Episode 8 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

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

This is Pointless, the quiz show where fewer points means more chance

of winning. Let's meet today's players.

And we welcome back Phil and Emily. You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the final and this is your last chance.

-Remind us how you did?

-We did fairly well.

We got to the head-to-heads. Hoping to do better today.

Yes. I think you might. I just think you might, have a hunch.

You did incredibly well. You got a Pointless, didn't you, Phil?

In my first answer, and it went downhill from there. Pretty much.

Yeah. Yeah, I remember now.

Anyway, very best of luck this afternoon. Welcome to James and Sam.

How do you two know each other?

We met at university and we're now flatmates in the sunny East End of London.

Sunny East End of London. What do you do, Sam?

I work for a media agency doing online advertising.

-How about you, James?

-I'm a fashion store manager.

Good. Best of luck this afternoon.

Massive welcome to Liz and Katy. How do you two know each other?

We know each other because we're sisters, so I've known Katy for all of her life.

Very good. That means you must be the older sister.

-I am.

-She is. People get us confused, don't they?

-Yes.

-They think I'm older.

-Very good. What do you do, Katy?

-I'm a student at the moment.

-You're a student. And, Liz?

-I'm a police officer.

-Very good to know.

Good. Glad we got you here. Very best of luck to you this afternoon.

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

We've been married for over 37 years.

We met first of all on a beautiful holiday island

with perfect sand and lovely sea, we were both on the beach together.

The Isle of Wight's never been better.

Fantastic. What do you do for a living, Peter?

-I don't do anything other than enjoy myself.

-Excellent.

I've been retired for some time now.

Oh, you shouldn't have ruined it. I liked the idea of you enjoying yourself for a living.

I intend to get that job one day.

We'll find out more about you all throughout the show

but I couldn't go any further without introducing you to the man with all the facts and figures.

He's my Pointless friend, he's Richard.

So, Richard, what kind of a show have we got?

We've got a good show. We've got very, very strong returning couple.

Got to the head-to-head last time,

I suspect will be looking to go one step further.

And we've got our first question today. It's one of those that might drive you slightly mad.

It's one where you think you must know a good answer to it.

-Oh, I want to know what it is now.

-Well, it's really soon. You don't have to wait too long.

-OK.

-I'll tell you in literally, sort of, 60 seconds, I would guess.

Well, now, we put all our questions to 100 people before the show, but this is Pointless,

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

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

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

our players, all they have to do is score as few points as they can.

But what everyone's wanting to do is to find a Pointless answer.

That is an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

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

Nobody has won the jackpot so far this series. And we will add another £1,000 to the jackpot.

So we start off today with a jackpot, unbelievably, of £9,750.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Now that's a jackpot. 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.

And if anyone gives me an incorrect answer, you will score the maximum of 100 points.

OK, guys, our first category this afternoon is...

Decide in your pairs who's going to go first and who's going to go second.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Band Aid performers as they could. Richard?

Yeah, we're looking for any person who performed on the original 1984

Band Aid version of Do They Know It's Christmas.

We're not looking for groups. It's individuals.

There are 44 individuals on the list.

You need to find the most obscure one you possibly can.

Hmm. Right, Phil and Emily, you all drew lots before the show and today you get to go first.

Emily, 1984?

How old were you then?

Minus five!

Excellent. So you'll know Band Aid nearly as well as I do.

-Not a clue.

-Right.

-I know the new one.

-Mm-hm.

But not the old one.

-You've heard it?

-Yeah. I have heard it.

Some voices on there you maybe might recognise, do you think?

I've only got two names coming to mind and one of them, I imagine, is going to be really high.

So I'm just going to have to say Sting.

You're going to say Sting.

OK, not a bad answer. You're hoping to score as few points as possible with Sting.

Let's see how many people said Sting and if it's a right answer.

Is...

28.

Not an altogether bad score there, Emily. 28. Sting?

Yes, Sting, brilliant answer, very well done.

One of the vocalists on that original track. Very good.

Very good. James. Were you around in 1984?

I was two in 1984 but I know the video quite well,

so I'm pretty confident with my answer.

And it's going to be Paul Young.

Yes, you're hoping to score as few points as possible.

Let's see if Paul Young can do it for you. Paul Young.

Well, it is correct.

19.

Another very good answer. Paul Young, Richard.

Yeah, very good. Paul Young, he sang the first lines of the whole song.

-Course he did.

-He doesn't trouble the charts quite so often these days, does he?

If you're watching, Paul, get writing.

Pick up your guitar. Stop laying your hat.

Or they should re-release Do They Know It's Christmas. Maybe at Christmas.

Yes. Good. Good thinking, Richard.

Very good, James, not a bad answer at all. Paul Young, which scores you 19.

Katy, Band Aid performers, that's what we're looking for.

Unfortunately, it's a bit before my time, and by a bit I mean quite a lot.

So I have no idea and I'm going to go with a very obvious answer of Bono, maybe?

Bono. Bono, maybe.

I think probably Bono, yes. Let's see if anyone remembered Bono.

It is correct.

-Really not a bad score! 32. Bono.

-Yeah, very good.

He sang the line, "Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you".

-I'm getting depressed about how young everyone is.

-I know.

Come on, guys, help us out here.

Glenys.

-Yes, not so young.

-This is more our speed.

Pop music's not my thing really, but I'll have a go at George Michael.

George Michael, you're going to say.

I think that might be a right answer. Let's see how many people said George Michael.

It's right.

George Michael scores you 36.

George Michael scoring more than Bono.

-And also Bono doesn't keep crashing his car, does he?

-No.

Poor old George. He's just a careless driver, that's all.

Careless driver? There's a song in there, isn't there, surely?

Very well done, Glenys. 36.

OK, we're halfway through the round so let's take a look at the scores.

James and Sam, obviously doing particularly well on 19.

Great answer there with Paul Young.

Peter and Glenys, 36.

Again, not bad. I mean, anything could happen on the next pass,

so those who haven't yet answered, get scouring your memory banks.

Right, back down the line. Can the second players please take their places at the podium.

So, Peter, we are looking for Band Aid performers.

Glenys said it wasn't her bag, really.

I wouldn't say it's my handbag really,

but I remember someone with quite long hair on it called Marilyn.

-I think.

-Marilyn. I remember Marilyn.

Was Marilyn on it?

-I don't know, but I'm hoping so.

-Well, let's find out.

You are the high scorers on 36 so there's no red line for you.

You just have to hope that Marilyn scores as low as possible.

Brilliant. Let's see how many people said Marilyn and if it's a correct answer.

It's correct.

This could go a long way down.

Oh!

That's a brilliant answer, Peter. That scores you 1, giving you a total of 37. Marilyn.

Yeah, it's a great answer, Peter.

Marilyn's real name is Peter Robinson.

Later to rise to prominence in Northern Irish politics.

Yes, because they are the same person.

I think it's the same one. Let me check it's... Yeah, it's the same one.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Liz, you are currently on 32.

You have to score four or less to avoid becoming the high scorers. How good is your guessing on Band Aid?

My guessing is not spectacular. I'm not going to lie.

I'm currently in two minds about two different people.

I'm going to guess and hope it is going to be

lower points than the other one, and I'm going to guess with Boy George.

Boy George. You're hoping that that is not going to score you too much.

Here's your red line coming in there.

You have got to get below that red line

to avoid becoming the high scorers.

Let's see if Boy George can take you down there.

Boy George.

It's right.

30.

-Boy George nets you 30, bringing your total up to 62.

-Yeah, Boy George.

His real name was Martin McGuinness who later went on to have a significant role in... It wasn't!

George O'Dowd.

Leader of the UDP! LAUGHTER

So, Sam.

We're looking for Band Aid performers.

This is terrifying me.

I was six months old, but I'm going to go for a guess.

I hope this is right. Simon Le Bon.

Simon Le Bon, you're saying. You want to score 42 or less with Simon Le Bon.

There's your red line. Get below that red line

and you are through to the next round.

Let's see if it's correct and how many people said Simon Le Bon.

It's right.

Good enough!

Really good answer, Sam!

Two great answers.

That scores you 4 and gives you a total of 23.

You're through to the next round.

Can I say this is an absolutely awesome performance

by a series of people who weren't even born when this happened.

It's like you and me having an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Suez crisis. Which I know you do!

It's very impressive, everybody.

Phil, you heard what the man said. Very impressive.

Putting me under a lot of pressure right now.

You are currently on 28.

You have to score 33 or less.

33, I would say, is pretty much the mean score.

You have to find one of the more obscure performers, I think.

Well, I remember listening to it. My grandparents had it on record.

Wow! How did that work?

I've no idea! I think actual magic worked it.

But I remember it was written by this guy.

I don't know if he performed in it. So I'm going to go for Midge Ure.

-You know he wrote the single.

-Yes.

You're hoping he might at least have turned up on the day it was recorded. You'd have thought!

There's your red line. Below that red line...

That's about as far as Midge Ure would come up if he stood against it.

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

Midge Ure, says Phil. Let's see if our 100 people said Midge Ure and how many of them there were.

It's a right answer.

He's done it!

Very well done, Phil.

Midge Ure scores you 27 and gives you a total of 55.

Very well played.

Eight correct answers there.

There were a whole host of Pointless answers.

These are the answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Let's have a look at some of the more slightly better known Pointless answers.

Francis Rossi of Status Quo.

Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet.

Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

This is like a history lesson for you guys! Like archaeology.

Jody Watley of... Remember?

Shalamar. Johnny Fingers of the Boomtown Rats.

Keren Woodward from Bananarama.

Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran.

Siobhan Fahey, also Bananarama, and Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet.

This is literally my childhood.

-Depressing, isn't it?

-It's really depressing.

Imagine if you went along and you weren't given a line to sing!

Poor Francis Rossi - he didn't get a line.

But he played guitar on it.

Pah! Guitar Schmitar!

No, Ravi Shankar played the "schmitar" on it!

Well, I just feel sorry for them, that's all. What about the worst answers?

Let's take a look at the most obvious answers.

Bono, with 32. These are the ones that most of our 100 people knew.

Then George Michael with 36.

-Who do you think was top?

-Bob Geldof.

Yeah, he co-wrote it with Midge Ure.

Bob Geldof would have scored you 49 points.

Well, thank you. At the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score,

I'm sorry to say, are Liz and Katy. Dear, oh, dear.

It's an ageist question to set, isn't it?

-Definitely.

-You weren't around!

Unfair advantage to Peter and Glenys!

We were!

I was around. Still couldn't remember most of those names, but there we are.

That's how around I was!

Liz and Katy, such a shame to say goodbye so early on but on Pointless you get a second chance

so hopefully you'll do even better... I say "even better"!

That is to say "better" next time! But thank you so much for playing.

-Fantastic contestants.

-APPLAUSE

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

Obviously there's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head,

so one team is going to be leaving at the end of this round. You just have to make sure it's not you.

OK, the category for Round Two is...

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

Whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

And the question is...

Locations of famous UK sights.

Again, this round we're about to show you some famous UK sights.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to tell us where in the UK they were located. Richard.

We're going to show you six UK sights.

All you have to do is tell us the county they're in.

The more obvious ones will score you higher points, the less obvious ones lower points.

If you give us a wrong answer at any time that will score you 100 points.

As always, see if you can get all six of them at home.

OK, thanks, Richard. The first six are...

Let me read them - Jodrell Bank, Sutton Hoo,

Eden Project, Lake Windermere, Corfe Castle, Bletchley Park. OK, so Phil.

We're looking for the counties in which you would find these famous UK sights. Where are you from, Phil?

Manchester.

Any of these close to your home town?

You could class two technically as...

You think those are the obvious ones. Maybe they're only obvious to you from Manchester.

That is true. I might go for the Eden Project, though,

and say that's in Cornwall.

I think a lot of people...

You said you might go for it.

You've now said it! So you are going to go for it? Very good. You say the Eden Project, Cornwall.

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

Eden Project, Cornwall.

It's a right answer.

51.

51 people said that. Scores you 51.

-Richard.

-Yes, very well done.

According to the Guinness Book of Records it's got the largest conservatory in the world.

Although my nan's next-door neighbour is a fairly close second.

-Sam.

-I'm awful at geography.

I think there's one on there I definitely know, which is safe, and there's one I might risk.

I'm going to go for the risky one and go Bletchley Park is in Buckinghamshire.

There it is, bottom of the board. Let's see if that's correct and,

if it is, how many people knew that answer.

It's right.

APPLAUSE

If that was a real shot in the dark, Sam, it was a fantastic shot. You hit 6.

Very good answer. Bletchley Park of course probably most famous for cracking the Enigma code.

They substituted numbers for letters! That's how they cracked it.

So A=1, B=2... And they worked their way through the alphabet.

Yeah, then they discovered it was written in this code called German.

Good answer, Sam. So, Glenys, we're looking for

the counties in which you would find these famous UK sites.

I was going to say Bletchley Park, but that's gone.

I'm going to have to go for the obvious one, Lake Windermere in Cumbria.

Lake Windermere in Cumbria.

OK. Let's see how many people knew that.

Lake Windermere in Cumbria.

32!

-Not bad. That scores you 32. Richard.

-Yes, very good answer.

The largest lake in England.

That scores a commensurately large 32 points.

Shall we take a look at the other ones?

D'you know where Jodrell Bank is?

-Is it Cheshire or somewhere like that?

-It is in Cheshire, yeah. That would have scored you...

19 points. Sutton Hoo, do you know where Sutton Hoo is?

Sutton Hoo is in East Anglia... it's... I'm going to say Suffolk.

It is in Suffolk, it's near Woodbridge in Suffolk.

That would have scored you 8 points. And Corfe Castle?

-I do know that, that's in Dorset.

-It is, built for William I and would have scored you 14 points.

Very well done if you got all of those at home.

OK, let's take a look at the scores, we are halfway through the round.

Well, James and Sam looking very, very solid on six.

If you can keep up that low scoring you will definitely be through to the head-to-head.

Phil and Emily...

Emily, it's all going to be on your shoulders in the next pass, OK?

You're going to have to score as low as you possibly can.

How good are you on location questions?

We'll have to see what comes up, but...

Very good answer. Serves me right for asking such a stupid question.

And Peter and Glenys, not bad on 32.

Peter, you can try and score nice and low, you will definitely be in

the head-to-head, I think. OK, 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 six famous sights up on the board, and we have got:

Let me do those again.

Ironbridge, Harlech Castle, White Cliffs Of Dover,

Cerne Abbas Giant, Stonehenge, Chatsworth House.

Remember, we are looking for the counties that those sights are in,

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

So, Peter?

If only I could read other people's minds and know which ones they don't know.

How many of those do you think you know?

I think I know them all, but I'll go for Ironbridge, Shropshire.

You are on 32.

To avoid becoming the high scorers you want to score 18 or less with Ironbridge, Shropshire.

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

Ironbridge, Shropshire, you say. Let's see if that's right.

Pretty sure it is. And let's see how many people said it.

It's right!

Very good!

Very good indeed, that scores you 13, takes your total up to 45.

-Richard?

-Right, it's one of the great symbols of

the Industrial Revolution, it spans the River Severn.

-It needs a better name, I think.

-What, Ironbridge?

Yeah. It's quite unimaginative. Although I suppose if it's the first one, you're allowed to call it that.

Think how many Woodbridges there are.

-Yep, true enough.

-Fair enough.

Very good answer, Peter.

So, James, Sam scored six in the first pass, impressive low score.

You want to be scoring 44 or less with this answer to avoid becoming the high scorers.

Yeah, this is a terrible subject for me.

I'm going to go...

I think it's a guess, actually, I'm going to go with Stonehenge

and I seem to remember that it was in Wiltshire.

OK, here's your red line.

Thanks to Sam's efforts earlier, it's quite high up, which is good.

If you can get below that with Wiltshire, you should be through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said Stonehenge, Wiltshire.

It's right!

You've done it!

You've done it.

Only 30 people said Stonehenge was in Wiltshire, that takes your score up to 36.

Yeah, Stonehenge, very well done. It's always full of tourists looking a bit disappointed, Stonehenge.

Cos it's smaller than you think and you're much further away from it than you think you're going to be allowed.

-Yes.

-It's old, though, I'll give them that.

Very impressive if you drive past it and you're not expecting to see it.

If you drive past it, that's right.

Drive past it, someone goes, "It's Stonehenge," you go...

Well done, great answer.

Great news for James and Sam, you are in the next round.

Great news for Glenys and Peter, you are in the next round.

That can only mean one unpalatable truth, I'm afraid, for Emily and Phil.

You are already our highest scorers and you haven't yet delivered your second answer.

I'm afraid you're going to be leaving us at the end of this round, bad luck.

Anyway, we have on the board one, two, three, four more options.

Why not, Emily, go out in a blaze of glory?

A selfless, truly selfless act of giving 250 quid to the jackpot?

See if you can find a Pointless answer in there.

I'm not saying there is one, but...

To be perfectly honest, I would have loved Lake Windermere, cos it's where I'm from,

but seeing as how that's not there...

I've got no idea where Harlech Castle is.

No idea at all.

But seeing as how I've been to Chatsworth House, I'm going to say that I think it's in Derbyshire.

Sounds reasonable enough to me - Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.

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

Down it goes.

Not a bad answer at all.

19 people knew that, scores you 19, takes you up to a total of 70.

Yeah, it's a very good parting shot.

It's the principle seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, so they've got a pretty long commute.

OK, Alexander, do you know any of these? So the White Cliffs of Dover?

-Kent.

-They are in Kent.

-Harlech Castle?

-It's going to be in Carmarthenshire...made that up.

-Oh, it's in Gwynedd.

-Is it Gwynedd?

And the Cerne Abbas Giant, otherwise known as the rude man.

Yes, the rude man. It's... I think it's...

Dorset? No, no!

It is Dorset and would have scored you 7 points.

-Very well done if you got that at home.

-Phew.

Brilliant. Well, thanks, Richard.

So at the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score, it's Phil and Emily.

-Oh, dear.

-I thought... We agreed you were going through to the final.

Yeah. Well, I could have done it on my own, what can I say?

I'm sorry. That was your second and final chance to get through to our final.

I'm afraid you just blew it.

-You blew it.

-Right near the end, I thought...

Get the big answer, think, "They're not going to do it." It didn't work.

It's a combination of how much you know and how much others know

and how lucky they are and how unlucky you are and, you know, all these...

It's like England World Cup teams discuss for millennia

after the games when they were kicked out.

But anyway, you have been fantastic contestants, it's been lovely having you on the show. Thank you so much.

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

Well done, James, Sam, Peter and Glenys, you've made it through to the head-to-head.

Now, clearly only one pair can make it through to today's final

and play for the jackpot, which currently stands at £9,750.

AUDIENCE WHOOPS

OK, you're going to go head-to-head on the best of three questions.

For each question, each pair needs to give me just one answer, and you are now allowed to confer.

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

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for today's jackpot.

Let's play Pointless.

Right, here's your first question.

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

Disney Pixar feature films

as they could. Disney Pixar feature films. Richard?

Yeah, we're looking for any film made for cinema release and jointly produced by Disney and Pixar.

We are looking for films that were released up to June 2010.

Not looking for short films, just Disney Pixar feature films.

OK, thank you very much.

James and Sam, you've played the best throughout the show, you get to go first.

We are looking for Disney Pixar feature films.

THEY CONFER

We are going to go with Bug's Life.

Bug's Life. Very good.

Peter and Glenys?

What about... What are the others? It could be Toy Story, what's that?

Toy Story 2 would be better to say, if there is such a thing.

Is there a Toy Story 4?

-Shall we try that?

-Toy Story 2.

-Toy Story 2.

-OK, let's assess those in the order they were given.

James and Sam say A Bug's Life.

Let's see how many people said A Bug's Life.

It's correct.

Oh, very good. 10.

An inspired answer, there. Peter and Glenys have gone for Toy Story 2.

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

Very good, down it goes.

Oh!

That scores 20.

So after the first question, it is 1-0 to James and Sam.

-Richard?

-There were a few answers that would have beaten Bug's Life. Let's take a look.

Right at the bottom of the list,

two Oscar-winning films, Ratatouille and WALL-E.

The Incredibles only getting six points.

Finding Nemo with nine, and Bug's Life with 10.

And moving up the list, Up with 14,

Monsters, Inc with 17, then Cars, then the two Toy Stories.

Toy Story 2 getting 20 and Toy Story getting 40.

But well done if you got all of those.

Toy Story 3 isn't up there because that came out after we asked our 100 people.

-I think I've seen all of those.

-Impressive canon of films, there.

-Monsters, Inc is my favourite.

I might agree with that. OK, here's your second question.

James and Sam, if you win this one you're straight through to the final

and a chance to win nearly £10,000.

Peter and Glenys, if they win this one they are straight through to the final

with a chance to win nearly £10,000, so you must get this point.

Here is your second question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many OPEC members as they could.

OPEC members. Richard?

We are looking for any country that is now or has ever been a member of OPEC,

that's the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

That list goes up to April 2010.

Thank you, Richard.

This time it is Peter and Glenys's turn to answer first.

-Can we confer?

-You do what you like!

THEY CONFER

-Venezuela.

-Venezuela, you say.

OK. Venezuela. James and Sam?

THEY CONFER

We are going to go for...

Russia's the obvious one, but we are going to go for Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan, say James and Sam.

OK, so we have Venezuela and we have Kazakhstan.

Let's assess those as they're given.

Venezuela, how many people said Venezuela, and is it a correct answer?

Well, it's right!

-Very good answer.

-APPLAUSE

Venezuela scoring you 12. James and Sam have said Kazakhstan, let's see

if that is a correct answer and, if it is, how many people said it.

Ooh!

Bad luck, an incorrect answer.

So after two questions it is 1-1.

Richard?

Yeah, Venezuela was a very, very good answer.

-Now, you discussed saying Nigeria, I think. Is that right?

-Mmm-hmm.

-Yeah.

-If you'd said that, you would have just won the point, because Nigeria would have scored you eight.

Let's take a look at the other answers, though.

There is a Pointless answer here.

If anybody at home knows that Gabon was formerly a member of OPEC then,

A, get out more but B, well done.

Ecuador, Angola, Indonesia, there's Nigeria, Qatar with nine,

there's Venezuela with 12.

Very good answer.

And some more obvious ones here, Algeria, Libya, the UAE,

Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and right at the top, Saudi Arabia with 46 points.

OK. Thanks, Richard.

Here is the final, deciding question.

Whoever gets this point is through to the final

and a chance to win that £9,750 jackpot.

OK, here is the third question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many ranks in the Royal Navy as they could.

Ranks in the Royal Navy. Richard?

Yeah, we are looking for any of the 11 officer ranks in the Royal Navy,

so non-commissioned ranks won't count.

We are looking for the 11 commissioned ranks of the Royal Navy.

Thanks very much, Richard.

James and Sam,

your turn to answer first again.

It's a massive guess, it may not even exist, but Rear Admiral?

OK, James and Sam say Rear Admiral.

Peter and Glenys?

Commodore, isn't there a Commodore?

-I'm not sure if a Commodore is Merchant Navy.

-Oh, right.

I'm not sure. You're probably right.

What else can you think of, then?

There must be some Lieutenants.

I daren't not go for Commodore.

You're going to go for Commodore.

So we have Rear Admiral, we have Commodore.

OK, Rear Admiral, James and Sam said first, let's put that to the test.

Rear Admiral. Is it correct and, if so, how many people said it?

It is correct.

Very good, down it goes.

13!

Good answer. Peter and Glenys have said Commodore.

Let's see if that is correct

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

This for the place in the final and a chance to win that jackpot of nearly £10,000.

Oh, it's going to be close.

-Oh!

-APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Couldn't be closer. Commodore wins it.

So after three questions, Peter and Glenys are through to the final.

-Richard?

-Good answers from both teams, there.

Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-Commander,

Vice-Admiral would have got you 7,

Sub-Lieutenant 7, there's Commodore on 11.

Let's take a look at...

Rear Admiral 13, Commander 17, the most famous Commander, of course, being James Bond.

The most famous Commodore being Lionel Richie.

Lieutenant with 26, then Admiral 49 and Captain 53.

Very, very well done if you got all of those.

OK, thank you, Richard. So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm afraid,

is James and Sam. Bad luck, guys.

Gosh, that was close, wasn't it?

Couldn't have really been closer.

-It was a bit of a guess, that, wasn't it?

-Yeah, massive guess.

Naval history is not a strong point.

Even naval current affairs!

And Bug's Life, very good answer.

Kazakhstan, the way you said it, I thought you knew that.

He's never going to let me forget that.

-Never, ever, ever.

-What would you have gone for?

Nigeria. He said Nigeria and I over...

I had too much faith.

-Too much faith?

-Not going to happen again.

Very good. Well done for getting this far, though.

You've come all the way to the head-to-head.

You'll be back again next time, maybe you'll make it all the way.

-You been fantastic contestants, thanks so much for playing.

-APPLAUSE

But for Peter and Glenys it's now time for our Pointless final, and the chance to win £9,750.

So congratulations, Peter and Glenys. You've fought off

all the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

Well done. Very good.

And you now have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show the jackpot stands at a staggering £9,750.

An enormous jackpot.

Now, the rules are very simple. To win the money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.

An answer that no-one else could think of.

We haven't had any Pointless answers today. All you have to do is find one to go home with that £9,750.

First, though, you've got to choose a category from these three options. Your choices are:

Motor Sport, Literary Greats, the Oscars.

I know nothing about Motor Sport.

-And I know nothing about Motor Sports or the Oscars.

-So we'll go for Literary Greats.

You're going to go for Literary Greats?

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

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

people commemorated in Poets' Corner

as they could. Richard?

Yeah, there are over 100 poets or writers either buried or commemorated

in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

You just have to give us the most obscure one that you can think of.

We are taking our list from the Westminster Abbey Library.

OK. You now have up to a minute to come up with three answers,

and all you need to win that £9,750

is for just one of those answers to be Pointless.

All right, your 60 seconds start now.

There's the obvious ones of Keats and Wordsworth,

but I think we should forget those.

Is Robert Southey, do you think, there? What about Philip Larkin,

-because he didn't want to be in but they put him in any way.

-Did they?

-He is commemorated but not buried there, I believe.

-What about Alfred Newman?

Alfred Newman? Newbold? Is it Newbold?

-Newbold.

-Newbolt? Newman.

No, Newman is from Mad comic.

Oh, yes, Alfred E Neuman.

-Not him, then.

-Newbolt, Alfred Newbolt.

-John Masefield.

-John Masefield.

Philip Larkin.

And I don't know how far back they go, do you? That's the trouble.

What are we going for? Philip Larkin...?

-Southey?

-Southey and...?

-Masefield?

-Yep, OK.

-Are you happy with those three?

-I think so, yes.

-You happy to stop the clock?

-Yep.

Brilliant. You have three answers.

Philip Larkin, Robert Southey and... I've forgotten the other one.

-Masefield.

-John Masefield.

OK. So Larkin is going to be your best punt, you think?

-Yup.

-OK, Philip Larkin we'll put up third.

-Who do you think is your least strong suit?

-Robert Southey, do you think?

Well, if he is there it could be Pointless, but he might not be there.

-Robert Southey next.

-Robert Southey will be our first one, we will put

-John Masefield second and we'll put Philip Larkin third.

-OK.

They look quite good up there, don't they?

-They look good up there.

-Yeah, I think they do.

Our own little Poets' Corner here, look at that. Fabulous.

What would you spend £9,750 on?

-Glenys?

-I'd go to New Zealand, I don't know what he'll do.

I thought you meant you were going to spend it on Glenys!

-An entirely fitting answer. You'd go to New Zealand?

-I'd go to New Zealand.

I think hopefully I'd go with her.

Right, excellent. Or you go on your own, go first class!

Why New Zealand?

We have relatives there and two new babies born.

-Oh!

-And a wedding.

-And a wedding?

-My godson's getting married.

-It would be perfect timing.

-Beautiful.

-No-one has won the jackpot yet this series.

Just going to... They call this management of expectation, I think.

-Fair enough.

-Just to let you know, no-one has yet won the jackpot.

But that's why it's such a massive jackpot, £9,750.

Right, you only need one Pointless answer, you have to find

one Pointless answer out of your three answers to win that £9,750.

This is your first crack at the jackpot -

Robert Southey.

We were looking for people commemorated in Poets' Corner,

this was your least confident answer.

Just has to be correct,

and right down there at the bottom of the column

are two tickets to New Zealand.

OK, Robert Southey, let's see how many people said Robert Southey.

It's correct.

This is very good news, isn't it?

Down it goes.

Go on, Robert!

£9,750.

Yes!

Well done, fabulous.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Congratulations!

You have managed to find that Pointless answer that no-one's been able to find all series,

and you've just won a massive £9,750.

Brilliant.

Well, Robert Southey has done it for you.

He is sending you to New Zealand.

-He is.

-Yes, wonderful. Yes, we shall take him with us.

Very, very good indeed. Have you been to Poets' Corner?

-No, But we certainly will be going now.

-I've been.

Fantastic. Really, really exciting.

Such a good answer. How long are you going to go out to New Zealand for?

-Three weeks.

-About two years?

Have you got a lot of family out there?

-I've got two... what are they?

-A niece, a nephew...

-Two nephews,

-a niece, all their family as well.

-Two new babies.

-And you've never been before?

-Oh, yes, we've been before.

-Once.

We couldn't really afford to go this year for the wedding, but we will now.

You can now, that's fantastic.

-So Richard, what were the other Pointless answers?

-Very, very good.

Robert Southey, he was a poet and our hundred people didn't know it.

-John Masefield was also a Pointless answer!

-Wow!

Larkin wasn't, but Masefield was. There's some very famous names.

Charlotte Bronte is on the list, she was Pointless, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson,

Siegfried Sassoon, DH Lawrence, all sorts of people commemorated there.

But Robert Southey the most important of all, it turns out.

Fantastic. Well, thanks once again to our winning players

Peter and Glenys, who will go away with today's jackpot of £9,750.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

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

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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