Episode 40 Pointless

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Thank you very much indeed.

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?

My name's Richard and this is my nephew, James,

-and we've come down from Kent today.

-Couple number two?

-My name is Kate, this is my daughter, Jane, and we're from Surrey.

-Couple number three?

Hello, I'm Martin and this is my friend Mark.

We've known each other for 12 years.

We both live in Leeds but are originally from Lancashire.

And couple number four?

Hello, I'm Elizabeth, this is my twin sister, Kate. We're from Manchester.

These, ladies and gentlemen, are our contestants.

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

There's one person left for me to introduce.

Obscure Roman history, classic literature,

the films of Daniel Craig - is there anything this guy can't Google?

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

Hi, everybody.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

I'm genuinely getting excited about this jackpot now.

We've had a couple of big jackpots, haven't we?

It builds up and then two or three people win at once,

then it builds up again, and it's getting pretty high again.

Last time we had two very strong teams who have come back.

Mark and Martin, who got all the way through to the head-to-head.

We had Kate and Jane, who were good, and then we gave them a sports question

and they got knocked out. Sometimes you do get tripped up

and that's why we have people back twice.

Difficult to get tripped up twice.

-The money is there for the taking, so good luck to all four pairs.

-Thank you very much indeed.

Our questions on Pointless have been put to 100 people before the show.

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

Everybody is looking to find a Pointless answer

which none of our 100 people gave, and when that happens,

we will add £250 to the jackpot.

As Richard said, Greg and Wayne didn't win the jackpot last time

so we add another £1,000 to that, so today's jackpot starts off at £16,000.

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

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

but there's no conferring.

Whichever pair has the highest score at the end of the round

will be eliminated, so try and make sure that's not you.

Our first category today is historical figures.

Historical figures.

Can you decide in your pairs who will go first and who will go second.

Whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

The question concerns historical woman. Richard?

On each pass, we will give you seven clues to historical women.

Can you tell us the name of those historical women, please,

and we have 14 in all to have a go at in this round. Best of luck.

So remember, we are looking for the famous historical women

described by these clues, and here they come.

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are, seven historical women.

James, welcome to Pointless.

-This is baptism by fire.

-It is a little.

-Straight in there.

What do you do, James?

I'm currently working as a producer for a psychic TV channel.

Of course I knew that!

How amazing, a psychic TV channel?

-Yes, I work with a few interesting characters.

-I'll say you do.

Now, James, what do you make of the board?

There's a couple I think I know, although they'd be quite risky.

I'm probably going to go for the British Queen who succeeded William and Mary.

I'm going to go for Anne.

Queen Anne, says James.

Let's see if that's right and how many people knew that answer.

Absolutely right.

12.

That's a terrific score. 12 for Queen Anne.

Well played, James, became Queen in 1702.

They used to call her Brandy Nan because she liked to drink.

Thanks, Richard. Now then, Jane. Remind us what happened last time.

Well, we did not badly in the first round

and we went out in the second round.

-We didn't know so much about sporting biopic films.

-That was a tough one.

What things do you like to get up to, Jane?

My husband and I like American police dramas a lot.

They are often very good answers on Pointless, so fingers crossed.

How are you on your historical women?

Well, this board is not looking bad.

It's difficult to know which ones are low scorers and high scorers

but I'm going to go for the woman who refused to give up her seat which triggered the Montgomery bus boycott,

and I think her name is Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks, says Jane.

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

It's right.

Oh, very well done indeed, Jane, that's a great score.

Eight.

Yes, it's a measure of how much the world has come.

In 1955 for doing what she did,

she was fired from her job at a department store.

Her husband was fired as well. She was fined in the courts

and then Bill Clinton give her the Congressional Gold Medal,

which is a lovely end to a terrible story.

Isn't it just? Now then, Mark, welcome back to Pointless.

Head-to-headers you were last time?

Yes, we made that classic mistake everyone makes

and mixed up T.Rex with jazz standards!

Mark, remind us what you do and what you like to get up to.

Well, I'm in the very exciting world of logistics

so a lot of ocean freight and that exciting stuff.

In my spare time, I play a lot of golf.

I love to watch football, I'm a big Liverpool fan

and I've got a little boy so I love a bit of family time as well.

Excellent. How's your historical women?

I thought my history was quite good but I'm really struggling here.

I have three answers, two are little bit of a gamble,

but looking at the scores so far, I need to take a gamble

so I hope I haven't got this name completely wrong,

but the Empress of Russia, I would say, would be Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great, says Mark.

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

It's absolutely right.

12 and 8, our two scores so far.

Very well done, 17.

Well played, Mark, you had to take a risk, and it paid off.

Her full name is Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst.

That's her full name.

Catherine the Great is just a nickname she got at school!

It sticks sometimes, doesn't it?

-Now then, Elizabeth, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-It's always good having twins on the show.

-Yes.

We need more twins on the show. What do you do, Elizabeth?

-We're both retired, we both worked for the NHS.

-In the same department?

Many hospitals, we were together at the same time.

Did you ever swap jobs for fun?

No, but people would get us mixed up quite often.

You're the last person to have this board, so talk us through as much of it as you can.

OK, I don't think I can beat the ones that have been said so far.

Cousin of Elizabeth I, I think that is Lady Jane Grey.

The little black dress, I was going to say Coco Chanel.

Discovered radium, I was thinking perhaps Madame Curie

and the last one would be, I'm hoping, Lady Godiva.

I don't know which one to choose.

I think I will go with Elizabeth I's cousin, Lady Jane Grey.

Lady Jane Grey, says Elizabeth. Let's see if that's right.

Lady Jean Grey, how many people said it, if it is?

Oh, no, bad luck, Elizabeth.

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer

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

Lady Jane Grey was executed in 1554, I'm afraid.

In 1587, that was Mary Queen of Scots.

It would have scored 43 points.

The little black dress, you were right, was Coco Chanel.

15 points - that would have been a terrific answer.

You were right about Lady Godiva as well, a bigger score, 66 points.

It was Marie Curie who discovered radium with her husband

and that would have scored 37.

The best answer on the board was Rosa Parks, so very well done, Jane.

Thanks, Richard, we're halfway through the round, let's take a look at the scores.

Eight, very much the best score of that pass. Well done, Jane, looking good.

James and Richard, ditto on 12.

17, not a bad score for Mark and Martin and I'm afraid the twins,

Elizabeth and Kate, a little bit out ahead, on 100.

Yes, we need a good answer on the next board, Kate.

We're going to come back down the line.

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

We'll put seven more clues on the board, and here they come.

We have got...

I will read those all one last time.

There we are. Remember we are looking for

the famous women described by these clues.

You are going to try and find the one you think

the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Now then, Kate M, let's hope you can find a good answer on this board.

Um, I think I know two,

but I'm going to have to take a risk here,

and it is a complete guess.

I am going to go for who wrote the novel Sense And Sensibility,

I'm going to go for Jane Austen, complete guess.

OK, Jane Austen says Kate.

There's no red line for you as you are the high-scorers,

but let's see if Jane Austen is right.

It's absolutely right, yes.

47.

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47 takes your total up to, I'm afraid, an unbeatable 147.

Yes, it was originally called

Eleanor And Marianne, after its main characters.

-It was published under the author's name "A Lady".

-There we are.

Now then, Martin. Well, there's cheering news,

you are through to the next round, whatever happens.

Your low score of 17,

even if you score 100 points, you won't overtake Kate and Elizabeth.

Historical Women.

Yes, I wouldn't say it was one of my strong subjects.

I think I know couple of those on there and the one I'll go for

is the Queen of France, guillotined in 1793,

I'm pretty sure it is Marie Antoinette.

Marie Antoinette, says Martin. Marie Antoinette.

No red line for you, you are already through.

Let's see how many people said Mary Antoinette.

Absolutely right.

25.

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42 your total.

Yes, good answer again. She was beheaded nine months after Louis XVI.

-Kate, again, you are already through.

-Right.

Remind us what you do, Kate.

I am an independent market researcher, working freelance.

-In the area...

-In the pharmaceutical industry.

That's right. What do you like getting up to in your spare time?

I swim. I swim three times a week. I read quite a lot.

I watch Pointless quite a lot, actually.

THEY CHUCKLE

-Brilliant.

-Every day.

-Very good training for the programme.

-Do you have any tactics for the show today?

-Yes and no.

On this particular question, there's one that I'm thinking that

I'm almost 100% certain of. I know Jane will be 100% certain on this.

If I get this wrong she will be cross but I'm going to say

Quaker prison reformer born in Norwich, 1780, is Elizabeth Fry.

Elizabeth Fry says Kate, Elizabeth Fry.

No red line for you, you're already through

but let's see how many people said Elizabeth Fry.

-It is absolutely right.

-Phew!

Oh, it's a good answer.

Look at that. 15. Very well done indeed.

A lovely low total of 23 for Kate and Jane. Looking very strong.

Well done, Kate. An instantly familiar face, Elizabeth Fry,

because she is on the £5 note.

Now then, Richard, welcome to the show. Good to have you here.

-What do you do, Richard?

-I work as a bookmaker.

-Do you?

Well, your odds are pretty good, I would say at this time.

At the moment, yes!

Yes, who would you say are the favourites for the final today?

Shall I put some pressure on them, shall I?

I will say the two young ladies at the back here.

Yes, I think that is probably right on the back of that answer.

-What do you make of our board of historical women?

-Um...

-Do you think you might be able to fill them all in for us?

-No!

I can only fill in two, basically.

I feel that is the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland who would be

Queen Victoria, and the actress and one-time orange seller is Nell Gwyn.

Not too sure on the other two. So we'll go for

Nell Gwyn for the actress and one-time orange seller.

OK, Nell Gwyn, says Richard. Let's see if that is right.

No red line again, you are already through.

Let's see how many people said Nell Gwyn.

Absolutely right.

34.

34, taking your total up to 46.

Well played, Richard. I think it's going to be a good show today.

I think we heard some good answers there.

Let's take a look through the rest of these answers.

Now, there are two quite tough ones there.

The person who sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage was Queen Isabella.

That would have scored you 10 points.

The best answer on the board is the person who wrote that

Lord Byron was, "mad, bad and dangerous to know".

-Caroline Lamb.

-Lady Caroline Lamb, absolutely right. Two points.

Now, the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837 to 1901,

what do you think that is scoring?

I would imagine that must be scoring, I would hope in the 90s.

-You would hope, wouldn't you?

-Yes.

-It scored 64 points.

Queen Victoria, 64 points.

So she scored less than Lady Godiva. AUDIENCE MURMUR

If you really want to be memorable,

don't be the greatest ruler ever of the greatest empire ever.

Just take your clothes off and sit on a horse.

-LAUGHTER

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our first round, the losing pair with 147,

I am afraid it's Kate and Elizabeth.

Oh, dear, you have hardly been here.

A great show, but that was a tough board for you, that one, wasn't it?

Yeah. Mary Queen of Scots.

I know, I know. I know that now.

Ah, well. We will see you again next time,

Kate and Elizabeth, I look forward to that.

Thanks very much for playing, meanwhile.

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But for the remaining three pairs it is now time for Round Two.

Now, very sadly

we will have two lose another pair at the end of this round.

Three very, very strong pairs in front of me now.

Hard to think which one it is going to be.

Well, best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two is...

It is a words round. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first who's going to go second.

And whoever is 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 words

ending in FE as they could.

Just the two letters this time. FE, Richard.

We are looking for any word in the Oxford Dictionary Of English

that has its own entry and ends FE.

As always, no proper nouns and no hyphenated words either.

Quite often in these rounds there's hundreds and hundreds of words.

In this, there's round about 40. There's not so many.

-You put your thinking cap on as well.

-Yes, oh, yes. You can see that?

I have got it on. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Richard.

Only 40 words, and I can't think of hardly any of them.

I could take risky punt or play safe here.

There is only 40 words...

I am going to play safe and say knife.

Knife, let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said knife.

It is correct.

47.

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Well done, Richard.

It is tough to know whether to play it safe

or go for a risk on that first podium.

Now then, Jane.

Well, funnily enough, even before Richard gave that answer,

the word that popped into my head was jackknife,

so I am going to say jackknife.

Jackknife, says Jane, let's see if it is right

and let see how many people said it.

It's right.

-1 for jackknife!

-Well done!

Very well done indeed. A great answer, Jane.

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Yes, that is very well played, Jane. Terrific answer.

Yes, jackknife, it is a real knife, a jackknife,

but we talk about lorries jackknifing

You can do a jackknife in diving and what have you.

It just means bending at the waist essentially

and then straightening out.

-Now then, Martin.

-Still struggling.

Not really got very many options here.

I think I am going to get quite a high score.

I'm going to go for giraffe.

-Giraffe.

-MURMURING

Oh, no, it gets a murmur of appreciation. Yes.

-RICHARD LAUGHS

-It could be a double F.

Giraffe, let's see if it's right.

Let us see how many people said giraffe.

It's correct.

11, well done. Good answer.

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Yes, good answer. It got a good murmur from the audience

and a very good score as well. The world's tallest animal, the giraffe.

And the tallest giraffe is the tallest animal in the world.

Yeah, it would be.

It's a giraffe in Berlin zoo called Stephen.

Really?

Yes, it stands 19 feet 2 inches high.

-Really?

-Not really!

-But, it might as well be.

-No, it was the Stephen that I liked.

-Yes.

OK, we're halfway through the round,

let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

1, very much the best score of that pass, Jane,

very, very well done. Jackknife, a cracking answer.

Up to 11, where we find Martin and Mark.

Giraffe, very, very impressive as well.

Richard and James, a little bit ahead there on 47,

but we have had some good answers there,

so I need to get you thinking. So we will come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so we are looking for words ending in FE.

FE. Mark.

Well, it's whether I take a gamble now or play a little bit safer.

I'm going to play a bit safer, I think.

-I'm going to say the word strife.

-Strife.

OK, well, if you can score 35 or less with that,

you'll avoid becoming the new high-scorers.

There's your red line, let's see how many people said strife.

It's right.

-40. So, 51 is your total.

-AUDIENCE GROAN

Not a bad risk to take. It just caused you too many points there.

A bitter argument or disagreement, strife.

Like there is strife if you sit behind a giraffe in a cinema.

LAUGHTER

Kate. Kate, lovely low score from Jane in that first pass.

Brilliant, brilliant answer, jackknife.

That's how you get low scores in these kind of rounds.

Kate, what are you going to go for?

I have one which is a little bit risky but I am fairly sure,

and another one which I'm absolutely certain of. But I think

I'm actually going to go for the risky one because...

-It's fife spelt with a lowercase.

-Fife.

There we are, well, you want to be scoring 49 or less with fife.

There is your red line.

If you get below this and you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many people said fife.

Absolutely right.

And you are in the head-to-head.

I wonder how far this is going to go.

-Oh! 15!

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15 is a surprisingly high score for fife,

but there we are, it takes your total up to a lovely low 16.

Well played, Kate.

Yes, a small flute that's played with a drum in military bands.

Scores 15, or three times FIFE!

LAUGHTER

-James.

-Fife was a good word.

-It was a great word.

I am having difficulty thinking of any words, really.

I'm going for one that I know is going to be there, hopefully.

Midwife.

Midwife. Oh, there's another murmur of approval there

from our assembled company. Midwife, says James.

You're currently on 47. The high score is on 51.

You have to be scoring three or less with midwife

if you want to be staying with us. There's your red line.

Very low. Let's see how many people said midwife.

It's absolutely right.

It's still going down!

Oh, you've done it! You've done it, James! That is a fantastic answer!

Second best answer of the round. Midwife.

As ever, the midwife came in just when we needed her.

50 is your total.

You are through to the head-to-head. That's fantastic.

Yes, how about that? James, well done. The midwife delivered!

That is terrific. I was hoping you were going to go for afterlife.

I thought that might have been more... But that would have scored you 4 points

so that would have been a draw. You knew that, you knew that.

-Have you got one for me? Yes, butter knife.

-Butter knife?

Oh, you're good. That's 100 points.

-Sorry.

-Is it hyphenated?

Not even that, I think it's just two words.

-Really?

-Yes.

-OK.

-Sorry.

-No, it's fair enough.

-There are a couple of knife words in there.

I was thinking of bread knife but that also would not have been an acceptable answer.

There are a couple of knife words.

Let's take a look at the pointless ones. Alewife is the name of a fish.

Cybercafe is a good one. Another name for an internet cafe.

Folklife, which is, you know, the life of a community.

Goodwife, that's an archaic Scottish term. Loosestrife are tall plants.

Midlife, now you know about that.

You've all had all sorts of trouble with yours, haven't you?

-By the way, I love your new car.

-Do you?

Nightlife was a pointless answer. Very well done if you said that.

Pocketknife as well, also paperknife you could have had. And pouffe...

..at the end there, which you put your feet up on.

You could have also had ruffe and underlife and vouchsafe,

-that's a nice one.

-That is good.

Funnily enough, if anybody had played safe in that show,

they would have scored 35 points - safe -

so actually playing safe would have been fairly safe.

Let's look at the biggest answers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Richard, the first one will be familiar to you, it's knife.

47 points. Then it is wife. 61.

-If you knife your wife, you get...

-Life!

78 points. LAUGHTER

That's how I remember it! Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our second round, the losing pair

with their high score of 51, I'm afraid, is Mark and Martin.

Oh, you were head-to-headers last time.

It was a very low scoring round and very, very exciting

in the closing stages. I thought you were through there.

Yes, I thought we were.

Strong contenders, strong couples. It is just difficult.

Yes, I know. We were reckoning without James, weren't we?

We have to say goodbye to you now.

This is your second chance, I'm afraid. It really is goodbye.

It's been great having you on the show. Thanks for playing, Mark and Martin.

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-But, for the two remaining pairs,

they are getting one step closer to the final

and the chance of taking home that massive jackpot as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations, Kate and Jane, Richard and James,

you're only one round away from the final and

the chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £16,000.

-AUDIENCE:

-Ooooh!

-APPLAUSE

It's got to be won one of these days.

Now, only one pair can play for that money.

To decide which it will be, you are now going to go head-to-head,

but you are now allowed to confer.

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

So, Kate and Jane, through to the head-to-head this time,

-that's a relief.

-Big relief.

-Very good, you can confer.

It takes all the pressure off I think.

And, Richard, Richard and James.

What were the odds on you coming this far in your first appearance?

Well, it was about 3 to 1, there were four of us up there.

LAUGHTER

Good stuff. Well, best of luck to both. Let's play the head-to-head.

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OK, here is your first question and it concerns...

Acting Musicians, Richard.

We are going to show you five film stills of actors

who are better known as singers. Can you identify them, please? Good luck.

OK, let's reveal our actors better known as singers, and here they are.

We have got...

There we are. Five actors who are also singers.

Kate and Jane, you've played best throughout the show so far,

so you get to go first.

(I think D is David Bowie, and E is Tina Turner.)

(Is A Kylie?)

(It could be.)

(Which one do you want to go for? E?)

OK. We'll go with E, Tina Turner.

E, Tina Turner, say Kate and Jane. E, Tina Turner.

Now then, Richard and James, talk us through the board.

-James will talk you through the board.

-James.

I think I know the rest, apart from B.

I believe A is Kylie Minogue,

Street Fighter or something like that.

C is Beyonce,

D is David Bowie, and I think E is Tina Turner.

Out of those, I'm probably going to go for A, Kylie Minogue.

A, Kylie Minogue, say Richard and James.

So, Kate and Jane said Tina Turner.

Let's see if that's right, and how many people said Tina Turner.

It's absolutely right.

51.

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You were right, I'm sorry. It just didn't look like him.

Now then, Richard and James have said Kylie Minogue for A.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is let's see how many people said Kylie.

It's right.

Is it going to beat 51?

Yes, it is.

27.

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Well done, Richard and James.

Or James.

After one question, you are up 1-0.

Yeah, well played, James, let's take a look at the rest now.

B, the one you didn't know, is the best answer on the board.

Do you recognise him? You'll recognise it when I tell you.

Yes, I do recognise him.

-It's Meatloaf.

-Ahhhh.

It would have scored 13 points.

Once you know, it looks like him. 13 points there.

-Is he actually singing there, Richard?

-He's not.

He's shouting at somebody.

Shouting, "I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that."

Yeah. Exactly right.

C, absolutely right, James, was Beyonce.

A very good score, actually, it would have scored 14 points.

-Did you know that one, Jane and Kate?

-I knew Kylie Minogue.

Yeah, we weren't 100% sure, so, yeah.

You picked the highest one on the board, I'm afraid,

because even D, David Bowie, would have scored fewer points.

That would have scored 36. That's him in Labyrinth.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. Here comes your second question.

Kate and Jane, you have to win this to stay in the game.

Best of luck. It concerns...

The United Nations, Richard.

Finally, some questions about the United Nations.

Five clues here to facts about the United Nations.

-Which of these is the most obscure?

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

OK, let's reveal our five clues to facts about the United Nations,

and here they come. We have got...

I'll read those one final time.

There we are, five clues to facts about the United Nations.

Richard and James, you go first.

-You're struggling, aren't you?

-I'll leave this to you, this one.

MUTTERING

-Yeah.

-Go for it then?

We know one, but I think it's going to be quite a high answer,

so we're going to have a little punt on

the Secretary general from 1997 to 2006.

-And that was...?

-Kofi Annan.

Kofi Annan, say Richard and James.

Now then, Kate and Jane, the board is now yours. Take us through it.

Well, I know the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

was in 1948, and Mum thinks that the UN was founded in 1947,

which would completely fit.

I know it was formed after the Second World War,

but maybe not 100% certain. Do you know the second one?

I don't know the second one.

The colour of the headgear is blue, isn't it?

-Did you know the last one?

-The last one is South Sudan.

-Are you pretty sure on that one?

-Well, it's the newest...

-Yes, let's go for South Sudan.

-We will go for South Sudan.

South Sudan, say Kate and Jane. South Sudan.

So, we have Kofi Annan and we have South Sudan.

This is one you have to win, remember. No room for error.

Richard and James, Kofi Annan -

how many people said that? Is it right?

Absolutely right.

It's a good low score, 19, very well done.

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19 for Kofi Annan.

Kate and Jane have taken a bit of a punt? Maybe not a punt?

South Sudan, they are saying, the newest member of the UN,

joined in 2011, let's see if that's right

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

Absolutely right.

And it keeps you in the game, and it... Oh!

Three, look at that.

Very, very well done, Kate.

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That's really good, well done.

That's a great answer, very well done indeed.

You are very much back in the game, Kate and Jane.

After two questions, it's one apiece.

Well played, Kate, that's a great answer.

They're the newest nation to join the UN at the time of recording.

At the start of 2011, the southerners in Sudan

were allowed to vote on whether they wanted to secede

from the North, and they got over 98% of the vote

-to form their own country.

-Wow.

But it's a terrific head-to-head, again, as well,

cos it's another good answer, Kofi Annan.

The headgear one is the most obvious, that's blue,

but would have scored 47 points.

The year it was founded, you'd have been wrong with '47,

it was '45, actually, October 24, 1945.

That would have scored five points.

And the actor appointed first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador,

it's a pointless answer, very well done to anyone at home

who said Danny Kaye, a pointless answer.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, here comes the decider. Question number three.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final

and plays for that colossal jackpot.

Best of luck. It concerns...

Tennis world number ones, Richard.

Just five anagrams here of men or women who've been

world-number-one tennis players.

Can you unscramble them and give us the lowest answer?

-Very best of luck, both teams.

-Thanks very much indeed.

OK, let's reveal our five anagrams, and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read them one last time.

There we are, five anagrams of tennis world number ones.

Kate and Jane, obviously you go first again this time.

We think we know two. We can't see the other three.

Which one shall we go for? The bottom one?

-I think the anagram is easier on the first one, though.

-All right.

We'll go for Anvil Lend as Ivan Lendl.

Ivan Lendl.

Ivan Lendl, say Kate and Jane.

OK, Richard and James,

take us through as much of the board as you can.

We're struggling a bit, as well, but we're going to go for

Venus Williams for Minus All Wives.

Minus All Wives, Venus Williams.

So, we have Ivan Lendl versus Venus Williams.

Let's see, Ivan Lendl, say Kate and Jane.

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

It is right.

57.

57 for Ivan Lendl.

APPLAUSE

Richard and James have gone for Venus Williams.

Let's see if Venus Williams is right,

let's see how many people said that.

It's right.

Oh, you've done it!

And how! Look at that, 21.

APPLAUSE

Which means, after three questions - what a nail-biter -

Richard and James are through to the final, 2-1.

-Very well done indeed.

-Well played, Richard and James.

-Did you know any others, Kate and Jane?

-Steffi Graf.

Yeah, that wouldn't have won you the point, either.

It's the top one there, and would have scored you 38.

The other two are the best two. Area And Fall...

That's Rafael Nadal.

-ALL:

-Ooh!

One of the most famous tennis players in the world,

but a very tough anagram. 13 points.

And Ark Aviation Craze.

That's a pointless answer, well done if you said it at home,

she's not Russian, she's Belarusian.

And she's Victoria Azarenka.

Pointless, very, very well done if you got that at home.

Excellent, thanks so much, Richard.

Well, our losing pair at the end of the head-to-head round,

I'm afraid, it's Kate and Jane.

Such a strong performance, the whole way through...

well, the whole way through THIS show

and the two rounds you were in of the last show.

-Sport again!

-Sport, I'm afraid.

I'm so sorry, but so sharp on every other one,

and, actually, not a bad score on any of those answers, at all, including Ivan Lendl.

I'm sorry, though, we have to say goodbye.

A real shame, but thanks so much for playing, Kate and Jane.

APPLAUSE

Well done, good luck.

But, for Richard and James, it's now time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Well, congratulations, Richard and James,

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

You now have a chance to win the Pointless jackpot,

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £16,000.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, you've stormed it through here on your first appearance

on Pointless - your only appearance on Pointless, as it now is.

Yeah, very interesting,

you said the girls were going to be the favourites to win.

-I did.

-Good reverse psychology there, Richard.

-Yeah, that saw them off.

-Put the pressure on them.

Yeah, well, best of luck to you.

The rules are very simple - all you have to do is find a pointless answer.

Do that, and you will leave here with £16,000.

First, though, you have to choose a category,

and here are the five options.

Hmmm.

-European Pop?

-European Pop, no.

-World Politics, probably.

-You reckon?

That could be Australian Prime Ministers, or something like that.

-British Actresses?

-Shall we go British Actresses?

All right. You sure?

Yeah, we'll go with British Actresses.

OK, British Actresses, you're going to go for.

Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many Tilda Swinton films! There you are!

Oooh!

Tilda Swinton films, Richard.

Looking for any feature film made for cinema release

for which Tilda Swinton has received an acting credit

up to the end of September 2012, please.

No TV films, short films or documentaries, but voice performances do count.

Very, very best of luck, guys.

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

All you need to win that £16,000 jackpot is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-OK, are you ready?

-Yeah.

-Ready.

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

There they are, your time starts now.

Of all the actresses, Tilda Swinton is not one I know anything about.

Right, we've got We Need To Talk About Kevin...

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button...

Tilda Swinton...

There's not a part two to that, is there?

She was...

I'm trying to think of old films she might have been in.

British films she's been in. Or ANY film!

Is she an old actress?

She's about, I don't know, in her 40s. Um...

British biopics... I don't think she was in...

..The Iron Lady.

We can plump for that, anyway, if it comes to it,

-if you've got an answer there.

-The Iron Lady, maybe.

I don't think she was in The King's Speech.

10 seconds left.

Keep The King's Speech to one side in case, maybe?

Urgh, Tilda Swinton... I don't know any more.

What was that first answer?

OK, that is time up.

We were looking for Tilda Swinton films,

I now need your three answers. What are you going to give me?

-The Iron Lady...

-The Iron Lady...

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button...

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button...

-..and We Need To Talk About Kevin.

-..and We Need To Talk About Kevin.

There we are, three answers, three films starring Tilda Swinton.

Of those three, which do you think is your best crack at a pointless answer?

I don't even know if it's the right title - We Need To Talk About Kevin.

We'll put that last.

-Which is your least likely?

-Iron Lady.

-The Iron Lady.

OK, let's put those up on the board, and here they are.

We have got...

OK, so we were looking for Tilda Swinton films.

Your first answer, The Iron Lady, was your least confident shot

at a pointless answer, you're not entirely sure if it's right.

Only have to find one pointless answer, remember,

to win that jackpot of £16,000.

So, let's see how many people said The Iron Lady. Is it right?

No.

No great surprise there.

So, only two more shots at that Pointless jackpot.

Your next answer, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

How confident were you that she's in this?

I'm, yeah, pretty sure she's in this,

but it's a pretty well-known film, so...

OK, well, let's just say it goes all the way down,

what would you do with £16,000?

Me, personally, I would buy a summer house for our back garden,

because my garden shed's sort of leaning like that at the moment.

-It needs something new.

-A Pointless summerhouse.

James, how about you?

Well, I'm currently doing my TEFL at the moment,

so it would go to teaching abroad, eventually, if...

-Well, it would help.

-Well, fingers crossed.

But who knows? Maybe those psychics knew what they were on about.

Maybe one of these answers is pointless and you'll be leaving with £16,000.

Let's see if Benjamin Button is the answer that will win you that jackpot.

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button -

has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.

How many people said it?

Well, it's absolutely right.

The Iron Lady, your first answer, was an incorrect answer.

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is taking us rapidly down

the column, down into these teens,

into single figures, still going down...

Oh, three!

Whoa-ho-ho-ho!

APPLAUSE

Oh!

You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot.

We're looking for Tilda Swinton films.

Your third and final answer, We Need To Talk About Kevin,

you thought was probably your best shot at a pointless answer.

It has to be right,

and it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot,

so let's find out how many people said We Need To Talk About Kevin?

It's right.

The Iron Lady was an incorrect answer,

the Curious Case Of Benjamin Button took us down to three.

We need to talk about Kevin is now taking us down, down it goes...

Five. Oh, bad luck.

Unlucky, mate.

APPLAUSE

Two really good answers there.

I thought Benjamin Button was a really good answer,

I thought that might have gone all the way down.

Bad luck, I'm afraid you didn't find that all-important

pointless answer, which means, I'm afraid, you don't win today's

jackpot of £16,000, which rolls over on to the next show.

But you've been just brilliant, fantastic contestants,

and it would've been great to have seen you go away with that jackpot.

You do, of course get to take our Pointless trophy,

so very well done for getting that.

APPLAUSE

Unlucky, Richard, unlucky, James. A tough final category.

I think there's one other category there you might have done

rather well on if you'd chosen it, unfortunately.

Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers for Tilda Swinton.

A series of short films called Aria from 1987 was a pointless answer.

She was with Bill Murray in Broken Flowers,

Conceiving Ada...

The Deep End, The Limits Of Control - the Jim Jarmusch movie -

she was in The Statement with Michael Caine, that was pointless...

The War Zone, with Ray Winston, Thumbsucker

and Derek Jarman's War Requiem. She's in lots of the Derek Jarman films, all of which are pointless.

Caravaggio was pointless, Edward II, The Garden, Last Of England

and Wittgenstein - all of those were pointless answers.

Tough luck, guys.

Did you know any of those?

I knew Thumbsucker. A couple of others, yeah.

Broken Flowers.

Bad luck. Well, unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you,

but it's been great having you on the show,

thank you both so much for playing. Richard and James, everyone.

APPLAUSE

Well, Richard and James didn't win our jackpot today,

so it rolls over, which means on the next show

we'll be playing for £17,000.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Join us next time 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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