Episode 26 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to Pointless, the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test. Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

-So welcome Leah and Sarah. You are our first pair on the show. How do you know each other?

-Hello.

We are best friends and we also run our own company together in Bristol.

Very good indeed. And what is your company?

It's recruitment. We are both recruitment directors.

-Think for a second.

-I had to think.

Recruitment, and we set it up together.

-How long ago?

-Seven years now.

OK, Leah, what are you hoping will come up today?

History would be good or some cheesy '80s music would be lovely.

Good. Sarah, how about you?

Anything on Westlife. I love Westlife. Or cheesecakes.

-Richard's not looking hopeful.

-Westlife or cheesecakes.

-I think that's a no.

-Um...

-Can you just check?

-I'll take a little look.

-Nothing on classical music.

We have got cheesecakes, but no Westlife.

We're in, we're in!

What's your favourite kind of cheesecake? I'm starving.

-Don't bake it, cos that's all wrong.

-I wasn't going to.

I'm not very good at cooking. I just like eating them.

Great to have you on the show. Welcome to Pointless.

Best of luck this afternoon. And next, we welcome back Ian and Grant.

You've been on the show before. Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.

This is your second chance. Now, remind us what happened.

Last time you managed to find one of my many weak topics, film.

I don't know a lot about Ewan McGregor and it cost us in the end.

It was tight, went to a tie-break. Good telly for you, bad for us.

Hoping to improve today.

How would you be on cheesecake if that came up?

Possibly better on cheesecake than Ewan McGregor, but wait and see.

-I think I'd be good on cheesecake. If I'm honest, I just LIKE cheesecake.

-Yes, see?

-There we are.

It's the same on every subject on this show.

I don't know anything. I just like things.

I'd like to ask you a question, Alexander, if I may?

I'm going to grant you that permission.

I was just wondering, my mother's maiden name was actually Armstrong.

Get out of town(!)

There is a slight possibility you might be a long lost relative.

-Is there any way I could get some birthday or Christmas presents for the last 27 years?

-Or a few points?

That's a very good point.

That is a terrible oversight on my behalf.

I can only apologise, Grant.

What sort of things do you like?

-I need new football boots for next year.

-OK, fair enough.

Holiday maybe.

-OK.

-I'd love it if you bought Grant a pair of new football boots.

I would, as well.

Well, your old long lost cousin...

probably won't.

There we are. Great to have you back. Best of luck this afternoon.

-Thank you very much.

-Thanks.

-Next, we welcome back Vicky and Hannah.

You've also been on the show before. Remind us what happened with you.

My mum went and got it all wrong in the head-to-head.

Vicky!

Not much pressure.

Hannah says she will put me in a home if I get a question wrong.

LAUGHTER

So I'm going to disinherit her now cos I got it wrong.

Swings and roundabouts, isn't it? Disinherited. Put her in a home. Can't really lose, can you?

It's just lovely to see the love between a mother and daughter.

-A very strong team, though.

-It's lovely.

What would you love to come up this afternoon?

-What would be a brilliant category to set you up?

-For me, Highway Code.

I'm learning to drive.

-So you're really good on it now then?

-Well, I passed my theory.

-You passed? Very good.

-I passed my theory but not my practical yet.

-I've only been learning two years.

-Very soon.

HE LAUGHS

Very best of luck with Pointless this afternoon and with the practical driving test.

Great to have you back on the show. Welcome.

And finally, we've got Andy and Kim. How do you two know each other?

We met over a Prince t-shirt in the local gym.

What, it was just on the floor?

No, it was actually on my back at the time.

The Prince T-shirt brought you over?

Yeah, I saw him at the gym a few times and felt it was my duty,

as a Prince fan, to make conversation with Andy.

We got together.

We found romance through Prince.

Very good.

-Can I just say, Prince, not a big fan.

-You aren't?

Not a big fan.

-No, really?

-There you go.

Come on.

What you going to do?!

We'll talk later.

-I think you just misunderstand him.

-Name two good Prince songs.

-Can't be done.

-Two good Prince songs?

-Yeah.

-Oh, he can't do it.

-I could!

-You can't do it.

-We've got to move on.

-Raspberry Beret, I'd kick off with.

-Raspberry Beret.

-Raspberry Beret is a cracking song.

Lovesexy is a great song.

Yeah.

Gett On.

-Off.

-Off, rather!

LAUGHTER

Gett off.

It's cracking. It's a great song.

Do you know what, let's agree to disagree.

OK. Anyway, very, very best of luck.

It's great to have you on the show, Andy and Kim.

We'll find out more about you all, obviously, as the show goes on.

There's only one person left to introduce.

If life was a game of Top Trumps,

he'd beat you on knowledge, wit, height and, of course, obscurity.

He is my Pointless friend, Richard.

Hiya.

APPLAUSE

Two returning pairs today. Ian and Grant didn't cover themselves in glory last time.

Certainly Ian didn't. They may do a little bit better. Vicky and Hannah.

Obviously Vicky is under enormous pressure, given what's going to happen to her if they lose.

They were a very strong team last time.

So I think they might do well again.

And Sarah, some quiz show advice, be a bit more bubbly.

LAUGHTER

Do you know what I mean, though?

Some people can be a bit dour.

You just need to...

I can do serious.

Don't do serious. Remain exactly as you are.

Thanks, Richard. We put questions to 100 people before the show but this is Pointless.

We are after the obscure answers they didn't get.

To stay in the game and win our jackpot, you need to score as few points as possible.

What everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer.

That's an answer none of our 100 people gave.

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

Andy and Claire won the jackpot last time

so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000.

There it is.

APPLAUSE AND WHOOPING

Right, let's play Pointless.

OK, 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 is eliminated.

If anyone gives an incorrect answer they will score the maximum of 100 points, so avoid those if you can.

In this round, we show you two related question categories.

The first category will be played on the first pass going up the line

and the second will be played on the second pass coming back down.

As always, it's crucial who goes first and who goes second.

Let's reveal those two categories, and they are:

Can you all decide now in your pairs who's going first and second?

Whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, let's find out what our first question is in that first category.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many moons of the solar system as they could.

Moons of the solar system.

-Richard.

-Yeah, the correct answers on this board will be moons that orbit planets of our solar system.

The incorrect answers won't be moons as of April 2011.

Leah and Sarah, you all drew lots before the show

and this afternoon you get to go first.

You'll be pleased to hear for each question we give you a choice of seven possible answers on the board.

Here is your first list of seven.

I'll read those one more time.

I can tell you that at least one answer is pointless, but be careful because at least one is incorrect.

Pick an incorrect one and you score the maximum 100 points. Now, Leah.

It's nice having a list of seven to choose from.

-I would be in trouble if I didn't have that.

-Yeah.

I'm going to say Europa.

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

It's right. Very well done, Leah.

Down it goes.

13. That's a great answer.

Very well done. 13 for Europa.

Well done, Leah. A very good start to the show. Well done.

It was one of Jupiter's largest moons discovered by Galileo in 1610.

-Ian, we're looking for moons in the solar system.

-Yes.

What do you think?

A couple of names I recognise back from school days, but I'm not sure.

So I'm going to take a little bit of a punt on Sponde.

Sponde, let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Very well done. Look at that.

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

It takes the total to £1,250 and it scores you nothing.

Well-played, Ian. Another satellite of Jupiter

discovered into 2001. That's a better start than last time.

-It's a relief to answer something right while I'm here!

-Well done.

Very well done indeed, Ian.

So, Hannah, moons of the solar system.

I'm thinking most of the planets are named after gods

so I'm thinking Janus.

Janus, OK?

Is it right?

It's probably not.

How many people said Janus? Good luck.

It's right. Very well done, Hannah.

Very well done indeed. Brilliant answer.

Scores you one.

One for Janus.

Well played, Hannah. Janus is the Roman god of doorways and beginnings

and Janus the moon is a potato-shaped moon circling Saturn.

-How delicious.

-It rather depends on the shape of the potato, doesn't it,

-if it's potato-shaped?

-Yeah, yeah, true.

Thanks very much, Richard.

We are looking for moons of the solar system, Kim.

You are the last person to have this selection of moons.

So why not talk us through them and submit one at the end?

I'd love to talk you through them

but this is the worst subject for me so I have no idea at all.

But if I was playing this at home...

Andy will kill me, but I'm going to say Margaret...

-Andy...

-..for no reason at all.

I don't know how to describe Andy's face. That's...

It sounds so obviously wrong that it has to be right, surely?

I would really like there to be a moon Margaret.

I just... That would be lovely.

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

Very best of luck, Kim.

It's right!

Very well done.

This deserves to go a long way down.

And it does!

Look at that. Very well done, it's a pointless answer.

That's another £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total to £1,500.

It also scores you nothing and hearty congratulations.

Very well done. Margaret.

Very well played, a risk worth taking.

It's a small move of Uranus and is named after Margaret,

the hero in Much Ado About Nothing.

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

Titan, yeah, that is a moon of Saturn.

That would have scored you a fairly hefty 31 points.

Calypso, also a moon of Saturn would have scored one point.

By process of elimination, Nelson is the wrong answer.

The Arsenal striker, Sammy Nelson, once famously mooned

after scoring a goal. Got in a lot of trouble for it.

So very well done at home if you said Sponde or Margaret.

Both pointless answers.

Thank you very much, Richard. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

Kim and Andy on nothing, Ian and Grant on nothing,

two fantastic answers/guesses from them.

Then up just one point to Hannah and Vicky on one.

And who would have thought,

you are 13 times your nearest rival in terms of score.

It's lucky Sarah's so confident with science fiction.

No, that's not going to happen.

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

OK, for the second pass, the category is science fiction.

Let's see the question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name:

Alien races, Richard.

Yeah, the correct answers on this board will all be fictional

non-human races from TV and film.

OK. As with the first pass,

we're going to give you a choice of seven possible answers.

And here is your list of seven.

I will read those one more time.

I can tell you that at least one of those answers once again

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

Try and avoid the incorrect ones or you'll score 100 points.

Andy, looking very good on nothing there,

thanks to Kim's brilliant answer of Margaret in the first pass.

-Yeah, I'm very proud of her.

-I think you should be.

I had absolutely no faith in her but I'm very proud of her.

Did you choose the category or did Kim?

-I think I did.

-You chose science fiction.

I bottled it a little bit, I went, "Science fiction."

OK. Well, we are looking for alien races.

How are you feeling now?

I think there was a film a long time ago starring Dan Ackroyd...

called Coneheads.

I think I'm going to take Coneheads.

Here's your red line. It's quite a long way down.

Coneheads has to get you below that red line

if you are to be certain of a place in the next round.

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

let's see how many people said Coneheads.

It's right.

Down it goes. You've done it.

Very well done, Andy!

One point for Coneheads takes your total up to one. Richard.

Very well played and a very good score as a team.

From 1993, absolutely right, starred Dan Ackroyd,

aliens called Coneheads, they had cones on their head.

That's where they got their name from.

Very good. Vicky, you're on one.

The high scorers are Sarah and Leah on 13 which means

you want score 11 or less to be sure of a place in the next round.

I was going to go for Coneheads. You stole it!

But the one I'm thinking of, I think it is Captain Scarlet

and the Mysterons.

You are saying Mysterons. There they are, top of the board.

Let's see if it's right.

If it is, how many people said Mysterons?

Very well done indeed.

Very well done indeed.

That scores you three, takes your total up to four.

Well done, Vicky, you live to fight another day.

Yeah, the Mysterons from Captain Scarlet. Absolutely right.

They are Martians intent on taking over the world.

Very well done, Vicky. Grant, you're on nothing thanks to

Ian's answer of Sponde in the first round.

The high scorers are still Sarah and Leah.

It's getting a little bit critical.

Grant, if you can score 12 or less with your answer,

you're through to the next round.

I know an obvious one but it's definitely not going to score me

so I'm going to have to take a bit of a gamble.

I think I remember a film

and I think they contained the Spaceballs.

That will be my answer.

The Spaceballs.

OK. Good luck, Grant, good luck Sarah and Leah.

Here's your red line.

If you go below that red line, you are through to the next round.

And we say goodbye to Sarah and Leah.

Spaceballs, is it right? How many people said it? Spaceballs.

It's right.

Well done, Grant.

And you are through to the next round.

And it's pointless!

That adds another £250 to today's jackpot.

It takes the total to £1,750.

It scores you nothing.

It leaves your total at nothing. Very well done.

Well played, Grant.

Double pointless as well, you chose your category well.

Well played, tactically. From Mel Brook's 1987 film, Spaceballs.

Sarah.

What can I say?

-I'm sorry...

-Nothing.

I'm very, very, very sorry. You haven't even submitted an answer

and I'm afraid your total is already too high.

It's the most extraordinary low-scoring round,

it has to be said.

Look, one, four, zero and 13.

Talk us through the board. There might be another pointless answer.

Obviously not Klingons, that's a no-no.

I think Grockles is from the British Isles somewhere...

I don't know, maybe I'm getting it wrong.

Nibblonians, I don't think so.

My heart says go with Kotto.

-Which one do you want to submit?

-I would say Kotto, please.

"Koe-tto", Kotto. OK.

Let's see. Kotto, is it right?

And if it is, let's see how many people said it. Kotto.

No!

-That's just...

-Adds to the humiliation!

Unfortunately Kotto is an incorrect answer which means you score

a maximum of 100 points taking your total up to 113.

Richard.

Sounded so wrong, it actually was wrong.

Yaphet Kotto is an actor who played the chief engineer in Alien.

Oh, yes.

Is there a place in the British Isles called Grockles?

No, that's what the tourists are!

That's the right answer.

Grockles is an English word for tourists or outsiders.

So that is an incorrect answer.

The Klingons, you were right to avoid,

would have scored you a fairly hefty 45.

There was another pointless answer on the board and it was Nibblonians,

who were one of the many alien races from Matt Groening's Futurama.

Very well done if you said Nibblonians at home.

Thanks very much. So at the end of round one, the losing pair

with the highest score, it's Leah and Sarah.

Such a shame to be saying goodbye to you. Far too soon,

but we will see you again next time when I'm sure you will go

a lot further than the first round. Thanks for playing, Sarah and Leah.

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

Obviously there is only room for two pairs in the head to head

so one of the teams in front of me now will be leaving us at the end

of this round. Our category for round two this afternoon is...

words.

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

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

OK, our round two question concerns...

Words made up of double sets of letters. Richard.

I'm going to give you a series of clues which will lead you

to a word which uses the same set of letters twice.

If we were to say the yellow Teletubby, the answer would be Lala.

Or if we were to say buy a Prince album the answer would be no-no.

We are going to show you six on each pass.

We've asked 100 people to tell us the words these clues refer to.

The more obscure your answer, the fewer points you will score.

If you give an incorrect answer, you're going to score 100 points.

12 in all, 12 words which have repeated letters. Best of luck.

We're looking for words made up of repeated sets of letters like Lala.

OK, here are the clues. The first six are...

I'll read those all one more time.

Kenyan uprising of the 1950s,

French high-kicking dance,

quiet utterance or heart irregularity,

jelly produced from seaweed,

had a 2009 number-one hit with Bad Romance,

Herge's hero.

OK, there are your six clues. Grant.

As always, you are trying to find the one the fewest

of our 100 people could answer.

I'm going to have to play reasonably safe.

I think I'm going to go for a quiet utterance or heart irregularity.

And I'm going to say murmur.

Murmur. If that is right, let's see how many people said murmur.

Well done.

20.

Nothing wrong with that. 20 for murmur. Richard.

Good answer, Grant. Good start to the round as well.

It's an onomatopoeic word, murmur.

Hannah.

Hannah, Hannah.

We come to you.

I'm racking my brains for all sorts of things here that just...

it's not happening and the only couple I can think of

would be very obvious.

So I think I'm going to have to pick a French high-kicking dance

and it is a can-can.

Can-can.

Let's see if can-can is right and if it is, how many people said can-can?

It's right.

Oh, it's a high score but it's right though.

A lot better than 100.

62 for can-can, Richard.

Well played, Hannah.

Damage limitation getting 62 points,

from the French for noise or disturbance. Can-can.

Kim.

We are looking for the words with double sets of letters

that are described by these clues.

OK, this is like the moon question.

I cannot fill in many of them so I think,

although it does seem like a while ago, I think I have to go with

had a 2009 number one with Bad Romance

and say Gaga. Lady Gaga.

OK, you are saying Gaga.

Let's see if that is right

and if it is, how many knew that answer. Gaga.

It's right.

50.

50 for Gaga.

Well done, Kim. She's got more Facebook

followers than President Obama.

And she went to school with Paris Hilton. Imagine that school.

Let's fill in the rest of the board, shall we?

-Herge's hero is...

-Tintin.

-Tintin.

Would have scored you 26.

The Kenyan uprising of the 1950s was the Mau Mau uprising. 10 points.

The jelly produced from seaweed,

the best answer on the board, is agar agar.

Very well done if you said that at home.

Nine points for that. That's the best answer there.

It's what you get if you play a Lady Gaga song backwards.

OK, let's take a look at the scores as we are halfway through the round.

The best score so far, Grant and Ian.

That was a fantastic answer with murmur.

Then up to 50 for Kim and Andy with Gaga.

Up to 62 for Hannah and Vicky with the can-can.

Yes, Vicky, you're going to have to find a really good,

low scoring answer if you're going to make it through

to the head to head. Coming back down the line,

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

OK, we are going to put six more clues on the board

and we have got...

I'll read those one more time.

Remember we're looking for words made up of double sets of letters.

Repeating sets of letters.

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

Andy, you're on 50.

The high scorers on 62 are Vicky and Hannah. If you can score 11 or less,

you are definitely through to the head-to-head.

What are you thinking, is this a good category for you?

I'm tending towards the prison in New York State,

which I've got a sneaking suspicion might be called Sing Sing.

Sing Sing, sounds good to me.

OK, here's your red line coming in. There it is.

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

Let's see if it's called Sing Sing, this prison.

If it is, let's see how many people said Sing Sing. Good luck, Andy.

He's right!

22, not a bad score at all.

22, takes your total up to 72.

-Richard, Sing Sing?

-Yeah, well played, Andy. You're in a fairly strong position there.

It's in the town of Ossining in upstate New York.

Very good.

Now then, Vicky. The high scorers are now Andy and Kim on 72,

which means if you can score nine or less,

you are definitely through to the head-to-head.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking there's two quite high ones there.

Erm...there's two I don't know.

The one I'm going for is the North African semolina dish

and I'm going to say couscous.

Couscous? Is that right?

How many people said couscous?

Well done, it's right.

Oh! Not bad at all. 19.

19 for couscous takes your total up to 81. Richard.

Good score, not quite good enough. We'll see what happens in the last question.

Yes, a granulated semolina. Couscous.

Ian, you and Grant are on 20.

The high scorers currently Vicky and Hannah on 81, which means

if you can score 60 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

Erm...

The only one I'm going with is the bottom one. I'm going to say, Tutu.

Tutu.

Former Archbishop of Cape Town.

Let's see if Tutu is right and let's see if Tutu being right

can score low enough to get you through to the next round.

How many people said Tutu?

Yep! You're through! 46, just.

Takes your total up to 66. Richard.

Well done, Ian. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, of course.

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

Everyone knew Simon Le Bon's group, Duran Duran. That would've scored 51.

The alternative name for papaya, do you know that?

-Pawpaw.

-Pawpaw would have scored you seven.

The best answer on the board is the North African people,

essentially a group of people

who live along the coast from Egypt to the Atlantic. They are the Berber people.

-Oh, yes, Berbers.

-Two points. Very well done if you said that.

OK, thank you very much, Richard. So, at the end of round two,

the losing pair with the highest score, I'm afraid, Hannah and Vicky.

You're done so well, through to the head-to-head and a very, very close fought

head-to-head last time.

This time, I'm afraid, round two has done for you.

-It's swings and roundabouts.

-It is.

You've been fantastic contestants. Thanks for playing.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

For the remaining two pairs, more excitement now as we enter the head-to-head.

Very well done, Ian and Grant and Andy and Kim,

you've made it to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it through to today's final

and play for the jackpot which currently stands at £1,750.

For each question, each pair needs to give me one answer. You are allowed to confer.

All you have to do is come up with an answer that scores less than the other pair

to win that question. The first pair to get 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:

-Richard...

-We're looking for any single released by Madonna or which had her

as a named featured artist that reached the UK Top 40 prior to April 2011.

There are a lot of singles on this list. Best of luck.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Ian and Grant, as you've played best so far, you get to go first.

Yeah, I think we've got one, Alexander.

I think it's reasonably well-known, but not our strongest suit.

We're going for Crazy For You.

Crazy For You. OK, Crazy For You.

Andy and Kim?

Get Into The Groove.

Into The Groove, would that be three words or four?

I dunno. Erm, was Live To Tell a single?

-I think Live To Tell was.

-I don't know.

-Shall we go with Live To Tell?

-OK.

-I think we'll go with Live To Tell, if we may.

-Live To Tell.

We have Crazy For You, we have Live To Tell.

Ian and Grant with Crazy For You, let's see if that's right and see how many people said it.

It's right.

Wow! Ten.

Ten for Crazy For You.

You said it wasn't a strong suit, that's not a bad score.

Andy and Kim have gone for Live To Tell,

let's see if that's right and low many people said Live To Tell.

It's right!

Look at that, very well done.

Live To Tell.

-That was a high two.

-Yes.

-If that's a high five, that's a...?

-High two.

Well done, Andy and Kim, after one question. You are ahead, one-nil.

-Richard.

-Yeah, very good answer

and appropriately did get to number two in 1986.

Crazy For You, another good answer, got to number two, as well, twice in '85 and '91.

There's a bunch of pointless answers and low scoring answers as well.

The biggest scorers...

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

Ian and Grant, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many:

There are ten books in the Old and New Testament in the King James Bible,

whose name begins with a vowel. Can you give us the most obscure?

-See how many of those ten you can get at home.

-Thanks very much.

Books of the Bible whose names begin with a vowel.

OK, Andy and Kim, you start this time.

-Who?

-Apostles.

-Right. I don't know.

-Yeah, I think so.

-OK.

-OK, Bible's not a strong point.

-No!

-For you?

-For me.

-For both of us.

For either of us.

We've going with Apostles which I think is a book of the Bible.

-Apostles.

-I believe so.

Ian and Grant?

Well, the one we're going to have to give, again...

Probably there are some better ones but we'll have to go with Exodus.

OK, you're going with Exodus.

We have the Apostles.

Let's see if that's right and see how many said Apostles.

Very well done, 16.

That's a good score.

Now, Ian and Grant, you're saying Exodus.

You have to hope that's right and it goes below 16,

otherwise we say goodbye to you.

Very best of luck.

Exodus, how many said it and is it right?

It's right.

58, 58.

Bad luck, Ian and Grant. If you want your book of the Bible to be nice and obscure,

try and avoid Bob Marley writing a song about it.

It's just a little rule of thumb there.

After only two questions Andy and Kim are through to the final.

Straight sets, two-nil. Richard.

Apostles or Acts Of The Apostles, it's the book after the Four Gospels.

There's a bunch of answers that would have beaten it

and I suspect some people at home would have got all ten.

There's a pointless answer to start with.

All lovely names if you're just about to have a boy!

Very well done if you got all of those.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head... I'm afraid it's Ian and Grant.

Bad luck, guys. You've done so well.

A double pointless in the first round.

You really atoned for your first round exit last time round.

-Thank you very much for playing, you've been brilliant contestants. Very well done.

-Thank you.

For Andy and Kim it's now time for our Pointless Final

and a chance to win our jackpot of £1,750.

Congratulations Andy and Kim, you fought off all the competition

and you've 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.

The rules are simple. To win, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.

An answer that none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had three pointless answers

and Kim, you found one of those with the famous moon, Margaret.

You only have to find one more and you'll go home with the money.

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

-Not football.

-Not football. Not playwrights. American actors?

-It'll have to be.

-It's got to be.

-American actors.

-It'll have to be American actors.

-Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Jeff Bridges

films as they could. Jeff Bridges films. Richard.

Looking for any feature film made for cinema released

up to April 2011 for which Jeff Bridges received an acting credit.

As always, short films, TV films, documentaries don't count.

Voice performances do. Very best of luck.

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

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

Your 60 seconds start now.

-Did he do that Tarantino film? Was that him?

-I don't know.

-Car crashing, crashing cars into people.

-No, that was Kurt Russell.

-OK.

-He did a cowboy thing where he was an alcoholic, cowboy singer.

-I can't think of anything by Jeff Bridges.

-Oh, come on.

-I think we're going to suffer.

-Did he do that trucker, he was in that lorry?

-He was in that lorry?

-That truck thing.

What's the thing where that girl gets abducted? It was a remake of a French film.

The Vanishing. I think he was in that.

-I don't know.

-We might have one.

I don't know. I've no idea, Jeff Bridges.

Jeff Bridges. Oh, good God.

-There's going to be loads of stuff that he was in and we're just going to go...

-I know.

-Jeff Bridges.

-Yeah.

I've not got a clue. He tends to do western type things.

Five seconds.

-Oh my God, I don't know.

-What's the one he did with...

That's time up.

We were looking for Jeff Bridges films and I need your three answers.

OK, we don't have three.

-The only thing I'm dragging from the back of my mind is a film called The Vanishing.

-Mm-hm.

I don't know 100% if he was in it.

-That's the only thing I can think of.

-We'll take that.

Let's have two more answers from you.

We'll say Once Upon A Time In The West and erm...

-The Good Time Boys.

-The Good Time Boys.

OK, we have three answers there.

-Which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-The Vanishing.

-We'll put that last.

-Which is your least likely?

-Once Upon A Time In The West.

-OK.

Let's put those three answers up on the board in that order. Here they are.

We're looking for Jeff Bridges films.

You said this was your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot of £1,750.

Once Upon A Time In The West, it could be right.

Let's see if it is and how many people said it. Once Upon A Time In The West.

No!

-I don't think we're that surprised by that.

-No.

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

£1,750, what would you do with that?

I'd like to spend it on shoes but Andy won't let me.

Something sensible like putting it towards a new garden

because we moved into our house a year ago and the garden is more jungle book than picture book.

-Yeah.

-Right.

-Something practical.

Yeah.

We're looking for Jeff Bridges films.

Your second answer was The Good Time Boys.

This has to be pointless if you're going to win that jackpot of £1,750.

Let's see if The Good Time Boys is a Jeff Bridges film

and how many people said it.

No!

Back luck. That means you have only one more chance to win the jackpot.

However, this is an answer that I think you gave with a degree of confidence.

There's a fine line between confidence and stupidity.

I think we're nearly on that line.

I think we're moving into the realm of confidence.

We shall see, though. We're looking for Jeff Bridges films.

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

It is, The Vanishing.

Let's see if that's right.

Was Jeff Bridges in The Vanishing and how many people said it?

It's right. It's right.

It had to be right.

It now just has to be pointless.

This is your final shot at the jackpot of £1,750. Down it goes.

Still going down, look at that!

Oh, it is!

What about that?

Very, very well done.

The Vanishing, that's a brilliant answer.

-I can't believe it!

-Wow, what about that. Brilliant!

You didn't think that was right at all, did you?

Wow! Congratulations. You have managed to find that all-important pointless answer,

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

Very well done.

-Richard.

-Well played, Andy and Kim.

We've given away a lot of jackpots recently.

It's very rare people only know one possible answer and it turns out to be pointless.

What an answer to give, very well done. The Vanishing is from 1993.

Jeff Bridges abducts Sandra Bullock.

There's lots more pointless answers. See if you got any of these at home.

One of the biggest flops of all time, Heaven's Gate.

He plays an editor who employs Simon Pegg in How To Lose Friends...

Kevin Spacey's psychiatrist in K-Pax. All of those pointless.

Simpatico, with Nick Nolte and Sharon Stone.

Last American Hero, he plays a stock car racer.

The Mirror Has Two Faces, all these are pointless.

There's The Vanishing. His very first ever film,

The Yin And Yang Of Mr Go, where he was Jeffrey Bridges.

All pointless answers. Well done if you got any of those. Well done for The Vanishing.

-Thank you.

-Thanks once again to our winning players, Andy and Kim,

who go away with today's jackpot of £1,750.

Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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