Episode 54 Pointless

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed, hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome

to Pointless, the show that makes big winners out

of the lowest scorers. Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Natalie from London and this is my mum, Jan, from Cheshire.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, my name's Chris, this is my wife, Philippa,

and we're from South Shields.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm Jennifer, and this is my friend Teresa,

and we're from Cambridge.

And finally, couple number four.

Hello, my name's Mark, this is my friend Andy,

and we're both from Southend-on-Sea.

And these are today's contestants.

APPLAUSE

A very, very warm welcome to Pointless to each of you,

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

throughout the show as it goes along.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

We call him the Wind Turbine because although he looks incredibly cool,

you wouldn't want him anywhere near your house.

LAUGHTER It's my Pointless friend,

-it's Richard.

-Hiya.

-APPLAUSE

Hey, everybody. Hiya.

Good afternoon, sir.

-Good afternoon.

-We've got two returning pairs from the last show,

they didn't cover themselves in glory on the last show,

I'm going to say.

Teresa and Jennifer are back, got knocked out in Round One,

Jennifer let herself down.

-SHE CHUCKLES

-Didn't she?

-She did.

-But today, redemption, Jennifer, redemption.

-Yeah.

And on podium one, Natalie and Jan, who got knocked out in Round Two,

so no-one here has been through to a head-to-head.

-No.

-We've got a nice first question,

the first question comes from a good list.

It's questions but there's a nice list behind it.

Very good, thank you very much. Now, Nick and Darren, who made it

through to the final last time, also won the jackpot,

which means we start off with a jackpot of £1,000 today. There we

are. Right, if everyone's ready,

let's play Pointless. APPLAUSE

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

round will be eliminated.

Keep your answers nice and low-scoring and everything

should be fine. Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is...

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

who's going to go second. What's wrong, Natalie?

-Any other geography! Just not UK.

-Just not the UK?!

-Not the UK.

-Not your home country?

-No.

-OK, well, decide 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...

-That's fun.

-It is fun. On each board we're going to show you seven clues

and the answers to each of them were in the top 20 most popular UK towns

and cities for overseas visitors,

according to the Office for National Statistics.

So that's quite interesting, isn't it?

-That is interesting.

-The answers will be interesting.

They will all be interesting, Natalie. OK, let's reveal our first

board of clues, here they come. And we have got...

I'll read those all again.

Natalie. Tell us a little bit about yourself, Natalie,

remind us what you do.

I work for a small children's charity and I also work

for the Victoria and Albert Museum.

That's right. What do you do at the V&A?

What's your department there?

I do gallery assisting and I also help with children's educational

workshops and things.

And gallery assisting is what, just walking around and...?

Incredibly boring. No, standing very still in one space

-for a very long time.

-And saying, "Shh!" from time to time?

-Well, nobody even talks, you can't even say, "Shh."

-That's annoying.

Occasionally saying, "Would you like to know something?" "No."

-"No, go away!"

-Yeah.

Well, there we are. Natalie, I'm sorry about the board,

but there must be something up there?

I know one of them and I'm pretty sure it's definitely going to be the

highest. I'm going to have to go for the city with the arts festival,

and that's Edinburgh.

Edinburgh, says Natalie, with its Fringe.

Let's see if it's right, let's see how many of

our 100 people went for Edinburgh.

It's right.

64, isn't bad. APPLAUSE

Not bad. It's correct, which is good.

And the way they measure the most popular towns and cities are anyone

who stayed at least one night in one of those places,

and Edinburgh had 1.5 million overseas visitors in 2015.

OK, thank you very much indeed.

Now, then, Philippa, welcome.

How nice to have you here from South Shields.

-What do you do, Philippa?

-I'm an accountant,

but I'm currently finishing a year of maternity leave.

Oh, that's nice.

-Oh, no, are you dreading going back?

-Just one more week.

-HE GASPS

-Erm, a bit mixed, yeah.

It's been lovely being off with the children,

but it'll be nice to have some adult company at work and things.

-Well, that's true.

-Yeah.

-How many children have you got?

-Two.

Are they twins?

-No...

-No.

-..so we've got a little boy who's ten months

-and a little girl who's just turned three.

-Wonderful.

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

So I'm going to try the bottom one,

which is the gunpowder plot participant Guy Fawkes,

and say York.

York, says Philippa.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100

people went for York.

It's right. 64 is our only score at this point and you pass that

quite comfortably.

My, look at that, down to 12, Philippa, very well done indeed.

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Very well played, yeah. The Shambles, in York,

-good name for a band.

-I was just about to say, yeah.

Must have been used for a band.

-The Shambles?

-Must have been.

-You'd have thought so.

-You would have thought.

-Yeah.

Ah, well. Teresa, has The Shambles been used for a band?

-The Shambles?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

There you are, I knew she'd know.

LAUGHTER I knew she'd know.

Teresa, welcome back to Pointless, great to have you here.

-Remind us what you do.

-Thank you. I'm an executive assistant

for a training consultancy.

-This is... We heard all about them last time.

-Yes. Yes.

-Oh, amazing!

-For the Institute of Leadership and Management.

-Institute of Leadership and Management.

-Yes.

We learned all about that, the seven levels.

-Yes.

-HE SIGHS

-Amazing.

-And Jennifer teaches all of them.

And I run a good office.

And you run a good office. How many are you in the office?

Two.

LAUGHTER

So, hang on, whose business is it?

-It's Jennifer's.

-OK, and you run the office?

-Yes.

-Yes. So basically the Institute of Leadership and Management

is without its leader and its manager - I can't believe it!

LAUGHTER

Teresa, what would you like to go for?

Well, there's one there that I do know definitely.

Opened in 1999 and renamed in 2016,

the Principality Stadium is in Cardiff.

Cardiff, says Teresa.

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

It's right, 64 is our highest score and you pass it.

51 is where we end up with Cardiff, not bad.

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Yes, 358,000 visits to Cardiff. It's the birthplace of Roald Dahl

and for the centenary, they turned it into he City of the Unexpected,

and they'd had all sorts of unexpected pop-up things

-and actors turning up.

-Right.

-Yeah, that's nice, isn't it?

-Really nice.

Thank you very much indeed. Andy, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Andy, can I commend you on your beard?

Mm. You can.

You know how sort of recently it's become very fashionable

to have a sort of big, big beard,

you probably look down on these Johnny-come-latelies to beardship?

Oh, definitely, these pretenders.

-Yes.

-I bet Andy had that beard at school.

LAUGHTER In his pocket, obviously.

Now, Andy, what do you do?

My job title is orthotics technician. Sounds a little bit...

I know exactly what that is, I happen to be wearing

-orthotics as we speak.

-Yeah, so basically I make foot orthoses

devices from casts.

But you make them out of titanium or something, don't you?

-It's incredibly strong.

-Well, there's different sort of...

Thermoplastics I predominantly use.

Very good. Well, you're doing a great job.

Have you got a titanium one?

-I don't know.

-Dude, all the cool kids have got thermoplastic.

-LAUGHTER Oh, no!

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Titanium, they saw you coming!

Now, Andy, this is your board,

would you like to go through it and fill in the blanks?

I'd love to go through it.

I really couldn't say the abbey, unfortunately, or the lace market,

so the only one I'm really going to have to have a stab at is

the Midlands city, home to many curry restaurants and an area known

as the Balti Triangle, I believe, is Birmingham.

Birmingham, says Andy, for the Balti Triangle.

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

It is right. 64 is our highest score at the moment, you pass that. 57.

APPLAUSE 57 for Birmingham, not bad.

Yeah, also over 1 million visitors to Birmingham in 2015.

-Yeah, how about that?

-Goodness.

-Also over a million visitors to

the city with the Imperial War Museum North.

-It's Salford.

-Er, it's Manchester.

-It's Manchester.

-Ooh.

-Would've scored you 14 points.

Now, the top one, the lace market.

-Nottingham.

-Nottingham. Yep.

That would've scored you 37.

-And do you know the third one?

-No.

-No. That is Reading. Well done

if you said that at home, it's the best answer on the board,

-would've scored you 5.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

We are halfway through the round, let's take a quick look at

those scores. Oh, Philippa, look at that, 12, York, what a lovely answer

that was. Philippa and Chris looking very strong at this point.

And then, very tightly grouped together, we journey up to Teresa

and Jennifer on 51, Andy and Mark on 57 and then Natalie and Jan on 64.

So, Jan, just a little bit of pressure on you to find a nice low

score in the next pass, so good luck with that. We're going to come back

down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

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

We have got...

I'll read those all again.

So we just need the names of these towns and cities

and they are all in the top 20 of the most visited towns and cities.

Mark, welcome to Pointless, good to have you here from Southend-on-Sea.

-What do you do, Mark?

-I work in programme and project management.

How do you know Andy?

We actually went to school together, so it's a very long-term friendship.

You remember him from before the beard.

I do, I do indeed, yes.

You weren't far wrong about the school joke,

-he did have it at school.

-LAUGHTER

Mark, there you are on 57.

What would you like to go for on this board?

Erm, there's a couple which I think I might know,

but I'm going to go for the Scottish city with the granite buildings,

and I'm going to say Aberdeen.

Aberdeen, says Mark. Here's your red line, quite low.

If you happen to get below that, you'd be straight through

to Round Two, but let's see how far down the column we get

with Aberdeen.

That's a good answer, 40, very well done.

APPLAUSE

-97's your total.

-Well played, Mark.

Water polo was supposedly invented in Aberdeen on the River Dee.

-That is a cold place to invent water polo.

-Mm!

-LAUGHTER

-I would say.

-Mm.

There you go. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, then, Jennifer, welcome back.

Good to have you here. Remind us, well, remind me,

I happen to know what you do, Jennifer,

we've talked about it a little bit!

But anyway, tell us again.

I'm a training and management consultant,

and my company's an approved centre with the Institute of Leadership and

-Management.

-This is... Why didn't you mention this before?!

LAUGHTER

-That's right.

-How big is your client base?

People come in on what sort of basis, for a course

-or do they come in...?

-I mainly train doctors, so I do a lot

-of training for the British Medical Association.

-Right.

But also trusts as well, but I also do GP training.

Wonderful. Now, 51 is your score, Jennifer.

If you can possibly score 45 or less, you are into the next round.

Erm, I know two or three,

but I'm going to take the city which is where the Fitzwilliam Museum

was opened, which is Cambridge.

Cambridge, says Jennifer.

Here is your red line, if you can get below this red line with

Cambridge, you're through to Round Two.

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

Very well done.

Ooh, it's a good answer, down to 8. APPLAUSE

-Oh, well done!

-There we are, lowest score of the round, in fact.

59 is your total.

Well played, Jennifer. Only became a city in 1951, Cambridge.

George VI made it a city.

Hm. Er, thank you. Now, Chris, welcome.

-What do you do, Chris?

-Like Philippa, I'm also an accountant.

Are you an accountant at the same place?

We used to be, that's how we met.

I see. OK.

And, Chris, tell me about your interests?

So, I like most sports, football. I'm quite into horse racing as well,

I've got a small share in a racehorse.

That's quite fun. Do you travel all over with that or is that...?

-She hasn't actually raced yet, so...

-LAUGHTER

I was told I would get the opportunity to do that.

Oh, that's very exciting.

Good luck with that. Anyway, there you are on 12.

97 is the high score, so if you can score 84 or less,

you are through to the next round.

I think I'll go for the city in north-east England which has

-got areas called Byker, Gosforth and Jesmond.

-Hm!

-LAUGHTER

-Just up the road from us,

-Newcastle upon Tyne.

-OK,

Newcastle upon Tyne, says Chris.

Here's your red line, nice and high.

I wonder how far down the column we'll get with Newcastle upon Tyne.

Far enough, is the answer to that.

Down it goes to 61. Popular answer there, taking your total to 73.

APPLAUSE

We honestly might as well call this round "where you live".

LAUGHTER

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge was the first rotating bridge in the

world, Millennium Bridge.

-I didn't know it was the first in the world.

-Mm.

-Ah.

-It is.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Jan, welcome back, lovely to have you with us again.

Remind us what keeps you busy up in Cheshire.

Working with my husband in a partnership, I do accounts, admin,

things like that.

-You keep the office ticking over?

-Keep the office, yes.

How are your leadership and management skills, Jan?

-LAUGHTER

-Absolutely brilliant.

OK, good, good. That's fine.

Cos I have nobody to manage any more.

Oh, I see, there you are! Very good.

Now, Jan, there you are, 64 is your score at the moment,

97 is the high score.

-32.

-Mm.

-Imperative that you reach 32 if you want to remain with us.

-Do you want to talk us through the board?

-Yes, bottom one, I haven't,

can't think.

The first one I think might be Liverpool

because I know it was a capital

of culture. The fourth one...I can't remember if it was Portsmouth or

Southampton. I think probably Southampton cos it's more

visitor attractive.

But I'm going to go for the River Avon one and, fingers crossed,

it's Bath.

Sounds like you might know all of them but there we are.

Ooh, can I just say,

on behalf of Portsmouth... HE SUCKS TEETH

-LAUGHTER OK.

-It's bigger!

There is your red line.

If you can get below that with Bath, you are through to Round Two.

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

Oh, well done, look at that!

Well done, 22 for Bath. APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 86.

You made it.

That's a terrific answer, very well played.

Liverpool you were right about,

also would've seen you through.

-Oh.

-Liverpool would've scored you 28 points.

The south coast port

is Southampton.

That would've scored you 56, though, too many points for that.

-Oh, thank goodness.

-This last one would have seen you through as well.

-Inverness.

-Inverness, beautiful city, would've scored 25,

so the best answer on the board is Cambridge.

-Well played.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our first round, the pair we have to send home with

their high score of 97, Mark and Andy, I'm afraid it's you.

We'll see you again next time, though, and I'm sure we'll get much

further. In the meantime, thanks so much, Mark and Andy.

APPLAUSE

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

Well, three pairs made it through Round One.

That was a close-run thing, wasn't it, I have to say.

Well done, Jennifer, lowest individual score there

for Cambridge.

But actually, Jennifer and Teresa were our lowest joint scorers,

so, yes, good achievement there on the far podium.

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, and whoever's going first,

please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

Famous French people, Richard.

Yeah, we're about to show you 16 pictures of famous French people,

but can you tell us who they are, please?

OK, let's see who is on our image.

Ah.

There we are.

Some famous French people.

Natalie.

I think...

There's a few of them I think I know, but they don't...

look quite right,

so I'm going to go for potentially quite an easy one because my mum

used to be completely in love with him, and that's David Ginola.

David Ginola, says Natalie.

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

It's right.

And it takes us down to 36, not bad at all.

APPLAUSE Not bad. David Ginola, 36.

There he is, David Ginola.

Published an autobiography in 2000 called Le Magnifique.

Oh, ouais?

-Ah, oui.

-C'est moi!

-Oui.

-C'est moi, je suis magnifique.

-Thanks very much, Richard. Chris.

Who would you like to go for on our board of French people?

I don't know too many.

But I think I'm going to go and say top left is Raymond Blanc.

Raymond Blanc, says Chris.

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

It is right. 36 is our only score.

Oh, look at that. You pass 36. Oh, Raymond Blanc, 13,

very well done.

APPLAUSE

Very good indeed, Raymond Blanc.

Very well played, one of Great Britain's favourite French people, Raymond Blanc.

He's entirely self-taught, and he started as a waiter in Oxfordshire.

And one day, the chef was ill, he just took over one day.

That was his start.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-That's a nice story.

-Amazing, isn't it?

-I didn't know that at all.

-Yeah.

Anyway, there we are. Now, Jennifer.

I know a few.

But as I am also well-known for my malapropisms,

and when there's a lot of syllables, getting the name wrong,

I'm going to go for one of the two easier ones I know

and I'm going to say Edith Piaf.

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

It's right. 36 is our high score, 13 is our low.

Look at that, down to 15.

Very well done indeed, Jennifer. Nice scoring there

for Edith Piaf.

Another good answer, yeah. She was born Edith Gassion,

but piaf is French for sparrow and she was the Little Sparrow.

Yeah. Thank you very much, Richard.

We are halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at the scores. Chris on 13, very well done.

Chris and Philippa looking very strong at this point.

Then up to 15, where we find Jennifer and Teresa.

Then Natalie and Jan, a little bit ahead on 36.

Jan, let's hope you can find a nice obscure French person

on the board behind me. Good luck with that.

We are going to come back down the line now,

can the second players please step up to the podium?

Now then, Teresa.

Hello.

Teresa, you're on 15.

Ideally, you'll score 20 or less for this answer

and that will get you into the head-to-head.

OK.

I too know a couple of them,

I'm going to take a little bit of a guess as to which designer,

but I'm going to try Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Jean-Paul Gaultier says Teresa.

Let's see if that's right. There's your red line.

Get below that, you're through to the next round.

It is Jean-Paul Gaultier.

And you are through to the head-to-head.

Look at that, 13, very well done indeed,

taking your total up to a nice 28.

APPLAUSE

There he is, another of our favourite French people,

due to his roles on Eurotrash.

Excellent. Thank you.

-Now, Philippa.

-I think that would have been my best answer,

so I'm going to have a go at trying to pronounce this,

and say Gerard Depardieu.

Gerard Depardieu, says Philippa.

Here is your red line. If you can get below this red line,

you are through to the next round.

Gerard Depardieu.

It's right.

Very good, not bad. 28.

I think you have probably done enough, taking your total up to 41.

It's all in Jan's hands.

He's been in over 200 films, Gerard Depardieu.

That's a lot.

And if Whoopi Goldberg married him, she'd be Whoopi Depardieu.

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much indeed.

Well, I said it was all in Jan's hands, and it is.

Oh, Jan's hands.

RICHARD CHUCKLES

And it is, all in Jan's hands.

You have to score 4 or less.

-Yes.

-Do you want to talk us through the board?

-Um...

-Marcel Marceau, I think.

Francois Hollande.

Francoise Hardy.

And I'll go for Francoise Hardy.

Francoise Hardy.

OK, Francoise Hardy, says Jan.

There is your red line, it's low.

Francoise Hardy sounds like the sort of name

that would get you below that red line.

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

Francoise Hardy is right.

Still going down.

You've done it!

3, very well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 39, very exciting.

Fabulous answer there.

That is terrific work, Jan.

Very well played. Mick Jagger loved her, Bob Dylan wrote a poem for her.

An incredibly low score.

Take a look, you were right about Marcel Marceau.

He would have got you knocked out, though,

because he would have scored 17 points.

The other one, is it Edith Cresson?

We'll find out in a moment.

Next to Marcel Marceau...

FRENCH ACCENT: Woody Allen.

It is not Woody Allen.

Oh. Ah, zut alors!

He's a man who spent a lot time underwater.

-Oh, it's Jacques Cousteau!

-It's Jacques Cousteau.

-Ah! Ah, oui.

I've never seen him without a mask.

Onze points for Jacques Cousteau.

Et, uh...

Mais non, c'est ne pas Edith Cresson.

Non. C'est Christine Lagarde.

Christine Lagarde, oui.

Sept points pour Christine Lagarde.

-Et...Thierry.

-Thierry Henry.

-Oui.

-Cinquante deux points pour Thierry Henry.

Et next to him, I'm going to have to...

This is a pointless answer.

I don't know the French for pointless answer.

If you watch Spiral, you'll recognise him.

And it's Gregory Fitoussi.

Very well done if you said that, nil points for Gregory Fitoussi.

-Next to him.

-C'est Henri Matisse.

-Oui! C'est Henri Matisse.

-Ouais, ouais.

-Tres bien.

Un point pour vous. Et, uh...

Le gentleman avec le chapeau.

-Charles de Gaulle.

-Charles de Gaulle.

He would have scored you quarante-sept points.

-Francois Hollande.

-Francois Hollande, oui.

Vingt-cinq points pour Francois Hollande.

Et Eva Green.

Huit points.

Et Billie Piper

is the next one.

LAUGHTER

-It's Brigitte Bardot.

-Brigitte Bardot.

-Quarante-six points.

-Alors!

-That was fun.

-We should do the whole show in French.

-Yeah, that would be long.

LAUGHTER

Fun, though. We are at the end of our second round,

and we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs.

I mean, it's not a high score, Philippa and Chris,

it's not bad at all.

Just nothing to do with Newcastle in this round, I'm afraid.

We have to say goodbye to you. See you again next time.

-Thank you.

-Look forward to that very much indeed. Philippa and Chris.

APPLAUSE

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

Congratulations, Teresa, Jennifer, Natalie and Jan,

you are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £1,000.

Well, here we are in the head-to-head.

This means you are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.

The first pair to win two questions in this round

will be going through to that final and playing for the jackpot.

Best of luck to both players, let's play the head-to-head.

Here is your first question. And it concerns...

-Richard.

-Five clues to facts about salt.

What is the most obscure answer?

Pointless doesn't get tougher than this.

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

We've got...

I'm going to read those all again.

That's fun. Teresa and Jennifer,

you're our low scorers, so you will go first.

You choose.

Right.

We know two of them.

Definitely. But I think what we'll go for is the fourth one,

and say that's Veruca Salt, played by Julie Dawn Cole.

OK, Veruca Salt, say Teresa and Jennifer.

Now then. Natalie and Jan, the board is all yours.

Would you like to talk us through it?

We are either going for one or three because we don't know the other two.

It's the Dead Sea, or it's sodium chloride.

-It is sodium chloride.

-Let's go for Dead Sea.

We'll go for the Dead Sea.

You are going to go for the Dead Sea.

So, we have got Veruca Salt and the Dead Sea.

Teresa and Jennifer went for Veruca Salt,

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

It's right.

38.

APPLAUSE

Meanwhile, Natalie and Jan have gone for the Dead Sea.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for the Dead Sea.

It's right.

54 for the Dead Sea.

Which means, well done, Teresa and Jennifer,

after one question you are up 1-0.

Yeah, it is sodium chloride,

but NaCl is the formula we were looking for.

-Would have won you the point, though.

-Oh!

-If you said it, would have scored you 30.

The song from Bedknobs And Broomsticks?

-Bobbing along...

-It's not Bobbing Along.

-..on the beautiful briny sea?

-It's called The Beautiful Briny.

-Oh, The Beautiful Briny, sorry, yes.

That would have scored you 5 points.

And the NHS recommended daily maximum intake of salt, do you know this?

-I don't know.

-It's four tonnes.

Four tonnes.

LAUGHTER

No, it's six grammes, which I have to say,

I haven't heard that before, but 15 of our 100 got that.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. We come to our second question.

Natalie and Jan, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

But you get to answer it first, so it's slightly in your favour.

Our second question is all about...

We're going to show you five pictures now of birds

which are the national bird symbols of various countries.

We need you to name the birds, please.

Thank you very much indeed. What are these birds?

And we have got...

There we are. Five birds

that are symbols of nations.

Natalie and Jan, you will go first.

I think we'll go for C, mute swan.

Mute swan, say Natalie and Jan.

Now, Teresa and Jennifer, talk us through that board.

Well, A is bald eagle,

we decided. E is flamingo.

D is something ibis.

And I don't actually know what B is.

So E, flamingo.

E, flamingo.

So, we have mute swan and we have flamingo.

Natalie and Jan went for mute swan for C,

let's see how many of our 100 people got that.

It is indeed mute swan.

And that goes down to 53.

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Teresa and Jennifer, meanwhile, have gone for flamingo for E.

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

It's right. Oh, 89 for flamingo.

Yeah. No mistaking the flamingo, very well done, Natalie and Jan.

You're back in the game after two questions, it's one all.

Well played. The bald eagle wouldn't have saved you either.

The national bird of the USA, of course, that would have scored 74.

Now, B, that's the national bird of Guatemala.

-I know the first word.

-What's the first word?

-Resplendent.

-Resplendent is the first word.

And it's the resplendent quetzal.

And that's also the currency of Guatemala as well, the quetzal.

Would have scored you 1 point.

Sometimes called the Guatemalan quetzal.

You'd done the hard work with D, you worked out the ibis.

You've just got to work out what colour it is.

-Oh, Scarlet!

-Scarlet.

-Scarlet ibis.

Would have seen you through to the final as well, 9 points.

-Oops.

-Ah, well!

There we are. There are our national birds.

OK, here comes question three.

Whoever wins this one goes through to the final

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

Our third question today is all about...

-Richard.

-Going to show you five words

which are in the Nato phonetic alphabet, but in anagram form.

Can you give us the most obscure answer?

-Very best of luck to everyone.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five anagrams

and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Teresa and Jennifer, you will go first.

We... We know three of them, at least.

And we are going to go the last one, and say...

You say it, because I'll say it wrong.

We are going for Sierra.

Sierra, say Teresa and Jennifer.

Now then, Natalie and Jan, what would you like to go for?

Oh, I think I know most of them.

-Charlie.

-We are not going for Charlie or Tango

-if you know all of them.

-Yankee, and I think, if Natalie agrees,

we will go for the second one, which is Uniform.

OK, Uniform.

So we have Sierra and we have Uniform.

Teresa and Jennifer went for Sierra,

let's see how many of 100 people said Sierra.

Sierra is right.

Good answer. 30.

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Natalie and Jan, meanwhile, have gone for Uniform, for If No Rum.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right. This is going to be interesting.

And Uniform wins.

Down to 18. Very well done indeed.

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That means, Natalie and Jan,

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

Yeah, Uniform is the best answer up there, very well played,

could not be beaten. Charlie, the top one.

Would have scored you 40 points.

Go Ant is, of course, Tango, as you said.

That would have scored you 55,

and the next best answer on the board is Yankee.

Yankee would have scored you 26.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

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

Teresa and Jennifer, I'm afraid it is you.

It's been wonderful having you on both shows.

Very many congratulations on your performance

across the show today, it's been fantastic.

I'm afraid this is where we say goodbye.

Thank you so much, Teresa and Jennifer.

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But for Natalie and Jan, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Natalie and Jan.

You 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 £1,000.

Well, very well done. Second appearance on the show.

It was Round Two we had to say goodbye to you last time,

this time straight through to the final.

What would you like to see come up on the board?

South America would be good.

And film, if it's...

If it's something we know about.

Yeah.

Literature. But again, our knowledge is fairly specific

rather than broad.

OK, well, very, very best of luck.

Let's hope the things you specifically know

come up on this board.

Today's options are...

-None of those.

-What's stage love?

Well, it will be...

Do you know much about Iceland?

Absolutely nothing.

Certainly don't know rugby players, I should have listened to Dad.

Shall we do Characters In Stage Love Stories?

-Yeah.

-OK, Characters In Stage Love Stories.

-Richard.

-OK, very best of luck.

We are looking for any of the following three things, please.

Any named character in any of the following.

Any named character in the King And I,

the original 1951 Broadway performance.

Any named character in West Side Story,

the 1957 original Broadway performance.

Any named characters in the first folio version

of Antony And Cleopatra, which is by Shakespeare.

So, any named characters in the King And I, West Side Story,

or Antony And Cleopatra.

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

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

and all you need to win the jackpot

is for just one of your answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-We are.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

Firstly, I know, Enobarbus for Antony And Cleopatra.

Antony and Cleopatra.

What's her nurse called?

-Oh.

-She has got... The one who puts the asp on her.

-What's she called?

-Yes, I don't know.

We can't shout three options, because we don't know many.

The King And I and West Side Story...

He's got a right-hand man, as well.

-What's the...?

-I can't think of the nurse.

Antony and Cleopatra is not one I've studied.

-It's...

-Shall we just say Antony and Cleopatra and...?

We won't accept Antony or Cleopatra.

OK.

-Because they're in the question.

-No, exactly.

-Fair enough.

Well, there's Marcus Antony, Brutus.

That's Antony.

Oh, yeah. This is not going well.

-What about...

-Brutus?

Any of the other cohorts? Ten seconds left.

Can you think of anyone?

No, I can only think of... Just hope Enobarbus is pointless.

Miss Chambers used to shout it out all the time.

Right, well, we need to find one more.

OK, I'm afraid that is your minute up, I'm so sorry.

So I now need three answers from you.

We'll say Brutus.

-Brutus.

-Enobarbus.

-Enobarbus.

And...

Hoping it will come to me.

-Claudette.

-And Claudette.

-And all three of these characters are from Antony And Cleopatra?

-We're hoping, yes.

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

Our only shot, I think, is Enobarbus.

Enobarbus we'll put last. Least likely to be pointless?

-What did I say?

-Claudette.

-Claudette.

Can't even remember. Claudette we'll put first and then Brutus in the middle.

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

And here they are.

We have got, Claudette, Brutus, and Enobarbus.

Well, in all three cases, we're looking for characters

from Antony And Cleopatra.

Your first answer was Claudette.

Bit of a stab in the dark, this one.

Maybe Cleopatra did have a French handmaiden.

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If it's pointless, it will win you £1,000.

In fact, if any of these are pointless, they will win you £1,000.

What would you like to do with £1,000?

Um, I've got a little puppy

and I'd love to take him to the seaside with some of my friends,

so for a holiday.

That would be nice. Very nice.

So, yeah, go to Devon.

Some sea air for the puppy.

Jan, how about you?

Natalie keeps talking about wanting to pass her driving test,

so some driving lessons.

But I'd also treat myself and my husband

to a lovely weekend away somewhere.

Good stuff.

Let's hope one of these answers turns out to be pointless

and wins that jackpot for you.

As I said, your first answer was Claudette.

Let's find out how many of our 100 people said Claudette.

No.

No Claudette, I'm afraid.

Not a pointless answer, so we move on to Brutus, your next answer.

If Brutus is pointless, it wins the £1,000.

How many of our 100 people named Brutus as a character

in Antony And Cleopatra?

No, I'm afraid no Brutus.

No Brutus in Antony And Cleopatra either.

Your third and final answer was Enobarbus

and now I think we're on firmer ground, here.

You remembered Enobarbus immediately.

-Yes.

-To win the jackpot of £1,000,

Enobarbus, of course, has to be pointless.

So let's find out how many of our 100 people said Enobarbus.

-It's right.

-That's something.

Claudette and Brutus were neither of them right.

Enobarbus very much so.

Takes us down through the teens, into single figures, down we are going,

still going down with Enobarbus. You have done it!

Very well done indeed.

Enobarbus is a pointless answer.

Very well done.

Very good indeed.

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Enobarbus! Congratulations, a pointless answer,

which means you go home with that jackpot of £1,000. Fabulous.

-Richard?

-Very well done. Where did Enobarbus spring from?

My old English teacher would go,

"Enobarbus is the key to the plot," and Enobarbus is there,

so thank you, Miss Chambers.

Goodness me. Miss Chambers. Well done, Miss Chambers.

That's very impressive.

That's why you must go to school.

Yes.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers in the different categories.

Brutus is not a character in Antony And Cleopatra,

he is mentioned in it but he's not a character.

The King And I...

Everyone a pointless answer there apart from Anna Leonowens,

Tuptim and Sir Edward Ramsey.

Everyone else is a pointless answer.

West Side Story.

Let's take a look at a few of these answers.

Everyone pointless there apart from Maria, Tony, Anita, Riff, Bernardo,

Schrank, Action, Anybodys, Chino, Doc, and Officer Krupke.

And Antony And Cleopatra now.

Everyone pointless there, apart from Scarus and Eros,

everyone else is a pointless answer.

So, very well done if you got one at home,

and congratulations in the studio.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Thanks again to our winning players, Natalie and Jan,

who go away with today's jackpot of £1,000.

Very well done.

Join us next time when we put more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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