0:00:21 > 0:00:23APPLAUSE
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Thank you. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless
0:00:27 > 0:00:32where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners. Let's meet the players.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34APPLAUSE
0:00:35 > 0:00:42Welcome, Steve and Denise. You are our first pair on the show today. Now, where are you from?
0:00:42 > 0:00:45- Brentwood in Essex. - What do you do there, Denise?
0:00:45 > 0:00:49I just work part-time as a merchandiser for a sweet company.
0:00:49 > 0:00:54- Oh, that's fun!- Yes. - What kind of sweets?- Pick'n'mix.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58- The best kind!- Yes.- Every kind. - Exactly.- Steve, what do you do?
0:00:58 > 0:01:02- I'm an office manager for a finance company.- Very good.
0:01:02 > 0:01:07- What do you do when you're not doing that? - I've just taken up fishing again.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- What other interests do you have, Steve?- Reading, history.- Yeah.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14- And music. - Any particular kind of music?
0:01:14 > 0:01:20- '60s, because I can remember the music then.- Do you have a cut-off period after which...?
0:01:20 > 0:01:26Yes, about '74 when I stopped wearing glam clothes and make-up, funnily enough.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31It's lovely to have you here, Steve and Denise. Welcome to the show.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37Next, we welcome back Jenni and Andy. Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Remind us how you know each other, Jenni.
0:01:40 > 0:01:46- We met at our local amateur dramatics society a few years ago now. - In Hayling Island?- That's right.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49What would be great to come up for you?
0:01:49 > 0:01:56Oh, um... Antiques possibly. I'm quite into collecting antiques at the moment.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59I'm quite good at identifying birds by their song.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- My grandfather taught me that.- Wow!
0:02:02 > 0:02:06- Favourite bird for their song? - It's got to be the robin.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Or the wren. I like a wren. Nice, little noise.
0:02:09 > 0:02:16- Yeah.- I was woken up by a parakeet yesterday.- I hate that noise. - West London is full of parakeets.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19It wasn't singing. It was using a pneumatic drill.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22- LAUGHTER - But it woke me up.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- It would.- Yeah.
0:02:26 > 0:02:33- Andy, what would you like to see come up?- History probably, battles, dates. That sort of thing.
0:02:33 > 0:02:38I'm sure we'll see much more of you today. Very best of luck, Jenni and Andy.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Next, we welcome Gill and Lorna. How do you two know each other?
0:02:42 > 0:02:48We met at university. We're at Lancaster University and we're in the flat next to each other.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52- You're in your first year? - Yeah, we started in October.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Oh, I see. Only just in. Gill, what are you reading at university?
0:02:56 > 0:03:01I'm reading English Language and Literature with a minor in Sociolinguistics.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Sociolinguistics!
0:03:03 > 0:03:05What exactly is that?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07LAUGHTER
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- That is good. - I don't think I'm really sure!
0:03:10 > 0:03:14- LAUGHTER - You've only just started the course.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- Yeah.- I'll ask you in a year's time. You can tell me.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21- Lorna, what are you doing? - I'm doing English Language.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26- I'm doing the minor in Sociolinguistics...- As well. - And History.- Very good.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29It's great to have you on the show. Best of luck.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Finally, we have got Tim and Adam. How do you two know each other?
0:03:32 > 0:03:36We both go to university together and we're flatmates.
0:03:36 > 0:03:42- Where are you at university, Tim? - We're at university in Glasgow, studying Veterinary Medicine.
0:03:42 > 0:03:49- You're both vets?- Yeah.- Where are you from, Tim?- I'm from Orkney, the Orkney Islands.- Wow!
0:03:49 > 0:03:55- Which of the Orkney Islands are you from?- Sanday. It's a little one to the north of the Orkney Islands.
0:03:55 > 0:04:01- We're big fans of Pointless in Orkney.- We're big fans of the Orkneys on Pointless. That's nice.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05- Especially Sanday. - Well, Sanday, any day(!)
0:04:05 > 0:04:10That's the worst joke anyone has ever made. I apologise.
0:04:10 > 0:04:16I particularly apologise to those Orkney Islanders. Sorry. What would you like to see come up? Zoology?
0:04:16 > 0:04:21Yeah, zoology. Any kind of science - physics, chemistry, biology, all that kind of stuff.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Anything you wouldn't like to see come up, Adam?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Yeah, celebrities. Or soaps. That would be very bad.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31OK. Tim, how about you?
0:04:31 > 0:04:37- Films is catastrophic for me. - Do you not watch them or do you not remember anything about them?
0:04:37 > 0:04:42I watch them, but I'm not interested in who's in it, just if it's a good film or not.
0:04:42 > 0:04:48- And I imagine Tim has to watch from the back. You're quite tall. - Yes.- That's not tall.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49- No. - LAUGHTER
0:04:49 > 0:04:55- How tall are you, Tim? - I'm now 6' 7", when I last checked. - OK, that is tall.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- I take it back. - That's the same height as you.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- Yeah.- 6' 7" - you are brothers in inches.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Shall we see who's the same height as you on today's panel?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Yeah. What do you reckon?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14I'm not sure anyone matches me exactly. This is fun, isn't it?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16- LAUGHTER - Oh, dear.
0:05:16 > 0:05:22Very best of luck, Tim and Adam. We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show.
0:05:22 > 0:05:28There's only one person left for me to introduce. If obscurity is the food of life, he'd be obese.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31- It's my Pointless friend, Richard. - Hiya.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33- APPLAUSE - Hello.
0:05:37 > 0:05:42They seem like a fun bunch. Only one returning pair - Jenni and Andy.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- They were rather good last time. - They were.
0:05:45 > 0:05:52Round 2 should suit Andy. Today's first round would really suit if we had any Sociolinguistics students.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56- It would be right up their street. - Thank you so much, Richard.
0:05:56 > 0:06:02All our questions were put to 100 people before the show, but we want the obscure answers they didn't get.
0:06:02 > 0:06:08To stay in the game, all our players need to do is score as few points as they can.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Each time that happens, we add 250 quid to the jackpot.
0:06:16 > 0:06:22Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add £1,000 to that. Today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25APPLAUSE
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41In Round 1, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45The pair with the highest score at the end of the round is eliminated.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50If anyone gives me an incorrect answer, they score 100 points, so try and avoid those.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52OK, our first category is...
0:06:54 > 0:07:00Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to play first, who's going to go second?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:07:10 > 0:07:15to name as many words ending in "ume" as they could.
0:07:17 > 0:07:23- Words ending in "ume", Richard? - Yeah, we want any word in the Oxford English Dictionary that ends "ume".
0:07:23 > 0:07:29We're not accepting hyphenated words or proper nouns. We will also not be accepting accented words.
0:07:29 > 0:07:35OK, Steve and Denise, you all drew lots before the show and today, you are going first.
0:07:35 > 0:07:42Well, Denise, this is one of those rounds where we sometimes find lots of pointless answers.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47We sometimes have some wrong answers and we have some quite high-scoring answers.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51I'm going to shut up and let you gather your thoughts now.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57My spelling's not very good, but I think "plume" - P-L-U-M-E?
0:07:57 > 0:08:03"Plume," says Denise. Let's see if "plume" is right and if it is, how many of our 100 people said "plume"?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06It's right.
0:08:09 > 0:08:1129.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14APPLAUSE
0:08:14 > 0:08:1629 for "plume". Very good. Richard?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Plume - feathers or a trail or cloud of smoke.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Thank you very much, Richard.
0:08:22 > 0:08:27Andy, a nice, obscure word ending "ume"?
0:08:27 > 0:08:32I've got two, but one might be hyphenated, so I'll not chance it. I'll go with "exhume".
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Exhume.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- He's good.- Yeah, that's good.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40- If it's right. - LAUGHTER
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Let's see if it is right and if it is, how many people said "exhume".
0:08:47 > 0:08:49It's right.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Very well done, Andy - 11.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58APPLAUSE
0:09:00 > 0:09:03That's dug you out of a hole(!)
0:09:03 > 0:09:05LAUGHTER
0:09:10 > 0:09:14That's the kind of gag I'm going to be coming up with!
0:09:14 > 0:09:18That's pretty good. First, "Sanday", then "dig you out of a hole".
0:09:18 > 0:09:23I'm going to keep watching you! Well done. Literally means to unearth, "exhume".
0:09:23 > 0:09:29- Very good, Andy. Now then, Lorna... - I'm struggling with this already and I should be good at it.
0:09:29 > 0:09:35I did think of "plume", but I'm going to have to go for a really obvious one - "fume".
0:09:35 > 0:09:40"Fume." Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many of our 100 people said "fume".
0:09:43 > 0:09:45It's right.
0:09:46 > 0:09:4845.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51- APPLAUSE - Not bad.
0:09:52 > 0:09:59- 45 for "fume".- Yes, the volatile matter produced by combustion, "fume". Or to be angry.
0:09:59 > 0:10:00Tim...
0:10:00 > 0:10:05OK, I've got two words. One's a big gamble and one's a little gamble.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10I've looked at that board for a long time and it now seems silly what I'm about to say.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14- I'll go for "flume". - Is that the big or little gamble?
0:10:14 > 0:10:18The littler gamble, but it seems like a bigger gamble now I've said it out loud.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21LAUGHTER
0:10:21 > 0:10:27OK, "flume", says Tim. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said "flume".
0:10:28 > 0:10:30It is right.
0:10:33 > 0:10:3535.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37APPLAUSE
0:10:38 > 0:10:4035 for "flume".
0:10:40 > 0:10:46- Yes, a stream or ravine, but usually used in theme parks these days for a water ride.- Indeed.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50It's like "fume", but with an L in it.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53That's a little bit of sociolinguistics for you there.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55LAUGHTER
0:10:55 > 0:10:59We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03Lovely low score of 11 for Andy there on "exhume",
0:11:03 > 0:11:07then we come up to 29 where we find Denise and Steve,
0:11:07 > 0:11:12up to 35 where we find Tim and Adam, then up to 45, not very far ahead, where we find Lorna and Gill.
0:11:12 > 0:11:18Gill, we'll need a nice low-scoring word from you in the next pass to make sure you stay with us.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Can the second players take their places at the podium?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29OK, we're looking for words ending in "ume".
0:11:29 > 0:11:33You're trying to find the one the fewest of our 100 people thought of.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37Adam, the high scorers are Gill and Lorna on 45.
0:11:37 > 0:11:42You're on 35. A score of 9 or less will see you through.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Tim nicely took my answer that I was thinking of,
0:11:45 > 0:11:49so I'm going to have to take a bit of a gamble as well and go for "blume".
0:11:49 > 0:11:55Here's your red line. If you get below it, you're in the next round.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59"Blume", is it right, and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it?
0:12:01 > 0:12:03It's right.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10And you are through and it scores you 1.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15That's a very good score, Adam. It takes your total up to 36.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22Yeah, a good answer. It's just an alternative spelling of "bloom". It means the same.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Something tells me it may be a Scottish spelling.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27LAUGHTER
0:12:27 > 0:12:30What tells you that?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- Because...- If it's that spirit guide again, we've talked about him.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- SCOTTISH ACCENT: - Blume, blume!
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Again I apologise to people in Orkney. I'm sorry.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- Blume.- OK, but it's pronounced exactly the same,
0:12:43 > 0:12:48- so your Scottish version of "bloom" would be that as well.- Good point.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Gill, you and Lorna are the high scorers on 45.
0:12:52 > 0:12:59So what we require from you is a really low-scoring, possibly even pointless word ending in "ume".
0:12:59 > 0:13:06It's a bit bad for an English Language student, but I can't really think of any obscure answers,
0:13:06 > 0:13:10so I'm going to have to go quite safe and say "consume".
0:13:10 > 0:13:16"Consume", says Gill. There's no red line for you because you are the high scorers.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Let's see if "consume" is right and if it is, how many people said "consume".
0:13:21 > 0:13:24It's right.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Down it goes - 26.
0:13:28 > 0:13:3226. "Consume" takes your total up to 71.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36- Richard?- Come on, you know what "consume" means.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38- I just... Yeah.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- To consume. - LAUGHTER
0:13:41 > 0:13:46Jenni, now remember, we are looking for words ending in "ume".
0:13:46 > 0:13:50The high scorers are Gill and Lorna on 71. You are on 11,
0:13:50 > 0:13:56which means a score of 59 or less will see you through to the next round. 59 or less.
0:13:56 > 0:14:02I had one word in my head and, thankfully, nobody's taken it, so I'm just going to go with that.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05And that is "assume".
0:14:05 > 0:14:09Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said "assume".
0:14:12 > 0:14:15You've done it.
0:14:15 > 0:14:1729.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19APPLAUSE
0:14:20 > 0:14:24You know what happens when you assume, don't you?
0:14:24 > 0:14:29I do. You make an ass of...of me and some guy I met in a lecture.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31LAUGHTER
0:14:31 > 0:14:35Yeah, you make an ass out of "u" and me.
0:14:35 > 0:14:42Steve, you are on 29. The high scorers at the moment are Gill and Lorna on 71,
0:14:42 > 0:14:46so a score of 41 from you will see you through to the next round.
0:14:46 > 0:14:53- Talk us through your options. - I could go for safe ones, but they may be high. There is a chancey one.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55So what do I do?
0:14:55 > 0:15:00- I'll go a bit safe - "presume". Presume.- Presume.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03"Presume", says Steve. Here's your red line.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07There you are. That's what 41 points look like.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10If you get below that, you are in the next round.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14"Presume", says Steve. Is it right, how many people said it?
0:15:15 > 0:15:17It's right.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Very well done. You're through.
0:15:21 > 0:15:2523, that scores you. It takes your total up to 52.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27APPLAUSE
0:15:27 > 0:15:31- Richard?- Well played, Steve. You know what happens if you presume?
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- Yeah, you make... - LAUGHTER
0:15:34 > 0:15:37- A pres...- Out of "u" and me.
0:15:37 > 0:15:43- I'd prefer to be a pres than an ass. - That's why it's better to presume than assume.- Yes.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Let's take a look at the pointless answers. There's plenty up there.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51- "Biovolume" was a pointless answer. That's a good answer.- Yeah.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55If someone was cocky enough to say "biovolume", I'd be very impressed.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00"Illume", to illuminate, "multivolume" is a pointless answer.
0:16:00 > 0:16:06Denise gave us "plume". You could have had "overplume", "emplume", "deplume" and "megaplume".
0:16:06 > 0:16:12Believe it or not! "Paume" was a pointless answer. It's like a tennis game played with a gloved hand.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18"Preconsume" is what your children do when you give them a packed lunch on a school trip.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22"Reperfume", "subsume" a pointless answer. And "superassume".
0:16:22 > 0:16:26- You mustn't do that. - Yeah, I'm not touching that!
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Please don't try that at home.
0:16:29 > 0:16:34Let's look at the ones most of our 100 people said. These would have been the worst answers.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37"Resume" would have been 35.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41"Flume", 35, believe it or not. You know what's coming, don't you?
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Yeah, "fume", absolutely, top of the pile on 45.
0:16:45 > 0:16:50- Tim, what was your big gamble going to be?- My big gamble was going to be "unfume".
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Yeah, it would have scored you 100 points.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58- Can you defume?- You can't defume or unfume. What are you two thinking?
0:16:58 > 0:17:01You can open a door if it's a bit... Or cool down a bit.
0:17:01 > 0:17:08- Just chill out a bit, just defume. - You should go for obvious ones like "megaplume".- Or "multivolume".
0:17:08 > 0:17:11I didn't even think of "volume".
0:17:11 > 0:17:13You can enfume, if that helps.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15In fact, you might want to.
0:17:15 > 0:17:22I might later. Thanks, Richard. So after Round 1, the losing pair with the highest score is Gill and Lorna.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26- AUDIENCE: Aw! - Gill and Lorna with your sociolinguistics!
0:17:26 > 0:17:33- It's obvious when you know the answer.- Are you thinking of lots of other answers now?- No.- No.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Gill and Lorna, the great news is we will see you again next time.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Meanwhile, thank you so much for playing Pointless. Brilliant.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round 2.
0:17:54 > 0:18:01There's only room for two pairs in the head-to-head, so one team will be leaving at the end of this round.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Our category for Round 2 is...
0:18:04 > 0:18:10US Presidents. Decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17And the question concerns...
0:18:22 > 0:18:27- Richard?- We'll show you a list of major historical events, six on each pass.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31Tell us who was the US President at the time of each of these events.
0:18:31 > 0:18:37An obscure answer scores fewer points. An incorrect answer scores 100 points. So 12 to get at home.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39There's a few toughies in there.
0:18:39 > 0:18:46You heard him, a few toughies. We are looking for the US Presidents at the time of these events.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02I'll read those all one more time.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13There are the six events.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17We need the Presidents of the United States at the time of those.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22You're trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. Denise?
0:19:22 > 0:19:25This is really bad for me. I'm not good at history.
0:19:25 > 0:19:31- They're really tough.- They are. - There are some very easy ones and some impossible ones.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35I'm going to say the Cuban Missile Crisis...
0:19:35 > 0:19:39- John F Kennedy.- John F Kennedy for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Absolutely right.
0:19:48 > 0:19:4940.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51APPLAUSE
0:19:53 > 0:19:59- Not bad at all. 40 points for JFK. - Well played, Denise, safely on the board.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07Now, then, Jenni... Remember, we are looking for the US Presidents
0:20:07 > 0:20:13who were in office at the time of these events. It's getting harder. That was one of the ones I knew.
0:20:13 > 0:20:19This is really tough. I mean, it's history and it's politics! Eugh!
0:20:19 > 0:20:24I only know one and that is Prince William marries Kate Middleton -
0:20:24 > 0:20:30- Barack Obama.- Barack Obama, you are saying for Prince William marrying Kate Middleton.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Wow... Wow, 79!
0:20:38 > 0:20:40APPLAUSE
0:20:42 > 0:20:4779. 21 of our 100 people didn't know that answer, Richard.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50It is tricky. You've got to think of two things at once.
0:20:50 > 0:20:5690% of people at home have got their answer, they're happy. They can leave the board to people here.
0:20:56 > 0:21:01- You wouldn't want to face the last four, would you? - No, not unless I was Tim.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05In which case I would be quietly confident.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Not even if I was Tim.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12I think I'm going to go for, as a sort of rough gamble,
0:21:12 > 0:21:18the Storming of the Bastille and Abraham Lincoln because he was around at the same time, I think.
0:21:18 > 0:21:23Let's see - Abraham Lincoln for the Storming of the Bastille...
0:21:24 > 0:21:27No!
0:21:27 > 0:21:30They are both from the past, I'll give you that.
0:21:30 > 0:21:37I can only say that now I know it's wrong. If it had been right, I'd have said, "That's brilliant, Tim."
0:21:37 > 0:21:40It's wrong, so you score 100 points. Richard?
0:21:40 > 0:21:43There's about 70-odd years in it, both a long time ago.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48The Storming of the Bastille was 1789, so George Washington was the answer there.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50That would have scored 6 points.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54The Atlanta Olympics, Bill Clinton was President - 7 points.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59The Coronation of Elizabeth II... People know when that is, but who was President?
0:21:59 > 0:22:04- Any clue or should I not put you through this hell? - Don't put me through this hell.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08It was Dwight D Eisenhower. 5 points, it would have scored you.
0:22:08 > 0:22:14The best answer is the Wall Street Crash and that was Herbert Hoover - 1 point.
0:22:14 > 0:22:20- Very well done if you went through that board.- We're halfway through the round. Let's look at the scores.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25Denise and Steve looking very strong there on 40. Lovely low score.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30Then up to 79 for Jenni and Andy and then up to 100 where we find Tim and Adam.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34The good news, Tim and Adam, is that you're not miles ahead.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39- It's recoverable. - Yeah, I think it is recoverable. Very best of luck, Adam.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:22:44 > 0:22:48We're going to put six more events on the board and here they come.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04I'll read those all one final time.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19We are looking for the US Presidents at the time of these events
0:23:19 > 0:23:24and you are trying to find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew. Adam...
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- Right.- What do you think?
0:23:27 > 0:23:32I'm thinking there's one there that I have a possible idea of, so I'm going to go for it.
0:23:32 > 0:23:38I'm going to go for the American Civil War begins and John Adams.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43You are the high scorers on 100. You just have to hope it goes down as far as it possibly can.
0:23:43 > 0:23:49John Adams, is that right for the beginning of the Civil War and how many people said it if it is?
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Oh, bad luck. Bad luck, Adam.
0:23:54 > 0:24:01That scores you 100 points and I'm afraid it takes you up to an unassailable 200.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Andy, you visibly relaxed there. You are now through to the next round.
0:24:05 > 0:24:11We are looking for the US Presidents who were in office when these events happened.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16I'll go for the same one, American Civil War, and I'll say Abraham Lincoln.
0:24:16 > 0:24:22Let's see if that's right for the Civil War beginning. How many people said it if it is?
0:24:23 > 0:24:25It's right.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Very well done indeed - 9 points.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35- APPLAUSE - It takes your total up to 88.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Richard?
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- Well played, Andy - 1861. - Well done. That's a great score.
0:24:41 > 0:24:47We come to you, Steve. You are the last person to have this board, so feel free to talk us through it.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Gorbachev, not too sure.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Watergate, Richard Nixon.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56World War I, again not sure, or Custer.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00So, attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D Roosevelt.
0:25:00 > 0:25:08Franklin D Roosevelt, says Steve for the attack on Pearl Harbor. You're through to the next round.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Let's see if it's right and how many people said it if it is.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13It is right.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19There we are.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23- APPLAUSE - 20. It takes your total up to a nice, round 60.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Richard?
0:25:25 > 0:25:30Well done, Steve - 1941. Franklin D Roosevelt was President from '33 to '45,
0:25:30 > 0:25:34the only one to have more than eight years, because of the war.
0:25:34 > 0:25:41Always a good answer. Statistically, whatever the question is, he is most likely to be the answer.
0:25:41 > 0:25:46Let's look at the other answers. Watergate break-in, you're right, Richard Nixon. That scored 53.
0:25:46 > 0:25:52Gorbachev became Soviet leader when Reagan was the US President. That would have scored you 31.
0:25:52 > 0:25:57When the US entered World War I, it was Woodrow Wilson - 7 points.
0:25:57 > 0:26:03And very well done to anybody who knew the President at the time of Custer's Last Stand
0:26:03 > 0:26:07was Ulysses S Grant. A terrific answer. 1 point, that scored you.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Anyone who got all 12, that's very, very good going.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Very good indeed. Thanks, Richard.
0:26:12 > 0:26:18- At the end of Round 2, the losing pair with the highest score, I'm afraid it's Tim and Adam.- Oh, well.
0:26:18 > 0:26:25If there's a high score in the first pass, the second person has to go for the trickier end of the board.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29But you've done very well. We will see you again next time.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Meantime, thank you so much for playing, Adam and Tim.
0:26:36 > 0:26:42For the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.
0:26:47 > 0:26:54Congratulations, Steve and Denise, Jenni and Andy. You are one round away from the final and a chance
0:26:54 > 0:26:57to play for that jackpot which stands at £2,000.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00APPLAUSE
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Obviously, only one pair can play for that money
0:27:03 > 0:27:07and you will now go head-to-head on the best of three questions.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11The first pair to win two questions will play for the jackpot
0:27:11 > 0:27:15and the great news is you are now allowed to confer.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Let's play the head-to-head.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25OK, here comes your first question.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27And it concerns...
0:27:29 > 0:27:36- Female newsreaders, Richard?- We'll show you five pictures of women who have read the national news on TV.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Can you identify the most obscure of them?
0:27:39 > 0:27:44Thank you very much, Richard. Let's reveal our five female newsreaders. We have got...
0:27:56 > 0:28:01OK, there they are, our five female newsreaders.
0:28:01 > 0:28:08Steve and Denise, you are the lowest scorers throughout the show so far, so you get to go first.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13We're going to go for "A", Anna Ford.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Anna Ford, "A", you are saying.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Now then, Jenni and Andy...
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Steve and Denise are saying "A" is Anna Ford.
0:28:22 > 0:28:27You can submit another answer for "A" if you think they're wrong
0:28:27 > 0:28:32or you can pick any of the others. Talk us through the board if you like.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35I think I know three of the four others.
0:28:35 > 0:28:40I think they're right with "A". It's just which one may be lower.
0:28:42 > 0:28:46- Sue Lawley?- It's up to you. - Or Moira Stuart?
0:28:46 > 0:28:50- It depends on the 100... I'd go for Sue Lawley.- Would you?
0:28:50 > 0:28:53- I think so. - We're going to go D, Sue Lawley.
0:28:53 > 0:28:59D, Sue Lawley. D, Sue Lawley. Steve and Denise have said that "A" is Anna Ford.
0:28:59 > 0:29:04Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said "A", Anna Ford.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08It's right.
0:29:11 > 0:29:1339.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15APPLAUSE
0:29:15 > 0:29:1739 for Anna Ford.
0:29:18 > 0:29:24And Jenni and Andy have said Sue Lawley as D. D, Sue Lawley.
0:29:24 > 0:29:29Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said Sue Lawley for D.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35Well, it's right. 39 is the score you have to beat. Still going down.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Yeah, you've done it - 24.
0:29:39 > 0:29:40APPLAUSE
0:29:42 > 0:29:46- That's unexpected, I would say. - Unexpectedly low, isn't it?
0:29:46 > 0:29:53Yeah, I might have thought that Anna Ford would have gone lower than Sue Lawley. No offence, Anna!
0:29:53 > 0:29:57Just with Desert Island Discs and all that.
0:29:57 > 0:30:02Which means after one question, Jenni and Andy are ahead 1-0. Richard?
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Well played, Jenni and Andy.
0:30:04 > 0:30:10- There's one very good answer up there. Can you guess which one it is?- It's C.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13You did very well to avoid Moira Stuart, your other option,
0:30:13 > 0:30:17because she would have scored you 45 points.
0:30:17 > 0:30:23Now, C is the fist woman to read the national news on the BBC in 1960.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25It's Nan Winton.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29She's a pointless answer, so very well done if you said her.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32And Kate Silverton is E.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36Kate Silverton would have scored you 14 points. That was a good answer.
0:30:36 > 0:30:40OK, thank you very much, Richard. Here comes your second question.
0:30:40 > 0:30:45Steve and Denise, you need to win this question to stay in the game.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Our second question concerns...
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Turner Prize-winning artists, Richard?
0:30:53 > 0:30:59That seems to have delighted everybody - the audience, our four contestants(!)
0:30:59 > 0:31:03We'll give you the names of five Turner Prize-winning artists,
0:31:03 > 0:31:08but we'll only give you the first and last letters of their first name and surname.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11- Can you tell us who they are? - Very good indeed.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13Five Turner Prize-winning artists.
0:31:13 > 0:31:20We're only giving you the first and last letters of their first and second names. Let's reveal them.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40I'll read those all one final time.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55There we are. There are our five Turner Prize-winning artists.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59Andy and Jenni, I can see you can't wait to get among them.
0:31:59 > 0:32:03I'd love to be able to say that I know them all, but I don't.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08I think I know one and I'm going to go with that.
0:32:08 > 0:32:13The G-blank-N P-blank-Y, I think is Grayson Perry?
0:32:13 > 0:32:17The excellent Grayson Perry. Yes, maybe.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Steve and Denise?
0:32:19 > 0:32:23You can talk us through the board if you like.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26This wasn't on my list of favourite subjects.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28You need to win this point.
0:32:28 > 0:32:34There's only one I've just fallen into and probably the most common is the top one, Damien Hirst.
0:32:34 > 0:32:39- Damien Hirst.- OK, you're going to go with Damien Hirst at the top.
0:32:39 > 0:32:44OK, so we have Grayson Perry and we have Damien Hirst.
0:32:44 > 0:32:50Jenni and Andy, you said Grayson Perry. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53It's right.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00- 15.- Well done, well done.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03- APPLAUSE - That's a great answer. Great score.
0:33:03 > 0:33:10So, Steve and Denise, you've gone for Damien Hirst. 15 is the score you have to beat. Damien Hirst...
0:33:10 > 0:33:12Is it right, how many people said it?
0:33:14 > 0:33:18It's right. This will decide whether or not you stay with us.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20It has to go down...
0:33:20 > 0:33:2127.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24APPLAUSE
0:33:25 > 0:33:3227. So, after only two questions, Jenni and Andy are through to the final 2-0. Richard?
0:33:32 > 0:33:37Very well played, Jenni. Do you know any of these? Do you know A-Y G-Y?
0:33:37 > 0:33:40- Yes, Antony Gormley. - Antony Gormley, a sculptor.
0:33:40 > 0:33:44He did the Angel of the North probably most famously.
0:33:44 > 0:33:469 points he would have scored you.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50- R-L W-D? She did the inside-out house.- Rachel Whitbread.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54- Rachel Whiteread.- Whiteread.- Very nearly. Would have scored 3 points.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56And the bottom one?
0:33:56 > 0:34:00I do know that. That's Steve McQueen, now the director.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Now a film director, Steve McQueen. That would have scored you 1 point.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08- Very well done if you got all five of those.- Very good.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12The losing pair at the end of the head-to-head is Steve and Denise.
0:34:12 > 0:34:17Great answers from you, correct answers, low-scoring answers.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21But I'm afraid, Jenni and Andy, they whipped you with each one.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25The great news is we will get to see you again next time
0:34:25 > 0:34:28when you'll maybe get beyond the head-to-head.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31Thank you so much for playing, Steve and Denise.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37For Jenni and Andy, it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39APPLAUSE
0:34:43 > 0:34:50Congratulations, Jenni and Andy. You have fought off the competition and won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:34:55 > 0:35:02You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show, it stands at £2,000.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04APPLAUSE
0:35:06 > 0:35:10To win that money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.
0:35:10 > 0:35:16We haven't had any pointless answers today. You only have to find one now and you'll leave with that money.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20First, choose a category from these five options. They are...
0:35:27 > 0:35:28LAUGHTER
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Right, what are you thinking?
0:35:32 > 0:35:36- Children's Books. - None of those really appeal to me.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40- Not even Katie Price? - No, certainly not.
0:35:40 > 0:35:46- No, I think you're right. I think Children's Books. - I think that would be best for us.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50Children's Books. Let's find out what the question is.
0:35:50 > 0:35:55We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Dr Seuss books as they could.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Dr Seuss books, Richard?
0:35:57 > 0:36:03We're looking for any children's book written by Theodor Geisel under the pseudonym Dr Seuss -
0:36:03 > 0:36:10short stories, songbooks, anything at all, so long as it's published under the name Dr Seuss.
0:36:10 > 0:36:15- We will be very strict on the titles of the books. We need exact wording. - Thank you, Richard.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18You have one minute to come up with three answers
0:36:18 > 0:36:24and all you need to win that £2,000 jackpot is for just one answer to be pointless.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28- Are you ready?- Yes.- Yes. - Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.
0:36:28 > 0:36:31There they are. Your time starts now.
0:36:31 > 0:36:36OK, well, Maddy has just been in Seussical the Musical, so we should be able to get some.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41Horton Hears A Who is the elephant one.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46And I'm trying to think of some others.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50- The Cat In The Hat. That's going to be way up there.- The Grinch?
0:36:50 > 0:36:55We can do The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. That'll be really popular.
0:36:56 > 0:37:01- Can you remember some of the songs in that musical?- I'm trying.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04- You remember them. I don't. - I know, I know.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08I keep coming back to that elephant the whole time.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10- Maddy's going to kill me.- I know.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14- Wasn't there a tiger thing? - No, I don't think so.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16What was the cat?
0:37:17 > 0:37:20What was she? She was a monkey, wasn't she?
0:37:21 > 0:37:23Ten seconds left.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25I'm useless.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Don't talk to me. LAUGHTER
0:37:32 > 0:37:34I'm afraid your minute is up.
0:37:34 > 0:37:39- We were looking for Dr Seuss books. I now need your three answers.- OK.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43- Horton Hears A Who! - Horton Hears A Who!
0:37:43 > 0:37:48- The Wickersham Boys. - The Wickersham Boys.
0:37:48 > 0:37:54- And The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. - And The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. There are three answers.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Which do you think is your best punt at a pointless answer?
0:37:58 > 0:38:04If The Wickersham Boys is a correct answer, it might be the best answer, but I'm not sure it's correct.
0:38:04 > 0:38:09- It sounds brilliant to me. It just has to be a Dr Seuss book. We'll put that last?- Yeah.
0:38:09 > 0:38:15- What about your least likely? - The Grinch.- The Grinch Who Stole Christmas will go up first.
0:38:15 > 0:38:19Let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26We were looking for Dr Seuss books.
0:38:26 > 0:38:31The Grinch Who Stole Christmas was your least confident shot at a pointless answer.
0:38:31 > 0:38:36You only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot of £2,000.
0:38:36 > 0:38:41Is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas right and if it is, how many people said it?
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Oh!
0:38:46 > 0:38:50Oh! Unfortunately, an incorrect answer, as it turns out.
0:38:50 > 0:38:55We'll discover from Richard why that's incorrect in a little while.
0:38:55 > 0:39:01- You weren't expecting that to be pointless.- No, if it was right, it was never going to be pointless.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05So, then, what would you do with £2,000?
0:39:05 > 0:39:12- Have a honeymoon. We're getting married later in the year, so we'll use it for a honeymoon.- Very good.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Very best of luck and congratulations.
0:39:14 > 0:39:21Let's hope that one of these two remaining answers will go into that honeymoon fund.
0:39:21 > 0:39:25Let's hope nobody said your next answer - Horton Hears A Who!
0:39:25 > 0:39:30It has to be right and pointless. If it's both of those things, the £2,000 is yours.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33How many people said Horton Hears A Who?
0:39:36 > 0:39:41It's right. Horton Hears A Who is right and it's still going down.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45If this goes all the way down to zero, you leave here with £2,000.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47It's going down into single figures.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50- 7, it stops.- Unlucky. - APPLAUSE
0:39:54 > 0:39:58There we go. That's what we want. Good.
0:39:58 > 0:40:03OK, 7. We're getting in the right direction now. Everything is riding on The Wickersham Boys.
0:40:03 > 0:40:08How did you come by this answer, The Wickersham Boys?
0:40:08 > 0:40:14My daughter's just been in Seussical the Musical, a school production, and she was a Wickersham Boy.
0:40:14 > 0:40:19I'm sure that was a Dr Seuss book, but I'm not sure of the title now.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21OK...
0:40:21 > 0:40:27We shall see. We are looking for Dr Seuss books. Your third and final answer is The Wickersham Boys.
0:40:27 > 0:40:33This, you said, was your most confident answer on the understanding that it was right.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36- Yes.- To win £2,000, it has to be pointless.
0:40:36 > 0:40:42Let's find out. The Wickersham Boys, is it right, and if it is, how many people said it? Good luck.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47No!
0:40:47 > 0:40:50- Oh, dear, oh, dear. - APPLAUSE
0:40:56 > 0:41:02- That was a brilliant and quite exciting punt.- Thank you. - It could have been right.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06We will discover from Richard if it was even close to being right,
0:41:06 > 0:41:10but you didn't find that all-important pointless answer,
0:41:10 > 0:41:14so you don't win the £2,000 which rolls over to the next show.
0:41:14 > 0:41:19You've been brilliant contestants and you do take home our Pointless trophy.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21- It's what we came for.- Thank you.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24APPLAUSE
0:41:26 > 0:41:31- Richard?- Yeah, well played, Jenni and Andy. Let's clear up those two red crosses first.
0:41:31 > 0:41:37The Wickersham Brothers, who are monkeys, are characters in Horton Hears A Who!
0:41:37 > 0:41:43- Oh.- And the Grinch book is How The Grinch Stole Christmas. That's the title we'd be looking for.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45- Right.- That would have scored you 2 points.
0:41:45 > 0:41:51It would have been even more heart-breaking. Let's look at some pointless answers.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53See if you got any at home.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56His first book - And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street,
0:41:56 > 0:42:00Gerald McBoing Boing, based on his animated short,
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Happy Birthday To You was pointless,
0:42:02 > 0:42:08Hunches In Bunches, Oh, Baby! Go, Baby! which uses the same text as Oh, The Places You'll Go!
0:42:08 > 0:42:11Let's take a look at the last three.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15The Cat In The Hat Songbook, The Sneetches: And Other Stories
0:42:15 > 0:42:21and There's A Wocket In My Pocket about the boy who has a nooth grush on his toothbrush.
0:42:21 > 0:42:25- Very well done if you got any of those at home.- Thank you, Richard.
0:42:25 > 0:42:32- We have to say goodbye to you, Jenni and Andy, but thank you so much for playing.- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34APPLAUSE
0:42:34 > 0:42:39Sadly, Jenni and Andy didn't win our jackpot, so it rolls over on to the next show
0:42:39 > 0:42:42when we will be playing for £3,000.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45APPLAUSE
0:42:45 > 0:42:50- Join us then to see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard. - Goodbye.- And goodbye from me.
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