Episode 10 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

and a very warm welcome to Pointless, the quiz show

where popular answers mean nothing and obscure answers mean everything. Let's meet today's players.

And first we welcome Sam and Lee, how do you two know each other?

We've known each other since our first year at secondary school, which is about ten or 11 years ago.

-Friends ever since?

-AUDIENCE: Aww!

Do you complement each other's different areas of speciality?

Yes, I think we do, we play to each other's strengths.

Or I just make him look good, in general, really.

Sam, I won't hear a word more of that.

Well, very best of luck to you this afternoon.

Next we welcome Phil and Mike, how do you two know each other?

-Phil is my little brother, although from about 16, he's...

-He's got about an inch on you there.

What categories, Mike, would you like to see come up?

Movies, I'm a big Jack Nicholson fan, movies, a bit of sport, not history, not religion.

-Does Phil cover history and religion?

-Not really.

I love my sport and geography I'd say is my strong points.

Geography, hmm. Very good, very best of luck to the pair of you.

-Next we welcome back Jennie and Joan, you were on the show last time.

-We were.

-It was the EastEnders that did for you.

-Unfortunately, Joan had studied Coronation Street

and EastEnders came up.

Oh, dear, it was like that in my finals, yeah.

We discovered last time that you play golf, quite a lot of golf, together.

-What else do you like doing when you're not playing golf?

-I do line dancing.

I've been line dancing for about 14 years.

-Oh, fantastic, how about you, Joan?

-I'm a fan of carp fishing.

No! What's the biggest carp you've ever caught?

58 lbs 12 oz.

-Hah, blimey!

-That's her fishing story.

-That's as big as me, 58 lbs!

-Yep, lifetime best.

When carp and line dancing come up... erm...

LAUGHTER

I'll be looking to you lot for the lower scores. Very best of luck.

And then finally, we welcome Mike and Fran, Mike B, we have two Mikes. How do you two know each other?

Well, Mr Brown here taught me for five years at secondary school,

-but I know him slightly better than that, because he's also my dad.

-Aah!

Was she well behaved?

Fran was the model student.

That's what you told me to say, isn't it? Yes, she was fine.

-What did you teach, Mike?

-Geography.

-You see, Phil?

-Yes.

-Phil and Mike, you're going to have to tussle it out over relief rainfall and...

That's about all I ever studied in geography, I did it about five times.

Fran, what do you do?

-I'm a student in Birmingham, studying Business and French.

-Very, very good indeed.

We'll find out more throughout the show. There's one more person

for me to introduce, he's the navigator on

our voyage through the world of obscure facts and introductions.

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

-Hello.

Hello back. It's all getting a bit sort of mythic now, isn't it, "the navigator"!

-I'd like to be the navigator, that's nice.

-I can stick with that if you like.

You can have the radio on, you can read a map, it's quite nice.

I was picturing you more at the top of the sort of crow's nest, shouting, "Fact ahoy, fact ahoy!"

Are you entertaining yourself?

Good. Would you mind if the rest of us get on?

-Go on.

-Good. We've got one returning pair but Jennie and Joan have told me

not to say they're going to do well because they think that I'm a curse, but I have to say that teachers

had a very bad rep on this show for a long time but more recently they've done rather well, so I suspect that

Mike and Fran might do quite well for themselves here.

We've put all our questions to 100 people before the show, but this is Pointless, so we are after

the obscure answers they didn't get. The fewer people who got the answer, the fewer points awarded,

the better your chance of winning. Everyone's trying to find an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

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

Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off at £4250.

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.

OK, our first category this afternoon is...

Sport.

You decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as that many martial arts...

I thought it said MARITAL arts for a moment.

I really long for the day when we have marital arts, Richard.

-And put it under Sport.

-Marital arts ahoy!

Sorry. Martial arts. Richard.

All the correct answers in this round are forms of martial arts

and looking at some of the answers, I suspect it could be carnage.

That's my... What's the word I'm looking for? That's my prediction.

-I forgot the word prediction!

-That's OK, you couldn't have foreseen that.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Right, Sam and Lee, you all drew lots before the show and today you get to go first, you lucky things.

We're going to give you a choice of seven possible answers on each pass,

the first set of seven answers reads like this.

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

and at least one of those answers is incorrect,

so be careful not to pick one of those or you will score the maximum of 100 points. Now, Sam.

I've heard of some of them,

but I think I'll go for a safe-ish one.

I think I'll go for...

I'll say jujitsu.

Jujitsu? OK, jujitsu, there it is, three up from the bottom.

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

41, not a bad score.

-Jujitsu, Richard.

-It's unarmed, hand-to-hand combat

that the Samurai developed when they weren't allowed to use weapons.

-For how long were they not allowed to use weapons?

-Until they'd learned to use them properly.

The next morning, I think their parents said, "OK you can do it again."

Thank you very much, Richard.

Phil, how are you on martial arts?

Well, I've trained in probably four or five of them.

Get out of here!

-No.

-But I'm thinking of going for it from the off, really.

There's obviously a couple of obvious ones, but I'm going to go for hapkido.

Hapkido.

-Yes.

-Is it right? If it is, how many people said hapkido?

It's right. It's right, Phil.

You're going a long way down.

It is! Well done.

Hapkido is a pointless answer, it scores you nothing and it adds £250 to today's jackpot,

taking our total up to £4500.

-Hapkido, great answer.

-Yes, very well done.

-Hapkido is a Korean martial art based on kicking motions.

-Very good.

Thank you, Richard. So then, Joan,

martial arts, you are the queen of martial arts, I happen to know.

-I have trained in two martial arts.

-Are either of them on that board?

Yes, one.

If you score a pointless answer, will you demonstrate a few rudimentary moves?

I don't know a martial art that is on that board that would score

a pointless answer, so my answer would be tai chi.

Tai chi, let's see if it's right. And if it is, let's see how many people said it.

Very good, 13.

That's a great answer, Joan. Very good. Richard.

Very good answer, surprisingly low score, actually, for tai chi.

It translates as "supreme ultimate fist",

which was your wrestling name, wasn't it?

LAUGHTER

OK, thank you very much, Richard.

Mike, remember, we are looking for martial arts.

The one I'm pretty sure of is kendo, so I'm going to go for kendo.

I think that's where you fight with staves.

Let's see - is it "yes, kendo" or "no kendo"?

GROANS AND LAUGHTER

And if "yes, kendo", how many people said it?

It's right, Mike.

Down it goes, look at that.

Very good, 15.

15, Mike, that's a great answer.

-Thank you.

-Kendo?

Yes, very good start, Mike, kendo means "the way of the sword" and that's exactly right.

It essentially means hitting each other with sticks.

But bowing at the beginning and the end.

You bow in most martial arts, to be fair.

If you're able, at the end.

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

Ninjitsu would have scored you one point. Ninjitsu was used by the Ninja Shadow Warriors of Japan.

-That's quite cool, isn't it?

-Yeah, that is quite cool.

Now, these other two, what do you think of those?

Do you think they're incorrect, or pointless?

Kikuchiyo sounds like maybe making roses out of carrots.

Kikuchiyo is the seventh Samurai in Seven Samurai, so he was an incorrect answer.

Ikebana, do you think that is pointless or incorrect?

Pfff, it's probably pointless.

It is the ancient Japanese art of flower arranging.

-Out of carrots?

-Ikebana, very well done if you knew that at home.

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

Phil and Mike G,

what about that, the brothers!

Mike G, you've got to find a pointless on the second pass,

otherwise you'll not live it down.

Then we come to Joan and Jennie,

fantastic answer from the tai chi queen.

Mike, lovely answer from you there, kendo, great low score.

-Sam, you see what they've done?

-Yes.

-They've undercut you.

At least we didn't get a wrong one.

No, you didn't. They've left you adrift.

Lee, you're going to have to use all your martial arts

to summon up a really good, obscure answer on the next pass.

OK, can the second players please take their places?

OK, we've got seven more answers on the board, we are looking for martial arts and we have got...

And again, I can tell you that at least one of those is incorrect and at least one of those is pointless.

So then, Fran, you're on 15.

-Yes.

-If you can score 25 or less with this answer,

you are definitely in the next round.

-How good is your martial arts know-how?

-Not great.

There's one up there which I think could be a martial art, but then, it also could be a type of food.

I'm going to hope that it's not a type of food and say Muay Thai.

OK, is Muay Thai correct, and if it is, how many people said it? Muay Thai.

It's right.

This could go a very long way down.

I think you're through to the next round. Very, very well done, Fran.

Brilliant, that scores you four,

takes your total up to 19.

-Muay Thai.

-Yes, well played, Fran, safely through to round two.

Muay Thai is the name that Thais give to what we call Thai kickboxing, which is their national sport.

Now they use normal boxing gloves like we do, but traditionally, they would wrap their hands

in cotton, dip them in glue, and then sprinkle it with ground glass.

-That used to be how they did it.

-What do you mean? That's how I do it!

That's because you live on the mean streets of Oxfordshire.

And your village is pretty tough.

Thank you very much.

Jennie, you are on 13, if you can score 27 points or fewer

with this answer, you are straight through to the next round.

I can recognise a couple there, but I'm not going to take a chance, I'm going to go for tae kwon do.

OK, tae kwon do, a nice, safe option, you think?

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

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

49.

It scores you 49 and takes your total up to 62. Richard.

Yes, pretty big score. Again, it's a Korean martial art and it means "the art of kicking and punching".

-That's nice, isn't it?

-It is, it is nice.

Mike G - Phil, your brother, scored nothing.

You can't go away not equalling that score.

I was going to go to tae kwon do because I thought it might be 41 or less.

You have been forced into going for a pointless answer.

Do I go for it and try to be one-all with him or do I just undo all his hard work by getting one wrong?

I see what you mean, yes.

I'm going to go for aikido.

Aikido, there it is, the second one down, aikido.

-What do you think aikido is?

-No idea.

Hopefully it's a bit of that.

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

You're through to the next round.

Very, very good, 13 that scores you, Mike.

-Aikido.

-Well done for Mike, also safely through. Aikido is a Japanese martial art.

So then, Lee,

Sam scored 41, the highest scorers at this stage are Jennie and Joan on 62.

If you can score 20 points or fewer,

you're through to the next round. Remember, we are looking for martial arts.

I'm going to have to have a logical guess and go for

pencak silat.

Well let's see, there's every chance that that might not be

a Kuala Lumpur estate agents and might actually be a martial art.

There is your red line, if you are below the red line, Lee,

you have done what you had to do and you are through to the next round.

Let's see if that is indeed a martial art and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

It's right, well done, Lee.

I think you might have done what you had to do.

You have, look at that! Brilliant!

Very, very, very well done, Lee.

Pencak silat is a pointless answer,

it adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking it up to £4750.

And more pertinently, it scores you nothing, leaving your total at 41.

-Richard.

-Very well played, Lee. Yes, it's an Indonesian martial arts system, pencak silat.

Let's have a look at the board, judo obviously is a martial art, that would have scored you 68.

Kyudo and Akihito, one of them is pointless and one is incorrect, what do you think?

Aikido, kyudo, tae kwon do, judo... I think I'm going to go kyudo.

Is exactly right, it's a pointless answer. It's a Japanese martial art involving archery.

Akihito is the incorrect answer, it's obviously the Emperor of Japan.

Very good, thank you very much, Richard.

So the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score, I'm sorry to say, is Jennie and Joan.

-C'est la vie.

-All that bigging up about returning pairs! I'm sorry.

-That's OK.

-What will the ladies of the golf club be saying when they watch this?

-They won't mind.

-They wouldn't have known any of those either.

We've had good fun, anyway.

You've been fantastic contestants, thanks so much for playing. Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

-Good luck, guys.

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

There's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head round,

so one pair will be leaving at the end of this round, make sure it's not you.

The category for round two is...

People.

Can you decide in your pairs who is going to go first, who is going to go second.

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

OK, so our round two question concerns...

famous Toms.

In this round, we will show you a list

of descriptions of famous people who share the first name Thomas.

We asked 100 people to tell us their surname.

-Richard.

-Yes, we are going to show you six descriptions of people, the more obscure ones

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

Also worth bearing in mind that some of these people will be Thomas, some Tom, some Tommy.

-See if you can get all 12 of them at home.

-Thanks very much.

So we are looking for the surname of these famous people called Thomas.

Here we go.

Right, Lee, there is a list of famous Toms.

I know a couple of them, but I think they'd be sort of really high scoring ones.

I'm just going to have to try and work out which of those would be the lowest scoring ones.

So on that basis, I'll go for the Doctor Who on TV

is Tom Baker.

Tom Baker, you're looking to score as little as possible.

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

45, Lee.

It was a popular one, but it got you below the 50. Tom Baker.

Yes, Tom Baker was Doctor from 1974 to '81, which is essentially my childhood,

and now is narrator of Little Britain.

Very good. Now, Phil.

I'm going to go with my strong subject here, sport.

I'm going to go with the US golfer,

-Tom Watson.

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

Looks like it's going a long way down, I think.

14, very well done, Phil.

Very well done, scores you 14.

-Richard.

-Well played, Phil, a very good answer.

-He won the Open five times and nearly won it six times very recently.

-Now then, Fran.

-What are your hobbies, Fran?

-Researching famous Toms, dedicated Pointless contestant that I am.

-This round is for you.

-I know!

Erm... Top Gun would be Tom Cruise,

fez-wearing comedian Tommy Cooper,

-and I think the Archbishop of Canterbury was Thomas Becket.

-Mm-hm.

And I think I'm going to go for that last one, Thomas Becket.

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

Oh, no!

Yes, it's a wrong answer, Fran. That scores you 100 points. Richard.

It's Thomas Cranmer. The good news is your dad's a geography teacher

and not a history teacher, or you'd have been in real trouble. Let's take a look at the rest.

It's Thomas Cranmer, Thomas a Becket was 12th century.

Stars as Maverick is Tom Cruise, obviously, would have scored you 61.

The fez-wearing magician Tommy Cooper would have scored you even more,

75, which is good. And the author of Patriot Games, do you know that one?

-Clancy.

-Tom Clancy, exactly, and would have scored you 12 points. Well done if you got all of them.

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

Phil and Mike, once again,

a very, very strong position, then we come to Lee and Sam,

you were looking a little bit dangerous out ahead there on 45,

until Fran handed you a lifeline there with her 100.

Now then, Mike B, you have a mountain to climb on the next pass.

I'm not saying you can't do it, anything could happen.

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

We're going to put six more descriptions of famous Thomases on the board, and here they are.

Now remember, we are looking for their surnames,

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

Mike B.

Mike B has to take a bit of a gamble, I think.

I think you probably do, you are way out ahead of the moment,

55 points clear of Sam and Lee.

I think the Bonfire of the Vanities was written by Tom Wolfe,

so I'm going to say Wolfe.

OK, Tom Wolfe you're going to say, let's see if that is correct

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

It's right.

Well done, Mike, very good, a good answer.

Scores you eight points. Is that enough to save your bacon, I wonder?

-Richard.

-Well, played, Mike, it gives you a chance now, Tom Wolfe wrote Bonfire of the Vanities.

Thanks very much, Richard. Now then, Mike G, you are on 14.

The high scorers are Mike B and Fran on 108, if you can score 93 or less,

you are through to the head-to-head.

Remember, we are looking for the surnames of these Toms.

I know five of them on there,

I'm going to go for the lead singer of Radiohead,

which I think is Thom Yorke.

Is it right, and if it is, let's see how may people said it.

Well done.

17.

Strong answer, 17 gets your total up to 31. Richard.

Two Mikes, two good answers. That's the way to do it, yes, Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead.

Sam, you're on 45, if you can score 62 or less with this,

through you go to the head-to-head. How are your Toms looking?

Well, I'm a bit torn, desperately trying to remember

the credits for the end of Friends, see if I can remember the last name.

I can't remember,

so I think I'll go for starred as Forrest Gump, which was Tom Hanks.

OK, you're going to say Tom Hanks,

a famous Tom, I think, in anyone's eyes. Right, here's your red line,

if you get below that red line, you are through to the next round. Let's see.

Tom Hanks, is it correct and if it is, how many people said it? Tom Hanks.

Ooh!

Tom Hanks, that is a disaster, I'm afraid, for Sam and Lee.

That takes your total up to 114 because it scores 69.

Great news for Mike and Fran, an unexpected lifeline at this late stage of the game. Richard.

Unlucky, Sam. So there's Tom Hanks with 69,

there's Tom Jones up the top there, he also wouldn't have saved you

because he would have scored a pretty hefty 86, Tom Jones.

So it would have rested on whether you could remember who played Dr Richard Burke in Friends.

-Do you know that one?

-Selleck.

-It was Tom Selleck, probably better known for other things,

but he played Dr Richard Burke, 28 points,

-and the British playwright who wrote Arcadia?

-Stoppard.

Exactly, would have scored you a pretty low ten points,

so well done if you got that at home.

OK, thanks very much. At the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score is Sam and Lee.

I'm sorry, I thought you were through there, I have to say.

-Lee, what would you have liked to have come up?

-Famous Daves.

I know more Daves than Toms.

Yes, you're quite right, we should have done Daves.

We'll do it next time.

The good news is we get to see you next time as well, you'll be back then

because everyone gets two shots to reach the final and this was your first.

It's been great having you on the show, thank you. You were excellent contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, things will get even more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.

So, very well done, Phil and Mike G, Mike B and Fran, you've made it through to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it through to the final and play for

the jackpot, which incidentally is currently standing at £4750.

You're now 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.

Just give an answer that scores less than the other pair and you will win that point.

The pair that gets the best of three will be playing for today's jackpot. Let's play Pointless.

OK, here's your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many landlocked countries of the EU as they could.

Landlocked countries of the EU, Richard.

We are looking for any country in the European Union that has no sea coast

and is entirely surrounded by other countries.

It has to be a member of the European Union up to the start of 2011,

and by countries, we mean members of the UN which are sovereign states.

Thanks very much. Phil and Mike,

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

We are looking for landlocked members of the EU.

OK, you've arrived at an answer.

-Yes, we have got a few that we can think of, but it's just whether they are in the EU.

-Right.

So we are going to go for Andorra.

OK, we have Andorra from Phil and Mike. Mike and Fran?

We're pretty sure Andorra isn't in the EU

so we are going to go for a fairly safe one, I hope, and say Austria.

It's such a shame this doesn't play to your strengths at all, Mike(!)

-I know.

-You being a geography teacher and all. So, Austria.

Andorra and Austria, let's take them in the order they've been given. Phil and Mike said Andorra.

How are you feeling now Sir has returned your work?

-When the geography teacher tells you you're wrong, it's not looking good, is it?

-Oh, dear!

Well, let's find out, let's see if it's right and if it is, let's see if anyone said it.

-Yes, I'm afraid Mike was spot on there.

-Sorry.

Mike and Fran have gone for Austria,

let's see if that's right because if it is let's see how many

people said Austria, it only has to be right at this stage.

Full marks, sir.

45.

A very, very good safe answer.

So after one question it is 1-0 to Mike and Fran. Richard.

Yes, pretty tough questions. It's not just geography, it's also the knowledge of who is in the EU.

There's actually only five correct answer is here so let's take a look at all of them,

Slovakia would have been the best answer of all ten points, Hungary 15,

Czech Republic 19, Luxembourg 33,

and there, you were quite right, a very safe answer, Austria with 45.

Andorra is landlocked of course, but not a member of the EU.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

Here is your second question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Trainspotting actors as they could. Richard.

Yes, we are looking for any of the actors who played the five main roles in the 1996 film Trainspotting.

-Those are the five actors who appeared on the official posters for the film.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Mike and Fran, you get to go first this time,

the actors from Trainspotting.

We only know one and he's probably the most famous, Ewan McGregor.

You're going to go Ewan McGregor, OK. Phil and Mike G, Ewan McGregor has gone.

-OK, yes, we know a few of them, we're going to go to the other Ewan, Ewan Bremner.

-Very good.

OK, we have Ewan McGregor, we have Ewan Bremner, let's take them in the order they've been given.

Mike and Fran said it Ewan McGregor, let's see how many people said that.

36.

APPLAUSE

36 for Ewan McGregor.

Now, Mike and Phil, you have to win this stay in the game.

If Mike and Fran win this, they are straight through to the final and be playing for that jackpot.

OK, Ewan Bremner you've said, let's see if that's right,

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

Very well done, very good.

Wow, very good indeed,

Ewan Bremner scoring you three against Ewan McGregor's 36.

So after the second question it is one-all. Richard.

Very good answer, well played, guys. There was actually one answer that would have beaten Ewan Bremner

and that is Kelly Macdonald who scored two.

There's Ewan Bremner who played Spud,

he's got three, Jonny Lee Miller who was Sickboy, five,

Robert Carlyle who was Begbie, 13,

and Ewan McGregor right at the top there, Renton, on 36.

OK, thank you very much.

Here is your third question. Whoever wins this point

is going through to the final and will play for that jackpot.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many BBC news broadcasts as they could.

BBC news broadcasts, Richard.

We are looking for the starting times of news bulletins on BBC One

on a normal weekday as of the start of 2011.

We are not looking for the starting times of regional news bulletins.

Just the national news bulletins that are regularly scheduled on weekdays.

OK, thank you very much indeed, Richard. Phil and Mike G, you get to go first again.

OK. The Brothers G.

Right, all the responsibility falls down to me for this one.

I'll go for the six o'clock Breakfast news, 6am.

6am, OK.

Mike B and Fran,

what do you think?

I know there is a news broadcast at 1pm so I'm going to go for...

-Isn't that regional?

-No, it's national news, at 1pm.

1pm? OK, we have 6am.

We have 1pm. Let's take them in the order they're given.

Phil and Mike have said 6am.

This is a bit of a punt.

Who's punt was it?

LAUGHTER

6am, let's see if it's right.

If it is right, let's see if anyone said it. 6am.

It's right.

36.

36 people said 6am. Mike B and Fran,

you've gone for 1pm. Let's see if that's right.

You're pretty sure it is right.

Let's see how many people said 1pm.

This is for a place in the final.

Bad luck, Mike and Fran. After three questions, Phil and Mike G

are through to the final, 2-1.

-Richard?

-Very unlucky but well played, guys.

There's one answer that would have won the point for you

and that's the 3pm bulletin.

A five-minute bulletin at 3pm would have scored two points.

There's 6am which is the Breakfast News, 36,

1pm, that scored 49 as we saw,

and then you've got the ten o'clock news with 61,

and the six o'clock news with 62.

And that list obviously doesn't include regional broadcasts or news updates such as the one at 8pm.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

The losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm sorry to say, it's Mike and Fran.

Though they were quite interesting categories,

those ones, Trainspotting was one that threw you there, wasn't it?

And news bulletins - I mean, who knew that would be what saw you off

in the head-to-head but it's been closely fought.

And we will see you again next time, which is great news for us. You've been fantastic contestants.

Lovely having you on the show, thanks very much.

APPLAUSE

For Phil and Mike it's now time for our Pointless final

and the chance to win our jackpot of £4,750.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Phil and Mike, you've seen off

the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless Trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, that jackpot stands at £4,750.

ALL: Ooh!

The rules are very simple. To win the money all you have to do

is find a pointless answer that no-one could think of.

We've had two pointless answers on the show today. You've given us one.

All you have to do now to win that money

is find another pointless answer.

First, you've got to choose a category, and you can choose

from these three options...

What do you reckon? OK, neither of us cycle.

-Right.

-We both use words, don't we?

We are both very good at words, yes.

-Too broad.

-But there's two words in British Actors.

We'll go for actors, I think.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Alec Guinness films

as they could. Richard.

We are looking for any feature film given a cinema release

in the UK for which Alec Guinness received an acting credit.

Voice performances do count but as always we don't include

short stories or documentaries or things where he played himself.

So any film for which Sir Alec Guinness received an acting credit. Good luck.

OK, thank you. You now have up to one minute to come up

with three answers and all you need to win that £4,750 is just one of those answers to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

There was the Ladykillers but people know that.

Was he in something called the Hill?

Am I making that up?

We'll have to go for a couple because we got some obvious ones.

Star Wars is obvious. He was in Oliver Twist.

I'm sure Oliver Twist was one of those movies.

Can't think of any early ones. Ladykillers is too obvious...

We should go for it anyway, otherwise we'll just be saying The Empire Strikes Back.

It's going to be said without a doubt. We'll go for Oliver Twist.

-OK, Oliver Twist.

-The Ladykillers, and just take a punt on one you think might be a pointless answer.

The Hill. I don't know why it's in my head.

It's probably wrong. I think Sean Connery is in that.

-With Alec Guinness?

-Shall we just go for it?

-Yes.

OK, you've got your three.

-We've got the three.

-OK we are going to stop there, 18 seconds in hand, what about that.

All we need now are three answers from you.

We are looking for Alec Guinness films.

What are you going to give me?

Right, OK. We're going to go for Oliver Twist, Ladykillers.

-And The Hill.

-The Hill.

And The Hill?

Of those three, which do you reckon is your best shot

at a pointless answer?

I think as a pointless answer, it will probably be a big X,

-but we'll go for The Hill.

-I don't think that's one.

I think Oliver Twist, I didn't know he was in that.

-I think we should go Oliver Twist.

-All right.

OK, Oliver Twist will go third, what are you going to put first?

-We'll put The Ladykillers.

-OK, The Ladykillers, The Hill, and Oliver Twist.

Right, we were looking for Alec Guinness films.

This was the answer you had least faith in to be a pointless answer.

You only need one to be pointless for you to win that £4,750.

Let's see how many people said The Ladykillers.

This was your first answer, it was correct. The one you said you had the least

faith in being pointless and only one of these

has to be pointless to win that £4,750 jackpot.

Nine!

APPLAUSE

That's pretty good, down to single figures

on your first punt, that's not bad at all.

Unfortunately it's not pointless so you don't win the jackpot

immediately but then what would have been the fun of that?

£4,750, that's getting to be quite a decent-sized jackpot. What would you do with that?

I would go to Florida, take my son Nathan, who is five years old. He'd love it.

-How about you, Phil?

-I've got two boys, Owen and Matthew,

and with half of that I'd probably go and take them on holiday.

OK, best of luck. Let's hope nobody said your next answer.

This has to be pointless if you're going to win that jackpot of £4,750.

Let's see if Alec Guinness was indeed in The Hill.

Bad luck. It was an incorrect answer.

You only have one more chance to win the jackpot £4,750.

We were looking for Alec Guinness films. You said this was the answer

you had the most faith in, Oliver Twist.

Are you confident still now?

Not at all.

Well, we will find out. Let's see if it is correct and if it is,

let's see if it goes all the way down to pointless.

If it does, you leave here £4,750 richer.

Oliver Twist...

It's right...

It's right.

Your first answer went all the way down to nine.

This could go down to pointless.

Oh!

That's cruel!

Four. Bad luck, guys. So unlucky.

Unfortunately you didn't manage to find that crucial pointless answer

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £4,750,

which will go to the next show.

But you have been fantastic contestants and of course you do get to take home the Pointless Trophy.

APPLAUSE

-Richard?

-A valiant effort. The Hill is the right era,

sort of mid-60s, but no Alec Guinness in there.

He was in Lavender Hill Mob, so whether you got the two mixed up a little bit.

Alec Guinness made a load of pointless films.

Here are a few of them and hopefully none of them...

A Passage To India was pointless, would have been a good answer.

Cromwell, Dr Zhivago was a pointless answer.

Father Brown, who he very famously played, that was pointless,

Little Lord Fauntleroy, Murder By Death, which was

a detective parody, that was pointless.

Our Man In Havana also pointless.

There's some ones we could have got here, Situation Hopeless But Not Serious, and The Quiller Memorandum.

-Very well done if you got some of those at home.

-Well, very bad luck.

We do have to say goodbye to you, Phil and Mike.

It's been great having you on the show.

Thank you so much for playing, brilliant contestants.

APPLAUSE

Nobody's won our jackpot so it rolls over, which means on the next show we'll be playing for £5,750.

APPLAUSE

-Join us next time, see if someone can win it. Meanwhile it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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