Episode 26 Pointless

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CHEERING

Thank you. Hello and welcome to Pointless.

I'm Alexander Armstrong and this is the quiz show where success is bred from obscurity.

Let's meet today's players. APPLAUSE

A very warm welcome to you, Andy and Paul.

How do you two know each other?

Well, we're from Blackpool in Lancashire

and we met, ironically, doing a pub quiz.

We went to a pub which we'd never been in before.

We were at opposite ends of the bar. Probably 20-odd teams and...

-Did you win?

-Yes.

-No, did you?

-Yes.

And Paul said, "You can be in my pub quiz team."

-I think it was the other way round.

-It was.

-You've been quizzing ever since?

-We have.

-Yes.

Oh, look out.

-Well, very best of luck to the pair of you.

-Thanks.

Nathan and Berni are our second pair. How do you two know each other?

We met about eight years ago. We used to work together at a college.

Berni was a librarian, I was the network manager.

I used to have to walk through her library to get to my office.

-How many times did she tell you to "Shhh!"

-She's a new-style librarian.

More noise, more noise!

Anyway, best of luck to the pair of you this afternoon.

Welcome to Cathy and Annie. How do you two know each other?

Hello. We've known each other many years.

We met when we worked together as ambulance women

-about 25 years ago?

-Yeah, 25.

-Are you still ambulance women?

-Well, Cathy is.

-Are you?

-Yeah.

-Not the emergency.

-So what's the other ambulance?

-The non-emergency ambulance.

-Yeah.

-I wasn't aware there was such a thing.

-Oh, yes.

-Very good. Where are you from?

-St Albans.

-St Albans.

-And Cathy's from Redbourn, which is just up the road.

-I see.

-Very best of luck to you.

-Thank you.

Hiba and Carl, you were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final. How did you do?

Er, well, not too well.

We went out in the first round. Got both our questions wrong.

You know, you didn't... Yeah, you did, you did.

Essentially, what you did was you got both your questions wrong.

You did exactly the right thing.

You tried to find something very obscure and nearly right.

To be fair, they didn't do exactly the right thing.

-No but the spirit in which they did it...

-Yes.

-..was exactly right.

-Yeah.

They just chose poorly.

However, I predict today, finalists.

-Ooh!

-That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

-OK.

-So, yeah, no pressure or anything.

-No.

We'll be finding out more about all of you throughout the show

but I must now introduce the man who is the Pointless compendium of facts and figures.

-He is my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

-Hiya.

I've gone out on a limb and I've tipped Hiba and Carl.

Was that a wise thing to do?

They're the only ones we know anything about,

so if you had picked any of the others, it would have been a shot in the dark.

-Hiba was furious at Carl last time.

-She was.

She puts this smile on and she plays it quite cool

but in her eyes, she was furious.

I suspect they will do rather well. I think they were unlucky.

Look at her, pretending to laugh.

Behind it, you can see exactly what's going on.

But three new pairs.

And statistically, we've never had a pair from Blackpool on the show who have lost.

-No pressure, then.

-We've never had a pair from Blackpool who've won

because you're the first pair from Blackpool.

Very best of luck to you.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, we put all our questions to 100 people before the show

but we're after the obscure answers that they didn't get.

The fewer people who got the answer, the fewer points awarded, the better the chance of winning.

To stay in the game with a chance to win our jackpot,

our players need to score as few points as possible.

Everyone's looking to find a pointless answer,

an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

and each time that happens, we add 250 quid to the jackpot.

Val and Peter won the jackpot last time,

so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000.

There it is. APPLAUSE

Let's play Pointless.

In the first round, each of you must give me one answer

and you cannot confer with your partner.

The team with the highest score will be eliminated.

All right, our first category this afternoon is...

food and drink.

Food and drink. Decide in your pairs who goes first and who goes second.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many types of coffee

as they could.

-Richard?

-Yeah, quite simple, this one.

All the correct answers in this round are ways in which coffee can be served.

You all drew lots before the show. Andy and Paul, you get to go first.

In this round, we're giving you seven possible answers

for each pass.

Your first set of seven answers reads like this.

I'm going to read them once more because it's fun.

Now, I can tell you that at least one of those answers is pointless

but there is also at least one incorrect answer on the board.

Pick one of those and you score 100 points.

Andy, are you a coffee connoisseur?

I like coffee but I've not heard of several, which surprises me.

Erm...

I think it's a very difficult one.

I'm not playing it safe but I think I'll go for mocha.

OK, you're going to go for mocha. There it is, one up from the bottom.

Let's see if mocha is correct

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

It's good.

34, Andy. APPLAUSE

-Not a bad opening score.

-Er, yeah, mocha.

Now it refers to a coffee and chocolate drink

but the mocha bean is an Arabian bean

that used to come from the Yemeni port of Mocha.

-Didn't know that, did you?

-I had no idea.

Nor did you want to know it.

I'm going to store it in the short-term bit of my brain,

so that by the end of the show, I will have forgotten it.

Mocha. It's a port in Yemen.

What did you say, Richard? 34. Not a bad score at all.

Now, Nathan, something tells me you are a bit of a coffee connoisseur.

-Perhaps it's the colour of your suit.

-Well, I don't match the suit...

No, you do, you look great in it.

Well, the problem is, I'm not really one for coffee,

despite working in IT.

It's a stereotype but this isn't really my kind of thing.

I think, as tempting as it is to go for the risky one,

I don't want to put us in a bad position, so I'll play safe,

not being a coffee lover.

I think I might have to go for caffe latte.

Caffe latte. There's a clue in that first word, there, isn't there?

Possibly, possibly.

Anyway, let's see if it's right

and if it is, let's hope not too many people said it.

Caffe latte.

It is correct!

APPLAUSE 67, that scores you.

Not too bad. Richard?

Is it fair to say, Nathan, that coffee's not your cup of tea?

Oh, not at all.

Sorry. Caffe latte means coffee with milk.

We call them lattes over here

but if you ask for that in Italy, you just get hot milk.

Ha-ha-ha. Serve you right.

Very good, very good.

-Now, Annie.

-Mm.

Annie, Annie, I can tell you there is at least one pointless answer.

Nobody's found it yet. Nobody found it. We've had mocha and latte.

Somewhere on there is a pointless answer.

I think you are the person to truffle that pointless answer out.

Well, I'm going to be brave

and I'm going to go for one that I haven't ever heard of

because there's no point going for the other ones, cos they'll be a huge amount of points.

-Macchiato sounds like a coffee to me.

-You're going to say...

-No, I'm not going to go for macchiato.

-Oh!

It sounds like a coffee and I think it's up there to fool me.

I'm going to go for...

one that sounds nothing like a coffee

and I think it might be a German one.

I'm going to go for schweigt stille.

Schweigt stille.

I bet it comes in a massive cup.

-Schweigt stille. That's if it's a coffee.

-It sounds like a beer

but I think...

But you've gone for it nonetheless.

Let's see if it's correct and if so, how many people said it.

Schweigt stille.

Oh!

-Oh, Annie!

-Trust me for being cocky.

No, no, no. You did it in the right spirit.

-Unfortunately, though, it was completely wrong.

-Oh, dear.

You score the maximum 100 points.

Schweigt stille, Richard?

Go for ones that sound like coffees, not beers.

The Schweigt Stille, Plaudert Nicht is the other name

of Bach's Coffee Cantata.

But that wouldn't keep you up all night, though, necessarily.

-Right. Hiba.

-Yeah.

-The stage is set.

There we are. See if you can find a pointless answer.

There could be another incorrect answer

and it would be wrong of me not to flag that up.

However, you are the last person to have this board.

At least one of those is pointless.

Well, I'm still not going to go for like a full risk

just because of last time.

I know there could be more than one wrong answer.

But I am pretty sure that macchiato is a coffee,

so I'm going to say macchiato.

Macchiato. Second one down. All right. That's your answer.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE A very good answer, Hiba.

That scores you six points.

Richard.

A macchiato is a shot of coffee topped with steamed milk.

-Look at the relief on Carl's face.

-Phew!

He's thinking, "I'm going to eat tonight."

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

Filter, obviously, is a type of coffee

but would have scored you a very low 18 points.

Now, of those other two, one of those is pointless

and one of them is incorrect. What do you think?

Oliang I think is tea and kaldi I think is coffee.

-Kaldi is an incorrect answer.

-No!

And oliang is the pointless answer. Well done if you got oliang at home.

OK, we're halfway through the round, so here are the scores.

Well, what a scoreboard.

Cathy and Annie, for all the right reasons,

you are wrong. LAUGHTER

100 points. You are way out ahead.

I say that but you're not that way out.

Nathan scored 67, so, Berni, you've got a little bit of a job to do.

Cathy, though, you've got a massive job to do.

You've got to try and find a pointless answer.

Great answer from Andy and, Hiba, what can I say?

6. Fabulous score.

Right, can the second players please take their places at the podium?

OK, we're going to put seven more answers on the board.

We are looking for types of coffee.

Here they are.

I'll read them one more time.

And there is at least one pointless answer amongst those seven.

There is also at least one incorrect answer,

so try and avoid that or those.

-Right, Carl. How well did Hiba do?

-Really well.

Brilliant. You're on six. You only have to score 93 or less.

Knowing that I'm going to play it safe

and go for one which I know is 100% right,

so cappuccino.

OK. Hiba not really impressed by that.

She's hoping that you might have gone out on a bit of a limb

but cappuccino, maybe it was a sensible thing to pick.

There's your red line. If you come below that, you're through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said cappuccino.

Few enough.

Good enough. 72. That's taken your total up to 78.

Yeah, cappuccino, that's strong coffee with frothed milk and steamed milk.

-Now, Cathy.

-Yes.

-You remember I said you had a bit of a mountain to climb?

-I didn't put it precisely like that.

-A big one.

-You've got a job to do.

-Mm.

Annie, for all the right reasons, scored 100 points.

You are out ahead of the field. You have to score as low as you possibly can

and hope that either Berni or Paul just make something up

that's completely wrong.

-Remember, we are looking for types of coffee.

-I will go...

with...

kopi tubruk.

Kopi tubruk.

-It sounds like coffee.

-It sounds as if it should be.

In Tubruk, maybe that's how they say "copy".

-Anyway, that's what you're saying. Kopi tubruk.

-Yeah.

Let's see if kopi tubruk is right and if it is, if anyone said it.

Kopi tubruk.

-It's right!

-Ooh!

Ooh!

This could be going all the way down.

CHEERING

Spectacular. Kopi tubruk is a pointless answer.

That adds £250 to the jackpot, taking the total up to 1,250.

It also scores you nothing, giving you a total of 100 points.

Yeah, that's the way to do it, Cathy - take a risk and get it right.

Kopi tubruk is a thick Indonesian coffee.

Well done. Very well done but is it enough to keep you in the game?

I hope it is, I really hope it is. We will discover.

-Berni.

-Yes.

-Are you a coffee connoisseur?

-I don't like coffee at all.

-Not at all?

-No.

-Not even decaff?

-No.

-The taste or the strange lift?

-Horrible. It's the taste.

-I like tea. A nice bit of Earl Grey.

-OK.

You are on 67. You want to score 32 or less with this answer

-to make sure you are in the next round.

-OK.

-What's the board looking like to you?

-Well, I've seen some of these words before.

How about Americano? I've heard of that.

OK. Americano is what you're going to say.

You are looking to score 32 or less. There is your red line.

Below that line, you are through to the next round.

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

Well, it's right.

Ooh, it's good enough! APPLAUSE

That scores you 20, taking your total up to 87. Americano, Richard.

It's a strong coffee watered down with hot water.

And it was invented by Earl Grey. That was his...

-No, it wasn't.

-No, it wasn't!

Thank you, Richard. Now, Paul. You are on 34.

If you can score 65 or less with this answer, you are through to the next round.

Remember, we are looking for types of coffee.

I don't think the coffee is hammerhead. I don't think that's one.

Erm...

One that I've heard of, I'm sure I've heard of it either in Spain or France,

is cafe au lait.

-Cafe au lait.

-I thought you were going to go for something really exotic, like nilgiri.

I was thinking, "Good on you, Paul!" but cafe au lait.

No, it's sensible. You only have to score 65 or less.

Cafe au lait may do it for you.

Remember, we are looking for types of coffee.

There is your red line - if you come below it, you're through.

Let's see how many people said cafe au lait.

Good enough.

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Wow! Cafe au lait, bafflingly, scores you just one point,

bringing you a total of 35. Richard, isn't that extraordinary?

Cafe au lait is French for coffee with milk.

The Spanish drink you were thinking of is cafe ole, which is different.

Er, let's take a look... But only one point. That's amazing.

Let's take a look at the other ones. Espresso is a big scorer.

That would have got you 55.

Now, of those other two, nilgiri and hammerhead,

one is a pointless answer and one is incorrect.

-What do you think?

-I'm going to say hammerhead is a kind of very strong coffee.

Well done. Hammerhead is indeed a pointless answer.

It's one shot of very strong coffee topped up with filter coffee.

Also called a shot in the dark sometimes.

And nilgiri is incorrect. It's a type of tea.

There you go. A type of tea. Thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score,

it's Cathy and Annie and this despite that fantastic pointless answer.

You've given. That's all you've done, Cathy, you're all give.

LAUGHTER You've given us £250.

I know. I'm very generous.

And you have nothing, nothing, but our thanks to show for it.

-This round, in so many ways, will leave an unpleasant taste in your mouth.

-It will.

I'm so sorry. It's been wonderful having you on the show.

But you will of course be back - everyone gets two shots at the Pointless final -

-and I hope you'll be on for longer. Thank you.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

For the remaining three pairs, it's time for round two.

It's time to find out which two teams will go through

to the head-to-head on the way to the Pointless final.

The category for round two is...

musicals.

Look how thrilled Hiba and Carl are with that.

-It's musicals, Hiba!

-Yes.

-Eh, Carl?

Right, can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

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

And the question is...

We're about to show you the names of some songs that feature in musicals.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to tell us which musicals they are from.

-Richard?

-We're going to show you six songs on each pass

and the more obscure the song, the fewer points it will score.

If you give us an incorrect answer, it will score 100 points.

Thanks, Richard. The first six are:

I'll read them one more time.

Right, Paul. We are looking for the musicals that these songs come from.

-Do you like your musicals, Paul?

-I know a lot about musicals, yeah.

And I think the one I'd pick there is Luck Be A Lady.

-Luck Be A Lady, yeah?

-And it's from Guys And Dolls.

It's from Guys And Dolls.

OK, let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that answer.

It's a right answer.

Wow! APPLAUSE

Good answer, Paul. Luck Be A Lady scores you seven points.

Yeah, a very good answer, Paul. It premiered in New York in 1950.

It's been running somewhere ever since.

-Ewan McGregor was Sky Masterson.

-I was Sky Masterson once.

-Were you?

-Yeah.

-And Alexander Armstrong was Sky Masterson in the...?

-Was it the West End?

-It was the... No, the Cambridge ADC production.

The Cambridge ADC production of Guys And Dolls, that is still spoken about today.

-Everyone, still.

-Do you mean your mum is talking about it?

Yeah, everyone at home is still talking about it.

-I imagine you were very good.

-Get out of here, get out of here.

Yeah, I was. Extremely good.

OK, good score for you, Paul. Now, Berni.

We are looking for the musicals from which these songs come.

What are you going to say?

I'm going to say Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

And I think it came from My Fair Lady.

Wouldn't It Be Loverly? My Fair Lady. Let's if that is right and how people knew that answer.

Wouldn't It Be Loverly? My Fair Lady.

It's correct.

10! APPLAUSE

Another very good answer scores you 10. Richard? My Fair Lady.

Great answer, Berni. Based on the Shaw play Pygmalion.

"My fair lady" is a play on the Cockney way of saying "Mayfair lady".

You see, I never knew that.

I thought it was from, "London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady."

-Nope.

-Well, I know nothing.

-And now I do know something.

-That's good.

-Thank you. I'm indebted.

-Absolutely my pleasure.

-Is that "may pleasure"? It's not a play on Cockney?

-No, no. Literally my pleasure.

-OK. Berni, great answer. Hiba.

We are looking for the musicals from which these songs come.

-What are you going to say?

-I recognise a couple on there

but I think I'm going to go with Defying Gravity,

which I believe is from Wicked.

Defying Gravity from Wicked. There it is. One up from the bottom.

Let's see if that's correct and if it is, how many people knew that it came from Wicked.

Oh, my word! APPLAUSE

Brilliant answer, Hiba.

Defying Gravity scores you 4 points.

Defying Gravity. It's a musical about the witches of Oz

and Glee also did a version of Defying Gravity.

Kids at home, don't start defying gravity. Really. Honestly.

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

-The Music Of The Night. What's that from?

-Phantom Of The Opera.

It is. That would have scored you 33 points.

-Spoonful Of Sugar?

-Mary Poppins.

-It is.

That would have scored you 48 points, the biggest score on the board.

-And The Perfect Year.

-I just don't know.

-That's the lowest score on the board.

-No.

-It's from Sunset Boulevard. It would have got you 2 points.

Very well done if you got that at home.

OK, thank you. Let's have a look at the scores, as we are halfway through the round.

Mm. Very low-scoring round, there.

Fantastic answer from Hiba, there. Carl, keep up that low scoring

and you should make it through to the head-to-head.

Nathan and Berni. That was quite high. Who'd have thought that?

Nathan, you're going to have to dig deep in the second pass.

And Andy and Paul, pretty good. Good answer from you, Paul.

Andy, keep that up. You should make it through.

Right, second players, please take your places at the podium.

OK, we're going to put some more songs on the board,

six of them, to be precise, and here they are.

I'll read them again.

Now, remember, we are looking for the musicals from which these songs come

and you're trying to find the most obscure ones to score as low as possible.

-Carl?

-Musicals is definitely not my strong subject

but there's a couple up there I think I know.

I'm going to go for Circle Of Life, which I think is from The Lion King.

Circle Of Life from The Lion King.

-What is your strong subject, Carl?

-Sport would be my strongest subject.

Musicals and sport. If only somebody could do a musical about sport, Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

-He's done one.

-Yeah, I know.

-It was him and Ben Elton.

-Who'd have thought that combination wouldn't work?

-Beautiful Game.

-And it lasted...

-About 90 minutes.

-About 90 minutes, yes!

Exactly right.

Very good. So, Carl, you are on 4. Your target is 5.

If you score 5 or less, you will not be the highest scorers

and you're through to the next round.

There is your red line. Quite a long way down.

Circle Of Life, The Lion King.

If that's right, how many people said it?

It is correct.

APPLAUSE

41. Giving you a total of 45. Richard.

Yeah, The Lion King, written by Elton John and Tim Rice.

-It's been seen by over 8 million people in the London theatre.

-Wow.

Myself included. I recently had the great pleasure of taking a party of 90 school children

to see The Lion King.

-Is that all true?

-Yeah.

-Great pleasure, 90 school children?

Mm. It was quite fun. I was the only male parent there,

which meant I had to take 45 8- to 10-year-old children to the toilet

almost throughout the whole thing.

So it may be a good musical, for all I know.

I have to say, the toilets were spotlessly clean.

-That's my review.

-Brilliant. Thank you very much, Richard.

OK, Nathan. This is the moment you have been looking forward to.

-Your time to shine.

-Right.

You are currently on 10. If you can score 34 or less with this answer,

you are through to the next round.

-How good are you on musicals?

-Oh, well, I'm not convinced.

The obvious one I was going to go for has gone.

My second choice, I'm confident about but I think it's going to be one of the most popular.

It's Summer Nights, which I think is from Grease.

Summer Nights, you think it's from Grease.

Here's your red line. Below that, you're through to the next round.

Summer Nights from Grease. Let's see how many people said it.

AUDIENCE GROANS

APPLAUSE 58 that scores you, taking your total up to 68.

-Richard.

-Yeah, it's a big score.

It premiered on Broadway in 1972 but the 1978 film version means a lot of people know it.

Tell me more, tell me more.

Well, er, well, er...

OK, so, Andy.

You are on 7. You have to score 60 or less with this answer

to make it through to the head-to-head.

What are you going to give me?

Well, the two top songs, I've heard of On My Own, I know that song,

but I'm not sure where it's from.

Where Is Love rings a bell, as well.

So I've got a choice between two, both of which are hard.

Anyway, it's between Bali Ha'i and Ol' Man River.

I'm going to go for Ol' Man River

and I'm pretty sure, says he,

that it comes from Show Boat.

OK, some Show-Boating there from Andy.

There's your red line.

If you come down below that red line, you are through to the head-to-head.

Ha! Let's see if Ol' Man River is indeed from Show Boat

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

It's good!

Bad luck, Nathan and Berni. Down it goes.

Look at that - 7. APPLAUSE

Another 7 takes your total up to 14. Richard?

Great answer, Andy. Well played.

The most famous version is by Paul Robeson.

Let's take a look through the rest of the list.

-Where Is Love? Do you know where that's from?

-Oliver.

That would have scored you 9 points, surprisingly low.

-On My Own. What's that from?

-Les Miserables.

-It is. Very good answer.

That would have scored you 3 points. On My Own.

-And Bali Ha'i. What's that from?

-Bali Ha'i School Musical.

It's not from Bali Ha' School Musical. Good guess.

It's from South Pacific and would have scored you 11 points.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score is Nathan and Berni.

-Oh, dear.

-I feel like I've let the side down, really.

Those questions weren't my strong points.

And you started off so well! Wouldn't It Be Loverly, Berni.

-I know.

-Fabulous low score of 10.

-I know.

Oh, dear. So, what have you learnt from your time on Pointless?

I've learnt that I should go and see more musicals, I think.

-Some might say that, some might say, "Good on you."

-I gave it a go.

So sorry to say goodbye to you. Next time you're going to do so much better.

But you've been fantastic contestants. Thanks for playing.

APPLAUSE

For the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.

Well, we've already said goodbye to two teams.

Let's find out which pair will be playing for today's jackpot,

which currently stands at £1,250.

OK, Andy and Paul, Hiba and Carl,

you are going head-to-head on the best of three questions.

You are now allowed to confer.

You need to give an answer that scores less than the opposing team's answer to win that point.

The first pair to win two points will play for today's jackpot.

OK. Let's play Pointless.

Here's your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many of horse-racing's classic flat races

as they could.

-Richard.

-We're looking for any of the five races that make up the English classic flat-racing season.

It's flat-racing, not National Hunt, so not the Grand National.

The five races that make up the English classic flat-racing season.

OK. Thanks. Andy and Paul, you've played the best so far, so you get to go first.

THE TEAMS WHISPER

OK, Andy and Paul, you've reached agreement.

-We're going to go for the 1,000 Guineas.

-The 1,000 Guineas.

-Hiba and Carl.

-Right. Ascot's a race, isn't it?

-That's a meeting.

-Oh.

There's the Cheltenham Cup but I'm not too sure whether that's got jumps in it.

-Just say it.

-So we'll go with the Cheltenham Cup.

-We don't know.

Cheltenham Cup.

OK, the 1,000 Guineas and the Cheltenham Cup, that's what we have.

Andy and Paul answered first.

Let's see how many people said it, if it is indeed a correct answer.

The 1,000 Guineas.

It is a correct answer.

CHEERING 16!

And Hiba and Carl have gone with the Cheltenham Cup.

Let's see if that's a correct answer and if it is, how people said it.

Bad luck. An incorrect answer. It is 1-nil to Andy and Paul.

-Richard.

-The 1,000 Guineas is a good answer

but there is one better answer, which it might remind you of -

the 2,000 Guineas would have won you the points.

Let's see all five of those flat races.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

So, Andy and Paul, you've won the first point.

Hiba and Carl, you have to win this next point to stay in the game.

OK, here is your second question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Scottish cities as they could.

Scottish cities. Richard?

Yes, we simply need you to name any of the six cities in Scotland

and as with all cities, they need to have been granted royal status.

There are six cities in Scotland as of April 2010.

See if you can name all of them at home.

OK, this time, Hiba and Carl, you get to answer first.

THEY CONFER

OK.

We're going to go with Aberdeen.

OK. Aberdeen.

Andy and Paul?

Andy and Paul, if you win this point, you are through to the final.

Er, we're not absolutely sure but we're going to go for Dundee.

You're going to say Dundee.

OK, we have Aberdeen and we have Dundee.

Hiba and Carl, you have to win this to stay in the game.

Aberdeen has to do it for you. Let's see if it's correct

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

That's a correct answer.

APPLAUSE

-60. That's a bit higher than you were wanting, I think.

-Yeah.

-Do you think Dundee's lower than that?

-I said Dundee but Carl said no.

-So...

-LAUGHTER

-For your sake in the game, and, Carl, for your sake...

-Yeah. In general.

-In life, yeah.

-Let's find out.

Andy and Paul said Dundee. Is it correct? And if it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's correct.

Oh, no!

APPLAUSE

Well done, Andy and Paul.

After two questions, in straight sets, you are through, 2-nil,

to the final.

Bad luck, Hiba and Carl.

-Richard?

-Yeah, well played, Andy and Paul. Unlucky, Hiba and Carl.

Two answers would have beaten Dundee.

Let's take a look at all six of the Scottish cities.

Stirling was the best answer. It would have got 19 points,

then Inverness with 21.

We've got Dundee 43 and Aberdeen 60.

Residents of Edinburgh and Glasgow, you're joint top with 97.

Very diplomatic.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm sorry to say,

is Hiba and Carl.

-OK.

-Oh, dear, oh, dear.

Did you have those other cities? You were talking about Dundee.

We had Edinburgh and Glasgow but we thought they'd be right there,

so it was between Aberdeen and Dundee

and unfortunately for me, we went for Aberdeen.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, good luck with that, Carl, by the way.

Well done for getting through to the head-to-head.

You've been fantastic contestants. I'm sorry we have to say goodbye.

APPLAUSE

But for Andy and Paul it's now time for our Pointless final

and a chance to win £1,250.

Well, congratulations, Andy and Paul. You have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Now, however, you have a chance to win the jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,250.

To win the money, all you have to do is find a Pointless answer,

an answer that no-one else could think of.

We have had one pointless on the show today.

You have to find one more to go home with that money.

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

Your choices are:

American football, childhood pastimes, sitcoms.

THEY CONFER

-What about childhood pastimes?

-Go on, then. We'll try that.

Neither of us are American football fans in any respect.

I think we'll take a really strange one and go for childhood pastimes.

OK, good reasoning to get thus far.

OK. Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Brownie and Cub badges as they could.

Richard? Yeah. We're looking for any individual specific activity badge,

which can be earned by a Brownie or a Cub

between the ages of 7 and 10.

So any of the individual activity badges

that can be won by Cubs or Brownies.

We're just looking for Brownie and Cub activity badges.

OK, you now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that £1,250 is for one of those answers,

just one of them, to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

-I think we've got to look at fisherman.

-Yeah.

That's going to be very low, I think.

-Erm... We've also got to look at cook.

-Yeah.

And I think, even though it might have been Scouts,

-maybe archer - archery.

-I'd go with that, yes.

-Go on, then.

-Happy?

-Yeah, yeah.

OK, you've come up with your three.

-Fishing?

-Yeah. I don't know what they call it.

-Fisherman.

-Fishing badge or angler's badge.

-Something like that.

-Fishing, angler's badge. OK.

-Cook.

-Cook.

-Yeah, cook.

-Cook's badge.

-And what was the third? I can't remember.

-Archery.

Archer. Or something to do with archery, yeah.

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

I think the fisherman's badge. It certainly existed when I was a cub.

-OK.

-So unless... Because I've got it.

-Still got it. Andy's still got it.

-After all these years.

OK, so we'll put fisherman last.

Which one shall we put up first?

-I think the cook is probably the least...

-OK, so cook, archer

and fisherman.

There they are.

So, Andy, you were a cub?

-Yeah, yeah, and I was a fisherman as well.

-Really?

Yeah. I did archery as well

but I don't remember whether there was a badge.

-Surely there was. Surely. There must have an archery badge.

-There must.

-Paul, were you...?

-No, I did none of that, no, no.

OK. We were looking for cubs' badges.

This was your least confident answer but only one needs to be pointless,

only one of them, for you to win that £1,250 jackpot.

OK. Let's see how many people said cook

and if that is a correct answer.

It is correct.

This was your least confident answer.

Down it goes, down it goes.

It has to go down to pointless for you to win that £1,250 jackpot.

APPLAUSE It doesn't go all the way down.

It stops at 10. We knew it would stop somewhere.

It was your least confident answer.

-That surprised me. I thought it would be a lot higher than that.

-It's looking good for the other two.

-If they exist any more.

-If they exist any more.

Surely they must, they must.

OK, that's not a pointless answer, obviously.

You only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

We're looking for Cub and Brownie badges.

OK, let's see how your second answer fares.

You got 10 with cook.

Your second answer, archer. This has to be pointless to win the jackpot.

Let's see if it is a correct answer

and if it is, let's see how many people said archer for £1,250.

-That surprises me.

-Bad luck. Archer.

Out of the running. An incorrect answer, so not a pointless answer.

Which means you only have one final chance to win today's jackpot.

We're looking for Cub and Brownie badges.

This was the answer you said you had the most faith in.

This has to be pointless.

Your third and best answer. Fisherman.

This for the jackpot of £1,250.

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

THEY GROAN Oh, no!

-Oh, well.

-Oh, well. Don't worry, mate.

Unfortunately, that is also an incorrect answer,

so you didn't manage to find a pointless answer,

so you don't walk away with the jackpot of £1,250,

which will roll over to the next show.

But you have been amazing and you do take home our Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

So, Richard, what has become of the Cubs and Brownies?

Well, angling and archery are Scout badges, not Cub badges, which is tough luck.

Let's take a look at some of the more unusual pointless ones we've got.

Any of these would have won you money. Book reader badge.

Circus performer badge.

Er, crime prevention.

LAUGHTER

CSI Akela.

Let's take a look at a few more.

This is what your kids are doing, by the way, just so you know.

Global conservation. That's quite nice.

Navigator, watersports.

Brownie skills. That's a Cub badge.

Discovering faith is a badge and astronomer is also a badge.

Tough luck, guys. Three good answers and there were plenty of pointless ones out there.

Well, unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Andy and Paul.

-Thank you so much for playing.

-Thanks.

-Thanks.

APPLAUSE

Nobody's won our jackpot today, so it rolls over.

That means on the next show, we'll be playing for £2,250.

AUDIENCE WHOOPING

Join us next time to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And from me. Goodbye.

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