0:00:21 > 0:00:24APPLAUSE
0:00:24 > 0:00:28Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless
0:00:28 > 0:00:32where we put obscure knowledge to the test. Let's meet the players.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40First, we welcome Adam and Pippa, our first pair on the show today.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43- How do you two know each other? - We met at work.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47We worked at an airline. We met in the call centre nine years ago.
0:00:47 > 0:00:52- And your eyes met...?- Over a printer.- Over a printer?- Yes.
0:00:52 > 0:00:58- Where have you come from, Adam? - Crawley Down, a village just outside Crawley, hence the name.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Very good. Pippa, what are you hoping is going to come up?
0:01:02 > 0:01:06I would love celebrities to come up, any kind of celebrities,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09anything from the gossip magazines, that's my forte.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13- Adam, what do you do in your spare time?- I manage a football team.
0:01:13 > 0:01:21- Very good. So football would be a strong suit for you?- I'd like to think so.- Any other niche interests?
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Celebrity voiceover work in adverts.
0:01:23 > 0:01:30- What?- When you watch adverts at home, I can probably name the voice more often than not.
0:01:30 > 0:01:36As random as people like... Caroline Quentin was on the other day and I picked out that voice.
0:01:36 > 0:01:42- You should do some advert voiceovers(!)- Do you think?- Yeah. - It's something that's missing?- Yeah.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47I saw an advert the other day which you didn't do the voiceover for. I could not believe it.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51- Was it Caroline Quentin? - Yeah, it was Caroline Quentin.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56Very good indeed. Best of luck, Adam and Pippa. Great to have you here.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01Next we welcome Jon and Paul. I'm about to say, "How do you know each other?" I think I know.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04- Brothers. - You're right. We're brothers.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09- George and Ringo are at home, are they?- Yes.- Yeah, I believe.
0:02:09 > 0:02:15- Where have you come from? - Lancashire. Can you tell?- I'm beginning to. Paul, what do you do?
0:02:15 > 0:02:19- I'm a high school teacher, teaching science.- Teaching science.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22You've admitted that up front. So science questions for you...
0:02:22 > 0:02:29- Are you slightly dreading science questions?- Probably. Biology, not so bad, other ones, who knows?
0:02:29 > 0:02:35- Chemistry not necessarily your...? - No, biology is my strength, physics and chemistry are not.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39- Traditionally, teachers come on this show and do terribly.- Yeah.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45- Jon, how about you?- Hairdresser. - A hairdresser rather than a barber?- Either.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50I don't mind. I'm a hairdresser... In fact, the correct terminology is "stylist".
0:02:50 > 0:02:55- You're a stylist?- Yeah. - Jon, hobbies when you're not cutting hair?- Cars mainly.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59- Cars.- Cars of varying sorts. The older, the better.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- Are you quite a mechanic? - No, no, no, no.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07- I'm just interested.- But an old car, you sort of almost need to be...
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- You know that '60s, '70s...?- Yeah. - You need to know a good mechanic.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16We should do a show that combines hairdressing and cars and call it Primp My Ride.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- LAUGHTER - Very good.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Very best of luck. Lovely to have you on the show.
0:03:22 > 0:03:29Next we welcome back Pam and Andrew. Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34- Remind us how you know each other. - Andrew is a friend of my son Martin.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39When I was trying to get on the show, no-one would come on with me,
0:03:39 > 0:03:44but Martin texted Andrew and Andrew said of course he would come on with me.
0:03:44 > 0:03:50- You know your way around the show? - Yes, I do, but my answers aren't necessarily good ones.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55You had a tough category. You had Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in the first round.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59It was before my time. As you can tell, I'm only 12(!)
0:03:59 > 0:04:01LAUGHTER
0:04:01 > 0:04:06What's going to be the perfect round for you? What's going to be the best question?
0:04:06 > 0:04:11- Anything about Newcastle United. - OK, anything about Newcastle United. Pam?
0:04:11 > 0:04:17- Same for me, anything about Newcastle United.- Welcome back to the show. Let's see more of you this time.
0:04:17 > 0:04:23Finally, we welcome back Richard and Emma. You were on the show last time. Remind us what happened.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27- We got to the second round. We blew out with scientists.- Alfred Nobel.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31- I thought he was from Norway, but he was from Sweden.- Good guess.- Yeah.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34I was convinced he was from Norway.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- Remind us how you know each other. - This is my daughter.
0:04:37 > 0:04:43- What will see you through to the final?- Non-sport and non-scientists might be an idea.
0:04:43 > 0:04:49- OK.- Star Trek. I'm a big Star Trek fan and you watch it, so anything to do with Star Trek captains.
0:04:49 > 0:04:55- Any other strange interests? - Colonial history for me, I think. - Eurovision Song Contests for me.
0:04:55 > 0:05:02- Eurovision Song Contests. - SpongeBob.- He wasn't in that though. - No.- Not yet.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Best of luck. We will find out more about all of you during the show.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09There's only one person left to introduce.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13He has so many spare obscure facts, he keeps some at his aunt's house.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16- He's my pointless friend Richard. - Hiya. Hello.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18APPLAUSE
0:05:20 > 0:05:25- Was that a Tinie Tempah reference? - That was a Tinie Tempah... - At teatime on BBC-1?
0:05:25 > 0:05:32- Yeah, a bit of teatime Tinie Tempah. - Excellent. It should be a cracking show today. Two returning pairs.
0:05:32 > 0:05:38Richard and Emma were very unlucky last time. I think they may go all the way today.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43I'm amazed when someone like Paul comes on who's a teacher... Forget that your students are watching.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46But the parents of your students are watching.
0:05:46 > 0:05:52They're watching you and he's going, "Yeah, I'm a science teacher. Biology, pretty good.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54"Physics, I don't really...
0:05:54 > 0:06:01"Chemistry..." They're sitting at home going, "But you're teaching our children GCSE!"
0:06:01 > 0:06:03"Yeah, chemistry is a bit..."
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Good news for our last two pairs.
0:06:06 > 0:06:13- This first round is "Name a captain of Newcastle United or the Starship Enterprise".- Thank you, Richard.
0:06:13 > 0:06:19Our questions were put to 100 people before the show, but we want the obscure answers they didn't get.
0:06:19 > 0:06:25To stay in the game with a chance to win our jackpot, our players need to score as few points as they can.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Every time that happens, we add £250 to the jackpot.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000 to that.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Today's jackpot starts off at £3,500.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42APPLAUSE
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Very good. Let's play Pointless.
0:06:50 > 0:06:56In the first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer with your partner.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00The pair with the highest score at the end of the round is eliminated.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04An incorrect answer will score the maximum of 100 points.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Our first category this afternoon is...
0:07:08 > 0:07:13Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and who's going to go second?
0:07:13 > 0:07:17And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22OK, our Round 1 question concerns...
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Literary works and their three-named authors, Richard?
0:07:30 > 0:07:35You'll see seven literary works on each pass, each written by an author with three names.
0:07:35 > 0:07:42The more obscure authors will score you fewer points, but an incorrect answer will score 100 points.
0:07:42 > 0:07:48- There'll be 14 in all for you to have a go at at home. - Thanks very much, Richard.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Adam and Pippa, you drew lots before the show and you get to go first.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57We are looking for the three-named authors of these literary works. We have got...
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I'll read those one more time.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17There are the books.
0:08:17 > 0:08:22We want the three-named author of the most obscure one you know.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26Looking at that board, I'm familiar with one, so I'm glad I'm going first.
0:08:26 > 0:08:32If I get this wrong, I'll be slightly embarrassed. I'm going to go for Treasure Island.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37I know two of the names. I hope the third one is correct. I'll go for John Louis Stevenson.
0:08:37 > 0:08:44John Louis Stevenson for Treasure Island. Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people knew it.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Good luck.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Bad luck, Adam.
0:08:50 > 0:08:57Bad luck. That's an incorrect answer which, I'm afraid, means you score the maximum of 100 points.
0:08:57 > 0:09:02Now then, Jon, we are looking for the three-named authors of these literary works.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- This is tricky.- Mm-hm.
0:09:04 > 0:09:11Three, I know, and I'm going to go for The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Arthur Conan Doyle, Hound Of The Baskervilles, says Jon.
0:09:14 > 0:09:20Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that answer - Arthur Conan Doyle.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22It's right.
0:09:24 > 0:09:2628.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30- I'll take that. - 28 for Arthur Conan Doyle.
0:09:30 > 0:09:37Good start, Jon. Originally, just Arthur Doyle, but after graduation, added the Conan to his writing name.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42Andrew, we are looking for the people who wrote these books and they all have three names.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46- Is this a good round?- Terrible. Literature is not my subject.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49It's mainly biographies that I read at home.
0:09:49 > 0:09:56The only author that I can think of, I'm going to say possibly wrote Treasure Island,
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Hans Christian Andersen?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Hans Christian Andersen, Treasure Island.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that answer.
0:10:08 > 0:10:14I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer as well, Andrew, which means you score the maximum of 100 points.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18Richard, you're the last person to have this board. Talk us through it.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22I've seen Secret Garden, I've seen Tarzan,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- I've seen Treasure Island. - Seen?- On the TV.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- I've seen the other two, but I've never read them.- I see.
0:10:28 > 0:10:35- I think I know Tarzan Of The Apes. I think it's Edgar Rice Burroughs. - Edgar Rice Burroughs for Tarzan.
0:10:35 > 0:10:40Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that answer.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Very well done, Richard.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Down it goes. That's a great answer.
0:10:48 > 0:10:505.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Very well done. Edgar Rice Burroughs?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Just like last time, starting very strongly. Edgar Rice Burroughs,
0:10:58 > 0:11:03before he was an author, he was a cowboy, a gold dredger and a railway detective.
0:11:03 > 0:11:08- Then Tarzan made him a millionaire. - Wow!- Let's go through the board.
0:11:08 > 0:11:14Let's clear up the mysterious case of who wrote Treasure Island. It was ROBERT Louis Stevenson.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Yeah, tough luck. 43 points, that would have scored you.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21The author of The Secret Garden was Frances Hodgson Burnett. Scored 11.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Little House On The Prairie, that's a tricky one.
0:11:24 > 0:11:29Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote it. That would have scored you 2 points.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray. That scored 4.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37The best answer on the board, Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, 1 point.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Very well done if you got them all.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44We're halfway through the round, so let's take a look at those scores.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48Richard and Emma, what a great answer! 5, lovely low score there.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Then we go up to 28 where we find Jon and Paul, also looking safe.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57Then we come to our 100s - Andrew and Pam and Adam and Pippa.
0:11:57 > 0:12:03You'll have to tussle it out between you. I think one of you two will be leaving us at the end of this round.
0:12:03 > 0:12:08- Andrew and Pam have to be careful. They got 200 last time. - They could be in the 400 Club.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11That's a really elite group.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16Best of luck. Can the second players take their places at the podium?
0:12:20 > 0:12:24We'll put seven more literary works on the board and here they are.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37I'll read those all one more time.
0:12:45 > 0:12:52There we are. Now then, Emma, if you can score 94 or less, you are through to the next round.
0:12:52 > 0:12:58I've only read one of those. I've read The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency
0:12:58 > 0:13:01and I can't remember the name. He just won't come to me.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05I'll just make up a name because I don't know any of the others.
0:13:05 > 0:13:10So I'll go for The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency
0:13:10 > 0:13:15and we'll say James...Robert Brown. That's a nice...
0:13:15 > 0:13:19- James Robert Brown.- Nice name. - It's a good name.- It is.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Let's see if that's right and if it is, it would be brilliant!
0:13:23 > 0:13:27- Wouldn't it?- Yeah.- Here's your red line. It's a lovely, high red line.
0:13:27 > 0:13:33Let's see if James Robert Brown is right as our author and if it is, how many people said it.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- Yeah, we knew that was coming, Emma.- Yeah.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41That's an incorrect answer. It scored you 100 points. It takes your total up to 105.
0:13:41 > 0:13:48- Pam...- No pressure!- The high scorers are Emma and Richard on 105. If you can score 4 or less, through you go.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53Pygmalion, I think, is George Bernard Shaw, but I'm not sure.
0:13:53 > 0:13:59George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03There's your red line. Let's see how George Bernard Shaw does for you.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06It's right.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Look at that. Very well done, Pam.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15- 15. - APPLAUSE
0:14:15 > 0:14:1915 for George Bernard Shaw. It takes your total up to 115.
0:14:19 > 0:14:24- Richard?- Well played, Pam. Avoided the 400 Club and then some! Great answer.
0:14:24 > 0:14:30- Pygmalion was turned into a musical, My Fair Lady, with a slightly happier ending.- Thank you very much.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Paul, we are looking for the people who wrote these books.
0:14:34 > 0:14:41I'm afraid the only one I knew has gone. Fortunately, Jon was first up. I don't know any of the others.
0:14:41 > 0:14:46The high scorers are Pam and Andrew on 115. You're on 28. You've got a margin of 86.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51- Although that won't help you at all if you don't know any of them. - It won't help me at all.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54I'll have to make something up like Emma did,
0:14:54 > 0:14:58so I'm going to say Antony Worrall Thompson.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01LAUGHTER
0:15:01 > 0:15:06- Which book are you attributing to him?- American Psycho, Antony Worrall Thompson.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- LAUGHTER - American Psycho...
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Antony Worrall Thompson.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Here's your red line.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19If you get below that red line, I will eat the column.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21LAUGHTER
0:15:21 > 0:15:23He might even have a recipe for it.
0:15:23 > 0:15:29- Hmm, delicious! - Antony Worrall Thompson, is it right, how many people said it?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Oh, bad luck, Paul.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36An incorrect answer, not Antony Worrall Thompson.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39You score 100 points. It takes your total up to 128.
0:15:39 > 0:15:45You are the new high scorers. Pippa, this is a very, very exciting last answer.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49The high scorers are now Paul and Jon on 128. You're on 100.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53A score of 27 or less will keep you in the game.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56- No.- Really?- I'd love to say I know all of them.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- Do you know any of them?- No.
0:16:00 > 0:16:05I'm going to guess at The Emperor's New Clothes
0:16:05 > 0:16:07and I'll say Hans Christian Andersen.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12The Emperor's New Clothes, Hans Christian Andersen.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16There's your red line. If you get below it, you are in the next round.
0:16:16 > 0:16:22Hans Christian Andersen, says Pippa. Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said it.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25It's a great guess, Pippa. Look at that!
0:16:26 > 0:16:29And you're through to the next round.
0:16:29 > 0:16:35- APPLAUSE - Very well done indeed. It scores you 17. It takes your total up to 117.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Very, very well played. Well done, you. Richard?
0:16:39 > 0:16:45I've seen some people qualify in fluky ways before, but that is spectacular. Very well played.
0:16:45 > 0:16:52Hans Christian Andersen was born in 1805. Once went to stay with Charles Dickens and stayed for five weeks.
0:16:52 > 0:16:59Dickens couldn't get rid of him. Used to sob uncontrollably when he read a review. He's a bit like you.
0:16:59 > 0:17:05Do you remember that time you came to my house for tea? Literally, a month later, you're still there,
0:17:05 > 0:17:10- sobbing uncontrollably at your reviews.- Crying into the cake. - Every single one just scathing.
0:17:10 > 0:17:16- Terrible.- Some of them were nice about Ben Miller. Some of them said Ben is good.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21But all of them to a man just brutal about your performance, your appearance.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25- Everything.- I'm welling up again now, Richard. Get me a cake!
0:17:25 > 0:17:28No, it's fine. It's fine.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32I just say, "Thank the Lord for voiceover work!"
0:17:33 > 0:17:38Let's take a look through the rest of this board. It's absolute carnage here.
0:17:38 > 0:17:44I suspect some people at home have done very well. Little Women is Louisa May Alcott.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Would have scored you 30 points.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency is Alexander McCall Smith.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52- Does that ring a bell?- Yes, it does.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54It would have scored you 5 points.
0:17:54 > 0:18:00American Psycho, not written by Antony Worrall Thompson, but written by Bret Easton Ellis. 2 points.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05The Last Of The Mohicans written by James Fenimore Cooper. Would have scored you 1.
0:18:05 > 0:18:11And the Tales Of Uncle Remus, a pointless answer, was written by Joel Chandler Harris.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Very well done if you got all 14 of them at home.
0:18:14 > 0:18:21Thanks, Richard. So at the end of Round 1, the losing pair with the highest score is Jon and Paul.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26- It wasn't science.- No, thankfully. - That was a rotten round for you.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31At least you don't have a school full of children who can take the mick out of you(!)
0:18:31 > 0:18:36There is that. Paul, Jon, we'll see you again next time. Thanks so much for playing.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38- Paul and Jon!- Thank you. APPLAUSE
0:18:38 > 0:18:42But for the remaining three pairs, it is now time for Round 2.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52There's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head, so one team will leave us after this round.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55OK, our Round 2 category is...
0:18:57 > 0:19:02Decide in your pairs who's going first and second. Whoever's going first, step up to the podium.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Let's find out what our question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:19:10 > 0:19:17to name as many UK Top 40 singles by Coldplay, Snow Patrol or the Arctic Monkeys as they could.
0:19:17 > 0:19:23- Richard?- Yeah, we're looking for any UK Top 40 single by any of these three bands -
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Coldplay, Snow Patrol or Arctic Monkeys, before the end of 2011.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31Where there have been double-A sides, we will accept either answer.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36We will be very strict on the wording of those titles, so be careful. Very best of luck.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41Thank you very much, Richard. Now then, Adam, is this good for you?
0:19:41 > 0:19:45- Yes, it should be, yes.- Good. - Oh, yes.- "Oh, yes."
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Are you a fan of any of these bands?
0:19:48 > 0:19:53All three. That will probably make my answer not as impressive as it should be.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58If you know all these bands so well, you might confuse their album tracks for singles.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Yes, that is a distinct possibility.
0:20:01 > 0:20:07I've got songs going in my head and I'm trying to remember if they were released as singles.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11I'm going to go for a track by Snow Patrol called Chocolate.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Chocolate by Snow Patrol.
0:20:13 > 0:20:19Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Chocolate.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21It's right.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- Phew!- Phew-ey!
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Down it goes, a Chocolate drop.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Oh, 5!
0:20:28 > 0:20:30APPLAUSE
0:20:30 > 0:20:36- Not pointless, but who cares? 5 points is an excellent score. - That'll do.- Very well done, Adam.
0:20:36 > 0:20:42Good start, Adam. From 2004, one of their early Top 40 singles, reached number 24.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47Pam, we are looking for Top 40 singles by Coldplay, Snow Patrol or the Arctic Monkeys.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51Are you a fan at all of Snow Patrol, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay?
0:20:51 > 0:20:56I've heard of Coldplay, but I don't know the other two. I'll have to make a name up.
0:20:56 > 0:21:02- Believe.- I was really hoping you were going to say Antony Worrall Thompson.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07- Believe?- Mm-hm.- We've got the complete oeuvre of three bands.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10It's not entirely unlikely that one had a single called Believe.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many people said Believe.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21Bad luck, Pam. Unfortunately, an incorrect answer, so you score the maximum of 100 points.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25- Richard?- Sorry, Pam. It sounds like a Coldplay single.
0:21:25 > 0:21:30- You can imagine that closing Glastonbury. - Yeah, Believe.- Lighters aloft.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34It's also the sort of thing he would call one of his kids.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Believe Banana Martin.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Now then, Emma.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42I don't like any of these, either.
0:21:42 > 0:21:48- Right. - I'll have to go for one I think is right, but a very high scorer.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Hang on. Aren't Arctic Monkeys from Sheffield?
0:21:52 > 0:21:56I just don't like them. I think they're a bit of a row.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- So I'm going to say Chasing Cars.- OK. Chasing Cars.
0:22:02 > 0:22:08Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people said Chasing Cars.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10It's right.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Oh, it's not bad! Down it goes - 17.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Really not bad at all, Emma.
0:22:19 > 0:22:25- A surprisingly low score. - But you've got 100 seconds to name songs.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30It doesn't have a big chorus saying the title. Spent 94 weeks in the top 75.
0:22:30 > 0:22:35- It was the most played record of the decade.- Wow.- Yeah.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40OK, we're halfway through the round. Let's look at those scores. Adam...
0:22:40 > 0:22:46It wasn't pointless, but look at it. Five. In this context, that's a cracking score.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Then up to 17. Great score from Emma.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56Then 100. Sorry, Pam and Andrew. But Andrew, I have high hopes. Let's see.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:23:01 > 0:23:06Now then, Richard. You're on 17. The high scorers are on 100.
0:23:06 > 0:23:12If you can score 82 or less, you are through. Is this good for you?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15No. Not at all.
0:23:15 > 0:23:22- I'll make a wild stab. Be My Sunshine.- Be My Sunshine. - No idea!
0:23:22 > 0:23:26OK, Be My Sunshine is what Richard is submitting.
0:23:26 > 0:23:31There's your red line. If you get below that, you're through.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Is it right?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Oh, bad luck.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39Bad luck. An incorrect answer, which you probably knew.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43That scores 100 points and takes you up to 117.
0:23:43 > 0:23:50That sounds less like a Coldplay song. They won't let you back into Sheffield after this.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52That is right.
0:23:52 > 0:23:58Andrew, we're looking for Top 40 singles by Coldplay, Snow Patrol or the Arctic Monkeys.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02You're on 100. This is a bit of a lifeline for you.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05- It certainly is. - Richard and Emma are on 117.
0:24:05 > 0:24:12- If you can score 16 or less, through you go.- I think I'm going to have to chase a low score here.
0:24:12 > 0:24:18I know four songs between Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys, even though I'd not listen to them.
0:24:18 > 0:24:24- What do you listen to? - The Spice Girls, things like that.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26LAUGHTER
0:24:26 > 0:24:31- I'm more into my hip hop.- Right. - Snoop Dogg, that type of thing.
0:24:31 > 0:24:37- Did you like our little Tinie Tempah thing?- I was very impressed. Very impressed.
0:24:37 > 0:24:43One of the Arctic Monkeys songs might be lower, but I'm not sure if it was just an album track.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47I have got an Arctic Monkeys album, although I don't listen to it.
0:24:47 > 0:24:53- So I'm going to try that one and I'm going to say Mardy Bum. - Mardy Bum.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58Here's your red line. Get below that and you are through.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Mardy Bum. Is it right and how many people said it?
0:25:02 > 0:25:07Oh, Andrew! Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer
0:25:07 > 0:25:14which means you score the maximum of 100 points, which takes you to 200 - you are now in the 400 Club!
0:25:14 > 0:25:17APPLAUSE
0:25:21 > 0:25:25That was a good answer, but it wasn't right. Richard?
0:25:25 > 0:25:29They're only sort of in the 400 Club.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34If you get 200 in the first round, both times, that's proper 400 Club.
0:25:34 > 0:25:41Mardy Bum is one of their better-known songs, but never a single. Good answer, but wrong.
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Yeah.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Pippa, you're on five. You are through, whatever happens.
0:25:46 > 0:25:53- Are you as good on these as Adam? - Not as good, no, but I... I know a few.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56I think everyone else knows them as well.
0:25:56 > 0:26:02I'm going to take a guess. I'm not sure if it's the right name and I'm not sure it was a single.
0:26:02 > 0:26:07I'll say God Put A Smile Upon Your Face by Coldplay.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10God Put A Smile Upon Your Face. No red line.
0:26:10 > 0:26:17You are through, whatever happens. But for fun, let's see... Is it right?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19No!
0:26:20 > 0:26:25It's not right. It scores you 100 points and couldn't matter less.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29You are through to the next round. 105, not a terrible total. Richard?
0:26:29 > 0:26:37Just an album track as well, that. There's some very big songs there - Fix You, Yellow, Clocks by Coldplay.
0:26:37 > 0:26:44Chasing Cars, Run. I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor was the biggest one for Arctic Monkeys.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48Let's look at the pointless answers. Some people at home will have these.
0:26:48 > 0:26:54Called Out In The Dark, that's Snow Patrol. Crying Lightning, by the Arctic Monkeys.
0:26:54 > 0:27:01Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair, an Arctic Monkeys song about health and safety.
0:27:01 > 0:27:07Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall. How To Be Dead and Just Say Yes, both by Snow Patrol.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12Princess of China, which was Coldplay and Rihanna.
0:27:12 > 0:27:19Signal Fire, which is Snow Patrol, and Talk, another Coldplay single. Very well done if you got any.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24Thanks, Richard. So the losing pair with the highest score is Pam and Andrew.
0:27:24 > 0:27:32- This isn't how it was meant to be. - Not at all.- No.- I thought you were going to pull it back there.
0:27:32 > 0:27:37I thought you'd have a brilliant pointless answer and make the final.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42- It was how it was meant to be. - Maybe I should have played safer.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47- Did you know any of those pointless ones?- None of them, but some Coldplay songs.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52- We haven't given you very good rounds.- Stinkers!- I know. Stinkers.
0:27:52 > 0:27:58I hate to tell you. Of the six questions you've given us, five have been 100 scorers.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Absolute crackers(!)
0:28:00 > 0:28:06I'm so sorry. Thank you for coming all the way from Northumberland. Andrew and Pam!
0:28:08 > 0:28:14But for the remaining two pairs it gets even more exciting now as we enter the Head to Head.
0:28:18 > 0:28:23Congratulations. You are now only one round away from the final
0:28:23 > 0:28:28and a chance to play for the jackpot that currently stands at £3,500.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Ooh!
0:28:31 > 0:28:37Only one pair can make it through to the final. To decide which pair it will be,
0:28:37 > 0:28:40you will now go head to head.
0:28:40 > 0:28:47For each question, you get five options. Each pair gives just one answer and you're allowed to confer.
0:28:47 > 0:28:54Score less than the other pair to win that question. The first pair to win two plays for the jackpot.
0:28:58 > 0:29:05OK, here comes your first question. And it concerns...waterfalls.
0:29:05 > 0:29:09- Waterfalls. Richard?- Coldplay sang Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall.
0:29:09 > 0:29:16We'll show you five pictures of waterfalls. Identify them, please. The most obscure one will win.
0:29:16 > 0:29:20OK, thanks very much, Richard. Let's reveal our five waterfalls.
0:29:34 > 0:29:40OK, now Adam and Pippa are going to go first. This happens very rarely in Pointless,
0:29:40 > 0:29:44in fact, it's only happened once, but you're completely tied.
0:29:44 > 0:29:50Normally the pair that goes first has had the best score throughout, but you are absolutely even.
0:29:50 > 0:29:55So Adam and Pippa are going first just by being nearer to me.
0:29:55 > 0:30:00We are looking for the most obscure of those waterfalls. Good luck!
0:30:03 > 0:30:08Right. We're going to say A is Niagara Falls.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11- A, Niagara Falls.- Yes.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14- OK. Are you sure of that?- No!
0:30:14 > 0:30:19- No.- We don't know any of the others, so that's all we've got.
0:30:19 > 0:30:25A you are saying is Niagara Falls. Richard and Emma, you can now talk aloud.
0:30:25 > 0:30:31- I don't know any of them.- No. - And you can go for A if you have a better...
0:30:31 > 0:30:37No, I think one might be Victoria. And I think it might be...B.
0:30:37 > 0:30:41You're going to say B, Victoria Falls.
0:30:41 > 0:30:46So we have A, Niagara Falls, B, Victoria Falls.
0:30:46 > 0:30:54Adam and Pippa, Niagara Falls. Is it right and, if it is, how many people said A was Niagara Falls?
0:30:55 > 0:30:57It's right!
0:31:00 > 0:31:0138.
0:31:04 > 0:31:08- 38. Well done. - At least it's right!
0:31:08 > 0:31:12Phew! Richard and Emma, you have gone for Victoria Falls.
0:31:12 > 0:31:16- Is that a complete punt? - I have no idea.
0:31:16 > 0:31:21- Yeah, Africa. Possible. Don't know. - OK, let's see if you're right.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Victoria Falls, B, you are saying.
0:31:23 > 0:31:28Let's see if they are indeed the Victoria Falls and how many said it.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30It's right!
0:31:30 > 0:31:32Very well done!
0:31:32 > 0:31:38And it wins you the question! Five - that's a great answer.
0:31:42 > 0:31:47Very well done. That's the second five you've had on this show.
0:31:47 > 0:31:53- After one question, Richard and Emma are up one-nil. Richard? - Very well played, Richard.
0:31:53 > 0:32:01Between Zambia and Zimbabwe. I thought first one, Niagara Falls, second one...is that Niagara Falls?
0:32:01 > 0:32:08Victoria Falls was B. C is the Iguazu Falls between Brazil and Argentina.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11That would have scored 3 points.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16The best answer of all is D, which is the Rhine Falls in Switzerland.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18That was a pointless answer.
0:32:18 > 0:32:23And the final one, in Venezuela. The Angel Falls.
0:32:23 > 0:32:29That would have scored 14 points. Very well done if you got all of those at home.
0:32:29 > 0:32:36- They're scary, waterfalls.- Yeah.- If there was no water, you'd go, "Wow!" - On that scale, they're not scary.
0:32:36 > 0:32:44- On THAT scale. - Angel Falls, that's scary. - Angel Falls is massive.- Scary.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Scary Falls.
0:32:46 > 0:32:52There we are. Here comes your second question and it concerns... James Bond.
0:32:52 > 0:33:00- James Bond. Richard?- We'll show you five clues to facts about James Bond and the most obscure fact wins.
0:33:00 > 0:33:06OK, thank you very much. Adam and Pippa, you have to win this question to stay in the game.
0:33:06 > 0:33:12OK, let's reveal our five clues to facts about James Bond. Here they come.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14HE READS THE LIST
0:33:28 > 0:33:31I'll read those again.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46There we are. Richard and Emma, you go first this time.
0:33:46 > 0:33:53- Yeah.- Do you think it's that? - We'll go for a man famous in the field of bird-watching.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56Bird-watching. Adam and Pippa?
0:33:56 > 0:34:01- The novel I think is Sebastian Faulks. That's the one I've got.- OK.
0:34:01 > 0:34:08- He marries in the film with George Lazenby, but I can't remember the name of that.- I don't know.
0:34:08 > 0:34:13- The story he first appeared in would be Dr No.- Go for the author. - Sebastian Faulks.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16Remember, you have to win this one.
0:34:16 > 0:34:22OK, we'll go for the author of the first post-Fleming Bond novel and say Sebastian Faulks.
0:34:22 > 0:34:30Sebastian Faulks. We have bird-watching from Richard and Emma, Sebastian Faulks for Adam and Pippa.
0:34:30 > 0:34:36Let's take it in that order. The man after whom Bond is named is famous in which field?
0:34:36 > 0:34:42You are saying bird-watching. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46It's right. It's right.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53Oh, down that goes. Look at that - two!
0:34:55 > 0:34:56Wow.
0:34:59 > 0:35:04- You have to beat that, Adam and Pippa. - It's been a pleasure being here...
0:35:04 > 0:35:11Sebastian Faulks you are saying as the name of the first post-Fleming Bond author.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19Oh, bad luck!
0:35:19 > 0:35:27That's an incorrect answer. Richard and Emma, you are through to the final 2-0. Well done, Richard.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30APPLAUSE
0:35:32 > 0:35:37It's a good wrong answer, Adam. He wrote Devil May Care recently,
0:35:37 > 0:35:44but it was Kingsley Amis who wrote the first one. He wrote Colonel Sun as Robert Markham.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47It scored one point, so well done if you said it.
0:35:47 > 0:35:54Ornithology. He wrote Bird of the West Indies, James Bond. Let's take a look at the rest.
0:35:54 > 0:35:58The one-letter pseudonym is the big scorer. M, of course.
0:35:58 > 0:36:05That would have scored you 68 points. The story he first appeared in was Casino Royale. Scored 17.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09- And the novel in which he marries? - On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
0:36:09 > 0:36:13Absolutely right. 10 points. Very well done if you got all five.
0:36:13 > 0:36:19Thanks, Richard. So the losing pair, I'm sorry, Adam and Pippa, it's you.
0:36:19 > 0:36:24- They were tough, those rounds. - Really tough.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28- That waterfall one!- I've been to Niagara Falls and still wasn't sure.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33- Was it quite scary?- It is. - Not on that scale.
0:36:33 > 0:36:37Angel Falls, I look at it and think, "Aah! Aah!"
0:36:37 > 0:36:43- But ornithology - they knew the bird-watching.- Brilliant.
0:36:43 > 0:36:48- They deserved to go through on that. - Thank you.- Graciously said.
0:36:48 > 0:36:54We'll see you again next time. Meanwhile, thank you for playing. Adam and Pippa, great contestants.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59But for Richard and Emma it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:37:02 > 0:37:09Congratulations. You have fought off all the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:37:15 > 0:37:22You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and the jackpot stands at £3,500.
0:37:24 > 0:37:29The rules are very simple. All you need is a pointless answer.
0:37:29 > 0:37:34We haven't had any today. You only need to find one now.
0:37:34 > 0:37:40Firstly, choose a category and you have five options. Here they are. You've got...
0:37:47 > 0:37:51- Not rugby. Not classical music.- No.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55So whatever you want from London, American Actors or Flags.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58Yeah, right, OK.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00- American Actors?- Go on, then.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04- American Actors, please. - Let's find out the question.
0:38:04 > 0:38:11We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Jake Gyllenhaal films as they could.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14Jake Gyllenhaal films. Richard?
0:38:14 > 0:38:18Any feature film made for cinema release
0:38:18 > 0:38:22for which Jake Gyllenhaal received an acting credit, up to 2011.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26No TV films, shorts, documentaries. Voice performances do count.
0:38:26 > 0:38:31OK. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.
0:38:31 > 0:38:37All you need to win the £3,500 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are. The time starts now.
0:38:42 > 0:38:47- OK, who is he?- I don't know. - Oh, good(!)- So think of three names.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49- Three films?- Yeah. I've no idea.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52- Planet of the Apes?- Yeah, fine.
0:38:52 > 0:38:57- Em...- How about The Rock? We watched it the other day.- No, no.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Something new?
0:39:00 > 0:39:04- Like what?- I don't know. The Thing?- Yeah, fine.
0:39:07 > 0:39:12- I've no idea. - What about Sherlock Holmes and...?
0:39:12 > 0:39:18- Yeah, Sherlock Holmes. - The second one, isn't that Game of Shadows?- Go for it.
0:39:18 > 0:39:24- So what are we saying? - Sherlock Holmes.- The Thing.- Yeah. - And Planet of the Apes.- Yes.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28OK, we'll stop the clock. We want Jake Gyllenhaal films.
0:39:28 > 0:39:33- I now need your three answers. - Planet of the Apes, The Thing,
0:39:33 > 0:39:39- Sherlock Holmes: The Game of Shadows.- Sherlock Holmes: The Game of Shadows.
0:39:39 > 0:39:45- Which do you want to put last? - They're all probably wrong. Have The Thing last?
0:39:45 > 0:39:49- No, The Thing can be first. - All right, The Thing first.
0:39:49 > 0:39:56- And Sherlock Holmes second?- Yeah. - And Planet of the Apes third. - Yeah, please.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59OK, let's put them in that order.
0:40:03 > 0:40:10We were looking for Jake Gyllenhaal films. This was your least likely answer to be pointless.
0:40:10 > 0:40:15You only have to find one pointless answer to win that £3,500 jackpot.
0:40:15 > 0:40:19Let's see if anyone said The Thing and let's see if it's correct.
0:40:19 > 0:40:22No. Bad luck.
0:40:22 > 0:40:29Unfortunately, not a pointless answer. Two more shots at today's jackpot. Let's say you won.
0:40:29 > 0:40:36- What would you do with it? - I'd go to Disneyworld with my boyfriend.
0:40:36 > 0:40:42I've always wanted to go. It's always been a dream that's out there. And it'll stay that way!
0:40:42 > 0:40:46- But, you know, we can hope. - You can.
0:40:46 > 0:40:52- Richard?- I'll subsidise Bank of Dad for a few days.- OK. Very good. Keep the creditors happy.
0:40:52 > 0:40:58We're looking for Jake Gyllenhaal films. Let's hope nobody said Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
0:40:58 > 0:41:03This has to be pointless and correct for you to win that £3,500.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Is it right?
0:41:05 > 0:41:08No! Bad luck.
0:41:08 > 0:41:14Only one more shot at today's jackpot. Your final answer is Planet of the Apes.
0:41:14 > 0:41:21Let's see if it's right. Has to be right, has to be pointless. Planet of the Apes.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25No! Bad luck!
0:41:25 > 0:41:28- Shock(!)- Well...
0:41:31 > 0:41:38That was a really tough, tough category. You didn't find that crucial pointless answer,
0:41:38 > 0:41:44so you don't win today's jackpot of £3,500, which will roll over. But you were brilliant contestants
0:41:44 > 0:41:50- and you do, of course, take home our fabulous Pointless trophy, so there you are.- Yes!
0:41:54 > 0:42:01- Richard?- I can highly recommend Jake Gyllenhaal. Most famous for Brokeback Mountain.
0:42:01 > 0:42:07That's probably his most famous film. Also Donnie Darko, Zodiac, Source Code. That's Jake Gyllenhaal.
0:42:07 > 0:42:12Let's look at the pointless answers. Someone at home will get these.
0:42:12 > 0:42:18A Dangerous Woman, directed by his dad, written by his mum.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22Josh and S.A.M., Lovely and Amazing, that was a pointless answer.
0:42:22 > 0:42:28And Moonlight Mile. Very well done if you got one of those pointless answers.
0:42:28 > 0:42:35Well, very sadly, we have to say goodbye to Richard and Emma. Thank you so much for playing.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37- Thank you.- Thanks.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43Unfortunately, they didn't win our jackpot, so it rolls over.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47On the next show we'll be playing for £4,500.
0:42:49 > 0:42:56- Join us then. Meanwhile, goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye. - And goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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