Episode 2 Pointless

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

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

the quiz where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners.

-Let's meet today's players.

-APPLAUSE

Welcome, Rik and Shirley, you're our first pair on today's show.

-Where are you from?

-From Scotland at the moment.

-You've lived all over?

-Particularly Rik.

-Where have you lived, Rik?

-GEORDIE ACCENT:

-In South Africa for 21 years.

-That's not a South African accent, nor a Scottish accent.

-Well, Geordie, originally.

-How did you and Shirley meet?

-We met on the net two and a half years ago.

-On the net?

-Yes, not the internet. Not on one of those dodgy chatlines.

-On the tennis court net.

-That's really disappointing.

We've played tennis together in the same club for two and a half years now.

-What do you do, Shirley?

-I'm an optical assistant in one of the major retailers.

-Rik, how about you?

-I'm semi-retired now.

Because I've been hairdressing for 36 years now.

I'm 51...

-51! Come on! Are these South African years?

-No.

-51 years. Yes!

-Really?

-Yes. Definitely.

The good living over there was good for me.

-Only 27 years older than you!

-I know! It's absurd.

Wow. Amazing. Come back on the show when you're 100.

-OK. That's a deal.

-Well, welcome.

-Great to have you here.

-Thanks for having us.

-Great pleasure.

We then welcome Stuart and Jono. How do you two know each other?

When I was about 15, 16, I joined the sixth form.

I was in a caff, having a nice little breakfast, and I met Stu.

I was in a band, an indie rock band, and we were looking for a guitarist.

Heard Stu was playing guitar, so got him along to rehearsal.

-And he fitted right in?

-Yeah.

-How many people in the band?

-Four.

-Indie four-piece.

-What are you called?

-The Great Gatsby.

-The Great Gatsby?

-Like the book, we know.

-Like the book!

It's going really well and he's now playing drums.

On a song like Charlie, for example, you're drumming on that?

There's no guitar on that? That fantastic rhythm guitar on there, that's...

-That'll be Jono.

-He does a little bit of singing in there.

You're meant to be impressed that I know their back catalogue.

-They assume everyone...

-Yeah. Charlie?

-We looked at each other!

-Whistle your favourite of their numbers.

-Oh!

-LAUGHTER

-What do you want?

-Yet Return? That one?

-Yeah. Give it a go.

Well... Who can forget that captivating opening riff?

HUMS RIFF

-That's you, isn't it?

-Uncanny. CONTINUES HUMMING

Stuart!

Listen, very, very best of luck on the show.

Next, welcome back Tom and Hazel. Everyone gets two chances to reach our final.

-Remind us how you did.

-We got to the head-to-head.

We were quietly confident, because we scored eight points.

-But unfortunately, we were beaten.

-You did very well.

-We did.

-Minnesota.

-Yes.

Were you thinking, "Next time, I would really love...to come up"?

-Questions that I know the answer to.

-That's OK.

-Brilliant.

-I'm afraid I've got none of those today, Hazel. Sorry.

Tom's sporting a few new tattoos today.

Presidents of the United States and countries beginning with W.

That was the problem last time round.

Very good. Well, it's great having you on the show and we look forward to hearing more from you later.

Finally, we have got Scott and Marcus. How do you know each other?

Well, my girlfriend's friends with Scott's wife.

Scott sings. He was in a club when we all went together and I got to know him.

-Very good. What do you sing, Scott?

-A lot of old Motown stuff.

-Any indie stuff?

-Unfortunately not. It's not my genre.

-Scott, what categories would be brilliant for you?

-Film.

Film and music.

How about you, Marcus?

-Definitely film. I've watched the same film 200 times.

-Which one?

-The Silence Of The Lambs.

-OK.

-So I'm hoping something about Silence Of The Lambs comes up.

-What particularly about The Silence Of The Lambs?

-I don't know.

I'm always doing impressions to me mum when the lights are off. She gets quite scared.

"Surprise!" What's your favourite line from it?

A census taker once tried to test me.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti!

APPLAUSE

-That is a VERY good Jodie Foster impression.

-We'll be finding out more throughout the show.

There's one person left to introduce.

When most people's knowledge-well runs dry, he has plenty to drink.

-You always have plenty to drink. He's my Pointless friend. He's Richard.

-Hiya.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Hello, there.

-Well, hello. How are you?

-Very well. How are you?

-I couldn't be better.

-We've only got one returning pair, Tom and Hazel.

They were very strong last time.

-It was a tough head-to-head.

-Very tough.

-I suspect they may be very hard to beat, everyone.

No film questions, I'm afraid.

There's a music question, depending on your definition of music!

Now, we put all our questions to 100 people, but this is Pointless.

We are after the obscure answers they didn't get. Our players need to score as few points as they can.

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

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

Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000. Today's jackpot starts at £2,250.

Right, let's play Pointless.

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

Whichever team has the highest score will be eliminated.

Our first category this afternoon is...

Jono looking really pleased with that(!)

Can you all decide who's going first, who's going second?

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

Let's find out the question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many birds of prey as they could.

-Richard.

-All the correct answers are birds that are classified as birds of prey.

The incorrect answers on the boards will not be birds at all.

-The more obscure ones will score fewer points.

-Richard gave you good news there.

Rik and Shirley, you all drew lots and you get to go first.

In this round, we're giving you seven possible answers on each pass.

Your first set of seven answers reads like this...

..I'll read those one more time...

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

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

Now, Shirley, you're the first to dip into this round.

I will go for...

Goshawk.

A goshawk. You're quite confident?

OK, Goshawk is what you're saying. Let's see if it's right and, if it is, how many people said it.

It's right!

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Brilliant. Didn't she do well there?

Goshawk scores you three. Richard.

Well done, Shirley. There's about 400 breeding pairs in the UK.

-They've got bright red eyes and a big white eyebrow.

-Very good.

Now, Jono. You love this subject, don't you(?)

-Love it(!)

-An ornithologist, man and boy.

-Love it.

I do have birds come into the garden but squirrels take their food.

-So, Jono...

-There's one there that I obviously know.

There's one I think I've heard of but I'm not 100% sure.

I'm going for it anyway.

-That's towie.

-Towie.

-Yeah. I think that could be.

-Could be?

-Could be.

Could be a brilliant answer. Is it right? How many people said it?

Towie.

-AUDIENCE GROANS

-Oooh!

-You did the right thing.

-I don't like birds!

I'm afraid towie is an incorrect answer.

Which means you score the maximum of 100 points. Richard.

Towie is an acronym for the TV show The Only Way Is Essex.

LAUGHTER

-That's embarrassing.

-If you had birds like that in your garden,

-you'd want the squirrels to squirrel them away.

-TOWIE!

-The Only Way Is Essex.

-Bad luck, Jono. 100 points!

-Stu will save me.

-I know he will.

-LAUGHTER

I'm sure he will.

-Tom, we come to you.

-Yeah.

-A man who knows his birds.

-Mm, no.

I'm quite happy. I was going to say towie.

It's a bit safer now, so I'm going to say buzzard.

A bit safer. Buzzard.

You're removing the safety net of buzzard from the table.

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

Not bad. Richard.

It's the most common bird of prey in the UK, buzzard.

-Marcus, you're the last person to have this bird table!

-Oh! Very good!

APPLAUSE

-The best till last!

-Got to halfway through.

Not bad for a work experience boy.

You're the last person to have this...suite of birds.

Why not talk us through the board?

Merlin's a wizard, I think, so I'm not sure about that one.

Bald eagle's obviously one.

-So do I play safe?

-There is at least one pointless answer.

I'll go for dornier.

-You're going for dornier.

-Yes, please.

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

AUDIENCE GROANS

Ooh! Bad luck!

Unfortunately, dornier is incorrect. You score the maximum of 100 points.

It was a plane used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.

The Dornier, often known as the Fliegender Bleistift or the, as you know...?

-Pencil! Flying pencil!

-Very good! How do you know that?

-From just working it out.

-How do you know the German for pencil?

-Did you not study German at pencil level?

-LAUGHTER

When you did pencils at school, did you not learn it in all languages?

-You probably know the Latin for pencil.

-I don't, actually.

Me, neither. Let's take a look at the rest of the board.

Bald eagle, 12 points. It's the national symbol of America.

Merlin is a bird of prey. Would have scored you four points.

Well done if you got that at home. Bateleur is the pointless answer.

Congratulations if you got that one.

We're halfway through the round so let's look at those scores.

Shirley and Rik, wow!

In this very high-scoring round you are sitting fantastically pretty.

Then Tom and Hazel. Sometimes that's a high score.

In this round, that's a safe and low score because Jono and Stuart

and Marcus and Scott are on 100.

Stuart and Scott, you have a tussle

to see who'll be staying and who'll be leaving.

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

We're going to put seven more answers on the board. We've got...

..There we are. At least one of those answers is pointless.

At least one of those is incorrect. Try and avoid those.

Scott, 100 points you got from Marcus.

I don't know if it's an easy option, but I'm going to go for red kite.

You are the joint high-scorers with Stuart and Jono, so there's no red line.

Just hope it gets you as low as it can. Let's see if it's right and how many people said red kite.

It's correct!

Very good indeed.

That might be what you needed.

Red kite scores you seven. Takes your total to 107. Richard.

That puts the pressure back on Stuart and Jono.

Red kites famously saved from extinction in the UK and now thriving.

Hazel, you are on 33.

If you want to avoid becoming the high-scorers, you have to score 73 or less.

It'll be enough to get you through to the next round.

-How are you on your birds of prey?

-I thought not too bad, but...

-Then you saw the board.

-The first board was better for me.

I'm going to play it safe and I'm going to say sparrowhawk.

-Sparrowhawk?

-Yeah.

I think you can afford to. There's your red line.

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

Well done. You're through.

Takes your total up to 56.

-Richard.

-Well played. Mother and son safely through to round two.

There's over 40,000 breeding pairs of sparrowhawks in the UK.

-It's very common.

-Stuart.

Now, then. Scott and Marcus managed to claw a total of 107.

You have to score six or less.

Right, I think there's one

that I kind of think might be.

I don't think it's going to get six or under, so I'll have to risk it.

Risk looking like the worst partnership in the history of Pointless, but here we go!

I'm going to go for spinney?

Spinney.

-Yeah.

-Do you want to make a noise like what a spinney might make?

-I don't think I will.

-Fair enough. That's probably the right option.

Spinney, there it is, third one down.

Very best of luck. Here's your red line.

Yes. Quite low!

Below that, you're through to the next round.

Ooh! Bad luck!

That's a wrong answer and you score 100 points,

taking your total up to an impressive 200. Richard, spinney.

If you're gonna lose, lose big!

Carol Spinney is the actor who plays Big Bird in Sesame Street.

LAUGHTER

That is an unbeatable score, which means, Rik and Shirley,

you were already through after Scott and Marcus's score of 107.

You have a free hand, Rik.

-Why not see if you can eke out a pointless answer?

-Exactly.

-Talk us through the board.

-An owl's an owl, which is easy.

Something from South Africa is a strelitzia, which is a flower.

I know that's definitely not a bird. A secretary bird is a bird.

I'm going to go for lammergeier.

There it is, three from the bottom.

Let's hope that is the pointless answer.

Lammergeier. Is it right? How many people said it?

It's right. Well done, Rik.

There we are!

Superb! That's a pointless answer! It adds £250 to today's jackpot.

Taking the total up to...

-CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

-..It also scores you nothing,

leaving your total at an impressively low three.

-Richard.

-Very well played, Rik. He's 51, you know!

-Get out of town!

-Well done if you got lammergeier at home.

Rik has taken us through most of the board,

but the strelitzia, as you say, the bird of paradise, is a plant.

Owl we know, a hefty 60 points.

The secretary bird is a bird of prey and was another pointless answer.

Very well done if you said secretary bird at home.

It's got the longest legs of any bird of prey, but good shorthand.

At the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score,

-Stuart and Jono!

-We've had fun! IN AUDIENCE: Ah!

You get an "ah"! Not every pair gets that.

The great news is, we see you again next time.

-Please make sure you're through to the final, at the very least.

-We will.

-Thanks very much for playing.

-APPLAUSE

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

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

One team's leaving us at the end of this round.

Our category for round two is...

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

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

Our round two question this afternoon concerns...

..We're going to show you two lists of six literary villains.

We asked 100 people, "In which work did these villains first appear?"

It can be the first novel they were in, play or the name of a series.

The more obscure answer, the fewer points.

An incorrect answer will score 100 points.

See how many you can get at home.

We are looking for literary villains and the works in which they appeared.

And here is our first list. We've got...

..I'll read those once more...

..There is our list. As always, you are trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Shirley, what are you thinking?

I'm going to go for one that I'm reasonably confident with.

Rik is more the risk-taker.

I'm going for Mrs Danvers, who was in Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca.

Mrs Danvers, Rebecca. Let's see if it's right.

And, if it is, how many people knew Mrs Danvers, Rebecca.

Well done. It's right.

Very good indeed.

Ten points.

-Ten points for Rebecca.

-Very well played.

Published in 1938.

-Now, Tom.

-I have no idea on any of these.

Something in the back of my head, a complete guess.

I have a feeling Miss Trunchbull was the teacher in Matilda.

Miss Trunchbull, Matilda.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people knew it. That could be a brilliant answer.

Yes! Very well done!

That's a whole lot better than 100! Miss Trunchbull, Matilda.

Surprisingly well played, Tom. Quite a big score.

She's the cruel headmistress in Matilda.

Good answer, anyway, Tom. Scott, we come to you.

We're looking for the literary works in which these villains appeared.

You are the last person to have this board, so talk us through it then pick a favourite.

I haven't got a scoobie about any of them.

There's only one that sticks out and it was because...

I've never read the story, but I was in the play at school - Oliver Twist, Bill Sikes.

Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is,

let's see how many people knew that answer.

Not a bad score at all. Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist.

Surely one of the greatest villains in British literature?

Just 31 points? It's amazing. Let's look at the rest of the board...

..George Wickham?

-Pride And Prejudice.

-It is.

Terrible scoundrel.

Best answer on the board is Milady de Winter. Any idea?

It's a tough round this.

-Three Musketeers.

-Right answer.

-Very well done if you got that one.

-Thank you so much, Richard.

We are halfway through the round.

Again, Shirley and Rik looking very strong at this halfway point.

Then Scott and Marcus on 31.

Hazel, you've got a bit of a job to do,

but I have absolute faith in you doing it.

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

We're going to put more villains on the board and here they are...

..I'll read those one more time...

..We are looking for the works in which they first appear.

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

Right, I'm not going to have a guess so I'm going to play safe and go for Treasure Island, Long John Silver.

Long John Silver, Treasure Island.

You want to score 21 or less to be sure of a place in the head-to-head.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said Treasure Island.

Will it be enough, I wonder?

-Richard.

-Yes. It's a pretty big score, isn't it?

Published in 1881 in serial form, then as a book in 1883.

We're looking for the literary works in which these villains appear.

Hazel, Marcus and Scott are now the high-scorers.

If you can score 32 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

I think you're going to do it.

There's only one that I'm positive about.

There's one that I'm not certain about and the rest I've no idea.

I'm going to take a chance. Uriah Heep, David Copperfield.

Uriah Heep, David Copperfield. Here's your red line.

Below that, through to the head-to-head.

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

It's right!

Very well done... You're through to the head-to-head!

What a good answer! Brilliant!

I knew you had it in you, Hazel.

Takes your total to 56.

Well played, Hazel, from David Copperfield.

-The very 'umble scheming clerk.

-Now, Rik.

The high-scorers remain Marcus and Scott.

If you can score 75 or less with this answer, you are through to the next round.

I think you might be able to score considerably less.

I'm not so sure. I'm going to stay very safe.

-Shere Khan from The Jungle Book.

-Shere Khan, The Jungle Book.

Here is your red line. It's nice and high.

Shere Khan ought to get you below that and should see you through to the head-to-head.

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

Well done! You're through!

Shere Khan takes your total to 59.

-Richard.

-Well done, Rik. Shere Khan the tiger in The Jungle Book.

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

-Do you know Mrs Coulter?

-It's from the Philip Pullman...

His Dark Materials trilogy. That would have scored 14 points.

-Iago is...

-Othello.

-That would have scored you only ten points!

And very well done if you said Mr Kurtz. Do you know Mr Kurtz?

-I don't know.

-There's Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness.

Heart Of Darkness scored one point.

Very well done if you got that at home.

At the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score -

Scott and Marcus, I'm sorry to say.

-Scott, are you going to forgive him for Long John Silver?

-Yeah.

Literature's not a strong point for either of us.

We will see you again, when I hope you'll go further than the second round. Thanks very much for playing.

APPLAUSE

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

Very well done, Rik, Shirley, Tom, Hazel, you've made it to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it to the final and play for today's jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

You now go head-to-head on the best of three questions.

Each pair gives me just one answer and you are allowed to confer.

Find an answer that scores less than the other pair to win that question.

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

Let's play Pointless.

OK, here is your first question.

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

..as they could.

Any single released by Take That or which has them as a featured artist,

which has reached the UK Top 40 prior to April 2011, which has one word as a title.

There are six names on the list.

Six names. Rik and Shirley, you played best throughout the show so far, so you get to go first.

-Have you come up with an answer?

-Rik has!

-But I'm not sure!

It's such a hard category so we're just going to stake a stab and say Patience.

Patience. OK.

Tom and Hazel.

As you can see, I'm a massive Take That fan(!)

-You are.

-Me too(!)

-We honestly don't know any. Um...

-LAUGHS

-Just say a word.

-Baby.

-Baby.

No idea.

-Rock on!

-LAUGHTER

Patience and Baby.

Rik and Shirley went for Patience.

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

It's right!

14 for Patience.

-CHUCKLING:

-Tom and Hazel have gone for Baby!

-Baby!

-Right, well, let's see if Baby's right.

-Wouldn't that be brilliant if it were?

-It's not going to be.

Might be. Did they release a single called Baby?

Did it make it to the Top 40? Will it beat Patience on 14?

There's a surprise(!)

Gary, if you're watching, Baby could...

..be a brilliant seller, Baby. Bad luck. Not a Take That single.

So, after one question,

Rik and Shirley are ahead one-nil.

We always say, sooner or later, somebody will make up a right answer and you very nearly did.

Cos Babe is a one-word Take That hit single.

-Wouldn't have won you the points, though.

-That's all right, then.

There's one very good answer, Promises, their first Top 40 single.

Would have scored one point. Very well done if anyone got that.

Sure with four. Shine got 11, surprisingly low.

There's Patience on 14, Babe on 17 and Pray, top of the pile on 18.

Thanks so much, Richard. Here is your second question.

Tom and Hazel, you have to win this point to stay in the game.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Australian state capitals as they could.

Any of the capitals of the six Australian states,

the six original colonies, not any of the territories -

the Northern Territory or Australian Capital Territory - just the six Australian states.

Thank you, Richard. Tom and Hazel, you go first.

-Do you know any?

-WHISPERS: Canberra.

Mm-hm. Yeah. Go on.

-We're not entirely sure but we're gonna say Canberra.

-Canberra.

Tom and Hazel are saying Canberra.

-Adelaide?

-Yes.

-Yeah. OK. We're going to say Adelaide.

-Adelaide?

-Yeah.

We have Canberra. We have Adelaide. Tom and Hazel went with Canberra.

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

You have to win this point to stay in the game.

-Oooh!

-Oh, well.

-Bad luck.

An incorrect answer. Rik and Shirley have gone with Adelaide.

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

It's right.

Very good. 32.

-Bad luck, Tom and Hazel. Richard.

-Well played, Rik and Shirley.

Adelaide's the capital of South Australia, named after the wife of William IV.

Canberra is the capital of the Australian Capital Territory, not one of the states.

The best answer is Hobart, capital of Tasmania, 16.

Brisbane is the capital of Queensland.

Perth, which is Western Australia, 49.

Melbourne, which is Victoria, 57.

And Sydney, at the top, 71.

-The capital of New South Wales. Well done if you got all six.

-OK.

At the end of that round, the losing pair, I'm afraid, Tom and Hazel.

Two very tough categories for you.

You made it to the head-to-head in both games. You've done phenomenally well.

Very unfortunate not to make it to the final last time.

You answered very well. You just happened to be beaten in the event.

-Lovely contestants.

-APPLAUSE

But for Rik and Shirley, it's time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £2,500.

Congratulations! You fought off the competition and won our coveted Pointless trophy. Very well done.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Now you have the chance to win our jackpot and, at the end of the show, the jackpot stands at £2,500!

AUDIENCE: Whooo!

All you have to do is find a pointless answer that no-one else could think of.

We've had one pointless answer today from you, Rik, in the first round.

Find one more and you will go home with that money. First, choose a category from these options...

There's two categories that I quite like there.

Pop divas very good for me.

Shirley Bassey, Diana Ross. Hollywood legends?

I'm brilliant with the women but not so good with the guys.

-It's over to you because I am rubbish on all three categories.

-Hollywood legends.

-Hollywood legends?

-Yeah.

-What would you like the question to be?

-An area within Hollywood legends.

-I'm good on the women side.

A Mae West movie would be good for me, something obscure on that side.

-A classical Hollywood legend would be good.

-Very best of luck.

Let's find out what that question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

Cary Grant films as they could.

Any feature film made for cinema release for which Cary Grant received an acting credit.

We're not accepting short films, TV films or documentaries or any uncredited appearances.

-Very best of luck. Very best of luck at home as well.

-OK.

You have one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

There's Arsenic And Old Lace, that's a very well known one.

The most obscure one that I can come up with is

And She Did Him No Wrong, which was a Mae West and Cary Grant movie.

I know that. And, um...

North By North...?

North... North...

By Northwest. North By Northwest, which was an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

-I think I can get three.

-You've got three?

-Yes.

-Happy to stop the clock?

-Yeah.

-OK, very good.

We were looking for Carry Grant films. I need your three answers.

-The first one, Arsenic And Old Lace.

-Arsenic And Old Lace.

Which was quite popular. The second one, what did I say?

-North By Northwest.

-North By Northwest.

-Which was Alfred Hitchcock.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-And then...

She did...? I've got a Mae West movie from the very early '30s that he appeared in.

And...either He or She Did Him No Wrong.

He, I think. And He Did... She Did...

-And She Did Him No Wrong.

-And She Did Him No Wrong.

-Yeah.

And She Did Him No Wrong, those are your three answers.

-Which is your best shot for the pointless answer?

-The last one.

And She Did Him No Wrong. We'll put that third.

-Which is your least likely?

-Arsenic And Old Lace.

We'll put those up on the board.

We're looking for Cary Grant films.

You only have to find one pointless answer, remember,

to win that £2,500 jackpot.

So, let's see how many people said Arsenic And Old Lace.

This is the one you said you had the least confidence in.

Always good to test how much our 100 people know about Cary Grant films.

APPLAUSE

-Three for your first answer. That's pretty good!

-Thank you.

-We try!

-All set fair for the next two.

You knew it wasn't going to be pointless. You have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

£2,500. What would you do with that, Shirley?

I've always wanted a nice Persian rug for my living room.

That's one idea. Might well go on something completely different.

IF we got it!

-How about you, Rik?

-Three bottles of my favourite EDTs.

Eau de toilettes. Very good.

-I'm addicted to them.

-They're quite expensive.

Yeah. The ones I like are!

We are looking for Cary Grant films.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer. It has to be pointless to win the jackpot of £2,500.

It is right? If it is, how many people said it? North By Northwest.

It's right.

You got three with Arsenic And Old Lace.

A bit more faith in this answer. Let's see how far it goes down...

Oh! 13!

APPLAUSE

13.

So we've gone the other way. 13.

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

£2,500.

There's just And She Did Him No Wrong standing between you

and that jackpot.

-This was the answer you had most faith in. Are you confident?

-Yeah. I've seen the movie.

The title might be wrong.

But I can see the movie and I think I am right.

-Your faith in Rik is absolute, Shirley?

-Oh, yes.

I have seen Arsenic And Old Lace but I'm not good on films, so very much relying on Rik.

And She Did Him No Wrong. Is that the right name for the film?

And if it is, is it pointless?

And She Did Him No Wrong. How many people said it?

-AUDIENCE GROANS

-Oh, no!

-APPLAUSE

-Well, we tried.

-Oh, no!

I was picturing a Persian rug and a tiny bottle of very expensive aftershave there!

Unfortunately, you didn't find that all-important pointless answer so you don't win today's jackpot.

That goes over to the next show. You've been amazing contestants and you do get our Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

-Richard.

-Yeah, tough luck on And She Did Him No Wrong.

There was a 1933 film with Mae West,

Cary Grant, pointless answer.

-She Done Him Wrong.

-Oh, well!

-AUDIENCE GROANS

She Done Him Wrong. Really bad luck.

Let's look at some pointless answers. I suspect some people at home got a few.

Alice In Wonderland, he played the Mock Turtle.

An Affair To Remember with Deborah Kerr.

Father Goose, set in World War II.

His Girl Friday was a pointless answer, amazingly.

Very well done if you got any of these.

Penny Serenade, he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for that.

This Is The Night and Walk Don't Run,

one of his last films, set at the 1964 Olympics.

Ah! Well now!

Did you know any of those?

-No.

-No.

-Well, that's some consolation.

-She Done Him Wrong.

-I'll remember that now.

And She Did Him No Wrong is more poetic and better English, frankly.

We do have to say goodbye. Such a shame. We've only had you on once.

You were too good. You came straight to the final.

-Otherwise, you'd have had two bites at that cherry.

-It's been a great day.

-Good fun.

Thank you so much for playing.

APPLAUSE

So nobody's won our jackpot, which means it rolls over to the next show when we will play for £3,500.

AUDIENCE: Whooo!

-Join us next time. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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