0:00:24 > 0:00:26Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong.
0:00:26 > 0:00:31Welcome to Pointless, the quiz show where obscure answers mean everything.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Let's meet today's players.
0:00:37 > 0:00:43First up, we welcome Darren and Caroline. How do you two know each other?
0:00:43 > 0:00:47We met when we were working at a supermarket. I was her manager.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51- We kissed at one Christmas party. - Ah...
0:00:51 > 0:00:57- But then never spoke to each other for two years after that. - Oh, Darren.
0:00:57 > 0:01:03And then seven years ago we was out for a friend's birthday party and the rest is history.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05- Was he a good manager?- No.
0:01:05 > 0:01:11- LAUGHTER - Why?- Just not to me. To everyone else he was all right.- Darren!
0:01:11 > 0:01:15- A love/hate relationship.- He kissed you.- He loved me, I hated him.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Really? But you kissed him, though.
0:01:19 > 0:01:24- I think I was a little bit...- Drunk. - That's it.- OK.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28How do you like that? Darren, what do you hope comes up?
0:01:28 > 0:01:35Em, sport. Most types of sport. Football, particularly. TV and films, not too bad.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39- Caroline?- I just don't want history, politics...
0:01:39 > 0:01:43- Everything apart from that. - I'm rubbish at that.
0:01:43 > 0:01:49Very best of luck. Lovely to have you. Next we welcome back Pete and Berni.
0:01:49 > 0:01:54Everyone gets two cracks at the final. Remind us what happened.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58- We failed on rivers. - Yeah, we had the Trent in Derby.
0:01:58 > 0:02:03Well, it's not too far away, but it isn't that close.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08- Remind us how you know each other. - Husband and wife. We're married.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10She added.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15For clarification. What would be your dream round, Pete?
0:02:15 > 0:02:20- Maybe some history, science, maybe a bit of sport.- OK.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25- How about you, Berni?- Something about food, cooking techniques. - Cooking techniques?
0:02:25 > 0:02:30- That would be cracking.- Old movie stars.- Very good. Best of luck.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Let's hope you go even further.
0:02:33 > 0:02:39- Next we welcome Pauline and Rachel. How do you know each other? - Rachel and I are friends.
0:02:39 > 0:02:46And we are avid theatregoers. We hit the Chichester plays every season.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50- You get brilliant things. - Absolutely.- You see the lot?- Yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:56- Most of them.- What's been your favourite recently? - I just went to see Basket Case
0:02:56 > 0:03:01with Nigel Havers in. And he is so lovely, so that was a nice one.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07- You've fallen for Havers.- Yes. - Look at that - coquettish. That's what coquettish is.
0:03:07 > 0:03:12- How about you, Rachel? - The Madness of King George.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17- So theatre is a strong suit. What else?- Geography. I like to travel.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22- OK.- I'm reluctant to say I'm strong in anything in case I get it wrong!
0:03:22 > 0:03:26That's the trouble! Keep the cards close to your chest.
0:03:26 > 0:03:31- Pauline? - I would like the Tudors to come up. Henry VIII and his wives.
0:03:31 > 0:03:37- I like to think I'd have given him a good run for his money. - I bet you would.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40But probably I'd have lost my head!
0:03:40 > 0:03:47OK, very good. Let's hope all of these things come up. Best of luck. It's lovely to have you.
0:03:47 > 0:03:54- And, finally, Rolf and David. How do you know each other?- We used to work together. I've retired.
0:03:54 > 0:04:00- What are you doing now, Rolf? - I work in security for a major supermarket chain,
0:04:00 > 0:04:05- but also I'm an aspiring poet. - An aspiring poet!
0:04:05 > 0:04:11- How long have you been writing poetry for?- All my life, but now we've got some books published
0:04:11 > 0:04:17- and hopefully that'll be the occupation in future. - So what do you hope comes up?
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Geography, history, sport. That would be fine.
0:04:21 > 0:04:26- Have you been a team before?- Yes. - I sense that. Formidable duo.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30At British Telecom, yes, in national competitions.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35- Did you do brilliantly well?- We made the final three years in a row.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40Came second the first two times and then won it by 27 points.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44- Wow. Wow. - APPLAUSE
0:04:46 > 0:04:52Other telecommunications quizzes are available. This is quite scary all of a sudden.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56Very best of luck if you need it. Lovely to have you.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58We'll find out more about you all.
0:04:58 > 0:05:04Only one person left. If he were a farmyard animal, he'd be the black sheep.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08- He's my Pointless friend, Richard. - Hiya. Hello.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15- I would be the black sheep? - Yes.- Why so?
0:05:15 > 0:05:19- Slightly rarer. I don't know. - LAUGHTER
0:05:19 > 0:05:25- You could just say, "He's a good friend, a hell of a guy. Here's Richard."- Wouldn't life be easier?
0:05:25 > 0:05:30One person left to introduce. He's a hell of a guy. He's Richard.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34- That's much nicer. - I can do that every time.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38I was going to say we have an open show with only one returning pair,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42who did fairly well last time, but then Rolf and David come along.
0:05:42 > 0:05:48Our first ever published poet, I think. I suspect they will run away with it.
0:05:48 > 0:05:54- What are the questions like? - I think we've got some quite tough ones today.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59- Not tough for Rolf and David, but tough for everybody else. - LAUGHTER
0:05:59 > 0:06:06All our questions have been put to 100 people, but we are looking for the obscure answers they didn't get.
0:06:06 > 0:06:13Our players need to score as few points as they possibly can. Everyone wants a pointless answer
0:06:13 > 0:06:19that none of our 100 people gave. Each time that happens, we add £250 to our jackpot.
0:06:19 > 0:06:24It was won last time, so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32OK, let's play Pointless.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41OK, in this first round each of you gives me one answer and you cannot confer.
0:06:41 > 0:06:48Whichever pair has the highest score will be eliminated. An incorrect answer scores 100 points,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50so try to avoid those if you can.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Our first category this afternoon is...Sport.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59Sport. Can you all decide who goes first and who goes second?
0:06:59 > 0:07:04And whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:07:11 > 0:07:17to name as many competing teams at the 2010 Commonwealth Games as they could.
0:07:17 > 0:07:24- Competing teams at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Richard? - Yeah, I'll say this is geography.
0:07:24 > 0:07:31Any of the teams that competed in the 2010 Games - countries and territories and dependencies.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35OK, there we are. Nice little tip there from Richard.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39Caroline and Darren, you drew lots and you get to go first.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44So, Caroline, geography with a side serving of sport. Good for you?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47- No.- No. I'm not very good at either.
0:07:47 > 0:07:52Did you watch the Commonwealth Games at all? No.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Do you know what they are at all? No...
0:07:56 > 0:08:01- Not really.- OK, here's fun. - I think they're like Olympics, aren't they?- Yeah.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06But this is where I get a bit silly now. It's everywhere, isn't it?
0:08:06 > 0:08:11- It's the Commonwealth Games, Caroline.- OK.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15- I've just got to take a stab. Australia.- Australia.
0:08:16 > 0:08:22- Australia, says Caroline. What do you reckon, Darren?- Dunno. - OK, Darren doesn't know.
0:08:22 > 0:08:27Let's see if it's correct and how many people said Australia.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It's right.
0:08:30 > 0:08:3467. Not a bad stab in the dark, Caroline.
0:08:35 > 0:08:41- Australia. Richard?- If you're going to take a stab, at least it's not wrong - 67 instead of 100.
0:08:41 > 0:08:47OK, now then, Berni. What is the most obscure country in the Commonwealth Games you can think of?
0:08:47 > 0:08:54- I'm going to go for...Jamaica. - Jamaica, says Berni. Let's see if that's right
0:08:54 > 0:08:56and how many people said Jamaica.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58It's right.
0:09:02 > 0:09:0426.
0:09:06 > 0:09:0826. Not a bad score at all.
0:09:08 > 0:09:15- Richard?- They've got 42 golds in the history of the Commonwealth Games up to 2010. Jamaica.
0:09:15 > 0:09:21There we are. Now, Pauline, we're looking for competing nations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25I was going to say Jamaica! But, wild stab, Kenya?
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Pauline says Kenya. Is that right and how many people said it?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33It's right.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Oh, it's good, Pauline. Brilliant! Look at that - 7!
0:09:40 > 0:09:42That's a great answer.
0:09:45 > 0:09:50- Seven.- One of the dominant countries in middle and long-distance running.
0:09:50 > 0:09:57OK, and David, we want competing nations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. What do you think?
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Well, I'm possibly going to go out on a little bit of a limb here.
0:10:03 > 0:10:10I know that Mozambique is a member of the Commonwealth, even though it's a former Portuguese colony.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15They do produce some long-distance runners, so Mozambique.
0:10:15 > 0:10:21Well, we shall see. Is it right and how many of our 100 people said Mozambique?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24It's a correct answer, David.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28It's going to be low-scoring.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Down it goes... Very well done!
0:10:31 > 0:10:35It's a pointless answer. It adds £250 to today's jackpot.
0:10:35 > 0:10:41It takes the total up to £1,250. And, David, it scores you absolutely nothing.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Very well done indeed.
0:10:43 > 0:10:50Would we have expected any less? Joined the Commonwealth in 1995. Won four medals in the women's 800m.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55Very good indeed. We're halfway through. Let's look at the scores.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59David and Rolf, brilliant score there. Zero - look at that.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03Then we go up to 7 for Pauline and Rachel,
0:11:03 > 0:11:09then up to 26 for Berni and Pete, then 67 for Caroline and Darren. Not bad for a stab in the dark,
0:11:09 > 0:11:14but Darren needs a really good low scoring answer to stay in the game.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:11:19 > 0:11:25Remember, we are looking for competing nations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30Now then, Rolf, you're the low scorers on 0.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35High scorers are on 67. Score 66 or less and you are through.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- I'd like to go for Guernsey. - Guernsey.
0:11:38 > 0:11:46- I wouldn't even have thought of Guernsey.- Well, you're no Rolf. - I am no Rolf.
0:11:46 > 0:11:50- They usually do well in the bowls. - Usually do well in the bowls.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52He's just rubbing it in.
0:11:52 > 0:11:58There's your red line, Rolf. Below that and you and Guernsey are through.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Is it right? How many said it?
0:12:01 > 0:12:03It's right!
0:12:03 > 0:12:05You're through.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Three! That's fantastic.
0:12:15 > 0:12:23- Three for Guernsey.- Yeah. I'm a bit disappointed in Rolf. Three points.- Me, too.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27David was all zero points, which I was impressed with, but three?
0:12:27 > 0:12:31I've seen lower. That's all I'm going to say.
0:12:31 > 0:12:37OK, Rachel. Competing nations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42You're on 7, thanks to Pauline's brilliant answer in the first pass.
0:12:42 > 0:12:48High scorers are still Darren and Caroline on 67. 59 or less will see you through.
0:12:48 > 0:12:54- Difficult decision whether to play a bit safe or take a risk.- Do you watch the Commonwealth Games?
0:12:54 > 0:12:58I didn't in 2010. I wasn't in the country very much.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02I was not in the Commonwealth, so it wasn't being shown there.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06- Right.- So I think I will say...
0:13:06 > 0:13:12- South Africa. - South Africa says Rachel. Here's your red line.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17Below that, you're through. Is it right and how many said it?
0:13:18 > 0:13:20It's right.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25And you're through to the next round. Very well done.
0:13:25 > 0:13:3013! That's a great score. 13 takes your total up to 20.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- So, Richard...- Safely through. Came back in for the 1994 Games.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38They've won over 300 medals.
0:13:38 > 0:13:43Pete, we want competing nations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48The high scorers are still Darren and Caroline on 67.
0:13:48 > 0:13:54If you score 40 or less, you are through and we say goodbye to Darren and Caroline.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59I've got two answers. One's a safe one and one could be pretty good.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04I think I'll take a punt at this and go for the more obscure one.
0:14:04 > 0:14:12- This is what I like to hear.- I'm going to go for the British Virgin Islands.- British Virgin Islands.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16There's your red line. Let's see if it gets you below it.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20The BVI. Is it right and how many people said it?
0:14:20 > 0:14:25It's right! I think that's going to be a brilliant answer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:30It gets you through. Down it goes... Oh, one!
0:14:33 > 0:14:38That's a fabulous score - one. Takes your score up to 27. Richard?
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Good answer. Took an educated guess and it paid off.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45- Have they won a medal? - No. Not so much.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Now Darren and Caroline, I have bad news for you.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53You will be leaving us at the end of this round.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Nobody has overtaken your high score. But you can have some fun!
0:14:57 > 0:15:04Em, obviously, we're unable to go through, so I'll try for another pointless answer.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06I think I'll go for Malta.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11Malta says Darren. Very selflessly looking for a pointless answer
0:15:11 > 0:15:16to swell the jackpot for those who will come after him. OK, Malta.
0:15:16 > 0:15:23Competing nations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Is that right and how many people said Malta?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25It's right.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33Down it goes... Look at this! Four! Look at that.
0:15:33 > 0:15:39Well done. Takes your total up to 71. It was exactly what you needed to do, Darren.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44Sadly, everyone else scored very low in that last pass. Malta?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Strong end to the round. Bodes well for next time.
0:15:47 > 0:15:54One of the old tenets of Pointless is, if in doubt, say Central African Republic or Tuvalu.
0:15:54 > 0:16:00Central African Republic, no. But Tuvalu was a pointless answer. Brunei also pointless,
0:16:00 > 0:16:05Gibraltar a pointless answer, Isle of Man a pointless answer,
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, all pointless.
0:16:09 > 0:16:16St Lucia, Tanzania and even Uganda, they've won 44 medals, but that's a pointless answer.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21And lots of smaller islands like Antigua, Anguilla, St Nevis, St Kitts.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25All of those are pointless. Let's look at the high scorers.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27New Zealand, 47.
0:16:27 > 0:16:32Canada, 53. Sorry, Caroline - it's Australia right at the top with 67.
0:16:32 > 0:16:39A lot of people said United Kingdom, who don't play in the Commonwealth, so England, Scotland, Wales,
0:16:39 > 0:16:44- Northern Ireland, Isle of Man... - Thanks, Richard. So the losing pair,
0:16:44 > 0:16:50I'm sorry, it's Darren and Caroline. That round got easier. It sounded like a pig to start with
0:16:50 > 0:16:57if you didn't know your Commonwealth Games nations, but it boils down to islands that might be part of it.
0:16:57 > 0:17:04- If I'd gone last, I probably would have known.- Stormed it!- Pointless. - You'd have got Tuvalu, probably.
0:17:04 > 0:17:11- Well, we will see you again. Thank you, Darren and Caroline. - Thank you.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15For the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26There's only room for two pairs in the Head to Head, so one team leaves after this round.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31Our category for Round Two is... Famous People. Famous People.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Decide who is going to go first and who will go second.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:17:42 > 0:17:47So our Round Two question concerns...Famous Doctors.
0:17:47 > 0:17:53- Famous Doctors. Richard?- Six clues on each pass to the identity of famous people who trained
0:17:53 > 0:17:59or qualified as doctors. A nice, obscure answer scores fewer points. An incorrect one scores 100.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03- 12 doctors in all to guess at home. - OK, thanks.
0:18:03 > 0:18:09- We are looking for these famous doctors. And here they are. - HE READS THE LIST
0:18:21 > 0:18:24I'll read all those one more time.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43There are our doctors. You want the one the fewest people knew.
0:18:43 > 0:18:50- Berni...- Yes. - Famous People. Does this turn out to be a good category for you?
0:18:50 > 0:18:55Not too bad. I'm going to take quite a safe option, I think.
0:18:55 > 0:19:01I'll go for the founder of psychoanalysis - Dr Sigmund Freud.
0:19:01 > 0:19:08Dr Sigmund Freud. Let's see if that's right and how many people knew that answer.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10It's correct.
0:19:14 > 0:19:1539.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Not a bad score. Freud.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24No Freudian slip there. Well done. 39 points.
0:19:24 > 0:19:31- Rachel, remember, we are looking for the names of these famous doctors. - I'm a nurse. I should know more!
0:19:31 > 0:19:38Em, I think I know one definitely and one maybe, so I'm going to go with the definite,
0:19:38 > 0:19:43which is the successful human heart transplant. Christiaan Barnard.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48Christiaan Barnard you say for the first human heart transplant.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54It's right.
0:19:58 > 0:20:0024.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08- 24 for Christiaan Barnard. - Performed it in Cape Town in 1967.
0:20:08 > 0:20:13Rolf, you are the last person to have this board of doctors.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17If you want to talk us through all of them, please feel free.
0:20:17 > 0:20:23Those two I knew. I think Roger Bannister will be too high, so I'll go for Che Guevara
0:20:23 > 0:20:28- for author of The Motorcycle Diaries. - OK. Dr Che Guevara says Rolf
0:20:28 > 0:20:33for author of The Motorcycle Diaries. How many people knew that?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35It's right.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Down it goes! Look at that. Five! That's a great answer, Rolf.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Five for Che Guevara.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51Well done, Rolf. Do you know what his family name was?
0:20:51 > 0:20:56- No.- Lynch.- Really?! - His family were Irish immigrants.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00- He was a keen rugby union player. - I had no idea. Really?
0:21:00 > 0:21:05- Any Lynches out there may be related to Che Guevara.- A Lynch went out...
0:21:05 > 0:21:11There's two very famous clarets, Lynch-Bages and Lynch-Moussas, both Irish...
0:21:11 > 0:21:15cos I know everyone's fascinated by that(!)
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Any wine lovers out there.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22- Oh, clarets! I see what you mean. - Yeah, listen.
0:21:22 > 0:21:28- You want to know more about this, press the red button now. - LAUGHTER
0:21:28 > 0:21:32That red button's the one that turns the telly off.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37Let's go through the rest. Rolf was right to avoid Roger Bannister.
0:21:37 > 0:21:44He would have scored 39 points, same as Freud. Presenter of Child of Our Time is Dr Robert Winston.
0:21:44 > 0:21:50That would have scored 21. The first woman to qualify is a pointless answer.
0:21:50 > 0:21:56Well done if you said Elizabeth Blackwell. And well done if you got all of them, especially.
0:21:56 > 0:22:02OK, we're halfway through the round. Let's look at the scores.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07No surprise. Rolf and David, amazingly low score there, five.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Then we come up to 24 with Rachel and Pauline
0:22:10 > 0:22:16and then 39 for Pete and Berni. Not bad scores any of them, but Pete, you are out in front.
0:22:16 > 0:22:22You need a really obscure doctor if there are any left when we get back to you. Good luck.
0:22:22 > 0:22:27Now can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:22:29 > 0:22:33OK, we're going to put six more doctors on the board. Here we are.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35HE READS THE LIST
0:22:46 > 0:22:48I'll read those one more time.
0:23:00 > 0:23:07OK, we are looking for the doctors that these clues describe. You want the one the fewest people knew.
0:23:07 > 0:23:13Now, David, you're the low scorers on five. The high score is 39. If you can score 33 or less,
0:23:13 > 0:23:18you are through to the Head to Head. What does that board look like?
0:23:18 > 0:23:25There's two which I know. I think I'll go for the father of antiseptic surgery.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27That's Dr Joseph Lister.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Joseph Lister says David.
0:23:29 > 0:23:35Let's see if that's right and how many said Lister. There's your red line.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38It's right.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45And you are through. Well done. 13 for Lister!
0:23:45 > 0:23:50Takes your total up to 18. Very well done.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54An incredibly important figure in modern medicine.
0:23:54 > 0:24:01Pauline, we're looking for the names of these famous doctors. You're on 24. The high score is 39.
0:24:01 > 0:24:06If you can score 14 or less, you are definitely in the Head to Head.
0:24:07 > 0:24:14Well, I can't believe I don't know any of them. I don't know that this can be a right answer,
0:24:14 > 0:24:18but I'm going to go for presenter of TV Burp.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22- Is his name Dr Harry Hill? - Harry Hill.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27That's what Pauline's saying. Here's your red line. It's quite low.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Is Harry Hill correct and how many people said it?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Oh!
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Oh! I think that was obscure only to you.
0:24:40 > 0:24:46There's everything you needed to know - he's a doctor, everyone knows.
0:24:46 > 0:24:51Poor old Josephine... Josephine Lister(!)
0:24:51 > 0:24:57- The man's just being dragged through the mud! In this, his 100th year.- How about that?
0:24:57 > 0:25:01- 82 that scores you. Takes your total up to 106. Richard?- Yeah.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05Real name, Matthew Hall. Trained as a doctor in London.
0:25:05 > 0:25:10- And a great deal better known than Joseph Lister.- OK, Pete.
0:25:10 > 0:25:16We're looking for famous doctors. The high scorers are now on 106. You're on 39.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21So 66 or less will be enough to get you through.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26- Talk us through the board if you like.- It won't take a lot of doing!
0:25:26 > 0:25:31I knew Harry Hill and Joseph Lister. But the rest, apart from one of The Goodies...
0:25:31 > 0:25:38Having watched a lot of that as a young boy, I've got a feeling the doctor was...
0:25:38 > 0:25:45- Graeme Gardner. - OK, Pete has said Graeme Gardner. There is your red line.
0:25:45 > 0:25:51Below that and you are through. Is it right and how many of our 100 people said Graeme Gardner?
0:25:56 > 0:26:00Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05That's a relief for Pauline and Rachel! That scores 100 points
0:26:05 > 0:26:10- and takes you up to 139. Richard?- Unlucky, Pete.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Right man, but the wrong name. It's Graeme Garden.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18- Very, very sorry. You've worked with him?- I haven't. I've met him.
0:26:18 > 0:26:24- He's one of the loveliest, funniest men I've ever had the pleasure to work with.- Yeah.- A lovely man.
0:26:24 > 0:26:29And he scored 18 points. Let's take a look at the rest. All authors.
0:26:29 > 0:26:35- The author of Jurassic Park? - Crichton?- Michael Crichton. That would have scored 22 points.
0:26:35 > 0:26:41- Author of A Study In Scarlet? - Conan Doyle.- Yes, the first ever Sherlock Holmes story. One point.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46And a pointless answer - the writer of Of Human Bondage.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51Somerset Maugham. Pointless answer. Very well done if you swept the board.
0:26:51 > 0:26:57Thank you, Richard. At the end of Round Two, the losing pair are Pete and Berni!
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Dear, oh, dear. That was really unfortunate.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06- Lost in translation.- Literally. The game was lost in translation.
0:27:06 > 0:27:13If Graeme Garden's watching - we flatter ourselves, but say he was - he'll be saying, "Garden!
0:27:13 > 0:27:17"Not Gardner!" And I'm afraid he'll have been vindicated.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21I'm really sorry we have to say goodbye. It's been brilliant.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26- Pete and Berni, great contestants! Thank you.- Thank you.
0:27:27 > 0:27:34But for the remaining two pairs things get even more exciting as we enter the Head to Head.
0:27:38 > 0:27:44Congratulations, Rolf and David, Pauline and Rachel. You are now only one round away from the final
0:27:44 > 0:27:50and your chance to play for the jackpot, which stands at £1,250.
0:27:54 > 0:28:01Only one pair can play for that money and to decide which pair you will now go Head to Head.
0:28:01 > 0:28:08For each question, you'll be shown five options on the board. You give one answer and you can confer.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12All you have to do is score less than the other pair and you win.
0:28:12 > 0:28:18The first pair to win two questions will play for the jackpot. Let's play the Head to Head.
0:28:20 > 0:28:25OK, here is your first question. And it concerns...
0:28:28 > 0:28:35- Richard?- We'll show five pictures of famous people born in Northern Ireland. We need their full names.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38The most obscure one will win.
0:28:38 > 0:28:44OK, thanks very much. Let's reveal our five people born in Northern Ireland.
0:29:01 > 0:29:07There they are. Now, Rolf and David, you've played best so far and get to go first.
0:29:07 > 0:29:15There are your five people born in Northern Ireland. You want the one that the fewest people knew.
0:29:17 > 0:29:22- We're going to go for A.- A. - And we think it's Patrick Kielty.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Patrick Kielty, you say. Pauline and Rachel,
0:29:25 > 0:29:32you can talk us through them all or even go for A if you disagree with David and Rolf's call.
0:29:32 > 0:29:36B looks very familiar, but we can't put a name.
0:29:36 > 0:29:41- D is in The Sound of Music. - We know the first name.- Connie.
0:29:41 > 0:29:49- We don't know the second name! - So, regrettably, we're going to have to go with E, which is George Best.
0:29:49 > 0:29:53OK, you're going to go with George Best, E.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57So we have Patrick Kielty and George Best. Rolf and David went for A,
0:29:57 > 0:30:03who they believe is Patrick Kielty. Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06It's right.
0:30:10 > 0:30:1125.
0:30:15 > 0:30:2225. Pauline and Rachel have had to go for E, so obscure they named an airport after him(!)
0:30:22 > 0:30:24LAUGHTER
0:30:24 > 0:30:28George Best. Let's see if that's right. George Best, E.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30How many people said it?
0:30:30 > 0:30:33Oh! 91.
0:30:33 > 0:30:40Bad luck. Pretty comprehensive there. Rolf and David, you are up one-nil. Richard?
0:30:40 > 0:30:48Yeah, a big score there. It must be strange to be the most recognisable person ever in your country.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52We'll go through the rest. You were very close with D.
0:30:52 > 0:30:56A, Patrick Kielty. B is Margaret from The Apprentice.
0:30:56 > 0:31:02- Do you know who I thought that was? - Who?- I thought it was Emma Thompson with dyed hair!
0:31:02 > 0:31:06- Did you? - It might have been for a role.
0:31:06 > 0:31:13Well, she'll be perfect to play Margaret Mountford in Apprentice - The Movie. That scored 2 points.
0:31:13 > 0:31:19C is the actor Sam Neill, whose father was a New Zealand serviceman stationed in Omagh.
0:31:19 > 0:31:24Now D, you're absolutely right. It's Connie Fisher.
0:31:24 > 0:31:29She would have won you the point as she'd have only got eight.
0:31:29 > 0:31:34- And there's George Best at the end on 91.- Sam Neill, though!
0:31:34 > 0:31:40I was thinking it could be Liam Neeson or Ewan McGregor.
0:31:40 > 0:31:45- To be fair, you think Margaret from The Apprentice is Emma Thompson(!)- But...
0:31:45 > 0:31:50- You probably thought George Best was Brian Blessed. - LAUGHTER
0:31:50 > 0:31:57- Yeah, I'd give you that. - Best answer up there was Margaret Mountford. Well done if you said it.
0:31:57 > 0:32:03Thank you. Here comes your second question and it concerns... Washington, DC.
0:32:03 > 0:32:08- Richard?- We'll give you five clues to facts about Washington, DC.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11The more obscure the answer, the fewer points.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16So here are your five facts about Washington, DC.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33I'll read those again very quickly.
0:32:43 > 0:32:49There we are. Pauline and Rachel, you have to win this question to stay in the game.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52It's all I'm going to say.
0:32:52 > 0:32:57- What's DC for? Washington... - I can't even think now.
0:32:57 > 0:33:02We're going to have to say the obvious, I'm afraid. Neither of us have been there.
0:33:02 > 0:33:09- The man it's named after is George Washington.- George Washington say Pauline and Rachel.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13So, Rolf and David, you can talk us through the board if you like.
0:33:13 > 0:33:19We're pretty sure we know all the rest. DC is District of Columbia.
0:33:19 > 0:33:23The city was probably Philadelphia. Washington Redskins.
0:33:23 > 0:33:28- But we'll go for the river. The Potomac.- The Potomac. OK.
0:33:28 > 0:33:35So we have the Potomac. Pauline and Rachel have answered George Washington for the name.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.
0:33:40 > 0:33:44- Down it goes. 53!- Oh, well.- Wow.
0:33:49 > 0:33:55And Rolf and David have gone for the River Potomac. Let's see if it's right and how many said it.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57It's correct.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Yup, that wins it.
0:34:01 > 0:34:0325!
0:34:06 > 0:34:12So there we are. After only two questions, Rolf and David are through to the final.
0:34:12 > 0:34:19- Only 53 people knew Washington, DC, was named after George Washington. - The rest thought Denzel Washington.
0:34:19 > 0:34:24- Ah, yes.- Good answer. The Potomac was a good answer as well.
0:34:24 > 0:34:29The problem is Pauline and Rachel were playing Name Famous Georges.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34Which I have to say you have done in exemplary fashion.
0:34:34 > 0:34:39Well played, guys. We suspected from the start you'd do rather well.
0:34:39 > 0:34:45Let's go through the rest. You were right - DC is District of Columbia and would have scored 31 points.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49The American football team is the Redskins. It scored 17,
0:34:49 > 0:34:52a better answer than Potomac.
0:34:52 > 0:34:58And it succeeded Philadelphia as the capital of the USA. That was the best answer with six.
0:34:58 > 0:35:03OK, thanks very much, Richard. So the losing pair, I'm sorry to say,
0:35:03 > 0:35:10- is Pauline and Rachel. - They were such tough guys to beat! - They were tough guys to beat.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14- You had them pointed out. - I did warn you.- Tough categories.
0:35:14 > 0:35:21- But I have been to Washington, which is embarrassing.- Now she tells us!- I didn't know that!
0:35:21 > 0:35:28- She snuck away without telling you? - Yes!- Have you seen that amazing statue of Denzel Washington...?
0:35:28 > 0:35:33- The Smithsonian Institute I was hoping would come up!- Ah!
0:35:33 > 0:35:38- But we get to see you again.- Good. - We'll see you again next time.
0:35:38 > 0:35:44I hope we have categories you know completely. Thanks so much for playing. Great contestants.
0:35:46 > 0:35:51But for Rolf and David it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:35:55 > 0:36:03Congratulations, Rolf and David. You fought off the competition and won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:36:09 > 0:36:17You now have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show it stands at £1,250.
0:36:20 > 0:36:25The rules are very simple. All you have to do is find a pointless answer.
0:36:25 > 0:36:31We've had one. David, it was yours with Mozambique. You need one more to get the money.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35Firstly, you've got to choose a category and we have five options.
0:36:45 > 0:36:50- Not operas and ballets, please. - No.- And not horse racing.
0:36:50 > 0:36:56I'd be torn between animated films and 1970s music.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00- I'm not hot on 1970s music. - How about animated films?
0:37:00 > 0:37:07- Not particularly hot. - That's probably my two strongest. - That's a bit of a problem.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10What are we going to do now?!
0:37:10 > 0:37:17- I'd feel more comfortable with the animated films.- I'd go for that as well, then. Animated films.- OK.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20Animated films. Let's find out what the question is.
0:37:20 > 0:37:27We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many films nominated for Best Animated Feature Oscar
0:37:27 > 0:37:35- as they could. Richard?- Yeah, any film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
0:37:35 > 0:37:40from when it was first introduced in 2002, right through to 2011.
0:37:40 > 0:37:45OK, there we are. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers.
0:37:45 > 0:37:52All you need to win that £1,250 is for one answer to be pointless. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.
0:37:53 > 0:37:59- Your time starts now. - Right, the first one was Shrek. That was what started them.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02But that probably is too well-known.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06- Ratatouille.- Ratatouille, yes. That's more recent.- Yeah.
0:38:06 > 0:38:10- Finding Nemo was one. - Finding Nemo, yeah.
0:38:10 > 0:38:16- Any others spring to mind? - I'm trying to think. Is Madagascar pre-2002?
0:38:16 > 0:38:21I'm not sure if it was one. Happy Feet was, the penguin one.
0:38:21 > 0:38:27- What about Wallace and Gromit? - Yeah, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31- OK, so Curse of the Were-Rabbit? - Yes.- Happy Feet.- Happy Feet.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34- And Ratatouille?- Ratatouille. OK.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39You're going to stop there? OK, stop the clock. You have your three answers.
0:38:39 > 0:38:43We were looking for films nominated for Best Animated Feature.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45I now need your three answers.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50First, the least hopeful I would say is Ratatouille.
0:38:50 > 0:38:56- Ratatouille.- Then Happy Feet. Then best option is Wallace and Gromit's Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
0:38:56 > 0:39:00Curse of the Were-Rabbit. OK, we'll put them in that order.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02And here they are.
0:39:07 > 0:39:12We were looking for films nominated in the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.
0:39:12 > 0:39:19Ratatouille was your first and least confident pop at the jackpot. You only need one pointless answer
0:39:19 > 0:39:25to win that £1,250. So, Ratatouille. Is it right and how many people said it?
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Ratatouille.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30It's right.
0:39:30 > 0:39:35If this were to go all the way down to zero, you'd leave with £1,250.
0:39:36 > 0:39:42You weren't that confident, but it goes down to single figures! Two!
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Two for Ratatouille.
0:39:47 > 0:39:53- Rats!- Unfortunately, not a pointless answer, but you have two more chances to win.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58You put that one first deliberately. You thought it was most obvious.
0:39:58 > 0:40:04Films nominated in the Best Animated Feature category of the Oscars. Let's hope nobody said the next one.
0:40:04 > 0:40:11- What would you do with £1,250, David?- Ah, it would probably go towards a holiday.
0:40:11 > 0:40:16- Rolf?- I think the wife's got it already spoken for!- Oh, really?
0:40:16 > 0:40:22Let's see if Happy Feet can win it for her. It has to be pointless to win that jackpot of £1,250.
0:40:22 > 0:40:27Let's see if it's right and how many people said Happy Feet.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30OK, well, it's right.
0:40:30 > 0:40:35Ratatouille went down to two. Let's see how far Happy Feet goes down.
0:40:35 > 0:40:40If this goes down to zero, you will win that jackpot of £1,250.
0:40:40 > 0:40:42Down it goes... Five!
0:40:47 > 0:40:54Five for Happy Feet. So everything is resting on Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
0:40:54 > 0:41:00It's your last shot at the jackpot, but you thought this would be the most obscure of your answers.
0:41:00 > 0:41:07We were looking for films nominated for the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.
0:41:07 > 0:41:14Your last answer. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Is it right and how many said it?
0:41:14 > 0:41:16Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Yes, it's right.
0:41:20 > 0:41:24We went down to two and then down to five.
0:41:24 > 0:41:30And this is your most confident. Let's see if you put it in the right place...
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Yes! Very well done!
0:41:33 > 0:41:38You did exactly the right thing. Brilliant. Fabulous. Very well done.
0:41:42 > 0:41:48Very, very well done. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit was a pointless answer.
0:41:48 > 0:41:54- Do you remember how it did? Didn't it win?- It did win. - Appropriately enough.
0:41:54 > 0:42:00And now so have you. You have won our jackpot of £1,250. Well...
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Very good.
0:42:06 > 0:42:11- Richard?- Well played, gents. All three of your answers won the Oscar.
0:42:11 > 0:42:16Curse of the Were-Rabbit was the only winner that was pointless.
0:42:16 > 0:42:23People at home may have got these. Coraline was a pointless answer, Fantastic Mr Fox, brilliant film.
0:42:23 > 0:42:29Howl's Moving Castle, another great film. Persepolis, not one for the kids.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Surf's Up - better than you think.
0:42:33 > 0:42:41Princess and the Frog, Triplets of Belleville and there's Wallace and Gromit. Well done if you got those.
0:42:41 > 0:42:48Thanks once again to our winning players, Rolf and David, who go away with today's jackpot of £1,250.
0:42:50 > 0:42:57- Join us next time when we put more obscure knowledge to the test. Goodbye from Richard...- Goodbye.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00And goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Very well done.
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