Episode 35 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You're very kind, and thank you. Hello. I'm Alexander Armstrong and this is Pointless,

the quiz show where obscurity counts for everything and high scores count for nothing.

Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

So we start by welcoming back Hannah and Antoinette.

Everyone gets two shots at the Pointless final and this is your second and final shot.

-Remind us how you did last time.

-We did quite well.

-We got to round three.

-You did.

-The head-to-head.

-Yes.

You covered yourself in politics, that's what you covered yourself in, Antoinette.

-Yes.

-That's all right.

-What was your degree?

-International Relations and Politics.

-And what was the thing you didn't know the answer to?

-The SDP.

-Yeah.

-But, you know...

-Oh, well.

-Technically, Hannah should have known since that's history as well.

-Oh, great. Thanks.

-Exactly.

-Exactly, Hannah.

-Blame shared.

Yeah. Blame shared.

-No, you'd forgotten all about that until I brought it up just now.

-Yes.

OK. And welcome to Moira and Maddie. How do you two know each other?

Hello. We're sisters. Maddie's my older sister.

Older sister. And where have you come from?

-Banbury in Oxfordshire.

-From Banbury in Oxfordshire.

Now, one of you two was on the winning team of Crufts.

-Yes. That's me.

-Right.

-Yes.

-Fantastic. Dogs is very much your thing.

-We do dog agility.

-How many dogs have you got between you?

-Eight.

-Eight.

Who's looking after them now?

Husbands.

Well, very best of luck to you this afternoon.

And welcome back to Peter and Adam. You were also on the show last time. Remind us how you did.

Well, we got to the second round and it was my fault.

I was very, very confident, and it turned out that my confidence was misplaced,

-so I'm here to rectify that today.

-Very good. Adam, you forgiven him?

Not quite, unfortunately.

OK. Well, very best of luck. And finally we've got Ian and Roy.

-How do you two know each other?

-We're former colleagues. We met 15 years ago.

What were you doing 15 years ago together?

I was in sales, and Ian was the finance director.

Well, very best of luck to you and welcome to the show.

We'll find out more about all of you as the show goes on. There is just one more person for me to introduce.

He is a man who is a walking hard drive of obscure data.

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

-Hiya.

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A walking hard drive of data.

-That doesn't sound good, does it? That sounds sort of arrestable.

-Doesn't it?

-Yeah.

-At least.

-But also, since when I do walk on this show?

We've done like 90 something, and no-one's ever seen my legs.

-Yeah.

-Apart from you. You can see them.

-I can see them.

-That's why you look distracted sometimes.

What sort of show have we got?

Two returning pairs today. It's very important to have teamwork.

I asked Hannah and Antoinette, "How are you going to get on?"

Hannah said, "Out in the first round," and Antoinette said, "We'll win."

So I suspect they'll lose somewhere in between the second and third round.

But I think question one might favour the older pairs, and you know who you are.

Intriguing. Right, we've put our questions to 100 people before the show,

but 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,

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

an answer that none of our 100 people gave.

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

Now, nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000 to that,

so today's jackpot starts off at £3,000.

APPLAUSE

Yes, indeed. Let's play Pointless.

Now, 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.

OK. Our first category this afternoon is...

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Beano characters as they could.

Beano characters, Richard.

Yeah. All the correct answers in this round will have featured in their own strip in the Beano comic.

OK.

Right. Hannah and Antoinette, you all drew lots before the show, and today you get to go first.

Now, in this round, we're going to give you a choice of seven possible answers on the board in each pass.

The first set of seven answers reads like this.

Let me just read those again.

Now, I can tell you that there is at least one pointless answer on that board.

There is also at least one incorrect answer.

Say an incorrect answer and you will score the maximum of 100 points.

-Now, Antoinette, you were grinning then.

-With fear.

-Really?

-Yes. Sadly I didn't read the Beano.

-You didn't read the Beano?

-No.

But I'm going to take a guess.

Lord Snooty.

-Lord Snooty. Have you heard of Lord Snooty?

-No.

This is a complete shot in the dark.

OK. Well, we are looking for Beano characters.

Antoinette is saying Lord Snooty.

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

It's right.

That's a fantastic answer, Antoinette. Well done.

Scores you nine.

-Richard.

-Yeah. Very good way to start, Antoinette.

He appeared in the first ever edition of the Beano, 1938.

His full name is Lord Marmaduke of Bunkerton.

-Maddie.

-Hello.

-Maddie, did you ever read the Beano?

No. I read Bunty.

-Not much help, eh?

-Not much help, but do any of the things there sound likely?

Yes. But they might have been in something else.

-OK.

-Oh, dear.

I'm going to go for Calamity James.

Calamity James. OK. Calamity James.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said Calamity James as a Beano character.

It's right.

Brilliant! A brilliant answer.

Calamity James scores you one.

-Richard.

-Yeah. Strip of a boy with disastrous luck.

Calamity James, first appeared in 1986.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Adam, we're looking for Beano characters.

-I did read the Beano when I was a kid.

-There we are.

And I was 100% sure of Calamity James until it was just said,

so now I'm going to have to play safe with the Bash Street Kids.

OK. We've had scores of nine and one.

Adam is going for the Bash Street Kids. Let's see if that's a correct answer.

If it is, let's see if any of our 100 people didn't say the Bash Street Kids.

It's right.

31. That's not a terrible score, actually.

Not a terrible score at all. Richard.

A quite surprisingly low score, one of the better known strips in the Beano.

Cloak, Toots, Smiffy, Fatty, Spotty, various others. The kids of Class 2B.

Is it 2B or not 2B?

Oh, it was 2B. It was 2B.

-LAUGHTER

-Very good.

Thank you very much, Richard. Well, we are looking for Beano characters.

Ian, you are the last person to have this selection.

-There is still at least one pointless answer on that board.

-I've got a bit of a dilemma now.

Well, on the basis that the Dennis answer's probably going to be quite high-scoring anyway,

I might as well have a bit of a punt at one of the others.

I did read the Beano, but it was so long ago. I've got a faint recollection for Irma Gobb.

I'm not really sure why, but I think on balance I'll have a go for Irma Gobb.

Irma Gobb.

It's a pretty name(!)

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

Irma Gobb. If this is right, I suspect it goes a long way down.

Bad luck. Unfortunately, Irma Gobb is an incorrect answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Bad luck, Ian. Sorry.

Yeah. Tough luck, Ian. You've got to take a chance every now and again.

Irma Gobb is actually Mr Bean's sort of on-off girlfriend in the films and the animated shows.

Let's look at the rest, see what perhaps you should have said.

Obviously, Dennis The Menace is a high scorer, would have scored 71 points.

Billy The Cat, crime-fighting boy, used to help the police catch crooks.

Yeah, that would have scored you one point.

And Tom Thumb is a pointless answer.

Well done if you said Tom Thumb, about a six inch boy.

Thank you, Richard. Let's look at the scores.

We're halfway through the round.

Well, we've covered pretty much all the bases,

from Moira and Maddie on a fantastic one point there.

Maddie, brilliant, brilliant answer from you.

All the way up, I'm afraid, to Ian and Roy on 100. Ian, bad luck.

We're going to come back down the line. Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

OK. We're going to put another seven answers up on the board.

We're looking for Beano characters. Our next seven reads like this.

Let me read those again.

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

and also at least one of those answers is incorrect, so try and avoid those incorrect ones.

-Now then, Roy, you're on 100. You're way out in front there.

-Thank you.

But if you can find a pointless answer and someone else maybe scores 100,

you might still be with us next round.

-That's the plan.

-Did you read the Beano?

I did, but many, many years ago.

Do you remember anything about the Beano?

The obvious answers, yeah, which are not going to help us this round.

Not going to help you this round, no.

Again, I'm going to have to take a risk, I think, one that's, I think, maybe right.

I'm going to go with Baby Face Finlayson.

Baby Face Finlayson. Do you remember Baby Face Finlayson?

Rings a bell, but I'm not sure again if it's the right comic. I don't know, it's a guess.

-Maybe it's from the Dandy?

-HE SPITS

Anyway, let's find out. You're on 100. There's no red line for you.

You've got to hope you score as low as possible.

Let's see if Baby Face Finlayson is correct, and if it is,

let's see how many people said it. Baby Face Finlayson.

It's right.

Going to go quite a long way down.

Oh, Roy, well done.

It's not quite a Pointless, but it's almost. That scores you one.

Takes your total up to 101. Richard.

Yeah. Great answer. He was a Wild West outlaw who just happened to be in a pram, happened to be a baby.

Very good. Peter. So we are looking for Beano characters.

You are on 31. If you can score 69 or less with this answer, you are through to the next round.

69 or less. Do you read the Beano? Did you read the Beano?

-I did. Yes.

-Do you remember lots of people from the Beano?

I remember a celebration of the 2,000th issue or something,

which had a copy of the first ever Beano's cover, which featured Big Eggo,

so that's my answer. I think it'll do well.

I think it'll do fantastically well. What do you think, Adam?

-If he says so, yeah. That's fine.

-Well, there's your red line.

If the Big Eggo gets you below that red line, you are in the next round.

Let's see if it's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said it. The Big Eggo.

It's right.

You're through to the next round.

Look at that!

Very well done, Peter.

That's a Pointless answer, it adds £250 to today's jackpot,

taking the total up to £3,250,

and it scores you nothing, giving you a total of 31.

Very, very good answer, and as Peter rightly says, he was on the cover of the very, very first Beano.

Was on the cover for ten years until he was ousted by Biffo The Bear.

Very sad. Peter, thank you very much for that Pointless.

I don't know why I'm thanking you,

but on behalf of whoever wins that jackpot,

you've just added 250 quid to it.

Right, now, Moira. We are looking for Beano characters.

You are on one,

thanks to Maddie's fantastic answer in the first pass.

There may well be another pointless answer on the board. There is definitely an incorrect answer.

How good is your Beano knowledge?

There's two that are familiar, but I don't know what comic they're from,

so I'm going to say Minnie The Minx.

Minnie The Minx.

Here is your red line.

Just below the pink line. If Minnie The Minx gets you below that, you are through to the next round.

Minnie the Minx, let's see if it's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

There we are. 32. Not a bad answer at all.

Takes your total up to 33.

-Minnie the Minx.

-Yeah. Safely through.

An eight-year-old girl warrior who loved beating up boys.

-Good. OK.

-Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing at all wrong with that.

OK. Now then, Hannah, you are on nine.

If you can score 91 or less, 91 or less, you're through to the next round.

I read the Beano every week,

and I had a big collection of it in the garage

until my mum made me throw out a lot of them

because it was taking over the garage.

-She parked the car in there or something?

-Probably.

So I'm not sure about Major Misunderstanding or Count Bezukhov.

I've heard of Billy Whizz, but I'm not sure if that was the Dandy, so I'm going to say Roger The Dodger.

Roger the Dodger. OK. That's what you're saying.

There's your red line. If you come below that red line, you are through

to the next round and we'll be saying goodbye to Roy and Ian.

OK. Let's see if Roger The Dodger is right, and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's right. It's good enough.

Roger the Dodger. Very good score.

Scores you seven and takes your total up to 16.

-Richard.

-Yeah. Roger The Dodger.

Sort of like a male Minnie The Minx in a lot of ways, wasn't he?

And they appeared in the same year, actually, for the first time in 1953.

Is he still around, Roger the Dodger?

-Yeah, he is. He's still in the Beano.

-I bet he doesn't get slippered any more.

-No. Probably doesn't, does he?

-No.

-No. He probably gets...

Just encouraged.

LAUGHTER

Let's take a look at the rest.

Billy Whizz, as Hannah says, actually is from the Beano, but would have been a fairly good 15.

And out of those two, Alexander, do you think those are Beano characters or not Beano characters?

-I think they're both from something else.

-You are quite right.

Major Misunderstanding is from Viz, and Count Bezukhov is from Tolstoy's War And Peace.

-There we are.

-Both of those are incorrect.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

So the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score is Ian and Roy.

Dear oh dear oh dear. And you being Beano readers and everything.

-Yeah. It's age.

-Yeah, I know.

That's the trouble, isn't it? That's the trouble.

You'll be coming back. Everyone gets two shots.

What have you learnt, tactically, from your first all too brief appearance on Pointless?

Not to trust him!

Ah, well. Well, whatever you have learnt, I'm sure

it will set you in very good stead for next time you're on the show.

Anyway, you've been fantastic contestants. Sorry to say goodbye so soon, but thanks for playing.

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

It's time to find out which teams will be going to the head-to-head for the chance to reach the final.

The category for round two is...

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and who's going to go second?

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

And the question is...

LAUGHTER

Yeah. Famous Williams.

Obvious. In this round, we're about to show you some famous Williams.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to tell us their surnames.

-Richard.

-Yeah. We're going to describe six different people, all of them called William.

You've got to tell us what their surname is.

Some of them are quite obscure, and those will score you very low points.

-If you give us an incorrect answer you'll score 100 points.

-Good luck.

First six Williams are...

Let me read those Williams out one more time.

OK. Hannah, we are looking for the surnames of these famous Williams.

I should know the Oscar one but I don't,

so I'm going to hope that my GCSE biology was OK,

and say the physician who discovered blood circulation is William Harvey.

William Harvey. OK. Blood circulation, William Harvey.

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

It's right.

Very good answer.

That scores you three points.

-Richard.

-Yeah. Great answer, Hannah. He first showed some of these things in 1628.

He's the first person to work out that veins and arteries and things

were one way, and the heart was pumping blood through the body.

Very good. OK. Moira, we are looking for the surnames of these famous Williams.

I'm going to go for the first Dr Who, William Hartnell.

William Hartnell.

First Dr Who. Let's hope that's right, and if it is, let's see how many people knew it.

William Hartnell.

40.

William Hartnell getting 40 there.

Yeah. Pretty big score. Lots of Dr Who fans out there.

He was the Doctor from 1963 to '66,

-and they've been getting progressively younger ever since.

-They sure have.

OK. Peter, we are looking for the surnames of these famous Williams.

What do you think?

Are any there that are jumping out at you?

I don't know the victor at the Battle Of Stirling Bridge, but the founder of Microsoft is obviously Bill Gates,

but that's probably quite a high-scoring one.

I didn't know the husband of Obama's first US Secretary Of State right away,

but that's Bill Clinton, so that's probably quite high as well.

So I'm going to have to go with the eight-time Oscar host and actor, Billy Crystal.

Billy Crystal, you are saying.

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

It is correct.

Good score. Look at that. Well done.

That scores you six.

-Billy Crystal.

-Yeah.

Very good score there from Peter, and he's been through most of these.

Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, would have got you a fairly hefty 75.

And of course, Obama's first Secretary Of State is Hillary Clinton,

and her husband Bill would have got you 33.

-Now, do you know the victor at the Battle Of Stirling Bridge?

-Wallace.

William Wallace. Exactly right. 17 points.

OK. We're halfway through the round, so let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

Hannah, great answer there. Three points.

William Harvey. Fantastic.

Peter and Adam, another great score there. Nice bit of deduction.

Moira and Maddie, 40 isn't a bad score. It just is in this instance.

You are way ahead, 34 points ahead of your nearest rival.

Yes, I'm afraid, Maddie, the onus is on you in the second pass

to come up with as low a score as you possibly can.

Let's hope there are some that you know. We're going to come back down the line.

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

OK. We're going to put six more famous Williams on the board, and here they are.

Let me read those one more time.

Remember, we are looking for the surnames of these famous Williams,

and you are trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. Now then, Adam,

-any of those Williams jumping out at you?

-Not really.

I'm struggling a lot in this round.

I may have to go for the most obvious answer of the whole round, because I don't know the other five.

-OK.

-Yes. So I will go for the playwright born in

Stratford-upon-Avon as William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare.

You are on six at the moment. You want to be scoring 33 or less.

There is your red line. Below that you're through.

Above that red line, who knows.

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

It's a high score.

92 people. That scores you 92, takes your total up to 98. Richard.

Yes. Sort of quite a reassuringly high score that, isn't it, although not for Adam, I do accept that.

Right, Maddie, we are looking for the surnames of these famous Williams.

You are on 40. You were the high scorers.

You now have to score 57 or less. 57 or less with this answer and you are through to the head-to-head.

-Williams.

-Well, yes, sadly there's only one I know on there now.

So I'm hoping it won't get too many points,

and that's the writer of I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud,

and I think that's William Wordsworth.

There's your red line. If you come below that red line,

William Wordsworth will have got you through to the next round.

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

It's right.

Oh, and look at that, it just gets you through.

Very good. That scores you 50. Takes your total up to 90.

-Richard.

-Yes, a slightly less reassuringly low score there for Wordsworth.

-Yeah.

-50 points, half and half.

So then, Antoinette, you are on three. Thanks to Hannah's brilliant answer, William Harvey,

you have to score 94 or less to be through to the head-to-head.

Which sounds easy, but the only two that I was certain of have now gone.

Not surprisingly, I don't know the British PM.

No, why would you(?) It's not like you're a Politics graduate or anything.

International Relations. No, that's right.

So, I don't know the director of Ben-Hur.

I don't know TJ Hooker.

Now, the only William I can actually think of is William Shatner,

so hopefully he was the actor who played Dr Cliff Huxtable.

-OK.

-Long shot, I know.

William Shatner, Dr Cliff Huxtable.

Let's see if that's right.

Here is your red line. It's there.

Let's see if William Shatner is the answer you really wanted it to be,

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

No. Bad luck, Antoinette.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

It scores you 100 points, and it takes your total up to 103. Richard.

Antoinette, there's lots of different ways of getting wrong answers on this show,

and you've picked one of the more spectacular ones in that

you know there's an actor called William Shatner,

you've looked at the board that says the word actor, but it says the word actor down the bottom as well,

where it says actor/recording artist TJ Hooker, and that's William Shatner.

Oh!

So sorry, would have scored you 36 points and would have seen you into the next round. That is tough luck.

The actor who played Dr Cliff Huxtable is from the Cosby Show.

It's Bill Cosby, was Cliff Huxtable.

And the British PM who served four separate terms, why on earth a politics graduate would know that,

I don't know, it's an unfair question to ask you. It's, Alexander?

-Gladstone?

-William Gladstone, yep, would have scored you 13 points.

And the director of Ben-Hur?

I don't know.

William Wyler is the answer, and that would have scored you five points, so well done if you got that.

OK. Thanks, Richard. So at the end of round two

the losing pair with the highest score is Hannah and Antoinette.

-I thought you were through there.

-Halfway there.

We got Richard's prediction right of getting out in the middle.

Hannah, are you a seething mass of fury, or are you a forgiving kind of person?

Earlier we were doing a crossword and one of the answers was William Wyler,

but I'll forgive her, it's fine.

I suspect there'll be quite a few cross words between you.

No, it's fine.

-I'm not angry.

-Not angry.

-Can't be angry at her.

-No, you can't. You can't.

Well, I'm so sorry. This is your second and final chance on the show, so I'm afraid this time

it really is goodbye. It's been lovely having you on the show.

Thanks for playing. Great contestants.

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

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

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

which currently stands at £3,250.

GASPING AND APPLAUSE

You're now going to go head-to-head on the best of three questions. You are now allowed to confer.

All you have to do each time is give an answer

that scores less than your opposing pair and you will win that question.

The first team to win two questions will be through to the final and be playing for today's jackpot.

OK. Let's play Pointless.

So here is your first question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many of Robin Hood's merry men as they could. Robin Hood's merry men.

-Richard.

-Yeah. We're looking for any of Robin Hood's ten merry men.

There is a merry woman as well but we won't accept her, just any of his ten merry men.

OK. Moira and Maddie, because you've played best throughout the show so far you get to go first.

So we are looking for Robin Hood's merry men.

I can think of some.

-Little John.

-Friar Tuck.

-A little bit obvious.

-Think of any that aren't so obvious.

-Allan A Dale.

I like that one.

-Yeah. Let's go for that that.

-I've never heard of it!

OK. Maddie's named one Moira's never heard of.

Allan A Dale.

Allan A Dale. Sounds like a sort of weekend Radio Two presenter.

LAUGHTER

OK. Peter and Adam, we are looking for one of Robin Hood's merry men.

Well, the only one I was thinking of, Will Scarlet.

I was thinking of Will Scarlet. Will Scarlet.

Will Scarlet. Peter and Adam say Will Scarlet. OK. Moira and Maddie said Allan A Dale.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said Allan-A-Dale.

-It's right!

-Never heard that one.

Never, never, never...

And Peter and Adam have gone for Will Scarlet.

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

33.

So after the first question, it is 1-0 to Moira and Maddie.

-Moira, you were saying you've never heard of it.

-No.

Think of it as Allan Airdale, and now you'll never forget it. Richard.

Yeah. Very good answer, Allan A Dale. And the merry woman is Ellen A Dale, as well.

Let's take a look at all of the list.

-Wat O' The Crabstaff.

-Wat, indeed.

Wat The Tinker, they used to call him.

He was a pointless answer. Very well done if you got him.

Will Scathelock, that was a pointless answer.

David Of Doncaster, he was one point.

Arthur A Bland, that's two points.

He's also known as Arthur The Tanner.

Will Stutely, that would have scored you two points.

Some of the better-known ones here.

Midge The Miller's Son would have scored you five.

Allan A Dale there with 12. Will Scarlet, 33.

And two big scores up the top there.

Friar Tuck with 54,

and Little John with 69.

OK. Peter and Adam, if you want to stay in this game, you have to get this point.

Moira and Maddie, you win this point, you are straight through to the final

and a chance to play for that £3,250. OK. Here is your second question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

Units of electricity. Richard.

We're looking for any of the many different terms to describe

units that measure the property of electricity in electrical circuits.

We will accept widely used basic and derived units,

but prefixes such as mega and milli won't be allowed,

so it's just the basic units of electricity that are widely used.

OK. Thanks, Richard. Peter and Adam, you are to go first this time.

I'm going to say the ohm, the unit of resistance.

OK. Ohm. Unit of resistance.

Moira and Maddie, you can talk out loud if you like.

It's over to Moira. I have no idea.

We've got amps, amperes, volts. We've got watts.

We've got possibly hertz, I don't know,

cos it would be megahertz, or would it be hertz? I don't know.

-Can you think of any more?

-No.

It's up to you.

I'd take a gamble and go for hertz.

OK. We have ohm and we have hertz.

Peter and Adam, you have to win this point to stay in the game.

Simple as that.

Peter and Adam said ohm. Let's see if that's correct, and if it is, let's see how many people said ohm.

It's right.

31.

So then, Moira and Maddie, you've taken a gamble. You've said hertz.

If this is right,

and it beats 31, you are through to the final.

Let's see if it's a right answer, and if it is, let's see how many people said it. Hertz.

Oh, hertz is good.

Yep. Wow. Look at that. 13.

A great answer as it turns out and after the second question,

Moira and Maddie are straight through to the final, 2-0. Richard, hertz.

Yeah. Very, very good answer. Sorry, Peter and Adam, you're going ohm.

LAUGHTER

There were some answers that would have beaten hertz, four pointless answers here as well.

Let's take a look at some of them.

There's the henry.

There's the farad, which is the metrical unit of electrical capacitance.

But henry's a unit of what?

I'll tell you what the henry is if you want to know.

-Do you know, I really don't, actually.

-Yeah.

It would take me a long time to read.

It's the unit of inductance equal to the self-inductance of a circuit

or the mutual inductance of two circuits

in which the variation of one ampere per second results in an induced electromotive force of one volt.

One volt, yes. That's right, yeah.

-Pretty much exactly what I thought it was.

-That's the henry.

The fara, there's the weber,

which is the SI unit of magnetic flux, of course.

The siemens, which is the metric unit of electrical conductance.

-Don't need to tell you that.

-No.

Very well done if you got any of those at home. All pointless answers.

The tesla would have scored you one.

The coulomb would have scored you three.

There's hertz on 13.

There's ohm on 31. Volt on 40.

Watt on 51.

And ampere, or amp, on 54.

OK. Thank you very much, Richard.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, it's Peter and Adam.

Peter and Adam, we just didn't have the categories that you knew.

No. It didn't go for us, didn't get what we wanted.

Who's going to carry the can for this?

No-one in this one.

We just got unfortunate.

You've done fantastically well at getting this far, but we have to say goodbye.

Only one pair can go through to our Pointless final,

but thanks very much for playing, Peter and Adam. Great contestants. Thank you.

But for Moira and Maddie, it's now time for our Pointless final and the chance to win £3,250.

So congratulations, Moira and Maddie, you've seen off all the competition and you have won

our coveted Pointless trophy. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Well, you now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £3,250.

GASPING AND APPLAUSE

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

That's an answer that no-one else could think of.

We have had one pointless answer today. You just have to find one more to go home with that money.

First though, you've got to choose a category, and you can choose from these three options.

We have golf, pop music and dog breeding.

No, I'm joking. I'm joking. And reality TV.

-Not golf.

-Discount golf straight away.

-But not music either.

-Reality TV.

-Shall we do reality TV?

-What are you better at?

-Probably reality TV.

-OK. Yeah. Yeah.

-Reality TV.

-Yeah.

-Through a process of elimination. OK.

Let's find out what the question is.

Good luck. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many celebrity Apprentices as they could.

Celebrity Apprentices. Richard.

Yeah. We're looking for any celebrity who's appeared on any of the Sports Relief or Comic Relief versions

of Celebrity Apprentice, prior to June 2010.

You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers. All you need to win that £3,250

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Your 60 seconds start now.

-Any idea?

Can you think of anyone?

Did the Top Gear guys do it?

-Did they do it?

-No idea. I just remember seeing a lot of women, and they were arguing.

-Oh, what was her name?

-What was she in? What was she in?

I can't remember.

She stormed off.

Do you remember? She stormed off and they had to bring her back on again.

Oh, what was her name?

They made the cakes and the things to sell.

I can't remember any of this, to be honest.

I really can't remember any of it. 21 seconds. 21 seconds.

Three names. Abi Titchmarsh, shall we say somebody like that?

-Yeah.

-Abi Titchmarsh.

-Abi Titchmarsh.

-Say one of the ones off...

-Richard Hammond.

And think of a third one.

-Lenny Henry.

-Lenny Henry, yeah.

OK. Stop the clock. Right, you have three answers.

We are looking for celebrity Apprentices.

Now I need your three answers.

What are they?

Clearly, we have no idea.

-Abi Titchmarsh.

-Abi Titchmarsh.

-Lenny Henry.

-Lenny Henry.

-And Richard Hammond.

-And Richard Hammond.

If you had to pick one of those to be your most confident shot at the pointless answer, which would it be?

-Richard Hammond.

-Richard Hammond.

-Which is your least likely pointless?

-Lenny Henry.

OK. So let's put them up in reverse order of confidence.

OK. There they are on the board.

We were looking for celebrity Apprentices.

This was your least confident answer.

You only need one of these to be pointless to win that £3,250 jackpot.

Let's hope nobody said your first answer, Lenny Henry.

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

Bad luck. Bad luck. Unfortunately, Lenny Henry is an incorrect answer so therefore not pointless.

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

We're looking for celebrity Apprentices.

You have said Abi Titchmarsh as your second answer.

Eat my hat.

Do you think she's related to Alan Titchmarsh?

Did we mean Titmuss?

SHE LAUGHS

-That's who we meant!

-I think you mean Abi Christmas.

LAUGHTER

OK. Abi Titchmarsh is what you said.

-I did.

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

Abi Titchmarsh. For £3,250.

I'm hardly surprised!

Bad luck.

There's still Richard.

There's always Richard Hammond.

There he is. He's a small man.

Maybe didn't attract too much attention when the 100 people

were sitting down to rack their brains about celebrity Apprentices.

This is your last chance to win £3,250. What do you reckon?

-No! Red cross.

-Let's see if it's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said Richard Hammond.

Oh, no.

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer,

so you don't win today's jackpot of £3,250, which rolls over to the next show,

but you have been fantastic, and you do get to take home our Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

-Have you now remembered who it was?

-I've remembered one.

-Who?

The girl out of Birds Of A Feather.

-You haven't remembered it then, have you?

-I can't remember her name.

I know someone who knows all these things. Richard.

Well, I think maybe the person who stormed out, was it Patsy Palmer you were thinking of?

-Yes.

-Stormed out, had rows with lots of the other...

-She had rows with everyone.

-She did a bit, yeah.

If you had said Patsy Palmer you would have won the money, because she was a pointless answer.

There are lots of pointless answers. Let's look at a few.

Cheryl Cole has been a celebrity Apprentice.

Rupert Everett, who left after one day. Lisa Snowdon.

Karren Brady, who's now Sir Alan's right-hand man. Patsy Palmer, there we go.

Nick Hancock, They Think It's All Over but there's another page to go.

Phil Tufnell was a pointless answer, as were Ross Kemp and Trinny Woodall.

Well, unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Moira and Maddie,

but you have been fantastic. Great fun having you on the show. Thanks so much for playing. Thank you.

So nobody's won our jackpot today, so it rolls over again,

which means on the next show we'll be playing for £4,250.

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

-It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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