Episode 46 Pointless

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

and a very warm welcome to Pointless,

the show where obvious answers mean nothing

and obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one...

Hello, my name's Harvey, I'm from the Isle of Wight,

and this is my good friend Adam, who is from Stoke-on-Trent.

-Couple number two!

-Hi, I'm Liv, I'm from London,

and this is my friend Tori, and she lives in Reading.

-Couple number three!

-Hello, I'm Julie.

I am from Lincolnshire and I'm here today with my daughter Amy.

She's from Newark.

And, finally, couple number four.

My name is John and I'm here with my son Tom, and we're from Cheshire.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much, all of you. A very warm welcome to Pointless. Great 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 a lean, mean, flag-recognising machine, it's my Pointless friend -

-it's Richard.

-Hiya.

Hi, everybody. Hiya.

Hello to you, sir.

-Hello.

-Are you well?

I'm very well, thank you.

Excellent. Now, only one returning pair from last time, Amy and Julie.

Got knocked out in Round One as well.

-I know!

-But they've since made us a cake, so all is well.

You made us the cake?

-Yes.

-Oh, thank you, and lemon drizzle as well!

I know, my favourite.

-Mmm.

-Mmm, mmm, mmm! I haven't had mine yet.

It is under lock and key.

Because you have to over here.

-You certainly do.

-But this jackpot, let's talk about it.

-Yes.

-It was £8,250 last show,

and Roly and Duggan got through to the final -

you remember Roly and Duggan - they're very cool, supercool,

up from Newcastle.

And Duggan was a drummer in a band, a very cool indie band,

and their final category was B*Witched singles...

And I'm not giving too much away when I say it did not go well,

did it? So that jackpot, it's...

-It's grown.

-It's pretty big now, right?

-Yeah.

-Be quite a handy show to win, this one.

It would. Thank you, Richard.

And now, Roly and Duggan, as you've gathered, didn't win the jackpot last time.

That means we add another £1,000 to it, so today's jackpot starts off -

starts off - at £9,250.

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

OK, all you have to remember is this -

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

will be eliminated. That is all.

The very best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is...

..Film and Television.

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 - Amy forcing Julie out the way there!

So our question concerns...

Film & TV Duos.

-Richard?

-Yeah, we're about to show you a series of pictures

of famous film or TV duos. We're looking for the name

of any one of the characters you're about to see up here, please.

So just one of these TV duos - the character, we're looking for.

Excellent, so the image is going to go up and it's going to stay up

for the entirety of the round.

We won't be changing halfway through.

We just need the name of an individual, not the pair.

I'm saying that for my own benefit! Here is the image.

We have got...

OK, so there they are, as pairs.

Now, watch this...

Look at that.

Wow.

There they are as individuals,

and we are looking for the names of any of the characters.

Now, Harvey.

-Harvey, welcome, it's good to have you here.

-Thank you very much.

-What do you do, Harvey?

-I currently work in health care PR.

Health care PR?

-Indeed.

-OK.

Is that something you are intending to do forever and ever and ever?

Or is it something you're doing - because I happen to know

you have just graduated in zoology.

I have, yes, and animals are my first love - I absolutely love them.

But it is a job that gets me to London,

it's fun, it's some experience.

-I'm enjoying it so far.

-No, that's great - health care PR, it is fun.

It is a good thing. And zoology is something you can have for fun.

Yeah, exactly.

Perfect! You can be knowledgeable, as you walk around wildlife parks -

it's a brilliant thing, Harvey.

Now, what would you like to go for,

who would you like to go for, on our board?

We just need the name of one of

these characters from duos.

I'm going to go with Jesse Pinkman.

Jesse Pinkman, says Harvey.

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

I fancy that is going to be a low score, Harvey.

Look at that, very well done indeed.

12, great start to the round.

Very well done.

12 for Jesse Pinkman.

Well played, Harvey.

There he is, from Breaking Bad of course, played by Aaron Paul.

There we are. Thank you, Richard.

Tori, welcome to Pointless, good to have you here.

-What do you do, Tori?

-I'm a general manager of a bar.

Oh, no, that's fun. That's fun.

-Where is your bar?

-In Reading.

In Reading. I mean, a bar I suppose is a bar,

but what is special about your bar, Tori?

We do quite a lot of cocktails.

This is good. Are you a mixologist?

-A little bit.

-Yeah?

That's good. What's the most exotic cocktail you make?

Erm, oh, that's a good question.

We do one called Strawberry Passion, which has got, like,

fresh strawberries and passion fruit liqueurs, and lots of other things,

-that's really nice.

-Here's a good thing to know,

what's the quickest cocktail to order?

Erm, I think it just depends on the bartender.

Ah, I suppose. Because sometimes, I mean, I always find

when people are making cocktails, quite a long wait at the bar.

See, it can be, it can be.

But not at your bar, of this I'm quite sure.

Tori, who would you like to go for on our board here?

I'm going to go for Hooch.

Hooch, you say, appropriately enough, for the bar and all that.

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

There we are. Well, 12 for Jesse Pinkman.

Hooch, scoring 47 there.

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Yeah, there he is, a French mastiff, played by Beasley the Dog.

And that was his only ever film, Beasley the Dog.

-Never made another movie.

-Really?

Amazing, isn't it?

But, you know, won the Oscar, so, you know, one film and out.

Beat Marlon Brando that year, didn't he?

Amy, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Now, Round One last time, Amy - Round One.

We'll hear no more of this.

-Yes.

-Remind us what you do, Amy.

I work for a wildlife charity.

Brilliant. What are your interests, Amy?

Well, I'm a bit of a wildlife geek, really.

I like wildlife photography in my spare time, so I'm outdoors all the time.

Does that involve getting up very, very early in the morning sometimes?

It can do, but I'm a little bit lazy, I've got to admit.

I'm not always up as early as I should be.

Do you ever go and look for rare birds, for example?

I do. I wouldn't call myself a twitcher,

but if there's something nearby...

Have you been to Dungeness?

-No.

-I only ask because it's one of those names that always crops up.

It's where rare birds sort of fly in, don't they, into Dungeness?

People go and see very exciting things,

lesser warbling something or others.

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

We just need the name of one

of these characters.

I think I'll go for Walter White.

Walter White, says Amy.

It completes the set. Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Walter White.

It's right. 47 is the high score,

which we pass.

12 is the low,

which we join.

That's nice!

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There we are.

Well played, Amy. Of course, also from Breaking Bad,

Bryan Cranston there. It's nice that they scored the same.

-Isn't that nice?

-12 and 12.

If you see either Aaron or Bryan,

let them know they scored the same and that'll be a...

No, but they're actors, so they'll both be annoyed at that.

They'll both kind of go, "No, it's really important...

"The whole thing was very collaborative,

"and I loved working with Aaron," but he'll be thinking,

"Ah, I wish I'd got, like, 15."

-Yeah.

-Because he's still thinking he's the star.

Bryan Cranston will be punching the wall, watching this.

Then someone from a paper will turn up and he goes, "Oh, no, I saw it,

"I thought it was amazing, we got the same score, I'm so happy."

Bandaging up his hands, like that.

-Actors!

-Yeah.

-You know?

-Yeah.

-John, welcome.

-Thank you.

Good to have you here from Cheshire.

-Yes, indeed.

-Now, John, what do you do?

I retired, but spend most time outdoors,

I guess gardening, fishing, golf.

I would say John is an advert for retirement, isn't he?

He's the proper, that's a professional retired gentleman.

-Yes, I think so.

-That's how I want to look when I retire.

-Excellent.

-You look, if I say weathered, I mean,

what I mean is sort of bronzed.

Bronzed, but not overtly bronzed but, you know, he's in, he's...

-Yeah, OK.

-Keep going.

He does a bit of fishing, bit of golf, bit of gardening.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, listen, I hear you.

Yeah, that's good, that's good.

-Do you sail, John?

-No, I don't sail, no.

-Nope, no sailing.

-I think, I tell you,

you'd look good in a cap'n's hat.

Well, I could get a captain's hat.

Yeah, I just think that's, you know...

There we are!

John, this board is not all yours, I'm afraid.

I was about to say it was, it's not.

Yes, so we just need an individual, remember, from these duos.

Well, the three answers that have so far gone I didn't know,

so that's an advantage, I suppose.

So I'm going to go for something which is not quite so rare,

Barney Rubble.

Barney Rubble, says John.

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

It's right. Well, 47 was our highest score.

66 is now our high score.

Unexpectedly high there for Barney Rubble.

Yeah, it was voiced by Mel Blanc, Barney Rubble.

You know, he did Bugs Bunny and, you know,

the most famous kind of voice-over artist of all.

Thank you very much, Richard. Well, we're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. 12, the best score of the pass.

Amy, Harvey, very well done indeed.

Amy and Julie, I think you'll see Round Two, I'm pretty sure,

on the strength of that. And Harvey and Adam, very well done.

Then up to 47, where we find Tori and Liv, then John and Tom,

a little bit out in front there so, Tom,

we need a nice low score from you.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

So, Tom, remember, we're looking for the name of any individual character

from these famous film and TV duos.

Welcome to Pointless, Tom.

-Thank you.

-What do you do, Tom?

-I'm a police officer.

-Are you?

-Whereabouts?

-In Manchester.

In Manchester? A very nice... Nice police officer.

If you were hauled in, in the interrogation room,

and Tom walked in you'd think, "Ah, that's nice!"

I don't think you would. Well, it depends if you're guilty.

I think if you are innocent you'd think, "That's nice."

If you were guilty, you'd think, "Oh, man."

You can't look that nice and not be tough.

You know full well he's going to get you.

He's like Columbo.

And how is that, Tom, up in Manchester?

How long have you been on the force there?

13 years. Yeah, they keep us busy.

-And are you a...

-I'm a detective.

It's turning into a Mark Billingham novel, look at that!

A detective!

Now, Tom, you are the high scorers -

we need a low score from you here.

Yeah, I don't know the first name, but I'm going to go with Waldorf.

OK, Waldorf, says Tom.

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

Let's find out if Waldorf is acceptable...

It is acceptable.

There we are, down to 11,

that's the lowest score of the round so far.

Very well done indeed, Tom. That takes your total up to 77.

Yeah, very well played.

It's one of those ones where you feel lucky you don't have to guess

exactly which one it is, but it's that one.

11 points. His wife is called Astoria.

-She is.

-That's nice.

It'd be a great girl's name, Astoria.

But it's true, yeah.

Yeah, thank you very much, Richard.

And now Julie. Julie, we have a target for you now.

Remind us what you do, Julie.

I'm a B&B landlady.

A B&B landlady. And is that, I mean,

how much of the year do you have people staying with you?

Well, it's open all year round.

We do get people ringing at Christmas,

but I tend to try and avoid having people round about Christmas Day

and the important days, but it's busiest in summer.

It must be hard to say no, if somebody's writing and you think,

"Oh, we'll have a nice holiday," and then just when you think

you're going to have a holiday, somebody books in for three days in the middle of the week.

Yeah, but at least we know, they book in advance so, you know, we can plan ahead.

Well, that's nice, but you must get to meet some fantastic people, interesting?

-We do, yeah.

-And probably quite a lot of dull people as well.

But I don't know, but I mean, it's always, always fascinating anyway.

Now, Julie, there you are on 12.

64 or less is your target.

We just need the name of one

of these characters.

Well, I'm hoping it'll be good enough.

I'm going to go for Statler.

Statler, says Julie.

Here is your red line. You'll get a red line,

and that's what it looks like.

If you get below that, you're through to round two.

It's right.

Through you go.

Well, it was 11 for Waldorf.

11 for Statler too.

Look at that. Perfect.

One lower than Amy's score in the first pass,

taking your total up to 23.

-Very good.

-They got matching scores as well,

that's nice, isn't it?

They're puppets, so it's sort of less of an issue, I would imagine.

Yeah, they're not going to worry too much.

He was named after the Statler hotel,

which is now a Hotel Pennsylvania.

Doesn't exist any more.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Liv, welcome to Pointless.

-Hi!

-Well, good. That's a nice hi.

-That's a nice hi.

-That is nice.

Very nice. Liv, what do you do?

I'm an events director.

What sort of events do you do, conferences and things like that?

-Yes, yeah.

-I happen to know how difficult that is.

You have to turn up at about four in the morning, don't you?

-Yes.

-And you work solidly right through the day, till about...

three in the morning the next day.

-Yes.

-Meanwhile having to field all sorts of slightly gruff exchanges

with various people, at different levels of various businesses.

Yes, very much so, and you get to wear a headset, though,

-which I quite enjoy.

-Exactly. It does allow you to dance,

which is nice, while giving orders to people. Now then, Liv,

47 is your score.

77 is the high score, so a score

of 29 or less is what

we're looking for.

So I know all the high ones,

and I knew Statler and Waldorf.

I'm going to say Hans.

Hans?

Hansel.

Oh.

OK, Liv is saying Hans.

There is your red line, Liv.

That's what we have to get below.

Let's see what happens when we say Hans.

Oh, Liv, I'm sorry!

I'm sorry. It's good news for Tom and John over there

on the far podium.

I'm afraid it scores you 100 points and takes your total up to 147.

Sorry, Liv. I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.

Thank you very much indeed.

-Now, Adam, welcome.

-Hi.

-Welcome to Pointless.

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

I'm a PhD student at the moment.

-Whereabouts are you doing that?

-In York.

In York, and what are you studying?

Biology. Insects, that kind of thing.

Insects.

Did you specialise? You decided that PhDs, I'm going to look at insects?

I've sort of recently changed.

So it's the methods I'm good at, not the animals.

I see, I see.

-So you've gone through a metamorphosis yourself?

-Yeah!

And come out as an insect studier, which is good.

How long is the PhD going to be, by the way?

-Three and a half years.

-That's quite a long time.

But that's nice being in York, though.

-Exactly, yeah.

-Lovely, very good.

Now, Adam, you're through to the next round, which is great news.

-Ah!

-Doesn't matter what you score.

Dazzle us now, though,

with your knowledge

of the remaining characters.

OK, I don't know the first two.

I know it's Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller,

but I don't know what they could possibly do.

Erm, R2-D2 and C-3PO.

Turner and Hooch.

That's probably Dr Spock and someone he works with.

-Someone from work!

-Yeah.

Obviously Fred Flintstone,

and Batman and Robin.

I'll go for R2-D2.

R2-D2, says Adam.

It doesn't matter what you score, as I said,

and there's no red line for you.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said R2-D2.

It's right.

70. Takes your total up to 82.

But you're through.

Let's go through the rest of these, shall we?

Liv, I'll give you another chance, because I think

you realised your mistake straightaway. On the top left?

-Hansel.

-Hansel, yeah, absolutely, played by Owen Wilson.

-And it's the best answer on the board as well.

-Oh!

-Oh, no, Liv!

-It would have scored you four points.

It would have been a terrific answer, I'm very sorry.

Obviously, from the Zoolander Movie, and next to him it is Zoolander,

Derek Zoolander. He would have scored you 16 points.

Now, R2-D2 scored 70.

Next to him, C-3PO -

54.

That is a disaster.

I know. And if you think he's going to be mad, imagine being Tom Hanks.

Hooch scored 47,

Turner scored 39.

Massively outscored by Beasley.

-Wow.

-Now, it's interesting to say that's Spock

and someone he works with,

because A, you're right,

but Spock scored 71,

and the other guy from the office is Captain Kirk, he scored 63.

-Oh.

-There you go.

So at least eight people just thought that was some guy who Spock works with.

Fred Flintstone beats Barney Rubble, perhaps unsurprisingly - 76.

Here's your biggest scorer. Batman with 89,

and those five people going,

"Well, that's Batman, but...

"I don't know who the other guy is."

Because Robin would have scored you 84.

Thank you, Richard. Well, we are at the end of our first round.

We have to say goodbye to one of our pairs, and I'm so sorry,

oh, Liv, you were on course to be our second lowest scorers there.

You were just one syllable away.

I'm so sorry. Anyway, it bodes very well for next time.

We're looking forward to that already.

-Oh, thank you.

-We'll see you then.

But thanks very much for playing, Liv and Tori!

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

And so three pairs remain,

and at the end of this round obviously we will have to say goodbye to another pair.

Well, Harvey and Adam started very nicely there, lovely low scores from you.

But actually, Julie and Tom were our joint low individual scorers,

with 11, and Amy and Julie our lowest pair,

so very well done to you.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

Modern Novels. 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...

Book Series.

-Book Series, Richard.

-Yeah, on each board we're going to show you

the second and third books published in particular book series.

We just need in each case the name of the first book

published in that series, please.

It's going to be six on the first board, six on the second -

12 in all to have a go at at home.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

So we're looking for the first book in these series,

and here is our first board.

We've got...

I'll read those all again.

There we are, Adam.

I think we've had easier rounds on Pointless.

Yeah. I know a couple of them,

but I don't know which will be lowest.

Again, I was rubbish at that.

I'm going to go for the top one,

and say Twilight.

Twilight, says Adam.

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

Not bad at all, 31, good start.

31 for Twilight.

Yeah, a nice start to the round.

Of course, hugely selling books, films,

written by Stephanie Meyer or Stephanie "May"-er,

depending on which is the way people tell me to pronounce it

every time I do it wrong.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Amy.

Amy.

How do you like the board?

Not too bad, there's one that I think I know

but I don't want to risk it.

-Oh, I bet you do.

-Just in case.

-I bet you do now.

No. So, I'm going to go for Insurgent and Allegiant

which I think is Divergent.

Divergent, says Amy.

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

It is right, well, 31 is the only score we have at the moment.

And you pass it, look at that,

down to 22 for Divergent.

Very well done, indeed, Amy.

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Yeah, by Veronica Roth.

I have not read them.

They sound diverting.

They are weird titles, aren't they?

-A little bit, yeah.

-I don't think I'd read a book called Allegiant.

There we are. Thank you, Richard.

Now, then, John.

That board is all yours.

-Thank you.

-Please feel free to give us all the answers you know.

I read a lot of books, but I have certainly not read any of those.

The only one I can guess on is Fifty Shades of Grey.

OK, Fifty Shades of Grey.

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

It's right.

78, quite a high one, there.

I would have loved to have known the, sort of,

million little computations you have to make in your head before you go,

"Oh, I really am going to have to say Fifty Shades of Grey, aren't I?"

Just thinking, "Can I... Should I do... Can I take that risk?"

-Oh.

-Yeah.

-So, the second one down,

-guessable, I think.

-2001: A Space Odyssey.

-2001:

-A Space Odyssey.

Yeah, that would have scored you 26.

The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites are the follow-ups

to Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.

First three Discworld novels.

Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls

are the follow-ups to Alexander McCall Smith's

The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

-Ah yes, of course. Yes.

-That would have scored four points,

so The Colour of Magic and the Detective Agency are the best answers up there.

There we are. Well, we are halfway through the round,

let's take a quick look at those scores.

22 is where we find Amy and Julie,

31 where we find Adam and Harvey,

78 so for now, John and Tom,

the high scorers. We were in this position last round,

but it all turned around in the next pass.

Can that happen again?

Good luck with that, Tom. We are going to come back down the line

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

OK, we are going to put six more book title sequences

up on the board, and here they are.

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Tom.

Yes, I know a couple.

Just a matter of which one to choose.

Yeah.

Um, I think I'm going to go for

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, says Tom.

No red line, I'm afraid, as you're the high scorers.

But let's see how far down the column we get with Hitchhiker's Guide.

It's right.

Look at that, not bad at all, Tom,

well done. 24.

Taking your total up to 102.

Yeah, well played, originally a trilogy

and then it became a trilogy of four, and a trilogy of five.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Julie.

22 - 79 or less gets you through.

Well, I'm guessing the second one down

is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, says Julie.

You are getting a nod from Amy, which I think is a good sign.

There is your red line, nice and high.

Let's see if you can get below that, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

It's right.

Through you go to the head-to-head.

40, not bad at all, 62 is your total.

Very well played, and again such an interesting example

of the fact that people in publishing will always tell you,

no-one ever really knows anything,

because this is a book by a Swedish author, it's very dense as well,

sold millions upon millions upon millions of copies worldwide.

-Who knew?

-Who knew?

Who knew? Thank you very much indeed.

-Now, Harvey.

-Hello.

Harvey on 31, which means 70 is your target.

Do you want to talk us through this board?

I think The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, is Red Dragon.

Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords is A Game of Thrones.

Catching Fire and Mockingjay is Hunger Games.

And I believe The Drawing of the Three and The Wastelands

might be The Gunslinger, I think that's Stephen King.

But that's a bit of a risk.

I'm going to go with Red Dragon.

Red Dragon, says Harvey. Here's your red line.

If you get below that, with Red Dragon,

you are through to the head-to-head. How many people said it?

It is Red Dragon.

And it sees you through.

That's a great score, very well done indeed, 11.

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Takes your total up to 42,

and is in fact the lowest score of the whole round,

-so very well done, Harvey.

-Well played, Harvey.

Let's see if you could have done better.

A Game of Thrones, you are right about.

That would have scored you 12 points.

A very similar score. Hunger Games, you are right about as well,

that would have scored you 26 points.

And The Drawing of the Three, The Wastelands, yeah,

Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

And the first one in that series was The Gunslinger,

and that would have been a pointless answer.

So very well done for getting it,

well done if you got that at home as well.

Very good indeed, Harvey.

-Good answer.

-Very good.

Well, at the end of our second round,

we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs,

and I'm so sorry, Tom and John, it is you.

Might you have gone for any of those other ones, John?

I knew Red Dragon on that board.

Had it been the other way around.

-Yeah.

-Could have been a different story.

-A different story, perhaps.

-Well, we'll see you again next time,

I'm sure we'll get much, much further,

but it's been great having you on, thank you so much, Tom and John.

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

Congratulations, Amy and Julie, Harvey and Adam,

you are now one step closer to the final,

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands

at £9,250.

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Well, the good news is we've now made it to the head-to-head,

which means you can start playing as a pair,

you can chat before you give your answers,

and the first pair in this round to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot. Amy and Julie, this is more like it.

This is exactly what I wanted to see.

Last time, it was Round One.

This time, through to the head-to-head

as our low-scoring pair.

Harvey and Adam, first appearance on the show,

and already through to the head-to-head.

Very, very strong performance,

this is definitely going to be a close and hard-fought semifinal,

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

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

-Richard.

-Yeah, five clues now to facts about the history of motoring.

That is quite something. Check your blood pressure at home, OK.

Be very careful.

Just pop my driving gloves on.

Oh, that's a nice idea.

Very nice. OK.

Let's reveal our five clues, and here they come.

I'll read those again.

Amy and Julie will go first.

(First one is Swansea.)

(Yeah. The other one is tarmacadam,

(but I don't know what his surname is.)

(Shall we go for the first one?)

(Go on, then.)

We'd like to go for the headquarters of the DVLA,

which we think is Swansea.

Swansea, say Amy and Julie.

Swansea. Now then, Harvey and Adam.

Talk us through the other four clues.

That was the only one we knew!

The bottom one is a colour, though.

-Red?

-I don't know.

Or yellow, or green.

-Ochre.

-There's more colours.

Preceded by a man on foot...

Let's just...

You've been doing well, you can choose the colour.

Blue.

That's a good noise, Adam.

Blue. Yeah. So, we have a blue flag,

we have Swansea, and we have a blue flag.

Amy and Julie said Swansea,

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

Swansea is right.

62 is what you score for Swansea.

Popular answer, there.

Harvey and Adam, I mean, so many colours to puzzle over.

I mean, red,

but then red in motoring means stop,

green, I mean, it could be anything. Blue.

Let's find out. Blue is what you've gone for,

how many of our 100 people said blue.

No.

Not blue, I'm afraid.

But very well done, Amy and Julie, it means after one question,

you are up 1-0.

Yeah, well played, this is often when I say, you know,

you mentioned the right answer, but you mentioned virtually every colour, so...

But you did mention it and it was red.

A red flag.

24 points, that would have scored you.

The decade of the 20th century, it was first published in 1931.

So, 1930s would have scored you 11.

The Hampshire village, one of my favourite places in the world, this.

Beautiful place, beautiful village, and a great motor museum.

Beaulieu. Beaulieu in the New Forest.

Would have scored you 33, and the surname of the US inventor?

-Don't know.

-You will know his tyres.

Goodyear. Charles Goodyear.

-There we are.

-Would have scored you six points.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So here comes your second question.

Harvey and Adam, you get to answer it first.

But you have to win it to stay in the game.

So, good luck. Our second question today is all about...

-Richard.

-Yeah, we are going to show you tabloid style headlines now,

which explain the plots of various nursery rhymes.

We are also going to give the initials of those nursery rhymes as well.

-Which is the most obscure?

-There we go.

So, let's reveal our five plots and here they are.

Harvey and Adam will go first.

I only know the really obvious ones.

Yeah. This is my mum's fault.

We are going to have to go for C.

-Are we?

-Yeah, I think we are going to have to go for C.

You think C?

I think... Yeah, all right.

Hey Diddle Diddle, C.

C, Hey Diddle Diddle, say Harvey and Adam.

Now, Amy and Julie, talk us through our headlines here.

I think A is Little Jack Horner,

B is Doctor Foster,

D is Three Blind Mice

and E is Solomon Grundy.

I think we'll go for Solomon Grundy.

My favourite Archers character, certainly.

Let's see, OK.

So, we have Hey Diddle Diddle,

let's see how many of our 100 people said that for C,

as Harvey and Adam did.

41, for Hey Diddle Diddle.

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Meanwhile, Amy and Julie have gone for Solomon Grundy for E.

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

It's right.

And it wins you the point, look at that, down it goes to 12.

Very well done indeed, Solomon Grundy.

That means, Amy and Julie, after only two questions,

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

Yeah, very well played. Solomon Grundy born on a Monday,

later covered by Craig David, of course.

Let's fill in the rest of these, shall we?

A is Little Jack Horner, you are quite right.

Would have scored too many points, would have scored you 42,

it would have been very close.

B, of course, is Doctor Foster.

29 points for that.

And Three Blind Mice is the biggest scorer, 62.

So best answer on the board, Solomon Grundy.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

And we have come to the end of our head-to-head round,

and Harvey and Adam, a fabulous performance right the way

through the show. But I'm afraid, yes,

you came up against Amy and Julie in this round.

Did you know, might you have known Solomon Grundy?

-No.

-No.

-No?

-Like, now, maybe.

-But, no.

-Well, obviously now,

because we've put the answers up on the board.

I know an awful lot once the answers are up.

But anyway, it's good news for us,

it means we'll get to see you again next time.

We look forward to that very much. Meantime, thanks so much, Harvey and Adam.

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But for Amy and Julie, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Amy and Julie,

you have fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

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Well, yeah.

But now, we come to the Pointless jackpot.

You have a chance to win today's jackpot

and it is currently standing at £9,250.

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So this is a very, very exciting endgame

to a very strong performance, right the way across the show,

our lowest scorers in the first round,

2-0 in the head-to-head, no arguing with that.

Anything you'd particularly like to see come up on this board?

Natural history would be good, Game of Thrones.

Breeds of animals, you've been revising.

Yeah, definitely.

-Breakfasts, beds.

-Yeah!

Well, very, very best of luck, you know what it's like,

four things appear on the board,

let's see what today's selection looks like.

We have got...

What do you think, anything jumping out for you?

Not particularly, no.

Might have to take a bit of a punt maybe, on sugar?

Yeah, hope for the best, see what it is.

-OK.

-Shall we go for it?

-We are going to risk sugar.

They are saying sugar.

OK, good luck. £9,250 on this, three very, very different questions here,

I hope one of them suits you.

We are looking for any of the following, please.

We are looking for any of the top 50 sugar cane producing countries

of the world, according to the UN in June 2016.

We are looking for any boxer fought professionally by Sugar Ray Leonard.

Or we are looking for any act who's had a UK top 40 single

with the word "sugar" in its title, up to July 2016.

Very, very best of luck.

OK, now as always, you've got up to one minute to come up

with three answers. All you need to win that jackpot

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

-Yes.

-Good, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are, your time starts now.

Right. It's got to be producing countries, hasn't it?

Well, I think the last one, I might know,

there's Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes, we could try that.

-OK.

-Maybe, that's one.

Sugar cane producing countries,

think of ones in the Caribbean, maybe.

Something like Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Barbados, I don't know.

I'm not sure about some of the Pacific Islands.

-Do you think they'll...?

-It's got to be something obscure.

-Sugar cane.

-Yeah.

I'm trying to think, trying to think of some more songs as well,

while you're thinking of that.

You think of the countries, I'll try to think of some songs.

I'm just thinking of really obscure countries, now.

Barbados, maybe Haiti.

he US must produce some, but I wouldn't like to go for that one.

I think maybe, yeah, shall we go for Kitts and Nevis?

-OK, then.

-And, what for the second one?

Barbados?

-Yeah, we'll have to do. We're out of time.

-OK, then.

-Do you want to read them?

-OK, that is your minute up.

What would you like to go for?

So, Saint Kitts and Nevis for top sugar cane producing countries.

OK, so Saint Kitts and Nevis, yeah.

I think also Barbados.

-Barbados.

-And the last one was the artist, is The Rubettes,

-with Sugar Baby Love.

-The Rubettes, for Sugar Baby Love.

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

I think maybe The Rubettes.

OK, The Rubettes go last.

Least likely to be pointless?

Barbados, because I'm not even sure it's right.

Barbados we'll put first, and Saint Kitts and Nevis goes in the middle.

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

And here they are.

Three good answers on the board there.

If one of these turns out to be pointless and wins you that jackpot,

you will be leaving here with £9,250.

What would you like to do with that?

Amy, I'm going to ask you first.

Bit of an easy one for me, I broke my favourite camera lens

while I was away last year, so got to get it fixed.

Possibly a new one as well.

-Expensive hobby.

-Yeah.

Julie, how about you?

Absolutely it would have to be a holiday, and take all the family.

Very good indeed. Well, very best of luck.

Three good answers on the board, your first answer was Barbados.

In this case, in fact, in the first two cases,

we were looking for the top sugar cane producing countries.

If Barbados is pointless, it wins you £9,250,

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

Oh. Surprising.

Barbados not in that category, I guess.

So we move onto your next answer, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Again, we are looking for the top sugar cane producing countries.

Let's see how many about 100 people said Saint Kitts and Nevis.

If this is pointless, it wins you £9,250.

Saint Kitts and Nevis, how many people said it, is it pointless?

Oh!

Saint Kitts and Nevis, also not in that category.

So we move on to your final answer which is The Rubettes.

This was the one you had no hesitation putting last,

you said this was your best shot at a pointless answer.

-I'm not sure.

-We were looking for any UK top 40 single

with the word "sugar" in its title.

If it's right, and if it's pointless, it wins you £9,250.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said The Rubettes. Good luck.

It's right. Now, your first answer was Barbados, which was incorrect.

Your second answer, Saint Kitts and Nevis, was also incorrect,

your third answer, The Rubettes, absolutely right.

Down we go, we are into single figures. Down...

Oh, no, six for The Rubettes.

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Oh, I'm sorry, that's disappointing.

I really thought the Rubettes sounded like an absolute shoo-in for pointless there.

I'm afraid six of our people named The Rubettes.

Anyway, you have done so well right the way across the show,

and in this last round we will discover

what the top sugar cane producing countries were.

I'm very surprised and sorry that those two weren't in there.

So, I'm afraid you didn't find that pointless answer you needed,

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

which means it rolls over onto the next show.

But it's been great having you here,

and you get a Pointless trophy to take home,

so very well done indeed, Amy and Julie.

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Yeah, it's really unlucky, of those top 50 countries,

over half were pointless answers,

but none of those pointless answers were Caribbean islands, funnily enough.

It's mainly Africa and Asia were the countries you were looking for.

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

The ones that were in South America, Central America,

Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay,

all pointless answers.

You also could have had Bangladesh, Cote d'Ivoire,

Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji,

Iran a pointless answer - you wouldn't think of it, would you?

Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria,

the Philippines is one of the top ten, the Philippines.

Swaziland, Tanzania, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Now, any boxing fan,

the Sugar Ray Leonard question was an absolute gimme.

There's some very big names here.

I would say one of his most famous opponents of all, Roberto Duran,

fought three times, he's a pointless answer.

Floyd Mayweather Sr is a pointless answer.

Yes, he was a boxer.

Fernand Marcotte and Dave "Boy" Green, the British fighter, as well,

was a pointless answer. Everyone is a pointless answer, in fact,

apart from Marvin Hagler and Thomas "Hitman" Hearns,

everyone else a pointless answer.

Now, those artists with top 40 hits.

Flo Rida had a hit called Sugar,

Lonnie Donegan, Sal's Got a Sugar Lip,

Sugar Kane by Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth a pointless answer,

and Sugar Coated Iceberg, The Lightning Seeds.

Everyone a pointless answer there apart from The Archies,

the Rolling Stones, the Rubettes,

Maroon 5, Def Leppard, Lindsay de Paul, Fall Out Boy, Doris Day,

Alma Cogan, Saccharine, Robin Schulz, Mac and Katie Kissoon

and CJ Bolland, everyone else a pointless answer.

Very well done if you said one of those at home.

Thanks very much, Richard, and thanks very much, Amy and Julie,

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

which means it rolls over onto the next show

when we will be playing for £10,250.

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Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.