0:00:22 > 0:00:27Thank you very much. I'm Alexander Armstrong. Welcome to Pointless,
0:00:27 > 0:00:34where obvious answers mean nothing and obscure answers mean everything. Let's meet today's players.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41First we welcome Polly and Sam. How do you two know each other?
0:00:41 > 0:00:47We are both teachers. Well, I've just given it up, but we met across a crowded staff room.
0:00:47 > 0:00:53- Ahh! Your eyes met... - Well, Sam's a PE teacher and I was a drama teacher.
0:00:53 > 0:00:59- I had to learn about sport, then hang out...- Could you tell? Does he always wear a tracksuit?
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Shorts, whatever the weather.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Shorts, whatever... Seriously?
0:01:04 > 0:01:09- Seriously.- Polly, you've stopped? You've hung up your teaching gown?
0:01:09 > 0:01:15Yes, so to speak. I've decided to totally change career and start a baking business.
0:01:15 > 0:01:22- Ohh! Hello! - Down in Devon, cream teas... - Very good indeed. Well, now.
0:01:22 > 0:01:28- So what would be brilliant for you? - Em, well, we've both travelled a fair bit,
0:01:28 > 0:01:34- so geography questions would be quite good.- Sam, what about you? What would be a good subject?
0:01:34 > 0:01:41I guess science-type subjects. I did science A levels. Failed them all, but I like science.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47I guess sport-related questions would be good. Not horse racing.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51Not horse racing? OK. That's a sport you actively avoid.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55- I'm not really built for it. - OK. Or even watching it.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59- Not really, no.- Very best of luck to you. Lovely having you on the show.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04Next, we welcome back Alan and James. You were on last time.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14- James, what happened?- I happened. Alan did well on the first sweep,
0:02:14 > 0:02:21but because we were in podium one, I had the last chance and I was left with an incorrect answer
0:02:21 > 0:02:25- or a pointless answer.- Yes. - I had to guess, I picked one.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30It was the wrong one. Alan would have picked the other,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33as he has informed me on a constant basis.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35- OK...- See that smug face?
0:02:35 > 0:02:41- It's like that.- Since the last show. - So what are you hoping for, James? - Music would be good, film,
0:02:41 > 0:02:48TV would be good, current affairs. I'd like to avoid history, if possible.
0:02:48 > 0:02:55- That wouldn't be a great one. - Avoid history. Alan, will you pick up the loose history balls?
0:02:55 > 0:02:59I ought to be able to. My wife's a history teacher,
0:02:59 > 0:03:03but it really hasn't rubbed off on me, so no.
0:03:03 > 0:03:09OK, well, very best of luck. Now welcome, Dee and Colin. How do you two know each other?
0:03:09 > 0:03:11We've been married for four years
0:03:11 > 0:03:18and we met when, at just over 40, I'd decided to start my life and go to a ten-pin bowling league.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23I'd been league bowling for a while and we were running the league
0:03:23 > 0:03:28- and Dee turned up and we hit it off, didn't we, from the start?- Yeah.
0:03:28 > 0:03:34And from that humble beginning, we've both taken ten-pin bowling instructors' courses
0:03:34 > 0:03:37and we both coach at county level.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41- Do you play with the bumpers up? - No! Never!
0:03:41 > 0:03:47- It's only fun if you see how many times it can bounce off the bumpers. - Fourteen!
0:03:47 > 0:03:49You're the man.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Awesome.- We're not worthy!- No!
0:03:52 > 0:03:54That would be impressive.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59- I would love to take ten-pin bowling coaching.- So would I!- See us after!
0:03:59 > 0:04:03The trick is, Richard, what you do afterwards.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07- You're not bringing your back leg across.- What?!
0:04:07 > 0:04:11- He's bowling off the wrong leg. - I'm bowling off the wrong foot?
0:04:11 > 0:04:17- That's it.- Like that... - With some finesse.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- Finesse? - You have to have some finesse.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23There you are!
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Bravo!
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Strike!
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Wow. Look at that. Anyway, very warm welcome to the show, Dee and Colin.
0:04:33 > 0:04:39And finally we welcome back Jo and Danni from last time. What happened?
0:04:39 > 0:04:45- I don't believe it, but we got stumped by Victor Meldrew.- We had a One Foot In The Grave question.
0:04:45 > 0:04:52- We did and, unfortunately, sitcoms are not... Not One Foot In The Grave.- It was a classic sitcom,
0:04:52 > 0:04:56- but you either watched it or you didn't.- Exactly.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Never mind. You did very well. Jo, what would you like?
0:05:00 > 0:05:06- I'd love music. '70s music. The glam rock era.- That's your era.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11- It is, yeah. My teenage years. Or else musicals.- Musicals. - I love musicals.
0:05:11 > 0:05:19- Mum's obsessed with musicals. - Do you head up to London to see musicals in the West End if you can?
0:05:19 > 0:05:23- I'm up there as much as I can. - What's your favourite recently?
0:05:23 > 0:05:30- My favourite is Phantom of the Opera.- Phantom of the Opera. - I've seen that over 120 times.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35- 120?! That is... Yes, that's verging on the pathological.- It is.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Do you like it?
0:05:39 > 0:05:44I like it. Les Miserables I've seen 40 times.
0:05:44 > 0:05:49- Wow.- And when Aspects of Love was on,
0:05:49 > 0:05:53I didn't get to see that as many times. That was only about 25.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57- Wow. Just the 25 times.- Yeah.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59My goodness.
0:05:59 > 0:06:04Danni, what would you like to see come up?
0:06:04 > 0:06:10- Possibly sport. I enjoy running. No football.- No football. Some running questions.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15I enjoy netball as well. Tennis. I could probably cope with tennis as well.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20Well, very best of luck. It's great having you on again.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25We'll find out more about all of you as we go along. Only one person left for me to introduce.
0:06:25 > 0:06:32- In the search for obscure knowledge, he is the light at the end of the tunnel. It's Richard.- Hiya.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40- Afternoon.- Good afternoon. - What a line-up we've got today.
0:06:40 > 0:06:46Goodness me. We've met a few before. Jo and Danni went through to the Head to Head last time.
0:06:46 > 0:06:53We met Alan and James. They didn't stay long, but I suspect were hiding their light under a bushel.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58There will be a little bit of film and music in Round 3.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02Round 1 is something a PE teacher should do well at.
0:07:02 > 0:07:07If you do badly, it might make you look bad in front of your pupils.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09OK.
0:07:09 > 0:07:14We put all our questions to 100 people, but this is Pointless,
0:07:14 > 0:07:18so we are after the obscure answers they didn't get. To stay in,
0:07:18 > 0:07:25just score as few points as you possible can. Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer
0:07:25 > 0:07:29that none of our 100 people gave. Then we'll add £250 to the jackpot.
0:07:29 > 0:07:34Nobody won it last time, so we add another £1,000 to that.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Today's jackpot starts off at £5,500. There you are.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Right. Let's play Pointless.
0:07:49 > 0:07:54In the first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer.
0:07:54 > 0:08:01Whichever team has the highest score will be eliminated. If anyone gives me an incorrect answer,
0:08:01 > 0:08:06they will score the maximum of 100 points so try to avoid those.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Our first category this afternoon is...Sports Programmes.
0:08:10 > 0:08:16Sports Programmes. Can you all decide who is going first and who is going second?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:08:24 > 0:08:31We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many presenters and team captains on A Question of Sport
0:08:31 > 0:08:38- as they could. Richard?- Anyone who's been a presenter or team captain for at least one full series
0:08:38 > 0:08:44of A Question of Sport. That's right from the beginning up to April, 2011.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47No guest hosts or guest captains.
0:08:47 > 0:08:53Thank you, Richard. Polly and Sam, you all drew lots before the show and you get to go first.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57So Polly... A Question of Sport.
0:08:57 > 0:09:02Obviously, I watch this by default, but I watched it when I was younger.
0:09:02 > 0:09:08And I remember that Emlyn Hughes was a captain, so I'll go with Emlyn Hughes.
0:09:08 > 0:09:15Emlyn Hughes. Let's see if it's right and, if it is, how many people said Emlyn Hughes.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Yes, it's right!
0:09:21 > 0:09:25Down it goes. 20. Very well done, Polly!
0:09:25 > 0:09:29- Emlyn Hughes, 20 points. - Very well played, Polly.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34He had two stints as team captain. From '79 to '81 and '84 to '88.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Now then, James.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42We're looking for regular presenters and team captains from A Question of Sport.
0:09:42 > 0:09:48I do know the fairly recent line-up, so I'll have to go with something that I know is correct.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53- I'll have to go for Ally McCoist. - Ally McCoist says James.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Is it right and how many people said Ally McCoist?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01It's right.
0:10:04 > 0:10:0625.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12- Not bad at all. 25 for Ally McCoist. - Yeah, well played, James.
0:10:12 > 0:10:19- Team captain and Scottish footballer.- Thank you. So, Dee, do you watch A Question of Sport?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23I used to watch it a lot with my dad. It was his favourite programme.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27We've started watching it quite recently as well.
0:10:27 > 0:10:33One of the captains on it is one of our favourites, but I'm not going to go for him.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39- I'll go for Bill Beaumont. - Bill Beaumont, very good. Let's see if that's right
0:10:39 > 0:10:42and how many people remembered it.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47It's right.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Come on...
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- 29.- That's all right.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58- Evidently, a well-remembered team captain.- He was there a long time.
0:10:58 > 0:11:04'82 to '96. He had many rivalries, including, of course, with Emlyn Hughes.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09OK, now then, Danni. A Question of Sport.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14I've got a feeling I'm going to leave Mum in an awful position! I wanted Ally McCoist,
0:11:14 > 0:11:20but he's already gone, so I'll play it a bit safe and go with Sue Barker.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25Danni is saying Sue Barker. Is that right and how many people said it?
0:11:33 > 0:11:38It's right, but it's very right. 48 people said Sue Barker. Richard?
0:11:38 > 0:11:43Yeah, she took over presenting in 1997, Sue Barker.
0:11:43 > 0:11:50We're halfway through, so let's look at the scores as they stand. The best answer was from Polly.
0:11:50 > 0:11:57Polly and Sam looking strong on 20, then we go up to 25 where James and Alan are found.
0:11:57 > 0:12:03Then 29 for Dee and Colin and then up quite a way to Danni and Jo
0:12:03 > 0:12:09on 48. So yes, Jo, as Danni said, you have a bit of a hole to dig yourself out of,
0:12:09 > 0:12:15but very best of luck. Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:12:17 > 0:12:23Remember, we are looking for regular presenters and team captains on A Question of Sport.
0:12:23 > 0:12:29Now, Jo and Danni are the high scorers on 48. Jo, you have to score as low as you possibly can.
0:12:29 > 0:12:37Right. I've got two names and I think I'm going to go for... John Parrott.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42John Parrott. Is it right and, if it is, how many people said it?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46It's right.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Oh, the best answer yet! 12!
0:12:52 > 0:12:58- 12 takes your total up to 60. - Well done, Jo. Good answer. The Liverpudlian snooker player.
0:12:58 > 0:13:03- Took over after Bill Beaumont left. - Thank you very much, Richard.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07Colin, the high scorers are on 60. You're on 29.
0:13:07 > 0:13:12If you can score 30 or less, you are definitely through to the next round.
0:13:12 > 0:13:18- We're looking for presenters and team captains from A Question of Sport.- I'm a little bit torn
0:13:18 > 0:13:23whether to go obscure and risky or not quite so obscure.
0:13:23 > 0:13:31- That might also be risky, remember. - Well, yeah. I think I'll go with that, though. Willie Carson.
0:13:31 > 0:13:36Willie Carson. There is your red line. If you get below that...
0:13:36 > 0:13:39It's about Willie Carson's height.
0:13:39 > 0:13:46..you are through to the next round. Let's see if that's right and how many said Willie Carson.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50It's right.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Come on, come on!- Keep going.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Yes, you've done it! Well done.
0:13:56 > 0:14:0013. Another great answer. That takes your total up to 42.
0:14:00 > 0:14:06- Richard?- Well done. Another person with a rivalry with Bill Beaumont. - Splendid. Now then, Alan,
0:14:06 > 0:14:13you're on 25. The high scorers on 60 are Jo and Danni, so if you can score 34 or less, you are through
0:14:13 > 0:14:20to the next round. So regular presenters and team captains on A Question of Sport.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24I'm going to go... I think when I was younger I watched at home
0:14:24 > 0:14:29and I think another rivalry with Bill Beaumont was Ian Botham.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Ian Botham. There is the red line.
0:14:32 > 0:14:38Below that, you are in the next round. Ian Botham - is that right and how many people remembered it?
0:14:45 > 0:14:50Very well done! You've done it! Oh, very good. 13, Alan. Superb.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52That takes your total up to 38.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56- Richard?- Well played, Alan.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- Another rivalry with Bill Beaumont. - Splendid.
0:14:59 > 0:15:06Now then, Sam, you are on 20. The high scorers on 60 are Jo and Danni.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10If you can score 39 or less, you are definitely through.
0:15:10 > 0:15:16I think this is just so up your street that you might even find a pointless answer.
0:15:16 > 0:15:22I've got a good idea for one, but the pressure of 1,500 schoolchildren
0:15:22 > 0:15:30plus 120 teaching staff laughing at me if I get this wrong is ramping up I can tell you.
0:15:30 > 0:15:35- That said, I'm going to go for Henry Cooper.- Henry Cooper!
0:15:35 > 0:15:41There's a red line there. Sam, below that red line, through to the next round.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45If this is pointless, a tickertape parade.
0:15:45 > 0:15:52Please can that happen. Let's see if it's right and how many people said Henry Cooper.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Very best of luck.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59It's right! It's only right, Sam!
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Obviously, you're through.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Oh! It's five!
0:16:06 > 0:16:11It's not pointless, but it's the best answer of the entire round.
0:16:11 > 0:16:18- Fittingly, it's five. It takes your total up to 25. Very well done. - Yeah, very well played, Sam.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22One of the original team captains. We'll look at the best answers.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26That original line-up was the one to go for. Let's take a look.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30David Vine, the original host, was a pointless answer.
0:16:30 > 0:16:36Gareth Edwards, team captain from '79 to '81, Welsh rugby player. He scored one.
0:16:36 > 0:16:42Cliff Morgan was the other team captain opposite Henry Cooper. Those are the best answers.
0:16:42 > 0:16:48Let's look at the most popular answers. Bill Beaumont, there we go, 29.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Phil Tufnell, 43. One of the current captains.
0:16:52 > 0:16:58And right at the top, Sue Barker was the biggest score of all, 48. Phil Tufnell beat Matt Dawson.
0:16:58 > 0:17:05- Sorry, Matt.- Thanks, Richard. So the losing pair with the highest score - I'm sorry, Jo and Danni.
0:17:05 > 0:17:10Head to Head last time, but I'm afraid Sue Barker did for you.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13She just does things like that.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Lovely answer from you, Jo. John Parrott. Wonderful.
0:17:17 > 0:17:23- Completely let down.- Never mind. - This was slightly a One Foot In The Grave moment for you.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28- Absolutely.- Ah, well. You have played phenomenally well.
0:17:28 > 0:17:34I'm sorry we have to say goodbye. Lovely having you, Jo and Danni. Thanks so much. Great contestants.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38But for the remaining three pairs it's now time for Round 2.
0:17:45 > 0:17:52There's only room for two pairs in the Head to Head so one team will leave at the end of this round.
0:17:52 > 0:17:58Try to make sure it's not you. Our category for Round 2 is... Fiction. Fiction.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03Can you all decide who will go first and who's going to go second?
0:18:03 > 0:18:08Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15OK, so our Round 2 question concerns imaginary places and their creators.
0:18:15 > 0:18:22- Imaginary places and their creators. Richard?- We'll show six imaginary places on each list.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26We asked 100 people to tell us which author originally created them.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31A nice obscure answer scores fewer points, an incorrect answer scores 100 points.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36Six imaginary places on each pass. 12 in all to guess at home.
0:18:36 > 0:18:42Thank you very much. We are looking for the authors who created these imaginary places.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45HE READS LIST
0:18:51 > 0:18:55I'll read through those one more time.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02There they are. There are the fictional places. Now, Sam,
0:19:02 > 0:19:09I want the most obscure author you can think of who has created one of these places.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Annoyingly, I have read Gormenghast,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15but I can't remember who wrote it.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Em, so...
0:19:17 > 0:19:23- I'm going to go with Discworld, Terry Pratchett.- Terry Pratchett, Discworld, you are saying.
0:19:23 > 0:19:30Sounds good to me. Let's see if that's right and how many people knew that answer. Terry Pratchett.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32It's right.
0:19:36 > 0:19:3822.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42Very well done, Sam. 22 for Terry Pratchett, Richard.
0:19:42 > 0:19:49Yeah, well done, Sam. A flat world rested on the back of four elephants on the back of a giant turtle.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- It's imaginary.- Phew!
0:19:52 > 0:19:56- Don't panic.- Phew-ee! Thank you very much, Richard.
0:19:56 > 0:20:02- Alan, do these places mean anything to you?- I've heard of all of them.
0:20:02 > 0:20:08It would help if I could remember the authors, though. I think... I'll have to go with Narnia,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11which is CS Lewis.
0:20:11 > 0:20:17CS Lewis, Narnia. OK. Let's see if that's right and how many people knew CS Lewis.
0:20:23 > 0:20:2543.
0:20:25 > 0:20:30- 43. Yes, that is quite high. Richard?- Yeah. Correct.
0:20:30 > 0:20:38- But quite high. First appears in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.- Very good. Thank you.
0:20:38 > 0:20:44Now then, Dee, we come to you. You're the last person to have this board, so you can talk us through it
0:20:44 > 0:20:49- and supply the authors.- I'd like to! The only two I knew have gone.
0:20:49 > 0:20:54Toad Hall, I've heard of it. I can't remember the author.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Sorry, hon.
0:20:59 > 0:21:06It's not the right author. A total... Robert Louis Stevenson, but I just don't know the answer.
0:21:06 > 0:21:13OK, Robert Louis Stevenson for Toad Hall. Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many knew it.
0:21:15 > 0:21:16Oh!
0:21:16 > 0:21:21Oh, bad luck, Dee. I'm afraid that's incorrect and you score 100 points.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25- Richard? - Yeah, quite a tough board, I think.
0:21:25 > 0:21:30There's lots of famous places, but who created them is the question.
0:21:30 > 0:21:37Toad Hall. Not Robert Louis Stevenson. That's Kenneth Grahame. It would have scored eight.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Oz. Do you know who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?- No.
0:21:40 > 0:21:47His creation is much more famous than he is. It would've scored you 2 points. It's L Frank Baum.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Good answer in a pub quiz.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Gormenghast Castle?
0:21:52 > 0:21:58- Any ideas at all? Sam, have you read it?- No.- It's Mervyn Peake. It would have scored you 1.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01And Cloudcuckooland is a pointless answer.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05- Very well done at home if you said Aristophanes.- Aristophanes.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09- It's a Greek political satire. - Well, thank you very much, Richard.
0:22:09 > 0:22:14We are halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17On 22, Sam and Polly looking extremely strong,
0:22:17 > 0:22:21up to 43, Alan and James, quite high,
0:22:21 > 0:22:25but you've been thrown a lifeline by Dee with her 100 points,
0:22:25 > 0:22:31so Colin, you have to find a really obscure answer on the next pass and hope that gets you through.
0:22:31 > 0:22:36Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:22:37 > 0:22:42OK, we're going to put six more fictitious places on the board and here they are.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44We have got...
0:22:51 > 0:22:54I'll read those all one more time.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04We are looking for the creators of these fictitious places
0:23:04 > 0:23:10and you're trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. Now then, Colin...
0:23:10 > 0:23:14I know all of these places, but I can only think of two authors
0:23:14 > 0:23:21and I think I'm going to have to go with an obvious one because we can't afford to get another one wrong.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24I'm going to go with Rohan and JRR Tolkien.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27OK, Rohan, JRR Tolkien, you're saying.
0:23:27 > 0:23:34Rohan, JRR Tolkien, let's see if it's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37It is right.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42- Down, down.- Down it goes.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Down, down.- Very well done, Colin.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48It's the best score so far.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51That's a great answer, as it turns out.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56- Richard, Rohan? - Yeah, Rohan lies just north of Gondor, just north-west of Mordor.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- Yes.- The sunny side, obviously.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Yeah.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Very good. OK, thank you. James...
0:24:05 > 0:24:09- Yes.- The high scorers are Colin and Dee on 110. You're on 43.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13That means you have to score 66 or less. Do you think you can do it?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I am a bit worried, if I'm honest.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19- This is music to Colin and Dee's ears.- I know what Lilliput is from.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22I cannot think of the author.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26And Wonderland, I believe...
0:24:27 > 0:24:30..that it's Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll for Wonderland.
0:24:30 > 0:24:37- Lewis Carroll...- I think. - ..for Wonderland.- I think it's Lewis Carroll.- Here comes your red line.
0:24:38 > 0:24:44- If you go below that red line with Lewis Carroll, you are through to the next round.- OK.
0:24:44 > 0:24:49Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said Lewis Carroll for Wonderland.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52It's right.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56And you are through to the head-to-head. Very well done, James.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Correct.
0:25:00 > 0:25:0515 points. It takes your total up to 58. Very well done. Richard?
0:25:05 > 0:25:10Yeah, well done, James. From Alice's Adventures In Wonderland from 1865.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Splendid. Now then, Polly...
0:25:12 > 0:25:17You are on 22. The high scorers on 110 are Colin and Dee.
0:25:17 > 0:25:23That means if you can score 87 or less, you are through to the next round.
0:25:23 > 0:25:29- You can also fill in all the blanks on the board if you like. - Yes, if I knew them.
0:25:29 > 0:25:35I know Lilliput is Gulliver's Travels, but I cannot for the life of me remember who the author is.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38I've no idea about Utopia or Island of Hearsay,
0:25:38 > 0:25:42so the only one I'm guessing at is I think Baskerville Hall...
0:25:42 > 0:25:45I'm wondering if it's from Hound Of The Baskervilles,
0:25:45 > 0:25:50so I'm going to go with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but I really don't know
0:25:50 > 0:25:55Conan Doyle, you are saying for Baskerville Hall. There's your red line. It's nice and high.
0:25:55 > 0:26:02Let's see if Baskerville Hall is Arthur Conan Doyle and if it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Best of luck.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09Yes, it is and you are through to the head-to-head. Very well done.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- Brilliant.- Down it goes... 25.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16It's a great answer. It takes your total up to 47.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Richard?
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Yeah, fittingly, that was rather well deduced, Polly.
0:26:23 > 0:26:28Let's take a look at the rest of the answers. It was quite a tough board.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Lilliput?
0:26:29 > 0:26:35- Jonathan Swift. - Absolutely, from Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift, 9 points.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- Utopia?- Sir Thomas More.
0:26:37 > 0:26:42Yeah, would have scored you 2 points. And Island of Hearsay, do you know that?
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- Kingsley.- Yes, it's from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49It's pointless, so very well done if you said that.
0:26:49 > 0:26:55- Anybody who got all 12, you can congratulate yourself. That was two tough boards.- Very tough boards.
0:26:55 > 0:27:01Thank you, Richard. At the end of Round Two, the losing pair with the highest score, Colin and Dee.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05- I let him down, I'm afraid. - Not at all.- No, you didn't.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08The creations are much more famous than their creators.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13- Everybody knows all of the places, then you think, "Who created that?"- Yeah.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18The good news is we will see you again next time. There's consolation, I promise!
0:27:18 > 0:27:25We'll see you again next time. Colin and Dee, brilliant contestants! Thank you very much for playing.
0:27:25 > 0:27:31But for the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Well done, Polly and Sam, Alan and James, you are in the head-to-head.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45Only one pair can make it through to today's final and play for today's jackpot
0:27:45 > 0:27:48which currently stands at £5,500.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51APPLAUSE
0:27:51 > 0:27:57For each question, each pair needs to give me just one answer, but you are now allowed to confer.
0:27:57 > 0:28:02If your answer scores less than the other pair, you win that question.
0:28:02 > 0:28:07The first pair to win two questions will be playing for today's jackpot. Let's play Pointless.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14OK, here is your first question.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:28:17 > 0:28:22to name as many Alfred Hitchcock films with one-word titles as they could.
0:28:22 > 0:28:30- Richard?- We're looking for any film for which Alfred Hitchcock received a directing credit prior to 2011
0:28:30 > 0:28:35which has one word in its title. As always, no TV films, short films or documentaries.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37There are 18 films on this list.
0:28:37 > 0:28:44Thank you very much. Polly and Sam, you've played best throughout the show so far, so you go first.
0:28:44 > 0:28:49OK. I think he did a film called Rope.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52You are saying Rope. Very good. Alan and James?
0:28:52 > 0:28:56I can think of lots of Hitchcock films with more than one word.
0:28:56 > 0:29:01- I can only think of one with one word.- Yeah, but it is his most famous film...
0:29:01 > 0:29:04- I cannot think of any others. - ..which is Psycho.
0:29:04 > 0:29:09- I won't go with that unless we haven't got a better answer. - I don't know any others.
0:29:09 > 0:29:14- North By Northwest...- The Birds is The Birds, it's not just Birds.
0:29:15 > 0:29:20I think we're going to have to just say Psycho and be aware that we're not going to go through,
0:29:20 > 0:29:23unless Rope is a wrong answer.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27So we have Rope, we have Psycho, Polly and Sam saying Rope.
0:29:27 > 0:29:31Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said Rope.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35It's right. It's right.
0:29:38 > 0:29:40Oh, it's a low score.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42Look at that. That's brilliant!
0:29:44 > 0:29:46A spectacular score there, Polly.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49Very, very well done, Polly and Sam.
0:29:49 > 0:29:53Alan and James, well, you went with Psycho.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55It's not looking good, is it?
0:29:55 > 0:30:01- Only a pointless answer is going to beat Rope.- It's unlikely.
0:30:01 > 0:30:07Psycho - let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it. Maybe everyone forgot it!
0:30:07 > 0:30:08Psycho...
0:30:09 > 0:30:11It's right.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14Oh, 51.
0:30:14 > 0:30:1749 people didn't get it.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21There we are. Very well done, Polly and Sam.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23After one answer, you are ahead 1-0.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28- Richard?- Very good answer. Rope was his first colour feature of 1948.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32There is a pointless answer up here, but it's a very, very obscure one.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35In 1930, when he made his film Murder,
0:30:35 > 0:30:39he simultaneously shot a German version of the same film with a German cast.
0:30:39 > 0:30:45That film is called Mary. It's a pointless answer, so very well done if you got that.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49Saboteur scored 1, Sabotage, based on Conrad's Secret Agent, scored 1.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52There's Rope, brilliant answer, Polly, 1 point.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57Lifeboat, shot entirely in a lifeboat, scored 1, Frenzy, his penultimate film, also 1.
0:30:57 > 0:31:02Topaz scored 1, Suspicion 1, Spellbound 1, it had the Salvador Dali dream sequence,
0:31:02 > 0:31:06Downhill and Champagne, both silent movies, would have scored you 2.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09Blackmail would have scored you 2.
0:31:09 > 0:31:11The last page - Notorious 5,
0:31:11 > 0:31:15Murder 5, that's the one that Mary was a version of,
0:31:15 > 0:31:19Rebecca from Daphne du Maurier's novel 7, Marnie 9,
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Vertigo 17, and Psycho way out in the lead with 51.
0:31:22 > 0:31:28- Very well done if you got some of those low-scoring ones. - Thank you very much, Richard.
0:31:28 > 0:31:34Here is your second question. Alan and James, you have to win this question to stay in the game.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:31:36 > 0:31:42to name as many Boney M UK Top 40 singles as they could.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46- Boney M UK Top 40 singles.- Yeah, any single released by Boney M
0:31:46 > 0:31:50which reached the UK Top 40 prior to April 2011, please.
0:31:50 > 0:31:55- Unbelievably, there are 16 names on this list.- 60?- 16.
0:31:55 > 0:32:00- I was going to say, "60, wow, they were busy!" - I wouldn't want to read them out.
0:32:00 > 0:32:05Now then, Alan and James, you go first this time.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07WHISPERING
0:32:10 > 0:32:12- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15We're going to go for Mary's Boy Child.
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Mary's Boy Child, say Alan and James. Very good.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22- Polly and Sam? - We've got a number of options.
0:32:22 > 0:32:26I think that's quite a good answer. Um...
0:32:26 > 0:32:32- So we could go... - There's Ra Ra Rasputin.- Rasputin, Daddy Cool, Brown Girl In The Ring.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35What do you reckon?
0:32:35 > 0:32:39- I think Daddy Cool.- Yeah, we'll go Daddy Cool.- Daddy Cool.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43Alan and James, you have to win this to stay in the game.
0:32:43 > 0:32:48Polly and Sam, if you win this, you go straight through to the final.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52Alan and James, Mary's Boy Child, let's see if that's right
0:32:52 > 0:32:56and if it is, let's see how many people said Mary's Boy Child.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00It's right.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05Oh, very good. 27.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10What do you think?
0:33:10 > 0:33:14It's not great. I thought less people would have said that.
0:33:14 > 0:33:2027 is quite high for Mary's Boy Child. We then have Daddy Cool from Polly and Sam.
0:33:20 > 0:33:23Daddy Cool, is it right, how many people said it?
0:33:24 > 0:33:26It's right.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29Where is it going to stop?
0:33:29 > 0:33:31Yeah, you've done it.
0:33:31 > 0:33:3415 for Daddy Cool.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36APPLAUSE
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Very well done, Polly and Sam.
0:33:38 > 0:33:46That means after only two questions, you are straight through to the final, 2-0. Richard?
0:33:46 > 0:33:49Well played. Daddy Cool was their first hit in 1976.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52And Mary's Boy Child was Christmas No.1 in 1978.
0:33:52 > 0:33:57One of the top ten selling singles in the UK of all time, Mary's Boy Child.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01- Wow!- Let's take a look at all the Boney M singles.
0:34:01 > 0:34:05We Kill The World (Don't Kill The World) was a pointless answer.
0:34:05 > 0:34:12Ma Baker - Somebody Scream is a remix of Ma Baker that they did with a group called Horny United.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14That was pointless.
0:34:14 > 0:34:20I'm Born Again and Gotta Go Home are pointless answers. Gotta Go Home was a double-A side with El Lute.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23Boney M Megamix from 1992, that was pointless.
0:34:23 > 0:34:29That's all the pointless ones. Let's take a look at some of the more familiar ones.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49Big scores for Boney M.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- Very big.- Very memorable songs. - Indeed.
0:34:52 > 0:34:57So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm sorry to say, Alan and James.
0:34:57 > 0:35:04Gutted. I knew Sunny. I couldn't remember if it was definitely them that sang it. That's frustrating.
0:35:04 > 0:35:10It's been fantastic having you on the show, Alan and James. Very well done indeed. Great contestants!
0:35:10 > 0:35:13APPLAUSE
0:35:13 > 0:35:19But for Polly and Sam, it's time for our Pointless final and the chance to win our jackpot of £5,500!
0:35:24 > 0:35:28Congratulations, Polly and Sam. You have fought off all the competition
0:35:28 > 0:35:32and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot
0:35:39 > 0:35:43and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £5,500.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45APPLAUSE
0:35:46 > 0:35:50The rules are very simple. All you need to win that money
0:35:50 > 0:35:54is to find a pointless answer none of our 100 people could think of.
0:35:54 > 0:36:01We haven't had any pointless answers today. You only have to find one now and you will go home with £5,500.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05Firstly, you've got to choose a category from these three options.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14I'm terrified because I'm a drama teacher.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18I might get Theatre wrong. I'm going to be shot as I was a drama teacher.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21- If it's British Olympians and I get it wrong...- Yeah.
0:36:21 > 0:36:27- Which one do you want to go for? - I think Theatre because I've been to the theatre once or twice.- Theatre.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30You're going to go for Theatre.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34OK, what would you like it to be in Theatre?
0:36:34 > 0:36:41All I'm scared of is that it will be something I should know and I'll be humiliated on national television.
0:36:41 > 0:36:46Let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:36:46 > 0:36:51- to name as many Olivier Award-winning actors as they could.- Oh, no!
0:36:51 > 0:36:57- Richard?- Yeah, we're looking for anyone who has won the Olivier Award for Best Actor or Best Actress
0:36:57 > 0:37:00from 1985 right up to the 2011 ceremony, please.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03So either Best Actor or Best Actress.
0:37:03 > 0:37:08- That doesn't include Best Actor or Actress in a Musical.- Thank you.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11You have up to one minute to come up with three answers.
0:37:11 > 0:37:17All you need to win that £5,500 is for just one answer to be pointless. Your 60 seconds start now.
0:37:17 > 0:37:21- Kevin Spacey.- But has he won it?
0:37:21 > 0:37:24- There's the, um...- I don't think... I think...
0:37:24 > 0:37:26'85, '85.
0:37:26 > 0:37:30- So, I'm trying to think of some actresses.- Judi Dench?
0:37:30 > 0:37:34She's too obvious. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson might have won it.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40- Ian McKellen?- We could try him. John Hurt maybe.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Who's the guy who was Picard in Star Wars?
0:37:43 > 0:37:47- Baldy guy.- Patrick... Patrick... - Stewart.- Stewart, yeah.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50- Um...- The baldy guy!- Yeah.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53Yeah, cos they did, um...
0:37:53 > 0:37:57- They did Waiting For Godot. - That's it, yeah.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02Who else? It's got to be more obscure than that cos surely people will know...
0:38:02 > 0:38:07- Not many people will know that many Olivier Award-winners. - I know. And from 1985 as well.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10- Maggie Smith?- That's a good shout.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Which three are we going to go with?
0:38:12 > 0:38:15- Patrick Stewart.- Five seconds.- Yeah.
0:38:15 > 0:38:19- John Hurt?- Yeah. And Maggie Smith is a good shout.
0:38:19 > 0:38:23Your minute is up. We were looking for Olivier Award-winning actors.
0:38:23 > 0:38:26I now need your three answers.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30- OK, we're going to go Patrick Stewart.- Patrick Stewart.
0:38:30 > 0:38:35- We're going to go with... Maggie Smith.- Maggie Smith.
0:38:35 > 0:38:39- And...- Let's go with John Hurt. - OK, John Hurt. - There are your three answers.
0:38:39 > 0:38:45- Which is your best shot at a pointless answer?- I'm not sure any of them are right!- Patrick Stewart?
0:38:45 > 0:38:51- We'll put Patrick Stewart last. - We'll put him last. Which is your least likely?
0:38:51 > 0:38:57- Maggie Smith.- We'll put her first. Let's put them up on the board in that order and here they come.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03Cracking cast!
0:39:03 > 0:39:04Look at that!
0:39:04 > 0:39:08Let's hope they are all correct answers and pointless.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12OK, we were looking for Olivier Award-winning actors.
0:39:12 > 0:39:17You only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot of £5,500.
0:39:17 > 0:39:22This is your first one, Maggie Smith. You had least faith in this being pointless.
0:39:22 > 0:39:27Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said Maggie Smith.
0:39:31 > 0:39:32Oh!
0:39:32 > 0:39:35Well, what an oversight!
0:39:35 > 0:39:39That's all I can say, Olivier Awards Committee, if you're watching.
0:39:39 > 0:39:45Maggie Smith, one of our great theatrical dames? Never won an Olivier Award. Who knew that?
0:39:45 > 0:39:48Never won a Best Actress, anyway, Olivier Award.
0:39:48 > 0:39:54So that is not a pointless answer which means you only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56What would you do with £5,500?
0:39:56 > 0:40:00I'd put it towards setting up my business, my baking business.
0:40:00 > 0:40:07- Very good.- I think we'd probably go on holiday as well.- Holiday first, baking business when you come back.
0:40:07 > 0:40:14OK, so we are looking for Best Actor winners of the Olivier Awards.
0:40:14 > 0:40:20Let's hope nobody said your next answer - John Hurt. It has to be right and pointless.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24If it is both of those things, you win £5,500. Let's see if it's right
0:40:24 > 0:40:27and if it is, let's see how many people said John Hurt.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31Oh, no!
0:40:32 > 0:40:36That's unbelievable. John Hurt, Maggie Smith?
0:40:36 > 0:40:41Two incorrect answers. You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot of £5,500.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44Everything is resting on the great Patrick Stewart.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46Let's hope he is great.
0:40:46 > 0:40:52- He is great. - Let's hope he is Olivier great. - Let's hope he is Olivier great.
0:40:52 > 0:40:57OK, this is your last answer. It has to be pointless, otherwise you leave here empty-handed.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00Patrick Stewart, please be correct and pointless.
0:41:04 > 0:41:06Oh, no!
0:41:06 > 0:41:09- Oh, no.- Oh, that's unbelievable!
0:41:09 > 0:41:12- APPLAUSE - Never mind, Polly.
0:41:12 > 0:41:18Oh, bad luck. Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that vital pointless answer,
0:41:18 > 0:41:22so you don't win £5,500, which will roll over on to the next show,
0:41:22 > 0:41:28but you have been brilliant contestants and you get to take home our Pointless trophy.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30- APPLAUSE - Bad luck, Polly.
0:41:31 > 0:41:37- Oh, Richard!- I think that might be our unluckiest end round of all time.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41You gave us about the only three people who haven't won an Olivier Award!
0:41:41 > 0:41:46Maggie Smith and Patrick Stewart have been nominated, but haven't won.
0:41:46 > 0:41:52All sorts of pointless answers - Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Julie Walters, Rachel Weisz.
0:41:52 > 0:41:57More importantly for you, Ian McKellen was a pointless answer and so was Kevin Spacey.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00Oh, no! Oh, no!
0:42:00 > 0:42:05- You said both of them. I'm so, so sorry.- He will never forgive me!
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Let's take a look at some of the other names.
0:42:07 > 0:42:12You managed to just about pick the only famous actors who haven't won.
0:42:22 > 0:42:27There's Antony Sher as well, all sorts of people. That's terrifically unlucky.
0:42:27 > 0:42:32You've been brilliant. It's been lovely having you on the show. I'm ever so sorry.
0:42:32 > 0:42:37Oh, dear! You mentioned two of those - Ian McKellen, Kevin Spacey.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40- I know.- Never mind. Never mind.
0:42:40 > 0:42:46I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Polly and Sam.
0:42:46 > 0:42:52But it's been fantastic having you on the show. You've been brilliant. Thank you so much for playing.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55APPLAUSE
0:42:55 > 0:43:00Nobody has won our jackpot today, so it rolls over on to the next show
0:43:00 > 0:43:03when we will be playing for £6,500.
0:43:06 > 0:43:12- Join us then to see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.
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