Episode 24 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test. Let's meet the players.

Welcome, Ian and Grant. You're our first pair. How do you two know each other?

We actually met about eight years ago playing football for a mutual friend's team.

Ian's got progressively worse over the years and is now the manager, but I still play.

And when you're not playing football, what do you do, Grant?

In my spare time, we love to play golf. We're quite sporty people really,

so that's where we tend to spend most of our time.

OK, so we've covered football and golf. What do you do in the time that's not spare?

-What's your job?

-Work-wise, I'm a plasterer.

So, yeah, hard work, but pays the bills.

-Ian, how about you?

-I manage a leisure centre,

just the day-to-day running of the building, really. Pools and gyms and things.

So sport and leisure will hopefully be a strong topic for me, should it come up.

Best of luck. It's great to have you here. Next we welcome Vicky and Hannah.

-How do you two know each other?

-Can't you tell we're identical twins?

She's dreaming there, obviously.

You can tell with the age gap, she's my mother. Obviously.

-LAUGHTER

-Where are you from, Vicky?

-We're from Sheffield.

-Very good. And what do you do?

I work in admin in an office for local authority building control.

-Very good. How about you, Hannah?

-I'm a trade union convener.

-What sort of things do you convene?

-I do things like disciplinaries, grievances, really easy things.

-LAUGHTER

-What's going to be fun for you on Pointless?

-What would be a great category for you?

-Probably Alfred Hitchcock films or something like that.

But I don't know if it would be that specific.

-OK, so film, particularly Hitchcock.

-Yeah. I watch random things, yeah.

-Very good.

It's great to have you here. Welcome and best of luck.

Next we welcome back Chris and Colin. You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final and this is your last chance. What happened?

Well, last time we brought shame on our fine city of Norwich,

or more specifically, I did, I think.

But we went up against some really tough competition and we just didn't cut the Norfolk mustard, really.

You didn't cut the Norfolk mustard.

Chris, what would you like to see come up this afternoon?

In my spare, I do like to look at some classic cars,

particularly 70s retro cars,

so anything there would be great, please.

-OK. Colin, how about you?

-I'm quite into my films, so anything with Al Pacino in.

He's acting royalty to me, so I think anything with Al Pacino and I'll have a good chance.

Very good indeed. Best of luck. Great to have you back.

And finally we welcome back Andy and Claire. You were also on the show last time. What happened?

We did quite well last time. We got through to the head-to-head,

-but we came undone on geography and literature.

-US states larger than the UK.

That's right. We're hoping that this time round, US states smaller than the UK comes up,

because we have loads of those, apparently.

Very good. What would you like to see come up this afternoon, Andy?

I had thought geography, but after last time, I'm not so sure.

-Music, TV, film, that sort of thing.

-OK. Claire?

Having listened to everybody, everybody seems to be into their film,

so I don't know whether that would be a good idea. So maybe another punt at geography.

Maybe with a question I know the answer to. That would be good.

-Fair enough.

-LAUGHTER

-What are your interests, Claire?

I run a guide unit. I volunteer for Girl Guiding UK,

so I run a unit for ten to 14-year-olds.

So that takes up a bit of my time, organising unit meetings, taking them camping

-and doing all sorts of things. I enjoy that.

-How about you, Andy?

I enjoy playing a bit of football, five-a-side, and squash, as well.

Great to have you back. I'm predicting great things for you this afternoon.

But as you know, I'm always wrong. We'll find out more about of you during the show.

One person left to introduce. When the going gets obscure, he gets going.

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

-Hiya.

APPLAUSE

-How are you today?

-I'm very well, thank you.

-It's show 199.

-I know.

-199.

-Who would've thought? We've got two returning pairs.

One of the pairs was in the head-to-head, Andy and Claire. Very strong.

Chris and Colin slightly let themselves down.

There's a lot of people today play five-a-side football and I'm thinking eight of them, two of us,

a little game of five-a-side? We could be captains.

-Rather than do Pointless.

-Let's definitely do that. Shall we?

-Do you think? Is that all right?

-No, let's do a quiz instead.

-OK.

Anyway, we put all our questions to 100 people before the show, but this is Pointless,

so we are after the obscure answers they didn't get.

For a chance to win our jackpot, just score as few points as you can.

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

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

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

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Right, let's play Pointless.

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

Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.

Our first category this afternoon is...British Actors.

Can you decide in your pairs who'll go first, who'll go second?

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

OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Ewan McGregor films as they could.

Any feature film made for cinema release for which Ewan McGregor received an acting credit

prior to April 2011. As always, short films, TV films,

documentaries don't count, but voice performances do. Very best of luck.

OK. Now then, Grant and Ian, you all drew lots before the show and this afternoon you get to go first.

-Grant, Ewan McGregor films.

-Yeah, I think I've got a reasonable one.

I remember watching it a few years back and not understanding what was going on.

But I think the film he was in was called Big Fish.

Big Fish. That could be a spectacular answer. You're hoping to score as few points as possible.

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

Very well done, Grant.

-Ten!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ten for Big Fish. Richard.

Yeah, very well played, Grant. From 2003. Fairly incomprehensible.

It's a Tim Burton film. Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney play younger and older versions of the same character.

Very good. Hannah.

-I was thinking of that one.

-Were you really?

-Yeah.

So I'm thinking of one of his early ones, but...

There's a couple in my head, so I'm going to go for one that's quite gruesome, Shallow Grave.

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

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

It's right.

Down it goes. Ten!

-Same score.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very good result for Shallow Grave. Richard.

Yeah, from 1994, which is a depressing 17 years ago, Shallow Grave.

-That's when he first really had his big break.

-Yeah.

-Now then, Chris, Ewan McGregor films.

-My two-year-old son's a big fan of this one.

-I'm going to go with Robots.

-Robots.

Robots. OK, you're trying to find a nice obscure Ewan McGregor film.

You're saying Robots. Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people said Robots.

-Oh, very well done!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very, very well done, Chris, that's a pointless answer and that adds £250 to today's jackpot,

taking your total up to £1,250

and it scores you nothing. Very well done indeed.

-Yeah, very well played. What's your son called?

-Milo.

I think Milo has just added £250 to the jackpot.

Ewan McGregor voices Rodney Copperbottom, the inventor in that film. It's also got Halle Berry

and Robin Williams and various people. Seems to me the best argument for having children,

that it helps on Pointless quite a lot.

There's probably other reasons, but that seems the best. Look at Vicky.

-Hannah's even here.

-Yes.

-LAUGHTER

Thanks very much, Richard. And well done, Chris, that's a great answer.

Now then, Claire. Claire. A nice obscure Ewan McGregor film.

This is going to sound like a lie, but I was thinking Big Fish, and then my mind has gone blank

apart from a really obvious one, which I'll have to go for, and it's Moulin Rouge!

-Moulin Rouge!

-Mm.

-OK.

Moulin Rouge! You're hoping to score as few points as possible with Moulin Rouge!

Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people said Moulin Rouge!

It's not bad. 23.

APPLAUSE

23 for Moulin Rouge! I just had a horrible thought.

-What's that?

-The reason why that's a surprisingly low score is cos it was a long time ago.

-It was ten years ago. It's not too bad.

-Yeah, but I thought it was, like, two years ago.

-It's ten years ago?

-And if you're watching the repeat on Challenge, that was 14 years ago!

LAUGHTER

-Yeah, from 2001. Plays an English writer.

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

Chris and Colin on nothing. Fantastic answer there with Robots.

Grant and Ian and Hannah and Vicky on ten. Two good answers there.

And Claire and Andy, that really wasn't bad at all.

23. You're not too far ahead of the field.

But Andy, you're going to have to make up for that. You are the high scorers.

You have to find some nice obscure Ewan McGregor movie for the next pass.

We come back down the line. Second players, take your places.

OK, we are looking for Ewan McGregor films.

Andy, you're the high scorers on 23.

Yeah, I've got a couple of films. Two of them are very, very obvious and aren't going to be good for us.

One would be a big gamble. I'm not confident enough in the answer,

so I'll go for I Love You Phillip Morris.

-I Love You Phillip Morris.

-Yep.

OK. Let's see if I Love You Phillip Morris is right, and if it is, how many people said it.

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

Well done, it's right.

Still going down. Very well done, Andy!

-That's great.

-APPLAUSE

Five for I Love You Phillip Morris, takes your total up to 28. Richard.

Yeah, it's a very good answer, Andy. From 2009. Starred with Jim Carrey.

-Colin.

-Yes.

-Colin. Thanks to Chris's brilliant answer in the first pass, you are on nothing.

-He's keeping me in the game.

-The high scorers are Andy and Claire on 28.

If you can score 27 or less, you're definitely in the next round.

I will go with a film I think he starred in with Cameron Diaz called A Life Less Ordinary.

A Life Less Ordinary you're saying. OK. Here's your red line.

If you get below that red line, you're through to the next round.

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

You've done it! Very well done. Ten.

APPLAUSE

Ten for A Life Less Ordinary. Takes your total up to ten. You're through to the next round. Richard.

Another score of ten. From 1997. Most of the same team that made Shallow Grave.

-He plays a cleaner who takes Cameron Diaz hostage.

-So, Vicky.

We are looking for Ewan McGregor films.

You are on ten. The high scorers are Andy and Claire on 28,

which means if you can score 17 or less, you're through to the next round.

I don't know any Ewan McGregor films. Only the obvious one,

erm, which I think will be more than I need,

so it's going to have to be a gamble

and I'm going to say the last Shrek film, which is Shrek 4.

You're saying Shrek 4. All right, Vicky, there's your red line.

Below that, you're through to the next round. Let's see if Shrek 4 is right, and if it is,

how many people said Shrek 4.

Ohh, bad luck, Vicky.

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

That takes your total up to 110. Richard.

Shrek Forever After is the full name of it, but he wasn't in it.

Ian. You've just been thrown the most massive lifeline.

You don't believe how big the lifeline is, trust me.

Not a strong area of mine at all.

I'm just trying to think of a film

which has got many different stars in it that he may well have been in.

-I'm guessing. I'll just say Love Actually.

-There's your red line.

Let's find out. Is Ewan McGregor in Love Actually, and if he is, how many people said it? Love Actually.

Ohh! Bad luck, Ian.

Unfortunately, that is a wrong answer, which means you score 100 points,

taking your total up to 110. So this is very exciting, Richard.

Yeah, I'm afraid he wasn't in Love Actually.

That was the film he wasn't in before he wasn't in Shrek Forever After.

LAUGHTER

Well, as it's a tie, your scores are going to be reset to zero

and the tied pairs have to give me one more answer each

and the pair that gets the highest score will be eliminated. You are now allowed to confer. OK.

-So, Ian and Grant.

-You're on your own, mate, so whatever you think.

I'm quite happy with that. No pressure, obviously, but...

OK, I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think we'll go for the gamble

and I think he's in one called The Island.

The Island. The Island.

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

It's right. It's right.

-14.

-APPLAUSE

-14 for The Island.

-Happy with that, Alexander. Very happy.

Well done, Ian and Grant. Now then, Vicky and Hannah.

-14 is what you have to beat.

-There's three. There's the obvious one, there's Trainspotting,

but then there was two that I couldn't remember the name of and Mum's come up with one.

One with Barings Bank, Rogue Trader, and a musical with Love in the title. I can't remember...

-Go for Rogue Trader.

-So.... Rogue Trader.

Rogue Trader. I'd forgotten about that.

There's your red line. Below that red line, you are through to the next round.

Rogue Trader. Good luck. Let's see how many of our 100 people remembered that.

Yep, there we go, it's right.

Will it go down below 14?

-Yes, it will! Look at that!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very, very well remembered. That's a great answer.

Five for Rogue Trader and that sees you through to the next round. Richard.

Vicky, very, very well done.

That's what Pointless is all about, things that nestle at the back of your head

and you come up with them at the last second. It's won you a place in the next round. Unlucky, guys.

Maybe the one with love in the title is Down With Love.

-Ah, see. Bit rubbish.

-Let me take a look. Yep. Yeah, you're right.

That would've scored you one point.

There's a whole load of pointless answers here. Let's take a look.

Blown Apart. Blue Juice, which was an early surfing film with Sean Pertwee. Cassandra's Dream. All pointless.

Eye Of The Beholder. Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang he's in. Robots, very good answer from Milo.

Stay. Stormbreaker, based on the Alex Rider stories.

And he voiced one of the characters in Valiant, the pigeon animation. Very good round from everyone.

Let's look at the top scorers. Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace would've scored you 17.

The other two Star Wars films he's in were there, but scored less.

Moulin Rouge! with 23. And right at the top, the one that everyone was trying to avoid

all the way through, Trainspotting would've scored you 51 points.

Thanks, Richard. At the end of round one, the losing pair with the highest score, it's Ian and Grant.

That was very exciting. You had a stay of execution there

and then you pulled The Island out of the bag.

-Not quite to be, though. Maybe next time.

-Rogue Trader, though.

Well, Ian and Grant, such a shame to be saying goodbye to you so early. But you get two chances,

so let's hope you do better next time you are on.

-Very well done.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

But 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 will be leaving at the end of this round.

Our category for round two is...

Can you decide in your pairs who'll go first, who'll go second?

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

And our round two question concerns...

We're going to show you a list six districts and suburbs in each pass.

We asked 100 people, "To which cities or metropolitan areas do these suburbs belong?"

The more obscure answers will score you fewer points, but an incorrect answer will score 100 points.

I'm going to give you 12 districts and suburbs in all, so 12 to get at home. Very best of luck.

We are looking for the cities or metropolitan areas to which these districts and suburbs belong.

And we have got...

OK, Hannah. There are your districts or suburbs.

Oh, dear. This is why I went first, cos I'm horrendous at...

-They're really hard.

-I'm really good at maps, but tell me somewhere and I've not got a clue.

But I have been to one of them and that's the bottom one,

so I'm going to go for that, Moss Side. I think that's in Manchester.

Moss Side, Manchester, Hannah says. Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people knew that.

Moss Side, Manchester.

It's right.

-43.

-APPLAUSE

Yeah, well done, Hannah. That's a good answer but quite high scoring.

-Chris, how does that list look to you?

-Pretty scary.

I'm going to have to go for the big hitter,

it's going to be Chelsea, London.

-Ooh, yeah. Someone actually tutted you there, Chris.

-LAUGHTER

Chelsea, London, you're saying. Let's see if it's right, and if it is, how many people said it.

-APPLAUSE

-76.

-That is better than 100, Chris.

-It is.

Could've scored a lot more. Chelsea was once a very bohemian part of London, now very well-to-do.

So, Andy, you are the last person to have this board so talk us through all of these

-and fill in the metropolitan areas to which they belong.

-It won't take me very long.

I have no idea on Holgate, no idea on Moseley.

Headingley is a cricket ground, but I don't know where it is.

And Splott, I think it's Cardiff.

Splott, Cardiff.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how many people knew that answer. Splott, Cardiff.

It's right! It's right, Andy!

Very, very, very well done indeed! That's a brilliant answer.

Splott is indeed in Cardiff and it scores you six. Richard.

-Yeah, very well played, Andy. Where did that one come from?

-The traffic report in Radio 2 is from Splott.

LAUGHTER

Excellent. There's a few theories as to why it's called Splott.

One is that it was originally built on land owned by the Bishop of Llandaff

and people said maybe it's from "God's plot". But also, when the houses were being build, supposedly,

it said "5 plot" and that was misread. But who knows?

-We may never know.

-Who knows?

-The Old English for patch of land is splott, so I'd say that's more likely.

Let's fill in the rest of the board. Headingley is a cricket ground,

that's a big clue for most people. It's in Leeds. Would've scored you 29.

Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham. Would've scored you 11.

And Holgate. Do you know Holgate?

Holgate is a pointless answer, so very well done if you said Holgate.

And if you did, I suspect maybe you live in York, cos that's what it is. Pointless answer.

Very good. Thanks, Richard. We're halfway through the round, so let's look at the scores.

Andy and Claire looking very solid there thanks to Splott.

Then up to Hannah and Vicky on 43.

And then up to 76 for Chris and Colin.

So Vicky and Colin, I guess it's going to be between you two to decide who stays and who goes.

OK, we'll come back down the line. Second players, take your places.

OK, we're going to put six more districts or suburbs on the board and here they are.

We have got...

We are looking for the cities or metropolitan areas to which these districts or suburbs belong.

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

How does that look to you?

-Terrifying.

-Really?

-You say I'm trying to find the one with the fewest,

I'm trying to find the one that I recognise and that's proving challenging enough.

I'm going to go with Craigleith

because the suffix leith sounds Scottish.

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

Craigleith. Glasgow you are saying. There's your red line. If you get below that, you're through.

Glasgow, Craigleith. Is that right? How many people said it if it is?

Oh, Claire! Oh, bad luck, bad luck. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

You scored a maximum of 100 points, that takes your total up to 106.

The round is not over yet. Just bear that in mind. It's a difficult board.

-Richard.

-Difficult board and Andy's score was so good, you're still in it.

I won't give you the answer in case others want to have a go.

Colin, so remember, we are looking for the cities in which you would find these areas.

The high scorers on 106 are Andy and Claire. You're on 76 which means if you score 29 or less,

you are through to the next round.

The only one that I'd take a punt at will be Govan. It sounds Scottish to me.

Sounds like a Rab C Nesbitt type of thing.

-So I'm going to go similar to Claire and say Glasgow.

-You're going to say Govan, Glasgow.

There's your red line. Get below that line you're through to the head-to-head.

Let's see if Govan and Glasgow go together, and if they do, how many people knew that.

It's right! Very well done, Colin. It's right, is it right enough?

-Oh!

-APPLAUSE

Well, that scores you 35. Takes your total up to 111. Slightly pyrrhic victory, that one.

-A brilliant answer.

-Yes.

-Is it enough to see you through to the head-to-head?

-We shall see.

-We shall see.

-Richard.

-Yeah, a few too many points. It is in Glasgow and it is where Rab C Nesbitt is set, as well.

Vicky. The high scorers are now Colin and Chris on 111.

You're on 43, which means you need to score 67 or less to be in the head-to-head.

Do you think you can do it? How's that board behind me?

I do know Toxteth and I was like that with Craigleith.

But it's definitely Toxteth. There were riots there in the early 80s.

-And that's Liverpool.

-Toxteth, Liverpool, you're saying.

Here's your red line. Nice and high. Below that red line, you're through to the head-to-head.

Toxteth, Liverpool. Is it right? And if it is, how many people said it?

It's right, Vicky!

-And you're through to the head-to-head.

-APPLAUSE

Very, very well done.

46. Takes your total up to a brilliant, low 89. Well played.

Well played. Let's take a look at the rest of the answers.

-Gosforth, that's your neck of the woods.

-Newcastle.

-Newcastle. 14.

Craigleith, as I suspect Andy knew, it's not Glasgow, it's Edinburgh. Would have scored you five points.

-Headington, do you know Headington?

-Well, no, I was about to say Leeds but that's Headingley.

-Oxford! It's Oxford.

-It is Oxford, yeah.

That would have scored you three. And Drypool is another pointless answer. Any ideas?

-Drypool.

-Not a word, however, everybody in Kingston-upon-Hull will be saying that's where it is.

-Why would they know?

-Because it's Hull.

-Oh, I see, right, yes.

-LAUGHTER

Thanks very much, Richard. At the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score,

-it's Chris and Colin. Oh, dear.

-AUDIENCE SIGH

Yes, exactly. Quite right. Quite right. I'm sorry we didn't have any Norwich suburbs there.

-I don't think we'd know them.

-I don't think we'd know them anyway.

-LAUGHTER

Well, I predicted great things for you. And you made it through to round two, which is good.

-It's certainly better than we did last time.

-Better than you did last time.

-Yes.

We've got to see a little bit more of you, but I still don't think we've had your best.

-But that's it. That's the end of your Pointless road.

-Lovely.

Thanks very much for playing, Colin and Chris. You've been brilliant contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, things will get even more exciting now in the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Very well done, Andy and Claire, Vicky and Hannah, you made it 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 £1,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now you go head-to-head on the best of three questions.

For each question, each pair needs to give me one answer and you are now allowed to confer.

All you need is an answer that scores less than the other pair and you win that question.

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

APPLAUSE

OK, here is your first question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many of the 'big five' African safari animals as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any of the 'big five' African safari animals. The phrase was coined by hunters,

as these were the most difficult to catch.

These days more often used for tourists, they're the ones you want to see.

We are looking for the 'big five' as outlined on the Kruger National Park website.

OK, Andy and Claire, cos you played best throughout the show, you go first.

We are looking for the 'big five' African safari animals.

-I'm not happy with giraffe.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-OK?

-We're going to go for rhinoceros, please.

-Rhinoceros. OK, rhinoceros.

Vicky and Hannah, you can confer out loud.

We're thinking, because of what Richard said, that a rhinoceros might be a bit too slow,

so they might be quite easy to catch. I don't know. So we're thinking something faster.

Like a cheetah. Shall we go cheetah or lion? Play it a bit safer, I don't know.

-You can choose. No pressure.

-Cheetah.

-It better be right.

-Cheetah.

She'll get it if it's not right, I tell you. She'll be in a home.

LAUGHTER

-She'd loved that.

-Oh, there's so much riding on this.

Right, Andy and Claire, you have said rhinoceros. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many said rhinoceros.

It's right.

-50!

-APPLAUSE

50 for rhino.

Now, Vicky, you've said cheetah.

-It's all depending on this, isn't it?

-So much is depending on this.

-Hannah, what do you think?

-It ought to be cheetah, for my mum's sake.

Is it right, and if it is, how many people said cheetah? Good luck, Vicky.

-Ah!

-AUDIENCE GROANS

Well, that means that after the first question, Andy and Claire are ahead 1-0.

-Richard.

-Well played, Andy and Claire. Let's take a look at all five of them.

The ones at the bottom are quite difficult. Well done if you got all five of these.

Buffalo is the best answer on seven.

Leopard would have scored you 16, there's rhino on 50, then elephant, 86.

And lion right at the top on 88.

Right. Here is our second question.

Vicky and Hannah, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Shakespeare plays set in Italy as they could.

We're looking for any Shakespeare play, there are quite a few of them,

that is wholly or partly set in the country we now know as Italy.

Not including any of Shakespeare's lost plays. Any play set wholly or partly in Italy, please.

Vicky and Hannah, you get to go first this time.

-Julius Caesar.

-Julius Caesar.

-Yep.

Julius Caesar. Andy and Claire, you can talk out loud if you like.

Erm, well, we're thinking we're going to stay away from Merchant Of Venice, Romeo And Juliet.

They're big ones that will probably score quite highly.

-We're going to go for Two Gentlemen Of Verona.

-Two Gentlemen Of Verona.

We have Julius Caesar, we have Two Gentlemen Of Verona. Let's see, in the order they've been given,

Vicky and Hannah Julius Caesar, is it right? How many people said it?

It's right.

-Ooh, look at that! 17.

-APPLAUSE

17. Great score.

Andy and Claire, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, is it right? How many people said it?

It is right.

Can it do it?

-Oh! 21.

-APPLAUSE

21. Which means, after two questions, it's 1-1. Richard.

Good answers from both teams. There's quite a few. There's 12 plays on this list.

Let's take a look at a few of them.

One point for Titus Andronicus. One for Much Ado About Nothing. Two for The Winter's Tale.

Three for Coriolanus. Four for All's Well That Ends Well.

Eight for The Taming Of The Shrew. All set or partly set in Italy.

Nine for Antony And Cleopatra. 15 for Othello.

There's Julius Caesar on 17.

Andy had taken us through all of these. The Two Gentlemen Of Verona, 21. Merchant Of Venice, 47.

And Romeo And Juliet, 73.

Thank you very much, Richard. OK, here is your third question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many nationalities of 2011 Formula 1 drivers as they could.

-Richard.

-We're looking for the nationalities of any of the 22 Formula 1 drivers

who started the 2011 season. So anyone who drove in that first Grand Prix. Any of their nationalities.

OK, Andy and Claire, you get to go first this time.

We're toying with two but we're going to go for Japan.

-Japanese.

-Japanese. Vicky and Hannah, what are you thinking?

Mark Webber is Australian, so I'll say Australian.

Australian. OK, Australian.

We have Japanese. We have Australian.

Right, whoever wins this goes through to the final. Let's find out who it's going to be.

Japanese, said Andy and Claire. Is it right? If it is, how many people said it? Japanese.

Yep, it's right!

-18!

-APPLAUSE

18 for Japanese.

Vicky and Hannah, Australian,

is it right? And if it is, how many people said Australian?

It's right!

-APPLAUSE

-30.

-18-30!

30. Which means, after three questions, Andy and Claire are through to the final, 2-1.

-Richard.

-Good head-to-head. Kobayashi is the Japanese driver in Formula 1. He won you the points.

Let's take a look at them all. Maldonado, Venezuela, that was a pointless answer.

The Mexican would have scored you two points.

Sebastien Buemi, the Swiss, would have scored you three. Belgian, five.

Russian six, that's Petrov. Heikki Kovalainen is Finnish, that's 15.

Japanese, 18, as we've just seen. Australian Mark Webber, 30.

Italian Jarno Trulli, 40. Brazilian, 41. Spanish 48, Alguersuari and Alonso.

German, they had six drivers in that first Grand Prix, on 70.

And three Brits, Hamilton, Button and di Resta, 96 points for that.

-Very well done if you got one of those low scorers.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

-Hang on, you said Venezuelan.

-I didn't say, "I think." I said, "There's got to be a Venezuelan."

But I went, "Ah, but I don't know."

So we went, "We'll go for Australian cos there definitely is one."

You will be coming back, and on your next appearance on Pointless, let's hope we see you in the final.

-But thanks for playing, Vicky and Hannah. Brilliant contestants.

-APPLAUSE

But for Andy and Claire, it's time for our Pointless final,

-and the chance to win our jackpot of £1,250.

-APPLAUSE

Well, congratulations, Andy and Claire. You have fought off all the competition

-and won our coveted Pointless trophy. So, very well done.

-APPLAUSE

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot. At the end of today's show, it stands at £1,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, the rules are very simple. To win, all you need to do is find a pointless answer,

that's an answer that none of our 100 people said. We've had one pointless answer today.

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

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

You're quite good at music.

-You are.

-Yeah. Shall we try that?

-Yeah.

-Shall we give that a go.

-Yeah. Well, I'll try and help.

-OK.

We'd like to try Pop Duos, please.

OK, Pop Duos. Let's find out what the question is. Good luck.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Pet Shop Boys UK Top 40 singles as they could.

-Pet Shop Boys. Richard.

-We're looking for any single released by the Pet Shop Boys

or which had them as a featured named artist

which reached the UK Top 40 up to April 2011.

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

All you need to win £1,250 is for just one answer to be pointless. Your 60 seconds start now.

-Right.

-OK. Well, I only know the obvious ones like, erm,

West End Girls, and Go West, is that one?

-I think they covered an Elvis song, as well.

-Did they? Which one?

-You Are Always On My Mind.

-Oh, yes!

-That might be worth one.

Then, do you remember they had one out Christmas 2010

that they did a sample of a classical piece?

-You're going to ask me the name.

-Yeah, it's from Peer Gynt. Do you remember it?

-Er, no.

-There's also the one called Se A Vida E or something.

-Oh, yes, I recognise that.

-And there's another one out near that time called Bilingual, I think.

-That sounds good.

-I don't know why...

-LAUGHTER

-So shall we try those three, You Are Always On My Mind, Se A Vida E and Bilingual?

-Yeah.

-Unless you can remember that other one. I think it's more random.

-I don't know.

-Five seconds left.

I can't remember what it is. We'll just go with those three.

Your time is up. We were looking for Pet Shop Boys UK Top 40 singles. I now need three answers from you.

-OK, we're going to go for You Are Always On My Mind.

-You Are Always On My Mind.

-Se A Vida E.

-Se A Vida E.

-Bilingual.

-And Bilingual.

-Yeah.

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

-Bilingual, I think.

-Bilingual. Put that last.

-Then...

-Which is your least likely?

-You Are Always On My Mind.

-You Are Always On My Mind.

OK, let's put them up on the board in that order, and here they come.

We were looking for Pet Shop Boys UK Top 40 singles.

-You said this was your least confident answer.

-Yeah.

Remember, you only have to find one pointless answer to win that £1,250 jackpot.

Let's see how many people said You Are Always On My Mind.

This has to be right and it has to be pointless.

Ooh. Unfortunately, that is not a pointless answer.

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

We are looking for Pet Shop Boys UK Top 40 singles.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer. This has to be pointless to win the jackpot.

For £1,250, let's discover if Se A Vida E is correct,

and how many people said it. What would you do with £1,250?

We could do a bit to our back garden, which at the moment is a bit of a state.

-Or we could go on holiday.

-Or we could go on holiday, which is probably what we would do.

-And come back and do the garden.

-See the garden and go, "We had a nice holiday."

-Yeah. Exactly.

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah, probably that.

Very good. £1,250 is riding on this.

Se A Vida E, is it right? Is it pointless?

Let's discover. Se A Vida E, how many people said it? Is it right?

Ooh, it's right. Se A Vida E is right.

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

It has to go all the way to zero and if it does, you leave here with £1,250. Still going down!

-Yes!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very, very well done!

Just brilliant. Very, very well done indeed! Brilliant!

Ah, congratulations!

That's wonderful. You managed to find that all-important pointless answer.

-Which means you go home with the jackpot of £1,250.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Brilliant.

-Richard.

-We've had the jackpot won on the last three shows now.

Very well done. Se A Vida E, that's the way life is, it was from the album Bilingual.

Never a single called that. They did do one called Single-Bilingual. Let's see all the pointless answers.

Before, Can You Forgive Her, Flamboyant, all pointless. Well done if you said those.

How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?, I'm With Stupid, which was their song about Bush and Blair.

Left To My Own Devices, a cover version of Somewhere, Yesterday When I Was Mad,

and You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk, which was their story... Their song about you and I.

-Love you!

-We didn't accept...

I love you, too. We didn't accept You Are Always On My Mind, it's just Always On My Mind.

-But, you know what? Like you could care less.

-Exactly.

-LAUGHTER

Well, thanks once again to our winning players, Andy and Claire,

-who go away with today's jackpot of £1,250.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Join us next time for our 200th edition of Pointless. How about that, Richard? 200 episodes!

-I know, 200, it's amazing, isn't it? It honestly doesn't feel like we've done any more than 195.

-I know.

-Round about, yeah.

-Exactly. It's going to be a special, stand-alone show with some memorable contestants.

So it will be a one-off. It's all people, because it's our 200th show,

that scored 200 in round one, which is the worst you can do in Pointless. We've invited them back.

LAUGHTER I hope some of them get 200 again.

-LAUGHTER

-Then they can come back for our 400th show!

It will be a one-off special. Don't miss it! Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

APPLAUSE

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