0:00:21 > 0:00:24APPLAUSE
0:00:24 > 0:00:28Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong. A very warm welcome to Pointless,
0:00:28 > 0:00:33the show where popular answers mean nothing and obscure answers mean everything. Let's meet the players.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42First we welcome back Jeremy and Joe. You were on the show last time.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Everyone gets two chances to reach the final and this is your last chance.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49- Remind us how you did last time. - We got to the head-to-head
0:00:49 > 0:00:53- but no further, so hopefully one better today. - What do you hope will come up?
0:00:53 > 0:00:55We'd like a bit of film.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59- A bit of film.- History maybe. - History possibly.- History.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05Very best of luck to the pair of you. Great to have you back. Next we welcome back Chelle and Terry.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09It's your second chance to reach the Pointless final. Remind us how you did.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Not too good. We fell at the first hurdle.
0:01:12 > 0:01:17- Remind me. - It was the geography question.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21It was countries larger than France. Chelle, what are you hoping is going to come up?
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Soaps, celebrities, films.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30- What do you think would be Terry's favourite subject?- Sports.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33- Nature.- Nature.- Very good. Best of luck to the pair of you.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Next we welcome back Gill and Ged, our third returning couple.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39You were on the show last time, as well. How did you do?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42We did OK. We got through to the second round
0:01:42 > 0:01:45but unfortunately we got knocked out.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49- Sports films. - Yes. Not my type of film.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51What's your type of film, Ged?
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Cheesy flicks and chick flicks.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Comedies. Disney films.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01- Disney films?- Mm.- Very good. What do you do in your spare time, Gill?
0:02:01 > 0:02:05I quite like watching a lot of sport. We've got a small share in a race horse.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09A small share in a big race horse? How's your race horse doing?
0:02:09 > 0:02:15He won second time out at York and he's subsequently had another couple of wins.
0:02:15 > 0:02:22- That's quite a senior horse, isn't it?- Yeah. He doesn't always run well, as our friends will vouch for.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Well, very exciting indeed. Best of luck.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30And finally we have got Stephen and Samantha. How do you two know each other?
0:02:30 > 0:02:34We used to go to school together and then we lost contact for a few years
0:02:34 > 0:02:38and then we got back in contact through the internet
0:02:38 > 0:02:42- and we've been going out for three years now.- Did you date at school?
0:02:42 > 0:02:46- No, we were just good friends. - Just good friends? Really? Really?
0:02:46 > 0:02:50- THEY LAUGH - Or were you pining all that time for Samantha?
0:02:50 > 0:02:54No, we used to distract each other during English.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58- Do you still distract each other? - LAUGHTER
0:02:58 > 0:03:03You aren't going to answer that question. OK. Best of luck. Great to have you on the show.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show. Only one person left to introduce.
0:03:07 > 0:03:12He proudly carries the flag of obscurity on his crusade against the obvious.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17- Say if these are getting too convoluted. He is my Pointless friend, Richard.- Hi.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20- APPLAUSE - Hello.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28Of course I would say if they were getting too convoluted. They are getting too convoluted.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32We've got three returning pairs today and they are very strong pairs.
0:03:32 > 0:03:39Chelle and Terry were very unlucky to be knocked out in the first round and it's a nature question first
0:03:39 > 0:03:44so that might help. Jeremy and Joe went to the head-to-head. Very strong pair.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49And Gill and Ged were also very good. So it might be a tough afternoon for Stephen and Samantha.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Question two, I think, today is going to be carnage.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58- Absolute carnage. - OK, well, thanks very much, Richard. We'll look forward to that.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01We put all our questions to 100 people before the show.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05This is Pointless, so we're after the obscure answers they didn't get.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Each time that happens, we'll add 250 quid to the jackpot.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000 to that.
0:04:16 > 0:04:21So today's jackpot starts off at £6,000.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- Right, let's play Pointless. - APPLAUSE
0:04:34 > 0:04:39In the first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Our first category this afternoon is birds.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54And whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:04:57 > 0:05:02OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:05:02 > 0:05:05to name as many ducks as they could.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Ducks, Richard.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11Yeah, the correct answers here are all UK indigenous birds from the duck family
0:05:11 > 0:05:17as listed on the RSPB website. Also ducks that have been introduced to the UK or winter or summer here.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21To put that more simply, we are looking for ducks.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- LAUGHTER - Thanks very much, Richard.
0:05:24 > 0:05:29Now then, Jeremy and Joe, you all drew lots before the show and today you get to go first.
0:05:29 > 0:05:34In this round, we're going to give you a choice of seven possible answers in each pass.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38The first set of seven potential ducks reads like this.
0:05:52 > 0:05:58At least one of those answers is pointless and at least one is incorrect.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Pick an incorrect one and you will score the maximum of 100 points.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Jeremy, do you know your ducks?
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Not too well, so I'm going to plump for ruddy.
0:06:09 > 0:06:15- Plump for ruddy.- Yes.- I hope you're not out for a duck.- Indeed.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20OK, let's see if ruddy is right, and if it is, how many people said ruddy duck.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23It's right.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Down it goes. Three!
0:06:29 > 0:06:31APPLAUSE
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Very well done. Lovely low score there, Jeremy, for ruddy duck.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41Well done, Jeremy. They very rarely leave the water, ruddy ducks, cos they're very ungainly.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Poor little things.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47Very good. Now then, Terry, we're looking for ducks.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51I think I've heard of a smew.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53- I think I've heard that. - A smew.- Yeah.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58- You've heard of a smew. - I think I have. Whether it's a duck or not, I'm not sure.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Well, if it is a duck, I reckon it's going to go a long way down.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06It just has to be a duck. Only one way to find out.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Is smew correct, and if it is, how many people said smew?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13It's right.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Very well done, Terry. Down it goes.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- Oh! Fabulous! - CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Smew scores you one point.
0:07:26 > 0:07:31- Richard.- Well done, Terry. I don't need to tell you that it's a compact diving duck with a delicate bill.
0:07:31 > 0:07:38- I thought so. - It's a winter visitor from Scandinavia and Russia, the smew.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- A non-dom. - A non-dom. They don't pay UK tax.
0:07:41 > 0:07:47- LAUGHTER - OK, we are looking for ducks. Ged, what are you thinking?
0:07:47 > 0:07:53- There's a couple up there I recognise.- There's still a pointless answer there, at least one.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I don't want to take any risks.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59- I think I'll play safe and go teal. - You're going to say teal.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04Let's see if teal's right, and if it is, how many people said teal.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- 15, Ged. - APPLAUSE
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Not a bad answer, but it's quite high.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24- Richard.- Yeah, there can be up to 200,000 teal here over the winter.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27They fly in from the Baltic and Siberia.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32Stephen, we are looking for ducks. That's what we're after. You're the last person to have this board.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36There is still at least one pointless answer on that board.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Do you think you can truffle it out?
0:08:39 > 0:08:42- Talk us through the board.- I was going to go for teal, so thanks.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46Erm... But I think I've heard of an eider duck
0:08:46 > 0:08:52and I'm wary of the ones with goose in the name, cos it could be a trick.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55So at least with pintail, which... Oh...
0:08:55 > 0:08:59I think it might be a duck because maybe it's the markings on the tail,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03like a pin, perhaps, so I'm going to go pintail.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07OK, Stephen. Thank you very much.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11Pintail is what you're saying. Is it right, and if it is, how many people said pintail?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16It's right.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24- Very well done! - APPLAUSE - Pintail.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Scores you two.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30- Richard.- Pintail, very well done. Very low-scoring round.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Long-necked, small-headed ducks, the pintail, with a small, tapering tail,
0:09:34 > 0:09:38which I guess is where they get the name from. Let's look at the rest.
0:09:38 > 0:09:44Eider absolutely is a duck. Would've scored you the most points on the board, 23.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47What do you think between goosewing and goosander?
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Erm, I'll go for goosander as a duck.
0:09:51 > 0:09:56Goosander absolutely is a duck. It was a pointless answer. Well done if you said that at home.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Goosewing is the mortal enemy of Count Duckula
0:09:59 > 0:10:03- so would've been an incorrect answer.- Thanks, Richard. We're halfway through the round
0:10:03 > 0:10:07so let's take a look at the scores. It's been a very low-scoring round.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11On one point, Terry and Chelle, looking very strong.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Then up to two for Stephen and Samantha.
0:10:13 > 0:10:18Up to three, Jeremy and Joe. And then, oh dear, Ged, 15.
0:10:18 > 0:10:23Normally a lovely low score, but in this instance, that puts you way out in front.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26We'll come back down the line. Second players, come to the podium.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33OK, we're going to put seven more answers on the board.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37We are looking for ducks and here they are.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56At least one of those answers is pointless and at least one is incorrect.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Try and avoid the incorrect ones because they will score you 100 points.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04- Samantha, Stephen did fantastically well with his pintail. - I'm under a lot of pressure.
0:11:04 > 0:11:10I think I know two of them but I think at least one of them will be quite high.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14I've got to gamble because I've got to try and go for that pointless.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Erm, I'm going to go for the last one on the board, pochard.
0:11:18 > 0:11:23Pochard, OK. There we are. Is that a complete guess?
0:11:23 > 0:11:27- Yes.- Yes. OK.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Well, here is your red line.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34If pochard gets you below that red line, you are through to the next round.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people said pochard.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Well done, Samantha.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Very good answer.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46You are through to the next round!
0:11:46 > 0:11:52- APPLAUSE - Very well done indeed! Scores you three, takes your total up to five.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56- Pochard, Richard.- It's a stocky diving duck.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- Who knew there were so many different types of duck?- Who knew?
0:11:59 > 0:12:04- There's about 80,000 of them in the UK in the winter. - Gill. We're looking for ducks.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07You and Ged are the high scorers on 15.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10You have to score as low as you possibly can
0:12:10 > 0:12:14to stay in the game. What are you thinking?
0:12:14 > 0:12:18I'm thinking if I go for the one that's the oddest name,
0:12:18 > 0:12:22if it is a duck, people won't have been able to remember it.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26So I'm going to go for velvet scoter.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28A velvet scoter.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33OK, let's see if it's right. There's no red line for you because you're the high scorers.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37Let's see if velvet scoter is a duck, and if it is, how many people said it.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41It's right!
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- Very, very well done, Gill! - CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:12:49 > 0:12:54That was exactly what you needed to do. It's a pointless answer. It adds 250 quid to today's jackpot.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Takes the total up to £6,250
0:12:57 > 0:13:01and it scores you nothing, leaving you with a total of 15. Richard.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03The velvet scoter is a black sea duck.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07It winters on our east coast eating shellfish and crabs.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11- I can think of worse things to do. - It's a nice life.- Yeah.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17Now then, Chelle. The high scorers remain Gill and Ged on 15.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21What are you thinking? How good is your duck knowledge?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24The two that I did know, obviously, they've gone.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28So I'm not too sure. Apart from the obvious.
0:13:30 > 0:13:36So I'm looking at, I think...lillywhite.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Lillywhite. There's your red line.
0:13:38 > 0:13:44If lillywhite is correct and gets you below that red line, you are through to the next round.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Is it right, and if it is, how many people said lillywhite?
0:13:49 > 0:13:54Ohh! Back luck, Chelle! I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer
0:13:54 > 0:13:56which means you score the maximum of 100 points.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Takes your total up to 101.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03That's very unlucky, Chelle. It sounds very convincing, doesn't it?
0:14:03 > 0:14:08The first cricketer ever to get a duck in test history
0:14:08 > 0:14:12is a man called Ned Gregory, an Australian, and he was bowled out by James Lillywhite,
0:14:12 > 0:14:14the English cricketer.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19Right, now then, Joe. The high scorers are Chelle and Terry on 101.
0:14:19 > 0:14:27If you can score 97 points or less, you are through to the next round. Talk us through the board.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30There are lots of ducks on there. There might be another pointless duck.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Mallard is probably the obvious one that's still left,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37so whether that's as obvious as 97 or not...
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Goldeneye is a James Bond film, book.
0:14:40 > 0:14:46So I think I'm going to say shoveler...for not apparent reason.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51You're saying shoveler. Is it a correct answer? There's your red line, nice and high.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Let's see if shoveler duck is right, and if it is, how many people said it.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Well done, it's right and you're through.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06- Very, very well done, Joe! - APPLAUSE
0:15:06 > 0:15:11That's a pointless answer. It adds £250 to today's total,
0:15:11 > 0:15:14taking us up to £6,500.
0:15:14 > 0:15:19- APPLAUSE - It scores you nothing and leaves your total at three.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23- Very well done. Shoveler duck. - Yeah, it's a great word.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27Very well played, Joe. I will describe to you what a shoveler duck is
0:15:27 > 0:15:31and I'll use a word I've never used before and I suspect never will again.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33It is a surface-feeding duck
0:15:33 > 0:15:35with a huge spatulate bill.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38- LAUGHTER - Wow.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42- Spatulate as in spatula. - Like a spatula.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Let's go through the rest of the board. Mallard is the obvious answer there.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49That would've scored you a very hefty 64 points.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53The tufted duck, the clue's in the name, it's a duck, would've scored you five.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57And goldeneye, it is a Bond film, but it's also a duck.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02Would've scored you three points. A Duck with a distinctive golden eye.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Just the one?
0:16:04 > 0:16:09The natural enemy of the goldeneye, though, when it's in the wild is the octopussy.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13- LAUGHTER - Yeah. Thanks very much, Richard. So at the end of round one,
0:16:13 > 0:16:19- the losing pair with the highest score, I'm afraid again it's Chelle and Terry.- Oh, well.
0:16:19 > 0:16:24I don't feel we've given you a decent run for your money. Countries larger than France, ducks.
0:16:24 > 0:16:29Mind you, Terry, you did say nature. I mean, ducks...
0:16:29 > 0:16:34Some sort of connection there. Sadly, it just wasn't your little facet of nature, was it?
0:16:34 > 0:16:39- To be fair, Terry did very well. - It was me.- To be fair, Terry did do very well.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42We apportion no blame. LAUGHTER
0:16:42 > 0:16:46A real shame to be saying goodbye to you so soon, but thanks for playing.
0:16:46 > 0:16:52- APPLAUSE - But for the remaining three pairs, it's time for round two.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02Obviously, only two pairs will make it through to the head-to-head
0:17:02 > 0:17:10so one of the teams will be leaving us at the end of the this round. Our category for round two is leisure.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- I thought you said it was carnage? - LAUGHTER
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Leisure. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21And whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:17:24 > 0:17:30OK, our round two question concerns hobbies and pastimes.
0:17:30 > 0:17:36We're about to show you a list of names given to people who collect or specialise in particular items.
0:17:36 > 0:17:41We asked 100 people to tell us what items each description refers to.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45- Richard.- We're going to show you six names in each pass.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Just tell us what items those people collect or study or make. Obscurer ones will score fewer points.
0:17:50 > 0:17:56If you give us an incorrect answer, you'll score 100 points. See how many of these you can get at home.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01We are looking for the items each description refers to, OK? And here we go.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03We have got...
0:18:21 > 0:18:26As always, you are looking for the answer that the fewest of our 100 people gave.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31So then, Jeremy, what are you thinking? Is this carnage?
0:18:31 > 0:18:36Er, no. I know two of them, but I'm more certain of one, so I'll go with that one.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41- Philatelist would be stamps.- Let's see if philatelist is indeed stamps
0:18:41 > 0:18:45and if it is, how many people knew philatelist, stamps.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Well done, it's right.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- 59. - APPLAUSE
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Fair enough, though. At least it's right. Philatelist, stamps. Richard.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Yeah, big score. Proves the maxim, "Philately will get you nowhere."
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Indeed. LAUGHTER
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Thank you very much, Richard. Now then, Ged.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10- What are you thinking about this board?- I knew that one.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12The rest is carnage, I'm afraid.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17I'm looking for clues and I don't know what to go for.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Arctophile.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27And I'm going to go for photographs.
0:19:27 > 0:19:32Arctophile, photographs. Let's see if that's right.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37Arctophile. Let's see if it's right. and if it is, how many people knew the answer. Good luck, Ged.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47That scores you the maximum of 100 points. Richard.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Yeah, I won't tell you the correct answer, in case Stephen wants to try.
0:19:51 > 0:19:58Remember, we are looking for the items associated with these hobbies or pastimes. Stephen.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02What are you thinking? Do any of them mean anything to you?
0:20:02 > 0:20:05No, apart from stamp collecting.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08There's a lot of weird letters and words up there. Erm...
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Horologist.
0:20:12 > 0:20:19Let's toss in something like horror books, horror stories, collects them.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Let's indeed toss that in
0:20:22 > 0:20:24and see if it's a correct answer.
0:20:24 > 0:20:29Horologist. Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people said it. Horologist, horror.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Bad luck, Stephen. I'm afraid that also is an incorrect answer,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38which means you also score the maximum of 100 points.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- Richard.- Yes, a valiant guess. It does start "horo".
0:20:42 > 0:20:49Horologists are actually people who make timepieces. Clocks and watches. Would've scored you 30 points.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Lepidopterist, another big score, 21 points.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55That's somebody who collects butterflies or moths.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58And the other two are very low scoring. Do you know them?
0:20:58 > 0:21:03- It's quite tough.- Really tough. - Well done if you got these at home.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05I suspect you may be one of these three if you got it.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08And Oologist collects birds' eggs.
0:21:08 > 0:21:14- Vexillogist is flags. - Yeah, I think I did know that. - Would've scored two.
0:21:14 > 0:21:19And an arctophile, it's not photography. Arctophile is teddy bears.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Collecting teddy bears, an arctophile. Would've scored you one point.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28Very good. Let's look at the scores. We're halfway through the round. 59, Jeremy.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Very sensible, bagsing philately there.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Philately got you everywhere, as it turns out.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Ged and Gill and Stephen and Samantha, both on 100
0:21:39 > 0:21:43so the battle is between Samantha and Gill in the next pass.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Very best of luck to you. OK, we'll come back down the line.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:21:52 > 0:21:57OK, we're going to put six more descriptions of collectors on the board and here we are.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Remember, we are looking for the items each description refers to, OK?
0:22:19 > 0:22:23You are trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Samantha, you're the joint high scorers on 100 points.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30- You have to score as low as you can. - Yeah.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34- SHE LAUGHS - What are you thinking of the list?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Erm, help, maybe. - SHE LAUGHS
0:22:38 > 0:22:43I'm just trying to...work out what I can get from the names
0:22:43 > 0:22:47to make it something that possibly is a correct answer.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51I'm going to go for...bibliophile.
0:22:51 > 0:22:58Erm, I'm going to say it's the study of, erm, the Bible.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- Study of the Bible.- Yeah.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Bibliophile, study of the Bible, you're saying.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08You're hoping to score as few points as possible. There's no red line because you are the high scorers.
0:23:08 > 0:23:14Let's see if bibliophile is a study of the Bible, and if it is, how many people said that.
0:23:16 > 0:23:21Bad luck, Samantha. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, which takes your score up to 200.
0:23:21 > 0:23:26- Richard.- Yeah, just in case Gill or Joe want to have a go at that, I won't give the answer
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- till the end of the round. - OK, thanks very much.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Now then, Gill, we come to you.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36Remember, we are looking for the items associated with these hobbies or pastimes.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40The high scorers are Samantha and Stephen on 200.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44If you can score 99 or less, you are definitely through to the head-to-head.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47OK, well, I'm going to have a try at bibliophile, as well.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51I'm not sure about this, but I'm going to try books.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55Books. Bibliophile, books. Let's see if that's right.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59There is a red line for you coming in. There it is, just below the pink line.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03If bibliophile is indeed the study of books and it goes below that red line,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07you are through to the next round. Let's see how many people said bibliophile, books.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Very well done, Gill.
0:24:13 > 0:24:1961 that scores you, takes your total up to 161.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24- Richard.- Well done, Gill. Bibliophile, from the Greek biblio meaning books.
0:24:24 > 0:24:30Thank you very much, Richard. Joe and Jeremy, you are definitely through to the next round.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35You'll never overtake Samantha and Stephen's high score of 200.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40Also, Joe, the board is yours, so have fun with it. Tell us what all these things are.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Richard mentioned Greek. I'm afraid I've got a degree in Ancient Greek.
0:24:44 > 0:24:50- So I know all of them.- This is going to help you so much.- It's the only time it's ever come in handy.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54I know a few of those, anyway. I think Numismatist is a coin collector.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Conchologist, possibly, is shells.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Deltiologist is either postcards or beer mats.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Erm, but I'm going to go... Discophile's probably just records.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12But I'll go for the bottom one, the one I will give you as an answer is oenophile at the bottom,
0:25:12 > 0:25:14which is wine.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18Very good indeed. Oenophile.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how many people said oenophile.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27It's right!
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Very well done, Joe. Lovely low score. Four.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38Taking your total up to 63.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43- Oenophile.- Yeah, well done, Joe, and a very good summation of the board, as well.
0:25:43 > 0:25:48I've got a wine collection. I recently wrote everything down, all of them,
0:25:48 > 0:25:51wrote them all down and I keep them "oenophile".
0:25:51 > 0:25:53LAUGHTER
0:25:53 > 0:25:57Let's take a look at the rest of the answers. We've heard them from Joe.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Discophile is records or CDs. Would've scored you 33.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05A conchologist, the clue there is the conch, it's shells. Would scored you 30 points.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09Numismatist is coins or medals. 15.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14and deltiologist is postcards.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19- Ronnie Barker had a seaside postcard collection that sold for £60,000 at auction.- Really?
0:26:19 > 0:26:24- Of comedy, joke, naughty postcards? - Yes, saucy seaside postcards.
0:26:24 > 0:26:30Thanks, Richard. After round two, the losing pair with the highest score is Stephen and Samantha.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34- Bad luck. But what a score! - Yeah.- Look at that!
0:26:34 > 0:26:36- Top marks.- 200!
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Well, it wasn't to be. Horologist and bibliophile
0:26:39 > 0:26:42I'm afraid were your undoing.
0:26:42 > 0:26:47As Richard said, it was going to be carnage, this round, and so it proved.
0:26:47 > 0:26:52But we will see you again next time when I'm sure you'll do much better. Thanks for playing.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54APPLAUSE
0:26:54 > 0:26:59For the remaining two pairs, things get more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Very well done, Jeremy and Joe, Gill and Ged, you've made it through to the head-to-head.
0:27:11 > 0:27:17Only one pair can make it through to today's final and play for the jackpot which stands at £6,500.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE - Very exciting.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Now, you're going to go head-to-head on the best of three questions.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29For each question, each pair needs to give me just one answer and you are now allowed to confer.
0:27:29 > 0:27:34Just come up with an answer that scores less than the other pair and you win that question.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40The first pair to get to the best of three will be playing for today's jackpot. Let's play Pointless.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47OK, here is your first question.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name
0:27:51 > 0:27:58as many best actress Oscar winners of the noughties as they could. Richard.
0:27:58 > 0:28:04We're looking for any actress who's won a best actress Oscar in the noughties, 2000 to 2009 inclusive.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08There are nine names on the list, because there's one double winner.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Very best of luck. See how many you can get at home.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15OK, Jeremy and Joe, because you've played best so far, you get to go first.
0:28:19 > 0:28:25- Joe.- We're going to say, or I'm going to say Hilary Swank.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Hilary Swank. OK.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33Gill and Ged, you can now talk out loud. Hilary Swank has gone.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36If you were thinking of her.
0:28:36 > 0:28:43I'm thinking maybe Halle Berry or... erm...Kate Winslet.
0:28:43 > 0:28:49- Or maybe... Who was the other one we said?- Kate Beckinsale maybe.
0:28:49 > 0:28:53- I think we'll stick with Halle Berry, do you think?- Yeah.
0:28:53 > 0:28:59Halle Berry. OK, so we have Hilary Swank, we have Halle Berry.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02Jeremy and Joe have gone for Hilary Swank. Let's see if that's right,
0:29:02 > 0:29:05and if it is, how many people said Hilary Swank.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Very well done, it's right.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17- Wow. - APPLAUSE
0:29:19 > 0:29:23Now, there's a low score. Two for Hilary Swank.
0:29:23 > 0:29:29- What are you thinking, Gill and Ged?- Tough one. - That's a worrisome score, isn't it?
0:29:29 > 0:29:33Tough to get lower than that. But maybe Halle Berry will do it. Let's see if it's right
0:29:33 > 0:29:35and how many people said Halle Berry.
0:29:43 > 0:29:47APPLAUSE
0:29:47 > 0:29:51Bad luck. Hilary Swank was a tough one to beat.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55After one question, Jeremy and Joe are up one-nil. Richard.
0:29:55 > 0:30:00Yeah, well played, Jeremy and Joe. Hilary Swank, very low answer, but she's the actress who won it twice.
0:30:00 > 0:30:07She won it for Boys Don't Cry in 2000 and for Million Dollar Baby in 2005. Let's look at all the answers.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10There was a couple of answers that would've beaten Hilary Swank.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13Reese Witherspoon, who won for Walk The Line.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15Marion Cotillard, who won for La Vie en Rose.
0:30:15 > 0:30:20Hilary Swank with two. Charlize Theron, who won for Monster, also two.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23Nicole Kidman won for The Hours. She scored six.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich, ten.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Kate Winslet in The Reader, scored 16.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31There's Halle Berry, who won it for Monster's Ball, with 20.
0:30:31 > 0:30:37- And Helen Mirren, who won it for The Queen, with 21, the biggest answer on the board.- Thanks very much.
0:30:37 > 0:30:42Here is your second question. Gill and Ged, you have to win this question to stay in the game.
0:30:42 > 0:30:49We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many deputy prime ministers are they could.
0:30:49 > 0:30:56- Richard.- We're looking for any designated deputy prime minister from 1945 to the beginning of 2011.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59Again, there are nine answers on this list.
0:30:59 > 0:31:04OK, thank you very much. Gill and Ged, you get to go first this time.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12- OK, have we reached consensus?- Yes.
0:31:13 > 0:31:18- Is it a winning answer, Gill?- It either is or it's going to be awful.
0:31:18 > 0:31:23- We decided that we shouldn't go for a couple of really obvious, recent ones.- Yep.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27So we obviously know she was prime minister,
0:31:27 > 0:31:34but we're hoping Margaret Thatcher was deputy at some point.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36Jeremy and Joe, what are you going to go with?
0:31:36 > 0:31:41- We've got Whitelaw, Heseltine or... - Hattersley.- Hattersley.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44So which one do you want to go for?
0:31:44 > 0:31:48- Whitelaw.- We'll go for Willie Whitelaw.- Willie Whitelaw, OK.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52So we have Mrs Thatcher and we have Willie Whitelaw.
0:31:52 > 0:31:57Let's take them in the order they've been given. Gill and Ged, you have to win this point
0:31:57 > 0:32:02or we say goodbye to you. Margaret Thatcher, was she ever deputy prime minister?
0:32:02 > 0:32:04If she was, how many people said it?
0:32:09 > 0:32:14Bad luck. Jeremy and Joe have gone for Willie Whitelaw.
0:32:14 > 0:32:18Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how many people said Willie Whitelaw.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Very well done. It's right. You are through to the final.
0:32:28 > 0:32:33Oh, very good indeed! Three for Willie Whitelaw!
0:32:33 > 0:32:39- APPLAUSE - Two incredibly impressive low scores there from Jeremy and Joe.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43That means that Jeremy and Joe are through to the next round two-nil. Richard.
0:32:43 > 0:32:48Well played again, guys. If you'd have said Hattersley, that was incorrect,
0:32:48 > 0:32:51so you went with the right one. Let's take a look at all of them
0:32:51 > 0:32:54cos I suspect some people at home have got quite a few of these.
0:32:54 > 0:33:00At the bottom is a pointless answer. Attlee's deputy Herbert Morrison, Peter Mandelson grandfather.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04Anthony Eden, who was Churchill's deputy before becoming prime minister, one.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07Willie Whitelaw on three, Thatcher's deputy.
0:33:07 > 0:33:12Rab Butler on three, Macmillan's deputy. Geoffrey Howe on three, another of Thatcher's deputies
0:33:12 > 0:33:16before he resigned in protest of her European policies.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20Clement Attlee, who was Churchill's deputy before becoming Prime Minister, four.
0:33:20 > 0:33:23There's Heseltine on 11, he was John Major's deputy.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26John Prescott, who was Blair's deputy, on 30.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30And Nick Clegg on 54, David Cameron's deputy prime minister.
0:33:30 > 0:33:38OK, thank you very much, Richard. At the end of the head-to-head, the losing pair is Gill and Ged.
0:33:38 > 0:33:44Dear, oh, dear. We didn't serve up the right categories for you at all, did we, in this head-to-head?
0:33:44 > 0:33:48No, but we've met some worthy contenders, so good luck to them.
0:33:48 > 0:33:53You gave us a pointless duck, as well, Gill. You've done phenomenally well in both early rounds
0:33:53 > 0:33:57of the two games you've played. I'm afraid we have to say goodbye to you now
0:33:57 > 0:34:02- but thank you so much for playing. You've been excellent contestants. - APPLAUSE
0:34:05 > 0:34:10For Jeremy and Joe, it's now time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £6,500.
0:34:16 > 0:34:22Congratulations, Jeremy and Joe, you saw off all the competition to win our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot. At the end of today's show,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39the jackpot stands at £6,500.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:34:43 > 0:34:48The rules are very simple. To win the money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer
0:34:48 > 0:34:50that none of our 100 could think of.
0:34:50 > 0:34:55We've had two pointless answers today. You only need one more. You found one in the first round
0:34:55 > 0:34:58with the shoveler duck.
0:34:58 > 0:35:04All you have to do now is come up with one more pointless answer and you will go home with the £6,500.
0:35:04 > 0:35:09First you've got to choose a category. You can choose from these three options.
0:35:15 > 0:35:19- Movie stars, opera, American authors. What are you thinking? - Not opera.- I'd agree.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23- Good. We've ruled that one out.- So it's American authors or movie stars.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27- Hm. - American authors could be obscure.
0:35:27 > 0:35:31- Movie stars?- Probably got the best chance with that, I reckon.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34- Yep. We'll stick with movie stars. - Stick with movie stars.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37Hilary Swank did so well for you in the head-to-head.
0:35:37 > 0:35:42Any particular areas of movie stars that you'd feel especially comfortable in?
0:35:42 > 0:35:49- I'd like anybody in Kubrick films and you'd like Buster Keaton, I suppose. - Somebody from the old era.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51Well, fingers crossed. Let's find out what it is.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:35:54 > 0:36:02to name as many Keanu Reeves films as they could. Richard.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06Any feature film made for cinema release for which Keanu Reeves received a credit,
0:36:06 > 0:36:10including voice credit for animated films. No short films, TV films, documentaries
0:36:10 > 0:36:16or anything where he's played himself. That's any film he's been in up to the start of 2011.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19- Very best of luck, guys. - Thanks.- Thank you.
0:36:19 > 0:36:24Thanks, Richard. OK, you now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.
0:36:24 > 0:36:29All you need to win that £6,500 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32Your 60 seconds start now.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Matrix. Can you think of a...
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Well, Matrix one, two or three.
0:36:38 > 0:36:44- Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey, Matrix and Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.- Anything more obscure?
0:36:44 > 0:36:48- I'll try to pluck one from the... - I don't know.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50It's not one that I'd be going to see.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53Erm...
0:36:53 > 0:36:56- Unless you're thinking of others? - What's the one where he's a surfer?
0:36:56 > 0:36:59- Point Break or something? - Yes, we'll go for Point Break.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02- Is that what it's called? - Yes, I think it is.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey and what was the other one?
0:37:05 > 0:37:10- The Matrix.- No, there's another obscure one I mentioned. - He's forgotten.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12- Can you remind me?- Erm...
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey...
0:37:14 > 0:37:18- We'll go with Point Break and... - Point Break. Yes.
0:37:18 > 0:37:24- Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey, Point Break...- Did you remember that one you've forgotten?
0:37:27 > 0:37:29There is our minute up.
0:37:29 > 0:37:36OK, we were looking for Keanu Reeves films. I now need your three answers.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39- Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. - Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Point Break.- Point Break.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46And it's either Excellent Adventure or Matrix.
0:37:46 > 0:37:50Probably Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure is going to score fewer than The Matrix.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54- Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure. - Yep.- OK.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Of those three, which do you think is your most confident shot at a pointless?
0:37:58 > 0:38:02- Hopefully Bogus Journey. - We'll put Bogus Journey last, then.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07And which is your least likely pointless submission?
0:38:07 > 0:38:12- Probably Excellent Adventure. - OK. So we will put that first.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16Let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
0:38:22 > 0:38:27OK, there they are up on the board. You said this was your least confident answer.
0:38:27 > 0:38:32You only have to find one pointless answer to win that £6,500 jackpot.
0:38:32 > 0:38:37Let's see how many people said Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41Has to be right and it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49It's right.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54It's going down.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56Down it goes, look at that!
0:38:56 > 0:38:59- Into single figures! Seven! - APPLAUSE
0:38:59 > 0:39:02- Surprisingly close.- Yeah.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07Well, seven people.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10It's all looking quite good for your subsequent answers.
0:39:10 > 0:39:15Unfortunately not a pointless answer, but you knew that. This was cannon fodder.
0:39:15 > 0:39:18You only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21£6,500. What would you do with £6,500?
0:39:21 > 0:39:25We're off to America in the next few weeks, so it'd give us some great spending money.
0:39:25 > 0:39:30- New Orleans, Memphis and Nashville with a couple of friends.- Brilliant.
0:39:30 > 0:39:35- And if we had more money to help us along, even better.- It would make for an excellent holiday.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37OK, well, fingers crossed for you.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39We are looking for Keanu Reeves films.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45Your next answer, Point Break. Bit more confident in this one.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47It took you a little while to remember it.
0:39:49 > 0:39:55Let's hope our 100 people similarly couldn't remember it.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58Point Break. It has to be right and it has to be pointless.
0:39:58 > 0:40:02Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people said Point Break.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06It's right.
0:40:06 > 0:40:10Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure took us down to seven.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14Let's see how far down we go with Point Break. Into the 20s, into the teens.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17Into single figures. Down it goes to five!
0:40:17 > 0:40:20APPLAUSE
0:40:20 > 0:40:26Moving in the right direction. This is all looking very good for your third submission.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Five for Point Break.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31Sadly not a pointless answer, so only one chance left
0:40:31 > 0:40:35to win today's jackpot.
0:40:35 > 0:40:40- How are you feeling?- I'm hoping as only seven people got Excellent, no-one will remember Bogus.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44Exactly. There we are. Bogus Journey.
0:40:44 > 0:40:50This was the answer that you said, without any hesitation, was your most confident shot at a pointless.
0:40:50 > 0:40:55This has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot of £6,500.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Only one way to find out.
0:40:57 > 0:41:02Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Is it right, and if it is, how many people said it?
0:41:02 > 0:41:05Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Very good luck, Jeremy and Joe.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Well, it's right.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14We started with seven for Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure,
0:41:14 > 0:41:17then five for Point Break.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19What are we going to see here?
0:41:19 > 0:41:22Ohh, no!
0:41:22 > 0:41:25APPLAUSE
0:41:26 > 0:41:29Drat!
0:41:29 > 0:41:33Two people! You are two people away from £6,500.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35- That's annoying, yes.- Drat.
0:41:35 > 0:41:39Bad luck. Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer
0:41:39 > 0:41:45so you don't win today's jackpot of £6,500, which rolls over to the next show, but you've been amazing
0:41:45 > 0:41:48and you do get to take home our Pointless trophy, so well done.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51APPLAUSE
0:41:55 > 0:41:59- So, Richard. - Yeah, I've even got the names of the two people who remembered it.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Bill and Ted. - LAUGHTER
0:42:02 > 0:42:07He's roundly mocked, Keanu Reeves, but there's three very good films there
0:42:07 > 0:42:12and some big films on the pointless list, as well. Let's take a look.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16A Scanner Darkly, which was the semi-animated film from 2006.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Chain Reaction he was in with Morgan Freeman.
0:42:18 > 0:42:24Dangerous Liaisons he was in, Glenn Close, John Malkovich and all. All of those would've won you the money.
0:42:24 > 0:42:28Feeling Minnesota he was in with Cameron Diaz.
0:42:28 > 0:42:32Hardball. Sweet November he was in with Charlize Theron.
0:42:33 > 0:42:37The Gift with Hilary Swank, one of your previous answers.
0:42:37 > 0:42:41The Replacements, which was the American football comedy with Gene Hackman.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43And The Watcher, a serial killer thriller.
0:42:43 > 0:42:49- Another pointless one was his role in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.- I was thinking that.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52That would've been a pointless answer, as well.
0:42:52 > 0:42:57OK, thank very much, Richard. Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Jeremy and Joe.
0:42:57 > 0:43:02- It's been brilliant having you on the show. Thank you so much for playing.- It's been a pleasure.
0:43:02 > 0:43:07- APPLAUSE - Nobody's won our jackpot, which means it rolls over to the next show
0:43:07 > 0:43:11when we will be playing for £7,500.
0:43:11 > 0:43:17- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE - Join us then to see if someone can win it.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21- Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23APPLAUSE
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