0:00:21 > 0:00:25Than you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong.
0:00:25 > 0:00:30Welcome to Pointless, where obvious answers mean nothing and obscure answers mean everything.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Let's meet today's players.
0:00:34 > 0:00:41And first we welcome back Rob and Ky. Everyone gets two chances to reach the Pointless final.
0:00:41 > 0:00:46- This is your second chance. Rob, remind us how you know each other. - We used to work together.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51- At a newspaper.- You're newshounds. - Well, sportshounds.- Sportshounds.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56- As we discovered last time, Rob left the Dorset Echo...Echo... - LAUGHTER
0:00:56 > 0:01:02- to be a postman. - Yes, well, it wasn't exactly my choice to leave, but...
0:01:02 > 0:01:05- Oh, you were sacked!- Not quite! LAUGHTER
0:01:05 > 0:01:11- How have you filled the gap since Rob left?- We had a day of mourning and then...- A whole day, eh?
0:01:11 > 0:01:15- Well, half a day if you take lunch out.- Rob, do you miss it?
0:01:15 > 0:01:19I do. I miss, as you can see, the banter. I miss that.
0:01:19 > 0:01:25- Any new tactics on the back of last time's performance?- To do better.- Yeah.- OK.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30There's a maxim for all of us. Best of luck. Great to have you back.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Next we welcome Jeneana and Jason. How do you two know each other?
0:01:34 > 0:01:39- Jason's my dad.- Jason... David Dickinson.
0:01:39 > 0:01:44I'm sorry, but really. Don't you think? Would you give me that?
0:01:44 > 0:01:47If anyone here looks like him, it's Jason.
0:01:47 > 0:01:55- You are not the first.- I bet. That must be quite tiresome. - No, it's really quite enjoyable.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59- What do you do with your retirement? - I'm passionate about fishing. - Fresh water?
0:01:59 > 0:02:05Everything from my local rivers and lakes, through trout fishing, salmon fishing in Scotland
0:02:05 > 0:02:09- to big game fishing all over the world.- Jeneana, what do you do?
0:02:09 > 0:02:14- I'm a freelance caterer.- What's the biggest party you've catered for?
0:02:14 > 0:02:18- I've done about 150.- Wow. That's enough pressure, isn't it?- It is.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22- So food and drink will be great for you.- Hopefully.- Splendid.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27- What else would you like to see come up?- Anything natural history. - Natural history.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32- Jeneana?- I actually don't mind politics too much.
0:02:32 > 0:02:39- It's very seldom requested, politics.- That's why I like it. The others might not do so well.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43People don't do terribly well on it, least of all our 100 people.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48- Yeah, especially them! - They're not brilliant on politics.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53Great to have you. Next, Lara and Martin. How do you know each other?
0:02:53 > 0:02:59- We help to run a private dining club in Covent Garden, the West End. - Very good indeed. Now then, Lara,
0:02:59 > 0:03:05- what do you hope comes up today? What's the ideal topic?- Well, apart from working as a waitress,
0:03:05 > 0:03:11I'm studying to be a singer, classical singer. I've been training as a soprano for seven months.
0:03:11 > 0:03:18- As an opera soprano?- Yes.- I see. - So maybe, perhaps, some composers,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21classical music a little bit.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25- Martin, how about you? - Sorry, Jeneana, but I love politics.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30- So I would love politics to come up. - OK, wow.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34- Any politics today? - Er, no, not so much.- OK.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38- Oh, never mind.- Very good. Great to have you on the show.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40A warm welcome and best of luck.
0:03:40 > 0:03:46- Finally, we've got Scott and Suzanne. How do you know each other? - Boyfriend and girlfriend.
0:03:46 > 0:03:53- Very good. Where are you from? - Glasgow.- Scott, what do you do? - I work for an accountancy board.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58- And what do you like to get up to? - Playing football and I like running.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Suzanne, what do you get up to?
0:04:00 > 0:04:05- If I'm not working, I'm normally at the gym.- And what is your work?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Same company as Scott, but I deal with accountancy students.
0:04:08 > 0:04:14- Did you meet through work?- No. - Or work through knowing each other? - We met at school.
0:04:14 > 0:04:20- And then both got jobs there. - How long ago was that?- Seven years. - Wow! Very best of luck.
0:04:20 > 0:04:25We'll find out more about all of you throughout the show.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Only one person left for me to introduce. People call him Rain Man
0:04:29 > 0:04:33as he goes gambling with Tom Cruise. It's my Pointless friend, Richard.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Hiya!
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Hello.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Gambling or gambolling?
0:04:41 > 0:04:47- Gambolling. Leaping about like a new-born lamb, you and Tom. - Me and Tom Cruise.- Yeah!
0:04:47 > 0:04:53- Yeah. Are you well?- I'm very well. - Just one returning pair today. That's our record holders.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57- The shortest-named contestants we've ever had, Rob and Ky.- Yep.
0:04:57 > 0:05:02They were harshly knocked out, so they might do rather well today.
0:05:02 > 0:05:08They could be tough to beat. The first round today is a subject that no one has ever asked for.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12- Is it? Good. - And round two is lovely as well.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16- Should be fun, the first two. - Good stuff. Look forward to it.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20All our questions have been put to 100 people before the show.
0:05:20 > 0:05:26To get to the final round, our contestants need to find the obscure answers those 100 didn't get.
0:05:26 > 0:05:32The fewer of our 100 who knew the answer, the fewer points they will score. What everyone is trying
0:05:32 > 0:05:38is to find a pointless answer that none of our 100 people knew. Each time that happens
0:05:38 > 0:05:43we will add 250 quid to the jackpot. Nobody won the jackpot last time, so we add another £1,000.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:05:57 > 0:06:03OK, in this first round, each of you must give me one answer and you cannot confer with your partner.
0:06:03 > 0:06:08Whichever pair has the highest score will be eliminated. Try to ensure that's not you.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Our first category today is... Famous People.
0:06:12 > 0:06:17Famous People. Can you all decide who's going to go first and second?
0:06:17 > 0:06:21And whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27OK. Our question concerns...
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Famous Prisoners.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35- Richard? - On each pass we'll show you seven descriptions of famous people
0:06:35 > 0:06:41who have been incarcerated at some point in their lives. You tell us who they are.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45A nice obscure answer scores fewer points. An incorrect answer is 100.
0:06:45 > 0:06:4914 descriptions in all, 14 jailbirds for you to get at home.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54OK, thanks very much. Rob and Ky, you all drew lots and today you are going first.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58We are looking for these famous prisoners. And we have got...
0:06:58 > 0:07:00HE READS THE LIST
0:07:30 > 0:07:32I'll read those all one last time.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01There we are.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06Seven clues to famous prisoners. Now then, Ky...
0:08:08 > 0:08:13I think I'm going to have to go with the Queen of England
0:08:13 > 0:08:18from 1558 to 1603 and say Elizabeth I.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24Elizabeth I says Ky. Let's see if that's right and, if it is,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27how many people knew that answer. Elizabeth I.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Absolutely right.
0:08:35 > 0:08:3746.
0:08:40 > 0:08:46- 46, Richard.- Better safe than sorry. She was incarcerated in the Tower of London in 1554.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- For non-payment of parking fines. - LAUGHTER
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Jason?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Well, there's two I could have a go at.
0:08:55 > 0:09:03I'm going to take a bit of a risk. I'm going to say wrote three volumes of a prison diary, Jeffrey Archer.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09Jeffrey Archer. OK. Let's see if it's right and, if it is, how many people knew that.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Yep.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Wow, Jason! That's a great answer.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Jeffrey Archer scoring you two.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Very well done.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31Good answer. He was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
0:09:31 > 0:09:37These three different volumes were the three different prisons that he was in.
0:09:37 > 0:09:43- He was actually in one about ten miles from where we live. - Was that Heaven?- That was it.
0:09:43 > 0:09:50- The last one.- Is it heaven? - I wouldn't call it heaven! - A bit bleak.- Compared to Belmarsh?
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- Probably.- Now then, Lara...
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Hmm, the one I knew has been taken, so...
0:09:57 > 0:10:03I'm going to go for "launched the Quit India movement in 1942"
0:10:03 > 0:10:05with Nelson Mandela.
0:10:05 > 0:10:12Nelson Mandela, you are saying. The Quit India movement, launched in 1942.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Let's see if that's right and how many knew it.
0:10:21 > 0:10:28Unfortunately, that's an incorrect answer, Lara. That means you score the maximum of 100 points. Sorry.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32Suzanne, you are the last person to have this board. Talk us through it.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Not going to be able to do that!
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Em...
0:10:36 > 0:10:44I'm probably going to have to go for Kiefer Sutherland, who played Jack Bauer in 24.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49Kiefer Sutherland you are saying. He played Jack Bauer in 24.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Is that right and how many said it?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Absolutely right.
0:10:58 > 0:11:0035.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Not a bad score by any means, Suzanne. 35 for Kiefer Sutherland.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Yeah, very good answer. He spent 48 days in prison.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Drunk driving. Let's look at the rest of the board.
0:11:11 > 0:11:18- The jockey who won the Epsom Derby? - Lester Piggott.- Absolutely right. Would have scored you 28.
0:11:18 > 0:11:24Let's look at the Quit India one. It's not Nelson Mandela. It's Mahatma Gandhi.
0:11:24 > 0:11:29It would have scored you 18 points. The German leader?
0:11:29 > 0:11:35- Well, Hitler, I would imagine. - Absolutely right. After he was jailed for the Bier Hall Putsch.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38And played by Johnny Depp in the film Public Enemies? Tricky.
0:11:38 > 0:11:43John Dillinger, four points. So the best answer was Jeffrey Archer.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48Very well done indeed. Let's take a look at those scores.
0:11:48 > 0:11:54Jason and Jeneana are looking very strong indeed. Lovely low score. That was a punt well worth taking.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Then we go up to 35 to Suzanne and Scott,
0:11:57 > 0:11:59up to 46, Ky and Rob,
0:11:59 > 0:12:04and then up quite substantially to 100 where we find Lara and Martin.
0:12:04 > 0:12:10Martin, you're just the man to find the lowest-scoring answer and you will need it.
0:12:10 > 0:12:17OK, we're going to come back down the line. Can the second players please take their places?
0:12:17 > 0:12:22OK, we're going to put seven more famous prisoners on the board.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24We have got...
0:12:24 > 0:12:26HE READS THE LIST
0:12:51 > 0:12:53I will read all of those one last time.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21We are looking for the famous prisoners described by these clues.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24You want the one the fewest knew.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29- What are you thinking, Scott? - I think I'll play it safe and go with Sherlock Holmes,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Robert Downey Jnr.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Robert Downey Jnr. Here's your red line.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40Below that red line, through you go to the next round. Robert Downey Jnr.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44How many people said it? Is it right?
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Absolutely right.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49And you're through. Very well done.
0:13:50 > 0:13:5225.
0:13:52 > 0:13:5525 takes your total up to 60.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Yes, frequently arrested on drugs charges, Robert Downey Jnr.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05He was sentenced to three years for parole violations.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09- Now, Martin, you have a job to do here.- Indeed, sir.
0:14:09 > 0:14:15I'm quite sure that Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest, so I'll go for that.
0:14:15 > 0:14:21OK, Oscar Wilde says Martin. How many of our 100 said Oscar Wilde?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Absolutely right.
0:14:27 > 0:14:2935.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33That takes your total up to 135.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37- Richard?- Very well played, Martin. You've kept yourself in it there.
0:14:37 > 0:14:43Famously imprisoned in a number of jails. The Ballad of Reading Gaol he wrote in Reading jail,
0:14:43 > 0:14:47but also Pentonville, Holloway, all sorts of places.
0:14:47 > 0:14:53Now then, Jeneana. The good news is you are through whatever happens. You're on 2.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Even if you score 100 points, you won't overtake Martin and Lara.
0:14:57 > 0:15:03- Bearing that in mind, what do you think of the board?- I was going to go for the same answer as Martin,
0:15:03 > 0:15:09but seeing as he's taken that one, I'll have a bit of a punt and go for the Russian author.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14- The only one I can think of is Leo Tolstoy. - Leo Tolstoy you're saying.
0:15:14 > 0:15:22Jason not entirely happy with that. Let's see if it's right and how many people said Leo Tolstoy.
0:15:26 > 0:15:31Bad luck, Jeneana. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer and scores you the maximum 100 points.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36- It takes you to 102, but it couldn't matter less. Richard? - Unlucky, Jeneana. Good guess.
0:15:36 > 0:15:42On the plus side, now we know what a disappointed David Dickinson looks like.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Rob, you're on 46. The high scorers are Martin and Lara on 135.
0:15:46 > 0:15:53If you can score 88 or less, you are through to the next round. What do you think of that board?
0:15:53 > 0:15:58- There's a couple of obvious ones. - You can talk through the board.
0:15:58 > 0:16:04Presumably the top one is Nelson Mandela, the nickname Scarface is Al Capone.
0:16:04 > 0:16:11If I was going to hazard a guess I would say the Russian author was Dostoyevsky, the only one I know.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14The other two I'm not sure about.
0:16:14 > 0:16:19So to get through I am going to go with crime tsar of Chicago, Al Capone.
0:16:19 > 0:16:25Al Capone, you are saying. Here's your red line. Al Capone has to get you below that.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Is it right? How many people said Al Capone for Scarface?
0:16:30 > 0:16:33It's right. And it's done it for you!
0:16:35 > 0:16:3732.
0:16:38 > 0:16:4132 takes your total up to 78.
0:16:42 > 0:16:49Well played, Rob. Al Capone famously jailed for tax evasion and ended his time in Alcatraz.
0:16:49 > 0:16:55Let's look at the rest. You went through them rather well. ANC President was Nelson Mandela.
0:16:55 > 0:17:02- The author of Brothers Karamazov... Did you say "Kara-mazov"?- I did. "Kara-matzov" must be right.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06"Kara-mazov"? Karamazov in a bag.
0:17:06 > 0:17:13- You're usually very good at this. I assumed I was being thick.- I've never said it out loud, I think.
0:17:13 > 0:17:19Nelson Mandela would have scored you 47. The Russian author is Dostoyevsky. He scored 11.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23Now those other two are the best answers there.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- The suffragette?- No. - Emily Davison.
0:17:26 > 0:17:32Six points. Now the other one is a tricky one. Wrote Letter From Birmingham Jail, published 1963.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Any idea?
0:17:36 > 0:17:42The key to guessing this is it's not Birmingham in the Midlands. It's the Deep South.
0:17:42 > 0:17:47It's Martin Luther King. 3 points. So very well done if you worked that out.
0:17:47 > 0:17:55Thanks very much. At the end of our first round, the pair who will be leaving us, it's Martin and Lara.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00- Thank you for having us.- Not at all. You will be back.- Yes, we will.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Lara, you will have a chance to atone.- Yes.
0:18:03 > 0:18:09- We look forward to seeing you again. Meanwhile, thanks very much for playing.- Thank you.- Good luck.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14But for the remaining three pairs it's now time for Round Two.
0:18:18 > 0:18:25Now only two pairs can make it through to the Head To Head, so one will leave after this round.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Our category for Round Two today is...Words.
0:18:29 > 0:18:34Words. Can you all decide who's going first and second?
0:18:34 > 0:18:39And whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:18:39 > 0:18:45OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name
0:18:45 > 0:18:50as many words ending in "..amp" as they could. "..amp", Richard?
0:18:50 > 0:18:56Any word with its own entry in the Oxford Dictionary of English with ends "..amp". No proper nouns
0:18:56 > 0:19:00or hyphenated words and we won't accept the word "amp".
0:19:00 > 0:19:05OK, thanks very much, Richard. Now then, Rob.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09I want a lovely obscure word ending in "..amp".
0:19:09 > 0:19:14There's a few...a few things I can think of.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18Unfortunately, nothing completely obscure,
0:19:18 > 0:19:24so I'm going to play reasonably safe to start off with and say cramp.
0:19:24 > 0:19:30OK, cramp, says Rob. Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said cramp.
0:19:38 > 0:19:4020.
0:19:43 > 0:19:49- 20 for cramp. Richard?- Very tough being on that first podium in these word rounds. Very well done.
0:19:49 > 0:19:56- It's a painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles. Cramp.- Jeneana...
0:19:56 > 0:20:03- I think I better play it fairly safe on this round, so I'm going to say scamp.- Scamp.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Let's see if that's right and how many said it.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19APPLAUSE
0:20:19 > 0:20:23Very well done. Seven for scamp.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Somebody who is mischievous in a likeable way. A scamp.
0:20:27 > 0:20:32Like a young David Dickinson. A little scamp.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Now, Scott...- Tramp.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41- Tramp.- Yeah.- I thought you were talking to me.- Maybe I was!
0:20:41 > 0:20:46- Tramp.- Yes.- Let's see if tramp's right and how many of our 100 people said tramp.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Absolutely right.
0:20:53 > 0:20:5523.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03- 23 for tramp. - Yeah, big answer. We've heard some common words so far.
0:21:03 > 0:21:08There's all sorts on this list. An awful lot more words than you think.
0:21:08 > 0:21:14We're halfway through the round. Jeneana and Jason, lovely low score there from Jeneana.
0:21:14 > 0:21:20Looking very strong on 7. Then we go up to 20 where Rob and Ky are to be found
0:21:20 > 0:21:26and then up to 23, Scott and Suzanne. Can the second players please take their places?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32OK, so we're looking for words ending in "..amp".
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Suzanne, what have you got?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39I think I'm probably going to have to go with clamp.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Let's see how many people said clamp.
0:21:50 > 0:21:5217.
0:21:52 > 0:21:5517 takes your total up to 40.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01A brace or a clasp for holding something together.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05- We're still surfing high scorers. - OK, Jason.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Let's have a nice, low-scoring word from you.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Headlamp.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14Headlamp. Here's your red line, Jason. Quite low.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Let's see if headlamp gets below that.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Absolutely right.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Abso... Oh, very well done, Jason!
0:22:27 > 0:22:33That's exactly what we wanted from you. A low score. They don't get lower than that.
0:22:33 > 0:22:38It adds 250 quid to today's jackpot and takes the total to £2,250.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43It scores you nothing and leaves your total at an impressive 7.
0:22:43 > 0:22:48- Richard?- Very well played, Jason. The powerful light on the front of a vehicle.
0:22:48 > 0:22:54Ky, the high scorers are Scott and Suzanne on 40. You're on 20,
0:22:54 > 0:22:57so a score of 19 or less will see you through.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Obvious ones are like stamp, lamp.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04I'm wondering whether tablelamp...
0:23:05 > 0:23:07But...
0:23:09 > 0:23:15- What are we thinking, Ky? - I'm going to have to go with tablelamp.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Tablelamp, you are saying. There's your red line.
0:23:18 > 0:23:23If you can get below that, you are through to the next round.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27Is it correct and how many people said tablelamp?
0:23:31 > 0:23:38Bad luck, Ky. I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer which scores you the maximum of 100 points.
0:23:38 > 0:23:44Sorry, Ky. Table lamp, two words in the Oxford Dictionary. Sidelamp would have been acceptable
0:23:44 > 0:23:49and a pointless answer. Let's look at some other pointless answers.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56Backstamp is a pointless answer, blowlamp, which is a British way of saying blowtorch,
0:23:56 > 0:24:01decamp, which is how a drag artist takes off her make-up.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03LAUGHTER
0:24:03 > 0:24:07There's headlamp. Overdamp, which is a term in physics, rather than meteorological.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Spotlamp would have been pointless.
0:24:09 > 0:24:15Sunlamp. There you are, Suzanne. You said clamp. If you'd said unclamp, it'd be pointless
0:24:15 > 0:24:20and add £250 to the jackpot. And underdamp, which is the opposite of overdamp, which we just had.
0:24:20 > 0:24:26Ky, if you had said stamp, which was one of the obvious answers you were suggesting,
0:24:26 > 0:24:32it would have scored 17 points. Let's look at the top answers, the worst ones to have given.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Ramp with 36.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Damp, 38.
0:24:37 > 0:24:43- What do you think is top? - Is it lamp?- Yeah. Lamp right at the top there on 44.
0:24:43 > 0:24:48Thanks very much, Richard. So the losing pair with the highest score, I'm afraid,
0:24:48 > 0:24:52is Ky and Rob. Ky, I feel your pain. I know exactly what it's like.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57You were trying to come up with a low-scoring answer and there was stamp.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02- Well, yeah.- You didn't know that. - I thought it would be a high one.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06There were some other low ones. Vamp is a low scorer. Revamp.
0:25:06 > 0:25:11Champ was a low scorer. All of these were in single figures.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15You've played very well indeed. Lovely low score in the last round.
0:25:15 > 0:25:20I'm sorry this is where we say goodbye, but thanks for playing. Great contestants.
0:25:22 > 0:25:28But for the remaining two pairs, it gets more exciting as we enter the Head To Head.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Congratulations, Scott and Suzanne, Jeneana and Jason.
0:25:35 > 0:25:42You are only one round away from the final and the chance to play for our jackpot, which stands at £2,250.
0:25:44 > 0:25:50You're now going to go head to head. The first pair to win two questions will play for that jackpot.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54The great news is that from here on in, you can confer.
0:25:54 > 0:26:00So Scott and Suzanne, brilliant consistent low scoring from you has seen you through.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Were you expecting to end up here? - No!- No.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Very, very strong play.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09And Jeneana and Jason, we still haven't had food and drink.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- No.- Or antiques for you.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18Very best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the Head To Head.
0:26:21 > 0:26:26Here is your first question. And it concerns...
0:26:26 > 0:26:29animals named after other animals.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34- Animals named after other animals, Richard?- Yeah. We'll show you five photos of animals
0:26:34 > 0:26:42whose names also contain the name of another animal. Can you give us the most obscure of these five?
0:26:42 > 0:26:48OK, thank you very much. Let's reveal our five animals named after other animals.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50We have got...
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Poor seal. No one says, "Ahhh!"
0:27:10 > 0:27:14- That's not getting any "Aaahs" from anyone.- No!
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Ok, so there we are. Animals named after other animals.
0:27:18 > 0:27:24Scott and Suzanne, you've played best so far, so you get to go first.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32We're going to say E is a mole rat.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36- E is a...?- Mole rat. - A mole rat.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38A mole rat.
0:27:39 > 0:27:45OK, Jeneana and Jason, you can talk us through the rest of the board if you like.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49Right. There's a couple on there that we know.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53You can say which ones, then say which one you want to submit.
0:27:53 > 0:27:59We think A is probably a parrot fish, C is probably elephant seal.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03- It is, yeah. - And D is a peacock butterfly.
0:28:03 > 0:28:08- And I think we're going to go with...- Parrot fish?- Yeah. - Or do people know that?- No.
0:28:08 > 0:28:14- I would have gone for mole rat. - That's gone.- I don't know what the lemur is.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Shall I go for A?
0:28:20 > 0:28:23- Dad? Shall we go for A? - Go for A.
0:28:23 > 0:28:28- I think we'll go for A.- She says A. - Parrot fish.- Parrot fish.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32We have mole rat and we have parrot fish.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36Scott and Suzanne have said that E is a mole rat.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Absolutely right.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50It's a good answer. Down it goes. 29.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Scott, you look pained by that.
0:28:56 > 0:29:01- It's a bit high, I think. - You'd be more comfortable if it was lower?- Yeah.
0:29:01 > 0:29:07- You think parrot fish is going to go lower?- I think it might. - Jason doesn't think so.
0:29:07 > 0:29:13Jason thinks mole rat was the best. OK, let's find out. Parrot fish. How many people said that?
0:29:14 > 0:29:18It is right. 29 is what it's got to beat.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21You've done it!
0:29:21 > 0:29:23Wow! 6.
0:29:23 > 0:29:246!
0:29:26 > 0:29:306 for parrot fish beats 29 for mole rat,
0:29:30 > 0:29:34so after the first question Jeneana and Jason are up 1-0.
0:29:34 > 0:29:38Two good answers there, but parrot fish particularly good. That's dads.
0:29:38 > 0:29:45Jason was certain that mole rat was the better answer. Jeneana calmly knew that parrot fish was better,
0:29:45 > 0:29:49- but Jason had to see it.- I know so much about fishing, so...!
0:29:49 > 0:29:55- You don't catch parrot fish?! - No, I caught a parrot fish. - Did you?- By mistake.
0:29:55 > 0:29:59- They're the only fish that talk, aren't they?- Yes.
0:29:59 > 0:30:03Let's take a look at the rest of the board. Let's fill it in.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Let's have a look at B.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09That is the best answer on the board. It's a mouse lemur.
0:30:09 > 0:30:132 points that would have scored you. A terrific answer to get.
0:30:13 > 0:30:19You were right to avoid C. It is the elephant seal, but it's the biggest scorer on the board
0:30:19 > 0:30:21with 41 points.
0:30:21 > 0:30:27And D you got right as well. It's the peacock butterfly and would have won with 14.
0:30:27 > 0:30:30Very well done if you got all five.
0:30:30 > 0:30:35Thanks very much, Richard. OK, here comes your second question.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38Scott and Suzanne, you have to win this.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41It concerns...New Zealand.
0:30:41 > 0:30:46- New Zealand, Richard. - We'll give you five clues to facts about the country New Zealand.
0:30:46 > 0:30:52- Can you give us the most obscure answer? - OK, here come our five clues.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55HE READS THE LIST
0:31:04 > 0:31:06I'll read those all one last time.
0:31:16 > 0:31:23Five clues to facts about New Zealand and you're looking for the one that the fewest people knew.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27- Jeneana and Jason, you go first this time.- I know the first two.
0:31:27 > 0:31:32- WHISPERING What's the first one? - The All Blacks.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36- And the second one, is it Wellington?- Yeah.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40We'll go for capital city. And we think it's Wellington.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44Wellington. Wellington, say Jason and Jeneana,
0:31:44 > 0:31:47for the capital city. Scott and Suzanne, talk us through it.
0:31:47 > 0:31:52We think the nickname of the rugby union team is the All Blacks,
0:31:52 > 0:31:56not sure about the highest mountain or the Booker Prize winner.
0:31:56 > 0:32:02The Peter Jackson cinema trilogy, we'll go for that. It's the Lord of the Rings.
0:32:02 > 0:32:07Lord of the Rings. OK, you've got to hope that wins to keep you in it.
0:32:07 > 0:32:11Jeneana and Jason have said Wellington, capital of New Zealand.
0:32:11 > 0:32:15Is it right and how many knew it?
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Absolutely right.
0:32:21 > 0:32:2230.
0:32:25 > 0:32:32Is that going to be enough to win the point for you? Scott and Suzanne have said Lord of the Rings is
0:32:32 > 0:32:39the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy filmed in New Zealand. Is it right and how many people said it?
0:32:39 > 0:32:41You have to win this point.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47It's right. Will it go down below thirty?
0:32:47 > 0:32:50Oh! Bad luck!
0:32:50 > 0:32:5352 for Lord of the Rings.
0:32:53 > 0:32:59Which means Jeneana and Jason are through to the final after only two questions. 2-0.
0:32:59 > 0:33:05Lord of the Rings, nominated for 30 Oscars and won 17 of them.
0:33:05 > 0:33:10Including 11 out of 11 for The Return of the King. Very well played, you guys.
0:33:10 > 0:33:16Let's fill in the rest. You're right about the rugby union team, the All Blacks. It scored 65.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19Do you know the highest mountain?
0:33:19 > 0:33:23- No.- It's quite a low scorer - 7. Well done if you said Mount Cook.
0:33:23 > 0:33:29And the Booker Prize winner was a pointless answer. She's only ever written one novel.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32It won the 1985 Booker Prize.
0:33:32 > 0:33:39The Bone People by Keri Hulme. It was a pointless answer. Well done anybody who got that.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44Thanks, Richard. So the losing pair at the end of our Head To Head are Scott and Suzanne.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46Very, very well played, though.
0:33:46 > 0:33:53I'm sorry we have to say goodbye, but we'll see you again next time. I'll look forward to that. Cheers.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59But for Jeneana and Jason it's time for our Pointless final.
0:34:05 > 0:34:12Congratulations, Jeneana and Jason. You've seen off all the competition to win our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:34:17 > 0:34:24You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show it stands at £2,250.
0:34:28 > 0:34:33Very, very low scoring and that Head To Head you made look so easy.
0:34:33 > 0:34:39You kicked them off with the capital of New Zealand. What we might call a Wellington boot.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44To win that money all you have to do is find a pointless answer.
0:34:44 > 0:34:50We've had one on the show today and that was yours, Jason, the brilliant headlamp.
0:34:50 > 0:34:55- That was your answer, not a nickname I'm conferring. - No more nicknames!
0:34:55 > 0:35:01You only need to find one more pointless answer. First, though, you have to choose a category.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03You have five options. They are...
0:35:03 > 0:35:05HE READS THE LIST
0:35:08 > 0:35:11Oh, crikey. Television?
0:35:11 > 0:35:18- Televisions will be the easiest. - You think?- I do. Unless you want to take International Relations.- No.
0:35:18 > 0:35:23- I think Television.- Yeah. - We either know it or we don't Comme ci, comme ca. Television.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27Television it is, OK. Let's find out what the question is.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...
0:35:30 > 0:35:35as many David Croft TV shows as they could. Richard?
0:35:35 > 0:35:42Yeah, any BBC TV series for which David Croft was credited as a writer by himself or in partnership.
0:35:42 > 0:35:47So long as he's written at least one episode, we will accept that series. Very best of luck.
0:35:47 > 0:35:53You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers. All you need to win that £2,250
0:35:53 > 0:35:57- is for one answer to be pointless. Speak up while you deliberate. - There's...- Ah!
0:35:57 > 0:36:01- Excuse me! I'm excited! - LAUGHT
0:36:01 > 0:36:05- Are you ready? I think I know. - Yeah, we're ready.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09Let's put 60 second on the clock. There they are. Time starts now.
0:36:09 > 0:36:13There's Allo Allo, Hi De Hi, Dad's Army.
0:36:13 > 0:36:14The...
0:36:15 > 0:36:18It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21The sequel to...
0:36:21 > 0:36:25- Oh, what was it called? - What, Dad?- They played butlers.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29- I can't remember what it's called. - Fry and Laurie, you mean?- No.
0:36:29 > 0:36:36- It Ain't Half Hot, Mum is good. Did they do a sequel?- Hi De Hi... Yeah, the two guys...no.
0:36:36 > 0:36:44- Some of them were in it. You Called, Sir? Something like that? - We'll say that. You Called, Sir.
0:36:44 > 0:36:49Definitely Hi De Hi, Allo, Allo, Dad's Army, It AIn't Half Hot, Mum.
0:36:49 > 0:36:54- The one with Mrs whatserface. Slocombe.- Are You Being Served?
0:36:54 > 0:36:59Are You Being Served? The sequel to that, which I can't remember either!
0:36:59 > 0:37:03- 10 seconds left.- The sequel to Are You Being Served?
0:37:05 > 0:37:09- I'm Free.- It's not called that. - It was.- Was it?- Yeah.
0:37:09 > 0:37:14OK, that's your time up. We were looking for David Croft sitcoms.
0:37:14 > 0:37:19- I now need three answers. - It Ain't Half Hot, Mum?- Yeah.
0:37:20 > 0:37:24Are You Being Served? And I'm Free.
0:37:24 > 0:37:31- Are You Being Served? And I'm Free. - Now of those three, which do you think is your best shot?
0:37:31 > 0:37:36- I'm Free.- If I'm Free's right, it's certainly the best one. - We'll put it last.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40- Which do you want to put first? - Are You Being Served?
0:37:40 > 0:37:46So Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot, Mum, I'm Free. Let's put them up on the board.
0:37:46 > 0:37:51We have got Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot, Mum and I'm Free.
0:37:51 > 0:37:57You only have to find one pointless answer to win our jackpot of £2,250.
0:37:57 > 0:38:03- Jeneana, what would you do with 2,250 quid?- We'd probably just have a big family holiday.
0:38:03 > 0:38:09- Well, family, cousins, my sister. - Very nice.- All go away.- Jason?
0:38:09 > 0:38:13- Anything else?- It would buy me 2½ days big game fishing.
0:38:14 > 0:38:19- With all the family, of course. - No!- Well, very best of luck.
0:38:19 > 0:38:26Let's see if your first answer, Are You Being Served?, is right and, if it is, how many said it.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29This for £2,250. Good luck.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33It's right.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37Down it goes. Are You Being Served?
0:38:37 > 0:38:42If this goes all the way down to zero, you leave here with...
0:38:42 > 0:38:4420.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46That's all right.
0:38:46 > 0:38:52A very, very popular sitcom. Internationally. The Americans loved Are You Being Served?
0:38:52 > 0:38:55It wasn't a pointless answer. We're not surprised.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59Your next answer, though, is It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.
0:38:59 > 0:39:06I think we'll see a substantial fall-off from 20, I think, for It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.
0:39:06 > 0:39:11David Croft sitcoms. This has to be right and it has to be pointless to win £2,250.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14It Ain't Half Hot, Mum. How many people said it?
0:39:18 > 0:39:20Absolutely right.
0:39:20 > 0:39:24So Are You Being Served? took us all the way down to 20.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28It Ain't Half Hot, Mum. Let's see where this stops.
0:39:28 > 0:39:3023!
0:39:35 > 0:39:41So wrong! I said it was going to go down much further. It went up by three. There we are.
0:39:41 > 0:39:47However, now then, Jeneana, you pounced on this last answer. Are you sure this is correct?
0:39:47 > 0:39:51No, but if there was going to be a sequel...
0:39:51 > 0:39:58- You...!- If there was going to be a sequel of Are You Being Served?, it's called I'm Free, I'm sure.
0:39:58 > 0:40:05It's Grace Brothers or something. I've remembered the other one - You Rang, M'Lord. That'll be pointless!
0:40:05 > 0:40:12- Don't say that. I'm going to be in trouble.- You only have one more chance to win the jackpot.
0:40:12 > 0:40:16It's all hanging on I'm Free. I'm Free.
0:40:16 > 0:40:21It has to be right and pointless. If it's both of these things, you leave here with £2,250.
0:40:21 > 0:40:26We're looking for David Croft sitcoms. How many of our 100 people said I'm Free,
0:40:26 > 0:40:29your last shot at the jackpot?
0:40:32 > 0:40:36- Oh! Bad luck! - I just thought you knew!
0:40:36 > 0:40:41- Bad luck! - Terrific, terrific(!)- Oh...
0:40:41 > 0:40:43- Oh, dear.- I'm so sorry.
0:40:43 > 0:40:49You didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer, so you don't win the £2,250,
0:40:49 > 0:40:57which rolls over to the next show. You've been brilliant contestants and you get our Pointless trophy.
0:41:01 > 0:41:07- Now here's the painful bit. Richard?- Quite right with You Rang, M'Lord, but it scored 7 points.
0:41:07 > 0:41:13- Oh, right. No worries. - And the follow-up to Are You Being Served? wasn't I'm Free.
0:41:13 > 0:41:18It was Grace and Favour, but even that would have scored two points.
0:41:18 > 0:41:23Of the five categories, this was the toughest. He's so well-loved,
0:41:23 > 0:41:30there's very few pointless answers. All the big scorers are here - Dad's Army, Hi De Hi, Allo, Allo.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34There's only three pointless answers so it's a very tough category.
0:41:34 > 0:41:38Anybody at home who got one of these, a special pat on the back.
0:41:38 > 0:41:44Come Back, Mrs Noah, which was essentially Molly Sugden in space.
0:41:44 > 0:41:50She gets blasted off to space and they try to bring her back. From '77 and '78. I know.
0:41:50 > 0:41:55It wasn't one of his bigger hits. Talent to burn.
0:41:55 > 0:42:00The Eggheads was a sitcom from the '60s about four students sharing a flat,
0:42:00 > 0:42:03and The Virgin Fellas, with Hugh Lloyd, set in Australia.
0:42:03 > 0:42:08The only pointless answers, so very tough. It sometimes happens like that.
0:42:08 > 0:42:16- Very well done if you got any of those at home.- Did you know any of those?- No, never heard of them.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19I've already forgotten Come Back, Mrs Noah.
0:42:19 > 0:42:25- That's a relief, isn't it?- Yeah. - I was thinking Oh, Doctor Beeching. - That would have scored two points.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye, Jeneana and Jason.
0:42:28 > 0:42:33It's been brilliant having you. Thank you so much for playing.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Thank you very much.
0:42:37 > 0:42:44Nobody's won our jackpot today, so it rolls over. On the next show, we will be playing for £3,250.
0:42:46 > 0:42:51- Join us next time to see if someone can win it. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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