Episode 41 Pointless

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Thank you very much.

I'm Alexander Armstrong, welcome to Pointless,

the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

Now, welcome, Viv and Jim,

you're our first pair this afternoon.

How do you two know each other?

We're husband and wife, and have been for 40 years.

40 years?

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

-Jim, what do you do?

At the moment, I'm retired, but I was a building site manager.

A building site manager. And how about you, Viv?

-I'm a director of an air conditioning company.

-We've had...

We've got a few air conditioning people on the show.

We had an air conditioning driver, didn't we?

Yeah, yeah. It's just pretty hearty representation

from the air conditioning community, which is good.

It's a breath of fresh air for this show.

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-So you're still working flat out, then?

-Yes, yes, ten-hour days.

You come back, and is Jim making himself useful around the home?

Yes, yes, he has the dinner ready, he does the washing,

-does the ironing.

-Very... Seriously?

-Seriously.

Do you watch game shows while you're ironing, ever?

I record them.

Quite right. If you're watching this, you'd leave lots of burns, wouldn't you?

Splendid. Well, it's great to have you on the show,

a warm welcome to you. Best of luck.

And next we welcome back Phil and Carol.

You were on the show last time. Remind us what happened.

Well, we did rather well, we got to the head-to-head...

Yeah, you did, you did very well.

..but sadly we didn't know the Chas and Dave hits.

He got Chas and Dave confused with Right Said Fred,

so that didn't bode too well!

HE LAUGHS

The other pair just knew rather too much about Chas and Dave,

so in many ways you're the winners there.

What would you like to come up this afternoon, Carol?

I think we'd both quite like entertainment, television.

-Bit of sport for you, maybe?

-Bit of sport? What particularly, Phil?

What would be your favourite sports to come up?

Just any sport that's not rugby union.

-Any sport that's not rugby union?

-Or rugby league.

Or rugby league.

It's pretty rugby union heavy today, I'm afraid.

Very good. It's lovely to have you back.

Very warm welcome back to you. Next, we welcome Chrissie and Suzy.

How do you know each other?

We work together at a primary school

-and have done for about 11 years, I think. That right?

-Yeah.

-And whereabouts is that?

-In Taunton.

-Taunton in Somerset?

-Yeah.

-Whose idea was it to come on the show?

-Mine.

-Chrissie's.

-I'm guilty.

-Suzy, did you take much persuasion?

Not a huge amount, no.

I quite like this show.

-I've been practising every day...

-She loves this show! She loves it!

Do you know what? I'm going to come out and say as well -

I quite like this show, as well.

-I know you disagree with me, but I don't mind it.

-I'm pretty...

Yeah, it's OK.

As you know, I'm fairly lukewarm.

Well, you've proven yourselves to be a strong team over 11 years,

let's hope this friendship will withstand three-quarters of an hour of Pointless.

Very best of luck, great to have you on the show.

And finally we've got Nicole and Andre. How do you two know each other?

We're married, been married a year this year.

We met in Barbados five years ago, when I used to be cabin crew.

-And where are you from?

-Erm, Warrington in Cheshire.

And you dragged him back to Warrington in Cheshire?

Kicking and screaming, yes.

-Andre...

-We're happy!

THEY LAUGH

-Andre, what do you do?

-I'm a chef...

-A chef?

..at a small British restaurant in Warrington, in the town centre.

And how often do you look out the window and think, "What am I doing here?!"

Every day!

Do you have a signature dish?

My signature dish would probably be my chocolate cake.

-It actually is the best chocolate cake ever.

-It's true.

-And it's true.

-It is true.

-Well, I obviously can't be the judge of that

because I haven't got a slice in front of me,

Andre, but if you don't make it through to the final

you'll be on the next show, and there'll be ample opportunity.

It'd be lovely if they didn't get through to the final, wouldn't it?

-Wouldn't it?

-No offence, but that would be lovely.

-This time.

-Yeah, next time they can.

-Slice of chocolate cake, who knows what could happen?

Well, very, very best of luck to the pair of you, great to have you on the show.

We'll find out more as we go on.

There's only one person left to introduce.

He has made his very own "facts of the day" loo roll.

Today's fact is, it is impossible to lick your own elbow.

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

-Hiya.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

-Is that true, you can't lick your own elbow?

It was on your loo roll!

-That was today's fact.

-It should be a cracking show today.

Phil and Carol are our only returning pair,

they did well last time, got to the head-to-head,

performed very well there, but the other three pairs, all newcomers.

The first question today is one of those ones where some people will know every single answer,

a lot of people won't know any answers at all. It'll be an interesting one.

Might be awful for some people and wonderful for others, I suspect.

We put our questions to 100 people before the show, but this is Pointless

so we want the obscure answers they didn't get.

To stay in with a chance to win our jackpot,

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

But what everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer, an answer 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 £2,000.

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Let's play Pointless.

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

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

If anyone gives me an incorrect answer, they'll score 100 points, so try and avoid those.

OK, our first category this afternoon is...

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many TV "Gladiators" as they could.

TV Gladiators, Richard?

We're looking for any of the Gladiators that appeared

in the original UK TV series, which ran from 1992-2000.

Just looking for their Gladiator names, not their real names,

so any of the original TV Gladiators, please.

Plenty of names on this list.

Right, Viv and Jim, you all drew lots before the show,

and this afternoon you get to go first.

Jim, is this...

It's a question you love or a question you hate.

I've got an answer,

but, unfortunately, I think he could be quite a popular chappy.

OK, what's it going to be?

-Wolf.

-Wolf. I knew you were going to say that.

OK, well you're hoping to score as few points as possible with Wolf.

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

It's right.

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69, Jim.

That's a lot better than 100,

which I think we might be seeing quite a lot of on this round. Richard?

Yeah, Wolf, very well done.

Appeared in all eight series, Michael Van Wijk.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Phil, I'm going to tell you right now,

your sister is making this face...

So you are going to have to find one that scores as low as possible

to atone for what Carol might have to say on the next pass.

The one I'm going to go for,

he was my favourite, I'm going to go with Shadow.

Shadow? You're hoping to score as few points as possible.

Let's see if Shadow is a correct answer and, if it is,

let's see how many people said Shadow.

Very well done, Phil.

Down it goes into new ground.

Keeps going down, look at that, 7!

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That's a fantastic answer, Phil.

Maybe it'll be the lowest score of the round, we'll see.

Seven points for Shadow, Richard.

Well played. He appeared in the first three series.

-His real name is Jefferson King, which is better than Shadow.

-I know! So was Van Wijk!

I know, they've all got good names.

Chrissie?

Remember, we're looking for Gladiators from the original TV series.

I hope I'm not making this name up, but it popped into my head...

Oh, I hope you are!

HE LAUGHS

It sounds good.

Erm, Saracen.

Saracen!

-Sounds brilliant.

-Sounds good.

-Yes.

You're hoping it's correct and it's an obscure name

that none of our 100 people remembered.

Let's see. Saracen, is it right, how many people said it?

It is right.

Very well done, Chrissie.

14, very well done.

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-Where did that come from?

-Saracen, Richard?

That's the thing about Pointless, it's those little things that lodge in your head.

He was on all eight series, Saracen, king of Hang Tough.

Continuing the theme of them all having awesome names, do you know what Saracen's name is?

Mike Lewis!

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Should've gone with that, Mike Lewis.

Cracking name!

And Nicole, we come to you.

I have a feeling you're... I think you look quite confident about this.

I was, I thought I was,

and a name has come into my head but I have no idea

if I've completely made it up,

so I've got one that I know is a name,

one that I think I might have made up,

and I'm not sure which one to go with.

Well, what we're after is the most obscure Gladiator.

And quite often names that just appear in the back of your head

are the best answers you can give.

LAUGHTER

OK, I think, then, I'll go with...

-Lightning.

-OK, Lighting, you're saying.

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

It is right.

Very well done, Nicole.

29.

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Not bad at all.

-Lightning, Richard?

-Well done, Nicole. Again, she appeared in all eight series.

And if Saracen was the king of Hang Tough, she was the queen,

-though they weren't married.

-Wow.

Can't figure how that works.

OK, well, we are halfway through the round

so let's take a look at the scores as they stand. Phil and Carol,

the best score so far with 7,

then up to 14 for Chrissie and Suzy, very well done.

Up to 29 for Nicole and Andre.

Jim and Viv, 69.

So, Viv, you're going to have to find a really obscure...

Find/make up a really obscure Gladiator,

so best of luck with that!

Otherwise, we have to say goodbye at the end of the round.

We're coming back down the line. Can the second players please take their places?

So, remember, we're looking for Gladiators

from the original TV series.

Andre...good luck!

ANDRE CHUCKLES

-Good luck.

-I need it!

Did you, any time you were in Barbados, think,

"I'll tell you what, I'm not going to stay out here in the sun,

"I'm going to go inside and watch some weird satellite channel

-"that might be playing repeats of Gladiators?"

-Yeah...

-No!

-No, I thought not.

After hearing some of the answers, I assume all of them have one name.

-Yep.

-Er, guessing probably an animal...

I'd go with Bear.

-For some reason!

-Bear?

OK, he's either going to be massive...

..or massive, actually.

The high scorers at the moment, on 69, are Jim and Viv,

which means if you can score 39 or less,

you are through to the next round.

Let us see if Bear is right and, if it is, how many people said it.

Bad luck, Andre. Bad luck.

I'm afraid Bear is a wrong answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points,

taking your total up to 129.

-Richard?

-Sorry, Andre. There's no shame in that, though.

Not in the country when it's on, guessing an animal, good guess.

-Bear!

-Would've been a good Gladiator.

-Well, actually, no, they are pretty lithe, bears.

-Bears?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, they're pretty fearsome, pretty quick.

-Not koalas.

Don't... You might be giving something away.

What, giving away there may have been a Gladiator called Koala?

LAUGHTER

He'd be pretty good at Hang Tough, wouldn't he?

LAUGHTER

Now then, Suzy, I have the best news possible for you.

Whatever happens, whatever your answer is,

however much it scores, you're through to the next round.

Very, very well done.

This is down to Chrissie's brilliant answer of Saracen.

I know, I am very relieved.

For fun, let's have the name of the most obscure

Gladiator you can think of.

Well, I can only think, like Andre,

that, think about the names that have gone by,

and I think maybe something like Hurricane. I don't know.

Hurricane?

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

Bad luck, Suzy.

Hurricane, an incorrect answer, you score the maximum 100 points.

Your total is 114, but doesn't matter,

-you're through to the next round.

-It's another good guess, isn't it?

If we continue this way, we'll have enough cast names, we'll be able to redo the series.

-That'd be good, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

-We've already got Bear and Hurricane.

If the rest of you could oblige with some Gladiators who didn't exist,

we're in the money.

And, actually, funnily enough, Carol, I think,

from your expression, that might be something you have to do?

Well, no, I was just worried that Phil was being too cocky.

-Yeah, we used to watch Gladiators...

-Oh, so you do know?

Yeah, I do, so it's quite good for me.

I think not many people...

Oh, this is going to sound rude to him,

but maybe not many people liked this one.

-Erm, Trojan.

-Trojan.

Doesn't matter what you score,

the highest scorers on 129 at the moment are Andre and Nicole.

Even if you score 100, you won't overtake them.

You're saying Trojan. Let's see if that's right and how many people knew that answer.

It's right.

Oh, very well done!

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Only the best score so far!

-That's 5, takes your total up to 12. Richard.

-Yeah, very good answer.

Mark Griffin was Trojan, a former championship squash player.

-Turned Gladiator.

-There you go.

-How about that?

-And so, Viv, we come to you.

-Yes.

I'll just tell you, the high scorers at the moment on 129

are Andre and Nicole.

You're on 69, which means if you can score 59 or less...

The only one I can think of is Jet.

If Jet gets you under 59, Viv,

that is a brilliant, brilliant answer and it's done everything it needed to.

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

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

Look at that.

You've done it!

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Very, very well done indeed.

That takes your total up to 105. Richard?

Jet, very, very well played.

She's in the first four series. Diane Youdale played Jet, or was Jet.

Really unlucky, Nicole and Andre.

There were a load of animals you could've had.

You could've had Hawk, Rhino, Cobra, Panther, Fox, Falcon,

all of those, but no Bear, I'm afraid.

Unbelievably, there are no pointless answers at all,

at least one person knew everybody, however obscure, from all of those series.

Let's take a look at the lowest answers.

Rebel would've scored you one.

Diesel also would've scored one, as would Vulcan,

so very, very well done if you said any of those three,

or if you were any of those three.

Let's take a look at the most obvious answers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

We've already seen all three of them. Nicole gave us Lightning,

29, the third most popular answer.

Viv, you gave us Jet, which scored 36,

and Jim gave us Wolf, 69.

Thank you very much, Richard. So, at the end of Round One,

the losing pair with the highest score, Nicole and Andre.

You've done very well. Andre, you were ill-served by our category.

I mean, how dare we, giving you something as obscure as that?

You wouldn't have a hope of knowing. But you tried nobly.

We'll see you again next time, we'll look forward to it,

but thanks for playing, great contestants.

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

Obviously, 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 category for Round Two this afternoon is...

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

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

OK, our Round Two question concerns...

Scales of measurement, Richard?

We're going to show you six units or scales on each pass.

We asked 100 people, what are these units or scales used to measure?

For example, the pH scale would be to measure acidity or alkalinity,

so the more obscure answer, the fewer points you score.

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

Six on each pass, so there's 12 in all to guess at home.

Thanks very much, Richard,

so we're looking for scales of measurement. And we have got...

I'll read those one more time.

And, as ever, you're trying to find the one

that the fewest of our 100 people could answer.

Now then, Viv.

How does that look to you?

OK.

Not bad at all.

I'll go with the Beaufort Scale,

which I believe is wind measurement.

Beaufort scale, wind measurement, you're saying.

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

Well done.

44.

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44.

And I would say that sigh you just emitted was about force five on that scale.

-Richard?

-Yeah, well done, Viv. Devised in 1805 by Francis Beaufort.

Very good indeed. Now, Phil.

Phil, how's that board looking to you?

I'm just trying to remember my old science textbooks.

There's the obvious ones, and then

there's the one which is very heavily in those science textbooks,

so I'm going to have to go with that one

and it's joule, which measures energy.

Joule, which measures energy, says Phil. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, how may people knew that. Joule, energy.

He's right.

28.

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Pretty good.

-28 for joule, quite low.

-Yeah, absolutely right,

work or energy is what it measures, perhaps a slightly abstract concept.

Invented by James Prescott Joule, the English physicist. You know that.

LAUGHTER

And so, Chrissie, you are the last person to have this board

so you can talk us through it

if you like.

If I like. If I could, I would.

I don't know whether to go for yard or Celsius.

I'm hoping you asked young people

so perhaps I'll go for yard

and say distance.

OK, you're going to say yard, distance.

Well, let's see. Have a hunch that might be right.

Let see how many of our 100 people knew yard, distance.

-80!

-Oh.

Well...

Sorry.

As I always say, it's a lot better than 100.

80 for yard, distance.

-It's not that much better than 100, is it?

-It's 20...

Sort of like an imperial version of a metric 100 - 80.

But yeah, it's a measure of distance or length. Lucky you didn't go for Celsius,

at least you choose the right one of those two.

That was temperature, would have scored 92, the biggest score there.

Troy ounce, easier than it looks,

simply a measure of weight, would have scored you 31,

-and Mohs, do you know what's measured on the Mohs scale?

-No.

-Hardness. Would have scored you seven points.

-Mohs.

So it's the best answer on the board. Well done if you said that at home.

OK, we're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at the scores as they stand. 28 for Phil and Carol.

Then we go up to 44, Viv and Jim,

then up to 80 for Chrissie and Suzy.

Suzy, you'll have to find a really obscure answer in the next pass.

Otherwise we may have to say goodbye to you at the end of this round

so good luck with that.

We'll come back down the line.

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

We're looking for things that are measured in these scientific units.

We'll put six more clues on the board, and we have got...

I'll read those one more time.

Obviously, you're trying to find the one that the fewest

of our 100 people knew, Suzy. Now you are the high scorers on 80.

So I'm not sure going for an easy one is an option

if you want to stay in the game.

Well, I have to go for something I know

rather than something I don't know.

-Indeed.

-So...

I think I might go for knot

which is nautical distance, nautical miles.

OK, you're saying nautical distance,

nautical miles.

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

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

Unfortunately, that is an incorrect answer

which I'm afraid means you score the maximum of 100 points.

I'm afraid that also puts you out of reach of everybody else.

Even if they score 100, they won't overtake your score.

-Richard.

-Unlucky, Suzy. I won't give the correct answer

in case Carol or Jim want a go at the same question.

Carol.

You're through to the head-to-head. Doesn't matter what you say.

In that case, I'll make a complete guess. I'll go for Curie

and it's something to do with... measuring radiation?

A measure of radiation, says Carol. Let's see if it's right,

and if it is, how many people knew that. Curie, radiation.

It's right! Very well done.

18! That's a great score. Very well done.

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That takes your total up to 46.

-Richard.

-Yeah, well played, Carol.

What a team. They're aced everything so far. Named after Marie Curie.

Very good. Now, Jim and Viv, you are also through to the head-to-head.

Even if you score 100 points

you won't overtake Suzy and Chrissie's high score of 180.

You're the last person to have this board, Jim,

so you can talk us through them if you like.

Erm, decibel is obviously noise.

Ampere I believe to be electrical current.

Knot I believe is speed on water,

and acre to be area.

Mercalli,

can't quite put on the tip of my tongue.

So I'd go with...decibel for noise.

Decibel, noise. That's what you're saying.

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

Well done... Ooh!

Wow.

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88, that scores you.

Takes your total to 132 but you're still through to the next round.

-Richard.

-Yeah, well played, Jim.

Decibel derives in part from Alexander Graham Bell.

You actually took us through the rest of the board with some skill.

Acre, absolutely right, is area, would have scored you 86.

Knot is not a measure of distance, I'm afraid,

it's a measure of speed. Would have been a fairly big score, 74.

Ampere - right, measures electrical current, would've scored 38

and the tough one on the board, Mercalli would have scored 2 points.

Well done if you said earthquake intensity.

Mercalli is a measure of earthquake intensity.

Best answer on the board by a mile.

Thanks, Richard.

At the end of Round Two, the losing pair with the highest score,

it's Chrissie and Suzy. Bad, bad luck.

However, what have you learned from your first experience on Pointless?

That I'm good at getting 100 points.

That's no mean feat, Suzy, I can tell you now.

Any tactics you're going to come back with next time?

Um, try a little harder?

OK, sounds good to me.

We will look forward to seeing you again next time

but meanwhile thanks for playing, Suzy and Chrissie.

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But for the remaining two pairs,

things now get even more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.

Very well done, Phil and Carol, Viv and Jim,

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

Now only one pair can get to today's final and play for the jackpot

which currently stands at £2,000.

Now, for each question, each pair needs to give me just one answer

but you are now allowed to confer.

If you give an answer that scores less than the other pair, you will win that question.

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

Let's play Pointless.

OK, here is your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

-Richard.

-Yes, looking for any of the four things mentioned

in the first line of Cliff Richard's hit Living Doll.

We won't accept living as an answer.

LAUGHTER

OK, Phil and Carol,

as you've played best throughout the show so far, you get to go first.

We're looking for things Cliff Richard's Living Doll can do.

THEY WHISPER

We can only think of...

two.

We're going to go for...

...walking.

-Walking.

-OK, walking,

you are saying. Viv and Jim.

I think it was crying, walking, sleeping, talking,

so I'll go with sleeping, yeah?

-Sleeping.

-Sleeping,

so we have walking and we have sleeping.

Phil and Carol went for walking.

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

I didn't have time to say it's right

but by the way, it is.

96. That is quite a high score.

Viv and Jim have gone for sleeping.

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

Yep, it's right.

55!

Well done.

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Well, 55. Lower than 96, so Viv and Jim win that point.

After one question, Viv and Jim are up 1-0. Richard.

Yeah, very well played.

Cliff's first number one single, lyrics written by Lionel Bart.

Let's look at all four of them. You've just been through them.

Sleeping is the best answer you could have given, 55.

Crying, 64. Walking wasn't actually the worst answer, 96,

because talking was 99.

So those are things Cliff Richard was looking for.

That to him was a perfect woman. She could do those four things.

If you put that in a lonely hearts ad now,

"Would like to meet sleeping, crying, walking, talking, woman..."

CLIFF RICHARD: # Got myself a crying talking sleeping walking

# Living doll... #

There we go.

That's what it sounded like.

Funny he never married.

LAUGHTER

Right, now, here is your second question.

Phil and Carol, you have to win this to stay in the game.

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

as many countries that border Turkey as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any of the eight countries sharing a land border with Turkey.

As ever, by country we mean a member of the UN that is a sovereign state.

See how many of the eight you can get at home.

Thank you very much. Now then, Viv and Jim, you go first this time.

-(WHISPERS)

-There's Russia...

Cyprus...

Oh, go on, then.

Go on, then.

Go on, then. Always the... Yes.

What are you going to say, Jim?

Cyprus.

Cyprus, says Jim.

Phil and Carol?

Which one do you want to go for? Shall we go for...

Greece, you said Greece.

What about Italy?

No.

-OK, we'll go with Greece.

-You're saying Greece.

Phil and Carol are going to say Greece.

So we have Cyprus, we have Greece. Viv and Jim said Cyprus.

Let's see if that's right,

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

No-noo! So not Cyprus.

This is a lifeline for you, Phil and Carol.

At this point, all you have to be...

All you have to be is correct.

We're not.

LAUGHTER

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

-Well done! It's right.

-Oh!

You've won the question.

-50.

-Yay!

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Well done. That's what you had to do

so after the second question, you are 1-1.

Let's look at all the answers. There is one pointless one,

but a really tough one. Azerbaijan.

A little bit of Azerbaijan is in Armenia, funnily enough.

Just 9km of border. So very well done if you said that.

There's Armenia with 3, Georgia with 8,

Bulgaria would have been another very good answer, 17.

Syria, 24. Iran, 24.

Iraq, 25

and Greece, up the top there on 50.

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

Whoever wins this goes through to the final

to play for that jackpot of £2,000.

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

as many actors who appeared in both Bridget Jones films as they could.

Actors who appeared in both Bridget Jones films. Richard.

We want for any actor or actress who's in both Bridget Jones films.

That's Bridget Jones' Diary, and Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.

So any actor or actress who have been credited in both of those films.

OK. Thank you very much. Now, Phil and Carol,

you go first again this time.

THEY WHISPER

-We're...

-We're going to go for

Sally Phillips.

Sally Phillips, OK.

Viv and Jim.

Renee Zellweger, obviously, but...

There's only a few that we know, so...

yeah, it would have to be Hugh Grant, I think.

-Hugh Grant?

-Hmm.

OK, Sally Phillips, Hugh Grant.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final.

Sally Phillips. Is that right?

And if it is, how many people said Sally Phillips?

Well done!

APPLAUSE

That's a brilliant answer. Sally Phillips scores you just two points.

Only two people knew that.

Viv and Jim,

you have gone for Hugh Grant.

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

Well done! It's right.

APPLAUSE

That means after three questions, Phil and Carol are through to the final, 2-1. Richard.

Very good answers. Very few things would have beaten that. There are a few pointless ones.

Neil Pearson who played her TV boss.

James Faulkner, a friend of her parents.

James Callis as her friend Tom.

Donald Douglas plays Colin Firth's father in both films.

Dominic McHale plays Bernard. Celia Imrie, another friend of the parents.

Shirley Henderson, her friend Jude, would have scored 1 point.

Sally Phillips, her friend Shazza. Very good, 2 points.

Gemma Jones plays Bridget's mum, 5 points.

Jim Broadbent is her dad, that's 10 points.

Colin Firth plays Mark Darcy, 50 points.

Renee Zellweger played Bridget Jones herself, 59.

and is beaten by Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver on 67 points.

-Well done if you got any pointless answers.

-Thanks, Richard.

So, the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head is Viv and Jim.

Have you been to see Bridget Jones? Have you been to see it?!

It's been out for years. What am I talking about?! Have you seen it?

-I have seen it on TV, yes.

-Right.

I actually said Zellweger

so my answer was better than Viv's anyway.

Still wasn't going to beat Sally Phillips though, was it, Jim?

Anyway, the good news for us is, we get to see you again next time and we will look forward to that.

Thank you very much for playing. Viv and Jim, great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for Phil and Carol, it's now time for our Pointless final

and the chance to win our jackpot of £2,000.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Phil and Carol. You fought off all the competition

and you have one our coveted Pointless trophy. So 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 £2,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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 haven't had any pointless answers today. Find one now and you will go home with that money.

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

Well, I think we've ascertained our geography is not...

-It's not up to scratch.

-..so let's not do Canada.

-Not Canada.

-Do you want to go Sportsmen?

I would because singer-songwriters, all I've got is Burt Bacharach so...

LAUGHTER

-That's all I know. If you're happy?

-Sportsmen. Yes.

-You're going to go with Sportsmen?

-Yes.

-Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

England World Cup goal scorers as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any male England player who's ever scored a goal in a World Cup final.

So no-one who's scored in a qualifier or in a penalty shootout

but any male England player who's scored in a World Cup final,

all the way through from 1950 to 2010.

OK. Thank you very much. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win the £2,000 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

1966, you've got Martin Peters,

he scored the other one but people will know that.

Then 1990, I think Terry Butcher might have scored.

But then if you're going to the more modern ones, you've got...

Gazza? Was that not in the World Cup?

He might have scored in '90, but people would know that.

The obscure ones... I can only really do the modern ones.

-So you've got Heskey.

-Yeah? In the World Cup?

Scholes. Yeah, he scored against Denmark. Scholes scored.

They're just common ones, aren't they?

Then 2010, who scored our goals? Erm...

Defoe scored but then that's just been, hasn't it?

We've got Defoe, Heskey, Scholes...

-Erm, I'm trying to think...

-What about the old ones?

Like Peters and Butcher?

This Butcher guy sounds obscure.

Yeah, OK. So shall we go with Butcher, Heskey and Scholes.

-Yeah.

-Are you sure?

Yeah, I can't think of anything else.

OK. That is your minute up. We were looking for England World Cup goal scorers.

I now need your three answers.

-OK. We're going to go with Terry Butcher.

-Terry Butcher.

-Paul Scholes.

-Paul Scholes.

And Emile Heskey.

And Emile Heskey. OK.

Of those three, which is your most confident answer,

your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Scholes?

-Yeah, Paul Scholes.

-OK, Paul Scholes, put him last.

-Which is your least confident?

-I'd say Terry Butcher.

OK, Terry Butcher, we'll put him first.

Let's put them up on the board in that order. Here they are.

Now, this was your least confident answer.

We were looking for England World Cup goal scorers.

Remember, you only have to find one pointless answer to win the £2,000 jackpot.

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

Very best of luck. Terry Butcher.

Bad luck, Phil. Bad luck.

-Never mind.

-That's an incorrect answer and therefore not a pointless answer.

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

What would you do with £2,000?

I'd actually buy a Hereford United Football Club season ticket,

prolong my disappointment.

And if you have any change, might I suggest maybe an atlas?

LAUGHTER

Anyway...

we are looking for England goal scorers in World Cup football.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer, Emile Heskey. There he is.

This you know to be right?

I think he scored against Denmark, but I'm not sure.

OK. Let's hope so. Very best of luck. This has to be right

and it has to be pointless and you will win that jackpot.

Emile Heskey. Is it right? How many people said it?

It is right. It is right.

Your first answer, Terry Butcher, wasn't right.

This is your first correct answer. Down it goes into the 20s,

into the teens. If this goes all the way down to zero, you leave here...

It was a good one. Well done.

It's exciting.

That's a bit more like it.

But unfortunately three people remembered Emile Heskey.

So I'm afraid that is not a pointless answer either.

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

You said this was your most confident answer.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm, again, pretty sure he scored against Tunisia in '98 but...

-whether he did or not, again I'm questioning myself.

-OK.

We are looking for England goal scorers in World Cup football.

Your last answer, Paul Scholes. Let's see if it's right

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

Well done. That's right.

This is your third and final shot at today's jackpot of £2,000.

Emile Heskey went down to 3.

Let's see if Paul Scholes can go down even lower.

Can he be pointless?

Oh no!

APPLAUSE

Two very good answers there.

Unfortunately, you didn't find the all-important pointless answer.

I'm afraid you don't go home with today's jackpot of £2,000

which will roll over onto the next show, but you have been fantastic contestants

and you do get to take home our fabulous Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

Unlucky, guys. Very well played, Phil especially

You were exactly right on your facts as well.

Heskey, that was 2002 against Denmark.

Scholes was 1998 against Tunisia.

There is a pointless answer up there actually from 1998 as well.

Do you remember who scored against Colombia?

There was obviously the Beckham free kick,

but is the other one Darren Anderton?

Correct. If you'd said Darren Anderton, you would have just won £2,000.

Let's take a look at all the names up there. That's really tough luck.

Allan Clarke who scored in 1970. There's Darren Anderton from '98.

Gerry Hitchens scored against Brazil in 1962 in the quarter-final.

Jimmy Mullen... Mark Wright also pointless answer.

The great Nat Lofthouse was a pointless answer,

scored a couple of goals.

Paul Mariner, Terry Butcher's international team-mate.

Terry Butcher scored three times for England but never in a World Cup final.

Ron Flowers and Stan Mortensen.

Tom Finney was also a pointless answer.

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

Tough luck on Darren Anderton and well played throughout the show.

Unfortunately, we now have to say goodbye to you, Phil and Carol.

-It's been brilliant having you on the show. Thank you for playing.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Nobody's won our jackpot today so it rolls over

which means on the next show, we will be playing for £3,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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