Episode 27 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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

Welcome to Pointless, the show where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners. Let's meet today's players.

Couple number one.

Hello. I'm Danny. This is my brother Laurence.

I'm from Rochester in Medway and Laurence is from Bicester in Oxfordshire.

-Couple two.

-Hi, I'm Tom. This is my partner, Jay.

-We're from Birmingham.

-Couple three.

My name's Annabel. This is my boyfriend Andy.

We are students together at the University of Southampton.

-And couple four.

-Hello, I'm Polly. This is my best friend, Pep.

We've known each other for ten years and we're from Northampton.

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

Thanks. We'll find out more about you throughout the show as it goes along.

There's only one person left to introduce.

He's a man so clever and so tall

that I sometimes think he's two short geniuses wearing one long coat!

-It's my Pointless friend, Richard.

-Hiya.

Hi, everybody. Hiya.

-How are you.

-I'm extremely well.

Question one today is a subject area that people always ask us for.

And finally, I'm relenting.

Excellent. I look forward to that.

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

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

Everyone's looking to find a pointless answer that none of our 100 gave

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

Rebecca and Geoff didn't win the jackpot last time,

so we add another £1,000 to that

so today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.

Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

In this round, I'll take an answer from each of you, but there's no conferring.

The pair with the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated.

OK. Our first category today is...

European television.

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

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

Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

Countries eligible to participate in Eurovision. Richard?

To participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, you don't have to be in Europe.

You just have to be a member of the European Broadcast Union.

So we're looking for any of those countries. Any country that's eligible to compete

at the Eurovision Song Contest. Very best of luck at home.

-OK, thank you very much, Richard. Laurence, welcome back to the show.

-Thank you.

Remind us what happened last time.

The second round we got famous lines from poetry.

And we did brilliant. We scored the full 200!

-So one of our strongest subjects.

-Yes, that's right.

Now, do you watch Eurovision?

Sometimes, cos it's actually quite comical.

-So yes.

-OK. What are you going to go for?

I can think of quite a few obscure ones,

but I'm going to go with Latvia.

Latvia, says Laurence. Latvia.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 said Latvia.

It's correct.

Wow! Very well done, Laurence. Six.

Six for Latvia.

Good start, Laurence. Well played. I'd forgotten about the poetry round.

-Yeah.

-We thought we'd have a good one, and it was awful!

-Yes, terrible.

-I've written a little poem just as you were speaking.

"Laurence and Danny blundered. Between them they scored 200."

-Brilliant.

-Not bad, is it?

Not bad at all. Thank you. Jamie.

Welcome back. You were also on the show last time.

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

-What happened last time?

-We had football managers.

It was good and bad for us, really. Me being the good part of it!

-OK. How is your Eurovision?

-I know quite a few European countries, and I've watched Eurovision.

I reckon I'll be quite good at this. I'm going with somebody obscure.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Well said, Jamie.

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

Absolutely right.

One!

Very well done. One for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

-Great answer. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia rarely lets us down on this show.

-So rarely.

Now, then, Andy. Welcome to the show. What do you do, Andy?

I'm a Geography student at the University of Southampton.

-How did you and Annabel meet?

-We're both doing the same course

-and we were three doors down from each other in halls.

-Aww!

And has your Geography workload gone up since you've been together?

Yeah. It is helpful, having a partner that does the same course.

-You're quite competitive?

-Yes!

-I'd say so.

-Very good.

-So here you are on the same team.

-Yeah.

-OK.

Now, what about Eurovision?

I personally can't stand it.

But over the last few years, I've been introduced to the concept of Eurovision parties,

thanks to Annabel.

I'm going to go for Slovakia.

Slovakia, says Andy. Slovakia.

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

It's right.

One is our best score so far.

Three! Very well done.

-Great score.

-Well played. A very good round, so far, isn't it?

-Very good. Low scores.

-Andy has one of those haircuts you can only get away with when you're 20!

-Do you know what, you had a haircut like that when you were 20.

-I did. It was roughly like that.

-It was like that.

-You'll be bald by 40, my friend!

Thanks very much. Now, then, Pep.

-Hi.

-Welcome to the show. Good to have you here. What do you do, Pep?

-I'm a retail manager.

-Whereabouts?

-In Northampton.

-In Northampton.

OK. Is there anything that might feed into a Pointless specialist category?

-I could deal with Disney.

-You can deal with Disney?

-That would be good.

-OK.

-All the Disney films?

-Just Disney in general.

-You go to Disneyland a lot?

-Yeah.

-And watch a lot of Disney films.

-Yeah.

Now, then, here we are looking at Eurovision countries.

-Are you happy with this?

-It could have been a lot worse.

-OK.

-I've got a couple of answers.

I'm going to go with Iceland.

-Iceland.

-Yes.

-Iceland.

It's been a very low scoring round. Let's see if you can keep up that low scoring with Iceland.

Is it right? How many people said it?

Absolutely right.

-Six for Iceland, Pep.

-Well done, Pep.

Iceland have participated 25 times. Never won.

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

One, the best score of that round. Jamie and Tom storm into the lead

by a massive margin of two.

On three we find Andy and Annabel,

and then up to six where we find Laurence and Danny and Pep and Polly.

Who'd have thought that would be our high score? It's a very low-scoring category.

So Danny and Polly, tread carefully in the next pass,

to make sure it's not one of you going home at the end of the round.

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

Any country that qualifies to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Now, Polly. Polly, what do you do?

I'm training to be a drama teacher.

What sort of ages will you be teaching?

I'm doing a Petals course, which is life-long sector learning.

-So post-compulsory teaching.

-Very good.

Now, you're the joint high scorers, Polly.

We need a brilliant answer. I think you'll be good at this.

Do you know, it came down to two. I'm going to take a punt and say Moldova.

Sounds good to me. Moldova.

Normally there'd be a red line, but you're joint high scorers.

Not that high, but you are out in front.

Moldova you have to hope is going to take you down to the bottom of the column.

Let's see how far down Moldova does take you.

It's right.

One is our best score so far. Three! Very well done.

Three, taking your total up to nine.

-Well played, Polly. First entered in 2005, Moldova.

-OK.

Thank you, Richard. Now, then, Annabel.

-So a geographer.

-Yes.

-I suppose there's a crossover, Geography, Eurovision?

-There is for me, anyway.

-There we go.

-I go so far as to watch the semi-finals.

-So...

-Hang on, the semi-finals.

This is a separate programme?

Yes, it's the week running up to it.

-Wow. When they get rid of the less good ones.

-Yeah.

-You see, I never even realised they did that.

-Yes, they started it a few years ago

-because so many countries wanted to enter.

-Wow.

So they weed out the ones that are anything less than exceptional!

-That's right.

-Wow.

You even watch that. Brilliant.

Does that leave you any time for hobbies or anything, Annabel?

-Yes, I'm a dancer. I'm in the Street Dance squad at university, which is good.

-Are you?

-Is that really good fun?

-It's a lot of fun.

-We do competitions up and down the country.

-Brilliant.

-It's good.

No, very good. So let's get back to Eurovision.

We now have a high score to try and get under,

which is nine from Polly and Pep.

You're on three. Have you got an answer that will score less than five

-and see you into the next round?

-I hope so.

A couple of mine have been taken, but I'm going to go for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

OK. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Let's see if it's right. Here's your red line.

Very low, you'll notice.

But Bosnia and Herzegovina, is it right? Will it get you below the line?

It's right.

Ooh, you haven't quite done it!

That scores you six.

Takes your total up to nine, where you draw with Polly and Pep.

FRENCH ACCENT: Bosnia Herzegovina, six points.

Thank you very much, Richard. Now, Tom.

We discovered last time Tom has a very exciting job.

Tom works in prosthetics for film and designs creatures.

-What's the biggest creature you've designed?

-Biggest creature?

I made this thing called an Ashmore,

-which was a three-headed camel-looking creature.

-Ashmore?

It was really weird. I made it for a goblin ball which I went to,

like a masquerade ball, but it had goblins and creatures and stuff.

I imagine you must have won outright, with the Ashmore, surely.

There was some amazing stuff there but people were scared of it and a bit disturbed!

Which is the effect, surely, you were after?

Yeah, I don't want anyone to say, "Oh, that's nice."

-It's got to be horror, scared or disgusted. That's the best response.

-Very good indeed.

Well, now, we have joint high scorers on nine.

You're on one, so you have a margin of seven.

If you score seven or less, you're through to the next round, for sure.

-Tom, is this a good area for you?

-It's OK. I didn't realise it was going to be this low.

I know. It's quite scary, isn't it? Now, what's your answer going to be?

I had one answer, but it's so low, I'm gonna have to risk it a bit.

-So I'm going to say Turkmenistan.

-Turkmenistan, says Tom.

Turkmenistan. Is that said with a degree of confidence?

I know it's in Europe. But my other one is going to be higher than that.

OK. Here's your red line. Quite low,

as you'll see. But then the scores are very low.

Let's see if Turkmenistan is right, and if it is, how many of our 100 people said Turkmenistan?

Oh, no!

Oh, Tom, I thought that was a brilliant answer.

I'm sorry, that scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Takes your total to 101.

Sorry, Tom. A big risk to take.

We'll ask you what you would have said at the end of the pass.

It's not a European country, and not a member of the EBU.

Now, Danny.

Welcome back to the show. Remind us what you do in Rochester.

I'm a chef-slash-cook.

He's a slash cook!

When you're not doing that, Danny, what do you get up to?

When I'm not at work, I play football twice a week.

I play for an 11-a-side team called The Jolly Knights.

-The Jolly Knights.

-Yes.

Very good. OK, now then.

-You've been thrown a bit of a lifeline by Tom.

-Yes.

They're on 101. You're on six.

Anything that scores you less than 94 will get you through to the next round.

OK.

I had a few floating round my head on this one.

But I'm going to go for a safer option just to get by, and go with Spain.

Spain, says Danny. Spain.

Of all the safe options you could have gone for, any reason why you chose Spain?

Um, cos it's quite a large country in Europe.

-Just to be on the safe side!

-There were a few others floating round.

I was thinking of Lithuania and Malta and Cyprus.

They were my other three.

Spain. Good. This is solid.

There's your red line, nice and high. Let's see if Spain's right.

It's right and you're through!

27. There we are. Takes your total to 33.

Well done, Danny. You did just what you had to do there.

You knew you'd get through with Spain. They've won it twice.

Your other options - Malta scored eight. Cyprus scored seven.

Chypre, sept points.

Lithuania would have been the best of the bunch on five.

-Tom, what would you have said if you hadn't said Turkmenistan?

-Bulgaria.

-Or...

-If you'd said Bulgaria,

you'd be through to the next round. It would have scored seven points.

Croatia would have been 11, so it would have taken you above these two

and Danny would have been forced into one of his lower scorers.

But Bulgaria would have seen you through. There are a few pointless answers. Let's take a look.

These three are all outside Europe but members of the EBU

so they could enter the Eurovision if they wanted to. Come on, guys.

Montenegro is in Europe. That was a pointless answer.

Morocco is a member of the EBU. San Marino a pointless answer.

Those were the only pointless answers. These would have scored one point

as I'm sure some people would have said. Algeria, Andorra, Belarus,

Tunisia, Monaco and Egypt.

And we've had the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Well done if you got any of those.

Let's see the top three, the ones that most people said.

We didn't allow the UK on the list.

What do you think one is? There's no United Kingdom.

-The Republic of Ireland.

-The Republic of Ireland. Absolutely right.

43 points.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of Round One, the losing pair with their high score of 101 is Tom and Jamie!

Tom and Jamie.

We had the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Fantastic low score.

You were trying to equal that, or even better it, Tom.

I was kind of scared into that answer, I suppose, cos I had to go low.

I didn't think Bulgaria was good enough.

Yeah, OK. Yes. Bulgaria would have done it, as Richard said.

I'm sorry, we have to say goodbye to you, Tom and Jamie.

It's been great having you on the show. Great contestants. Tom and Jamie, thanks for playing.

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

Sadly, at the end of this round, another pair will be leaving us.

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

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

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

OK. Our question concerns...

Films and their actor/directors. Richard?

On each pass, we'll show you the name of six films

all of which had a director who also starred in that film.

Just tell us the name of that person, please.

So six films. Just tell us who directed and acted in these.

There are 12 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

OK. Actors who starred in and directed these films.

And we have got on our first board...

I'll read those again.

Six films which had a lead actor who also directed those films.

Now, then. Danny.

Yeah. I'm looking at the board.

There's a couple I think I know.

Maybe The Great Dictator.

But it's a bit risky.

But I'm going with the one that I can see that I know,

and that's Braveheart, Mel Gibson.

Mel Gibson, says Danny, for Braveheart.

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

Absolutely right.

58 for Mel Gibson.

Yes, won Best Picture and Best Director for Mel Gibson at the Oscars, Braveheart.

Pretty big score.

Yes, indeed. Now, Annabel. How are you on films?

Good, but not with these ones.

I'm not even sure, so I'll go for a complete guess

and say Beyond The Sea, Brad Pitt.

Beyond The Sea, Brad Pitt.

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

Bad luck, Annabel. An incorrect answer scoring you the maximum of 100 points.

You've made Danny very happy there, Annabel.

I'll give the correct answer at the end of the pass.

-Now, Pep. How are we feeling about this subject?

-Awful!

-Really?

It was OK until those films came up.

I've never heard of any of them apart from Braveheart.

-That's quite a tough board.

-Yeah.

A tough board, so you won't thank me if I ask you to take us through the board.

I'll let Richard do that!

OK.

What are you going to go for?

I'm going to go A Bronx Tale with Al Pacino.

A Bronx Tale with Al Pacino starring and directing.

Let's see if that's right and if so, how many people said Al Pacino.

Ooh, bad luck!

That scores you 100 points. I'm sorry.

Well, you weren't a million miles away, Pep.

-It was Robert De Niro.

-That's who I meant!

Five points it would have scored.

There's a couple of big scorers.

Yentl, directed by and stars Barbra Streisand.

That would have scored 32.

Do you know The Great Dictator?

-Charlie Chaplin.

-Right. Scored 27.

Little Man Tate? Directed by Jodie Foster.

That would have scored 19.

So all pretty big scorers. Best answer is Beyond The Sea.

It's a bio-pic of Bobby Darren.

It starred Kevin Spacey.

Well done if you said that. Would have scored three points.

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

Danny and Laurence, very well done. 58.

Turns out to be... That's the joy of being first to go there.

It's the first time we've been in the second round, so I'm happy!

Looking very strong on 58.

The others, Pep and Polly and Annabel and Andy,

tied on 100. So Andy and Polly, it's between you.

Polly, you'll get pick of the board. It's your choice.

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

OK. Let's put six more films on the board. Here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

Now, then, Polly.

I know Dances With Wolves. I know I do. But I can't get it.

The only person that I can think of

and I'm absolutely sure of,

I'm gonna go Star Trek, and I'll have to say William Shatner.

Star Trek V. William Shatner, you are going to say.

You're joint high scorers on 100. Hope this goes down as far as it can.

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

William Shatner. Is that right?

Absolutely right.

Very well done indeed, Polly.

Eight takes your total to 108.

It's a very low score because I think most people probably said

Leonard Nimoy, because he directed Star Trek III and Star Trek IV.

Now, Andy, the high scorers now, Polly and Pep on 108.

You have to score seven or less with this to stay in.

How good is your film knowledge?

OK. There's one that I'm very sure on, which is the only one I've seen.

Will that score you seven or less?

Oh, probably not.

But it's better than a wrong answer.

So I'll go Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood.

Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood, says Andy.

Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood. Here's your red line. Quite low, as you see.

Is that right? How many people said it?

It's right.

123, your total.

Well done, Andy. Good answer. Brilliant film, Gran Torino. Ever seen it?

-No.

-It's terrific. Clint Eastwood's most successful film to date.

270 million worldwide, it's grossed.

-Fantastic.

-It got nominated for a Golden Globe for the song as well.

Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood and his son and Jamie Cullum. It's a brilliant song as well.

-Now, then, Laurence.

-Hi.

-You are on 58.

The high scorers are on 123, Andy and Annabel.

That means you can score 64 or less and still get through to the head-to-head.

I knew Gran Torino. That's one I was going to go for.

-Yep.

-But I guess I'll go with Dances With Wolves.

That's the only one I know, which is Kevin Costner.

Kevin Costner, for Dances With Wolves.

Let's see if that's right. If it is, how many people said Kevin Costner.

It's right.

You've done it. 49!

Close, but you've done it. That takes your total to 107.

The highest-grossing Western of all time, Dances With Wolves.

Won seven Academy Awards, Best Film and Best Director for Kevin Costner.

I think Andy was unlucky on that round, I have to say.

Gran Torino was a good answer.

I think Shatner was a bit of luck, I think!

No, it wasn't!

-Got to have luck in this game!

-Yeah.

Certainly.

Let's fill in the board. Citizen Kane,

it was the first ever film by Orson Welles.

-Spaceballs. Do you know that?

-Mel Brookes.

Absolutely right. Directed and starred in that.

Then She Found Me is the best answer on the board by quite some way.

It starred Colin Firth. He didn't direct it. But it also starred Helen Hunt,

who did direct it. Very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much, Richard.

So at the end of Round Two, the losing pair with the high score of 123

is Andy and Annabel. Oh dear, oh dear.

-It was Brad Pitt in Beyond The Sea that did for you.

-Yeah.

-They were really tough.

-Very difficult.

I didn't have a clue, so that was a guess in the dark.

I thought the second board was marginally easier than the first.

But they were both pretty tough.

Quite specialist knowledge involved there.

Andy and Annabel, we'll see you again next time. We look forward to that.

Thanks very much for playing. Andy and Annabel.

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

and a chance to take home our jackpot, as we enter the head-to-head.

So congratulations, Polly and Pep, Laurence and Danny.

You are only one round away from the final and a chance to play for our jackpot of £2,000.

Only one pair can play for that money.

To decide which pair, you'll now go head-to-head.

This time, you are allowed to confer.

The first pair to win two questions will play for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question. It concerns...

-Swimmers, Richard.

-Going to show you five pictures of famous British swimmers.

Can you identify the most obscure of these?

Let's reveal our five swimmers. Here they are.

There we are. Five swimmers.

Polly and Pep,

because you've played best so far, you get to go first.

OK? We're gonna risk it and go for B,

and I think it's Duncan Goodhew.

Duncan Goodhew, say Polly and Pep for B.

Laurence and Danny. Talk us through the board.

Well, I know B and E.

I don't actually know the others.

So I guess, if I get the name right,

E is Rebecca Adlington.

E. Rebecca Adlington.

So we have Duncan Goodhew versus Rebecca Adlington.

Polly and Pep said Duncan Goodhew.

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

It's correct!

51 for Duncan Goodhew.

Laurence and Danny say Rebecca Adlington for E.

Is that right, and if it is, how many people said Rebecca Adlington?

It's right.

Ooh!

Wow!

Wow! Laurence and Danny, you've won that with Rebecca Adlington.

So after one question, you're up one-nil.

That's a surprising result.

Duncan Goodhew, he was one of those guys who was so famous.

He won gold in the 1980 Olympics.

He was so famous in the '80s. So recognisable as well.

-He's one of those guys who's never gonna be not famous.

-True.

And Rebecca Adlington. 43 is still a big score.

Still a big score. Let's go through the rest.

All these have won medals at Olympic Games and World Championships.

They're all top-class swimmers. A is Adrian Moorhouse.

C is a pointless answer.

She's been a world record holder, won Olympic medals,

won World Championship medals.

Well done if you said that. A pointless answer. A very good one.

And D, the first man to wear a swimming cap in competitive swimming.

-David Wilkie.

-David Wilkie.

Absolutely right.

-That's a '70s look, isn't it?

-Isn't it? Very good. Thanks, Richard.

Here's your second question. Polly and Pep,

we need you to win this question to stay in the game. Best of luck.

The question concerns...

Authors and their fictional settings. Richard?

I'll show you a list of writers now and the names of fictional places or buildings they've created.

But those places or buildings are in anagram form.

Can you untwist them and give us the best answer?

Thanks very much. Let's reveal the authors and their fictional places in anagram form.

Here they are.

I'll read those one last time.

Now, Laurence and Danny, you go first this time.

QUIET CONFERRING

I'm normally good at anagrams. I'm just not seeing any today.

We'll have to guess. I'm really not seeing any of those.

So do you want to name one? Pick a random place?

-Not really.

-Go for Terry Pratchett.

-Do it the other way round. Cords Wild!

-Cords Wild.

Cords Wild. There we are. Cords Wild.

Tricky anagram there!

Polly and Pep, what have you gone for?

I was so panicking. Wonderland, Lewis Carroll.

Wonderland. Wonderland.

Laurence and Danny have gone for Cords Wild.

And Polly and Pep with Wonderland.

Cords Wild. Let's see if it's right. And leave it at that for now!

Bad luck.

An incorrect answer. Polly and Pep, Wonderland merely has to be correct and you will win this question.

Wonderland.

Absolutely right.

Well done. You're back in the game, Polly and Pep.

-After two questions, it's one-all. Richard?

-Well played.

Not Cords Wild, as people are screaming at the telly now. Discworld.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld would have scored 25 points.

There's another big scorer there, Jonathan Swift, which is...

-Lilliput.

-Lilliput, absolutely.

Hamster Gong, Mervyn Peake?

His most famous work, Gormenghast.

L.Frank Baum, what did he famously write?

If you know that, the answer becomes easier.

-He wrote The Wizard of Oz.

-Ah.

-And the capital of The Land of Oz?

-Emerald City.

-Emerald City.

The best answer there. Well done if you got all those at home.

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

This is the decider. Whoever wins this goes into the final to play for the jackpot.

Best of luck. It concerns...

Famous... Why is that so funny, Polly?

-It looks so bad!

-Really?

OK. Famous shipwrecks. It may not be when you see...

Do you think Laurence and Danny are very good at famous shipwrecks and you're...

You're less good?

We'll see. We'll give you five clues to facts about famous shipwrecks.

Can you answer the most obscure of these? Good luck, both teams.

Let's reveal our five facts about famous shipwrecks.

I'll read those one last time.

Now, then. Polly and Pep. You go first.

The third one, The Carpathia.

-Carpathia.

-Yep.

Carpathia, say Polly and Pep.

Laurence and Danny. Talk us through the board if you can. Fill in any blanks.

I actually thought three and five were the same.

-Really?

-They went to the rescue.

We'll say the 1997 film was the Titanic.

Hang on. You think the Titanic rescued several people from...

-From itself!

-..from the Titanic?

The problem is I read it wrong.

I just saw "the unsinkable ship". That's all I saw.

So we will go 1997 film. That will be the Titanic.

OK. The Titanic, say Laurence and Danny.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final. Best of luck to both pairs.

Now, Polly and Pep. You have gone for Carpathia.

Is that right, and if it is, how many people said Carpathia.

It's right. Very well done, Polly.

It's a great score. Five. Very well done indeed.

Very well done. That's a great answer.

Laurence and Danny, you have said Titanic

as the name of the 1997 film directed by James Cameron.

Is it right? If so, how many people said it?

It's right.

Can you beat five? No.

I'm afraid it's not. 54.

All of which means, Polly and Pep, you are through to the final two-one.

Very well done indeed.

Well played, Polly. You were right to take the risk. Terrific answer. Deserve to be in the final.

Unlucky guys. Let's look at the rest of the answers.

The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-Boat as was the top one,

which was the Lusitania.

Briefly the biggest ship in the world.

That scored 21 points.

Henry VIII's sister was Mary Rose.

That would have scored 41. So another big scorer. Best answer on the board by a mile,

"collided with the liner Stockholm in 1956",

is the Andrea Doria.

Well done if you said that at home. It scored one point.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So at the end of our head-to-head, our losing pair is Laurence and Danny.

You did really well. You were thrown by those anagrams.

They were really hard, actually.

But some really good answering.

Rebecca Adlington. Great answer there as well.

And quite tough, the shipwreck round.

But you've acquitted yourselves very well,

made it through to the head-to-head in this game.

I'm sorry we have to say goodbye to you. Laurence and Danny, great contestants. Thanks for playing.

But for Polly and Pep, it's time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Polly and Pep.

You've seen off the competition and won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £2,000.

You've done incredibly well. I'm thrilled you've made it to the final.

You have earned your place here, no question.

Some fantastic answers.

Now, the rules are very simple in this round.

All you have to do is find a pointless answer to win that jackpot of £2,000.

First you need to choose a category. Here are your five categories.

They are...

-It's between two. Hollywood actresses.

-Or what?

It's got to be Hollywood actresses.

Yeah. Hollywood actresses, please.

Hollywood actresses. Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Halle Berry films as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for any feature length film made for cinema

for which Halle Berry has received an acting credit up to the end of September 2012.

As always, no TV films, short films or documentaries

but voice performances do count. Very best of luck.

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

and all you need to win the jackpot is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Ready.

OK. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

-Gothika.

-Gothika, that's good.

-Catwoman.

-Catwoman.

-She was in The Flintstones.

-Was she?

-Yeah, The Flintstones.

-Which one?

-I don't know. Just say Flintstones.

-The first one?

-Yes, she was in the first one.

-OK.

Right. The Flintstones.

Monster's Ball. She got an Oscar for that, so it might be quite high.

Gothika.

That's two.

-Any others?

-That's the only ones I can think of.

-So, The Flintstones.

-The Flintstones.

The Flintstones Movie.

Say The Flintstones Movie.

We'll put that first, anyway.

Flintstones Movie,

Monster's Ball and Gothika.

Can you think of any others?

Ten seconds left.

-OK.

-Let's go with that.

-Are you sure?

The Monster's Ball.

And Flintstones Movie.

OK. That's time up. We were looking for Halle Berry films.

I now need your three answers.

-OK.

-We've got The Flintstones Movie.

-The Flintstones Movie.

-Gothika.

-Gothika.

-And Monster's Ball.

-Monster Ball.

-And Monster's Ball.

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

I honestly don't think any of them will be!

But I'm going to say Monster's Ball.

I know she won an Oscar for it. I'm not sure about the wording.

-We'll say Monster's Ball.

-Monster's Ball. Which is your least likely?

-Flintstones Movie?

-Flintstones Movie cos we're not sure if that's the title.

OK. Let's pop those up on the board in that order. Here they are.

So we were looking for Halle Berry films.

Your first answer, The Flintstones, was your least likely to be pointless.

You only have to find one pointless answer to win that jackpot.

Let's find out. For £2,000, how many of our 100 people said The Flintstones.

It's right.

OK. You thought this was your least likely to be pointless,

but it's taking us down through the thirties into the twenties,

into the teens. Going down into single figures...

Down it goes. Five! Not bad at all.

Not bad at all. Five.

Think how pleased you'd be with that in normal gameplay. A fantastic score.

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer.

So that won't win you the jackpot.

Only two more chances to win that £2,000 jackpot.

What would you do with £2,000, Pep?

Disneyland!

Polly, what would you like to do?

I would probably like to put a deposit down to move out of the flat we're in at the moment.

And have a nice house and settle down and maybe get a car.

-Very good.

-Wait, it's only like a grand. No, the car. The car.

OK. We're looking for Halle Berry films.

Let's hope nobody said your next answer, which was Gothika.

Another great answer, this one.

It has to be pointless if you're going to win the jackpot.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Gothika.

Well, it's right.

The Flintstones took us down to five.

Gothika, your second answer,

taking us down confidently through the teens.

Into single figures. Seven!

OK. Also not a pointless answer,

but another very good answer.

Only one more chance to win today's jackpot of £2,000.

Everything is now riding on your third and final answer,

Monster's Ball. We're looking for Halle Berry films.

-You thought this was your best shot at a pointless answer?

-I don't think it is, now.

She won an Oscar for it.

She was the first African American to win an Oscar with this.

And I honestly don't think it is.

-You think it might stick in people's minds for that reason?

-Exactly.

-It's quite memorable.

-OK. Only one way to find out.

Let's see. Monster's Ball. If this is pointless you win £2,000.

Is it?

Well, it's right.

We were expecting that.

The Flintstones took us down to five.

Gothika took us down to seven. Monster's Ball takes us to...

11. Oh, dear!

Three very good answers there. Very solid Halle Berry films.

Lovely low scores, but I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that crucial pointless answer.

So I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £2,000

which rolls over onto the next show.

But you have been very good contestants.

In one appearance on Pointless, you've shot straight through to the final

with great performances in each round. Very well done.

And you take home our Pointless trophy. Very well done for that.

Well played, Polly and Pep.

Some good answers there. Catwoman, another one you mentioned, would have scored 26.

So a bigger score than any of those.

Let's look at some of the pointless answers.

B*A*P*S was a pointless answer.

Black American Princesses that stands for, apparently!

Bulworth, she was in.

Executive Decision, a mid-air drama with Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal.

Every bit as good as that makes it sound!

Father Hood with Patrick Swayze.

She was the Frankie in Frankie & Alice.

She was in New Year's Eve, the film that everybody was in at the end of 2011.

She's in that. A pointless answer.

The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis.

Things We Lost in the Fire and Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

There's a couple more. Jungle Fever, Race the Sun,

The Program and The Rich Man's Wife.

All pointless. Well done if you said any of those at home.

Tough luck, guys.

Thanks very much. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you.

It's been brilliant having you on the show. Thanks so much for playing. Very well done.

So Polly and Pep didn't win our jackpot today, so it rolls over onto the next show

when we will be playing for £3,000.

Join us then 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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