Episode 62 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong welcome to Pointless,

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

Let's meet today's players.

First we welcome back Sue and Paul, you were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.

This is your second chance.

Now, Sue, remind us how you know each other.

Paul's about to be my son-in-law.

About to be, all depending on how he performs this afternoon.

-Of course, yes.

-Paul, you were on the show last time, what happened?

Train stations, tie-break, so near, yet so far,

-so better luck this time.

-Today's a new day.

Sue, what do you reckon would be a great category for you today?

Erm, I wouldn't mind '60s and '70s music, would be quite good.

Favourite band from the '60s and '70s?

-I like The Beatles, of course, as everybody did.

-Absolutely.

We discovered last time, you were a secondary school head teacher

for a number of years, found yourself at the front of lots of different classes.

-Yeah.

-So a very, very broad base of knowledge.

-Maybe.

-Anything you'd particularly not like to come up today?

-Erm, politics.

-OK.

-Yeah.

Now then, Paul, what would you like to see come up?

I'm currently doing a degree in English Language and Literature,

-so anything within that genre would be pretty handy.

-All right.

Well, very, very warm welcome back to the show, Sue and Paul.

-You deserve better luck this time.

-Thank you.

-Let's hope you get it.

Next we welcome John and Stuart. Now, how do you two know each other?

Well, we met at school in our home town of Plymouth

and we've remained friends ever since.

And what do you do now, John?

At the moment I work for my local council,

but I recently trained as an English teacher,

so my ambition is to go abroad and teach English somewhere.

-As a foreign language?

-Yes, as a foreign language.

Stuart, what do you do?

I'm currently doing a PhD at Cardiff University.

-I have to just say, well done on that shirt, Stuart.

-Thank you.

We get far too few, it's all a bit monochrome, normally, on Pointless.

And that, it's good. I like a shirt that's going

-to give our cameramen a headache.

-STUART LAUGHS

John, what would you like to see come up?

Well, I have, in fact, we both have, a mutual passion

for classic rock music so...

-Do you?

-..it would have to be that.

-Favourite band?

-Classic rock band, I would have to say ZZ Top.

-Really?

-Yeah.

Good stuff. And, Stuart, you're broadly in agreement there, are you?

Yeah, yeah, love a bit of classic rock,

but my favourite band would be the Manic Street Preachers,

who I'm fanatical about

and if any question came up on them, I would be over the moon.

Welcome to the show, great to have you here, very best of luck.

And next we welcome Judy and Claire. Now, how do you two know each other?

We've been friends since we were in secondary school at 13 years of age,

so about 40 years.

-Where are you from, Judy?

-Mumbles.

-From Mumbles. And, Claire?

Well, I'm near Mumbles, in-between Mumbles and Swansea.

-Excellent, and what do you, Claire?

-I'm a behaviour specialist teacher.

Behaviour specialist?

So I help them a lot with things like anger management

and social skills.

-Very good. Judy, what do you do?

-I do homeopathy

and I'm returning to cooking.

I used to have a restaurant, then I had children,

and now I'm hoping to open up a pop-up restaurant,

-or pop-up restaurants, for charity.

-Wow.

Can I...? Sorry, I was commending Stuart on his shirt.

I've just noticed you're both covered in butterflies.

It wasn't planned. We didn't look at what each other had brought, either.

That's really nice. That's fantastic, butterflies.

I hope they'll bring you a lot of luck, Judy and Claire,

lovely to have you here. Welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-And, finally, we've got, once again,

we've got a pairing with the same name.

Wow, double Dan. So, Dan A, where are you from?

I'm from London, but up at Cambridge at the moment.

-You're at university at Cambridge?

-Yeah.

-Which college are you?

-Downing.

-What are you reading?

-Classics.

-Ah, very good. And, Dan, Dan, Dan S.

How about you? Where are you from?

I'm from Woking, but at the moment I'm studying at Cambridge as well.

-You're also, also at Downing?

-Yes.

-What are you reading?

-Physics.

-OK, natural scientist.

-Yes.

What about that? Fantastic. So nice, broad base of interest there.

Dan A, what do you like to get up to when you're not doing your Classics?

Well, I play a lot of sport, particularly rugby,

I'm the vice captain of my college team.

Now, Dan S, how about you? What do you like to get up to?

I'm probably more into the music side,

so I play guitar and piano and a bit of ukulele.

What kind of music do you particularly like?

-Kind of alternative modern rock.

-OK.

The Dans, it's great to have you here. Very, very best of luck.

We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show as we go along.

Only one person left for me to introduce,

appearing in his own reality show The Only Way Is Obscurity,

-it's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hello.

Hiya.

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Should be a cracking show today.

Only one returning pair, Sue and Paul,

-they were good last time, weren't they?

-Yeah.

Sue, you can tell she's a secondary school headmistress, can't you?

Absolutely tell. But I suspect they might go all the way today.

But three new pairs. Literally anything could happen.

Two classic Pointless rounds to start with.

Proper, old school Pointless, the first rounds.

Good stuff, thanks 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 they didn't get.

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

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

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

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

and 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 £7,500.

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That'll do.

Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

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

and you cannot confer with your partner.

The pair with the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.

If you give an incorrect answer, you score the maximum

of 100 points, so try and avoid those at all costs.

OK, our first category today is...

The USA. Can you all 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, let's find out what the question is, here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

landlocked US states as they could.

Landlocked US states, Richard.

We're looking for any of the US states that are truly landlocked,

that is they have none of their borders on any sea

or on any of the great lakes.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much.

Now then, Sue and Paul, you all drew lots before the show

and today you go first.

North Dakota.

North Dakota says Sue.

North Dakota, let's see if it's right

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

It's right.

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-Great answer, Sue.

-8 for North Dakota.

-Good start, Sue, well played.

Bordered by three US states and two Canadian provinces.

A 2011 study found it was the friendliest state in America.

John.

A nice, obscure, landlocked US state.

-Easy.

-OK.

I'm going to have a stab with Iowa.

Iowa says John. Let's see if that's right

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

Absolutely right.

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-11 for Iowa.

Good answer. Very solid start to the round by everybody.

Bordered by six states, Iowa.

Claire, what's the most obscure, landlocked US state you can think of?

-I'm going to go for Wyoming.

-Wyoming, says Claire.

Wyoming. Let's see if that's right

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

It's absolutely right.

Where will it stop?

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-12 for Wyoming.

-Well played, another good answer.

According to that same survey I was just reporting,

Wyoming is the least kinky state in America.

LAUGHTER

-The least kinky?

-Yeah.

-I don't know which researcher's carrying that out, but...

-How? What?

-..he must have had a busy year.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

There you go, least kinky state.

Dan A, Dan A.

Well, I used to live in America for a few years,

so I probably should know this better than I do,

but I'm pretty sure this is right. I'm going to go for Montana.

Montana says Dan A. Montana, let's see if that right.

Let's see how many people said it.

Absolutely right.

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10 for Montana.

Montana borders three different Canadian territories,

actually, Montana. And it has 1.4 elk per square mile.

LAUGHTER

-Wow.

-And I tell you what, the guy who found that out

had less fun than the guy that found out that Wyoming was the least kinky state.

LAUGHTER

This is, this is, sort of, quite weird, this,

because these are all good answers, they're all landlocked

and completely arbitrary scoring system, really.

I mean, how would you know which state's going to beat which other?

Well, quite. What we did, we gave 100 people 100 seconds to...

-LAUGHTER

-Yes, I know, I know,

but there doesn't seem to be... You know, if it's right,

it's then just a complete lottery as to which people...

-There is a broad sweep of scores. on the list.

-Yes.

We're just not a broad sweep of scores on the podiums.

Oh, I see. Right, you are. OK. Well, there they are.

Very, very, very close scores from the first pass.

So 8, we find Sue and Paul, then up to 10 for the Dans,

up to 11 where we find John and Stuart

and up to 12 where we find Claire and Judy.

So, I mean, Judy, you are the high-scorers.

There's not really much in it, but you just have to hope

that the landlocked state you choose,

arbitrarily has a low score.

You know what? Don't present it then.

LAUGHTER

Right, we're going to come back down the line.

Will the second players, please, take their places at the podium.

Dan S, we are looking for landlocked US states.

You're on 10, the high-scorers on 12

are Judy and Claire.

Ideally, if you could score only one point,

that would be a great way of ensuring

that you'd go through to the next round, Dan S.

I'm going to go for Nevada.

You're going to go for Nevada. Nevada says Dan S.

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

There is a red line there,

it's right at the bottom of the column. Nevada.

Is it landlocked? How many people said it?

It is landlocked.

Ooh.

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Scores you 25.

Takes your total up to 35.

It's interesting, isn't it?

When you pick a more famous US landlocked state, you score more.

More of 100 said it.

I wonder if there's a show in that.

LAUGHTER

OK. Now then, Judy and Claire, you're no longer the high-scorers

because it's the Dans who are now the high-scorers on 35.

You're on 12, which means a score of 22 or less will be enough

to see you comfortably into the next round.

Judy.

Idaho.

Idaho. OK, Idaho says Judy. Let's see if that's right

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

There's your red line.

It's right.

Very well done.

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13 for Idaho, takes your total up to 25.

Safely through.

Well played, Judy.

I admit, that's quite similar to some of the scores in the first round.

LAUGHTER

Stuart.

The highest scorers on 35 are the Dans. You're on 11.

That means a score of 23 or less from you

will see you into the next round.

-I think I'm going to play Missouri.

-Missouri, says Stuart.

Get below that red line, you're in the nest line. Missouri.

How many people said that?

Very well done.

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Missouri, bang on that round about score

of all those states in the middle.

It scores you 11, exactly the same as John's score in the first pass.

Takes your total up to 22. Richard, am I making my point?

LAUGHTER

No, a lot of things are scoring similarly,

but as you can see from Nevada, there are bad answers

and there are also good answers which no one has come up with yet.

-Do you see?

-Well, I do see, but then again I don't have

the sheet in front of me with all the scores on.

Now then, Paul. You are on 8.

The highest scorers on 35 are the Dans.

You need a score of 26 or less.

Pick a state that's landlocked and you'll probably score 12.

LAUGHTER

I can think about five that probably are.

I'm hoping Oregon.

Oregon, says Paul.

OK, here's your red line. Let's see if you can get below it.

If you do, you are into the next round.

Oregon, how many people said that? Is it right?

GROANING

Oh, bad luck, Paul. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer.

It means you score 100 points.

That takes your total up to 108.

-Richard?

-Sorry, Paul. Oregon's got a Pacific coastline.

-What were the other ones you were considering?

-I was thinking Delaware.

I'm afraid that's also incorrect.

-Georgia?

-Also incorrect.

LAUGHTER

Oh, well. There's no pointless answers as you might imagine,

but a few low-scoring ones. Let's take a look at the best answers.

Well done at home for anybody who said Vermont,

which would have scored you 3,

West Virginia 4 and Oklahoma would have scored you 6.

Nevada was actually the biggest scorer of all on 25.

Anyway, thank you very much, Richard.

I'll be honest, I feel undermined.

LAUGHTER

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

are Paul and Sue, our returning pair.

This wasn't in the script at all, but Paul,

-your North American geography's even worse than mine.

-Yeah!

Never mind. Lovely having you on the show.

So sorry we have to say goodbye so soon.

It's been brilliant though.

-Paul and Sue, thanks so much for playing.

-Thank you.

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

Now obviously there's only going to be room for two pairs

in our head to heads.

One of the teams in front of me will be leaving us

at the end of this round. Our category for Round Two is...

Musicals.

Can you all decide who is first and who is second?

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

OK, our question concerns...

Musicals based on literary works. Richard?

We're going to show you the names of six authors and a year.

You need to give us the name of a musical

that was based on a literary work by that author in that year.

Give us a nice obscure answer and you'll score fewer points.

Give us an incorrect answer and that'll be 100 points.

12 authors in all with a year, 12 musicals to guess at home.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

We're looking for musicals based on literary works by these authors.

And we have on our list...

I'll read those all one last time.

So there are the names of the authors

and the years in which the works were written.

You have to supply the name of the musicals

that were based on those literary works.

-Stuart?

-Hm.

I'm going to try and play tactically

and maybe take the obvious one off the board.

That would be Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist or Oliver!

OK, Oliver!

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

It is right.

It keeps going down.

39. Not bad, Stuart.

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39 for Oliver!

Yes, Lionel Bart's musical based on Oliver Twist,

-the Charles Dickens novel.

-Now then, Claire.

There's only one I know I can answer, so I'll go for that.

TS Eliot, Cats.

TS Eliot, Cats. Let's see if that's right.

If it is, how many people knew that answer.

Absolutely right.

23.

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23 for Cats. Richard?

Yes, the book was Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

and the musical was Cats.

-Absolutely right. Ran for 21 years in the West End.

-Wow, 21 years!

-Long time, isn't it?

-Dan S?

I did know those two, but I don't know any of the other four.

Purely because Gaston Leroux sounds French, I'm going to go

with that and say Les Miserables.

OK, you're going to say Les Miserables.

I can't quite work out whether to say Les Miserables or...

FRENCH ACCENT: Ley miserableaux!

-Ooh, that's good.

-Do you think? No, I think Les Miserables.

Les Miserables for Gaston Leroux.

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

Bad luck, Dan.

An incorrect answer, I'm afraid. That scores you 100 points.

-I'm sorry. Richard.

-Sorry, Dan.

You're right, he is French, but the answer is Phantom of the Opera.

Based on a Gaston Leroux novel of the same name.

It would have scored 5 points as well,

very good answer if you got that at home.

-George Bernard Shaw, want to have a go at that?

-My Fair Lady.

Absolutely right, based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

19 points there.

-Damon Runyon?

-Guys And Dolls.

-Absolutely right, 1 point.

-Wow.

Thornton Wilder is a pointless answer.

No idea.

Hello, Dolly! Is the answer. Very well done if you got that.

A pointless answer.

Excellent. Thank you, Richard. Halfway through the round.

Let's look at the scores.

Claire and Judy looking particularly strong.

Cats, who'd have thought? 21 long years in the West End.

It was the lowest score in our pass.

So 23, looking very good indeed.

Then up to 39, where we find Stuart and John.

Then up to 100, where we find the Dans.

But listen, Dan A, take solace from this.

A - you'll get first dibs on the board, and B - I don't think anyone

really knows much about musicals.

Here's hoping!

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

OK, let's put six more authors on the board. Here they come.

I'll read them one last time.

Remember, we are looking for the name of the musical on which

a work written in the year in brackets was written.

You're trying to find the one

you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Dan, what's the board looking like to you?

I do know a bit about musicals and I think I recognise a few up there.

I'm going to go for one I think most people won't know.

Ian Fleming and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. No red line for you,

because you're the highest scorers. Let's see if it's right

and if it is, how many people said it.

Absolutely right, Dan.

Very well done indeed.

16, great score. Takes your total up to 116. Richard?

Well played, Dan. Both the musical and the book

are called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Published in the year

Ian Fleming died, 1964.

Now, Judy. The high scorers are still the Dans on 116.

You're on 23, which means 92 or less

will see you into the head to head.

Somewhere in the back of my mind,

I'm thinking Christopher Isherwood

wrote my favourite musical, maybe.

Cabaret, Christopher Isherwood.

Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret. Here's your red line.

You get below the red line, you're in the head to head.

Is it right? How many people said Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret?

Absolutely right, well done. You're through to the head to head.

-6!

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Cracking score, takes your total up to 29.

Great answer, Judy. Very gutsy decision to take.

Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin, which was turned into a play

called I Am A Camera, which was then turned into Cabaret.

Now then, John.

Everything is in your hands.

Listen, the high scorers are the Dans on 116. You're on 39.

If you can score 76 or less, you make it into the head to head.

The Von Trapp family is The Sound Of Music

and I'm going to have to use that as the logic for my answer.

Maria Von Trapp, The Sound Of Music.

OK, Maria Von Trapp, The Sound Of Music.

Here's your red line. It's quite high.

OK, Maria Von Trapp, The Sound Of Music. Is it right?

How many people said it?

You've done it.

-59.

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That takes your total up to 98. You are in the head to head.

Very well done. Richard?

Yes, Maria Von Trapp's memoir from 1949

called The Story Of The Trapp Family Singers,

turned into the Sound Of Music. Very well played.

Let's look through the rest of them.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.

That would've scored 28 points.

-PL Travers?

-I don't know.

Mary Poppins. Absolutely right,

Pamela Lyndon Travers.

Gregory Maguire, do you know that?

A more recent musical, this.

-I have no idea.

-He wrote the books

that Wicked is based on.

That's a pointless answer, so very well done if you knew that.

Very good. Well, thanks very much. At the end of that round,

the losing pair with the highest score are the Dans.

Quite tough boards, but anyway we will see you again next time.

We look forward to that very much,

when I can almost certainly promise you we won't have any musicals.

Take that away with you.

Thanks so much for playing. Dan A, Dan S. Great contestants.

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But for the remaining two pairs,

things are about to get exciting as we enter the head to head.

Congratulations Judy and Claire, John and Stuart.

Only one round away from the final and the chance

to play for the jackpot, which currently stands at £7,500.

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Obviously only one pair can play for that money.

To decide who it's going to be,

you're now going to go head to head on the best of three questions.

That basically means the first pair to win two questions

will be playing for that jackpot.

You are now of course allowed to confer. Let's play the head to head.

OK, here comes your first question. It concerns...

England Football Managers.

Richard?

It is terrific news, isn't it, Judy? We'll show you five pictures now

of men who've managed the English national football team.

Can you name the most obscure please?

OK, thanks. Let's reveal

our five England football managers.

There we are, five England football managers.

Judy and Claire, you played best through the show, so you go first.

-Well, we know all of them.

-Yeah.

But we can't remember their names.

LAUGHTER

OK.

Because of his private life, we're going for number C.

-Number C?!

-Yes.

-OK.

LAUGHTER

I just realised - LETTER C.

Sven Goran Eriksson.

Sven Goran Eriksson, you are saying.

John and Stuart.

Well, pretty sure that we know them all.

A is Graham Taylor,

B is Terry Venables, D is Alf Ramsey

and E I'm pretty sure is Don Revie.

Because we're not 100% sure that he is Don Revie,

we're going to go for A and say Graham Taylor.

OK, you're going to say A and go for Graham Taylor.

So we have Sven Goran Eriksson from Judy and Claire.

Let's see if that's right. They are saying C is Sven Goran Eriksson.

Is it right? How many people said it?

Absolutely right.

56.

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56 for Sven.

Now then, John and Stuart have gone for Graham Taylor,

which you reckon will go lower than Sven's score.

OK, let's see. Graham Taylor, is it right? How many people said it?

Absolutely right.

And you've done it!

16!

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Very well gauged. And it wins you the point.

After one question, John and Stuart are up 1-0.

-Richard.

-Well played, and you went through the board perfectly.

Let's look at some of the scores up there. Graham Taylor was 16.

Terry Venables, as you rightly say, but he would have scored you 42.

Sven Goran Eriksson with the biggest score of all, actually - 56.

D is Sir Alf Ramsey.

He won the 1966 World Cup but he only scored 19 points

and E, absolutely right,

is Don Revie, who would have scored you 14 points

as the best answer on the board. Have you seen The Damned United, the film?

-No, I haven't.

-He's very memorably portrayed by Colm Meaney.

-It's very good.

-Excellent.

-He was a huge rival of Brian Clough.

Anyway, thanks very much, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Judy and Claire... I want to say Judy and Clary.

LAUGHTER

-OK.

-Judy and Clary, you have to win this to stay in the game.

OK, our second question concerns...

We'll always have Paris. Richard.

Yep. Quite simply, we've got five questions about Paris.

Can you answer the most obscure of them?

-Good luck.

-Very good luck indeed.

Let's reveal our five clues to facts about Paris, and we've got...

I'll read those one last time.

There we are. Five facts about Paris.

John and Stuart, you go first this time.

(I think...)

(The only thing I've heard or that I can recall)

(is that the French President lives on this Champs Elysee...)

(Yeah... 100%?)

OK, we've got a few,

which we're only about 75% sure on,

so we're going to pick what we think is the most obvious one again.

It's an unpleasant tactic

but we'll go for the river running through it - the Seine.

OK, you're saying the Seine runs through it.

Judy and Claire.

We only really know the two,

so we're going to go for the cathedral on Ile de la Cite

which is Notre Dame.

Notre Dame, the cathedral on Ile de la Cite.

OK, so, John and Stuart,

you went with the Seine as the river that runs through Paris.

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

Absolutely right.

71.

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71 for the Seine.

Judy and Claire have said Notre Dame

as the cathedral on Ile de la Cite. Let's see if that's right

and if it is, how many people said it.

It's right.

And it beats the Seine!

Look at that! 44!

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Very well done,

which means, after two questions, you are one-all. Richard.

Well played, Judy and Claire.

If you had a go at the president's palace, guys, you had a guess in mind. What was it?

The Elysee Palace?

Would have just seen you through to the final. Absolutely right,

Elysee Palace, home of the French President,

would have scored you 10 points.

-The cemetery with Oscar Wilde's grave, do you know it?

-Pere Lachaise.

Pere Lachaise. Jim Morrison's grave also there. 8 points.

And the last host of the Summer Olympics

and the best answer on the board, would have scored you 4 points

if you said 1924. Very good answer.

Thank you very much. So, it all comes down to this - the decider.

OK, here comes your third question. It concerns...

-Richard.

-We'll show you the names of five films

for which Dustin Hoffman receives an acting or voice credit

but we'll only give you the initials of those films

and the year in which they were released. Can you name the films?

OK, so let's reveal our five initials of Dustin Hoffman films.

And we have got...

I'll read them one last time.

Judy and Claire, you go first this time.

It's the first naughty film I ever saw.

LAUGHTER

Underage, I was.

We're going for the bottom one. TG - The Graduate.

OK, The Graduate, say Judy and Claire.

Now then, John and Stuart.

We think the top one is Rain Man,

then Tootsie. We don't know KFP.

I think the O is Outbreak

and that's what we're going to play.

You're going to go for Outbreak.

OK, so we have The Graduate and we have Outbreak.

Whoever wins this goes to the final and plays for that jackpot.

Judy and Claire went with The Graduate. Let's see if it's right

and how many people said The Graduate.

39.

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39 for The Graduate.

John and Stuart,

you have said Outbreak.

Let's see that's right, and let's see if it can beat 39.

If it can, you go through to the final.

Yep! You've done it.

Very well done. Seven!

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Cracking answer. 7 for Outbreak.

Which means, after three questions,

John and Stuart, you go through to the final 2-1.

-Richard.

-Yes, Outbreak from 1995. A terrific answer, guys.

Only KFP would have won you the point but let's go through the rest of them first.

RM, as you just said, gents, is Rain Man.

That would have scored 53.

T is Tootsie.

That would have scored 40.

Now, KFP, from 2008, would have scored one point.

-It's a voice-over in...

-Oh, it's not Kung Fu Panda?

Kung Fu Panda, Judy. Absolutely right.

Kung Fu Panda would have seen you into the final.

Oh, well.

Well, at the end of our head-to-head round,

the losing pair today is Judy and Claire.

Oh, Kung Fu Panda! Did you know he was in it?

I was just working out what the letters were,

just realised, yeah, but hey ho.

Well, you played so well, so well, but I'm afraid

this is where we say goodbye to you, but we'll see you again next time.

We look forward to that. Meanwhile, Judy and Claire, great contestants.

-Thanks for coming.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

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But for John and Stuart, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, John and Stuart. You fought off all the competition

and you've won our coveted Pointless Trophy.

You have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £7,500.

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Well, you've had quite a good Pointless career.

You were the low scorers in the first round,

then second round, you had a lucky escape with The Sound Of Music,

much like the Von Trapps themselves, in fact.

Yeah, you just made it through.

It was life imitating art.

Absolutely! Now, the rules are very simple.

To win the money, you have to find a pointless answer.

We haven't had any pointless answers today. You only have to find one now

and you will go home with that £7,500 jackpot.

First, you have to choose a category. You can choose from these five options...

I would probably say TV Writers.

If we pick TV Writers, I think

you're pretty much...on your own.

OK. Well...

would you rather do Seventies Music?

-Are you confident we can both have a go at Seventies Music?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-I think we can, can't we?

-Yeah.

-Reluctantly, I think, we're going to pick Seventies Music.

-OK.

Let's find out what question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many solo artists

who had a UK number one album in the 1970s as they could. Richard.

Yeah, we're looking for any solo artist who had a UK number one album in the official charts

between 1st January 1970 and 31st December 1979.

Live albums and greatest hits do count,

but compilations and various artists albums do not count, I'm afraid.

Very, very best of luck.

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

and all you need to win that £7,500

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are.

Your time starts now.

OK, obviously John Lennon, Paul McCartney would probably be...

-Bowie, too obvious as well.

-Yeah.

Iggy Pop, do you think?

Or would that count as a band? Would it be Iggy Pop and the Stooges?

-The Stooges, I think, yeah.

-Cliff Richard is obvious.

-I'm not thinking of anything...

-OK.

Lulu, maybe, someone like that.

Sandie Shaw, would that be that sort of era?

I think we need to start throwing in some pointless-sounding names,

so something like that, yeah.

Sandie Shaw. Erm...

I'm not getting much else.

Can you think of anyone from bands

who might have had solo hits? Like any...

Have any of Abba done anything solo?

Um...

-Shall we go for Agnetha...Faltskog? Is it Faltskog?

-Yeah, why not?

-One more answer, quickly, then.

-Agnetha Faltskog, Sandie Shaw and...

Ten seconds left.

No, um... Mick Jagger?

-Might be worth... No.

-They're all guesses, aren't they?

We've got...

OK, that's time up.

I now need your three answers.

-OK, so Sandie Shaw.

-Sandie Shaw.

Agnetha Faltskog.

Agnetha Faltskog.

And Mick Jagger.

And Mick Jagger. There's a dinner party.

LAUGHTER

Of those three answers, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

I think Sandie Shaw's probably got the best chance of actually being right out of the three of them.

-We'll put that one last.

-So we'll put Sandie Shaw last.

Sandie Shaw last.

Shall we have Agnetha in the sandwich in the middle?

-OK, yeah.

-An Agnetha sandwich!

We'll put Agnetha Faltskog in the middle

-and Mick Jagger first.

-Yes.

Let's put them up on the board in that order, and here they are.

We've got Mick Jagger,

Agnetha Faltskog and Sandie Shaw.

There they are. We were looking for solo artists

who had a UK number one album in the 1970s.

Mick Jagger was your least confident shot at a pointless answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer,

remember, to win that £7,500 jackpot.

Let's see - is Mick Jagger right? How many people said Mick Jagger?

OK, an incorrect answer, so unfortunately, not pointless.

Only two more chances to win today's jackpot.

£7,500, now that's a jackpot.

Stuart, what would you do with that?

I'd probably take my wife and son to Disneyland.

Excellent. John, how about you?

Well, as we've learned already today,

I'm a big fan of football, of European football.

I've never actually been to a big European game

-so go to the Bernabeu or San Siro, somewhere like that.

-Very good.

OK, we're looking for solo artists

who had a UK number one album in the 1970s.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer, Agnetha Faltskog.

This has to be pointless, has to be correct

for you to win that jackpot of £7,500. Let's see - is it right?

How many of our 100 people said Agnetha Faltskog?

Bad luck. Another incorrect answer,

which means you only have one last chance to win today's jackpot.

Everything is riding on Sandie Shaw. We were looking for solo artists

who had a UK number one album in the 1970s.

Your third and final answer, Sandie Shaw,

was your most confident answer.

Well, to win that jackpot of £7,500,

it has to be right and it has to be pointless.

Let's find out - Sandie Shaw, how many people said it? Is it right?

Oh, bad luck! Really bad luck.

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Well, unfortunately,

three very considered guesses there but unfortunately, you didn't find

that pointless answer, so you don't win the jackpot

of £7,500, which will roll over onto the next show,

but you have been fantastic contestants

and you do of course take home our Pointless Trophy, so well done.

That's what we came for.

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Well played throughout. You did exactly the right thing

in that final round, going for obscure ones rather than ones you knew were right.

Mick Jagger's first solo album was in the mid-80s.

Sandie Shaw had a number three hit album in '65.

Neither of them troubled the '70s.

The others you said, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard,

none had number one albums in the '70s. Elton John and others you mentioned did.

Let's look at some pointless answers.

There's ones people will definitely have got up here.

Andy Williams had two number one albums in the '70s,

Greatest Hits and Home Lovin' Man.

Barbra Streisand, one of her greatest hits collections, also number one.

Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle in 1979.

Glen Campbell - 20 Golden Greats, still making great albums in 2012.

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells was in the chart

for over 250 weeks during the '70s, number one.

Nat King Cole - 20 Golden Greats, that was a number one album.

Neil Young - Harvest in 1972, that was a pointless answer.

Perry Como had two number one albums

and Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1974,

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

Neil Young.

Yeah, should have got Neil Young.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye, John and Stuart,

but it's been brilliant having you on the show. Thank you both for playing.

Very well done.

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Unfortunately, John and Stuart didn't win our jackpot today

so it rolls over, which means on the next show,

we will be playing for £8,500.

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-Join us to see if someone can win it. Meanwhile, goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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