Episode 19 Pointless

Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless,

the quiz where obvious answers mean nothing and obscure ones mean everything.

Let's meet the players.

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First we welcome Jeanette and Stephen. Stephen W, I see you are.

-This tells me there are more Stephens.

-It would appear so.

Stephen W and Jeanette, welcome to the show. Where are you from?

We are from Scotland. I live in Ayrshire and Stephen's just outside Glasgow.

How do you two know each other?

I've known Stephen from the day he was born, virtually.

I'm his aunt and I met him in hospital the day after he was born.

I won't tell you how old he is.

This was one of my first babysitters so if I've got any bad habits, you know who to blame.

-What you do, Stephen?

-I'm a police dispatcher up in Glasgow.

-Jeanette, how about you?

-I'm an Anglican priest and I'm semi-retired now.

-Why are you laughing at that?

-It's funny.

-The difference in jobs is funny.

-The difference in jobs, yes.

What would you like to see come up, Jeanette?

-Something that I know all the answers to!

-OK.

I'd prefer something like geography or obviously religion.

Books, I read quite a lot.

Very good. How about you, Stephen? What would be a great subject?

I watch a lot of TV and films

and I was a DJ for 20 years so a couple of music questions

would be quite nice, depending on, keep away from the classical stuff, please.

I'll do my best, thanks very much.

Best of luck, it's great to have you here.

We welcome Patrick and John, who were on the last show.

Everyone gets two chances to reach our final. This is your last chance. Remind us how you did.

We done really well.

We only scored 36 points, I think, but we went out in the first round

with a subject I wasn't really comfortable with, which was Words.

Words. You just used loads of them just now talking to me.

Yes, words ending in OPE.

-I enjoyed that subject.

-It was a good one.

The lowest scoring first round we've had.

-I got one so I'm looking for that again.

-Very good.

What do you do, Patrick? Remind us.

I'm a welder by trade but I have done a lot of football coaching.

-Did you play yourself?

-I thought I was good.

-The football teams didn't think I was very good.

-Really?

And how about you, John?

Chef by trade but I've also been a self-employed chalkboard artist.

Travelling the country doing menu boards, doing all the artwork on them, things like that.

Oh, right, yes. Those are more indelible chalks that you see.

-Liquid chalks.

-I always wondered who did that. That's a job.

-It's me!

You have to be very good at spelling, I would have thought, for that.

-And especially words...

-Ending in OPE, I'm trying to think.

I can't think of any foodstuffs ending in OPE.

-And a very steady hand, of course.

-And a very steady hand.

-Escalope!

-Yes, I was going to say that.

Oh yeah!

Escalope, John!

-I'm never going to live that down.

-Shall we do the first round again?

-I think we should.

Best of luck to you, great to have you on. I hope we'll see you for more than the first round.

Next, we welcome Steve and Stephen S. That's the mystery solved.

There they are, Steve and Stephen S. Where are you two from?

-From Newcastle.

-And how do you know each other?

We met when we were 11 at secondary school,

playing football for the school team, having trials.

-Unfortunately, he got picked. I didn't.

-Who did you get picked for, Stephen?

It was just a school team. He set up all my goals, I just put them in and took all the glory.

What would you like to see come up, Steve?

Anything on the Simpsons I would probably be all right with.

-Have you watched every episode, do you reckon?

-More or less.

-Very good. How about you, Stephen?

-I think obviously being a football lad, anything Newcastle-related.

Football in general, sport-wise, I could have a fair punt at.

Best of luck. It's great to have you on the show.

Finally, we welcome back Julie and Simon. You were also on the show last time, remind us what happened.

We battled our way through to the head to head then it all went wrong.

What was it? The last 10 James Bond films.

There was also landlocked countries of Africa.

Oh, yes. We discovered last time that you work in the RAF

as a careers adviser.

What do you do when you're not advising on RAF Careers?

I play a bit of golf and a bit of poker

but my claim to fame is I'm an England football international.

-What?

-I knew that, you're Ashley Cole, aren't you?

I didn't want to give it away.

Wow. An England international footballer?

There's a twist, it's Subbuteo table football.

There is a twist. Hang on, that's no mean feat.

-It's even better, isn't it?

-That's even better.

We win things, that's the difference.

Steady now.

Is it just you or do you control all of them?

That's not Subbuteo. That's table football.

-You have 11 players...

-and you flick them on little wobbly things.

I remember now. Wow.

What would you like to see come up, Julie?

Food and drink, television.

Science and nature, that type of thing.

Best of luck to you. Great to have you back. We'll find out more about you later on.

There's only one person left for me to introduce.

He eats information for breakfast, knowledge for lunch and obscurity for supper.

Yum!

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

-Hiya.

-Good afternoon.

-Good afternoon to you, how are you?

Very well. An exciting set of contestants today.

First time in Pointless history that fully 37.5% of the contestants are called Steve.

That is our highest-ever Steve to non-Steve ratio in all of our shows.

We've got questions that should suit a few people.

We do have a little football question later that should please a few of you

and a nice science question for Julie as well.

It should be very close today, I think we've got four good pairs.

Very good. Thanks, Richard.

We put our questions to 100 people before the show

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

To stay in with a chance to win our jackpot,

our players need to score as few points as they can.

What everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer, an answer none of our 100 people gave.

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

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

Today's jackpot starts off at £4,500.

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Right, let's play Pointless.

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

The team with the highest score at the end of the round is eliminated.

OK, our first category this afternoon is...

Jeanette not at all happy with that.

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

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

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

Acids, Richard.

As usual when it's a scientific round, the explanation is quite complicated.

Essentially, all the correct answers in this round will be acids.

The incorrect answers will not be acids.

Jeanette and Stephen.

You all drew lots before the show and this afternoon you go first.

In this round, we'll give you a choice of seven answers, you'll be delighted to hear.

Seven in each pass. Your first set of seven answers looks like this.

I can tell you that at least one of those answers is pointless

but be careful because at least one is incorrect.

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

Jeanette.

Right, this is definitely not my subject.

-Have you done science?

-No.

At any stage have you studied science and acids?

No, I haven't.

I think I'll go for...

Lactic.

OK, you're going to go for lactic acid.

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

It's right.

Oh!

Down it goes. 10, Jeanette.

That's a great score.

Lactic acid scores you 10. Richard.

Good start, Jeanette. Present in some plants and of course in the blood and muscles of humans.

Good lactic tactic.

John, acids.

I'm going to take a gamble and go for formic.

Formic. Is that a right answer and if it is, let see how many people said it.

Formic.

Well done, John, look at that. Formic.

It is an acid and it's going down possibly a long way.

Very well done indeed, John. Fantastic score.

Fantastic score. Formic acid scores you 4.

Well played, John. Good answer. Originally found in ants, named after their Latin name.

Ants?

Where they found formic acid first, yes.

There's not room for very much in ants.

You really, really have to squeeze them.

Wow. Very good.

Now, two very low scores. Steve, no pressure.

Well, I can play it safe or go for a risky one.

There's still a pointless answer on that board, there might be two.

Who knows, there's certainly one. There is also at least one incorrect answer.

I'll go for a punt and I'll go for tartaric.

Tartaric acid. Sounds like it'd be really good on fish.

Tartaric acid. Let's see if it's right. Very best of luck.

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

It's right.

Very well done.

Down it goes. Look at that! One!

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Tartaric acid. A punt it was and a brilliant one. It scored you only one.

-Richard.

-Well done, one of the many Steves.

It's found in grapes and other fruits.

They use it in carbonated drinks and jellies, things like that.

So then, Julie. It goes 10, 4, 1. The sequence demands a pointless answer.

It certainly does, no pressure.

The safe one is acetic.

I'm tempted with hydrochloric but I'm not 100% sure.

-I'm going to go with acetic.

-You're going with acetic.

Acetic acid. Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said acetic. Good luck.

Please.

It's right, phew!

Julie, acetic, acid, down it goes. Thirties, twenties...

Not too bad.

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Not too bad. Acetic acid is right, scores you 26. Richard.

A surprisingly low score.

A dilute solution of acetic acid is of course vinegar, what it's most familiar as.

Hydrochloric is obviously an acid. A fairly big scorer as well, it would have scored 49.

Of the other two, one is pointless, one is incorrect.

Very well done at home if you said lysergic.

That is the L in LSD, lysergic acid.

Acephalic is Greek for headless.

So if you said that, you will be wandering around like an acephalic chicken, I suspect.

Acephalic.

Very good. OK, let's take a look at the scores.

We're halfway through the round. Steve and Steve. Look at that.

One point, fantastic. Great answer with tartaric.

Then we go up to 4 points with John and Patrick, doing very well.

Then up to 10 points for Jeanette and Stephen.

Then Julie and Simon, you are significantly ahead of the field.

Simon, you have to find a really obscure acid in the next pass

to make sure you make it through to next round.

We are going to come back down the line. Will the second place players take their place at the podium.

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

Remember, we're looking for acids and here is your second list.

I'll read those one more time.

Again, I can tell you at least one of those answers is pointless

and at least one is incorrect.

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

Simon.

Interesting board.

Yes, your duty here, Simon, is to pick out a very, very low scoring,

maybe even a pointless answer.

The one that I'm reasonably safe with and I think might be low as the last one there, ascorbic.

-OK.

-That's what I'm going for.

You're going for ascorbic. There it is at the bottom, ascorbic acid.

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

You are the high scorers.

There's no red line, you just have to hope it goes down as far as it can. Ascorbic acid.

It's right.

Look at that, 5. Very well done.

That takes your total up to 31.

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I think, is ascorbic acid in, in bee stings?

And, er, no, it's not, is it?

Forget I said that. Forget, forget I said that.

Ascorbic acid is vitamin C.

That's right.

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He's good, he is good.

Stephen S.

Stephen S.

Remember, we're looking for types of acid. 31 is a high score, that's Simon and Julie behind you.

You are on one which means that if you can score 29 or less,

you are through to the next round.

There's a pointless acid on that board that will add £250 to the jackpot.

Think what that will feel like.

It goes all the way down to there with a green Pointless up there.

The cheers of the entire studio ringing in your ears.

-There's also a wrong answer on the board.

-Yeah, that's true.

But a Pointless, Stephen!

IMPERSONATES POINTLESS ANSWER ON BOARD

You could slide down here on your knees like this.

Going to go for salicylic.

Well done, Stephen. Salicylic.

Please be correct. There is your red line.

If you're below that red line, you will be swept through in glory to the next round.

Salicylic, is it a right answer and if it is, how many people said it?

Yes! Look at that! It's right!

And you're through to the next round!

Oh!

It's not quite pointless.

One person.

One person said salicylic.

That's a brilliant answer, Steve.

It scores you 1 and takes your total up to a total of 2. Richard.

Very well played, Stephen, and a brave decision.

It's used in the production of aspirin and other pharmaceuticals.

OK, so Patrick, we come to you.

The high scorers remain Simon and Julie on 31. You are on 4.

Should you score 26 or less with this answer,

you're through to the next round.

We are looking for acids.

There's still a Pointless on that board. There's a pointless acid there.

I think I'm going to go for carbonic.

There it is, top of the board. Things are getting a little bit tense now for Simon and Julie.

Is carbonic right? If it is, how many people said carbonic?

It's right.

You're through to the next round, well done.

6 for carbonic takes your total up to 10. Richard.

Well done, Patrick. Carbonic acid is the hydrated form of carbon dioxide.

Now then, Stephen, Jeanette.

You're on 10. The high scorers on 31 are Simon and Julie.

This is a nail-biting end to our first round. You have to score 20 or less with this answer.

You haven't got many answers left on the board.

Sulphuric and citric are two very well-known acids,

but I don't think they'll score low enough

to get us through to the next round.

I remember a phrase from history

about a Teutonic period in history

so that would leave me with oxalic.

I am with you all the way. There is your red line.

Below that red line, through to the next round. Oxalic, is it right?

How many people said it? Oxalic acid.

It's right, Stephen. Very, very well done.

-Come on.

-This can only mean one thing.

Through the red line and it's a pointless answer!

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Very well done. That adds £250 to today's jackpot and takes the total up to £4,750.

It scores you nothing and leaves your total at 10. Very well done. Richard.

Well played, Stephen. Perfect way to play the game.

Not only do they find it in rhubarb leaves

- how are you doing that?

-That's harder than finding it in an ant!

-Exactly.

Secondly, it's mainly used for removing scale from car radiators.

How are they working that out?

Let's take a look at the rest of the board and Stephen, your judgment is exactly right.

Sulphuric would have scored you too many points. It would have been 59.

Citric would also have scored you too many points.

Teutonic is actually a word for German, but it's applied to all sorts of things.

Not an acid at all so an incorrect answer, very well played.

Thank you very much, Richard.

But that can only mean that the losing pair with the highest score

at the end of this round is Julie and Simon.

-There you go.

-Ah! As it happens, there you go.

This wasn't meant to be at all.

You were coming back to rise again in triumph.

I think we should have took our chance last time when we had the opportunity.

Someone has to be the high-scoring team and sorry, it's you.

It's a real shame to be saying goodbye to you but thank you so much for playing.

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

There's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head

so one team is leaving us at the end of this round.

Our category for Round Two this afternoon is

Oh, Jeanette, I'm sorry, you've had acid, you've had football.

Listen, you survived acid.

True, I don't know if I'll survive football.

Let's find out. Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

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

Our question for Round Two concerns

It just get better and better, doesn't it? Football managers and their teams.

Six football managers on each pass.

We asked 100 people which English Premiership team did they manage as of April 2011.

The more obscure ones will score you fewer points.

An incorrect answer scores you 100 points.

There's 12 managers and 12 teams to guess.

A couple of them are Scottish if that helps.

The people, not the teams.

If we're looking for the teams, Premier League football clubs,

that were managed by these people and we have got

OK, there are the six managers.

We are looking for, the Premier League teams that they manage.

Now, Jeanette.

I'll take a guess,

and it is a guess.

I think Arsene Wenger,

I don't know why, but I've got Chelsea in my head.

I have no idea. It's a guess, Chelsea.

Arsene Wenger, you're saying Chelsea. Let's see if that's right. Good luck, Jeanette.

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

-Aw!

-Bad luck but well-tried, Jeanette.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

-I'm sorry.

-It wasn't my category at all.

It wasn't a bad guess, Richard.

Unlucky, I won't give you the correct answer until the end of the round, in case another team wants a go.

Thank you very much.

-Now then, John, we come to you.

-Yes.

I know them all actually,

but I'm going to stick with Ian Holloway and Blackpool.

Ian Holloway, Blackpool.

Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many of our 100 people knew that answer.

Well done, that's right.

Down it goes. 18.

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Very respectable score there, John.

18 for Ian Holloway and Blackpool.

Well done, John. Good category for you obviously.

The ever-controversial manager of Blackpool.

So then, Stephen.

We're looking for the Premiership football teams that were managed by these men.

We have Tony Pulis of Stoke, Arsene Wenger of Arsenal,

Harry Redknapp at Tottenham, David Moyes of Everton and Mark Hughes at Fulham.

So I'm much more pleased with this than the previous round.

I am going to go for Tony Pulis and Stoke.

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

It's right.

Very well done indeed, Stephen.

7 points for Tony Pulis and Stoke City.

Well-played, Stephen. As you said, an easier round than acids,

although you can also use Tony Pulis to descale your car radiator.

Let's take a look at the rest of the board. It's not the best answer on the board.

Arsene Wenger, Jeanette, as you heard, he's at Arsenal.

Would have scored you 69 points, a very big score.

The lowest answer of all, Mark Hughes at Fulham.

That's as of the start of April 2011.

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

Stephen and Steve, 7 points. Looking very, very strong.

John and Patrick likewise at this stage,

because Jeanette and Stephen W, I'm afraid you are way ahead on 100.

Stephen, you're going to have to find a really obscure and low answer

and hope someone else trips up in the next pass.

We are going to come back down the line, can the second players please take their places at the podium.

We're going to put six more football managers on the board

and we have got

Remember, we're looking for the clubs that these men managed

and you're trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Steve, the low scorers on 7. The high scorers are Stephen and Jeanette on 100.

If you can score 92 or less, you're in the head-to-head.

Again, it's a good subject.

I'm a little bit disappointed you put Steve Bruce ahead of Alan Pardew though.

I'll go with Alan Pardew, Newcastle.

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

There's your red line, nice and high. Alan Pardew, Newcastle.

It's right, you're through to the next round.

Down it goes, look at that. Very well done.

5 for Alan Pardew takes your total up to 12. Richard.

That fell into your lap. Newcastle manager, took over from Chris Hughton.

Very controversial at the time but seemed to work out alright? You happy enough?

Happy with him. Doing the job at the minute so I can't complain.

Very good. Thanks, Richard. Patrick, you're on 18.

The high scorers are Stephen and Jeanette on 100 still.

If you can score 81 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

My club's up there and unlike Steve,

complaining about Alan Pardew,

I think you've got the right man at the top there. Roy Hodgson, West Bromwich Albion.

West Bromwich Albion, Roy Hodgson, you're saying. Here's your red line.

Oh dear, Stephen W.

If it comes down past the red line, there's going to be a little ping

and on that ping, I'm afraid we will be saying goodbye to you.

Let's see if it's right

and if it is, how many people said West Bromwich Albion.

It is right. Oh dear, I'm sorry, Stephen.

Very well done. Takes your total up to 23, 5 for Roy Hodgson.

I have to say, Stephen and Jeanette,

I don't think we've ever seen a team be so unlucky in the question coming up.

We've got a Newcastle fan and a West Brom fan in a row.

Roy Hodgson was Fulham manager then Liverpool manager,

they treated him very shabbily, and now West Brom manager.

Thank you very much, Richard. Stephen W, we come to you.

I know the ones that are left. Thanks, guys, for leaving me them.

Fergie is Man United. Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea.

Roberto Mancini, Man City.

Steve Bruce would have been my answer of what's left

and he's the manager of Wigan.

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

Steve Bruce, Wigan.

Don't feel so bad.

If you're going to leave,

best to leave with a towering score like that.

Unfortunately, that is an incorrect answer which scores you the maximum of 100 points

and takes your total to 200. Richard will tell us why that's wrong.

He did used to be the manager of Wigan a while back. He is the manager of Sunderland now.

Sunderland would have scored you 12 points.

Just for Steve and Stephen to explain why Steve Bruce scored 12

and Alan Pardew scored 5,

the technical reason is Sunderland are just more than twice as good as Newcastle.

It's what I've got written down in black-and-white here.

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

Stephen, you've taken us through them all expertly.

And that's correct as of time of recording.

Thanks, Richard.

The high-scoring team at the end of our second round is Jeanette and Stephen.

It is very unlucky, I'm afraid.

But that's why we have people back twice,

you can have bad luck and then come back and it's OK next time.

Absolutely, you can then storm through to the final

which is nothing less than what I'm expecting from you.

Meanwhile, thank you very much for playing. It's been lovely having you on the show.

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

Steve and Stephen, Patrick and John, you're through to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it through to today's final and play for the jackpot which stands at £4,750.

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OK, 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 but you are now allowed to confer.

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

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

Here is your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

A very familiar history list but with a twist.

Essentially, any of the wives of Henry VIII who died before he did in 1547, please.

Okay, there you go.

Steve and Stephen, because you played best throughout the show so far, you get to go first.

We're looking for wives of Henry VIII who died before he did.

WHISPERING

OK, the Steves I think have reached consensus.

We have a few names but we are unsure as to who died before him,

outlived him, so we are going to go for Anne of Cleves.

Anne of Cleves, Steve and Stephen are saying Anne of Cleves.

Patrick and John.

-Go for that one. I'm happy.

-We'll go for Catherine of Aragon.

Very good, we have Anne of Cleves and Catherine of Aragon.

Steve and Stephen went for Anne of Cleves.

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

Bad luck, Steve and Stephen.

Incorrect answer. Patrick and John, you've gone for Catherine of Aragon.

It merely has to be correct and you will win this question. Catherine of Aragon.

How many people said it, is it right?

It's right. That's all it needed to be.

Stopped at 48.

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After the first question, Patrick and John are up one-nil. Richard.

Yes, a very good question, that. It can be tricky.

See if you got this, four of them died before him.

Obviously the two that were beheaded did, but there's a couple more as well.

Only Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr died after him.

Anne of Cleves died 10 years after him.

Thanks, Richard. Here is your second question. Steve and Stephen,

you have to win this question to stay in the game. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

Coen Brothers films, Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for any feature film for which Joel and/or Ethan Coen received a director's credit.

We won't accept anything where they just directed part of a film

but any of the films of either or both of the Coen Brothers, please.

That's up to the start of April 2011.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

We are looking for Coen Brothers films, Patrick and John, you go first.

-I know quite a few films.

-I know none.

-I know you know none.

I'm just going to have to guess with one I think may be obscure.

-I've got an answer.

-OK, John, let's have it.

I will go with Fargo.

Fargo. OK.

Steve and Stephen, you can now confirm out loud.

I've got no idea. It's entirely up to you.

-Aye, go for that.

-We'll go for Troy.

OK, you're going to say Troy. So we have Fargo, we have Troy.

Steve and Stephen, you have to win this point.

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

Well done, it's right.

Keep going, keep going.

18 for Fargo, very well done.

Steve and Stephen, you have gone for Troy. This has to be right and it has to go down lower than 18.

Let's see, Troy, is it right and how many people said it?

Bad luck, Steve and Stephen. Bad luck indeed.

I'm afraid that means Patrick and John win that point

and after two questions are straight through to the final, two-nil. Richard.

Troy was Wolfgang Peterson but let's take a look at the Coen Brothers films, see what you recognise.

Their remake of The Ladykillers.

Intolerable Cruelty, that's George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Their wonderful remake of True Grit with Jeff Bridges would have scored 8.

Burn After Reading, again with George Clooney.

The Big Lebowski, set in the world of 10 pin bowling.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Another Clooney film.

Their Oscar-winner, No Country for Old Men.

Thank you very much, Richard.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm afraid, is Steve and Stephen.

-Did you know any of those other Coen Brothers films?

-True Grit.

And No Country For Old Men. Should have got that.

Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, fantastic films.

Steve and Stephen, I'm afraid today was not your chance to reach the final

but maybe next time you will storm it all the way through.

We look forward to that very much. Thank you for playing.

For Patrick and John it's now time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £4,750.

Congratulations.

You've seen off the competition and won our Pointless trophy. Well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £4,750.

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The rules are simple. To win the money, you have to find a pointless answer -

an answer none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had one pointless answer today.

You only have to find one now and you will go home with that money.

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

-We know, don't we?

-Cartoons.

-Yes, definitely got to be cartoons.

Is that a process of elimination?

We've eliminated the other two.

OK. Let's find out what that question is. Very best of luck, guys.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Wacky Races characters as they could. Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for the names of any of the human competitors

in the animated TV series, Wacky Races.

When characters competed as a team,

we're looking for the team name, not the names of any individuals.

Any of the human characters in Wacky Races.

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

and all you need to win that £4,750 is for just one

of those answers to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

Penelope Pitstop,

Dick Dastardly, Muttley,

Peter Perfect.

Peter Perfect's human, I know that for a fact.

-Muttley ain't.

-Well, yeah. Let me think. Let me think.

There was the Munsters thing with the bats round it. The Ant Hill Mob.

Any more? Quick, quick, quick.

Peter Perfect's a good one.

-Ant Hill Mob and Penelope Pitstop but that'll not be...

-That can be the first one.

Captain Caveman.

-That's it.

-Do you want any longer?

-I think...

-I'll confuse myself if I go any longer.

-Stop the clock there.

We were looking for the human characters in Wacky Races.

-I now need three answers from you.

-Captain Caveman,

-Peter Perfect, Ant Hill Mob.

-Ant Hill Mob, very good.

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

-Captain Caveman.

-We'll put him last.

Which is your least likely?

Probably Peter Perfect.

So Peter Perfect, Ant Hill Mob, Captain Caveman.

Let's put them up on the board in that order and here they are.

There they are. OK, we were looking for human characters from Wacky Races.

You said this was the least likely answer to be pointless.

You only have to find one Pointless to win that £4,750 jackpot

so let's see how many people said Peter Perfect.

Well done, it's right.

That's the first thing it had to be, the second thing it has to be is pointless.

This has to go all the way down to zero.

If it does, you leave here with £4,750.

Down it goes. Oh! Look at that!

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Wow.

-It quite literally doesn't get closer than that.

-No.

Unfortunately, it's not a pointless answer.

We're looking for human characters from Wacky Races.

You have two more chances to win £4,750.

What would you do with £4,750?

Well, I would....

Obviously, we'd split it.

-I would take my daughter on a Disney cruise.

-Best of luck.

-And then I'd blow the rest.

-How about you, Patrick?

I'll get my car fixed. My windows have packed up,

I've got two pieces of wood holding them in.

-So, hopefully.

-I hope one of these two answers is pointless.

OK, your next answer - the Ant Hill Mob.

You scored 1 with your first answer.

That was the one you had the least faith in.

It's got to be looking good for the Ant Hill Mob.

Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said the Ant Hill Mob.

It's right. Again, that's the first thing it had to be.

The second thing it has to be is pointless, down it goes.

Into the 20s, the teens. If this goes down to zero, you can...

Oh no!

APPLAUSE

So, seven people knew about The Ant Hill Mob.

You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot.

Everything is now riding on Captain Caveman.

Let's have it.

Let's have it. Captain Caveman.

Please, can he be pointless? Please.

We're looking for human characters from Wacky Races.

You said this was the answer you were most confident in.

Yes, I think he was in Wacky Races.

-OK. It

-has

-to be pointless.

-Has

-to be pointless for you to win that jackpot. £4,750.

Is it right? Captain Caveman? And if it is, how many people said it?

Very best of luck. Captain Caveman.

Oh no!

Oh no!

Sorry, mate.

Unfortunately, that is a wrong answer. And I'm afraid

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

So I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £4,750,

which rolls over on to the next show.

But you have been just brilliant contestants,

and you do of course get to take home our Pointless trophy.

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Yeah, a very, very simple mistake to make.

There were two cavemen in Wacky Races. The Slag Brothers...

...were cavemen. Which is also the name of our nightclub act!

So yes, that's tough.

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

There will be some you recognise, I suspect.

There's Lazy Luke, there's Private Meekley

and Private Pinkley, who were in The Army Surplus Wagon.

Professor Pat Pending was a pointless answer.

Rufus Ruffcut, Sergeant Blast.

The General and The Red Max, who was in The Crimson Haybaler.

Very well done if you got any of those pointless answers at home.

-Did you recognise any of those?

-No.

Phew! Oh, dear! Well, unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you.

But it's been brilliant having you on the show.

Thank you both so much for playing. Brilliant contestants, you've done very well.

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So nobody's won our jackpot today.

Which means it rolls over on to the next show,

when we will be playing for £5,750.

Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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