Episode 66 Pointless

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

where the questions have been asked to 100 people and our contestants try to find answers they couldn't.

Let's meet today's players.

First up, we welcome Stephen and Christina. How do you two know each other?

-We are brother and sister.

-And where are you from?

-Essex.

-How about you, Christina?

-I'm from Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

What do you do in your spare time?

I like going to watch musicals when I can.

-I like playing Scrabble, a bit of playing the piano...

-Playing the piano?

-Yes.

-Good stuff. Is that something you've taken up recently or...?

-It's not good stuff, no!

-No, I've played since I was a child.

-Stephen, what about you?

Well, I'm keen on tracing the family tree, as is my sister.

-I've been doing that for many years.

-Have you made startling discoveries?

-Well, we've discovered that our parents were related, not too closely!

-Say that quickly!

I had to get that in, yeah. But close enough to make it worthwhile to see what else we could discover.

Very best of luck to you. Lovely to have you here.

-Next we welcome Martin and Ian. How do you two know each other?

-We met at college 10 years ago.

We became friends and ended up in a band together.

-Shall we try to guess what they play?

-I'm guessing heavy rock.

-Yeah.

-No.

-You try to steer us towards heavy rock,

but I steer you back towards the more mainstream.

Ian, of course, is on the keyboards.

Ian on the keys. And Martin on axe.

-Or Martin on bass. I can see Martin with a pipe.

-You're right on the pipe,

-but I play the axe, as you say, and Ian's on the bass.

-What?!

No! Because in folk rock - that's my guess, you see...

-It's a mixture of folk rock, heavy metal and dub step and...

-Wow.

-Everything.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it sounds absolutely terrible.

-It is.

-Pretty terrible.

-Now, Ian, I can't help but notice you're on crutches. What happened?

I was run over on a zebra crossing, but nothing would stop me getting on Pointless, so I came on crutches.

-All the way from...?

-Darlington.

-From Darlington!

-Ian, what do you do?

-I work at Newcastle University.

-Oh, do you?

-It was formerly Armstrong College.

-It was indeed.

-By an ancestor of yours, I believe.

That's right, yeah. ..They're getting the jackpot.

Very, very best of luck. Fantastic effort getting here, Ian.

-Next we welcome David and Hannah. How do you two know each other?

-We're married.

-They looked dreamily at each other, just for a second. Where are you from?

-We live in Tunbridge Wells.

We grew up in Kent. We've been there for a couple of years.

-Hannah, what do you do?

-I'm a teacher.

-What do you teach?

-English and drama.

-Brilliant. Good, good, good.

-So you really hope English doesn't come up.

-I'm really hoping, yeah!

-I'm more interested in low brow.

-OK. Words. Word rounds.

Words would be great, yeah.

-David, what do you do?

-I'm an engineer in the defence industry.

What are your particular disciplines, in terms of Pointless?

Er...geography, some elements of engineering,

-technology...

-It's about time we had some elements of engineering.

I would also hope you're quite good at some elements of engineering.

Our defence is in his hands, so we might have hoped.

Very best of luck. Great to have you here.

And, finally, we welcome back Arnold and Sam. Everyone gets two chances to reach our final.

This is your second chance. Arnold, how do you know each other?

-Grandfather and grandson.

-Sam, what happened last time?

-Oh, it was dreadful.

I was trying to play it easy and it didn't work. I left him with too much to do.

-It was countries and their currencies.

-That's what I said I was strong at - geography. No.

So what do you hope comes up today?

I'd rather not say because last time I said that I got it wrong!

-But sport, anything like modern sport, maybe modern music.

-Arnold, anything you'd particularly like?

-I rather enjoy history, geography again.

-Yeah, good.

-Keep away from celebrities.

-Right. I should.

-And film.

Great to have you back. Let's hope we see more of you this time.

We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show. There's only one person left to introduce.

If he fell over, obscurity would just pour out of him. It's Richard.

Hiya. Hi, everyone.

-Good afternoon to you. Are you well?

-Very well.

-Excellent.

-What are you laughing at?

-That look of bafflement on your face.

-When you said "obscurity would pour out of him"?

-Yeah.

I think that's pretty weak. It could have used an extra twist.

-Yeah?

-We've got four pairings today of which we've seen many variations over the many episodes we've done.

We've got a married couple, brother and sister, grandparent and grandchild and band-mates as well,

which we've seen a number of times. I had somebody check which of those groups has been most successful

-on Pointless over the years. What do you think is most successful?

-Band-mates.

Band-mates, very much fourth.

-You're going to have to tell me.

-Married couples have been the more successful.

-That's good.

-Just goes to show.

-Doesn't it go to show?

-Although there's a massively high divorce rate after Pointless. That's the other problem.

-Thanks, Richard.

All our questions have been put to 100 people.

To get to the final round and a chance of winning the jackpot, our contestants need obscure answers.

The fewer of our 100 who knew the answer, the fewer points.

Everyone is trying to find a pointless answer that no one gave.

Each time that happens, we add £250 to the jackpot. Tom and Alex won it last time,

so today's jackpot starts off at £1,000. If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

In this first round, each of you must give me one answer.

The pair with the highest score after the round will be eliminated.

Try to make sure that's not you. OK, our first category today is...football.

Football. Can you all decide who's going first and second?

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

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

as many members of the Euro 2012 England football squad as they could.

-Euro 2012 England football squad. Richard?

-Yeah, any of the 23-man playing squad for England

at the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine. Any of the 23 players in that squad.

-Thanks very much indeed. Christina and Stephen... You look pained!

-I know! I can't.

-It's only just been.

-I know. And I watched it as well.

-Some of it.

-You all drew lots and today you are going to go first.

Christina, you are first up.

Oh, dear. How long have you got?

-I'll have to say John Terry. I know it's...

-John Terry.

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

Still going... Oh, 55. 55.

APPLAUSE

Could have been a lot worse.

-John Terry, 55.

-Much better than 100. John Terry of Chelsea and England. Chelsea captain.

-Martin?

-Well, I've tried to block out all memory of Euro 2012. It was depressing.

But I can remember most of the team.

I'll play relatively safe and say Jordan Henderson.

Jordan Henderson says Martin. Let's see how many people said that.

Absolutely right.

Very well done indeed, Martin. That's a great score. Five for Jordan Henderson.

Good answer. Liverpool midfielder. Came in as a late replacement.

-Hannah...

-This is a dreadful category for me.

-Did you watch any of it?

-I did, but I didn't pay any attention.

-Do any of these names ring a bell? The ones we've heard.

-One did.

I knew John Terry.

I can think of one that'll be a really big score. I don't know if this is right, but Ashley Cole.

Ashley Cole, says Hannah. Is it right? How many said it?

Absolutely right.

49.

APPLAUSE

Another big score, but again not 100. Chelsea defender Ashley Cole.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Arnold, the most obscure footballer in the England 2012 squad.

The way they played, most of them were obscure, weren't they?

-I'll have to play safe and go for Ashley Young.

-Ashley Young.

Let's see how many of our 100 said that.

20.

20 for Ashley Young.

Well played. Very solid answer. Ashley Young and Ashley Cole missed penalties in our defeat to Italy.

Thanks. We're halfway through. Let's take a look at our scores.

Martin, Jordan Henderson - great answer. Lovely low score of five is your reward.

You look pretty strong.

Up to 20 to Arnold and Sam,

up to 49 and Hannah and David, then up a little bit to 55, Christina and Stephen.

Stephen, you're not miles ahead, but we will need a low-scoring answer from you

and you're the last to answer.

We're coming back down the line. Can the second players please take their places?

-OK, Sam, we are looking for footballers in the England 2012 squad.

-OK.

You're on 20. The high scorers on 55 are Stephen and Christina.

If you can score 34 or less, you are through to the next round.

-I'm not sure if I should play safe or try to go for a low score.

-Always try to go for a low score!

-All right. Daniel Sturridge.

-Daniel Sturridge. Let's see if that's right. Here's your red line.

Below that, you are through. Let's see how many people said it.

-Oh, I'm sorry, Sam.

-I thought he was in the squad.

This is an issue you'll have to take up with the FA, I think.

-Unfortunately, an incorrect answer, which scores you 100 points.

-Daniel Sturridge was injured

-and wasn't in contention.

-Oh, he was.

-David...

My mind's gone blank on the really obscure ones, so I'm going to go for the medium safe

and say...Theo Walcott.

Theo Walcott, says David. Here comes your red line. Quite nice and high.

The high scorers are Sam and Arnold on 120.

You're on 49. You want 70 or less. Will Theo Walcott get you below that red line?

Yep, well done.

38 for Theo Walcott. That takes your total up to 87.

Yeah, Theo Walcott played in all four games. He scored as well against Sweden.

Now then, Ian. You're on 5, which means you're through to the next round, essentially.

Even if you score 100, you won't overtake Sam and Arnold.

Well, I'm tempted to go, on that basis, for something a little bit more risky.

I think I'm going to go for... Phil Jagielka.

Phil Jagielka. Is that right and how many people said it?

It's right.

Four! Even better than Martin's score! What about that? Takes you up to nine. Single figures.

-Very well done, both of you.

-Yeah, disproving that curse of the band-mates.

Very well played. Phil Jagielka. He's got Polish grandparents.

He didn't play in any games, but was in the squad.

Stephen, if you can score 64 or less, you're through to the next round.

Talk us through your thoughts. Is this a nightmare for you or a great category?

I like football and I'm sorry that Christina had to go through it first.

I'm minded to say a goalkeeper who didn't actually play,

but I think in his first international he had a disastrous match. And that is Robert Green.

Here is your red line. Can you get below that with Robert Green?

How many people said Robert Green?

You've done it.

Ten!

Very well done. That takes your total up to 65.

Well played, good answer. Rob Green. He watches the show.

-Does he really?

-He does, yeah.

-Brilliant.

-He's a pal of mine, a big fan of yours.

-Hey!

-So he'll be watching. Well done, Rob.

-Not bad at all.

And back in the England fold, which is great. He was at West Ham, now QPR.

There are no pointless answers, but some very low scorers.

England's third-choice goalie. He didn't play. Jack Butland would have scored one.

Leighton Baines scored one, Phil Jones, the Man U defender, three.

There's a few other low scorers. Martin Kelly would have scored four, Stewart Downing five,

Jermaine Defoe, 15. Those are the lower scorers.

Let's look at the highest scorers that most people said.

Hannah gave us Ashley Cole, 49.

Christina gave us John Terry, 55. And there's a runaway leader.

-Who do you think that is?

-Wayne Rooney.

-Absolutely right.

And his new hair. He would have scored you 85 points.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So the losing pair with the high score of 120 are Sam and Arnold.

-It's dreadful.

-You did exactly the right thing.

It's a kind of heroism in many ways to go out onto the thin ice

looking for a low score. You were doing exactly the right things.

I don't know why I said him, to be honest. I was going to say Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

I'm so sorry. We have to say goodbye to you far too soon.

But it's been great having you on the show. Thanks for playing.

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

There's only room for two pairs in our Head to Head, so one pair will leave at the end of this round.

Very best of luck to you all. Our category for Round Two is...

famous Europeans.

Famous Europeans. Can you decide who'll go first and who'll go second?

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

OK, our question concerns... famous Germans.

-Famous Germans. Richard?

-On each pass we'll show six descriptions of famous people born in Germany.

Can you tell us who they are? A nice, obscure answer scores fewer points.

An incorrect answer is 100 points. There's 12 Germans in all to guess at home. Good luck.

OK, thanks very much. So we are looking for the famous Germans described by these clues.

HE READS THE LIST

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Six famous Germans. Christina...

Well, films isn't a great category of mine, but I'll go for Lola Lola in the film Blue Angel,

-Marlene Dietrich.

-Marlene Dietrich. Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said it.

Absolutely right.

Oh, it's a good score! Look at that, Christina - 12.

-12 for Marlene Dietrich.

-Yeah, good answer. Terrific score. Her last movie before moving to the USA.

-The movie that made her famous.

-Now then, Martin.

-Yeah.

-How's this board for you after football?

-I was hoping for famous Frenchmen,

so unfortunately... It was close.

Em, it's probably going to be quite high, but I'll go Wimbledon Men's Championship aged 17,

-I think it was Boris Becker.

-Boris Becker. Let's see how many people said Boris Becker.

32.

Could be a lot worse, actually. Boris Becker getting off lightly.

Yeah, very good answer. All sorts of records there - youngest ever Wimbledon champion,

first German to win Wimbledon, first non-seed. Very impressive.

Not the youngest ever Grand Slam winner. That was Michael Chang at the French Open.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Hannah...

There's a couple on there I'm not sure on.

But I do know that the person who wrote the play Caucasian Chalk Circle is Bertolt Brecht.

Bertolt Brecht, says Hannah. See, that English teaching business comes in really handy sometimes.

Is that right? How many said it?

Absolutely right.

Four!

Very well done, Hannah. Great answer.

Yeah, well played. Very good answer. Bertolt Brecht, born in Bavaria in 1898.

-Let's go through the rest. The Iron Chancellor?

-Bismarck.

-Absolutely right. Scored 19.

-The Formula 1 driver?

-Schumacher.

-Michael Schumacher, yeah.

-62 points that scored. The best answer is the painter of The Ambassadors.

-Holbein?

Hans Holbein, one point. Well done if you got all six.

Thanks. Let's look at the scores.

By far the best score of that pass was yours, Hannah. Very well done.

David and Hannah very strong on four. Up to 12, Christina and Stephen, looking pretty sturdy.

Then Martin and Ian, way out on 32.

-Ian, we need some deft work from you.

-Right.

-On the next board.

We hope that keeps you in the game.

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

OK, we'll put six more famous Germans on the board.

-We have got...

-HE READS THE LIST

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, six clues to six famous Germans.

David, you'll try and find the most obscure one you know on that board. Your score is 4 at the moment.

The high scorers are Ian and Martin on 32, so 27 or less is your target.

-I'll go with "came up with two theories of relativity" and Albert Einstein.

-Einstein, says David.

Let's see if that's right. Here comes your red line.

Thanks to Hannah, that's higher than it could be.

Let's see how far down the column Albert Einstein can get you.

-43. Not bad.

-APPLAUSE

That ought to be enough to keep you in the game. Takes your total to 47.

-Richard?

-Born in 1879, Albert Einstein. That's quite a way to sum up the great man's achievements.

"Came up with two theories of relativity."

It's like, "Went to the shops, came back with two pints of milk."

-Two pints of really important milk, though.

-Yeah, absolutely right.

Now then, Ian, we require something very, very clever from you here.

The high scorers on 47 are David and Hannah. You're on 32 which means you have a margin of 14.

-Right.

-And I fear this is probably your best shot.

Stephen looks like he knows Germans back to front.

Yeah, I fear that this won't be very high-scoring.

-That's good. We don't want it to be high-scoring.

-Sorry, the other way round, yes.

One of them is on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember it. I'm just going to be kicking myself.

So I'm going to have to go for what I think will be a high-scoring one.

Andrea Merkel became the first female Chancellor in 2005, I believe

OK, Andrea Merkel, says Ian.

-Yeah.

-There's your red line.

That's what you want to get below.

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

Oh, Ian!

Yeah, Angela Merkel.

I'm afraid that scores you 100 points. It takes your total up to 132. I'm sorry, Ian.

Yeah, I won't give the correct answer to that question... until the end of the pass.

Stephen, good news. You're through to the next round. You're on 12.

Even if you score 100 points, you won't overtake 132.

The board is yours. Cover yourself in glory and give all the answers.

Well, if I had been put to it, I would have gone for one of the two composers.

I'll stick with one of those. I'll go for the composer of the Ring Cycle who was Richard Wagner.

Wagner, says Stephen. No red line for you. You're already through.

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

16.

APPLAUSE

16, taking your total up to 28.

-Well played, Stephen. And if you'd had to go for the Eroica?

-Beethoven.

-Absolutely right.

It was a better answer. It would have scored you 13 points.

Now, the first female Chancellor, it's Andrea Merkel's sister(!)

It's Angela Merkel, I'm afraid. Sorry, that was very tough luck.

It would have scored 27 points and it wouldn't have seen you through.

Directed the film Paris, Texas?

I can't remember the name of the man. I will in a second, though. I will.

-Wim Wenders.

-Absolutely right. It would have scored you 4 points.

-And the Mayor of West Berlin?

-No idea.

-It's Willy Brandt.

That would have scored you 3 points. Well done if you said that.

-Anyone who got all 12, that's very impressive.

-Very impressive or German.

Even for a German person, because they're doing this not in their first language.

True, exactly. They'd have to understand what all "ze" clues "vere".

LAUGHTER

Thank you very much, Richard.

At the end of Round Two, our losing pair with their high score of 132, it's Ian and Martin.

It's some relief that even if you'd got Angela's name...

-You knew it the minute I...

-I did, unfortunately. Think before you leap next time.

Bad luck, but we will see you again next time. Ian and Martin, great contestants. Thanks so much.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, things get even more exciting now as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations, Christina and Stephen, David and Hannah, you are only one round away from the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot of £1,000.

APPLAUSE

You'll now go head-to-head and the first pair to win two questions will play for that jackpot,

but the big difference is you are now allowed to confer.

Both teams looking pretty good. Very best of luck to both of you. Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question and it concerns...

-Richard?

-For this question, we'll show you five pictures of actresses born with the name Elizabeth.

Can you name the most obscure of these five, please?

Let's reveal our five Elizabeths. Here they come. We have got...

There we are, five acting Elizabeths.

Christina and Stephen, you've played best throughout the show so far, so you get to go first.

WHISPERING

I think I know B, but it's a bit of a risk.

Stephen thinks he knows A...

..and as usual, I shall defer to my brother

and we shall go for A, Elizabeth Montgomery.

Elizabeth Montgomery, you are saying for A.

David and Hannah, it's over to you. Talk us through the board if you can.

-Hannah thinks B is Elizabeth Taylor.

-No, I don't know. I was guessing.

-Hannah doesn't think that.

-We think D is Betty... I think it's Turner?

Betty Turner, is that her name?

I'm not sure. E is Elizabeth Hurley.

C looks like Nicole Kidman and we're picking up on the fact

that you said, "Named from birth Elizabeth,"

so we reckon that's potentially wort a shot and maybe she was named Elizabeth from birth.

-Do you think?

-Go for it.

-We're going to go for C, Nicole Kidman.

You're going to say C, Nicole Kidman.

Christina and Stephen are going to say Elizabeth Montgomery for A.

A, Elizabeth Montgomery. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many of our 100 people said it.

18.

APPLAUSE

David and Hannah have gone for C, Nicole Kidman...

..in our Acting Elizabeths round.

Shall we see if that's right and if it is, how many people said Nicole Kidman?

No, bad luck.

I see what you're saying. You're right.

It's possibly the sort of trick Richard might play, but...

Just not on this occasion.

Incorrect, I'm afraid, David and Hannah, so, Christina and Stephen, after one question, you are up 1-0.

I didn't play a trick on you. Nicole Kidman was born Nicole Kidman.

-That's where she got her stage name from.

-Is that why she calls herself Nicole Kidman?

That's why professionally she's taken the name Nicole Kidman. She took her surname at birth - Kidman.

That's how you get your given name. You take your surname and then you... That's right.

You can try that at home. If you want to find what your actress name would be, take your surname,

then take your first name at birth and put them together. Mine would be... Mine's funny.

Mine would be Richard Osman.

LAUGHTER

You should use that. Mine is Alexander Armstrong.

-That's all right.

-That sounds sort of feasible.

C is not Nicole Kidman. She's probably best known to British audiences

as Lady Grantham from Downton Abbey. It's Elizabeth McGovern.

It would have been a terrific answer. It scored 2 points.

Elizabeth Montgomery was best known as Samantha in Bewitched.

-And B, what were you going to go for?

-Betty Grable.

Yeah, it would have been a very good answer. It scored 7 points.

-You used to have hair like that, didn't you?

-Yeah, very much so.

And look, you used to have hair like D.

-Didn't you?

-I still do, don't I?

D is Betty Driver, not Betty Turner.

Betty Driver is best known for Coronation Street. Scored 40 points.

And E is Liz Hurley.

-And she would have scored 75.

-Wow!

-That's a big, old score.

Thank you, Richard. Here comes your second question.

David and Hannah, you need to win this question to stay in the game and it concerns...

-Richard?

-We'll give you five clues to facts about the Indian leader, Mohandas K Gandhi.

-Can you give us the most obscure answer?

-Thanks very much.

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

I'll read those all one last time.

David and Hannah, you go first.

WHISPERING

We're not really sure on a lot of them.

We'll go for the actor who won an Oscar for playing him - Ben Kingsley.

Ben Kingsley, say David and Hannah. Ben Kingsley.

Stephen and Christina, you can talk us through the board if you like.

Well, he was known as Mahatma.

We also knew it was Ben Kingsley.

I can't quite recall the year in which he was assassinated,

so we're going to go for the profession which we think is the law.

OK, you think he was studying the law in London.

So we have Ben Kingsley versus lawyer.

So David and Hannah have said Ben Kingsley. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many said it.

35 for Ben Kingsley.

APPLAUSE

Christina and Stephen are saying he was studying law in London.

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

Absolutely right.

Will it beat Ben Kingsley?

Yes, it will.

-By 21 to 35.

-APPLAUSE

Very well done, Christina and Stephen. After only two questions, you are through to the final 2-0.

-Richard?

-Yeah, he travelled to London to train as a barrister.

And you're right, he was known by the title Mahatma.

Would have scored 12 points. That means "great-souled".

The year in which he was assassinated was 1948.

Would have scored 6 points.

And the city of his birth is Porbandar in Gujarat.

And that's a pointless answer,

so very well done if you said that.

Thanks, Richard. So our losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm afraid, it's David and Hannah.

Too clever by half, I'd say, in that first round - Nicole Kidman!

David and Hannah, we get to see you again next time.

We look forward to that. Thanks very much for playing. Great contestants!

APPLAUSE

For Stephen and Christina, it's time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Christina and Stephen.

You've fought off all the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show, it stands at £1,000.

APPLAUSE

You've done so well, straight through that. We've thrown football at you, we've thrown Germans at you.

-We've thrown Elizabeths at you and Gandhi.

-Yes.

You've come through smiling, 2-0 in the head-to-head. Very impressive.

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

We haven't had any today, but if you come up with one now, you will go home with that £1,000 jackpot.

First, choose a category and you have a choice of these five options.

-Right...

-Oh, dear.

They're not the best...

Pop Divas. If they're 1970s pop divas, that's fine, but anything after about 1980 is a complete no-no

We're more mature, so they're not quite our area.

State Visits. Well, it may not be royalty, but...

-It could well be.

-State Visits?

-She's been all over the place.

It may not be Her Majesty. It could be any of the others.

Film Actors, again it depends. If it's before 1960, maybe, but after that, I don't know.

-That's what I mean.

-I don't know. Modern Playwrights?

-I think maybe we should go for State Visits.

Maybe State Visits?

-We both know...

-We can guess royalty, can't we?

-Yeah. By default, I think, don't you?

-All right, yes, OK.

-OK, State Visits it is.

-We'll have a go.

-We'll have a go at State Visits.

OK, best of luck. Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many non-Commonwealth countries visited by Queen Elizabeth II as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for any country of the world not a current member of the Commonwealth

which Queen Elizabeth II has visited on an official state visit up to May 2012,

according to the official website of the British monarchy.

So any non-Commonwealth country to which the Queen has made an official state visit, please.

We mean a sovereign state which is a member of the UN in its own right.

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

-and all you need to win £1,000 is for just one answer to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are. Your time starts now.

She's been to the Republic of Ireland. She's probably been to Italy as a guest of the Pope.

She's been to the USA, but that will probably be quite high.

-What do you think?

-I haven't really got much idea.

-I can't even think of any non-Commonwealth countries.

-She may have been to South Africa.

-I don't know if that's in the Commonwealth.

-What about any Asian countries?

-Any obscure Asian countries?

-She may have gone to Russia when it was in the Soviet Union.

-Any of the Baltic states?

-I'm not sure about them.

-Norway, Denmark...

-So what are we thinking that we're going to go for then, Stephen?

-She's certainly been to the Republic of Ireland.

-All right.

-I'm guessing at everything else. She's been to the USA.

-Some obscure island?

-Ten seconds left.

-I'll go for Italy only because she may have been a guest of the Pope.

-Madagascar?

-Not that I know of.

There we are. That's your time up.

We were looking for non-Commonwealth countries visited by the Queen. I now need your three answers.

-We'll go for South Africa.

-South Africa.

-We will go for Italy.

-Italy.

-And the Republic of Ireland.

-And the Republic of Ireland.

Which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

An absolute guess was Italy, so...

So our best shot would be...

I don't know. The Republic of Ireland?

-The Republic of Ireland.

-We'll put the Republic of Ireland last. Which is your least likely, do you think?

-Possibly South Africa.

-South Africa.

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

So we were looking for non-Commonwealth countries visited by the Queen.

Your first answer was South Africa, your least likely shot at a pointless answer.

You only need one pointless answer to win that jackpot of £1,000.

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

An incorrect answer, I'm afraid, but South Africa was just holding a place there, wasn't it?

-We couldn't think of any others.

-Not a pointless answer, so only two more chances to win today's jackpot.

Christina, what would you do with £1,000?

I think I would go on an English weekend away.

Lovely. Stephen?

As my daughter's getting married next year, my share of the money will buy the first round of drinks.

Let's hope one of your two remaining answers wins that for you.

We're looking for non-Commonwealth countries visited by the Queen. Let's hope nobody said Italy.

It has to be right and pointless. If it is, you leave here with £1,000.

Let's see how many people said Italy.

It's right. So your first answer of South Africa was incorrect.

Italy, absolutely right.

Down it goes into the teens.

Still going down, into single figures. If this...

6.

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That's more like it. 6.

So only one more chance to win today's jackpot.

We're looking for non-Commonwealth countries visited by the Queen.

Your final answer, your most likely shot at a pointless answer, is the Republic of Ireland.

This is quite a recent visit, but you're hoping that people might have just overlooked it.

-That's the plan.

-You might be right.

It's quite close to home. People wouldn't have thought that near to home, would they?

You think of the African continent, really, I think.

OK, so to win the jackpot of £1,000, this has to be pointless.

Let's find out. The Republic of Ireland, is it right, how many people said it?

It's right. This is your last shot at that jackpot.

Your first shot was South Africa which was incorrect. Your second shot was Italy.

This is going into single figures...

9. Oh, no!

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9.

Unfortunately, you didn't find that all-important pointless answer,

-but you do still get to take home our Pointless trophy, so very well done indeed.

-Thank you.

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Sorry, Stephen and Christina. There are plenty of pointless answers. The Queen has been to many places.

One thing you mentioned in the 60 seconds was the Baltic states.

Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are all pointless answers.

Let's take a look at a few more pointless answers up here.

In 1969, she went to Austria.

She went to visit President Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic.

She visited the Shah in Iran. That was pointless as well.

Kuwait is another pointless answer, Liberia, Mexico. She went to visit President Echeverria.

Qatar, South Korea, she went in 1999. Thailand.

There's other pointless answers - Jordan, Oman, Bahrain, Sudan, Ethiopia.

You could have had Hungary, Iceland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Luxembourg. Plenty of pointless answers.

Very well done if you said any of those at home.

How close were you to saying any of those?

We did suggest the Baltic states, but I didn't really know. I wouldn't have pushed them.

We have to say goodbye to you, Christina and Stephen.

-Thank you both so much for playing. Great contestants!

-Thank you.

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Stephen and Christina didn't win our jackpot today,

so it rolls over to the next show when we will be playing for £2,000.

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

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me.

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