Episode 40 Pointless

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

the game where we aim for the obscure and we ignore the obvious.

Let's meet today's players.

-And couple number one.

-My name's Dave. This is my wife, Penny.

We're from Runcorn in Cheshire.

-Couple number two.

-My name's Helen. This is my husband, Darren.

And we're from the Wirral.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Linzi, and this is my mum, Kate,

-and we're from Dunfermline.

-And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Eni. This is my mate, Vaughn, and we're from Northampton.

And these are today's contestants.

Thanks very much, all of you. Welcome to Pointless.

It's lovely to have you with us. We'll get a chance to chat to

each of you throughout the show as it goes along.

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

He's got his eye for detail down to a T.

An I which is dotted, and a T which is crossed, no doubt.

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

Hiya. Hey, everybody. Hiya.

-Hello, there.

-Hi.

-How are you?

I'm very well.

We've got two lovely returning pairs onstage.

David and Penny got knocked out in Round Two,

and Kate and Linzi got knocked out in Round One.

Sort of one letter away from getting through, which is very unlucky.

Hopefully see more of both of you.

Lovely to welcome our newcomers as well.

Question two today, people are not going to like.

Oh, no. Change it.

No, I refuse to. I think sometimes it's important to do things we don't like.

XANDER SIGHS

You know what I mean? Otherwise, it's all...

If it was all candyfloss and Disney, you know, then when trouble comes...

Do you know what? When candyfloss and Disney come up, people do very badly on them.

We've never had a question on candyfloss.

-True.

-We should do.

-We should.

-I don't know what the questions would be.

-I don't know, either.

-Colours of candyfloss.

I'm going to go blue.

LAUGHTER

Thank you. Well, listen, let's get on with the show.

Steve and George didn't win the jackpot last time.

That's the big headline. So today's jackpot starts off...

We're adding £1,000 to it.

..today's jackpot starts off at £3,250. There we are.

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

So, just remember this, the pair with the highest score at the end of

each round will be eliminated. That's it, just remember that.

You'll be fine. Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this afternoon is...

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

who's going to go second? And whoever's going first,

please step up to the podium.

OK. And the question concerns...

-How do you like that, Richard?

-How do you like it?

We're going to show you seven song titles on each board.

We've removed a verb from each one.

We're also going to show you the name of the person who had

the first-ever UK Top 40 hit with that song,

so there are going to be 14 in all to have a go at at home.

Very, very best of luck.

Cos I was educated in a comprehensive in the '80s,

I'm very bad on what verbs...

-Parts of speech.

-..adjectives and, erm, nouns are.

-I kind of know.

-You've... You've got that...

But I couldn't define one.

-No.

-If you ask me to say what's a verb, I'd be like...

-It's a doing thing.

-A doing word.

There we are. We're going to take the doing words out of these songs.

And here are our first seven songs.

Let's read those again.

There we are. David, welcome back to Pointless.

Lovely to have you with us.

Yes, it was Round Two we had to say goodbye to you last time.

-Yeah.

-Got to be looking for the head-to-head and beyond this time, surely, David.

-Remind us what you do.

-I work in a credit union.

That's right. And what do you like getting up to in Runcorn?

Playing on the Xbox, looking after me fish, looking after me son.

How many fish have you got?

-Roughly about 30.

-More than you can remember.

-Yeah.

-I like you said, "Look after my fish," before you said, "Look after my son."

LAUGHTER

-Are they freshwater fish, or are they...?

-Freshwater, yeah.

Yeah, cos if they're sea water, that's a lot of upkeep, isn't it?

It's a lot of money and a lot of time.

-Yeah. We don't need that.

-Are your kids freshwater, or are they...?

-Do you know what, they're both.

-Are they?

-They swim out to sea,

and they come back all beautiful and silvery from the sea.

-How lovely.

-It is lovely.

It is nice. Now, David, what would you like to go for?

I think we'll go for

The Rolling Stones, Paint It Black.

Paint It Black, says David.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for paint.

It's right, it is paint.

55.

Not a bad score, David.

Gets us off to a good start, 55.

Eight number one singles for the Rolling Stones.

They once did a TV advert for Rice Krispies, The Stones.

-There you are. Now, Helen.

-Hello.

Welcome to Pointless. It's great to have you here, Helen.

-What do you do?

-I am a university administrator

at the University of Liverpool, in the Psychology Department.

That sounds interesting.

-How long have you been there?

-Oh, about seven years.

A good department, the Psychology Department?

A great department. Really interesting.

Lots of students to look after, undergraduates and postgraduates,

but always... Never the same two days.

I bet. Never a dull moment.

Now, Helen, what would you like to go for

on our board of verbless songs?

I know a few of them,

but I think the one I'm going to go for is

Can't Hide My Face, by The Weeknd.

Can't Hide My Face, says Helen.

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

Oh. Oh, Helen.

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

I don't know why. We'll see why.

-Oh, cos it's wrong.

-LAUGHTER

Oh, it's cos it's wrong, Helen.

I'll give the correct answer at the end of the pass.

It was given with such confidence.

I thought that was absolutely spot on.

Anyway, there we are. Kate, welcome back.

Lovely to have you here. From Dunfermline.

-Yes.

-Kate, we discovered last time that you are retired.

-Yes.

-That's lovely.

And what sort of fun things do you like to do with your time?

I like cooking, I like gardening, I like walking,

I like socialising with friends.

Have you taken anything up since retiring?

-No, not really.

-You haven't sort of become a bookbinder?

Well, I've been doing a bit of property development.

Oh, you didn't mention the property development.

-That's fun.

-Just a little bit.

That's nice. Have you bought a place that you're going to renovate

-and then sell on?

-Yes, my husband is a builder, so...

-Are you living there while you're doing it?

-No, no.

No. That would be testing, I think, wouldn't it?

How long till it's finished, do you think?

Erm, a couple of months.

Is this the first time you've project managed with your husband?

-The first time I've project managed, yes.

-Full stop?

-Yes.

Are you quite a hard task master?

Quite hard, I would say.

That's good. Has to happen. Well, very good, how exciting. Good luck with all that.

Kate, what would you like to go for on this board?

I hope this is right.

I'm going to go for Somebody Told Me.

Somebody Told Me, The Killers, says Kate.

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

It's right. 55's our low score, and you've passed that.

Down we go to 21.

Very well done indeed, Kate.

21 for Somebody Told Me.

Good score, great song.

It is a great song.

That was their first UK Top 40 hit as well,

for The Killers, from Hot Fuss.

-It's a great album.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Good, thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Now, Eni...

-Hi.

Eni... Yes, I'm going to enjoy our Eni questions at the end of each round.

LAUGHTER

Eni, welcome. Good to have you here. What do you do, Eni?

I just started studying medicine at the University of Manchester.

When you say just, how long?

Two days ago.

XANDER GASPS

Cos I've got this terrible ailment...

LAUGHTER

How is it going? Are you enjoying it?

What have you done so far? Anything?

Just like lectures, not much work.

You know, freshers.

But on the evidence of what you've seen so far, it's going to be great?

-Yeah.

-Good, good.

And it's exciting, though.

-So how long is the course?

-It's five years.

It's challenging, but hopefully rewarding.

Brilliant. At least you're not taking an immediate couple of

days off to come and do a game show, which is good.

-It's a commitment thing.

-Exactly.

There we are. Now, Eni, what would you like to go for?

This board's all yours. Do you want to talk us through it?

I feel like Eric Clapton is I Shot The Sheriff.

Don't know why, but I'm not going to say that.

I'm going to go with Can't Feel My Face, for The Weeknd,

which is the only one I think I know.

Can't Feel My Face, says Eni.

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

It is feel.

Well, 100 was our high score. You've passed that.

21's our low score, and you've passed that.

Here we are, 19. Very well done, Eni.

-19.

-Well played, Eni.

It's been a huge hit, that song.

Let's fill these in. You're quite right, it is I Shot The Sheriff.

A very, very big scorer, though.

Would have scored you 84 points.

Of course, "I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot the deputy is..."

Why even mention it?

-Stop at "I shot the sheriff" - you're still going to prison.

-Yeah.

I shot the sheriff...

Oh, yeah, but, in my defence, I didn't shoot the deputy.

-OK, well...

-You have to imagine that he's up for the murder of the deputy, isn't he?

-You know what I think happened?

-What?

-The sheriff shot the deputy.

This guy, Clapton,

shot the sheriff because he was in love with the deputy.

-So it's a crime of passion.

-Yeah...

It is I See Fire, by Ed Sheeran.

Three points for that, very good answer.

I always imagined that was "I see fire," as in,

he was the fire officer on that day.

It was just, "I see fire".

I thought it was like icy fire, like ice on fire.

-Yeah?

-Both of us, so wrong.

-Yeah, I know, right?

-Do you know this next one?

-I think it's rock.

It is rock, yeah. Rock Around The Clock

would have scored you 89 points.

That's about when he had to go to the dentist,

and the dentist said, "What have you been eating?"

And the bottom one?

-It's take.

-It's Take On Me.

-There we go.

-It's 58 points for that.

Very well done if you got single figures.

OK. We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at those scores.

19 was the best score of the pass, so, Eni, very well done indeed.

Eni and Vaughn looking very clever at this point,

as, I have to say, are Kate and Linzi.

55 is where you'll find David and Penny - not so bad.

Helen and Darren... Now, Helen, you went for that.

You know, I just assumed that was the right answer,

cos I assumed you must therefore...

That was the one you thought was your best shot.

I've clearly been singing it wrong for a long time.

There we are. Well, listen, you are our high scorers at the moment.

Anything could happen in the next pass but, Darren,

a low score from you at the very least is what we will need

to keep you in the game, so good luck with that.

We are going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more song titles with missing verbs up on the board.

And here they are.

Let's read those again.

There we go. Vaughn, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you very much.

-You're from Northampton.

And what do you do, Vaughn?

I work as a gap year student for the college I just graduated from.

Let's... I'm just going to unpack all of that.

OK, you work as a gap year student?

Yeah, I work for the college.

I work as junior director for activities.

I see, so what sort of tasks do you have to do? What's the job?

Erm, I organise trips, clubs, societies, help with the music classes.

-Yeah, but that's fun! Great fun.

-Yeah, I enjoy it.

You might want to stay on for several more gap years, I should think, after that?

-You never know.

-You never know.

Anyway, listen, you've been very well set up by Eni

in the first pass, there, on 19.

80 is your target.

80 or less, for the next pass.

All right, I'll go with, I Kissed A Girl, by Katy Perry.

I Kissed A Girl, says Vaughn.

Here is your red line, nice and high.

Get below that with kissed, you're through.

It's right and you are through.

Look at that. Not by much, look at that.

66, taking your total up to 85.

Yeah, that was her first UK single and her first UK number one as well.

So, kissed being the past tense...

-Past tense of kiss.

-Of kiss, which is a doing word.

Which is a doing word. Yeah.

-This is, like, easy.

-It can also be a noun, though, kiss, as you know.

It can be a noun - a kiss.

-Oh, come on!

-I know. I know.

-Because that's a thing.

-Yeah, it's a thing.

All right, all right.

OK, now, Linzi. Linzi, welcome back.

-Hello.

-What a great score from Kate.

-I know.

-Fabulous low score on our first pass, there.

Remind us what you do, Linzi.

I work at an escape rooms.

-Escape rooms, in Glasgow.

-As a games master, yeah.

Now, in escape rooms, which I have to say is still completely new to me...

-Yeah.

-It's a thing where people come in, it's a sort of role play,

sort of interactive, theatre type thing, you do...

Kind of. Yeah, you solve puzzles and try and get in...

Do people come in as a group?

-Yeah.

-And the idea is they just get thrown into a sort of...

-I don't know, a what?

-A themed room. So...

-A themed room.

-Yes, so...

-And they have to solve a puzzle, erm, of what kind?

A series of puzzles, erm, brain teasers... Things like that.

In order to make it across, make it through something, or...?

To get out of the room. So it's a series of puzzles that you've got to solve...

-Oh, I see, to get out of the room.

-Yeah.

-So essentially, they're prisoners?

-Yeah.

-"Escape" is the big clue, there.

-OK, OK.

Now, Linzi, there you are on 21.

If you can score 78 or less,

you are through to the next round.

OK. I know a few, but I'm going to

go with Let's Dance To Joy Division.

Let's Dance To Joy Division, again,

that is a noun or a verb but let's see - let's dance.

Here is your red line. If you get below that red line,

you're through to the next round.

Very well done. You are through to Round Two.

20.

One better than your mum, taking your total up to 41 and that,

I can confidently say, is the lowest total of the round.

Well played, Linzi. It's more fun than last time, isn't it?

Erm, we've been very wombat-heavy in the last...

-the last few episodes of Pointless, haven't we?

-I know, we have.

-It's been wombat crazy.

-Yeah. Yeah. There we go.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Darren, what could have happened hasn't really happened.

-No.

-So the wheels could have just flown off for either Vaughn or Linzi.

-They have remained resolutely on...

-Yes.

-..those wheels.

Darren, though, let's put that to one side for now.

-OK.

-Darren, welcome to Pointless.

It's great to have you here. What do you do, Darren?

I work in a sales department in a shipping line.

Very interesting, so they're based in Liverpool, is that right?

-Yes. That's right, yeah.

-So is it any particular kind of shipping that

you're involved in and that you're transporting?

Are you transporting oil? Are you transporting freight of any kind?

Anything that you can put in a container, basically.

Wow. So, where are most of your containers coming from? The US?

-China.

-From China.

-The Far East, really, mainly, yeah.

I see. Very exciting.

Trade coming into Liverpool.

-Yeah.

-All being brought in by Darren.

Now, Darren, you are on 100 points.

-Yeah.

-At this stage, I suspect...

Well, I don't know, Penny may yet, you never know,

I don't know how comfortable Penny is with what's left on the board,

but we definitely need a low score from you.

Yeah, I was going to take the last one,

so that's just gone, but, erm...

I will have to go with look, I think, for the Arctic Monkeys.

-I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor.

-I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor.

Look, says Darren. No red line, you are the high scorers.

How many people said look?

It's right.

58 takes your total up to 158, which I fear is unbeatable even at this stage.

It's a big score, isn't it, for

I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor?

A very memorable name, I guess.

I've said before on this show but the Sugababes do a cover version

of that which is genuinely terrific. It's genuinely great.

-I haven't heard it.

-Well, you must, you must.

I shall. Very good, thank you, Richard.

Now, Penny.

Good news. You are through, whatever you score.

Remind us what you do, Penny?

-I'm a web designer.

-That is right,

and what are your interests aside from the web, out of the web?

Out of the web, I'm a member of the WI, and I go line dancing.

-How often do you line dance?

-Every Thursday.

-You see, that's fun.

-Yeah.

-Do you, do you ever have a band or is it...?

-No, it's just music.

-Just music with a caller.

-Yeah.

-And how many of you are there in the group?

It's me and my husband at the moment!

-There's about 30 other people.

-Yeah.

-There's about 30 other people.

-I was going to say, that is, erm...

-It's not a big line!

Yeah. Not a big line, but fun, though.

-It is, it's brilliant.

-Very good, yeah, good music.

Now, Penny, what would you like to go for?

This board is all yours. Would you like to go through it and fill in all of the blanks?

Erm, I think the top one is Stop In The Name Of Love.

I'm not sure, but I think it's Shine On Reggae Woman.

It is I Want To Hold Your Hand.

And the one I'm going for is Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, says Penny.

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

No red line for you, for the lovely reason you're already through.

It is smells.

44 is what it scores you. Very well done indeed.

99 is your total.

Yeah, you took us through the board fairly well.

Got one slightly out of place.

It is Stop In The Name Of Love by The Supremes,

that's quite right and would have scored you 77.

And it's I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles.

And that would have scored you 90 points.

A big scorer. Do you know this second one?

-It's Boogie On.

-It's Boogie On, Reggae Woman,

by Stevie Wonder and that would have scored you four points.

You can barely hear it from when he sings, though.

-It's very hard to hear him singing...

-Really?

-Yeah.

-It's a verb, though.

-Oh, it is.

-Boogie.

-And also a noun.

-Oh!

-Is it?

-Yeah, confusing.

-And it is, it's not an adjective, though.

-No, no.

-Cos that's a describing word.

-It's a describing word.

-There we go.

-Yes.

-There we go!

-There we go.

-Yeah.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, so at the end of our first round,

the pair we have to say goodbye to with a high score of 158,

I'm so sorry, Darren and Helen. Oh, I'm so sorry. Far too soon to

be sending you away, but you'll be back next time, which is great,

and I have every faith you'll go much, much further but meantime,

thank you so much, Darren and Helen.

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

Oh, look at that, very well done, everyone,

we've made it through our first round. Here we are in Round Two.

Eni, the lowest scorer in that round, very well done,

the lowest individual scorer, and Kate and Linzi,

our lowest combined scorers, so, very well done to you too.

Best of luck to our three pairs. Our category for Round Two today is...

I remember now, yes, you warned us about this.

I did a little bit, didn't I?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Easy to do very well in politics rounds, sometimes.

-Yes, yeah, or badly.

-Or badly, yes.

Even easier. Can you all decide in your pairs

who is 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 of the 2016 Cabinet as they could.

The 2016 Cabinet, Richard.

Yeah, we are looking for the names of anybody in the Cabinet of that

new Prime Minister in July 2016,

whose name I won't mention because that person is also an answer,

so, anyone who attended that first Cabinet meeting on 19th July, 2016, please.

-Ah, yes.

-Fun, isn't it?

Yes, yes.

Erm, Penny.

Not got a clue so it's just a wild guess on this one,

and it's going to be...

..Theresa May.

Theresa May, says Penny.

-Yes.

-A shot in the dark, there.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Theresa May.

-Oh, my!

-It's right.

Yeah, very well done!

18. Lovely, obscure answer.

Wow.

Yeah, I don't think we can have that down as a shot in the dark

or a guess, given she's Prime Minister.

-Erm...

-Mind you, our 100 people haven't covered themselves in glory.

I wonder if that's because they were thinking that maybe the Prime

Minister is not a Cabinet member.

It's possible. She was introduced to her husband by Benazir Bhutto.

-That's quite cool, isn't it?

-That's quite cool. It is quite cool.

-Yeah.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, then, Kate, you didn't look happy when this...

-Not really.

-..category came up.

Erm, the only person I can think of is Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson, says Kate.

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

It's right.

53, for Boris Johnson.

Yeah, and he was Foreign Secretary in that first Cabinet.

His family all call him Al, because his real name is Alexander.

Thank you very... It's a good name.

Like you. It's like your name.

It is like my name. That's my name, there, Al.

-They don't call...

-No-one calls me Al, though.

-No, they don't.

The only people who have ever called you Al on this show were Jedward.

Jedward, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

-They did.

-Aw!

-That was rather charming.

It is charming. They called me Al and they gave me a tie.

-It's a nice tie, as well.

-Very nice, yeah.

There we are, thank you very much indeed.

Now, Vaughn. Vaughn, this is either a round you love or you hate.

Erm, bit of both.

I'll go with Jeremy Hunt.

Jeremy Hunt, says Vaughn.

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

Well, 53 is the highest score, 18 is the low.

You pass the high score.

You pass the low. 12, for Jeremy Hunt. There we are.

Yeah, the Secretary of State for Health.

There we are. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a quick look at our scores.

12 was the best score of that pass.

Vaughn, very well done. Vaughn and Eni looking very strong

at this point. Penny and David, likewise.

Kate and Linzi, that's high.

Linzi...

Let's have a lovely low score from you.

We can't send you home at the end of this round.

We simply can't. Best of luck with that.

Nice low score. We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so, Eni, remember,

we are looking for anyone in the 2016 Conservative Cabinet.

Erm, I hope I can do Vaughn justice cos this is his strong suit.

I know Michael Gove was the Education Secretary last time

and I'm hoping that he's been shifted somewhere else,

so I'm going to go with Michael Gove.

OK, here is your red line.

If you get below that red line, you are through to the next round.

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

No, I'm afraid not Michael Gove in that Cabinet.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 112,

gives Linzi a bit of a lifeline, there.

Yeah, he was about as sacked as it's possible to be, I think, Michael Gove.

-Wasn't he?

-He was.

-Yeah.

Interesting. Now, Linzi,

interesting here, as well, because if you can score 58 or less,

you're into the next round.

So, I'm going to have to take a total guess.

I don't even know if he's in the Cabinet.

I've got no idea because I don't...

But I'll take a guess at Nigel Farage.

We've got... We're Scottish, we've got our own Parliament.

OK, here is your red line. Get below that with Nigel Farage...

..and you're in the head-to-head.

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

I'm afraid not Nigel Farage, that scores you 100 points,

brings Eni and Vaughn back into play cos it takes your total up to 153.

This is going terrifically well, isn't it, thus far?

Thank you very much indeed. Now, so, David, this is great news.

You are through to the next round.

You shall be in there, whatever you score here.

What would you like to go for?

I'll try Iain Duncan Smith.

Iain Duncan Smith, says David.

OK, no red line, you're already through.

Let's see how many people said Iain Duncan Smith.

No, I'm afraid not, Iain Duncan Smith.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 118.

Yeah, again, a big scoring round, isn't it?

It's interesting, we spend a lot of time slagging off politicians and

telling them how awful they are, but then we can't name any of them.

But... An awful lot of pointless answers here,

it will not surprise you to hear.

Let's take a look through a few of them, shall we?

The Welsh Secretary, Alun Cairns is a pointless answer.

Baroness Evans, who is the Leader of the House of Lords.

Ben Gummer, who is John Selwyn Gummer's son.

He's in the Cabinet now.

Damian Green, the Work and Pensions Secretary.

David Lidington is a pointless answer.

He's been a winning captain on a University Challenge team twice,

David Lidington. Gavin Williamson, who is the Chief Whip,

is a pointless answer.

Greg Clark, who is Energy.

Karen Bradley. Now, Karen Bradley is Secretary of State for Culture,

Media and Sport, so essentially, she's in charge of this show...

-She is.

-Really, and is doing, I'm going to say, a terrific job.

-She is.

-Don't you think?

-She is.

Every time you see her, I just think, "Hold on a minute,

"there's something I like about the cut of her jib."

-Yes, yes.

-She is tough but fair as well.

And beautiful.

Very beautiful. Also very brave.

I mean, to me, that's like the perfect politician, but hey,

what do I know? And also, yeah, Patrick McLoughlin.

Now, let's take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Theresa May is in joint second place with 18.

Philip Hammond also scored 18 and Boris Johnson, miles ahead with 53.

A few names people might have come up with...

David Davis would have scored you 11, Liam Fox, 8, Amber Rudd, 8,

as well and Andrea Leadsom would have scored you 5 points.

3 for Liz Truss, 2 for Justine Greening, Chris Grayling,

Priti Patel and Michael Fallon.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So we are at the end of our second round, and the pair we have to say

goodbye to with their high score of 153 - Linzi and Kate.

Oh, it looked like you might have been back in.

You were out, then back in, then out again.

Oh, well.

Finally, I'm afraid, we send you away to Dunfermline, I'm afraid,

without your Pointless trophy, but it's been lovely having you on the show.

-Thank you.

-Thanks so much for playing, Linzi and Kate.

-Thank you.

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

Congratulations, Vaughn and Eni, David and Penny.

You are now one step closer to the final, and a chance

to play for that jackpot, which currently stands at £3,250.

The big news is that we've made it to the head-to-head,

which means you're now allowed to play as a team.

From here on in, you can confer before giving your answers.

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

Well, I mean, two things I can say.

First thing is, I like the fact you rhyme -

Vaughn and Eni, David and Penny, that's the first thing.

the second thing is, I think you are very, very evenly matched, actually.

Each of you had an incorrect answer and each of you

have had quite a good correct answer in that last round.

So on the strength of that,

this should be very exciting, but best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here is your first question and it concerns...

-Richard.

-I'm going to show you five statues now from around the world, of film or TV characters.

Can you name the characters, please?

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

and here they come. We have got...

There we are, five statues of film and TV characters.

Vaughn and Eni, you are our low scorers so you will go first.

OK. We think A is Rocky Balboa?

-Rocky Balboa...

-Yeah.

-..say Vaughn and Eni. Rocky Balboa.

Now, then, David and Penny,

do you feel like talking us through all of those other statues?

I think B is going to be the Fonz.

C is Yoda.

-Do you know D?

-D is Bewitched, we think.

We think E is Captain Mainwaring.

I think we're going to go with E, Captain Mainwaring.

E, Captain Mainwaring.

So, we have Rocky Balboa and we have Captain Mainwaring.

Vaughn and Eni went for Rocky.

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

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

It's not bad at all, down that goes to 21.

Very well done indeed, Vaughn and Eni, good score there.

Meanwhile, David and Penny have gone for E and said Captain Mainwaring.

Let's see if that's right.

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

It is Captain Mainwaring.

And... Oh, 31, Captain Mainwaring.

Very well done indeed, Vaughn and Eni,

after one question you are up 1-0.

Yeah, the Rocky statue is in Philadelphia, as you might expect.

The Captain Mainwaring one is in Thetford,

where they filmed an awful lot of Dad's Army.

What a lovely thing to have a statue of.

-Yeah.

-Imagine Arthur Lowe when he first got the script for that,

thinking, "One day I'll end up as a statue."

-Isn't that extraordinary?

-Mm.

Four people of our 100 said that was Winston Churchill.

That famous TV and film character.

B, you are quite right, is the Fonz.

That's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

would have scored you 38 points.

C, it's in San Francisco, and it's Yoda, of course.

Yoda would have scored you 66.

And D, in Salem, Massachusetts, it is from Bewitched.

It's Samantha from Bewitched.

And it's the best answer up there, would have scored you five points.

Thank you very much, Richard. Here is your second question now.

David and Penny, you get to answer this first.

But obviously you have to win this one to stay in the game,

so very best of luck. Our second question today is all about...

-Richard.

-Descriptions now of five famous people

who have fish names for surnames.

We're going to give you their first names as well,

but what are those surnames?

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

and here they come. We have got...

I'll read those again.

David and Penny will go first.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we're going to go with Jackson Pollock.

-Jackson Pollock...

-Yes.

-..say David and Penny.

Jackson Pollock.

Now, Vaughn and Eni, talk us through those fish.

Jackson Pollock was the one I knew,

cos he does all the funny paintings and stuff.

So hopefully Vaughn will...

I know the last two - Nicola Sturgeon and Rosamund Pike.

I'll go with Rosamund Pike.

Rosamund Pike, say Vaughn and Eni,

so we have Jackson Pollock and Rosamund Pike.

David and Penny went for Jackson Pollock.

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

It's right.

Jackson Pollock... Oh, look at that, 58.

That's higher than I was expecting. 58 for Jackson Pollock.

Now, Vaughn and Eni, meanwhile, have gone for Rosamund Pike,

a wonderful actress.

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

It's right, of course, and it beats Jackson Pollock.

What about that? Down it goes to 35.

Very well done indeed.

That means, Vaughn and Eni, only two questions,

you're straight through to the final, 2-0.

It's well chosen from the ones though that you knew, as well,

cos Nicola Sturgeon would have scored you 82 points.

That's very impressive, isn't it?

The American artist and photographer...

-Man Ray.

-It's Man Ray.

It would have scored you 16 points.

And the best answer on the board,

I know some football fans would have got this, Steve Guppy.

Would have scored you two.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard,

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

I'm sorry, David and Penny, it is you.

Well, I said it would be close and it was close.

I'm surprised how high Jackson Pollock scored there, I thought that was a great answer.

But I'm afraid not good enough to keep you with us,

but it's been lovely having you with us. Thank you so much for playing.

-David and Penny, great contestants.

-Thank you.

But for Vaughn and Eni, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Vaughn and Eni,

you have fought off all the competition and you have 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 £3,250.

Well, that's very exciting, all done on one appearance.

You've come straight through to the final here.

Eni, I noticed you're two days into a medical degree.

-You've broken your arm.

-Yeah, fractured my scaphoid.

Oh, no.

He hasn't broken his arm, he's fractured his scaphoid.

This is a medical student you're talking to.

Where's the scaphoid in there?

To be honest, I don't know. I've just been shown up, yeah.

-You will learn that, you will learn that.

-Yeah.

-That's great.

Now, what would you like to see on the board in this category?

In this category, science, history, politics, maybe, again.

-Eni, anything, you want to add to that?

-Science, maybe, yeah.

OK, very good, well, let's see what's on the board.

As you know there will be four categories up there,

let's hope there's something you like the look of.

Today's selection reads like this. We've got...

-Er...

-All the ones we didn't want are on the board.

Let's go US dramas.

-You think?

-Yeah, let's just wing it, yeah.

All right, we can do that.

OK, you're going to go for cult US TV dramas.

OK, very best of luck, gents,

I think lots of people at home will like this one.

We are looking for any actor who's appeared in five or more episodes of

Lost, according to IMDB, five or more episodes of Twin Peaks,

or five or more episodes of Breaking Bad.

So any actor, five or more episodes of any of those three US dramas.

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

and all you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yeah...

-Let's put 60 seconds on the clock, there they are.

Your time starts now.

OK, I've never seen Twin Peaks, I've no idea what that is.

-I've never seen Lost or Twin Peaks.

-OK.

-Breaking Bad. Bryan Cranston.

-The most obvious one.

What else, do you know anything?

-No.

-OK, good start.

What's the Mexican actor, he's quite an action daredevil?

Oh, yeah, he's like half African, half Italian or something.

Kind of.

Giancarlo Esposito or something.

-Let's go with that.

-OK, that's one, I guess.

So, a third of the way through.

I know the faces of all the actors in Lost,

but I don't know any of their names.

OK.

So, yeah, Bryan Cranston.

Bryan Cranston, what was the first one?

-Giancarlo Es...

-Espinosa.

-Esposito or something.

-OK.

-Yeah.

And shall we just...

-The last one.

-Johnny.

-Johnny.

-John Smith.

Let's do a cameo. Erm...

Johnny Depp.

-OK.

-OK, that is your time up.

I now need your three answers.

What are you going to give me?

-Johnny Depp.

-Bryan Cranston.

If you could say which category you are answering in each case.

-All Breaking Bad.

-OK, let's say all for Breaking Bad.

All for Breaking Bad.

-Johnny Depp.

-Bryan Cranston.

-Bryan Cranston.

-And Giancarlo Esposito.

And Giancarlo Esposito.

-Yeah.

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

-None.

-I did it in that order.

OK, so Giancarlo Esposito, we'll put him last.

Least likely to be pointless, Johnny Depp.

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

and here they are.

We have got Johnny Depp, we've got Bryan Cranston and there,

Giancarlo Esposito.

Well, good luck. Tough round, that one.

Let's see what these answers do. There might be one on there

that's a brilliant answer, could be pointless,

might win you the jackpot.

Our jackpot at the moment is £3,250.

That's not a bad jackpot to be taking home.

What would you do with that if that were to be yours, Vaughn?

Save it.

-He's quite rational.

-That's very, very grown-up, you'd save it.

Yeah, save it for university.

Good, good. Eni, how about you?

Like, blow it on a boys' trip to Ibiza, maybe.

LAUGHTER That's what...

That's what I was expecting, Vaughn, but there we are. No, good for you.

-That's why one of you has broken his arm and the other hasn't.

-Yeah.

OK, well, let's see what happens when we put these answers to the test.

Johnny Depp was your first answer.

All three of these you are hoping are cast members of five or more

episodes of Breaking Bad. Johnny Depp was your first answer.

Let's see what happens when we say that.

If it's pointless it'll win you £3,250.

There we are. Well, Johnny Depp doing a lovely

job of just keeping that place warm for you, there.

I don't think you were expecting that to be a correct answer.

Not a pointless answer. We move on to Bryan Cranston,

let's see how many of our 100 people named Bryan Cranston as

a cast member of Breaking Bad. If it's pointless, it wins you £3,250.

How many people said it?

Well, he's right, which is more than can be said for Johnny Depp.

Bryan Cranston takes us down through the '40s, into the '30s,

'20s, still going down into the teens.

Bryan Cranston is landing at ten.

That's...

That's quite a low score for the star of the show, but there we are,

Bryan Cranston, not a pointless answer,

so we move onto your third and final answer, which is Giancarlo Esposito.

Now this is a very good answer, this is a great answer, I think, if it's right.

LAUGHTER

Even if it's not, it's still a great answer.

-Such a nice name.

-Giancarlo Esposito, I think it's a fabulous name.

If this turns out to be correct and pointless, you leave here with £3,250.

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

Is it pointless? Is it right?

It's right.

Very, very well remembered, Eni.

Now Johnny Depp was an incorrect answer,

Bryan Cranston took us down to ten,

Giancarlo Esposito now takes us down into single figures, down we go,

still going down, still going down.

Oh, my God!

One person. Oh!

Oh, that's unlucky, that is so unlucky.

He doesn't think about anyone else.

Dear, oh, dear, I'm afraid Giancarlo Esposito scored you one point,

such a good answer there.

Took you within touching distance of that jackpot.

I'm afraid you didn't manage to find the all-important pointless answer

so I'm afraid today's jackpot rolls out onto the next show,

but what a great performance across the show.

You've done incredibly well.

Really good answer and you got it in the right place, as well,

you ordered it beautifully for us.

You get to take home a Pointless trophy, so very well done for that.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, unlucky, gents.

Giancarlo Esposito plays Gus Fring, possibly one of most

terrifying characters in the history of television.

If was here now he'd be laughing his head off at you scoring one point,

you just know it. Evil, he is.

Let's take a look at the actors in Lost, shall we? The pointless answers.

Alan Dale, who of course we all know as Jim from Neighbours,

but he's in everything and he turns up in Lost.

Daniel Dae Kim, Emilie de Ravin and Michelle Rodriguez.

Everyone pointless there, apart from Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway,

Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Dominic Monaghan, Maggie Grace,

Ian Somerhalder, Naveen Andrews and Terry O'Quinn.

Every other person who's been in five or more episodes was a pointless answer.

Twin Peaks now, slightly further back in time.

Billy Zane, a pointless answer there, Frank Silva, who plays Bob,

Heather Graham, Russ Tamblyn, the veteran actor.

Everyone pointless there apart from Kyle MacLachlan, Sherilyn Fenn,

Cheryl Lee, David Lynch,

Madchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook and Lara Flynn Boyle.

Everyone else a pointless answer.

And actors in Breaking Bad, four of the big characters here actually,

Betsy Brandt, who plays Marie.

Bob Odenkirk, who plays Saul Goodman,

he's also in Better Call Saul.

Jonathan Banks, who is Mike, also in Better Call Saul,

and Laura Fraser, who's Lydia.

Everyone there pointless, apart from Bryan Cranston,

Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte,

Dean Norris, Krysten Ritter and Giancarlo Esposito.

Unlucky, gents, very well played.

Thank you very much, Richard, and thank you so much, Vaughn and Eni.

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

It rolls over onto the next show,

which means we will then be playing for £4,250.

Join us next time to see if someone can win it.

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

-Goodbye.

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