0:00:15 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless,
0:00:25 > 0:00:28the quiz show where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Let's meet today's players.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36First up, we welcome Douglas and Niamh.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39- How do you know each other? - We're boyfriend, girlfriend.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43- And where are you from, Douglas? - Originally, Dublin in Ireland.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46- And where are you from now? - I live in Oxford now.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50- And what do you do in Oxford, Niamh? - I work for the University of Oxford.
0:00:50 > 0:00:55- Douglas, what do you do? - I work in IT, so I'm a desktop support administrator.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58And what do you like to do when you're not doing that?
0:00:58 > 0:01:04I usually just play football, go see movies, go to see bands.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Niamh, what do you get up to in your spare time?
0:01:06 > 0:01:09I have to accompany him. Not to the football.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13- Not football. But the bands.- Yeah, we go to quite a lot of live gigs,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15- work at festivals, things like that. - Very good.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Well, a warm welcome to the show. Lovely to have you here.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21And next we welcome back Ben and Tom, who were on the show last time.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25This is your second and last chance.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Now, then, Ben, remind us how you know each other.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29He's my dad.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33- And, Tom, last time it was round one.- I'm afraid it was, yes.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36We got confused and gave two popular answers rather than...
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Yeah, they were both correct but they were just high-scoring.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Anyway, what are we hoping is going to come up today, Tom?
0:01:42 > 0:01:46- I know a little about a lot. - This is perfect.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48But nothing about anything, really,
0:01:48 > 0:01:52so I'm hoping that Ben's going to pull me through.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54- And how are you going to do that, Ben?- No idea.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57- Erm, films, football...- Good, good.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- Anything you're particularly hoping doesn't come up?- Soaps.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04- And reality TV. - But your dad, Tom, will be able to get you through that.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I will barely understand the question.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08LAUGHTER
0:02:08 > 0:02:11It's lovely to have you back. It was round one last time.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15We've got to hope we see much more of you today. Very best of luck to the pair of you.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18And next we welcome Toby and Dan. How do you two know each other?
0:02:18 > 0:02:21- We're brothers.- And where are you from, Dan?- From Yorkshire.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23East Yorkshire.
0:02:23 > 0:02:28- And what do you do, Dan?- I worked as an interpreter for eight years
0:02:28 > 0:02:30- at the European Union.- Wow!
0:02:30 > 0:02:34- So that's real-time interpretation? - That's simultaneous interpretation.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36So you're getting something in your ear and giving it...
0:02:36 > 0:02:41- How many languages do you do? - I worked on three languages - French, Italian and Spanish.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43- And you'd just hop from one to the other?- One to the other.
0:02:43 > 0:02:49- Did you ever have those moments where you think, "Oh, er, the thing, the thing, the thing..."- Oh, yes.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53But colleagues were fantastic. You always work in a team,
0:02:53 > 0:02:58so if you don't know the word, someone would scribble it down and help you out.
0:02:58 > 0:03:03- So you'll be prepared for Pointless, then, after the hothouse atmosphere! - Pretty much!
0:03:03 > 0:03:04Toby, what do you do?
0:03:04 > 0:03:08I work for the RSPB, which is a nature conservation charity.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10I work with birds, do bird surveys
0:03:10 > 0:03:13and do habitat management on our reserves, things like that.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Dan, what are you hoping is going to come up?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18I'm very big on languages, obviously.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20That would be quite a bonus if that came up.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Geography, presumably, comes hand in hand with that.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27Because EU countries come up a lot, I've noticed
0:03:27 > 0:03:30and I've been desperately thinking of countries that end in Y,
0:03:30 > 0:03:32things like that.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Very good. Well, very, very best of luck to you, Toby and Dan.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37It's great to have you on the show.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39And finally, we welcome back Vivianne and Barbara,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41who were on the show last time as well.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46- Remind us how you know each other. - We are social members of a bowling club in Aberdare.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48And what happened last time, Barbara?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52I failed. I had 100.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55You gave us Katie Price as a Blue Peter presenter,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59for which... For which I shall be eternally grateful.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Ah!
0:04:01 > 0:04:03What do you hope is going to come up today, Vivianne?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- Anything that I can answer. - Fair enough.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Barbara?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- Literature, books, films. - Literature.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Erm, Man United.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Fair enough, yeah. They come up.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Vivianne, anything you'd particularly not like to see?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24Definitely not science and definitely nothing to do with numbers.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27OK, very good. Well, we'll do our best.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28A warm welcome back to you.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- It was round two for you last time, wasn't it?- Yes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Let's hope we see more of you again today.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35We'll find out more about all of you through the show.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37There's only one person left to introduce,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40a man who eats, sleeps and breathes obscurity.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.- Hiya.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- APPLAUSE - Hiya.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Hiya.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53- It's a special occasion today. - It is.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54It's our 400th ever episode.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- It is.- Can you believe it?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- I can't wait to see what you've got for me.- 400?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- Yeah.- It doesn't feel like any more than 390-odd, does it?- No.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- Not at all.- It's amazing how time has flown.- Amazing.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07- And you look younger, if anything. - Get out of town.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11You're half the man you were, but in some ways twice the man you were.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- Thank you.- But congratulations on reaching 400. - And to you. Congratulations.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- Congratulations.- I appreciate that. That's very kind.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- You know on the last show...- Yeah? - ..we came up with a new TV show,
0:05:20 > 0:05:22which features Tom, Tom Thomas,
0:05:22 > 0:05:25because he's a retired vicar who lives in the Lake District.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28So we think Tom Thomas as a detective is a big-hit TV show.
0:05:28 > 0:05:33Since the last show I've been in to pitch it to various other broadcasters -
0:05:33 > 0:05:35all of whom are interested, by the way -
0:05:35 > 0:05:38but word has got out and now the big movie studios are involved.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- Oh! - LAUGHTER
0:05:40 > 0:05:42So this morning, I was on a conference call.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46- Fox have got Anthony Hopkins lined up to play Tom.- Brilliant!
0:05:47 > 0:05:51Could be pretty good. Columbia TriStar want Denzel Washington to play you.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- He'd be a pretty good, Tom, I think. - Yeah.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57You're still involved as the idiotic cop.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00That's good. Oh, very good.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- HE PANTS - "All right, Mr Thomas? All Right?"
0:06:04 > 0:06:05- That's...- That's you.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07That's my part.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11That aside, we should probably get on with episode 400 of Pointless.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14I have to say, in the last 399 episodes of Pointless,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18I don't think a category has come up so perfectly for anybody
0:06:18 > 0:06:20as round two has come up for Dan today,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23so if you can make it through, it will rather fall into your lap.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27Very good indeed. Good stuff. We look forward to that.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Thanks very much, Richard.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31All of our questions have been put to 100 people before the show.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33In order to get through to the final round
0:06:33 > 0:06:35and have a chance of winning our jackpot,
0:06:35 > 0:06:38our contestants need to find the obscure answers those 100 people couldn't think of.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42The fewer of the 100 who got the answer, the fewer points you score.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Now, what everyone is trying to do is to find a pointless answer,
0:06:45 > 0:06:47an answer that none of our 100 people gave,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50and each time that happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add £1,000 to that,
0:06:53 > 0:06:56so today's jackpot starts off at £3,000.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59WHOOPING
0:07:01 > 0:07:04If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12Now, in this first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15The pair with the highest score will be eliminated,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17so try and make sure that's not you.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19OK, our category for Round One is:
0:07:23 > 0:07:28US politics. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going second.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35OK, the question concerns:
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Presidents of the USA. Richard.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Yes, in a moment, Xander is going to show you six first names up on the board.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46We need you to tell us any President of the United States
0:07:46 > 0:07:49who's had one of those first names or a derivation of that first name.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52So any President who's had one of the six names you're about to see.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- Very, very best of luck. - OK, thanks very much indeed.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Now, then, Doug and Niamh, you drew lots and you're going first.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Here are the six first names and they are:
0:08:09 > 0:08:11I'll read those all one last time.
0:08:15 > 0:08:16We are looking for
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Presidents of the United States
0:08:18 > 0:08:20with one of these first names.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Niamh?
0:08:22 > 0:08:26Not my strongest subject.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Erm, so I'll have to go
0:08:28 > 0:08:30with the obvious
0:08:30 > 0:08:31and say George Bush Senior.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34George Bush Senior, says Niamh.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35George Bush Senior.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said it.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Absolutely right.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- APPLAUSE - 24.
0:08:51 > 0:08:56- 24.- Yeah, George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59So, we're looking for any US President
0:08:59 > 0:09:01who had one of these first names.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Ben?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05I think, Franklin D Roosevelt.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07OK, you're going to say
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Franklin D Roosevelt.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Absolutely right.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- 62. - APPLAUSE
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Yeah, that's a pretty high score for FDR.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26The only President to be elected four times.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Also the first ever President to appear on TV, in 1939.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32He was on America's Got Talent.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34ALEXANDER LAUGHS
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Dan.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38I'm going to take a bit of a risk
0:09:38 > 0:09:41and I'm going to say James Madison.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44James Madison, says Dan. Let's see if that's right
0:09:44 > 0:09:47and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said James Madison.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50It's right.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58It's a great answer. Very well done indeed. One!
0:09:58 > 0:10:00APPLAUSE
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Perfect answer.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07- James Madison.- No risk at all, Dan. That's a terrific answer.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10The father of the constitution. He was the fourth President.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12- He was the shortest President, as well.- Really?
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- Five foot four.- No!- Yeah.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- Now, then, Vivianne.- Oh, gosh.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21I know all the first names
0:10:21 > 0:10:24but remembering the surnames...
0:10:25 > 0:10:26I'm going to go with one
0:10:26 > 0:10:28which is probably quite high,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30John F Kennedy.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32John F Kennedy, says Vivianne.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Absolutely right.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- 25. - APPLAUSE
0:10:46 > 0:10:4925 for JFK, Richard.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Yeah, the first Roman Catholic president, John F Kennedy.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Dan and Toby look very strong after that lovely low score of 1 from Dan.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Then up to 24, where we find Niamh and Douglas.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Up to 25, where we find Vivianne and Barbara
0:11:05 > 0:11:07and then, I'm afraid, quite a hike up to 62,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09where we find Ben and Tom.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12So, Tom, we need a low score from you in the next pass.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Very best of luck with that.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22OK, we are looking for Presidents of the USA
0:11:22 > 0:11:24with these first names.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26There they are.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Now, then, Barbara.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29You're on 25.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31The high scorers on 62 are Tom and Ben.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33If you can score 36 or less,
0:11:33 > 0:11:35you're through to the next round.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Erm...
0:11:39 > 0:11:42William Clinton.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43William Clinton.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Here is your red line.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47If you can get below that red line, you're through to the next round.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51Let's see if William - Bill - Clinton is right
0:11:51 > 0:11:53and if it is, let's see how many people said it.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Absolutely right.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59- 55. - APPLAUSE
0:11:59 > 0:12:02It's not bad. It takes your total up to 80.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05I think that's probably enough to see you through. We shall discover.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- Richard.- It certainly makes it interesting.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Bill Clinton, born William Blythe, actually.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11He was the first Democrat since FDR
0:12:11 > 0:12:13to win a second term, as well.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Toby.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Well, after Dan's given
0:12:17 > 0:12:19such an amazing answer,
0:12:19 > 0:12:20I think I'll play it safe -
0:12:20 > 0:12:22hopefully safe -
0:12:22 > 0:12:23George Washington.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26George Washington, says Toby.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28You're on 1. The high scorers on 80
0:12:28 > 0:12:30are Barbara and Vivianne.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32There's your red line. Get below that, you're through.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Let's see how many people said George Washington.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41It's right. And you're through. Very well done.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44- 50. - APPLAUSE
0:12:44 > 0:12:4650, taking your total up to 51.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Yeah, good tactics, there. Did exactly what you needed to do.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55First President of the United States in 1789, George Washington.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Tom.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59The high scorers on 80 are Barbara and Vivianne.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00You're on 62,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03so a score of 17 or less will see you through.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06I'm not even sure whether he was,
0:13:06 > 0:13:07so I'll have to go for a name
0:13:07 > 0:13:10and hope that it's low.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Andrew Litton.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Andrew Litton.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Andrew Litton, says Tom.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Here is your red line. It's low.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Andrew Litton. Is it right? How many people said it?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Oh, no, Tom!
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Oh, bad luck! I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,
0:13:27 > 0:13:29which means you score the maximum of 100 points,
0:13:29 > 0:13:33which takes your total up to an unbeatable 162.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Yeah, sorry, Tom. Your first case might have to be, "Who on earth is Andrew Litton?"
0:13:37 > 0:13:39That might be...
0:13:39 > 0:13:42I don't know, perhaps he works in a solicitors in Reigate,
0:13:42 > 0:13:43something like that.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46But you know what? Perhaps he dreams that one day
0:13:46 > 0:13:50he may enter the Oval Office President Litton.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53This would be a good first episode.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Actually, it would probably be a good third episode of the Tom Thomas story.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58This could be a sub-plot in the film.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01He solves a couple of crimes in the Lake District
0:14:01 > 0:14:03and then he comes to London to be on a quiz show
0:14:03 > 0:14:06and during Round One someone is murdered.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- Oh! During Round One?- Yeah.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10And in the end he works out that Toby did it.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13- With a er...- Why me?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Cos you're the only person with access to the poison
0:14:16 > 0:14:19that comes from the feathers of a particular Arctic tern.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Of course, of course.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24You see? And Tom works that out.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25Then I barge in and go...
0:14:25 > 0:14:28"Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, Rev Tom-Toms,
0:14:28 > 0:14:31"I missed that bit. I was just coming out...
0:14:31 > 0:14:33"Oh, right, we're off. OK."
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- That's a hit.- That role -
0:14:35 > 0:14:37I'm going to steal the show with that, aren't I?
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Anyway, thank you.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Now, then, Douglas. Douglas, you're through to the next round.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Even if you score 100 points,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48you won't overtake the high score of Tom and Ben.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50I think you may have a good answer for this.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52You've had the whole round to think.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54OK, erm...
0:14:54 > 0:14:56I've two choices.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00I think I can go for John Adams.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Or I might go for William Taft.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04William Taft, says Douglas.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Let's see if that's right. No red line as you are already through.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Is William Taft right?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11It's right.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20- Oh, very well done indeed, Douglas. - CHEERING
0:15:21 > 0:15:23That's a pointless answer. It adds £250 to today's jackpot,
0:15:23 > 0:15:28which takes the total up to £3,250.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30It scores you nothing, leaves your total at 24.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Very, very well done indeed. Great answer.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34How about that? Well played, Doug.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37One answer on Pointless, one pointless answer.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41William Taft was the 27th President. He was the heaviest President.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- Was he?- Yeah. He once got stuck in the bath in the White House.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46- Whoa!- That's how big he was.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48He was a big old unit.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Now, of all the answers on this board,
0:15:51 > 0:15:56there is only pointless answer, it's the only one, so very well done.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58There's a couple of other low scorers, though.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00We've already seen one of them.
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Doug gave us William Taft.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Franklin Pierce would have scored one.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06James Madison we heard from Dan. That scored one as well.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08John Quincy Adams would have scored one,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10not John Adams by itself - that would have scored nine.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13The following would all have scored you two points -
0:16:13 > 0:16:14James Buchanan, James K Polk,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17John Tyler, William Henry Harrison or William McKinley.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Another couple of low scorers. Andrew Johnson would have been eight,
0:16:20 > 0:16:23James Monroe four and James Garfield three.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27Let's take a look at the ones that most of our 100 people said.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30George W Bush was in third with 60.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34James Carter, Jimmy Carter, of course, 61.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37And top the list, Franklin D Roosevelt.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- Absolutely top of the pile. - Thanks very much indeed, Richard.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43So at the end of our first round, our losing pair with their high score of 162,
0:16:43 > 0:16:48- I'm so sorry, Tom and Ben, it's you. - Yeah.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Now, then, Tom, tell us about Andrew Litton.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53I can't think where I got the name from.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56I was just kind of struggling in the dark.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57Still, it sounded great.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Sadly, it was quite, quite wrong.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Thank you so much for playing, Tom and Ben.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- Cheers. - You've been great contestants.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10For the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Now, sadly at the end of this round, another pair will be leaving us.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I wonder which pair it's going to be.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Toby and Dan, fantastic answers from you.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27James Madison - a great answer.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31And then William Taft! Oh! The best answer of the whole round.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33The best answer possible, in fact.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35You have one more round you have to get through on your own
0:17:35 > 0:17:37and then you can put your heads together,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39so very, very best to all three pairs.
0:17:39 > 0:17:44Dan, we've been told this is a round perfectly made for you.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Very best of luck to all three pairs.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Our category for Round Two is:
0:17:50 > 0:17:51There we are.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Can you decide who's going to go first, who's going to go second.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03OK and the question concerns:
0:18:06 > 0:18:08- French words in English. Richard? - Absolutely.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12This is a round about French phrases that are commonly used in English.
0:18:12 > 0:18:18On each pass, we're going to show you six literal translations of those French phrases.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21You need to give us the phrase in French, please.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23A nice obscure answer will score fewer points.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25An incorrect answer scores 100 points.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27They're not necessarily definitions of the phrases
0:18:27 > 0:18:31but they are literal translations from the Oxford Dictionary of English.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- Very, very best of luck. - Thanks, Richard.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36So here are six phrases in English.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40We need the French phrases that are the literal translations of these.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41And we have got:
0:18:50 > 0:18:53I'll read those all one last time.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00There we are.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Looking for the French phrases
0:19:02 > 0:19:04that are literal translations
0:19:04 > 0:19:05of these English phrases.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- Douglas?- OK. I'm not very good at French.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12I'm going to take a stab in the dark, here.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I'm just going to say bonjour for good journey.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Bonjour, says Douglas, for good journey.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Let's see if that's right and how many people said bonjour.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Oh, bad luck! I'm afraid, an incorrect answer, Douglas,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31scoring you the maximum 100 points. I'm sorry. Richard.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Like a tourist seeing the sights, you've done everything you can on Pointless already.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36You've had a pointless answer
0:19:36 > 0:19:39and a 100 in just two answers. Not bad going, is it?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41I'll give the correct answer at the end.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Dan.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Yeah, OK.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48That was a bit of luck. Thank you for that one.
0:19:48 > 0:19:54I'm going to go for false step is a faux pas.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57A faux pas. A faux pas, says Dan, for false step.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Let's see if it's right. Let's see how many people said it.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03It's right.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Very well done indeed, Dan.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Faux pas scoring you eight.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Yeah, very well played, as we would expect.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21In French, it can also mean literally losing your balance.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23It can be a physical act. A faux pas.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Now, then, Barbara. You're the last person to have this board,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30so you can take us through the whole board, if you like.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Erm, I know one.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Nouveau riche for new rich.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Nouveau riche. Nouveau riche, says Barbara, for new rich.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people said nouveau riche.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50- APPLAUSE - 36.
0:20:53 > 0:20:5536 for nouveau riche.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Applying to people who've made their wealth during their own generation.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Let's go through the rest of the board and while we've got Dan here, we might as well make use of him.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Erm, burnt cream, Dan?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07- Creme brulee.- Creme brulee.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I'm not even going to do the pronunciation.
0:21:09 > 0:21:1122 that would have scored.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Let's do good journey for Douglas.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- Bon voyage.- Bon voyage, Douglas. Absolutely right.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Would have scored 38.
0:21:17 > 0:21:18- Black beast?- Bete noire.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Bete noire, absolutely.
0:21:20 > 0:21:21That would have scored 14.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23- And allow to do?- Laissez-faire.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Laissez-faire. Four points.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27That's the best answer on the board.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Thanks very much indeed, Richard and Dan.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Let's take a look at our scores.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Dan, lovely low score of eight, there.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39So Dan and Toby looking pretty sturdy at this stage of the game
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Then up to 36, where we see Barbara and Vivianne
0:21:42 > 0:21:45and then up to 100, I'm afraid, where Douglas and Niamh are.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47So, Niamh, we need a brilliant answer from you.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50- How good's your French? - Erm... Un peu.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51LAUGHTER
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Good enough.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Let's hope that's enough
0:21:55 > 0:21:57to get you through to the next round.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Can the second players please take their places at the podium?
0:22:03 > 0:22:08OK, we're going to put six more English translations of French phrases on the board
0:22:08 > 0:22:10and here they come. We have got:
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I'll read those all one last time.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Looking for the common French phrases
0:22:31 > 0:22:34of which these are the literal English translations
0:22:34 > 0:22:36and, Vivianne, you're going to find
0:22:36 > 0:22:38the one you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40You are on 36, a pretty good score.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Niamh and Douglas are way ahead on 100,
0:22:43 > 0:22:47so if you can score 63 or less, you are through to the head-to-head.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49I'm afraid I've no idea at all.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55I'll go household of three -
0:22:55 > 0:22:56chateau trois?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Chateau trois drinking very well this year.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- LAUGHTER - Mm.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Here is your red line. There it is.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08If you go below that with chateau trois...
0:23:08 > 0:23:10I'll eat the column.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Let's see if it's right. How many people said chateau trois?
0:23:19 > 0:23:20Bad luck, Vivianne.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Brave effort but I'm afraid an incorrect answer.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26It takes your total up to 136.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Yeah, sorry, Vivianne.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Terrific news for Niamh, though. It's game on now, I think.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Now, then, Toby. You are through to the next round.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Even if you score 100 points, you won't overtake the high score of Vivianne and Barbara.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41I think you're going to be pretty good at this as well, aren't you?
0:23:41 > 0:23:42I'll give it a shot.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44I'm not sure if my pronunciation
0:23:44 > 0:23:46is going to be as good as Dan's
0:23:46 > 0:23:48but I would say famous case -
0:23:48 > 0:23:50cause celebre.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Cause celebre, says Toby.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Cause celebre. No red line for you, you're already through.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Let's see how many people said cause celebre.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08- Very well done. Eight! - APPLAUSE
0:24:10 > 0:24:13You matched Dan's score on the first pass.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Your total is 16. Very well done indeed. Richard?
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Yes, well played, Toby. Sailing through.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21It means a case arousing widespread controversy -
0:24:21 > 0:24:23cause celebre.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Niamh. Now we have a game.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27The high scorers on 136
0:24:27 > 0:24:30are Vivianne and Barbara.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32You're on 100. You need to score 35 or less.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Could you talk us through the board, Niamh?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37There's two
0:24:37 > 0:24:40that I'm pretty sure are right,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43already seen and joy of living,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45so I think I've survived
0:24:45 > 0:24:48by the skin of my teeth on this one.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51I'll go with joy of living, joie de vivre.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Joie de vivre, says Niamh.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Joie de vivre.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56There is your red line.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59If you get below that red line, you're through to the next round.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Let's see how many people said joie de vivre.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05It's right.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Oh! No! 37.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12You needed 35!
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Oh, dear, oh, dear.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18That takes your total up to 137.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- Oh!- That was pretty close, wasn't it?
0:25:23 > 0:25:24Yeah, if you'd said deja vu
0:25:24 > 0:25:27you'd have been right, it is already seen -
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- it would have scored you 29 points. - AUDIENCE GROAN
0:25:30 > 0:25:34It would have seen you safely through.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Dan, do you fancy finishing these off for us?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Household of three is not chateau trois.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Menage a trois.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Yes, something very different altogether.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Yeah, absolutely. That would have scored 28 points.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46- Blow of state?- Coup d'etat.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48That would have scored five points.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Sweet note is a pointless answer.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Well done if you said...
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Billet doux.- Billet doux.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Absolutely. A love letter.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56APPLAUSE
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Thank you very much, Richard and Dan.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05So at the end of our second round,
0:26:05 > 0:26:07the losing pair with their high score of 137,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10oh, Niamh, that was bad luck!
0:26:10 > 0:26:11That was bad luck.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Nearly went for deja vu, which would have seen you through.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15But two correct answers.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17I'm afraid, Douglas,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19it was your high score of 100
0:26:19 > 0:26:20that doomed you.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24But we will see you again next time. We look forward to that very much.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27- Meanwhile, thanks for playing, Niamh and Douglas.- Thank you.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34But for the remaining pairs, things are about to get even more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Congratulations, Toby and Dan, Vivianne and Barbara.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45You are now only one round away from the final
0:26:45 > 0:26:50and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £3,250.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52WHOOPING
0:26:52 > 0:26:55You're now going to go head-to-head
0:26:55 > 0:26:58and the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot
0:26:58 > 0:27:00but you're now allowed to confer.
0:27:00 > 0:27:05So, Toby and Dan, some great answering from you. Lovely low scores there.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09But I'm particularly impressed that you had identical scores in Round Two.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- I know.- Very brotherly, I felt. - Absolutely.- Yeah.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16But he gets paid to do that, so I think should get a special point.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Maybe, maybe.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20And Vivianne - chateau trois.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25- Did you think...?- When it came up, I remembered it, but...
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Well, you got the trois right.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30It's just a slightly grander household than we were after.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- A castle!- There we are.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Very, very best of luck to both pairs.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Let's play the head-to-head.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45OK, here comes your first question and it concerns:
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Girl band members. Richard.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Yes, we're going to show you five pictures of women
0:27:52 > 0:27:56who've been members of girl bands who've had one or more UK top ten singles.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59With which girl bands are the following most associated?
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- Very best of luck. - OK, thanks, Richard.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Let's reveal our five girl band members and here they come. We have got:
0:28:22 > 0:28:26There we are. Five girl band members.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Toby and Dan, you've played best so far, so you go first.
0:28:30 > 0:28:31Do you know...?
0:28:31 > 0:28:34- Erm...- Do you know any of them?- Yes.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38I think we can get maybe three of them.
0:28:38 > 0:28:42- Really? - So, I think, A - Destiny's Child.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Destiny's Child - A, say Toby and Dan.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Vivianne and Barbara, the board is yours.
0:28:47 > 0:28:48Talk us through it.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51Well, I only know B and E.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53B is Girls Aloud
0:28:53 > 0:28:56and E is the Spice Girls.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58I don't know the others.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01So we'll go for B - Girls Aloud.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05B - Girls Aloud, say Vivianne and Barbara. B - Girls Aloud.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07So Toby and Dan have said A - Destiny's Child.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people
0:29:10 > 0:29:11said Destiny's Child.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15It's right.
0:29:19 > 0:29:2023.
0:29:24 > 0:29:2623. Very well done indeed.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Vivianne and Barbara have said B - Girls Aloud.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30B - Girls Aloud.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Let's see if that's right
0:29:32 > 0:29:35and if it is, let's see how many people said that.
0:29:35 > 0:29:36It's right.
0:29:39 > 0:29:4043!
0:29:44 > 0:29:48Very well done. Toby and Dan, after one question you are up 1-0.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49- Richard.- Well played, gentlemen.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Let's take a look through the rest of them.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53C. Do you know C?
0:29:53 > 0:29:57- Bananarama.- Yes, Keren Woodward from Bananarama. Absolutely right.
0:29:57 > 0:29:58It would have scored four points.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Well done if you said that at home.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02There's another good answer, D.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05That's Alesha Dixon and she was in Mis-Teeq.
0:30:05 > 0:30:0712 points.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12And Emma Bunton, obviously, the last one, who was in the Spice Girls.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15But that was a big score, as you'd expect. 59 points for Emma Bunton.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18- Biggest answer on that board. - Thanks very much.
0:30:18 > 0:30:19Now, here comes your second question.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23Vivianne and Barbara, you have to win this question to stay in the game.
0:30:23 > 0:30:24It concerns:
0:30:29 > 0:30:33- Two-word film titles beginning with "The..."- Absolutely.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36We're going to show you five titles of such films
0:30:36 > 0:30:39and we're going to show "The..." and the first initial of that film
0:30:39 > 0:30:41and a pair of actors who appeared in the film.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44Can you name any of these five films, please?
0:30:44 > 0:30:48Thanks, Richard. So let's reveal our two-word film titles
0:30:48 > 0:30:50and here they are. We have got:
0:31:08 > 0:31:10I'll read those all one last time.
0:31:23 > 0:31:24Vivianne and Barbara,
0:31:24 > 0:31:26you go first this time.
0:31:26 > 0:31:30Exorcist. Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair is The Exorcist, I think.
0:31:30 > 0:31:31- Is it?- Yeah.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33Are you sure?
0:31:33 > 0:31:38We'll go for Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, The Exorcist.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41The Exorcist, you are saying. The Exorcist.
0:31:41 > 0:31:45Now, then, Toby and Dan, you can talk aloud now and take us through the board.
0:31:45 > 0:31:50Yeah. The Graduate is Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54The Sting, but I think they'll both be higher than The Exorcist.
0:31:54 > 0:31:59- I'm hesitating between The Sting and The Birds.- I think The Birds.- OK.
0:31:59 > 0:32:03- We're going for The Birds.- So Dan and Toby are saying The Birds.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08So we have The Exorcist versus The Birds.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12Vivianne and Barbara said The Exorcist. Let's see how many people said it.
0:32:13 > 0:32:14It's right.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21- Oh, very well done. 16. That's a great score. - APPLAUSE
0:32:25 > 0:32:26Very well played.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29I wonder if that could keep you in the game. It might well.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31Toby and Dan have gone for The Birds.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Let's see if that's right
0:32:33 > 0:32:34and how many people said it.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39It's right. It's got to beat 16.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44- 22. - APPLAUSE
0:32:44 > 0:32:45- Well done.- Thank you.
0:32:46 > 0:32:4922. Very well done, Vivianne and Barbara.
0:32:49 > 0:32:51That's exactly what you needed to do. You're back in the game.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54- It's 1-1. - Well played, Vivianne and Barbara.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56There's only answer that would have beaten The Exorcist,
0:32:56 > 0:33:00so you put them in a tough position, and that is the second one down.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Burton was nominated for an Oscar for it.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05It was the first ever film in CinemaScope
0:33:05 > 0:33:07and it was called The Robe.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10Three points. The Robe. Well done if you got that.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13The G is The Graduate. That would have scored 38 points.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16And The Sting would have scored you more then The Birds.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18It would have scored you 28.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21Thanks very much, Richard.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23So here comes the third question, our decider.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26Whoever wins this question goes through and plays for the jackpot.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28It concerns:
0:33:30 > 0:33:34- Mozart. Richard.- Yes, we're going to show you five clues now
0:33:34 > 0:33:36leading to facts about the composer Mozart.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40Whoever gives us the most obscure answer is playing for the jackpot, so best of luck.
0:33:40 > 0:33:45OK, let's reveal our five clues to facts about Mozart and here they come. We have got:
0:33:58 > 0:34:00I'll read all those one last time.
0:34:10 > 0:34:12Now, Toby and Dan,
0:34:12 > 0:34:14- you answer first again this time. - OK.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16Which do you know?
0:34:16 > 0:34:19I think I know all but one.
0:34:19 > 0:34:24I'm going to go for the composer,
0:34:24 > 0:34:27which is Antonio Salieri.
0:34:27 > 0:34:28- Salieri.- Salieri.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31Salieri, the composer who is accused, in fiction,
0:34:31 > 0:34:33of poisoning Mozart.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Vivianne and Barbara, the board is yours.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37Well, we think his first name
0:34:37 > 0:34:40by what he's known
0:34:40 > 0:34:42is Amadeus.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43Amadeus.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46Amadeus, you are saying.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48So we have Salieri versus Amadeus.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50Toby and Dan, Salieri.
0:34:50 > 0:34:54Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said it.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56It's right.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03It's a great answer. Look at that - 12! Very well done indeed.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05APPLAUSE
0:35:09 > 0:35:11Vivianne and Barbara have said Amadeus
0:35:11 > 0:35:14was his first name by which he was known.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Amadeus.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25Bad luck, bad luck. An incorrect answer, I'm afraid,
0:35:25 > 0:35:28which means Toby and Dan, after three questions,
0:35:28 > 0:35:29you are through to the final, 2-1.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32- Very well done indeed. - Well played, Toby and Dan.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35It's Wolfgang - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, absolutely right.
0:35:35 > 0:35:39That would have scored you 33, so it wouldn't have seen you through.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42There's one answer that would but let's look at the others.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44The country in which he was born was Austria.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46That would have scored you 45.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48He lived, of course, in the 18th century.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50That would have scored you 26.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52And the best answer was the first name of his wife.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55- Constanze. - Constanze, absolutely right, Dan.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Constanze for two points,
0:35:57 > 0:35:58well done if you said that at home.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01- You're showing off. - Thanks very much indeed.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05So our losing pair at the end of the head-to-head, I'm afraid it's Vivianne and Barbara.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07- But you put up a good fight. - Oh, yes!
0:36:07 > 0:36:09You did very well. The Exorcist, a great answer, there.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12Girls Aloud, a good answer, too, but beaten by Destiny's Child.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15But you've played very well. I'm sorry this is where we say goodbye.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18- Vivianne and Barbara, thanks so much for playing.- Thank you.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25But for Toby and Dan, it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:36:28 > 0:36:31Congratulations, Toby and Dan, you've fought off all the competition
0:36:31 > 0:36:34and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot
0:36:42 > 0:36:45and at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at...
0:36:45 > 0:36:48APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:36:48 > 0:36:50You've done so well. You've just done brilliantly.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53Great answering the whole way through the show
0:36:53 > 0:36:57and I was particularly impressed in that last head-to-head question, the Mozart question.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00You went for Salieri but you had a better answer in reserve.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03- You know Constanze.- I wasn't sure. - OK.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05But there you are. You had an answer to back up.
0:37:05 > 0:37:06Now, the rules are very simple.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09To win, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11We've had one pointless answer on the show today.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13You only have to find one more to go home with our jackpot.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16Firstly you've got to choose a category
0:37:16 > 0:37:18and you have a choice of five options. They are:
0:37:27 > 0:37:30Erm... Place names, surely?
0:37:30 > 0:37:32- Place names?- Yeah.- OK.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35Do you fancy 20th century dramatists?
0:37:35 > 0:37:36No, not so much.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Funky music sounds the most fun
0:37:38 > 0:37:40but...
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Toby is very funky, so I'm tempted but...
0:37:43 > 0:37:46- We'll play place names. That's fine. - Place names?- Yeah.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49- Place names it is.- Place names. - Let's find out what the question is.
0:37:49 > 0:37:53We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many:
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Richard? Yes, we're looking for any country of the world
0:38:01 > 0:38:03whose common English name is a single word
0:38:03 > 0:38:06consisting of ten letters or more, please.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08As always, by country we mean a member of the UN
0:38:08 > 0:38:10that is a sovereign state.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13So one word, non-hyphenated, with ten letters or more, please.
0:38:13 > 0:38:17- Best of luck.- Right, you now have up to one minute to come up with three answers
0:38:17 > 0:38:19and all you need to win that £3,250
0:38:19 > 0:38:22is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25- Are you ready? - I guess so.- As we'll ever be, yeah.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Your time starts now.
0:38:29 > 0:38:33- OK, erm...- Well, Madagascar...
0:38:33 > 0:38:37- Guatemala?- Guatemala's good.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42Erm, there's... It's amazing. Your mind goes blank.
0:38:42 > 0:38:43Madagascar's very good.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Guatemala I like. Venezuela.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47That's long enough, I think.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49- We need to do it. We need...- Yeah.
0:38:49 > 0:38:54- Erm...- I like Guatemala.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59- We'll go for Guatemala?- We need more. - Sorry, we need three.- Yeah.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Focus, job, focus.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Er...
0:39:03 > 0:39:05Zimbabwe's not enough.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09No. I'm not good enough at maths.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13- Erm... What about Kurdistan? Kyrgyzstan.- Kyrgyzstan.- Kyrgyzstan.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan. That's a very good one.
0:39:17 > 0:39:21- Turkmenistan.- Turkmenistan, oh, that's a good one.- Ten seconds left.
0:39:21 > 0:39:25- Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Guatemala.- And Guatemala. OK.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27- Yeah. Yeah, we've got them. - OK, you've got three.
0:39:27 > 0:39:28We'll stop the clock.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31We were looking for one-word countries with ten or more letters.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33- I now need your three answers.- OK.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35- So, Kyrgyzstan.- Kyrgyzstan.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38- Yeah. Turkmenistan. - Turkmenistan.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41- And Guatemala.- And Guatemala.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Now, of those three, which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:39:44 > 0:39:46I think Turkmenistan.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49- Turkmenistan. We'll put that one last.- OK.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51- Which is your least likely, do you think?- Guatemala.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53- Guatemala we'll put first.- Yeah.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56OK, let's put those up on the board in that order and here they are.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06OK, we were looking for one-word countries with ten or more letters.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Guatemala was your first answer.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11You only have to find one pointless answer, remember,
0:40:11 > 0:40:13to win that jackpot of £3,250.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17So let's see. Guatemala - is it right?
0:40:18 > 0:40:21- No.- Not a great spot.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23I think we've... Unfortunately not a pointless answer.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27But to be honest, Guatemala, it was just a filler, wasn't it?
0:40:27 > 0:40:30You only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Toby, what would you do with £3,250?
0:40:32 > 0:40:35Erm, one of the things we were hoping to do,
0:40:35 > 0:40:37is Dan's been quite ill recently,
0:40:37 > 0:40:41so we're hoping to give it to the hospital that's been supporting Dan.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44Very, very well done. Good.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48Very good. Well, very, very best of luck.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Let's hope one of these two remaining answers wins it for you.
0:40:51 > 0:40:55Let's hope nobody said your next answer, Kyrgyzstan.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57It has to be right, then it has to be pointless.
0:40:57 > 0:41:01If it's both of those things, you leave here with £3,250.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04So let's see how many people said Kyrgyzstan.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08Well, it's right.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Your first answer, Guatemala, didn't quite add up,
0:41:11 > 0:41:13but Kyrgyzstan most certainly does.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16It's in the twenties, the teens, into single figures.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19If it goes to zero, you leave with the jackpot.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21- CHEERING - Very well done! You've done it.
0:41:22 > 0:41:24That's a brilliant, brilliant answer.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28- Very well done, you. - Thank you very much. Thank you.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:41:38 > 0:41:44Congratulations. Kyrgyzstan was a pointless answer, so you go home with the jackpot of £3,250.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48- Brilliant. - CHEERING
0:41:50 > 0:41:53- Very, very well played. Richard? - Very well played, guys.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56You've been a class act since the moment you appeared on the show.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00Turkmenistan, your other answer, would have scored two points.
0:42:00 > 0:42:01- Ooh! - AUDIENCE OOHS
0:42:01 > 0:42:03So well done, Kyrgyzstan.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06There's only four pointless answers on the whole list.
0:42:06 > 0:42:07Let's see if you got any of these at home.
0:42:07 > 0:42:11Kyrgyzstan at the top. Mauritania was a pointless answer.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14Micronesia another good one. Well done if you got that.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16Montenegro would have been a pointless answer
0:42:16 > 0:42:20and Seychelles, also a pointless answer.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23Turkmenistan has got 12 letters. It's the second-longest on the list.
0:42:23 > 0:42:27There's only one country that has a single word with more letters than Turkmenistan.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29- Do you know what that is? - No, no idea.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32- Liechtenstein.- Oh!- Liechtenstein, the longest of them all.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35Liechtenstein would have scored you two points, though, but it's the longest.
0:42:35 > 0:42:39There we are. Thanks once again to our winning players, Toby and Dan,
0:42:39 > 0:42:43who go away with today's jackpot of £3,250.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45CHEERING
0:42:46 > 0:42:51Join us next time when we put more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53- Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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