Episode 17 Pointless

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

the quiz show where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners. Let's meet today's players.

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First off, we welcome back Dan and Andrew.

You were on the show last time. Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.

-This is your second chance. Remind us how you know each other.

-We're friends from work.

-How long have you known each other?

-Since we were 14.

-16 years.

-16 years.

-Too long.

-Too long. Remind us what happened last time. How far did you get?

-We got to the second round.

-Volcanoes.

-Volcanoes. Krakatoa, we had, in Fiji.

-Yeah.

What would you like us to have, if you could select?

-I'm very good at capital cities beginning with A.

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I printed off As first. I thought it was a good place to start.

-Seems reasonable.

-I wouldn't mind music. Oasis, the 'Phonics.

-OK, right.

-The 'Phonics.

-Friends episodes would be all right.

-OK. So the '90s, basically.

-Yeah!

-A good era for you.

What would you hate to see come up?

Books or mountains. That's kind of volcano related.

So a Malcolm Lowry book, for example, wouldn't suit you.

Lovely to have you back on the show. Very best of luck.

-Next, we welcome Sarah and Martin. How do you know each other?

-We're father and daughter.

Sarah, father and daughters acts traditionally do very well.

How are you going to dazzle us. What's a great topic for you?

Beauty pageants. I don't know if they're going to come up.

They haven't yet, but who's to say! Maybe. Beauty pageants, particularly focusing on which of those?

-Miss World.

-You've followed Miss World closely.

-I have, quite closely.

I followed Miss World closely once. I got a restraining order. LAUGHTER

-You've competed in Miss World.

-Yeah, back in 2006, I was crowned the youngest Miss Wales in history.

-The youngest Miss Wales. How old were you?

-16.

-Where are you from?

-Whereabouts in Wales?

-The Brecon Beacons.

-What do you do?

I run a conference centre in the Beacons. We host weddings and other residential events.

-Sarah, what do you do now?

-I graduated from Durham in July

and so now I'm running my own beauty pageant.

-What's your beauty pageant?

-Miss Heart Of Wales. It's about the inner beauty.

-Very good.

Very best of luck with that and on the show this afternoon.

-Next, we welcome Heather and Sian. How do you two know each other?

-We live together in student halls.

-Where's that?

-In Leeds.

-Heather, what year are you in?

It's my first year in Leeds, but it's my fourth year of university.

-This is your second degree.

-Yeah.

-How about you, Sian?

-First year, fresher.

-What are you reading?

-Criminology and Sociology.

There's exciting. What are you reading, Heather?

I'm doing Art Gallery and Museum Studies.

-What did you do first time round?

-I did History.

-You've got a lot of bases covered. What would you love to see come up?

-Music. I'm a musician, yeah.

-What do you play?

-I'm a singer.

-What's your favourite kind of music?

-R&B, Soul.

So that would be a cracking topic for you. What about you, Heather?

Anything recent, anything within the past ten years would be good.

-From history, culture, across the board?

-Anything from the past ten years.

-Anything you're hoping won't come up?

-Science.

-Science.

-It does come up from time to time.

-I know.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Welcome to the show, Heather and Sian.

And finally, we've got Cathy and Dermot. How do you know each other?

We're married.

-You're not recently married though?

-No. I met Dermot on my first night in London in 1970.

-Wow!

-And we got married five years later.

-Wow! Whereabouts did you meet him?

-In a pub. In Westbourne Grove.

In Westbourne Grove. Dermot, where do you live now?

-We live in Bollington, in Cheshire.

-And what do you do?

-I'm retired.

Lovely. What did you do?

I used to work for sign company for many years and then I worked for a property company in Marble Arch.

-And retired to Bollington three years ago.

-How's retirement suiting you?

-Beautiful. It's lovely there.

-Any new hobbies?

-I like drawing a lot.

-I go to art class every Thursday.

-What do you draw?

-Cartoons, a lot.

-Caricatures?

-I do.

What would be the main features if you were to sketch me now?

-Ooh, I don't know.

-It would probably be the ears.

-I didn't want to say.

-The ears are a good starting point.

-I would have said podium.

-The podium?

-Yes.

-As a starting point?

-Yeah.

-OK.

Cathy and Dermot, it's lovely to have you on the show. Very best of luck.

We'll find out more about you later. There's only one person left to introduce.

-Exposing the gaping holes in all our knowledge, it's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya.

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-Afternoon.

-Good afternoon.

-It's wide open. We've got one returning pair.

We only saw them through to Round Two last time.

Question One is one of those very tricky ones that some people

will be amazing at at home and some people will be very bad at.

-It's one of those questions, when it comes up, you might hear a few groans.

-OK.

-The sort of thing people should know about, but whether it's the sort of thing we do know about.

-Ah. OK.

All our questions have been put to 100 people before the show,

but we're looking for the obscure answers that they didn't get.

To stay in the game, all our players need to do is score as few points as they can.

What everyone's trying to do is find a pointless answer, an answer that none of our 100 people gave.

Each time that happens, we add £250 to the jackpot.

Georgia and Val won the jackpot last time, so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000.

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-Let's play Pointless.

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

and you cannot confer. The pair with the highest score will be eliminated.

If you give me an incorrect answer, you will score the maximum of 100 points, so try and avoid those.

Our first category this afternoon is...

UK Politics. Can you decide who's going first, who's going second?

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

Let's find out what that first question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many post-war general election years as they could.

-Richard?

-Quite simply, we're looking for any year

since 1945 in which there's been a UK general election.

Any year post-1945 in which there's been a UK general election up to the end of 2011.

Thank you, Richard. Dan and Andrew, you all drew lots before the show

and this afternoon, you are going first.

Post-war general election years.

1980.

1980, says Andrew. You say that with a degree of certainty.

-It's the year I was born.

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OK.

-I think I remember one in 1980.

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Wow! OK, let's see if that's correct.

Andrew remembers an election from the year of his birth in 1980.

Is it right, and if it is, how many people said it? 1980.

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

It means you score the maximum of 100 points. Richard.

Are you absolutely certain that's the year you were born?

-We might have to do a passport check after the show.

-OK.

-Martin, general election years, is this a good question for you?

-Erm...

Trying to put the year to these things.

There was one when I was a student. I'm going to for 1974.

1974, says Martin. 1974.

Was there an election that year and if there was, how many people remembered it? 1974.

It's right.

Very well done, Martin. Down it goes.

-Brilliant!

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That'll do. 5 for 1974.

There were two in 1974, in February and October.

Labour won the first one with a minority and then won a three-seat majority in the October one.

-Thank you very much. Now, Sian.

-Yes.

-Sian, years of general elections.

Yes. I wasn't even alive for many of them. I'm going to go with 2010.

OK, 2010. You're going to say 2010.

Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said 2010.

Of course it's right.

Wow! Wow! 38!

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-Well done.

-2010, only 38 people remembered that.

-When I said it's the sort of thing we should know,

that is the sort of thing we definitively should know.

-Do you remember it?

-Yes!

-Do you remember all that stuff about the election?

-Yeah!

-Cameron and Clegg... Do you remember Clegg?

-Yes! I do.

He's our Deputy Prime Minister, in fact, at time of recording.

-Yeah, 38 people. 38 people remembered.

-Cathy.

We're looking for post-war general election years in the UK.

I'll guess at 1970.

1970, you are saying. 1970.

-Is that a bit of a punt?

-Yes.

OK. Well, there were two in 1974.

Let's see if there was one in 1970, the year of my birth, in fact.

Trying to remember! Erm...

Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said 1970.

It's right! Very well done, Cathy!

-Look at that! 4!

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4, the best score of the round.

Very well done. Richard.

Edward Heath won in 1970 for the Conservatives. You knew that, didn't you?

-She knew it!

-Well, we're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

Cathy and Dermot looking very strong indeed. Lovely low score of 4.

Then up to 5, where we find Martin and Sarah, 1974, they answered. A great score.

Then up to 38, where we find Sian and Heather looking pretty good,

courtesy of Andrew and Dan's colossally high score of 100.

Now, Dan, some of the more obvious answers have been picked off in that pass.

We may well see some high scores.

If that's the case and you can find a really good obscure year to offer,

maybe it will see you into the next round. Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

Dermot, you're the low scorers on 4.

The high scorers are Dan and Andrew on 100.

A score of 95 or less will see you through to the next round.

1966.

1966.

Dermot, below that red line, you're through to Round Two.

Let's see if 1966 is right and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

It is right and you're through.

Wow! 2!

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2, the best score so far. It takes your total up to 6. Richard.

Well played, Dermot. A great team effort, just 6 points.

-Harold Wilson in 1966 for Labour.

-Harold Wilson and then hosting the World Cup

and winning the World Cup, he must have been on top of the world.

-That's why he's still Prime Minister now.

-He probably is, yes.

Heather, we're looking for the years in which we have held general elections since World War II.

Seeing as there was one in 1970 and 1974,

I'm going to hope there was one in 1978.

-I'm going to go with that.

-1978.

-Yes.

-You're going for this four-yearly cycle.

-I am.

OK, good luck with that. If you get below that red line,

you're through to the next round.

The high scorers are Dan and Andrew. You're looking to score 61 or less.

1978, says Heather. Is it right and if it is, how many people said 1978?

Oh, bad luck, Heather.

That's an incorrect answer.

It scores you the maximum of 100 points.

-That takes your total up to 138. Richard.

-Sorry, Heather.

We can't fault your logic, but we can fault your History degree. LAUGHTER

Sarah, the high scorers are now Heather and Sian on 138.

You are on 5. It doesn't matter what you say,

you're through to the next round whatever happens.

I'm very relieved. Erm...

I have no idea whatsoever.

So 19...

..56.

-1956.

-Yup.

Well, let's see. We're looking for UK general election years. Sarah says 1956.

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

There's no red line for you because you're through to the next round.

Oh, bad luck, Sarah.

An incorrect answer scores you 100 points, takes your total to 105.

But it doesn't matter at all. Richard.

-Sorry, Sarah. It would be a good round in Miss Heart Of Wales, don't you think?

-Yeah, yeah.

I think this round reveals inner beauty.

Yes(!) Now then, Dan. This is the deciding answer.

Is it going to be Heather and Sian leaving us

at the end of this round, is it going to be you and Andrew? What do you think about that, first?

I'd prefer it if it was them leaving, but...

-How reliable is your knowledge of general elections?

-It's all right.

-You can talk us through all them.

-I was going to do the four year rule, but I won't do that.

I'm trying to think when Blair came in.

It's was either '96 or '97.

Or '95.

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-I'm trying to think how old I was.

I will say '96.

'96, says Dan. We are looking for the years of UK general elections.

You're saying 1996. That's your red line.

Below that red line, you are through to the next round.

Above that red line, Heather and Sian are through. 1996, says Dan.

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

I'm afraid that's incorrect, Dan.

That scores you the maximum of 100 points.

-That takes your total up to 200. You are members of the 200 Club.

-Sorry, Dan. Not '96.

It was the second most popular answer of all after 2010,

Blair's first victory, which was 1997.

That would have scored you just 16 points, it would have seen you through.

That 16 points is equalled by another year, Margaret Thatcher's first election victory,

which wasn't '78 or '80, which is why I questioned your year of birth. '79.

Your mum's been lying to you and that's when you were born.

You need to talk to her. No pointless answers here at all. There's a few low scorers.

If you want to know some of the other ones, there's '51, '64, '70, '74,

'92, 2001, 1987, 1950, 1983,

2005, 1997,

1979 and 2010. All of those would have got pretty low scores, it turns out.

Thank you, Richard. So at the end of the first round,

our losing pair with the highest score, it's Dan and Andrew.

You were very, very close with both of those. 1980 and 1996.

-One year out.

-One year out.

-If only I'd have been born a year earlier.

-If only!

-Come on, Mam!

-Well, you are members of the 200 Club.

-It's an illustrious club.

-Do we get a trophy?

-Er... Not so much, no.

You get a pat on the back and a story to tell.

And - who knows? - maybe get asked to some of the social events that...

There are a lot of 200 Club social events, yeah.

-You can never make them, can you?

-Sadly, I'm never there.

They're on days when you're working. I'll invite you to the next one.

-Yeah.

-Yeah. When are you free next week?

-Erm... Not free at all next week.

-We're doing five next week.

-We're having five different events. The week after?

-Not free then either.

-We're doing another couple then.

-What a shame.

-Never mind. One day.

-Yes.

-We have a right laugh.

I bet you do. They sound great fun.

-We have a Draw Alexander competition.

-Do you?

-Yeah.

-Starting with the podium.

-Always start with the podium. That's the motto of the 200 club.

It's whatever's Latin for "always start with the podium".

Well, listen. Very sorry to say goodbye to you so soon.

You shouldn't really be leaving us this soon, but that's Pointless.

-Dan and Andrew, thanks for playing. Great contestants.

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

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

One of the teams will be leaving us at the end of this round. The category for Round Two is...

Can you all decide who's going first and who's going second?

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

So our Round Two question concerns...

-Richard.

-We're going to give you a list of six pairs of actors on each pass.

Tell us the TV shows in which their fictional characters feature in the title.

An obscure answer will score fewer points. An incorrect answer scores 100 points.

-12 pairs of actors in all, 12 answers to get at home. Best of luck.

-Thank you, Richard.

Remember we are looking for the TV shows in which these pairs of actors play the titular duos.

And we have...

I'll read them one more time.

There are our pairs of actors.

We want the name of the shows in which they appear as the title characters.

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

-Martin.

-I know a couple of them, I think.

I'm going to go for Eric McCormack and Debra Messing as Will And Grace.

Will And Grace, for Eric McCormack and Debra Messing.

Let's see if Will And Grace is correct,

and if so, how many people knew it.

Will And Grace.

It's right.

Very well done. 19, Martin. That's a great score.

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Will And Grace, Richard.

Good start to the round. Ran from 1998 to 2006.

-Very good. Sian.

-Oh, no.

-Is this a good board for you?

-No, I don't know any.

-Oh, dear.

But I think Martin Clunes and Julie Graham is Doc Martin.

Doc Martin, says Sian, for Martin Clunes and Julie Graham.

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

Doc Martin.

Oh, bad luck, Sian. That's an incorrect answer,

which scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Now then, Dermot.

We are looking for the TV shows in which these pairs of actors starred as the title characters.

There's only two that I know.

You can tell us which they are and supply the answers.

I think Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are Jeeves and Wooster,

but to be safe, the only one I definitely know

is Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett, Steptoe And Son.

Steptoe And Son for Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

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

Steptoe And Son.

Yes.

38.

Not bad.

Very well done.

Classic '60s sitcom Steptoe And Son, set in Shepherd's Bush, where we are right now.

Let's look at the rest.

You're quite right, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie was Jeeves and Wooster.

That would've scored you 34 points, slightly fewer points.

Martin Clunes and Julie Graham.

That's William and Mary, the romantic comedy from the early 2000s.

They played those characters. Eight points.

-Robin Williams and Pam Dawber, Alexander?

-Mork And Mindy.

It is Mork And Mindy. That would score 31 points, another high scorer.

-Do you know Jane Turner and Gina Riley?

-Kath And Kim.

The brilliant Australian comedy. Well done if you said that.

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

We're halfway through the round. Martin and Sarah looking fantastic with 19.

Then up to 38, where we find Dermot and Cathy.

Then, I'm afraid, Sian and Heather, 100 points.

However, that may not be the last high score of the round.

We're only halfway through.

Who knows what the next board will look like?

Back down the line. Second players, please take your places.

We're going to put six more pairs of actors on the board. Here we go.

We have got:

We are looking for the TV shows in which these actors played as the titular duos.

I'll read them again.

There we are. Cathy, how does that board look to you?

It's not too bad, so I'll go for Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly and say Cagney And Lacey.

Cagney And Lacey, says Cathy, for Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly.

The high scorers are Sian and Heather on 100. You're on 38.

A score of 61 or less will see you comfortably through to the head-to-head.

There's your red line.

Best of luck, Cathy. Cagney And Lacey. Is it right?

How many people said it?

Yup! It's right.

You are in the head-to-head. Well done.

28. Great score. 28 takes you both up to 66.

I used to love Cagney And Lacey.

From season two onwards, every single year, one or other of them

won the Emmy for Best Actress on American TV. Every single season.

That's brilliant.

-How many seasons did it run for?

-70.

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-Heather.

-Well, I know two, and I think maybe Felicity Kendal

and Pam Ferris will be a bit less. I think it's Rosemary And Thyme.

Rosemary and Thyme, you say, for Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris.

You're the high scorers, so there's no red line for you.

You just have to hope that this goes down as far as it possibly can.

Rosemary And Thyme. Is it right? How many people said it?

It is right.

34.

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34. That gives you 134.

-Richard.

-A drama about gardeners turned detectives. A big score.

Almost as many people know that Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris were Rosemary And Thyme

as know there was a general election in 2010.

Thanks, Richard. Heather and Sian, that takes your dangerously high.

I'm afraid even if Sarah and Martin score 100 points

they won't overtake that score, so you'll be leaving at the end of this round.

Sarah. The good news is, doesn't matter if you're wrong.

But I think you might know some answers. Take us through the board.

The one I was certain of is left, that's Matthew Horne

and Joanna Page, Gavin And Stacey.

Of course, Welsh.

I think Paul Michael Glaser

and David Soul might be Starsky And Hutch.

I know David Soul is probably completely wrong.

I don't know Bob Mortimer and Vic. I don't know.

I'm just going to say Gavin And Stacey, Matthew Horne

and Joanna Page.

Sarah's going with Gavin And Stacey for Matthew Horne and Joanna Page.

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

No red line cos you're through whatever happens.

It's right!

20. 20 for that. Very well done. Takes your score up to 39.

-Richard.

-Well played. Quite a low score.

I guess that Pam Ferris and Felicity Kendall maybe have

more name recognition than Matthew Horne and Joanna Page. A fairly low score.

The highest answer is Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul.

It is Starsky And Hutch. It would have scored 44 points.

Do you remember the who that Bob and Vic appeared in?

-Thingie, thingie, thingie, deceased.

-Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased). Would've scored seven points.

Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams is a pointless answer.

They are Laverne And Shirley.

Well done if you got that, particularly if you got all 12.

Thank you, Richard.

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

I'm sorry to say it's Heather and Sian.

Dear, oh, dear. That was a really tough round.

Sounded like it'd be really good fun.

Actually, there were some really hard ones there.

Matthew Horne and Joanna Page, that's quite...

I thought that'd be a lot more.

Hopefully we'll see more of you next time. Thanks for playing.

Thank you.

For the remaining pairs,

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

Congratulations, Cathy and Dermot, Sarah and Martin.

You're one round away from the final and a chance to play

for our jackpot, which currently stands at £1,000.

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Only one pair can play for that money,

and to decide which one it will be,

you are now going to go head-to-head.

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

You'll be shown five options on the board. You can now confer.

All you have to do is score less than the other pair

and you will win that question.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for the jackpot.

Let's play head-to-head.

Here comes our first question, and it concerns:

-Richard.

-We're gong to show you five pictures

of Wimbledon Ladies Singles champions.

Which of these is the most obscure? Best of luck.

Now then. Cathy and Dermot, you've played best through the show so far,

so you get to go first.

Here are our five Ladies Wimbledon champions.

There they are.

We are looking for the names of these Wimbledon Ladies Champions.

We want first name and last name, please, Cathy and Dermot.

We'll go for B. I think it's Lindsay Davenport.

B, Lindsay Davenport, you are saying.

We have B, Lindsay Davenport from Cathy and Dermot.

Sarah and Martin, you can also supply a name for B

if you think Cathy and Dermot are wrong.

No, I think they've got that right.

Erm...I'm going to go D, Amelie Mauresmo.

Amelie Mauresmo, D.

So, we have B, Lindsay Davenport and D, Amelie Mauresmo.

In the order they were given,

Lindsay Davenport, say Cathy and Dermot.

Is it right? How many people said Lindsay Davenport?

Yep. It's right.

Oh, very well done. 8.

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8 for Lindsay Davenport.

Sarah and Martin, you've gone for Amelie Mauresmo. D.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is right,

is it low enough to beat Lindsay Davenport on 8?

It's right.

Will it go lower than 8?

Yes it will! Look at that, 4 for Amelie Mauresmo.

Very well done, Sarah and Martin.

After one question, you are up one-nil. Richard.

Two terrific answers. There is a better answer on the board.

A is Billie Jean King. She's won six Ladies Singles titles.

Would have scored you 51 points. B is Lindsay Davenport. She won it once.

C is Steffi Graf, the German who's seven times champion.

She would have scored you 55. Amelie Mauresmo, also won it once,

and E is the 2011 winner, Petra Kvitova.

Very good. It's not going to be long, is it,

before Julie Walters plays Billie Jean King?

-D'you think?

-If she hasn't, she must have been approached.

And Victoria Wood as Steffi Graf.

And Matt Damon to play Lindsay Davenport, as well!

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Petra Kvitova would have scored you one point.

Well done if you said that at home, but two great answers here.

OK, thank you very much. Here comes your second question.

Cathy and Dermot, you have to win to stay in the game.

Here it comes. It concerns...

-South Africa. Richard.

-On this board,

we're going to give you five clues to facts about South Africa.

We've shown these to 100 people. Which of these is the most obscure?

OK, thanks very much. Let's reveal our five facts about South Africa.

I'll read those all one more time.

The country it completely surrounds, its currency,

its most populous city, the country's longest river

and its official language which is based on Dutch.

Now then, Sarah and Martin. You go first this time.

We're looking for a fact about South Africa which is hinted at there.

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

OK, well, we know three of the answers.

We're going to go with the country it completely surrounds, Lesotho.

Lesotho. OK, Lesotho say Sarah and Martin.

The country which is completely surrounded by South Africa.

Cathy and Dermot, talk us through the board, if you like.

We only know two of them,

and I don't think any of them would beat the answer given.

Just, I think, the official language, or the currency.

The currency is the rand, isn't it?

The currency's the rand. The language, Afrikaans.

-Which one do you want to submit?

-The language, Afrikaans.

OK, Cathy and Dermot are going to say Afrikaans, the language.

So we have Lesotho and we have Afrikaans.

Sarah and Martin have gone Lesotho. Let's see if that's right

and how many people said it.

It is right.

Down it goes.

Nine of our 100 people said Lesotho, that's a great answer.

Cathy and Dermot, you have to win this question

if you want to stay in the game.

You have said the official language is Afrikaans.

Let's see if that's right. If it is,

let's see if it gets anywhere near 9. Afrikaans, you're saying.

It's right.

41.

Bad luck, it is a higher score than Lesotho,

which means, after only two questions,

Sarah and Martin are through to the final in straight sets.

-Two-nil. Richard.

-Yes, Lesotho was a very good answer.

One answer would have beaten Lesotho. Let's go through the board.

The currency, as you rightly said, is the rand,

but that would have scored you 53 points.

The most populous city is Johannesburg.

That would have scored 40 points.

Just one point for the country's longest river.

Very well done at home if you said the Orange River.

Orange River scores one point.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of the head-to-head, the losing pair is Cathy and Dermot.

You've played so well throughout the show,

then you've come up against Sarah and Martin.

They just managed to get best or second best answers

on the board for each of those questions. I'm sorry.

But the good news is we will see you next time.

Any tactics you've picked up from this show?

No.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I would say, "Keep playing the way you played."

Let's hope that'll be good enough to see you through to the final.

We'll look forward to that. Cathy and Dermot. Great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for Sarah and Martin, it's time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Sarah and Martin.

You've fought off the competition and won our Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our jackpot,

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £1,000.

There it is.

APPLAUSE

Well, it's been a pretty good game for you.

The first two rounds, you did well.

You weren't the lowest scorers, but the head-to-head was a clean sweep.

Your knowledge of Wimbledon Ladies champions and South Africa

was very impressive. The others didn't stand a chance, did they?

So, here you are in the final.

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

We haven't had any on the show today.

You only have to find one, and you go home with that £1,000 jackpot.

You've got to choose a category. You can choose from these five options.

They are...

I'm rubbish at Literary Greats, unless that's JK Rowling,

which I doubt! Erm...

Football, obviously, that would just be handing it over to you.

Populations, what's that? And obviously, no Canadian Politics.

Nah. We'll go Pop Music

and hope that our combined knowledge of the different eras could pay off.

-Unless you could do Literary Greats?

-That's a hit-and-miss.

Cos it could be Pop Music that neither of us know.

OK, let's do Pop Music.

We'll do Pop Music.

OK, Pop Music it is. Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...as many

Simply Red UK Top 40 Singles as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any UK Top 40 single released by Simply Red,

or which featured them as a credited artist

prior to the beginning of 2012, please.

As always with our music rounds,

we have to be very exact on the wording of titles. Very best of luck.

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

And all you need to win that £1,000 is for just one of those answers

to be pointless. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock...

there they are.

Your time starts now.

I only know Stars.

I cannot think of one.

This has fallen right in between our two eras.

Can we make anything up?

I wouldn't know where to...

We'll have to, cos we don't know any! Oh...!

Oh, this is rubbish.

Erm...

Can you think of anything that might be...?

I never found, never...no.

I Love You. Erm...

I don't know.

Will we just say something...?

-Stars.

-Sorry...!

Sorry.

Lonely?!

I'm going to let you pick three of these.

Redhead?!

OK, that's your time up.

OK. So we were looking for Simply Red Top 40 singles.

I now need three answers from you.

-Say Stars anyway.

-Stars.

-Stars.

-Yeah, erm...

-So Lonely.

-So Lonely.

-So Lonely.

And, erm, Red.

And Red. OK.

There are three answers. Of those three, I might know which one

you want to put last. Your best shot at a pointless answer. Stars. OK.

-Your least likely answer to be pointless?

-Red?

-Red.

And So Lonely, we'll put it in the middle.

OK, let's put them up on the board in that order. We have got...

Red, So Lonely and Stars.

Well, we were looking for Simply Red Top 40 singles.

This was your least confident answer.

You have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot.

Let's see if Red is right, and if it is, let's see if anyone said it.

Red.

No. Bad luck. Not yet a Simply Red single, I'm afraid.

That's not a pointless answer. You only have two more chances to win.

Simply Red Top 40 singles. Let's hope nobody said So Lone...

Well, let's hope So Lonely isn't just a song by the Police,

and is actually a song that Simply Red have also recorded

and released into the charts and managed to get to the Top 40 with.

OK, So Lonely. Is it right, and if it is, how many people said it?

This for £1,000.

Bad luck. Everything is now riding on Stars.

It was an answer you came up with almost immediately.

You have this last chance to win £1,000. Simply Red Top 40 singles.

This is your final shot at that jackpot.

Stars. It has to be right and it has to go down to nothing.

If it does both those things, you leave here with £1,000. Stars.

Is it right? How many people said it?

Hooray, look, that's right.

A correct answer.

Down it goes. If this goes all the way down to zero,

and it may, you'll be leaving here with one...

thousand pounds.

APPLAUSE

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that pointless answer,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot which will roll over.

But you have been brilliant contestants, and you do, of course,

get to take home our Pointless trophy.

APPLAUSE

Now, this is the tough bit.

-Richard.

-You played terrifically, just stumbled across

the wrong category. The bigger songs, Fairground, Holding Back The Years,

If You Don't Know Me By Now. Let's take a look at the pointless ones.

There are three Top Ten singles on this pointless list.

Angel, a very big hit, is a pointless answer.

His version of Cole Porter's Every Time We Say Goodbye,

Home, that's pointless.

Perfect Love, Stay, The Air That I Breathe, that's famously

a hit for the Hollies, but he had a Top Ten single with it as well.

We're In This Together, You Make Me Feel Brand New,

a Top Ten for him. And their first Top 40 single, Your Mirror.

-Well done if you got any of those at home.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

We do have to say goodbye to you, Sarah and Martin.

But it's been wonderful having you on the show. Thank you for playing.

APPLAUSE

Sarah and Martin didn't win our jackpot, so it rolls over

which means on the next show we'll be playing for £2,000.

APPLAUSE

Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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