is where Steve and Kayvon are.

Very much the only people in the bottom half of the scoreboard there,

because there's a party going on at the top.

83 is where we meet Rachel and Simon, 91, Natasha and Chloe,

and then up to 100, where Parus and Nihar currently reside.

So that's nice, you're all there together, not too far apart actually.

Chloe, Simon and Nihar - Nihar in particular -

we need low scores from you to make sure you stay with us at the end of the round, so good luck. 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 demonyms up on the board, and here they are.

We have...

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Chloe, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. Chloe, what do you do?

I also work in recruitment.

So that is how you and Natasha know each other.

-Yes. Yeah, we're colleagues.

-Whose idea was it to come on the programme?

-Mine.

-Was Natasha - be honest - was Natasha the first person you asked?

91 points, I'll just put that...

I just walked in the office one day and said, "Who wants to come on Pointless?"

And she said, "Oh, me, I'll come on," and here we are.

Fantastic. And here you are.

-Yeah.

-Now, what are your interests, Chloe?

I like going out with friends over weekends and I sometimes like to run

-as well.

-Going out over weekends - that's a long night out, isn't it?

That's off on Friday night, back sometime lunchtime on Sunday.

-Yeah.

-Um, now, Chloe, you aren't the high scorers.

Actually, if you could score eight or less,

you'd be straight into the next round.

How does that board appear to you?

I think I know two or three.

It's just which one to go for.

I'll go for Colcestrian and Colchester.

Colchester, seems reasonable enough. Here's your red line coming in.

If you get below that with Colchester, you're straight into the next round.

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

It's right.

82.

APPLAUSE

173 - well, they have been high scores, all of these.

Yeah, the only known chariot racing track in Roman Britain was in

Colchester. It seated 15,000 spectators.

It's also the home of the world's oldest surviving hot cross bun,

-Colchester.

-A strange thing to preserve, but there we are.

Do you think? But then, well, look, it's paid off now, hasn't it?

-Hasn't it?

-Cos it just got mentioned on the show.

Yeah, exactly. Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Kayvon, welcome.

-Hello.

-Good to have you here.

What do you do, Kayvon?

I'm also a civil servant.

CHUCKLING

-Interesting.

-Really interesting.

-Kayvon.

-Yes.

-What are your interests?

-Um...

-See what he says.

-Similar to Steve.

-Oh, yes, yes.

I still am a trampoline gymnast.

-Oh, no, you're kidding?

-No, no, I am.

You ARE trampoline gymnast and a civil servant?

-Yeah.

-Is that where they get all civil servants from?

-Yeah.

They do a big recruitment every year.

As soon as you've done a massive jump, they pull the trampoline away,

they get a sack.

-That's how it works.

-Take you down to Bournemouth.

-This doesn't make any sense at all.

-None at all. None at all.

Something's up here, isn't it? And then down and then up again.

Yeah. LAUGHTER

Wow. Anyway, Kayvon, proceed, what would you like to go with?

You are through to the next round - even if you score 100 points,

you won't overtake our high scorers.

OK, um, I don't really know a lot of them,

but I'm going to take a guess that Exonian is Exeter.

Exeter, says Kayvon - no red line for you, you're already through.

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

70, that isn't bad at all, takes your total up to 111.

Well played, Kayvon. The beautiful Guild Hall in Exeter,

the oldest civil building still in use in the UK.

Dates from 1330.

That's impressive. Simon.

Welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

-What do you do, Simon?

-I'm a rope access supervisor.

A rope access supervisor.

-Yes.

-Which is to do with... That's not ropes in museums, no.

-No, no, no.

-Is it going down on...?

It is indeed, yes.

I look after a few teams of guys who abseil down chimneys,

that sort of thing, power stations, painting them, preparing them.

So it's sort of what might have been called a steeplejack,

-once upon a time.

-Yes.

-That kind of thing.

21st century steeplejack.

A 21st century steeplejack, I see.

And what are your interests, Simon?

I particularly like open-water swimming.

How open are we talking? English Channel?

Not quite yet.

-Lake Windermere.

-Lake District - Windermere, Coniston, that sort of thing.

OK, very nice indeed, very good.

Are you the sort of person who goes in very gently,

or do you walk to the end of a jetty and throw yourself in?

Throw yourself in, or else you never get in.

OK, very good. Now, Simon, you're on 83,

you have to score 89 or less to stay with us.

I can't believe that I'm going to go with a really obvious one,

I'm just gambling on the other scores being high,

so I'm going to say Glaswegian, Glasgow.

OK, tactically, you might have done something sensible.

Rachel is not sure.

Here's your red line - if you get below that with Glaswegian, well done.

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

Ah!

Look at that, Simon!

APPLAUSE

98, great news for Chloe and Natasha over there on the far podium,

but 181 now is your total.

I mean, there's some spectacular scoring going on, I have to say.

It's weird how some of them have absolutely caught on and we use them

in everyday language, like that one, but others...others less so.

Yeah, OK, thank you very much. Now, Nihar.

Nihar, welcome back. Remind us what you do.

-Physiotherapist.

-You're a respiratory physiotherapist.

-Yes.

-Which is a very senior kind of physiotherapy.

Nihar, remind us what your interests are.

So I have a new allotment, which I spend a lot of my time on.

Very good. How long have you had it?

About eight months now.

I see, so when you get a new allotment do you find all sorts of

things that the previous incumbent was growing suddenly sprouting up?

Yeah, so we had raspberries and rhubarb that we didn't plant,

that just came out, which is quite nice, which is a good start.

-What have you planted?

-Potatoes, beetroots, carrots,

we've got some nice pumpkins going.

Very good. Courgettes?

Courgettes as well, yes, so...

What's the difference in time between a courgette and marrow?

If you leave a courgette, how long before it suddenly goes...

..and it's a great big marrow?

-Haven't read that part of the book yet.

-OK.

Listen, flying by the seat of your pants, we'll learn together.

Nihar, you are on 100 points.

Now, the high scorers are behind you, Simon and Rachel, 181.

Simon took a massive gamble on you not knowing any of the other things

on the board. 80 or less is your target.

I'll be guessing, but I think Nova Scotia, maybe for that one, and

Loiner, I don't know why, but Leicester screams out as well.

The other two, I don't know.

I don't know if Nova Scotia is even if the UK.

I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right.

I think I'll go with that one, Novocastrian and Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia for Novocastrian.

OK, there is your red line,

let's see what happens when we say Nova Scotia.

I'm afraid not, Nihar.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer. It scores you 100 points.

You've just made six great friends down to your right, but, yeah,

that sees you up to 200.

Yeah, Nova Scotia is in Canada, and Nova Scotia means New Scotland.

So it's Newcastle. I've never heard them called that, I have to say.

They call themselves... I would call them Geordies...

-Yes.

-..by and large, rather than Novocastrians, but, yeah,

you can work it out from the words.

36 points for that.

Orcadian is the Orkney Islands.

Oh, they also deliver supermarket food, which is brilliant. I...

They are very good.

28 points for that. Yes, that's one of their specialities.

Now, these last two are quite hard, I would say.

Now, Loiner, I'll tell you the first letter is the only clue.

It's not Leicester, it's not Leicester.

Leicester, I would have thought with the "I", but Leeds is the only other "L" I can think of.

Leeds is right. Again, not one I've ever heard, but it is Leeds -

would have scored you eight points. And Sarnian....

-It's an island.

-Sark.

No. Near Sark.

-Near Sark, anyone? Come on, Steve.

-I think it's one of the Channel Islands.

I think it's either Guernsey or Jersey, but I think it's Guernsey.

It is Guernsey, yeah, very, very well played.

Guernsey would have scored you 2 points.

The scene of the world's first-ever underwater arrest.

Were you involved in that?

LAUGHTER

I cannot confirm nor deny.

Scuba diver arrested someone harvesting shellfish.

-Wow.

-Yeah.

That's extraordinary. Thank you very much indeed. Well, we are at the end of our first round and the pair we

have to say goodbye to, with the highest score of 200, Nihar and Parus, I'm sorry.

I still feel you've been underused.

I feel you could have gone much, much further, but it's a great shame to say goodbye to you.

Thank you so much for playing, Nihar and Parus, great contestants.

APPLAUSE

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

And look at that, we've already said goodbye to one of our pairs, we have

to say goodbye to another pair at the end of this round. But well done, everyone - you made it through

the first round, and with such lovely high scores as well.

To be commended. Simon and Rachel, beautiful, 181.

Wonderful! You were in touching distance of the 200 Club.

Steve and Kayvon, our lowest scorers there,

so they are the ones to watch out for, I would say.

Anyway, 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.

Whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

This is going to be fun. Richard.

Yeah, what we're going to do, we're going to show you 16 pictures now of

famous people, but all the photographs were taken in the 1980s.

Can you tell us who these people are, please.

There we are, now, so we're going to show you the 16 people.

They will remain on the board for the whole round,

so we won't be changing them halfway through.

Let's see who they all are. We have got...

..these people...

..in the 1980s.

Simon.

There they are, in their '80s pomp, but who are they?

I'm going to go with a not-so-obvious one.

-Tony Blair.

-Tony Blair, says Simon.

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

It's right.

67 for Tony Blair.

Yeah, there he is on the second row. Whatever happened to him?

Look at that hair!

You know, it does make... When you look at that board

it makes you realise quite how long ago the 1980s were, doesn't it?

-Isn't that terrifying?

-Yeah.

We are so old.

-There it is.

-There we are, well, you know.

Kayvon.

I'm going to go with Christian Bale.

Christian Bale, says Kayvon.

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

It's right.

Passes Tony Blair.

By quite a long way.

Down to 4. Very well done indeed, Kayvon.

4.

Great answer, Kayvon, very well played.

In the bottom right, of course.

Starred in Empire Of The Sun as a child actor in the '80s, in '87.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Chloe.

I will go for...

..Drew Barrymore.

-Drew Barrymore.

-Drew Barrymore, says Chloe.

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

It's right. 67 is our highest score, 4 is our low.

Look at that, 14, very well done, Chloe.

Well, this is more like it, isn't it, after Round One.

There she is, she was six years old when she appeared in ET, 1982.

Thank you very much. We're halfway through the round.

Let's have a quick look at those scores. 4, very well done, Kayvon and Steve, lovely low score there.

14 is where we find Chloe and Natasha, 67, Simon and Rachel.

So Rachel, we need a low score from you. Good luck.

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

Now then, Natasha, you're on 14,

which means 52 or less gets you through to the head-to-head.

So who are all these people, pictured in the 1980s?

I'm pretty sure, but I'm going to go for Sue Barker.

Sue Barker, says Natasha, Sue Barker. Here is your red line.

If you get below that, you're through to the next round.

It's right.

You are in the head-to-head, just.

44, 58 is your total.

She's presented A Question Of Sport for over 20 years, Sue Barker.

-Has she really?

-Amazing, isn't it?

-Amazing.

-Very impressive.

-She's very good.

-She's brilliant at it.

-She is. Thank you very much indeed.

Now then, Steve, there you are,

lovely low score from Kayvon in the first pass there.

So 62 or less keeps you in the game.

Yeah, this is quite a scary one cos I recognise quite a few faces,

but I'm not sure which is going to be the lowest score.

So it's do I risk it, or do I not?

I think I'm going to try and go in the middle and say someone I think

is going to get a low enough score.

I'll go with Jeremy Beadle.

Jeremy Beadle, says Steve.

Here is your red line.

If you can get below this red line with Jeremy Beadle, you are into the

head-to-head. How many people said it?

Sorry.

Oh. Oh.

Not Jeremy Beadle.

He's tricked you. There you are, 100 points I'm afraid, for that.

-104 is your total.

-Yeah, no Beadle, I'm afraid. I'll give all the correct answers

at the end of the pass. I'm just trying to work out... I think I know

which one you think is Jeremy Beadle, but I will let you know who that is.

Thank you very much.

Now then, Rachel. Oh, there you are,

a lifeline thrown to you by Steve there.

You're on 67, they're on 104 - 36 or less is what you need.

Um, I do know all but one of them.

It's just which one.

I think I'm going to go with Anthea Turner.

Anthea Turner, says Rachel. There is your red line -

let's see if you can get below that with Anthea Turner.

It's right.

And you're through, there we are.

Very well done, 19, Rachel.

Superb.

86 is your total.

Very well played. You know what, we had the best two answers up on the board during the round,

which are Christian Bale and Drew Barrymore, so very well played.

The one you thought was Jeremy Beadle

-is actually Diana Ross.

-LAUGHTER

Would have scored you 48 points.

Apropos of nothing, the gentleman in the bottom left is Steven Spielberg.

For a moment I thought it was David Baddiel.

Yeah, he would have scored 23. Let's start in the top, so top left.

-Cyndi Lauper.

-Cyndi Lauper, she would have scored you 31.

-Next to...

-Prince William.

Oh, yeah, look at him, he would have scored you 51.

-Then...

-Judi Dench.

Yeah, Judi Dench, would have scored 36 points.

-Then...

-Kylie Minogue.

Kylie Minogue, 71.

The next row next to Tony Blair.

-Linford Christie.

-Yeah.

Linford would have scored you 26.

-Below Linford...

-Julie Walters.

She'd have scored you 17 points, another very good answer.

-Next to Julie Waters...

-Gary Lineker!

-Cheer up, Gary!

-You know what, he's aged well, I'm going to say,

-Gary Lineker.

-He has, hasn't he?

50 points for Gary.

As has Brad Pitt.

Brad Pitt, yes, he'd have scored you 26.

-And he looks the same.

-He just looks the same.

-He hasn't changed.

Tom Jones would have scored you 72.

There we are, thank you very much, Richard.

So, we're at the end of our second round and I'm sorry to say,

our two bouncing civil servants, we have to say goodbye to them.

Steve and Kayvon, it's been great having you on the show. We'll see you next time. I'm sure we'll get

much further. Meantime, thanks very much for playing. Steve and Kayvon.

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

Well, congratulations, Chloe and Natasha, Simon and Rachel.

You're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our

jackpot, which currently stands at £2,750.

We've made it to the head-to-head, which means you're allowed to confer before you give

your answers. The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

Well, this is... This is uncharted waters, you know, we have two

newcomers coming straight through to the head-to-head.

But, Simon, you like open water, so you, I hope,

will be comfortable here. Chloe and Natasha are our low scorers there.

Who knows what'll happen here? Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

Claude Monet, Richard.

We're going to show you five Claude Monet paintings, we need the titles of them, please.

We're going to give you alternate letters of each title.

Thank you very much indeed. Let's reveal our five Monet paintings.

And here they come.

Phew!

Let me read those again!

Chloe and Natasha, you will go first.

Feel free to confer.

THEY WHISPER

OK, we're going to go for the top one.

Water-lily.

OK, you're going to say Water-lily.

OK, Water-lily, say Chloe and Natasha.

Simon and Rachel, that board is all yours.

Would you like to talk us through it?

We only know the bottom two, don't we?

We do, yes. Well, we think we know the second bottom.

We think that is Woman Seated On A Bench.

But the one we'd like to go with is the bottom one.

The Thames Below Westminster.

The Thames Below Westminster.

So, we have Chloe and Natasha saying Water-lily and we have Simon and

Rachel saying The Thames Below Westminster.

So, Chloe and Natasha, Water-lily, is that right?

How many of our 100 people said Water-lily?

I'm afraid not Water-lily. Which means, Simon and Rachel,

you just have to be correct with The Thames Below Westminster and you

will win this point. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It's absolutely right, very well done.

Goes down to 16. But crucially,

it was right, which means, Simon and Rachel, well done,

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

Very nicely played. Not Water-lily.

-Lilies.

-Water-lilies, yeah.

And that would have scored you 54 points.

The next one down...

..is a plant.

-Oh, Poppies.

-Poppies, yeah.

20 points for that.

It is Woman Seated On A Bench.

Could only be Woman Seated On A Bench or Women Seated On A Bench.

But it is Woman. Well played, 6 points for that.

And the last one is a pointless answer.

It's under and it's...

Court, somewhere-court, under.

It's Lavacourt Under Snow.

-Oh, that's nice.

-Very well done if you said that at home.

Thank you very much indeed. Here comes your second question.

Chloe and Natasha, you have to win this one to stay in the game,

so best of luck, because Simon and Rachel get to answer it first.

Our second question is all about...

Richard.

Yeah, we're going to give you five clues now to towns and cities that had a team

in the English Premier League or Championship in 2015-2016,

but which are these towns and cities?

OK, let's reveal our five clues.

And here they come.

We've got...

There we are. Five pictorial clues.

Simon and Rachel will go first.

Feel free to confer.

-B.

-We're going to go with B.

Watford.

Watford. OK, Watford, say Simon and Rachel.

Chloe and Natasha.

Do you want to talk us through that board?

Well, A, I think is Liverpool.

C, Ipswich.

D is Bournemouth.

And E...

OK, we'll go for E and Fulham.

You're going to go for Fulham, E.

So, we have Watford and we have Fulham.

Simon and Rachel said Watford for B.

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

It's right.

That's a good answer. 13.

13 for Watford. Meanwhile, Chloe and Natasha have gone for Fulham, for E.

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

It's right.

Got to beat 13.

30, for Fulham.

I thought that might go down a bit further. Very well done, though,

Simon and Rachel. That means after only two questions you're straight through to the final, 2-0.

Yes, very well played, that's actually the best answer on the board there, Watford.

John Ford, the film director, there.

A typically huge win for Fulham, so come on, you Whites, well played!

Liverpool, the top one.

This scores 48 points.

C, which I thought was Bright-on, but it's not.

That of course is an IP address and a switch. You were quite right - Ipswich.

Would have scored you 22.

And Bournemouth...

..scores 18.

I just couldn't get Baby Teeth United out of my head there!

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So, the pair leaving us at the end

of the head-to-head round, I'm afraid it's Chloe and Natasha.

Our low scorers right the way up till this round.

Then I'm afraid you came up against Simon and Rachel,

who just underscored you. It's good news for us, it means we'll see you again next time. We'll look forward

to that very much. In the meantime, thanks so much, Chloe and Natasha.

But for Simon and Rachel, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Simon and Rachel.

You've seen off all the competition and you have won our coveted

-Pointless trophy.

-Oh, brilliant.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,750.

Well, I mean, what a sprint to the finish that was.

Because, you know, we started... I remember Glaswegian in Round One.

-98 points.

-Tactical, tactical!

Tactical, tactical, says Simon.

But actually, so it proved.

Here you are, and 2-0 in the head-to-head.

No arguing with that. Usually, I mean, not always,

but usually that means people go on and do very well in this last round.

I wonder what you'd like to see come up on this board.

Um...

Anything but football.

Yeah, not sport.

Um, geography for me.

Geography possibly, yeah.

Yeah, geography.

OK. Well, let's see what's up there. Today's choices are...

LAUGHTER

Well, definitely not the top one.

-No.

-Films, no.

Irish pop...

Other than The Pogues, I don't know any.

-Westlife.

-I think we should go with the North Of England.

-We'll have to

go with the North Of England, since we're from the north of England.

We'll go with North Of England.

-The North Of England.

-Very best of luck. Three very different questions

in very different areas, hopefully one will suit you.

We are looking for the names of any stations on the Greater Manchester

Metrolink tram network, please.

We are looking for any GB cyclists who took part in the Tour of

Yorkshire in 2016, so anyone born in Britain who took part in that.

Or we are looking for any cast member of the 1996

Our Friends In The North, so anybody according to IMDb

who appeared in Our Friends In The North.

So stops on the Manchester Metrolink tram network,

the Tour de Yorkshire GB cyclists,

-and the cast of Our Friends In The North. Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

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

and all you need to win the jackpot is for just one of those 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.

Um, the cyclists, I don't know any.

-Do you?

-Chris Froome.

-Possibly.

-Possibly.

-Move on.

-Cast of Friends In The North, is that...?

Was that the programme where there was the three of them and things all

went wrong, was it that one?

Because Daniel Craig was in that, I think.

-Daniel Craig, then.

-But I mean, pretty well known.

So was the guy...

The guy who was Doctor Who for a while, Christopher somebody.

-Christopher, Christopher.

-Do you know who I mean? Christopher...

-I do, yes.

-I can't remember his last name.

I don't think they'll accept half an answer.

Metrolink stations.

Oh...

Piccadilly.

I don't know any Metrolink stations.

Ten seconds left.

Possibly Manchester Piccadilly might be on that.

Yeah, yeah.

Daniel Craig, Chris Froome.

-Yes.

-Manchester Piccadilly.

That, I'm afraid, is your time up. I'm so sorry. It sounds like you've arrived at three answers.

-Yes.

-Shall we go for those ones, then?

-OK. Yes.

-Give them to me again,

if you say which category you're answering as well.

From the Metrolink stations, Manchester Piccadilly.

-Manchester Piccadilly.

-The cyclists, Chris Froome.

-Yeah.

-Chris Froome.

-And Friends In The North, Daniel Craig.

Daniel Craig. Now, of those three answers, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Daniel Craig.

-I don't think any will be pointless!

Shall we put Daniel Craig last?

-Yes.

-Daniel Craig.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-I think...

-Piccadilly.

Piccadilly's wrong, we'll put that one first.

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

and here they are. We have got Manchester Piccadilly, Chris Froome,

Daniel Craig.

The question is, though, will one of them be pointless?

Cos if one of them is pointless you will leave here with £2,750.

What would you like to do with that, Simon, if you were to win it?

We're planning a visit back to Australia.

We went to Australia a couple of years ago to visit our son,

when he was travelling, but there's so much more of the place we'd like to see.

We just went to Sydney and Melbourne, so we'd like to tour round.

Very nice. Anything else you'd like to add to that, Rachel?

No, I think I completely agree with that, yeah,

put it in the Australia fund.

OK, well, your first answer was Manchester Piccadilly.

In this case we were looking for any station on the Manchester Metrolink

line. If this is pointless, it will win you £2,750.

Let's see how many people said Manchester Piccadilly.

Well, it's right. There we are,

Manchester Piccadilly takes us down through the 50s.

If we stop at 0, you leave here with £2,750.

We're still going down.

23.

Not bad.

I tell you what, if Manchester Piccadilly scored 23, it gives you

some idea of how any station on that network might have won that point for you.

Anyway, there we are, we move on to your second answer.

Chris Froome, in this case we were looking for the Tour de Yorkshire

riders in 2016.

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

If it's pointless, it wins you £2,750.

Wow.

OK, so we've learned demonyms and Chris Froome wasn't in the Tour de

Yorkshire. There we are, two things to take away from today's show.

Our third answer in this round is Daniel Craig.

In this case we were looking for cast members of Our Friends In The North.

If this is pointless, it will win you £2,750.

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

It's right. Manchester Piccadilly took us all the way down to 23.

Chris Froome turned out to be an incorrect answer,

but Daniel Craig is absolutely right, down we go,

passing 23, into the teens. Into...

Oh. 10 for Daniel Craig.

Well, you did incredibly well there and all sorts of answers are going

to start flooding into your head, I should think.

You'll suddenly remember Metrolink stations, maybe,

or cast members of Our Friends In The North.

Anyway, I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless

answer so I'm afraid you won't win today's jackpot of £2,750.

That will roll over onto the next show but it's great having you here.

You've done it all in one show, which is incredibly impressive,

2-0 in the head-to-head and a Pointless trophy each to take back so very, very well done.

Yeah, very well played, terrific stuff.

I think that so many of our north-west viewers will be all over

that, the Metrolink, so I'll show you some of the pointless answers.

Then I'll go through everything that scored points just to break your heart, if one of yours did.

Let's take a look at a few pointless answers.

You could have said...

These are the ones that scored points,

so I know you're all shouting out stops on that line.

Piccadilly, Old Trafford, Victoria, Bury, Altrincham, Sale, Prestwich,

Piccadilly Gardens. And the following all scored one point.

Eccles, Northern Moor, Manchester Airport, Droylsden, Radcliffe,

Salford Quays, Cornbrook, Besses o' the Barn, Stretford and Heaton Park.

Unlucky if you said one of those. If you said something else,

you've just got a pointless answer, so very well played.

Let's take a look now at the second one,

the Tour de Yorkshire cyclists.

Now, Adam Yates, who had an unbelievable Tour de France in 2016,

future Tour winner, he was a pointless answer, there.

Frazer Clacherty, Luke Rowe, Stephen Cummings.

Everyone apart from Bradley Wiggins and Peter Kennaugh was a pointless

answer there, so well done if you said any of those.

And the cast of Our Friends In The North, some fine actors here.

Alun Armstrong, a pointless answer.

David Bradley, Julian Fellowes, Larry Lamb.

Everyone on that was a pointless answer, apart from the four main cast members, who were Daniel Craig,

Christopher Eccleston, who went on to be Doctor Who,

Gina McKee, and Mark Strong. What a cast that was.

Everyone else a pointless answer, very well done if you got one at home.

Thank you very much, Richard. Thank you, Simon and Rachel, it's been great having you here today.

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

That will roll over onto the next show,

when we will be playing for £3,750.

-Join us then, see if someone can win it. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.