Episode 37 Pointless

APPLAUSE

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

and welcome to Pointless,

the show where the more obscure your knowledge the better your chances of winning.

Let's meet today's players.

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And couple number one...

Hi. I'm Rosalie and I'm from Nottingham,

and this is my friend Charlie, who is from Kent.

Couple number two...

Hi, I'm Meg, I'm from Warrington,

and this is my boyfriend Keiron and he's from Birkenhead.

Couple number three...

Hi, my name's Sarah, this is my father, Ken,

and we are from Newcastle upon Tyne.

And finally, couple number four...

Hi, I'm Andy, this is my friend Gavin, and we are from Edinburgh.

And these are today's contestants.

APPLAUSE

Thanks very much. A very warm welcome to Pointless.

Lovely to have you with us. We'll chat to each of you

throughout the show as it goes along.

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

He's got more brains than a low-budget zombie movie.

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

-APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-Hiya. Hey, everybody.

Hiya.

Good afternoon to you.

-Good afternoon.

-Oh, this is going to be fun today.

-Isn't it?

We've got two lovely returning pairs, haven't we?

We've got Meg and Keiron on podium two, who got knocked out in Round Two.

And on our final podium there, Andy and Gavin,

who took part in that amazing head-to-head last time, wasn't it?

It was really, really close.

Terrific stuff. But this is going to be a cracker.

Look at these new pairs as well. They look lovely, don't they?

I mean, let's make it a double length.

Let's do it.

Let me talk to Huw Edwards on the news.

Oh. Ouf!

Yeah, he says no.

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Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Leon and Richard 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.

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

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

will be eliminated. Just keep your scores nice and low and you'll be absolutely fine.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category 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...

Bands with three members, Richard.

On each board we're going to show you seven sets of names.

They are three people who have all been in a band together,

a three-piece band at some point.

Also we'll give you the year that they had their first UK Top 40 hit,

but can you name the bands, please?

Seven on the first board, seven on the second.

-14 bands to guess at home. Good luck.

-Thank you very much, indeed.

OK, so, we are looking for the name of the bands that were made up of

these three people in each case.

And our first board looks like this.

I'll read those all again.

There we are, we made it. Rosalie, welcome to Pointless.

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

I am doing a PhD in chemistry at Nottingham Uni.

Did you do your undergraduate course at Nottingham as well?

Yeah, I did natural sciences for my undergrad,

which basically consisted of me not choosing what I wanted to do and

carrying on with my A-levels, which were maths, chemistry and physics.

-Oh, that's a bit annoying.

-Yeah.

-That's not really what you want to be doing at all.

Now you're doing your PhD you can do exactly what you want to do.

Yeah. Sort... Well, yeah, I'm carrying on with my Masters project,

so I'm not very good at decisions, so I just...

Just defer. Defer, defer, defer. There we are. Annoyingly, though,

being on that first podium you are going to have to make a decision as to which one to go for.

How are you finding the board?

-Are you enjoying this board?

-I feel like this is one of the better boards that I could ever have.

Oh, this is great!

So, I'm going to go for

Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge

-with Blink 182.

-Blink 182, says Rosalie.

Let's see if that is right. Let's see how many of our 100 people knew that answer.

Ohhhhh...

That's a great answer. Look at that! Three, Rosalie.

What a start to the show.

-Fabulous.

-Well played, Rosalie.

It's a great answer. I love Blink 182.

Their first hit was What's My Age Again.

They released a new album actually in 2016,

which went to number one in the UK. Their first-ever number one album.

-Very good. Thank you, Richard. Meg, welcome back.

-Hiya.

-Remind us what you do?

-I am just about to start a PhD

at the University of Cambridge in biochemistry.

So, you are just about to start, which is very exciting.

Where will you be staying? Will you be living in college when you go?

Yeah, we'll be living in Corpus Christi.

-Both of us are in the same college.

-That's really nice.

You're going to be there for how long?

-Three-and-a-half years.

-Ah!

-I get to investigate bacteriophages,

which are cool, little viruses that infect bacteria,

and hopefully how we can use them instead of antibiotics.

Cool. You see, that's just brilliant.

-Yes.

-First stop, Pointless, second stop, saving the world.

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That is definitely better than what I am planning to spend the next three years doing,

-I can tell you that much.

-Exactly.

Well, thank you for finding the time to come and join us here.

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

The only one I know, I'm going to have to go for, is James Bourne,

Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson, and I think...

You always second-guess yourself when you're here.

-Busted?

-Busted, says Meg.

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

It's right.

Not bad, 14 for Busted. Not bad at all, Meg.

Yeah. Very well played. We love Busted.

We make no secret of our love of Busted and McFly.

They are sort of extended family.

-They are.

-Oh! It's unfashionable to say so.

-It happens to be the case.

-They just happen to be good songwriters.

There we are. Thank you very much, indeed.

Now, Sarah, welcome here, from Newcastle, how lovely to have you here.

-What do you do, Sarah?

-I work in a department store.

What are your interests, Sarah, when not there?

I am a Girl Guide leader.

-Very good.

-So, yes, every Wednesday night.

Every Wednesday night. Are you a Brown Owl or a...?

-No, that's with Brownies.

-That's Brownies, I beg your pardon, I do beg your pardon.

They don't give it... They just call us Sarah and...

Not all of us, obviously.

-That's convenient.

-That would be confusing.

-Yeah, they just call us by our names.

-I see. That's nice.

-You look forward to Wednesday evenings?

-It's always good fun.

-Excellent.

-They're wild, but they're great.

Excellent, good stuff. Sarah, what would you like to go for on this board?

Well, unfortunately my answer was taken.

So, I am going to go for Andy Summers, Sting and Stewart Copeland.

-And I'm going to say The Police.

-The Police, says Sarah.

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

It's right.

Oh, 71.

71. That is a high score.

Yeah, big score, but another great north-easterner, Sting, of course.

Thank you very much, Richard.

-Gavin...

-Hello.

-Gavin, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Remind us what you do.

-I am an ironmonger.

-That's just great.

-You have your own ironmongery.

-I do, in Edinburgh, the seaside.

In Portobello, not just in Edinburgh, but in Portobello.

The loveliest part of Edinburgh.

Now, what's really fun about having an ironmongery?

Presumably? I mean, do you have, sort of, lots of, you have tools and...?

-Tools and gardening... Nuts and bolts.

-Lots of electrical things.

-Yes.

-So, how big is the shop?

Is it, like, all traditional hardware shops, tiny and...?

It's small but perfectly formed. Densely packed.

-Very good.

-Like myself.

-Perfect!

Now, Gavin, you're the last person to have this board,

if you want to talk us through it and fill in all the blanks.

-That would be great.

-I won't waste your time.

But I will go with Morten Harket and the others,

and that would be A-ha.

A-ha, says Gavin.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said A-ha.

It's right.

Look at that. Down it goes.

A-ha. Down to 35.

35. Well done.

Nice low score, but surprisingly low, I would say.

It is a surprisingly low score. Although their time in the sun maybe was a little while ago.

They've all got knighthoods from the Norwegian king.

-That's nice, isn't it?

-What are you called if you're a Norwegian knight?

Er, Sir.

But with an umlaut above the I.

ATTEMPTS NORWEGIAN ACCENT: Sir.

-Sir Morten Harket.

-Sir Morten Harket.

-Sir Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.

Savoy. And Sir Magne Furuholmen.

And his wife, Lady Margarita Furuholmen.

Lady Margarita Furuholmen.

Oh, if you're watching, I'm really sorry.

-I'm really sorry.

-Although, if you are watching that's quite cool.

It is quite cool. I know! Wouldn't that be great?

Now, how are you on the rest of these?

Your brother Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool.

-That is Green Day.

-Correct.

-Another great band.

-And that would have scored you nine.

-Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton...

-is Cream.

-Cream.

-That would have scored 46.

Matt Bellamy, Dom Howard and Chris Wolstenhome.

-Is it Muse?

-It is Muse, yeah, of course it is.

That would have scored eight points.

Blink 182 is the best answer on that board,

but another couple of low scorers there as well.

-Well done if you got any of those single figures at home.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

We are halfway through the round, so let's have a quick look at those scores.

Rosalie, look at that three.

I mean, it's just wonderful.

Then up to 14, where we find Meg and Keiron, not bad either.

Another fantastic score.

35, Gavin and Andy, not bad.

Sarah and Ken, yes, The Police

were an expensive choice there, I'm afraid.

Ken, you know what we need from you in the next pass.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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

I'll read those all one last time.

Andy, welcome back to Pointless. Remind us what you do.

I work in IT for an investment company.

That's right. You and Gavin met doing youth theatre.

-That's correct, yes.

-What's your most treasured memory of acting with Gavin?

What were you both playing?

Well, rather worryingly we created a sketch with a couple of characters in it called Marian and Maud.

Erm...

Which is one is a glitzy glamour puss,

and the other one's a frumpy plain Jane.

-You want to ask, don't you?

-I don't think I need to.

Oh, that's enough. When did you last do Marian and Maud?

-Just a couple of months ago.

-That's hilarious.

Very good. Now, Andy, you're on 35.

The high-scorers are Sarah and Ken on 71, so 35 is also your target.

What would you like to go for?

Well...

I'll go for the second one, it's the Beastie Boys.

The Beastie Boys, says Andy, for the second one. Here's your red line.

If you get below that red line with the Beastie Boys,

you are into Round Two already.

It is the Beastie Boys.

Very well done. Down you go. That's great. Look at that. Nine.

Second-best scorer of the round so far. Taking your total to 44,

seeing you very comfortably into the next round.

Well played, yes. Started out as sort of a novelty act,

really, the Beastie Boys, with that single,

-turned into I suspect one of the most interesting and innovative groups of their generation.

-Yeah.

Hilarious how that happens.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Ken, welcome to Pointless.

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

I am gloriously retired,

previously a mental health nurse in Newcastle.

-Is it nice being retired?

-It's great being retired.

It's absolutely fabulous.

What sort of things have you been doing since you took up retirement?

Recently I've been doing quite a bit of limping.

Yeah, I spotted that.

What did you do? What's happened?

It all started with a phone call from Michael Flatley.

No, it's actually an arthritis repair.

OK, so it's going to get better?

Two more weeks in plaster and then...

And then Riverdance.

Then back on the tour, Ken.

Excellent! Very good.

Now, Ken, there you are, on 71.

You are the highest scorers. We need a low score from you.

What would you like to go for?

It's a bit of a punt,

but I think the third one down

-might be the Fugees.

-The Fugees, says Ken.

No red line for you, because you're the highest scorers at this point,

but Fugees, an answer like that could bring you back into the running, Ken.

Let's see what happens when we say the Fugees.

It is the Fugees.

Down it goes

to 16. That is a tremendous score.

Very well done indeed, Ken.

87 is your total.

Yeah, they had two UK number one singles, the Fugees,

Ready Or Not and Killing Me Softly.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, Keiron, welcome back to Pointless. Good to have you here.

You, as we've discovered, also about to start your

-PhD At Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

-That's right.

Very, very best of luck with that.

What are you going to be doing to improve the lot of the human race,

-Keiron?

-Meg stitched me up there, hasn't she?

I'm investigating quantum matter, low temperature physics.

That is going to help certainly with my fridge.

Anyway, best of luck with that.

You are on 14, a lovely low score from Meg on the first pass.

What would you like to go for? 72 is your target.

I know a couple of them.

I'll go with Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and the other guy in Nirvana.

Nirvana, says Keiron. Here is your red line.

If you can get below this nice and high red line with Nirvana,

you are into Round Two.

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

Very well done, Keiron.

37, takes your total up to 51.

Yeah, very well played.

Wonderful band, of course Dave Grohl went on to form another wonderful

-band, the Foo Fighters, as well.

-Thanks very much, indeed.

Now, Charlie, welcome to Pointless.

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

I'm a Masters student at the University of Kent.

Goodness me, what are you studying?

International relations.

Oh! On the first two podiums alone...

I mean, quite aside from the hardware,

the dance entertainment that we're getting from the other podiums,

we've just got so many things nailed there. Absolutely amazing.

Thank you. Thank you, all of you for what you're doing.

-You're welcome.

-How long is your masters going to be?

-It's one year.

-One year, OK, in Kent, a lovely place to be.

Nice campus to be on. Now, Charlie, you're on three,

the high-scorers still Sarah and Ken, I'm afraid, on 87,

so 83 is your target.

-Yeah...

-Talk us through that board and fill in our blanks.

-If you can.

-Yeah, so, I know none of them.

My music taste is not...

Yeah, it's just not those.

Yeah, I really don't know, so let's go for it.

The Joseph Simmons one...

-Kiss?

-You want me to say Kiss? Joseph Simmons.

-Yeah.

Well, let's find out. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that with Kiss, you're into Round Two.

But let's see

what happens when we say Kiss.

Oh. Got the Simmons right, but, yeah,

I'm afraid an incorrect answer scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 103.

Yeah, Gene Simmons, of course, the lead singer of Kiss.

Joseph Simmons was in the mighty Run DMC.

That would have scored you nine points.

Well done if you said that at home.

Now the top one - everyone our age will know this, the utter heroes of the '70s and '80s...

-The Jam.

-The Jam, yeah.

That would have scored you 41.

Simon Neil, Ben Johnston, James Johnston, if you like rock music,

especially if you like melodic rock music.

-This is Biffy Clyro.

-It is. The brilliant Biffy Clyro, yeah.

That would have scored you one point, a terrific answer.

And another great band down the bottom,

if you don't know them, Lauren Maybury, Ian Cook

and Martin Doherty, is Chvrches.

Check them out, as well, two points for that.

Again, some low scorers. Very well done if you got single figures.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our first round, the pair we have to send home with their...

It's a hybrid made of the lowest score of the round

and the highest score of the round, but there we are.

It just bodes very well for when you come back, I think.

It's fine, he'll have to buy me lunch. That was our deal.

That was our deal, yeah.

She made lunch out of it. It's been lovely having you here,

Charlie and Rosalie. We'll see you next time, look forward to it. Meantime, thanks very much.

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

There we are. Down to three pairs.

At the end of this round we will be down to two pairs.

Andy, best score of the round there, with the Beastie Boys -

of the surviving contestants, I should add.

And Andy and Gavin, the best combined score as well,

so very well done over there on the far podium.

But best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for Round Two today is...

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

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

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

OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many words ending

in N-S-E as they could.

Words ending in N-S-E, Richard.

Any word which has its own entry in the British and World

English section of oxforddictionaries.com,

please, that ends in N-S-E.

As always, no proper nouns, no hyphenated words,

also no American spellings, please. Very, very best of luck.

-It's a tricky one, isn't it?

-It is.

-A thinker.

-It is a thinker.

-Yeah.

-It's a thinker.

-I'm going to write down what I think your word might

be. I'm sure you haven't even thought of it yet.

I haven't yet, no. Er, Meg...

What would you like to go for?

I'm going to go for suspense.

Suspense, says Meg.

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

Three!

There you are, Meg, three for suspense.

It's a state of feeling excited or anxious about something which might happen - suspense.

-It's a low score, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

-Isn't it? I wonder why.

We'll find out after this break.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Sarah, what would you like to go for?

So, as soon as it came up, this word popped into my head,

and then I started doubting that it was actually a word,

but I'm going to say it anyway, because it came into my head.

I am going to go for recompense.

-Recompense?

-Recompense. Oh, I know, you're doubting it, aren't you?

-Don't doubt it any longer.

-I don't know how to pronounce it.

Recompense. Recompense, you said it beautifully.

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

Six for recompense.

Not bad at all, Sarah.

Yeah, to make amends for any loss or harm suffered.

-Recompense.

-Yes.

-I still have...

-Do you know what? I thought you were going to say recompense,

so I'm already out of this game.

-OK, thank you very much.

-I'll have to think of a new one.

I've got one. I've got a stand-by.

I'm hoping for one that I think's going to...

Anyway, there we are. Gavin...

The one I've got, I don't know if it's obscure or not,

but it's the type of house I grew up in, which is a church house,

-the house of the minister, which is a manse.

-That's mine. That's mine.

-That's...

-I should have thought of that.

-That's the one I had.

Ah. OK, manse, says Gavin. Can I just say? That's a brilliant answer.

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

It's right.

11!

11 for manse.

It's interesting, those shorter words, they always score more, don't they?

-Even if they are slightly more obscure words.

-Yeah.

-I'm still thinking.

-You're still thinking.

-We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. Three, Meg, look at that.

Three for suspense. Superb.

Then up to six, where we find Sarah and Ken,

then up to 11 where we find Gavin and Andy.

None of these scores are terrible, but Andy,

you find yourself out in front there.

So we need a low score from you just to make up for that.

We're coming back down the line. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, Andy, words ending N-S-E.

You are the high-scorers, so let's have a super low answer from you.

I have a short word and a long word

and I can't decide which one will be the best.

Erm...

-Rinse.

-Rinse, says Andy.

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

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

No red line for you. You are the high-scorers.

22.

22 for rinse.

Takes you up to 33.

We keep going up in almost exact doubles.

-Yes.

-Three, six, 11, which was a disappointment, 22.

-Yeah.

-Should we get 44 next, really?

Would be good.

Now, Ken.

I have two.

One is an absolute gamble and I'm not sure whether I need...

I know Sarah will strangle me if this is wrong.

I haven't a clue what the word means, but I think there is a word mense.

M-E-N-S-E.

Mense. There is your red line.

Let's see if there is a word M-E-N-S-E.

Mense.

It is a word. Sarah can put her strangling gloves away.

It gets you through to the next round.

And it scores you two.

Very well done, indeed, Ken.

-Takes your total up to eight. Very well done.

-Yeah, mense.

Obviously, manse is where Gavin grew up,

but if you have that in Surrey, it's mense.

No, mense is actually a northern dialect word and up in Scotland, as well.

It means, it can mean kindness and discretion and common sense.

It's sort of...

I guess kind of comes from a common-sense type of a place, mense.

Thank you very much, indeed. Now then, Keiron.

I've got two.

One of them might be better. I'm going to go for nonsense.

-Nonsense.

-Yeah.

-There is your red line.

If you get below that, you're through to the head-to-head.

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54 for nonsense, takes your total up to 57.

Yeah, I thought the two of you might have an advantage here,

because there's all of scientific words that end N-S-E that you might have come across.

There is polycondense, precondense,

there's photoresponse - all those are pointless answers.

Recondense as well. They're all pointless answers. But there it is.

-Have you got an answer?

-Precondense.

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-That's amazing. You've done really...

-Funnily enough, actually, you even said it.

-I think.

-I know what you're going to say.

-Yeah.

I'm going to write it down.

-Go on, what's your word?

-Commonsense.

Commonsense, that's exactly what I've written down.

-Isn't that amazing?

-Commonsense as one word?

Yeah, absolutely. It would have scored you 100 points.

It's incorrect, I'm afraid.

Them's the breaks. At least I predicted it.

Let's have a look at some of the pointless answers, shall we?

Not that many well-known words, I have to say.

Radiodense - we've all listened to those DJs.

Sublicense - that's what you get points on if you drive too fast in a submarine.

Photoresponse and the cusimanse, which is a gregarious mongoose.

That's nice, isn't it? Cusimanse.

Shall we take a look at the top three answers, that most of our 100 people said?

That's the second biggest scorer of all, I'm afraid.

And right at the top, sense on 79.

-There we are.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

There's a lovely one point four frankincense.

That would have been a nice one.

That would have been nice. Why didn't I think of that?

Because I'm stupid. At the end of our second round the pair we have to say goodbye to with that

high score of 57, I am so sorry, Keiron and Meg, it is you. It is the pair of you.

Two of our greatest scientists.

We send you off, never to be heard of again until you win the Nobel Prize in about 30 years' time.

But wonderful, wonderful to have you here.

Thank you for playing so well. And very, very best of luck with your next four years.

Keiron and Meg, wonderful contestants.

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

Congratulations, Andy and Gavin, Sarah and Ken.

You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for that

jackpot, which currently stands at £3,000.

But the main point is we've made it to the head-to-head,

which means you can start playing as a team, you confer from here on in before you give your answers.

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

Very, very best of luck to both pairs, two strong pairs here.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

-Richard.

-We're going to show you five pictures now of women who are on the Forbes list

of the world's most powerful 100 women in 2016.

Can you identify the most obscure of these, please?

Thank you very much, indeed.

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

There we are.

Five of the world's most powerful women.

Now, Andy and Gavin, you are our low scorers, so you will go first.

Well, we're struggling with a couple of them.

I think we'll just get it right and hopefully low-ish

and say Angela Merkel.

OK, for C, Angela Merkel for C, say Andy and Gavin.

Now, Sarah and Ken, talk us through the remaining powerful women.

I can't talk you through them all.

A is Oprah Winfrey, I believe.

And the answer we are going to go with is D,

-Anna Wintour.

-OK, Anna Wintour.

So, we have Angela Merkel and Anna Wintour.

Andy and Gavin said Angela Merkel.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Angela Merkel for C.

It is Angela Merkel.

That's a high score.

82 there.

Meanwhile, Sarah and Ken have gone for Anna Wintour for D.

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

It is Anna Wintour and it wins you the point.

Very well done, indeed.

That wins it by quite a margin.

Look at that. Down to 15 for Anna Wintour. Very well done.

And it means, Sarah and Ken, after one question,

you are up 1-0.

It's interesting, the size of that score for Angela Merkel. Her scores have gone up and up and up

as the years of Pointless have gone by. She's like the Central African Republic of world leaders.

There you are, Angela Merkel. Now, A is, of course, Oprah Winfrey.

You're quite right about that. She would have scored you 64 points.

We'll leave B for the moment.

E is the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

She's called... I think she's called Christine Lagarde.

-Christine Lagarde.

-Lagarde.

-Absolutely.

She would have scored you ten points.

Well done if you said that. And B...

Is... We all know the name.

That is Melinda Gates.

The Gates Foundation.

It's a pointless answer, so very well done if you said that.

I'm trying to work out which football team that scarf is.

-What's that...?

-She is a... She's a Nottingham Forest fan.

-That's nice.

-Good.

-Yeah, it is nice.

-Very nice. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, here comes your second question.

Now, Andy and Gavin, you have to win this one to stay in the game but

Sarah and Ken will answer it first so good luck with that.

Our second question is all about...

Yeah, simply five egg-related clues now.

Can you give us the most obscure egg-related answer?

Thank you very much indeed. OK, let's reveal our five egg clues and here they are.

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Sarah and Ken will go first.

We'll go for the last one,

surname of the jeweller who created Easter eggs for the Russian family,

as Faberge.

Faberge, say Sarah and Ken.

Faberge. Now then, Andy and Gavin,

here is your chance to get back in the game.

Talk us through the board and find a nice, low score if you can.

So, eggs Florentine would be spinach.

It's either the emu or the ostrich for the largest egg, I think.

Oeuf is the French for egg

and I think the one we're going to go for is

the 1990s drama, which was This Life.

This Life. OK, so we have Faberge and we have This Life.

Now, Sarah and Ken went for Faberge,

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

59 for Faberge.

59 for Faberge. Now, Andy and Gavin have gone for This Life,

the Andy Lincoln drama.

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

It's right,

and it wins you the point, that's just what we needed.

You're back in the game. Down it goes.

14. Very good stuff.

After two questions, it's 1-1.

Yep, very well played.

Those Faberge eggs, there were about 50 of them they made in all,

and they were genuinely weirdly like Kinder eggs in that they all contained...

You'd open them up and they contained little surprises inside

them. The leafy green vegetable, you're quite right, is spinach.

Also would have won you the point, cos it's 45.

-The species is the...

-Ostrich.

Yep. Big scorer, though, that.

76. And oeuf, you're right, as well, and that would have scored 65,

-so This Life is the best answer on the board. Well played.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, it comes down to the decider.

Whoever wins this third question goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question today is all about...

-Richard.

-We're going to show you the names of five Canadian provinces and territories.

All we're going to show you is the first and last letters of their names.

Can you tell us the most obscure province, or territory, please?

Thanks very much, indeed. Let's reveal our five Canadian provinces

and territories with bits missing, and here they are.

We have got...

Now, Andy and Gavin, you will go first.

We're going to go with Manitoba.

Manitoba, say Andy and Gavin.

Manitoba. Right, Sarah and Ken,

talk us through those provinces and territories.

We're going to go for Manitoba, as well.

-OK.

-We were going to go for Manitoba.

Second one is Alberta.

The fourth one is Ontario.

And the last one is Yukon.

Struggling with the third one down, but we're going to go for Yukon.

You're going to go for Yukon.

So, we have Manitoba and we have Yukon.

Andy and Gavin said Manitoba.

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

It is right.

Down it goes to 35.

Ooh.

Not as convincingly low as I think you might have hoped there,

35 for Manitoba.

Sarah and Ken, meanwhile, have gone for Yukon.

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

It's right.

Oh! 46 for Yukon.

And there we have our result. Very well done, indeed.

I knew this was going to be hard-fought but, Andy and Gavin,

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

Yeah, very well played, gents.

Very different to last time and, funnily enough,

if your opponents had said Alberta,

you'd just have been knocked out

because Alberta would have scored you 18 points.

Oh, my God.

-O-O is...

-Ontario.

-Ontario.

67. You might know this one with your Arctic experience.

-It's Nunavut.

-Oh, gosh.

Nunavut. Which is "our land" in the Inuit language and that would have

scored you two points, so very well done if you said that.

I'll have Nunavut.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, indeed. So, the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round,

-I'm afraid, Sarah and Ken... Oh, that was close.

-It was.

It's great news for us because it means we see you again.

Otherwise it would have been over and that would have been terrible.

We'll see you back next time and we look forward to that very much indeed.

Meantime, thank you so much, Sarah and Ken.

APPLAUSE

But for Andy and Gavin, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Andy and Gavin,

you've fought off the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and,

at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at...

Very, very well done.

Head-to-headers last time.

Only, you weren't the low-scoring pair that time. This time, you were.

Actually, it counted for a lot there, didn't it, answering first?

-Yeah.

-On that Canadian question.

Let's just hope something wonderful comes up on the board behind us to

complete this lovely day.

Today's selection looks like this.

We have...

-Royals is useless for me.

-I'm useless on Royals.

-Football...

-You know a bit about.

-No, no, no.

-Not that?

-No.

I know something about JFK.

If the movie comes up then that would be useful.

-Yeah.

-Why don't we just go with JFK?

-We'll go with JFK.

-Yeah.

JFK it is. Richard.

OK, very best of luck, gents,

you've been terrific for two shows now.

Hopefully something here suits you. Here is your three categories.

We're looking for any cast member of the original cinema release of

the film JFK from 1991 according to IMDb.

We are looking for any US President who was in office before JFK.

Or we are looking for any states won by JFK

at the 1960 presidential election. So...

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answer

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

be pointless. Are you ready?

-We're ready.

-Very good. OK. Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

Donald Sinden was in the film.

-Donald Sinden?

-Donald Sutherland.

Donald Sutherland.

Jack Lemmon was in it. Walter Matthau was in it.

Jack Lemmon was in it. Walter Matthau.

-There was a load of...

-Kevin Bacon was in it.

-Kevin Bacon was in it. Joe Pesci was in it.

-Yeah.

-Gary Oldman, obviously. He shot him.

-Yeah.

Erm... Presidents before, we could go with,

but I think we've actually got some good answers from the actors.

Walter Matthau is good. I forgot he was in it.

-Walter Matthau.

-And Jack Lemmon.

-And Donald Sinden.

Donald Sutherland! Don't say that.

We'll go Sutherland.

I can't remember who...

-I don't remember any others.

-I can't remember the actor who played him

cos he only appeared in the footage.

-I think he played himself.

-Yeah.

I think... I think...

-I think with that selection of actors we're all right.

-Yeah.

-We're going to go with those three,

-I think, so we're ready.

-OK, you're ready.

OK. What are you going to go for?

We'll go with three members of the cast of JFK.

-You say them.

-Jack Lemmon.

-Jack Lemmon.

-Walter Matthau.

-Walter Matthau.

-Donald Sutherland.

Donald Sinden. OK.

No, no, no, no.

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

-Matthau or Lemmon?

-Matthau.

-Matthau most likely to be pointless.

-Least likely to be pointless?

-Donald Sutherland.

-Donald Sutherland.

We put Jack Lemmon in the middle.

-In the middle.

-OK, let's put those up on the board in that order, then,

and here they are. We've got...

Well, very good luck. Three great answers on the board there,

let's just hope one of these turns out to be pointless and wins that

jackpot for you. What would you like to do with it if you won it?

Andy, you first.

We're going to New York shortly and it would be very useful.

-Very nice.

-Yeah, my wife will go shopping with it.

Excellent.

Very good, indeed. Gavin, what would you like to do?

I have no wife so I would like some new dresses for myself.

Perhaps a new wig.

OK, very good. Well, best of luck. Three good answers as I say.

Let's hope one of them is pointless.

Donald Sutherland. In all three cases,

we're looking for cast members from the film JFK.

Your first answer's Donald Sutherland. If it's pointless, it will win you £3,000.

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

It's right.

It just has to go all the way down to zero and you'll leave here with

£3,000. Down we go.

Through the 30s and into the 20s.

Still going down through the teens.

We are into single figures. Donald Sutherland still taking us down.

You have done it! Straight away!

Straight out of the traps there, very well done, indeed.

Very well done.

Oh, that's fantastic. Congratulations.

Your first answer, Donald Sutherland, was a pointless answer.

You are going home with £3,000.

-Very well done.

-Thank you so much!

-Fabulous work.

Yeah, very well played, gents.

You've deserved it, as well, over the last two shows.

You know that film. I think you went through virtually every scoring answer in your 60 seconds.

Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon all scored points.

Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones also scored points.

Wayne Knight, Jim Garrison who, of course, has a role in the film,

he would have scored one point. Everybody else in the film,

every single other actor, and there's loads, are pointless,

including Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

-Wow.

-So, very well done.

APPLAUSE

Let's take a look at a few of them now.

John Candy, a pointless answer as well. Sissy Spacek.

Some great pointless answers out there.

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

Some very big names in that film. Now, presidents before JFK.

Lots of pointless answers here as well.

Normally our 100 do better on presidents.

You could've had Benjamin Harrison, James Garfield, Rutherford B Hayes,

Ulysses S Grant and Warren G Harding.

Very well done if you said any of those.

And the states carried by JFK when he won the election -

only four pointless answers here.

Here's all of them.

Very, very well played if you got any of those at home.

Thanks very much, Richard, and thanks very much, Andy and Gavin,

our winning players who go away with today's jackpot of £3,000.

Very well done.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.