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APPLAUSE

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

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

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

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

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-Remind us how you did last time.

-We got to the head-to-head

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-but no further, so hopefully one better today.

-What do you hope will come up?

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We'd like a bit of film.

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-A bit of film.

-History maybe.

-History possibly.

-History.

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

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

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Not too good. We fell at the first hurdle.

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-Remind me.

-It was the geography question.

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

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Soaps, celebrities, films.

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

-Sports.

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-Nature.

-Nature.

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

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

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

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We did OK. We got through to the second round

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but unfortunately we got knocked out.

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-Sports films.

-Yes. Not my type of film.

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What's your type of film, Ged?

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Cheesy flicks and chick flicks.

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Comedies. Disney films.

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-Disney films?

-Mm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Well, very exciting indeed. Best of luck.

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

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

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and then we got back in contact through the internet

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

-Did you date at school?

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-No, we were just good friends.

-Just good friends? Really? Really?

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-THEY LAUGH

-Or were you pining all that time for Samantha?

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No, we used to distract each other during English.

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-Do you still distract each other?

-LAUGHTER

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

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

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

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

-Hi.

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-APPLAUSE

-Hello.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-Absolute carnage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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-Right, let's play Pointless.

-APPLAUSE

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

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

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Our first category this afternoon is birds.

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

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

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OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

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to name as many ducks as they could.

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Ducks, Richard.

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

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

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

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-LAUGHTER

-Thanks very much, Richard.

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

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

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The first set of seven potential ducks reads like this.

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

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

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Jeremy, do you know your ducks?

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

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-Plump for ruddy.

-Yes.

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

-Indeed.

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

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It's right.

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Down it goes. Three!

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APPLAUSE

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

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

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Poor little things.

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

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I think I've heard of a smew.

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-I think I've heard that.

-A smew.

-Yeah.

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-You've heard of a smew.

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

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

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

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

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It's right.

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Very well done, Terry. Down it goes.

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-Oh! Fabulous!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Smew scores you one point.

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-Richard.

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

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-I thought so.

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

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-A non-dom.

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

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-LAUGHTER

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

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-There's a couple up there I recognise.

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

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I don't want to take any risks.

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

-You're going to say teal.

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

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-15, Ged.

-APPLAUSE

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

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-Richard.

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

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They fly in from the Baltic and Siberia.

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

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

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Do you think you can truffle it out?

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-Talk us through the board.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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OK, Stephen. Thank you very much.

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

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It's right.

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-Very well done!

-APPLAUSE

-Pintail.

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Scores you two.

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-Richard.

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

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

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

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

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What do you think between goosewing and goosander?

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

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

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Goosewing is the mortal enemy of Count Duckula

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-so would've been an incorrect answer.

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

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

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

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Then up to two for Stephen and Samantha.

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

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

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

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

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We are looking for ducks and here they are.

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

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

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-Samantha, Stephen did fantastically well with his pintail.

-I'm under a lot of pressure.

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

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

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

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

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-Yes.

-Yes. OK.

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Well, here is your red line.

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

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

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Well done, Samantha.

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Very good answer.

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You are through to the next round!

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-APPLAUSE

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

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-Pochard, Richard.

-It's a stocky diving duck.

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

-Who knew?

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

-Gill. We're looking for ducks.

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You and Ged are the high scorers on 15.

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You have to score as low as you possibly can

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to stay in the game. What are you thinking?

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

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

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So I'm going to go for velvet scoter.

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A velvet scoter.

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

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

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It's right!

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-Very, very well done, Gill!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

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Takes the total up to £6,250

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

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The velvet scoter is a black sea duck.

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It winters on our east coast eating shellfish and crabs.

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-I can think of worse things to do.

-It's a nice life.

-Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lillywhite. There's your red line.

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

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

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

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which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

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Takes your total up to 101.

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

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The first cricketer ever to get a duck in test history

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

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the English cricketer.

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

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

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

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

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

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Goldeneye is a James Bond film, book.

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

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

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

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

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-Very, very well done, Joe!

-APPLAUSE

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

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taking us up to £6,500.

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-APPLAUSE

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

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-Very well done. Shoveler duck.

-Yeah, it's a great word.

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

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

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It is a surface-feeding duck

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with a huge spatulate bill.

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-LAUGHTER

-Wow.

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-Spatulate as in spatula.

-Like a spatula.

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

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

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

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

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

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Just the one?

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

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-LAUGHTER

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

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

-Oh, well.

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

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

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

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-To be fair, Terry did very well.

-It was me.

-To be fair, Terry did do very well.

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We apportion no blame. LAUGHTER

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

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-APPLAUSE

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

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

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

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-I thought you said it was carnage?

-LAUGHTER

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Leisure. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

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

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OK, our round two question concerns hobbies and pastimes.

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

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

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-Richard.

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

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

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

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

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We have got...

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

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

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

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-Philatelist would be stamps.

-Let's see if philatelist is indeed stamps

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

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Well done, it's right.

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-59.

-APPLAUSE

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

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

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Indeed. LAUGHTER

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

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-What are you thinking about this board?

-I knew that one.

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The rest is carnage, I'm afraid.

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

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Arctophile.

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And I'm going to go for photographs.

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

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

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Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer.

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That scores you the maximum of 100 points. Richard.

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

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

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

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No, apart from stamp collecting.

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

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Horologist.

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

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Let's indeed toss that in

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and see if it's a correct answer.

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

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

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which means you also score the maximum of 100 points.

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-Richard.

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

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

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Lepidopterist, another big score, 21 points.

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That's somebody who collects butterflies or moths.

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

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-It's quite tough.

-Really tough.

-Well done if you got these at home.

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

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And Oologist collects birds' eggs.

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-Vexillogist is flags.

-Yeah, I think I did know that.

-Would've scored two.

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

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

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

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Very sensible, bagsing philately there.

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Philately got you everywhere, as it turns out.

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Ged and Gill and Stephen and Samantha, both on 100

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-You have to score as low as you can.

-Yeah.

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-SHE LAUGHS

-What are you thinking of the list?

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-Erm, help, maybe.

-SHE LAUGHS

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

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to make it something that possibly is a correct answer.

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

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

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-Study of the Bible.

-Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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-Richard.

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

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-till the end of the round.

-OK, thanks very much.

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Now then, Gill, we come to you.

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

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The high scorers are Samantha and Stephen on 200.

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

0:23:400:23:44

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Very well done, Gill.

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

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-Richard.

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

0:24:190:24:24

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

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

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

0:24:350:24:40

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

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-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.

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

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Conchologist, possibly, is shells.

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Deltiologist is either postcards or beer mats.

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

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

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which is wine.

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Very good indeed. Oenophile.

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

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It's right!

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

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Taking your total up to 63.

0:25:350:25:38

-Oenophile.

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

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

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

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LAUGHTER

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

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

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

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Numismatist is coins or medals. 15.

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and deltiologist is postcards.

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

-Really?

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-Of comedy, joke, naughty postcards?

-Yes, saucy seaside postcards.

0:26:190:26:24

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

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-Bad luck. But what a score!

-Yeah.

-Look at that!

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-Top marks.

-200!

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

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I'm afraid were your undoing.

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

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

0:26:470:26:52

APPLAUSE

0:26:520:26:54

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

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

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

0:27:110:27:17

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Very exciting.

0:27:170:27:21

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

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

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

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

0:27:340:27:40

OK, here is your first question.

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We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

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

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

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

0:28:040:28:08

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

0:28:080:28:10

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

0:28:100:28:15

-Joe.

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

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Hilary Swank. OK.

0:28:250:28:29

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

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If you were thinking of her.

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

0:28:360:28:43

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

-Kate Beckinsale maybe.

0:28:430:28:49

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

-Yeah.

0:28:490:28:53

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

0:28:530:28:59

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

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

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Very well done, it's right.

0:29:070:29:09

-Wow.

-APPLAUSE

0:29:140:29:17

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

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-What are you thinking, Gill and Ged?

-Tough one.

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

0:29:230:29:29

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

0:29:290:29:33

and how many people said Halle Berry.

0:29:330:29:35

APPLAUSE

0:29:430:29:47

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

0:29:470:29:51

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

0:29:510:29:55

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

0:29:550:30:00

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

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

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Reese Witherspoon, who won for Walk The Line.

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Marion Cotillard, who won for La Vie en Rose.

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

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Nicole Kidman won for The Hours. She scored six.

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Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich, ten.

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Kate Winslet in The Reader, scored 16.

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

0:30:280:30:31

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

-Thanks very much.

0:30:310:30:37

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

0:30:370:30:42

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

0:30:420:30:49

-Richard.

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

0:30:490:30:56

Again, there are nine answers on this list.

0:30:560:30:59

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

0:30:590:31:04

-OK, have we reached consensus?

-Yes.

0:31:080:31:12

-Is it a winning answer, Gill?

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

0:31:130:31:18

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

-Yep.

0:31:180:31:23

So we obviously know she was prime minister,

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

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

0:31:340:31:36

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

-Hattersley.

-Hattersley.

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So which one do you want to go for?

0:31:410:31:44

-Whitelaw.

-We'll go for Willie Whitelaw.

-Willie Whitelaw, OK.

0:31:440:31:48

So we have Mrs Thatcher and we have Willie Whitelaw.

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

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

0:31:570:32:02

If she was, how many people said it?

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

0:32:090:32:14

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

0:32:140:32:18

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

0:32:220:32:25

Oh, very good indeed! Three for Willie Whitelaw!

0:32:280:32:33

-APPLAUSE

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

0:32:330:32:39

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

0:32:390:32:43

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

0:32:430:32:48

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

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

0:32:510:32:54

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

0:32:540:33:00

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

0:33:000:33:04

Willie Whitelaw on three, Thatcher's deputy.

0:33:040:33:07

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

0:33:070:33:12

before he resigned in protest of her European policies.

0:33:120:33:16

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

0:33:160:33:20

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

0:33:200:33:23

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

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

0:33:260:33:30

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

0:33:300:33:38

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

0:33:380:33:44

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

0:33:440:33:48

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

0:33:480:33:53

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

0:33:530:33:57

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

-APPLAUSE

0:33:570:34:02

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

0:34:050:34:10

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

0:34:160:34:22

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

0:34:320:34:36

the jackpot stands at £6,500.

0:34:360:34:39

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:34:390:34:43

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

0:34:430:34:48

that none of our 100 could think of.

0:34:480:34:50

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

0:34:500:34:55

with the shoveler duck.

0:34:550:34:58

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

0:34:580:35:04

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

0:35:040:35:09

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

-Not opera.

-I'd agree.

0:35:150:35:19

-Good. We've ruled that one out.

-So it's American authors or movie stars.

0:35:190:35:23

-Hm.

-American authors could be obscure.

0:35:230:35:27

-Movie stars?

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

0:35:270:35:31

-Yep. We'll stick with movie stars.

-Stick with movie stars.

0:35:310:35:34

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

0:35:340:35:37

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

0:35:370:35:42

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

-Somebody from the old era.

0:35:420:35:49

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

0:35:490:35:51

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

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

0:35:540:36:02

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

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

0:36:060:36:10

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

0:36:100:36:16

-Very best of luck, guys.

-Thanks.

-Thank you.

0:36:160:36:19

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

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

0:36:240:36:29

Your 60 seconds start now.

0:36:290:36:32

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

0:36:320:36:36

Well, Matrix one, two or three.

0:36:360:36:38

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

-Anything more obscure?

0:36:380:36:44

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

-I don't know.

0:36:440:36:48

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

0:36:480:36:50

Erm...

0:36:500:36:53

-Unless you're thinking of others?

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

0:36:530:36:56

-Point Break or something?

-Yes, we'll go for Point Break.

0:36:560:36:59

-Is that what it's called?

-Yes, I think it is.

0:36:590:37:02

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

0:37:020:37:05

-The Matrix.

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

-He's forgotten.

0:37:050:37:10

-Can you remind me?

-Erm...

0:37:100:37:12

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey...

0:37:120:37:14

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

-Point Break. Yes.

0:37:140:37:18

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

-Did you remember that one you've forgotten?

0:37:180:37:24

There is our minute up.

0:37:270:37:29

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

0:37:290:37:36

-Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey.

-Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey.

0:37:360:37:39

-Point Break.

-Point Break.

0:37:390:37:42

And it's either Excellent Adventure or Matrix.

0:37:420:37:46

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

0:37:460:37:50

-Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

-Yep.

-OK.

0:37:500:37:54

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

0:37:540:37:58

-Hopefully Bogus Journey.

-We'll put Bogus Journey last, then.

0:37:580:38:02

And which is your least likely pointless submission?

0:38:020:38:07

-Probably Excellent Adventure.

-OK. So we will put that first.

0:38:070:38:12

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

0:38:120:38:16

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

0:38:220:38:27

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

0:38:270:38:32

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

0:38:320:38:37

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

0:38:370:38:41

Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

0:38:410:38:44

It's right.

0:38:470:38:49

It's going down.

0:38:520:38:54

Down it goes, look at that!

0:38:540:38:56

-Into single figures! Seven!

-APPLAUSE

0:38:560:38:59

-Surprisingly close.

-Yeah.

0:38:590:39:02

Well, seven people.

0:39:030:39:07

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

0:39:070:39:10

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

0:39:100:39:15

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

0:39:150:39:18

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

0:39:180:39:21

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

0:39:210:39:25

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

-Brilliant.

0:39:250:39:30

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

-It would make for an excellent holiday.

0:39:300:39:35

OK, well, fingers crossed for you.

0:39:350:39:37

We are looking for Keanu Reeves films.

0:39:370:39:39

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

0:39:410:39:45

It took you a little while to remember it.

0:39:450:39:47

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

0:39:490:39:55

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

0:39:550:39:58

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

0:39:580:40:02

It's right.

0:40:040:40:06

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

0:40:060:40:10

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

0:40:100:40:14

Into single figures. Down it goes to five!

0:40:140:40:17

APPLAUSE

0:40:170:40:20

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

0:40:200:40:26

Five for Point Break.

0:40:260:40:28

Sadly not a pointless answer, so only one chance left

0:40:280:40:31

to win today's jackpot.

0:40:310:40:35

-How are you feeling?

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

0:40:350:40:40

Exactly. There we are. Bogus Journey.

0:40:400:40:44

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

0:40:440:40:50

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

0:40:500:40:55

Only one way to find out.

0:40:550:40:57

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

0:40:570:41:02

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

0:41:020:41:05

Well, it's right.

0:41:090:41:11

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

0:41:110:41:14

then five for Point Break.

0:41:140:41:17

What are we going to see here?

0:41:170:41:19

Ohh, no!

0:41:190:41:22

APPLAUSE

0:41:220:41:25

Drat!

0:41:260:41:29

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

0:41:290:41:33

-That's annoying, yes.

-Drat.

0:41:330:41:35

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

0:41:350:41:39

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

0:41:390:41:45

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

0:41:450:41:48

APPLAUSE

0:41:480:41:51

-So, Richard.

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

0:41:550:41:59

-Bill and Ted.

-LAUGHTER

0:41:590:42:02

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

0:42:020:42:07

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

0:42:070:42:12

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

0:42:120:42:16

Chain Reaction he was in with Morgan Freeman.

0:42:160:42:18

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

0:42:180:42:24

Feeling Minnesota he was in with Cameron Diaz.

0:42:240:42:28

Hardball. Sweet November he was in with Charlize Theron.

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

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

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And The Watcher, a serial killer thriller.

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

-I was thinking that.

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

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

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

-It's been a pleasure.

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-APPLAUSE

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

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when we will be playing for £7,500.

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-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

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-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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