Episode 37 Pointless

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

the quiz show where obvious answers mean nothing, and obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players.

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Welcome, Nadia and Yasmin. You are our first pair on the show. How do you two know each other?

We're sisters. One of four sisters.

-I'm the oldest and Yasmin...

-Sorry, surely two of four sisters?

-Two of four sisters... Yes.

-Yes.

-You said... Yes. Not one.

-Surely two.

-Two of four sisters. Two of four sisters.

-Yes!

-She's the oldest and I'm the middle.

-And where have you come from?

-West Sussex.

West Sussex. And what do you do, Nadia?

I'm a sales manager for a high street retailer.

What kind of high street retailer?

A chemist, pharmacy retailer.

And Yasmin, how about you?

I'm a primary school teacher.

Very good. What age?

I teach... At the moment I'm supplying, so five to 11 years old.

-Five to 11. What's your favourite age group of that?

-Um... I prefer the smaller ones, really.

-They're just a bit...

-Easier to tame!

-Yeah!

-Pliable.

-Absolutely, yeah.

-I'll tell you what, the great thing about being a primary school teacher

is by and large, your pupils probably won't be watching.

Yes. So that's a good thing.

Phew-ee.

I say that - you're going to dazzle us this afternoon, I think.

Lovely to have you here.

-Thank you.

-We'll be finding out more about you throughout the show, but best of luck.

And next, we welcome back Liz and Tom. You were on the show last time.

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

-Remind us what happened.

-Well, we did very badly. Well,

-I

-did very badly - Tom did quite well.

Yes, we went out on the first round, unfortunately.

Well, you know, we gave you a very difficult question -

-flags with green in them.

-Yeah.

What are we going to see this afternoon that's going to get you into the final?

-Film, probably.

-Yeah, film is obviously a topic that comes up a lot.

But you ask us to name topics we're good at, we could probably name topics we're bad at a lot.

-OK, so what topics would you hate to see come up?

-Geography would be nasty.

-Science, we're not overly confident on.

-Politics.

-Nature, politics...

-You have both worked, at some stage, in a bookshop.

-Books is a bad one as well, yeah!

-Books would be bad.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Have you ever thought maybe a quiz show is not the best place for you?

-Yeah!

-I think this is a learning curve that we're going to...

-If the question was about different quiz shows, we'd be good.

-So you're very good on other quiz shows.

-No, we're good at watching.

-Yeah, we know the names of them!

-OK. What's your favourite quiz show...?

What a silly question!

Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha! As if there's be any other answer.

-It's The Weakest Link.

-Yeah.

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-After Pointless, what's your quiz show of choice?

-University Challenge.

-Yeah.

-We get all those right.

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Um, well now, Liz and Tom,

I have every faith that you'll prosper in this edition of Pointless.

-Next, we welcome Nick and Charlie. Now, how do you two know each other?

-We are brothers from Bath.

Yes, I thought you might be.

-And we now live together as well in Bristol.

-Yes.

-What are you doing in Bristol?

-We're both students.

-I see. What are you studying, Nick?

-Spanish and Portuguese.

-What stage are you in your degree?

-I'm in my final year.

Charlie, what are you doing?

-I'm doing medicine.

-You're doing medicine, and what year are you in?

-I'm in my third year.

-When you're not studying, what do you like to do, Nick?

-Um... I'm quite into foreign cinema,

-which kind of goes hand in hand with what I study, really.

-OK, foreign cinema. That...

never comes up!

But occasionally... No, it does very occasionally.

Any categories you've seen on Pointless in the past and thought, "Ooh!"?

-We haven't seen Harry Potter, and we quite want it to come up.

-Have you watched all the films,

-or read all the books, or both?

-Both.

-Very best of luck to the pair of you. It's great to have you here.

-Thank you.

Finally, we welcome back Pat and Rob. You were also on last time.

-This is your second chance to reach our final. Remind us how you did.

-We went out in the head-to-head round.

Yes, that was tricky. Tilda Swinton.

So, yes, we're expecting great things of you this afternoon.

-I think finalists. That's what I think.

-Any time you pick somebody to go to the final,

-they go out in the first round, so...

-I'm afraid that does almost always happen, yes.

But this time it's not going to. Pat, what's going to see you through to the final?

-What category is going to propel you that far?

-Um...

If books do come up, it's not that bad, since everybody else hates them.

-Yeah. Rob, how about you?

-Sci-fi.

-Sci-fi?

-Yes.

-Really?

-Yeah. Well, sort of, yeah.

-Which areas of sci-fi?

-Anything, really.

I've always been a bit of a dab hand.

-Fifties...

-Any preference for film or books, or...?

-Films, anything.

-Comics?

Uh, yeah, a little bit, when I was younger, yeah.

Mm-hmm. OK.

Very good indeed.

Well, we will find out more about all of you throughout the show as it goes on.

There's only one person left for me to introduce. His favourite sci-fi film is 2001: A Space Oddity.

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

-Hiya.

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-Hello there. How are you this afternoon?

-I'm extremely well, thank you, Richard, how about you?

Not bad at all. We've got two returning pairs today.

Pat and Rob were in the head-to-head last time, and played very well,

so I suspect they'll be difficult to beat.

But Liz and Tom, we still don't know quite how good they are, do we, because they went out very soon.

Round One I think is a lot of fun. It could be a slight car crash, but it should be fun.

A fun car crash?

-LAUGHTER A fun car crash.

-My favourite kind.

Like in bumper cars or something.

Now, we've put all our questions to 100 people before the show,

but this is Pointless, so we're after the obscure answers they didn't get.

To stay in the game,

all our players need to do is score as few points as they can.

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

That's an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

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

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

so today's jackpot starts off at £4,000.

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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 will be eliminated.

If anyone gives me an incorrect answer,

they will score 100 points, so try and avoid those if you can.

You will see two related question categories.

The first category will be played going up the line,

the second category will be played on the second pass

coming back down the line.

So as always, it's crucial to decide who goes first

and who goes second.

Let's reveal those two categories, and we have...

So remember, French comic books will be played going up the line

and British comic books will be played

coming back down the line on the second pass.

Can you decide who is going to go first and who is going to go second?

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

OK. Let's find out what the first question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many characters from Asterix as they could.

-Richard.

-The correct answers will all be characters

featured in the English translations of the Asterix the Gaul books

written by Goscinny and Uderzo.

The English-language translation of the Asterix books.

OK, right, Yasmin and Nadia,

you all drew lots before the show, you get to go first.

For each question,

we are going to give you a choice of seven possible answers on the board,

you will be relieved to hear. Here is the first set of seven answers.

At least one of those answers is pointless, but be very careful,

because at least one of those answers is incorrect.

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

-Yasmin, are you an Asterix fan?

-I'm not really, no.

-It's not my strongest point.

-Have you read Asterix ever?

-No, I haven't.

-OK, well, here's fun. This is the car crash element.

-There you go. But it's fun.

-Yeah, fun.

Um, I'm going to go for Omnitrix.

-Omnitrix.

-Yeah.

Let's see if Omnitrix is correct,

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

Bad luck, Yasmin! I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Very bad luck indeed. Richard.

Yeah, the bad news is Omnitrix is a watch-like alien device

form the kids' TV show Ben 10 which allows its user to transform

into various alien species.

The good news is, you're not a primary school teacher. Oh, hold on.

OK, Tom. We are looking for characters from the Asterix books.

Um, now, then.

I only knew one answer before it came up,

and I'm going to say it's Asterix, and I believe it's Obelix.

-Is his partner in crime.

-OK, Obelix.

Tom, what have you got on your hand there? Is that a three-finger ring?

It is a three-finger ring, yes.

-I should have kept it behind the podium.

-No, it's good!

You haven't been tempted to get some diamond-encrusted thing

saying "Tom"?

If we win, that is the first thing to I'll be buying,

but I think it's a long shot for us, but you never know.

Well, with an answer like Obelix, maybe you are on your way.

Let's see if Obelix is right,

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

It's right.

24. That's surprisingly low. Very well done.

24 for Obelix.

Well played, Tom. He's Asterix's constant companion.

Owes his strength to the fact he fell in a cauldron of magic potion as a boy.

Nick, characters from Asterix.

I have a hunch that you know Asterix quite well.

-Your hunch is horribly wrong.

-Really?

I'm dragging something deep from my memory

and I think I'm going to say Dogmatix.

Dogmatix. OK, let's see if it's right,

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

Yes.

If Obelix got 24...

That's a great answer and a great score. 7. Richard.

Yeah, well played, Nick, and it's good pointless knowledge.

It's the village dog, Dogmatix. Even had his own series of books as well.

The village... I thought it was Obelix's dog.

Yeah, but he belongs to the village.

The village dog has odd connotations I'm not entirely sure I like.

Should I say he's Obelix's dog? Would that make it sound less rude?

Maybe. Maybe. No, it's fine, it's fine.

Pat, you are the last person to have this board.

Please, mop up. Tell us all the answers.

-I know all these names.

-Good.

-You're joking, aren't you?

-The ones that sounded vaguely non-silly have gone.

So I've got to go for something that sounds like it shouldn't be in a comic book.

I'll go for Vitalstatistix.

-Vitalstatistix.

-You never know.

Let's see if that's correct. If it is, how many people said Vitalstatistix?

Yes, of course it's right.

Very well done, Pat!

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That scores you four.

Well played, Pat. Vitalstatistix is the chief of the village,

married to Impedimenta. Is that right?

It is right. Have you not read Asterix either?!

Course I have! If I hadn't read Asterix, how would I know all the stuff I've been saying?

It would be impossible.

Other than the fact I was dipped in a cauldron of magic potion as a boy.

-Yes.

-Take a look at the rest of the answers.

Justforkix likes fast chariots - that would have scored you one point.

Do you know the other two?

-Do you think they are pointless or incorrect?

-I think they are both right.

-You're right.

Prefix is a Druid, a pointless answer.

And Alcoholix is the wine merchant, as you might expect, and a pointless answer.

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

Well, Pat and Rob, looking great, with just 4.

Nick and Charlie, on 7.

Then 24 for Tom and Liz, and then - ooooh! -

up to 100 for Yasmin and Nadia.

We'll have to see what British comic books are like

on the way back down. You're going to have to find

a really obscure answer and hope that someone else makes a mistake.

OK, can the second players take their places?

For the second pass, the category is British Comics.

Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many characters from the Dandy as they could.

Characters from the Dandy.

The correct answers in this round are all individuals or groups

-who've had their own strip in the Dandy comic.

-Thanks very much.

We're looking for characters from the Dandy.

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

The seven answers are...

I'll read those again.

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

And at least one of those answers is incorrect.

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

thanks to Pat's excellent answer, you are on 4.

The high scorers are Nadia and Yasmin on 100. If you can score 95 or less,

you are through to the next round.

I know the ones that I think AREN'T.

So...I'll go for...

what I think might be a low one.

Brassneck.

Brassneck. There's your red line.

If you can get below that with Brassneck,

you're through to the next round.

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

It's right, and you're through.

Down it goes! Look at that! Rob, very well done.

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-1 point for Brassneck takes your total up to an impressive 5.

-Well played.

He's a robot schoolboy with telescopic limbs.

He first appeared in the early '60s.

Very good indeed. Charlie, did you choose this category,

or did Nick choose Asterix?

We decided I wouldn't know any French comics,

and he doesn't speak any French, so that was really useful. I'm going to play it safe

-and go for Desperate Dan.

-Desperate Dan.

You're on 7. The high scorers are Nadia and Yasmin, on 100.

There's your red line. If you go below that, you're through to the next round.

Desperate Dan, says Charlie. Let's see if it's right, and how many people said it.

Well done, you're through.

64!

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It's a high score. But it's low enough to see you through.

Good tactic. Appeared in the first-ever Dandy.

Still appears now. There's a statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee,

where the publisher is.

-Oh, really?

-Yeah. That's nice, isn't it?

-Yeah, it is nice.

OK, Liz.

The high-scorers are still Nadia and Yasmin.

You are on 24, they are on 100.

If you can score 75 or less, you're through to the next round.

-Yeah.

-What are you thinking?

I think there is a cat on the front cover of some of them,

so I was going to go with Korky The Cat, but I'm not sure.

OK, Korky The Cat.

Let's see if it's right, and how many people said Korky The Cat.

It is right. You're through to the next round, very well done.

-23 for Korky The Cat.

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Very well done. That takes you up to 47. Richard.

He appeared on the cover of the very first issue, Korky The Cat.

In 2005, they had a readers' poll seeing who was the most popular character in Dandy history.

Korky The Cat got 0%!

-LIZ:

-Awwww!

We love him!

Now then, Nadia and Yasmin, I have terrible news for you.

You are the high-scorers, even before you've given your answer.

But I have great news for you as well.

You can leave a present of £250 for the remaining players

-by finding a pointless answer on that board.

-Again...

I've no idea. But I'm going to go with...

Marvo The Wonder Chicken!

Good. Marvo The Wonder Chicken.

Let's see if that's right, and let's see if Nadia is doing them

the most selfless of acts, and leaving a £250 legacy.

Marvo The Wonder Chicken. Good luck.

It's right! Very well done.

Let's see how far down this goes.

-Look at that!

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Well done!

That is a pointless answer, which adds £250 to today's jackpot,

and takes the total to £4,250. It scores you nothing,

leaves your total at an unbeatable 100.

-Richard.

-Nice way to leave the show. Yasmin, very unlucky in the previous round.

Marvo The Wonder Chicken is one of the more modern characters,

-with his sidekick, Henry.

-What is Henry?

-He's his sidekick.

-I know! But is he some kind of poultry or...?

Let's fill in the rest of the board then I'll tell you what Henry is,

if you really want to know.

Beryl The Peril was a Dandy character,

and that would have scored you 1 point.

Of the other two, one is pointless, one is incorrect.

-What do you think?

-I think... I sort of remember Hungry Horace.

Hungry Horace is a pointless answer.

Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous burlesque entertainer -

what middle-class people call a stripper.

What's she doing on this board?! Normally there's a link.

Comic STRIP, you see!

Oooh! That's clever.

That is genius.

-You asked me what Marvo The Wonder Chicken's sidekick was.

-Henry?

-What is he?

-He's called Henry Thrapplewhacker XLIX...

-Seriously?

-Yeah. Henry Thrapplewhacker XLIX. And he's a little pink bird.

-Pink bird.

-Yep.

-That's nice.

That's good. A good thing to be.

At the end of Round One, the losing pair

with the highest score is Nadia and Yasmin. I'm very sorry.

-This was a tough round.

-It was.

Richard said it would be a fun car crash, and it has been!

But I'm really sorry that you have to leave at the end of this round.

We will see you again next time, and I'm sure you'll go much further.

-Thanks very much for playing. Nadia and Yasmin.

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For the remaining three pairs, it's time for Round Two.

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

Our second-round category is...

Famous People. Decide who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

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

Our Round Two question concerns...

People known by their initials.

People known by their initials. Richard.

I'm going to give you six clues on each pass.

We asked 100 people to whom do these clues apply? The answer is someone known by two initials and a surname.

If the clue was, "author of War Of The Worlds," the answer would be HG Wells.

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

If you give us an incorrect answer, you'll score 100 points.

There are 12 people to guess at home.

So, we are looking for people known by two initials and surname.

And we have got...

I'll read those again.

There are your clues.

We are looking for people known by two initials and surname.

Tom, why are you smiling?

It's one of those again that I'm not too keen on, to be honest.

I don't think you'll find a question we are going to be keen on,

but I believe Johnny Depp played the author of Peter Pan in Finding Neverland,

and, working in a bookshop, I should really know.

I'm going to say JM Barrie.

You're saying JM Barrie. Let's see if that's right. How many people said it?

Well done.

Very well done.

-That's a great answer.

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Brilliant answer, brilliant score. Richard.

James Matthew Barrie. In later life he developed such bad writer's cramp

that he used to write with his right hand, then with his left,

and said there was a demonstrative difference between his books in the left hand and right hand.

Nick, we are looking for people known by two initials

and a surname, who are described in these clues.

I think it's going to be very high, I'm going to have to say the inventor of Quidditch,

being JK Rowling.

JK Rowling, says Nick, for the inventor of Quidditch.

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

45!

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45, that seems oddly low.

If you'd said the author of Harry Potter, it would have been high,

but "the inventor of Quidditch" might be slightly harder. Joanne Kathleen.

Nice one. Joanne Kathleen.

Now, Pat, you're the last person to have this board. Talk us through all the names that are missing.

I really don't know any!

There's only one that maybe it is.

If not, it makes me sound really dumb,

and that's legendary blues guitarist being BB King.

Let's see if that's right, and how many people knew the answer. Sounds brilliant to me.

It is right.

22!

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-Very well done. 22 for BB King.

-Well played. Born Riley B King in Mississippi.

All his guitars were called Lucille, every one of them.

No-one's gone nearest the biggest answer on the board - Larry Hagman's TV character.

-JR Ewing.

-Would have scored 55. Adam Dalgliesh was her detective?

-PD James.

-PD James, that would have scored 11.

And the best answer on the board - shared the Nobel Prize with Mandela in '93?

-FW de Klerk.

-Exactly right. That would have scored 4 points,

so well done if you got that.

Thanks very much. Let's take a look at the scores.

Tom and Liz, lovely low score of 10!

22 for Pat and Rob, and in front, Nick and Charlie.

You're going to have to find an obscure answer on the board if you're going to survive this round.

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

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

I'll read those one more time.

We are looking for the people known by two initials and surname.

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

Rob, the high-scorers on 45 are Charlie and Nick. You're on 22,

which means if you can score 22, you're through to the head-to-head.

I'll have to go for...

.."Christopher Robin was his son".

I'll go for AA Milne.

AA Milne, you are saying. OK. Here comes your red line.

Below that red line, you're through to the next round. Is it right? How many people said it?

It is right.

31! Not bad. That takes your total up to 53.

-Richard.

-Not bad at all. Alan Alexander Milne.

-He wrote all the Winnie the Pooh books.

-Thanks very much.

Charlie, the high-scorers are Rob and Pat on 53.

You're on 45. You need to score 7 or less to get to the head-to-head.

This is annoying because I know one of the answers,

but I don't know the initials. Which is kind of a problem in this.

-I would define that as NOT knowing one of the answers!

-I know who he is!

So I'm going to kind of guess his initials and hope it's right.

I'm going to go for the BBC Sports Personality,

which was AJ McCoy?

AJ McCoy says Charlie. Let's see if that's right.

No, unfortunately, AJ McCoy is an incorrect answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points, taking your total up to 145.

Sorry, Charlie, I won't give the answer

till the end of the round in case Liz wants to have a go at it.

Well, you never know.

Now, Liz, I've got some brilliant news -

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

-OK.

It doesn't matter what you score here,

you'll never overtake Charlie and Nick's high score of 145.

You're also the last person to have this board, so you can fill in all the gaps for us.

I wish I could, I'm sorry.

Cats - I like the musical, and I think I bought the poems,

so I think - I don't know,

PG Wodehouse for Cats.

I don't know, though.

OK, well, you're saying PG Wodehouse for Cats.

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

Bad luck, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

That takes your total to 110, but it doesn't matter, you're through to the next round.

-Richard.

-I don't say it often, but come on, everyone, really?

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

The musical Cats is based on the work of TS Eliot.

-That would have scored 13 points.

-He was a poet.

-Yeah.

More importantly, an anagram of toilets.

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The BBC sports personality of the year, Charlie, is Tony McCoy,

as you know, he's AP McCoy.

That would have scored 8 points. It's Anthony Peter McCoy.

Created Lady Chatterley - really, no-one?

-DH Lawrence.

-Exactly right, for 26.

Starred in My Little Chickadee, Xander?

-No, they don't know.

-WC Fields, would have scored 11 points.

-And the writer sister of Margaret Drabble.

-AS Byatt.

Exactly right, 2 points, well done if you got AS Byatt at home.

Thanks, Richard, at the end of Round Two,

the losing pair with the highest score is Nick and Charlie.

That was a tough board for you there.

-When the answers came up, I knew them all, so...

-Yes.

-Probably would have worked better the other way round.

-I knew the guitarist...

We'll see you next time when I hope you'll go much further,

but meanwhile, thanks very much for playing, Charlie and Nick.

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

Very well done, Pat and Rob, Liz and Tom,

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

Only one pair can make it to today's final and play for the jackpot

which currently stands at £4,250.

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For each question, each pair needs to give me one answer,

but you can now confer. All you have to do is come up with an answer

that scores less than the other pair and you win that question.

The first pair to win two plays for the jackpot.

Let's play Pointless.

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OK, here is your first question -

we gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Royal parks in London as they could.

Royal parks in London, Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for any of the nine Royal Parks in London

as listed on the Royal Parks website, please.

OK, Pat and Rob, because you've played best throughout the show so far, you get to go first.

Royal Parks in London.

-We know one.

-That'll do.

It's got to be Regent's.

Regent's Park, say Pat and Rob.

So, Liz and Tom,

if you need to confer any further, you can do it out loud.

Um, you think Hyde Park is going to be higher than that?

I think it might be. Do you know any more? Is Kensington a park?

I'm not sure. I know there's one where the king had all the flowers taken out

-because his wife had an affair.

-Which one's that?

I think it's called Green Park cos there are no flowers,

-but I'm not sure.

-Let's do it.

Well, we're happy to be here and that's enough for us,

so we're going to say Green Park.

We have Regent's Park, we have Green Park.

Pat and Rob went with the Regent's Park,

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

It's right.

49 for Regent's Park.

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Now, Liz and Tom, are going out on a bit of a limb

and saying Green Park, because, Liz, you remember a story.

Yeah, but I might have made it up, I tend to do that!

OK, let's see if it's right and if it is let's see how many people said Green Park.

It is right. It is right.

And it beats Regent's Park, down it goes.

Very good, 22.

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You see, that's how you win Pointless,

it's remembering odd little tidbits of information like that. Richard.

Very, very well played, Liz, very good answer, and almost the right reason, as well.

It's Catherine of Braganza got all the flowers removed from Green Park

because Charles II had been picking them for another of his illicit lovers.

There is a bunch of answers that would have beaten Green Park, though,

nine in all, let's see how many you got at home.

Brompton Cemetery is a Royal park, that would have scored you 1.

Imagine how disappointed your kids would be if you promised them a trip to the park

and ended up in Brompton Cemetery.

Bushy Park in West London would have scored you 2, Greenwich Park, 5,

Kensington Gardens, 9,

Richmond Park, with 2,500 acres is the biggest Royal park, with 15.

Green Park, 22, St James's Park, 33,

The Regent's Park - its official name - 49,

and Hyde Park, 82.

So, here is your second question.

Pat and Rob, you have to win this point to stay in the game.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

of the first 20 elements of the periodic table as they could - Richard.

we're looking for any of the first 20 elements of the periodic table as verified by the IUPAC.

Those are the ones with the atomic numbers 1 to 20.

OK, Liz and Tom, you go first this time.

-We don't know if it's going to be the best, but what are we saying, Liz?

-Beryllium.

Pat and Rob, you can do some chatting out loud

if you have further discussion.

What about Californium?

THEY DISCUSS QUIETLY

We'll have to go for selenium.

OK, we have beryllium, we have selenium.

Liz and Tom have said beryllium.

Is it right? How many people have said it?

It's right.

Brilliant.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

3 for beryllium.

No pressure, Pat and Rob.

3 is what you have to beat, but you've gone for selenium.

Sounds like an excellent answer to me.

But remember, I know nothing.

Pat and Rob, selenium, is it right? Will it get you below 3?

Very, very best of luck, selenium.

Oh, bad luck! Rob and Pat, that's an incorrect answer,

Which means, after only two questions,

Liz and Tom are through to the Final, 2-0, very well done.

APPLAUSE

-Very well played, Liz, I think we can forgive you for TS Eliot now.

-Thank you!

So, 'berylliant' answer.

Oh, come on!

Yeah, very well done, selenium is atomic number 34, I'm afraid.

I know some people at home will be able to reel off this whole top 20,

I hope you've had enough time to write them down or get them in your head.

Phosphorus - pointless answer, well done if you said that...

Very well done if you got all of those, especially if you got phosphorus.

So, the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head is Pat and Rob.

You've been patted and robbed.

GROANING LAUGHTER

I mean, sadly there's no prize for you to take away

in recognition of your achievement,

because it is an achievement, very solid, consistent,

very, very good team, but I'm afraid this is where we have to say goodbye.

Brilliant contestants, though, thank you so much for playing.

APPLAUSE

But for Liz and Tom it's now time for our Pointless Final

and the chance to win our jackpot of £4,250.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Congratulations, Liz and Tom, you fought off all the competition

and have won our coveted Pointless Trophy, so very, very well done.

APPLAUSE

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

and at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £4,250.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Now, the rules are very simple -

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

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

We've had one pointless answer today,

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

First you've got to choose a category,

and you can choose from these three options - they are...

This is all on you, babe, because I honestly...

Shall we just say not singer-songwriters?

-Yeah, not singer-songwriters.

-OK. What do you want?

You pick and I'm absolutely fine with it.

I think crime novels could be anything, theatre...

OK, let's go for theatre.

Theatre, please, Alex.

Theatre it is.

OK, let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Broadway plays of Tennessee Williams as they could.

Broadway plays of Tennessee Williams - Richard.

We're looking for any play by Tennessee Williams

that's been performed on Broadway up to April 2011, please.

This does not include performances of one-act plays.

The plays of Tennessee Williams performed on Broadway.

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

All you need to win that £4,250 is for just one answer to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

-I have none.

-I know, I don't have a clue!

-Did he write Death Of A Salesman?

-No, that was Miller.

Of course it was. Any answers?

Um, I'm trying to think.

I could name ones and they might not be by him.

If you can name three, that's better than naming none.

OK, there's The Mousetrap...

Iceman cometh? I don't know.

These are fine, because, you know what,

if we stop the clock now we'd be no better than we were before if left it all.

Let's try and think of another one.

Can you think of anything that might be on Broadway, specifically Broadway?

You've been to New York, what did you see that was on there? Anything that catches you?

-I only saw musicals.

-Anything that jumps out?

I'm not sure.

-Streetcar Named Desire?

-Possibly, yeah, let's go for that!

OK, we'll do those three and then see.

Five seconds left.

Right, well...

OK, right, that's your minute up.

We were looking for Broadway plays by Tennessee Williams,

I now need three answers.

We're going to say...

The Mousetrap,

The Iceman cometh,

and what was the other one?

-A Streetcar Named Desire.

-Streetcar Named Desire.

OK, there are three answers.

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

I think, Alex, if we're honest, any order will be fine for us.

Let's pick one to go last, shall we?

Shall we do The Mousetrap?

Mousetrap last, Streetcar first, we think that might be.

Iceman Cometh, in the middle, and The Mousetrap.

OK, there we are.

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

You said this was your least confident answer, Streetcar Named Desire.

Remember, you only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot - £4250.

So, let's see if Streetcar Named Desire is a correct answer,

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

It's right.

It's right, that was the first thing it had to be.

The only other thing it has to be is pointless.

Down it goes.

APPLAUSE

18.

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer, which means you only

have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

What would you do if you won £4,250?

I want a bar of gold.

I don't know how much they're retailing at nowadays,

but it definitely might go towards a bar of gold.

Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

-Nice paperweight...

Anyway, sorry, Pointless - we were looking for Broadway plays by Tennessee Williams,

let's hope nobody said your next answer.

This has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot, £4250.

The Iceman Cometh, you say.

Let's see if it's right, and if it is let's see how many people said the Iceman Cometh.

Bad luck, I'm afraid, that's an incorrect answer,

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

Your last answer, The Mousetrap.

Which you nominated to go third,

which is traditionally where we put our most confident answers.

We thought we'd be different.

This as to be on Broadway AND by Tennessee Williams,

AND pointless if you're going to win that jackpot of £4250.

Very, very best of luck.

The Mousetrap - is it right? How many people said it?

Oh! Bad luck.

APPLAUSE

Well, you didn't find that all-important pointless answer,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £4,250,

which rolls on to the next show, but you have been fantastic contestants

and you do of course get to take home our Pointless trophy, so well done.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Yeah, tough category, guys. the Iceman Cometh is Eugene O'Neill, The Mousetrap is Agatha Christie.

Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers.

I know some people at home will have got some of these.

Camino Real, a very complex play about a mythical town;

Orpheus Descending, Out Cry - which is a sort of unsuccessful '70s comeback -

Period of adjustment - which is called a serious comedy -

Summer And Smoke - a follow-up to A Streetcar Named Desire -

Sweet Bird of youth - another of his very big hit plays -

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More - quite the opposite, it was quite a flop,

The Night Of the Iguana - his last big hit -

and You Touched Me, one of his very early...1943, I think, a comedy.

Very well done if you got any of those at home.

OK, thanks very much, Richard.

Well, you made it to Round One in your first show

and all the way to the final this show, so very well done for that,

but unfortunately we have to say goodbye,

it's been brilliant having you on the show, thank you very much for playing.

APPLAUSE

Nobody's won our jackpot today, so it rolls over,

which means on the next show we will be playing for £5,250.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Join us then to see if someone can win it. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me - goodbye.

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