Episode 29 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed.

I'm Alexander Armstrong and a warm welcome to Pointless,

the quiz where popular answers mean nothing

and obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players.

Welcome back, Abi and Tracy. You were on the show last time.

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

-Remind us how you did.

-We got knocked out in the first round.

But I'm going to stop you right there!

Don't infer from that anything other than that these two are brilliant.

-They're going all the way.

-Oh, bless you.

-What do you do in your spare time, Abi?

-Various random stuff

but I play table-top war gaming with my husband and some friends.

-Table-top war-gaming.

-Yes. We play... It's not even Civil War war-gaming.

-OK.

It's more random than that, things like space men and aliens and stuff.

-Tracy, how about you?

-I don't play war games.

I play a lot of hidden object games on the computer,

where you look for things that shouldn't be there.

-Wow.

-I have to say...

-I know a lot of people play that game.

I often look for things that shouldn't be there on the computer.

Yeah. Well, very, very best of luck to the pair of you this afternoon.

-Two of the most obscure hobbies...

-Yes.

-..I've yet to unearth

on this delightful show.

OK, we welcome back Patrick and Chris next.

You were on the last show. Remind us how you did?

We got knocked out in the second round

and I think it was a Canadian question that I got

and Chris should have had that one.

-Because, Chris, you are a Canadian.

-Who told?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, well, we worked it out, didn't we, I mean, your accent.

-Yeah.

Yes. We were on to you.

What do you hope will come up, Chris?

History, politics, geography - those would be great.

-Very good. And Patrick, how about you?

-I'm not too bad on sport.

Television, theatre - you know, any of those.

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

Next we welcome Trisha and Ernie. How do you two know each other?

Hi. We've been friends, Xander, for about 22 years, now.

My boys played at a local cricket club

and they were really desperate for players.

My lads dragged their father out of retirement

and somebody else press-ganged Ernie out of retirement,

so we all met and hit it off with each other's spouses

and we're here today.

-Very good. What do you do, Ernie?

-Mechanical engineer.

Very good. And what are your interests?

I like reading books. I usually have two or three on the go at once.

Very good. Different kinds or...?

Yeah, autobiographies, fictional -

Dan Brown kind of things, I love those.

Decorating. I've been decorating my daughter's house for what seems like years.

-And...

-Have you got a book there, as well?

At the daughter's house? No. No chance of a book there, no.

Too busy working there.

Well, very best of luck. It's great to have you here.

Finally, we have got Roy and Thomas. How do you two know each other?

We're a father and son team from Croydon.

Now, Thomas, what would you say is father's area of expertise?

Mm, well, I think he's pretty good at '80s music,

-all the sort of terrible stuff that I never listen to.

-Mm-hm.

He's pretty good at geography, sort of pretty good at history, as well.

-He's got decent all-round knowledge.

-OK. Roy, how about Thomas?

It should be history.

He studies that at university, so he should be pretty good on that.

OK, we shall discover. Very best of luck to you.

We'll find out more as we go.

There is only one person left to introduce.

He spends his weekends trawling the internet for obscure facts

and probably plenty else.

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

Hiya. APPLAUSE

-Hello.

-Richard, how are you?

-I'm very, very well, yeah.

We've got two returning pairs today.

Neither of them showed their best, I think, last time.

We've got a lot of clever people.

Ernie's a mechanical engineer, Abi's a forensic scientist,

we've got two history students, all sorts of things going on.

It should be a very strong show.

And Abi and Tracy, when you put their name tags together,

are A Bit Racy.

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

Very good. We put all our questions to 100 people before the show

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

Everyone is looking to find a Pointless answer,

an answer that none of our 100 people gave.

Each time that happens we add £250 to the jackpot.

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

so today's jackpot starts off at £8,250.

WHOOPING

Very respectable.

Right, let's play Pointless.

APPLAUSE

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

and you cannot confer.

The team with the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.

OK. Our first category this afternoon is:

Decide who's going to go first, who's going to go second

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many wind instruments as they could.

The correct answers will be musical instruments

that can be played by blowing air through them.

-OK. Right. A Bit Racy...

-LAUGHTER

..you all drew lots and this afternoon, you get to go first.

We're going to give you a choice

of seven possible answers in each pass.

Your first set of seven answers looks like this.

I'll read those one more time.

At least one of those answers is pointless

but do be careful

because there is at least one incorrect answer amongst those seven.

If you pick one of those you will score the maximum of 100 points.

Tracy, wind instruments. A subject dear to your heart.

-Not at all.

-Really?

-No.

I'm going to say piccolo.

-A piccolo. Do you know what a piccolo is?

-Yes.

It's a teeny-tiny flute.

It is a teeny-tiny flute. Let's see how many people said piccolo.

Very good.

-APPLAUSE

-Very good. Piccolo scores you 25.

-Piccolo, Richard.

-Well played, Tracy.

It's full name is a flauto piccolo, which is as you say, "little flute".

Thanks very much. Now, then, Patrick.

Erm, I was going to actually go piccolo.

It's irritating it's gone now.

LAUGHTER

Er, I think I'm going to play safe and go clarinet.

Play safe. Clarinet.

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

It's correct.

-67.

-APPLAUSE

67 for clarinet, Richard.

Yeah, a very big score, 67 for clarinet.

It had its roots in Middle Eastern instruments

but has been popular in Europe from the early 18th century.

-Very good, Patrick. Now, then, Trisha.

-Hi.

-We come to you.

We're looking for wind instruments. Do play any instruments at all?

No. My sons have done but none of those.

-Right. Any of those instruments.

-I think I'll go for the ocarina.

-Do you know what an ocarina is?

-I think it's a funny shaped thing that you blow across.

OK.

Let's see if ocarina's a right answer. It could be a brilliant answer.

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

Good luck, Trisha.

It's right.

Very well done. Down it goes. It's going all the way down, I feel.

-Yes, and it is!

-CHEERING

Very well done.

Ocarina is a pointless answer.

It adds 250 quid to today's jackpot,

taking the total up to £8,500

and more importantly, it scores you nothing.

-Ocarina, Richard.

-Well played, Trisha. What a great start.

It's a little ovoid-shaped terracotta or plastic instrument.

Sales have rocketed since it was featured in Legend of Zelda,

Ocarina Of Time,

and anybody with a child of a certain age will be bored with that.

And the ocarina of time is blowing on, so we'll get back to the game.

Thomas, we are looking for wind instruments.

You're the last person to have this board, so you can talk us through it.

-I was going to go with ocarina.

-Because of Princess Zelda.

-Yes.

It's the best game ever.

-Oh, it's a game.

-You see?

-It's a game.

-What did you think it was?

-I thought it was a programme on telly.

All right, Granddad.

-Thomas, I beg your pardon, you were saying.

-That's all right.

That's annoying because I would have got a pointless.

-Well done to Trisha.

-I said there was at least one pointless answer.

-Yeah.

-There's nothing to say there isn't another pointless answer.

25, 67 - there are some lower scores than that on the board, Thomas!

-Come on!

-I was pretty much banking on ocarina being left till the end.

No point crying over split milk now.

Trisha's had ocarina, she's taken it, we've celebrated the pointless.

There might be another one. Talk us through the board.

OK, French horn is pretty obviously a wind instrument.

-Mm-hm.

-But that's where my knowledge ends.

I'm not too sure on the other three.

I'm going to go with French horn.

I don't want to risk it and get an incorrect answer. Sorry.

OK, you're going to go with French horn.

Let's see how many people said French horn.

It's correct.

-APPLAUSE

-That scores you 16.

-16 for French horn. Richard.

-Yeah, a very low score.

Very well done. A good answer. Let's look at the rest of them.

The cor anglais or the English horn, which is neither English nor a horn,

would have scored you four points.

The sousaphone, named after John Philip Sousa, kind of a tuba,

would have scored you one, so well done if you said that,

and by a process of elimination, mawashi is an incorrect answer.

Mawashi is the thick cloth worn by sumo wrestlers

and I would not advise blowing air through that, if I were you.

-Oh. Mind you, I bet they see a fair bit of wind.

-Yeah.

OK, let's take a look at the scores.

On a fabulous zero, Trisha and Ernie. Look at that!

Brilliant start, brilliant start, to your Pointless campaign.

Then we come up to Thomas and Roy on 16. Not bad at all.

Then up to Tracy and Abi on 25

and then, oh, dear, Patrick - 67.

Chris, you know what you have to do.

You have to hope somebody scores incorrectly

and you have to score extremely low.

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

We are looking for wind instruments and here is our next set of answers.

I'll read those again.

And again, at least one of those answers in pointless

but at least one of them is incorrect,

so avoid those at all costs.

-Now, then, Roy.

-OK.

So we've got a bit of Scottish heritage in our ancestry,

so I can see fife, there,

-so I feel drawn to that.

-Have you been to Fife?

I have, yes, St Andrews, which is in Fife.

-Beautiful, eh?

-Yeah, it's nice, it's nice.

So, yeah, I'm drawn towards that, so I'm going to go for the fife.

For fife. Have you any idea what a fife might be?

I hope that it's some sort of little whistly thing that you blow into.

-I think you might be spot on.

-I might be I don't know.

-OK.

There is your red line - below it, you're through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said it. Fife.

Very well done.

Yep, you're through to the next round.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

More than that, fife is a pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot,

taking the total up to £8,750

and it scores you nothing, leaving you with a total of 16.

-Richard, a fife?

-Very well played, Roy, you're safely through.

The fife dates from the 12th century.

It's a precursor to the piccolo, a small, high-pitched flute,

-often associated with the military, as well, of course.

-Indeed.

-The fife and drum.

-Accompanied by a drum.

-Yeah.

-OK, thank you.

Now, Ernie. Trisha managed to score nothing in the first pass.

The high scorers are Chris and Patrick on 67.

If you can score 66 or less,

you are straight through to the next round.

We are looking for instruments that you can blow.

-What are you going to say?

-I'll go for oboe.

-You'll go for oboe.

-Yeah.

OK, there is your red line. If you get below that red line with oboe,

you are through to the next round.

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

It's right.

Very well done, Ernie.

-APPLAUSE

-56. That did everything you needed to do.

It takes your total up to 56.

-Richard?

-Well done. 56 is a high score but not as high as clarinet,

largely, I think, because clarinet players are deemed

to be more intelligent and more good looking than oboe players.

You, coincidentally, play the oboe, don't you?

Yes.

-Yes, yes.

-Are you proficient?

-I haven't played it for a long time.

I used to play it quite proficiently.

Thanks very much, Richard. Chris, you are the high scorers on 67.

Well, I used to play the trumpet and that's very close to a cornet,

so I'm going to pick that.

You're going to pick the cornet.

OK, let's see if the cornet is right

and if so, let's see how many people said it. The cornet.

There's no red line because you are the high scorers.

It's right.

-APPLAUSE

-Very well done. That's a great answer, Chris.

It scores you 12. It takes you up to 79.

-Richard.

-Good answer, Chris.

The cornet was invented when they added valves to a post horn.

Very good. Now, Abi, we come to you. 25 is your score,

thanks to Tracy's answer of piccolo in the first pass.

The high scorers are Patrick and Chris on 79.

If you can manage to score 53 or less with this answer,

you are through to the next round.

You're the last person to have this board,

so, please, dive in and help yourself.

I've got a bit of a quandary going on

because there's one up there that I'd like to take a risk on

but that banjaxed me well and truly last time, so...

-The banjax.

-Banjax.

-Not on the board, that one.

So I don't know whether I want to play it safe or...

I'm going to try euphonium.

You're going for euphonium.

If you score 53 or less, you're through to the next round.

There is your red line. Let's see if euphonium is right

and if it is, how many people said euphonium.

Oh, God!

Well done. You're through!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Euphonium scores you two. It takes your total up to 27.

-Richard.

-Good answer, Abi.

Euphonium, from the Greek "euphonos", which means sweet voiced.

Let's take a look at the rest.

Bassoon would have scored you 26 points.

Now, francophone and Saxa Vord. What do you think?

Francophone is a linguistic thing, rather than a...

Absolutely right. A francophone is somebody who speaks French.

Do you think Saxa Vord is pointless or incorrect?

I'm going... I don't think that's an instrument.

Saxa Vord is the place in the Shetlands

where they believe the highest ever wind speed in the UK was recorded.

They believe it. They don't for sure because it blew the instrument that was recording it over.

-LAUGHTER

-Wow. Thank you very much, Richard.

At the end of round one, the losing pair is Patrick and Chris.

Very, very bad luck there, guys.

-What categories would you have liked to have come up?

-You'd have liked geography.

-Geography and history.

-Patrick, how about you?

Geography also would have been a good subject

or anything television but, yeah, theatre, as well.

I'm sorry that we have to say goodbye to you.

-Excellent contestants. Thank you for playing.

-APPLAUSE

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

Only two pairs can make it through to the head to head,

so one team will be leaving at the end of this round.

The category for round two this afternoon is:

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

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

OK, our round two question this afternoon concerns fictional places of work.

We're about to show you a list of fictional places of work.

We asked 100 people to tell us in which TV shows they feature.

-Richard.

-We're going to show you six places of work on each pass.

The more obscure ones will score you fewer points.

An incorrect answer, the wrong programme, will score 100 points.

See how many you can get at home.

So we are looking for the TV shows in which these places of work feature.

And we have got:

I'll read all of those again.

As always, you are looking for the answer that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

OK, Abi, which one are you going to choose?

-Is this something that you feel...?

-One epically rings a bell

but I'm not feeling it

so I'm really sorry, Tracy, I'm going to have to play it safe

and I'm going to go with Sun Hill police station for The Bill.

Sun Hill police station, The Bill.

Let's see if that is indeed The Bill and let's how many people knew.

-Oh, my word.

-82, Abi. 82.

-APPLAUSE

That's quite a high score, unsurprisingly. Richard. The Bill.

Yeah, a big, big score. From 1984, all the way through to 2010.

It survived three explosions in that time, Sun Hill.

-Trisha.

-Right. I'm also going to play it a little bit easy

and I'm going for the Springfield nuclear power plant.

-And that is?

-I'm hoping it's The Simpsons.

The Simpsons. OK. Let's see if that's right.

Springfield nuclear power plant, The Simpsons.

How many people knew that answer?

-74.

-Quite high.

-APPLAUSE

-It's another high score. 74.

-Another very big score.

Roy, you're the last person to have this board, so you can talk us through all the answers.

Yeah, I think Wernham Hogg paper merchants,

I seem to remember The Office was set in a paper merchants'.

I'm going to go for something a little bit further back in time than that.

I'm going to go for Whitbury Leisure Centre

and I hope that was where the Brittas Empire was set.

Very good. The Whitbury Leisure Centre, the Brittas Empire.

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

-Very, very well done, Roy.

-APPLAUSE

The Brittas Empire scores you only seven points.

-Fantastic answer, there. Richard.

-It's the best answer on the board.

Very good answer. Well done at home if you said Brittas Empire.

Let's fill in the others. Wernham Hogg, you're right, was The Office.

That would have scored you 15.

The Blue Moon detective agency, Xander?

-Moonlighting, is it?

-Exactly right.

That would have scored 26.

And Sunshine Desserts, The Fall And Rose Of Reginald Perrin, would have scored 17.

Let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

On seven points, Roy and Thomas. Look at that!

Way ahead of the field.

Then a long way in front of you, Trisha and Ernie on 74

and then a little bit ahead of you on 82, Abi and Tracy.

So, Tracy and Ernie, you have your work cut out in the next pass.

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

OK, we're going to put six more fictional places of work on the board and we have got:

Let me read those one more time.

We're looking for the TV shows in which these feature

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

Thomas, what are you thinking?

I'm toying between two answers.

But I think I'm going to go with Mode magazine.

My brother is quite a big fan of the programme that it's on.

I'll embarrass him by saying that. I think it's Ugly Betty.

-I'm pretty sure it's Ugly Betty.

-OK, Ugly Betty, Mode magazine.

That could be a very good answer.

Here is your red line. If you get below that with Ugly Betty,

you are through to the head to head.

Let's see if Mode magazine is Ugly Betty and how many people said it.

Very well done.

-APPLAUSE

-28.

28 that scores you. That takes your total up to 35.

-Richard.

-Well played, Thomas. You're quite a team, there.

It's based on a Colombian telenovela

which is called I'm Betty, The Ugly One.

OK, we are looking for the programmes

in which these fictional places of work feature.

Ernie, Trisha.

The high scorers are still Tracy and Abi on 82.

You are on 74. If you, Ernie, can score seven points or less,

you're through to the next round.

There's one I certainly do know the answer to.

There's two that I'm unsure of

and I'm hoping I'm going to nick the one that Tracy might know also.

So Maplin's holiday camp, Hi-de-Hi!

Maplin's holiday camp, Hi-de-Hi! There it is, second from the top.

There is your red line. It's quite a long way down.

If you get below that red line, you are through to the head to head.

Maplin's holiday camp, Hi-de-Hi! Let's see how many people knew that.

Oh, that's an expensive one, Ernie.

68, that scores you. That takes your total up to 142.

-Richard.

-As you say, it's not 100 but it's a big score.

It ran from 1980 to 1988.

OK, now, then, Tracy. You are on 82.

You were the high scorers, you're no longer the high scorers.

Ernie and Trisha have taken that mantle from you.

If you can score 59 or less, you are through to the head to head.

I think you can probably do it, Tracy.

Talk us through the board.

Erm... I know one, I think.

Erm...

But I'm going to take a slight risk. Why not?

I'm going to say Monsoon PR, Absolutely Fabulous.

Monsoon PR, Absolutely Fabulous.

If you can score 59 or less, you are through to the next round.

Here's your red line.

Let's see if Monsoon PR from Absolutely Fabulous gets you below it.

Good luck.

-Well done!

-Yes!

Very well done, indeed, Tracy. That's a great score.

Monsoon PR scores you seven and takes your total up to 89.

-Richard.

-Yeah, it's the best answer on the board.

Jennifer Saunders' character is Eddie Monsoon,

taken from her husband Ade Edmondson's surname.

Let's fill in the rest of the board.

Do you know County General Hospital, Chicago?

-I believe that's ER.

-ER, exactly right.

That would have scored you 31 points.

-Globelink News?

-Drop The Dead Donkey.

-That would have scored you 13.

-And Cage, Fish & Associates?

-I don't know.

-Anyone there know that one?

-Ally McBeal.

-Exactly right.

That would have scored you 10. Monsoon PR, the best answer.

-Very well done if you got that.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of round two, the losing pair,

I'm afraid, Ernie and Trisha, it's you.

Nothing shaming in your answers there

but they were quite high-scoring.

-What would you have liked to have come up?

-'60s music.

-'60s music.

-And '70s music.

-And '70s music.

Well, you'll be back next time, when I hope all of these come up.

-You've been fantastic. Thank you for playing.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

For the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting

as we enter the head to head.

Very well done, Roy and Thomas, Abi and Tracy,

you've made it through to the head to head.

Only one pair can make it to the final and play for the jackpot, which currently stands at £8,750.

WHOOPING

Now you're going head to head on the best of three questions.

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

If you come up with an answer that scores less than the other pair, you win that question.

The pair who get the best of three will play for today's jackpot.

Let's play Pointless.

OK, here is your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Jam singles as they could.

We're looking for any single released by the Jam

that entered the UK top 40 up to the start of 2011.

There are 21 singles on the list.

Where a single was a double A side, we will accept an either or both answer.

Roy and Thomas, you've played best so far, you get to go first.

-Any at all?

-I don't know one.

OK, I'm going to go for A Town Called Malice.

Abi and Tracy, what are you going to go for?

-You can think out loud.

-Yeah.

I used to really like the Jam when I was younger

-but they've all fell out of my head.

-Oh, no!

-Erm...

-I still reckon you know more than I do.

-Yeah. Erm...

I'm going to say Going Underground.

OK, we have A Town Called Malice and we have Going Underground.

In the order they've been given, we have Roy and Thomas, A Town Called Malice.

Let's see if that's right and let's see how many people said that.

Very well done.

-19.

-APPLAUSE

A very good answer. Abi and Tracy, you've gone for going underground.

Let's see how many people said that.

-29.

-APPLAUSE

So after our first question, it is one-nil to Roy and Thomas.

-Richard.

-Yeah, both number one singles.

They're the two biggest-scoring answers on the list.

There is a pointless answer.

From 1982, Just Who Is The Five O'clock Hero.

Dreams Of Children was a double A side with Going Underground.

A Bomb in Wardour Street, also one. Precious, two.

Strange Town, David Watts, Absolute Beginners, all on three.

When You're Young, also three. Funeral Pyre, four.

The Bitterest Pill, five. All of them would have won the point.

News Of The World, five. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, five.

All Around The World, also five. Start, six. Another number one.

The Modern World, six. Beat Surrender another number one, nine.

Eton Rifles, ten. That's Entertainment and In The City, 11.

And there's your two answers there.

A Town Called Malice, 19,

and Going Underground, 29.

OK, very well done. So, here is your second question.

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

Oceans. Richard?

Yeah, we're looking for any of the five oceans

as recognised by the International Hydrographic Organization.

Now, whoever wins this point, it could be very, very important.

Abi and Tracy, you have to win this to stay in the game.

If Roy and Thomas win this question, they are through to the final.

OK, Abi and Tracy, you go first.

What is it going to be?

THEY WHISPER

Right, OK. We're going to have a crack at Antarctic Ocean.

-Antarctic Ocean.

-Yes.

-OK.

Antarctic Ocean. Roy and Thomas?

I probably think that was the best answer, actually. Erm...

-We might have to go to the other pole, I think.

-Yeah.

-I think that's...

-Go on, you say it.

-The Arctic Ocean.

-Ooh!

-The Arctic Ocean.

We have the Antarctic Ocean and we have the Arctic Ocean.

Abi and Tracy, Antarctic Ocean first.

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

It's right.

-Eleven.

-APPLAUSE

And Roy and Thomas have gone for the Arctic Ocean.

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

It's right.

33.

Very well done. So after two questions, it is one point apiece.

-Richard.

-Yeah, the best two answers, actually.

The Antarctic or Southern Ocean is at the bottom of the list.

The Arctic has 33.

Then the Indian, 87, very big scores on this.

Pacific, 90, and Atlantic, a huge 99.

Thanks very much, Richard. OK, and here is your third question.

Whoever wins this question is through to the final

to play for that massive jackpot.

OK, here it is. Good luck.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Rovers Return landlords and landladies as they could.

We're looking for any character

who has owned or held the licence on the Rovers Return since the show's launch in 1960

all the way through to the start of 2011.

Where it's been jointly owned, we're only looking for one of those names.

OK, now, Roy and Thomas, you go first.

THEY WHISPER

-OK.

-OK, Roy, do you watch Coronation Street?

-The expression my face, I think, registers that I don't.

-Right, right, OK.

But I believe, possibly, Bet Lynch may have been

one of the most notorious landladies of the Rovers Return.

-Not a good thing in this competition.

-Bet Lynch, you are saying.

Abi and Tracy, are either of you Corrie watchers?

-No!

-No!

-This is music, beautifully sung, if I might say...

-Why, thank you.

..to Roy and Thomas' ears.

Erm, I could actually cry. Erm...

-I'll... Alec Gilroy.

-Yeah.

-We're going to try Alec Gilroy, please, Alexander.

-Alec Gilroy.

We have Bet Lynch, we have Alec Gilroy.

-Is this a complete stab in the dark?

-Yeah.

-Pretty much.

OK, Bet Lynch. Let's take Bet Lynch first

and see if Roy and Thomas are right and how many people said Bet Lynch.

-58 for Bet Lynch.

-APPLAUSE

And now, Abi and Tracy, A Bit Racy, have said Alec Gilroy.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said Alec Gilroy.

This will decide who goes through to the final

to play for our jackpot.

It's right.

And it beats Bet Lynch.

-Very well done.

-APPLAUSE

Alec Gilroy wins that

and that means that after three questions...

Abi and Tracy are through to the final, two-one.

-Richard?

-Much to the surprise of Abi and Tracy, I think.

-Absolutely.

-Shut up!

A very good answer. He lent Bet Lynch the money to buy the tenancy

but they later married and he ran the pub with her.

There are 14 Rovers Return landladies and landlords.

Natalie Barnes, Duggie Ferguson, they were pointless answers.

Very well done if you said them at home.

Mike Baldwin on one.

Eve Elliott and Billy Walker, also on one.

Jack Walker and Fred Elliott on three.

There's Alec Gilroy on seven. A very good answer.

Annie Walker, 11.

Vera and Jack, of course - Vera Duckworth, 17, Jack, 19.

Steve McDonald 31, Liz McDonald, 37,

and right at the top, as you predicted, Roy, Bet Lynch at 58.

So the losing pair at the end of the head to head,

I'm afraid to say, it's Roy and Thomas. Bad luck.

-They pulled it out of the hat, though.

-I don't know where from.

Yeah, that was amazing

but in the end, Abi and Tracy just had that extra bit of Pointless knowledge

that they could call on.

Roy and Thomas, we'll see you again next time.

-Thanks very much for playing.

-APPLAUSE

But for Abi and Tracy, it's now time for our Pointless final

and the chance to win our jackpot of £8,750.

So congratulations, Abi and Tracy, you've fought off the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at very impressive £8,750.

CHEERING

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

an answer that none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had two pointless answers today.

You only need to find one and you will go home with that money.

Firstly, you've got to choose a category

and you can choose from these three options.

Oh, my word. A bit of my soul just died.

As long as soul singer, didn't.

-It has to be soul singers.

-Yeah, soul singers.

-Soul singers.

What's the one bit of that category that would make you think, "Oh, I know this"?

-I have absolutely no idea.

-OK.

Let's find out what you know about soul singers.

Let's find out what that question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Stevie Wonder singles as they could.

Stevie Wonder singles. Richard.

We're looking for any single released by Stevie Wonder

that has reached the UK top 40 prior to the start of 2011.

Duets counts and songs where he's a featured artist also count.

We won't accept the collaborations That's What Friends Are For

or We Are The World.

So any of the 39 Stevie Wonder top 40 singles.

Very best of luck.

-Thanks.

-You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that £8,750 is

for one just answer to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

-Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

-Isn't She Lovely.

-Isn't She Lovely.

-Erm, Suspicion? No.

-Superstition.

-Superstitious.

-Wah!

-He played harmonica on There Must Be An Angel

but I don't think that counts.

Oh, er... biscuits.

-Erm...

-There must be some more.

Erm... I would go then, with... I don't know -

-Signed, Sealed, Delivered, maybe?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Superstitious.

-Millions will have got that.

-Millions.

What about Happy Birthday? That will be huge as well.

But probably less than Isn't She Lovely?

Or the t'other one that's just completely gone boop!

-Yeah.

-Which do you think?

-Superstition.

-Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

-Mm-hm.

And Happy Birthday?

Mm, yeah, OK.

OK, there's your minute.

So, we were looking for Stevie Wonder singles.

I now need your three answers.

We're going to plump for Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

-Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

-Superstition.

-Superstition.

-And Happy Birthday.

-And Happy Birthday.

Now, of those three, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

-Probably.

-We'll put that last.

And your least likely contender for a pointless answer?

-Happy Birthday.

-Happy Birthday.

OK, so let's put those up on the board in that order.

You only need one of these to be pointless to win that £8,750 jackpot.

Let's see if Happy Birthday is right

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

It's your first shot of three at that jackpot.

£8,750. It has to go all the way down to zero.

Into the twenties, into the teens, into single figures.

-Look at that - six people!

-APPLAUSE

Six people out of our 100 said Happy Birthday.

Unfortunately, that's not a pointless answer

but we can draw a bit of strength, I think, from that.

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

Your next answer - Superstition.

You were a little bit more confident about this one.

What would you spend £8,750 on?

I think I'd go on holiday with my husband and son.

-Very good. Abi, how about you?

-Probably the same.

-I've been married for 12 years and we've never been away on holiday.

-Oh, for heaven's sake!

But I also need a new bathroom and a new boiler, so, you know...

-OK.

-Might have to weigh it up a bit.

-OK.

Your next answer, Superstition. Is it right

and if it is right, how many people said it? Superstition.

It is right.

Your first answer went down to single figures.

This you had more faith in.

This has to go to zero to win that jackpot.

THEY GROAN

APPLAUSE

16. Well, it's not a pointless answer,

which means the stage is now set for your third and final answer.

This is your last chance to win today's jackpot of £8,750.

We were looking for Stevie Wonder singles.

You have submitted Signed, Sealed, Delivered

as your last choice.

This was the one you had the most faith in to be pointless.

It has to be right and it has to go down to zero

and if it does go down to zero, you leave here with £8,750.

Ha! Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Is it right? How many people said it?

There it is. It's right.

It has to go all the way down to zero to leave with the jackpot

of £8,750.

Down it goes into the teens, into single figures...

-Oh!

-AUDIENCE GROANS

Oh!

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

so you don't win today's jackpot of £8,750,

which rolls over onto the next show.

You've been amazing contestants and you do take home our Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

-Richard.

-Yeah, unlucky, Abi and Tracy.

I hope you don't recognise any of the pointless answers.

There's quite a few.

His second ever hit was a cover of Blowin' In The Wind.

That was pointless. Get It was his duet with Michael Jackson.

I Ain't Gonna Stand For It was a top 10 hit in 1980.

Living For The City, he won a Grammy for that, that was pointless.

Overjoyed was pointless.

Part-Time Lover was a number three hit in the mid '80s.

That was pointless.

So What The Fuss, that was from 2005.

We Can Work It Out is a cover of the Beatles song from the early '70s.

And probably the biggest hit on the pointless answers -

YesterMe, Yester-You, Yesterday. That was a number two hit.

Very well done if you got any of those.

Thanks, Richard.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye, Abi and Tracy.

It's been great having you on the show. Thank you for playing.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

So nobody's won our jackpot today, so it rolls over onto the next show,

when we will be playing for £9,750.

WHOOPING

Join us to see if someone can win it.

-It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

APPLAUSE

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