Episode 46 Pointless

Thank you very much indeed. I'm Alexander Armstrong

and welcome to Pointless,

the quiz that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

So welcome back, Natalie and Mark, our first pair on the show today.

You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the final,

this is your second chance. Natalie, remind us how you know each other.

-We're brother and sister.

-And what happened last time, Mark?

-Er, we got to the head-to-head, we did OK.

-You did all right.

Yeah, we lost on Robin Hood and pictures of cats.

-OK, d'you have any tactics after last time?

-Keep putting me in first?

You're going to go in first, the idea being what?

You're the stronger one or Mark's the stronger one?

Mark's definitely the stronger one.

Really? So, you go in first and then he just sweeps up.

Well, I am his younger sister, so...

OK. Well, listen, Natalie and Mark, very best of luck.

You were head-to-head last time. We've got to hope

you're head-to-head this time, if not beyond.

-Next, we welcome Tom and Darren. Where are you from, Tom?

-Belfast.

From Belfast, and how do you know each other, Darren?

-Erm, Tom's my brother-in-law, he's married to my little sister.

-Good.

-What d'you do for a living, Tom?

-I work for a local council.

-And you, Darren?

-I'm a librarian.

-Which library?

Erm, a large central library in the middle of Belfast.

-Oh, are we not allowed to say what it is?

-It's Belfast Central Library.

-Oh, there we are!

-LAUGHTER

It's great to have you here, Tom and Darren. A very warm welcome.

Next we welcome Rich and Becki. How do you two know each other?

We met about ten years ago in a very cheesy dance club in Birmingham

where me and a few of my friends

rescued Becki from some horrible stalker,

and since then she's managed to hitch up with my best friend.

That wasn't how I was expecting that one to turn out! What?

-What do you do, Becki?

-I'm a housing officer

at a housing association in Birmingham.

Rich, what do you do?

I'm a financial advisor for a large high street bank.

And what do you like to do when you're not doing that?

I'm a big cricket fan, captain of a local cricket team.

Cricket, obviously, a great subject. What else would you like to come up?

I'd love a bit of geography.

When I was a little kid, I was frightened of the dark.

This does go somewhere, I promise.

My parents bought me a nightlight, which was a globe.

And that globe, I used to just look at it all the time

and I just remember the capital cities of a lot of them.

Very good, that's a brilliant way of learning it, isn't it?

A lot of them have changed now.

-Didn't get any sleep, but my goodness...

-I was about eight,

-so they have changed.

-Very good.

Best of luck, Rich and Becki. It's lovely to have you here.

And finally, we welcome Heath and Ben.

How do you two know each other, Heath?

We work together. Same company.

And where is that and what is it, Ben?

It's one of the UK's largest food manufacturers,

and it's in Plymouth, but we've got places all over the country.

Which departments do you work in?

-Well, I'm a health and safety manager.

-Are you?

-Yes.

How's Pointless been so far?

LAUGHTER

No comment. No, it's fine.

Tell you what, we've got quite a lot of dangerous questions, haven't we?

LAUGHTER

-And Heath, which department are you in?

-I'm a transport manager.

Ah, you see, that feeds into a fantastic knowledge

of Britain's road networks, rail networks, motorway services...no?

Just stop me when I say something that's going to be...

-Superstores would be good.

-Superstores. There we are.

Well, lovely to have you here. Best of luck to the pair of you.

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

There's only one person left to introduce.

He'll be giving the questions and answers while under the desk

completing a Rubik's Cube with just his bare feet.

-He's my Pointless friend. He's Richard.

-Hiya.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-How are you today?

-I'm very well, thank you, Richard.

-Excellent.

Only one return...finished! Only one...

LAUGHTER

Only one returning pair, Natalie and Mark, but they were good last time.

Got through to the head-to-head.

I will say for you, though, Round One is going to be very interesting.

-For me?

-Yes, one of my favourite bits of the show is,

cos you've never seen the questions before, is seeing you

try and pronounce things.

And...

LAUGHTER

Round One, there's some pretty tricky pronunciations in that round.

It's very lucky we've got a health & safety officer with us,

cos I think there may be an accident or two.

Thank you, Richard. Our questions have been put to 100 people

before the show, but we're looking for the answers they didn't get.

To stay in the game and be in with a chance of winning our jackpot,

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

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

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

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

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

So today's jackpot starts off at £3,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK, 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 you give me an incorrect answer, you will score 100 points,

so do try and avoid those if you can.

OK, our first category today is...

OK, can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going to go second.

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

OK, our question concerns...

Metro stations of the world, Richard.

On each pass, we're going to show you seven pairs of Metro stations.

Those pairs are all from one individual city. Can you tell us

the name of that city? A nice obscure answer will score fewer points.

Incorrect answer, though, 100 points. 14 in all to have a go at at home,

some of them very difficult to pronounce. Best of luck, everybody.

OK, now then, Natalie and Mark, you all drew lots before the show

and today you are going first.

So we are looking for the cities of the world in which these pairs

of Metro stations are to be found, and we have got...

LAUGHTER

She's my favourite! I'll read them all one more time.

-Natalie. Have you been to Bambang, Betty Go-Belmonte?

-No.

I'll go for Gran Via and Goya and say Paris.

OK, Gran Via, Goya. Natalie says Paris.

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

let's see how many people said Paris.

I'm sorry. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, Natalie,

as I think you probably knew.

That scores you 100 points. Sorry. Richard.

I'll give you the correct answer

at the end of the round,

but your tactic of giving a bad answer

then letting Mark win the round for you

is working PERFECTLY so far.

You are halfway there.

Tom. How does that board behind me look to you?

There's only one that I can really say I would be confident with,

and that would be South Ferry, Grand Central.

-New York.

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

let's see how many people said New York for South Ferry, Grand Central.

It's right.

60.

Not bad at all.

-New York.

-Good answer, Tom.

Their transit system carries 1.6 billion passengers a year.

-Rich.

-Hello.

Now then, we are looking for the cities in which you would find

these pairs of Metro stations.

I can safely say that none of those were on my nightlight,

erm...I've got a vague stab at a couple of them,

on the basis that I think Giza is where the pyramids are.

I'm going to go with Nasser, Giza Railway and say Cairo.

Fantastic piece of deduction if right. Let's see if it is.

How many people said Cairo for Nasser, Giza Railway?

Absolutely right.

20.

20 for Cairo.

These are all nice round numbers. Richard.

Well worked out, Rich. Actually, Cairo's is the first Metro system

-in the whole of Africa. Opened in 1990.

-Ben.

OK, erm...the one I'm most confident at having a punt at

and getting it right is going to be Bastille and Musee D'Orsay,

and I'm going to say that that's probably French,

so I'm going to say Paris.

OK, let's see if that's right, Paris,

and if it is, how many people said it?

Yes, of course it's Paris.

50.

The round numbers continue.

-Paris, Richard.

-Well worked out again. 1900 that opened.

It's got 301 stations. Let's go through the rest of the board.

The Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor are in Berlin.

Would have scored you 29 points.

What do you think about Gran Via and Goya? It's not Paris.

-It's Madrid.

-That is Madrid.

-Would have scored eight points. Waitakare and Mount Eden?

-No idea.

-It's in Auckland.

-It's in Auckland in New Zealand.

Would have scored you five points.

And unbelievably, Bambang, Betty Go-Belmonte is a pointless answer.

It's in Manila. It's in Manila. Almost worth visiting, isn't it?

Thanks very much, Richard.

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

Well, the lowest score of the round so far

was Rich's. 20 is what you're on.

Then we go up to 50, where we find Ben and Heath.

Then up to 60, where we find Tom and Darren,

and then up to 100, where we find Natalie and Mark.

Mark, you know exactly what you have to do in this next pass.

So, yes, got a bit of time to get thinking.

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

OK, we've put seven more pairs of Metro stations onto the board,

and here they come. We have got...

I'll read them all one more time.

There we are. We are looking for the cities in which these pairs

of Metro stations are to be found.

You're trying to find the one that you think the fewest

of our 100 people thought of.

Now then, Heath,

the stage is yours.

There's one that I think maybe, but there's one

that I'm fairly confident of and I think that's the one to go with.

And that would be Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery being Washington.

OK, the highest scorers are Mark and Natalie on 100.

You're on 50, which means

a score of 49 or less will see you through to the next round.

There's your red line, Heath. Below that red line,

you are through to the next round.

Washington.

It's right.

Ooh! Oh, look at that!

Absolutely bang on the score you needed. Scores you 49.

Takes your total up to 99

and sees you comfortably into the next round.

-Richard.

-I wouldn't say comfortably.

It does seem them into the next round, though. Very classily done.

Did it on purpose.

Opened in 1976,

the first line in the Washington Metro system.

Becki. You're on 20.

The highest scorers

are Mark and Natalie on 100,

which means a score of 79 or less will see you into the next round.

-What do you think of that board?

-Erm, not liking it very much.

I'll be quite honest,

because I have no idea with cities at all.

I think I'm just going to go with whatever I say

cos it's going to be wrong.

So, Circo Massimo and say Turkey?

OK, you're going to say Turkey

for Circo Massimo, Basilica San Paolo.

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

let's see how many people said it.

Bad luck, Becki. As I think you knew,

that's an incorrect answer which scores you 100 points.

Takes your total up to 120.

It may not all be over for you, though.

The round isn't finished yet.

So then, Darren.

We come to you.

Your score is 60. The highest scorers at the moment

on 120 are Becki and Rich,

which means a score of 59 or less will see you through.

We are looking for

the cities of the world in which these pairs of Metro stations

are top be found.

I'm going to go for two stations that are on

what's colloquially known as the Clockwork Orange in Glasgow,

and that's Govan and Kelvinbridge.

Glasgow, says Darren, for Govan and Kelvinbridge.

Sounds like a great answer to me.

That's your red line. If you get below that,

you are through to the next round.

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

Very well done, Darren. That's brilliant.

26, another lovely low score.

Takes your total up to 86. Sees you comfortably into the next round.

Well done, Darren. Tactically aware as well.

Known as the Clockwork Orange

cos of its circular shape and the trains are an orange colour.

Now then...

-Mark.

-Yes.

-Mark, Mark, Mark.

Our high scorers are still Becky and Rich on 120. You are on 100.

This is a little bit dangerous, here. You have to score 19 or less to stay in the game.

I'm not certain about any of them,

but Harbourside / Bondi Junction is probably Australia, so I'd say maybe Brisbane.

Olympic Park / World Cup Stadium,

I don't know where would have held both, but maybe Munich.

Mall Of The Emirates could be Dubai.

The bottom one could be Italian, so it could be Rome.

But Myllypuro / Herttoniemi sounds Finnish,

so I'm going to go for Helsinki as my answer.

Myllypuro / Herttoniemi - Helsinki says Mark.

What do you think, Natalie?

Well, it's going to be a lot better than what I said, anyway, whatever happens.

There's your red line. If you get below that red line with Helsinki,

you are through to the next round and you've done phenomenally well.

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

Mark, that is superb.

And you've done it! Oh! It's pointless!

Very, very well done indeed!

That's pointless. It adds £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to £3,250.

It scores you nothing, and it leaves your total at 100 points.

Mark, congratulations for so many reasons,

but chiefly for a brilliant end to our first round. Richard.

Very well played Mark, again. You were brilliant last time, brilliant again,

but I think the real congratulations

need to go to Natalie for getting the tactics perfect once again.

She said at the start what she was going to do, absolutely did it,

follow through, got 100, let her brother come in and get the zero.

Perfect. I mean, how else do you play Pointless? Let's take a look at the rest.

If you'd said Brisbane for Harbourside / Bondi Junction, you would have just got 100 points.

It's Sydney. That would've scored 28 points.

Atlantis / Mall Of The Emirates, you're absolutely right was Dubai,

but that would have scored you too many points, 31, would have seen you knocked out.

Circo Massimo / Basilica San Paolo not in Turkey.

You're right, it's in Rome, would have seen you through, actually, on 17 points.

And you're quite right, you're looking for a city

that's held the Olympics and the World Cup for that last one, and it's Seoul.

Very well done if you said that, 1 point.

Very good indeed. Thank you, Richard. Very, very exciting round.

So, at the end of that first round, the losing pair with the highest score,

I'm afraid it's Rich and Becky.

That was a nailbiter, though, wasn't it?

I was going to say Dubai,

but thought it was completely wrong, so didn't.

-Oh, well.

-Turkey was a good stab, though.

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER

-Shall we just leave you to it, you want to sort this out?

-We'll be all right.

You're going to be fine, absolutely fine. It was a really tough board, that, though.

You're coming back next time. That's all we need to know. We look forward to that very much indeed,

and we won't have this again, I promise.

-OK, look forward to it. Thanks so much, Becky and Rich.

-Thank you.

-Great contestants.

APPLAUSE

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

Obviously there's only going to be 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.

So, our category for Round Two is...

Acting Brothers.

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

-who's going to go second.

-INAUDIBLE WHISPERING

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Ralph and Joseph Fiennes films as they could.

Ralph and Joseph Fiennes films. Richard.

Yes, we're looking for any feature film made for cinema release

for which either Ralph Fiennes or Joseph Fiennes has received an acting credit

up to the beginning of 2012, please. As always, no TV films, no short films, documentaries.

Voice performances do count. Very best of luck.

OK, thanks very much, Richard. Now then, Natalie.

What is the most obscure Ralph or Joseph Fiennes film you can think of?

-I've never heard of either of them...

-LAUGHTER

..let alone know any of their films.

Let's go for A Few Good Men.

A Few Good Men. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said A Few Good Men.

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

which means you score the maximum of 100 points. I'm sorry, Natalie.

Sorry, Natalie, that's Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson starring in that.

-It is a film.

-It is DEFINITELY a film.

LAUGHTER

Darren.

Joseph or Ralph Fiennes films.

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince?

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, says Darren.

Let's see that's right, and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

Ooh!

Bad luck. Darren, an incorrect answer.

Sorry about that, Darren. That scores you 100 points.

Now then, Heath. Joseph or Ralph Fiennes.

-I've absolutely no idea at all.

-It's another of those rounds, Richard.

Yeah. LAUGHTER

So I think I'm just going to be a bit cheeky,

and say Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

Little bit cheeky, but quite clever. Let's see if it's right, and if it is,

let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

Unfortunately also an incorrect answer,

which means you also score 100 points, Heath.

Cheeky, clever, incorrect.

LAUGHTER

OK, well, let's go through that score.

LAUGHTER

Erm... Well, it's all to play for.

Let's come back down the line. Will the second players please take their places at the podium.

OK, we are looking for Ralph or Joseph Fiennes films.

-Ben, you are joint high scorers on 100 points.

-Yeah.

I'm fairly sure I know who they are, which is a good start.

But as for what films they've been in, I'm not sure.

So, a complete punt, and I'm going to say

Mrs Brown.

Mrs Brown, says Ben. Let's see if that's right, and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

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

which means you score 100 points, takes your total up to 200 points.

Now, we've never, in Pointless history, had a 600 Round Two before.

LAUGHTER So firstly, that would be fun.

But even more fun is if that does happen,

we then have to do a tie-break, where, obviously,

you have to name another Ralph Fiennes or Joseph Fiennes film. LAUGHTER

so we could be here some time. LAUGHTER

Now then, Tom. The high scorers at the moment are Ben and Heath on 200.

-You are on 100.

-Yeah.

If you want to get through to the next round,

all you have to do is score 99 or less.

-OK.

-How are you on your Joseph and/or, Joseph Fiennes films?

-I'll go with Red Dragon.

-Let's see if it's right, and how many people said it. Red Dragon.

It's right. Very, very well done, Tom. How does that feel?

Brilliant. Oh, come on!

-Well done, Tom!

-Very, very well done indeed.

-I thought it would be higher.

3 for Red Dragon takes your total up to 103.

-You are through to the next round. Richard.

-Yeah, very good answer.

Ralph Fiennes, of course, in there. One of the Hannibal Lecter films. Please Francis Dolarhyde.

Yes! We got one.

Now then, Mark. The high scorers are Ben and Heath on 200. You are on 100, which means, again,

a score of 99 or less will see you through to the head-to-head.

I'm going to try The Silence Of The Lambs.

Let's see if Silence Of The Lambs is right, and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

The Silence Of The Lambs.

Ooh! That's an incorrect answer, I'm afraid.

Which means you score 100 points. That takes your total up to 200.

-This is fun, Richard, this is fun.

-Yeah.

-OK, so, here we go. It's a tie.

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

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

You are now allowed to confer.

LAUGHTER

So that's good news, isn't it?

Now then, Mark and Natalie, you are to go first.

We are looking for Ralph or Joseph Fiennes films.

-(Shall we say a later one?)

-(I go for Goblet Of Fire.)

-(Yeah. OK.)

OK, Mark and Natalie.

We're going to go for Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

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

said Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

It's right!

Oh! Oh-ho-ho!

Oh, very, very well done! Very well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

Drama's never very far away with you two, is it?

That scores you 1.

Takes your total up to 201.

Now then, Ben and Heath. In order to get through to the head-to-head,

you need a pointless answer.

Indeed we do, and unfortunately our conversation clearly went

exactly the same as Mark and Natalie,

so we're going to stick with the same theme, and were going to say Harry Potter...

And The Prisoner Of Azkaban.

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban. Let's see if that's right,

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

Oh!

Well, that's decisive, at least. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, Ben and Heath.

That takes your total up to 300 points.

-Richard.

-That whole round very much dominated by Lord Voldemort, there.

-Which is typical of him, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Ralph Fiennes, he did play Lord Voldemort, he only played him in four of the films.

Obviously he's in The Goblet Of Fire. He's not in the prisoner of Azkaban.

He's in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix,

if you'd said that you'd have scored 1 point and we'd still be here.

LAUGHTER So I'm very glad you didn't.

But if you'd said Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part One or

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part Two, both pointless answers. So would have seen you through.

And very well done if you said either of those at home. If we still have time before the news...

LAUGHER ..let's take a look at the other pointless answers.

Cemetery Junction, Ralph Fiennes is in that, the Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant film.

Goodbye Bafana, that's Joseph Fiennes.

There's Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part One. Part two, also pointless.

Maid In Manhattan, Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez.

Nanny McPhee and the big bang, Ralph Fiennes plays Lord Gray in that.

Oscar And Lucinda, he plays Oscar opposite Cate Blanchett's Lucinda.

Ralph Fiennes, that is. Stealing Beauty, that's Joseph Fiennes.

The Merchant Of Venice, Joseph Fiennes again with Al Pacino.

And Ralph Fiennes is the voice of Victor Quartermaine

in Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit.

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

So, Ben and Heath, a historic round.

Very, very high scores there.

The famous Fiennes Round, as it'll I'm sure be known forever and ever.

Have you any tips you're going to take away

from your first Pointless experience?

Some tactics you might bring back?

-Score less than 300.

-OK.

It is a good score that, isn't it? 300.

Not many members are in our 300 Club.

Anyway, we'll look forward to seeing you again next time, Ben and Heath.

But meanwhile, thank you both so much for playing.

But for the remaining two players, things are about to get

even more exciting now, as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations, Tom and Darren, Natalie and Mark.

You are now only one round away from the final, and a chance to play

for the jackpot, which currently stands at £3,250.

Now, obviously only one player can play for that money,

so to decide which pair it's going to 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 of course allowed to confer.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question, and it concerns Famous Foodies.

Famous Foodies, Richard.

For this question, we'll show you five pictures of people famous within the world of cookery.

Can you tell us who they are, please?

OK. Thank you very much. Let's reveal our five famous foodies.

And here they come. We have got...

So, there they are.

Five famous foodies.

Now, Tom and Darren, you've played best throughout the show so far,

so you get to go first.

THEY CONFER

-Are you 100% sure?

-Yeah.

-Go for it, then.

-Do you want to go for it?

-Yeah, OK.

-Go ahead.

I think go for A, and that's Mary Berry.

Mary Berry.

A, Mary Berry.

Natalie and Mark.

We think B is Levi Roots,

who makes the hot sauce.

C is Nigella Lawson.

D, I think, is Ken Hom.

-I'm not sure about E.

-Don't know E.

-Will we go for B?

-Yeah.

We're going to go for B, Levi Roots.

B, Levi Roots.

So, we have Tom and Darren saying that A is Mary Berry.

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

It's right.

Very well done. 17.

17 for Mary Berry.

Now then, Mark and Natalie, you have said B, Levi Roots.

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

It's right. Now 17 as the score you've got to beat.

It's going to be close.

Oh! 21.

Mary Berry beats Levi Roots.

Which means, Tom and Darren, you are ahead one-nil after one question.

-Richard?

-Yeah, good tussle there, guys.

One answer would've won you the point. That's E.

We'll get to her in a moment. C is Nigella Lawson.

That would have scored you 64.

D, you're quite right, Ken Hom.

He would have scored 32.

-Now, E, do you know who it is?

-I do.

Angela Hartnett.

Angela Hartnett, absolutely right, would have scored 5 points.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Here comes your second question, Natalie and Mark.

You had to win this question to stay in the game.

OK, your second question concerns...

Alice's Adventures.

Alice's Adventures, Richard.

We're going to show you five clues

to facts about Lewis Carroll's two Alice books.

Give us the most obscure answer and you'll score the point.

OK, thank you very much.

Let's reveal our five clues to facts about Alice's Adventures.

And here they are.

I'll read those all one more time.

Natalie and Mark.

Yeah.

Er... We think we may know one.

I would probably guess the century,

but I think we're going to go for the nonsense poem, the Jabberwocky.

Jabberwocky, you are saying, for the nonsense poem.

Tom and Darren.

We'll go for croquet, the game Alice attempts to play with Flamingo and Hedgehog.

Croquet. OK, so, we have Jabberwocky and croquet.

Natalie and Mark have said Jabberwocky is the name

of the nonsense poem.

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

This is the question you have to win, Natalie and Mark.

Well, it's right, and it's going all the way down...

Oh! 15. Very well done.

Tom and Darren have said croquet

is the game Alice attempts to play with Flamingo and Hedgehog.

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

It's right.

15 is the score you have to beat.

Ooh. 46.

Well done, Natalie and Mark, you have won that point.

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

-Richard.

-It's a great show, and this is a great head-to-head as well.

Well played, both teams again.

The one that would have won you the point, unsurprisingly, is the real name of Lewis Carroll,

and it's Charles Dodgson.

Would have scored you three points.

The books were published in the 19th century, Wonderland in 1865,

and Looking Glass, 1871, would have scored you 36 points.

And the twins that fought over a rattle

were Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Would have scored you 38 points.

Thank you very much. Here comes your third question, the decider.

Whoever wins this question goes through to the final.

Here it comes, it concerns...

Women In British Politics. Richard?

Yeah, we're going to show you the names of five women who have

achieved notable firsts in British politics.

But to make things slightly harder, their names are all in anagram form.

Can you solve the anagrams and pick the most obscure, please?

Good luck, both teams.

Very good. OK, let's reveal our five anagrams of women in politics.

And we have...

I'll read those all one more time.

OK. Tom and Darren, you go first this time again.

That's horrible. That's really difficult.

But we finally worked out who Nasty Acorn was.

And she was Nancy Astor.

Nancy Astor is Nasty Acorn...

Natalie and Mark, talk us through all the other answers.

Er... It's pretty tough.

That Great Charmer, I think, is Margaret Thatcher.

I think Quit Cash Jim could be Asquiths, but I don't know.

It doesn't seem to make a name.

Er... I'll go for Tory Hot Body Bet, um, Betty Boothroyd.

-WE'LL go for...

-We'll go for that, sorry.

LAUGHTER

Right, so we have Nancy Astor from Tom and Darren.

Let's see if Nancy Astor is right for Nasty Acorn,

and if it is, how many people said Nancy Astor.

It's right.

Wow!

Very well done, Darren and Tom.

Now, Natalie and Mark. Six is the score you have to beat.

Betty Boothroyd, you are saying, for Tory Hot Body Bet.

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

Yep, it's right.

Six is what you have beat to win this question.

Oh! 20.

APPLAUSE

There we are.

After three questions, Tom and Darren are through to the final 2-1.

-Richard.

-Very well played, both teams, very well played throughout.

There are two answers that would have won you the point actually.

That Great Charmer wouldn't have, that is Margaret Thatcher,

the first female Prime Minister.

Nancy Astor, of course, the first female MP to sit in Parliament.

Betty Boothroyd, the first female speaker.

Quit Cash Jim is the first female Home Secretary.

Jacqui Smith. Would have scored two.

And To Creepy Vote is a pointless answer.

The first female Chief Secretary To The Treasury, Yvette Cooper.

Yvette Cooper would've scored you nothing at all.

Very well done to anyone who got all five. Very impressive.

Thank you very much. So the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head

is Natalie and Mark.

Finally you come to the end of the road, but what a road it's been.

So many twists and turns there.

Natalie and Mark, thank you so much. I'm sorry we have to say goodbye,

but you've been great contestants.

APPLAUSE

But for Tom and Darren, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Tom and Darren. You have fought off all the competition

and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

Very well done indeed.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

And at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £3,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, the rules are very simple.

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

We've had one pointless answer in the show today.

You only have to find one now,

and you will leave here with that £3,250 jackpot. First, you've got to choose a category,

and you can choose from these five options. We have...

-Hmm.

-What do you think?

-Definitely not Literature.

-No.

-Well, England Footballers might be good.

-No, no, no.

Well, do you want to try for Eurovision Winners?

Well, I'm relying on you basically to have a stab at it.

I'm relying on you being obscure.

Yeah, we'll go for Eurovision Winners. Yeah, I think we should.

Very well done. Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We give 100 people 100 seconds to name...

as many Top 40 Hits By UK Eurovision Winners

as they could.

-Richard.

-Yep, we're looking for the names of any UK top 40 singles

by any UK act that has won the Eurovision Song Contest, please.

We won't accept the songs with which they won the Song Contest.

But any UK top 40 hit from a UK act that has won

the Eurovision Song Contest. Very best of luck.

OK, thank you very much.

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

and all you need to win that £3,250,

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-BOTH: Yeah.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are.

Your time starts now.

-Who do you think?

-Brotherhood Of Man have had a few hits...

-Right, OK.

-Erm... Bucks Fizz.

-Yeah. Lulu?

-No, never won. Katrina And The Waves.

-Dana?

-No, they never won it as well.

-What about Dana?

-Er...

-She represented Ireland.

-Did she?

-So we have Sandie Shaw.

-Oh, yeah.

-But I've got a couple of Brotherhood Of Man

-and maybe a couple of Bucks Fizz. Definitely.

-Yeah.

-We'll maybe try those.

-Yeah.

-I've got a couple by Brotherhood Of Man.

Figaro, Angelo, Oh Boy.

Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies, Land Of Make Believe.

Sandie Shaw - There's Always Something There To Remind Me. Em...

Katrina and the Waves - Walking On Sunshine,

-Love Shine A Light.

-10 seconds left.

OK. I'm happy enough to go with the Bucks Fizz

-and a couple of Brotherhood Of Mans. OK?

-Brotherhood Of Men?

OK, there we are. Your time is up.

We were looking for Top 40 Hits By UK Eurovision Winners.

-I now need your three answers.

-Um...

I know that the Brotherhood Of Man won in 1976 with Save Your Kisses For Me,

but I'm not going to use that as an answer.

I'm going to go for a couple of their other hits.

One was called Oh Boy, open brackets, The Mood I'm In, close brackets.

I think, or thereabouts.

Yeah.

Um, and maybe we'll take Angelo as well, by the Brotherhood Of Man.

Bucks Fizz, there's a whole host of Bucks Fizz ones we can choose from,

but we'll go for a song called My Camera Never Lies.

My camera never lies. So, we have Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In),

Angelo...

..and My Camera Never Lies.

These are really quite embarrassingly good, aren't they?

Of those three,

which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

I'd actually go for the Bucks Fizz one, My Camera Never Lies.

My Camera Never Lies, we'll put that last.

And which one should be put first?

-Um... Angelo.

-Angelo.

Let's put them up on the board in that order. Here they are.

We have got...Angelo,

Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In)

and My Camera Never Lies. There we are.

We were looking for Top 40 Hits By UK Eurovision Winners.

Angelo was your least confident shot at a pointless answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer, remember, to win the jackpot.

£3,250. OK, let's see, Angelo, is it right?

And if it is, how many people said it? Angelo.

It's right.

OK. This was your first shot at that jackpot of £3,250.

If this goes all the way down to zero, you have won the jackpot.

Down it goes. Still going down.

You've done it!

APPLAUSE

-Very, very well done.

-Thank you.

-Fantastic. Very well done.

Wow.

Wow.

A pointless answer with your first submission.

I didn't even have time to ask what you wanted to spend the money on.

So, here's fun. What will you spend that money on, Darren?

I think my wife wants me to buy new tools and some new golf clubs,

but I'll probably use it towards a holiday. So, yeah.

All happy with that. Brilliant.

-I'm off to do some roller coaster in Orlando.

-Are you?

-Yeah.

Fantastic.

Well, congratulations. Angelo was a pointless answer.

That means you go home with that jackpot of £3,250.

-Very, very well done indeed.

-APPLAUSE

-Wow.

-That's the thing about Pointless, isn't it?

Darren's gone through life with obscure Brotherhood Of Man knowledge,

with everybody saying, "You know you don't need that. You're never going to need that."

And it's won him three and a bit thousand pounds.

Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In), also a pointless answer.

You were going to say Figaro by Brotherhood Of Man as well,

which is also a pointless answer.

Whereas My Camera Never Lies would have scored two points. Bucks Fizz.

So you got two out of the three. Let's take a look at some other pointless answers.

There's Angelo and Figaro by Brotherhood Of Man.

If You Can't Stand The Heat by Bucks Fizz was a top 10 single,

a pointless answer.

I'm A Tiger, which is Lulu. Long Live Love, which is Sandie Shaw,

also her version of The Smiths' Hand In Glove, that was a pointless answer.

Lulu's version of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World, pointless.

Monsieur Dupont, that's another Sandie Shaw,

Sun Street, Katrina And The Waves,

and just to finish us off on the Brotherhood Of Man theme, United We Stand,

another one of those. Very well played.

-We love Brotherhood Of Man.

-Thanks once again to our winning players,

Tom and Darren, who go away with today's jackpot of £3,250.

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 it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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