0:00:15 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Thank you very much indeed! Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong
0:00:25 > 0:00:28and welcome to Pointless, the show where the aim of the game is to score as few points as
0:00:28 > 0:00:31you can and you do that by coming up with the answers that no-one else
0:00:31 > 0:00:33could think of. Let's meet today's players.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39And couple number one...
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Hello, my name's Jenny and I'm from Bournemouth,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and this is my friend Emily, and she's from Bristol.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45- Hi.- Couple number two.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Hi, I'm Chris from Surrey and this is Jeevan,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49my university housemate from Shrewsbury.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Couple number three.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Hi, I'm Cameron, and this is my friend Laura,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56- and we're from Glasgow. - And finally, couple number four.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi, I'm Huub, this is my wife Grace, and we are from London.
0:00:59 > 0:01:00And these are today's contestants.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Thanks very much, all of you. A warm welcome to Pointless.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08We'll get a chance to chat to each of you throughout this show as it goes along,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10so that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Some people think he knows everything.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14I think it's all just written on his glasses.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19- APPLAUSE - Hiya. Hey, everybody. Afternoon.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Good afternoon to you, sir.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23- Good afternoon. - This lot seem like a fun bunch.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26- Oh, they do, don't they?- We've met a couple of them before.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Jeevan and Chris got knocked out in Round Two last time.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31- Yeah.- And Grace and Huub got all the way through to the head-to-head.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34- Yeah.- Didn't they? Very impressive against Phillip and Alick. Good head-to-head as well.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38- Very good.- And then they answered questions on the Bible in the final round.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40- GASPING - I know, right?
0:01:40 > 0:01:43So, you know, I think we're going to have a lot of fun.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46They're going to be quite tough to beat, I think, Grace and Huub.
0:01:46 > 0:01:47They were very good last time.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50The first Huub we've ever had on the show, as well, but I think,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54having met you, I think we are going to try and have some more.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55Because I think it's really worked for us.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57I think it has. A few more Huubs.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59- Yeah.- Good.- Exactly. - Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04Well, Phillip and Alick, brilliant, brilliant final round last time
0:02:04 > 0:02:08and they carried off no jackpot at all, I'm afraid.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11So we add another £1,000 to the jackpot,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14so today's jackpot starts off at £4,000.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17There we are.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Remember, the pair with the highest score at the end of each round
0:02:28 > 0:02:32will be eliminated, so keep your scores nice and low. Best of luck to all four players.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Our first category this afternoon is...
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
0:02:38 > 0:02:39who's going to go second?
0:02:39 > 0:02:42And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48OK, and the question concerns...
0:02:52 > 0:02:53Authors In Haiku.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56- Richard.- On each board we are going to show you seven clues to
0:02:56 > 0:02:59authors. You just have to rename the authors, please.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02All the clues are in the form of haiku poems, which are 17-syllable poems.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Don't worry about that. It's just the author we need.
0:03:05 > 0:03:0714 in all to get at home, so good luck.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Thanks very much indeed.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Let's reveal our seven haikus on the first board, and here they come.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15We have got... HE READS THE CLUES
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I'm going to read those all again.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09There we are. Jenny, welcome to Pointless. Here from Bournemouth.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11- That's right.- What do you do in Bournemouth, Jenny?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- I'm a truck driver.- Are you, now?
0:04:13 > 0:04:17- Yes.- How far do you travel in your truck?
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Just within the UK.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20What's the furthest you've had to go?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24From Southampton to Leicester and back, I think, was the furthest.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Yeah. OK, how long have you done it for?
0:04:27 > 0:04:31- Getting on for ten years, yeah. - And do you like it?- I do, yeah.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Yes. I like the... I do night driving now
0:04:33 > 0:04:36and so I like the peace and quiet.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39- I like the empty roads. - I've done the Ice Road in...
0:04:39 > 0:04:41..in Alaska going up...
0:04:41 > 0:04:44And that is extraordinary, because all the truckers there,
0:04:44 > 0:04:46- they all know each other.- Mmm.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48And there is a fantastic camaraderie, obviously, on the CB.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Is there a something a little bit like that,
0:04:50 > 0:04:54- or have we got too many different routes, I suppose?- Yeah, we don't have CBs any more.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- Really?- No. So it's only... You just see the same people that...
0:04:57 > 0:05:01If you work for the same company, then you just see the same people,
0:05:01 > 0:05:02- yeah.- Oh, that's a shame.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Talking books? - Yes, lots of talking books.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06- That's very good.- Yes.- Excellent.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09OK, now, Jenny, who would you like to go for on our board?
0:05:09 > 0:05:14I think I'm going to go for the bottom one and Herman Melville.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Herman Melville, says Jenny.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Let's see how many of our 100 people said Herman Melville for the bottom one.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23It's right.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Look at that. Down to ten. Very well done indeed.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Great start to the show.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Ten for Melville.
0:05:35 > 0:05:36Yeah, a very good answer.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Yeah, he is a direct relation of Moby, the musician, as well.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Mmm. Thank you very much, Richard.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Chris, welcome back. Welcome back.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Now, it was Round Two last time.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- Yeah.- It was a fashion question that tripped both you and Jeevan.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49It was a fashion disaster.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Well...
0:05:51 > 0:05:54I'm going to say, yes, it was. It was. But anyway, you are back again,
0:05:54 > 0:05:58and I have absolutely no doubt that you've got the intellectual chops to
0:05:58 > 0:05:59get through Pointless, as long
0:05:59 > 0:06:02as we don't throw you too many curved balls.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Remind us what you do, Chris.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06I'm a student at the University of Birmingham.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08That is right. You study economics and politics.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09- That's right.- Very good.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Tending at this stage to thinking of a political career, possibly?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13- Potentially, yeah.- Potentially.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- Still...- How would you go about going into that?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Would you do research jobs at the Houses of Parliament or...?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Something like that, or work for an MP or something like that
0:06:20 > 0:06:23would be... Yeah, I've had a little bit of that so far,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- so see how that goes. - OK. Very good indeed.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Now, Chris, seven haikus there, each describing an author.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29Who are they all?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34So I'll go with the top one,
0:06:34 > 0:06:36JRR Tolkien.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38JRR Tolkien, says Chris, for the top one.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Let's see if that's right, and how many of our 100 people got Tolkien.
0:06:49 > 0:06:5339. 39 for JRR Tolkien.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Yeah, he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon Old English at Oxford,
0:06:56 > 0:06:59and that was a sort of literary group that met at Oxford,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02the Inklings. Fought at the Battle of the Somme, JRR Tolkien.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- That I didn't know.- Yeah. Extraordinary, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Thanks very much indeed. Now, Cameron.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- Hi.- Cameron, welcome to Pointless.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Good to have you here from Glasgow.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Yeah, from Glasgow. - And what do you do, Cameron?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16We both study at the University of Edinburgh.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- What are you studying at Edinburgh? - History and politics.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Very good. Enjoying it?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23A bit. Not really. I mean...
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Glowing...- I enjoy university.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Oh, that's nice. Good. Making full use of Edinburgh.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Yeah, exactly.- Which, if you had to get rid of one bit,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33is it the history that's annoying you or the politics bit,
0:07:33 > 0:07:35- or is it just the work bit? - A bit of each. A bit of everything.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- Oh, no.- They were my two passions, history and politics,
0:07:38 > 0:07:42but when you're forced to learn them, it's not so fun, I think.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45You know what's going to happen? Ten years from now, you're going to
0:07:45 > 0:07:48think, "Oh, I wish I'd worked a bit harder at the history and politics.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51"I had all of those resources at my disposal and I just..."
0:07:51 > 0:07:54- That's a nice thought. - All right, Dad.- Thanks. Yeah. Yeah!
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Oh.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Anyway...!
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Cameron, what would you like to go for on our board?
0:08:02 > 0:08:06I really fancied Herman Melville, but that ship was sunk.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I think I'll have to go for the second bottom one,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11the Russian novelist,
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- and Leo Tolstoy. - Tolstoy, says Cameron.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said Leo Tolstoy.
0:08:26 > 0:08:2835.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Not bad. 35 for Tolstoy.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Yeah, good answer, Cameron. Well played. Yeah, Gandhi read
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Tolstoy's The Kingdom Of God Is Within,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39- and it made a great impression on him.- Thanks very much indeed.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41- Grace, welcome back.- Hi.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44All the way to the head-to-head last time,
0:08:44 > 0:08:45with some lovely low scores from you.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Got to be hoping to repeat that this time.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Remind us what you do, Grace.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- I'm a town planner.- A town planner?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Yeah.- See, that is... That's quite fun, isn't it?
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Erm...
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- It's stressful.- People's feelings run very high, don't they?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- Yeah, they do.- People don't like too much radical change.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04- Yeah.- Was your background in architecture or what?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06No, I just did my degree in town planning.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09- I just went straight into it. - I see, straight into town planning.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- Yeah.- And there you are designing London for the next generation.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Yeah, you could say that.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Yeah. That's fun. And now, Grace, this board is all yours.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Do you want to talk us through it and fill in all the blanks?
0:09:19 > 0:09:20It's quite a hard board.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24I only know the fourth one down, which is JK Rowling.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26And I'm going to go for the fifth one,
0:09:26 > 0:09:29and hopefully I've got the right sister, and it's Charlotte Bronte.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Charlotte Bronte, says Grace. Let's see if it is the right sister.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35How many of our 100 people said Charlotte Bronte?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39It IS the right sister.
0:09:44 > 0:09:4619. The second-lowest score
0:09:46 > 0:09:48of the round so far.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Well done, Grace.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Yeah, well played, everybody, on that round.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Yeah, she was only 38 when she died, and she was the oldest
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- of the Bronte sisters to die. Isn't that incredible?- Incredible.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Amazing, when you think of the work that they produced between them.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05The Texas-born writer who created Ripley is Patricia Highsmith.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- Mm-hm.- She would have scored you one point. That's a terrific answer.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09The comic novelist...
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- PG Wodehouse.- PG Wodehouse.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12That would have scored 17.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14- And the bestselling author... - JK Rowling.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16JK Rowling, yeah. And she would have scored 58.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Biggest score on the board, although quite a low score.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Quite a low scorer for JK Rowling.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Yeah. I wonder if people get confused by the clues sometimes.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Here we are. We are halfway through the round.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Let's take a look at our scores so far to see where we are.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Jenny, very well done indeed.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Your fabulous answer of Herman Melville has put you
0:10:31 > 0:10:34right at the top of the table. Then we travel up to 19,
0:10:34 > 0:10:35where we find Grace and Huub.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38And up to 35, where we find Cameron and Laura, and then 39,
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Chris and Jeevan. Not that far ahead.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43But you're the high scorer, so, Jeevan, we need a low score from you.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46How, as a matter of interest, did you find that board, Jeevan?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48- I knew quite a few of those actually.- Let's hope you know more
0:10:48 > 0:10:51on the next board and you can find a nice low score. Good luck with that.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55We are going to come back down the line now. Can the second players please step up to the podium?
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Let's put seven more haikus up the board and here they are.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04We have got...
0:11:28 > 0:11:30I'll read those all again.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58There we are. Huub, welcome back to Pointless.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Now, Huub, remind us what you do.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03I'm a researcher for a publishing company.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07That is right and it's a specialist financial publishing.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Yeah, regeneration and inward investment, yeah.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- For local authorities. - I see. There we are.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15- How long have you done that, Huub? - Four years now.- OK.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Yeah.- And how long have you lived over here?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Because you're from the Netherlands originally.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Yes. I have lived here five years now.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24OK, be honest, now, Huub, are you happy here?
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Do you yearn? Do you yearn for the Netherlands?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30- I'm dying to go back.- Are you really?- No, sorry, I love it here.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- I'm really happy. - I mean, it's not far.
0:12:32 > 0:12:38- True.- It's not like you've emigrated to the other side of the world, so that's... Yes.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40There we are. Now, Huub, you're on 19.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Fabulous low score from Grace in the first round,
0:12:42 > 0:12:44which means, if you can score 19 again,
0:12:44 > 0:12:47you're absolutely through to the next round for sure.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Yeah. Erm...
0:12:50 > 0:12:52I think I know a few on the board.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56But I'm going to go for the top one,
0:12:56 > 0:12:58which is, I believe, Victor Hugo.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Victor Hugo, says Huub.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Here is your red line. If you can get below that with Victor Hugo, you are through to the next round.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06How many of our 100 people said it?
0:13:08 > 0:13:09It's right.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Still going down, Huub. Look at that.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16There we are. Down to 17, very well done indeed.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Through you go to Round Two.
0:13:18 > 0:13:1936 is your total.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Well played, Huub. Yeah, safely through to Round Two.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- Well played.- Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27So, now, then, Laura, welcome.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Great to have you here. Your set-up is exactly the same as Cameron's,
0:13:31 > 0:13:32is that right? You're at Edinburgh?
0:13:32 > 0:13:34- Yes.- And also from Glasgow?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Yes, correct.- Now, Laura, what do you study at Edinburgh?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I am studying law.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Enjoying that?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Mm-hm.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Good.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Fantastic. Laura, what are your interests?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50You're having a lovely time at Edinburgh, I hope?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- Yeah, I love uni. - SUCH a beautiful place to be.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- Yeah.- What sort of things are you filling your time with?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56I like to socialise with my friends...
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- Good.- ..and I like to bake.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00- Good.- I make...
0:14:00 > 0:14:02I've made a few of my friends birthday cakes.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04I like to decorate them nicely.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Fantastic. Now, Laura, there you are on 35.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10High-scorers at the moment are Jeevan and Chris on 39.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Ideally you'd score three or less with this answer.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Literature is not my strong point, and the only two I knew were
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Victor Hugo and the answer that I'm going to give,
0:14:19 > 0:14:22which I'm pretty sure loads of people will know,
0:14:22 > 0:14:24which is the second from the bottom.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- Jane Austen.- Jane Austen, says Laura.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Here is your red line. It's very low,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32but let's see how far down the column we get with Jane Austen.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36It's right.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Look at that. 28. 28 for Jane Austen
0:14:43 > 0:14:45takes your total up to 63.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50It was originally called First Impressions, Pride And Prejudice.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52But that's a better name, Pride And Prejudice.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- I think it is.- It makes you think.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Yes, doesn't it? Thank you very much, Richard.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Now, welcome back, Jeevan. Remind us what you do, Jeevan.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03So, I live with Chris and I study economics and,
0:15:03 > 0:15:05unlike other contestants, I actually enjoy my course!
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Oh, there you are! See, that's good.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Jeevan enjoys his course at the University of Birmingham.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14- Yes.- Very good. So what sort of house do you and Chris share?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16How many of you are in the house?
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- There is six of us in the house in total.- Right.- And it is, if you can believe it,
0:15:19 > 0:15:21a terraced house in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25What sort of state do you keep it in? I'm guessing very neat.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29I try. I try my best and I know Chris does as well.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Do you have items in the fridge with your name on
0:15:32 > 0:15:35or do you trust everyone else in the house to respect what is yours?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37I don't personally label things in the fridge.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- Does anyone else in the house do that?- No. No.- OK.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Not even your mate, Yakult?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Now, Jeevan, what are you going to go for?
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Ideally you'd score 23 or less.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- Hmm...- Mm-hmm.- There are a few on there that I've got ideas of,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57but I'm not willing to risk it just yet.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01I think what I will do is go for the second one and say George Orwell,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03who wrote Animal Farm.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06OK, yes, good luck.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09That's your red line. You really, really need to be getting below that
0:16:09 > 0:16:12red line or I think we'll be saying goodbye to you. You've gone for George Orwell.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Let's see how many of our 100 people said George Orwell.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I feared that was going to happen, Jeevan.
0:16:24 > 0:16:2546 for George Orwell,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27taking your total up to 85.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Yeah, he was shot by a sniper during the Spanish Civil War,
0:16:30 > 0:16:32George Orwell, in the neck.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- It didn't kill him.- In the neck? - Yeah, it contributed to his death 13
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- years later, yeah.- Wow. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Mmm. Emily, welcome to Pointless.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Good to have you here, from Bristol.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- Yeah.- And what do you do, Emily, in Bristol?
0:16:46 > 0:16:50I'm a PhD student at the University of Bristol and I also work as an
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- administrator there. - Within the university?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56- Yeah.- Which came first? You were an administrator there first?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59I was an administrator there first and I was doing a PhD
0:16:59 > 0:17:02at Swansea University, but that didn't really work out,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05so I switched to Bristol because I lived and worked there.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- Made much more sense.- Yeah.- So, what's the administration you do?
0:17:08 > 0:17:10I'm a research centre administrator,
0:17:10 > 0:17:12so I provide admin support
0:17:12 > 0:17:14to the academics that run the research centres.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16And what about the PhD?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- What's that in?- My PhD is looking at
0:17:18 > 0:17:21how and why drugs became illegal globally.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25- THAT'S an interesting PhD. - Yeah.- Yeah, fascinating.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27And now, there you are on ten.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Lovely low score from Jenny in the first pass.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32The high score is for 85.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35So, if you can score 74 or less, you are comfortably into the next round.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Do you feel like talking us through that board and filling in the blanks?
0:17:38 > 0:17:43So, the writer that was made a dame and invented Hercule Poirot is
0:17:43 > 0:17:44Agatha Christie.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Brighton Rock writer is Graham Greene.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50I'm going to go for born in Bangladesh,
0:17:50 > 0:17:52her first novel was Brick Lane,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- Monica Ali.- Monica Ali, says Emily.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57There is your red line.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Let's see how many of our 100 people said Monica Ali.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05It is Monica Ali and you are into Round Two.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Two for Monica Ali!
0:18:10 > 0:18:12What about that? There is a score,
0:18:12 > 0:18:14taking your total up to 12.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Commendably low score, there.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Yeah, how about that on podium one?
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Very well played. You were right about the other two as well.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Went for the right one. Agatha Christie,
0:18:24 > 0:18:26she would have scored you 41.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Graham Greene...
0:18:29 > 0:18:33..would have scored you 15, and Adam Bede and Silas Marner...
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Is George Eliot.- George Eliot.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37And she would have scored you eight, so Monica Ali -
0:18:37 > 0:18:39best answer on the board. Well played.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Thank you very much indeed. So, at the end of our first round,
0:18:42 > 0:18:44the pair we have to send home, with their high score of 85...
0:18:44 > 0:18:47George Orwell, I'm afraid, yes, that was a punishing score there, but...
0:18:47 > 0:18:51It means, I'm afraid, we've now got to say goodbye to you, which is terrible. I'm sorry.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Thanks so much for playing, Jeevan and Chris.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59But, for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07And there we are, suddenly down to three pairs.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10And at the end of this round we are going to have to say goodbye to another pair.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Well, look, there is Grace and Huub,
0:19:12 > 0:19:14who were our low-scorers again and again last time.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17This time, though, Emily and Jenny are our low scorers.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19We have new low scorers.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Our category for Round Two this afternoon is...
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:19:35 > 0:19:40Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Countries with no consecutive vowels in their name.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- Richard.- Yeah, simply any country of the world...
0:19:50 > 0:19:54By country, we mean a sovereign state that is a member of the UN in its own right,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57whose name doesn't contain consecutive vowels at any point of
0:19:57 > 0:20:00its name, so any two vowels together at any point of its name, please.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04So, any country of the world vowels doesn't have two consecutive vowels
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- anywhere in its name.- Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12So, Emily, what would you like to go for?
0:20:12 > 0:20:18Erm... I am going to go for Pakistan.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19Pakistan, says Emily.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Let's see how many of our 100 people said Pakistan.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25It's right.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Down to five. Not bad at all.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Five for Pakistan.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Yeah, it's got the sixth-highest population in the world, Pakistan,
0:20:41 > 0:20:45and it hasn't won an Olympic medal since 1992.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50But one thing I can say for it is all its vowels are very carefully kept apart by consonants,
0:20:50 > 0:20:51so it's done a grand job there.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- Less puzzled by that. - But that's amazing, isn't it?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56That IS amazing. Thank you very much indeed.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57- Now, Laura...- Yes.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Laura, what would you like to go for?
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Five, the only score we've got so far.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04My geography isn't great...
0:21:05 > 0:21:08..so I'm going to go for San Marino.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10San Marino, says Laura.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Let's see how many of our 100 people said San Marino.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Well, we have a five on our scoreboard at the moment.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22San Marino is taking us down. Where will it end up?
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Oh, look at that!
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Down to pointless. Look at that, Laura!
0:21:26 > 0:21:30That adds £250 to today's jackpot
0:21:30 > 0:21:34takes the total up to £4,250, and scores you absolutely nothing.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37And earns you a hug from Cameron,
0:21:37 > 0:21:40in fact. Do you know where San Marino is?
0:21:40 > 0:21:42No. No idea.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Let's make a point of finding out where San Marino is.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- Mm-hm.- Yeah, well played, Laura.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48It's literally just outside Glasgow.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50It's got a lot of vowels in it, San Marino.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52- That's a scary one.- I know.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54That feels like two of them MUST be together at some point, but, no,
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- great answer.- Yeah. Thank you very much indeed.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58Now, Grace...
0:21:59 > 0:22:01I'm going to go for Bhutan.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Bhutan, said with great confidence.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Let's see how far down the column we get with Bhutan.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11It's right.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20It's another pointless answer! Very well done indeed, Grace!
0:22:20 > 0:22:22That's another £250 to today's jackpot,
0:22:22 > 0:22:24takes our total up to £4,500,
0:22:24 > 0:22:28scores you nothing, and earnt you
0:22:28 > 0:22:29a chaste pat from your husband,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31"Chaste Pat".
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- Which is another of your nicknames. - Chaste Pat.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36That's another very good answer.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Well played, everybody. Yeah, Bhutan.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40The king and queen of Bhutan had a son in 2016
0:22:40 > 0:22:43and they planted 100,000 tree saplings to celebrate.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- That's nice.- Nice, isn't it? - That is nice.- Yeah.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Thank you very much indeed. OK, we're halfway through the round.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Let's take a look at those scores. Nothing, the best score of that pass.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Well done, Grace. Well done, Laura. Five is where we find Emily and Jenny.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56That suddenly looks like a very big score, doesn't it?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59So, Jenny, yes, you know what we need.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02It's going to have to be a pointless answer at the very least.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05So, good luck with that. We're going to come back down the line now.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Can the second players please step up to the podium?
0:23:10 > 0:23:11OK, now, Huub...
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Huub, what are you thinking of?
0:23:16 > 0:23:19I think that I am going to go for
0:23:19 > 0:23:22the South American country
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- of Suriname. - Suriname, says Huub.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Let's see what happens when you say Suriname.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30If you can score four or less, you're through to the next round.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31There's your red line.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35It's right.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Two! Very well done.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Good enough to see you through,
0:23:45 > 0:23:46taking your total up to two.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Very well played, Huub.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Of course, a country with many, many Dutch connections.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56A lot of the great Dutch footballers have Surinamese roots.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58- Interesting. I didn't know that. - Yeah.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Thank you very much, Richard. Now, then, Cameron.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Cameron. Again, you are looking to score
0:24:04 > 0:24:07four or less to be through to the head-to-head.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11- What are you thinking of?- I'm going to go with a very traditional answer
0:24:11 > 0:24:14for the show and say Central African Republic.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17It's such a long name for a country.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19It really takes quite a lot of analysing
0:24:19 > 0:24:22to make sure that all of those vowels are kept apart.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- I've had a while. - OK. You have. You've had a while.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28OK, Central African Republic, as Cameron says,
0:24:28 > 0:24:30a staunch favourite of Pointless.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Let's see how much it scores.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34There is your red line.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37It's right.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45One!
0:24:45 > 0:24:47One! Good enough to get you through.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Not good enough to be pointless, I'm afraid, but still,
0:24:50 > 0:24:52that's a great low score, taking your total up to one.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Well played, Cameron. Very rarely pointless, these days, Central African Republic.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Well up in the north of Scotland, there are various national parks
0:24:58 > 0:25:01which are places where there is no light pollution, and
0:25:01 > 0:25:03they deliberately make them so that you can see the night sky,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06but they are very, very few and far between in the UK.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Three quarters of the Central African Republic has pristine sky conditions,
0:25:09 > 0:25:11no light pollution at all.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Jenny, what about that?
0:25:14 > 0:25:18There you are, five is the score posted on your display there
0:25:18 > 0:25:21and I'm afraid that marks you down as the high-scorers
0:25:21 > 0:25:25even before you've given your answer. I know you've got an excellent answer there,
0:25:25 > 0:25:27but I'm afraid we will be saying goodbye to you
0:25:27 > 0:25:29at the end of this round. What are you going to go for, Jenny?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Er, I'm going to go for Rwanda.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33- Rwanda.- Yeah.- Rwanda, says Jenny.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36No red line, I'm afraid, as you're already the high-scorers,
0:25:36 > 0:25:40but let's see how many of our 100 people said Rwanda.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44It's right.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Down it goes to two! Very well done indeed, Jenny.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Lovely low score,
0:25:53 > 0:25:55takes your total up to seven.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Another good answer. Yeah, it's great answers from everyone there.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02On the last Saturday of every month in Rwanda,
0:26:02 > 0:26:06every single adult from 18 to 65 does three hours' community service.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08They call it Umuganda, which means to come together
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- for common purpose. That's a good idea, isn't it?- That's nice.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- Yeah, it's a nice idea.- And that's very good.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Right, now, there's lots of pointless answers here. Terrific scoring from everyone.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Ten between the three podiums, which is great stuff.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Let's take you through a few of the pointless answers here.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24You could have had...
0:26:24 > 0:26:28All of these would have added money to the jackpot...
0:26:28 > 0:26:30There's Bhutan, which we heard, of course.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40You could have had Benin, Burkina Faso, Capo Verde, Congo, Costa Rica,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Lesotho, Marshall Islands,
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Montenegro, Niger, Seychelles, Sri Lanka,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Swaziland, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. All of those were pointless answers.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Very well done if you got one.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59And let's take a look at the top three scorers now,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02the ones that most of our 100 people said...
0:27:06 > 0:27:09And our old friends France, with 69, right at the top.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So, at the end of our second round,
0:27:12 > 0:27:15the pair we have to say goodbye to, with their high score of seven -
0:27:15 > 0:27:18I mean, really, - Jenny and Emily, I'm afraid it's you.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Our wonderful low-scorers from the first round.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23That was a very, very impressive round.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Quite rare when every single answer
0:27:25 > 0:27:27is one that wins approval from Richard.
0:27:27 > 0:27:28And I think that was...
0:27:28 > 0:27:31That was certainly the case there. Anyway, we'll see you again
0:27:31 > 0:27:34next time. I'm sure you'll get much further. But in the meantime,
0:27:34 > 0:27:36thank you very much indeed, Jenny and Emily.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42But for the remaining two pairs, it's now time for our head-to-head.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Very well done, Grace and Huub, Laura and Cameron.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play
0:27:53 > 0:27:56for our jackpot, which currently stands at £4,500.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Here we are in the head-to-head, which means you can start playing as a team.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05You can chat before you give your answers. First player to win two questions
0:28:05 > 0:28:09will be playing for the jackpot. Best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19Here is your first question and it concerns...
0:28:20 > 0:28:21- Bear Species.- Yeah,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24the good news is we're about to show you five pictures of bears,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27which will be nice. The bad news is you have to name the species of bear
0:28:27 > 0:28:30they are, but we're going to give alternate letters as well.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34Thank you very much indeed. OK, let's have a look at our five bear species, and here they come.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36We have got...
0:28:59 > 0:29:03There we go. Five species of bear.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Now, then, Grace and Huub, you've been our low-scorers,
0:29:05 > 0:29:08so you will go first. THEY WHISPER
0:29:10 > 0:29:15Erm... We know the last three, but we are going to go for D,
0:29:15 > 0:29:18- which is the brown bear. - You're going to go for brown bear.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Grace and Huub say brown bear.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24Now, Laura and Cameron, talk us through our bears.
0:29:24 > 0:29:25We don't know A.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29We'd take a guess at Asiatic black bear.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32B, I think, is sloth bear.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34C, do you want to say this one, Laura?
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Giant panda. And E is polar bear.
0:29:36 > 0:29:41- Shall we go with B?- Yeah.- I think, can we go with B, sloth bear?
0:29:41 > 0:29:45Sloth bear. So, we have brown bear and sloth bear.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48Now, Grace and Huub have gone for brown bear for D.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50Let's see how many of our 100 people got that.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55It's right.
0:29:55 > 0:29:5878! Brown bear, big score.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Laura and Cameron, meanwhile, have gone for B and said sloth bear.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12It's right and it wins you the point. Well done.
0:30:14 > 0:30:15With room to spare,
0:30:15 > 0:30:17down it goes to 21.
0:30:17 > 0:30:18A very good score for sloth bear.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Laura and Cameron, very well done. After one question, you're up 1-0.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23Yes, the second best answer on the board.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26The best answer on the board you knew as well
0:30:26 > 0:30:28because A is the Asiatic black bear,
0:30:28 > 0:30:30which scored you 18 points.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33Unsurprisingly, some big scores
0:30:33 > 0:30:34for these other two.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36What do you think would score more?
0:30:36 > 0:30:37I think probably panda.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Panda, giant panda would have
0:30:39 > 0:30:41scored you 87. They're no longer
0:30:41 > 0:30:43endangered, they are now
0:30:43 > 0:30:44just vulnerable, which is good news,
0:30:44 > 0:30:46so they are on their way back,
0:30:46 > 0:30:50which is lovely. But the polar bear is a HUGE scorer.
0:30:50 > 0:30:5298 points for the polar bear.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54How about that?
0:30:54 > 0:30:56Thank you very much, Richard. Now, here comes your second question.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59Laura and Cameron, riding high at the moment.
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Grace and Huub, you have to win this one to stay in the game,
0:31:02 > 0:31:07so best of luck. Our second question today is all about...
0:31:07 > 0:31:09- Richard.- Going to give you five clues to bands that are fictional
0:31:09 > 0:31:13or began their lives as part of a fiction. You have to tell us the names of these bands, please.
0:31:13 > 0:31:18Thank you very much indeed. Let's reveal our five fictional bands, and here they are.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45I'll read those all again.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09Laura and Cameron will go first.
0:32:11 > 0:32:15We know either one, two or zero of them.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17CHUCKLING
0:32:17 > 0:32:20I think we're going to take a guess at the third one,
0:32:20 > 0:32:24Rob Reiner film, and it might be Spinal Tap.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Spinal Tap, say Laura and Cameron.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Spinal Tap. Now then, Grace and Huub,
0:32:28 > 0:32:31do you want to talk us through that board?
0:32:31 > 0:32:34I think the first one is The Commitments.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37I think the fourth one is The Monkees.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40And that's all, so it's either between The Monkees
0:32:40 > 0:32:41and The Commitments.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43- The Monkees.- You're going to go for The Monkees.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45So, we have Spinal Tap and we have The Monkees.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Laura and Cameron went for Spinal Tap.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50Let's see if that is right for the Rob Reiner creation.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54It's right.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01That is a great score, down to nine.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04Very well done indeed, Laura and Cameron, Spinal Tap,
0:33:04 > 0:33:06looking very strong there.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09Meanwhile, Grace and Huub have gone for The Monkees.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said The Monkees.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17It's right.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20Ooh, 58 for the Monkees.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Well, there we are.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Laura and Cameron, very well done indeed.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28After only two questions, you're straight through to the final, 2-0.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31Very well played. This Is Spinal Tap, funniest comedy film ever made?
0:33:31 > 0:33:34- I think, probably yes. - I think probably yes as well.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36It's very difficult to think of one that's better.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40The Commitments would have been a much better score. Wouldn't have won you the point, though,
0:33:40 > 0:33:43cos it would have scored you 15. Eric Idle's parody of The Beatles?
0:33:43 > 0:33:45- The Rutles.- The Rutles would have scored you 18.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48And very well done if you know this movie and you know the name of the
0:33:48 > 0:33:51fictional band. It's a pointless answer and it is
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Where's Fluffy. Very well done if you said that.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59So the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head, I can't bear it, Grace and Huub.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02Twice you have been our low scorers coming into the head-to-head,
0:34:02 > 0:34:04and I'm afraid twice now we've had to send you away.
0:34:04 > 0:34:06I'm afraid this is the end of the road, Grace and Huub.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08We have to say goodbye now, but it's been wonderful having you
0:34:08 > 0:34:11on both shows. Thank you for playing so well, Grace and Huub.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16But, for Laura and Cameron, it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Congratulations, Laura and Cameron,
0:34:21 > 0:34:23you fought off all the competition
0:34:23 > 0:34:26and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £4,500.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44What about that? Your first appearance on Pointless,
0:34:44 > 0:34:48we had a pointless answer from you, 2-0 in the head-to-head.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51Do you know what? I think you are just longing to get back
0:34:51 > 0:34:54to your courses. Back to the norm, back to history and politics.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57You just didn't want to be away for a second longer
0:34:57 > 0:35:00than you needed to be. What would you like to see come up in this last round?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Maybe American TV.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06I'd take sport.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10OK. Well, let's hope something on the board appeals to you.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12You know what happens, four things go up there,
0:35:12 > 0:35:14they look quite forbidding sometimes when you first see them,
0:35:14 > 0:35:16but behind each one, there are three subsections,
0:35:16 > 0:35:21so there might be something better behind each one. Anyway, let's see what today's selection looks like.
0:35:21 > 0:35:22We've got...
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Phil Collins...
0:35:26 > 0:35:27LAUGHTER
0:35:37 > 0:35:39- So...- I'd be more embarrassed to do badly at Scottish politics
0:35:39 > 0:35:41than at sporting achievements.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Shall we go with sporting achievements?
0:35:43 > 0:35:45OK. Yeah, I'll do my best to pitch in!
0:35:47 > 0:35:50- Yeah, we'll go sporting achievements.- Yes, please.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53CHUCKLING
0:35:59 > 0:36:02- Sporting achievements. - I was just about to do my speech
0:36:02 > 0:36:04where I say these do come up completely randomly,
0:36:04 > 0:36:05so for two Scottish people,
0:36:05 > 0:36:08one of whom is doing a politics degree, to get Scottish politics,
0:36:08 > 0:36:09it is just one of those things.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12You have to get unbelievably lucky but they do happen sometimes.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15And it happened for you, but let's go with sporting achievements,
0:36:15 > 0:36:17shall we?!
0:36:17 > 0:36:20Let me just rearrange my paperwork for a moment because I was,
0:36:20 > 0:36:23for various reasons, I was looking at a different question.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Here are your three questions for sporting achievements.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28I think you'll have a good shout with this one as well.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30But you would have walked the other one! Anyway, doesn't matter.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33Let's take a look at them. Sporting achievements. We are
0:36:33 > 0:36:37looking for any of the following, please. The name of any man who has ever run under 9.9 seconds
0:36:37 > 0:36:38for the 100 metres.
0:36:38 > 0:36:42We are looking for any golfer who has ever scored a round of 63
0:36:42 > 0:36:46at a major tournament. That's the Open, the Masters,
0:36:46 > 0:36:47the US open, and the US PGA.
0:36:47 > 0:36:51Or anyone who's ever scored a hat-trick in a World Cup finals,
0:36:51 > 0:36:54please. That's up to July 2016, for all of those,
0:36:54 > 0:36:56so sub 9.9-second 100m runners,
0:36:56 > 0:37:00golfers with rounds of 63 and hat-trick scoring footballers at a World Cup. Good luck.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02Thanks very much indeed. Now,
0:37:02 > 0:37:04as always, you've got up to one minute to come with three answers.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08All you need to win the jackpot is for just one of those answers
0:37:08 > 0:37:09to be pointless. Are you ready?
0:37:09 > 0:37:12- Yes.- OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14There they are. Your time starts now.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17- This is so cruel.- OK, so...
0:37:17 > 0:37:20There's a guy called Ben Johnson who ran a drug-assisted 9.9 seconds,
0:37:20 > 0:37:24- I don't know if that will count. - Anything that's been wiped off the records won't count, yep.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Footballers who have scored a World Cup hat-trick,
0:37:27 > 0:37:29you've got Geoff Hurst, but that will be really obvious.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Ronaldo, Portuguese, Ronaldo,
0:37:31 > 0:37:34scored a World Cup hat-trick.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Pele - again, too obvious.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39- Yeah.- There's a guy called Just Fontaine, who's French,
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- that we'll put as one answer... - OK.- ..who I just thought of there.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Golfers with rounds of 63.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47Phil Mickelson, um...
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Mark Calcavecchia might have done that, but I don't know.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52I think we'll ignore the runners, unless...
0:37:52 > 0:37:56- Yeah, I only know, like, the really famous ones. - Yohan Blake, would you know him?
0:37:56 > 0:38:00- Yeah, I know him. So, I don't think we should go for him. - Yeah, let's not say him, then!
0:38:00 > 0:38:02Golfers with rounds of 63... So we will go Just Fontaine...
0:38:06 > 0:38:10..say Phil Mickelson because I know he has 63 on a Major and...
0:38:10 > 0:38:13- Who was that Mark guy you said? - Just drawing a mind blank. Mark Calcavecchia.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16- He probably didn't. - OK, that's your time up. Let's have your three answers now.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20And if you say which category you are answering in, that would be great.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24OK. Golfers with rounds of 63 at a Major, we'll say Phil Mickelson.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28- Phil Mickelson.- A footballer with a World Cup hat-trick, Just Fontaine.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30Just Fontaine.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33I'll also say Mark Calcavecchia as a golfer,
0:38:33 > 0:38:35but I'm not confident.
0:38:35 > 0:38:39OK. Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:38:39 > 0:38:41- I think Just Fontaine. - OK, Just Fontaine goes last.
0:38:41 > 0:38:45- Least likely to be pointless? - Mark Calcavecchia because I'm pretty sure it's wrong.
0:38:45 > 0:38:46Mark Calcavecchia, OK.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49Let's put those answers on the board in that order, then.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Here they are. We have got...
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Three answers on the board. If one of these turns out to be pointless
0:39:00 > 0:39:01and wins that jackpot for you,
0:39:01 > 0:39:04£4,500, nice jackpot to be taking home,
0:39:04 > 0:39:07what would you like to do with your share of that, Laura?
0:39:07 > 0:39:09I'd probably go shopping.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12- CHUCKLING - And save some of it for a holiday.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15Very good indeed. Cameron, how about you?
0:39:15 > 0:39:17A big night out,
0:39:17 > 0:39:19then...a bigger night out,
0:39:19 > 0:39:21- and then a holiday.- Very good.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24OK, very best of luck. Three good answers on the board,
0:39:24 > 0:39:26let's hope one of them is pointless and wins the jackpot for you.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28Your first answer was Mark Calcavecchia.
0:39:28 > 0:39:33In this case, we were looking for golfers with rounds of 63
0:39:33 > 0:39:36at a Major. If this is pointless, it wins you £4,500.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Let's see how many of our 100 people said Mark Calcavecchia.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46OK, I think you suspected as much.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47That is an incorrect answer,
0:39:47 > 0:39:50which means we move swiftly on to your next answer,
0:39:50 > 0:39:51which is Phil Mickelson.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55In this case again, we were looking for golfers with rounds of 63 at a
0:39:55 > 0:39:59Major. If Phil Mickelson is pointless, it will win you £4,500.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02How many of our 100 people said Phil Mickelson?
0:40:05 > 0:40:07It's right.
0:40:07 > 0:40:09Mark Calcavecchia, your first answer, was incorrect,
0:40:09 > 0:40:11Phil Mickelson is absolutely on the money.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Down we go through the teens.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15And we are into single figures, still going down.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18Down it goes to four. Four for Phil Mickelson.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22See, that's more like it. There we are.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26But annoyingly, only pointless answers
0:40:26 > 0:40:29are acceptable in this last round. So we have to move on to your third and final answer,
0:40:29 > 0:40:33which was Just Fontaine. You thought this was clearly your best shot
0:40:33 > 0:40:36- at a pointless answer. - If he's right, hopefully.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38We were looking for footballers
0:40:38 > 0:40:40who scored a hat-trick in a World Cup Finals game.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45If it is right, and if it is pointless, it will win you £4,500.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47Let's find out. Just Fontaine.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49Is it a correct answer, is it pointless?
0:40:53 > 0:40:55It is right.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Your first answer, Mark Calcavecchia was incorrect,
0:40:57 > 0:41:00your second answer, Phil Mickelson, was correct
0:41:00 > 0:41:01and took us down to four.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03Just Fontaine now takes us into single figures, down we go.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05We are passing four, we are still going down.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08We have done it! Very well done indeed!
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Absolutely brilliant, very well done.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14- Thank you!- Super.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20Congratulations. Just Fontaine was a pointless answer, which means you go
0:41:20 > 0:41:23home at that jackpot of £4,500.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Well, that turned out very nicely, didn't it?
0:41:25 > 0:41:28That's great. And also you used your head there, cos one thing
0:41:28 > 0:41:31all football fans know is Just Fontaine is the biggest scorer ever
0:41:31 > 0:41:34at a World Cup, but had he scored hat tricks? Yeah, he scored two hat-tricks
0:41:34 > 0:41:37- in 1958, when he scored those 13 goals. - Do we get double the money, or...?
0:41:37 > 0:41:39Terrific answer. You do not, I'm afraid!
0:41:39 > 0:41:43You get half the money for turning down the thing that you do at university.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Let's take a look at the pointless answers in the different categories.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Some big names in all of these.
0:41:48 > 0:41:50I suspect sports fans at home will have done rather well here.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52Those 100m runners...
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Maurice Greene was the world record-holder at one point over Daley Thompson.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00Could have had Ato Boldon as a pointless answer, Bruny Surin,
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Francis Obikwelu, Leroy Burrell, Nesta Carter,
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Richard Thompson, Ryan Bailey.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06Some big names there, very well done if you said any of those.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Usain Bolt was the biggest scorer there by a mile,
0:42:09 > 0:42:11followed by Asafa Powell.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13Now, the golfers. Some famous ones here as well.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Major winners on this board...
0:42:18 > 0:42:22You could have had Brad Faxon, more recently, Jason Dufner,
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Mark O'Meara a pointless answer, Payne Stewart, Steve Stricker,
0:42:25 > 0:42:29Thomas Bjorn. And the footballers who scored a World Cup hat-trick.
0:42:29 > 0:42:30Lots of names on this list.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32Here are some of the more famous ones.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34Just Fontaine, very well done.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40Geoff Hurst and Pele are the two biggest scorers up there,
0:42:40 > 0:42:43as you might expect. Very well done if you got one of those at home,
0:42:43 > 0:42:46and congratulations in the studio for going for the category
0:42:46 > 0:42:49you shouldn't not have gone for and still winning £4,500!
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Thanks very much indeed.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54Well, thanks once again to our winning players, Laura and Cameron,
0:42:54 > 0:42:57who go away with today's jackpot of £4,500. Very well done.
0:42:59 > 0:43:03Join us next time, when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge
0:43:03 > 0:43:05to the test on Pointless. In the meantime, it's goodbye
0:43:05 > 0:43:08- from Richard...- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.