Episode 46 Pointless

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Thank you very much. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to Pointless where the biggest winners are the lowest scorers. Let's meet today's players.

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Welcome back, Joe and Amelia. You were on the show last time.

We give everyone two chances to reach the Pointless final. Remind us how you did.

We got to the head-to-head. We sort of got there a bit flukily,

but we went out on a Eurovision question which we should have got, but we're going to do our best.

Very best of luck to the pair of you. Adam and Simon, this is your second time.

-Remind us how you did.

-Terribly. We went out first round.

-It was a question about airports. I picked Norwich and that's not big enough.

-Not big enough at all.

-What are you going to do about that?

-Win this time.

-And we're moving to Norwich Airport, in and out to make it bigger for next time.

-Good luck with that.

What a selfless act that is!

Barking mad! Very best of luck to the pair of you.

We welcome Karen and Anthony to the show. How do you know each other?

Karen is my mother. I'm her middle child.

-Middle child. What have you got on either side?

-An older brother and a younger sister.

-Who are you closest in age to?

-My older brother. Not by a lot, but just about.

Do you team up with him? Your poor little sister!

-No, they gang up on me, really.

-Really? That's fine. Poor you!

-She's not little.

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

Finally, we've got Allan and Ian. How do you two know each other?

Our daughters were best friends at school and, well, we've grown to love each other.

-Aw! Are your daughters still friends?

-Yes, they are.

-That's fantastic.

-What do you do for a living, Allan?

-I'm retired now.

Prior to that, I used to work on heavy trucks, lorries, wagons,

but within the petroleum and chemical industry.

-And Ian, what about you?

-I'm a master baker, second generation.

-Second generation?

-I'm fiercely proud of it.

-And you should be.

-Thank you.

-What do you have to do to become a master baker?

-You have to be very clever, resourceful and innovative

and beat the supermarkets at their own game.

-And make something for the Queen?

-We have made cream cakes for the Queen.

-Cream cakes for the Queen?

-Yeah.

Very good. We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show.

There is just one more person to introduce and that is the man

who answers when... obscurity knocks?!

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-He's my pointless friend - he's Richard.

-Hello.

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Apparently, you're behind that door when obscurity knocks.

Yeah, obscurity knocks, I open the door, no-one there.

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-Weird.

We've got two returning pairs. Amelia and Joe did very well, so will be looking to do more.

Simon and Adam, I suspect we haven't seen the best of them.

I'll tell you now for a fact, if I told you all what the first two questions were, you would walk off.

-For a fact.

-All of them?

-Yeah, all of them would just go, "There's no point."

We put all our questions to 100 people before the show,

but we are after the obscure answers that they didn't get,

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

Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer than none of our 100 people gave and if that happens,

we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Nobody's won the jackpot for ages, so we will add another £1,000 to last time's jackpot,

so today's jackpot starts off at £6,000.

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Right, let's play Pointless.

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.

Good luck. Our first category this afternoon is...

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

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

Let's find out what the first question is.

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

-Marsupials, Richard?

-Yeah, all the correct answers in this round are animals classified as marsupials.

The incorrect answers will not be.

Amelia and Joe, you all drew lots before the show and today you get to go first.

We're going to give you a choice of seven answers in each pass.

The first set of seven answers reads like this.

I'll read those out one more time.

There is at least one pointless answer among those seven, but also at least one incorrect answer,

so try and avoid those because if you pick an incorrect one,

you will score the maximum of 100 points.

So, Amelia, did you know what a marsupial was? It's one of those things I can never remember.

-No, not a clue.

-I can never remember, so I'm very grateful that this has come up.

I'm not even sure some of those are real animals.

I think a number of them have been made up. I'm pretty sure the Australians made up the kangaroo.

I'm going to go for a wallaroo.

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

It's right.

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Wallaroo scored you 1 point. Wallaroo.

Yeah, wallaroo is a real animal. It's a heavy-set animal with long, thick, dark, grey hair.

You find them in Australia.

Very good. Thank you very much. Now then, Adam, we are looking for marsupials.

How good are you on marsupials?

I know what a marsupial is, so that's one bonus.

And I know some of them are definitely marsupials.

-I don't want to get 100 points again like I did last time.

-Mm-hm.

I'm going to go for an opossum.

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

Well done, Adam.

Good, down it goes.

Another brilliant answer, Adam.

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Opossum scores you 7.

Well done, Adam. That's more like it. The opossum, more commonly known as the possum,

native to the Americas.

They eat small animals, eggs and fruit, but don't we all?

-You can't blame them, can you?

-No, no.

-Now, Karen, marsupials. There is still a pointless answer on that board.

-Yes.

-Do you think you might be able to truffle it out?

-I was going to go for "opossum".

-I'm going to take a gamble and I'm going to go for the top one, the bandicoot.

-The bandicoot.

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

It's right.

Well done, Karen. This could be going a long way down, I feel.

Brilliant!

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Bandicoot, Karen, brilliant gamble. It's a pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot and it takes the total up to £6,250.

-Best of all, it scores you nothing. Richard?

-Very well done, Karen.

The bandicoot is rabbit-like. It lives in burrows, has a long snout and eats insects.

-But don't we all?

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-Brilliant, Karen. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

-Never heard of it before.

Now, Ian, Ian, Ian...

We are looking for marsupials.

The scores - 1, 7, 0.

There could easily be a pointless answer on that board.

-How good do you think your knowledge of marsupials is?

-It's pretty minimal.

Oh, well...

There is still at least one incorrect answer on there. I have to point that out. What's it to be?

Cuscus.

-Cuscus?

-Yes.

Cuscus, there it is. Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right.

Very good indeed. Look at that.

It is another pointless answer!

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Very well done, Ian. It's a pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to 6,500, and it scores you nothing.

-Richard, cuscus?

-Yeah. What I meant when I said everyone would walk off

is we'll have a spectacularly low-scoring round with plenty of pointless answers.

The cuscus is the size of a cat and lives in a tree which makes it sound cute. It's delicious with couscous!

Let's look at the rest of these. There's a couple of obvious ones.

Kangaroo would have scored you a fairly mighty 67.

The koala would have scored you 34.

Now, as you can see, toadfish, by a process of elimination, is incorrect. Do you know what it is?

It's a dog(!)

No, it's a character from Neighbours - Toadfish.

Also, it says here, "a type of fish".

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

Wow, incredibly low-scoring round!

Who would have thought, Adam and Simon, that your score of 7...

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-..would leave you standing so tall above the parapet?

-It's not looking good again, is it?

Well, it potentially might be fine. But it just means it's game on for the next half of the show.

I mean, fabulous answer from Ian, fabulous answer from Karen.

Great answer from Amelia, great answer from Adam, as it turns out.

OK, we'll come back down the line. Can the second players take their places at the podium?

We're going to put seven more answers on the board. We are looking for marsupials.

And we have got...

I'll read those out one more time.

At least one of those answers is pointless

and there is also at least one incorrect answer among those seven, so try and avoid those or that.

Now then, Allan...

Ian, the hero of the last pass, I would say.

-He's taken the pressure off me a bit.

-He has a bit.

If you can score 6 or less with this answer, you are definitely through to the next round.

I could easily go for one of the obvious ones,

but I don't think that's in the spirit of the game.

I quite like the look of honey mouse. That reminds me of my good lady.

Tasmanian devil dog as well because that's a tattoo that my brother's got.

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Do you ever get the feeling your entire life has been leading to this show?

It's funny you should say that.

Yeah...

-What are you going to go for?

-I'll go for quokka.

OK, there is your red line.

If you can get below that red line with quokka,

you are through to the next round. It does have to be a correct answer.

Only one way to find out if it is correct by asking our 100 people if they said "quokka".

It's right.

Oh, look at that!

-Allan, well done.

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That's a fabulous answer. That scores you just 1 point.

-It gives you a total of 1. Richard?

-Well done, Allan. This terrible scoring continues.

How right I was(!)

-It's a stocky herbivore, the quokka.

-Australian again?

-Australian again, yeah. Absolutely.

-Anthony, your mother scored nothing.

-She did.

-She scored a pointless answer.

-Yes.

If you score 6 or less with this answer, you are definitely through to the next round.

-Simon and Adam, their eyes are boring into the back of you.

-I can feel them. It's burning there.

But I am also drawn to honey mouse.

Everyone is drawn to honey mouse. It's like it's been put there as a trap, like bait.

Knowing that if it comes up with 100, I won't be able to go home tonight,

so I'm going to go for...

-Parndana, I think.

-OK. Parndana.

OK, you are on zero.

-Not for much longer, I feel.

-It might be another pointless.

-Remember, I don't know anything. That much is clear.

-Nor do I.

OK, if you are below that red line, you are definitely through to the next round.

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

No!

I should have gone with the honey mouse.

Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer and it scores you the maximum of 100 points, Anthony.

It takes your total up to 100. Richard?

Yeah, tough luck. Parndana is a town on Kangaroo Island, one of Australia's largest islands.

It's nice to see Karen at least pretend that you'll be allowed to go home tonight, for the cameras.

-The second you're off, she's going to be furious.

-No dinner for me.

-Simon and Adam, you have been thrown a lifeline.

-Haven't we just?

-You were the front-runners on 7.

You are now sitting pretty - 7. You have to score 92 or less with this, Simon.

-92 or less.

-And get it right.

-Yeah.

So, remember, we are looking for marsupials.

My mind's gone blank and I'm convincing myself it's not the correct answer.

-I'm going to say Tasmanian devil.

-At the bottom there.

If Tasmanian devil gets you below that red line, you are through to the next round.

Let's see if anyone said "Tasmanian devil".

Right, you're through.

Oh, wow!

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-That's a brilliant answer, Simon.

It's pointless and it adds another £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to £6,750.

-It scores you nothing. It gives you a total of 7. Richard?

-Very well done, Simon.

-Now almost exclusively found in Tasmania. They're very strong. They often prey on small kangaroos.

-OK.

Joe, you're on 1.

If you can score 98 or less with this answer, you are through to the next round.

Remember, we are looking for marsupials.

I want to go for honey mouse to complete what everyone thinks it might be,

-but I'll be a big, fat coward and say "wombat".

-Amelia, what do you think?

I know it's a real animal, so we're on a winner.

OK, wombat, there it is, one down from the top. Let's see if it's right.

There is your red line there. Just wombat between you and that.

Let's see if it will take you below it. Wombat.

It's right. You're through.

Very good answer.

Wombat scores you 9 and takes your total up to 10.

So, wombat, Richard?

Yeah, exactly the right thing to do, Joe. Safe and sound through...

It's a large, pudgy marsupial, the wombat. Another nocturnal one. Let's look at the rest of the board.

There's an obvious answer - wallaby. Would have scored you a hefty 33.

Of those other two, we've got the famous honey mouse which everyone is obsessed with, but no-one's saying.

And the gillard. One is incorrect, one is pointless. Which way round?

I'm going to go on the barbie principle. "Wham another honey mouse on the barbie."

Of course, that's the pointless.

Is the correct answer. The honey mouse is a marsupial.

You couldn't put a gillard on a barbie, could you?

Julia Gillard is the new Prime Minister of Australia as of 2010.

Still, their fault, isn't it, for having barbecues and making Neighbours all the time.

Thank you, Richard. So at the end of Round 1, the losing pair with the highest score is Karen and Anthony.

Oh, dear. Anthony, you played in the spirit of the game.

-I was going to say "honey mouse" and I thought, "No, it'll be wrong, it's a mouse."

-Honey mouse.

It's such a shame to say goodbye to you so early on, but thanks very much for playing. See you next time.

For the remaining three pairs, it's time for Round 2.

Now we find out which two teams will go through to the head-to-head for the chance to reach the final.

OK, the category for Round 2 is...

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

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

And your Round 2 question concerns...

In this round, we're about to show you the names of the male halves of some Shakespearean couples.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to tell us who their partners are. Richard?

We'll give you six names on each pass. The more obscure ones will score you fewer points.

If you give us an incorrect answer, you'll score 100 points. See if you can get all of them at home.

OK, your first six are...

OK, we are looking for the partners of these Shakespearean characters. Amelia?

Not great, to be honest.

I only know the really obvious ones,

so I'm going to have to go for one of those because I don't want to get it wrong.

I'm going to go for Macbeth, the partner of Macbeth being Lady Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth. Let's see if that's right and if it is,

let's see how many people knew that answer. Lady Macbeth.

Well, it is right.

40s, 30s, look at that. 34, Amelia.

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That's not a bad score and you've now taken that easy option off the board for other people,

-so tactically, good answer. Richard?

-Yes, spectacularly low score for Lady Macbeth.

-Yeah.

-I don't want to spoil Macbeth for you, but it doesn't end well for Lady Macbeth.

-No. Right now, Adam.

We are looking for the partners of these Shakespearean characters. How good is your Shakespeare?

I thought it was a lot better than it obviously is.

It's a tough round, this one.

I can only do Romeo and, obviously, the partner is Juliet.

OK, obviously, the partner, you say, is Juliet.

Well, let's see how many people actually knew that answer - Romeo and Juliet.

Wow!

That is a high score, Romeo and Juliet scoring 97.

Yeah, the original star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.

-Shakespeare based that play on the musical West Side Story.

-That's right.

Now then, Allan...

Allan...

The two really easy ones from the board have gone.

Well, Oberon, I haven't got a clue.

I don't know Sebastian's wife either.

It was Juliet and Lady Macbeth that I would have plumped for,

so I'm just going to take a stab, actually,

and try and go for an old-fashioned name round about that period.

I'm just going to pick a name out of the air and call it Jane

and I'm going to go with...Sebastian.

Sebastian and Jane, a bit of match-making.

If only it was Tarzan this round!

OK, Sebastian and Jane. Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see if anyone said it.

Sebastian and Jane...

Bad luck.

Well, you did what you had to do and sadly, that is an incorrect answer

which scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Richard, Sebastian?

Sebastian was married in Twelfth Night to Olivia.

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

Olivia would have scored you 1 point. Well done if you got Olivia at home.

So, Xander, Othello was married to...?

-Desdemona.

-Exactly right.

Would have scored you a fairly healthy 15.

Oberon married to...?

-Titania.

-It is Titania. They're the king and the queen of the fairies.

-That would have scored you 19 points. Petruchio is married to...?

-I don't know.

-Katherine who is the shrew in Taming Of The Shrew.

-Oh, yes.

That would have scored you 3 points.

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

This makes up for last round with one exception.

Amelia and Joe, very well chosen, Lady Macbeth.

Adam and Simon, Romeo and Juliet, it's three better than a wrong answer.

And Allan, you made up an answer there, but you're not that far ahead.

We'll come back down the line. Can the second players take their places at the podium?

We'll put six more male halves of Shakespearean couples on the board and here they are.

We have got...

One more time.

We are looking for the partners of these Shakespearean characters

and you are trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. Ian...

-I think I know who Troilus might have been married to or who his partner was.

-What are you going to give me?

-Cressida.

-Troilus and Cressida, you are saying. Well, you're on 100.

No red line for you cos you are the high scorers. Troilus and Cressida,

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

It is correct.

Very good, Ian. 17.

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A very good answer. It may yet save your bacon.

-That's a nice, low score. Richard?

-Yes, Troilus and Cressida from the play Troilus And Cressida.

-The clue's in the title.

-OK.

Simon, now, you are on 97.

If you can score 19 or less with this answer, 19 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

-Not a strong point, Shakespeare.

-Not a strong point.

-Did you ever study it? You weren't taught it?

-No.

We weren't educated like that at school.

What are you going to go for, Simon?

-Antony and Cleopatra.

-Antony and Cleopatra. There's your red line.

If you get below it, you are through to the head-to-head.

Antony and Cleopatra - how many people said that?

It's right.

48.

Bad luck, Simon. I'm afraid that didn't score low enough. That's great news for Ian and Allan.

But terrible news, I'm afraid, for you. 145 is your total now. Richard?

Again, Antony And Cleopatra, the name of the play, which Shakespeare based on Carry On Cleo.

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-It's a stage version of that.

So, Joe, here is the good news. It doesn't matter what you say.

You are through to the head-to-head. Even if you score 100 points, you'll never overtake Simon and Adam.

So talk me through the board behind me.

Julius Caesar has deserted me, Benedick, I've no idea.

I'm pretty sure Orlando is from As You Like It.

I've read it, I've seen the play and it's not coming to me, so I'll have to go for Hamlet and Ophelia.

Hamlet and Ophelia. There's no red line for you. You're through, come what may.

So let's see how many people said Hamlet and Ophelia.

Well, it's right.

Good answer, Joe.

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-Hamlet and Ophelia scores you 17, giving you a total of 51. Richard?

Yeah, well played, Joe. Hamlet, very bitter, cynical and melancholy, Ophelia, lovely, sweet and innocent.

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

-Beatrice.

Exactly. That would have scored you 5 points.

-Joe was right about Orlando. It is from As You Like It. He was married to...?

-Rosalind.

-Exactly.

Would have scored you 2 points.

Julius Caesar is a pointless answer. Well done if you got that at home.

-Do you know Julius Caesar's partner?

-I can't remember.

It would have added £250 to the jackpot and it is Calpurnia. Very well done if you got that.

Thanks very much, Richard. At the end of Round 2, the losing pair with the highest score is Adam and Simon.

-Adam, did you study Shakespeare?

-I studied bits of Shakespeare.

-Which bits?

-Not the right bits, obviously.

We say goodbye to you now. It's been your second time on the show.

You've been wonderful contestants. Thank you for playing.

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

We've said goodbye to two teams. It's time to find out which pair will be playing for today's jackpot

which currently stands at £6,750.

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OK, Amelia and Joe, Allan and Ian, you are now going head-to-head on the best of three questions.

You are now allowed to confer.

All you have to do is give an answer that scores less than the opposing pair and you will win that question.

The first pair to win two questions will reach the final to play for the jackpot. Let's play Pointless.

Here's your first question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many alliteratively named US Presidents as they could.

Alliteratively named US Presidents. Richard?

In the history of the US Presidency from 1789 all the way up to 2010,

there have been four US Presidents whose first name and surname have started with the same letter.

We're looking for the most obscure. See if you can get all four at home.

Amelia and Joe, you've played best so far. You go first.

We are looking for alliteratively named US Presidents.

WHISPERING

I can't think of any more, so we're going to have to say Ronald Reagan.

OK, Amelia and Joe have gone with Ronald Reagan.

-Allan and Ian, you can talk out loud.

-What have we got to talk about?

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I really can't think of anything off the top of my head now.

Alliteratively named... Right.

What about LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson?

-I'll go with you, mate, yeah.

-I think we've decided.

OK.

Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson.

OK, you're going to go for Lyndon Johnson.

Amelia and Joe, you've said Ronald Reagan. Let's see if that's correct

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

41.

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So, Allan and Ian, you put forward Lyndon B Johnson.

Let's see if that's correct.

Sadly not. Sadly not.

So, after the first question, it is 1-0 to Amelia and Joe. 1-0.

-Richard?

-Yeah, Ronald Reagan is the most popular answer, but there are three others.

All of these would have won the point.

Calvin Coolidge would have scored 2 points,

Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover both scored 10,

then Ronald Reagan on 41.

OK, here is your second question.

Allan and Ian, you have to win this question, you have to win this point to stay in the game.

Amelia and Joe, if you win this, you are in the final.

OK, we gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

..Welsh cities as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for any of the five cities in Wales.

Cities have to have been granted that status by the crown and that's up to May 2010.

-Any of the five cities in Wales. See if you can get all five at home.

-Thanks, Richard.

Allan and Ian, you go first this time.

WHISPERING

OK, do we have an answer?

-Yeah, we're going to try Caernarfon.

-Caernarfon, OK.

Amelia and Joe? You can talk out loud now.

We know the big ones. Cardiff and Swansea are the answers everyone would give.

There's a football team for Wrexham, but that doesn't mean it's a city.

Aberystwyth has a university which I thought would make it a city.

-We're going to have to go for Aberystwyth.

-We'll take a gamble.

OK, university wins over football team. You'll go for Aberystwyth.

OK, Allan and Ian, let's see if Caernarfon is correct and if it is, how many people said it.

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

Bad luck. That is an incorrect answer. Amelia and Joe are going with Aberystwyth.

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

Oh! There's a lifeline for you, Allan and Ian.

Nobody wins that point. After two questions, it is still 1-0 to Amelia and Joe. Richard?

Yeah, as you say, Cardiff and Swansea are the obvious answers, but let's take a look at all five.

Britain's smallest city is Saint Davids. It would have scored you 10.

Swansea up on 70, Cardiff 97, which is a huge score, but would have won the point here.

OK, here is your third question.

Once again, Allan and Ian, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many actresses who have played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for any actress who has played Miss Marple on terrestrial TV

-or in the cinema prior to May 2010.

-Thank you very much.

Amelia and Joe?

WHISPERING

-We're...

-Sorry, I was trying to think of my own answer there.

-LAUGHTER

I can't remember her name. Amelia and Joe, who are you going to say?

I've got an inkling that Angela Lansbury played her at some point. I know she did Murder, She Wrote.

Angela Lansbury, you are saying. Allan and Ian, Angela Lansbury has gone. Any other...?

Margaret Rutherford comes to mind.

-That's our decision.

-Margaret Rutherford?

-Yeah.

-We have Angela Lansbury and Margaret Rutherford.

Amelia and Joe, this is to see if you get in the final.

If you win this point, you are through to the final.

Let's see if Angela Lansbury is correct and if it is, how many people said it.

It's right.

13.

-Wow!

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That's a very impressive score. What do you think, guys? Do you think that's low enough?

I don't know who Margaret Rutherford is, so that's pretty obscure.

-OK, what do you think, Allan and Ian?

-It's on the edge, on the edge.

-You wouldn't want to call it.

-No.

-Will people remember Margaret Rutherford?

-I did.

That's the problem.

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Now, now... This is to stay in the game. Will Margaret Rutherford do it for you?

Is she right and if she is, how many people said her?

Oh!

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Unfortunately, Margaret Rutherford scores 14. You've been beaten by one point.

Brilliant answer, but Angela Lansbury was one point better.

Amelia and Joe, after three questions, you are through to the final 2-0.

-Richard?

-Those were the top two answers. Let's look at them all.

A couple of pointlesses, but they both played a young Miss Marple in episodes with Geraldine McEwan.

Isabella Parriss and Julie Cox both would have scored you zero,

Helen Hayes with 1, Gracie Fields who played her in 1956 with 2.

There's Geraldine McEwan who played her recently on 6, Julia McKenzie the most recent Miss Marple on 8,

Joan Hickson, who I thought would have scored more, on 10,

Angela Lansbury on 13 and just one point ahead of her, Margaret Rutherford on 14.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head is Allan and Ian. Oh, dear, oh, dear.

-Alliteratively named US Presidents, that was a killer.

-Hoover is the obvious one that we should have got.

-We use it every day(!)

-LAUGHTER

-Who's going to take the blame for this one?

-He is.

You can discuss that all the way home cos you will be back next time.

You've been lovely contestants. You've done so well through to the head-to-head.

A number of pointless answers as well. Thank you so much.

APPLAUSE

But for Amelia and Joe, it's now time for our Pointless final and the chance to win £6,750.

Congratulations, Amelia and Joe. You've fought off the competition to win our coveted Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

I forgot about that.

Now you have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at an impressive £6,750.

APPLAUSE

To win that money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people thought of.

We've had three pointless answers on the show today.

You just need to find one more to win that money.

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

American Sport, Children's Literature, Classic Musicals.

-What do you think?

-I think definitely not musicals.

American Sport, I do know a fair bit, but two heads are better than one.

If we go for American Sport, I'm on my own.

-But Children's Literature, we might as well both have a stab.

-OK.

-Can we have Children's Literature, please?

OK, Children's Literature. Let's find out what the question is.

-What would you like it to be?

-Roald Dahl would be amazing.

-That would be ideal.

Fingers crossed. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many original characters from Peter Pan as they could. Richard?

We're looking for any character who had at least one line in the original JM Barrie play Peter Pan,

first produced in 1904. For obvious reasons, we won't accept Peter Pan,

though I suspect he wouldn't have been pointless.

You have one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that £6,750 is for one of those to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

-Tibbles.

-Who's that?

-Tibbles or Nibbles.

-Who's that?

-He lost his marbles.

-There's the dog, I suppose.

-What's that called? Nanny?

-Nanny, yeah.

-The kids are going to be obvious.

-What was the mum and dad called?

-Mum and Dad.

-I don't know. What was that one you just said?

Nibbles or Tibbles. He lost his marbles. I know that.

What about the Lost Boys? Do we know any of their names?

-Are Indians in the original book?

-Yeah, Tiger...

-Tiger Lily.

That's a really obvious one.

-I can't remember the name... I think it's Hook, Robin Williams in that horrible film.

-Yeah.

-I think it's Tibs or Tibbles.

-We'll have to go for that.

-Tibbles, Tiger Lily...

-And maybe the dog.

-Nanny?

-Yeah.

-Or John.

-John, yeah. OK, whatever.

OK, your minute is up. Oh, dear. It's a tricky category, this one.

We were looking for original characters from Peter Pan. I now need your three answers.

-Tibbles or Tibs. I think it's Tibbles for some reason.

-If that's what you...

-Tibbles.

-Tibbles.

-Tiger Lily.

-Tiger Lily.

-And Nanny.

-And Nanny.

-Which of those is your best shot at a pointless?

-Tibbles.

-Tibbles.

-Then Nanny, then Tiger Lily.

We'll put them up on the board in that order.

There they are. This was your least confident answer. You only need one to be pointless to win that £6,750.

OK, Nanny, your first answer...

Are you confident?

Not at all. Never mind.

OK, well, let's see if it's a correct answer

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

This for £6,750...

Bad luck.

Unfortunately, Nanny is an incorrect answer, so you only have two answers left,

only two more chances to win today's jackpot.

It's from the play. It's from the play, I think, yeah.

What would you spend £6,750 on?

I think we'd take the kids on holiday. Then maybe take ourselves on holiday and leave them behind.

-How many kids have you got?

-Two.

-Two little girls.

-Where would you take the children on holiday?

-Florida. I've always wanted to go. You've already been.

-Maybe a year ago though.

-Ah, Florida...

-It would be nice.

We are looking for original characters from Peter Pan.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer - Tiger Lily. This is your next shot at a pointless.

-Are you confident?

-No.

-Not with that answer.

-I'm not even sure it's right. We might have a hat-trick of three wrong answers.

-Quite possibly. Let's go out in style.

-Yeah.

Let's put it to the test. Tiger Lily, let's see if it's correct.

And if it's a correct answer, it has to go all the way down to zero for you to win that jackpot.

£6,750, Tiger Lily...

-Well, it's right. It's right.

-It's going to be really high up.

In the 50s, in the 40s. It has to go all the way down to zero

if you're going to win that jackpot of £6,750. It's still going down.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very, very well done!

Fantastic.

-I nearly screamed there as well.

-So did I.

-Congratulations. You found that pointless answer.

-The first thing we've got to get is his passport.

-Go to the passport office.

-Yeah, tomorrow!

-That's really exciting. So Florida with the children?

-Yeah.

-Then somewhere else with just the pair of you?

-To recover from that!

-Go to my grandparents' van in Skeg!

-Just drink magnums of champagne all weekend.

-Yeah.

-Oh, fantastic.

-Well done, well done. Richard, have you got anything to add to that?

-No, other than congratulations.

I'm very pleased for you. There were nine pointless answers there.

Tiger Lily is one of the Native Indians, two Lost Boys, Slightly and Curly, and the rest were pirates.

But a fantastic answer. Well done.

As for your other answers, Nanny, there was Nana the dog,

but for various casting reasons, she didn't actually have a line.

And you said Tibbles. It's Nibs I think you were thinking of. And Nibs would have scored you 1 point.

It would have also been a very good answer.

Thanks once again to our winning contestants, Amelia and Joe, who go away with today's jackpot of £6,750.

APPLAUSE

-Join us next time for more obscure knowledge on Pointless. It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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