Episode 45 Pointless

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

and welcome to Pointless, the show where the lowest scorers

are the biggest winners. Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Hav, and this is my friend, Indy.

We're both from Gravesend in Kent.

-Couple number two.

-Hello, my name's Gwen.

This is my friend John and we're from North Wales.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Amy. I'm from Newark and I'm here today with my mum, Julie,

who's from Lincolnshire.

And, finally, couple number four.

I'm Roly and this is Duggan, we're from Newcastle

and we've remained friends for the last 15 years.

See what happens today!

And these are today's contestants.

Thank you very much indeed. A very warm welcome to each one of you.

Great to have you here. We'll get a chance to chat to you

throughout the show as it goes along.

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

They say a fool and his money are soon parted.

Well, today, he's hoping to reunite them.

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

Hiya. Hey, everybody. Hiya!

Good day to you.

-And to you.

-What a show we had last time!

It was an absolute cracker, wasn't it?

John and Gwen were with us,

got knocked out in that first round about modern art.

There was an awful lot of wrong answers. Joined the 200 Club.

So fingers crossed we don't see the 400 Club today.

And then, Hav and Indy got through to the head-to-head

against Tahir and Haluk. And a £7,250 jackpot was up for grabs.

And you got knocked out by Tahir and Haluk.

They got through to the final round.

They were siblings, squabbling siblings, I'm going to say.

-That's fair enough.

-In a loving way.

-They had a number of disagreements.

But then, the category Sporting Siblings came up.

Perfect for them. Gave us a couple of boxing answers,

which went for nothing.

They took one punt on a cricketing answer.

Went for Ashley Giles, for £7,250.

One point.

One point right at the end.

It was a terrific end to a terrific show.

But it means that jackpot is getting bigger and bigger.

It's getting bigger, I know.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, as the man said, Tahir and Haluk didn't win the jackpot.

That means we add another £1,000 to it.

So it's going to be even bigger.

Today's jackpot starts off at £8,250.

There we are. Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

As ever, the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

So keep your scores nice and low, if you possibly can.

Our first category this afternoon is...

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and second?

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

OK. And the question concerns...

-Richard?

-On each board we're going to give you seven clues.

The answers to each of the clues appeared on the BFI's list

of the Greatest Films Of All Time that they published in 2016.

So seven on the first board, seven on the second board,

14 films in all to guess at home. Good luck.

Thank you very much indeed. OK, let's reveal

our first board of clues. Here they come. Seven of them.

And we have got...

I'm going to read those all again.

Now then, Hav, welcome back.

Now, you were our low scorers going into the head-to-head round.

Then you were seen off in the head-to-head.

So you've got to be hoping to take it one step further this time.

Remind us what you do, Hav.

At the minute, I'm on an internship at an oil and gas company

but it's an internship in the middle of my degree,

-where I'm doing chemical engineering at Surrey.

-I see.

So you go back to Surrey for what, one more final year?

-Yeah, I do my final year.

-Very good.

And what sort of things do you like getting up to

-when not doing gas and oil?

-I play lacrosse at uni.

That's a big part of what I do.

I'm also part of the Chemical Engineering Society.

We don't just sit around and talk about chemical engineering,

it's all mostly socials, a lot of bar crawls, that kind of thing.

Chemical Engineering Society at Surrey.

-These guys sound crazy.

-They do!

-It's like carnage, right?

-Yeah.

It's like the Fall of Rome down in Surrey, now.

Yeah! Very good.

Well, Hav, let's look at these films.

What would you like to go for?

There's... Right, I've got an idea on a few.

I'm trying to think which one will be the lowest scoring.

I think I'm going to go with the Francis Ford Coppola film

set during the Vietnam War. Er, Apocalypse Now.

Apocalypse Now, says Hav.

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

It's right.

24.

24 for Apocalypse Now, for Hav.

It was originally going to be directed by George Lucas.

He wanted to shoot it while the Vietnam War was still raging,

sort of documentary style.

Whoa! And then suddenly found he couldn't get any actors.

-Yes, weird that, isn't it?

-Strange.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Gwen, welcome back to Pointless.

Lovely to have you with us again. Now, last time, Gwen,

-we said goodbye to you far too soon.

-Yes.

-We will have no more of that.

-OK.

-No more of that. Remind us what you do, Gwen.

I'm retired. I used to be a teacher of hearing-impaired children.

And you are retired and having a lovely time.

Having a wonderful time. Yes.

How do you and John know each other? Are you neighbours up in Wales?

I used to be a support teacher with John when he was at school.

Ah! So, whose idea was it to come on, then?

It was my idea.

John, he said, "Right, Gwen, you're coming with me."

-Basically.

-Very good indeed. Now, Gwen, I hope this round

is a bit more fun for you than that art round.

I think it's a little bit better, yes, thank you.

Let's have a lovely, low-scoring answer, Gwen.

I'm going to go for the Orson Welles one

and I'm going to go Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane, says Gwen.

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

It's right.

47. Not bad.

Not bad.

There is genuinely at one point in Citizen Kane, if you watch it,

they use back projections from other films,

which they used to do in those days to cut down on costs.

They used one that they think is from King Kong.

You can see pterodactyls, very, very, very faintly

in the background in Citizen Kane. They're not supposed to be there.

That's hilarious! Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Amy, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here. From Newark?

-Yes.

-What do you do in Newark?

I work in communications for a wildlife charity.

-That's nice.

-Kind of brochures, magazines, information boards,

-that kind of thing.

-Very good.

The only thing I know about Newark is when you're driving down the A1,

which I do a lot, the signs to Newark start very early on.

You pass Newark.

40 minutes later, you come to a sign where there's a roundabout

and it says, you can go back to Newark.

-Yep.

-It's extraordinary!

Whoever's in charge of the signing in Newark, well done.

-Very keen for you to visit.

-They are, they are.

I must go. It's lovely, isn't it, Newark?

-It's really nice.

-Yeah. Anyway, Amy, there you are.

What would you like to go for on our board?

-How are you finding it?

-There are a couple I think I know.

It's working out which are going to be the lowest.

Er, I think I'll go for the Hitchcock film,

-which I think is Vertigo.

-Vertigo, says Amy.

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

It's right.

Look at that! 90 for Vertigo.

Appropriately high.

I think a big scorer there because you don't need to know the film,

because we've given an extra clue there in the question.

Based on a French novel, Vertigo.

Called From Among The Dead, or whatever that is in French.

-Entre Les Morts. Who knows?

-Amonge Les Morts.

-Oui.

-Amonge...Les Dead.

-Yeah.

-By Jean-Pierre...

-French.

-I think it's Jean-Pierre Le French.

-Yes.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Roly.

Welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.

That's another great beard. We've had some good beards.

There's a lot of good coverage there.

Lot of good coverage. That is enviable coverage.

-Thank you very much.

-Roly, what do you do?

Er, I work in digital advertising in London.

Is that sort of app-based?

Yeah, I work in the world of online dating, actually.

-For one of the big companies in that space.

-Oh, I see.

Interesting. Er, Roly, what are your interests?

Erm, sort of quite into film actually.

Music, sport.

So I'm hoping that we get lots of questions around those areas.

OK. Well, we've certainly given you some questions in this round

around that area. Do you want to fill in all these blanks for us?

Yeah. I don't know the top one.

The Gene Kelly one is Singing In The Rain.

And the Marilyn Monroe one is Some Like It Hot.

I don't know the bottom one.

If I was guessing, I might say The Getaway.

I'm going to go with Some Like It Hot.

Some Like It Hot, says Roly. Excellent film.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Some Like It Hot.

It's right.

71 for Some Like It Hot.

That's a high score.

Yeah, that was also number one in the American Film Institute's

funniest movies of all time, Some Like It Hot.

-It kind of is funny, but it's not a proper comedy.

-No.

Shall we go through the rest of the board?

-Let's do that.

-Do you know the Russian one?

-Battleship Potemkin.

-It is Battleship Potemkin.

That would have scored you ten points.

You're quite right about Singing In The Rain.

That would have scored 73. The best answer on the board

is the Buster Keaton movie.

-It is The General.

-Ah, The General!

It would have scored you seven points. Well done if you said that.

Thank you, Richard. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. 24. Look at that! Hav and Indy.

Once again our low-scoring supremos there.

We travel up from 24 to 47, where we find Gwen and John.

Then up to 71, where we find Roly and Duggan and then up to 90,

Amy and Julie. Yes, that was a punishingly

high score there, Amy, I'm afraid.

So, Julie, you have a little bit of a job to do in the next pass.

So good luck with that, I hope you like the board.

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 clues up on the board and here they are.

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

-Duggan, welcome to Pointless.

-Hello.

-Good to have you here.

-What do you do, Duggan?

-I'm a drummer.

A drummer for hire? A drummer in a band?

Whatever you want. Absolutely anything.

-Session drumming?

-Weddings. Anniversaries.

I thought you were going to say Wednesday, I can't do,

-but any other day.

-I can't actually do Wednesdays.

Can't do Wednesday, no. Duggan, you're not the high scorers

but you're quite near the high scorers.

We need a low score from you.

Well, I'm going to go for one for two reasons.

If it's right, it will possibly be a low score,

plus it is actually the name of the band that I'm in.

-What do you know?

-What about that?

This is if it's right. I'm going to look pretty stupid if it's wrong.

I'm going to say right now there are some bad names for bands up there.

I didn't choose the name and I don't like the name, to be fair.

But it's a great film, actually, if it's the one I'm thinking of.

So the David Lynch one, Mulholland Drive.

Mulholland Drive, of all those things,

that's the best name for a band, I think, on that board.

-Mulholland Drive...

-Yeah.

-David Lynch, Naomi Watts.

There's your red line. You get below that, you're through to Round Two.

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

Look at that! Through you go, just! You needed 18, you got 15.

86 is your total. You're in Round Two.

Yeah, very well played, Duggan. That's very fortuitous, wasn't it?

I found it impenetrable, I have to say, but you know, what do I know?

It's quite long. I quite enjoyed it, though.

Yeah, I prefer Ace Venture Pet Detective,

which was not on the list.

-It's not on the list.

-That's annoying.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Now, Julie, welcome.

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

I have a bed-and-breakfast and I keep a few chickens

and so I feed the eggs to the guests.

I was going to say, that's it.

Presumably the chickens then eat some of the leftovers

-the guests don't eat.

-Absolutely, yes!

I bet every plate goes back to the kitchen clean,

but if they've had thirds, let's say, and they didn't quite finish...

So it's quite a nice, virtuous circle there.

Very nice. How many hens have you got?

At the moment, we've got 11.

Oh, that's good. Do they mostly lay every day?

-Pretty much every day, yeah.

-If you didn't have people staying,

it's quite an egg mountain that starts to build up.

We would sell a few and sometimes the guests do buy some to take home.

Very nice. Or they just have to have massive omelettes for breakfast.

Now, Julie, there you are on 90.

You're the high scorers at the moment, so we need a low score.

What would you like to go for?

Well, sadly, this isn't the best category.

And all the ones I know, I think, are going to be high, so, again,

like Amy, a choice of which is the lowest of the high scorers.

I think I shall have to join Amy with another Hitchcock film

and go for the bottom one and say Psycho, although I'm sure it's high.

Psycho, says Julie. Let's see.

No red line for you as you're the high scorers.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Psycho.

That's another high score.

Yeah. That takes your total up to 181.

Yeah, well, you scored one more, which is very, very impressive.

-Good stuff.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

John, welcome back.

Remind us what you do, John.

-I'm a farmer.

-A farmer in Anglesey.

-Yes.

-A beef and sheep farmer.

-Yes.

-Ah!

-Ah.

That's nice...

Oh! Some of the sheep are sort of upland sheep, I'm guessing.

You stride out with a sheep.

You've got beautiful views, reaching out miles and miles around.

-Anglesey's quite flat, so...

-Ah, yeah. OK.

-I just don't know what I'm talking about.

-I'd be fine.

-I'd have beautiful views.

-Quite flat.

I'd be the tallest thing for many miles around.

You wouldn't want to be out there in a storm, Richard.

In lightning, no, I'd be a very dangerous person to be around.

You mustn't shelter under me during lightning.

John, what would you like to go for?

The good news is you're through to Round Two, whatever you score.

I was lucky, they stole my answer and I literally have no idea

of the rest of them. So...

..I can't guess, sorry.

Do you want to just make something up for one of them?

I'll go the gangster film and...

..Tobacco Gangs.

Tobacco Gangs.

Let's see, Tobacco Gangs.

You've got the initials right. There's no line for you

because you're already through, doesn't matter.

How many of our 100 people said Tobacco Gangs?

Not on that date.

No. Not the Tobacco Gangs, I'm afraid.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 147,

-but you're through anyway.

-I'd watch that film.

-Tobacco Gangs, definitely.

-Yeah.

I think so.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Indy.

Welcome back. Remind us what you do, Indy?

Currently between jobs at the moment,

but I was an English teacher.

You were an English teacher and you want to get a job in publishing?

-Yeah, I do.

-Very good.

So are you doing fun things with the interim while you're waiting

for the next chapter of your life?

Yeah, keeping busy.

Reading, writing, painting, stuff.

You're not going to go off and travel,

find yourself on the other side of the world?

-Not until I get income, no!

-Ah, yes, I see what you mean.

Or win the jackpot, and off you go.

Fabulous. Now, you're through.

Doesn't matter what you score. Would you like to take us

through this board and fill in all our blanks for us, please?

I did some film studies at uni,

so it's annoying me I don't know all of them.

But, Seven Samurai is the second one down.

I really can't remember the Charlie Chaplin one.

Then Taxi Driver and The Godfather.

I think I'll go with Seven Samurai.

OK, Seven Samurai, says Indy. No red line. You're already through.

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

It's right.

It's another great answer for that first podium.

Down to 12, very well done indeed.

36 is your total, the lowest score by a long way.

Yeah, well played. Directed by Akira Kurosawa,

the first Japanese director to get kind of international recognition.

They remade it as The Magnificent Seven,

Seven Samurai, and then they remade The Magnificent Seven

as The Magnificent Seven as well.

Now, the civil war veteran seeks his niece

is the John Ford movie, The Searchers.

That would have scored you five points.

The Charlie Chaplin movie is City Lights.

Would have scored you six points.

So I did wonder, for a moment, Duggan,

if you were the drummer in The Searchers.

Robert De Niro, you're quite right, Taxi Driver.

Would have scored 34 and you're also right about The Godfather.

That would have scored 73.

So, the best answer on the board is The Searchers.

Well done if you said that, or City Lights, both very good answers.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

We're at the end of our first round and the pair we are sending home

with a high score of 181, Julie and Amy, I'm so sorry.

-Not your round, I think it's fair to say.

-No.

Not your round. Anyway, we'll see you again next time

when I hope there'll be a slightly more fortuitous category for you.

Meantime, thanks very much indeed, Julie and Amy.

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

Well done, everyone. We've made it through to Round Two.

Great to have you all with us. Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is Sport.

Can you all decide in your pairs

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

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 Team GB gold medallists

at Rio 2016 as they could.

-Ooh, that's fun, Richard.

-Yes, a nice question.

I've been waiting for this one to crop up.

We're looking for the name of anybody who received at least

one gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics for Team GB.

-Best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

So, Indy, we come to you first.

Yeah. Um...

Not very good with sport.

Obviously, I watched the Olympics but...

I think...Laura Trott won something.

Laura Trott, let us find out.

How many of our 100 people said Laura Trott?

She absolutely did win gold.

There we are. Laura Trott.

32. Not bad.

32 for Laura Trott.

Yeah, she won two golds to add to the two she'd already got,

so four golds for Laura Trott,

the first British woman ever to achieve that.

Thank you, Richard. Now, John.

Erm, Elinor Baker.

-Elinor Baker.

-Elinor Baker, she was a cyclist.

-OK.

-Elinor Baker, says John.

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

Oh, John, I'm sorry.

I was just thinking, that's a great answer, and I'm afraid it's not.

That scores 100 points.

It may easily not be the last 100 of this round but I'm afraid incorrect.

Sorry, John, can't give it to you, I'm afraid.

I'll give you all the correct answers at the end of the pass.

Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Roly.

-Roly?

-An absolute mind blank.

It's really annoying because I watched the Olympics

and thought it was great.

Erm, I'm going to go with Bradley Wiggins.

Bradley Wiggins, says Roly.

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

It's right.

100 was the high score and you passed that.

32 is the low and you passed that.

Look at that! Bradley Wiggins, 22.

Not bad at all.

Yeah, the first Briton to win eight Olympic medals, Bradley Wiggins.

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

let's have a quick look at the scores.

22, the best score of the pass, very well done.

Roly and Duggan looking very strong at this point.

32 is where Indy and Hav are to be found

and 100 is where we find John and Gwen.

Who knows what'll happen in the next pass?

But Gwen, we definitely need a low score from you.

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

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

OK. So, Duggan...

-Yes.

-Duggan,

we're looking for anyone who won a gold medal for Team GB

at Rio in 2016.

Erm, I know absolutely zilch about sport.

Er, I didn't watch it.

Haven't got a clue. Erm...

..Andy Murray.

Andy Murray.

Andy Murray. Here is your red line.

Get below that red line, you're through to the head-to-head.

How many people said Andy Murray?

Absolutely right.

Gets you through.

22 is our low score. 21, the lowest score of the round so far.

Duggan, very well done indeed.

43.

Yeah, well done.

Won his second title, beating Juan Martin del Potro.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now then, Gwen.

Did you watch the Olympics?

Not a lot. No.

Did you follow the Olympics?

-Not really, no.

-Not really?

-No.

I have one name.

Mo Mowlam?

Mo Farah!

I love the way you did that when you said Mo Farah.

Oh!

Oh, Gwen, I'm sorry.

-We have to take Mo Mowlam.

-Ah-ah!

Aw! Well...

Let's see what happens when we say Mo Mowlam.

No red line for you as you're the high-scorers.

I'm sorry. Oh, Gwen, I'm sorry.

Not Mo Mowlam. That's an easy mistake to make.

That scores you 200, I'm sorry.

Yeah, no Mo Mowlam, I'm afraid.

Farrah Fawcett won two golds, but no Mo Mowlam.

You know what? What a way to go out, I would say!

-At least you got a story out of it.

-Thank you.

-Thanks very much indeed.

-Now then, Hav.

-I'm having a horrible blank, which is a real shame,

because there were so many medals.

So I'm just going to have to go with Mo Farah to keep it safe.

-So...

-OK, Mo Farah, says Hav.

It doesn't matter what you score, you're through anyway, no red line.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Mo Farah.

It's right. Look at that!

67,

the highest scorer of all the answers.

Good news for Mo,

taking your total up to 99.

Yeah, defended both of his Olympic titles, Mo Farah.

Also was briefly a member of Tony Blair's Cabinet.

Erm, now, I'm going to say out loud Mo Mowlam was a bad answer.

-You know it's a bad answer as well.

-Yes.

So that's a bad 100 points to get.

But the opposition to a bad 100 points is a brilliant 100 points,

which is what John gave us, because you said Elinor Baker,

I can't give it to you. It's a different surname.

It's Elinor Barker, I'm afraid, and that was a pointless answer.

Oh, no!

So, what a way to go! You can go back to your farm and at least know

you gave the best answer and it was one letter out.

Imagine if you'd got a pointless answer

and then you'd still said Mo Mowlam. Oh, my goodness!

You'd never be forgiven, would you?

That long journey back to North Wales

would have been very interesting.

Now, there's lots and lots of pointless answers here

because we won so many medals, I guess,

and of course, lots of them were team medals as well.

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

Er, Calum Skinner won for cycling. He's a pointless answer.

Constantine Louloudis from the men's rowing four was a pointless answer.

All of the men's rowing four and the men's rowing eight,

every single one of them was a pointless answer.

Hannah Mills is a pointless answer. She was from sailing.

Hollie Webb from our hockey team was a pointless answer,

as was Nicola White. She was from our hockey team.

Both scored in that final.

Joe Clarke in the kayak was a pointless answer.

You also could have had Pete Reed, who was from the men's eight,

Philip Hindes in the cycling, Saskia Clark from sailing.

Actually, two more of the hockey team were both pointless answers.

That was Helen and Kate Richardson-Walsh.

So very well done if you said them.

The top three answers, we've had the top two,

which were Laura Trott and Mo Farah.

But Jason Kenny, of course, married Laura Trott.

He would have scored you 24. There's Laura Trott, 32.

Ten gold medals between the two of them, and Mo Farah, 67.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our second round, the pair we have to say goodbye to,

I'm so sorry, with their high score of 200.

Different stories behind each of those scores, Gwen and John,

it's been lovely having you on the show. Thank you for coming to play.

Gwen and John, wonderful contestants.

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

Congratulations, Roly and Duggan, Hav and Indy.

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

for our jackpot, which currently stands at £8,250.

This is exciting. This is the bit where you start playing as a team.

You can confer before you give all your answers.

The first pair in this round to win two questions will be going through

to the final to play for that jackpot.

Very best of luck to both players. Let's play the head-to-head.

OK. Here is your first question.

And our first question today is all about climbing plants.

-Richard?

-Going to show you five pictures now of climbing plants.

We'll also give you the first and last letters of their names,

but what are they, please?

Thank you. What are these climbing plants?

We have got...

There we are. Five climbing plants.

Roly and Duggan, you are our low scorers, so you will go first.

Oh!

-That is a great answer. Yes.

-If it's right.

That is what it is. Well done.

Have you just worked out D, by any chance?

-No, we've just worked out E.

-Worked out E.

I'm thinking of an Oasis album.

Morning glory?

OK. That's your answer, is it?

OK. You're going to go E, morning glory.

OK. Hav and Indy, do you want to talk us through that board?

A is clematis an C is wisteria. I don't know the other two.

And I figure wisteria's quite a famous...

-Oh, definitely.

-More popular one. I think we'll go clematis.

OK, you're going to go for clematis.

OK. Let's find out.

So, we have morning glory from Roly and Duggan.

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

21.

Hav and Indy meanwhile have gone for A and said clematis.

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

46 for clematis.

Very well done, Roly and Duggan.

After one question, you are up 1-0.

A couple of answers up there that would have beaten morning glory.

We'll start with C, which is wisteria.

You were right to avoid it. It is the biggest scorer.

Would have scored you 56.

But the other two are the best answers on the board.

-Now B?

-Virginia creeper.

-Is Virginia creeper.

-Yep.

-And that would have scored you 13 points.

The best answer on the board,

you can work out what the second word is.

Is it trumpet vine?

It is trumpet vine, absolutely right. Well done.

Would have scored you one point.

Thank you very much indeed.

So, here comes your second question.

Hav and Indy, you get to answer it first.

You have to win it to stay in the game. Best of luck.

Our second question is all about famous MPs.

-Richard?

-We're going to show you five clues now

relating to famous people whose initials are MP.

Can you tell us who they are, please?

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

and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Hav and Indy, you will go first.

No, not that. A bit older.

Michael Parkinson's in there. Don't matter.

The last one's Mary Portas.

I'll take it from those two, but up to you.

I know all of them but it's trying to think which one's

going to be the lowest one. So, I'm going to go with the bottom one.

Is it Mary Portas?

Mary Portas, say Hav and Indy.

Mary Portas. Now, Roly and Duggan, talk us through that board.

The top one is Michael Palin.

The third one is Michael Parkinson.

And the fourth one is Michelle Pfeiffer.

I think we should go for maybe Michelle Pfeiffer,

people might think her surname is spelt with an F or something maybe,

I don't know. The fourth one down, Michelle Pfeiffer.

Michelle Pfeiffer. So we have Mary Portas and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Hav and Indy, you went for Mary Portas.

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

It's right.

41 for Mary Portas.

41 for that.

Now Roly and Duggan meanwhile

have gone for Michelle Pfeiffer for Catwoman.

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

It's right.

It's close. Oh, it wins.

Look at that! Michelle Pfeiffer down to 32.

Very well done.

Good logic there.

And it means Roly and Duggan, after only two questions,

you are straight through to the final, 2-0.

Yeah, listen, that was absolutely one of those boards

where you know all the answers

and it's just working out which is the lowest scorer.

Going to be really tough.

I had exactly the same thought process as you.

I would have gone for Mary Portas as well but Michelle Pfeiffer

is the best answer on the board, so very well chosen.

Michael Parkinson also would have beaten Mary Portas

because he would have scored 38.

I think maybe because the clue is slightly more obscure.

38 for that.

At the top, Michael Palin is the biggest scorer.

Would have scored you 64.

-And the Venetian explorer...

-Marco Polo.

-Marco Polo.

-But a big scorer, 57 for Marco Polo.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

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

Hav and Indy. Oh, I'm so sorry.

You've been in the head-to-head twice, once as our golden couple.

And I'm afraid both times, you've had the final snatched away

from under your noses but it's been wonderful having you on the show

and really impressive play as well. Very well done for that.

Thanks so much for playing. Hav and Indy, great contestants.

But for Roly and Duggan, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Roly and Duggan.

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.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £8,250.

Ooh!

Wow! That's an exciting jackpot.

Now, listen, you know what happens here.

Four things will appear on the board behind me.

Four categories. You just have to hope... £8,250 is riding on this.

..there's got to be something up there you'd like to see.

Music's obviously going to be a big one.

-What else?

-Under normal circumstances,

I would say music but what I don't want to do

is get an easy music question wrong, so I'd feel quite stupid,

so something geography-related could be quite interesting...

-Not for me.

-Film or sport, maybe.

-Let's see what's up there.

Hope there's something you like the look of.

Today's selection looks like this...

-For me, I don't know a lot about weddings.

-I wouldn't have a clue.

Characters in stage love stories, I don't know.

-I wouldn't have a clue.

-Especially love stories.

Cocktails, possibly.

Irish pop. Does that mean fizzy drink, or...?

-For me, it's got to be pop.

-Do you think?

You've just got to hope it's something we're going to be able to

know the answer in. I think go for Irish Pop.

-Irish Pop.

-Irish Pop.

For the non-alcoholic option.

Gents, very best of luck. Three very different groups here.

We're looking for any UK Top 40 hits up to the end of August 2016

by any of the following, please.

Any UK Top 40 singles up to the end of August 2016 by B*Witched,

the Boomtown Rats or The Cranberries.

Very best of luck, gents. £8,250.

Thank you very much indeed.

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

with three answers, and all you need to win the jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

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

Your time starts now.

OK. I know there's... I think...

Wasn't there a song, something to do with Rollercoaster,

-B*Witched...?

-By B*Witched, yeah, yeah.

-I think so.

-Boomtown Rats, we've got I Don't Like Mondays.

That's obviously the most obvious one.

Do you know any other songs by them?

I know Linger and Zombie by The Cranberries.

-Was that The Cranberries?

-Zombie is. Linger, everybody'll know.

Linger... Was that definitely The Cranberries?

Yeah, cos I used to play it.

Well, that would mean you'd know it.

Well, I think both the Cranberries ones

are going to be the most obscure,

and The Boomtown Rats has got to be the most answers in that category.

But I don't know any of their songs, other than...

Wasn't there a song called, like, C'est...?

-Yeah, but that was their main hit.

-What was that called?

-C'est La Vie.

-C'est La Vie? C'est La Vie by B*Witched.

If they had one called Rollercoaster,

that's probably going to be more obscure, isn't it?

I would say C'est La Vie we should definitely go with,

-because I think...

-Ten seconds left.

C'est La Vie, everyone'll know that,

-cos it's their main song.

-Are we going for any Rats ones?

-No?

-I'd say...

-Don't Like Mondays...?

And then Cranberries, so we've got Zombie and Linger.

OK, that, I'm afraid, is your time up.

Let's have your three answers.

OK. Do we feel, like, two in The Cranberries?

Is that what you're saying?

Or do you not want to go for two in B*Witched?

C'est La Vie's not going to be pointless.

-Because it was a massive hit.

-OK. So, we'll go for...

I don't even know if it's actually what it's called, but something...

Let's say Rollercoaster, for B*Witched.

Rollercoaster. OK.

And then Linger, and also a second song, Zombie,

-both for The Cranberries.

-Linger and Zombie.

OK. There we are.

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

-I think we should?

-Linger's not going to be pointless.

I think we should sandwich B*Witched with The Cranberries,

-it'd be quite amusing.

-Mmm!

There's an image.

OK. So we've got B*Witched in the middle.

With The Cranberries on either side.

So we've got Zombie as our most likely to be pointless,

Linger our least likely, and B*Witched in the middle.

-Rollercoaster.

-OK, let's pop those answers up on the board

in that order, then, and here they are...

Well, three answers on the board there.

One of those could turn out to be pointless,

it could win you £8,250 if it is pointless.

What would you like to do with that money?

Roly, you first.

If I got my share of the money,

I think what I'd really like to do is...

What do you mean, "If"?

What, you think Duggan might not hand it over?

I'm not that confident in our answers, but...

Oh, I see what you mean.

But if I got the money, I think what I'd do is I'd like to go to Vegas.

Very good. Very good.

-Duggan, how about you?

-I'd buy a load of suits.

Loads of really sharp suits. Bit like yours.

Can't scrimp on suits.

Very best of luck. Three good answers on the board,

let's hope one of these turns out to be pointless.

Irish Pop's the category, your first answer was Linger,

in this case we were looking for The Cranberries' UK Top 40 hits.

You've gone for Linger. If it's pointless, it wins you £8,250.

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

Well, it's right...

Linger now takes us down through he 50s.

If it goes all the way down to zero, you leave with £8,250.

Linger takes us down through he 20s, into the teens...

Just. 19!

You said that, you said you knew that Linger wasn't going to be

a pointless answer, that's a popular answer there.

We move quickly on to your next answer, which is Rollercoaster.

In this case, we were looking for B*Witched UK Top 40 singles.

If this is pointless, it will win you £8,250.

How many of our 100 people said Rollercoaster?

Well, it's right.

Now, we weren't sure if Rollercoaster was going to be right.

That was what put it into second place.

Let's see how far down the column we go.

19 was scored with Linger.

We pass 19, we're into single figures.

Down it goes, Rollercoaster, taking us down to 5.

Oh!

Good going! This is fantastic.

From 19 down to 5.

Let's see if we can keep that downward trajectory up.

Your third and final answer

is Zombie, and in this case, we're back on The Cranberries.

We're looking for UK Top 40 hits by The Cranberries.

If this is pointless, Zombie, it wins you £8,250,

a trip to Vegas, some nice suits...

How many of our 100 people said Zombie?

Well, it's right.

Linger took us down to 19.

Rollercoaster took us down to 5.

Zombie now takes us down through he 30s and into he 20s...

Down we go, still going down...

Ooh, 23!

Anyway...

Well, Rollercoaster, appropriately enough,

gave us a bit of a ride for our money there, didn't it?

Took us all the way down to 5.

But I'm afraid you just didn't find that all-important pointless answer,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot.

That therefore rolls over on to the next show.

But what a performance. Amazing, it's been great having you here.

Just one appearance on the show,

straight through the head-to-head, 2-0.

No mucking about there, straight into the final,

and you get a Pointless trophy to take home each,

just sorry you don't get that jackpot, but very well done.

Roly and Duggan, superb.

Well played, gents. Let's take a look at the pointless answers here,

shall we? It's quite a tough one, this, I'll be honest.

There's a number one single there, To You I Belong,

that was their third number one single...

Those are the only four pointless answers for B*Witched,

just the four there. Boomtown Rats, there are six pointless answers...

..House On Fire and The Elephant's Graveyard.

All of those were pointless answers.

And again, for The Cranberries just the four pointless answers.

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

Thanks very much indeed, Richard,

and thanks very much, Roly and Duggan.

I'm so sorry, they didn't win the jackpot today,

which means it rolls over on to the next show,

when we will be playing for £9,250.

Join us then to see if someone can win it.

Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.