Episode 25 Pointless

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Thank you very much. I'm Alexander Armstrong and this is Pointless, the quiz show where

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

So, welcome back James and Tom. You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the final.

Remind us how you did last time.

We managed to get to the head-to-head stage. We got knocked out there but we are hoping to do one better.

-What was it that really saw you out?

-It was the golf question.

-Golf?

-We are both golfers, as well.

-Oh, dear.

Better luck today. Maybe all the way through to the final this afternoon.

And welcome to Hiba and Carl. How do you two know each other?

We met about two years ago through a mutual friend and we have been moving into a flat in Totnes

and we have been there for two months down in Devon.

-Carl, what do you do?

-I work at a retail store as a manager.

-Very good.

-And Hiba, how about you?

-I am a student, well, I have just finished my A-levels.

Very best of luck to you this afternoon.

-Val and Peter, how do you two know each other? Welcome to the show.

-Thank you.

Peter is my youngest son Edward's best friend.

-Don't ask!

-I see what you're saying. He is my youngest son...

..Edward's best friend.

So, you have selected him because his field of knowledge, complements yours?

No, I applied to Pointless, Peter applied to Pointless, both wanting to compete with Ed

and Ed said, "I can't choose between my mum and my best friend."

So he said, "You do it together." So here we are.

Fantastic. That's brilliant.

Let's hope that is a winning formula.

Very best of luck to you. And finally,

we welcome back Mike and Steve. It is your second time on the show. Remind us how you did last time.

-Not very good, to be honest.

-What did for you last time?

A question about celebrities.

I'm not reading the celebrity magazines so I think that is letting me down

but I have got a nice, bright shirt on today and we are going to win it today.

Bright shirt, will win. Steve, what would you like to see come up?

Something on heavy metal music.

Heavy metal music.

I'm sure you're going to do well.

Best of luck to the pair of you. There is just one more person to introduce.

He is the man behind the facts and figures, he is my Pointless friend, he is Richard.

Hello.

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Richard, what is this afternoon's show looking like to you?

There is not a huge amount of heavy metal, I have got to say.

Quite often we have easy questions about TV shows and stuff like that and all the contestants can relax.

I have got to say, the first two questions today are difficult.

We have got some good returning contestants. We have had James and Tom

in the head-to-head so they expect to do well

and Mike and Steve, I don't think we saw the best of you.

We saw very little of you in the last game.

I think they are a fairly good team so our new pairs might have their work cut out.

Thank you very much, Richard. We put our questions to 100 people before the show but this is Pointless

so we are after the obscure answers they didn't get.

To stay in the game with a chance to win our jackpot, our players need to score as few points as they can.

What everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer,

that is one that none of our 100 people knew

and every time that happens, if it happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Nobody won the jackpot last time.

We add another £1,000 to that

so today's jackpot starts off at £3,250.

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OK, let's play Pointless.

So, in the first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer with your partner.

Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.

Right, our first category this afternoon is...

Back to school.

I see what you're talking about, Richard. You'll have to know stuff for this.

Can you all decide in your pairs who will go first and who will go second?

Whoever is first, step to the podium.

OK, let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many items found in a school science lab. Richard.

Listen carefully, the correct answers in this round

are all items you might find in a school science lab.

Items you might find in a school science lab.

I hope that's cleared that up for you.

James and Tom, you all drew lots before the show and today you get go first.

In this round, we are going to give you a chance of seven possible answers on the board in each pass.

The first set of seven answers reads like this.

Let me read those again.

I can tell you that there is at least one pointless answer

but be careful because there is also at least one incorrect answer.

Pick one of those and you will score the maximum of 100 points.

-James, did you do science at school?

-I did.

-Did you pay attention in the lab?

-I did. I did chemistry, not too well.

-I got a C in it at A-level, unfortunately.

-You did it at A-level?

Yes, but I think I might know. That is five years in a laboratory.

Very true. So I should be OK.

How many of those things

sound familiar?

I'd say at least five of them.

That is a promising start.

-I am going to go for a fractionating column.

-Is that a punt?

No, I know what it is. We had one at our school.

I'm just hoping...

Fractionating column.

What did you do with a fractionating column?

You, like, boil liquids to a certain temperature.

And get different things off them? I remember. That's right.

Cracking. Catalytic cracking, is that what it is?

You would do well on this one!

Yes, very good. There it is, the bottom there.

Let's see if it is correct

and let's see how many people remembered a fractionating column.

It's correct.

It is a good answer, James.

Look at that!

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Well done, fantastic answer.

That is a pointless answer and adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to £3,500.

And it scores you nothing.

-Fractionating column?

-Yes, a fractionating column is,

fortunately for me, it does exactly what you explained that it did. So I don't have to go through it.

Carl, a scientist?

-Not quite, no.

-Nearly?

-I wouldn't say nearly either, no.

-Not at all?

Not at all is probably right.

OK, there are six things there.

Do you remember any of those?

The one that I'm leaning towards

is Wyatt flask.

If I remember rightly, it has got

a big bubble at the bottom and then

a tube coming up off it.

That sounds like a flask.

Maybe a Wyatt flask?

There might be another

pointless answer in there.

There might easily be.

What we do know is there is certainly an incorrect answer in there.

Let's hope Wyatt flask isn't that.

Let's see if Wyatt flask is right and how many people said it.

Oh, no, Carl!

That is an incorrect answer.

That scores you 100 points.

Richard, why is that wrong?

I'm afraid Wyatt is one of the characters in Weird Science,

a film made before Carl was born, I suspect.

Bad luck, Carl.

Good reasoning, just a bad answer I'm afraid.

Peter, what's happened there, you can see a pointless answer

and an incorrect answer

have gone from the board.

A little but of mine sweeping maybe.

There could be another pointless answer on there. There could be another incorrect answer.

Thankfully, I'm not a scientist.

-Thankfully?

-Now, thankfully I'm not a scientist,

so I can just pick one

that I'm pretty sure will be there

but score-wise, I don't know. I'm just going to say a beaker.

Peter, I'm ashamed to say,

for the first time I have picked up, call me Henry Higgins, but you're Australian.

-I am, I am Australian.

-So, tell me your life story, Peter.

You learnt your science presumably back in Australia?

It was just two sticks to rub together to make fire.

So a "beaker" to you must be the most obscure thing in the world.

You are hoping that over here it is similarly mysterious.

Let's see if beaker is a correct answer and see how many people said beaker.

Well, it is correct.

Nine!

That is not a bad answer at all, Peter, well done.

Nine points for beaker. I thought beaker would be high ranking.

It is easier to describe than a fractionating column.

It is a cylindrical container, a beaker. Beaker.

Thank you very much, Richard. Well done, Peter,

very good score.

OK, so Mike.

I never missed a science lesson because I fancied my science teacher.

She was really good looking and a bit like

-Liz from Coronation Street, if I remember rightly.

-Wow.

Classy. A classy lady.

Did you have eyes for other things in the laboratory?

It was pretty much her, to be honest but I think she had eyes for footballers.

She used to go out with footballers so I stood no chance.

There were footballers going out with science teachers in this country?

Someone better tell the news!

Tell the news! Mike, you can talk us through everything

on this board, you are the last person to have it so help yourself.

I think what I'm going to go for is

just something nice and easy

that is definitely going to be there.

OK. Or, you could go obscure.

Like in Pointless.

I tell you what then,

I will go for oscilloscope.

Did Miss Unnamed have an oscilloscope?

I don't know but I would like to see it if she did.

OK, oscilloscope.

I'd like to have seen that as well.

Let's see if it is right and if it is right, how many people said it.

It is right.

Look at that! Brilliant answer.

Well done, Mike.

That scores you one.

An oscilloscope, Richard.

An oscilloscope measures oscillation.

-Ah, right.

-Let's take a look at the rest of the board.

Microscope would have scored 22 points, surprisingly low I think.

Bunsen burner is there,

that was the highest scoring, on 86. Everyone remembers a Bunsen burner.

Clay triangle, it's either pointless or an incorrect answer,

what do you think?

-I think it's pointless.

-It is pointless.

It is that tripod that you would put things on to heat them up.

It was a pointless answer so well done if you got that at home.

Let's take a look at the scores halfway through.

Well, what a wide-ranging field it is.

We have Hiba and Carl

through no fault of their own,

Carl trying his hardest

to score as low as possible.

Hiba, he was being very brave, there.

-Not what I am being told!

-I haven't said anything!

He was being very, very brave, he just happened to be wrong

and he scored 100 points.

Hiba, pressure on you, you've got to find a pointless answer.

The other scores all looking fantastic. James and Tom,

wonderful first answer there from James.

Keep that up and you're through.

Mike and Steve, a great answer from Mike.

Val and Peter, 9, all these wonderful low scores.

Hiba, you have got a job to do, you know what it is.

Can the second players please take their place at the podium.

We are going to put seven more answers on the board

and we are looking for items

found in a school science lab.

Here they are.

Let's quickly run through those again.

I can tell you that there is at least one pointless answer in there and at least one incorrect answer.

Pick that and you will score the maximum of 100 points so try to avoid that.

Steve, I think you will be really good on this.

-Great.

-I think James came out first

of the last lot,

scored a pointless, I think you will do the same.

I will give it my best shot.

You're on one, you want to score 98 or less

to avoid becoming the high scorers.

I'm actually going to go for petri dish.

You're going to go for petri dish.

There it is right in the middle.

Let's see if that is correct

and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

There is your red line.

A nice, high red line. Petri dish.

You've done it...

21. Petri dish scores you 21 giving you a total of 22.

Richard, petri dish.

It is a shallow, transparent dish used to grow microorganisms.

Named after Mr Petri, before you ask.

Excellent.

Thank you very much.

Val, you're on nine.

You have to score 90 or less.

How good is your science

laboratory equipment?

It's 50 years since I left school and I never did science.

Get out of here! You left school aged five?!

No, thank you, Alexander, but no! It is a long time since I was at school.

How is that board looking to you?

It's looking really bad to me

because I'm going to have to go for something really obvious.

90 is your target. Everything has been scoring low with the exception

of the incorrect answers.

I will go with litmus paper.

Litmus paper.

Do you remember litmus paper?

-Just about!

-What does it do?

Well, it is acid. It is checking on acids and alkalis I think.

Do you remember what colour it went?

I think red is acid and blue is...

You are good, you are good. Red is acid. I think that is right.

Is it?

I think so. Red for acid, I seem to remember.

I am about to be proven wrong, of course.

There is your red line,

go below that you are through to the next round.

Litmus paper, let's see if it is right and it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's good.

Very good answer, Val,

that scores you eight.

It takes your total up to 17.

Richard, was Val right on the red for acid?

Val was exactly right. Yes, red for acid and blue for alkaline.

A very good answer as well. A surprisingly low score.

Litmus paper.

It is virtually all I remember from science lessons.

Good score, Val. Hiba, right. You have a mountain to climb.

You have a big, big

-mountain to climb.

-I do.

You have to hope that you score a pointless answer and

Tom has to score an incorrect answer

and then there will be a tie-break.

-Is it going to happen?

-It might happen.

Do you do science, did you do science?

-I didn't do it for A-level but my mum is a science teacher.

-Hiba, come on.

If you don't get a pointless answer,

what would your mum do?

-I don't know.

-I have to ask. Is your mum hot?

I am not at liberty to answer that.

OK.

Anyway...

Off the subject of my mum,

I'm going to go,

I have to take a risk to get a pointless.

I'm going to go for Brownian column.

I don't know what it does,

I don't know if it is real.

If it is not, I might cry.

If it is not, I'm afraid we will be saying goodbye to you.

If it is pointless,

and Tom knows nothing about science and things found in labs...

..we are looking good. OK.

You have no red line as you are the highest scorers

by a margin. You are saying Brownian column.

Let's see if it is correct and if it is let's see how many people said it.

Oh, no!

Hiba!

Look what you have done.

That is an incorrect answer, I am afraid.

It scores you the maximum of 100 points.

You go out with a massive score of 200 which is quite impressive!

Sadly, it is an incorrect answer. Richard, a Brownian column.

Sorry, Hiba, you did what you had to do, took a risk to try for a pointless answer.

We just made it up. It is nothing.

It sounded real.

Quite. Thank you.

Well done.

But no, you have both done the right thing, you have both gambled.

And lost!

Kids, don't gamble.

-Tom?

-I was never very good at science, if I'm honest.

I can only recognise two on the board.

Can I tell you something brilliant?

Whatever you say, you are through to the next round. Whatever you say.

Score a pointless. Come on, the field has been cleared.

Maybe Brownian column was the only incorrect answer.

-You've got to find something really obscure.

-Try and add 250 onto the prize.

I'm going to go for

a sonic transducer.

What a brilliant thing to have in a laboratory.

It's either going to be pointless or it's going to be from Back To The Future.

OK, let's see if it is a correct answer out and if it is,

let's see how many people said it.

Good luck, Tom.

No!

Just altogether too sexy to be something in a laboratory. Sonic transducer.

You have scored 100 points, it is an incorrect answer.

It's from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the sonic transducer, not from the science lab.

Let's take a look at the rest of them. Test tube, obviously, scored very highly.

That would have got you 68 points.

And out of those other two,

one is pointless.

Which one do you think it is?

Is it the pneumatic trough?

Gauze would have scored you two.

The pneumatic trough.

Pneumatic, all sounding great, then trough.

-It would be a great name for a band, pneumatic trough.

-Wouldn't it?

It was a pointless answer so very well done if you said that at home.

-They use it for collecting gases and measuring gases.

-Pneumatic trough.

Thank you very much, Richard.

The losing pair with the highest score,

I'm afraid it is Hiba and Carl.

I tell you the good news.

You each scored 100 points

so you can't squabble about it.

-No one let the other one down.

-We'll see!

Do you know what...

You did really well. You were both very brave.

Bravery normally pays in this game.

Just this time it hasn't. Next time, because of course,

there will be a next time, everyone gets two shots at Pointless.

What are you hoping comes up?

Something I know about!

OK, maybe something one of your parents doesn't teach.

Carl, what have you learnt

on your brief time on Pointless.

Not to gamble.

-To let me go first!

-To let Hiba go first. There you are.

That's in life, Carl, not just in the game.

Remember that. Thank you for playing, you have been fantastic.

Cheers, guys.

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For the remaining three pairs, it is now time for round two.

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It's time to find out which teams will be going through to the head-to-head

for the chance to reach the Pointless final.

The category for round two is...

Can you decide in your pairs who will go first and who will go second?

Whoever is going first, step up to the podium.

And the question is...

In this round, we will show you some Shakespeare quotations.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to tell us the play in which they appeared. Richard.

We are going to show you six quotes. The more obscure ones will score you the fewest points.

An incorrect answer will score 100 points and see if you can get all six of them at home.

OK, your first six quotes are:

OK, we are looking for the plays from which these quotes have come.

James, you're not looking really confident?

I am not a massive Shakespeare fan,

it has to be said.

I think I am going to go for,

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

-OK.

-And I am hoping that is from Macbeth.

Excellent, watch for stage weights flying down, no.

The Scottish Play.

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?" Let's see if that is correct.

Macbeth, you are saying, and let's see how many people knew that answer. Macbeth.

It is correct.

That scores you 14.

14, a very low score for Macbeth there.

I suspect there may be some low scores in this round,

but it is a good answer, it's from Macbeth,

said by Macbeth himself and the answer is no, it wasn't a dagger.

It was a hallucination.

It didn't stop him though, did it? I don't want to give away the ending of Macbeth.

OK, good answer, nice low score.

Peter, now you know your Shakespeare quotes.

-Yes you do.

-I did watch Shakespeare In Love.

I could not have got a worse category.

-Really, you're not a massive Shakespeare fan.

-No.

OK.

-I'm sure he did good.

-Oh, he did.

He did good, Peter.

I'm just going to go for

the, "Once more unto the breach."

Which is the top one and Hamlet.

"Once more unto the breach," you're saying Hamlet.

Let's see how many people said it. Hamlet.

Unfortunately that is an incorrect answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Richard, were you going to say anything other than

"That's an incorrect answer, but I'm not going to say where that's from?"

Yes, just in case Mike and Steve want to have a go.

-But I will reveal all at the end of this round.

-OK.

Right, Steve.

We're looking for the plays from which these Shakespeare quotes come.

I have a feeling - it's not heavy metal -

but I have a feeling you're going to know a few of these.

Yes, I'm only going first, because I read a book once and Michael hasn't.

It's becoming a bit blurry actually.

I think I'm going to go for...

"To be or not to be."

And I think that is from Hamlet.

You think that is from Hamlet, "To be or not to be?"

Let's see how many people knew that answer.

"To be or not to be?" from Hamlet.

Right.

40 that scores you.

-So 40. Hamlet.

-I know, spoken by Hamlet himself.

I would have thought that was the most famous Shakespearean quote,

yet only 40 of our 100 people

knew it was from Hamlet.

Let's take a look at the other ones.

"Once more unto the breach." It is from Henry V.

It is his rallying cry to get

everyone to fight the French.

-"Friends, Romans, countrymen," what's that from?

-Julius Caesar.

It is indeed, said by Mark Antony.

We discovered last time that Mark Antony is married to Jennifer Lopez.

-That's right, yeah.

-But it's a different Mark Antony.

It would have scored you 23 points.

"If music be the food of love, play on."

I think both of the remaining quotes are from Twelfth Night.

Oh you're half right and half wrong. In that one of them is.

I thought that was Malvolio, "More sinned against than sinning."

Oh no, it's King Lear, sorry.

"If music be the food of love, play on," said by Orsino in Twelfth Night

would have scored you four points.

"More sinned against that sinning" was pointless. It was King Lear, well done if you got that at home.

Thank you very much, we're halfway through the round, let's look at the scores.

Well, Val and Peter,

way out in front I'm afraid on 100.

Val, you know what you have got to do this next pass?

You've got to find a pointless answer. Confident?

-No.

-Yes you are!

James and Tom, good answer from you, James.

Tom, keep that up, you're through to the head-to-head.

Mike and Steve, 40.

Could go either way.

Mike, it's all in your hands.

Can the second players please take their places at the podium.

OK, we're going to put six more quotations on the board

and here they are. We have got:

We are looking for the plays that these quotes come from.

And you're trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Now then Mike, you're in a bright shirt,

is that going to be enough?

I've got a bright shirt, but I'm not a very bright lad, unfortunately.

Come now. Come now.

He's right. I only read a book when me television's broke

and I've got four in me house, so...

Very rare, I read a book.

OK, well you're on 40, your target is 59.

If you can score 59 or less, you're through to the head-to-head.

And this is my rationale behind this,

"My kingdom for a horse"

I think was on a beer advert

in the '80s or '90s or something.

And I think that is from -

and I might be wrong and I probably am - but I'll give it a punt anyway.

-Is it Othello?

-OK, there is your red line.

Below that red line you're through to next round. Above that red line

we may be saying goodbye to you at the end of this round.

Let's see if my kingdom for a horse

is from Othello and the beer was right.

Only one way to find out. Let's see how many people said it.

The beer lied. Or perhaps you just misremembered.

Unfortunately that is a wrong answer.

You score the maximum of 100 points,

taking your total to 140. Richard.

A lot of Shakespearean scholars do say the best place to learn about Shakespeare is from beer adverts.

-They have said it and you know what I have long disagreed and I think here's evidence.

-Yes.

I won't tell you what play

it is from, just in case any of the other players want to choose that quote.

Val, you were the high scorers,

you're no longer the high scorers,

this is good news for you and Peter.

Mike and Steve now on 140.

You want to score 39 or less with your answer.

What's that board looking like to you, Val?

All right, I've a couple.

It is just whether I'm going to get a low score or a high one.

I'm going to go with "All that glisters is not gold."

I think that is from the Merchant of Venice.

Very good. Very good answer.

Merchant of Venice,

"All that glisters is not gold.

There is your red line. Below that red line, through to the head-to-head.

"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.

It's right, Val.

It sees you through.

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Very, very good answer.

Six people said that. Taking your total up to 106. Richard.

Yes, a really good answer, said by the Prince of Morocco in that play.

Very good answer, Val.

And that...

has put the writing on the wall I'm afraid for Mike and Steve.

Because even if Tom and James,

even if Tom scores 100 points,

he won't overtake your highest score.

So Tom, bearing that in mind, the world is your oyster.

I studied Shakespeare throughout school and did Hamlet at A-level.

I think I'm going to have to go for,

"Two households, both alike in dignity."

-Romeo and Juliet.

-Romeo and Juliet, very good answer there.

"Two households both alike in dignity."

Let's see what it scores.

If it's right, maybe it will be a pointless answer.

Let's see how many people said it.

Well it's right.

22.

Taking your total up to 36. Richard.

Very well played. It's the opening lines of the prologue.

It's the same sonnet that introduced the star-crossed lovers to the English language.

So very good answer.

Let's take a look

at the other ones.

-"Eye of newt, toe of frog."

-Macbeth.

Our old friend Macbeth, yes. That would have scored you 30 points.

"All the world's a stage".

That's the only... It's As You Like It.

It is. That would have scored you one point. So really good answer. "My kingdom for a horse."

Let's clear that up.

Richard III.

It is Richard III, not Othello.

"Such stuff as dreams are made on" is a pointless answer,

do you know what that's from?

And our little lives are rounded with a sleep.

-Tempest.

-It is Prospero in the Tempest.

That was indulgent, wasn't it?

It was misquoted as the stuff that dreams are made of in the Maltese Falcon by Humphrey Bogart.

He suggested using the quote from the Tempest to the director,

but got it wrong, got the quote wrong.

Now that's what everyone says?

-Yes.

-Cheers, Bogey, thanks.

And thanks, Richard. At the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score, it's Mike and Steve.

Guys, I'm so sorry.

I'm not a Shakespeare guy, as you've guessed.

You have been fantastic, great to have you on the show.

This is your second time, so this time it really is goodbye.

-You have been fantastic contestants, thanks for playing.

-Thank you.

Things get more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.

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We've already said goodbye to two teams,

now it's time to find out which of our remaining pairs will be playing for today's jackpot,

which currently stands at £3,500.

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Very good. You're now going to go head-to-head on up to three questions

and you are now allowed to confer with your partner.

All have to do is come up with an answer that scores less than the other pair to win that question.

The first pair to win two points will be going through to our jackpot final. Let's play Pointless.

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Right, here is your first question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many African countries

beginning with M as they could. African countries beginning with M, Richard.

Yes, simply looking for any country in Africa whose name begins with M.

By country, as always we mean a sovereign state that's a member of the UN.

Val and Peter, because you've played best throughout the show so far, you get to go first.

We're looking for African countries beginning with M.

OK, Val and Peter, have you got an answer?

Yes, we've used Val's wise brain and come up with Mauritania.

Mauritania, Mauritan-ia.

Very good answer.

James and Tom?

We've got a few to choose between.

We have Mozambique, Mali, Malawi.

And Madagascar at the moment.

I think we'll go Madagascar.

-Madagascar?

-Yes.

-OK, yes.

We will go for Madagascar then.

OK, so we have Mauritania and Madagascar.

Val and Peter said Mauritania,

let's see if it's right and, if it is, let's see how many people said it. Mauritania.

It is correct.

Good answer.

11 that scores.

James and Tom, you have said Madagascar.

Let's see if that's right and if it, let's see how many people said that.

It's correct.

27.

So after the first question,

it is 1-0 to Val and Peter. Richard.

Mauritania is a really good answer, but there was one answer that could have beaten it.

Well done at home if you said Mauritius, the lowest answer of all.

Would have scored you nine points.

Very well done if you got all seven of them.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

After the first question, then 1-0 to Val and Peter.

James and Tom you have to win this next point to stay in the game.

You've been in the head-to-head twice now.

Got to make to it the final, surely.

-Hope so.

-Well, you'll only be there

if you win this next point. Here is your second question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

most capped England goalkeepers as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any England goalkeeper who has won 50 caps or more,

up to and including the 2010 World Cup. There are five names on the list.

OK, James and Tom you get to go first this time.

-I think we're going to go for Peter Shilton.

-Peter Shilton.

OK, Peter Shilton they have said. Val and Peter.

Jolly good answer that.

-I don't know. We'll try Gordon Banks.

-Gordon Banks.

OK James and Tom,

you've got to hope Peter Shilton wins it for you to stay in the game.

OK, Peter Shilton you said.

Let's see how many people said Peter Shilton.

Well it is right.

40.

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40. How are you feeling about that?

We thought of Gordon Banks,

we had four of the five.

David James and David Seaman as well,

but Gordon Banks made that save off Pele,

so hopefully he's famous for that. We'll have to see.

You have to win this point to stay in the game.

Val and Peter,

if you win this point you are through to the final

and the chance to win that £3,500. Gordon Banks, let's see how many people said that.

Well, it is correct.

Oh, wow. Gordon Banks.

By a nose, look at that.

37 to 40.

After just two questions, Val and Peter

are through to the final.

-Richard?

-There were a couple of answers that would have beaten Gordon Banks.

If you had said David James you would have scored the points.

The best answer was Ray Clemence.

He would have scored you 14 points.

And the most capped England player of all time,

Peter Shilton with the most points on 40.

OK, thank you, Richard, so the losing pair at the end of the head to head for the second time.

You had the African countries pretty much,

you scored a pointless answer earlier.

I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you, James and Tom,

thanks for playing Pointless.

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It is time for our Pointless final

and the chance to win £3,500.

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So, congratulations, Val and Peter, you fought off the competition,

you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

CHEERING

But now you have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £3,500.

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The rules are simple, to win the money

you have to find a Pointless answer, that is an answer no-one else could think of.

We've had one Pointless answer on the show today, all you need to go home with that money

is to find one more Pointless answer.

Firstly you've got to choose a category, from these three options.

Do you want to go for American football?

-No, no.

-Are you sure?

What would you like?

-Well.

-Childhood pastimes?

-Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

-D'you want to go for politics?

-Go on.

-All right.

We will go for UK politics.

UK politics, OK.

-Peter, how good are you on UK politics?

-Yeah.

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I'm playing to Val's strengths.

Very good, well done, it's important, particularly in this round, very important.

And your UK politics is pretty good, isn't it?

No, but of the three it is the one I would prefer.

Childhood pastimes, that would have been a risk.

I can't remember my childhood.

I don't believe that. OK, let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Prime Ministers under 50 as they could. Richard.

We are looking for anyone who became Prime Minister of Britain under the age of 50 between 1800 and 2010.

OK. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers and all you need to win that £3,500 is for

just one of those answers to be pointless.

OK, your 60 seconds start now.

William Pitt the Younger.

Tony Blair is an obvious one, isn't it?

-Go for the old ones, they did not live as long.

-Cameron.

-Yeah.

I'll go for...

for an out and out... just a guess.

-OK.

-The Earl of Bute, I don't know how old he was.

Well I don't know how old he was, it might be a gamble.

It's a chance we'll take.

We will. We'll have a go.

We're only here once.

Lord Salisbury. Disraeli, they were all older, weren't they?

-OK, your minute is up. Have you got three?

-Yes.

-Sounds like you have.

-Sort of three, it's just whether they were under 50 when they came to be Prime Minister.

The first one we'll go for was, we will try Lord Liverpool.

-Lord Liverpool?

-We'll try the Earl of Bute.

-The Earl of Bute.

-And what was the other one I said?

-Pitt the Younger was it?

-We will try Pitt the Younger.

-Pitt the Younger.

Which of those do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-The Earl of Bute.

-Earl of Bute.

-We'll put him last, Earl of Bute last.

-He sounds a younger than Liverpool, doesn't he?

-I don't know.

-Bute...a nipper.

-Liverpool, quite old, getting on a bit, but maybe under 50 still.

-I don't know.

-Which is your least confident answer?

-I think Lord Liverpool.

OK, let's put those up on the board in the order you have chosen.

There they are.

You only need one of these to be pointless, remember,

to win that £3,500.

What would you spend £3,500 on?

Well, we're going on holiday in another month or so, so it would be a big help, that.

That'd be nice, very nice.

So, Peter, you were just relying on Val's history here, were you?

I knew Pitt the Younger.

So happy days.

Happy days, maybe he'll win it for you, Peter.

OK.

This is your first answer, this is the one you had the least faith in,

Lord Liverpool, you said.

Are you confident at all, Lord Liverpool?

Not really.

OK, only one way to find out.

Let's see if this is a pointless answer,

let's see how many people said Lord Liverpool and if it is correct.

This for £3,500.

Oh, it's correct.

Lord Liverpool, your first answer,

the one you said you had least faith in is a correct answer.

That just has to go all the way down to zero for you to win £3,500.

It's done it! Well done.

Very well done.

Brilliant.

Fantastic.

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Well, congratulations.

Oh, with your first answer as well. You managed to find that all-important pointless answer

which means you go home with a total of £3,500.

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Well done, Val. Wasn't that fantastic?

I'm shaking.

Brilliant. So, holiday here we come.

-Holiday here we come now.

-Got it already booked?

-Oh yes, yes.

-Where are you going?

-We're going to Spain.

-Peter, how about you?

-We're in the process of moving house,

so no doubt it's already been spent on furniture or something.

Well, what a fantastic win with your first answer as well.

-Richard, those other answers.

-We'll start with the Lord Liverpool or the Earl of Liverpool, he was 42

when he became Prime Minister in 1812, so a really good answer and greatly deserved.

The Earl of Bute he was under 50 but he was before 1800,

he was too far back so we wouldn't have counted him.

William Pitt the Younger, there's a clue in the name, so you would have scored a lot of points with him.

Who cares about Pitt the Younger? That was fantastic.

Thanks once again to our winning contestants, Val and Peter,

who go away with today's jackpot of £3,500.

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

-It is goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And goodbye from me, goodbye.

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