0:00:20 > 0:00:23APPLAUSE
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Thank you very much. I'm Alexander Armstrong and this is Pointless, the quiz show where
0:00:27 > 0:00:31the lowest scorers are the biggest winners. Let's meet today's players.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38So, welcome back James and Tom. You were on the show last time.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Everyone gets two chances to reach the final.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41Remind us how you did last time.
0:00:41 > 0:00:46We managed to get to the head-to-head stage. We got knocked out there but we are hoping to do one better.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50- What was it that really saw you out? - It was the golf question.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54- Golf?- We are both golfers, as well. - Oh, dear.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Better luck today. Maybe all the way through to the final this afternoon.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01And welcome to Hiba and Carl. How do you two know each other?
0:01:01 > 0:01:06We met about two years ago through a mutual friend and we have been moving into a flat in Totnes
0:01:06 > 0:01:09and we have been there for two months down in Devon.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13- Carl, what do you do?- I work at a retail store as a manager. - Very good.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17- And Hiba, how about you? - I am a student, well, I have just finished my A-levels.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Very best of luck to you this afternoon.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- Val and Peter, how do you two know each other? Welcome to the show. - Thank you.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Peter is my youngest son Edward's best friend.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30- Don't ask!- I see what you're saying. He is my youngest son...
0:01:30 > 0:01:32..Edward's best friend.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37So, you have selected him because his field of knowledge, complements yours?
0:01:37 > 0:01:42No, I applied to Pointless, Peter applied to Pointless, both wanting to compete with Ed
0:01:42 > 0:01:46and Ed said, "I can't choose between my mum and my best friend."
0:01:46 > 0:01:48So he said, "You do it together." So here we are.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Fantastic. That's brilliant.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Let's hope that is a winning formula.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Very best of luck to you. And finally,
0:01:54 > 0:01:59we welcome back Mike and Steve. It is your second time on the show. Remind us how you did last time.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- Not very good, to be honest. - What did for you last time?
0:02:02 > 0:02:04A question about celebrities.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I'm not reading the celebrity magazines so I think that is letting me down
0:02:07 > 0:02:10but I have got a nice, bright shirt on today and we are going to win it today.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Bright shirt, will win. Steve, what would you like to see come up?
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Something on heavy metal music.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Heavy metal music.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I'm sure you're going to do well.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22Best of luck to the pair of you. There is just one more person to introduce.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26He is the man behind the facts and figures, he is my Pointless friend, he is Richard.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Hello.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30APPLAUSE
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Richard, what is this afternoon's show looking like to you?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36There is not a huge amount of heavy metal, I have got to say.
0:02:36 > 0:02:42Quite often we have easy questions about TV shows and stuff like that and all the contestants can relax.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46I have got to say, the first two questions today are difficult.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49We have got some good returning contestants. We have had James and Tom
0:02:49 > 0:02:51in the head-to-head so they expect to do well
0:02:51 > 0:02:54and Mike and Steve, I don't think we saw the best of you.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56We saw very little of you in the last game.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00I think they are a fairly good team so our new pairs might have their work cut out.
0:03:00 > 0:03:05Thank you very much, Richard. We put our questions to 100 people before the show but this is Pointless
0:03:05 > 0:03:08so we are after the obscure answers they didn't get.
0:03:08 > 0:03:14To stay in the game with a chance to win our jackpot, our players need to score as few points as they can.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17What everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19that is one that none of our 100 people knew
0:03:19 > 0:03:23and every time that happens, if it happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Nobody won the jackpot last time.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28We add another £1,000 to that
0:03:28 > 0:03:32so today's jackpot starts off at £3,250.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34APPLAUSE
0:03:34 > 0:03:36OK, let's play Pointless.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47So, in the first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer with your partner.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Right, our first category this afternoon is...
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Back to school.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01I see what you're talking about, Richard. You'll have to know stuff for this.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Can you all decide in your pairs who will go first and who will go second?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Whoever is first, step to the podium.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:04:15 > 0:04:22We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many items found in a school science lab. Richard.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Listen carefully, the correct answers in this round
0:04:26 > 0:04:31are all items you might find in a school science lab.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Items you might find in a school science lab.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I hope that's cleared that up for you.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42James and Tom, you all drew lots before the show and today you get go first.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46In this round, we are going to give you a chance of seven possible answers on the board in each pass.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50The first set of seven answers reads like this.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Let me read those again.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15I can tell you that there is at least one pointless answer
0:05:15 > 0:05:20but be careful because there is also at least one incorrect answer.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Pick one of those and you will score the maximum of 100 points.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26- James, did you do science at school? - I did.
0:05:26 > 0:05:31- Did you pay attention in the lab? - I did. I did chemistry, not too well.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- I got a C in it at A-level, unfortunately.- You did it at A-level?
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Yes, but I think I might know. That is five years in a laboratory.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Very true. So I should be OK.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42How many of those things
0:05:42 > 0:05:43sound familiar?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45I'd say at least five of them.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47That is a promising start.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51- I am going to go for a fractionating column.- Is that a punt?
0:05:51 > 0:05:55No, I know what it is. We had one at our school.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57I'm just hoping...
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Fractionating column.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01What did you do with a fractionating column?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04You, like, boil liquids to a certain temperature.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07And get different things off them? I remember. That's right.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Cracking. Catalytic cracking, is that what it is?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12You would do well on this one!
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Yes, very good. There it is, the bottom there.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Let's see if it is correct
0:06:18 > 0:06:22and let's see how many people remembered a fractionating column.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25It's correct.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29It is a good answer, James.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Look at that!
0:06:34 > 0:06:35APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Well done, fantastic answer.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42That is a pointless answer and adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to £3,500.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45And it scores you nothing.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- Fractionating column? - Yes, a fractionating column is,
0:06:49 > 0:06:54fortunately for me, it does exactly what you explained that it did. So I don't have to go through it.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Carl, a scientist?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- Not quite, no.- Nearly?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- I wouldn't say nearly either, no. - Not at all?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Not at all is probably right.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07OK, there are six things there.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Do you remember any of those?
0:07:09 > 0:07:10The one that I'm leaning towards
0:07:10 > 0:07:12is Wyatt flask.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13If I remember rightly, it has got
0:07:13 > 0:07:15a big bubble at the bottom and then
0:07:15 > 0:07:17a tube coming up off it.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18That sounds like a flask.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Maybe a Wyatt flask?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22There might be another
0:07:22 > 0:07:24pointless answer in there.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25There might easily be.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28What we do know is there is certainly an incorrect answer in there.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Let's hope Wyatt flask isn't that.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Let's see if Wyatt flask is right and how many people said it.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Oh, no, Carl!
0:07:42 > 0:07:44That is an incorrect answer.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47That scores you 100 points.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48Richard, why is that wrong?
0:07:48 > 0:07:52I'm afraid Wyatt is one of the characters in Weird Science,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55a film made before Carl was born, I suspect.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Bad luck, Carl.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Good reasoning, just a bad answer I'm afraid.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Peter, what's happened there, you can see a pointless answer
0:08:02 > 0:08:05and an incorrect answer
0:08:05 > 0:08:07have gone from the board.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09A little but of mine sweeping maybe.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13There could be another pointless answer on there. There could be another incorrect answer.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Thankfully, I'm not a scientist.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19- Thankfully?- Now, thankfully I'm not a scientist,
0:08:19 > 0:08:20so I can just pick one
0:08:20 > 0:08:22that I'm pretty sure will be there
0:08:22 > 0:08:25but score-wise, I don't know. I'm just going to say a beaker.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Peter, I'm ashamed to say,
0:08:27 > 0:08:33for the first time I have picked up, call me Henry Higgins, but you're Australian.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37- I am, I am Australian. - So, tell me your life story, Peter.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41You learnt your science presumably back in Australia?
0:08:41 > 0:08:45It was just two sticks to rub together to make fire.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49So a "beaker" to you must be the most obscure thing in the world.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54You are hoping that over here it is similarly mysterious.
0:08:54 > 0:09:00Let's see if beaker is a correct answer and see how many people said beaker.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Well, it is correct.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Nine!
0:09:10 > 0:09:14That is not a bad answer at all, Peter, well done.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Nine points for beaker. I thought beaker would be high ranking.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21It is easier to describe than a fractionating column.
0:09:21 > 0:09:28It is a cylindrical container, a beaker. Beaker.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Thank you very much, Richard. Well done, Peter,
0:09:30 > 0:09:32very good score.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34OK, so Mike.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37I never missed a science lesson because I fancied my science teacher.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41She was really good looking and a bit like
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- Liz from Coronation Street, if I remember rightly.- Wow.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Classy. A classy lady.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Did you have eyes for other things in the laboratory?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55It was pretty much her, to be honest but I think she had eyes for footballers.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57She used to go out with footballers so I stood no chance.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01There were footballers going out with science teachers in this country?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Someone better tell the news!
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Tell the news! Mike, you can talk us through everything
0:10:10 > 0:10:13on this board, you are the last person to have it so help yourself.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15I think what I'm going to go for is
0:10:15 > 0:10:17just something nice and easy
0:10:17 > 0:10:19that is definitely going to be there.
0:10:19 > 0:10:24OK. Or, you could go obscure.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28Like in Pointless.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30I tell you what then,
0:10:30 > 0:10:31I will go for oscilloscope.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Did Miss Unnamed have an oscilloscope?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37I don't know but I would like to see it if she did.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43OK, oscilloscope.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46I'd like to have seen that as well.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Let's see if it is right and if it is right, how many people said it.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53It is right.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Look at that! Brilliant answer.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Well done, Mike.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04That scores you one.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06An oscilloscope, Richard.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08An oscilloscope measures oscillation.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- Ah, right.- Let's take a look at the rest of the board.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Microscope would have scored 22 points, surprisingly low I think.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Bunsen burner is there,
0:11:17 > 0:11:21that was the highest scoring, on 86. Everyone remembers a Bunsen burner.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Clay triangle, it's either pointless or an incorrect answer,
0:11:24 > 0:11:25what do you think?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- I think it's pointless. - It is pointless.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31It is that tripod that you would put things on to heat them up.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34It was a pointless answer so well done if you got that at home.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Let's take a look at the scores halfway through.
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Well, what a wide-ranging field it is.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43We have Hiba and Carl
0:11:43 > 0:11:45through no fault of their own,
0:11:45 > 0:11:46Carl trying his hardest
0:11:46 > 0:11:48to score as low as possible.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Hiba, he was being very brave, there.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- Not what I am being told! - I haven't said anything!
0:11:56 > 0:11:59He was being very, very brave, he just happened to be wrong
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and he scored 100 points.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Hiba, pressure on you, you've got to find a pointless answer.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07The other scores all looking fantastic. James and Tom,
0:12:07 > 0:12:09wonderful first answer there from James.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Keep that up and you're through.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Mike and Steve, a great answer from Mike.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Val and Peter, 9, all these wonderful low scores.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Hiba, you have got a job to do, you know what it is.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Can the second players please take their place at the podium.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28We are going to put seven more answers on the board
0:12:28 > 0:12:30and we are looking for items
0:12:30 > 0:12:32found in a school science lab.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Here they are.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Let's quickly run through those again.
0:12:52 > 0:12:58I can tell you that there is at least one pointless answer in there and at least one incorrect answer.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Pick that and you will score the maximum of 100 points so try to avoid that.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Steve, I think you will be really good on this.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06- Great.- I think James came out first
0:13:06 > 0:13:08of the last lot,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11scored a pointless, I think you will do the same.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13I will give it my best shot.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15You're on one, you want to score 98 or less
0:13:15 > 0:13:18to avoid becoming the high scorers.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I'm actually going to go for petri dish.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23You're going to go for petri dish.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24There it is right in the middle.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Let's see if that is correct
0:13:26 > 0:13:28and if it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30There is your red line.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32A nice, high red line. Petri dish.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36You've done it...
0:13:41 > 0:13:4521. Petri dish scores you 21 giving you a total of 22.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Richard, petri dish.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50It is a shallow, transparent dish used to grow microorganisms.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Named after Mr Petri, before you ask.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55Excellent.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Thank you very much.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Val, you're on nine.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02You have to score 90 or less.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05How good is your science
0:14:05 > 0:14:08laboratory equipment?
0:14:08 > 0:14:10It's 50 years since I left school and I never did science.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Get out of here! You left school aged five?!
0:14:14 > 0:14:17No, thank you, Alexander, but no! It is a long time since I was at school.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20How is that board looking to you?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It's looking really bad to me
0:14:22 > 0:14:26because I'm going to have to go for something really obvious.
0:14:26 > 0:14:3090 is your target. Everything has been scoring low with the exception
0:14:30 > 0:14:32of the incorrect answers.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33I will go with litmus paper.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Litmus paper.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Do you remember litmus paper?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38- Just about!- What does it do?
0:14:38 > 0:14:43Well, it is acid. It is checking on acids and alkalis I think.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Do you remember what colour it went?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47I think red is acid and blue is...
0:14:47 > 0:14:50You are good, you are good. Red is acid. I think that is right.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Is it?
0:14:51 > 0:14:54I think so. Red for acid, I seem to remember.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56I am about to be proven wrong, of course.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57There is your red line,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00go below that you are through to the next round.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04Litmus paper, let's see if it is right and it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07It's good.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Very good answer, Val,
0:15:14 > 0:15:16that scores you eight.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18It takes your total up to 17.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Richard, was Val right on the red for acid?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25Val was exactly right. Yes, red for acid and blue for alkaline.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28A very good answer as well. A surprisingly low score.
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Litmus paper.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32It is virtually all I remember from science lessons.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Good score, Val. Hiba, right. You have a mountain to climb.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37You have a big, big
0:15:37 > 0:15:38- mountain to climb.- I do.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42You have to hope that you score a pointless answer and
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Tom has to score an incorrect answer
0:15:44 > 0:15:46and then there will be a tie-break.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50- Is it going to happen? - It might happen.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Do you do science, did you do science?
0:15:53 > 0:15:58- I didn't do it for A-level but my mum is a science teacher.- Hiba, come on.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02If you don't get a pointless answer,
0:16:02 > 0:16:03what would your mum do?
0:16:04 > 0:16:07- I don't know. - I have to ask. Is your mum hot?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I am not at liberty to answer that.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12OK.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Anyway...
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Off the subject of my mum,
0:16:16 > 0:16:18I'm going to go,
0:16:18 > 0:16:21I have to take a risk to get a pointless.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23I'm going to go for Brownian column.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25I don't know what it does,
0:16:25 > 0:16:26I don't know if it is real.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29If it is not, I might cry.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32If it is not, I'm afraid we will be saying goodbye to you.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34If it is pointless,
0:16:34 > 0:16:40and Tom knows nothing about science and things found in labs...
0:16:41 > 0:16:42..we are looking good. OK.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44You have no red line as you are the highest scorers
0:16:44 > 0:16:47by a margin. You are saying Brownian column.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Let's see if it is correct and if it is let's see how many people said it.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Oh, no!
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Hiba!
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Look what you have done.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02That is an incorrect answer, I am afraid.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04It scores you the maximum of 100 points.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08You go out with a massive score of 200 which is quite impressive!
0:17:08 > 0:17:12Sadly, it is an incorrect answer. Richard, a Brownian column.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Sorry, Hiba, you did what you had to do, took a risk to try for a pointless answer.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19We just made it up. It is nothing.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20It sounded real.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Quite. Thank you.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Well done.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28But no, you have both done the right thing, you have both gambled.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30And lost!
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Kids, don't gamble.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36- Tom?- I was never very good at science, if I'm honest.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40I can only recognise two on the board.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Can I tell you something brilliant?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Whatever you say, you are through to the next round. Whatever you say.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Score a pointless. Come on, the field has been cleared.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Maybe Brownian column was the only incorrect answer.
0:17:52 > 0:17:57- You've got to find something really obscure.- Try and add 250 onto the prize.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I'm going to go for
0:17:59 > 0:18:00a sonic transducer.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03What a brilliant thing to have in a laboratory.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07It's either going to be pointless or it's going to be from Back To The Future.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10OK, let's see if it is a correct answer out and if it is,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12let's see how many people said it.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Good luck, Tom.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18No!
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Just altogether too sexy to be something in a laboratory. Sonic transducer.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26You have scored 100 points, it is an incorrect answer.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31It's from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the sonic transducer, not from the science lab.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Let's take a look at the rest of them. Test tube, obviously, scored very highly.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38That would have got you 68 points.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40And out of those other two,
0:18:40 > 0:18:41one is pointless.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Which one do you think it is?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Is it the pneumatic trough?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Gauze would have scored you two.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48The pneumatic trough.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Pneumatic, all sounding great, then trough.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- It would be a great name for a band, pneumatic trough.- Wouldn't it?
0:18:55 > 0:18:58It was a pointless answer so very well done if you said that at home.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02- They use it for collecting gases and measuring gases.- Pneumatic trough.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Thank you very much, Richard.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05The losing pair with the highest score,
0:19:05 > 0:19:07I'm afraid it is Hiba and Carl.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09I tell you the good news.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11You each scored 100 points
0:19:11 > 0:19:13so you can't squabble about it.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- No one let the other one down. - We'll see!
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Do you know what...
0:19:18 > 0:19:20You did really well. You were both very brave.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Bravery normally pays in this game.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Just this time it hasn't. Next time, because of course,
0:19:27 > 0:19:30there will be a next time, everyone gets two shots at Pointless.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32What are you hoping comes up?
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Something I know about!
0:19:34 > 0:19:38OK, maybe something one of your parents doesn't teach.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Carl, what have you learnt
0:19:42 > 0:19:44on your brief time on Pointless.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Not to gamble.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- To let me go first! - To let Hiba go first. There you are.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52That's in life, Carl, not just in the game.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Remember that. Thank you for playing, you have been fantastic.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Cheers, guys.
0:19:57 > 0:19:58APPLAUSE
0:19:58 > 0:20:01For the remaining three pairs, it is now time for round two.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03APPLAUSE
0:20:07 > 0:20:10It's time to find out which teams will be going through to the head-to-head
0:20:10 > 0:20:12for the chance to reach the Pointless final.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15The category for round two is...
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Can you decide in your pairs who will go first and who will go second?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Whoever is going first, step up to the podium.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30And the question is...
0:20:34 > 0:20:38In this round, we will show you some Shakespeare quotations.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43We gave 100 people 100 seconds to tell us the play in which they appeared. Richard.
0:20:43 > 0:20:48We are going to show you six quotes. The more obscure ones will score you the fewest points.
0:20:48 > 0:20:53An incorrect answer will score 100 points and see if you can get all six of them at home.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56OK, your first six quotes are:
0:21:10 > 0:21:16OK, we are looking for the plays from which these quotes have come.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19James, you're not looking really confident?
0:21:19 > 0:21:21I am not a massive Shakespeare fan,
0:21:21 > 0:21:23it has to be said.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25I think I am going to go for,
0:21:25 > 0:21:28"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"
0:21:29 > 0:21:34- OK.- And I am hoping that is from Macbeth.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Excellent, watch for stage weights flying down, no.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40The Scottish Play.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44"Is this a dagger which I see before me?" Let's see if that is correct.
0:21:44 > 0:21:49Macbeth, you are saying, and let's see how many people knew that answer. Macbeth.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52It is correct.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59That scores you 14.
0:22:01 > 0:22:0314, a very low score for Macbeth there.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06I suspect there may be some low scores in this round,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08but it is a good answer, it's from Macbeth,
0:22:08 > 0:22:12said by Macbeth himself and the answer is no, it wasn't a dagger.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14It was a hallucination.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19It didn't stop him though, did it? I don't want to give away the ending of Macbeth.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22OK, good answer, nice low score.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Peter, now you know your Shakespeare quotes.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29- Yes you do. - I did watch Shakespeare In Love.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34I could not have got a worse category.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38- Really, you're not a massive Shakespeare fan.- No.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40OK.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- I'm sure he did good.- Oh, he did.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45He did good, Peter.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47I'm just going to go for
0:22:47 > 0:22:50the, "Once more unto the breach."
0:22:50 > 0:22:55Which is the top one and Hamlet.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57"Once more unto the breach," you're saying Hamlet.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Let's see how many people said it. Hamlet.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Unfortunately that is an incorrect answer,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10which means you score the maximum of 100 points.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Richard, were you going to say anything other than
0:23:13 > 0:23:17"That's an incorrect answer, but I'm not going to say where that's from?"
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Yes, just in case Mike and Steve want to have a go.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- But I will reveal all at the end of this round.- OK.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Right, Steve.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30We're looking for the plays from which these Shakespeare quotes come.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32I have a feeling - it's not heavy metal -
0:23:32 > 0:23:36but I have a feeling you're going to know a few of these.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40Yes, I'm only going first, because I read a book once and Michael hasn't.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45It's becoming a bit blurry actually.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48I think I'm going to go for...
0:23:50 > 0:23:51"To be or not to be."
0:23:51 > 0:23:54And I think that is from Hamlet.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56You think that is from Hamlet, "To be or not to be?"
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Let's see how many people knew that answer.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01"To be or not to be?" from Hamlet.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Right.
0:24:09 > 0:24:1140 that scores you.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- So 40. Hamlet. - I know, spoken by Hamlet himself.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21I would have thought that was the most famous Shakespearean quote,
0:24:21 > 0:24:23yet only 40 of our 100 people
0:24:23 > 0:24:25knew it was from Hamlet.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Let's take a look at the other ones.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30"Once more unto the breach." It is from Henry V.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32It is his rallying cry to get
0:24:32 > 0:24:33everyone to fight the French.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37- "Friends, Romans, countrymen," what's that from?- Julius Caesar.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39It is indeed, said by Mark Antony.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42We discovered last time that Mark Antony is married to Jennifer Lopez.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47- That's right, yeah. - But it's a different Mark Antony.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49It would have scored you 23 points.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51"If music be the food of love, play on."
0:24:51 > 0:24:55I think both of the remaining quotes are from Twelfth Night.
0:24:55 > 0:25:01Oh you're half right and half wrong. In that one of them is.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05I thought that was Malvolio, "More sinned against than sinning."
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Oh no, it's King Lear, sorry.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11"If music be the food of love, play on," said by Orsino in Twelfth Night
0:25:11 > 0:25:12would have scored you four points.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18"More sinned against that sinning" was pointless. It was King Lear, well done if you got that at home.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22Thank you very much, we're halfway through the round, let's look at the scores.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Well, Val and Peter,
0:25:24 > 0:25:26way out in front I'm afraid on 100.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Val, you know what you have got to do this next pass?
0:25:29 > 0:25:33You've got to find a pointless answer. Confident?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- No.- Yes you are!
0:25:35 > 0:25:38James and Tom, good answer from you, James.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Tom, keep that up, you're through to the head-to-head.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Mike and Steve, 40.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Could go either way.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Mike, it's all in your hands.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Can the second players please take their places at the podium.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56OK, we're going to put six more quotations on the board
0:25:56 > 0:25:58and here they are. We have got:
0:26:12 > 0:26:15We are looking for the plays that these quotes come from.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19And you're trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Now then Mike, you're in a bright shirt,
0:26:22 > 0:26:24is that going to be enough?
0:26:24 > 0:26:27I've got a bright shirt, but I'm not a very bright lad, unfortunately.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Come now. Come now.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32He's right. I only read a book when me television's broke
0:26:32 > 0:26:33and I've got four in me house, so...
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Very rare, I read a book.
0:26:35 > 0:26:40OK, well you're on 40, your target is 59.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43If you can score 59 or less, you're through to the head-to-head.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45And this is my rationale behind this,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47"My kingdom for a horse"
0:26:47 > 0:26:49I think was on a beer advert
0:26:49 > 0:26:51in the '80s or '90s or something.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54And I think that is from -
0:26:54 > 0:26:57and I might be wrong and I probably am - but I'll give it a punt anyway.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- Is it Othello? - OK, there is your red line.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Below that red line you're through to next round. Above that red line
0:27:05 > 0:27:07we may be saying goodbye to you at the end of this round.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Let's see if my kingdom for a horse
0:27:09 > 0:27:12is from Othello and the beer was right.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15Only one way to find out. Let's see how many people said it.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25The beer lied. Or perhaps you just misremembered.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Unfortunately that is a wrong answer.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29You score the maximum of 100 points,
0:27:29 > 0:27:31taking your total to 140. Richard.
0:27:31 > 0:27:36A lot of Shakespearean scholars do say the best place to learn about Shakespeare is from beer adverts.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40- They have said it and you know what I have long disagreed and I think here's evidence.- Yes.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41I won't tell you what play
0:27:41 > 0:27:46it is from, just in case any of the other players want to choose that quote.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Val, you were the high scorers,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50you're no longer the high scorers,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52this is good news for you and Peter.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Mike and Steve now on 140.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57You want to score 39 or less with your answer.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00What's that board looking like to you, Val?
0:28:00 > 0:28:02All right, I've a couple.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06It is just whether I'm going to get a low score or a high one.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09I'm going to go with "All that glisters is not gold."
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I think that is from the Merchant of Venice.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Very good. Very good answer.
0:28:14 > 0:28:15Merchant of Venice,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17"All that glisters is not gold.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20There is your red line. Below that red line, through to the head-to-head.
0:28:20 > 0:28:25"All that glisters is not gold," let's see if it's right and if it is let's see how many people said it.
0:28:28 > 0:28:29It's right, Val.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34It sees you through.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37APPLAUSE
0:28:37 > 0:28:38Very, very good answer.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Six people said that. Taking your total up to 106. Richard.
0:28:43 > 0:28:48Yes, a really good answer, said by the Prince of Morocco in that play.
0:28:48 > 0:28:49Very good answer, Val.
0:28:49 > 0:28:50And that...
0:28:50 > 0:28:54has put the writing on the wall I'm afraid for Mike and Steve.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56Because even if Tom and James,
0:28:56 > 0:28:57even if Tom scores 100 points,
0:28:57 > 0:28:59he won't overtake your highest score.
0:28:59 > 0:29:04So Tom, bearing that in mind, the world is your oyster.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08I studied Shakespeare throughout school and did Hamlet at A-level.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11I think I'm going to have to go for,
0:29:11 > 0:29:13"Two households, both alike in dignity."
0:29:13 > 0:29:16- Romeo and Juliet.- Romeo and Juliet, very good answer there.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19"Two households both alike in dignity."
0:29:19 > 0:29:20Let's see what it scores.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23If it's right, maybe it will be a pointless answer.
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Let's see how many people said it.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Well it's right.
0:29:33 > 0:29:3422.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37Taking your total up to 36. Richard.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41Very well played. It's the opening lines of the prologue.
0:29:41 > 0:29:46It's the same sonnet that introduced the star-crossed lovers to the English language.
0:29:46 > 0:29:47So very good answer.
0:29:47 > 0:29:48Let's take a look
0:29:48 > 0:29:50at the other ones.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52- "Eye of newt, toe of frog."- Macbeth.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55Our old friend Macbeth, yes. That would have scored you 30 points.
0:29:55 > 0:29:58"All the world's a stage".
0:29:58 > 0:30:00That's the only... It's As You Like It.
0:30:00 > 0:30:04It is. That would have scored you one point. So really good answer. "My kingdom for a horse."
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Let's clear that up.
0:30:06 > 0:30:07Richard III.
0:30:07 > 0:30:08It is Richard III, not Othello.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13"Such stuff as dreams are made on" is a pointless answer,
0:30:13 > 0:30:14do you know what that's from?
0:30:14 > 0:30:18And our little lives are rounded with a sleep.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20- Tempest. - It is Prospero in the Tempest.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22That was indulgent, wasn't it?
0:30:22 > 0:30:28It was misquoted as the stuff that dreams are made of in the Maltese Falcon by Humphrey Bogart.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31He suggested using the quote from the Tempest to the director,
0:30:31 > 0:30:33but got it wrong, got the quote wrong.
0:30:33 > 0:30:34Now that's what everyone says?
0:30:34 > 0:30:37- Yes.- Cheers, Bogey, thanks.
0:30:37 > 0:30:43And thanks, Richard. At the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score, it's Mike and Steve.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45Guys, I'm so sorry.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47I'm not a Shakespeare guy, as you've guessed.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49You have been fantastic, great to have you on the show.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52This is your second time, so this time it really is goodbye.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55- You have been fantastic contestants, thanks for playing.- Thank you.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01Things get more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04APPLAUSE
0:31:06 > 0:31:08We've already said goodbye to two teams,
0:31:08 > 0:31:13now it's time to find out which of our remaining pairs will be playing for today's jackpot,
0:31:13 > 0:31:16which currently stands at £3,500.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18APPLAUSE
0:31:20 > 0:31:24Very good. You're now going to go head-to-head on up to three questions
0:31:24 > 0:31:26and you are now allowed to confer with your partner.
0:31:26 > 0:31:31All have to do is come up with an answer that scores less than the other pair to win that question.
0:31:31 > 0:31:37The first pair to win two points will be going through to our jackpot final. Let's play Pointless.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41APPLAUSE
0:31:41 > 0:31:46Right, here is your first question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many African countries
0:31:46 > 0:31:51beginning with M as they could. African countries beginning with M, Richard.
0:31:51 > 0:31:54Yes, simply looking for any country in Africa whose name begins with M.
0:31:54 > 0:31:58By country, as always we mean a sovereign state that's a member of the UN.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02Val and Peter, because you've played best throughout the show so far, you get to go first.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06We're looking for African countries beginning with M.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15OK, Val and Peter, have you got an answer?
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Yes, we've used Val's wise brain and come up with Mauritania.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Mauritania, Mauritan-ia.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Very good answer.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26James and Tom?
0:32:26 > 0:32:29We've got a few to choose between.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32We have Mozambique, Mali, Malawi.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34And Madagascar at the moment.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37I think we'll go Madagascar.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39- Madagascar?- Yes.- OK, yes.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41We will go for Madagascar then.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45OK, so we have Mauritania and Madagascar.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Val and Peter said Mauritania,
0:32:47 > 0:32:51let's see if it's right and, if it is, let's see how many people said it. Mauritania.
0:32:54 > 0:32:55It is correct.
0:32:59 > 0:33:00Good answer.
0:33:00 > 0:33:0111 that scores.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08James and Tom, you have said Madagascar.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Let's see if that's right and if it, let's see how many people said that.
0:33:14 > 0:33:15It's correct.
0:33:20 > 0:33:2127.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26So after the first question,
0:33:26 > 0:33:29it is 1-0 to Val and Peter. Richard.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33Mauritania is a really good answer, but there was one answer that could have beaten it.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36Well done at home if you said Mauritius, the lowest answer of all.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Would have scored you nine points.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Very well done if you got all seven of them.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53OK, thanks very much, Richard.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56After the first question, then 1-0 to Val and Peter.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00James and Tom you have to win this next point to stay in the game.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03You've been in the head-to-head twice now.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Got to make to it the final, surely.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08- Hope so.- Well, you'll only be there
0:34:08 > 0:34:11if you win this next point. Here is your second question.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many
0:34:15 > 0:34:19most capped England goalkeepers as they could. Richard.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25We're looking for any England goalkeeper who has won 50 caps or more,
0:34:25 > 0:34:29up to and including the 2010 World Cup. There are five names on the list.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31OK, James and Tom you get to go first this time.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42- I think we're going to go for Peter Shilton.- Peter Shilton.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46OK, Peter Shilton they have said. Val and Peter.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Jolly good answer that.
0:34:48 > 0:34:53- I don't know. We'll try Gordon Banks.- Gordon Banks.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56OK James and Tom,
0:34:56 > 0:34:59you've got to hope Peter Shilton wins it for you to stay in the game.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02OK, Peter Shilton you said.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05Let's see how many people said Peter Shilton.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09Well it is right.
0:35:13 > 0:35:1440.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16APPLAUSE
0:35:18 > 0:35:2140. How are you feeling about that?
0:35:21 > 0:35:23We thought of Gordon Banks,
0:35:23 > 0:35:26we had four of the five.
0:35:26 > 0:35:27David James and David Seaman as well,
0:35:27 > 0:35:30but Gordon Banks made that save off Pele,
0:35:30 > 0:35:33so hopefully he's famous for that. We'll have to see.
0:35:33 > 0:35:37You have to win this point to stay in the game.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39Val and Peter,
0:35:39 > 0:35:41if you win this point you are through to the final
0:35:41 > 0:35:48and the chance to win that £3,500. Gordon Banks, let's see how many people said that.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51Well, it is correct.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Oh, wow. Gordon Banks.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01By a nose, look at that.
0:36:01 > 0:36:0337 to 40.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06After just two questions, Val and Peter
0:36:06 > 0:36:08are through to the final.
0:36:08 > 0:36:13- Richard?- There were a couple of answers that would have beaten Gordon Banks.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16If you had said David James you would have scored the points.
0:36:16 > 0:36:17The best answer was Ray Clemence.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19He would have scored you 14 points.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29And the most capped England player of all time,
0:36:29 > 0:36:31Peter Shilton with the most points on 40.
0:36:31 > 0:36:36OK, thank you, Richard, so the losing pair at the end of the head to head for the second time.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39You had the African countries pretty much,
0:36:39 > 0:36:41you scored a pointless answer earlier.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you, James and Tom,
0:36:43 > 0:36:44thanks for playing Pointless.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47APPLAUSE
0:36:47 > 0:36:49It is time for our Pointless final
0:36:49 > 0:36:52and the chance to win £3,500.
0:36:52 > 0:36:53APPLAUSE
0:36:54 > 0:36:58So, congratulations, Val and Peter, you fought off the competition,
0:36:58 > 0:37:00you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02CHEERING
0:37:06 > 0:37:09But now you have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot,
0:37:09 > 0:37:14at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £3,500.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17APPLAUSE
0:37:17 > 0:37:19The rules are simple, to win the money
0:37:19 > 0:37:24you have to find a Pointless answer, that is an answer no-one else could think of.
0:37:24 > 0:37:28We've had one Pointless answer on the show today, all you need to go home with that money
0:37:28 > 0:37:31is to find one more Pointless answer.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35Firstly you've got to choose a category, from these three options.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47Do you want to go for American football?
0:37:47 > 0:37:49- No, no.- Are you sure?
0:37:49 > 0:37:51What would you like?
0:37:51 > 0:37:55- Well.- Childhood pastimes? - Oh, I don't know. I don't know.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59- D'you want to go for politics? - Go on.- All right.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01We will go for UK politics.
0:38:01 > 0:38:02UK politics, OK.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08- Peter, how good are you on UK politics?- Yeah.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10LAUGHTER
0:38:10 > 0:38:12I'm playing to Val's strengths.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16Very good, well done, it's important, particularly in this round, very important.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20And your UK politics is pretty good, isn't it?
0:38:20 > 0:38:22No, but of the three it is the one I would prefer.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Childhood pastimes, that would have been a risk.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28I can't remember my childhood.
0:38:29 > 0:38:33I don't believe that. OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:38:36 > 0:38:41to name as many Prime Ministers under 50 as they could. Richard.
0:38:41 > 0:38:49We are looking for anyone who became Prime Minister of Britain under the age of 50 between 1800 and 2010.
0:38:52 > 0:38:58OK. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers and all you need to win that £3,500 is for
0:38:58 > 0:39:01just one of those answers to be pointless.
0:39:01 > 0:39:02OK, your 60 seconds start now.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04William Pitt the Younger.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Tony Blair is an obvious one, isn't it?
0:39:09 > 0:39:12- Go for the old ones, they did not live as long.- Cameron.- Yeah.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15I'll go for...
0:39:15 > 0:39:18for an out and out... just a guess.
0:39:18 > 0:39:22- OK.- The Earl of Bute, I don't know how old he was.
0:39:22 > 0:39:26Well I don't know how old he was, it might be a gamble.
0:39:26 > 0:39:27It's a chance we'll take.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30We will. We'll have a go.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33We're only here once.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Lord Salisbury. Disraeli, they were all older, weren't they?
0:39:37 > 0:39:40- OK, your minute is up. Have you got three?- Yes.
0:39:40 > 0:39:48- Sounds like you have.- Sort of three, it's just whether they were under 50 when they came to be Prime Minister.
0:39:48 > 0:39:53The first one we'll go for was, we will try Lord Liverpool.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58- Lord Liverpool?- We'll try the Earl of Bute.- The Earl of Bute.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01- And what was the other one I said? - Pitt the Younger was it?
0:40:01 > 0:40:04- We will try Pitt the Younger. - Pitt the Younger.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07Which of those do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:40:07 > 0:40:11- The Earl of Bute.- Earl of Bute. - We'll put him last, Earl of Bute last.
0:40:11 > 0:40:16- He sounds a younger than Liverpool, doesn't he?- I don't know. - Bute...a nipper.
0:40:16 > 0:40:21- Liverpool, quite old, getting on a bit, but maybe under 50 still. - I don't know.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24- Which is your least confident answer?- I think Lord Liverpool.
0:40:24 > 0:40:28OK, let's put those up on the board in the order you have chosen.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36There they are.
0:40:36 > 0:40:40You only need one of these to be pointless, remember,
0:40:40 > 0:40:41to win that £3,500.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44What would you spend £3,500 on?
0:40:44 > 0:40:50Well, we're going on holiday in another month or so, so it would be a big help, that.
0:40:50 > 0:40:53That'd be nice, very nice.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57So, Peter, you were just relying on Val's history here, were you?
0:40:57 > 0:40:58I knew Pitt the Younger.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01So happy days.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03Happy days, maybe he'll win it for you, Peter.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05OK.
0:41:05 > 0:41:09This is your first answer, this is the one you had the least faith in,
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Lord Liverpool, you said.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14Are you confident at all, Lord Liverpool?
0:41:14 > 0:41:17Not really.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19OK, only one way to find out.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Let's see if this is a pointless answer,
0:41:21 > 0:41:24let's see how many people said Lord Liverpool and if it is correct.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28This for £3,500.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32Oh, it's correct.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Lord Liverpool, your first answer,
0:41:34 > 0:41:38the one you said you had least faith in is a correct answer.
0:41:38 > 0:41:44That just has to go all the way down to zero for you to win £3,500.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47It's done it! Well done.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49Very well done.
0:41:49 > 0:41:50Brilliant.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52Fantastic.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:41:55 > 0:41:57Well, congratulations.
0:41:59 > 0:42:05Oh, with your first answer as well. You managed to find that all-important pointless answer
0:42:05 > 0:42:09which means you go home with a total of £3,500.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12APPLAUSE
0:42:13 > 0:42:16Well done, Val. Wasn't that fantastic?
0:42:16 > 0:42:17I'm shaking.
0:42:17 > 0:42:21Brilliant. So, holiday here we come.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23- Holiday here we come now. - Got it already booked?
0:42:23 > 0:42:29- Oh yes, yes.- Where are you going? - We're going to Spain.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32- Peter, how about you?- We're in the process of moving house,
0:42:32 > 0:42:36so no doubt it's already been spent on furniture or something.
0:42:37 > 0:42:41Well, what a fantastic win with your first answer as well.
0:42:41 > 0:42:46- Richard, those other answers. - We'll start with the Lord Liverpool or the Earl of Liverpool, he was 42
0:42:46 > 0:42:52when he became Prime Minister in 1812, so a really good answer and greatly deserved.
0:42:52 > 0:42:56The Earl of Bute he was under 50 but he was before 1800,
0:42:56 > 0:43:00he was too far back so we wouldn't have counted him.
0:43:00 > 0:43:04William Pitt the Younger, there's a clue in the name, so you would have scored a lot of points with him.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Who cares about Pitt the Younger? That was fantastic.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10Thanks once again to our winning contestants, Val and Peter,
0:43:10 > 0:43:14who go away with today's jackpot of £3,500.
0:43:14 > 0:43:19APPLAUSE
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Join us next time when we will put more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
0:43:23 > 0:43:27- It is goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye. - And goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29APPLAUSE
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