Episode 33 Pointless

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

-Let's meet today's players.

-APPLAUSE

-Welcome back, Elaine and Jan.

-Thank you.

-This is your second appearance.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.

-Remind us what happened last time.

-We got to the head-to-head.

We were beaten by very worthy opponents and it was very close.

It was very close indeed. Came down to countries with four letters.

We had Mali playing Oman. There's a match I'd watch!

Such fantastic players.

Very nearly in the final. What are you hoping's going to happen this afternoon?

We're hoping to get in the final!

What are you hoping will happen between now and then?

We're hoping not to get any answers completely wrong,

and we're hoping there are no more Welsh questions.

OK, any other weak spots in your knowledge, Elaine?

-Sports.

-Sports.

-Yeah.

-Just blanket sports?

-And pop music.

-Sport and pop music.

-And nature.

-Oh, hang on! Hang on a minute!

-And science.

-Sports, pop music, nature and science.

Right. OK. Very best of luck, Elaine and Jan. Next, we welcome Chris and Gaz.

You were also on last time. Remind us what happened.

We scored 200 points, unfortunately.

-There is no shame... Well, there's some shame.

-There is.

-Christian Bale.

-Shirley Bassey.

Oh! Who'd win in that fight?

-Christian Bale.

-Shirley Bassey? Come on!

A 75-year-old woman is going to lose to Christian Bale in a fight?

Christian Bale is always losing weight for films.

-He's got to be weak, weak as a puppy.

-LAUGHTER

Let's get it on. Unless Shirley's scared. Perhaps she's scared.

-Maybe Bale's a bit scared.

-I don't think he is.

Hold on. No. He's not scared.

-LAUGHTER

-He is bang up for it.

OK. Well, I'm looking forward to it. Chris and Gaz.

Bale and Bassey between them got you out of the show.

-What are you hoping's going to keep you in?

-A sport subject would be good. Maybe geography. Not science.

What are your interests, Gaz? You're both postmen.

Is there any time for you to pursue other interests?

Got all afternoon to go out and do stuff, shopping, cooking, pub quizzes with Chris.

-That's it, mainly.

-Enough to be going on there.

-The pub quiz covers all sorts of bases.

-It's a good night out.

Very best of luck to you. Please let's have you longer than the first round.

Next, we welcome Stephen and Stuart. How do you know each other?

Obviously, I'm the father. He's the son.

Obviously, you are the father. He is THE son.

-Where have you come from, Stephen?

-Preston in Lancashire.

-You too, Stuart?

-That's right.

-Stephen, what would you like to see come up?

Pop music of the '60s and '70s.

Films from the '60s and '70s would be a strong subject for me.

-A bit of geography.

-Stuart, what about you?

I more like the '80s music, closet fan.

This "closet" word. You're implying there's some sort of shame to knowing about '80s music.

-Some say there's shame to liking Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet.

-Nothing wrong with Spandau Ballet.

-No shame.

-I'd even answer a Bucks Fizz if I had to.

Some shame is beginning to attach itself to your '80s music interest.

-OK. I'll stop there.

-Yeah. Stop there.

Stephen, what are your interests?

I like going out with the wife and our cocker spaniel.

-We do play table tennis a lot, me and my dad.

-A bit of...?

-Yes.

-Yeah. Going on from before. Very competitive.

-Oman, Mali.

-Who do you fancy in that?

-If Mali's the better team, he's Mali.

-OK.

-Even though he's senior to me,

he beats me ten out of ten times.

Stephen and Stuart, welcome to Pointless.

Finally, we have Gemma and Hywel. How do you know each other?

We met in Swansea University and we've been going out for two and a half years.

-Gemma, what would you like see come up this afternoon?

-Horror films.

-Mm-hm.

-I think it's very unlikely,

but I think we'd have an advantage over the other couples if Ultimate Frisbee came up.

-Trouble is, we've had a lot of Frisbee in recent shows.

-Ahhh!

-I'd therefore be surprised if it came up. Hywel, what would you like to see come up?

-Generally, films.

A bit of geography, maybe. I play Ultimate Frisbee in my spare time.

-Are you an Ultimate Frisbee expert?

-I wouldn't say I'm an expert.

But who would you say would win an Ultimate Frisbee game

between Christian Bale and Shirley Bassey?

Depends who else they had on their team. There's six other people.

-Ducks the question. Notice that?

-Yeah.

-What are you studying at university?

-I did geography. Gemma's at university. I've left.

-What are you doing, Gemma?

-I'm doing mental health nursing.

Very good. Very best of luck to all of you.

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

He spends his Saturdays checking the indexing at his local library.

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

-Hiya.

To be fair, I do Ultimate Indexing. Very, very different.

-Not Dewey Decimal!

-Not just standing round in a circle.

It should be a cracking show today.

Question two's a lovely question.

Thank you very much, Richard. We put all our questions to 100 people,

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

All our players need to do is score as few points as they possibly 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.

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

Today's jackpot starts off at £5,500.

AUDIENCE: Wooo!

-Right, let's play Pointless.

-APPLAUSE

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

Whichever team has the highest score will be eliminated.

Our category for round one this afternoon is...

..Zoology. Can you all 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 question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many whales as they could.

-Richard.

-The correct answers will be species of swimming mammals commonly known as whales.

Incorrect answers won't be whales.

There we are.

Elaine and Jan, you all drew lots and you get to go first.

You may be delighted to hear, we are giving you a choice

of seven possible answers in each pass.

The first set of seven reads like this...

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

..Remember, we are looking for types of whale, Elaine.

At least one of those is pointless.

At least one is incorrect, pick one of those and you score 100 points.

I only know a couple of those. I have to play it safe.

-I'll go for humpback.

-Humpback. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said humpback.

It's right.

APPLAUSE

-That's a pretty decent score, Richard, of 40.

-Yes.

Found in coastal waters all around the world. They communicate using that distinctive song.

-Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley?

-That's how they communicate. Yeah.

-That is amazing.

-Yeah.

Chris, remember, we are looking for whales.

There's one I know for definite. One, I THINK I know, but not 100%.

I think I'm going to play safe

and go for sperm whale.

You're going for sperm. Let's see if that's right.

If it is, how many people said sperm whale?

Very well done.

-44, Richard.

-Well done, Chris.

It's got a massive square head and they're quite bad-tempered.

Often ram boats.

Don't mess with a sperm whale. Don't mess with any whales, especially not the sperm whale.

Stephen, we are looking for whales.

There's one I'm quite sure of.

One I'm 50% sure of.

I think I'll go for the one that I'm pretty sure of, minke.

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

Well done.

Very well done.

That's a great score, Stephen.

Very fast swimmers, minke whales, at 21 miles per hour.

-It's not that fast.

-It's quite fast.

-It's faster than I can swim.

-It's a bit show-offy to say they're fast.

-Moderate speed.

-Faster than a sperm whale.

-Thank you.

Now then, Hywel. You're the last person to have this board.

There's still a pointless answer. That would add £250 to the jackpot.

-We are looking for whales.

-There's one I'm pretty sure is a whale.

There's definitely a wrong one and a pointless one, so I want to guess,

but I don't want to risk getting 100 points.

I'm going to say gray whale.

Let's see if it's correct and, if it is, how many people gray whale.

It's right. Well done, Hywel.

Very well done indeed! The best score of the pass!

Five points for gray whale.

Well played, Hywel. Well done if you said gray whale at home.

Let's fill in the rest of the board. All are incorrect or pointless.

I'm going to say keiko is a whale.

OK. That's wrong.

But let's go on. Keiko is the name of the whale in Free Willy.

-Sorry. Did I not say that?

-No, you left that bit out.

Ginko-toothed HAS to be a whale.

It is, ginko!

-It's the one with the ginko teeth.

-Correct.

That's a pointless answer, so well done if you said that. Bowhead?

It's a... It's a... It's a...whale.

Otherwise known as the Greenland whale. Two pointless answers.

Let's take a look at the scores. Cracking answer from Hywel.

The gray whale. Five points to him.

Up a tiny bit, to Stephen and Stuart.

Then up quite a lot to Elaine and Jan.

Then a smidge ahead of them, Chris and Gaz.

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

We're going to put seven more answers on the board and we are looking for whales, remember.

We have got...

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

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

At least one is incorrect. Pick an incorrect one and score 100 points.

Now, Gemma.

-Whales.

-Yeah. Um...

I'm really torn, actually.

There's only one I know, a really obvious answer.

I'm going to go for a blue whale.

A blue whale. There it is.

Blue whale. There's your red line.

Below that, through to the next round.

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

Ooh, that's a high score. 71, Gemma.

71 takes your total up to 76. Richard.

The largest animal ever to have lived.

-They average 150 tonnes.

-Wow.

-They're not swimming at 21 miles an hour, are they?

-Noo.

Nooo!

So, Stuart.

Remember, we are looking for whales.

The high-scorers are Gemma and Hywel. You're on eight.

If you can score 67 or less...

Um...

I think I've heard of this one.

I don't have a clue what it looks like or where it's from.

But I think there's a pilot whale so I'm going to go for pilot.

Let's hope it looks like a whale and it's from the sea! Pilot whale.

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

Pilot whale. Is it right? How many people said it?

Very well done, Stuart.

And you are through to the next round.

That's a spectacular answer!

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

Taking the total up to £5,750.

And it scores you nothing, leaving your total at eight. Richard.

They're very social animals. They go round in pods of hundreds.

Gaz, you WERE the high-scorers on 44,

till Gemma rode to your rescue.

They are now the high-scorers.

Should you score 31 or less, you're through to the next round.

We are looking for whales.

I'll take a risk and go for Cuvier's beaked.

OK. There's your red line.

Below that red line, through you go to the next round. Cuvier's beaked.

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

It's right. Very well done, Gaz.

Yes!

Very well done, indeed!

That's another pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot.

Takes the total up to a whopping £6,000.

-It scores you nothing. Very well done. Richard.

-Well done, Gaz.

Beaked whales probably the least studied mammals on the planet.

They live very deep. They dive to two kilometres to catch their prey.

What's their prey? Old ships?

Squid, that sort of thing, stuff that lives that far down.

And there's not much that does. Very, very hard to study them.

Jan,

the high-scorers, should you need to be reminded, are Gemma and Hywel.

35 or less is what we require from you to keep you in the game.

Remember, we are looking for whales.

-Talk us through the board.

-Did I not say we didn't want any more questions about "Wales"?

-You wanted nothing else about Wales.

-It wasn't what I had in mind.

Corwen is IN Wales, therefore that is probably a wrong answer.

Um...

Tashtego could be some sort of Japanese type species of whale.

But I've never heard of it.

Um, white whale, I'm not sure of either.

I THINK, it's a stab in the dark,

that I have heard of a narwhal whale so that's what I'm going for.

Narwhal. There's your red line, Jan.

Please can narwhal get you below that red line.

-Elaine, what do you think?

-I'd have gone for that.

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

It's right.

And gets you through to the next round.

Very well done!

Very well done, Jan. Richard.

Well done, Jan. It's a small Arctic whale.

Distinctive features, it's got a very long tightly spiralled tusk.

It can be up to nine feet in length. Let's look at the rest of the board.

White whale would have seen you through.

Would have scored you 13 points.

You didn't fall into our trap. Corwen is a place IN Wales.

Tashtego, also an incorrect answer, is a character from Moby-Dick.

Thank you very much, Richard. So, at the end of round one,

the losing pair with the highest score, I'm sorry to say, Gemma and Hywel, it is you.

Gray whale, nothing wrong with that. Blue whale, nothing wrong with that.

But not only the biggest whale in the world, also the biggest score.

I'm afraid you suffer as a result of it.

I hope we will see more of you next time.

Meanwhile, thanks very much for playing.

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

Now, only room for two pairs in the head-to-head so one of the teams will leave at the end of this round.

Our category for round two is...languages.

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

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

Our round two question concerns...

..Greetings in foreign languages.

On each pass, we'll show you six greetings in foreign languages.

We asked 100 people, "In which languages are these greetings used?"

A nice obscure answer is going to score fewer points. An incorrect answer is going to score 100 points.

12 greetings, 12 languages to guess at home.

We are looking for the languages in which these are used as greetings.

We have got...

..I'll read those again...

..There are our six greetings.

What I want from you is the language in which those are greetings.

Try to find the one the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Jan.

Languages has never really been my forte. I did French at school.

Which isn't going to help me today.

I guess that a couple of those are really quite obscure.

I'm going to go with kalimera, which, I believe, is Greek.

Let's see if that's right

and, if it is, how many people said kalimera, Greek.

Yes. It's right.

That's a great score.

-Greek, Richard, kalimera.

-Yeah. It's a lovely round, this.

-If you're going on holiday, you'll learn something from this.

-Yeah.

-Kalimera, Alexander.

Top of the morning to you. I'm replying in Irish there.

Now, Chris.

We are looking for the languages in which these terms are greetings.

There's two that I'm sure of, but they'll both be high scorers.

-I'm going for guten Tag, German.

-Guten Tag, says Chris, German.

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

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-Ho ho ho! Oooh, Chris.

-Blimey.

-That's three better than wrong.

We rarely see scores that high.

-Means "good day" in German.

-It's nice that so many people

in our fair country know a nice greeting in German.

Stephen, you're the last person to have this so you can talk us through

all of these greetings.

I've just come back from the Greek islands. I'd have gone for kalimera.

I'm struggling now so I've got to go for the top one.

-Buongiorno, Italian.

-Buongiorno, Italian.

Let's hope that goes down lower than guten Tag did for Chris and Gaz.

Is that right? How many people knew that answer?

It's right. Down it goes.

Good answer, as it turns out.

-Buongiorno, Richard.

-Buongiorno yourself. Yeah, Italian.

A better score than guten Tag, but still pretty high.

Let's fill in the board. Do you know dzien dobry?

-Polish.

-Exactly right.

-Dia duit?

-No.

Gaelic or Irish.

It actually means "God be with you". Two points.

-Selamat siang is a pointless answer. Do you want to have a...?

-Thailand.

Not Thailand. Indonesia. Very well done if you got that at home.

Unless you're Indonesian, in which case, come on!

Thank you very much, Richard. Let's take a look at the scores.

Jan and Elaine, very much the best score.

Then up quite a long way to Stephen and Stuart.

Then up nearly all the way to Chris and Gaz.

Gaz, you'll have to find a really obscure greeting

if you want to make it through to the head-to-head.

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

We're going to put six more greetings on the board. We have...

..I will read those again...

..The high-scorers are Gaz and Chris. You are on 64.

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

-We are looking for the languages in which these terms are greetings.

-OK, um...

I THINK, I know the one I'm going to guess for

because a teacher was trying us out with some Welsh once.

And I'm pretty sure that bore da is Welsh for "good day".

Bore da, there it is. You're hoping that is Welsh.

Wales featuring a lot in this show, isn't it?

There's your red line.

Below that red line, head-to-head time.

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

You're quite right, Stuart.

Will it get you through...?

Yes, it will!

Extremely well done.

-That takes your total to 90. Richard.

-Well played, Stuart.

Well played to your teacher as well. It means "good morning" in Welsh.

Now, Gaz,

what we require from you

is a lovely low score.

I can probably predict four of them.

I'll go for shalom and Israel.

-Shalom, you're saying Israel.

-Yeah. I've been there.

Many years ago.

You're the high-scorers, so there's no red line.

You just have to hope this is going to score as little as possible.

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

Bad luck.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Sorry, Gaz. I won't give the answer, in case Elaine wants to have a go.

Elaine, here is the good news. Gaz has taken a hit there.

Taken their score to 197, which is so high you won't overtake it,

even if you score 100 points.

Knowing that, take us through the board and submit an answer.

We are looking for the languages in which these terms are greetings.

I think I know three for definite.

Shalom is Hebrew, bonjour is French

and hola is Spanish.

I'm going to guess at the second one down that I can't pronounce.

Xin chao!

-I'm going to say Chinese.

-Is that Chinese?

If it is, how many people said it? No red line for you. You're through.

Incorrect. That scores you the maximum of 100 points.

It couldn't matter less. You are through to the next round.

Good risk to take. Xin chao is Vietnamese.

It would have scored one point. Best answer on the board.

You've been through the rest for us. Shalom, I'm afraid Gaz, is Hebrew.

We were looking for the languages.

They do speak it in Israel, of course.

Hola, Spanish, would have scored 64.

Hyvaa huomenta is Finnish.

Bonjour, let's see if the French can beat the Germans.

-Bonjour is French and would have scored you 98 points.

-98!

-98 points.

-Very well done, those French.

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

bad luck, Gaz and Chris.

You've done much better this time. Nice low score.

And 197 is a LOAD better than 200.

-Just.

-Sadly, this is the end of the road.

-We have to say goodbye, but thank you very much for playing, Chris, Gaz.

-Thank you.

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

Stephen and Stuart, Elaine and Jan, you've made it to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can play for the jackpot, which currently stands at £6,000!

AUDIENCE: Woooo!

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

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

The first pair to win two questions plays for today's jackpot.

Let's play Pointless.

OK, here is your first question.

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

subjects in Wonderful World as they could.

We're looking for any of the academic subjects

mentioned in the lyrics of Sam Cooke's hit Wonderful World.

Those are the many things he "don't know much about".

Stephen and Stuart, because you've played best so far, you get to go first.

WHISPER

Stephen and Stuart.

-Red roses, we're going for.

-Red roses you are saying. Red roses.

Elaine and Jan.

-Well, we're going to go for history.

-History.

We have red roses and we have history.

Stephen and Stuart, let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people knew that answer.

That's an incorrect answer.

Elaine and Jan, you've gone for history.

It needs to be correct and you will win this question. History, is it right?

Yup. It's right. Well done.

54, it goes down to.

All it needed to be was right, and it was.

After one question, Elaine and Jan are up one-nil.

Stephen and Stuart, you're thinking of Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World.

This is Sam Cooke's "Don't know much about history..."

Let's take a look at all the things he don't know much about...

Very well done if you got those low-scorers.

Thank you very much. Yes, listen to Richard is the answer to that.

Here is your second question.

Stephen and Stuart, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

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

of the original NATO countries as they could. Richard.

Any of the 12 countries that signed the North Atlantic Treaty

in Washington in 1949, the treaty that formed NATO.

Thank you very much. Elaine and Jan, you go first.

WHISPERING

-OK.

-OK, we think Netherlands.

The Netherlands. Stephen and Stuart.

We've agreed to go for Norway.

So we have the Netherlands and we have Norway.

This will decide whether or not you stay with us,

or whether or not Elaine and Jan go through to the final.

You have to win this point, Stephen and Stuart.

The Netherlands, let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people said the Netherlands.

It's right.

APPLAUSE

Stephen and Stuart, nine is what you have to beat.

-Tough.

-You've gone for Norway.

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

It's right.

AUDIENCE: Ooooh!

Oh, very, very well done.

That means, after two questions,

Elaine and Jan are still up, one-nil. Richard.

Let's take a look at all 12. A couple would have won the point.

Luxembourg and Iceland, both part of that original NATO treaty...

..Good answers from both teams. Well done if you beat them, though.

Here is your third question.

Again, Stephen and Stuart, you have to win this to stay in the game.

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

Stanley Kubrick films as they could.

Any feature film made for cinema release for which Stanley Kubrick received credit as director.

-No short films or documentaries, just feature films made for cinema release.

-Thank you very much.

-Stephen and Stuart answer first.

-ALL WHISPER

OK, right. There was one that we couldn't think of the title of.

We thought it would have been a good one!

-Yeah.

-That's kind of by the bye!

So we're going to go for, I think it was his last film

-with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut.

-Eyes Wide Shut.

Elaine and Jan?

-We were going for that one as well!

-So we're going to take a risk.

-We're going to go for Dr Strangelove.

-Dr Strangelove.

We have Eyes Wide Shut and we have Dr Strangelove. That's a risk there?

Stephen and Stuart, again, you have to win this to stay in the game.

If Elaine and Jan win this question, they are through to the final.

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

Not a bad score at all.

13. Elaine and Jan, Dr Strangelove. How confident are you?

-Not very.

-This is a shot in the dark, to some extent.

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

It's right.

Very well said, Elaine and Jan.

Will it go below 13?

It will! Very well done, indeed!

That's done exactly what it had to do.

After three questions, Elaine and Jan are through to the final, two-nil.

You knew it, somewhere in your head.

Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.

Peter Sellers nominated for Best Actor.

Let's look at all of Kubrick's films.

There is one pointless answer, his second film, Killer's Kiss...

..Thank you very much, Richard.

The losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, Stephen and Stuart.

That was very hard-fought. Some great answers from you there.

You were beaten in the end by,

by this dazzling pair, Elaine and Jan.

They've come right through in both of their Pointless shows.

We will see you again next time, when I hope you'll go even further. Thank you very much for playing.

Good luck.

For Elaine and Jan, it's our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £6,000!

Congratulations, Elaine and Jan, you fought off all the competition

and won our coveted Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £6,000!

AUDIENCE: Woooo!

To win that, all you have to do is find a pointless answer,

one that none of our 100 people could think of.

We've had two pointless answers today. You only have to find one more to go home with that money.

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

-You choose.

-Yeah.

-We'll go UK geography, please.

-UK geography.

OK, we gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

as many cities granted city status since 1900 as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any town in the UK that's been granted city status from 1900 right up to 2011, please.

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

All you need, to win that £6,000, is for one of those to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

Right, well, Wolverhampton.

Definitely in the last few years.

-Is Milton Keynes one?

-I'm not sure.

-Wakefield was another one.

-All right.

There's... Let me think...

-We can discount Birmingham, Manchester!

-Yeah!

-What else?

-Swansea, maybe?

-Yeah.

There are some that have been granted status in the last couple of years but I can't think of them.

-Do you think Warrington?

-Warrington is one, yeah.

-So, Wolverhampton...?

-Wakefield, Warrington.

-All Ws!

I'm not sure.

-Can you think of anything else?

-No.

-Wigan?

-Wigan...

Five seconds remain.

That's your time up.

We were looking for cities granted city status since 1900.

I now need your three answers.

-Wolverhampton.

-Wolverhampton.

-Wakefield.

Wakefield.

-And... And Warrington.

-Warrington.

-All the Ws.

Very good indeed. Which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Wakefield.

-Wakefield we'll put last.

And your least likely?

-Warrington.

-Warrington.

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

..We were looking for cities granted city status since 1900.

This was your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win the jackpot of £6,000.

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

Warrington.

-You weren't sure of that one.

-No.

-So no massive loss.

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

What would you do with £6,000?

I'd either take my husband on holiday

or put a down payment on a camper van and take my husband on holiday!

You could tour all the places beginning with W!

-How about you, Jan?

-A new camera.

I guess there'd be something in it for the children and grandchildren.

OK, we were looking for cities granted city status since 1900.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer.

This has to be pointless if you're going to win £6,000.

It also has to be correct. You know it's correct, don't you?

Maybe being down at the far end of the alphabet, it'll be one that people didn't think of.

Wolverhampton, is it right? How many people said it? Very best of luck.

It's right.

The next thing it has to be is pointless.

Into the 40s, into the 30s.

If this goes to zero, you leave with £6,000!

-Five for Wolverhampton!

-AUDIENCE GROANS

But you had one other brilliant answer up your sleeve.

Wolverhampton, only five, not a pointless answer.

You have a last chance to win today's jackpot of £6,000.

-What are you thinking?

-Help!

You had no problem at all putting this one further down your list.

It's one that probably people wouldn't think of immediately.

That's what we're hoping, anyway.

Whatever happens, we've had a great time.

This is very exciting. Everything is now hanging on Wakefield.

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

This has to be pointless. Very, very, very best of luck.

Wakefield, is it right? How many people said it?

Oh, no!

AUDIENCE GROANS

-Oh, no!

-OK. Well... APPLAUSE

You didn't find that pointless answer so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £6,000.

Never mind. We've got the trophy.

Quite right. That jackpot will roll over to the next show.

You've been fantastic contestants and you do take home our Pointless trophy.

Very unlucky. Wakefield, it is a city, but was granted city status

before the time we're talking about.

There's 22 cities that have been granted city status since 1900. Wakefield before that.

Cambridge, Southampton, Cardiff, all since 1900 all been made cities.

There's only three pointless answers. It was a very tough category to pick.

Let's take a look at all three of them.

There is Armagh, which was made a city in 1994.

Lancaster was made a city in 1937

for its long association with the Crown.

And Stirling for the Queen's golden jubilee in 2002.

Very well done if you got any of those.

-We wouldn't have got any of those.

-Only three of them!

-That's one of the toughest jackpot rounds we've yet had!

-No problem.

You've made it to the head-to-head and right through to the final.

We have to say goodbye, Elaine and Jan, but it's been brilliant having you on the show.

Nobody's won our jackpot today so it rolls over, which means on the next show we will be playing for £7,000!

AUDIENCE: Woooo!

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

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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