Episode 51 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless, the show

where the aim of the game is to find the most obscure answer possible.

Let's meet today's players.

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And, couple number one...

Hi, my name's Helen, I'm from Leeds

and this is my best friend Lynne from Warrington.

Couple number two...

Afternoon, my name's Harry, I'm from Oldham,

and this is my friend Paul and he's from Bury.

Couple number three...

Hello, my name's Tom and this is my twin sister Sophie

and we're both from Leighton Buzzard.

And, finally, couple number four...

Hello, my name's Sue and this is my husband Alan and we're from Newbury.

And these are today's contestants.

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Thanks very much to all of you,

a very warm welcome to Pointless, great to have you with us.

We'll get a chance to chat each of you throughout the show as it

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

He wasn't born yesterday, he was born in 1970 with a full

head of hair and prescription glasses, already weighing 8st.

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

-Very good! Hiya!

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-Hey, everybody. Hiya.

-Ah, 1970, it was a good year, right?

-It was a good year.

-You were born in 1970 as well, weren't you?

-Yeah.

-Ah...

Yeah. Oh, it was good.

-Now...

-Yes, sorry.

-..the last show, we got two tales of, I'm going

to say bad luck, from the last show.

There's Sue and Alan, you were so close to not being knocked out

in about five different ways but, unfortunately, none of those ways

paid off and then Paul and Harry got through to the head-to-head

but came up against Hannah and Sarah,

who got the best possible answer on both the head-to-head questions,

they were unbelievable, went through,

got a topic they liked, which is Star Trek, in the Final Round,

-seven points, two points...

-And...

-..two points.

-THEY WINCE

The disappointment etched on your faces, everybody.

CHUCKLING Happy days. Well, listen, Sarah and

Hannah didn't win the jackpot last time, which means we add

another £1,000 to it, so today's jackpot starts off at a - this is

rather, this is a good jackpot, £4,000, there we are.

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

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

round will be eliminated. Keep your scores low, that's it.

Best of luck to all four pairs. Our first category today is...

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

who's going to go second.

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

OK, and the question concerns...

-Richard.

-On each board, I'm going to show you the names of seven albums

released by different bands. They're the second albums by each of these

bands, we just need you to tell us the names of the bands, please.

So we've 14 in all to have a go at at home, very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed. So, who had hits with these albums?

And our first board reads like this...

I'll read that again.

Lynne, welcome to Pointless, great to have you here.

What do you do, Lynne?

I'm a partner in an insight and innovation agency up in Manchester.

-An insight and innovation agency?

-I know, yeah!

-See, that's fun. So, every day, who knows what could happen?

-Who knows?

It's just a meeting of... HE MIMICS AN EXPLOSION

-..of minds.

-Exactly.

-So, Lynne, what are your interests?

What are my interests? Gosh, well, first and foremost,

I've got a daughter, who's nine,

-so she takes up most of my time, as you know with kids.

-What's her name?

-Katie.

-Katie, hello.

-She'll be very pleased you said that.

And I'm in a community choir and I play tennis.

How big is your community choir?

There's only seven of us, very small.

Small community or just not very interested in choirs?

-LAUGHTER

-Probably both!

That's nice, though, seven,

so quite close harmonies or do you all sing the same line together?

-No, close harmonies.

-Close harmony, oh, that's very good. Good stuff.

Now, Lynne, our board of second albums,

what would you like to go for?

Gosh, right, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to play this safe.

I know a few but I'm just going to have to go for Like A Virgin

and Madonna.

OK.

Very good. You're going to play safe.

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

I suspected it might be that, Lynne, there's safe...

Was not safe!

..and there's not really going far below 100. Yes, 97, there we are.

Well, good. It's a good start to the round.

Yeah, it was originally released in 1984 but reached the top 40 in 1985.

Um...

-Yeah, Madonna, she's an American singer.

-Yes...

CHUCKLING

-Thank you.

-Pleasure!

-There we are. Paul, welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Remind us what you do.

-I'm a textile chemist.

See, this is great. So, this is coming up with new ways to

-make textiles waterproof or flame retardant or...

-That's right.

-How long have you been doing this?

-About 40 years now.

-Right.

OK, any exciting new developments in textiles that we should be

looking out for?

It's becoming more material science now, you're mixing metals

and plastics with textiles to get new developments all the time.

-Graphene.

-Graphene.

-Graphene's the big one from Manchester.

-From Manchester, graphene.

-There we are.

-Great band.

-Great band!

LAUGHTER Great name for a band.

It is going to be the single most important

material in our lifetime, I suspect, graphene. Would you agree?

I think so, yes, definitely.

Good stuff. OK, now, what would you like to go for?

Well, I'm going to have to have a guess

and I'm going to say Sounds Of Silence, Simon And Garfunkel.

So, Simon And Garfunkel, says Paul, for Sounds Of Silence.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Simon And Garfunkel.

It's right, well, you passed our high score, which is 97.

Down you go to 43. APPLAUSE

Yes, includes the songs The Sound Of Silence and Homeward Bound,

which is, yes, written not a million miles away from you, gents.

-Wigan station, wasn't it?

-Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah.

-They kept, Simon And Garfunkel...

-Or was it Widnes station?

Oh, was it...?

Fortunately, Wigan and Widnes are not rivals in any way whatsoever!

Luckily, no. I think that James Brown song where he kept saying,

"Can I go to Widnes", that's... LAUGHTER

-Yes!

-That was written in, on Widnes station.

No, that was written in Wigan, he wanted to go to Widnes.

Of course, exactly. I confused them. Can I go to Widnes...

-Yeah, talking to the guard.

-Yeah. He's going...

-"Can I get to Widnes?"

You'd have the change, you would have to,

there's probably two changes, I think, to get to Widnes.

Oh, you keep having to get up. Then get down again...

He said, "Look, take that to the bridge."

LAUGHTER Anyway, there we go.

-Tom.

-Hello.

-Tom, welcome to Pointless. It's great to have you.

It's been a long time since we've had twins on. It's exciting.

Who's the older of the two of you?

That would be me by 15 minutes

but if you ask Sophie, she's going to say 14.

-How often do you get reminded of that, Sophie?

-All the time!

-All the time.

-It's 14!

-Tom, what do you do?

I'm an online sales consultant for a well-known furniture retailer.

That's nice. So, online sales consultant?

It's a fancy way of saying I wait for the phone to ring

and say the dimensions aren't on the website.

Basically, your job is to say,

"I'm afraid we haven't got it in stock."

"I'm afraid we haven't got it in stock."

-"We can order it...

-Yes.

-"..it'll be with you next July."

LAUGHTER That's fun, but it's a furniture

-website.

-Yeah.

-Very good.

So, you spend a lot of time with a tape measure or, you know,

just looking at measurements and telling people what...

Just typing in and looking at measurements, type again,

look at more measurements.

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

Looking on the board, I'm going to go for something recent on there,

being fresh blood, and say Back To Black, Amy Winehouse.

Amy Winehouse, says Tom.

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

97's the high score, which you pass. 43 is our low score.

51 is where you end up with Amy Winehouse.

APPLAUSE Not bad.

Again, good answer, follow-up to her first album, Frank.

-Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Alan.

-Hello.

-Welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Yes, we have a bit of a score to settle with Pointless,

-I think, do we not?

-Whether we can or not is another matter.

-Yes.

I think you probably can. Remind us what you do, Alan.

Yeah, I work in external communications for a large

-building society.

-That's right, based in Newbury.

-I am, yes.

-But then you commute in devoutly to Stamford Bridge...

-I do, yes.

-..to go and cheer on Chelsea.

-Yes, through thick and thin.

Bit more thin, recently. But...

-We've had some thick.

-You've had some thick.

-Yes!

Now, Alan, would you like to talk us through all these remaining albums?

I would absolutely love to talk you through it

but I'm not going to be able to do that.

I was quite happy with the three that have been said.

I'm going to have to take a guess,

so it could either be something or bust, I think.

I think I'm going to go for Paranoid as a 1970 one from a sort of concept

band at the time, and say Led Zeppelin.

OK, you're going to go for Led Zeppelin for Paranoid.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it, is it right?

Oh, no.

I tell you what's good news,

though, actually scoring 100 means you're not very far

away from Lynne, so, actually, it's really just a step down, really.

Yes.

It's Cote d'Ivoire all over again, I'm afraid, Alan, I'm sorry,

-Yes, not Led Zeppelin.

-Yeah, again, you're not a million miles away

-there, Alan, it's not Led Zeppelin, it is...

-It's Black Sabbath.

It's Black Sabbath, yes. That would have scored you 27 points.

Take Me Home is by Xander's favourites, One Direction.

Would have scored you four points. Can't Slow Down...?

-Lionel Richie.

-It is Lionel Richie, yeah.

-Of course it's Lionel Richie.

-He bought it for me for our first Christmas together!

-Oh, no, Alan!

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Alan, you've sort of had a unique Pointless career in many ways!

-LAUGHTER

-I might retire!

I think they might make a movie of your appearances on this show.

Eight points if you said that,

and The Writing's On The Wall is the best answer on the board,

-a great album as well, and it's Destiny's Child.

-Yeah.

-That would have scored you two points.

-Two!

Very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much indeed. OK, well, we're halfway through the

round, let's take a look at those scores. Well, 43, strangely enough,

the lowest score of the pass, so, well done there, Paul.

Then 51 is where we find Tom and Soph, 97 is where we find Lynne

and Helen. And Alan and Sue, only a bit up from that on 100,

so, yes, Sue, a little bit of pressure on you but I think you were

more comfortable with that board than Alan?

You certainly knew the Lionel Richie one.

-Only I Can't Slow Down, but, yeah.

-Good enough.

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

Can the second players please step up to the podium.

OK, seven more second albums going up on the board and here they are.

We have got...

I will read those all again.

-Sue.

-Hello.

-Welcome back. Remind us what you do, Sue.

I'm a surveyor working for Hampshire County Council, looking

after their sort of schools estate.

That is right and what are your interests, Sue, when not surveying?

Right, well, we've got an 11-year-old, Charlie,

who I'm sort of chauffeur for and we like going to concerts,

I like playing bridge and I've got an allotment, so...

When you say you like going to concerts,

what sort of concerts do you like going to?

-Have you been to see Lionel Richie, for example?

-We have, yes!

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-It was brilliant.

-And do you know where they saw them?

In the Cote d'Ivoire! That's where they saw him.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, and big Bruce Springsteen fans, so saw him

a couple of times this year, saw Billy Joel recently, so...

Excellent.

-A few good concerts.

-Lots of good concerts there.

Now, Sue, let's get a good, low score from you

while the board is fresh.

Yeah, I'm torn between two.

Um...

Oh, I just don't know which is going to be lower.

Er...

I'm going to go for Lionheart, Kate Bush.

Kate Bush, says Sue, for Lionheart.

No red line for you as you're the highest scorers,

let's see how far the column

we get with Kate Bush.

Kate Bush is right.

Well, 43 is our lowest score of the round so far

and you've passed that very comfortably indeed,

you go down to 7. Very well done indeed, Sue.

Seven is an exceptionally good score,

probably the lowest of the whole round.

I hope you done enough to keep yourselves in the game.

Yes, that's her follow-up to The Kick Inside.

-Which we featured on the show the other day, didn't we?

-We did.

-Alongside Back To Black, funnily enough.

-Yeah.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Soph, welcome to Pointless.

-Hello.

-What do you do, Soph?

-I'm a barmaid.

-Are you, now?

-Yes.

-How long have you been doing that?

-About a year and a half.

-And where do you do that?

-At The Golden Bell.

-See, that's nice.

-They'll be watching, well, you'll be watching it now.

-Yeah.

You'll be busy drying glasses watching...

No, I've been told they're going to put it on all the TVs and, yeah,

-they're never going to let me forget this.

-Is it nice, The Golden Bell?

-It's really nice.

-You have to say that! Is it really, though?

-It's really nice, yeah.

-And they're really nice people there?

-Yeah, well, they're OK.

-And a nice clientele?

-Yeah, yeah, it's lovely.

-Oh, that's very nice.

Sophie, you're on 51, which means

55 or less is your target.

I'm going to have to play it super safe.

I saw them earlier this year, there's a couple I might know

but hopefully this one, well, it's going to be high-scoring.

I'm going to go for 21, Adele.

-Adele.

-Yes.

OK, let's see how many of our 100 people said Adele.

There is your red line.

Adele is right.

Oh, look at that!

Not bad, 46 for Adele.

-Takes your total up to 97. Did you see her at the O2?

-Yes, yeah.

-Great, wasn't it?

-It was amazing.

-What a show, yeah.

-Yeah, well played, Soph, safely through there.

-Good stuff.

-Very well done. Now, Harry, welcome back. You're from Oldham.

-Indeed.

Remind us what you do, Harry.

I work for the NHS, I'm in supplies

at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

Very good. So, are those sort of drug supplies or equipment supplies?

No, equipment, yeah, more the things you can see, so if you walk into a

hospital and have a look around, the odds are that things will have

-come through us.

-Good stuff.

OK, now, Harry, what would you like to go for?

43 is your score at the moment,

63 is your target.

Yes, I think maybe I'm revealing

a little bit about my age.

I'll go for the one at the top of the board,

A Saucerful Of Secrets, which I think is Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd, says Harry, for A Saucerful Of Secrets.

Here is your red line. Get below that, you're into Round Two.

Very well done.

Pink Floyd's taking you very comfortably through.

Look at that, down to 8. Very good.

Takes your total up to 51.

Yeah, the follow-up to The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn,

it's a very another very good answer. Well played.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Helen, welcome to Pointless. Good to have you here.

What do you do, Helen?

-I'm a GP.

-A GP. Whereabouts?

-In Bradford.

-In Bradford.

How many GPS are there in your surgery?

-Oh, hard to know.

-I don't know!

-It's so busy, you don't have time to count them.

-Eight?

-Eight.

-I think.

-I'd love it if you ended up going, "Two."

LAUGHTER Yeah.

Helen, when you're not GPing, what do you like to get up to?

Well, I like music, I play the piano.

This is very good. Now, have you always played the piano?

-Since I was about eight.

-That tells me Helen's very good at the piano.

-Oh, really?

-I would say, yes.

You are very good at the piano, I should think.

So what sort of things do you play?

Do you just play at home? Do you ever perform?

-Oh, no, I wouldn't perform, no.

-So, for your own enjoyment, though.

-Yeah.

-Get out a little bit of Chopin.

-I love Chopin.

-There you are.

-Debussy.

There you are, lovely. Very nice.

I mean, do you play for small, select audiences at home?

My children and the next-door neighbours,

-cos I'm in a terrace.

-That is good enough.

Nice for the next-door neighbour.

Somebody who can play a piano well,

living on either side, is a lovely thing.

As long as they don't get the urge to practise in the middle

of the night, I guess. Now, Helen, what would you like to go for?

-We have a competition on our hands here.

-I know.

Because our high-scorers are Sue and Allen on 107.

You are on 97. I forget why, Lynne.

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-OK, so...

-Yes, do you want to talk us through the board?

(What's The Story) Morning Glory? is Oasis.

The Bends is Radiohead.

Rio, I'm guessing, might be Duran Duran.

Rush Of Blood To The Head...

I've got that, and I don't know...

I can't think of who it is!

"I've got that album, don't know who it's by.

"I've seen them, can't remember who they are."

So I'm going to go for Radiohead, The Bends.

-The Bends, Radiohead.

-Yeah.

-OK, well, let us find out.

There is your red line. You have to get below that with Radiohead.

Can you do it? The Bends, Radiohead, how many people said it?

Oh, no, 17!

So close.

And I have to say,

it's the third-lowest scorer of the whole round,

but I'm afraid it takes you up to 114. Sorry.

Yes, a valiant effort, Helen, a good answer as well.

Sue had doomed you by coming up with the best answer on the board,

the Kate Bush answer.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory? is the biggest scorer on the board.

Oasis, 61. Rio, you're quite right, was Duran Duran.

-42. And A Rush Of Blood To The Head.

-Coldplay.

-Is Coldplay, yeah.

-And that would've scored 21.

-Thank you very much indeed.

So we are at the end of our first round, and,

Helen and Lynne, I'm afraid you are our high-scorers on 114,

so we have to say goodbye to you.

We'll see you again next time, though.

Lovely to have you with us this time, Helen and Lynne.

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

And three pairs remain.

At the end of this round, obviously,

we'll have to say goodbye to one of the pairs in front of me.

Paul and Harry, well done, our lowest combined score there.

Good work.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two today is...

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Richard.

Yep, we're going to show you 16 pictures now, eight actors

and eight real people that those actors have played on film.

We're looking for the name either of any of the actors or

any of the real people you're about to see.

Thank you very much. So, as Rich said, we'll put an image up which

has pictures of actors and the real people they played.

It'll all become clearer, I'm imagining,

when it appears on the screen.

Anyway, you just say the name of one of the real people or

one of the actors.

Here is our image.

Ah, yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Harry, it will be you first, once you've had a moment to digest.

OK, yep, I think I'll go with

Robert De Niro and Jake LaMotta.

Oh!

-We only need one.

-Oh, sorry.

-Either the actor or the real person.

-I'll go with Jake LaMotta.

That simply means that Paul can't use the other answer that you

gave, but anybody else can.

-Sorry.

-That's all right.

-Jake LaMotta, says Harry.

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

Is right.

Jake LaMotta, 10. Very well done indeed, Harry. Good answer.

Yeah, the boxer Jake LaMotta. Raging Bull, they called him.

Thank you very much indeed. Soph,

who would you like to go for on this board?

Well, I have no idea.

So I'm going to go for Robert De Niro.

"Ah, that's Robert De Niro there."

OK, right. Well, let's see how many of our

100 people said Robert De Niro. Is it right?

It is right.

That's not bad.

Yeah, Robert De Niro. Of course, he played Jake LaMotta.

-So there you go, we have our first pair on the board.

-Snap!

-That's nice. 46.

-Very good.

-Thank you, Richard. Now then, Sue.

-Hello.

-Sue.

Yes, this is not my favourite round,

but I'm going to have to stab at Ben Kingsley.

Ben Kingsley, says Sue.

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

It's right. 46 is our high score.

53 is our new high score.

Yes, Sir Ben Kingsley, of course.

Difficult to talk about people when they're matched up with other

people on the board, without mentioning the other people.

But I'm not going to.

Sir Ben Kingsley will be pleased that he scores more

than Robert De Niro.

He will be very pleased.

There we go. Thank you very much indeed.

We are halfway through the round, let's look at those scores.

10 was the best score of the pass. Harry, very well done to you.

Harry and Paul looking very strong on the back of it.

Then 46, where we find got Soph and Tom.

53 is where we find Sue and Alan.

Alan, time for you to return the favour, I think.

You are just, by a small margin, you are the high-scorers.

We come back down the line now,

can the second players please step up to the podium?

So, Alan, we're after any individual person shown here

in photograph form.

Yes, I do owe Sue a good score here, don't I?

Whether I'm going to do it or not, I don't know.

I'm going to go for one I'm pretty sure of, which is Daniel Radcliffe.

Daniel Radcliffe, says Alan.

OK, no red line for you, as you are the high-scorers.

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

It's right.

44 for Daniel Radcliffe.

Takes your total up to 97.

-Now, Daniel Radcliffe is a regular viewer of the show, a fan.

-He is.

He is going to be fuming about scoring less than

Robert De Niro, especially Ben Kingsley.

-If I know Radcliffe, he'll be kicking the screen.

-He will be...

Oh, there's the telly being thrown out!

Thank you very much indeed. So then, Tom.

There you are, 46.

You have to score 50.

-50?

-Or less.

I can do less.

Looking at the board, I'm going to go with...

..a bit of a hero of mine, and go Johnny Cash.

Johnny cash, says Tom.

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

Here is your red line.

It's right.

Good enough, Tom. Down to 38.

Very nice, 84 is your total.

Yeah, a bit of a hero of mine as well, Johnny Cash.

Genuine, his name growing up was JR Cash,

and it was only when he joined the Air Force, they said,

"You can't just be called initials," so he called himself John R Cash.

Hm. Yeah. Thank you.

Now, Paul. Paul...

You have to score 86 or less.

Well, there's only one I THINK I know, and that's...

I'm going to go with Gandhi.

OK, Gandhi. Hard to call, this one, isn't it?

There's your red line. I mean...

..quite a recognisable person on that board,

but, well, we'll have to see how many of our 100 people said Gandhi.

It's right. And you're through.

-75.

-The only one I knew.

75, takes your total up to 85.

Yeah, kind of good that he scored more than Ben Kingsley, in some ways.

Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times, never won it.

Always very good,

when they do the panning shots of all the nominees, he'd always do the

smiling thing, and then when someone else won it, he'd always go...

But you could see...

-You could see.

-Especially by the fifth time.

-Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, he was furious.

Now, Daniel Radcliffe played the gentleman next to him there.

I was going to say Dostoyevsky, but it's not.

-It's not, it's Allen Ginsberg.

-Oh, it's Allen Ginsberg!

Yeah, in Kill Your Darlings. That would have scored 3 points.

-Now, Julia Roberts, of course.

-Erin Brockovich.

-Yeah.

Would have scored you 11 points.

And Julia Roberts would have scored you...

..52 points.

-Coco Chanel is next.

-And Audrey Tautou.

Played by Audrey Tautou.

-I've got an Audrey tattoo, just...

-8 points. Nice.

Now, Jennifer Lawrence is the actor.

In the film Joy, she played Joy Mangano, the American inventor

who invented the Miracle Mop.

18 points for Jennifer Lawrence,

And Joy Mangano would've scored you 1 point. Terrific answer.

Johnny Cash was played by...

-Joaquin Phoenix.

-Joaquin Phoenix.

He would have scored you 13 points.

In Walk The Line, and Don Cheadle...

-Playing Miles Davis.

-Played Miles Davis, yeah.

Don Cheadle would have scored you 7,

and Miles Davis would have scored you 5.

Miles Davis looks like sort of Beethoven there, I think.

-He was cool, wasn't he?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Aha. Well, there are. Thank you very much indeed.

So, we're at the end of our second round, we have to say goodbye...

So sorry, Round Two. It's just the curse of Round Two, I'm so sorry.

Well, Sue and Alan, it's been lovely having you with us.

Thank you so much for playing. I'm sorry we haven't seen you

beyond Round Two at all, but it's been a great performance.

-Alan and Sue, great contestants.

-Thank you.

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

Congratulations, Paul and Harry, Soph and Tom.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £4,000.

AUDIENCE OHS AND AHS

But here we are, in the head-to-head, which means

you can start playing as a team, you can

chat before you give your answers,

and the first pair to win two questions will be playing for

that jackpot, so best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

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

-Richard.

-Hm.

We're going to show you five boards now from board games,

-but can you tell us the names of the games, please?

-Oh!

This is going to be fun.

Let's reveal our five boards. What are these games?

We have got...

There we are. Five boards, what are the games?

Paul and Harry, you are our low-scorers,

so you will go first.

I'm going to go with answer C, and I think answer C is Mastermind.

Mastermind, say Paul and Harry. Mastermind.

Soph and Tom are giving that a vigorous nod.

It looks like that's the one you'd have liked to have gone for.

Do you want to talk us through the rest of that board?

-Yeah, A is Mousetrap.

-B, we've got chess.

D is Subbuteo. Is that right?

And E, Trivial Pursuit.

Oh, I don't know!

A, Mousetrap.

A, Mousetrap. So we have Mastermind and we have Mousetrap.

So, Paul and Harry went for Mastermind for C.

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

It's right.

Down to 19, very well done.

I suspect that will be hard to beat.

But Soph and Tom have gone for Mousetrap for A.

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

It is Mousetrap.

Oh, 67 for Mousetrap.

Very well done, Paul and Harry. After one question, you are up 1-0.

We'll leave B for a moment and we'll start with D.

So, D is Subbuteo.

It would have scored you 66 points.

We were talking about 1970 earlier,

and a guy called Peter Adolph came up with Subbuteo,

and he sold it in 1970 to Waddington Games

for £250,000.

Which, if you think about 1970, that's a lot of money,

lot of money. And talking of making a lot of money,

this game certainly did.

Trivial Pursuit, you're right.

That would have scored you 53.

Now, B is chess.

What do you think that scored?

I would have hoped... I would've hoped 100.

-We don't get very many 100 points.

-We don't.

-I think we've had three or four in the history of Pointless.

-Yeah.

And this is our fourth or fifth. It's 100 points.

Well done to our 100.

Very good. Thank you very much. Here comes your second question.

Soph and Tom, 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, five clues now to facts about the Nobel Peace Prize,

one of which I am hoping has nothing to do with Mahatma Gandhi,

otherwise I'm in trouble.

Yeah. OK, let's reveal our five clues, and here they come.

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Soph and Tom will go first.

Do you know that girl's name?

Malala?

-Oh, something like that.

-Yeah.

Yeah, just have a guess.

We think we know the first name of the youngest person,

and was that Malala?

Malala, say Soph and Tom. Now then, Paul and Harry.

Talk us through the board.

Um...

We think the top one could be Sweden.

Or Norway!

We think the Russian author is Tolstoy.

The South African is Nelson Mandela.

And the year, we're not sure about.

Um, and I don't think there's anything there that can beat

the answer that's already gone.

But I think we'll go with Tolstoy, as the Russian author.

OK, you will go with Tolstoy.

So, we have Malala and we have Tolstoy.

Soph and Tom said Malala,

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

It's right, it is indeed Malala.

18 for Malala.

Meanwhile, Paul and Harry have gone for Leo Tolstoy,

let's see if that's right for War and Peace,

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

It's right.

51.

Well done, Soph and Tom, back in the game.

-After two questions, it's 1-1.

-Yeah, the wonderful Malala.

There is a couple of answers that would have beaten it.

In fact, if you'd guessed the country, you could have beaten it.

You were thinking of either Norway or Sweden,

-what do you think you would have said?

-Sweden.

Actually, most Nobel prizes are awarded in Sweden.

This one, though, is Norway.

It would have scored you 13 points.

You're right about Mandela, would have scored too many points,

would have scored you 43.

And the year it was first awarded was 1901,

and that was a pointless answer, so well done if you said that.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Here comes your third question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final

and plays for the jackpot. Best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question today is all about...

Richard.

We're going to show you the names of five Canadian cities now,

but with alternate letters removed.

-Can you tell us what the cities are, please?

-Thanks very much.

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

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Paul and Harry will go first.

THEY CONFER

The bottom one, we think that's Calgary.

Calgary, say Paul and Harry.

Now then, Soph and Tom, do you want to talk us through the board?

Um...

We were looking at that.

They've got Vancouver there.

And Quebec City.

What do you want to go for? You just pick one.

Let's go Quebec City.

Quebec City, say Soph and Tom.

So, we have Calgary and we have Quebec City.

Paul and Harry said Calgary,

let's see how many of our 100 people agree with them.

It's right.

Down to 33, not bad at all.

Let's see where we end up with Quebec City,

which Soph and Tom have gone for.

Quebec City.

It's right.

And there we are, 50 for Quebec City,

and that means very well done indeed, Paul and Harry,

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

Yeah, there's one more easy one up there, a couple of tough ones.

Vancouver down the bottom there,

that would have scored you 82 points.

The other two are harder, though.

The one at the top, it's very near Toronto, this one.

Mississauga. Would have scored you 11 points.

And the other one is the capital of New Brunswick,

and it's Fredericton, and that would have scored you nine points.

-Very well done if you said that at home.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, it's Soph and Tom.

Very strong performance across the show today, we'll see you again next time, when I'm sure you'll do

just as well, if not better. But meantime, thanks very much for playing, Soph and Tom.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

But for Harry and Paul, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Paul and Harry.

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 £4,000.

There it is.

Well, finally, finally,

you make it through to the final.

Last time, you were our golden couple, this time,

you are our golden couple, and this time you've made it through.

What would you like to see come up in this round?

-Sport.

-Anything on beer or Athletic would be great.

Paul?

Science, I think.

That hasn't come up so far, so I hope it'll come up now.

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

Today's categories for this round are...

The opera, we're definitely not going for.

I don't think either of us are very keen on opera.

I'm not so sure about 21st-century anything, really,

I'm a 20th-century guy.

Shall we go for the sport?

Yeah, I think sports, yeah. Yeah, I think there might be some

oddball ones in X, Y and Z in Sport,

-we should be able to pull something from there.

-OK, yeah.

-OK, X, Y and Z in Sport. Richard?

-Very best of luck, gents,

you've got a real chance on this one, I would say.

Looking for any of the following, please.

We are looking for any men's golfing major winner with an X, Y or Z

in their surname, that's all the way through from 1860 to 2016.

We're looking for any man or woman who's won a Grand Slam

tennis major in the Open era, '68 through to 2016,

with an X, Y or Z in their surname.

Or any horse that's won the Grand National post-war,

so, '46 to 2016.

So, men's golfing major winners,

Open era tennis major winners, men or women,

or any Grand National horse.

-Very best of luck.

-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 that jackpot is for just one

of your answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready? BOTH:

-Yes.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

Your time starts now.

Um, I think...

Well, first one, the middle one, for tennis,

I would have gone for someone like Yannick Noah.

The Grand National one...

Um, X...

Golfers...

Young, go for something like that.

Any tennis players...? Um...

THEY CONFER

Oh, what's she called...?

The tennis player, the...

Um, the Spanish one, there's a Spanish one,

a female tennis player, um... Oh, what's she called?

-Hernandez?

-Hernandez, yeah.

Um... Oh... Conchita...

Conchita...Sanchez.

Sanchez, yeah, I think she's called Conchita Sanchez.

So, Yannick Noah, and, um...

That, I'm afraid, is your time up.

Phew! You did some proper searching there, racking your brains.

-Yeah.

-What have you come up with? Let's have your three answers.

The golfing, we're just going to pick something at random,

we'll go after my surname, so we'll call it Ben Young.

Ben Young.

In tennis, Yannick Noah.

Yannick Noah.

-Um...

-Conchita...

-Conchita Martinez.

-Conchita Martinez.

-In tennis again.

In tennis. OK, of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-I think Conchita Martinez.

-Conchita Martinez goes last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-BOTH:

-Ben Young!

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

and here they are.

Three good answers on the board there, nice jackpot of four grand,

nice and easy bit of maths to split that between you as well, I like that.

What would you like to do with your share of that, Paul, if you won?

Um, we're going away next year to Canada, me and my wife,

so, that'll go towards that.

Very nice indeed. Harry, how about you?

My partner and I, Ruth, are just in the process of buying a narrow boat,

-so the money will come in very handy...

-Oh, that'll be handy!

-Absolutely.

-Very nice indeed.

OK, well, lovely things to do with your prize money if you win.

Let's hope you do. Ben Young was the first answer

you went for, one you've made up, in fact.

We were looking for golfing major winners. You never know.

One of these days, a made-up name is going to win.

It has to be pointless, obviously, for you to win that jackpot,

so, for £4,000, let's see if anyone said Ben Young.

Let's see if Ben Young exists.

No Ben Young. As yet!

Let's move quickly to your next answer, which is Yannick Noah.

In this case, we were looking for tennis players,

Open era tennis major winners.

Let's see if this is pointless - if it is, it wins you £4,000.

Yannick Noah, how many people said it?

Oh, bad luck. Incorrect answer.

We move on to your third and final answer,

which is Conchita Martinez.

Took quite a lot of time for you to find this.

Sort of one letter at a time, it sort of dawned.

It was exhilarating to watch!

But we found her. There we are. Now, if Conchita Martinez is pointless,

you leave here with £4,000.

Again, we're looking for tennis players.

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

Is it pointless?

It's right, we've found a correct answer.

Ben Young was incorrect,

Yannick Noah was incorrect.

Conchita Martinez - absolutely correct,

taking us down through the teens, into single figures,

down it goes, still going down, still going down...

There we are! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done indeed.

-Thunderbolt!

-Very well done indeed.

Fantastic! There you are, the holiday, the narrow boat,

all falling into place.

Conchita Martinez was a pointless answer,

which means you go home with that jackpot of £4,000.

Very well done, Paul and Harry. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Yeah, very well played, gents. You were going to give us

Conchita Sanchez, because you'd mixed up Conchita Martinez

and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, who would have scored you two points.

Almost every single answer on every single one of these lists

is pointless, there are so many very well-known pointless answers here,

it's an absolute gimme, so well done, Conchita Martinez, a terrific answer.

Yannick Noah doesn't have one of those letters in his surname.

-Oh, yes, of course!

-The surname!

Oh, yeah!

But you know what - who cares, right?

Because Conchita Martinez does.

Let's take a look at the men's golfing winners.

Some big names here.

You could have had Bob Tway,

Charl Schwartzel, Gene Sarazen, Geoff Ogilvy,

John Daly, Keegan Bradley, Lee Janzen,

Martin Kaymer, Paul Azinger, Ray Floyd.

Everyone apart from Rory McIlroy, Fuzzy Zoeller,

Sandy Lyle, Gary Player,

Larry Mize, who I know lots of people would have said,

and Jim Furyk, they are the only ones who scored any points.

Every single other answer, there's lots of them, was pointless.

These tennis major winners.

Carlos Moya, who won the French Open.

Chris Evert Lloyd won some of her titles when she was called that.

You could have had Anastasia Myskina,

Andreas Gomez, the Ecuadorian,

Ann Haydon-Jones would have been a lovely answer,

Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Garbina Muguruza, Virginia Ruzici,

all of those, pointless answers.

There were only two who scored any points at all there,

that was Andy Murray and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.

And she only scores because she's got an X in her first name,

which is what I'm sure drew people's minds to it.

And the horses, loads of pointless answers here as well.

Every horse apart from Party Politics, Many Clouds,

Lord Gyllene and Oxo, every single other one was a pointless answer.

Very well done if you got one at home,

and congratulations in the studio.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard, and thanks once again to our winning

players, Paul and Harry, who go away with today's jackpot of £4,000.

Very well done. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Join us next time,

when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

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

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.