Episode 21 Pointless

AUDIENCE APPLAUSE

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

the quiz show where the aim of the game is to score as few points as you possibly can.

Let's meet today's players.

First we welcome back Valerie and David.

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

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

We're brother and sister. He's my wee brother.

David, what's going to be brilliant for you this afternoon?

Leeds United, 1991-1992.

-That'd be good. Best team.

-Just the one season.

-Yeah.

-And nothing on Manchester United?

-That's right.

What do you like doing in your spare time, Valerie?

I'm doing a part-time course at the minute.

I'm training to be a preacher in the Methodist Church.

How long will the course take?

-Three years. I'm about halfway through.

-Very good.

-Yeah.

It's lovely to have you back, Valerie and David. Best of luck.

Next, we welcome Lisa and Karen. How do you know each other?

We're actually sisters, not that we look anything alike.

I can see you as sisters.

-Where are you from, Karen?

-We're from Bexley in Kent.

-What do you do?

-I'm a swimming teacher with my own swim school.

-What's your average age of pupil?

-Between three and 12 year-olds.

I loved swimming. When I was little, swimming was the best possible fun.

All that bombing, running, heavy petting, none of that stuff.

Doesn't feature when you're a grown-up. It's such a shame. It's not as much fun.

-Lisa, what do you do?

-I'm a florist and I run my own business.

-Have you always been a florist?

-No, I used to work in advertising.

I used to work for an advertising agency, and probably about 12 years ago, I employed some young guy

-called Xander Armstrong to do a voice over.

-What was it for?

Possibly a car? I can't quite remember.

-You were very good, though.

-Sounds about right.

It's lovely to have you here, Lisa and Karen. Best of luck.

Next, we welcome Graham and Sue. How do you know each other?

We met on a blind date on a boat called Bliss.

A blind date on a boat?

-That was a bit of a risk, wasn't it?

-It was.

"Come for a blind date.

"It's just the pair of us on holiday for a fortnight."

-It's a blind date that I'm guessing went quite well, Sue.

-It did.

It was very nice, very romantic.

Graham, do you have any particular areas that you know a lot about?

I collect postcards of some Victorian actresses.

Up to the First World War, really.

Particularly postcards of Fanny Dango.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-How did you come across Fanny Dango?

-I just found her one day

in a box of postcards and thought, "There's something about that name."

There sure is! Yeah!

-Very good indeed. Fanny Dango.

-Oh, yes.

I'll look out for that.

Graham and Sue, it's lovely to have you here. Best of luck.

Finally, we've got Glen and Jamie. How do you two know each other?

We went to primary school together and have known each other ever since.

Excellent. Glen, are you a Star Trek fan?

No, that's Jamie.

I only ask cos you look like you've just stepped off the Enterprise.

AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

Either that or we just got you out of bed in a bit of a hurry.

-This is fashion!

-Jamie, what do you do?

I work for a haulage company, a customer account manager.

How about you, Glen?

I'm a fashion buyer.

AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

There you are.

There you are.

Great to have you on the show, Glen and Jamie. Best of luck to you.

We'll find out more about you all later.

There's only one person left to introduce.

If knowledge is a weapon, he's about to bring out the big guns.

-Here's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya.

-Afternoon to you.

-And the top of the afternoon to you.

We've only got one returning pair today,

and it's an advantage to being a returning pair, cos

when you're on again you know what you're doing.

But for the last seven shows, our winners have been first-time players.

Valerie and David were strong last time, got to the Head-to-Head,

but might have their work cut out if this run continues.

I see. OK. Thank you very much, Richard.

All our questions on Pointless 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 and have a chance of winning,

our players need to score as few points as possible.

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 will add £250 to the jackpot.

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

Today's jackpot starts off at £3,000. There we are.

If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

In this round, you must give one answer, and you can't confer with your partner.

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

If you give me an incorrect answer,

you'll score the maximum of 100 points, so try and avoid those.

Our first category this afternoon is...

Decide in your pairs who will go first and second.

Whoever's first, step to the podium.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many words ending in "cent" as they could.

Richard.

We're looking for any word in the Oxford English dictionary that ends "cent".

We won't allow hyphenated words or proper nouns

and we won't allow the word "cent" itself, either, I'm afraid.

There are nearly 200 words in the dictionary ending "cent".

Very good indeed.

OK. Valerie and David,

you all drew lots before the show, and today you are going first.

-I'll choose "adjacent".

-"Adjacent".

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Down it goes. 9! Very well done.

-"Adjacent", Richard.

-Very good answer. Near to or next to.

-Cos she's adjacent to the podium.

-Exactly.

-That'll be why.

Karen, what's the most obscure word ending in CENT you can think of?

Um... I'm going to go for the fairly obvious. I'm not even sure...

"Descent".

-"Descent", going down.

-OK. Let's see if that's right,

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

Very well done.

28.

28. Richard.

Well done. Downward motion of any kind, "descent".

Graham. A nice obscure word ending in CENT.

I'm going to go for "crescent".

"Crescent", says Graham. Let's see if it's right,

and if so, let's see how many of our 100 people said "crescent".

7.

Only the best score of the round so far, Graham. Crescent.

That's a very good answer. Well done.

It's a nerve-wracking one, with the CENT and SENT.

-Everyone's doing very well.

-Now then, Glen.

Right. I'm not sure how to spell it.

I'm fairly certain it ends in CENT.

I'm going to say "iridescent".

"Iridescent", says Glen. There we are.

Let's see if that's right,

and if so, let's see how many of our people said "iridescent".

It's right.

And I have a feeling it's going to go a long way down.

Yes! Very well done, Glen. Splendid work.

That's a pointless answer and adds £250 to today's jackpot,

which takes the total up to...

It scores you nothing. Richly deserved. Great answer.

Great introduction to the show.

Pointless answer, "iridescent".

Showing all the colours of a rainbow.

We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

Glen and Jamie, looking brilliant there.

Lovely answer from Glen.

"Iridescent" sees you on no points at all. Very strong indeed.

Then up to 7, where we find Graham and Sue.

Up to 9 where we find Valerie and David, then up to 28,

which is a lovely low score, but just in this context,

substantially higher than everyone else.

Lisa, can we have a lovely obscure word ending CENT

from you in the next pass?

We're going to come back down the line. Can the second players take their places at the podium?

We are looking for words ending in CENT.

Jamie, you're on nothing,

courtesy of Glen's brilliant iridescent answer.

The high scorers are Lisa and Karen.

If you can score 27 or less, that will see you comfortably,

definitely through to the next round.

I've got an answer that I think could go one of two ways.

It will be really obvious or it might not have occurred to anybody.

I'm going to go for "scent",

obviously with an "S" at the beginning of those four letters.

This is like hiding in the house cos it's the last place someone will look.

OK, Jamie, Here is your red line. It's quite low.

You're hoping "scent" will get you down there, Very best of luck.

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

Still going.

Yes! Oh, almost. 28.

I think you'll be all right. 28, that scores you. Richard.

It's very interesting now.

It's a good tactic. It obviously did slip people's minds.

That's a low score for word round.

Sue, we have two joint high scorers at the moment, Jamie and Glen

and Lisa and Karen.

They are both on 28. You're on seven.

If you can score 20 or less you are definitely in the next round.

We're looking for words ending in C-E-N-T.

I've two in mind, but I think I'm going to go with "complacent".

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

It is right.

Yep, you got it. Well done. 4.

-4 for "complacent" takes your total up to 11. Richard.

-Well played, Sue.

Everybody holding their nerve admirably in this round. Very impressive.

Lisa, you have to score a pointless answer to avoid becoming the high scorers. You're on 28.

-Jamie and Glen are also on 28, but they've given two answers.

-Right.

I've got a few in mind,

and I'm hoping this one just hasn't come out of nowhere and it's wrong.

"Incandescent"?

"Incandescent". David is laughing in the manner of someone who had "incandescent".

CONTESTANTS LAUGH

OK. "Incandescent".

No red line for you, you just have to hope this is pointless.

"Incandescent". Is it right? If it is, how many people said it?

It's right.

Still going down, Lisa.

Very well done!

It's a pointless answer!

Very well done. That adds another £250 to today's jackpot.

Takes the total up to...

It scores you nothing and it leaves you on 28. Very well done.

We may have a tie-break on our hands.

That's the way to play the game.

It means white hot, which is rather apt.

I've learned something.

It's also the look on Glen and Jamie's face as well.

David, the joint high-scorers, Jamie and Glen and Lisa and Karen, all on 28.

You're on 9.

A score of 18 or less will see you comfortably through

to the next round.

-You had an answer.

-Yeah, "incandescent".

Although, I didn't know if it ended with CENT to be honest.

-I'll say "effervescent".

-There's your red line.

Below that red line, you are home and dry. "Effervescent". Is it right?

How many people said it?

It is right.

You are through to the next round. Ah, one point!

One point. Very well done, David. That takes your total up to 10.

-You are through to the next round.

-Well played.

Will you overcome the curse of the returning contestants today?

Please!

This is very exciting indeed. It's a tie.

We have tied pairs, tied high scorers.

So tied pairs each have to give me one more answer

and the pair that gets the highest score will be eliminated.

You are now allowed to confer.

Lisa and Karen, you are going to go first.

We are looking for words ending in C-E-N-T.

OK.

We're going to go for "translucent".

"Translucent", very good, let's see if it's right?

If it is, let's see how many said "translucent".

It's right!

It has to go as low as it possibly can

if it's going to save your bacon.

3!

3 for "translucent" takes your total up to 31.

Glenn and Jamie, we now need the most obscure word ending in CENT

that you can think of, it has to score two or less.

Go on, can't think of anything else,

we're going to go for "indecent".

We've had "translucent" now we have "indecent". Let's see if it's right

and if it is let's see how many of our 100 people said "indecent".

It's right,

has to get down below 3 if it's going to save you.

2!

Wow, very well done.

That's scores you 2, takes your total up to 30.

Richard.

Well played, guys. I'm amazed because "decent" itself would have scored 49.

A great round, let's take a look at some Pointless answers here.

Acquiescent is a Pointless answer as is coalescent, convalescent,

there's plenty of familiar words out here but again how do you spell them?

Incandescent, iridescent,

Pinguescent, that actually means getting fat.

Really?

Preadolescent, rejuvenescent, and as well as indecent being 2 points,

undecent would have scored you nothing at all as well.

Thanks. At the end of the first round our losing pair

-with the highest score? Oh dear, it's Lisa and Karen.

-Never mind.

You didn't do badly, but this is where we have to say goodbye to you,

we will see you again next time, look forward to that.

Thanks for playing, Lisa and Karen, great contestants.

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 in front of me

now will be leaving us at the end of this round.

Our category for this round is Tourism.

Can you decide in your pairs who is going to go first,

who's going second and whoever's going first

please step up to the podium.

Our Round Two question concerns US Tourist Attractions. Richard.

On each pass we are going to show you six US Tourist Attractions,

you just have to tell us which State that attraction is in.

If you give us a nice obscure answer, something very few of our 100 people

knew you will score fewer points, if you give us an incorrect answer

you will score 100 points. 12 for you to have a go at at home.

Thank you, Richard, so we are looking for the US States in which

these tourist attractions are to be found and here we go. We've got...

I'll read those one more time.

Remember, we are looking for the States in which you would find

these US Tourist Attractions, and obviously, you are trying

to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. David.

I'm thinking of going with

The Kennedy Space Centre is in Florida.

Kennedy Space Centre Florida, says David. Let's see if that's right?

If it is, let's see how many of our 100 people knew that answer.

It's right.

45.

45. Richard, quite high?

Pretty big score, David, 1.5 million visitors annually.

Graham, Remember we are looking for the US states in which you

would find these tourist attractions.

I don't know the first one,

I'm going to have to go with the Grand Canyon in Colorado.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, how many people knew that answer.

Oh!

Grand Canyon, not Colorado, an incorrect answer,

which means you score a maximum of 100 points. Bad luck. Glen.

I'm going to go for Waikiki Beach, because I think I've seen it on a

T-shirt, with the place it's in on, I think it's in Hawaii.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, says Glen.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how any people knew that answer?

It is Hawaii.

50.

50 for Hawaii, Richard.

That's how a fashion buyers mind works -

if it's on a T-shirt he knows it.

It's in Honolulu, Waikiki Beach, it means spouting fresh water.

The Grand Canyon is not in Colorado, it's formed by the Colorado river

so people at home may have said Colorado, it's actually in Arizona.

It would have scored 29 points.

Yosemite National Park is in California. It would have scored 17.

The Arlington National Cemetery is in Virginia.

It would have scored 2 points - the best answer on the board.

Churchill Downs is the racecourse where they run the Kentucky Derby.

So Arlington National Cemetery best answer on that board but well done

if you got all of them.

We're half way through the round so let's take look at the scores.

David and Valerie it turns out have the lowest score of the pass,

very well done, 45, looking quite solid,

Glen and Jamie on 50, not bad at all,

Graham and Sue looking a little bit exposed on 100 points so Sue,

we need a lovely obscure answer from you, nice low score

if you're going to stay with us through to the Head-to-Head.

We're going to come back down the line,

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

We've got six more US Tourist Attractions on the board

and here we go. We have got...

I'll read them all one more time.

Remember, we are looking the States in which you would find

the US tourist attractions and you are trying

to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Jamie, you're on 50, Sue and Graham are on 100,

if you can score 49, or less, you are in the Head-to-Head.

I think that I will go for the

Las Vegas Strip, Nevada.

Las Vegas Strip, Nevada, says Jamie.

Here's your red line,

below that you've made it safely through to the Head-to-Head.

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

It is right.

You made it, well done, 45, with 5 to spare,

that takes your total up to 95, Richard.

The Las Vegas Strip is home

to 18 of the world's top 25 largest hotels by room number.

-Wow.

-That's something, isn't it?

Sue. You are the high scorers on 100,

you just have to hope you find a lovely low scoring answer.

I'm going to have to go with The Golden Gate Bridge, California.

OK, the Golden Gate Bridge, California

you are saying. let's see if that's right

and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it. California.

It is right.

45.

Takes your total up to 145,

puts you 100 points ahead of Valerie and David, who have yet to answer.

Makes Valerie's answer very interesting.

Very iconic bridge, spanning between San Francisco

and Marin County, California.

Valerie.

I honestly haven't a clue.

That's exciting, Richard.

I honestly haven't, but I'm going

to go with Mount Rushmore

in Washington State.

Mount Rushmore in Washington State.

There's your red line, nice and high.

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

Oh, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer which means you scored

the maximum of 100 points which

means your score is now 145.

For the second time in this show,

we have a tie. This is very exciting. As it's a tie,

the tied pairs have to give me one more answer each,

you're now allowed to confer. The pair with the highest score

will be eliminated at the end of the round, as per usual.

So then, Valerie and David,

you are to go first, you are now allowed to confer.

I've been to the Space Needle, I'm pretty sure I think

it's in Seattle which is in Washington State, funny enough.

There's an irony.

So that's the one I'm going for.

You are going to say Washington State for the Space Needle.

Is it right, how many people said it?

It is right, very well done.

Down it goes, still going,

6!

That's a colossally low score.

6 for Washington State takes your total up to 151. Sue and Graham.

We are looking for the US States in which you would find these

tourist attractions.

Shall we go with Mount Rushmore?

-I think it's probably the one with the carved heads?

-It is.

But I'm not certain, is it Wyoming?

Mount Rushmore, Wyoming, says Sue.

Go with that.

There is your red line,

you want to be scoring 5 or less with this answer

if you're to be though to the Head-to-Head.

Mount Rushmore? Wyoming, says Sue.

Is it right and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it?

Mount Rushmore, Wyoming.

Oh! Well, it's definitive.

Sue and Graham, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer which means

you scored a maximum of 100 points, takes your total up to 245. Richard.

Another tie! If you'd got the right answer for Mount Rushmore you

would have been in the next round because actually you would have only

scored 3 points. It's South Dakota.

Well done, if you got that at home.

Do you know Niagara Falls?

It's New York State, isn't it?

It is, right at the top of Upstate New York.

The Independence National Historical Park is in Pennsylvania.

That's a pointless answer so well done if you got that.

Thank you very much, Richard, so at the end of Round Two

the losing pair with the highest score is Graham and Sue.

Ah dear, well, no shame in that,

apart from possibly the Wyoming but I didn't know it was South Dakota.

We know that now, Graham. You'll never forget that.

No, and I'm very proud of that score. 245 is a biggie!

It is a big one.

But you did very well and the great news is we'll see you next time.

We'll look forward to that.

Meanwhile, thanks very much for playing.

But for the remaining two pairs things are about to get

even more exciting now as we enter the Head-to-Head.

Congratulations. Glen and Jamie, Valerie and David,

you are now only one round away form the final

and a chance to play for the jackpot which currently stands at £3,500.

Clearly, only one pair can play for that money

so to decide who that will be you are now going to go

head-to-head on the best of three questions.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing

for the jackpot and you are now allowed to confer,

that's the good news. Let's play head-to-head.

Here comes your first question and it concerns famous MJs.

We're about to show you five pictures of famous people

whose initials are MJ.

We've shown these to our 100 people as well.

You just have to pick the most obscure. Best of luck.

Thank you, Richard, let's reveal our five MJs and we have got...

There's our gallery of MJs. Glen and Jamie, you've played best

throughout the show so far, so you get to go first,

we want a nice obscure MJ from that choice of five.

There's a couple that I know,

so we're just trying to decide who is the most obscure

and I think we're going to go with B.

Which is, if I'm pronouncing it right, Milla Jovovich.

Milla Jovovich, you are saying, for B.

Valerie and David, you can talk us through the MJs, if you like,

Obviously the best known is E, Mick Jagger,

A is Michael Jordan, C we're not sure about,

we're going to go with D,

who is the Indian Cook and actress, Madhur Jaffrey.

Madhur Jaffrey, very good,

so, Glen and Jamie say Milla Jovovich for B, let's see

if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said it?

It's right,

23!

23, for Milla Jovovich.

Valerie and David have gone for D,

and they are saying Madhur Jaffrey, let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

26! Oh.

26. Very narrowly won, but after one question Glen and Jamie

are ahead 1-0. Richard.

Milla Jovovich, good answer, star of Fifth Element and Resident Evil.

There are two answers on the board that would have beaten that,

and one if them is A.

Michael Jordan, would have scored you 14 points.

C is a pointless answer, any ideas? It's a very tough one.

It's the French composer Maurice Jarre, father of Jean Michel Jarre

and just for fun, how many points so you think Mick Jagger, E, scored?

87?

93!

Thanks very much, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Valerie and David, you have to win this question

to stay in the game, here it comes.

It concerns the Tour De France. Richard.

We're going to give you five clues to facts about the Tour De France.

Again, the most obscure is going to win you the points.

Let's reveal our five facts about the Tour De France.

I'll read those all one more time.

There are five clues to facts about the Tour De France.

Valerie and David, you go first.

-We don't really know any.

-No, we don't.

We're going to have to say rider who won Tour seven times in a row

and we think it's Lance Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong, you are saying,

is the rider who won the Tour seven times in a row.

OK, Glen and Jamie.

I have a feeling that the first ever Green Jersey...

it's on the tip on my tongue and I can't think.

Go with the third one.

Yeah.

We'll have to go with the colour of the jersey

won by the overall race leader and we'll go for yellow.

OK, you're going to say the jersey won by the overall leader is yellow.

So we have Lance Armstrong, the name of the cyclist who won the Tour

seven times in a row, that is what Valerie and David are submitting.

Let's see if that's right, Lance Armstrong,

and if it is right, how many people said it.

It's right.

20!

Glen and Jamie, you are saying the colour of the jersey worn

by the overall leader is yellow.

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

20 is the score you must beat.

It's right.

Will it go below 20?

Oh, 45.

That means after two questions you are absolutely even. One-all.

Very well played to keep yourselves in there.

Lance Armstrong won every Tour de France from 1999 to 2005.

If you could have remembered Britain's first

ever winner of the Green Jersey you would be in final now,

he also just won the BBC Sport's Personality Of The Year.

From the Isle Of Man, Mark Cavendish.

Mark Cavendish would have scored 4 points, a terrific answer.

French name for the rider who comes last is a pointless answer. The Lanterne Rouge.

Very well done if you got that.

Our third question, whoever wins it is through to the final

and will be playing for that £3,500 jackpot.

Very best of luck both pairs.

Our third question concerns

David Jason TV programmes. Richard.

We're going to show you five David Jason TV programmes

but we're only going to give you the initials.

Which programmes do these initials refer to?

Thank you very much, let's reveal our five David Jason

TV programmes in initial form and here they are. We have got...

I'll read them all one final time.

There were are. Five David Jason programmes just in initial form.

Glen and Jamie, you go first this time.

-The voiceover?

-Yeah.

We going to pick the first one,

we think he did the voiceover for Danger Mouse.

Danger Mouse, you are saying, for DM. Danger Mouse.

Valerie and David, are you fans of David Jason?

Yes. Watched the new one, the Queen's Bodyguard,

but that's not there.

So we're going to go with P, which he was in like two episodes,

I think, Porridge?

Porridge.

So we have Danger Mouse, from Glen and Jamie,

and Porridge from Valerie and David.

Glen and Jamie went with Danger Mouse, let's se if that's

right and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Danger Mouse.

It's right.

14!

14 for Danger Mouse. Valerie and David, you went for Porridge.

Let's see if that's right and

if it is, how many people said it? 14 is what you have to beat.

It's right.

Will it go down far enough?

28.

Exactly double the score of Danger Mouse.

Which means after three questions

Glen and Jamie are through to the final. Richard.

He was in three episodes of Porridge playing Blanco Webb.

The curse of the returning pair strikes again, now eight shows in

a row. There's one answer up there that would have won it for you.

Only Fools And Horses of course, would have scored 83.

TDBOM is The Darling Buds Of May. You either spot that or you don't.

It's a big score. 44.

ASIOB - he was in a sitcom with Richard Wilson called A Sharp Intake of Breath. 3 points.

Very well done if you got that at home.

Thank you very much, Richard. So the losing pair

at the end of the Head-to-Head round,

I'm afraid, Valerie and David.

We met Richard, and we came on to meet Richard, so...

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There we are.

You've done phenomenally well, though.

I came on to meet Ben Miller and I'm very proud of it. Sorry, Alex.

Valerie, David, you've been brilliant.

Lovely having you on the show, thanks very much for playing.

But for Glen and Jamie it's now time for our Pointless Final.

Congratulations, Glen and Jamie, you have seen off

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

so very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless Jackpot

and at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £3,500.

The rules are very simple. All you have to do to win that money

is find a pointless answer. We've had two pointless answers

on the show today, you only have to find one more now and you will

go home with the £3,500.

First, you have to chose a category from these five options.

I think you'd be stronger on Pop Bands than

I would be on any of the others so I'd be happy to go for that.

A lot of pressure on me!

Well, Cities maybe, but I think we'll go for Pop Bands.

We'll go for Pop Bands.

Pop Bands it is. Let's find out what your question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Steps

UK Top 40 singles as they could,

Steps, UK Top 40 singles, Richard.

Looking for any Top 40 singles by the band Steps, please,

if they've released a double A side we'll accept either of those

as an answer.

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

and all you need to win that £3,500 is for just one of those

answers to be pointless.

Ready?

Yes.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are, your time starts now.

Better Best Forgotten?

Love's Got A Hold On My Heart, Stomp, is probably there.

Heartbeat and Tragedy, is that one?

Yeah, a double A side.

A Deeper Shade Of Blue,

5,6,7,8.

Stomp, Love's Got A Hold On My Heart and Better Best Forgotten.

I'd be happy with those.

OK, stop the clock.

OK, we were looking for Top 40 singles by the hit band Steps

and I now need your three answers.

The first one we'll go with is, Stomp.

Stomp.

Then Love's Got A Hold On My Heart.

Love's Got A Hold On My Heart.

And Better Best Forgotten.

And Better Best Forgotten. Which of those

do you think is your best shot at a Pointless answer?

I think the second one, Love's Got A Hold On My Heart.

Love's Got A Hold On My Heart, we'll put that last.

-Which is your least likely?

-Better Best Forgotten?

-We'll go with that one.

-So we'll put that one first,

Stomp in the middle, let's put those answers up on the board,

in that order and here they are.

We were looking for Top 40 singles by Steps.

You only have to find one Pointless answer, remember,

to win that jackpot of £3,500.

OK, let's see how many people said Better Best Forgotten?

This for £3,500.

It's right,

we will discover now how much our 100 people know about Steps.

Down it goes into the 20s and teens,

if it goes all the way to zero you leave here...

I was about to say with £3,500 but it's stopped on 7,

Better Best Forgotten, as it turns out, not yet forgotten.

Unfortunately not a pointless answer.

You only have two more chances to win today's jackpot of £3,500.

What you would do with that? Glen.

I've always wanted, you know, in EastEnders, Pat Butcher has

got that bar, in her living room, I'd love one of those.

LAUGHTER

Jamie, how about you?

I would like to take my girlfriend somewhere nice on holiday.

Because we've never had a beach holiday together, it would be nice.

AUDIENCE: Ahh!

OK, we are looking for Top 40 singles by Steps,

let's hope nobody said your next answer, which was Stomp!

This has to be pointless if you're going to win that jackpot of £3,500.

Let's see if it's right,

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

It is right, Better Best Forgotten, your first answer,

went down to 7. If this goes all the way down to zero

you will be leaving here with £3,500.

Still going down...

..you've done it!

Very well done.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

Brilliant.

Congratulations.

As it turns out, Stomp was a pointless answer which means

you leave here with the jackpot of £3,500. Very well done indeed.

Richard, how about that?

Well played, throughout the show. Stomp was a number one single.

Let's take a look at some more pointless answers.

I Know Him So Well was a double A side with Words Are Not Enough, also pointless.

All of these pointless in so many ways!

All Top Ten hits, and Love's Got A Hold On My Heart,

your other answer, would have scored you 1 point.

Thanks once again to our winning players.

Glen and Jamie, who go away with today's jackpot of £3,500.

Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to

the test on Pointless. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And goodbye from me, goodbye.

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