Episode 44 Pointless

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you very much indeed.

Hello and welcome to Pointless, the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

Now, welcome Paula and Steve, you're our first pair on the show today.

-How do you know each other?

-We met 10 years ago in a bar called Loaf.

I went in for a sliced white and I came out with my husband.

-How many times have you said that before?

-Twice!

-Very, very good.

-How long have you been married?

-Five years this week.

-This week - just to give him a nudge to get me a present!

-Wow.

Steve, what are your hobbies?

-Obviously, being from Manchester, I support Manchester City.

-Yay!

-Well, obviously you do.

-Why not?

-Obviously, a good year this year.

-Also, I like Belgian beer.

-Belgian beer.

-One of my favourite hobbies.

-That's not a hobby!

-Not just looking at them, drinking them!

Paula, what are your hobbies?

I like to read books a lot and sleep. A vastly underrated hobby, sleeping.

Very good indeed. We have a lot of sleep questions on this show

-so let's hope...

-So, essentially, Steve's hobby is drinking

-and your hobby is sleeping.

-That's pretty good.

Amazing you ended up together.

Amazing. Well, very best of luck. Great to have you here.

Welcome to the show. And next, we welcome back Annie and Nicki.

You were on the show last time. Remind us how you did.

We got through to the head to head, Alexander.

You did very well on the head to head.

Anyway, today is a new day when I'm sure we'll see you go even further

than the head to head. What will be the categories that get you there?

Something to do with nature.

You'd like a few history questions, wouldn't you?

-You'd be happy with history?

-I'd be very happy.

-Literature would be good.

-Yes, that's a good topic as well,

-or about dogs would be good.

-Or dogs.

-Dogs.

-Any particular dogs?

-My first and second guide dog, preferably.

LAUGHTER

-What are your interests, Annie?

-I've got all kinds, actually.

-But I think, in my spare time, I am a witch.

-You're a witch?

-Yeah, I'm a witch.

-Do you cast spells?

-I do.

But I don't mean kind of "huzzah!" And then everyone turns into toads.

-Oh, that's disappointing, suddenly.

-It's more kind of hippie.

Well, I'm going to be extra specially nice to you

-now I know you're a witch.

-You better watch out.

-I shall.

I'm sure you'll make it all the way to the final...

-Nicki, do you have any interests?

-I love pub quizzes.

-Do you?

-I thought you might.

-Yes, hello to the Pedigree Chums, my quiz team.

Very good. Well, the very best of luck to the pair of you.

Great to have you back on the show. And next we welcome Drew and Lloyd.

How do you two know each other?

Well, I've been tortured over the last year into the husk

you see before you, living with Mr Lloyd Harris.

Yes, we're in university together.

And, well, there was a bit of animosity when we met,

because we're both part of the student union and we both tried out for the student council.

Drew had been going for loads of meetings.

-I went to my first ever meeting and beat Drew by one vote.

-One vote!

-And then, yeah, we lived together, so it must have...

-There we are.

So it's all fine. And where are you at university, Drew?

-We're both at Bangor University in North Wales.

-In North Wales.

-We have lots of people watching, I'm sure, today.

-Yes, loads.

-Hello to a couple of people, the Welsh people.

-And our other housemates.

How many other housemates are there?

-There's two. Yes.

-Two others.

-And a fish.

-Two and a fish.

-Anything else you want to add?

-No.

-What are you studying, Lloyd?

-I'm doing Welsh and journalism.

-Welsh and journalism.

-How's it going?

-Very good. I've officially finished.

-Drew, are you about to finish too?

-No, I've got one more year.

I'm studying chemistry so, yeah, pretty cool.

So, Drew, this afternoon, what are you hoping is going to come up?

I'm hoping chemistry will come up, surprisingly or not.

-Sport, maybe, politics. We'll see what happens there.

-Lloyd?

Well, I'm very much entertainment based. I'm a big Eurovision fan.

-I'd love Eurovision to come up, love it.

-Right.

Any dancing, Strictly Come Dancing, anything like that would be lovely.

All right, Lloyd, OK.

Well, I hope maybe something like that might come up.

He said it would be lovely. It'd be nice for Lloyd.

You know what, Lloyd, I'll see what I can do,

-seeing as you asked so nicely.

-Thank you very much.

Well, fingers crossed. Very, very best of luck.

Lovely having you on the show. And finally, we welcome back Graham and Richard.

You were also on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final, of course.

-Remind us how you did.

-Got through to the end of the second round.

End of the second round. What was it that did for you?

-It was the rhymes, rhyming names.

-Rhyming names.

OK. So, Richard, what are you hoping is going to come up this afternoon?

It'd be nice to see a bit of sport, maybe, and if I get it wrong,

I will get ribbed, so I hope that comes up.

Possibly something to do with movies.

I love my movies, a big Die Hard fan. That's my favourite film.

OK, you've seen all of the Die Hard series?

Yeah, got them all on DVD as well, so I'm a big fan. Sadly.

-Anything else you'd like to see come up, Graham?

-Em, music.

-Any particular area of music?

-Not really.

I've been a mobile DJ for about 11 years.

-Oh, so you're going to be very good.

-I wouldn't go that far, no.

Best of luck to you both. Let's hope we see more of you this time.

We'll find out more about all of you as we go through the show.

There's one person left to introduce. He regularly tunes into

Radio 4's Just A Minute and he has never once hesitated,

deviated or repeated himself.

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

-Hiya.

APPLAUSE

Should be a cracking show today. We've got two returning pairs.

Annie and Nicki were strong last time, unlucky in the head to head.

Graham and Richard, we didn't see quite enough of.

Of the two new pairs, it can be difficult with people like Drew and Lloyd,

when they're so quiet and keep themselves to themselves,

it's very hard to work out if they're going to add to the occasion

or they're just going to shrink, like weeds in the sun.

Well, thank you for that. We 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.

For a chance to win our jackpot, all our players need to do is score

as few points as they can. What everyone's trying to do

is find a pointless answer, an answer that none of our 100 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 £5,250.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Right, let's play Pointless.

In the first round, each of you must give me one answer

and you cannot confer with your partner.

The team with the highest score at the end of the round

is eliminated. Try and make sure that's not you.

If anyone gives me an incorrect answer

they will score the maximum of 100 points.

OK, our first category this afternoon is...words.

One of those rounds, words.

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and second.

And 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 words ending in '...aze' as they could.

-Words ending in '...aze', Richard.

-We're looking for any word in the Oxford English Dictionary

online edition that ends with the letters '...aze.'

As always, no hyphenated words are allowed and no proper nouns,

so no people's names or places, anything like that.

Any word ending '...aze' in the Oxford English Dictionary, please.

OK. Thank you. Paula and Steve, you all drew lots before the show

and this afternoon, you get to go first.

Remember, we're looking for words ending in '...aze'.

-I might have made this up, actually. I'm going to go for deglaze.

-Deglaze.

-Fingers crossed.

-Fingers crossed. Very good indeed.

You're hoping to score as few points as possible. Is deglaze right?

If it is, how many people said it?

-Well done, Paula, that's a correct answer.

-Yes! Phew!

These tend to be the words that go right down.

Oh, look at that! Very well done, Paula!

APPLAUSE

-Brilliant. One point.

-Yeah, very, very well played.

A brilliant start. Deglaze, can mean to take the varnish off something,

but also it's a cooking term, putting wine in a roasting tin.

-Great start.

-Very good indeed.

Now then, Annie, words ending in '...aze'.

For some reason I can only think of little bubbly words.

I'm not sure what that means, but in my head it does.

I'm going to have to go with a really obvious one.

It's going to be haze.

Haze, you are saying. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right. 70.

APPLAUSE

-70 for haze, Richard.

-Yeah, pretty big score.

Vagueness or an indistinctness. It's also a town in Middlesex.

Lloyd, words ending in '...aze'.

I'm not the best with words. I've only got simple ones as well,

so I'm going to go for blaze.

Blaze, says Lloyd. Let's see if it's right

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

It's right.

-33.

-APPLAUSE

-Blaze, yeah, to burn with a bright flame. Surprisingly low score.

-Yeah.

So, Richard, remember, we're looking for words ending in '...aze'.

-I think the best I'm going to muster is craze.

-Craze.

OK, craze. Let's see how many people said craze.

-48.

-APPLAUSE

-48 for craze.

-Yeah, craze. Obviously a very, very good answer.

I don't have to tell you what it means. It's the twins who ran the East End.

LAUGHTER

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

Paula, the best score of the pass, very well done.

Lovely low score of one. Then we go up to 33 for Lloyd and Drew.

Well done, Lloyd. Then up to 48 for Richard and Graham,

and then Annie and Nicki are on 70.

So, Nicki, you're going to have your work cut out in this next pass

to find a really good, obscure word ending in '...aze'.

Best of luck with that. Coming back down the line,

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

OK, remember we are looking for words ending in '...aze'.

Now, Graham, the high scorers are Nicki and Annie on 70.

You're on 48 which means that if you can score 21 or less,

you are definitely in the next round.

Right, OK. Plenty of time to think about it and still not much clue.

-I'll go with glaze.

-Glaze, all right.

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

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

Glaze.

23.

23, taking your total up to 71. Richard?

Another fairly low score.

Any sort of composition, to add a sheen to any material.

A glaze, or to glaze.

-OK, Drew.

-I think I'm lucky here with biology,

I'm going to use a word from biology and go for helicaze.

GASPS

Wow.

-Helicaze?

-Helicaze.

-How do you spell helicaze?

I have absolutely no idea.

-Spelling isn't my strong point, unfortunately.

-What is helicaze?

Helicaze is an enzyme found in DNA replication.

Duh, don't you know anything?

I just want to know if he really knows what it is.

-Sounds like he does.

-Yeah, you passed.

-Well done, Drew.

Helicaze. Let's see if it's right,

and if it is, how many people said it. There's your red line.

If you can get below that red line with helicaze,

then you're through to the next round. Very best of luck.

Oh, bad luck, Drew! Bad luck.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

Which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Lloyd is nodding at this point.

Would you like me to replicate it for you? It's a bit like this.

Does it end in c, a, s, e, case, as in helicase?

Let's find out, Lloyd. Richard?

Yeah, your chemistry teacher will be delighted with you, Drew,

but your spelling teacher, if you have such a thing, won't be.

C, a, s, e, at the end. Helicase.

You're exactly right on what it is, but you can't spell it.

No, I can't spell.

One of the few English words to rhyme with pillowcase.

No, it doesn't. Helicase, pillowcase?

-It doesn't quite work, does it?

-What? Helicase, pelicase?

You know what, I'm saying that works, yeah.

Specially if you have a slight Latino tinge to your voice,

which occasionally I do.

-On an evening out.

-SPANISH ACCENT:

-Healocase, pealocase.

So then, Nicki, you are on 70.

Drew and Lloyd are the new high scorers on 133 which means

if you can score 62 or less, you are through to the next round.

We're looking for words ending in '...aze'.

Well, I've got one, and I'm thinking about sticking some letters

in front of it to create a new word.

So I'm either about to create a brand new word in the English language,

you heard it here first, or I'm going to get hopefully a very low score.

And I'm going to say unfaze.

-Unfaze.

-Yeah. I don't even know whether it exists.

No, that's exactly how you get low points in this round.

Let's hope unfaze will get you down below that red line. Let's see.

Is it a word? Unfaze. And if it is, how many people said it?

Oh, no, bad luck, Nicki.

Bad luck, I'm afraid, unfaze is not a word.

Which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

That takes your total up to an unbeatable 170,

I'm sorry to say. Richard.

Yeah, sorry Nicki, I think that's really, really tough luck.

Probably an unnecessary risk, there.

You can be unfazed, but you cannot unfaze somebody.

Bad luck. Now then, Steve.

-The good news for you is you are through, whatever happens.

-I'm safe.

Even if you score 100 points you won't overtake

Nicki and Annie's high score.

So, why not see if you can go one better than Paula

and score a pointless answer?

Remember, we are looking for words ending in A-ZE. OK.

I've got a few decent words, like ablaze and stuff.

But, when it first came up, and it doesn't sound like it should,

but I'm going for kamikaze.

-Oh.

-OK, well, let's see. Kamikaze. Is it right?

And if it is, how many people said it?

It's right, Steve.

It's right.

How far down is it going to go?

Oh, look at that.

APPLAUSE

Very, very well done.

You equal Paula's low score of 1, to take your total up to 2.

That's a great answer. Richard.

Very well played. I was going to draw reference to kamikaze, afterwards.

-It's my favourite word...

-Sorry.

-No, it's great. ..on the whole list.

So, very, very well done.

There's a bunch of pointless answers, here, as well.

Let's take a look at some of them.

Autoschediaze which,

I don't need to tell you, means to extemporise or improvise.

Bumbaze which is a Scottish word for bamboozle, to bamboozle.

There's emblaze.

Feaze. Greaze is, sort of, public school slang for a crowd.

Intermaze, an interlocking maze. Mizmaze, another word for a maze.

Overgaze which means to look over.

And scraze which is another word for a scratch.

Nicki, if you'd just said faze,

it would have been 46 points, would've seen you safely through.

Let's take a look at the most popular answers.

Daze would have scored 64 points.

Haze, there we go, we've already had, 70.

And maze, right at the top, there, with 76.

OK, well, thanks very much, Richard.

So, at the end of Round One,

the losing pair with the highest score, it's Annie and Nicki.

-Oh, we've had fun.

-Oh, so have we. This wasn't meant to happen at all.

You were to be our finalists, this show.

I know, but I want that word invented now and then I'll feel better.

Don't you worry, the guys at the OED are working on it, right now.

Such a shame to be saying goodbye to you.

Far, far too soon, this show.

It's been lovely having you on the show, thank you so much, Annie and Nicki.

-It's been fun.

-Brilliant contestants.

APPLAUSE

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

Now, there's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head.

One of the teams in front of me now will be leaving us

at the end of this round.

OK, our category for Round Two is...

Musicians. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

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

OK, so our Round Two question concerns...

Famous drummers and their bands, Richard.

Yeah, we're going to show you six drummers on each pass.

We asked 100 people with which bands did these drummers

have the most chart success?

With which bands are they most famously associated?

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

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

There's going to be 12 drummers in all. 12 bands to guess. Very best of luck at home.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So, we are looking for the bands these drummers

most famously drummed with.

And here is our list.

I'll read those all one more time.

There they are. Now, Steve, I can see some nodding, there.

Which suggests to me this board is a walk in the park for you.

I wouldn't say walk in the park, it's not bad.

I know, I think, most of them. There's one I don't know.

The other four, four or five, I know, I think.

So, I'm going to go for Meg White.

-Who's in The White Stripes.

-The White Stripes. Very good.

Let's see if that is right. The White Stripes for Meg White.

And if it is, let's see how many people knew that answer.

It's right.

Very well done, 20.

APPLAUSE

-Not a bad score, at all. 20.

-Yeah, well done, Steve. Nice, solid start.

Co-founded the band with Jack White who took her name when they married.

-Very good. Drew?

-OK, when the topic came up, I shuddered.

I'm absolutely terrible with names and bands and everything like that.

So, this is a question which I was quite dreading.

Cos I don't know a thing about it. Now I am dreading.

I know people exist. They exist, which is good.

But not sure of the band they're in.

So, I'm going to have a guess at this obvious one.

If any of those drummers are watching,

I bet they'll be very glad to hear that they do exist.

Yes, if you're watching, you exist, congratulations.

So, I'm going to go for Ringo Starr, The Beatles.

-What d'you think, Lloyd?

-Yeah, it is, isn't it?

-Well, let's see.

Ringo Starr is the Beatles, you say.

Obviously, you're hoping to score as few points as possible.

Let's see how many people said Ringo Starr, The Beatles,

if it's right.

-It is r...

-LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

I'm one of the two.

I, it is, sorry, I didn't have time to say it's right, but it was.

It is right, it's very right, in fact.

It's 98 people out of 100 right.

Yeah, Ringo Starr, he was in The Beatles.

98 out of 100 people know that.

I think I suspect I know who the other two are.

LAUGHTER

OK. Now then, Richard.

So, remember, we are looking for the bands with which these drummers

most famously played.

You are the last person to have this board.

So, fill in, which is an appropriate thing to stay

when you're dealing with drummers, of course. Fill in.

-The blanks.

-This is a nightmare category from me.

And if I get it wrong, my brother is going to kill me cos he knows,

well, he's meant to know music. We'll soon find out.

I'm not able to fill the board in for you.

But the only one I'm going to have a decent guess at

is Phil Collins, cos my mum loves him.

And she always used to play Genesis CDs.

So, I'm going to try Phil Collins and Genesis.

Phil Collins and Genesis. Let's see if that's right.

If it is, let's see how many people said Phil Collins, Genesis.

APPLAUSE

68 for Phil Collins and Genesis. Richard.

Yeah, joined them in 1970.

Let's fill in the rest of the board.

-Can I?

-Yeah, of course, you can.

-Charlie Watts?

-Clearly, the Rolling Stones.

Rolling Stones, yeah, would have scored you 58 points.

-Tommy Lee?

-Motley Crue.

Motley Crue and former Mr Pamela Anderson

would have scored you 8 points.

-And Dave Rowntree?

-He was with the Blur, I believe.

He was with Blur. Would have scored you 3 points.

That's the best answer on the board.

Very well done if you said Dave Rowntree.

We are halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at the scores. The best score of that pass was Steve's.

Very well done. Then we go up to 68, from 20, for Richard and Graham.

And then, woah, all the way up at the 98

where Drew and Lloyd are, courtesy of Ringo Starr.

We will come back down the line.

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

OK, we're going to put six more drummers on the board.

And here they are.

I'll read those all one more time.

Now, remember, we are looking for the bands that these drummers

most famously drummed for.

And you're trying to find the one

that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Now then, Graham, the high-scorers are Lloyd and Drew on 98.

If you can score 29 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.

So, remember, we are looking for the bands with which

these drummers most famously played.

I have not got a clue. I'm going to take a total, wild guess.

Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac.

Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac, you are saying.

OK, you're on 68. This is your red line, there.

Below that red line,

Mick Fleetwood will have got you through to the head-to-head.

Let's see if he has.

Is it right? How many people said it?

APPLAUSE

That takes your total up to 143.

-Richard.

-Yeah, there's a big clue in the name, isn't there?

Co-founded the band in 1967.

Thank you very much. Now then, Lloyd.

So, remember, we are looking for the bands

with which these drummers played.

Most famously.

The high-scorers are now Graham and Richard on 143.

Which means if you can score 44 or less,

you are through to the head-to-head.

How confident are you feeling, Lloyd?

I knew Mick Fleetwood. I would have gone for that one.

It's probably the only one on the board I know.

I know names and I've got bands floating in my head.

My dad'll be ashamed

cos he really likes some of these bands, I think.

But I'm going to go for Keith Moon.

I'm going to hope that it's right and go with The Who.

I think I'm wrong.

-You're saying Keith Moon, The Who.

-Yeah, a stab at it.

OK, well, here's your red line.

Below that red line

and Keith Moon, The Who will see you through to the head-to-head.

Let's see, is it right?

And if it is, how many people said Keith Moon, The Who?

Of course it's right, very well done, Lloyd.

APPLAUSE

However, 64, it scores you. Takes your total up to 162.

Which, I'm afraid, is going to be the highest score of this round.

-Richard.

-But a right answer, Lloyd. You had it up there all along.

He died in 1978, Keith Moon.

Now, The Who use all sorts of other drummers.

Quite recently they used Zak Starkey, who is Ringo Starr's son.

And Ringo Starr was the drummer with The Beatles.

-Yes.

-The Beatles, who are a Liverpudlian band from the '60s.

OK. Now, Paula, we come to you.

-You can then fill in the gaps that the others have left.

-No, I can't.

Then pick your favourite answer.

I'd love to be able to fill in the gaps but I only knew two

and they're, obviously, the ones that have just gone.

I think that Stewart Copeland might be The Police.

-Stewart Copeland might be The Police.

-I don't know.

There is no red line for you

because you're through to the head-to-head, whatever happens.

-Good for me.

-So, very good for you.

Stewart Copeland, The Police, is it right? How many people said it?

APPLAUSE

35. Very well done. Takes your total up to 55. Richard.

Well played, Paula. Best answer in both passes from your team.

Let's fill in the rest of the board. Do you want to have a go at these?

-Yes.

-John Bonham?

-John Bonham?

-Yes.

-I think, Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin, exactly right.

Would have scored you 13 points. Lars Ulrich?

Don't know.

Is Metallica. Would have scored you 6 points. And John Keeble?

-One for '80s fans.

-Spandau Ballet.

-Spandau Ballet, exactly right.

It would have scored 2 points.

Very well done if you got that, best answer on the board.

Thank you very much, Richard.

So, at the end of Round Two,

the losing pair with the highest score is Drew and Lloyd.

Bad luck. Oh, Drew.

-Drew.

-Don't like the drums, do not like the drums.

Don't like drums. But do you like music, at all?

-Not, I'm more niche, kind of, folk music.

-Yeah.

-Really?

-Hm.

Well, listen, we have to say goodbye to you, now.

Which is a great shame, but we will see you again next time.

We look forward to that. Lloyd and Drew, splendid people,

thank you for playing.

APPLAUSE

For the remaining two pairs, things are about to get

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

Well, very well done, Paula and Steve, Graham and Richard.

You've made it through to the head-to-head.

Only one pair can make it through to the final

and play for today's jackpot, which currently stands at £5,250.

Well, here's how it works.

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

but you are now allowed to confer.

All you have to do is come up with an answer that scores

less than the other pair and 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's your first question.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Oscar Wilde plays as they could.

Oscar Wilde plays, Richard.

Yes, simply looking for any play written by Oscar Wilde.

Any uncompleted play, such as A Florentine Tragedy, we won't allow.

It's any completed play by Oscar Wilde, please.

OK, thank you very much.

Paula and Steve, you've played best throughout the show,

so far, so you get to go first.

Oscar Wilde plays, we're looking for.

-We'll go for... Well, we only know one.

-One.

-The Importance Of Being Earnest.

-The Importance Of Being Earnest. OK.

There we are. That's what you're saying.

Graham and Richard, you can confer out loud, if you like.

-Really no idea whatsoever.

-Not a clue.

We're just going to have to throw

the name of some sort of play out there.

And hope for the best. What are we going to go for?

No idea. Just go for it.

Just have to say something like Oliver.

LAUGHTER

-Something like Oliver.

-Yeah.

You see, I'd like to say Something Like Oliver sounds like

a really good name for a play, actually.

But you're going to say Oliver, Oliver is your answer.

The Importance Of Being Earnest versus Oliver.

OK, Paula and Steve, The Importance Of Being Earnest, is it right?

How many people said it?

It's right.

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33 for The Importance Of Being Earnest.

And, Graham and Richard, you have gone for Oliver.

Let's see if that's right.

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

Yup, I'm afraid, as you might have guessed, that's an incorrect answer.

Which means, after one question, Paula and Steve are ahead, one-nil.

Richard.

Yeah. Let's take a look at all the answers, Oliver not included.

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There is a pointless answer, a very obscure one.

Very well done if got For The Love Of The King, A Burmese Masque.

A pantomimic play from 1894.

The Duchess Of Padua would have scored you 1.

A Woman Of No Importance would have only scored you 1.

Vera, or The Nihilists,

that was Wilde's first ever play, would have scored you 4 points.

Salome that he wrote in French, 7. An Ideal Husband, 7.

Lady Windermere's Fan, there, on 11.

And The Importance Of Being Earnest, 33.

Thank you very much, Richard. Here is your second question.

Graham and Richard, you have to win this question to stay in the game.

Best of luck. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many 2011 Cricket World Cup quarter finalists as they could.

2011 Cricket World Cup quarter finalists. Richard.

Yes, simply looking for any of the eight teams that reached

the quarter finals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

OK, now then, Graham and Richard, you go first this time.

-OK, we have an answer.

-We do.

Not great cricket fans but we think they got to the quarter finals

which is, obviously, a good place to start.

-We're going to go with Ireland.

-Ireland, OK. You're saying Ireland.

Paula and Steve?

Relying on Steve for this one.

I think all eight were the major teams, the major cricketing teams.

So, I'll go for Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka. OK. Ireland, say Graham and Richard.

Sri Lanka, say Paula and Steve.

Let's see how many people said Ireland.

Oooh.

Bad luck.

This was a question you had to win.

Your only salvation will be if Paula and Steve have also got it wrong.

Now, Steve and Paula have said Sri Lanka.

All it has to be is right.

Is it?

It is.

It is right.

Very well done, Paula and Steve, you are through to the final.

38, it scored.

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That means, after only two questions,

Paula and Steve are straight through to the final.

-Richard.

-Unlucky, Graham and Richard.

Ireland did beat England in a group game

but they didn't qualify for the quarter finals, I'm afraid.

And, Steve, you're exactly right,

the eight quarter finalists were the eight big teams.

Let's take a look that all of them.

The best answer would have been New Zealand.

That would have won the points, 17. West Indies, 23. South Africa, 24.

All of those would have just won you that point, guys.

There's Sri Lanka on 38, eventually lost it in the final.

Australia, 60. India, who won the whole tournament, 65. Pakistan, 66.

And England, up the top, on 74. Very well done if you got all eight.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So, the losing pair, at the end of the head-to-head,

I'm afraid, Graham and Richard.

Dear, oh, dear. You've come storming through to the head-to-head.

Just two categories that really haven't served you well at all.

Oscar Wilde and Cricket World Cup.

Our other answer for the cricket was Pakistan

but we knew that would be quite high.

-Quite a high-scorer.

-Thought we gamble.

Oh, well, it was a good gamble. And you're right,

-Ireland did do pretty well but not that well, sadly.

-Not well enough.

But you've come one round further than you did last time.

So, that's no mean feat.

-It's been great having you on the show, thanks very much.

-Cheers.

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For Paula and Steve, though, it's now time for our Pointless final

and the chance to win our jackpot of £5,250.

Well, congratulations, Paula and Steve, you have fought off

all the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

So, very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

And at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £5,250.

The rules are very simple.

All you need to win that money is to find one pointless answer.

That's an answer that none of our 100 people could think of.

We haven't had any pointless answers on the show today.

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

First, though, you've got to choose a category.

And you can choose from these three options. They are...

-Well, Classical Music is definitely out.

-Without a doubt.

We know nothing about classical music.

Celebrities, I might know but you possibly wouldn't, would you?

-I'm not very good at celebrities.

-No, let's go for children's books.

OK, Children's Books.

What children's books would you like?

What sort of category would be good for you?

-Beatrix Potter would be good.

-Beatrix Potter.

Yeah, that's the only ones we know.

OK. Right, well, very best of luck.

Let's find out what that question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Enid Blyton's Famous Five titles as they could. Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for the titles

of any of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels.

Those are the full-length novels, first published

between 1942 and 1963.

Any of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels, please.

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

And all you need to win that £5,250 is for just one of those answers

to be pointless.

Your 60 seconds start now.

-I don't know any.

-I don't know any.

All I can think of is Five Go Mad In Dorset but that's that thing.

-Dawn French.

-Dawn French thing.

-Is that a parody of a real one?

Yeah, I think so.

-I mean, try it, because it's worth of pop.

-Five go to Dorset.

Yeah, could try that.

Famous, just what they got up to or something.

-Famous Five Go To The Beach, or something.

-Something like that.

-Famous Five Go On Holiday.

-Go On A Rowing Boat.

Oh, gosh. I've absolutely no idea.

Desperately trying to think of stuff.

-We could say go on holiday or something.

-Yeah.

-Go to the beach.

-Yeah, some activities. If we say three of activities.

-Yeah.

-What about places, or something?

-Well, we'll just use the Dorset one.

Five Go Mad In Dorset. Do you want to? Or just Go To Dorset?

Famous Five In Dorset?

-Go To Dorset.

-And what about the third one?

-On Holiday.

-Five seconds left.

-And To The Beach.

-OK, OK.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, yeah.

OK, there is your minute gone.

We were looking for Enid Blyton Famous Five novels.

I now need three answers.

Well, I think we're clutching at straws, here,

but we'll go for Five Go To Dorset.

Five Go To Dorset.

-Five...

-Go On Holiday.

-Five Go On Holiday.

-Five Go On Holiday.

-And Five On The Beach.

-And Five On The Beach.

-OK, there are three Famous Five books.

-No.

-No.

Of those three,

which is your most confident shot at a pointless answer?

-On holiday, probably.

-On Holiday.

-That's our best, I think.

-Put that last.

-OK, so we'll put that one last, then.

Which one is your least likely, do you think?

Go for the Dorset one first.

Just clutching at straws.

-OK, On The Beach, then, we'll put in the middle.

-Yeah.

OK, well, let's put them up on the board in that order

and here they are.

There they are. We were looking for Enid Blyton Famous Five novels.

-Books, I think we might call them.

-Yeah.

So, you said this was your least confident answer.

Remember, you only have to find one pointless answer to win

that jackpot of £5,250.

You never know, one of these might be correct and pointless.

So, let's see. How many people said Five Go To Dorset?

Is it correct? Five Go To Dorset.

No.

I'm afraid that is an incorrect answer.

So, obviously, not a pointless answer which means

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

-What, hypothetically, would you do with £5,250?

-Very hypothetical.

I don't know, I don't know the answers.

There's every chance you might have landed on an Enid Blyton book.

-Buy some Enid Blyton books, I think.

-Yeah. Go on holiday, to the beach.

Go to Dorset, you could do a lot worse.

-Good point, yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Seriously, what would you do with £5,250?

-Go on the beach on holiday.

-Dorset.

-To Greece.

-Greece. Yeah, I think so.

-Splendid.

-We got married in Greece.

-Oh, you did, very good.

-Lovely place to get married.

-We did, it was lovely.

OK, well, very best of luck.

Let's hope that Five On The Beach will get those things for you.

It has to be right, of course, and has to be pointless.

This, for that jackpot of £5,250, Five On The Beach.

Is it right? How may people said it?

-No.

-Surprise.

Bad luck.

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

You put it last.

You said this was the one you had the most faith in to be pointless.

Five Go On Holiday.

Sounds absolutely right, doesn't it?

-Why not?

-I'd be surprised.

-They must've gone on holiday.

-At some point.

-They must've done at some stage.

Even Enid Blyton's children needed a break.

-Absolutely.

-From all those adventures.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

OK. This was the answer you had the most faith in to be pointless.

It has to be pointless if you're going to win that jackpot of £5,250.

Let's just see, is it right? How many people said Five Go On Holiday?

Oh, bad luck.

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Oh, well.

Well, I had a good feeling about five going on holiday.

That was a likely thing for them to do.

Anyway, unfortunately,

you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer.

So, I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £5,250,

which will roll over onto the next show.

But you have been brilliant contestants

and you do get to take home our Pointless trophy.

Ah, brilliant. Thank you very much.

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Wrong category.

Yeah, unlucky, guys. You played so well throughout.

Best answer in Round One, best two answers in Round Two.

Won the head-to-head two-nil. Very tough category in the final.

There are a load of pointless answers.

Five Go Down To The Sea was a pointless answer.

That's next to the beach, isn't it?

And you were saying earlier about Five Go Mad In Dorset

which is the Comic Strip version.

-One of our 100 did actually say that.

-Did they?

-Disallowed it, of course.

Let's take a look. There are 21 books in all.

Let's take a look at the pointless ones.

Five Fall Into Adventure, Five Go To Billycock Hill

and Five Go To Mystery Moor.

Five Go To Demons Rocks, Five Have A Mystery To Solve,

Five Have A Wonderful Time.

Five On A Hike Together, Five On A Secret Trail

and Five On Kirrin Island Again.

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

-OK, you didn't know any of those, did you?

-No way. No way.

Well, unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you, Paula and Steve.

But, as Richard said, it's been brilliant having you on the show.

You've been fantastic contestants. Thank you both so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Thank you very much.

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

Which means, on the next show, we will be playing for £6,250.

Join us next time 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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