Episode 41 Pointless

Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

A warm welcome to Pointless, where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners. Let's meet the players.

So first we welcome Imogen and Imelda. You're our first pair. How do you two know each other?

-We work with one another. For about a year now.

-For a year.

-I'm Imogen's PA.

-Imelda, where do you come from?

-Birmingham.

-What are you hoping for?

I like music, musical theatre especially. I go to a lot of gigs,

so I'm quite good at music.

-What's been your favourite gig?

-Lenny Kravitz was very good. He gave me his towel.

-Did you have to fight for it?

-Yes. Well...I'm able.

-Imogen, what would you like to come up this afternoon?

-Er... Anything to do with The Archers.

-Anything else?

-Ballets.

-Archers and ballets? Very good.

Let's see what we serve up for you. Very best of luck. Great to have you on the show.

Next we welcome back Mark and Carl. This is your second show. Everyone gets two chances.

This is your final opportunity to make it to the Pointless final.

Mark, you found a pointless answer on the last show. The masseter!

-Fantastic!

-I think more by luck than judgment.

-Who cares?

It was a great answer. Carl, how are you going to stun us today?

-Sport, maybe a bit of history.

-A bit of history.

Which particular area of history?

-I suppose more English kings and queens would be best.

-Very good.

OK, well, let's keep our fingers crossed. Best of luck to you.

Next we welcome back Linda and Colin. Remind us how you did.

-We got to the Head to Head.

-You did brilliantly.

-Colin, what would you like to come up?

-Em, science fiction stuff. Films, books, fantasy books.

-Anything like that. And sport.

-Sport. Linda?

Mm, food and drink, maybe, UK geography, TV.

Well, very best of luck. And, finally, Lynn and Neil. How do you two know each other?

Well, I... He's my son. So I've known him for quite a long time.

-LAUGHTER

-Where are you from, Neil?

-From South Wales, originally, but we live in Worcester.

-And what do you do?

-We work together.

-That sounds like a powderkeg. Father and son working...

-It has been a powderkeg. It has.

-What do you work together doing?

-We sell business contracts for mobile phones.

How is he, Lynn? Is he good? Everything a father might hope for?

He's very good. The trouble is he thinks he knows it all and I DO know it all.

-You don't.

-I do.

-No, you don't.

-LAUGHTER

-Well, very best of luck to you.

We'll find out more throughout the show. There's only one person to introduce. My Pointless friend,

-Richard.

-Hiya.

APPLAUSE

-Hello there.

-Hello there, sir.

-What a line-up!

-What a line-up!

Two returning pairs. We didn't see the best of Mark and Carl. Linda and Colin got to the Head to Head.

Every once in a while we have to congratulate a contestant for his shirt and I say that to Colin.

-I'm going to second that.

-You're already a winner.

-You are.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

We put all our questions to 100 people before the show, but we want the obscure answers they didn't get.

Everyone wants a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave.

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

Nobody won the jackpot, which means we add another £1,000 to that.

So today's jackpot starts off at £11,000!

Right, let's play Pointless.

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

Whichever team has the highest score is eliminated. Be very careful that's not you.

An incorrect answer scores the maximum 100 points.

OK, our first category this afternoon is...Movie Stars.

Movie Stars. Can you all decide who is going to go first and who will go second?

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Al Pacino films as they could.

-Al Pacino films. Richard?

-Any feature film for cinema release made prior to the start of 2011

for which Al Pacino receives an acting credit. We won't accept TV films or short films

or things where he plays himself, but voice performances do count.

OK, thank you very much. Imogen and Imelda, you all drew lots before the show

and today you get to go first. Al Pacino films, Imelda.

I'm trying to think. There's so many.

I think he did one called Sea of Love.

Sea of Love.

You are hoping to score as few points as possible. Is that correct and how many of our people said it?

It's right. Well done.

Look at that, Imelda!

APPLAUSE

Very, very well done. A superb answer. It scores one point.

-Sea of Love, Richard.

-Yes, very well played. From 1989. He's a cop after a serial killer.

Thanks, Richard. Now then, Mark, we are looking for a nice, obscure Al Pacino film.

-I feel you might be quite good on this.

-I would have thought so, but my mind is going blank.

I'll go for one that is relatively obscure - I hope.

I think I'm going to go for Heat.

You're going to go for Heat. Let's see if it's right and how many people said Heat.

Well done.

Seven points for Heat. Very well done.

-Nice, low score there. Heat.

-Good answer, quite a low score.

-Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Michael Mann's film from 1995.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Colin. Remember, we're looking for Al Pacino films.

I have a feeling he was in The Godfather.

OK, you're going to say The Godfather.

You want as few points as possible. The Godfather. Is he in it?

Let's find out and how many people said it.

Oh, it's a big one there, Colin, but it's right.

-And it's a great film. 45 points.

-Big score. He plays Michael Corleone in 1972's The Godfather.

Splendid. Now then, Neil.

OK, I'm going to go for... one that was a stage play, I think, and I think he was in the film.

-It's called Glengarry Glen Ross.

-Very, very good indeed. Yes, great film.

You are hoping to score as few as possible. I think that's an excellent answer. Is it right

and how many people said it?

Well done.

Very, very strong answer there! Wonderful. Glengarry Glen Ross scoring you just the one point.

Earning you a pat on the shoulder from Lynn as well. Richard?

Yeah, wonderful film, with Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin,

Kevin Spacey. A brilliant film.

He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for that.

OK, we're halfway through the round so let's look at the scores.

On one point, Imelda and Imogen, Neil and Lynn.

Looking very strong indeed. Not very far ahead on seven - Mark and Carl.

Colin, 45. That was an expensive guess, The Godfather. It was right, but expensive.

So, Linda, the pressure is on you in the next pass. Very good luck.

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

OK, we are looking for Al Pacino films. Lynn, you are on one.

Excellent low score from Neil. Linda and Colin are the high scorers on 45.

If you can score 43 or less, you are assured of a place in the next round.

-I'm going to go for Dog Day Afternoon.

-Dog Day Afternoon.

There is your red line. Below that and you are through, Lynn.

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

It's right.

You are through to the next round.

That's a wonderful answer, Lynn. Very, very well done.

It scores four and brings you to a brilliantly low five. Richard?

-Terrific answer, terrific film.

-Now then, Linda.

You are the high scorers on 45. You are going to have to answer as obscurely as you possibly can.

-Al Pacino films.

-I think we're not getting to the Head to Head today!

The only Al Pacino film I can think of, I don't even know if he was in it, is Raging Bull.

-I don't know.

-OK, Raging Bull. You are the high scorers on 45,

so no red line for you. Just hope it's right and goes down far.

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

Oh, bad luck!

Unfortunately, that is an incorrect answer which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

That takes your total up to an unbeatable 145. Sorry, Linda.

-Richard?

-Sorry, Linda. It's Robert De Niro in there.

-Yeah.

-But no Al Pacino.

-Carl, you are through to the next round come what may.

However, how cool would it be if you dug out a pointless answer?

I'm struggling for something obscure. I might just have to go for... I'll have to go for Scent Of A Woman.

-It's not obscure.

-Scent Of A Woman.

Is it right and how many said it?

There we are. It's right.

15 - not a bad score at all for you, Carl. That takes you to 22.

-Scent Of A Woman, Richard?

-Well played. He won an Oscar, in the same year as Glengarry Glen Ross.

OK, now we come to you, Imogen. Imelda scored a fantastic one.

The high scorers, I'm afraid unbeatably high,

are Linda and Colin. So you have free rein.

Em, I'm not a big fan of Al Pacino, unfortunately,

but I think he was in a cartoon. I'm not 100% sure, but I'll go for it - Shark Tale.

-Shark Tale?

-Yeah.

Very good. Shark Tale. No red line. You are through.

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

Ohh!

Bad luck, but it doesn't matter. Shark Tale is an incorrect answer, scoring you a maximum 100 points,

taking your total up to 101.

-Richard?

-De Niro again in Shark Tale.

But a perfectly good guess trying for a pointless answer.

Let's look at some pointless answers. Righteous Kill, where he acted with Robert De Niro,

The Insider, the film about the tobacco industry.

He was in Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty and Madonna.

Unlike a Madonna film to be pointless!

Two For The Money, 88 Minutes - he plays a forensic psychologist with 88 minutes to live.

It plays out in real time. And People I Know he was also in. All of those were pointless answers.

-What were the worst ones?

-The ones most of our 100 people said.

We've had a couple. Scent Of A Woman with 15 was the third most popular,

Scarface 26 and Colin gave us the top answer,

which was The Godfather and 45.

OK, thanks very much. So the losing pair with the highest score,

-I'm afraid it's Linda and Colin.

-It's not mine.

-Al Pacino is not my favourite.

Well, there we are. You've shown how well you can do and you've been excellent contestants. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

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

Only two pairs can make it through to the Head to Head, so one team will leave at the end of this round.

The category for Round Two is...

Art.

Art. Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first and who's going to go second?

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

OK, so our Round Two question concerns...

..artists and their countries of birth.

In this round, we're about to show you a list of artists.

We asked 100 people to tell us in which country each was born.

-Richard?

-We'll show you six artists in each pass.

If you give us an incorrect answer, you'll score 100 points.

Countries means a sovereign state that's a UN member in its own right.

OK. So we are looking for the country in which each of these artists was born.

And we have got...

HE READS LIST

I'll read those one more time.

OK, so there are the artists.

You need to give me the country of their birth.

-You want the most obscure answer. So, Imogen, is this a good subject for you?

-No.

-In a word.

-Is it a disaster or is it something...

-Looking at those names, it's a disaster!

-I might have to go really safe.

-Hmm.

Em...

-OK, Andy Warhol, USA.

-Andy Warhol, USA. That's what you're going to say.

Let's see if that's right and how many people knew that. Andy Warhol, USA.

It's right.

44 that scores you.

-Andy Warhol, Richard.

-Yeah, and you've got to go for a safe one.

It's much better to get 44 than 100.

OK. Thank you very much.

By picking that off, you might well tactically have done yourself a favour.

You removed one of the more obvious names from the board.

Yes, Carl, you won't thank Imogen for that.

It is one of the more obvious ones. I think there's a couple that are obvious

and a couple that might need a bit of a guess.

I'll go for a little guess.

I'm going to go for Henri Matisse. I'll go for French.

Henri Matisse, France, you're going to say.

Let's see if that's right and how many people knew that. Henri Matisse, France.

Very well done.

47. Not a bad score.

Not a bad score. Henri Matisse, Richard.

One of the most influential painters of all time.

Thank you very much. Now then, Neil.

Luckily, we come to somebody who knows his artists from his elbow, at the end.

-Not really, no.

-Ah.

I know where Leonardo Da Vinci comes from, but that's going to be quite high, I think.

Wassily Kandinsky... I might guess at Russian.

I think I have to play it safe and go Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian. Let's see if that's right

and how many people knew that.

Oh! That's an expensive...

An expensive safety shot, Neil.

Leonardo Da Vinci was Italian, but 81 people knew that.

-Richard?

-Very big score, but again it's better than 100.

Let's take a look at the rest of the board. Hans Holbein the Younger is from Germany.

22 points that would have scored. Wassily Kandinsky is Russian. It would have scored you 26 points.

And Piet Mondrian. Do you know him?

-Dutch?

-He is Dutch, exactly. It's the best answer, with 5 points. Well done if you got Piet Mondrian.

Let's take a look at the scores. 44, Imogen and Imelda.

Then up to to 47 for Carl and Mark for Henri Matisse.

Neil and Lynn way ahead on 81.

Lynn, you'll have to try to score as low as you possibly can on the next pass.

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

OK, we'll put six more artists on the board. Here they come.

HE READS LIST

READS IT AGAIN

Now we are looking for the country each of these artists was born in.

And you want the one the fewest people knew. Now then, Lynn,

-what are you thinking about this selection of artists?

-Well, I know

where three of them are from, but so does probably another 100 people, so that's no good.

I'll have to take a gamble. I need a low, low score.

I'm going to go with Edvard Munch and I'm going to say he's Swiss.

Edvard Munch, Swiss, you are saying.

You're the high scorers, so there's no red line. Edvard Munch, Swiss.

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

Ohh!

Bad luck. Bad luck. I'm afraid that's incorrect,

so you score the maximum 100 points,

taking your total up to an unbeatable 181.

-Richard?

-Yes, tough luck, Lynn. I won't give you the answer just now in case the others want it.

OK, thank you very much. Mark, you are through, whatever happens.

-So why not have some fun with this board?

-Obviously, there are a couple that I hope I know.

So I'll have to go for one of the others to build up the cash pot.

I think I'll go for Edvard Munch and try Germany.

Edvard Munch, Germany. Let's see if that's right and how many said it. Edvard Munch.

No!

Unfortunately, also a wrong answer. It scores you a maximum 100 points,

-taking you to 147. You're through. Richard?

-Not Germany. Somewhere, an art historian is going...

LAUGHTER

So we come to you, Imelda. You are on 44, you can say what you like.

-Even if you score 100 points, you are still in the Head to Head.

-I think Salvador Dali is Spanish

and Claude Monet is French.

But I think I'm going to go with Frida Kahlo

and say Spain.

OK. Frida Kahlo, Spain, you are saying.

Imogen shaking her head at that.

-I think she's from Mexico.

-OK, well, let's see if that's right, Frida Kahlo, Spain,

and how many people said it.

There we are. It's not right. I think, as Imogen said, she is Mexican.

We'll discover in a moment.

That scores the maximum 100 points, giving a total of 144, but you're through.

-Richard?

-I don't think we've had to fill in a whole board before.

LAUGHTER

So let's look at the whole board.

There's Frida Kahlo. Absolutely right, Mexico. It scored 10 points.

Claude Monet, French. Absolutely right. 75 points.

Salvador Dali is Spanish. Right again. 43 points.

Vincent Van Gogh...

..is Dutch. He would have scored you 42 points.

Now, Edvard.

We know a lot of places he's not from. There are three or four countries we haven't guessed.

Edvard Munch is Norwegian. 12 points.

And Klimt. His paintings sell for more than virtually anybody now, but where's he from?

Um...I would like to say sort of Hungary, Austria... One of those.

-Yeah?

-Austria. It would have scored 6 points. Very famous painter,

but the best answer on the board. Well done if you knew it.

OK, thanks, Richard. So at the end of Round Two, the losing pair is Lynn and Neil.

-Bad luck, bad luck. It was a tough category, that one, wasn't it?

-It was, yeah.

We'll see you again next time. You've been excellent contestants. Thanks so much for playing.

For the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting as we enter the Head to Head.

Very well done. Mark and Carl, Imogen and Imelda, you've made it.

Only one pair can make it to the final to play for the jackpot, which currently stands at £11,000.

You're nearly there. You're going Head to Head on three questions.

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

Just score less than the other pair to win that question.

The pair that's first to the best of three will play for today's jackpot.

OK, let's play Pointless.

Here is your first question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Andrew Lloyd Webber talent show winners as they could.

Andrew Lloyd Webber talent show winners. Richard?

We're looking for any human or animal who have won an Andrew Lloyd Webber talent show contest

on the BBC between 2006 and the start of 2011.

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do, Over The Rainbow and I'd Do Anything.

Any of the winners of those shows, please. First names are allowed.

OK. Mark and Carl, you've played best so far, so you get to go first.

Andrew Lloyd Webber talent show winners.

We have to... After much discussion, we've decided we can only come up with one.

I think it's Lee Mead.

-Lee Mead.

-Yeah.

-OK. You're going to say Lee Mead.

-I think.

-Imogen and Imelda, you can discuss out loud.

-Connie Fisher won the first one,

there was Lee Mead, Danielle Hope just won The Wizard of Oz,

Jodie Prenger, Any Dream Will Do. Jodie Prenger won Any Dream Will Do.

-I'm going to go with Danielle Hope. Is that OK?

-That's amazing!

-It is amazing.

OK, so we have Lee Mead and Danielle Hope.

Mark and Carl, Lee Mead. Let's see if it's right and how many said it.

Well done, it's right.

Down it comes to 17.

That's a great score.

17 for Lee Mead.

-So, Imelda, what do you think? Forgive me...

-I don't know if I've picked the right one now.

I think the shows were more popular at the earlier stages.

-OK, well, you've gone for Danielle Hope.

-Yeah.

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

It's right.

Well done! Look at that! Oh, down to 2!

Danielle Hope scoring only two there. Wow.

So it's one-nil to Imogen and Imelda.

-Richard?

-Yeah, well done, Imelda. Four answers would have beaten it -

the three boys chosen to play Oliver and the dog chosen to play Toto.

Let's take a look at those answers.

Gwion Jones, Harry Stott and Laurence Jeffcoate won the right to play Oliver.

Dangerous Dave was the Mini Schnauzer. Let's see the others.

Danielle Hope on two. She played Dorothy.

Connie Fisher, Maria, on seven.

Jodie Prenger, who was Nancy, 10.

And Lee Mead, who played Joseph, on 17.

Thanks, Richard. Here is your second question.

Imogen and Imelda, win this one and you are straight through to the final to play for £11,000.

Mark and Carl, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Newcastle United managers

as they could. Newcastle United managers. Richard?

Any of the 17 men who have managed Newcastle United from 1990

-through to the beginning of 2011.

-OK, Imogen and Imelda, you go first this time.

OK.

-OK. We have an answer?

-We're going to go with Kevin Keegan.

OK. You're going with Kevin Keegan. Very good.

Mark and Carl, they have said Kevin Keegan.

-Shall we go for Ruud Gullit?

-When was it Ruud Gullit?

-Chris Hughton? It was after Keegan. He dropped Shearer, didn't he?

-Ruud Gullit, go on.

-We'll go for Ruud Gullit.

-Ruud Gullit?

-Ruud Gullit.

-OK.

We have Kevin Keegan and Ruud Gullit. Imogen and Imelda, you have said Kevin Keegan.

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

Oh, yes.

Not surprisingly

a popular answer.

Mark and Carl have gone for Ruud Gullit. Let's see if it's right and how many people said Ruud Gullit.

Yep. There we are.

Down to 10.

Very well done, Mark and Carl. So after our second question it is one point apiece. Richard?

Yes, 17 managers in 20 years. It really is amazing they haven't won the Premiership(!)

A few had very brief stints. Let's look at all of them.

Pointless answer - Steve Clarke, a caretaker manager. Jim Smith, also pointless.

Terry McDermott, one point. Nigel Pearson, one point. John Carver, very briefly caretaker.

Graeme Souness, two. He was fired.

Joe Kinnear, bizarrely, took over. Ossie Ardiles also was fired.

Glenn Roeder left in 2007, four. Sam Allardyce, six. Kenny Dalglish, nine.

Alan Pardew, who took over in December 2010, on 10 points.

Ruud Gullit also on 10. Chris Hughton on 11.

Alan Shearer, of course, was briefly in charge, 17.

Sir Bobby Robson, 22. And Kevin Keegan has been there twice. The biggest answer - 43.

OK, thank you very much. Here is your third question.

Whoever wins this is through to the final and will be playing for that £11,000 jackpot.

It's a crucial point this. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many post-war Poets Laureate as they could.

Post-war Poets Laureate. Richard?

Any of the six people who have held the post of Poet Laureate from 1945 to the beginning of 2011.

OK, thanks very much, Richard. Mark and Carl, you get to go first.

Em...

After racking our brains, I think we...

Just somewhere in the back of my mind I think Cecil Day-Lewis was...

Cecil Day-Lewis. OK. You're saying Cecil Day-Lewis.

Imogen and Imelda?

John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion. No, not Larkin.

-Ted Hughes.

-Ted Hughes.

-Briefly.

-Carol Ann Duffy!

-Yeah.

-Carol Ann Duffy.

-Carol Ann Duffy is your answer?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

So we have Cecil Day-Lewis and we have Carol Ann Duffy.

Let's take them in order. Cecil Day-Lewis. Is it right and how many people said it?

It's right.

Oh, look at that! One point!

Now that's a low score. Imogen and Imelda, you have said Carol Ann Duffy.

Is it right and how many said it?

Well done. It's right.

Good luck. Let's see how far down this goes.

Oh!

Well...

Mark and Carl have done it. Lovely low score there. Cecil Day-Lewis.

After three questions, Mark and Carl are through, 2-1.

-Richard?

-Very good Head to Head. You gave us five of the six Poets Laureate.

The other was the only one that would have beaten Cecil Day-Lewis. Let's look at who that was.

A pointless answer - John Masefield.

He was Poet Laureate from 1930 through to 1968.

Cecil Day-Lewis on one, Carol Ann Duffy was the one to go for.

She scored 16. Andrew Motion, 18, Ted Hughes, 19.

He was Poet Laureate because Philip Larkin turned it down.

And John Betjeman at the top on 24.

Thanks, Richard. So the losing pair at the end of the Head to Head is Imogen and Imelda.

It was very, very close indeed. You've been great contestants.

-Sorry that you haven't made it through to the final, but we will see you again next time.

-Yep.

-Thanks very much, meanwhile.

-Thank you.

But for Mark and Carl it's time for our Pointless final and the chance to win £11,000.

Congratulations, Mark and Carl. You fought off the competition and won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot. And it stands...

at £11,000.

The rules are very simple. All you have to do is find a pointless answer that nobody thought of.

We haven't had any today. You only have to find one now.

First, choose a category and you can choose from these three options.

We have World Geography, Music Awards and Sports Stars.

-What do you think?

-World Geography would not be my choice.

-Not Music Awards...

-It has to be Sports Stars.

On joint knowledge, it's one we could both maybe come up with.

Music is definitely my weakest out of them.

-Sports Stars.

-I think we're looking definitely at Sports Stars.

-What would be your dream categories?

-Players that scored winning goals for Hull City in the FA Cup final!

LAUGHTER

-Everyone knows that.

-OK. Let's find out what that question is.

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

BBC Overseas Sports Personalities of the Year as they could.

-BBC Overseas Sports Personalities. Richard?

-Any winner of the Overseas Sports Personality of the Year

from the first time it was awarded in 1960 through to and including the 2010 award. Best of luck.

You have up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that £11,000 is for one answer to be pointless. Your 60 seconds start now.

-OK, would you go for Pele?

-Or tennis, Bjorn Borg.

-Bjorn Borg. They're all famous people. Who pulled something out of the bag...?

-Recently?

-Yeah.

-Going for long ago, cup winners...

-Who's the Aussie rugby player who won? Campese?

-David Campese.

Maybe.

David, David Campese.

-McEnroe or Borg at tennis... Rod Laver!

-Laver.

-Won a Grand Slam.

Good call. I don't know if they won. You want to go for someone obscure.

Go for someone obscure.

-Tom Watson?

-Yeah.

-Golf.

Someone like that?

Anything else?

Who else is in golf? Ballesteros? Obvious, isn't it?

-If he definitely won.

-I don't know if any of these did.

-Five seconds.

OK. It sounds like you have your three answers.

Your time is up. BBC Overseas Sports Personalities of the Year.

I now need those three answers.

-We're not sure any of them were Sports Personality, but Rod Laver...

-Rod Laver.

-David Campese.

-David Campese.

-And, em...

-Severiano Ballesteros.

-Seve Ballesteros.

-Yeah.

OK. Of those three, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Probably Rod Laver.

-Laver.

-OK, Rod Laver last.

-And of the remaining two, which is least likely?

-Seve.

-Seve's least likely, yeah.

-He's well known.

-OK. We'll put them up on the board in that order.

Here we go. Seve Ballesteros, David Campese

and Rod Laver.

We were looking for BBC Overseas Sports Personalities of the Year.

This was your least confident answer. You only need one pointless answer to win that £11,000 jackpot.

OK, so let's see if Seve Ballesteros is a correct answer and, if it is,

how many people said Seve Ballesteros?

It's right.

That was the first thing it had to be. The second thing it has to be is a zero score.

Down it goes, into single figures!

Oh, wow! Two!

Two!

This tells us two things.

Firstly, our 100 people

perhaps aren't that good at this particular category.

It also tells us that your least confident answer is already brilliant.

Sadly, it's not pointless, though.

But you weren't expecting that to go all the way down. Were you surprised by that?

-Yeah.

-To a certain degree.

-This is very exciting.

You only have two more chances to win the jackpot.

We are looking for BBC Overseas Sports Personalities of the Year. Your second answer is David Campese.

It has to be pointless for you to win that £11,000. First, though, it has to be right.

Let's see if it is right. What would you do with £11,000?

-Ohh!

-My children would think of many ways of spending it.

Just don't tell them.

I'm sure my wife would absorb most of it before it hit the bank account, but there you go.

You could have a very jolly journey back to Hull, that's for sure.

OK. David Campese. Let's see if it's right and how many people said it. Good luck.

-It was a shot in the dark.

-It was.

-David Campese.

Sadly, not a pointless answer. You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot. Rod Laver.

There he is. This has to be pointless. It's your last shot.

You are one question away

from £11,000.

We are looking for BBC Overseas Sports Personalities of the Year. Rod Laver.

Is it correct and, if it is, how many people have said it? Rod Laver.

It's right! It's right.

Oh, this is very exciting. Seve Ballesteros went down to two.

Rod Laver - is he going to take you all the way down to pointless?

Oh, no!

THEY LAUGH

-Oh!

-Ah, well...

-Who was that person?

-We have had a punishing run of ones on this jackpot round.

You wouldn't believe the number of ones we've had. I'm so sorry.

You didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer so you don't win the £11,000,

which rolls over to the next show. You have been brilliant contestants and you take our Pointless trophy.

OK, well, this is the painful bit. Richard?

It's even more painful today. There are some names on that board that are incredibly well-known.

Incredible that Rod Laver scored one when you see those with nothing.

David Campese was a good guess. Mal Meninga won.

Let's look at the pointless answers. We'll start with tennis players.

Andre Agassi won it, Boris Becker, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf - all pointless.

Let's look at the next board.

Eusebio, the only football player.

Gary Player was pointless, Lee Trevino, Brian Lara, a pointless answer.

Evander Holyfield, a pointless answer, Michael Johnson, the 400 metre runner, Jonah Lomu.

All pointless answers. Very well done if you said them. Very, very tough luck. Tough luck.

-Oh, dear. That makes painful reading.

-Way the cookie crumbles.

-I'm surprised at some of those.

-Amazed! Brian Lara!

-I know. Jonah Lomu.

-Well, unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you,

but it's been brilliant. You've been excellent contestants. Thank you so much for playing.

So nobody's won our jackpot today. It rolls over again to the next show when we will be playing for...

£12,000.

-Join us then to see if someone can win it. Meanwhile, goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And from me.

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