Episode 55 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed. I'm Alexander Armstrong.

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

Now first we welcome Jonathan and Alison. You are our first pair on the show this afternoon.

-How do you two know each other?

-Well, we're married.

-We've been married since 2003 and...

-And?

-But, but...

-And it's lovely!

-Oh, thank...!

-Where are you from, Jonathan?

-From the Isle of Wight.

-Wow. Does Pointless play on the Isle of Wight?

-We have got television now, yes.

-Very good.

-Alison, what do you do?

-I am a trainee chocolatier.

A chocolatier!

It really...yes.

-Do you get to eat all the broken bits?

-I got a lot at the start because she wasn't very good.

-Not now she's getting better.

-Of course, now it gets sold.

-I've perfected the recipe for mulberry gin chocolates.

-Marlborough?

Mulberry gin. We have a mulberry tree in the garden, a bit of gin,

mix it in and you can make mulberry gin chocolate.

Blimey. There's a whole nation of people salivating.

-I would have brought some, had I been Alison.

-I would have.

Or had the decency not to mention them.

Very good. Best of luck. Next we welcome back Karl and Mario. You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the final. Mario, I'm disappointed. Last time you were sporting a scarf.

-Yeah.

-This time you've clearly decided not to.

I decided against it.

Basically, it didn't bring me the luck I was expecting it to do,

so I'm wearing my lucky pants instead. LAUGHTER

You and me both, Mario.

You're wearing HIS lucky pants?!

-LAUGHTER

-If you knew how lucky they were, you'd be wearing them as well.

They sound very lucky. What do you do in your spare time, Mario?

-I'm a snowboarder. I've just begun.

-Very good. What about you, Karl?

I do music, actually.

When I lived in Australia, I played in a couple of bands as a vocalist.

Well, it's lovely to have you back.

Very best of luck. Let's hope we see you way beyond the second round.

Next we welcome Lee and Jamie. How do you two know each other?

Our wives work together and because of that we met socially.

After a while, we went out to a pub quiz and 16 years later we're still going out to the pub quiz.

-You've been quizzing for 16 years?

-I'm afraid so. Isn't that sad?

-Lee, you're going to be brilliant!

-Not necessarily.

-Oh, I think you are.

-Lee, what do you do?

-I lecture in Politics at Queen's University.

-Oh, for heaven's sake, Richard!

They've quizzed for 16 years and he's a lecturer.

The rest of you, just go now.

Apart from Alison. You can stay.

Lee and Jamie, the best of luck.

Now then, finally, we welcome back Sheridan and Stacey.

This is your second chance. This afternoon, you will triumph.

-Tell me why.

-Well, we're hoping something that we know comes up,

which probably isn't a very lot.

But we're not really that bothered, just as long as we beat Mario! LAUGHTER

-Big competition.

-Mario, what have you said to them?!

What did he do? What did he do?

When they went out, first round, he waved them off.

-A little shady wave.

-So the gauntlet's been hurled.

-A bit of competition now.

Wow. Well, Sheridan and Stacey, good luck with that.

We'll find out more about all of you. There's only one person left.

At the top of Mount Obscurity is planted a flag in his colours. My Pointless friend, Richard.

Hiya.

Hello.

-How are you this afternoon?

-I'm extremely well.

-What a lime-up we've got!

-I know. Blimey.

-It's clear that Lee and Jamie are going to win.

-Alison, we can't let you win because you've got to come back next time with chocolates.

-I understand.

Then it's who from Sheridan and Stacey and Karl and Mario will win their battle.

-A little derby in the back row.

-It should be a good show.

Thank you very much, Richard.

We put all our questions to 100 people, but we are after the obscure answers that they didn't get.

Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer that no one gave.

Each time that happens, we'll add £250 to the jackpot. Nobody won the jackpot last time,

so today's jackpot starts off at £4,500.

Right. Let's play Pointless.

In the first round, each of you must give me one answer

and you cannot confer with your partner.

The team with the highest score will be eliminated.

Our first category this afternoon is...Marine Life.

Can you all decide who's going to go first and who's going to go second?

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many sea creatures as they could.

-Sea creatures. Richard?

-The correct answers are all marine creatures.

-Organisms that live in or around the sea.

-Thanks.

Alison and Jonathan, you drew lots and you get to go first.

In this round, we will give you a choice of seven possible answers in each pass.

Your first set of seven answers reads like this.

HE READS LIST

I'll read that one more time.

At least one of those answers is pointless, but at least one of those answers is incorrect

and you will score the maximum of 100 points.

Now, Alison...

-The Isle of Wight. You probably come across these as a matter of course.

-All of them, every day(!)

Paddling around in the rock pools.

"Oh! That looks like a mulberry gin chocolate..."

They don't do so well under water. They get a bit salty.

-Do they?

-Yeah. So out of those...

I'm going to choose the refreshing Sea Cucumber.

Mm! Sea Cucumber. There it is. Let's see if it's right

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

Six!

That's an excellent answer, Alison. Sea Cucumber scores six.

-Richard?

-Yeah, good answer. It's an animal, not a plant.

It emits a deadly toxin, poisonous to other fish, but not to humans.

-Now then, Karl.

-Used to live in Australia and spend a lot of time in the sea,

-but not underneath the water.

-LAUGHTER

Em...

I am going to have to go for, and be safe,

-with lobster.

-That IS safe.

I'm pretty sure it's right. We will...

-What do you think, Mario?

-I think he's on the money there.

Probably 99, 98.

Let's see if it's right

and how many people said lobster.

35!

That's a lot lower score than I was expecting. Lobster, 35, Richard.

I have no explanation for why that is so low, but good news.

Very good. It was right, Karl. Nothing wrong with that.

Lee, we are looking for sea creatures.

There's one I definitely don't like the look of, one is intriguing.

Will I dare risk it? I don't know. Or will I actually play safe?

-I'll try for the sea anemone.

-The sea anemone.

If you do see an enemy, always best to run for cover.

OK, let's see if that's right and how many people said sea anemone.

Well done, it's right.

Very well done. 12 for sea anemone.

-Richard?

-Yes, sea anemone. Well done, Lee.

They have a symbiotic relationship with clownfish, as in Finding Nemo.

The clownfish is immune to the poison they give out, so they hide inside them.

-And the sea anemone eats their food.

-I have a similar relationship with my agent.

I have a similar relationship with mulberry gin chocolates.

LAUGHTER

Now then, Sheridan. Remember, we're looking for sea creatures.

I don't know whether I dare go for the Christmas tree worm.

Sounds fun, doesn't it?

It does. It's intriguing.

The kraken, wasn't that some sort of monster?

So I'm going to go... I'm going to go for the Christmas tree worm.

-Oh!

-The Christmas tree worm. Jamie is nodding.

-I'll go for it.

Stacey's looking quite scared. She's come out...and gone back in.

Like a clownfish in a sea anemone.

LAUGHTER

Let's see if that's right and how many people said it. Best of luck.

Well done, Sheridan!

Very, very well done. We might see this go a long way down.

Yes! And we do!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done. That's a pointless answer. It adds £250 to the jackpot, taking the total up to £4,750.

-And, most importantly, Sheridan, it scores you nothing.

-Absolutely.

-Very well done. Richard?

-Yeah. Mario doesn't like that one bit.

Are you sure you've got your lucky pants on? Yes, it's a small Christmas tree-shaped worm.

Very small, but very colourful. Let's take a look.

Jellyfish would have scored you 14 points.

The limpet would have scored 8.

And the kraken, you're quite right, is a mythological creature, so that was the incorrect answer.

Thank you very much, Richard. Let's just look at those scores.

Well... it's quite a low-scoring round,

but there's no score lower than that most impressive one - Sheridan and Stacey on nothing.

Then we come up a little bit to Alison and Jonathan on six.

Double that to 12 for Lee and Jamie. Then double that and add 11...

We come to 35, which is where we find Karl and Mario,

languishing way ahead of the field there. Mario, you're going to have to find a really good answer.

-Yeah.

-You'll have to do something.

-Have to do something.

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

OK. We're going to put seven more answers on the board. Sea creatures.

-Here is your second list.

-HE READS LIST

I'll read those one more time.

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

Try to avoid those incorrect ones if you possibly can. Stacey,

you are on nothing. The high scorers are Mario and Karl. That's just poetic, isn't it?

What about that? The very people you wanted to beat.

The high scorers. Muhahahaha!

If you can score 34 or less, you are through to the next round.

What do you think about that list?

Well, just like Karl, I used to live in Australia.

I studied to be a marine biologist, but I weren't clever enough!

That's good. How long did you do?

-Four weeks.

-Four weeks. Did you come across any of these?

-No, but I've heard of a few.

That is probably good enough.

I'm going to kind of go in the middle. I know it's safe,

but I don't think it'll be a top answer. I'm going to go starfish.

-That's safe.

-There is your red line. Below that red line, you're through.

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

Well done. You're through to the next round!

21 for starfish.

Well done, Stacey.

Yeah, the starfish. They're trying to change its name because it's not a fish.

How are they feeling about the sea horse? Strictly speaking, that's not really a horse, is it?

LAUGHTER

Now then, Jamie.

You are on 12.

Our high scorers remain Mario and Karl on 35. Score 22 or less

and you're through to the next round.

-There is still a pointless answer on that board.

-There is.

It's interesting. You watch at home and you'd be saying, "Pick that one! It's pointless!" But not here.

-It's very hard behind the podium.

-"Will I risk that? Maybe not."

So I'm not going to risk for a pointless.

-I'm going to go for sea urchin.

-Sea urchin.

-Yes.

-OK, Jamie.

There's your red line. Get below that and you are through. Let's see if it will get you there.

Very well done.

Very well done. That scores 14 and takes you up to 26.

-You're through.

-Well played, Jamie. The word urchin was an old name for a small hedgehog.

-Because they resemble those, it's a sea urchin.

-Mario...

-Alexander.

-35. You and Karl are still ahead of the field.

You, Mario, I think - I think - are going to have to find a pointless answer

or something as close to pointless as you possibly can on that board.

-It's looking like that.

-I think a safe option isn't open to you.

I don't think that's going to work. STACEY AND SHERIDAN GIGGLE

If we go out, it'll be with a bang. So Brain Coral is my answer.

Brain Coral is your answer. Stacey and Sheridan think that's a great answer.

-Don't trust them!

-No, I don't!

-They're up to something.

-They did that on the last show.

-They didn't do me any favours.

-OK.

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

It's right.

How far down will it go?

Wahey! Very well done!

Very well done, Mario. A pointless answer adds £250 to the jackpot, taking it to £5,000.

Most importantly, it scores you nothing, leaving your total at 35.

-Richard.

-Very well played. It does resemble a brain.

It's spherical and grooved. It can live 900 years.

Now then, Jonathan.

Has Mario done enough to keep himself in the game, leaving his total at 35?

If you can score 28 or less, then Mario has not done enough.

Well, I think the octopus is too obvious for words.

I also think the sea hare is too close to a sea horse.

So it's between the andrina and Australian sea apple, as far as I'm concerned.

And...

for some strange reason, I'm drawn towards the andrina.

-I may be confusing it with a Greek girl I used to know, but andrina.

-LAUGHTER

OK, andrina, there we are. There is your red line.

Well, Mario and Karl are going to watch the progress of this line very, very closely.

Andrina - is that right and how many people said it?

Argh!

It's somebody you used to know!

LAUGHTER

-ALEXANDER SIGHS

-It was the sea apple, wasn't it?

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, which means you scored a maximum of 100 points.

That takes your total up to 106.

-Richard...

-So sorry, Jonathan. Andrina is Ariel's sister in The Little Mermaid.

That's Andrina.

Let's take a look at the rest. Octopus would have knocked you out. It was 35.

-The other two would have done you well. Australian sea apple is a type of sea cucumber.

-Cucumbers again.

Go figure. It would have scored one. And the sea hare, a type of sea slug, was a pointless answer.

-Very well done if you said sea hare.

-Thank you, Richard.

At the end of Round One, the losing pair is Jonathan and Alison.

A great shame. Jonathan did exactly the right thing,

but your answer was completely wrong.

The good news is we will see you again next time.

Great contestants. Thanks for playing.

But 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 leaves at the end of this round.

The category for Round Two is...

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

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

And the question concerns...

Countries and their official languages.

We'll show you a list of countries. We asked 100 people to tell us the official language of each.

-Richard?

-Six countries on each pass. Just tell us the official national language of that country.

Obscure ones score fewer points, an incorrect answer scores 100. See how many you can get at home.

Thanks, Richard. So we are looking for the official language of each country. And we have got...

HE READS LIST

I'll read those again.

You're looking for the answer that the fewest people knew.

Karl, which one are you going to choose?

The official language of one of these countries. A nice obscure one.

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

And I'm going to go... Portuguese.

Portuguese.

-What do you reckon, Mario?

-I know one or two things about this,

-given I am from Portugal.

-Exactly.

So it's a 50/50 chance. LAUGHTER

OK, well, let's see if Brazil - Portuguese is right and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

Yes, very well done, Karl.

38.

APPLAUSE

Not a bad score at all.

-Richard?

-Yeah, brought to Brazil by the Portuguese colonisers.

Very good. Thanks very much, Richard.

-Now then, Lee.

-Two look reasonably straightforward.

I don't know how they would score.

Two, I'm not 100% certain of.

And one... Hmm, I don't know whether I should risk this one.

But Liechtenstein, I'll go for German. It's Swiss German, but German.

Liechtenstein - German.

What do you think, Jamie?

My fingers are crossed.

OK, Liechtenstein - German. Let's see if that's correct and if it is, let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

31.

APPLAUSE

31.

-Richard?

-Well done, Lee, German, spoken by 90 million people worldwide.

-Do you know what the German is for "pointless"?

-What is it?

-Sinnlos.

-Sinnlos?

-Sinnlos. What a beautiful language.

Footloose?

Thanks very much, Richard.

Stacey, we come to you. Remember, we're looking for the official languages of these countries.

Italy, which is, I hope, Italian.

Argentina, I think, is Spanish.

Mm-hm.

Brunei is Arabic, I think.

The other one I've never even heard of, but if I had to take a guess, I'd probably say Mandarin.

-I'm going to go for Brunei and I'm going to say Arabic.

-Brunei - Arabic, you are saying.

We'll see if it's right and if it is, how many people said Arabic for Brunei.

-Oh, God!

-Bad luck, Stacey.

That's incorrect which means you score a maximum of 100 points.

-What was it?

-Yeah, sorry, Stacey.

I'm afraid Malay is the official national language of Brunei, often written in the Arabic alphabet.

Let's look at the other answers.

Italy, it is Italian indeed.

94 out of our 100 said that.

-You've got to wonder about those six, haven't you?

-Yeah.

Argentina, as Stacey said, it is Spanish. It would've been a good answer.

55, but better than 100.

And Suriname is Dutch. It would have scored you 8 points.

Brunei was the best answer, so well done if you got that or Suriname.

OK, thanks very much, Richard. We're halfway through the round, so let's take a look at the scores.

Lee and Jamie, 31, lovely low score.

Then up a little bit from them, not very much, to 38, Karl and Mario.

Then, oh, dear, way ahead of the field,

Stacey and Sheridan on 100.

Sheridan, we need a very low score from you in the next pass

and you have to hope that somebody else has an incorrect answer.

Can the second players take their places at the podium?

OK, we're going to put six more countries on the board and we have got...

I'll read those one more time.

We are looking for the official language of these countries

-and the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. Sheridan...

-Mm-hm?

-What's that board looking like?

-Terrible.

I'm going to go with Trinidad and Tobago

and I'm going to say English.

OK...

Stacey thinks that is the funniest thing she's ever heard.

-English?

-Yeah.

-Trinidad and Tobago. Stacey, what do you think?

Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said Trinidad and Tobago - English.

Well done.

-48.

-APPLAUSE

Quite a high score there.

That takes your total up to 148 which I'm afraid is an unbeatable high score.

-No-one can overtake that. Richard?

-Good correct answer, following your pointless in the first round too.

Thank you, Richard. You can have a bit of fun with this, Jamie, as you are through to the head-to-head.

If you were thinking about taking a bit of a risk, why not go ahead and take it?

OK, well, seeing as I can't lose and, um...

Slovakia, I'll say Czech.

Slovakia, you're saying Czech. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said Czech.

Oh! An incorrect answer.

It scores you 100 points and takes your total up to a harmless 131.

-Richard?

-Unlucky, Jamie. It's a very tough board.

If anyone at home has got all six of these, it's very, very impressive.

I won't give you the answer, just in case Mario wants to have a go at it.

Mario, you're the last person to have this board, so why not have a punt on each of those?

Obviously, Monaco, they speak French. In Egypt, I think it's Arabic.

I'm going to go for Monaco - French.

Monaco - French. Let's see if French is the official language of Monaco and if so, how many people said it.

It's right.

Oh, 71. A lot of people knew that.

APPLAUSE

It takes your total up to 109.

-Richard?

-Yeah, probably the safest answer on a very tough board.

So well played. Let's take a look through the rest of it.

Mario, you're right about Egypt as well. That is Arabic.

Now, Slovakia, it's not Czech. It's the other one - Slovak.

And Bangladesh, that's either Bangla or Bengali. That would have scored you 7 points.

And Cambodia is Khmer, the best answer on the board. It would have scored you 3 points.

-Very well done if you got that and if you got all six.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

At the end of Round 2, the losing pair with the highest score, Sheridan and Stacey.

Once again, we and Mario have to wave goodbye to you.

Go on.

That's better.

But you did OK. Trinidad and Tobago, English.

You also found Christmas tree worm, Sheridan, in the first round, a pointless answer.

-You've added 250 quid to our jackpot.

-I want it back.

-She said she wants that back if they win!

-I see. She wants it back if they win.

-Good luck with that, Sheridan.

LAUGHTER

Sheridan, Stacey, thank you for playing. It's been brilliant having you on the show.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.

Very well done, Karl and Mario, Lee and Jamie, you've made it through to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it through to the final and play for the jackpot which currently stands at £5,000.

APPLAUSE

You go head to head on the best of three questions. For each question, each pair gives me one answer.

You can now confer. If your answer scores less than the other pair, you win that question.

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

Here is your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many characters from Keeping Up Appearances as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for any named, credited character

who was in 20 or more episodes of the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

We're looking for character names. First names will be fine.

Karl and Mario, because you've played best throughout the show so far, you go first.

We're looking for characters from Keeping Up Appearances.

WHISPERING

OK, we have an answer.

What's it going to be?

I'm going to go for...

Although... I'm hoping it's going to be right.

-It's her son.

-Yeah.

-Sheridan.

-Sheridan?

Yes.

Lee and Jamie?

Onslow or Daisy?

-I'd go for Rose.

-We'll go for Rose.

Rose. OK, Rose.

So we have Sheridan, we have Rose.

-Karl and Mario, did you watch Keeping Up Appearances?

-Yeah.

-Have you seen it, Mario?

-I've seen a few.

Although I've never actually seen Sheridan,

he was on the other end of the phone quite often asking for money and what have you.

OK, you are saying Sheridan.

-Yes.

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

Oh!

Bad luck.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer. Lee and Jamie, you have said Rose.

Rose just has to be correct for you to win this question. Is it right? If it is, how many people said it?

It's right. Well done.

22 for Rose.

But most importantly, it was correct. After the first question, Lee and Jamie are ahead 1-0.

-Richard?

-Yeah, good answer, guys, one of Hyacinth's sisters.

No actor plays Sheridan. He's just referred to. He's on the end of the phone.

You hear his name a lot, but he's not a credited character.

Let's take a look at all of them. Seven have appeared in 20 or more.

There's Emmet and Elizabeth, the neighbours.

Emmet would have scored you 5, Elizabeth 6.

Daisy, Hyacinth's other sister would have scored you 13, Rose 22, Onslow 27.

There's the husband Richard, played by Clive Swift, on 31, and Hyacinth, Patricia Routledge, on 60.

Thank you, Richard. Here is your second question.

Karl and Mario, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Olympic host cities beginning with S as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for any city that's hosted a Summer or Winter Olympic Games

whose name begins with S. There are nine answers. See how many of those you can get.

OK, now then, Lee and Jamie, you are to go first this time.

WHISPERING: Stockholm? 1912?

OK, we'll go for Stockholm.

Stockholm.

Karl and Mario?

We're going to go...

Shanghai?

-Go for it.

-Shanghai.

Shanghai. OK, we have Stockholm and we have Shanghai. Lee and Jamie went first with Stockholm.

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

It's right.

Oh, 17 for Stockholm.

APPLAUSE

Right, Karl and Mario, this will decide whether or not you stay with us

or whether or not you leave us.

Shanghai has to be right and it has to score less than 17,

otherwise, I'm afraid we say goodbye to you.

Let's see, Shanghai, is it correct? How many people said Shanghai?

Oh, Karl and Mario, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

Which means that after only two questions, Lee and Jamie are through to the final 2-0.

-Richard?

-Unlucky. Beijing is the only Chinese city to have hosted an Olympics,

but Stockholm, you're right, was in 1912.

Let's take a look at all nine. The lowest scoring ones were Winter Olympic cities.

Squaw Valley held it in 1960.

St Moritz has held it twice. That scored 2 points.

Sarajevo, where Torvill and Dean did their Bolero routine, scored 4.

St Louis held the third modern Olympics. It would have scored 8.

As would Salt Lake City.

Sapporo held the 1972 Winter Olympics. Would have scored you 9.

Stockholm 17, Seoul, which held the 1988 Olympics, 38,

and Sydney right at the top with 46, the 2000 Olympics. Very well done if you got all nine.

Thanks, Richard. The losing pair at the end of the head-to-head is Karl and Mario.

Bad luck. I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you. You've been beaten by Lee and Jamie, a strong pair.

-But you've been brilliant. Thanks so much for playing.

-Thanks very much.

But for Lee and Jamie, it's time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £5,000.

Congratulations, Lee and Jamie. You've fought off the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy, so very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show, it stands at £5,000.

APPLAUSE

Now, the rules are very simple.

To win that money, just find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people thought of.

We've had two pointless answers today. You only have to find one more to go home with that money.

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

-Now, is that a pleasant surprise, Jamie?

-Not really.

What are we going to get with Composers? You're hardly going to ask us to list a lot of composers,

so it's probably going to be someone's music. Oh, I don't know.

If we don't pick Pop Icons, we'll maybe do Baseball.

-Baseball, I will be clueless at, so it will have to be...

-The Pop Icons.

-'80s Pop Icons.

-'80s Pop Icons.

-And it's all Lee's!

-Oh.

Well, you can object...

Not at all. No, no.

Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Boy George singles as they could.

-Richard?

-Yeah, we're looking for any single released by Boy George as a solo artist

or as a member of Culture Club or Jesus Loves You or with him as a featured artist

to reach the UK Top 40 prior to the beginning of 2011.

Thanks very much, Richard. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that £5,000 jackpot is for just one answer to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

OK, so apart from Karma Chameleon and all those, let's see...

He was in Band Aid. We could always go for that one. What else did he collaborate in?

There was Church Of The Poisoned Mind. There was Time.

-There was The War Song.

-The War Song?

-Oh...

-Is this him as a solo artist?

-Everything I Own was the solo artist.

Everything I Own, right.

-Which of these...

-Was there one called Mistake No.3 that just squeaked its way...

If there wasn't, there should have been. LAUGHTER

-That was good.

-There was the one they did with The A-Team. I can't remember what they were called.

-The A-Team?

-Mm-hm.

The A-Team?!

-Was there one called White Boy?

-White Boy...

-Five seconds.

-White Boy, Mistake No.3.

-And The War Song.

-And The War Song.

OK, there's your minute up.

OK, we were looking for Boy George singles. I now need your three answers.

-Give them.

-The War Song is the first one.

-The War Song.

Leaving all the popular ones out of the way, was there Mistake No.3?

-Mistake No.3.

-And what did I say? Everything I Own.

-Everything I Own.

-Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Mistake No.3.

-Mistake No.3 we will put at number three. Which is your least likely pointless one?

-Everything I Own.

OK, we will put them up in that order.

OK, we were looking for Boy George singles. This was your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that £5,000 jackpot.

Let's see. Everything I Own...

Let's see if it's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it - Everything I Own.

It's right.

This has to go all the way down to zero if you are going to leave with that £5,000 jackpot.

This is your first of three shots at it. Down into single figures...

5.

-APPLAUSE Hard luck.

-Well...

-That's pretty impressive - 5.

-I'm surprised by that. I thought that would have been higher.

Exactly. It's looking very good for the really obscure ones that I haven't heard of.

We're looking for Boy George singles.

-Your second answer, The War Song... You're still confident that this is a...

-That...

-This is a single?

That one's definitely a single, but it was a big single. I'm hoping people have forgotten about it.

-I certainly have.

-Well, you've forgotten about the '80s.

-Exactly.

-OK, well, The War Song. This has to be pointless for you to win that £5,000 jackpot.

Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said The War Song. Best of luck.

Well, it's right.

Your first answer, Everything I Own, went down to 5.

This is your second shot at the jackpot. Down it goes.

-Still going down...to 2.

-APPLAUSE

Well, again that's not pointless,

but we've gone from 5 to 2.

If we keep up this trajectory, we should be down to pointless in our next answer.

I am not...not confident.

It's either a big X or a big zero.

OK, we are looking for Boy George singles.

You said this was the answer you had the most faith in to be pointless.

-This is for the jackpot of £5,000.

-This is obscure.

Everything is now riding on Mistake No.3.

OK, let's see, Mistake No.3, is it right and if it is, how many people said it?

Oh, no!

-APPLAUSE

-There you go.

-Hard luck.

-Oh, bad luck.

-Never mind.

Unfortunately, you didn't find that all-important pointless answer.

I'm afraid your No.3 was a mistake.

Indeed.

You don't win today's jackpot which rolls over on to the next show, but you have been amazing contestants.

-And you do take home our Pointless trophy.

-APPLAUSE

So, Richard...?

Yeah, Mistake No.3 is just an album track from Waking Up With The House On Fire, never released as a single.

So it's tough luck. Let's look at some of the pointless answers.

There's a few Culture Club top ten hits in here.

Generations Of Love, he released as Jesus Loves You.

Then there's two Culture Club top ten hits - I Just Wanna Be Loved and It's A Miracle.

Keep Me In Mind was a solo hit,

More Than Likely he recorded with PM Dawn

and Move Away is another Culture Club top ten hit.

Sold, another solo single, The Crying Game, the theme tune to The Crying Game.

And another Culture Club song - The Medal Song. Well done if you got any of those at home.

Tough luck. Really good guesses.

-Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Lee and Jamie. Thank you so much for playing.

-Thank you.

Nobody has won our jackpot today, so it rolls over on to the next show

when we will be playing for £6,000.

APPLAUSE

-Join us then to see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me.

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