Episode 30 Pointless

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

the show that makes big winners out of the lowest scorers. Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hello, I'm Alick, I'm from Burnley,

and this is my friend, Phillip, from Colchester.

Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Huub, this is my wife, Grace, and we're from London.

Couple number three.

I'm Gene from Shrewsbury, and this is my housemate, Chris, from Surrey.

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Ruth from Leeds, this is Steffi from Oxford and we're ex-colleagues, now friends.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, I want to give you a warm welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. We will get to chat throughout the show as it goes along,

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

He is fighting a war on ignorance on orders from his commanding officer,

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

Hiya. Hi, everybody.

-Good afternoon. Good afternoon to you, sir.

-Good afternoon.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

Now, a couple of Pointless firsts, really. Well, not a first.

I think biggest hair ever, we have to say, for Phillip.

It must be close, right?

-Yeah.

-Our first-ever Huub playing.

-Our first-ever Huub.

-Which is great, hopefully not our last.

And Steffi and Ruth on podium four, our only returners, did very well last time, didn't they?

-Got through to the head-to-head.

-Head-to-head. Yeah.

Against Stephen and Daniela. So they are going to be tough to beat,

I would say, for our three new pairs.

That's a good first podium, isn't it?

-It's pretty good. It makes a statement.

-Yeah.

Fabulous. Anyway, thank you very much indeed.

Now, Stephen and Daniela didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another £1,000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off at £3,000.

There it is. APPLAUSE

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

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So, as ever, there's just one thing you have to burden yourselves with and that is this knowledge.

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

will be eliminated, so just keep your scores nice and low and you will be fine.

Best of luck to all four pairs. Our first category today is...

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

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

OK, and the question concerns...

-Richard.

-Simply, on each board we going to ask you

seven different questions, the answers to all of them begin with the letter S.

Seven on the first board, seven on the second,

14 in all to have a go at at home, very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed. Here is our first board of sporting conundra.

Starting with...

I'm going to read those all again.

-There we go. Alick, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Great to have you here from Burnley.

-From Burnley.

-What do you do, Alick?

I'm a student at Warwick University, just going into my Masters year now.

Wow, so you graduated...

-Yeah, graduated.

-Last, the end of last year?

-Yes.

And off you go into your masters. What are you studying?

Writing, I'm going to study.

I did study previously English literature and creative writing.

That's fun, though, isn't it?

-It is, I love it.

-And you loved the first part of your course,

and now you're specialising in writing?

-That's the plan.

-Creative writing.

-Specialising might be

-an optimistic word, but you know.

-Focusing.

-Focusing, yeah, yeah.

-Focusing on. That's fantastic.

Now, sport. Alick, how are we feeling about this?

Yeah, yeah, there's a few there that I think I could have a stab at.

But I think I'm going to go for the Crucible Theatre holds snooker

tournaments in this English city, which I believe is Sheffield.

Sheffield, says Alick.

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

49.

Not bad, not bad. The bottom half of the column, there, Alick.

Good start to the round.

Wonderful, Sheffield. Great city. Great tournament as well.

-I would like to read something that Alick wrote, would you not?

-I would.

-I think it would be interesting.

-I think it would be.

-Yeah.

I think it would. Shall I ask what kind of things he writes?

-No, no.

-Maybe if he comes back next show.

You can ask him if you want, why don't you ask?

-Why don't you ask him?

-I'll ask him.

-You're allowed to ask me.

-Alick, what kind of things do you write?

Um, I used to write a lot of prose, fiction,

but I've been trying to get into the hybrid form recently,

so mixing prose and poetry.

Mainly poetry, I suppose, at the moment,

with little titbits of prose in there.

OK, I take it back.

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Sounds fascinating.

Now, Grace, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you here. Now, Grace, what do you do?

-I'm a town planner.

-Which towns are you planning right now?

Mainly London at the moment.

OK, which districts, which boroughs?

I do most of them. So, Camden, Westminster.

-Oh, that's good.

-Yep.

So, hang on, do you sit on a council of planners, do you?

No, I work for developers.

So if a developer wants to build something, then I help them.

OK, very good. What are your interests, Grace?

I like cooking, baking,

I've also got a one-year-old so he's a full-time hobby as well.

Very good indeed. Now, Grace,

what would you like to go for on our board here of sporting Ss?

Um...

I think I know one but I think it's a bit risky so I'm just going to go

for the Russian city, and I think it's Sochi.

Sochi, says Grace.

Let's see if that is right and let's see

how many of our 100 people said Sochi.

Sochi is right.

27 for Sochi, well done.

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It cost 51 billion, the Sochi Winter Olympics.

-Really?

-That's amazing. It's only some skiing.

Was that the... Didn't they have to pump

up lots of snow, because there wasn't enough snow?

I guess. But also if you go skiing, I've never been skiing,

and I know that drinks are expensive and stuff, aren't they,

-so maybe it all, maybe it adds up.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Chris. Welcome to Pointless.

All these new contestants. Now, Chris. What do you do?

I'm a student at the University of Birmingham.

And what year are you in?

I'm just going into my third year now.

Your third and final year?

Yeah, hopefully I'll do a bit more uni,

because I don't really want a job just yet, but.

Stay cocooned in university life.

-Absolutely.

-So what are you studying?

Economics and politics.

OK, very good indeed.

Do you think you will tend economically or politically when you come out?

-Probably more politically, at the moment.

-OK.

Very good indeed. Now, Chris,

what would you like to go for on our board of sporting Ss?

I think the women's 1976 French Open winner who became the host of

Question Of Sport is Sue Barker.

Sue Barker says Chris,

let's see if that's right and

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

It's right. 49 is our high, 27 is our low...

55 for Sue Barker.

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I love Sue Barker.

-Of course you do.

-As you know,

I have very much got her lined up as your replacement.

I know.

Thanks very much, Richard. Steffi, welcome back to Pointless,

good to have you here. Remind us what you do, Steffi.

I'm an analyst in the medical devices industry.

The medical devices, that's just fun right there, isn't it?

-Dangerous area.

-What are your interests, Steffi?

I like reading, going on treks, walking.

-Boring stuff.

-I like boring stuff.

-Boring stuff is good.

-Yes.

-Nothing wrong with boring stuff.

Steffi, are you pleased with what you've got left on the board here?

Are there some things there you can go for?

Well, I knew one which has gone,

but I think I'm going to try the six-letter word and say sprint.

Sprint, says Steffi,

let's see if Sprint is right,

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

It's right.

I didn't even have time to tell you that 55 was our high score,

which is just as well, because it no longer is.

88 is now our high score.

That's a big score, isn't it?

We shall fill in the rest of this board, shall we?

-The goalkeeper?

-Seaman.

Correct. Would have scored you 65 points.

The Toby Maguire film, did you see this?

-A good film, actually.

-Seabiscuit.

Seabiscuit, yeah. That would have scored you 25.

And this last one, Sam Snead, and that would have

scored you six points. Very well done if you said that.

-Best answer up there.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

The best score of that pass was yours, very well done, Grace, 27.

Lovely low score, there.

Grace and Huub looking good at this point,

then 49 is where we find Alick and Phillip. 55, Chris and Jeevan.

Not too bad, but Steffi and Ruth, there you are on 88.

We need a low score from you, Ruth.

Head-to-head last time, it can't be a round one exit this time, Ruth.

That's in your hands, good luck. We're going to

come back down the line,

can the second players please, step up to the podium?

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

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Ruth. Welcome back to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-So what do you do, Ruth?

I'm a product manager for a microbiology company.

I see, so when you were working with Steffi you were very much in the

medical instruments department, and now you've gone...

You've branched very slightly.

Yeah, it's like a sidestep.

I see. I see.

-Yes.

-So, very, very sophisticated lab equipment.

-Yes.

-Like those sort of droppers that can put drops into test tubes,

-25 a time.

-Yes.

Oooh!

That's not my range, but, yes, we do have those.

-They're cool. OK, there we are. You carry those.

-Yes.

-Very impressive.

Ruth, what are your interests?

Travelling is a big interest for me, cooking...

Well, Leeds. You have all the way up to Leeds from London, that is...

Well, a bit further afield than that.

I like to travel in Southeast Asia is my favourite place at the moment.

Everywhere, really.

Very good indeed.

Now, you are the high scorers, Ruth, we need a low score from you.

Is that board going to yield a sufficiently low score for you, I wonder?

There's only two I can do, the Scottish one,

my mum will kill me because she's Scottish and I'm sure she would be

screaming this at the TV, but I can't do it.

So, I'm going to go for the top one,

the country whose international rugby team is the Springboks,

I think that's South Africa.

South Africa says Ruth, no red line for you as you are the high scorers.

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

It's right.

63 for South Africa, taking your total up to 151.

Yeah, presaging the famous football game in the First World War,

the second Boer War was once interrupted for a rugby game

between the Boer Army and the British Army.

OK. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Pleasure.

-Now, Jeevan.

Welcome, welcome to Pointless.

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

I actually live with Chris. We're at university together in Birmingham,

-and I study economics.

-I see.

So you meet on the economic side of Chris's curriculum?

-Yeah, we share some lectures together.

-OK.

When we both turn up, of course.

Very good. Now, Jeevan, what are

your interests when economics is done?

So I'm really interested in policy, in politics, and how that's done.

Sounds like you should be on Chris's course.

Or has Chris enthused you?

I think we both share an interest in politics.

I was much more interested in the math side of economics

-and that's why I took it.

-I see, very good indeed.

Now, Jeevan, you're on 55, which means

95 or less keeps you in the game.

Not too tall an order, I would hope, Jeevan.

How is that board looking to you?

It's not looking too bad.

There's one that's really risky,

I was tempted to take it up until just now.

I'm thinking, should I play it safe?

You say 95, was it?

Yes.

OK.

I'm therefore tempted to play safe and say...

..the number of events that make up

a heptathlon, so I'm going to say seven.

Seven, seven says Jeevan. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

We get a red line, there we are.

Get below that with seven, you are into the next round.

How many people said seven?

It's right and you are through.

63, which takes your total up to 118.

Yeah, that was a true economist's answer, there.

Did exactly the right thing.

-Yeah, heptathlon.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

Thank you. Now, Huub.

Huub, you're Dutch, I'm going to guess that?

-Yes. That is, yes, that's correct.

-It's true!

But, Huub, tell us what you do.

I'm a researcher for a publishing company.

What sort of publishing company is it?

We publish regeneration and inward investment magazines for local authorities.

I see, so that's the kind of research you are doing.

Do you head off into the local authorities

to do that research or do you do it from a desk in London?

Both, both, both.

-I conduct surveys.

-That's fun.

I do interviews, all that sort of stuff, yeah.

Very good indeed. And what are your interests, Huub?

Just normal. I like movies, reading, video games.

Very good indeed. Now, good news, Huub,

you are through to the next round. Doesn't matter what you score.

But let's have a nice low score from you,

-if you can find one up there.

-Um, I think I know a few.

But I think I'm going to go for the

projectile hit in badminton which is shuttle.

Shuttle, says Huub.

Shuttle. No red line for you, you're already through.

Let's see what happens when we say shuttle.

Yeah.

69. 69,

which takes your total up to 96.

Yeah, shuttle. Perfectly acceptable shortform for shuttlecock.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Phillip, welcome to Pointless.

Good to have you here.

-Tell us what you do.

-I'm doing a masters

at Warwick Business School, in management.

So, you and Alick were in the same year?

We were indeed. Both did English literature.

The books slowly killed me, but he seems to thrive off it.

I see. So you're putting the books behind you

-and striding off to business management.

-Exactly, yeah.

Altogether more fulfilling.

So, the next year, how is that going to be, your masters?

Are you involved at all in tuition? Do you do any of that kind of stuff?

-No?

-I honestly couldn't tell you.

-He's not. He's not.

-It's as much of a surprise for me as anyone else.

No, you have no idea what to expect?

Tragically little idea. It's actually embarrassing.

It will be fun, though. And will you be sharing a house?

Yeah, we've got a house sorted.

Oh, but that's nice. You've got a whole year in prospect

of exciting new discoveries.

That's great. Now then, Phillip,

you are already through as well,

but if you want to fill in all those blanks, you'd be very welcome.

Well, I'd absolutely love to.

I mean, the three I knew have gone.

The S in US car racing, I'd guess for speed,

but that's an absolute punt.

Each of the three upright pieces of wood which form a wicket,

sticks seems to...

I don't know.

You a cricketer, Phillip?

No, I'm not.

I'm just so thankful that we are through.

I'm really struggling. I'll go for speed for the third one down.

OK. Speed in Nascar. Speed, let's see if that's right.

No red line, you're already through.

How many people said speed, if it's right?

No.

I'm afraid not speed. Scores you 100 points.

Takes your total up to 149, but you're through anyway.

Yeah, not speed. It's actually... It's the National Association...

-Stock Car.

-..Stock Car Auto Racing.

Yeah. So stock is the answer there.

Would have scored you 13.

It's not sticks, down the bottom.

-Stumps.

-Oh!

-Yeah.

Rather ironically.

It would have scored you 58.

The Scottish 12-aside sport is shinty.

Would have scored 20.

And the best answer on the board, the Missouri city, is St Louis.

Very well done if you said that. 11 points.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our first round,

the pair heading home with a high score of 151.

Oh, Ruth and Steffi, I'm so sorry.

Far too soon to be sending you home.

Our only returning pair.

Anyway, it's been lovely having you on.

-Thank you so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Ruth and Steffi.

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But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.

And so we are down to three pairs.

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

Oh, sailed a little bit close to the wind there in the event,

Phillip and Alick.

Grace and Huub, very well done indeed.

Grace, our low scorer individually, and Grace and Huub together,

our lowest combined score. Best of luck to all three pairs for the next round.

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, we're going to show you

16 pictures now of people associated with

the world of fashion. Can you identify one of these, please?

Thank you very much indeed.

So, we are going to put this image up, 16 pictures,

they will stay up for the whole round.

We won't be changing them halfway through the round.

You just have to shout out any name that you see on that board.

Let's see who is up there.

OK. There we are.

16 people from the world of fashion.

Phillip, you are to go first.

I mean, you can tell just by looking at me

this isn't going to be my best round.

I think I can pick out...

In fairness, I think there's four there I know.

Just trying to think...

I'm going to go for, um...

-Karl Lagerfeld.

-Karl Lagerfeld, says Phillip.

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

It's right.

It's a good score as well.

32. Very well done, Phillip.

Good start to the round.

Well played. Yeah, there he is, in the shades, Karl Lagerfeld.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Grace.

Um, I know a few.

I think I'm going to go for the model Jourdan Dunn.

Jourdan Dunn. Jourdan Dunn, says Grace.

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

It's right. Well, 32 is the only score we've got at this point.

Jourdan Dunn

surpasses that.

All the way down to one.

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Grace is at it again.

Another low scoring round.

One for Jourdan Dunn.

Very well played, Grace. Yeah, model from west London, Jourdan Dunn, one point.

Thank you very much indeed. Now then, Chris,

who would you like to go for, from our gallery of fashion?

This is an awful round for me.

Probably the worst category that probably could have come up.

But I do know a little bit of sport and from my sport knowledge,

I do know that Victoria Beckham is up there.

-There we go.

-So I'll go with Victoria Beckham.

By whatever circuitous route, we have arrived at Victoria Beckham.

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

It's right. 32 was our high score.

80 is our new high score there.

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Yeah, well played. I think it was treated as something of a joke

years ago, when she went into fashion.

And she's been unbelievably successful. She makes an awful lot

-more money than her husband now.

-Thanks, Richard. We're halfway

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

One, Grace. Very well done indeed.

Best score of the pass. Then up to 32 where we find Phillip and Alick.

Then 80 is where we find Chris and Jeevan.

So, Jeevan, you know what we need.

A nice low-scoring fashionista from you, please.

Good luck. Could the second players please step up to the podium?

So, then, Jeevan.

Yes, you are quite a long way ahead.

48 points ahead there.

-Yes.

-Can you find a nice answer that

-perhaps might level those scores a bit?

-I'll be completely honest,

I'm an economist and I don't know anything about fashion.

And actually, Victoria Beckham was the one I was going to go for,

so this is actually really, really worrying.

I genuinely have no idea.

I'm going to... This is... I'm going to have to make up a name because I

really don't know. This is so embarrassing.

I'm going to go for John Smith.

John Smith, says Jeevan.

John Smith. No red line for you as you are high scorers.

Let's see what happens when we say John Smith.

Nope, I'm afraid not John Smith.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 180.

Not John Smith, I'm afraid.

Although his couture collection this year is to die for.

-It is.

-Have you seen it?

-It is.

-He knows his stuff.

-He does.

-But his picture's not up here

because he is famously reclusive.

Yeah. Thank you very much, Richard.

-Now, Huub.

-Yeah.

I think I recognise two faces on the board,

although I wouldn't bet my savings on being correct,

but I think I recognise Kate Moss on there.

Kate Moss, says Huub.

No red line, you are already through.

How many of our 100 people said Kate Moss?

It's right.

60, Kate Moss. Takes your total up to 61.

Well played, Huub. Yeah, bottom left there, Kate Moss.

The Absolutely Fabulous movie

revolves around Kate Moss one way or another.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Alick, also through to the next round.

But I think you will know a few people on this board.

-You think wrong.

-Really?

I have...

I don't know any of them.

I recognise maybe a couple of faces and I've been

struggling to get an old Burnley player, Jean-Louis Valois,

out of my head for a while.

But I think one of them may be Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Jean-Paul Gaultier, says Alick.

No red line, you are already through.

Let's see if Jean-Paul Gaultier is up there.

Bad luck, Alick. That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 132.

Yeah, although Jean-Louis Valois is up there, that's the irony.

No, I might test you on some of these because these...

-Yeah, I think I know... I know...

-Top left?

-Gandy.

-Eight points for David Gandy.

-Next to him?

-Vivienne Westwood.

-Vivienne Westwood.

-She's a big scorer.

-Would have scored you 53.

-Next to Vivienne?

-Stella McCartney.

-Stella McCartney, 29 points.

Now, do you know this next one?

I'm going to take a punt on

Coco Chanel because she's that vintage and I

think she looked slightly like that.

You are absolutely right. It is Coco Chanel.

She would have scored you ten points.

Now, the next row?

It's Dolce or Gabbana.

Oh, so close. It's Gianni Versace.

Oh, right. OK. LAUGHTER

Would have scored you five points.

-Macaulay Culkin, obviously.

-It's not Macaulay Culkin.

It's not even his brother, Kieran Culkin.

Looks even more like him. It's JW Anderson,

the Northern Irish designer.

Terrific designer. It's a Pointless answer.

Well done if you said that. Next to him?

-Yves Saint Laurent.

-Yves Saint Laurent. Would have scored you nine.

Next down? Kendall Jenner.

One of the Kardashian clan.

Would have scored you eight. Next to Victoria Beckham?

-That is Ralph Lauren.

-Is Ralph Lauren.

Yeah. He would have scored you eight.

Bottom row?

-Easier than you think.

-It's...

-Twiggy.

-Of course it is.

-Of course it is Twiggy.

-Would have scored you...

-I mean, obviously,

I know it's not Emma Bunton, but...

-You know what I mean?

-50 for that.

And very unlucky with your John Smith answer.

-John Smith!

-Because that is...

-Paul Smith.

Paul Smith, yeah.

Would have scored you two.

And the last one on the board,

is another pointless answer, probably the

most famous fashion photographer.

Um, um....

Mario Testino.

-Mario, oh, yes.

-And he would have scored you nothing at all.

Very well played if you said that.

Very good indeed. Thank you very much, Richard.

Well, we are at the end of our second round,

and the pair we have to say goodbye to,

with their high score of 180 and their low fashion knowledge,

but I'm sure, on the strength of what we've seen so far, you will go a long way next time,

barring any fashion questions, but we will say goodbye for now.

Look forward to seeing you next time, Jeevan and Chris.

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

Congratulations, Grace and Huub, Phillip and Alick. You are now

one step closer to the final and a chance to play for that jackpot,

which currently stands at £3,000.

And here we are in the head-to-head, which means you're allowed to confer

before you give your answers.

First pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

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

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

-Richard.

-Yeah, going to give you five clues now

to planets of our solar system.

-Can you tell us what they are, please?

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our five clues. And here they are...

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Grace and Huub, you are our low scorers,

so you will go first.

WHISPERED CONFERRING

Um, we are going to go for the fourth one,

the home planet of the invaders, which is Mars.

Mars, say Grace and Huub.

Mars. Now, Phillip and Alick, do you want to talk us through that board?

Yeah. We think the first one is Venus.

We believe the second one is Jupiter.

The third one, Mercury.

Alick knew that one, I had no idea.

The fifth one, I feel like it's Saturn, but it's, yeah,

up in the air.

-Third one, we're sure on that?

-Yeah. Let's do

-it.

-We're sticking it. We're doing it. Mercury.

-Mercury.

OK. So, we have Mars and we have Mercury.

Grace and Huub went for Mars.

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

There we are. The home planet of the invaders.

Mars. 61.

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Meanwhile, Phillip and Alick have gone for Mercury, the planet that

shares its name with the chemical element with the symbol Hg.

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

It's right.

And it wins you the point.

There we are. 49 for Mercury.

Very well done indeed, Phillip and Alick.

You've nicked it. After one question, you are up 1-0.

Yeah, very well played. Women originated on this planet.

Of course, we all originate on the same planet, but it's Venus.

81 points for that.

The largest planet in the solar system, you're quite right,

was Jupiter, would have won you the point as well,

would have scored you 47.

And the planet surrounded by rings is Saturn,

of course and that would have scored you 67.

Thank you very much, Richard. Well, we move on to our second question.

Now, Grace and Huub, you have to win this question to stay in the game,

but Phillip and Alick get first dibs on the board,

so good luck with that, Grace and Huub.

Our second question today is all about...

-Richard.

-We are about to show you five pictures

of characters in films to do with banking or finance.

Can you tell us the name of the

films that these are taken from, please?

Thanks very much indeed.

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

We've got...

There we are, five bankers on film.

Phillip and Alick, you will go first.

WHISPERED CONFERRING

We're going to go for A, The Wolf Of Wall Street.

OK, A, Wolf Of Wall Street, say Phillip and Alick.

Now, Grace and Huub,

do you want to talk us through the rest of those films?

Er, we only know one other, and it's C, and we think it's Working Girl.

OK, you're going to say Working Girl for C,

so we have Wolf Of Wall Street and we have Working Girl.

Phillip and Alick said Wolf Of Wall Street for A.

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

It is The Wolf Of Wall Street and that...

Not bad. 40 for The Wolf Of Wall Street.

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Grace and Huub, meanwhile, have gone for Working Girl, for C.

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

It's right. Is it going to beat 40?

Yes, it is, look at that.

Down it goes.

Good score, to 19.

Very well done, Grace and Huub, back in the game.

After two questions, it's 1-1.

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Well played, Grace and Huub.

-B?

-Rogue Trader.

Rogue Trader, yeah. It's Ewan McGregor there

-as Nick Leeson. Remember him?

-Mmm.

-Eight points for that.

D is the best answer on the board.

The Big Short? It's The Big Short, yeah.

Ryan Reynolds or Gosling, I'm never sure which.

-Gosling.

-Is it?

Would have scored you three points.

Great book. I wasn't so keen on the film The Big Short,

but the book is amazing.

And this last one, got to be one of the ten greatest films of all time.

You mustn't let Christmas go by without seeing it.

-It's A Wonderful Life.

-It's A Wonderful Life, yeah.

James Stuart there as George Bailey.

And that would have scored you 13.

-Well done if you said that.

-Thank you very much indeed.

OK, so here comes your third question. Whoever wins this one

goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot,

so best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question today is all about...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're going to show you the names now

of five British resort towns, but in the form of anagrams, I'm afraid.

Whoever works out the most obscure answer

is going through to play for the jackpot.

-Good luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our five anagrams, and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Grace and Huub will go first.

WHISPERED CONFERRING

Er, I only know one, and it's the fourth one down,

and I think it's Scarborough.

Scarborough say Grace and Huub. Scarborough.

Now then, Phillip and Alick.

That's the one we were going to go for, Scarborough.

We thought that would be the least popular out of what we knew, anyway.

We'll go for the one beneath that, Bournemouth.

OK, Bournemouth. So we have Scarborough and we have Bournemouth.

Now, Grace and Huub said Scarborough.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see

how many of our 100 people got that for Rough Cobras.

It's right.

41 for Scarborough.

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Not bad, not bad.

Meanwhile, Phillip and Alick have

gone for Bournemouth, for Bone Hum Tour.

Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

Ooh, look at that!

Down it goes to 38.

Very well done indeed.

Bournemouth winning the point for you there and,

after three questions, Phillip and Alick,

you are through to the final 2-1.

Yeah, great head-to-head, everybody. Well played. Um, the top one...

-..is Margate.

-Oh, of course it is Margate!

That would have scored you 52.

-Polka Bloc?

-Blackpool.

Blackpool. 64.

Now, the best answer by some way was Parent Sty.

It's in Wales.

It's Prestatyn.

Exactly. Well done if you said that. Three points. Terrific answer.

Very good. Thank you so much, Richard.

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

Grace and Huub. You met your match in Phillip and Alick there,

-playing as a team.

-I'm sorry!

You'll be back again next time though,

and I'm sure on the strength of today's performance

you'll do just as well, if not maybe one click better.

But thank you so much for playing, Grace and Huub.

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Right, for Phillip and Alick, it's now time for our Pointless final.

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Congratulations, Phillip and Alick.

You've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £3,000.

There it is.

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Well, you see, I would say this is

the strength of your teamwork, you see,

because we have, as I said before we've had a couple of moments

where one of you has dropped the ball, but the other one's

always been there to help them out.

Great teamwork in that head-to-head round,

and you beat Grace and Huub, who I thought were unstoppable.

The only cloud to that silver lining is we are not going to see what you

had lined up to wear for the next show.

It was jazzy. It was jazzy.

I can believe that!

Anyway, listen, you get to choose your category

from the four that will appear on the board behind me.

Anything at this stage you'd love to see up there?

Er, in terms of...

Sports, maybe football.

Current affairs feel like we've got covered, really.

Yeah. See, I know very little

about sports, but Alick would smash it, so I'm hoping football.

OK, very good. Best of luck.

Our four choices today are...

It's like a dream come true, isn't it? That's just...

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-Wow!

-Phil knows the Bible.

Phil's got a solid handle of the Bible, I feel, or so he tells me.

I don't know, mate. Let's go for the Bible.

We'll go for the Bible. Oh, mate, it's the sensible thing to do.

-Yeah. OK. Yeah, yeah.

-Alick doesn't sound convinced,

but, yes, you're going to go for the Bible.

-The Bible it is.

-Yeah, the Bible.

Very best of luck. An awful lot of people

just lost a sweepstake at home there as to what you were going for,

but three very different questions here.

A couple of them, I think, might, if you know your stuff,

you might do well on. We'll start with,

we're looking for any cast member of

the 1977 TV series Jesus Of Nazareth,

according to IMDB. I wouldn't worry about that one.

We are looking for any people mentioned in Matthew chapter one,

verses one to 17, all the descendants of Joseph, essentially,

the one that so-and-so begat so-and-so,

any names mentioned in that, please, apart from Joseph and Jesus.

Or we are looking for any words of six or more letters

in Exodus chapter 20.

That's the chapter that includes the Ten Commandments.

So, the cast of Jesus of Nazareth,

any people mentioned in the

so-and-so begat so-and-so section of

Matthew chapter one, or any words of

six or more letters

in Exodus chapter 20.

Very, 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 earn that jackpot

of £3,000 is for just one of those

answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes, yes.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

-Speak to me.

-Right, basically, the top one

-seems like some sort of cruel joke.

-Yeah.

So we're going to have to blank that out.

-Right, people mentioned in Matthew chapter one.

-OK.

-Ezekiel.

-Ezekiel.

-It's a biblical name. It is a biblical name.

Who knows?

Words of six or more letters in Exodus chapter 20,

I feel like there's something about disrespecting your parents.

-Disrespecting, is that one, or parents?

-Parents is what I'd say.

-OK, OK.

-We're assuming some sort of English translation,

so I'm thinking parents, Ezekiel and, er...

-And?

-You know, I've had two there.

You've had two there. Let's... What is Exodus about?

-What not to do.

-What not to do.

So, erm...

-What not to do. What is a biblical thing not to do?

-Dis...

Disrespecting your parents.

Can we go for parents and disrespecting?

-It's the Ten Commandments.

-Is it the Ten Commandments?

-Ten seconds left.

-I don't think the answer's "commandments".

Why not? Let's have commandments, Ezekiel...

-Commandments!

-Oh. Say disrespecting, parents,

do not disrespect, say parents...

OK, that is your time up.

Let's have your three answers.

Right, so, people mentioned in Matthew chapter one,

we're going to go Ezekiel.

Ezekiel, OK.

Words of six or more letters

in Exodus chapter 20, we're going to go...

-Parents...

-Parents.

-And...

-Disrespect.

-Disrespect.

-Disrespect, OK.

So we have Ezekiel, we have parents and we have disrespect.

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

Ezekiel sounds like...

Are you sure Ezekiel's in there?

-No.

-OK. Well, not Ezekiel!

Er, let's have parents.

Parents we'll put last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Ezekiel, because it's probably not right.

-Ezekiel. Disrespect goes

in the middle. OK, let's put those answers up on the board

in that order then, and here they are. We have got...

Well, best of luck.

Three answers on the board there. Let's hope one of these turns out

to be pointless and wins that jackpot

for you. What would you do with three grand?

Nice prize to be taking home.

Phillip, what would you like to do with your share of that if you won?

I can't say anything particularly exciting.

Probably put most of it towards my masters fees and then maybe go on a

little bar crawl with Alick, sample some ales.

Just a nice night out.

-Sophisticated.

-Very nice.

Alick, how about you?

We saw a spa on the way to our hotel yesterday,

so I think we'll go straight there after the show,

get a massage, calm us down.

And then maybe I'd like to go to the Amazon at some point and put some

-money towards that.

-Good stuff.

Now then, let's put those answers to the test.

Your first answer was Ezekiel.

In this case, we were looking for any person

mentioned in Matthew chapter one.

Let's see if Ezekiel is right.

If it's pointless, it will win you £3,000.

How many of our 100 people said Ezekiel?

I'm afraid not Ezekiel.

An incorrect answer there. So let's move

swiftly on to your second answer.

In this case, we were looking for any word

of six or more letters in Exodus chapter 20.

You have gone in this case for disrespect.

Certainly has more than six letters in.

-I think it's dishonour.

-Is it there?

-Is it?

-If it is there and if it is pointless, it will win you £3,000.

How many of our 100 people said disrespect?

Bad luck. No disrespect in Exodus chapter 20.

Now, your third and final answer, the one you thought was

probably your best shot at a pointless answer, is parents.

Again, we are looking for any word of

six or more letters in Exodus chapter 20.

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

If it's pointless, it wins you £3,000.

No, bad luck!

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Bad luck.

It was a game attempt. But they were pretty tough, those ones.

They were pretty tough. I'm afraid you didn't manage to

find that all-important pointless answer,

so you don't win today's jackpot of £3,000.

That will roll over to the next show.

But it's been great having you on.

Far too brief, actually, but a shame it's only been one show.

Thank you so much for playing so well, you get a Pointless trophy

each to take home. Phillip and Alick!

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Yeah, that particular commandment is honour thy father, thy mother,

so all of those were answers.

You'd have got four for mother,

three for father, three for honour as well.

Now, Ezekiel is very unlucky,

because Ezekias is in that list I'm afraid,

and that was a pointless answer, as are most of the names on that list,

so that's very, very unlucky.

Let's take a look at the list.

We'll start with Jesus of Nazareth.

Some big names here.

Everyone apart from Robert Powell, Peter Ustinov and Ian McShane,

every other cast member was a pointless answer,

so well done if you said one of those.

Loads and loads of pointless answers in these people,

as you would expect.

Here's a few of them.

You could have had Achaz, Achim, Eliakim,

Esrom, Ezikias, that's a real shame.

Um, Jeconiah, Jehosaphat, Josiah,

Ozias, Zorobabel, lots and lots of pointless answers.

The biggest scorers there, Mary, Abraham, David and Judas.

And the words of six or more now in Exodus.

Here's a few of them here.

I just want to read out the one-pointers,

because they make a nice sort of little prose poem,

which I know you will enjoy, given what you do.

Remember, thousands, witness, graven, labour, bondage, mountain.

Beautiful.

All one-pointers. The biggest scorers there, in fact,

the top three scorers in order, you should be very careful,

are commit, neighbour, adultery.

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Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Thank you so much, Phillip and Alick. It's been great having you.

I'm sorry you're not taking that jackpot home with you.

That will roll over on to the next show,

when we'll be playing for £4,000.

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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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