Episode 23 Pointless

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong. Welcome to Pointless, the quiz that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

-Let's meet today's players.

-APPLAUSE

First, we welcome back Ron and Pauline.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.

Remind us what happened.

Unfortunately, we fell...slipped, I should say, at the first fence.

-You slipped? Winter Olympics.

-Winter Olympics, yes. We slipped.

-What do you like to do, Ron? What are your hobbies?

-Caravanning.

I endeavour to find out where Jeremy Clarkson's going and get in front of him.

LAUGHTER

-And how often do you get away?

-Most weekends, if I can.

I usually spend July and August and most of September away.

How about you, Pauline?

-What are your hobbies?

-I enjoy watching sport or reading.

-Do you go on Ron's caravanning holidays?

-No.

I prefer to be looked after in a hotel.

-Not enough pampering going on in Ron's caravan?

-No.

-You've got to make your own breakfast. Forget that.

-OK!

It's wonderful to have you back. Very best of luck.

Next, welcome Rupert and Kathryn. How do you two know each other?

We're married. We married about six months ago.

-Oh, congratulations.

-Thank you.

-What do you do, Rupert?

I try to teach people to drive.

-Ooh.

-Occasionally.

-He didn't teach you, did he, Kathryn?

-I'm teaching her at the moment.

-Ah! Is that sensible?

-Six months into a marriage?

-He's very patient.

-You'd have to be.

I mean, not with you, Kathryn! I don't mean that!

-You obviously know her quite well.

-You'd have to be, in that job.

-Yeah.

-Kathryn, what do you do?

-I work for a media company.

We advise companies on what's being said about them in the media.

If I wanted to find out what they were saying about Richard Osman in the media... I say, "If."

-What are they saying about Richard in the media?

-Tall.

-That's the word?

What should he do about that?

Yeah, how can we put out a rebuttal?

You want to promote your tallness. It's what makes you special.

-Keep on with that message.

-LAUGHTER

Great to have you on the show.

Next, we welcome Andy and Claire. How do you two know each other?

NORTHERN IRISH ACCENT: We've known each other half our lives. We're 28.

Two years ago, we got married.

-Ah! You've known each other since 14.

-Yes.

See? Maths! I'm really good at that. Where are you from?

I'm going to say Northern Ireland.

Yeah. You'd be disappointed if you were wrong.

Bitterly! And possibly deaf.

So where are you from in Northern Ireland?

-We're from just outside Belfast, Bangor.

-From Bangor. Very good!

-Bangor by the sea.

-Andy, what are you hoping will come up today?

Um... Maybe music, TV, geography. Anything like that would be good.

-Claire, how about you?

-Geography again.

We travel a lot together.

If one of us doesn't know it, probably the other one won't.

We have shared experiences!

Film, I really enjoy. I don't know how good my random knowledge is but I'll give it a good stab.

Very best of luck. Great to have you here.

-Finally, Chris and Colin. Where have you two come from?

-From Norwich.

Warm welcome to you from Norwich. How do you two know each other?

We're work colleagues, for about three and a half years.

Not afraid to mix business and pleasure!

Does everyone at work know you're here?

We kind of let it slip before we nipped out the office.

-We'll leave them talking while we're not there.

-What do you do?

We work for a large insurance company in the marketing department.

We try to make a complicated subject like insurance easy to understand.

Is it a very famous insurance company?

-It's quite well-known.

-Associated with the city you're from?

-Now called something else?

-Yes.

-I've got a couple of policies with you.

I might go through them with you after the show!

Welcome to the show. It's brilliant to have you here.

One person left to introduce. He fell out the tree of knowledge and hit every branch on the way down.

-He is my Pointless friend. He's Richard.

-Hiya.

-Afternoon.

-Good afternoon.

We've only got one returning pair and we saw very little of them,

due to Pauline's insistence that Jamaica were a Winter Olympics super power!

So it's a very, very open field.

In terms of questions, we're going high-brow, then low-brow.

-High-brow round one. Low-brow round two.

-OK.

Watch those brows.

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

To stay in the game, our players need to score as few points as they can.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

one that none of our 100 people gave.

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

Darren and Russell won the jackpot last time, so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000.

-Right, let's play Pointless.

-APPLAUSE

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...

Physics. This is the high-brow.

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

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

Let's find out what the first question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

measurements of weight as they could.

-Richard.

-The correct answers in this round are terms, historic or modern,

which refer to measurements of either mass or weight in physics.

All the correct answers are measures of mass or weight in physics.

Thank you very much. Ron and Pauline, you all drew lots, and you get to go first.

We're going to give you a choice of seven possible answers in each pass.

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

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

There is at least one pointless answer on the board.

But be very careful, there is also at least one incorrect answer.

If you pick one of those, you score the maximum of 100 points.

So, Ron, measurements of weight.

There's one or two that I know for definite,

but it's trying to find a pointless one.

The most obscure answers will score the lowest points.

I will go for pennyweight.

Pennyweight, you are going for.

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

It's right.

-Very, very well done, Ron!

-CHEERS AND WHISTLES

A spectacular start to the round.

That's a pointless answer and adds £250 to the jackpot.

It takes the total up to £1,250.

-It scores you nothing.

-Very well played, Ron. Good start.

dwt, they abbreviate that as, from denarius, which is Latin for penny.

-One of the older measurements of weight.

-Thank you very much. Rupert.

-We are looking for measurements of weight.

-OK.

Well, I'll have a stab at grain.

Grain, you're going to go for.

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

Very well done.

Another low score, I think.

Yes! Very well done, Rupert.

CHEERING

Another pointless answer,

adding another £250 to the jackpot, taking the total up to £1,500.

And scoring you nothing. What a great start to the round.

Yeah, the Greeks and Egyptians used to use wheat seeds

as the smallest measurement of weight.

Thank you very much, indeed.

-Now, Claire, what are you thinking?

-I've got a lot to live up to.

I'm going to go for hundredweight, please.

Hundredweight. OK. We're looking for measurements of weight.

Claire says hundredweight. Is it right? If so, how many people said it?

Very well done.

Not a bad score at all.

-20 for hundredweight.

-Yes. It's not a bad score, 20.

-Next to those two zeros, it's pretty big.

-It certainly is. Colin.

You're the last person to have this board, so talk us through it.

I don't know whether to say safe

or to risk it to stay competitive.

I'm going to have a guess at wheaton.

Wheaton. That is a guess?

-Pie in the sky.

-If that's right, surely, it's going to go all the way down.

A wheaton? What do you think, Chris?

I'm not confident, I'll be honest.

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

Good luck, Colin.

Ooh!

Bad luck, Colin.

Unfortunately, wheaton, as Chris suspected,

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

Sorry, Colin. It's the one red herring up there.

Wheaton is used by Wired magazine

to measure the amount of Twitter followers.

They compare anybody's amount of Twitter followers to the actor Wil Wheaton, for whatever reason.

You are operating at about...

14 milli-wheatons, your Twitter followers.

Really?

-Keith Chegwin is 28 milli-wheatons.

-Exactly twice my rate.

Pretty much. Well, he's twice as funny, you know.

-LAUGHTER

-That's the way that works. They judge that by wheatons.

There is another pointless answer on the board as well.

It's not pound.

94 for pound. A very, very big score.

A dram is one of the apothecary's measures of weights.

A scruple, Latin for "small weight" is a weight.

Another pointless answer. Very well done if you got one of those.

Let's take a look at the scores. Ron and Pauline,

Rupert and Kathryn both looking very, very strong.

Then we go up to Claire and Andy. Then a long way up!

Chris, you're going to have to find a spectacular low scoring answer

and hope somebody else trips up.

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

We're going to put seven more answers on the board. Measurements of weight, and we have got...

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

..Again, at least one of those is pointless and at least one is incorrect.

Avoid those or you'll score 100.

Now then, Chris.

Colin scored 100.

You are 80 points clear of the rest of the field.

-You have to score as low as you possibly can.

-Right.

There's a few obvious ones up there,

which I'm going to stay away from, got to take a gamble.

I'm going to go with dekagram.

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

There's no red line for you, Chris, because you are WAY ahead!

It's right.

Very well done, Chris!

That's exactly what was required.

That scores you one.

Is it enough, I wonder, to see you through to the next round, though?

Very well played, Chris. I once had a dekagram at a party.

-It's a tiny Geordie stripper.

-LAUGHTER

No, it's a measure of weight. It's ten grams.

Now, Andy.

The high-scorers are Chris and Colin on 101. You are on 20.

If you can score 80 or less,

you are through safely to the next round.

There are a couple of answers

that are pretty high scoring, I would say.

I don't want to gamble too much.

-I'm going to go for carat.

-You're going to go for carat.

These are worrying times for Chris and Colin.

The remaining two pairs are on nothing. It's all in Andy's hands.

-Yeah.

-Carat, you are saying.

If you come below that red line,

you are through to the next round, we say goodbye to Chris and Colin.

Carat, is it right? How many people said carat?

You're through to the next round.

Oh, very well done! A great score.

Takes your total up to 22. Richard.

-Well played, Andy. Very low score, isn't it, two?

-Very.

People don't realise it's a measure of weight.

Thank you, Richard. Kathryn and Rupert, the great news for you

is that you are through to the next round, even if you score 100 points.

You still won't overtake Chris and Colin's high score of 101.

Knowing that you have that safety net, let's have a pointless answer.

I've heard of Troy ounce, so I'm going to go for Troy pound.

You've heard of Troy ounce. Was it a measurement of weight?

The ounce part gave it away. I think it is, yes. But you never know.

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

It's right. Very well done.

Maybe this will win you that second pointless.

Yes! It's done it! Very well done.

-APPLAUSE

-That is a pointless.

It adds another £250 to today's jackpot,

taking the total up to £1,750. It scores you nothing.

It leaves your total at a brilliant low nothing. Richard.

A double pointless, it's quite rare on the show. Congratulations.

A Troy pound comes from Troyes, the French town,

used by apothecaries but also jewellers.

Very, very well done, Kathryn, Rupert.

A spectacular performance in the first round.

Pauline, can you equal that?

You are through to the next round, whatever happens.

You have carte blanche, therefore, to try and find a pointless answer.

There might well be another pointless answer.

Well, I don't think millihelen,

or whatever they call it, so it would be the ruane.

No, I'm going to play safe. I'll go for stone.

-You don't need to.

-I know I don't.

-You could add £250 to the jackpot.

Never mind. You've said stone. Let's see if stone is a right answer.

If it is, let's see how many people said stone.

-APPLAUSE

-There you are. Well, 72.

You're through to the next round.

That's the definition of safe as houses!

Stone does come from real stones.

In different towns there were different stones.

It changed from town to town. Standardised now, of course.

Let's take a look at the rest of the board. Ounce is a correct answer.

Scored a hefty 91.

The other two, what do you think?

-Are they both incorrect?

-Are you asking me or telling me?

Oh, what do you think? Pauline, I think you're right.

I can't believe a millihelen is a unit of weight.

And a ruane... Pah. Who knows?

A ruane, Martin Ruane was Giant Haystacks.

That was an incorrect answer.

A millihelen is again from wired.com.

They said if Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships,

a millihelen is the beauty needed to launch one ship.

-What's your millihelen rating, Richard?

-Er...

-4.7.

-LAUGHTER

Yours is 36 and Keith Chegwin's is 72.

LAUGHTER

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

I'm very, very sorry to say.

You suffered because all the good answers had gone.

By the time it got to me, I had to try and gain back some ground.

All or nothing, and this time it was nothing.

We will see you again next time. Thanks for playing, Chris and Colin.

-Great to have you here.

-APPLAUSE

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

There's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head, so one team will leave at the end of this round.

Our category for round two is...

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

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

Our round two question concerns...

Pauline not impressed. This is a poor showing.

I'm sorry,

UK Number Two hits and their artists. Richard.

We're going to show you two lists of six hit singles all of which reached Number Two.

We asked 100 people which artist originally recorded these singles.

If you give us an obscure answer, you'll score fewer points.

An incorrect answer scores 100 points.

There's going to be 12 singles in all to guess. Very best of luck.

Thanks very much, Richard.

We are looking for the artists who released these singles first. And we have got...

..I'll read those again...

..There are six Number Two singles. We are looking for the artists

who originally had those Number Two singles with them.

-Pauline, you look unimpressed.

-I know... Well, I know one.

I'll say one.

Agadoo.

-Black Lace.

-Agadoo.

Black Lace. Do you own a copy of Agadoo by Black Lace, Pauline?

-Is the right answer.

-LAUGHTER

Let's see if that's right and how many people knew Agadoo, Black Lace.

It's right.

That's not a bad score at all. Well chosen. Black Lace, Agadoo.

Well done, Pauline.

In 2003, Q Magazine readers voted it the worst single of all time.

-Yeah.

-Kept off the Number One spot by Careless Whisper.

George Michael.

-Thanks, George.

-LAUGHTER

Kathryn, what's that look like? I think you might be good at this.

I'm feeling quietly confident. There's a few there that I know.

I'll plump for Yesterday Once More.

I believe it's by the Carpenters.

Let's see if that's right, Kathryn.

And if it is, how many people said Yesterday Once More, the Carpenters?

Very well done.

-APPLAUSE

-Quite a high score there.

-Yeah.

-39 for the Carpenters, Richard.

-A surprisingly big score.

It was Number Two in 1973. Kept off the top spot by Gary Glitter.

Claire, we're looking for the original acts to release these.

I think I know who sang each of these songs.

I'm going to go for Perfect 10.

And I think that was the Beautiful South.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people knew that, the Beautiful South.

Very well done, Claire.

Down it goes.

You've beaten all the other scores in this pass. 13.

-13 for the Beautiful South. Richard.

-Great answer, Claire.

From 1998. It lost out to B*Witched,

with their huge Number One single, Rollercoaster.

-You fans of B*Witched?

-Of course. They're Irish as well.

-That's true.

-You weren't IN B*Witched, were you?

-My disguise wasn't good enough!

No. LAUGHTER

Let's fill in the rest of the board.

Hound Dog, of course, is Elvis Presley.

Roll With It is Oasis.

Kept off the Number One slot by Blur, Country House.

-Rule The World? Best answer on the board.

-Take That.

Would have scored you five points. Kept off Number One by Leona Lewis.

Thanks very much, Richard. We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

13, Claire and Andy. Then we go up to Pauline and Ron.

Great answer from Pauline, Black Lace.

Then, 39, it was right, Kathryn, but it was a big score there.

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

We are going to put six more Number Two hit singles on the board.

We have got...

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

..We are looking for the artists who first had a hit with these singles.

You're trying to find the one that the fewest people knew.

Now, Andy, Claire did fantastically well.

13 for Beautiful South. The high-scorers are Rupert and Kathryn.

If you can score 25 or less, you're through to the head-to-head.

-You're definitely through.

-Well, I don't know all of them.

I do know at least one, which is a relief.

I'm going to go for Love Shack.

I think it was by the B52s.

B52s, you're saying, Love Shack. Here's your red line.

If you can get below that red line, you're through to the head-to-head.

Let's see if it's right and how many people said the B52s, Love Shack.

Well done. It's right.

Ooh!

Nearly!

28 that scores you.

That ought to be enough to see you through. Let's wait and see.

From 1990.

Kept off the top spot by Beats International and The Power by Snap.

OK, Rupert. The high-scorers, at the moment,

are Andy and Claire

on 41.

If you can score one or less with this,

you are definitely through to the next round.

Right, the one I'd pick out of those, probably,

would be Paper Roses.

I think it's by Marie Osmond.

Paper Roses. Marie Osmond.

-Relation of yours, Richard?

-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-She's my mum.

-LAUGHTER

Hi, Mum.

You've got a problem with her?

-LAUGHTER

-What? Marie? No.

Good.

OK, Paper Roses, Marie Osmond.

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

It's right.

Should be quite a good low score.

Ooh! 27.

APPLAUSE

That takes your total up to 66.

I wonder if that's enough to keep you in the game. Richard.

Rupert and Kathryn both gone for '70s acts and scored quite highly.

Marie Osmond was kept from the Number One slot by...?

-Gary Glitter!

-LAUGHTER

How do you think I feel? He kept my mum off the Number One slot.

LAUGHTER

Now, Ron.

Rupert and Kathryn are our high-scorers.

If you can score 40 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

-Well...

-Talk us through the board.

-Talk you through the board.

-The world of pop music is alien to me.

-Ooh, great news for Rupert and Kathryn.

I haven't a clue about pop music.

Brown Sugar, possibly...

Tina Turner?

Brown Sugar, Tina Turner. There it is, third one down.

Did she sing Brown Sugar? If she did, how many people knew that?

Good luck, Ron.

Bad luck, Ron.

I'm afraid Tina Turner is an incorrect answer

for Brown Sugar, which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

That takes your total up to 125.

-I'm afraid you are the high-scorers.

-Sorry, Ron.

Brown Sugar was the Rolling Stones. Would have scored you 50 points.

So wouldn't have seen you through. Let It Be is The Beatles.

Save A Prayer, Alexander?

Duran Duran.

Do you know Reach? I'd be surprised if you did.

I can't think who.

It's S Club 7. A lot of their singles were Number Twos.

Their third Number Two in a row. It was. A lot of Number Twos.

Wow.

Thanks very much, Richard. So, the losing pair with the highest score,

Ron and Pauline. Ron, for some reason,

-I thought you'd have all those up your sleeve.

-Oh, no.

-Classical music, yes. Pop music, no.

-Great shame to be saying goodbye.

-Thanks very much for playing.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

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

Very well done, Andy and Claire, Rupert and Kathryn.

You've made it through to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can play for the jackpot which currently stands,

thanks to those pointless answers, at £1,750.

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

Each pair needs to give one answer, but you are now allowed to confer.

Come up with an answer that scores less than the other pair to win that question.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for today's jackpot. Let's play Pointless.

OK. Here is your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

US states larger than the UK as they could.

There are 11 US states which are larger than the UK in terms of total area. One of those 11, please.

Now, Andy and Claire, cos you played best throughout the show,

you get to go first.

So, US states larger than the UK.

THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS

Some intense conference going on here.

Andy and Claire, I'm going to start pushing you for an answer.

-As you gathered, it wasn't an easy decision.

-No!

Whose decision prevailed?

Mine has prevailed.

I'm not 100% confident, but we're going to go for Washington state.

Washington, you are saying. Rupert and Kathryn.

We're thinking, maybe, Wyoming?

-Maybe Alaska.

-I'm liking Alaska more than Wyoming.

-But I'll leave it to you.

-You always like the cold places.

-Alaska, Wyoming.

-Alaska.

-Alaska.

We'll go with Alaska.

OK, Alaska. We have Washington state and we have Alaska.

Washington, said Andy. And Claire.

-Not Claire.

-No, I'm with you.

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

GROANS

Bad luck. That's an incorrect answer.

Rupert and Kathryn, you have gone with Alaska.

Let's see if that's right. That's all it has to be and you will win this question. Alaska.

It's right. You've done it.

26 is where it happened to stop, but all it needed to be was correct.

After one question, Rupert and Kathryn are ahead, one-nil.

Well played, Rupert and Kathryn.

Wyoming would have been an even better answer.

It would have scored nine points.

So, yeah, Washington state smaller than the UK, I'm afraid.

Let's look at all 11. See how many you got at home...

..Wyoming, one of the biggest states has got the smallest population.

If you fancy some peace and quiet, that's where to go...

-..Well done if you got all 11.

-Here is your second question.

Andy and Claire, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

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

EM Forster novels as they could.

-Richard.

-Any of the completed novels of EM Forster, please.

No short stories, plays, anthologies.

He did opera librettos. We won't accept Arctic Snow, an unfinished novel.

Any of the completed novels of EM Forster.

Thank you very much. Rupert and Kathryn, you go first this time.

ALL CONFER IN WHISPERS

OK, I think we've got an answer.

-What's it going to be?

-Howard's End.

OK, Howard's End. Andy and Claire.

You have to win this question. Is this a good category for you?

We only know one other one, so we'll go for A Passage To India.

We have Howard's End and we have A Passage To India.

Rupert and Kathryn, Howard's End. Let's see if that's right. If it is, how many people said it.

It's right.

Ten for Howard's End.

Do you think that's enough?

-Er...

-Maybe.

-Maybe.

Now, Andy and Claire.

You have said A Passage To India.

This has to go lower than ten for you to survive in this game.

Good luck. A Passage To India. Is it right? How many people said it?

Well, it's right.

How far down's it going to go?

-Oh! Bad luck!

-APPLAUSE

14. It's a lovely low score.

It's just not as lovely and low as ten for Howard's End.

After only two questions, Rupert and Kathryn

are through to the final, two-nil.

-Richard.

-Six of them in all. Four made into successful films.

Let's take a look at them.

The best answer you could have given was The Longest Journey...

..A Room With A View, 12, and A Passage To India, 14.

Very well done if you got the bottom ones.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head,

I'm afraid, is Andy and Claire. Dear, oh, dear.

You were ill-served by our categories. The US states.

-That was tough. Really tough.

-Tougher than it appeared.

-Well, you did the right thing.

-Yes.

Just...you got it wrong.

-We did the right thing badly!

-We will see you again next time.

This was only your first time round the track and you made it through to the head-to-head.

We can expect great things of you. Thanks, meanwhile, for playing.

For Rupert and Kathryn, it's time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £1,750.

CHEERS AND WHISTLES

Congratulations, Rupert and Kathryn, you fought off the competition

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

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,750.

All you have to do is find a pointless answer, one that none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had three pointless answers. You're responsible for two of them.

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

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

I think we should do Countries, probably.

-SIGHS

-Sure?

-Or Reality TV.

No. Don't do Reality TV. Countries?

Yeah. I think we'll plump for Countries.

Let's find out what the question is.

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

countries with fewer than one million people as they could.

Any country with a permanent population of less than one million,

that's according to the most recent CIA Factbook, as of April 2011.

As always, we mean a member of the UN that is a sovereign state. Very best of luck.

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

All you need, to win that £1,750, is for one of those to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

-OK, I was thinking, maybe Vanuatu.

-Is that in the UN?

-I think so.

Vanuatu. Bhutan. No-one lives there.

-Malta, something like that?

-Qatar?

I suppose there's a lot of desert, not a lot of people. Yeah.

-Belize.

-Jungle, I suppose, there.

-A lot of jungle. Lot of animals.

-So, shortlist-wise?

-Belize, Bhutan, Vanuatu, maybe?

Are we sure that Vanuatu, though, is actually in the UN?

Yeah. I think it is.

-We could go with Fiji.

-Oh, that's not...

-Fiji. Vanuatu.

-And Belize, maybe? Or Bhutan?

-Bhutan's quite safe, quite low.

-Belize and Vanuatu, maybe?

-OK.

Is there anything else that we can think of, small island type nations?

-Sao Tome and Principe, but I don't think it's a proper country.

-OK.

-Let's leave that, then.

-There's... Where else?

-Central Asia.

-Five seconds.

So, Belize, Bhutan and Vanuatu.

OK, that's your minute gone. I now need three answers from you.

-We're going with Belize.

-Belize.

-Bhutan.

-Bhutan.

-And Vanuatu.

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

-I'd say, probably, Bhutan.

-Bhutan? We'll put that last.

Which is your least likely?

We're not sure if Vanuatu is actually...

-In the UN.

-That's our least likely.

-Let's put Vanuatu first.

-Yeah.

There they are. We were looking for countries with a population of fewer than one million people.

You said this was your least confident answer.

You only need one pointless answer to win that £1,750 jackpot.

Let us see if Vanuatu is correct

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

Vanuatu's right.

This just has to go all the way down to pointless.

If it does, you leave with £1,750.

Single figures.

Oh! One person!

-ALEXANDER CHUCKLES

-Wow!

Vanuatu. One person said it.

-Oh, well.

-Unfortunately, that's not a pointless answer.

You have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

Your next answer is Belize. There it is.

-This has to be right. You're not sure about the population. A lot of jungle.

-A LOT of jungle.

-Maybe not a lot of people. We're hoping.

-That's the rationale.

If this is pointless, you will win that jackpot of £1,750.

-What would you do with £1,750?

-Um, put it towards a house.

-I've got to say that.

-Well, I think he'd put it towards more records.

-We've got quite a lot of records already, so more.

-Split it evenly.

1,000 on records. 750 on the house!

You'll need more room in the house. A bigger house.

We've got about 10,000 already.

Here we go. You seem very confident.

-Nervousness masquerading as confidence.

-Yeah.

Let's find out. Belize, is it right? If it is, how many people said Belize?

It is right.

Vanuatu went down to one.

If this goes down to nothing, you leave with £1,750.

-CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

-Very well done.

Very well done, indeed. That's absolutely fantastic.

Brilliant.

-Very, very well done.

-Brilliant!

Congratulations. You managed to find that all-important pointless answer.

Which means you go home with the jackpot of £1,750.

APPLAUSE

Richard.

Brilliantly done, guys. 321,000 people live in Belize.

Bhutan, also a pointless answer. You started with two pointless answers.

You ended the show with two pointless answers. Very well played.

Let's look at some more pointless answers. See what else was there.

There's Belize. Brunei. The Comoros islands in Africa.

Kiribati in the Pacific. The Marshall Islands.

Nauru, which only has a population of 9,000.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean.

Sao Tome and Principe, you also were going to say.

And Suriname in South America.

Others - Equatorial Guinea, Micronesia, Montenegro, Samoa.

Well done if you got any of those at home.

Thanks once again to our winning pair, who go home with today's jackpot of £1,750.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time, when we'll put more obscure knowledge to the test.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

-APPLAUSE

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