Episode 52 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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

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

First, we welcome back Emily and Ellie, who were on the show last time.

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

Emily, remind us how you know each other.

We study history together at Leeds University.

Ellie, what happened last time?

It was the first round and we went out, sadly.

-I did a blinding answer, got 13 points, then Emily...

-Gambled badly.

OK. Listen, we'll put that behind us.

What's going to be good for you today, Emily?

Well, music. Sport for Emily would be a good shout.

Sport. We discovered you were a Premier League women's footballer.

-Yes.

-You played for Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds.

-Yes.

-That's so impressive.

Anything you really hope doesn't come up?

-Shakespeare.

-Yes, Shakespeare. Literature in general.

-OK.

Certain literature would be good. Harry Potter, we'd absolutely...

-You'd have that one.

-Storm that round. But...

Have you read Harry Potter extensively?

-Extensively, yeah.

-Repeatedly.

-I think seven times each book.

-You are joking!

-No. It's a bit sad, but...

-Wow!

A bit sad?!

I'm a student. I have a lot of spare time on my hands!

OK. As you say, it was Round One last time. We have high hopes we see more of you this time.

Best of luck. I have no doubt we will.

Next we welcome Tristan and Laura. How do you know each other?

We work together and we started dating then.

So we've been going out with each other for about a year-and-a-half.

Whose idea was it to come on Pointless?

-His.

-Mine, I guess.

-I introduced him to the show, though.

-Did you?

Laura, what do you hope will come up? What's your favourite round on Pointless?

-Probably something to do with capital cities or countries.

-OK.

Or I spend a lot of time in Scandinavia with work,

-so it would be embarrassing if I didn't get anything right about those!

-OK.

Good. Tristan, how about you?

I used to work for the Met Office, so different types of cloud, that would be handy!

-Really?

-I used to know 30 different types of cloud!

If you work for the Met Office, you can be a weather forecaster.

-It would be good.

-You have to work for the Met Office to be a weather forecaster.

-Think Tristan would be a good weather forecaster?

-Very good.

-Would you consider it, if an opening presented itself?

-For the right money, who knows? Make me an offer!

I've heard the Met Office are... They are.

-Yeah, they're coining it in.

-Wow.

-Carol Kirkwood.

-Yeah, she's Britain's third richest woman!

-That's right. Yeah.

-After the Queen...

-J.K.Rowling.

J.K.Rowling, then Carol Kirkwood.

-Well, very, very best of luck to you, Tristan and Laura.

-Thank you.

-Lovely to have you on the show.

Next we welcome Michael and Josh. How do you know each other?

We've been friends for a while. My first day at a new school, I got sat next to Josh

-and wore him down and we became friends.

-Josh acclimatised you?

I took him under my wing, so to speak.

Michael, what do you get up to in your spare time?

I'm a big sports fan. Me and Josh have played sport quite extensively.

We used to play American football and we play in a team together.

We were Under-16 English champions.

-Just the two of you?!

-Just two of us!

-Wow, you must be pretty good.

-Just us, two, yeah!

It's not bad going! Didn't need the rest of the guys, just us!

What other areas will be good for you? Other areas of strength in a Pointless style?

We think music might be good. We've been in a band together.

-We're into heavy rock.

-Also there may be competition on the geography front.

World capitals would be great for us as well.

It's quite an impressive line-up, this lot.

-They're certainly promising much!

-They're promising a lot. OK.

Michael and Josh, we will discover how much you know. Best of luck. Welcome to the show.

Finally, we welcome back Colin and Dot who were also on the show last time.

-Colin, remind us how you know each other.

-Dot's my big sister.

-And Dot?

-I'm his little sister but older!

If you see what I mean!

What happened last time, Dot?

-Last time I got my Canada and my USA mixed up.

-And you joined the 200 club as well, that round.

-Yes.

-Anyway, you're back again. The slate's been wiped clean.

-Yes.

-And you've been round the track now. You know what to expect.

What do you hope will come up?

Literature, films,

a wee bit of Eastern Europe might be handy.

Anything to add to that, Colin?

We like different things. I like geography, science, sport.

-Maybe even '70s music.

-OK. Well, very best of luck to you, Colin and Dot.

Lovely having you back. We'll find out more about all of you during the show.

There's only one person left to introduce.

A man who's never written boobies on a calculator because he thinks maths should be treated with more respect!

-It's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya!

Hi, everybody.

Wow - you can write boobies on a calculator?

-Yeah!

-Oh, man. My life could have worked out very differently if I'd found that out!

Should be a good show today. Two returning pairs,

neither of whom showed their full potential last time.

Emily and Ellie went out first round. Slightly unlucky to do so, I think.

And Colin and Dot joined the 200 club in the second round.

And Dot as well has joined her own personal 200 club.

She got 100 in both her answers.

But if she likes literature,

-I suspect you might be able to break that hoodoo in the first question today.

-Thank you!

Very exciting. All our questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

To get to the final round and have a chance of winning our jackpot,

our contestants need to find the obscure answers those 100 people didn't get.

So the fewer of the 100 people who knew the answer, the fewer points you'll score.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

an answer that none of our 100 people gave.

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

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

So today's jackpot starts off at...

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.

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

Try and make sure that's not you. Our first category today is...

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

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

OK. Our question concerns...

Novels with a surname in the title. Richard?

On each pass, we're going to show you the titles of seven novels which have a surname in their title

but we've left that surname blank. Can you fill it in, please?

Give an obscure answer, you'll score fewer points. An incorrect answer will score 100 points.

There will be 14 in all. Some of the literature buffs at home might try to go for all 14.

But there's a few up there for everybody. Very best of luck.

Thanks very much. Emily and Ellie, you drew lots earlier, and today you are going first.

We're looking for the missing surnames from these book titles. We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Seven novels with surnames missing from their titles.

Emily, what are you thinking?

I'm almost certain I know one.

It's really bad, because I know it from the film.

So I'm going to go for Johann Wyss.

-It's the Swiss Family Robinson.

-Swiss Family Robinson says Emily.

Let's see how many of our 100 said Swiss Family Robinson.

Absolutely right. Ooh!

Ooh, that's high!

85 for Swiss Family Robinson.

A very popular one. A very good film as well.

It was originally written by Johann Wyss's father

and he completed it, edited it and published it.

-That's sweet, isn't it?

-That is nice.

-Yeah.

Now, then, Tristan.

-Yeah.

-What do you make of this board?

I could guess at a few of them, certainly.

I'm going to try and stay away from ones that are the more famous films.

I'm going to have to go for one I'm sure of

so I'm going to say The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby, says Tristan.

The Great Gatsby. Let's see how many people knew that answer.

Absolutely right.

Another big answer but a very safe score. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.

Leonardo DiCaprio playing Gatsby in the 2012 movie.

Now, then, Josh.

Literature is not a good subject for us. This is our weakness.

I recognise a couple, I hope.

I'm going to say The Talented Mr Ripley.

The Talented Mr Ripley, says Josh.

Talented Mr Ripley. Let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

We're seeing some big scoring from our 100 people.

-The wonderful Talented Mr Ripley. Have you read any of the Ripley books?

-No.

-They're terrific. Patricia Highsmith was a wonderful writer.

-I'll look them up.

-Dot, you're the last person to have this board.

-I am.

-Do you want me to talk it through?

-No. Yes, I do! I do!

There's one I definitely know. But I would guess at The Story of Doctor... Might be Seuss.

Might be Stuart Little.

I don't know what Agnes' second name is,

but certainly George Eliot's novel is Silas Marner.

Silas Marner says Dot.

Is it right, and if so how many people knew that answer?

Very well done, Dot. 35.

Best score of the pass.

Absolutely right. George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Anne Cross, or Marian Cross.

35 points. Let's fill in the rest of the board.

You're right about Stuart. It is Stuart Little.

That would have scored 44 points, so it was well avoided.

-Do you know The Story of Doctor...

-That's Doolittle.

-It is. Absolutely right.

11 points. Well done if you said that at home. But the best answer on the board is

-Anne Bronte's novel, Agnes...

-Grey.

-Agnes Grey. Absolutely right.

That would have scored five points. Well done if you got all seven. Seven more to come.

Thanks. We're half-way through the round. Let's look at our scores.

Dot the lowest scorer in that pass. Lovely low score of 35.

Then we travel up to 59, where we find Tristan and Laura.

Then up to 64, Josh and Michael, then up to 85 where we find Emily and Ellie.

Ellie, you can't leave us in the first round in this show.

So we need a really low score from you.

Best of luck with that. We'll come back down the line now.

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

OK. We'll put seven more novels on the board with missing surnames.

And we have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. We're looking for the surnames

that complete the titles of these novels.

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

You're on 35, thanks to Dot's clever answering in the first pass.

The high scorers are Emily and Ellie on 85.

A score of 49 or less will keep you in the game.

I'm going to try and play safe, Alexander,

since we were lowest in the first round.

I'll just go for Little Dorrit.

Little Dorrit. Let's see if it's right and if so, how many of our 100 said Little Dorrit.

Here is your red line. Below that red line and you'll avoid becoming the new high scorers.

Little Dorrit. How many people said it?

Absolutely right.

Yep, you've done it.

42 takes your total up to 77.

Well done, Colin. Perfect tactics. Amy Dorrit, known as Little Dorrit,

born and spends much of her life in Marshalsea Prison.

Now, then. Michael. The high scorers are still Ellie and Emily on 85.

You're on 64, so a score of 20 or less keeps you in the game for sure.

Struggling. I don't know whether to take a risk on one that's set bells going in my mind,

or play it safe and try and avoid the 100.

I can't risk 100. I'm not that certain. So I'm going to play The Bourne Identity.

-OK.

-Hope it's the same as the film.

Michael is saying The Bourne Identity.

Let's see how many people said The Bourne Identity. Is it right?

Absolutely right.

Ooh, it's a high score. 78 takes your total to 142.

One of the many Bourne books by Robert Ludlum, that's been carried on after his death.

Because of the films, obviously very well known.

Now, Laura.

The high scorers are now Michael and Josh on 142. You're on 59.

So a score of 82 or less keeps you in the game.

Yeah. That was the only one that I knew.

I'm going to have to just guess.

I'll say that Smith is a common surname

and just say The World According to Smith.

The World According to Smith, you're saying.

The John Irving book. Is it right, and if so, how many people said it.

Bad luck, Laura. That's an incorrect answer. So you score the maximum 100 points.

That takes your total up to 159. Richard?

Sorry, Laura, not Smith. I'll give the correct answer at the end of the pass.

Now, then, Ellie. You are the last person to have this board.

-Hmm.

-Is there anything left that's any good for you?

To be honest, The Bourne Identity and Little Dorrit

were my two that I knew when they came up.

So I think I'm just going to have a guess.

For some reason, Mrs Brown is ringing a bell.

It's probably completely wrong, but I'll go with that

and keep my fingers crossed.

-So I'll go with Mrs Brown.

-You say Mrs Brown for Virginia Woolf.

Here comes your red line.

If you get below that red line, you're through to the next round.

Mrs Brown. Is it right? How many people said it?

Bad luck, Ellie, I'm afraid. An incorrect answer.

So you also score the maximum 100 points.

That takes your score up to an unbeatable 185. I'm sorry.

Sorry, Ellie. It's not Mrs Brown, it's Mrs Dalloway.

The Virginia Woolf novel.

That scored five points.

Let's see if anyone at home has got all 14 of those

by filling in the board.

-Alexander, I expect you can do these. The World According to...

-Garp.

-Right.

-TS Garp is the name of that character.

-Lorna, a big score down the bottom.

-Doone.

-Lorna Doone.

Absolutely right. By R.D. Blackmore.

Well done again to our 100.

-The Island of Doctor...

-Moreau.

-Moreau, absolutely.

Made into a disastrous film starring Marlon Brando.

And the best answer on this board,

-The Adventures of Augie...

-March.

March is the correct answer.

Very well done to anyone who got all of those at home.

-And well done to our 100 people as well. Some big scores up there.

-Very good indeed.

Thanks very much, Richard. So at the end of our first round,

the losing pair with the highest score, Ellie and Emily.

Oh, dear.

Oh! That was quite a tough board.

Emily, the first board. Did you only have one answer on that?

I knew the Great Gatsby. And I knew The Talent of Mr Ripley.

-If you'd gone a bit...

-Yeah. For some reason I thought Swiss Family Robinson wouldn't be as popular.

Bad luck. We have to say goodbye to you, Ellie and Emily.

It's been great having you on the show. Thanks for playing. Emily and Ellie.

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

Obviously, there's only room for two pairs in our head-to-head round.

So one of the pairs in front of me now will be leaving us at the end of this round.

Well, our category for Round Two is...

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

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

-Richard?

-We're looking for any country other than the UK

which is a member of the Commonwealth, but not in Africa or in that geo-political region.

So any country of the world that's a member of the Commonwealth and is not in Africa.

By country, we mean a member of the UN that is a sovereign state in its own right.

Thank you very much. Now, Laura. You are going to go first.

What is the most obscure Commonwealth country you can think of

that is not in Africa?

I'm just thinking of countries that have the Queen as the monarch.

So I think St Vincent and the Grenadines has the Queen as monarch.

St Vincent and the Grenadines. Is it right and if so how many people said it?

It's absolutely right.

There we are, Laura. Very well done indeed. That's a pointless answer.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot and takes the total up to...

It scores you nothing. Brilliant answer.

Very well played, Laura. That makes up for getting 100 in the first round.

It's been a member of the Commonwealth since 1979.

OK. Thanks very much. Michael?

I'm thinking around a few,

but the one I'm going to go with may be a risk.

I'm going to say Bermuda.

Bermuda. Is it right and if so, how many of our 100 people said Bermuda.

-Painful.

-Bad luck, Michael. That's an incorrect answer. So you score the maximum 100 points.

Sorry.

Yeah, not a country, I'm afraid. It's a British overseas territory.

-Colin?

-Right. I think I'll play reasonably safe on this.

I've been to a few Commonwealth countries.

I'm going to go for New Zealand.

New Zealand. Is that right, and if so, how many people said it.

Wow! 27 for New Zealand.

-27?!

-27. I know. Amazing, isn't it? A very low score.

But again, if you're having to name them all in 100 seconds,

-there's a lot of answers, so things get left off the list.

-I guess.

One of the original Commonwealth countries, New Zealand.

OK. Thanks. We're half-way through the round. Let's look at the scores.

The best score of the lot was Laura's there, a lovely low score of zero.

Then up to 27, where we find Colin and Dot.

And then a long way up to 100 where we find Michael and Josh.

-You know what you have to do, Josh.

-Yeah!

-Hope that's enough to keep you in the game. Best of luck.

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

OK. We are looking for non-African Commonwealth countries.

Dot, you're on 27. The high scorers are Josh and Michael on 100.

A score of 72 or less will keep you in the game.

It's quite a tricky one for me.

So I'm actually just going to play it extremely safe

-and go with Australia.

-Here is your red line.

Below that red line, you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said Australia. Is it right?

It's right...

And you are through to the next round. Wow.

34 takes your total up to 61.

Perfect tactics, Dot. You did exactly what you had to do. Safely through. Well played.

Now, then. Josh.

Talking of tactics. Only one particular outcome can keep you in the game.

That's if you score a pointless answer and if Tristan scores 100.

And then it goes to a tie.

I'm not confident at all.

I'm going to say Tivalu.

-Say it one more time.

-Tuvalu.

-Tuvalu. OK. Tuvalu says Josh.

Is it right, and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Tuvalu.

It's right.

And it's pointless, Josh!

Very well done. That adds £250 to today's jackpot,

taking the total up to...

-It scores you nothing. It leaves...

-APPLAUSE

It leaves your total at 100 points. You are still the high scorers,

but that was the first thing you had to do.

Exactly. You couldn't do better than that. Well played.

-Do you want a fact about Tuvalu?

-I'd love one.

-Given we mention it so often!

It doesn't have a single stream or river!

-Wow!

-Yeah.

-So if you're eating in Tuvalu, don't have the fish!

OK. There we are. Now, then, Tristan.

We're looking for any Commonwealth country that's not in Africa.

I do know a number of countries that I suspect may be good.

But bearing in mind I don't need to go for a good one,

-I'm not sure I should go for one.

-OK. Just to put you in the picture,

the high scorers are Josh and Michael on 100.

-If you can score 99 or less...

-I know.

..you are through to the head-to-head.

I think I am going to say one that's maybe a little bit out there.

But I'm reasonably confident.

I'm going to say the Solomon Islands.

The Solomon Islands. Is it right? How many people said it if it is.

It's right and you're through.

Very well done.

Let's see where this stops.

Very well done, Tristan!

Another pointless answer!

That adds another £250 to today's jackpot,

taking the total up to £11,000.

It scores you nothing and leaves your total at nothing.

A double pointless score. Very well done indeed. Richard?

You have to say that was gutsy, Tristan.

You didn't need to do it at all, but very well played.

Here's some more pointless answers. We've had three. But there's a few more.

All were pointless.

Could have also said Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica,

Kiribati and the Solomon Islands.

Well done if you got any of those at home.

And well done to our teams as well. Three pointless answers.

Thanks very much, Richard. At the end of Round Two, the losing pair with the highest score

are I'm afraid, Josh and Michael.

Bermuda wasn't a bad answer, it was just a wrong answer.

-But your thinking was absolutely correct.

-I should have named an actual country.

There you go. Josh, a pointless answer. So although you leave us,

-you leave a legacy behind.

-Yep.

And maybe that jackpot may be waiting for you next time.

-Fingers crossed.

-It's been great having you on the show.

Sorry we have to say goodbye now, but we'll see you again next time.

Josh, Michael. Great contestants.

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

Congratulations, Colin and Dot, Tristan and Laura.

You're now only one round away from the final and a chance to play for our jackpot which stands at...

You now go head-to-head. The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

But you are now allowed to confer.

So here you are in the head-to-head. New territory for both pairs.

Very best of luck to all of you. Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question.

And it concerns...

Beards, Richard?

You don't get this on University Challenge!

We'll show you five pictures of famous people with beards.

Can you name the most obscure of these five? They're all men!

Thanks. Let's reveal our five famous beards and here they are. We have got...

There we are. Five famous people with beards.

Colin and Dot, you've played best so far

so you go first.

We're going for A, Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro is A, say Colin and Dot.

Tristan and Laura. Talk us through the board.

Well, B is Abraham Lincoln.

D is Pavarotti.

But we don't know what E is.

But C is the one we'll go for,

which is the darts player Andy Fordham.

Andy Fordham, say Tristan and Laura, for C.

So A, say Colin and Dot, is Fidel Castro.

Is it right, and if so, how many of our 100 people said it?

Absolutely right.

Tristan and Laura are saying C is Andy Fordham.

Is it right, and if so, how many of our 100 people said Andy Fordham.

It's absolutely right.

Will it beat 39?

Yes, it will.

Very well done, Tristan and Laura.

After one question, you are up one-nil. Richard?

Fidel Castro versus Andy Fordham.

-It's the sort of thing you only see on Pointless!

-Richard,

that's not a trick of lens, is it?

Is that really the size of his arms?

It's a slight trick of the lens, but not by much, is the truth.

-He's a big fella.

-Can I also say, Fidel Castro there.

It's quite rare that you get dictators into a studio

for a shoot like that!

I bet he was thinking,

-"If this goes well, I can give up running a country. I could be a model."

-Yeah.

I bet he's still got those shots somewhere.

-Yeah.

-There's one of him going...

And B is a studio shot, as well.

I bet there's one of him doing that. That's Abraham Lincoln,

and that would have scored 70 points.

Pavarotti, as you said as well, would have scored you 83 points.

And the best answer on the board

is E. Do you know E?

-George Lucas.

-It is George Lucas and would have scored eight points.

Well done if you got George Lucas and Andy Fordham. Very impressive.

Don't you think George Lucas looks a bit like a thumb puppet?

Someone's just drawn a face onto a thumb.

They've put a bit of beard there so you know where the face stops

and the rest of George Lucas continues.

I don't think that's the case.

He also has a hairline that starts less than an inch above his eyebrows

which I find weird.

But anyway, poor George Lucas(!)

Poor George Lucas! He has a terrible life!

Thanks very much, Richard. OK, our second question. Here we go.

Now, Colin and Dot, you need to win this question to stay in the game.

Our second question concerns...

Gilbert and Sullivan works. Richard?

We'll give you a list of initials now

which will constitute operettas on which Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated.

What do these initials stand for?

OK, let's reveal our five Gilbert and Sullivan works in initial form. We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are.

Tristan and Laura, you go first this time.

I'm not sure I know any of them.

-Are they operas?

-Operettas.

-Have you got an answer?

-Yes.

I think the only one we're sure about

is The Pirates of Penzance.

That's the one you're going for.

TPOP - The Pirates of Penzance.

Now, then. Colin and Dot. You can talk us through the board, if you like.

The top one is Iolanthe.

The bottom one is The Yeomen of the Guard.

It's just deciding which one would be less.

I think The Yeomen of the Guard.

We're going for The Yeomen of the Guard.

The Yeomen of the Guard. So we have Pirates of Penzance

versus The Yeomen of the Guard.

Tristan and Laura have said The Pirates of Penzance.

Is it right, and if so, how many of our 100 said that?

20 for The Pirates of Penzance.

Colin and Dot have gone for The Yeomen of the Guard.

Is it right, and if so, how many people said that?

Very well done! You've won that one. That's what you had to do, Colin and Dot.

Very good indeed. That means after two questions it's one-all. Richard?

The Pirates of Penzance is quite a low score, but it's the highest score on the board.

The Yeomen of the Guard was right.

If you'd said Iolanthe, it wouldn't have made much difference.

TM is The Mikado.

15.

The best answer on the board is TBJ. Do you know that one?

I don't know. I can't think what it is.

-Trial By Jury.

-Trial By Jury!

That scored two, so very well done to anyone who got that.

OK. Thank you very much, Richard.

Here comes your third question. It concerns...

Richard?

For this final question, five clues to facts about the radio programme Desert Island Discs.

The team with the lowest score goes through to the jackpot round. Best of luck.

OK. Let's reveal our five clues to facts about Desert Island Discs.

Here they are.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Five clues to facts about Desert Island Discs.

Colin and Dot, you go first this time.

OK. Do we have an answer?

-Yes, we do.

-OK. This is the decider.

This will decide who goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.

We're going for the broadcaster who became presenter of the show in 2006, Kirsty Young.

Kirsty Young say Colin and Dot. Kirsty Young.

Tristan and Laura, talk us through the board.

Um, we think it's Radio 4.

We're not sure about the decade

but we'd guess '40s, I guess.

Maybe... Don't know.

I think to beat their answer,

we're going to have a stab at the last one.

Which is, I think, "Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West."

Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West.

I may have made that up!

Colin and Dot say Kirsty Young.

Is it right, and how many of our 100 people said Kirsty Young.

Absolutely right.

12 for Kirsty Young.

Tristan and Laura have said Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West.

Is it right, and if so, how many of our 100 people said that.

It is right.

Well done. You didn't make it up.

Will it beat 12? Ooh. 37.

37 for Ernie. Which means, Colin and Dot, after three questions

you are through to the final two-one. Very well done indeed.

Let's take you through the rest of the board.

The BBC station it's transmitted on is Radio 4.

Now, if you'd said the 1940s for the decade it was first broadcast,

you'd now be in the final.

It would have scored two points. 1940s is absolutely right.

-The number of pieces of music each guest chooses is...

-Eight.

-Eight.

Absolutely right. That would have scored 13 points.

Well done if you got all five of those. Well played, Colin and Dot.

Thanks very much, Richard. So our losing pair at the end of the head-to-head

is Tristan and Laura. That was tricky.

We did think we'd go out on a politics question, and we did!

There you are! Anyway, good news for us is we get to see you next time.

Otherwise, that would have been it. Thanks very much for playing. Tristan and Laura.

Great contestants.

But for Colin and Dot, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Colin and Dot. You've fought off the competition

and won our coveted Pointless trophy!

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £11,000!

-AUDIENCE:

-Wooo!

Well, you've done so well. So well. You were our low scorers in the first round.

Second round we had the double pointless.

But then back you came. A two-one victory in the head-to-head.

How are you feeling?

I'm actually feeling delighted.

Very best of luck. The rules are very simple.

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

We've had three pointless answers on the show today. Just find one more now

and you'll go home with that £11,000.

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

Ooh. Right. Ooh!

-That's a big "Ooh".

-This is where our chemistry together doesn't work right.

-I don't like the thought of Action Films.

-I like Action Films.

-Chemistry is rubbish for me.

-I like chemistry!

-20th-Century Dramatists I could do.

-Not for me.

OK. You go for it. You choose. I'll go with it.

-Action Films?

-Yes, we're going with Action Films.

Action Films it is. Let's find out what the question is. Best of luck.

-Thank you.

-We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

Richard?

We'd like you to name any actor in any of the Mission Impossible films up to May 2012, please.

We won't accept Anthony Hopkins, Emilio Estevez and Tom Wilkinson,

who appeared in the films but weren't credited. It has to be someone who was credited.

-Very best of luck.

-OK.

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

All you need to win that £11,000 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

Tom Cruise is the obvious one. That's going to be last.

He must have had female co-stars.

Think who he might have had as female co-stars.

I haven't actually seen any of them. Have you?

-Good-looking female co-stars.

-Good-looking.

What about - what's that woman Uma Thurman?

Has she been in any of the Mission Impossibles? Uma Thurman.

Somebody else. Go with it. Catherine Zeta Jones is with Sean Connery in a similar thing.

-Different film.

-Who else could Tom Cruise have appeared in in Mission Impossible?

I wish my husband was here! He's seen them all. He loves the films.

Do I know any? No. Come on. Female leads in the last...

Or go for some baddies.

-Alan Rickman, or...

-Alan Rickman.

-Pierce Brosnan?

-Gene Hackman? He's often a baddie.

Somebody else.

Ten seconds left.

So we'll go with Tom Cruise, definitely last.

Uma Thurman. And what's your one? The baddie?

OK, I'm afraid that's your time up.

We were looking for actors in the Mission Impossible films.

I now need your three answers.

OK. Tom Cruise. That's a no-brainer.

-Uma Thurman.

-Uma Thurman.

-Alan Rickman.

-Alan Rickman.

OK. Three answers.

Of those three, what's your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Oh. Uma Thurman?

-Uma Thurman.

-We'll put her last.

-She looks good in a cat-suit!

-The least likely to be pointless?

Tom Cruise.

I think, probably... Yes, let's put him first.

Let's put those up on the board in that order.

Here they are. We have got...

We were looking for actors in the Mission Impossible films.

Tom Cruise, your first answer. The one you thought was least likely to be pointless.

-I think you're probably right.

-Yeah.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot of £11,000.

Let's see how many people said Tom Cruise.

It's right.

If this were to go...

-I was going to say, if this goes down to zero...

-No surprise!

-No surprise.

I think we'd have been surprised if it had been any less than 76.

Unfortunately not a pointless answer.

You have two more chances to win today's jackpot of £11,000.

Colin, what would you do with £11,000?

I think I'd possibly take my wife on a holiday to China

for our 30th wedding anniversary next year.

Many congratulations on your 30th wedding anniversary.

Dot, how about you?

Actually, I'm not in favour of cosmetic surgery,

but I'd love to get my teeth done!

So if we won, I would get my teeth done!

Bite the bullet. Excuse the pun!

OK. Very good. Very best of luck.

Let's hope one of your two remaining answers happens to be right.

Actors in the Mission Impossible films. Let's hope nobody said Alan Rickman.

It has to be right, and it has to be pointless. If it's both, you leave here with £11,000.

How many people said Alan Rickman. Is it right?

-Wrong film.

-Wrong film.

-Die Hard.

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

Everything is now riding on Uma Thurman.

Which you thought was your most likely shot at a pointless answer

If it was right.

OK. Let's see. Uma Thurman. Is it right? Is it pointless?

How many people said Uma Thurman?

Ooh, bad luck!

An incorrect answer. Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find the all-important pointless answer.

But you do still get to go home with a Pointless trophy.

-So very well done.

-Thank you.

Well played, Colin and Dot. Tough last category.

Alan Rickman played the baddie in Die Hard.

Uma Thurman in The Avengers.

But if you haven't seen the films, quite hard to name the actors from that film.

Let's take a look at some pointless answers.

Anil Kapoor,

best known to British audiences as the host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

in Slumdog Millionaire.

Brendan Gleeson, Mad-Eye Moody in the Harry Potter films.

Dougray Scott would have won you the money.

Eddie Marsan, who's in absolutely everything.

Plays Lestrade in the most recent Sherlock Holmes movies.

Jeremy Renner, Oscar-nominated for The Hurt Locker.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers from Bend It Like Beckham,

The Tudors, all sorts like that.

Maggie Q, star of the US series Nikita.

Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for Capote.

William Mapother, who was in Lost, but is also Tom Cruise's cousin.

Tom Cruise's real name is Tom Mapother.

-Well done if you got any of those at home.

-Unfortunately we have to say goodbye, Colin and Dot.

It's been wonderful having you on the show. Thanks so much for playing. Great contestants.

Well, Colin and Dot didn't win our jackpot today

so it rolls over to the next show

when we will be playing for £12,000.

-AUDIENCE:

-Wooo!

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

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!

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