Episode 51 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed.

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

the quiz show were obvious answers mean nothing

and obscure answers mean everything. Let's meet today's players.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So, welcome back Matt and Andy, our first pair.

You were on the show last time. Remind us how you did.

We were doing OK. Got to the second round,

then I managed to get a question completely wrong,

got 100 points and I haven't heard the end of it since.

Oh, yes, this was New Mexico.

Yeah, thanks, Alexander.

-What do you do when you're not at work, Matt?

-Erm, I have a couple of daughters,

which obviously takes up a fair portion of my time. I read a lot,

cricket fan...

A couple of daughters!

-Yeah.

-"I've a couple of daughters".

-At last count two, possibly three.

-CHUCKLING

I'm relatively certain two.

-What sort of age are they?

-Nine and four.

-Andy, what do you do when you're not working?

-I read a lot, as well.

-I like sport and I'm writing a book.

-What's your book about?

It's a political and religious allegory, so a fantasy story.

-Matt, are you writing a book, at all?

-Yes, actually.

-Wow! What's it about?

-It's a social satire.

-A social satire.

What part, a modest proposal?

No, it's a view as to how the justice system could be reformed.

-A satirical view.

-Correct.

-One you don't really want us to take up.

No, it's not an advocation, it's more of a Utopian ideal.

I see. Well, the Utopian ideal for this afternoon, of course,

is that you make it through to the final

and I wish you the very best of luck with that.

Secondly, we welcome Claire and Liz, our second pair on the show.

How do you two know each other?

We worked together many, many years ago

-in our first proper grown-up jobs.

-What was your first proper grown-up job?

Selling advertising for me.

I was an office junior. I did the post, Liz's post.

THEY LAUGH

Did Liz sell a lot of advertising, was she good at it?

-She got better at it.

-Thanks(!)

-Claire, what are you doing now?

-I'm an events manager now.

-Events manager.

-Yeah.

So, from officer junior quickly up to events manager.

-Liz, how about you?

-Still working in advertising for a fashion magazine.

For a fashion magazine.

What are your strong subjects, Liz?

Entertainment, popular culture.

You know it all! Fashion?

-Fashion...

-Skinted verses minted.

-Should be one of my, er, yeah.

-It's great having you on the show.

-A very, very warm welcome to you.

-Thank you.

-Best of luck.

And next we welcome back Graham and David. You were also on the show last time.

Second chance to reach the final. Remind us how you did.

-We got to the head-to-head last time.

-You did.

Oh, yes, Oasis albums, yeah.

Quite annoying, really. I should have said Heathen Chemistry,

I've got it at home and I didn't remember it, so...

-Heathen Chemistry, it's a great name.

-Yeah.

What are you hoping is going to come up? Obviously not Oasis!

Like last time, geography is a fairly good one and sport, really.

David, love geography?

All right with geography,

bit of literature, films, that will be good.

OK, literature and films.

I have every faith we'll be seeing a lot of you this game.

OK, well, a warm welcome to you. Great to have you back.

Finally, we've got Barbara and Kevin. How do you know each other?

Barbara is my mother

and she has lived in Cyprus for the last 16 years,

but recently returned to Wrexham, where I also live.

Returned to sunny Wrexham.

-Yes.

-What are you hoping is going to come up this afternoon, Barbara?

-I'd like musical theatre.

-Musical theatre.

And I'm just hoping that there's no sport.

We never have sport on this programme! So rarely, so rarely.

Ah, that is awkward.

LAUGHTER

If you get knocked out in the first round,

the good news is there's no sport.

OK, what about you, Kevin?

-What would you love to have come up?

-Anything to do with football.

So, actually, I would like some sport.

-There you are, you'll complement each other.

-Also, politics, history and cinema, perhaps.

Very, very best of luck. It's great having you here.

We'll find out more throughout the show.

There's one person left for me to introduce.

He loves nothing better than to run a bath, light a few candles,

pour a glass of wine and relax with a good Encyclopaedia.

He's my Pointless friend, he's Richard.

Hello.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello, there.

-Hello, again.

-It should be a good show today.

We've got two returning pairs today.

We had Graham and David, who were in the head-to-head.

History tells us if you're in the head-to-head,

USUALLY you go on to win it,

but I suspect Matt and Andy may have something to say about that.

Especially as, I think, Andy, you wanted entertainment or history.

Well, round one is a combination of the two.

Very good. Thanks, Richard. We put all our questions to 100 people before the show,

but this is Pointless, so we are after the obscure answers they didn't get.

Now, what everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer.

That's an answer that none gave. Each time that happens we add £250 to the jackpot.

Now, nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000 to that,

so today's jackpot starts off at £4,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Right, let's play Pointless.

Now, 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 at the end of the round will be eliminated.

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

OK, our first category this afternoon is Classic Pop.

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

And whoever is 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 Cliff Richard singles as they could.

Cliff Richard singles.

Entertainment and history, look at that!

Neatly bound up.

There you go, there you go.

Yeah, we're looking for any single released by Cliff Richard which entered the UK Top 40

up to the start of January 2011.

Collaborations do count if he's credited

and if it's ever a double A side single each of those tracks will be scored separately.

We won't allow EPs such as Expresso Bongo.

-There are... Guess how many answers there are on this list?

-475.

Now the answer sounds disappointing.

CHUCKLING

It's 127.

127 Top 40 singles.

No, I honestly would have thought 70 was probably about right.

-It's quite something.

-Thanks, Richard.

Right, Matt and Andy, you all drew lots before the show

and this afternoon you get to go first.

My mum is a big Cliff Richard fan.

Wow, you're going to have to get this right.

Growing up, we used to have a jukebox in the front room

and it was 75% Cliff Richard singles.

Oh, so you know all of them in that case!

Let's go for...

Wired For Sound.

Wired For Sound.

You're hoping to score as few points as possible with this.

Let's see if Wired For Sound is a correct answer and, if it is,

let's see how many people said it. Wired For Sound.

Very well done, Andy.

This could be a very low score, I think.

12.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

12 points for Wired For Sound.

-Richard?

-Yeah, a very big hit from 1981.

So...

Claire, what is the most obscure Cliff Richard single you can think of?

Well, my mum is also a massive Cliff Richard fan

and actually has the Cliff Richard calendar every year.

-Wow!

-I've seen Cliff Richard in a lot of poses!

CHUCKLING

So, I'm going to go for Bachelor Boy.

Bachelor Boy.

Bachelor Boy. That's what you are saying.

Let's see if Bachelor Boy is right

and if it is, let's see how many people said Bachelor Boy.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

17, it's a good answer, Claire!

So, Bachelor Boy, Richard?

Yeah, well played, Claire.

It was a number one in 1962.

OK, very well done. So we have 12, we have 17.

David, Cliff Richard?

-Yes.

-Did your mum have...

-No, my mum wasn't a Cliff Richard fan.

But your dad was, so, there we are!

Unfortunately not, but I do remember Devil Woman.

Devil Woman. OK, Devil Woman.

The most obscure Cliff Richard single David can think of

and he is hoping to score as few points as possible.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Devil Woman.

10!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done, David.

The lowest score so far.

-10 points for Devil Woman.

-Yeah, Top 10 hit from 1976. Very well done.

-It's also the name of Cliff Richard's fragrance.

-Is that true?

-Yeah.

There's an eau de toilette from the House of Richard?

There is, Devil Woman.

Barbara?

No, I'm not a Cliff Richard fan, before you ask!

-And I've really got to wrack my brain because a couple have already been said.

-Yes.

So, I'm taking a gamble on The Young Ones.

The Young Ones.

Let's see if that's right. If it is, let's see how many people said The Young Ones.

19!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well done, Barbara. 19 for The Young Ones.

Yeah, good scores from everybody. It was number one in 1962, The Young Ones.

It's his biggest selling single of all time. Sold over a million copies,

which, even in those days, was very rare.

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

David and Graham,

the best score there, 10 points. Very good.

Up a couple of notches to Andy and Matt on 12,

then up to 17, Claire and Liz, and then up a couple more from that

to 19, Barbara and Kevin. Very close grouping.

OK, we're going to come back down the line.

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

OK, we're looking for Cliff Richard singles.

Now then, Kevin, you're the high scorers on 19.

You're going to have to dig very, very deep

into your massive knowledge of Cliff Richard's back catalogue.

My knowledge of Cliff Richard is incredibly limited,

but there's only one answer, which I think is correct,

which hasn't been said.

I'm convinced it's going to be a high scorer,

but it has to be Summer Holiday.

OK, you're saying Summer Holiday. You are the high scorers on 19.

There's no red line because you are the high scorers.

Let's see if it's right

and if it is, let's see how many people said Summer Holiday.

Ooh, dear, yes, that is a high score.

APPLAUSE

53 for Summer Holiday takes your total up to 72. Richard?

Yeah, number one from 1963

and it was one of the songs he performed at Wimbledon,

do you remember, in 1996 when it started raining?

OK, now then, Graham.

You are on 10. The high scorers are Kevin and Barbara on 72.

If you can score 61 or less

you are through to the next round.

OK, yeah, I can think of a couple of others that haven't gone yet,

but I think I'll play it fairly safe, go for his first hit, Move It.

Move It. Safe, you say!

I think that is, A, very knowledgeable...B...

Embarrassing!

LAUGHTER

I didn't say that. I was going to say, B, very impressive.

That's rather an obscure one. Move It, you are saying.

If you can get below that red line, Move It will take you through to the next round.

Let's see if it's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Move It.

Very well done, it's right.

And you are through to the next round.

-Nine points!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Nine points for Move It.

That takes your score up to 19. Richard?

Yeah, well played, Graham. It's his first hit, as you say, it reached number two in 1958.

OK, Liz, you are on 17.

The high scorers remain Kevin and Barbara on 72.

If you can score 54 or less

with this answer you are through to the next round.

OK, so, this is not a good topic for me

and both songs that I can think of I think are going to be

really high scores,

but I'm going to go with Congratulations.

You're going to go for Congratulations.

OK, here is your red line.

Below that red line, through you go.

Let's see if it's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Congratulations. Good luck.

You're through! Wow! Down it goes!

23!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That scores you 23.

It takes your score up to 40. Congratulations

and celebrations. Richard?

Well played, Liz. Good answer.

It was Cliff's entry in the Eurovision Song contest, actually,

where he came second and the winning entry was a Spanish song, La La La.

That's what it got beaten by.

But it was also a number one single in 1968

and Cliff is the only person in history to have a number one singles in five consecutive decades.

Amazing. Now then, Matt, on the back of that amazingness,

here you are on 12 points.

If you can score 59 points or less

you can avoid overtaking our high scorers Kevin and Barbara, who are on 72.

I seem to remember a song called Power To All Our Friends.

Power To All Our Friends, you are saying.

You need to score 59 points or less.

There's your red line. If Power To All Our Friends

gets below that red line then you are through to the next round.

If it's right, let's see how many people said Power To All Our Friends.

If this is right, I have a feeling this might go quite a long way down.

It IS right!

You're through to the next round.

And it's going a long way down!

It is! Look at that!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very, very well done, Matt.

That's a great answer.

That's a Pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to £4,250.

It scores you nothing, leaves your total at a very impressive 12.

-Richard?

-Yeah, brilliant, Matt. Very, very well played. From 1973.

Let's look at some of the pointless answers.

With 127 singles up to the start of 2011, a lot of pointless answers, as you'd imagine.

All I Have To Do Is Dream was pointless. From A Distance,

the song all about if we could see the world from a distance

it looks green and blue and all that.

He's had his sight corrected now, so it's less of an issue.

Bette Midler also had a big hit with that song.

Had To Be, also a pointless answer.

The Next Time, She Means Nothing To Me, Suddenly, all pointless answers.

True Love Ways, a pointless answer, he did a version of that,

When I Need You and Whenever God Shines His Light.

It's a very fine song that one, with Van Morrison.

Let's have a look at the most popular answers.

Living Doll would have scored 25. Mistletoe And Wine, 34.

Right at the top, we've already heard it from Kevin, Summer Holiday, 53.

Well, thanks very much, Richard. So, at the end of round one

the losing pair, I'm afraid it's Kevin and Barbara.

Yes, Summer Holiday is what did it for you.

-I'll leave with my street cred still intact!

-CHUCKLING

It's been brilliant having you on the show. Look forward to seeing you next time.

-Thank you.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Obviously only two pairs can make it to the head-to-heads,

so one of the teams in front of me will be leaving us at the end of this round.

Your category for round two is...

Sport.

Sport.

Can you decide 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 second round question concerns

Sporting Terms And Their Sports.

Sporting Terms And Their Sports. That's a bit better, isn't it, Liz?

-A bit.

-No!

We're about to show you a list of sporting terms and equipment.

We asked 100 people to tell us with which sport is each most closely associated.

-Richard?

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

The more obscure ones score you fewer points, but if you get one wrong you're going to score 100 points.

There are six in each pass. 12 in all to have a go at home.

OK, thanks, Richard.

We're looking for the sport

with which these terms and equipment is most closely associated,

and we have got...

Six yard box, pebbled ice,

shuttlecock, try, cradling,

fly slip.

I'll read those one more time.

Six yard box, pebbled ice, shuttlecock, try,

cradling, fly slip.

So, there are the terms or equipment.

Andy, you have to find the most obscure one you know

and tell me which sport it is connected with.

Last time in this round we went out

because I took a guess when I wasn't really sure.

There's no chance of that this time

because I've got absolutely no idea on most of them,

so I'm going to have to play it safe.

Out of the three, I would go for...

..Shuttlecock, badminton.

Shuttlecock, badminton you're saying.

OK, well, let's see it that's right

and if it is, let's see how many people said shuttlecock, badminton.

It's right. Oh, my goodness!

GROANING

87 points for that. Shuttlecock, badminton.

-Yeah, it's a very big score.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK, well, thank you very much.

Now then, Liz, we come to you. There are the terms and equipment.

You need to give me the sport with which each is associated.

OK, this was down as possibly my worst possible subject.

I'm an absolute sport HATER

and there's only two on the board that I know, one's gone,

so I'm going to go with try and rugby.

Try and rugby.

Try and rugby, let's see if that's right and, if it is, let's see how many people knew that answer.

78.

Not the worst score in this pass. Richard, try?

Yes, 78, much better than 87 and much better than 100, as well.

They called it a try because you wouldn't get points for scoring over your opponents' line,

it just allowed you to have a try at a conversion, so you'd call it a try.

-Now, it's the main way of scoring points.

-Very good.

Very well done, Liz. Now then, Graham, we come to you.

You're the last person, so you can talk us through the terms and/or equipment.

There's three answers I know, two have gone, so I've got to go for the only one I know,

which is six yard box and football.

Six yard box and football. It's going to be a high scoring round.

Let's see if that's right.

If it is, let's see how many people knew that answer. Six yard box, football.

44.

Very well done, Graham.

Six yard box and football scores you a bafflingly low 44. Richard?

A common term for the area in front of the goal,

though not as common as we suspected.

Let's take a look at the rest of the answers, though.

Fly slip is a position just behind the slips in cricket.

It would have scored you 12 points.

Cradling - it sounds rather charming - it's in lacrosse.

-Yeah.

-It would have scored you 5 points. And pebbled ice?

-No.

-It sounds like a Dickensian character,

doesn't it - Sir Arthur Pebbled Ice?

It's from curling. It would have scored you seven.

That's the sport we all care about once every four years.

The best answer on the board was lacrosse -

-well done if you said that at home.

-OK, thanks very much, Richard.

We're halfway through the round, so let's take a look at the scores.

Pretty high scores, it has to be said, but quite closely grouped,

relatively closely. Graham and David, 44, our lowest scorers.

Then we go up a little bit more - Liz and Claire are on 78.

And just a tiny smidge over that, Andy and Matt are on 87.

I would say, in the next pass, the real competition is going

to be between Claire and Matt, but anything could happen. We'll come back down the line.

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

We'll put six more sporting terms and equipment on the board,

and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those one more time.

Remember, we are looking for the sport with which each

of those is most closely associated, and you're trying

to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. David...

Graham's left you in a fantastic position scoring only 44 points.

You are the low scorers. The high scores are Matt and Andy on 87.

If you can score 42 points, you are through to the head-to-head.

Well, there's a couple there I know.

I'll take a bit of a chance, and we'll go for epee, and it's fencing.

Epee, fencing, you're saying.

OK, here's your red line. There it is. A little bit lower than halfway down.

If you can get below that red line with epee and fencing,

you are through to the head-to-head. Good luck.

Yup... Oh, no!

Ooh!

APPLAUSE

That scores you 44 points and gives you a total of 88. Richard?

Epee. It refers to a sword with a kind of bowl-shaped guard

and a long, narrow, fluted blade.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So, Claire and Liz, the high scorers

are now David and Graham by 1 point. You are on 78.

If you can score 9 or less with this answer - 9 or less, Claire -

you are through to the head-to-head for sure.

Now, I can either go for something I know that

-I think is going to be quite high...

-Mm-hm.

..or I could guess on one that I'm not sure of

that might be low.

OK, I'm going to take a risk and I'm going to go with double dribble

and basketball.

Double dribble, basketball. Liz, what you think?

I haven't got a clue. Not a clue.

There is your red line.

If you get below that with double dribble and basketball,

you are through to the next round.

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

22! Very, very well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

It's right, it's low. It doesn't get you down to the red line,

but it takes you up to a nice round 100,

which is altogether more satisfying, isn't it? Richard.

Great answer, Claire, well worth the risk.

It is either when you dribble and stop and start dribbling again

or dribble with both hands. Both of those are a double dribble.

OK, thanks very much, Richard. Now, Matt, it's all in your hands.

You are on 87. The high scorers on 100 are Claire and Liz.

If you can score 12 or less, 12 -

that would be by some margin the lowest scoring answer

of the entire round - you are through to the head-to-head.

Oche's darts. Birdie's golf.

Barbell's weightlifting, and catcher's box is baseball,

but there's no way oche or birdie would be low enough scoring,

so we'll go catcher's box and baseball and hope for the best.

Catcher's box and baseball. Here is your red line.

You'll notice it's quite low.

Well, let's see if catcher's box and baseball

is good enough to get you below that red line.

If it is, you stay and go on through to the head-to-head.

If it lands up above that red line, Claire and Liz stay

and we say goodbye to you.

Let's see, catcher's box, baseball, is it right? How many people said it?

Oh!

Bad luck, Matt!

APPLAUSE

Bad, bad luck.

I'm afraid that scores you 30 and it takes your total up to a winning...

brackets...losing 117. Richard.

Unlucky - you couldn't have done much better.

You were doomed by shuttlecock, I'm afraid,

not something you hear every day.

Let's take a look at the rest of the board.

Birdie was a very big scorer, as you suspect it would have been - 87.

Then barbell was the next highest scorer, weightlifting, which was 48.

And oche, which is darts, of course, would have scored a 38.

The best answer on the board there is double dribble,

basketball, so well played, Claire.

Very well done, Claire.

At the end of Round Two, the losing pair with the highest score,

it's Matt and Andy...again!

This wasn't on the script at all.

Dear, oh dear, oh dear. Yes, shuttlecock did you.

Thanks very much for playing.

You've both been brilliant contestants. Thanks so much.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, things are going to get even more exciting now

as we enter the head-to-head.

Very well done, Graham and David. Claire and Liz, you've made it

through to the head-to-head. Only one pair can make it through to the final

and play for today's jackpot, which stands currently at £4,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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.

This is good news. All you have to do is come up with an answer

that scores less than the other pair and you will 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 Labour Prime Ministers as they could,

Labour Prime Ministers. Richard.

We're looking for any leaders of the Labour Party that have served as British Prime Minister

up to the start of 2011.

There are six names on the list.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

Graham and David, as you played best throughout the show so far, you get to go first.

We're looking for Labour Prime Ministers.

Was James Callaghan Labour?

He was, yeah.

OK, I think we'll go James Callaghan.

OK, James Callaghan you're saying.

Claire and Liz?

Was Winston Churchill Labour?

-He was a Conservative, but I really have no idea.

-Was he a Prime Minister?

Yeah, definitely. Oh, no.

Well, shall we go for him anyway, because it's just...

out of... It will just move to the next question, and if we say

-Tony Blair or something, I mean, you know, we're going to lose. So, you say it.

-No, you say it.

No, you say it.

Have you just started going out with each other(?)

-You're younger, you say it.

-Was he a Prime Minister?

-He was definitely Prime Minister.

-Was he Labour?

-I don't know.

-I don't think he was.

I can't say it - you say it.

-Winston Churchill.

-OK, good. We have Jim Callaghan,

we have Winston Churchill. Let's see how they fare. Graham and David, you said James Callaghan.

Let's see if that's right. If it is, let's see how many people said James Callaghan.

Well, that's right.

APPLAUSE

28 for Jim Callaghan.

Claire and Liz have said Winston Churchill.

Let's see if it's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said Winston Churchill.

Bad luck. That's an incorrect answer, which means, after the first question,

-Graham and David are in the lead 1-0. Richard.

-Yes, Churchill was Conservative.

Let's take a look at all six. I expect some people will have got six.

A few would have beaten James Callaghan.

Ramsay MacDonald, who was the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924 and returned in 1929.

Attlee, who took over from Winston Churchill, beat him in an election in 1945, was 11.

James Callaghan, 28, Harold Wilson, 35, Gordon Brown - remember him -

with 80, and Tony Blair, right at the top, on 88.

OK, thanks very much. Here is your second question.

Now, Claire and Liz, you have to win this question to stay in the game. Here it comes -

we gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Pirates Of The Caribbean actors as they could.

Pirates Of The Caribbean actors.

-Richard.

-Any actor or actress who's appeared in all Pirates Of The Caribbean films

up to the start of 2011.

They have to be credited in all three,

so not Geoffrey Rush, who was not credited in the second one.

Any actor who's been all the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.

OK, thanks very much. Claire and Liz, you get to go first this time.

Erm, I can only really think of the kind of three main characters

and I'm going to go with the one... Oh...

Well, I'm just going to try and go with the one that I think

is probably the least well-known, which sounds stupid

when I'm about to say Orlando Bloom.

Orlando Bloom. OK, you're saying Orlando Bloom. Graham and David,

you can now talk out loud. We're looking for Pirates Of The Caribbean actors.

I've never seen it, haven't got a clue.

-So, it's over to you.

-Have you seen it, David?

-I have.

Keira Knightley is in it, isn't she?

Keira Knightley's in it. Johnny Depp. But they're both...

the big ones.

The chap who's in The Office, not Stephen Merchant...

-Oh, yes.

-Gary Crook?

Mackenzie Crook.

-Is that his first name?

-Mackenzie, yes.

We'll go for Mackenzie Crook.

Mackenzie Crook, you are saying, so we have Orlando Bloom

and we have Mackenzie Crook - what are you thinking, Claire and Liz?

-I think they've got it.

-ALEXANDER CHUCKLES

Orlando Bloom

is what Claire and Liz have said. You have to win this question to stay in the game.

Let's see what Orlando Bloom scores...

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39 for Orlando Bloom.

Graham and David have gone for Mackenzie Crook.

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

If you win this, you are straight through to the final...

Yup, well done.

Wow! Very, very well done indeed.

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Very well done - Mackenzie Crook.

I'm afraid that beats Orlando Bloom, so after only two questions,

Graham and David are straight through to the final.

-Richard.

-Yes, well played. There's actually a whole load of pointless answers here,

as lots of the crew in the films are in the same ones. We'll go through the pointless ones first.

Kevin McNally and David Schofield, both well-known English actors, they're both in the film.

David Bailie, who plays Mr Cotton.

Christopher S Capp, who plays the voice of Mr Cotton's parrot.

He's a pointless answer, perhaps unsurprisingly.

Be amazed if... ..Yes, Christopher S Capp, would be our answer.

Christopher Adamson, also a pointless answer.

A few more pointless ones...

..then Jack Davenport would have scored you 3 points.

Jonathan Pryce - 3 points.

There's Mackenzie Crook on 9, then Orlando Bloom 39,

Keira Knightley 49 and Johnny Depp on 85.

Very good, Richard, thanks very much indeed. So, the losing pair

at the end of the head-to-head - I'm afraid it's Claire and Liz.

Now, the first one, Labour Prime Ministers,

I think you can be forgiven for not knowing a Labour Prime Minister.

But Pirates Of The Caribbean... There are swings and roundabouts in this game,

and while the Prime Minister might have been a swing for you,

Pirates Of The Caribbean surely should have been a roundabout... What am I talking about?!

LAUGHTER

Anyway, I'm afraid we have to say goodbye to you.

But you've made it all the way through to the head-to-head,

which is no mean feat. You've seen off some incredible pairs as well.

And through you have come, you've done incredibly well. But we will see you again next time,

when I have a feeling you will do even better.

But thanks very much. You've been brilliant contestants, thanks so much for coming.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

But for Graham and David, it's now time for our Pointless final

and the chance to win our jackpot of £4,250.

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congratulations, Graham and David - you've fought off the competition

and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy. So very well done.

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As a little bonus, you know have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

And at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £4,250.

-AUDIENCE:

-Ooh!

The rules are very simple. To win that money, all you have to do

is find a pointless answer - an answer none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had one pointless answer today. You have to find one now and you will go home with that money.

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

-Ah.

-What do you reckon?

Well, fashion's a no-no.

Can we get the girls back to do the fashion?!

I know very, very little about Spain.

Tennis? Tennis...

I don't know.

I don't know, I really don't know. I'd be happier on tennis.

Fashion is out, so it's whether you want to go for Spain.

-I don't know what Spain could be, I really don't.

-It could be beaches or something.

-I think tennis.

-Have to go tennis, I'm afraid, reluctantly.

It's a reluctant choice, by a process of elimination.

Yeah.

Yeah. I've seen happier people, I have to say. OK, let's find out what the question is.

Might be brilliant. What would be a really good tennis question for you

that you'd find millions of pointless answers for?

Erm, I'd like the question to be, who last won when I last played my son at tennis?

And then I could say...me.

OK, here we go. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many female French Open winners as they could. Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for any woman who's won a French Open Women's Singles title

from 1945 through to 2010 inclusive.

Any female winner of the French Open.

You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers. All you need to win that £4,250

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

Got to go back a long way.

Navratilova...

-Justine Henin?

-I think we need to go back further.

'70s, Chris Evert - has Mary Pierce ever won it, the French woman?

Tempted to go for Mary Pierce for one of them.

I would also...

Did Christine Truman, the British woman, did she ever win that?

-I know she won Wimbledon.

-That's post-war.

Yes, let's go for Betty Stove. I don't know if she won it or not, but she's a tennis player

from the '70s that I've heard of.

-She's a Grand Slam winner, is she?

-I think so. I really don't know, I'm guessing a bit here,

but that's my guess.

So, Betty Stove, Mary Pierce and...

-..Christine Truman - happy with that?

-Henin?

-Justine Henin?

-Yeah.

-I think she's a bit modern.

-Five seconds.

-I think we need to go further back, really.

Well, there is your minute.

Time is up. We were looking for female French Open winners.

I now need your three answers.

OK, I think we'll go for Betty Stove...

Betty Stove...

-..Mary Pierce.

-Mary Pierce.

..and a bit of a wild card, Christine Truman.

And Christine Truman.

Of those three, which do you reckon is your best shot at a pointless?

-I don't know. Erm, Betty Stove.

-We'll put Betty last, then, shall we? Betty goes last.

Which is your least likely?

I don't think Christine Truman's... I think that's probably wrong.

OK, we'll put Christine Truman up first.

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

And here they are...

There they are. We were looking for female winners of the French Open.

You said this was your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that £4,250 jackpot.

So, £4,250, that's what's sitting in the jackpot -

what would you do with that? What would you do, David?

I've got a fancy I would like to go to the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

-Ooh.

-That's my plan with that.

-Graham, how about you?

-Family holiday - probably Spain, actually.

-Irony of ironies. You could always go to the French Open.

-Yeah.

OK. Well, this was your least confident answer, Christine Truman.

Let's try her. It's a stab in the dark, but it doesn't matter, this one's just a place-holder.

Let's see if it's right and, if it is, let's see how many people said Christine Truman...

It's your first shot at the jackpot of £4,250.

Oh, it's right!

It's right! We were looking for female winners of the French Open.

And this is right.

You said this was the one you had the least faith in. Down it goes! Wow!

It's pointless!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done. Very well done indeed.

CHEERING

What about that?!

Hit it with the first shot. That was fantastic.

Well, congratulations - you managed to find that pointless answer,

which means you go home with our jackpot of £4,250!

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Well, you aced it, is what you did. Richard.

Yes, very well played, guys.

She won in 1959, Christine Truman.

Mary Pierce, to go through your other answers, would have scored you 2 points. She did win it.

Betty Stove, the Dutch player, never won the singles in the French Open. So, it was all on Christine Truman.

Shall we look at some other pointless answers?

A couple more British winners at the top - Angela Mortimer and Ann Haydon-Jones.

The American Althea Gibson, also a pointless answer.

There's Christine Truman, with two more Americans...

Hana Mandlikova, a Czech player who won in 1981.

Jennifer Capriati and Margaret Osborne-duPont. So some there people at home would have got.

But Christine Truman did the job for you. Very well done, guys.

Very, very well done. Thanks once again to our winning players, Graham and David,

who go away with today's jackpot of £4,250.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Join us next time, when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

-..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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