Episode 20 Pointless

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and welcome to Pointless,

the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

Now, welcome, Neil and Andrew.

You are our first pair on the show today.

-How do you two know each other?

-Andrew and I are work colleagues.

We work as paramedics in the Blackpool and Fylde area.

And we've known each other for about seven years.

So, Neil, what's going to be a good area for you?

-I'm kind of big on sport. Anything football, really.

-Who do you follow?

Especially Bolton Wanderers. That's been my team from being a child

when my grandad used to take me. I've followed them ever since.

Andrew, what about you?

My specialist subjects, I suppose, would be music from 1979 to the mid '80s.

-Oh, just the golden period!

-It was, it was.

-Favourite band?

Human League, Heaven 17, any of the Sheffield bands.

Welcome to the show, Neil and Andrew, great to have you.

And welcome back, Maggie and Lucy. You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two shots at reaching the Pointless final.

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

-We're mother and daughter.

-Mother and daughter.

And in fact a lot of our family teams tend to do very well.

You were no exception - you went straight through to the head-to-head.

-But then! What happened there?

-Gary Lineker.

-Gary Lineker happened.

-Gary Lineker let you down.

-He did.

-As he so often will.

LAUGHTER

That was last time. This time, Maggie, what will be brilliant for you?

-Literature, again, would be really good.

-OK. Literature.

-Yeah, literature.

Do you have any other little niche interests, hobbies?

I do sing in a choir called Rock Choir,

-which is a very big national choir.

-Very good.

Lucy, what would like to see come up? Literature, you said last time.

Film would be quite interesting, could be hit and miss, though.

-Food, although we've already had a food question.

-Food.

-Do you cook?

-No.

But I enjoy a good food television programme, put it that way.

Very good. Lovely to have you back. Very best of luck.

And next we welcome Valerie and David.

-How do you two know each other?

-Valerie's my sister.

-Big sister.

-Yeah, she's my older sister, I should say, yeah.

And I'm going to take a complete punt on this -

are you from Northern Ireland?

-We certainly are, yes.

-Yes, very good. Valerie, what do you do?

At the minute, I'm a part-time library assistant,

but up until last year I was a teacher, a drama teacher.

-I was head of drama in a school.

-Well, there we are.

So, your interests, I'm going to guess - drama, dramatists, reading, librarian.

David, how about you?

I work for Cats Protection animal charity,

and I also DJ part-time.

What categories would you like to see come up?

Well, I like James Brown, so it's a bit of a narrow subject,

but that would be good.

-OK.

-And so, soul music's pretty good.

-OK. Funk music.

-Funk music.

-Good.

-And a bit of rock and roll, rockabilly's always good, as well.

-Excellent.

-And cats.

-Very good. Lovely to have you here, Valerie and David,

very best of luck to the pair of you. And, lastly, we welcome back Matt and Vicki

-who were also here last time. Remind us how you know each other.

-We are a couple.

-You are a couple. In life as well as on this show.

-Correct.

And, Matt, what happened last time?

We come unstuck on American presidents.

That was a tough round, wasn't it?

Vicki, today, what's going to happen?

-What's going to be brilliant for you?

-We're going to get TV.

-Yup.

-Films.

-Yup.

-Cookery.

-Oh! Yup.

-Those three would be great.

-Those three.

And Matt, anything else you want to add to that?

-Bit of football wouldn't go amiss.

-Bit of football?

OK. What do you do in your spare time, Matt?

This goes back to the football thing. I set up a football team in the South Devon Football League.

Now, Matt, sorry, this is amazing.

-You are taking part in the Olympic torch relay, aren't you?

-I am.

Because of setting up the football team in the community.

The company I work for is one of the major sponsors of the Olympics,

so they put me forward as an ambassador to run 300 metres

in the Olympic torch relay.

That's an enormous honour. Well done, you!

Listen, it's lovely to have you back, Matt and Vicki.

I have high hopes for you, today. Very best of luck to you.

We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show.

There's one person left for me to introduce.

If Wikipedia could talk, this is how it would sound.

It's my Pointless friend, Richard.

Hiya.

APPLAUSE

-Afternoon.

-Good afternoon to you.

-What a line-up of heroes we have today.

-I know.

It's amazing the jobs, no offence to the ladies here,

but the jobs that the men do here are extraordinary.

-Neil and Andrew, both paramedics.

-Mm-hm.

David looks after rescued cats, protects cats. Heroes, one and all.

-Yeah.

-We've got Maggie and Lucy back, who did very well.

Unlucky to get knocked out, so they should do very well.

But Matt and Vicki I think were slightly unlucky in the last one,

-so I think we might see a bit more of them, today.

-Let's hope.

But everyone here does better things for a living than you and I.

LAUGHTER

Anyway, well, thanks very much, Richard.

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

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

To stay in the game and have a chance of winning,

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

What everyone's trying to do is to find a pointless answer,

that's an answer none of our 100 people gave.

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

Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000 to that,

so today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Right. Let's play Pointless.

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

and you cannot confer.

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

If anyone gives me an incorrect answer, they will score the maximum of 100 points,

so do try and avoid those if you can.

Our first category this afternoon is...

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

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

OK, let's find out what our question is.

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

Morgan Freeman Films as they could.

Morgan Freeman Films. Richard.

Any feature film made for general cinema release

for which Morgan Freeman received an acting credit

up to the beginning of 2012.

As always, no TV films, no short films or documentaries,

but voice performances do count.

Very best of luck.

OK, thanks. Neil and Andrew, you all drew lots before the show,

and, today, you go first.

So, then, Andrew.

What is the most obscure film with Morgan Freeman in it that...

Trying to think of ANY films with Morgan Freeman in.

I'm going to have to play safe on this one. The Shawshank Redemption.

-Safe?

-Safe.

The Shawshank Redemption, says Andrew.

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

The Shawshank Redemption.

It's right.

Down it goes. 44.

APPLAUSE

Not bad at all. 44. The Shawshank Redemption.

Correct answer, perfectly safe start. I love the Shawshank Redemption.

Isn't it a wonderful film? From 1994.

Called all sorts of things. In Spain they call it Life Imprisonment.

-Called The Escape in the Netherlands.

-Don't give it away!

-It does slightly give away the ending.

-Thanks, Dutch!

OK, now then. Lucy, we come to you. Morgan Freeman films.

I cannot think of a single film with Morgan Freeman in.

I know, I said film, in the beginning,

would be a good category, but this isn't my question.

-So...

-OK.

This is a complete guess, I'm going to go Madagascar.

Madagascar. Could be right.

Let's see, is it right? And if it is, how many people said Madagascar?

Bad luck, Lucy, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

David, what's the most obscure Morgan Freeman film you can think of?

I was dreading my mind going blank, and it has.

I know he was in one, I'm pretty sure it's called Invictus.

Invictus. OK. Invictus, says David.

Let's see if Invictus is a correct answer,

and if it is, how many people said Invictus. Good luck, David.

You're right.

Down it goes, look at that! Brilliant. 3 people.

APPLAUSE

3 people said Invictus. That's a great score. Richard.

Great start, David. From 2009.

He received his fifth Oscar nomination

for his role as Nelson Mandela.

-Matt.

-Yes.

What is the most obscure Morgan Freeman film you can think of?

I've got three in my mind, actually.

I'm going to take a bit of a risk and go for Along Came A Spider.

Along Came A Spider.

Vicki was shaking her head when you said you were taking a risk.

She's now shaking her head again, with her eyes closed. OK.

Along Came A Spider is what Matt is saying.

Is it right? And if it is, how many people said Along Came A Spider?

It's right.

Oh, this could be a brilliant answer, Matt.

Down it goes. 7.

Very well done.

-APPLAUSE

-Well done.

-That's a great score.

7 for Along Came A Spider.

Good answer, Matt. I'm surprised that scored more than Invictus, actually.

It's a film adaptation of one of James Patterson's Alex Cross novels.

OK, thanks, Richard. We're halfway through the round, so let's take a quick look at our scores.

Two lovely low scores, there.

David and Valerie on 3 and Matt and Vicki on 7, absolutely fantastic.

Then we come up quite substantially to 44,

where we find Andrew and Neil, then up, I'm afraid, a long way,

to 100, where we find Lucy and Maggie.

So, Maggie. We are absolutely needing

an obscure Morgan Freeman film from you

if we are to see you beyond Round One. Best of luck.

OK, can the second players please take their places at the podium.

OK, we are looking for Morgan Freeman films.

-Now, Vicki.

-Yes.

-How good is this for you?

Not so terrible, I can think of two.

This is good.

And I was hoping and praying

that nobody else said them, and they haven't, so...

The high scorers are Maggie and Lucy on 100,

thanks to Matt's brilliant answer,

you're on 7, which means a score of 92 or less...

-OK.

-92 or less will see you through to the next round.

-Right. Well, like I say, I can think of two.

-Mm-hmm.

I'm going to go for the one that he has the smaller part in,

and I'm going to go Bruce Almighty.

Bruce Almighty, you are saying.

There's your red line, nice and high.

If Bruce Almighty gets you below that line, you are safely through.

Is it right? How many people said it?

It's right, and you're through.

19. Very well done, indeed.

Takes your total up to 26.

APPLAUSE

-Bruce Almighty.

-If that's the film he played the smaller part in, I'd like to see the other,

cos he plays God in that film. LAUGHTER

With Jim Carrey, from 2003.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now then, Valerie.

Cracking score from David of 3.

High score of 100 from Maggie and Lucy

means a score of 96 or less in this pass will see you straight through to the next round.

Well, before I got on this show, films were a foreign country.

But I've done a wee bit of research, wee bit of revision,

being a teacher,

and it's between two.

So I'll give you the one that my husband said,

and if it's wrong, he's dead.

LAUGHTER

So I'll say Glory.

Glory. David's nodding and saying, "Nice."

Let's hope it's right. Here's your line. It's nice and high.

If you get below that red line, you are definitely through to the next round.

Glory. Is it right? How many people said it?

Absolutely right, and you are through.

It's going a long way down. Look at that! 2.

Valerie. The best score of the round so far

takes your total up to 5.

-Richard.

-Well played, Valerie's husband, very good answer.

-Thank you, Liam.

Just tell us a little about Glory, what you like about it.

-It's when it's set. I know I've seen it, now that he told me about it.

-I've seen it.

-OK.

It's in the American Civil War, with Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington,

-amongst others.

-Fantastic film.

-Very good answer.

Thank you very much. Now, Maggie. We want Morgan Freeman films.

You have to give the most obscure answer you possibly can,

it has to score as low as you can,

and you have to hope that Neil hasn't any ideas

about any Morgan Freeman films.

Do you know what? I know nothing about Morgan Freeman whatsoever.

I'm dragging this from the back of my memory,

and I don't know whether he was in it.

But there was a film called Driving Miss Daisy.

I don't even know whether he was in it, but that's my answer.

Driving Miss Daisy. There's no red line because you are the high scorers.

Let's see if it's right, and how many people said Driving Miss Daisy.

It's right.

Very well done, 18.

APPLAUSE

18, Maggie, for Driving Miss Daisy, takes your total up to 118.

The game's not over yet. Richard.

Given yourself a chance. Received his second Best Actor Oscar nomination,

and Jessica Tandy, who plays Miss Daisy, won her Oscar at over 80 years of age.

Now then, Neil, this is where it all happens.

Maggie and Lucy are on 118. You are on 44,

which means a score of 73 or less will see you through.

How good's your Morgan Freeman back catalogue?

-Not great.

-You can talk us through all the options, if you like.

-OK.

I did have one in mind at the start, and it's not gone.

I remember him being in one to do with the ocean,

I'm not sure if it's Deep Blue Sea,

but I've never seen it, and it would be a guess.

I'll go with the one I'm pretty sure is right.

One of the greatest films ever.

Se7en.

Se7en.

There's your red line.

If Se7en's right, and it goes below that red line,

you are through to the next round.

Let's see. Is it right, and how many people said Se7en?

It is right, well done, Neil, and you are through to the next round.

Down it goes.

15.

APPLAUSE

15 takes your total up to 59, a great answer. Se7en, Richard.

Surprisingly low score for Se7ven. Alongside Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers, though.

The ones that nobody of our 100 said.

10 Items Or Less was a pointless answer.

Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves,

the Ben Affleck film, Gone Baby Gone,

which is a very good film. Very bleak. That was a pointless answer.

High Crimes, Moll Flanders,

Nurse Betty, the Renee Zellweger film, that was pointless.

Outbreak, with Dustin Hoffman.

He was in the movie of The Bonfire Of The Vanities,

that was a pointless answer, and War Of The Worlds.

All of those pointless. Well done if you got any of those.

Here's a real thing. If you had to find a Morgan Freeman film

in which he didn't play a sort of wise, folksy man.

Sort of, slightly play it as the part of God.

Cos he kind of plays God in every film.

-Moll Flanders would be the film.

-That's the one?

-Cos he plays Moll Flanders in that.

LAUGHTER

-How does he play her?

-He plays her as a young, white girl.

LAUGHTER

With sort of wise, folksy overtones.

That's where he got his fourth Best Actor Oscar nomination.

-Phenomenal performance.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

At the end of our first round, the losing pair with the highest score,

it's Maggie and Lucy.

AUDIENCE: Aww.

Dear, oh, dear. This wasn't according to the script at all.

No, it wasn't.

Straight through to the head-to-head last time. Wonderful low scoring.

-Did you know any of those answers on the board?

-No.

War Of The Worlds, yeah.

I'm so sorry, we have to say goodbye. But it's been lovely having you. Thank you so much for playing.

APPLAUSE

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

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

so one of the teams will leave us at the end of this round.

Try and make sure it's not you.

Our category for Round Two is...

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

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

OK, our Round Two question concerns Explorers And Aviators. Richard.

On each pass, we're going to give you clues to the names of six people

who were pioneers or explorers in aviation or space travel.

If you give us an obscure answer,

one that few of our 100 people knew, you'll score few points.

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

12 clues in all for you to solve at home.

OK, thank you, so we are looking for the names

of these aviators or explorers, and we have got -

There we are. I'll read those all one more time.

So, there we are.

There are your clues to our six aviators or explorers. Neil.

I'm struggling apart from the obvious one,

so I'm going to have to say, first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

First man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, you are saying.

Let's see if it's right,

and let's see how many of our 100 people knew that answer.

It's right.

67.

-APPLAUSE

-Could be a lot worse.

It could be a lot worse, and you might well have taken

the only answer off the board that other people knew. Let's see.

-Richard.

-Surprisingly low score.

Everyone knows his first words on the moon.

-Do you know Buzz Aldrin's first words on the moon?

-No.

His first words were "Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation."

-It's rather nice, isn't it?

-Yeah, it is nice.

Right, now, David. You were the low scorers in the first round.

Can you keep it up in this round, I wonder? Are you confident?

No. Is the short answer.

I'm a bit worried I've got the wrong pole, here.

-But I'm going to go Roald Amundsen.

-For?

-First to reach...

First to reach the South Pole.

-Yeah.

-OK. First name?

-Roald.

-Roald?

-Norwegian.

-Norwegian.

-Yeah.

Let's see if that's right. If it is, let's see how many people knew. Amundsen, says David.

It's right! It's right.

And down it goes, still going down.

Still going down. 9!

-APPLAUSE

-Very, very well done, David.

A lovely low score.

OK, Well, David, I see a pattern emerging here, I think. Vicki.

-We come to you. You're the last person to have this board, so feel free to talk us through it.

-Ha!

Ha-ha-ha! If I thought Morgan Freeman was terrible,

this is just a disaster.

I'm going to take a guess at commanded the Endeavour.

Sir Francis Drake.

Commanded the endeavour, 1768.

Francis Drake, you're saying. Let's see if that's right

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

Who commanded the endeavour? Was it Francis Drake?

No. Bad luck, Vicky.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

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

It's actually a correct answer, but to the wrong question.

Do you know, that was the only sailsman I knew and I thought...

He's not a SALESman, I don't think.

LAUGHTER

Sailor, is that it? Captain?

He was the first Englishman to sail around the world, Sir Francis Drake,

-and that would have scored you 7 points.

-I knew it!

The commander of the Endeavour was Captain James Cook.

Would've scored you 16.

The first person to fly solo across the English Channel

was Louis Bleriot, 9.

And the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova,

would've scored 6 points. A few knew it.

Well done if you went all the way through that board.

Thank you. We are halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores.

David and Valerie, once again emerging as the low scorers on 9.

Then we go up quite substantially to 67, where we find Neil and Andrew

but still looking pretty secure there

in the face of Vicky and Matt's high score of 100.

Matt, what we require from you, you'll have pick of the board,

but we need a lovely, low-scoring answer from you

and maybe that'll see you through to the head-to-head.

We'll come back down the line. Can the second players take their places at the podium.

OK, we're going to put six more clues on the board and here we are.

We have got...

I'll read those all one more time...

Now remember, we are looking for the aviators or explorers

that are described by these clues and obviously Matt,

you are trying to find one the fewest of our 100 people knew.

-Is this better for you, this board?

-Not at all. No, no.

Although I've got the pick,

I'm going to have to go for brothers achieving the first powered flight,

I think it was the Wright brothers.

OK, the Wright brothers. You are the high scorers, so there's no red line.

You just have to hope this goes down as far as possible.

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

It's right.

73. 73, Matt.

-It's too high.

-It's too high.

That takes your total up to 173,

which, I'm afraid, is so far in front

that even if Andrew and Neil score 100 points,

they still won't overtake you, I'm sorry to say. Richard.

It's too high. That's what the Wrights said as well.

-Ah!

-He was only up there for 12 seconds

and then Wilbur had a go later in the day for about a minute.

Now then, Valerie, you are through to the next round, whatever happens.

But let's see, for fun,

if you can keep up this low-scoring thing that you and David are doing.

I think I know three, but I might be wrong.

So I'll say first solo flight across the Atlantic.

I just hope I don't let you down with this one.

And I'll say Lindbergh.

Lindbergh, you are saying, first solo flight across the Atlantic.

You are through to the next round whatever happens.

But is that right and if it is, how may people said Lindbergh?

-Well done, Valerie, it's right.

-Phew!

Very well done. Down it goes.

Still going down. 9, very well done.

APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 18.

Another low score there.

-1927, flew from the USA to Paris in 33.5 hours.

-There we go.

So then, Andrew, we come to you, you're on 67.

If you score 100 points, you're still through. Take us through the board.

-Fill in all the blanks and submit your favourite answer.

-Right, OK.

Elizabeth I, that's going to be Drake or Raleigh.

First European to cross the Pacific Ocean, not a clue.

First woman to fly alone across the Atlantic must be Amy Johnson.

North and South America named after him, Magallan, Magellan?

One of those Spanish kind of European explorers, perhaps.

I'm going to go, though, with Amy Johnson,

first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic.

Amy Johnson, Is that right and if it is, how many people said it?

No red line for you, you're through come what may.

Oh. Unfortunately, that is an incorrect answer,

which means you score 100 points.

But it doesn't matter, you're through anyway. 167 is your total.

Amy Johnson first solo flight from the UK to Australia.

The first woman across the Atlantic was Amelia Earhart.

Let's look at the rest of the answers.

Right about Magellan, but wrong question.

Magellan crossed the Pacific Ocean.

That would have scored you 4 points.

Virginia, you were right.

Sir Walter Raleigh would have scored you 14.

North and South America named after Amerigo Vespucci.

8 points. Magellan the best answer on that board.

So very well done if you said that.

Thanks very much, Richard. So at the end of Round Two,

the losing pair with the highest score, it's Matt and Vicki.

Oh. Oh, dear. Our two returning pairs have gone

in Rounds One and Two.

It was Round Two that did for you last time, it is Round Two that once again has seen you off.

-Yeah. Presidents and aviation and explorers.

-Salesmen.

Dear, oh dear. Exactly. I'm afraid, absolutely, the salesman. Yeah.

Francis Drake, though. I mean...

Honestly, I was between those two for him.

Well, Matt and Vick, it has been lovely having you on the show,

but this is where we say goodbye. Thanks for being great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, things are about to hot up even more, as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations Valerie and David, Neil and Andrew.

You are now only one round away from the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at £2,000.

Now, obviously only one pair can play for that money. And to decide which pair it will be,

you are now going to go head-to-head on the best of three questions.

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

And of course, you are now allowed to confer. Let's play head-to-head.

OK, here comes your first question. And it concerns...

Yes, a picture question first, as always. We'll show you five pictures which relate to specific words

in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Which is the most obscure of these?

Thanks very much, Richard. Let's reveal our five images now

that represent words in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

And here they are. We have...

There they are.

Five images that represent letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Now, Valerie and David, you've played best throughout the show so far, so you get to go first.

OK.

We are going to play safe here and go for whiskey. C.

You are going to say C, whiskey.

OK.

Neil and Andrew, you can talk us through the rest of those pictures.

Then submit your favourite.

-Hotel.

-OK.

-India, Victor.

-I'm not sure of A.

It's a flag of a country, isn't it? So it might be Quebec.

-That is a risky one, isn't it?

-What about hotel, then?

No, I think hotel is more obvious than whiskey.

I'd say Victor, go for Victor.

I think a lot of people will know that's Victor Meldrew.

But then, that is whiskey as well.

Shall we take a risk on the country? Quebec? That's got to be Quebec.

-It has to be Quebec.

-That's the country, isn't it?

-Unless it's F for flag, which we didn't know about!

-OK.

For A, we will say Quebec.

A, Quebec.

So we have C, whiskey.

And A, Quebec.

Valerie and David have gone C, whiskey. Let's see if that is right

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

It's right.

No.

75. And then we go A, Quebec.

-This is a complete guess.

-We are taking a punt on this.

Because that could be Lima's flag as well!

Anyhow, what you have said is Quebec. A, Quebec.

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

75 is what you have to beat.

It's paid off!

And you have won that question.

Down it goes, look at that. 5!

Very, very well done, Neil and Andrew.

Absolutely faultless reasoning.

After one question, you are up 1-0.

-Richard?

-Yeah, very impressive. You are paramedics,

so I guess you know all the NATO phonetic alphabet.

But Quebec the only place that would have a flag, that is the flag of the province of Quebec.

5 points. Actually, you didn't need to take the risk.

Every other answer would have won the points.

Whiskey is the highest answer.

B is hotel. That's a Monopoly hotel.

That would've scored you 36 points.

D is India.

Would've scored you 27.

And E, of course, Victor Meldrew.

And that would've scored you 52.

Well done if you got all five of them.

OK, thanks, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Valerie and David, remember,

you have to win this question to stay in the game.

Our second question this afternoon concerns...

Songs From Grease, Richard.

We're about to list five songs from Grease,

but we're only giving you the initials.

Can you tell us the name the song from those initials?

And which is the most obscure?

OK, thanks very much, Richard. Here it comes.

Let's reveal our five songs from Grease. And they are...

I will read them one more time.

There we go. Neil and Andrew, you go first this time.

We are going to go with BSD for Beauty School Dropout.

Beauty School Dropout.

OK, Beauty School Dropout. Now then, Valerie and David,

bearing in mind you have to win this one to stay in the game,

let's hear you talk us through the board.

-Beauty School Dropout was the one we were going to look for.

-Yeah, right!

I know we're rock'n'roll, but Grease isn't really rock'n'roll.

So, I don't know the first one, I don't know the last one, so it's either

-You're The One That I Want...

-Which I think is too well known.

Or, Hopelessly Devoted To You. Which... It's got to be that one.

So you are going to go for Hopelessly Devoted To You.

Beauty School Dropout from Neil and Andrew,

and Hopelessly Devoted To You from Valerie and David.

If Neil and Andrew win this question,

they are straight through to the final.

Neil and Andrew, Beauty School Dropout, is it right for BSD and if it is,

how many people said it?

It's right!

Ooh, down it goes.

20.

20 for Beauty School Dropout.

Now, Valerie and David.

-What do you think?

-No.

-It is higher than I was expecting for BSD.

Still, you have gone for HDTY. Hopelessly Devoted To You.

Let's see if it is right, and if it is, let's see if it can go down lower than 20.

Yep, it is right.

Still going down.

Ooh! Look at that!

23!

Very, very close indeed. It means that Neil and Andrew have won it.

So after only two questions, they are through to the final, 2-0. Richard.

A couple of answer would have won the points, actually.

Hopelessly Devoted To You, written by ex-Shadow John Farrar as was You're The One That I Want.

But that would have scored you a fairly hefty 69 points.

The ones that would have won it for you are the top and bottom.

-The top is Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee.

-Sandra Dee.

-Yep.

And that would have scored you 11 points.

The one at the bottom is It's Raining On Prom Night.

Which would have scored you 5 points. Best answer on the board.

Well done if you got all five.

So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, Valerie and David.

-Wow.

-Great.

-Extraordinary, your run of luck,

which has been phenomenal up till now, every round,

you have been the lowest scorers.

Amazing. Amazing pointless knowledge.

Well, I know now what the NATO phonetic alphabet is.

Yes, that was tough, wasn't it?

-I mean, once you had clicked, you knew of course what that was?

-Yeah.

-No.

-Oh, really?

Well, we were beaten by a better pair.

-Yes.

-Good luck to them.

-Well, graciously said.

And we look forward to seeing you again, Valerie and David.

When I have every confidence we will see you come this far, if not further.

-Thanks very much for playing, Valerie and David. Great contestants.

-Thank you. Thank you.

But for Neil and Andrew, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Neil and Andrew. You have seen off

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

You have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

And at the end of today, the jackpot stands at £2,000.

Well, you've done incredibly well.

Valerie and David, they came storming through all the rounds,

favourites in the head-to-head, you saw them off.

-It was the Quebec thing, wasn't it?

-Quebec...

-I'd never seen the Quebec flag before in my life.

-No!

-But you've got to take a chance.

-Yeah.

No, you did exactly the right thing, exactly the right thing,

and, yeah, no, that boldness paid off.

Well, here you are in the final, and the rules are very, very simple.

To win, 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 £2,000.

First, though, you've got to choose a category from these five options.

They are...

-Country music.

-No.

-Prime ministers?

-You'd be strong on that.

But I don't know enough of the ones going back into the deepest...

OK. Classical music's a no for me.

-Children's books...

-Not really.

-Not really.

That kind of leaves us with one, doesn't it?

-Scottish footballers!

-OK.

-Scottish footballers it is.

-By a process of elimination.

Best of luck. Let's find out what our question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Scottish footballers

on the SFA's International Roll of Honour as they could.

-Richard.

-Yeah, looking for any players at the start of 2012

to be on the Scottish FA's International Roll of Honour.

That's for any Scottish footballer with 50 caps or more,

-including at under-21 level.

-OK, thanks very much.

You have up to one minute to come up with three answers,

and all you need to win that £2,000 jackpot

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.

All right, obvious ones, Kenny Dalglish, Archie Gemmill...

All right, let's go back a bit, Billy Bremner.

-Right.

-Gordon Strachan.

I'm thinking ex-Leeds United players who played for Scotland.

-Graeme Souness.

-Peter Lorimer.

-Right.

Erm...

I've got a really quite obscure one, I think, from about the '70s,

and I'm assuming he got more than 50 caps, Danny McGrain.

Ooh, good answer.

-Shall we have Danny McGrain?

-Danny McGrain.

We need to try and... think of over 50 caps

-that nobody else really would think of.

-Yeah.

Kenny Dalglish and Archie Gemmill are quite obvious.

Yeah, but what about Billy Bremner?

Leeds have got quite a big following.

It's better than the others.

What about people like Paul Reaney?

-I don't know him.

-He used to play in defence, he was reliable,

-but I don't know if he got 50 caps for Scotland.

-10 seconds left.

-Right, so...Billy Bremner...

-Paul Reaney.

-Paul...

Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer.

-Yeah.

-And...your chappie.

-Danny McGrain.

-Whoever he was.

-OK, your time is up.

We were looking for Scottish footballers

on the SFA International Roll of Honour.

-I now need your three answers.

-We're going with Billy Bremner.

-Billy Bremner.

-Peter Lorimer.

-Peter Lorimer.

We're taking a bit of a long shot,

I don't know if the name's 100% right

but we're going to go with Danny McGrain.

-He sounds Scottish.

-Danny McGrain.

-Yeah.

-Now then, of those three,

which do you reckon's your best punt at a pointless answer?

-That one? Danny McGrain.

-We'll put him last.

Which is your least likely?

-Billy Bremner, probably.

-Billy Bremner.

So Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer, Danny McGrain.

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

and here they are - Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer and Danny McGrain.

There they are.

OK, looking for Scottish footballers on the SFA Roll of Honour.

Billy Bremner was your first

and least confident shot at a pointless answer.

Remember, you only have to find one pointless answer

to win that jackpot of £2,000,

so let's see, is Billy Bremner right,

and if he is, how many of 100 people said Billy Bremner?

This for £2,000.

It's right!

It's right, now that's the first thing it had to be,

the second thing it has to be is pointless.

If this goes down to 0, you leave here with £2,000.

Still going down, 6, 5!

5 for Billy Bremner!

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer,

but I'll tell you what, that looks good for you next answers,

-if only 5 people got Billy Bremner.

-Yeah.

-Mmm.

-Fingers crossed.

-I'm not convinced now about Peter Lorimer, though.

You have two more chances to win. What would you do with two grand?

Give it to my dependent financial adviser, my wife.

LAUGHTER

-Neil?

-I would like to kit out my young children's bedroom,

-make it all nice.

-Very good indeed.

-OK, right, now then, now you've got to win the jackpot.

-Mmm, yeah.

Looking for Scottish footballers on the SFA Roll of Honour.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer, Peter Lorimer.

This has to be correct and it has to be pointless.

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

Good luck.

Oh, no! Bad luck.

Bad luck, an incorrect answer, as it turns out,

so you only have one chance to win today's jackpot.

There it is, all hanging on Danny McGrain.

Scottish footballers on...

I never thought I'd have two grand hanging on Danny McGrain.

LAUGHTER

-I might have even made him up!

-That's not even funny.

Is he sounding good? You still think he sounds...

It's a name that I've really not heard for a long time,

but thinking back, there's something there.

Your third answer, Danny McGrain,

your most confident shot at a pointless answer.

To win, it has to be right, and it has to be pointless.

If it's both of those things, you leave here with £2,000.

Danny McGrain, your last shot, is it right,

and if so, how many people said Danny McGrain?

Best of luck.

It's right! It's right.

So your first answer, Billy Bremner, went down to 5,

Peter Lorimer turned out to be incorrect.

Danny McGrain, you found it from somewhere.

Into single figures, if this goes down to...

Oh, no!

GROANS AND APPLAUSE

Oh...dear, oh dear!

I thought that was going all the way down.

You're not on your own.

You didn't manage to find a pointless answer,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £2,000,

which will roll over onto the next show,

but you have been fantastic.

You do get our Pointless trophy, so very well done.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Here's the painful bit. Richard.

Very well played throughout. Danny McGrain,

a no-nonsense central defender from Celtic from the '70s,

and a big name in Scotland, so people will know him.

I'm going to show you the pointless answers,

and I absolutely guarantee you you're going to know all the names.

Let's take a look -

Alan Rough, perhaps the most famous Scottish goalie.

Christian Dailly, Rangers, West Ham.

Colin Hendry, the World Cup captain,

played for Blackburn when they won the Premiership.

Darren Fletcher, Man U midfielder, captain at the age of 20.

John Collins, he played for many teams, most importantly Fulham.

Kevin Gallacher, also won the Premiership with Blackburn,

and two guys who spent most of their career in Scotland,

Maurice Malpas of Dundee United and Roy Aitken, a Celtic stalwart.

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

We do have to say goodbye to you, Neil and Andrew.

It's been brilliant, thank you both for coming along and playing.

APPLAUSE

Neil and Andrew didn't win our jackpot, so it rolls over,

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

APPLAUSE

Join us then to see if someone can win it.

-It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

APPLAUSE

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