Episode 14 Pointless

APPLAUSE

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

the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Let's meet today's players.

Couple number one.

I'm Paul, this is my friend Chris and we are from Middlesbrough.

Couple number two.

I'm Matt and this is my wife, Grace, who's an actress,

-and we're from London.

-And couple number three.

I'm Natalee, this is my brother Daniel and we're from Manchester.

And our fourth and final couple.

I'm Rob, this is my friend Andy and we met as students in Manchester.

And these, ladies and gentlemen, are today's contestants.

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Thank you very much, all of you.

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

There's only one person left to introduce.

If obscurity had a recipe, he'd be the main ingredient.

It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya. Hello.

-Good afternoon.

-Good afternoon to you.

-How are you?

-I'm really very well.

-Are you? You're losing your voice a tiny bit.

Yeah, there's been a cold threatening to come on for days now.

-Really?

-And finally it's here. I'm relieved.

LAUGHTER

If you need me to help you out at any point, let me know,

if you need a stunt voice, if you need anyone to say,

"Would the second player please take their places at the podium?"

-Anything like that, you just let me know.

-I will.

-I'd be happy to help.

-The jackpot still keeps growing.

-I know, doesn't it?!

We keep trying to give it away.

We've had a few close shaves, but it's still there

and we've got four new contestants today, four new pairs,

which is quite rare, but one of them

could be walking away with a substantial amount of money.

Very good. Well, thanks, Richard.

We've put all our questions to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants need to find

the obscure answers those 100 people didn't get.

Everyone's looking for a pointless answer

that our 100 people couldn't give.

Each time that happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Tom and Emma didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another £1,000 to that,

so today's jackpot starts off at £18,000! What about that?

WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE

If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

In this round I'll take an answer from each of you

and there's no conferring.

The highest-scoring pair at the end of the round will be eliminated,

so try and make sure that's not you.

OK, our first category today is...

Fine Art.

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

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

OK, and our question concerns...

Famous Artists, Richard.

-Nice to have a bit of culture at teatime, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

We can do Girls Aloud and things later,

but let's pretend to be highbrow for a bit.

People have made the mistake before of thinking

Famous Artists might have meant Girls Aloud.

LAUGHTER They have.

But I think because we said "Fine Art" at the beginning,

-that would disallow them.

-Girls Aloud can't draw.

-LAUGHTER

Yes, on each pass we'll show you seven descriptions of famous artists.

You need to tell us who the artist is, please.

A nice obscure answer will score you fewer points.

As always, an incorrect answer will score you 100.

Let's see if anybody at home can get all 14 of these. Good luck.

Thanks very much indeed.

OK, so we are looking for the famous artists described by these clues

and we have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, seven artists described in clue form.

-Paul, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Now then, you are from Middlesbrough.

-Correct.

What do you do up there, Paul?

I work for a company who supply branded promotional merchandise,

such as pens, mugs...

-Could you knock up some key rings, maybe, for...?

-That'd be nice.

-Key rings, definitely key rings, yes.

-A couple of Pointless mugs?

-Definitely, of course, yes.

-There we go.

Yeah, with "That ain't bread," on one side.

-"That's toast."

-On the other.

-Nice.

-See how we did that?

-That was really good.

-I'll put you down for 1,000.

-OK, now then, Paul,

-how do you feel in this area?

-Well, I'm not a con...

It's not one of my strong subjects,

but I have a reasonable knowledge of two or three of them.

I will try...engraver who charted The Rake's Progress -

-William Hogarth?

-William Hogarth, says Paul, for the engraver.

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

Absolutely right.

Oh! Very well done indeed, Paul!

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Very well chosen. 2 for William Hogarth.

Very good start to the show. Born in 1697, William Hogarth.

The Rake's Progress followed the journey of Tom Rakewell.

Thanks very much. So, Grace, you are from Leytonstone?

-Yeah, that's right, just down the road.

-What do you do, Grace?

-I'm an actress.

-Are you? What would we have seen you in?

Erm, probably nothing!

Erm, just various bits and bobs, I mainly work in theatre, so, yeah...

-But I've done the odd bit of telly things here and there.

-Now, art.

How do we feel about art, Grace?

Em, it's not the best thing that could have come up,

-but it certainly could have been worse.

-Did you know WH?

No, no, I didn't know WH! Definitely not!

But I've got a good crack at some other ones.

I think I would go for...LF - the grandson of a psychiatrist

-and that would be Lucian Freud.

-Lucian Freud you are saying for LF.

Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many of our 100 said Lucian Freud.

It's right, Grace.

20. Very well done.

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-20 for Lucian Freud.

-Well played, Grace.

Grace breaking the absolute golden rule of Pointless there,

which is when you say, "Did you know the previous one?" saying no!

What you're supposed to say is either, "Yes, I knew that,"

or, "My answer has been stolen!"

LAUGHTER

Very good, thank you. Now then, Natalee. I like your spelling.

-Thank you.

-Natal-EE.

-Natal-EE indeed, yes, double E.

And what do you do, Natalee?

I'm a store manager at a major High-Street retailer.

Nicely sidestepped, the way she kept that anonymous!

-Which one, I wonder?

-Which one? Do they specialise in...?

-Is it a pharmacy?

-No.

-Ooh, a hardware shop?

-No.

-This is going to take a long time.

-A book shop? A fashion retailer?

-Yes!

-Aw, there's millions of those!

-Is it a famous one?

Of course, on the High Street!

-What a waste of a question!

-Oh, that's annoying!

-We've only got 46 questions to get it now.

-Erm...

-Now then, Natalee, how is your artist knowledge?

-Not good.

I'm wishing it was Girls Aloud!

Erm, I know two

and I think they're going to be two of the highest scoring, but I'm

going to go for the pickled shark and I'm going to say Damien Hirst.

Damien Hirst, says Natalee. Damien Hirst for the pickled-shark man.

I hope he's pleased being called the pickled-shark man.

-Got to be called something.

-No more than he deserves.

Damien Hirst - let's see if that's right

and, if it is, how many of our 100 people said Damien Hirst.

-31. Not bad. Not bad, Natalee.

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Not too much damage done there, Natalee.

The title of that piece is The Physical Impossibility Of Death...

-In The Mind Of Someone Living. Yeah.

-But it's a shark in formaldehyde.

It's a shark in formaldehyde, which started to fall apart!

Just because it's in formaldehyde,

-doesn't mean it's going to stop falling apart.

-Yeah, there it is.

Can you imagine buying that

and after ten years of not really looking at it,

finding it's all a bit cloudy and the shark's gone belly up?

I can't imagine buying it in the first place, I'll be honest,

-but if I did...

-Yeah. OK, Rob, what do you do?

I work in political consultancy,

which sounds more exciting than it is.

It doesn't sound that exciting!

LAUGHTER

What am I talking about? It sounds amazing! Is it like The Thick Of It?

-Er, yeah, a lot of swearing anyway!

-A lot of swearing.

Like the bits that don't make it into The Thick Of It.

-Pretty much, yeah.

-Talk us through the board, Rob.

Er, well, I knew Damien Hirst and Lucian Freud.

See, that's the way to do it, Grace! That's how you do it!

And I've got no idea about most of the others, so I'll have to go for

what I would guess is going to be the most high-scoring answer

on the board rather than be wrong, so I'm going to say

-he's said to have cut his ear off - Vincent Van Gogh.

-Very, very good.

Van "Go", says Rob. OK. But you're going to GO with...

-Sorry, you're going to "Goff" with...

-LAUGHTER

..Vincent Van Gogh. Let's see if it's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

Absolutely right.

65. Could have been a lot worse.

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-65.

-Mmm, did what you had to do.

There's no point taking a risk because there's another pass to come

and you're getting first choice on that one.

Let's fill in the rest of the board.

Famed for his red, yellow and blue grids? It's a Dutch artist.

-It's Piet Mondrian.

-Oh, Mondrian!

-That would have scored you 1 point.

-Post-Impressionist, died in Tahiti.

-Gauguin.

Yeah, that's Paul Gauguin, would have scored you 8.

Now this one is a pointless answer. Do you know that at all?

If you're ever down in St Ives, there's lots of his work down there.

It's Alfred Wallis.

That's a pointless answer, so very well done if you said that.

Thank you, Richard. Now we're halfway through the round,

let's take a look at those scores. Paul and Chris!

Well, aren't we feeling good?!

William Hogarth - 2 points, extremely well done, there.

So, Chris, quite a lot of pressure taken off you in the next pass.

Up to 20, where we find Matt and Grace - not bad at all.

31 - Natalee and Daniel. Then up to 65, where we find Rob and Andy.

It's not disastrous by any means, but, Andy,

you'll have to make the most of your pick of the next board.

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

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

We'll put seven more descriptions on the board

and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now then, Andy, what do you do now?

I'm doing a master's degree at Manchester.

-Right, OK, and what's your master's in?

-International Relations.

-So you're in quite similar fields, then?

-Similar, yeah.

-We both did the same degree, that's how we met.

-Right.

We're looking for famous artists and obviously you'll try and find

the one fewest of our 100 people knew.

Em, there's two that I definitely know, but they're both going to be

quite high scoring, so I'll have to go for one that's a bit of a risk.

I'm going to say famous for his screaming popes - Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon, you're saying, famous for his screaming popes.

You're on 65, you're the high scorers.

No red line for you, you just have to hope this scores as low as it possibly can.

Francis Bacon, says Andy. Let's see if it's right

and how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right.

Not bad. Ooh, down it goes! Very well done indeed!

-Look at that - 6!

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That's what you needed to do, Andy.

Let's hope that's enough to keep you in the game.

6 takes your total up to 71.

Yeah, born in Dublin in 1909, Francis Bacon.

-That's put the cat amongst the pigeons, hasn't it?

-Yeah!

Now then, Daniel, you and Natalee are brother and sister.

-That's right.

-Who's the older of the pair of you?

-Who do you think?

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-I now think Natalee.

-Yeah.

Between you, do you kind of know who's the senior partner,

who's the junior partner in this quiz team?

Senior!

-As you'll see in a minute!

-So, Daniel, art a strong suit for you?

No! Couldn't have probably picked a worst one!

I'll tell you what, I'll give you some good news.

Andy and Rob are on 71, you're on 31.

If you can score 39 or less, you are through to the next round for sure.

-Do you know anything on that board?

-I know one. I THINK I know one!

Erm, designed a 15th-century helicopter,

-I'm hoping is Leonardo Da Vinci.

-Leonardo Da Vinci.

OK, em, Leonardo Da Vinci, says Daniel. There is your red line.

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

Let's see how many people said Leonardo Da Vinci.

Not bad, not bad. 46. 46 takes your total up to 77.

You are the high scorers, but not by much. Richard?

Yeah, fairly big score for Leonardo Da Vinci.

Designed a helicopter in the 15th century,

but the helipad wasn't invented till 1927.

LAUGHTER

See, you get history in this show as well. I love that.

-It's pretty useful, pretty highbrow stuff.

-Yeah.

-I went to university!

-Oh, yeah.

-A long time ago, but I did go.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Em, Matt, what do you do?

I am a highway engineer for local government.

Do you have "motorway maintenance" written on your car?

Do people mistake you for police on the motorway?

Yeah, particularly when I'm wearing black, and the car that I drive...

Has it got those chevrons on the side?

Everyone suddenly slows down, going,

-"Oh, it's motorway maintenance!" Brrrroooom!

-Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, OK. What are you thinking?

Well, yeah, there's a couple there that I'm thinking

and I think they'll be reasonably high, but I think I'm going to

go with made portraits of Elvis and Marilyn - Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol, says Matt, Andy Warhol.

The high scorers are Daniel and Natalee on 77. You're on 20.

If you can score 56 or less, you are through to the next round.

There's your red line.

Let's see, Andy Warhol - how many people said that?

You've done it!

-44! Ooh, it's close!

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44 takes your total up to 64. Richard?

Only two points less than Leonardo Da Vinci there for Andy Warhol.

-That's not bad going, is it?

-That's some 15 minutes!

-Isn't it just?

-Born in 1928.

-Very good. Now then, Chris. Welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Lovely to have you here. What do you do, Chris?

I've got a security company, I run a security company -

intruder alarms, CCTV and all that.

You're more into intruder alarms, you don't supply heavies?

-No, not security guards, no.

-You don't escort vast sums of money?

No, we look after the High-Street stores.

OK, well, thanks to Paul's brilliant answer,

you have a lovely low score of two.

The high scorers at the moment are Daniel and Natalee on 77,

so a score of 74 or less - higher than anyone else has yet scored...

I know, such a good chance. Sorry!

Talk us through the board, just do your thinking out loud.

They were the only few I knew. My mind's gone completely blank.

The only one I would have a stab at is

he had Blue and Rose Periods

-and all I can think is Paulo Picasso.

-Paulo Picasso.

Paulo, says Chris. Let's see if that's right.

Here is your red line, lovely and high.

Let's see if Paulo Picasso's right

and, if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

Oh, Chris, Chris, Chris! That's so unfortunate!

I'm afraid that's incorrect,

which means you score the maximum of 100 points. I'm really sorry.

That takes your total up to 102. Richard?

You're one letter out, Chris.

It's Pablo Picasso, I'm afraid.

So sorry - a B for an O and you'd have been there.

Yeah, it's there, but I couldn't get it out.

It would have scored you 12 points, would have been a very good answer.

Men bounced on her Turner Prize bed.

That's Tracey Emin. That would have scored you 25 points.

He turned a urinal into art?

People say it's the first piece of conceptual art ever.

It's Marcel Duchamp. Would have scored 1 point.

And this is a pointless answer - used comic books for subject matter.

-Is it Roy Lichtenstein?

-Roy Lichtenstein, absolutely right.

All those comic book things with the big dots and speech bubbles,

that's him and was a pointless answer.

Very well done if you got all the way through both of those boards.

-Very impressive.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

So at the end of our first round, the pair leaving us

with their high score of 102, I'm so sorry to say it's Chris and Paul.

You've done so well. You've shown such huge promise.

The lowest score of the entire round was yours, Paul.

I'm afraid the highest score of the round was yours, Chris,

but you were just out by one letter.

Anyway, I'm sorry, we have to say goodbye to you,

-but we'll see you next time.

-Thank you.

-Chris and Paul, great contestants.

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

Obviously, there is only room for two pairs in our head-to-head round,

so sadly another pair will be leaving us at the end of this round.

-Oh, Natalee and Daniel, you've had a stay of execution there!

-Yeah.

Best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for Round Two is...

It's football.

Can you all decide who's going first, who's going second.

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

OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many

teams in the 2012/13 Champions League as they could. Richard?

We're looking for any of the 32 teams who qualified for the group stages

of the 2012/2013 Champions League.

That includes any teams who qualified automatically. Any of those 32 teams.

-Very best of luck. Good luck at home as well.

-Thanks very much.

-So, Grace, you get to go first, at least.

-Yeah.

-You have the pick of the championship there.

-Great...

I'm not even 100% sure

whether I'm looking for UK-based teams or throughout the world.

-Er, so...

-OK.

This might be a bit of a problem,

but I'm going to really hope that it's more broad and go for...

-Barcelona?

-Barcelona, says Grace.

Let's see if Barcelona's right

and, if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Barcelona.

29.

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29, Grace. Very, very well done indeed. Richard?

That could have been a lot worse, Grace. Well done.

I think you got out of that relatively unscathed.

Barcelona play at Camp Nou in Barcelona.

So we are looking for Champions League teams, 2012/13 season.

-Natalee.

-Hmmm.

I'm going to try to go for a slightly obscure one

and I'm going to hope that Zenit St Petersburg.

Zenit St Petersburg, says Natalee.

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

It's right.

It's right. 29 our best score so far.

Look at that! 3, Natalee! Very well done indeed.

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Terrific answer, well played.

Yeah, they were founded in 1925 by the physical education group

of the Leningrad Metal Plant. They've come a long way since!

Thank you. Now then, Rob, is this good for you?

Not particularly, I'm not an expert.

-I'm going to go for Bayer Leverkusen.

-Bayer Leverkusen.

Let's see if that's right - Bayer Leverkusen -

and let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

Bad luck, Rob, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer,

which scores you the maximum of 100 points, I'm sorry. Richard?

That's a very gutsy risk, Rob.

Bayer Leverkusen actually finished fifth in the Bundesliga

so didn't qualify for this year, unfortunately.

We're halfway through the round. Let's take a look at the scores.

Natalee and Daniel! Fantastic!

Well, Natalee, in fact, fantastic answer there -

lovely low score of 3. Then up to 29, where we find Grace and Matt.

Got to be happy with that, nice and comfortable.

Then way out in front, I'm afraid, Rob and Andy on 100.

So, Andy, once again we're going to need some very good

low-scoring skills from you in the next pass! Good luck with that.

We'll come back down the line now.

Could the second players please step up to the podium?

So we are looking for teams in the 2012/13 season

of the Champions League.

Now then, Andy, you are way out in front on 100.

-We need a really good answer.

-Yeah, I'm going to go for Nordsjaelland.

Nordsjaelland. There's no red line as you are the high scorers.

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

It's right.

Oh! Very well done indeed, Andy!

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The highest and lowest scores so far.

They all add up to a total of 101.

Let's hope that's enough to see you through. I wonder. Richard?

That is a terrific answer, Andy.

Well played. Nordsjaelland are the Danish champions.

-I don't need to tell you that, right?

-Oh, no, not me! Nordsjaelland!

-Big fan of Scandinavian football, aren't you?

-I am, yeah.

I am Nordsjaelland through and through!

-Give us an N!

-Give us an N!

Yeah. There we go. Now then, Daniel, the high score is 101, you're on 3.

Anything less than 97 sees you through to the head-to-head.

Are you going to try and beat Natalee? She scored 3.

Come on, you've got to beat that, Daniel! Come on!

-I'll go for BATE Borisov.

-Bartay Barzof.

OK, here is your red line.

Let's see if you can get below that red line with Bartay Barzof.

RICHARD LAUGHS

-How are you pronouncing that?

-I have no idea what he just...

He just made a noise and I am copying it!

-Bartay Barzaff?

-I would say BATE Borisov.

Bartay Borisov. Thank you very much for the heads-up.

I'm not saying it's a right answer,

I'm just saying that's how I would pronounce it.

-OK, BATE Borisov, let's see if that's...

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

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

It's right! And you're through!

Now, here's the real challenge - are you going to beat 3?

Yes, you are! 2! Very well done!

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2 takes your total up to 5. BATE Borisov.

Yes, a terrific score, Well done, Daniel. B-A-T-E Borisov.

A special extra prize if you can tell me what the B-A-T-E stands for.

-Not a clue.

-You should have got it really. Of course,

it's the Borisov Works Of Automobile And Tractor Electric Equipment.

-Tip of me tongue!

-Exactly, yeah.

The Belarusian champions. Ah. Give us a B... No, don't worry.

LAUGHTER

Thanks very much.

Now then, Matt, the high scorers on 101 are Andy and Rob. You're on 29.

You can score 71 or less and be through to the head-to-head.

You have a choice - you can play it solidly and safe,

or there's got to be a pointless answer in there.

I think I'll go somewhere in between solidly safe and pointless,

-have a bit of a punt and go with Galatasaray.

-Galatasaray, says Matt.

Galatasaray - let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right and you're through. Very well done, Matt.

Down it goes, still going down - 4!

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Very good indeed. Takes your total up to 33.

Well played, everyone.

Even Bayer Leverkusen wasn't a bad wrong answer.

Galatasaray are in Manchester United's group.

No pointless answers at all,

so the very best answer out there is Nordsjaelland, so very well played.

Couldn't have done better in that round.

1 point for Braga, if you said that.

There's a few on 2 - BATE Borisov we've already heard,

also Benfica would have only scored you 2, Anderlecht 2,

Shakhtar Donetsk would have scored 2 -

one of the best teams in Europe, although beaten by Fulham!

So, er, draw your own conclusions, I would say.

Malaga would have scored 2, Dinamo Zagreb scored 2,

Dynamo Kyiv would have scored 2, as well.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So at the end of Round Two,

our losing pair with their high score of 101, Andy and Rob.

Well, do you know what?

You can walk off with your heads held high, I would say.

Obviously Nordsjaelland, as Richard said,

the joint best answer possible.

We will see you again, Andy and Rob, and on the strength of your performance,

I would say we are expecting great things from you.

Great having you on the show. Thanks so much, Andy and Rob.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining pairs, they're one step closer to the final

and the chance to win that jackpot as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations, Natalee, Daniel, Matt and Grace.

You are now only one round away from the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £18,000.

WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE

Now, clearly only one pair can play for that money.

To decide which pair it's going to be, you are now going to go

head to head, but this time you are allowed to confer.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for the jackpot.

Well, Natalee and Daniel,

I have to say your Champions League knowledge was second to none.

And Matt, great answer from you, as well.

But Natalee and Daniel, really very good indeed.

Well, listen, best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

OK, here's your first question and it concerns...

-Richard?

-We're about to show you five people

who are in their seventies as of October 2012.

Can you name the most obscure of these five?

OK, thanks, let's reveal our famous septuagenarians and here they are.

We have got...

There they are - five famous septuagenarians.

Natalee and Daniel, you've played best throughout the show, so you go first.

-DANIEL WHISPERS

-Is it? Are you positive?

NATALEE AND DANIEL CONFER

Well, we think we know three, but we're going to go with...

I think we'll go for A - Chuck Norris.

A - Chuck Norris, say Natalee and Daniel. Chuck Norris.

Now, Matt and Grace, the board is yours.

You can talk us through all of them if you like.

-MATT:

-I think B is Diana Rigg.

-GRACE:

-That's our unsure one.

-C is Barry Humphries.

D is...Jane Fonda? And E is Harrison Ford.

I think we're going to have to go C.

-OK, we'll go for C - Barry Humphries.

-C, Barry Humphries, say Matt and Grace.

So we have Chuck Norris versus Barry Humphries.

-That's a fight I'd like to see!

-Yeah, no kidding!

-You could sell tickets for that, couldn't you?

-Oh, yeah.

OK, Natalee and Daniel said Chuck Norris.

Let's see if that's right for A and how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right.

26.

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Now then, Matt and Grace, you've gone for Barry Humphries for C.

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

It's right.

But will it beat 26? Down it goes.

Yes, it will! Look at that!

14 for Barry Humphries!

APPLAUSE

Very well done, Matt and Grace. After one question, you are up 1-0.

-Richard?

-Two good answers there.

Barry Humphries, better known as Dame Edna Everage.

-They're very well preserved!

-Particularly Chuck Norris!

-Look at that hair!

-Look at that!

I'm not entirely sure it's all his, and certainly not the colour.

You'd think he's doing very well at 70 to have that.

He was the world middleweight karate champion in 1968, Chuck Norris.

I had no idea! So the fight with Barry would be amazing!

-Of course, he's a Cumbrian wrestler.

-Is that right?

-Yeah.

I think it might be over quite quickly.

Let's do the bottom two first before we get onto B. D is Jane Fonda.

Quite a big scorer though, would have scored 52.

E, the biggest scorer of all, unsurprisingly, Harrison Ford,

also looking good. He would have scored you 67.

Now, B, you did well to avoid because it's not Diana Rigg.

-Do you know that? Eileen Atkins, yeah.

-Eileen Atkins.

That would have scored 3 points, the best answer there.

Well done if you said that.

Thank you very much, Richard. OK, here comes your second question.

Natalee and Daniel, you have to win this to stay in the game. Best of luck. It concerns...

-Richard?

-We'll give you a list of clues

about facts about the Watergate Scandal.

-Can you pick the most obscure of these?

-Thanks, Richard.

OK, let's reveal our five clues to

facts about the Watergate Scandal and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all one more time.

There we are - five clues to facts about the Watergate Scandal.

Matt and Grace, you go first this time.

THEY WHISPER

-You know all of them, right? Do you know all of them?

-Not all, no.

You just go for whatever you think is right, I trust you completely.

OK, em, I think...

I know the odd few, but I think we'll go for the code-name

of Mark Felt, the source that leaked the details to the press.

-I think that was Deep Throat.

-Deep Throat, OK.

Deep Throat say Matt and Grace. Natalee and Daniel?

We don't know the top one. The US President was Richard Nixon.

I'd guess the city would be Washington DC.

Em...I think it's going to take some to break that code-name,

so we'll go for the year, which I think could be 1974.

1974, say Natalee and Daniel, the year in which it occurred.

OK, Matt and Grace have gone for Deep Throat.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said Deep Throat.

Absolutely right.

-20.

-APPLAUSE

Natalee and Daniel have said 1974.

Let's see if that's right for the year in which the break-in occurred.

1974 - how many people said it if it's right?

Ooh, bad luck, Natalee and Daniel.

An incorrect answer, which means, Matt and Grace,

after only two questions, you are through to final, 2-0.

-Very well done. Richard?

-Unlucky, Natalee and Daniel.

Nixon did resign in 1974, but the break-in was in 1972.

It would have scored you 12 points.

The President who resigned - the biggest score there -

is Richard Nixon, of course.

That would have scored 72 points, rather aptly.

Do you know the last time

a Republican won a presidential election

without a Nixon or a Bush

on the ticket as President or Vice President?

It was 1928.

-Isn't that amazing?

-Really?

-There you go.

-Wow!

And the city in which the Watergate Complex is located

is Washington DC. That would have scored 44 points.

And the acronym is the best answer on the board.

It was the Committee To Re-Elect The President,

which is the aptly named CREEP. That would have scored you 1 point.

So the losing pair, I'm afraid,

at the end of our head-to-head is Natalee and Daniel.

You performed so well throughout the whole show

and then were steam rollered by Matt and Grace. Look at that!

-2-0!

-Yeah, worthy winners.

-Very worthy winners.

Anyway, we will see you again next time

and I'm certain you will do as well, if not better, then.

-Thanks very much for playing, Natalee and Daniel.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

But for Matt and Grace it's now time for our Pointless final.

Oh, Matt and Grace, congratulations!

You've fought off all the competition

-and won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-Whoo!

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show, in case you need reminding,

the jackpot stands at £18,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You have done so, so well.

We had four brand-new pairs at the beginning of this show,

all of them very strong, a really strong showing.

You have come through with flying colours,

so very, very well done indeed. The rules are very simple.

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

Do that and you'll be taking home £18,000.

Firstly, you've got to choose a category

and here ar your five choices.

They are...

I think Movie Stars.

-You go ahead.

-Movie Stars, please.

-We're going to go Movie Stars.

-Yeah.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Colin Farrell films as they could. Richard?

We're looking for any feature film made for cinema release

for which Colin Farrell received an acting credit up to October 2012, please.

As always, no TV films, short films or documentaries,

but voice performances do count.

You've played brilliantly. Best of luck in this round.

One answer we won't accept is Seven Psychopaths,

which was released after we did our polling.

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

and all you need to win that £18,000 jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

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

Your time starts now.

-Have you got something? In Bruges?

-Minority Report.

Minority Report, they're the two I can think of.

Erm, In Bruges, Minority Report...

-Erm... Phone Booth.

-Yep.

-Em, he did a remake of Total Recall.

-OK, yeah.

-Erm...

-I... I just can't think.

-Erm... Em...

-There's a load more, but they're just not coming to me.

-I know.

Anything further back? Can you think of anything?

Was he in something after Ballykissangel?

Was he in anything...? I can't think of anything at all, to be honest.

What about anything...? Anything more recently?

I've got a weird feeling he was in a film about football a while back,

-but I can't remember.

-If he was, I can't...

Ten seconds left.

-What are we going for?

-Minority Report is our number-one answer.

-In Bruges. Phone Booth?

-Yep. Total Recall! Total Recall!

OK, there's time. We were looking for Colin Farrell films.

-I now need your three answers.

-We said Total Recall.

-Total Recall.

-The remake of Total Recall, yeah.

-Minority Report.

-Minority Report.

-And...In Bruges?

-Yeah, In Bruges.

-And In Bruges.

OK, there are your answers.

Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

I would think, because he probably wasn't the main star in it,

-I would say Minority Report.

-OK, Minority Report we put last.

-Which is your least likely?

-In Bruges.

-In Bruges, probably.

In Bruges we'll put first.

OK, let's put those up on the board in that order and here they are. We have got...

So we're looking for Colin Farrell films.

In Bruges was your least confident shot at a pointless answer.

Remember, you only have to find one pointless answer

to win that jackpot - £18,000.

Let's find out how many people said In Bruges.

It's right.

OK, down it falls,

into the forties, into the thirties.

If this takes you down to zero, you leave immediately with £18,000.

Still going down. 11.

APPLAUSE

11.

OK, so obviously not a pointless answer,

which means you only have two more chances to win that jackpot.

Now, Grace, £18,000. Let's just think.

You might be leaving with that in a few minutes.

What would be the first thing you'd do with it?

We're going to India next year,

so I'm planning a massive thing there, so that would be good.

Then the rest of it we'd put towards getting a house,

-which is just our long-term goal.

-Very good.

-Matt, anything else you'd like to add to that?

-Er... Oooh...

Maybe another set of golf clubs.

LAUGHTER

OK, now we're looking for Colin Farrell films.

Let's hope one of your two remaining answers

will win that jackpot for you.

Your second answer was Total Recall.

This has to be pointless to win,

so for £18,000 let's see how many people said Total Recall.

It's also right.

Well, In Bruges took us down to 11.

Total Recall...going down.

Ooh, 16!

APPLAUSE

16. Turns out quite a few people had recall of that.

Now, everything is riding on your last answer - Minority Report.

You thought this was a while back and he wasn't a main part in it,

so you're hoping our 100 people will have overlooked

Colin Farrell's role in there.

OK, let's see - Minority Report.

This is your last shot at that jackpot.

For £18,000 it has to be pointless.

How many people said Minority Report?

OK, well, down it goes. In Bruges took us all the way down to 11.

Total Recall took us down to 16.

Minority Report still going down. Down it goes.

Past In Bruges, still going... Oh, 6!

GROANING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, bad luck, Matt and Grace. A great answer - 6.

But unfortunately not a pointless answer

and it's Monte Carlo or bust on this one, I'm afraid.

I'm afraid that means you don't win today's jackpot of £18,000, which rolls over onto the next show,

but you've been superb contestants and you do, of course,

get to take home our Pointless trophy, so well done.

APPLAUSE

I genuinely had a feeling you were going to win,

so I'm very, very sorry.

There's nine pointless answers so let's take a look at them.

There's American Outlaws - 2001 Western.

Cassandra's Dream - the Woody Allen film.

Drinking Crude also a pointless answer.

Ordinary Decent Criminal he made in 2000 with Kevin Spacey.

Pride And Glory he made with Ed Norton.

He plays a photojournalist in Shell Shock.

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus,

the Terry Gilliam film with Johnny Depp, all sorts of people in that.

The War Zone, the Tim Roth directed film.

And alongside Cate Blanchett in Veronica Guerin,

Cate Blanchett playing Veronica Guerin in that film.

All those pointless answers would have won you £18,000.

Very well done if anyone got any of those at home.

-Ooh, it sounds like you knew some of those.

-Yeah.

-Oh, no!

Cassandra's Dream is the only Woody Allen film I haven't seen, as well.

Do you want to see it now?

LAUGHTER

-I tell you who's in that - Colin Farrell!

-Yeah, he's good!

Very memorable in that.

Well, unfortunately, Matt and Grace, we have to say goodbye to you,

but it's been wonderful having you.

Thank you both so much for playing so well.

APPLAUSE

Sadly, Matt and Grace didn't win our jackpot today, which means

it rolls over onto the next show when we will be playing for £19,000.

WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE

Join us to see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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