Episode 22 Pointless

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Thank you very much. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.

Welcome to Pointless where we put obscure knowledge to the test. Let's meet today's players.

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First, we welcome back Jack and Hattie. You were on the show last time.

Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final. This is your second chance.

-Jack, remind us how you know each other.

-We're brother and sister.

-Hattie, what happened last time?

-We got to the head-to-head, so we avoided embarrassment, I think.

-You did incredibly well. Three very well played rounds.

-I think we got lucky.

Jack, what do you hope is going to come up today?

Hopefully, sport. With a bit of luck, that might pop up.

-OK.

-A bit of history and geography as well.

-Any particular era of history you feel confident in?

Well, quite modern history, so from 1900 onwards

-and a bit of Republic of Ireland history, their relations with England. I know.

-OK.

-Anything you're dreading?

-Politics would be terrible, although I could do Presidents.

-OK...

-I don't like those word ending ones either.

Fingers crossed, they won't come up. You did very well last time.

Let's hope we see even more of you this time.

Next, we welcome Jackie and Laura. How do you two know each other?

Well, this is my daughter Laura, so I've known her a long time.

-Not that long though, eh, Laura?

-Too long.

-What do you do, Laura?

I'm a PA at a local hospital and I'm also a swimming instructor.

How long have you done that for?

-Ten years now.

-Any heavy petting, bombing, diving, any of this sort of stuff going on?

Well, I did say at one point I was going to have put on my tombstone, "Don't run."

Jackie, what do you get up to?

-I like travelling, reading, cooking.

-These are all very good Pointless categories.

-They'll feed directly into your success today.

-Let's hope so.

What do you like reading? Any kind of book?

I like historical novels mostly.

-Good.

-But I like detective adventure stories, Rebus and...

Harlan Coben, I don't know if you know him.

-He's an American detective.

-I'm going to nod and pretend. It looks like I know who he is.

-I love Harlan Coben as well.

-I think SHE writes very well.

LAUGHTER You would like him because he writes with some fantastic one-liners.

-Really? Good.

-Really witty, brilliant, yeah.

I will and, thank you, I'm flattered by that association.

No, what she's saying is you need material.

Yeah... Very good. Jackie and Laura, welcome to the show. It's lovely to have you here.

Dan and Dave, we welcome next. How do you two know each other?

We've worked together as civil servants for seven years. We're still friends, so things are going well.

-Where are you from, Dave?

-Carlisle.

-Which department of the civil service are you in?

-It's for the Rural Payments Agency, part of DEFRA.

-All right.

What category would be great for you today?

-Only Fools And Horses or football.

-Dan, anything you would like to see come up?

I wouldn't mind anything on sharks. I'm big into sharks, so something like that.

The Simpsons? And I'm ashamed to admit it, but maybe Disney films as well.

-We'll see what we can do. Very best of luck, Dan and Dave.

-Thanks.

Finally, we have Jane and Caroline. How do you two know each other?

We went to primary school together. We've known each other over 50 years.

-Wow! Have you been close friends all that time?

-Yes.

-That's probably a record. How old were you when you first met?

-Four.

-Four?

-Yeah. Infant school, junior, secondary, right the way through.

-Good Lord!

-Where are you from, Caroline?

-Blackpool.

-What do you do there?

I work with my husband in the family building company.

-Jane, how about you?

-I worked for a large bank for 30 years, but I'm now retired.

Jane, what would you like to see come up today?

Anything about films, television, America, politics.

-Anything you're dreading?

-Science, nature, "words ending in" as well.

-Oh, right. Oh, dear. No-one likes "words ending in".

-No.

-Caroline, how about you?

-Food and drink. I did well on that lettuce question a few weeks ago.

-Oh, we'll never forget the lettuce question!

-So that would be good.

And TV and, you know, current affairs, politics type of thing.

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

There's only one person left for me to introduce. He's the champion of Trivial Pursuit in the Osman home.

-It's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya.

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-Hiya.

-Good afternoon to you.

-The top of the afternoon to you.

-50 years' friendship - that's not bad, is it?

-Yeah, wow!

-We've known each other 20-odd years, haven't we?

-23 years.

-23 years. Amazing, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-We've been friends for seven or eight months of that.

So Hattie and Jane, neither of them like "words ending in" rounds.

-I thought people liked "words ending in".

-I like "words ending in" rounds.

-I like them.

(It's why I put one on today's show.)

But the good news is... The good news is it's Round 2, so you might have been knocked out by then.

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

To get to the final round and try and win our jackpot,

our contestants want the obscure answers those 100 people didn't get,

so the fewer of our 100 people who knew the answer, the fewer points they will score.

Everyone wants a pointless answer that none of our 100 people gave

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

Kriss and Lyn won the jackpot last time, so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000.

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

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

Whichever pair has the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.

OK, our first category today is...

Actors. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

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

OK, our question concerns...

Films And Their Knights, Richard?

On each pass, I will show you seven films. Each one features a male actor who has been knighted.

Can you name that actor? A more obscure answer scores fewer points.

An incorrect answer will be 100 points.

There are 14 films and 14 knights to guess. Some of them are pretty tough.

OK, Jack and Hattie, you all drew lots before the show and today, you are going first.

So, we are looking for the knighted actors who star in these films.

I'll read all of those films again.

-Oh, that's tough.

-There may be some 100s coming up, yeah.

-Yeah.

There we are, seven films starring acting knights.

Jack, what is the most obscure acting knight you can think of starring in one of these films?

Well, I've only seen one of them.

I've seen two of them, but one, I think, I've seen a remake of, judging on the dates.

So I'm praying that I don't know he's been knighted and that he actually has.

I'm going to say Sean Connery for The Rock?

Sean Connery for The Rock. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people knew that answer.

Hattie's not confident at all. Is it right, Sean Connery? How many people said it?

Well done, Jack. It's the right answer.

18.

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-That's amazing.

-18. In your face, Hattie!

-I put my hands up.

-18 for Sean Connery.

Well done, Jack. He was knighted in 1999.

-One of the great moments when you're right and your sister's wrong.

-Thank you!

-They don't come often.

-No.

-No. Now then, Laura, what do you make of this round?

-It sounded fun.

-Yeah.

-Until the board went up.

I do know some of them, but I don't think they'll be very obscure.

So I'm going to go with Bridge On The River Kwai

-and Sir Alec Guinness.

-Sir Alec Guinness, says Laura.

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

It's absolutely right.

21.

-21 for Bridge On The River Kwai starring Sir Alec Guinness.

-Well played, Laura.

Very solid start to your Pointless career. He was knighted in 1959, Sir Alec Guinness.

Now, Dave, the board is getting more and more difficult as the easier answers are being picked off.

There's only one that's been made since I was born and it's been taken.

So...I'm struggling a bit.

I'm going to have a bash with Live And Let Die.

I don't know if he's been knighted or not, but I'll take a gamble with Roger Moore.

Roger Moore, says Dave. Let's see if that's right.

Roger Moore, has he been knighted? Is he the knighted star of Live And Let Die? Let's find out.

Absolutely right, it is Roger Moore.

40.

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-40 for Roger Moore.

High score, that.

Yes, knighted in 2003, Sir Roger Moore.

Caroline, you're the last person to have this board, so you can talk us through your musings.

Well, film was going to be my worst category.

-And the couple that I did know obviously have gone.

-Right.

I don't know whether you can have a female knight.

-It's male actors.

-In that case, I'm just going to have to have a stab and have a guess.

Were you going to go for "Sir Gourney" Weaver(?)

LAUGHTER No, I was going to go for Dame Glenda Jackson.

-Oh.

-But I'm just going to have a guess at The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin.

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

Absolutely right.

26.

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26. Not a bad score at all, Caroline. Richard?

Well played, everyone. That was very good. I would say "full marks" to everyone, but I don't mean that.

He was knighted in 1975, Sir Charlie Chaplin. Let's fill in the rest of the board.

The remaining three answers are all very low. Women In Love, do you know who was knighted in that?

-It's Sir Alan Bates.

-Alan Bates was knighted?

-Yeah, he was. 4 points.

Death In Venice?

-No.

-Sir Dirk Bogarde.

-I didn't even know he was knighted either.

-3 points.

And Alien, do you know who the knight is in Alien?

-It's one point if you said Ian Holm.

-Ian Holm.

-Ian Holm.

If anyone got all seven, it's very impressive. Seven more to come too.

Tough board. Very well played, everybody. Really well done for nobody getting 100 on that round.

Halfway through the round, let's take a look at the scores.

Jack and Hattie, lovely low score of 18, then we creep up to 21 where we find Laura and Jackie,

then up to 26 where we find Caroline and Jane, then up to 40, not a bad score, for Dave and Dan,

but it means you are the high scorers, so, Dan, we need some good, obscure answering on the next board.

We'll come back down the line. Can the second players take their places at the podium?

OK, we'll put seven more films on the board and here we are. We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Remember, we are looking for the acting knights who starred in these films

and you're trying to find the one the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Jane, you're on 26. The high scorers are Dan and Dave on 40.

-A score of 13 or less will keep you in the game.

-OK.

There are two or three I know. It's just trying to decide which is the lowest one.

I'm going to go with Arthur - Sir John Gielgud.

Sir John Gielgud, says Jane. 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 quite low.

Absolutely right.

A-ha-ha! 15.

15, it scores you. It takes your total up to 41. It's probably enough to keep you in the game. Richard?

Well played. He was knighted in 1953. Do you know what John Gielgud's real first name is?

Arthur.

-There you go.

-There you go.

-Why didn't he stick with Arthur Gielgud?

-I don't know.

Or maybe someone had already got it in Equity.

Why didn't you stick with Deirdre Armstrong? Perfectly nice name.

-Do you know, I would have...

-But there was another one in Equity.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Dan, the high scorers are now Jane and Caroline on 41.

You're on 40, so a pointless answer will keep you from becoming the new high scorers.

There's only one that I'm confident enough on, I think,

and I need to really take a risk,

but I think I'll have to go with The Silence Of The Lambs

-and Anthony Hopkins.

-Anthony Hopkins says Dan for Silence Of The Lambs.

Is it right, how many people said it?

Absolutely right.

38.

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-38 takes your total up to 78.

Our new high score. Richard?

It's going to be a tense rest of the round. He won a Best Actor Oscar for Silence Of The Lambs.

He's only on screen for 16 minutes, the second shortest ever appearance for an Oscar-winning actor.

-Really?

-16 minutes in the whole of Silence Of The Lambs.

David Niven is the only person to have acted for a shorter amount of time and won a Best Actor Oscar.

-That was in Separate Tables.

-Good, good, good.

Now then, Jackie, you are on 21. The high scorers on 78 are Dan and Dave.

If you can score 56 or less, through you go to Round 2.

I think I'll take a chance and say Sir Laurence Olivier for Marathon Man.

-Marathon Man, Sir Laurence Olivier, you are saying.

-That's right.

-There's your red line.

If you get below that, you are through to the next round.

Marathon Man, how many people said that, is it right?

Absolutely right, Jackie. Very well done.

And you are through to the next round. That's all that matters.

Down to 12, lovely low score.

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Very well played. He was knighted and was made a life peer in 1970.

So, Hattie, we come to you. You're on 18. The high scorers on 78 are still Dan and Dave,

which means a score of 59 from you will get you into the next round.

-What do you think of the board behind me?

-I only knew one of them.

Unfortunately, all those films are a little bit old for me,

so I think this is going to be the end of the line for us, sadly.

I'll go for The Wicker Man and I'll say Ben Kingsley.

The Wicker Man, Ben Kingsley. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it.

Your red line is in the middle of the board. Is Ben Kingsley right?

No, bad luck, Hattie. I'm sorry. I'm afraid Sir Ben Kingsley is not a correct answer for The Wicker Man,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points, taking your total up to an unbeatable 118, I'm sorry to say.

Yeah, sorry, Hattie. He is an acting knight, but not in The Wicker Man.

The knight in The Wicker Man is Sir Christopher Lee.

It would have scored you 8 points.

-Death On The Nile, which knight...

-Peter Ustinov.

-Absolutely right. Would have scored 22 points.

-My Fair Lady?

-Rex Harrison.

-Yes, Sir Rex Harrison is the knight in that - 12 points.

Now, Demolition Man, 1993...

I'm going to give a doff of the invisible cap to anybody at home who got this one.

Sir Nigel Hawthorne is in the Stallone movie, Demolition Man.

A pointless answer, so very well done if you said that.

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

I'm very sorry to say, Hattie and Jack.

-AUDIENCE: Aw!

-Oh dear, oh dear.

-Just unlucky.

-Head-to-head last time in a really tough round.

-We've enjoyed ourselves, so can't complain.

-Thanks very much for having us.

-Not at all.

-Hattie and Jack, great contestants. Thanks so much.

-Thank you.

But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round 2.

There's only room for two pairs in our head-to-head round, so one pair will leave us after this round.

A very interesting first round, Jackie and Laura our lowest scorers there by quite a way.

Which pair would you fancy seeing in the head-to-head round?

-Us?

-Well, yes, I know, but...

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-No, I'm assuming if you were to go... Yeah, good answer.

If you were to go through to the head-to-head round, which pair would you want to be against?

-I'm sure whichever pair will be excellent.

-Beautifully put.

Our category for Round 2 today is...

Oh, no!

Can you decide who's going first, who's going second?

Whoever's going first, 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 words ending in "...light" as they could.

Words ending in "...light".

-Richard?

-We want any word that has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of English that ends in "...light".

As always, no hyphenated words or proper nouns and the word "light" itself won't be accepted.

OK, now then, Jackie...

I can't think of anything inspiring,

so I shall just have to say "delight".

-Delight.

-Yes.

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

Absolutely right.

29.

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Nothing wrong with that, Jackie. 29 for "delight".

To please someone greatly - delight.

-Dave...

-I wish I'd paid attention in English.

-Starlight.

-"Starlight," says Dave. Let's see if that's right and how many people said "starlight".

Absolutely right.

22.

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-22, not a bad score at all. Richard?

-My definition says, "Starlight - the light that comes from the stars."

I honestly don't know what you'd do without me.

Now then...

-Caroline.

-I can think of a few, but not any very low, I don't think.

-But I'll go with the theme. Twilight.

-Twilight.

Let's see how many people said twilight.

Absolutely right.

We've been in the 20s so far.

Where will twilight end up? 21! There we are.

-21 for twilight.

-Soft, glowing light when the sun is beyond the horizon. Used to mean morning and evening,

-but now usually just evening.

-OK. Let's look at the scores as they stand. The best score is Caroline's.

Twilight there, scoring only 21. So Caroline and Jane looking very strong indeed.

Up to 22, Dave and Dan. And 29, Jackie and Laura.

OK, we'll come back down the line. Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

OK. We are looking for words ending in "..light".

Jane, you're the low scorers on 21. The high scorers are on 29.

If you can score 7 or less, you will avoid becoming the high scorers.

This was the one round I didn't want so I'll say the first thing in my head. Pre-Raphaelite.

OK, Jane is saying pre-Raphaelite. There's your red line. Below that, through to the next round.

Let's see if it's right and how many people said pre-Raphaelite.

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

-L-I-T-E.

That scores the maximum 100 points and takes your total to 121.

You're right. It doesn't end "..light". It's "lite" and it's hyphenated as well.

Anyway, Dan.

The high scorers on 121 are now Jane and Caroline.

You're on 22. A score of 98 or less from you will see you into the Head To Head.

I had one in my head, but I don't know whether I just made it up. It was a bit risky.

I'm going to be sensible and say flight.

Flight says Dan. Is flight right? How many people said flight?

Absolutely right.

43 for flight. It takes your total up to 65.

-You are through to the next round.

-The action of flying or the little bit on the end of a dart.

Laura,

the high scorers remain on 121. You're on 29.

So 91 or less sees you into the next round.

This is my nightmare round.

I have a word. I hope it's correct.

-Blight.

-Blight.

Blight says Laura. I think that's a great answer. There is your red line.

Lovely and high. But blight, my money is on that being the lowest scorer of our round so far.

But let's see. What do I know? How many people said blight?

Absolutely right.

32.

That takes your total up to 61. Like I said, blight,

-very high-scoring.

-Strictly speaking, a plant disease, but used more generally these days.

Jane, there's a whole number of ones that would have scored quite low. Highlight, headlight,

flashlight, skylight, spotlight. All of those were quite low scorers.

-I knew this would be it.

-Let's look at the pointless answers.

There's only eight of them. Catchlight is the reflection of light in the eyes in a photograph,

deadlight, which is a porthole on a ship that would never open, earthlight,

that's a pointless answer. Fireblight, which again is a plant disease, usually on roses.

Overflight, preflight is a pointless answer.

-It's in the first line of Rocket Man by Elton John.

-There we are, yeah.

Rushlight and safelight. Very well done if you said any of those.

Thanks very much, Richard. So at the end of Round Two, the losing pair is Jane and Caroline.

It had been very close up until that point. Pre-Raphaelite was a good pointless sort of answer.

Oh, it would have been a great answer if it hadn't been hyphenated and was spelt "..light" at the end!

-But...

-What are you gonna do?

-This all bodes very well for your next appearance on Pointless.

I'll be very surprised if this comes back. It's been lovely having you.

We'll see you next time. Great contestants, thank you.

But for the remaining two pairs things are about to get even more exciting with the Head To Head.

Well, congratulations, Jackie and Laura, Dan and Dave.

You are now only one round away from our final and a chance to play for the jackpot, which stands at £1,000.

You're now going to go head to head.

The first pair to win two questions will play for the jackpot. From here on in, you're allowed to confer.

So you can play as a team. Usually question one is a picture round.

I'll assume it is this time as well. What would you like that to be?

Well, for me The Beatles. Or sci-fi.

-Here are five Beatles. Tell us which one...

-You could have the houses and have to say which is which.

-Which Beatle's house?

-Yes.

-That's quite niche!

Pretty good. Dan and Dave, what would you like it to be?

Footballers, beautiful ladies.

Match the footballer to these beautiful ladies.

-That would be good!

-OK.

-This next question is going to be a crushing disappointment to everybody.

Let's play the Head To Head.

OK, here comes your first question.

And it concerns... parliament buildings.

There we are. Parliament buildings.

-Richard?

-Who's excited? Come on!

I'm going to show you five pictures of buildings which contain parliaments or legislatures.

You just need to tell me in which city would you find these buildings. Very best of luck.

OK, thanks, Richard. Let's reveal our five parliament buildings. Here they come.

So there we are. Five parliament buildings.

Jackie and Laura, you've played best so far, so you go first.

(B is Washington, A is Berlin. So shall we go C, Greece?)

OK.

-OK.

-OK, we have an answer?

-Yeah.

-We're going to say C is Gr...

-Athens!

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

Dan and Dave.

-OK, we're pretty confident on two.

-Do you want to talk us through the ones you know?

D would be London. I hope!

B, Washington, DC.

If Athens is right, I don't think either of those will beat that,

so we might have to guess or hope that Athens is wrong.

E looks like it's in space. Could be that.

-We'd need a city in space.

-Space City.

We'll play safe, I think. We'll go with B, Washington, DC.

-You're saying B, Washington, DC.

-Yeah.

-OK, Jackie and Laura

have said that C is Athens. Let's see if that's right and how many said it. C, Athens.

It's absolutely right!

Well done.

Down it goes. Oh, look at that! A pointless answer!

Very, very well done indeed, Jackie and Laura. That adds £250 to today's jackpot.

That takes the total up to £1,250.

It scores nothing. Beat that, Dan and Dave!

-We'll go for a tie!

-With Washington, DC.

OK, Washington, DC, for B say Dan and Dave. Let's see how many people said that.

Absolutely right.

60.

It was a safe answer and was going to struggle to beat Athens.

That was a brilliant answer there. Jackie and Laura are up one-nil.

Well played. Terrific answer. The Hellenic Parliament building.

Although it has just been bought by Paul McCartney, so...

He picked it up for a song.

-LAUGHTER

-I didn't mean that as a pun!

A you also knew. It's the Reichstag in Berlin.

It would have scored you 5 points.

-D. How many points do you think D scored?

-Either 99...or 17.

It scored 85 points.

-GASPS

-85 points.

-Wow!

-But how about this? Wouldn't you like this as your parliament?

E, that's terrific, isn't it?

It's designed by the modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer. It's in Brasilia.

Brazil's parliament building.

Terrific, isn't it? 2 points.

-So, actually, the Greek parliament was the best answer.

-Jackie and Laura, you had no hesitation.

-Do you know Athens well?

-I've just seen it on the news.

Dan and Dave, this is the question you have to win to stay in the game.

Here it comes. Our second question concerns...chess.

It concerns chess. Richard?

We'll give you five clues to facts about chess. Can you give us the most obscure answer, please?

Let's reveal our five clues to facts about chess.

HE READS THE LIST

I'll read those one last time.

There we are. Five facts about chess.

Dan and Dave, you are to go first.

OK, Dan and Dave?

We'll go for number of pieces on the board at the game's start and we'll say 32.

32.

32 pieces on the board at the start of the game.

-Now then, Jackie and Laura.

-Well... What shall we do?

-You can talk us through the board if you like.

-We only know two, or think we know two.

I don't know which one to...

-You can give us both answers.

-The US World Champion we think is Bobby Fischer.

And pieces which can move only diagonally is the bishop.

-Go for Bobby Fischer. Go on.

-Go on, then.

-OK, we'll go for Bobby Fischer.

-Bobby Fischer, US World Champion.

So in the order they were given, we have Dan and Dave saying 32 pieces on the board at the start.

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

Absolutely right.

49.

49.

Well, everything is going to hang on whether or not Bobby Fischer is right. It sounds good.

Bobby Fischer. Is that right? US Champion from 1972-1975.

How many people said it? Is it right?

-Absolutely right!

-Yes!

Is it going to beat 49? Yes, it is!

20.

Very, very well done indeed.

And that's checkmate. After two questions, Jackie and Laura are through to the final, two-nil.

That's the way to do it. Fascinating character, Bobby Fischer.

He's very, very interesting. Let's look at the rest of the board.

The piece which can move diagonally was the biggest answer. Bishop.

It would have scored you 57.

-The name of the IBM computer that beat Garry Kasparov?

-Deep Thought?

-Deep Blue.

-Deep Thought is Douglas Adams.

-First ever computer to beat a reigning world champion.

And the world governing body, founded in 1924, was FIDE.

Federation Internationale des Echecs. That would have scored one.

Thank you very much, Richard. So the losing pair, I'm afraid it's Dan and Dave.

-You were just roundly beaten by the tour de force that is Jackie and Laura.

-Ooh!

-We'll see you again next time and look forward to that. Thanks very much for playing.

-Cheers.

But for Jackie and Laura, it's time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Jackie and Laura. You have fought off the competition to win our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot, which now stands at £1,250.

You have performed so well on this show. That £250 was one of yours. Athens was yours, Laura.

-Yes.

-But Jackie, it's been brilliant teamwork. The pair of you have come up with great answers

all the way through.

They're quite tough, these last rounds, the categories.

-Is there anything you'd like to see? They're quite specific.

-No.

-Just take a chance!

-OK, well, best of luck. The rules are very simple.

All you have to do is find another pointless answer. We've had one and it was yours.

You just have to find one more. First you have to choose a category.

We have five options for you and they are.

HE READS THE LIST

-There's only two there. You do crime writers.

-Crime writers or pop divas.

You're better at pop divas than I'd be at crime writers.

It's going to be really difficult.

-But crime writers is such a huge...

-But so is pop divas.

-I think you're stronger on that than me.

-You're not going to shout at me?

-I won't shout at you.

-You go for it.

-Pop divas, then.

You're going to go pop divas. Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

Mariah Carey UK Top 40 singles as they could. Richard?

We're looking for any single released by Mariah Carey or which has her as a named artist

that has reached the UK Top 40 prior to May, 2012, please.

Any single released by Mariah Carey that's reached the UK Top 40. Very best of luck.

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

All you need to win that £1,250 is for just one answer to be pointless.

-Over to you.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

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

Your time starts now.

OK, the most obscure one I can think of is the one that she did with Westlife.

-Oh, yes!

-It's just gone out of my head! It was the film...

Collins. Against All Odds. I'm sure she did it.

-OK, yeah.

-Then there's the obvious All I Want For Christmas.

And...I can't remember the other one. Dreamlover.

-That's it.

-Any more?

-I can't think of any more. I'm not a big Mariah Carey fan.

-OK, let's go for it.

-That's it.

-If you're happy, we'll stop the clock.

Wow. Good Mariah Carey work. Or maybe not. I don't know.

We'll soon discover. We were looking for Mariah Carey UK Top 40 singles.

-I now need your three answers.

-Against All Odds.

-Against All Odds.

-Dreamlover.

-Dreamlover.

-All I Want For Christmas.

-Which do you think is your best punt?

-Against All Odds.

-Against All Odds we'll put last.

-Which is least likely?

-All I Want For Christmas.

-We'll put it first.

And the other one in the middle. Let's put them up.

We have got All I Want For Christmas, Dreamlover and Against All Odds.

Your least likely shot at a pointless you thought was All I Want For Christmas.

Let's see how many people said All I Want For Christmas.

Oh!

-Laura, you're nodding as if you always knew that was wrong.

-I think I got the title wrong.

OK. Unfortunately, not pointless.

Only two more chances to win. What would you do, Jackie, with £1,250?

-I think that's a holiday.

-Where would you go, Jackie?

Oh...Italy.

-Laura, what would you do with £1,250?

-It's going straight back into the cat fund.

-You have a lot of cats?

-No, a very expensive cat that's uninsurable.

-Wow!

-It's had a rough life.

-I see. That kind of expensive.

-OK, well, best of luck. Let's hope one of these answers...

-Will pay for the cat!

..will keep the cat fund going and get you abroad, Jackie.

Dreamlover. Let's hope it's correct and let's hope nobody says it. Dreamlover.

It's right.

OK, your first answer, All I Want For Christmas, was incorrect.

Dreamlover, on the other hand, still going down. Into the teens.

Into single figures... Nine!

I'm happy with that.

Nine.

-What do we feel about nine? Good?

-Yeah, that's fine.

-We thought it was quite well known.

-Yeah.

-We thought it would be more.

-This is very good news.

-It is.

-You only have one more chance.

Everything is resting on her Westlife collaboration, Against All Odds. You think it's obscure?

-So obscure it could be wrong!

-I'm hoping! So obscure it's probably wrong, yeah!

-You thought it was the best shot at a pointless.

-Yes.

-It has to be pointless to win that £1,250.

Let's see how many people said Against All Odds. Is it correct?

Ooh, it's right! That's the first thing it had to be.

All I Want For Christmas was not right. Dreamlover was. It scored 9.

Against All Odds into single figures. Still going down. Oh, three!

-Never mind.

-A good answer, though.

-Yeah.

-Three!

-Good answer.

It was all going in the right direction, but unfortunately you didn't find that pointless answer.

-But you do still get to take home a Pointless trophy. Very well done.

-Thank you.

Yes, unlucky, Jackie and Laura. It's All I Want For Christmas Is You. It would have scored four.

Let's look at the pointless answers. Some quite big songs.

She had a big hit with Anytime You Need A Friend, Boy (I Need You),

Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica), which featured Mystikal.

A very big hit with Luther Vandross, Endless Love.

Heartbreaker with Jay-Z, another Top 10 hit, My All.

Shake It Off, Someday and the US Number One, a big hit here as well, Thank God I Found You.

And Emotions and Get Your Number. Well done if you said any of those.

-Did you know any of those?

-No.

-Not even Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)?

-No!

-Sure?

-I wouldn't admit to that.

-As I said, I'm not a big Mariah Carey fan.

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you. It's been great.

-Thank you so much for playing. Brilliant.

-Thank you very much.

Jackie and Laura didn't win our jackpot, so it rolls over

and we will be playing for £2,250.

-Join us then. Meanwhile, goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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