Episode 36 Pointless

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

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

where popular answers mean nothing and obscure answers mean everything.

-Let's meet today's players.

-APPLAUSE

Welcome, Jeremy and Joe. You're our first pair on the show.

-How do you two know each other?

-We met in 1998, when we worked in the same office.

We actually met for the first time in a pub after work. We've been going to the pub ever since.

-Joe, what do you do in your spare time?

-My spare time?

I like to drink beer, obviously. I do cryptic crosswords.

-Who do you think's got the better general knowledge?

-I THINK I have, I'm afraid.

We play together in a quiz league, the Quiz League of London.

-You're good! Quiz League of London?

-Our team's called Fit For Purpose?

With a question mark at the end.

Touch of modesty, question mark. They were Fit For Purpose.

-Then they thought, "Does that sound like we're a bit...?" Do you win everything?

-No.

We're fourth in the third division!

And there are only three divisions. LAUGHTER

-It's not that impressive.

-It is our first year of playing as a team.

-You'll work your way up.

-Yes.

Oh, you're terrifyingly good.

Everyone else, shall we call this off and go down the pub?

-We'll come as well.

-Course you can. Just don't play quizzes.

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much.

-Gill and Ged!

-Welcome. How do you know each other?

-We met 14 years ago through our husbands, who work together.

We've forged quite a strong friendship ourselves.

-Where are you from?

-We're from sunny Scunthorpe.

Is it EVER sunny in Scunthorpe?

-It's always sunny!

-Whose idea was it to come on the show?

-It was mine.

-Ged, did you take a lot of persuading?

-Not really. No.

-What's Ged short for?

-It's short for Geraldine.

-Ah!

Brilliant. Well, it's fabulous having you on the show. Welcome.

Next, Chelle and Terry. How do you know each other?

We met at school at the age of 11 and we've been together ever since.

EVERYONE: Aaah!

I always hate it when we all do that "Aah!" thing.

It's deeply patronising. But in this case... Aaah!

-What age did you start going out with each other?

-15.

-Sorry to repeat myself but... Aah!

-LAUGHTER

-Do you think you'll survive Pointless together?

-Of course!

-Chelle was about to say, "Mm, ye-e-ah."

-Yes!

It's brilliant having the pair of you. Thanks very much for coming. We will expect great things.

Finally, we welcome back Emily and Amy.

Everyone gets two shots at the Pointless final. What would you like, Emily, to come up?

What would be your dream focused category?

Probably, films. Um...

Specific geography, not so much the general.

Basically, Sheffield and its environs. It's fine.

Wherever I know.

Amy, what about you? Nice specific category for you to triumph in?

-Specific children's TV programmes would be nice.

-Of the current era?

Of any, old and new.

-Really? Do you have children?

-No. I AM a child.

Who's your favourite character from children's telly?

-Bagpuss.

-Really?

-Oh, sorry!

-I'm not lying!

-LAUGHTER

Why would she lie about that?

-She does have Basil Brush's autobiography!

-That's true.

-What's it called?

-My Story.

-LAUGHTER

-Original title(!)

-Basil Brush!

Story of my life! We'll find out more about you later.

There's one person left for me to introduce.

He stands beneath the tree of obscurity, waiting patiently for the low-hanging fruit facts to fall.

Then he makes them into some kind of pointless jam.

-He is my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hello.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

We've only got one returning pair, Emily and Amy.

Last time, we had a round on poetry, one of those that we have sometimes,

-of which we must never speak again.

-LAUGHTER

It went very, very badly.

I mean, really badly.

A round that, as soon as it was finished, had a tarpaulin draped over it.

People were diverted around it.

It's been buried encased in concrete 16 metres below the BBC.

-Yeah.

-But, good luck today!

It should be a very, very good show.

-We've got some good questions and four very good teams.

-I can't wait for it to start!

So let's start it.

We put all our questions to 100 people, but we are after the obscure answers.

Everyone's trying for a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave.

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

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

So today's jackpot starts off at...

AUDIENCE: Ooooh!

-Let's play Pointless.

-APPLAUSE

In the first round, you each give me one answer and you cannot confer.

Whichever team has the highest score at the end will be eliminated.

If anyone gives me an incorrect answer, they will score the maximum of 100 points.

Our first category this afternoon is...

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

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

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

..as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any country of the world that is larger than France in terms of land area.

By country, we mean a member of the UN that's a sovereign state as of the start of 2011.

We're not including any of its overseas dependencies, just the country of France.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Jeremy and Joe.

You all drew lots before the show, and you get to go first.

Jeremy.

Ooh, this is just like...

just a big plate of jam for you, isn't it?

-I'm thinking...

-Just throw yourself in and eat!

I've got a globe spinning in my head. I'm going to go South America. Brazil.

-Brazil?

-Yes.

-You're hoping to score as few points as possible.

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

Well done, Jeremy.

APPLAUSE

A good solid start there, Jeremy. 43 for Brazil.

Fifth largest country in the world, Brazil, in terms of land area.

It's 15 times bigger than France.

-15 Frances in Brazil!

-Yeah.

Imagine the strikes! Lovely food, though!

-Oh, yes.

-LAUGHTER

-But the strikes!

-Ugh! Imagine if there was a chef strike.

Oh, no! I thought that would be a good point! It's even worse!

-Ged.

-I'm going to stick with South America

-and go with Peru.

-You're going with Peru.

France. Peru.

It's very hard! You don't know them in context!

You're hoping to score as few points as possible with Peru. You're hoping Peru is correct.

Well done, Ged!

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

More than twice the size of France, Peru. You wouldn't think it.

I was going to say, "Ged would", but then I thought I can't.

-That's not your surname, is it?

-No.

-That would be awful!

-Imagine!

Just imagine! Now, Terry. What do you do, Terry?

-I'm a maintenance technician.

-F...?

-For a motor company.

What is the most obscure country larger than France you can think of?

Well, geography isn't my forte at all.

I need a satellite navigation to get to bed!

-I'll say Germany.

-You're hoping to score as few points as possible.

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

-AUDIENCE GROANS

-Bad luck, Terry!

Vorsprung durch Technik, Terry!

I'm afraid that incorrect answer scores the maximum of 100 points.

-Germany.

-Smaller than France, I'm afraid. 200,000 square kilometres smaller.

-Emily.

-Yay!

-We are looking for countries larger than France.

I was quite confident,

until I found out Germany wasn't bigger and now I'm not as confident.

I think I'm going to have to play it safe in MY mind. It could be wrong.

-Sudan.

-OK, we'll take Sudan and see if it's correct.

Let's see how many people said Sudan. Good luck, Emily.

It's right.

Wonderful answer!

Lovely low score, Emily, for Sudan.

Very well played, Emily. At the start of 2011, it's the largest country in Africa.

Halfway through the round, let's look at the scores.

On one point,

Ged and Gill, amazing. Lovely, lovely low score that, Ged.

Emily on six, wonderful.

Jeremy and Joe. I know wht they're doing.

Hustling.

Hustling! 43!

And Terry, bad luck.

An incorrect answer there with Germany.

Stands to reason, you'd think, but no.

So, Chelle, you have a job on your hands.

Try and find a nice pointless answer

and hope someone else scores high.

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

Remember, we are looking for countries larger than France in terms of area. Amy.

-Emily, didn't she do well?

-Very well.

-A fabulous score there!

The high-scorers are Chelle and Terry. If you score 93 or less,

you're through to the next round.

I don't know whether to gamble or play it safe a bit.

I'm going to go for Kazakhstan.

Is that one of those guesses?

Or is it actually because you know Kazakhstan on a map?

It looks quite big on a map.

Sounds like a great answer. There's your red line! Fantastically high.

If Kazakhstan gets you below that, you're through to the next round.

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

Well done! You're through.

Very well done, Amy!

Scores you four. Takes you just into double figures.

-Lovely score of ten.

-Very good answer, Amy.

-Kazakhstan's five times bigger than France.

-Splendid.

Now, Chelle. You know what you have to do.

-We're looking for countries larger than France.

-I'll try!

Lovely low-scoring obscure country larger than France.

Um... I'll go with...

-Zimbabwe.

-There's no red line for you.

-Because you are the high-scorers.

-Yeah.

By a margin. Hope that this is a lovely low score.

You have to hope that Gill and/or Joe make a mistake, basically.

Let's see if Zimbabwe is right and how many people said Zimbabwe.

Bad luck, Chelle! That is an incorrect answer.

You score the maximum of 100 points and it takes your score

to an unbeatable 200!

-Richard.

-Sorry, Chelle. Not bad answers, Germany and Zimbabwe.

-Both of them smaller than France.

-Very surprising! Zimbabwe.

-You think of African countries on a much larger scale.

-Yeah.

-Bad luck, Chelle.

-Yeah.

-Wrong for all the right reasons. But wrong.

Gill, you are through to the next round, whatever happens.

You'll never overtake Chelle and Terry. We are looking for countries larger than France.

Given the situation, I'll go for something to try for a pointless answer.

I'm going to try Mali.

-Mali.

-Yeah.

-Let's see if Mali is a correct answer.

And if it is, let's see how many people said it. Mali.

There we are. It's right.

-CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

-Superb, Gill!

Thoroughly deserved a fanfare. That's a pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking us up to a lovely round £5,000.

And it scores you nothing!

What an introduction to the show! One point between the two of you.

Joe, we've had a pointless answer.

-What are you going to do about it?

-LAUGHTER

I'm afraid I might have to pretend to "play safe",

cos I can't think of any that might be pointless.

Listen, you can make the most fantastic mistake and be comfortably through to the next round.

You have that safety net, why not go out on a bit of a Joe limb,

and find a pointless answer?

-In that case, Hungary.

-Hungary.

-There you are.

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

Well, stab in the dark.

Scores you 100 points.

-You're through to the next round.

-Yeah, unlucky.

For the pointless answers, the main places are Africa and South America.

I'm sure people will be thinking of some at home...

-..Madagascar larger than France!

-It's huge, Madagascar...

..Venezuela, Zambia, Ethiopia, Namibia, Mozambique.

All bigger than France and Pointless.

Let's take a look at the answers that most of our 100 gave...

..Peru is actually bigger than France, Germany and the UK put together!

Well done, Peru, if you're watching! Thanks, Richard.

At the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score, is Chelle and Terry.

-It was a tough category! Geography not your strong suit!

-No.

Such a shame, but we will see you next time.

Thanks very much, meanwhile, for playing.

APPLAUSE

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

Only two pairs will make it through to the head-to-head.

One of the three teams will leave us at the end of this round.

Our category for Round Two is...

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

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

Very good, our second round question concerns...

..We're about to show you a list of sports films.

We asked 100 people to tell us which sport is featured in them.

-Richard.

-Yeah, we're going to show you six films on each pass.

Tell us which sport is associated with it.

The more obscure the answer, the fewer points.

An incorrect answer will score 100 points.

Thank you very much, Richard.

We're looking for the sport connected to these films.

Here we go...

..I'll read those again.

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

Now then, Jeremy. How good are you on films in general

and sports films in particular?

Some of those I'm sure. Some are 50-50.

I'm weighing up whether to go for one I'm sure of or to take a risk.

I'll play it safe. Million Dollar Baby, boxing.

Million Dollar Baby and boxing is what you say.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE

That's a solid start. 50 for Million Dollar Baby.

Yeah, from 2004. Clint Eastwood won the Best Director Oscar for it,

the oldest man to win a Best Director Oscar, at 74.

2004?

-Mm.

-Wow. Feels like yesterday.

-Did you watch it on DVD?

-LAUGHTER

-I watched it yesterday.

-LAUGHTER

Gill, I have a feeling you have seen a few of these films.

-And you're going to be rather good.

-You're so wrong.

I haven't seen any of them.

I'm going to have to make a bit of a wild stab here.

I'm going to go Space Jam.

-And say Basketball.

-Let's see if that's right and how many people knew Space Jam, basketball.

Very well done, Gill!

-APPLAUSE

-That's a great answer.

Richard.

Space Jam is part animation, part live action.

All bad!

Michael Jordan stars alongside Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

-Now then, Emily.

-OK. I've never heard of the first one.

The Sandlot. And I'm not sure about the Balls Of Fury and Kingpin.

I can make a guess, but I have to play it safe and go Mighty Ducks.

It's one of my favourite films and it's ice hockey.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people knew The Mighty Ducks, ice hockey.

Well done.

Very well done. You've done it.

Well done, Emily. 38 for The Mighty Ducks, ice hockey.

Well played, Emily. It's a wonderful film.

Emilio Estevez plays a lawyer who coaches an ice hockey team.

Let's look at the rest of the answers. Kingpin.

The Farrelly brothers' movie about ten-pin bowling.

Balls Of Fury, do you know what that's about?

-I'm hoping it's about tennis, table tennis.

-Yes, table tennis.

With Christopher Walken.

The best answer on the board is also known as The Sandlot Kids.

It's about baseball.

Well done if you got that at home.

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

Very close grouping at the bottom end.

38, Emily and Amy.

Gill and Ged, 39, equally good.

Jeremy and Joe, it was safe. It was expensive.

The pressure is on you, Joe. How well do you know your sports films?

Before you showed me the categories, reasonable.

-Splendid.

-When you show them, rubbish.

LAUGHTER

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

We're going to put six more films on the board. Here they are...

..I'll read those one more time...

We are looking for the sport connected with these films.

You're trying to find the one the fewest people knew.

Amy, how good are you on sports films?

Um... I quite like bad films.

And one of them I know is bad.

I'm going to go for Seabiscuit, which is about horse racing.

Horse racing. You are the low-scorers.

The high-scorers are Joe and Jeremy. You want to score 11 or less.

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

There is your red line. Below that, you are through to the head-to-head.

Very well done.

APPLAUSE

62 that scores you.

Takes your total up to 100.

Big score, surprisingly big. It's about a Depression-era race horse.

I watched Seabiscuit on an aeroplane and, like all sorts of bad films I've seen on aeroplanes,

I was wiping tears off my chin!

Amy doesn't like it. Yeah, I know.

-Got me!

-You were quite heavily drunk, though.

Very good, Amy. 100 points. You are the high-scorers now. Ged and Gill.

If you can score 60 or less, you are through to the next round.

Ged, you're shaking your head.

-"I'm not going to score very well."

-Not my subject at all!

I've heard of Cool Runnings and I think my son's watched it.

It's probably totally wrong. American football.

You're saying Cool Runnings, American football.

There's your red line.

Go below that, you are in the head-to-head.

Cool Runnings, American football.

AUDIENCE GROANS

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer and scores you the maximum,

taking your total to 139.

Unlucky, Ged. Not American football.

-I won't say what it is in case Joe wants to have a go at that.

-OK.

Joe and Jeremy. You are on 50.

The high-scorers are Ged and Gill. 88 or less.

That's your goal, Joe. 88 or less. What are you thinking?

I positively know Looking For Eric, Invictus and Cool Runnings.

Tell us what they are, then you can pick.

Looking For Eric is association football.

Invictus is rugby union.

Cool Runnings is bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh.

The one I'd like to pick, probably, is Invictus for rugby union.

-Invictus, rugby union. Did you see it?

-No.

A surprisingly good film. Didn't even see it in a plane, as well.

-LAUGHTER

-There's your red line.

If you come below that, you're through to the head-to-head.

Let's see if Invictus is about rugby union and, if it is, how many people said it.

Very well done.

26 that scores you, taking your total up to 76.

Invictus, Richard.

Based around the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela

and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the South African captain.

-What about the others?

-Let's take a look.

Of the ones you knew, it was the lowest scorer as well.

Cool Runnings is a big scorer...

..It is, indeed, bobsleigh.

Looking For Eric stars Eric Cantona.

Remember The Titans, I saw on a plane with Denzel Washington.

We were flying somewhere together. He's also in the film...

..Vision Quest is the best answer. Do you know that?

-I have no idea.

-I have never heard of it. It is a wrestling film.

With Matthew Modine. Very well done if you got that one.

So, at the end of Round Two, the losing pair with the highest score,

-Ged and Gill!

-Never mind.

-Never mind. Never mind.

We shall see you next time. We're looking forward to that a lot.

Till then, thank you very much for playing.

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

Very well done, Emily and Amy, Jeremy and Joe.

Obviously, only one pair can make it to the final

and play for the jackpot, which currently stands at...

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.

Find an answer that scores less than the others to win that question.

The first to the best of three plays for the jackpot. Let's play Pointless.

Here is your first question.

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

..as they could. Members of Girls Aloud.

Any of the five founding members of Girls Aloud.

They were formed on Popstars The Rivals, the TV show.

Any of the five members of Girls Aloud - first name and surname, please.

Emily and Amy, because you played best so far, you go first.

We are looking for the five members of Girls Aloud.

The most obscure one, please.

Do you know any of their surnames?

CONTESTANTS WHISPER

-OK, we have an answer.

-Yeah.

-We're going to go for Sarah Harding.

-Sarah Harding.

-Jeremy and Joe, you can talk out loud now!

-I haven't got a clue.

-The modern popular beat combo!

-I wonder if Ashley Cole's wife was one.

-Cheryl Cole. Possibly. Unless you've got a better one.

-No!

-What are you going to say, Jeremy?

-Cheryl Cole.

-Cheryl Cole?

-Yeah.

OK, we have Emily and Amy saying Sarah Harding.

We have Jeremy and Joe saying Cheryl Cole.

Sarah Harding. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

It sounded like you had a little moment of doubt, there.

In case it was Harding with an S on the end.

-Hardings.

-It was a panic.

-Plural panic.

-THEY GIGGLE

-That's fine. That's fine.

It's all fine. Jeremy and Joe have gone for Cheryl Cole. Let's see if that's right.

And, if it is, how many people said Cheryl Cole.

40 is what you want to be going lower than.

APPLAUSE

It was right, but it was too right.

Too obvious.

Emily and Amy are soaring into the lead, one-nil.

-Richard.

-Those are the most popular answers.

Let's look at three answers that would have beaten Sarah Harding...

Here is your second question. Jeremy and Joe, you have to win this to stay in the game.

Emily and Amy, should you win this, you are through to the final.

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

..as they could. Guacamole ingredients, Richard.

Any of the seven ingredients included in Delia Smith's guacamole in her Complete Cookery Course.

I'm not accepting salt and pepper, but any of the seven ingredients in guacamole.

Seven ingredients in Delia Smith's guacamole. Jeremy and Joe.

You get to go first this time.

THEY WHISPER

We'll discount the seven obvious ones and say mayonnaise.

Mayonnaise, say Jeremy and Joe.

Emily and Amy, take us through the recipe for Guacamole. Mayonnaise is off the table.

-Right, Delia Smith's version?

-Be glad it's not Heston Blumenthal's version.

LAUGHTER

-You're the chef.

-Don't say that.

Obviously, avocado's an obvious answer, which I won't say.

-I'm sure there's lemon... I'm going to say tomato.

-Tomato.

-All right? Yeah.

-Mayonnaise, from Jeremy and Joe. Tomato...

-Sorry.

-Don't be sorry.

What could be wrong with tomato? Sounds delicious.

No!

I said it sounds delicious!

-LAUGHTER

-Remember, I know nothing!

Jeremy and Joe have gone for mayonnaise.

You have to win this question. You suddenly said you had an idea!

I had an idea that they probably don't have mayonnaise in Mexico or wherever guacamole comes from.

So it's probably something else, but you never know.

Let's just find out. Mayonnaise, is it in guacamole and, if it is, how many people said it?

No mayonnaise in guacamole!

-Emily, Amy, you have said tomato.

-Yeah. I'm 99% sure that's wrong.

Jeremy and Joe were wrong. You're in good company.

Let's see if tomato is in guacamole and, if it is,

you are through to the final and playing for that jackpot of £5,000.

Tomato. Is it in guacamole and, if it is, how many people said it?

It's right! That's all that matters!

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

It's emphatically right.

After just two questions, Emily and Amy

-are through to the final. Richard.

-Very, very well played.

There's an apocryphal story about Peter Mandelson

in a northern chip shop looking at the mushy peas and saying, "I'll have some guacamole."

Wooing Hartlepool voters(!)

Let's look at all seven ingredients in Delia's guacamole.

There is one pointless answer...

Thank you very much. So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head is Jeremy and Joe.

Dear oh, dear. Great at quizzes. Rubbish at making guacamole.

-LAUGHTER

-Well, that's Pointless.

We go from Girls Aloud to guacamole.

The next question might have been football or exciting exotic beers.

We might have scored something with them.

You will be back next time,

when I'm absolutely confident that exotic beers and all your specialist subjects will come up.

-Thank you very much for playing.

-APPLAUSE

For Emily and Amy, it's our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £5,000!

Congratulations, Emily and Amy. You fought off all the competition.

And you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

I forgot about that!

That's the best reaction I've ever had.

-We forgot.

-I didn't even...

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £5,000!

APPLAUSE

To win that money, just find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had a pointless answer today. You only have to find one more.

First, choose a category from these three options.

-I know a tiny bit about football.

-We know nothing about opera.

Unless the American author is Danielle Steel, which I read in my youth...

Do we have to go for football?

LAUGHS I can't believe this is real life!

We've got our trophy. We're going to go for football.

You've got the trophy. Let's find out what the question is.

Is there any area of football you'd love it to be, any little area?

-England football?

-Is there a club you follow vaguely?

Unless it's England managers, then no, that's it.

Fingers crossed.

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

..as they could.

World Cup Final scorers. Richard.

Any player scoring in a final deciding game in a football World Cup,

up to and including the 2010 tournament.

We will accept just surnames or the names by which they are best known.

We won't accept anyone who scored in a penalty shoot-out. Anyone who scored in a World Cup Final.

OK, you now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that £5,000 is for one of them to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

We know the biggest World Cup scorers.

-Steve...Bloom...?

-These are all English.

How many times have they been in the final?

-Is it English scorers?

-It can be anyone.

-Steve Bloom's not English.

-Isn't he?

-No.

-Philippe er...

-No. That's...rugby!

Is that rugby? LAUGHTER

Gary Lineker, might be quite obvious.

-Um...

-Can't think of anyone.

-Steve Bloom, then.

-Speak up.

-David Platt? He's a footballer!

Yeah, let's go with David Platt.

-There's Ronaldo. That's obvious.

-I'm sure...

-Maradona.

So we've got Gary Lineker.

Michael Owen. That's England again. That's all we know, isn't it?

Five seconds.

OK, your time is up. All I need from you now are your three answers.

-We were looking for World Cup Final scorers.

-Yeah!

-What are you going to give me?

-David Platt?

-Yeah. David Platt.

-David Platt.

-We're just going to have to go with the obvious ones.

-Gary Lineker.

-Gary Lineker.

-Gary Lineker?

-Maradona?

-And Maradona.

-Yeah. Why not?

David Platt, Gary Lineker and Maradona.

-I have to say, it's very patriotic, your...

-Are they all English?

-Not all of them.

-LAUGHTER

Amy's submission isn't. Nice to mix it up a bit!

Which of those do you think is your best chance of a pointless answer?

None of them!

I'd say either David Platt or...that other one we said!

-Mara...? What did we say?

-Maradona.

-Shall we put Maradona last?

-Gary Lineker first?

-Yeah.

-David Platt second.

-Maradona last.

-Cos we know Gary Lineker's definitely a footballer.

LAUGHTER

We're going to put those up on the board in that order. Here they are.

See? Look good on the board, don't they?

This was your least confident answer. You need one pointless answer to win £5,000.

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

Oh!

-That's all right.

-Bad luck. That's an incorrect answer.

-OK.

You still have two answers, two more chances to win a jackpot of £5,000.

What would you do with £5,000?

-We've been saying all along that we'd get a haircut.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah, very good.

That's the best answer I've ever been given.

We are looking for World Cup Final goal scorers.

Gary Lineker you said. Incorrect answer.

Sadly. Let's hope your next answer, David Platt, is a correct answer,

and it goes all the way down to zero.

For £5,000, let's see if David Platt is right, and how many people said David Platt.

Bad luck!

We are looking for World Cup Final goal scorers.

You said this was the answer you had the most faith in.

-Didn't you, Emily?

-Yes, we did. Very, very hope... Yeah.

-You're very confident(!)

-Very confident.

-In Maradona.

Where did Maradona suddenly come from? He just swam into view.

Is he a swimmer? LAUGHTER

Let's find out, shall we?

This has to be pointless.

-It has to be correct.

-Yes.

-If it's correct, it has to go all the way down to zero.

OK, let's find out how many people said Maradona, and is it correct?

Bad luck!

Unfortunately, you didn't find that pointless answer and you don't win today's jackpot of £5,000,

but you have been amazing contestants.

-You do, of course, get to take home our Pointless trophy.

-Yay!

-Richard.

-Unlucky, Amy and Emily, a tough category.

Maradona played in the final twice, in '86 and '90, but didn't score.

Only two Englishmen have scored, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters,

and with Ronaldo they were the top three answers on this board.

You're going to kick yourselves when you see some of these names(!)

Yeah. Agne Simonsson of Sweden.

There's Carlos Alberto of Brazil. Ferenc Puskas of Hungary.

A lot of people would have got some of these at home.

Jairzinho, also of Brazil. Kark-Heinz Rummenigge of Germany.

Marco Tardelli, the Italian. Mario Kempes, the Argentinian.

Paolo Rossi of Italy. Very well done if you got any of those.

Thanks, Richard. Did you know ANY of those names?

No! I'd heard of Rossi before. It's our friend's name, so...

-That's not why I've heard of it.

-Oh, I see. Right. Yeah.

Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye, Emily and Amy.

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

Nobody won our jackpot, so it rolls over, which means on the next show we will be playing for £6,000.

AUDIENCE: Oooh!

-Join us next time. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

-APPLAUSE

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