Episode 64 Pointless

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

the show that puts obscure knowledge to the test. Let's meet today's players.

APPLAUSE

Welcome, Jimmy and Sara. You are our first pair today. How do you know each other?

We met at the University of Exeter in halls in the first year.

What year are you in now?

I'm doing a post-grad at the moment in Classics and Ancient History.

-Jimmy, you're in the fourth year?

-I'm studying languages, French and Spanish.

-What do you get up to when you're not studying languages?

-Mainly listening to music.

-'80s music.

-Very good.

-Can I ask what year you were born in?

-1990.

-Oh!

-Just missed out.

-That's a blow, isn't it?

-I was 20!

I was 20, when you came out, mewling and puking!

I know. I mean, I was seven. It's pretty bad.

LAUGHTER

Good stuff. Welcome, Jimmy and Sara.

We welcome back Richard and Gail. Everyone gets to chances to reach the Pointless final.

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

-Husband and wife,

-25 years now, isn't it?

-Where did you meet him, Gail?

-At a bus stop.

He was carrying a plastic bag with his sandwiches in

and I felt really sorry for him. That was it really.

You took him in and here we are 25 years later.

I was a down and out!

If I stand here, looking at Jimmy and Sara and then Richard and Gail,

you're like a sort of russet and lime Battenberg.

Well!

If you get into the head-to-head, it's going to look amazing.

For that reason at least, come on, guys. I have high hopes.

Very nice to have you back. Very best of luck. Let's hope we see you go all the way this time.

We welcome Mike and Catherine. How do you know each other?

I met Catherine's daughter on a bus a few years ago and fell in love and got married.

-She is my mother-in-law.

-Where was the bus going to?

It was going to Stevenage.

-That's just the most romantic thing ever.

-I think so!

A bus to Stevenage. And, Catherine, where are you from?

Originally Newcastle upon Tyne,

but today I've come from Halstead in Essex.

-You've been living there for a long time?

-Coming up six years.

-You left Newcastle only six years ago?

-No, I've moved 15 times.

Where's the best place you've lived? Newcastle upon Tyne!

-I love Newcastle the best.

-Yes.

-It's my roots. Why aye, man.

-That's right, aye.

-Aye. Canny aye.

-That's where I'm from.

-Brilliant!

-SPEAKS IN GEORDIE DIALECT

-Eh? Ah, right.

-LAUGHTER

-No idea what she said there.

Well, welcome to the show, Mike and Catherine.

Finally, we've got Philip and Michael.

-How do you two know each other?

-We are brothers.

-Brothers.

-And where are you from?

-South-west London.

-What do you do, Philip?

I'm a salesman for the country's largest furniture retailer.

-Is that the one that always having a sale?

-That's the one.

The sale did end though.

Yeah, at midnight and then started again at five past midnight.

-The next day! Michael, what do you do?

-I work in investments.

Which is every bit as exciting as it sounds, actually.

-The tax side of them.

-The tax side of investments. Useful thing to do.

What are you hoping is going to come up today?

Sport, Summer Olympics, I'm good with years,

I'm good with quotes and boxing. Films. Anything like that.

It's lovely to have you on the show. A very warm welcome to you.

We'll find out more later. There's only one person left for me to introduce.

He's the Miss World of obscurity.

-It's my pointless friend, it's Richard.

-Hiya.

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-Good afternoon. How are you?

-Very well indeed.

Should be a good show today.

Richard and Gail are our returning pair. They were brilliant last time.

Question one is going to be good news for a number of people today.

-Very, very good news for one of our contestants.

-How exciting.

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

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

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

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

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. We add £1,000 to that.

Today's jackpot starts off at £9,750.

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We are just one pointless answer away from five figures.

Very exciting. OK, let's play Pointless.

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In this first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer.

Whichever pair has the highest score will be eliminated. If you give me an incorrect answer,

you will score the maximum of 100 points.

Try and avoid those if you possibly can.

Our first category today is:

The Olympics. Decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.

Whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Summer Olympic Games,

-as they could. Richard.

-We're looking for the host city and the year of any Olympic Games

from the first modern Olympic Games all the way through to the end of 2011. The host city and the year.

If we were including 2012, London 2012 would be the answer.

The host city and year of any modern Olympics please.

Thanks very much, Richard. Jimmy and Sara, you all drew lots before the show

and today you are going first.

This is a guess. Oh, no. 2000...and Athens?

Let's see if it's right.

Athens 2000. Is it right and how many people said it?

-Bad luck, Jimmy.

-Bad start.

-Bad luck. An incorrect answer.

You score 100 points. I'm sorry. Gail.

Erm... I'm going to say Moscow 1980.

Moscow 1980, says Gail. Is it right, how many people said it?

Absolutely right.

Six, Gail!

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Very well done indeed. Great score, great answer.

Well played, Gail. Straight back into the groove. 1980 Moscow.

The US boycotted. Alan Wells won the 100 metres.

Coe and Ovett shared the 800 and 1,500. Great days.

Mike, we're looking for the years and host cities of summer Olympic Games.

OK, I'm going to say Seoul 1988.

Seoul 1988, says Mike.

Is it right, how many people said it?

Absolutely right.

Six!

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-Very well done, Mike. Six.

Perhaps the most famous for Ben Johnson winning the 100 metres, setting the world record,

and later being banned and we won the men's hockey gold as well.

Philip. Do you think you might have a pointless answer?

I've got a couple of answers in my head, but I'm going to go for 1904,

which was St Louis.

St Louis, Missouri.

OK, St Louis, Missouri. 1904. Let's see if that's right

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

It's right.

Very well done indeed, Philip! Exactly what we needed. That's a pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot, takes it up to £10,000.

There we are. Five figures. It also scores you nothing. Richard.

Very well played, Philip. 1904, St Louis.

The first Olympics ever where they awarded gold, silver and bronze medals.

Let's take a look at those scores.

Philip and Michael looking extremely strong after that excellent

answer from Philip, with a score of absolutely nothing.

Then we come to Mike and Catherine with six.

And also Gayle and Richard on six.

And then a hop and skip up to 100, where we find Jimmy and Sara.

Sara, you know what we require of you.

We require two things, a lovely low score from you and a miracle.

I don't think either of those will happen.

Well, we shall see. Very best of luck.

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

Now then, Michael. I've got great news for you.

The high scorers are Jimmy and Sara on 100. If you can score 99 or less,

you are definitely through to the next round.

-That should help. 1992 Barcelona.

-There's your red line.

Get below that red line, you are definitely through to the next round. 1992, Barcelona. Is it right?

Yep.

Very well done indeed. 17, Michael. 17 takes your total up to 17.

APPLAUSE

Good answer. Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell winning gold for Britain in those Olympics.

Catherine. You're on six.

The high scorers still are Sara and Jimmy on 100.

A score of 93 or less from you will see you through to the next round.

I know there was an Olympics straight after the war

and I know that was in London.

I think that's 1948, if I've got that right.

You're going to say 1948 London.

Let's see if 1948 and London is right.

Absolutely right. Very well done.

-18.

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18 takes your total up to 24. Well done, Catherine.

Well played. Safely through. A great answer, well done.

Richard. The high scorers are still Sara and Jimmy on 100.

You're on six.

Again, a score of 93 or less will be enough to see you through to the next round.

Remember, we're looking for the years

and host cities of the summer Olympic Games.

I'm going to play safe and go for 2008 Beijing.

2008 Beijing, says Richard. Let's see if it's right

and if it is, let's see how many people said 2008 Beijing.

Yes, well done, Richard. You're through.

-28.

-APPLAUSE

28 takes your total up to 34.

Yes, safely through again. Michael Phelps won eight gold medals.

Usain Bolt beat the 100 and 200 metres world records. Team GB came fourth in the medals table.

Exciting. Sara. There are two ways of looking at this.

The first way is, you're already the high scorers on 100.

The second way is, nothing to lose.

It's fine, it's not my fault we're going out.

So I'm going to have to guess as well.

You're going to put a city and the date together.

Yeah, why not? Let's stick with Athens again.

I don't know if this was an Olympic year. I'm going to say 1950.

-OK.

-If were going to go out, let's go out with a bang.

OK, you're going to say 1950, Athens.

Athens 1950. Is it right and how many people said it?

Bad luck, Sara.

I'm afraid, an incorrect answer scores you the maximum 100 points.

Takes your total up to a majestic 200.

Sorry, Sara. Athens held the Olympics in 1896 and 2004.

They did not hold it two years after the 1948 Olympics, I'm afraid.

There are a whole bunch of other pointless answers as well.

Amsterdam, 1928.

That's where the Olympic flame made its first appearance. Antwerp, 1920.

Helsinki, 1952.

Los Angeles, 1932 and there is St Louis, 1904.

Very well done to anyone who said those at home.

Let's take a look at the most popular answers.

Barcelona, 1992, the third most popular answer. London, 1948. 18.

We've seen all three of these. The top one is Beijing, 2008.

At the end of the first round,

the losing pair with the highest score, Jimmy and Sara.

That wasn't your round at all.

It wasn't, but at least we're equally bad.

Yeah, exactly. There is great merit in that.

We look forward to seeing you again, but in the meantime, thanks very much for playing.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.

There's only going to be room for two pairs in our head-to-head round,

so one of the teams will be leaving as at the end of this round.

Our category for round two is:

Can you decide in your pairs who's going first and who's going second?

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

OK, our question concerns TV shows and their title characters.

-Richard.

-We're going to see show you a list of names on our first pass and you have to tell us

how were these characters described in the title of a TV series.

For example, if the names were Sabrina, Jill and Kelly, the answer would be Charlie's Angels.

Six on each pass. 12 TV programmes to guess in all. Very best of luck.

Thanks. We are looking for the TV shows in which these characters are described by the title.

And we have got:

I will read them one last time.

There we are.

Six characters, or groups of characters,

who are described by the title of the show they appeared in.

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

-Gail, is this a good category for you?

-Not bad. I recognise a few.

I think I will go with Terry McCann, Minder.

Terry McCann. Minder, you are saying. Let's see if that's right

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

It's right.

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54.

-Quite high.

-It is high but it ran for ten series, from 1979,

all the way through to 1994. It was hugely popular. Dennis Waterman playing Terry McCann.

Mike, we're looking for the TV shows in which these characters

are described by the title of the show.

There is one thing that rings a bell but this is a real guess.

Steve Austin, Stone Cold.

OK, Stone Cold, says Mike.

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

Bad luck, Mike. I'm afraid that's incorrect answer, which means you score 100 points.

Yes, there is a Stone Cold Steve Austin, a wrestler.

-But it's not a TV show, I'm afraid.

-Now then, Michael.

And then to say Steve Austin, The Fall Guy.

The Fall Guy. Steve Austin, says Michael.

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

Bad luck. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, which means you score 100 points.

-Sorry.

-It's not a million miles off a correct answer.

The Fall Guy was Colt Seavers, but played by Lee Majors

and Lee Majors also played the 6 Million Man.

Steve Austin was the 6 million man. It would have scored you 32 points.

-Jim, Barbara, Denise and Anthony?

-I'm not good at this at all.

-It's The Royle Family. Jaime Sommers?

-No.

-She was The Bionic Woman.

It would have scored you 11. Bob Ferris and Terry Collier?

-The Likely Lads.

-Absolutely right, would have scored 33.

The best answer, Percy Toplis.

He was The Monocled Mutineer. Very well done if you remember that one.

Thanks very much, Richard. Halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

Gail and Richard, true to form, lovely low score of 54.

And then we go up to 100, where we find Mike and Catherine

and Michael and Philip.

It's going to be a tussle between you

to see who stays with us and who leaves at the end of the round.

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

We'll put six more characters on the board and here they come. We have got:

I'll read those all again once more time.

So there they are.

You're looking for the TV shows in which these characters

are described by the title of the show they are in.

You're trying to find the one the fewest of 100 people knew.

-Philip, you're the joint highest scorers.

-OK.

I'm not very confident.

There's a couple that I might know but I'm going to play it

relatively safe and say Robert McCall, The Prisoner.

Robert McCall, The Prisoner.

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

There's no red line for you because you're the high scorers.

Bad luck, Philip.

An incorrect answer, it scores you 100 points

and takes your total up to 200.

So, Catherine. Philip and Michael are now the high scorers on 200.

A score of 99 or less will see you into the head-to-head.

We're looking for the TV shows in which these

characters are described by the title.

I should know the Granger one,

but for some reason it's gone out of my head.

I went away from the Clampett family but I've come back.

I'll say 1.4 children.

1.4 children for the Clampetts. Let's see if that's right

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

OK, unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer,

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

Now then, great news.

Richard and Gail, whatever happens, you're through to the next round.

The Clampett family, The Beverly Hillbillies.

The Beverly Hillbillies, says Richard, for the Clampett family.

Let's leave it right and if it is, how many people said the Beverly Hillbillies.

It's absolutely right.

32. Very, very well done, Richard. That takes your total up to 86.

APPLAUSE Well played, Richard.

A sitcom about a country family who moved to LA after they strike oil.

Very exciting, we have a tie.

This happens very occasionally on Pointless and when it does,

our pairs have to give me one more answer each

and the highest pair gets eliminated.

The difference is you are now allowed to confer.

Catherine and Mike, you're going to answer first.

-What do you think?

-I don't know.

Can you think of an American show, do you want to guess?

-Do we have an answer?

-Not really, we're going to have to guess.

-Good-oh!

-Fingers crossed.

And we'll say, Robert McCall, The Singing Detective.

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

of our 100 people said Robert McCall was The Singing Detective.

Bad luck. I'm afraid, an incorrect answer scores you 100 points

and takes your total up to 300.

LAUGHTER

Now then, Philip and Michael, you're the last people to have this board.

-Please know something on it.

-We should.

This is normally the kind of thing I know all the answers to.

But we don't. We're going to guess.

-We're going to say Will, Jay, Neil and Simon...

-The Inbetweeners.

-Yeah, I don't know.

-Will, Jay,

Neil and Simon, The Inbetweeners.

There was a pleasing murmur from the audience there.

The Inbetweeners. Is it right and how many people said it?

Well done, it's right.

22.

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Take your total up to 222 and sees you into the head-to-head.

-Well done.

-Very well played, Philip and Michael.

That pleasing murmur was of an audience that thought they were never going to get home.

Let's take a look. The Singing Detective was Philip Marlowe,

in Dennis Potter's play. Let's take a look at the rest of them.

-Another quite high-scoring board. Geraldine Granger, do you know that one?

-It's The Vicar Of Dibley.

Absolutely right. Would have scored 34. Eddie Fitz Fitzgerald?

Better known as Fitz Cracker. Would have scored 23.

-Kelly, Curtis, Alisha, Simon and Nathan?

-No.

-Won a Best Drama BAFTA in 2010. Misfits.

-Yes.

Would have scored you five and Robert McCall is a pointless answer.

Very well done if you know that was Edward Woodward playing The Equaliser.

-Very good.

-At the end of round two, the losing pair with the highest score, it's Catherine and Mike.

-That was a punishing round, wasn't it?

-Too busy watching Pointless.

There we are.

There is great news, we get to see you in a second time.

You'll be back for our next show and we look forward to that.

I'm sure you'll go much further. Thanks so much for playing.

Lovely contestants.

APPLAUSE

For the remaining two pairs, things are about to get even more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Richard and Gail, Philip and Michael.

You're now only one round away from the final and a chance

to play for that jackpot, which currently stands at £10,000.

APPLAUSE

Only one pair can play for that money.

To decide which pair, you're now going to go head-to-head on the best-of-three questions.

The first pair to win two plays for the jackpot.

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

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Here comes your first question. And it concerns:

-Fish, Richard?

-I don't want anyone to get too excited or excitable,

but I'm about to show you five pictures of edible fish.

I know.

We're not going to do fish every day. Maybe just on Fridays.

OK, thanks. Let's reveal our five fish. Here we are. We have got:

Oh, yes.

Old friend.

No fish selection would be complete without E, I think you'll agree.

Richard and Gail, you've played best so far. You get to go first.

OK. I'm going to go for C, tuna.

C, tuna, say Richard and Gail. Philip and Michael, you can talk this through the rest of the board.

They all look the same to me.

I've no idea. A is pretty ugly.

Is that like a bottom thing, like a deep sea fish,

like monkfish or something?

I don't really know. What about D?

-I think it's herring.

-OK.

-Go with that.

We're going to say D is herring.

D, herring, say Philip and Michael.

Richard and Gail have said that C is tuna.

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

Absolutely right.

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23.

And Philip and Michael are saying D is a herring.

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

Unfortunately, an incorrect answer. That means Richard and Gail, after one question, you're ahead one-nil.

-Richard.

-A, do you want to have a guess?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were a monkfish, in fact.

It scores 18 points and it's a monkfish.

-Boo!

-Sorry, guys.

There it is. B is a sea bream.

-It's lovely to see them all in their natural habitats, isn't it?

-Yeah.

One point for sea bream.

D is not a herring, that's a sea bass.

That would have scored you two points.

E is the biggest score, do you know what it is?

-It's a plaice.

-It is a plaice. Absolutely right.

It would have scored 42 points.

A lot of people know their plaice in Britain(!)

Very good. Here comes your second question.

Now then, Philip and Michael,

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

It concerns:

-Florence Nightingale, Richard.

-We're going to give you five clues

-to facts about Florence Nightingale, can you pick the most obscure?

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Let's reveal our five clues to facts about the Florence Nightingale. Here they are.

I will read those one last time.

There are our five facts

about Florence Nightingale.

Philip and Michael, you have to win this question, remember.

OK, we're going to go with she was on the £10 note.

Bank of England note on which she appeared, £10 note.

OK, the £10 note.

Richard and Gail, you can talk us through the rest of the board,

-if you like.

-We're struggling. We're coming to educated guesses.

The first one, I think, won't be good enough, the Crimea War.

St Bart's, perhaps?

But Scutari, I've got an idea, that's an Italian word. Yeah, Gail?

-You go with it.

-We'll go Italy.

You're going to say Italy for Scutari barracks.

OK, we have the £10 note and we have Italy.

Philip and Michael, £10 note she appeared on.

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

Absolutely right.

-24.

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24. Richard and Gail,

you are saying the Scutari barracks that she founded were in Italy.

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

No, bad luck.

An incorrect answer, which means after two questions, you are 1-1.

Very good. Richard.

£10 note, she was replaced in 1994 by Charles Dickens.

Those barracks are in the Asian sector of Istanbul.

They were in Turkey. That would have scored you eight points.

Well done if you said that at home.

You were right not to go for the Crimea War.

It would have scored you a fairly hefty 49 points.

She founded a training school at St Thomas's rather than St Barts.

That would have scored four. Do you know which modern-day country Florence Nightingale was born in?

-There is a clue in her name.

-Italy.

-That is right.

She was born in Florence and named after it.

-Seven points that would have got you.

-Thank you, Richard.

Here comes your third question, the decider.

Whoever wins this question goes through to the last round and plays for that £10,000 jackpot.

It concerns:

UK Eurovision entrants, Richard.

We're going to show you five UK Eurovision entrants.

We'll show you their initials and the year in which they represent the UK.

-Identify the most obscure.

-Thanks very much, Richard.

Let's reveal our Eurovision entrants from the UK. And we have got:

I'll read those all one last time.

Now then, Richard and Gail, you answer first again this time.

OK, we're going for KATW, Katrina And The Waves.

OK, Katrina and the Waves, you are saying. Philip and Michael, you can do your talking out loud.

We think the BF is Bucks Fizz. I remember that one.

I'm just trying to work out the pronunciation of the J one.

-Say it out loud.

-I'm pretty sure it's Javine.

-Just so we don't get 100, shall we say Bucks Fizz? That is 1981.

-No.

-You don't know any of the others.

-No, I disagree.

Listen, if it is what you thought J, and we don't go for it, we're even.

We should go for Bucks Fizz.

Yeah, we're going for Bucks Fizz.

OK, Bucks fizz, say Philip and Michael.

I wouldn't like to call this one at all.

Richard and Gail have said Katrina and the waves, KATW.

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

It's right.

-39.

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So 39 for Katrina and the Waves.

Are more or fewer people going to remember Bucks Fizz and remember Katrina and the Waves?

Anyway, let's find out. Bucks Fizz, say Philip and Michael.

How many people said it?

It's right. Will it go down below 39?

-Yes, it will!

-APPLAUSE

-Yes!

-Calm yourself.

Very, very, very well done indeed.

Well, that means after three questions, Philip and Michael are through to the final, 2-1.

-Richard.

-You almost talk yourself into going for Javine,

the name of the lady who represented the UK in 2005.

It would have scored you 100 points. Because in 2003, Jemini, is the name of the band, we came last,

and they become the first entity in history ever to score nul points

in the Eurovision Song Contest and be a pointless answer. I don't know if they'll feel good or bad about that.

Nul points on this show is a very good score.

B is...

-Do you remember from 2011?

-Blue.

-Absolutely right.

That would also have won the points with 20. And BL from 1979?

-No idea.

-They sang the song Mary Ann in 1979.

-More famous in the '80s for releasing Agadoo.

-Black Lace?!

That would have scored you four points. Those answers would have won you the points.

Hopefully none of them were too familiar to you.

At the end of the head-to-head round, our losing pair, Richard and Gail.

This is so unfair. You were in this position last time.

-Our star pair throughout the show and you came up against Philip and Michael.

-We've had a great time.

They whipped it off you like the skirts of the two girls in Bucks Fizz.

But it's been brilliant having you on the show.

-Richard and Gail, thank you for playing.

-Thanks very much.

APPLAUSE

But for Philip and Michael, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Philip and Michael. You fought off the competition

and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy. Well done.

You have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at a colossal £10,000.

APPLAUSE

The rules are very simple. To win that many, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.

We've had one pointless answer on the show today, from you, Philip.

If you can find one more pointless answer now, you will leave you with that £10,000 jackpot.

You've got to choose a category and you can choose from these five options.

I personally think, country music. Radio could be anything.

-European playwrights.

-I like country music, I've got a lot of country music albums at home.

-I'm happy with country music.

-You are?

-Yeah.

-All right, great.

-We'll go country music.

-You're going to go country music. Good luck.

-LAUGHTER

-Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many females

inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as they could.

-Richard.

-We're looking for the name of any female solo recording artist

or songwriter or any other individual who has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame,

all the way through from 1961, up to and including 2011. Best of luck.

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

and you need one of those answers to be pointless to win £10,000.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

-Your time starts now.

-Dolly Parton has been. But that's quite famous.

I don't know if Reba McEntire has.

-I haven't seen the CMA Awards since 2004 or something.

-Think way back.

-KT Oslin, maybe.

-How far back does she go?

-Erm... Mary Chapin Carpenter.

-Yeah?

-She's a writer as well.

Yeah. She's been doing stuff for a long time.

-Nanci Griffith.

-How far back?

-Quite far back.

But if they're in the Hall of Fame, you would get the old-timers.

-How famous is Nanci Griffith?

-She's famous.

-OK, Nanci Griffith.

-That would be a safe answer.

-I don't know. Has Gillian Welch?

She's a bit too...

-Ten seconds left.

-I would say...

-Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Mary Chapin Carpenter... Nanci Griffith. So...?

-OK.

-OK, time is up. I now need your three answers.

-We should say Mary Chapin Carpenter.

-Really? OK. Mary Chapin Carpenter.

-Mary Chapin Carpenter.

-Nanci Griffith?

-Yeah.

-Nanci Griffith.

-Who is the other when we said?

-I can't remember. KT Oslin?

KT Oslin. OK, now, of those three,

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

Maybe Mary Chapin Carpenter. She is respected.

We'll put her last. Which do you think is your least likely?

-Nanci Griffith?

-Nanci Griffith.

-We'll put Nanci Griffith first.

We'll put them up on the board in that order. Here they are.

We were looking for females inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Nanci Griffith was your first answer, your least confident.

Let's see. Nanci Griffith. Is it right and how many people said it?

OK, unfortunately, an incorrect answer, but you did not have a lot

of faith in Nanci Griffith being pointless, even if it was right.

There we are. Nothing lost. You have two chances to win today's jackpot.

-£10,000, that jackpot! What would you do with that?

-I'd take my wife to New York.

-She's been on at me for ages to go to New York.

-Excellent.

Michael, how about you?

I would probably pay some debts, very depressing.

-Well, very best of luck.

-Not very interesting.

-And then run up lots more! Brilliant.

OK, we're looking for females inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer, KT Oslin.

It has to be correct and it has to be pointless to win that jackpot.

For £10,000, let's see how many people said KT Oslin.

-Not good. I was sure she had been.

-Oh dear.

You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot.

We're looking for females inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Your final answer was Mary Chapin Carpenter. You said this was your most confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win a £10,000 jackpot.

It has to be right and pointless, let's find out. Mary Chapin Carpenter,

for £10,000, is it pointless?

No!

That's a real pain.

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-Never mind.

-Oh, bad luck.

Unfortunately, three great sounding answers,

but you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless, or indeed correct answer.

I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £10,000,

which will roll on to the next show. You have been fantastic contestants.

You do of course take home our Pointless trophy. Very well done.

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This bit is going to be quite uncomfortable listening for you, quite probably.

-Richard?

-You played in exactly the right spirit all the way through.

I'll take through some of the ones you did mention and give you the scores.

Dolly Parton would have scored 47. Loretta Lynn would only score three.

Tammy Wynette, 23.

Reba McEntire, you almost went for that, it was a pointless answer.

-I should have said that.

-It would have won you £10,000.

Inducted in 2011. Let's take a look at some of the other answers.

Emmylou Harris, a pointless answer. She's done a huge amount of work.

Frances Williams Preston, an executive of the AMC. Jean Shepard.

Joe Walker-Meador, Minnie Pearl and there's Reba McEntire.

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

You said Reba McEntire. Ouch. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Philip and Michael,

but it's been great having you on the show. Thank you both so much for playing. Brilliant.

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Unfortunately, Philip and Michael didn't win our jackpot today,

so it rolls over.

On the next show, we will be playing for £11,000.

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Join us then to see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.