Episode 37 Pointless

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Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong. A very warm welcome to Pointless,

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

First we welcome back Jeremy and Joe. You were on the show last time.

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

-Remind us how you did last time.

-We got to the head-to-head

-but no further, so hopefully one better today.

-What do you hope will come up?

We'd like a bit of film.

-A bit of film.

-History maybe.

-History possibly.

-History.

Very best of luck to the pair of you. Great to have you back. Next we welcome back Chelle and Terry.

It's your second chance to reach the Pointless final. Remind us how you did.

Not too good. We fell at the first hurdle.

-Remind me.

-It was the geography question.

It was countries larger than France. Chelle, what are you hoping is going to come up?

Soaps, celebrities, films.

-What do you think would be Terry's favourite subject?

-Sports.

-Nature.

-Nature.

-Very good. Best of luck to the pair of you.

Next we welcome back Gill and Ged, our third returning couple.

You were on the show last time, as well. How did you do?

We did OK. We got through to the second round

but unfortunately we got knocked out.

-Sports films.

-Yes. Not my type of film.

What's your type of film, Ged?

Cheesy flicks and chick flicks.

Comedies. Disney films.

-Disney films?

-Mm.

-Very good. What do you do in your spare time, Gill?

I quite like watching a lot of sport. We've got a small share in a race horse.

A small share in a big race horse? How's your race horse doing?

He won second time out at York and he's subsequently had another couple of wins.

-That's quite a senior horse, isn't it?

-Yeah. He doesn't always run well, as our friends will vouch for.

Well, very exciting indeed. Best of luck.

And finally we have got Stephen and Samantha. How do you two know each other?

We used to go to school together and then we lost contact for a few years

and then we got back in contact through the internet

-and we've been going out for three years now.

-Did you date at school?

-No, we were just good friends.

-Just good friends? Really? Really?

-THEY LAUGH

-Or were you pining all that time for Samantha?

No, we used to distract each other during English.

-Do you still distract each other?

-LAUGHTER

You aren't going to answer that question. OK. Best of luck. Great to have you on the show.

We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show. Only one person left to introduce.

He proudly carries the flag of obscurity on his crusade against the obvious.

-Say if these are getting too convoluted. He is my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hi.

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-Hello.

Of course I would say if they were getting too convoluted. They are getting too convoluted.

We've got three returning pairs today and they are very strong pairs.

Chelle and Terry were very unlucky to be knocked out in the first round and it's a nature question first

so that might help. Jeremy and Joe went to the head-to-head. Very strong pair.

And Gill and Ged were also very good. So it might be a tough afternoon for Stephen and Samantha.

Question two, I think, today is going to be carnage.

-Absolute carnage.

-OK, well, thanks very much, Richard. We'll look forward to that.

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

This is Pointless, so we're after the obscure answers they didn't get.

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

Each time that happens, we'll add 250 quid to the jackpot.

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

So today's jackpot starts off at £6,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Right, let's play Pointless.

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

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

Our first category this afternoon is birds.

Can you decide in your pairs 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 ducks as they could.

Ducks, Richard.

Yeah, the correct answers here are all UK indigenous birds from the duck family

as listed on the RSPB website. Also ducks that have been introduced to the UK or winter or summer here.

To put that more simply, we are looking for ducks.

-LAUGHTER

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Now then, Jeremy and Joe, you all drew lots before the show and today you get to go first.

In this round, we're going to give you a choice of seven possible answers in each pass.

The first set of seven potential ducks reads like this.

At least one of those answers is pointless and at least one is incorrect.

Pick an incorrect one and you will score the maximum of 100 points.

Jeremy, do you know your ducks?

Not too well, so I'm going to plump for ruddy.

-Plump for ruddy.

-Yes.

-I hope you're not out for a duck.

-Indeed.

OK, let's see if ruddy is right, and if it is, how many people said ruddy duck.

It's right.

Down it goes. Three!

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Very well done. Lovely low score there, Jeremy, for ruddy duck.

Well done, Jeremy. They very rarely leave the water, ruddy ducks, cos they're very ungainly.

Poor little things.

Very good. Now then, Terry, we're looking for ducks.

I think I've heard of a smew.

-I think I've heard that.

-A smew.

-Yeah.

-You've heard of a smew.

-I think I have. Whether it's a duck or not, I'm not sure.

Well, if it is a duck, I reckon it's going to go a long way down.

It just has to be a duck. Only one way to find out.

Is smew correct, and if it is, how many people said smew?

It's right.

Very well done, Terry. Down it goes.

-Oh! Fabulous!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Smew scores you one point.

-Richard.

-Well done, Terry. I don't need to tell you that it's a compact diving duck with a delicate bill.

-I thought so.

-It's a winter visitor from Scandinavia and Russia, the smew.

-A non-dom.

-A non-dom. They don't pay UK tax.

-LAUGHTER

-OK, we are looking for ducks. Ged, what are you thinking?

-There's a couple up there I recognise.

-There's still a pointless answer there, at least one.

I don't want to take any risks.

-I think I'll play safe and go teal.

-You're going to say teal.

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

-15, Ged.

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Not a bad answer, but it's quite high.

-Richard.

-Yeah, there can be up to 200,000 teal here over the winter.

They fly in from the Baltic and Siberia.

Stephen, we are looking for ducks. That's what we're after. You're the last person to have this board.

There is still at least one pointless answer on that board.

Do you think you can truffle it out?

-Talk us through the board.

-I was going to go for teal, so thanks.

Erm... But I think I've heard of an eider duck

and I'm wary of the ones with goose in the name, cos it could be a trick.

So at least with pintail, which... Oh...

I think it might be a duck because maybe it's the markings on the tail,

like a pin, perhaps, so I'm going to go pintail.

OK, Stephen. Thank you very much.

Pintail is what you're saying. Is it right, and if it is, how many people said pintail?

It's right.

-Very well done!

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-Pintail.

Scores you two.

-Richard.

-Pintail, very well done. Very low-scoring round.

Long-necked, small-headed ducks, the pintail, with a small, tapering tail,

which I guess is where they get the name from. Let's look at the rest.

Eider absolutely is a duck. Would've scored you the most points on the board, 23.

What do you think between goosewing and goosander?

Erm, I'll go for goosander as a duck.

Goosander absolutely is a duck. It was a pointless answer. Well done if you said that at home.

Goosewing is the mortal enemy of Count Duckula

-so would've been an incorrect answer.

-Thanks, Richard. We're halfway through the round

so let's take a look at the scores. It's been a very low-scoring round.

On one point, Terry and Chelle, looking very strong.

Then up to two for Stephen and Samantha.

Up to three, Jeremy and Joe. And then, oh dear, Ged, 15.

Normally a lovely low score, but in this instance, that puts you way out in front.

We'll come back down the line. Second players, come to the podium.

OK, we're going to put seven more answers on the board.

We are looking for ducks and here they are.

At least one of those answers is pointless and at least one is incorrect.

Try and avoid the incorrect ones because they will score you 100 points.

-Samantha, Stephen did fantastically well with his pintail.

-I'm under a lot of pressure.

I think I know two of them but I think at least one of them will be quite high.

I've got to gamble because I've got to try and go for that pointless.

Erm, I'm going to go for the last one on the board, pochard.

Pochard, OK. There we are. Is that a complete guess?

-Yes.

-Yes. OK.

Well, here is your red line.

If pochard gets you below that red line, you are through to the next round.

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

Well done, Samantha.

Very good answer.

You are through to the next round!

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-Very well done indeed! Scores you three, takes your total up to five.

-Pochard, Richard.

-It's a stocky diving duck.

-Who knew there were so many different types of duck?

-Who knew?

-There's about 80,000 of them in the UK in the winter.

-Gill. We're looking for ducks.

You and Ged are the high scorers on 15.

You have to score as low as you possibly can

to stay in the game. What are you thinking?

I'm thinking if I go for the one that's the oddest name,

if it is a duck, people won't have been able to remember it.

So I'm going to go for velvet scoter.

A velvet scoter.

OK, let's see if it's right. There's no red line for you because you're the high scorers.

Let's see if velvet scoter is a duck, and if it is, how many people said it.

It's right!

-Very, very well done, Gill!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That was exactly what you needed to do. It's a pointless answer. It adds 250 quid to today's jackpot.

Takes the total up to £6,250

and it scores you nothing, leaving you with a total of 15. Richard.

The velvet scoter is a black sea duck.

It winters on our east coast eating shellfish and crabs.

-I can think of worse things to do.

-It's a nice life.

-Yeah.

Now then, Chelle. The high scorers remain Gill and Ged on 15.

What are you thinking? How good is your duck knowledge?

The two that I did know, obviously, they've gone.

So I'm not too sure. Apart from the obvious.

So I'm looking at, I think...lillywhite.

Lillywhite. There's your red line.

If lillywhite is correct and gets you below that red line, you are through to the next round.

Is it right, and if it is, how many people said lillywhite?

Ohh! Back luck, Chelle! I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Takes your total up to 101.

That's very unlucky, Chelle. It sounds very convincing, doesn't it?

The first cricketer ever to get a duck in test history

is a man called Ned Gregory, an Australian, and he was bowled out by James Lillywhite,

the English cricketer.

Right, now then, Joe. The high scorers are Chelle and Terry on 101.

If you can score 97 points or less, you are through to the next round. Talk us through the board.

There are lots of ducks on there. There might be another pointless duck.

Mallard is probably the obvious one that's still left,

so whether that's as obvious as 97 or not...

Goldeneye is a James Bond film, book.

So I think I'm going to say shoveler...for not apparent reason.

You're saying shoveler. Is it a correct answer? There's your red line, nice and high.

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

Well done, it's right and you're through.

-Very, very well done, Joe!

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That's a pointless answer. It adds £250 to today's total,

taking us up to £6,500.

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-It scores you nothing and leaves your total at three.

-Very well done. Shoveler duck.

-Yeah, it's a great word.

Very well played, Joe. I will describe to you what a shoveler duck is

and I'll use a word I've never used before and I suspect never will again.

It is a surface-feeding duck

with a huge spatulate bill.

-LAUGHTER

-Wow.

-Spatulate as in spatula.

-Like a spatula.

Let's go through the rest of the board. Mallard is the obvious answer there.

That would've scored you a very hefty 64 points.

The tufted duck, the clue's in the name, it's a duck, would've scored you five.

And goldeneye, it is a Bond film, but it's also a duck.

Would've scored you three points. A Duck with a distinctive golden eye.

Just the one?

The natural enemy of the goldeneye, though, when it's in the wild is the octopussy.

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah. Thanks very much, Richard. So at the end of round one,

-the losing pair with the highest score, I'm afraid again it's Chelle and Terry.

-Oh, well.

I don't feel we've given you a decent run for your money. Countries larger than France, ducks.

Mind you, Terry, you did say nature. I mean, ducks...

Some sort of connection there. Sadly, it just wasn't your little facet of nature, was it?

-To be fair, Terry did very well.

-It was me.

-To be fair, Terry did do very well.

We apportion no blame. LAUGHTER

A real shame to be saying goodbye to you so soon, but thanks for playing.

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

Obviously, only two pairs will make it through to the head-to-head

so one of the teams will be leaving us at the end of the this round. Our category for round two is leisure.

-I thought you said it was carnage?

-LAUGHTER

Leisure. Can you decide in your pairs 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 concerns hobbies and pastimes.

We're about to show you a list of names given to people who collect or specialise in particular items.

We asked 100 people to tell us what items each description refers to.

-Richard.

-We're going to show you six names in each pass.

Just tell us what items those people collect or study or make. Obscurer ones will score fewer points.

If you give us an incorrect answer, you'll score 100 points. See how many of these you can get at home.

We are looking for the items each description refers to, OK? And here we go.

We have got...

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

So then, Jeremy, what are you thinking? Is this carnage?

Er, no. I know two of them, but I'm more certain of one, so I'll go with that one.

-Philatelist would be stamps.

-Let's see if philatelist is indeed stamps

and if it is, how many people knew philatelist, stamps.

Well done, it's right.

-59.

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Fair enough, though. At least it's right. Philatelist, stamps. Richard.

Yeah, big score. Proves the maxim, "Philately will get you nowhere."

Indeed. LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, Richard. Now then, Ged.

-What are you thinking about this board?

-I knew that one.

The rest is carnage, I'm afraid.

I'm looking for clues and I don't know what to go for.

Arctophile.

And I'm going to go for photographs.

Arctophile, photographs. Let's see if that's right.

Arctophile. Let's see if it's right. and if it is, how many people knew the answer. Good luck, Ged.

Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer.

That scores you the maximum of 100 points. Richard.

Yeah, I won't tell you the correct answer, in case Stephen wants to try.

Remember, we are looking for the items associated with these hobbies or pastimes. Stephen.

What are you thinking? Do any of them mean anything to you?

No, apart from stamp collecting.

There's a lot of weird letters and words up there. Erm...

Horologist.

Let's toss in something like horror books, horror stories, collects them.

Let's indeed toss that in

and see if it's a correct answer.

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

Bad luck, Stephen. I'm afraid that also is an incorrect answer,

which means you also score the maximum of 100 points.

-Richard.

-Yes, a valiant guess. It does start "horo".

Horologists are actually people who make timepieces. Clocks and watches. Would've scored you 30 points.

Lepidopterist, another big score, 21 points.

That's somebody who collects butterflies or moths.

And the other two are very low scoring. Do you know them?

-It's quite tough.

-Really tough.

-Well done if you got these at home.

I suspect you may be one of these three if you got it.

And Oologist collects birds' eggs.

-Vexillogist is flags.

-Yeah, I think I did know that.

-Would've scored two.

And an arctophile, it's not photography. Arctophile is teddy bears.

Collecting teddy bears, an arctophile. Would've scored you one point.

Very good. Let's look at the scores. We're halfway through the round. 59, Jeremy.

Very sensible, bagsing philately there.

Philately got you everywhere, as it turns out.

Ged and Gill and Stephen and Samantha, both on 100

so the battle is between Samantha and Gill in the next pass.

Very best of luck to you. OK, we'll come back down the line.

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

OK, we're going to put six more descriptions of collectors on the board and here we are.

Remember, we are looking for the items each description refers to, OK?

You are trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Samantha, you're the joint high scorers on 100 points.

-You have to score as low as you can.

-Yeah.

-SHE LAUGHS

-What are you thinking of the list?

-Erm, help, maybe.

-SHE LAUGHS

I'm just trying to...work out what I can get from the names

to make it something that possibly is a correct answer.

I'm going to go for...bibliophile.

Erm, I'm going to say it's the study of, erm, the Bible.

-Study of the Bible.

-Yeah.

Bibliophile, study of the Bible, you're saying.

You're hoping to score as few points as possible. There's no red line because you are the high scorers.

Let's see if bibliophile is a study of the Bible, and if it is, how many people said that.

Bad luck, Samantha. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, which takes your score up to 200.

-Richard.

-Yeah, just in case Gill or Joe want to have a go at that, I won't give the answer

-till the end of the round.

-OK, thanks very much.

Now then, Gill, we come to you.

Remember, we are looking for the items associated with these hobbies or pastimes.

The high scorers are Samantha and Stephen on 200.

If you can score 99 or less, you are definitely through to the head-to-head.

OK, well, I'm going to have a try at bibliophile, as well.

I'm not sure about this, but I'm going to try books.

Books. Bibliophile, books. Let's see if that's right.

There is a red line for you coming in. There it is, just below the pink line.

If bibliophile is indeed the study of books and it goes below that red line,

you are through to the next round. Let's see how many people said bibliophile, books.

Very well done, Gill.

61 that scores you, takes your total up to 161.

-Richard.

-Well done, Gill. Bibliophile, from the Greek biblio meaning books.

Thank you very much, Richard. Joe and Jeremy, you are definitely through to the next round.

You'll never overtake Samantha and Stephen's high score of 200.

Also, Joe, the board is yours, so have fun with it. Tell us what all these things are.

Richard mentioned Greek. I'm afraid I've got a degree in Ancient Greek.

-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.

I know a few of those, anyway. I think Numismatist is a coin collector.

Conchologist, possibly, is shells.

Deltiologist is either postcards or beer mats.

Erm, but I'm going to go... Discophile's probably just records.

But I'll go for the bottom one, the one I will give you as an answer is oenophile at the bottom,

which is wine.

Very good indeed. Oenophile.

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

It's right!

Very well done, Joe. Lovely low score. Four.

Taking your total up to 63.

-Oenophile.

-Yeah, well done, Joe, and a very good summation of the board, as well.

I've got a wine collection. I recently wrote everything down, all of them,

wrote them all down and I keep them "oenophile".

LAUGHTER

Let's take a look at the rest of the answers. We've heard them from Joe.

Discophile is records or CDs. Would've scored you 33.

A conchologist, the clue there is the conch, it's shells. Would scored you 30 points.

Numismatist is coins or medals. 15.

and deltiologist is postcards.

-Ronnie Barker had a seaside postcard collection that sold for £60,000 at auction.

-Really?

-Of comedy, joke, naughty postcards?

-Yes, saucy seaside postcards.

Thanks, Richard. After round two, the losing pair with the highest score is Stephen and Samantha.

-Bad luck. But what a score!

-Yeah.

-Look at that!

-Top marks.

-200!

Well, it wasn't to be. Horologist and bibliophile

I'm afraid were your undoing.

As Richard said, it was going to be carnage, this round, and so it proved.

But we will see you again next time when I'm sure you'll do much better. Thanks for playing.

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

Very well done, Jeremy and Joe, Gill and Ged, you've made it through to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it through to today's final and play for the jackpot which stands at £6,500.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Very exciting.

Now, 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.

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

The first pair to get to the best of three will be playing for today's jackpot. Let's play Pointless.

OK, here is your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many best actress Oscar winners of the noughties as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any actress who's won a best actress Oscar in the noughties, 2000 to 2009 inclusive.

There are nine names on the list, because there's one double winner.

Very best of luck. See how many you can get at home.

OK, Jeremy and Joe, because you've played best so far, you get to go first.

-Joe.

-We're going to say, or I'm going to say Hilary Swank.

Hilary Swank. OK.

Gill and Ged, you can now talk out loud. Hilary Swank has gone.

If you were thinking of her.

I'm thinking maybe Halle Berry or... erm...Kate Winslet.

-Or maybe... Who was the other one we said?

-Kate Beckinsale maybe.

-I think we'll stick with Halle Berry, do you think?

-Yeah.

Halle Berry. OK, so we have Hilary Swank, we have Halle Berry.

Jeremy and Joe have gone for Hilary Swank. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, how many people said Hilary Swank.

Very well done, it's right.

-Wow.

-APPLAUSE

Now, there's a low score. Two for Hilary Swank.

-What are you thinking, Gill and Ged?

-Tough one.

-That's a worrisome score, isn't it?

Tough to get lower than that. But maybe Halle Berry will do it. Let's see if it's right

and how many people said Halle Berry.

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Bad luck. Hilary Swank was a tough one to beat.

After one question, Jeremy and Joe are up one-nil. Richard.

Yeah, well played, Jeremy and Joe. Hilary Swank, very low answer, but she's the actress who won it twice.

She won it for Boys Don't Cry in 2000 and for Million Dollar Baby in 2005. Let's look at all the answers.

There was a couple of answers that would've beaten Hilary Swank.

Reese Witherspoon, who won for Walk The Line.

Marion Cotillard, who won for La Vie en Rose.

Hilary Swank with two. Charlize Theron, who won for Monster, also two.

Nicole Kidman won for The Hours. She scored six.

Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich, ten.

Kate Winslet in The Reader, scored 16.

There's Halle Berry, who won it for Monster's Ball, with 20.

-And Helen Mirren, who won it for The Queen, with 21, the biggest answer on the board.

-Thanks very much.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many deputy prime ministers are they could.

-Richard.

-We're looking for any designated deputy prime minister from 1945 to the beginning of 2011.

Again, there are nine answers on this list.

OK, thank you very much. Gill and Ged, you get to go first this time.

-OK, have we reached consensus?

-Yes.

-Is it a winning answer, Gill?

-It either is or it's going to be awful.

-We decided that we shouldn't go for a couple of really obvious, recent ones.

-Yep.

So we obviously know she was prime minister,

but we're hoping Margaret Thatcher was deputy at some point.

Jeremy and Joe, what are you going to go with?

-We've got Whitelaw, Heseltine or...

-Hattersley.

-Hattersley.

So which one do you want to go for?

-Whitelaw.

-We'll go for Willie Whitelaw.

-Willie Whitelaw, OK.

So we have Mrs Thatcher and we have Willie Whitelaw.

Let's take them in the order they've been given. Gill and Ged, you have to win this point

or we say goodbye to you. Margaret Thatcher, was she ever deputy prime minister?

If she was, how many people said it?

Bad luck. Jeremy and Joe have gone for Willie Whitelaw.

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

Very well done. It's right. You are through to the final.

Oh, very good indeed! Three for Willie Whitelaw!

-APPLAUSE

-Two incredibly impressive low scores there from Jeremy and Joe.

That means that Jeremy and Joe are through to the next round two-nil. Richard.

Well played again, guys. If you'd have said Hattersley, that was incorrect,

so you went with the right one. Let's take a look at all of them

cos I suspect some people at home have got quite a few of these.

At the bottom is a pointless answer. Attlee's deputy Herbert Morrison, Peter Mandelson grandfather.

Anthony Eden, who was Churchill's deputy before becoming prime minister, one.

Willie Whitelaw on three, Thatcher's deputy.

Rab Butler on three, Macmillan's deputy. Geoffrey Howe on three, another of Thatcher's deputies

before he resigned in protest of her European policies.

Clement Attlee, who was Churchill's deputy before becoming Prime Minister, four.

There's Heseltine on 11, he was John Major's deputy.

John Prescott, who was Blair's deputy, on 30.

And Nick Clegg on 54, David Cameron's deputy prime minister.

OK, thank you very much, Richard. At the end of the head-to-head, the losing pair is Gill and Ged.

Dear, oh, dear. We didn't serve up the right categories for you at all, did we, in this head-to-head?

No, but we've met some worthy contenders, so good luck to them.

You gave us a pointless duck, as well, Gill. You've done phenomenally well in both early rounds

of the two games you've played. I'm afraid we have to say goodbye to you now

-but thank you so much for playing. You've been excellent contestants.

-APPLAUSE

For Jeremy and Joe, it's now time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £6,500.

Congratulations, Jeremy and Joe, you saw off all the competition to win our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot. At the end of today's show,

the jackpot stands at £6,500.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

that none of our 100 could think of.

We've had two pointless answers today. You only need one more. You found one in the first round

with the shoveler duck.

All you have to do now is come up with one more pointless answer and you will go home with the £6,500.

First you've got to choose a category. You can choose from these three options.

-Movie stars, opera, American authors. What are you thinking?

-Not opera.

-I'd agree.

-Good. We've ruled that one out.

-So it's American authors or movie stars.

-Hm.

-American authors could be obscure.

-Movie stars?

-Probably got the best chance with that, I reckon.

-Yep. We'll stick with movie stars.

-Stick with movie stars.

Hilary Swank did so well for you in the head-to-head.

Any particular areas of movie stars that you'd feel especially comfortable in?

-I'd like anybody in Kubrick films and you'd like Buster Keaton, I suppose.

-Somebody from the old era.

Well, fingers crossed. Let's find out what it is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Keanu Reeves films as they could. Richard.

Any feature film made for cinema release for which Keanu Reeves received a credit,

including voice credit for animated films. No short films, TV films, documentaries

or anything where he's played himself. That's any film he's been in up to the start of 2011.

-Very best of luck, guys.

-Thanks.

-Thank you.

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

All you need to win that £6,500 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Matrix. Can you think of a...

Well, Matrix one, two or three.

-Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey, Matrix and Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

-Anything more obscure?

-I'll try to pluck one from the...

-I don't know.

It's not one that I'd be going to see.

Erm...

-Unless you're thinking of others?

-What's the one where he's a surfer?

-Point Break or something?

-Yes, we'll go for Point Break.

-Is that what it's called?

-Yes, I think it is.

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey and what was the other one?

-The Matrix.

-No, there's another obscure one I mentioned.

-He's forgotten.

-Can you remind me?

-Erm...

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey...

-We'll go with Point Break and...

-Point Break. Yes.

-Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey, Point Break...

-Did you remember that one you've forgotten?

There is our minute up.

OK, we were looking for Keanu Reeves films. I now need your three answers.

-Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey.

-Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey.

-Point Break.

-Point Break.

And it's either Excellent Adventure or Matrix.

Probably Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure is going to score fewer than The Matrix.

-Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

-Yep.

-OK.

Of those three, which do you think is your most confident shot at a pointless?

-Hopefully Bogus Journey.

-We'll put Bogus Journey last, then.

And which is your least likely pointless submission?

-Probably Excellent Adventure.

-OK. So we will put that first.

Let's put those answers up on the board in that order.

OK, there they are up on the board. You said this was your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that £6,500 jackpot.

Let's see how many people said Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Has to be right and it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

It's right.

It's going down.

Down it goes, look at that!

-Into single figures! Seven!

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-Surprisingly close.

-Yeah.

Well, seven people.

It's all looking quite good for your subsequent answers.

Unfortunately not a pointless answer, but you knew that. This was cannon fodder.

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

£6,500. What would you do with £6,500?

We're off to America in the next few weeks, so it'd give us some great spending money.

-New Orleans, Memphis and Nashville with a couple of friends.

-Brilliant.

-And if we had more money to help us along, even better.

-It would make for an excellent holiday.

OK, well, fingers crossed for you.

We are looking for Keanu Reeves films.

Your next answer, Point Break. Bit more confident in this one.

It took you a little while to remember it.

Let's hope our 100 people similarly couldn't remember it.

Point Break. It has to be right and it has to be pointless.

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

It's right.

Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure took us down to seven.

Let's see how far down we go with Point Break. Into the 20s, into the teens.

Into single figures. Down it goes to five!

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Moving in the right direction. This is all looking very good for your third submission.

Five for Point Break.

Sadly not a pointless answer, so only one chance left

to win today's jackpot.

-How are you feeling?

-I'm hoping as only seven people got Excellent, no-one will remember Bogus.

Exactly. There we are. Bogus Journey.

This was the answer that you said, without any hesitation, was your most confident shot at a pointless.

This has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot of £6,500.

Only one way to find out.

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Is it right, and if it is, how many people said it?

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Very good luck, Jeremy and Joe.

Well, it's right.

We started with seven for Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure,

then five for Point Break.

What are we going to see here?

Ohh, no!

APPLAUSE

Drat!

Two people! You are two people away from £6,500.

-That's annoying, yes.

-Drat.

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

so you don't win today's jackpot of £6,500, which rolls over to the next show, but you've been amazing

and you do get to take home our Pointless trophy, so well done.

APPLAUSE

-So, Richard.

-Yeah, I've even got the names of the two people who remembered it.

-Bill and Ted.

-LAUGHTER

He's roundly mocked, Keanu Reeves, but there's three very good films there

and some big films on the pointless list, as well. Let's take a look.

A Scanner Darkly, which was the semi-animated film from 2006.

Chain Reaction he was in with Morgan Freeman.

Dangerous Liaisons he was in, Glenn Close, John Malkovich and all. All of those would've won you the money.

Feeling Minnesota he was in with Cameron Diaz.

Hardball. Sweet November he was in with Charlize Theron.

The Gift with Hilary Swank, one of your previous answers.

The Replacements, which was the American football comedy with Gene Hackman.

And The Watcher, a serial killer thriller.

-Another pointless one was his role in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.

-I was thinking that.

That would've been a pointless answer, as well.

OK, thank very much, Richard. Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Jeremy and Joe.

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

-It's been a pleasure.

-APPLAUSE

-Nobody's won our jackpot, which means it rolls over to the next show

when we will be playing for £7,500.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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