Episode 7 Pointless

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless,

the quiz show were obvious answers mean nothing

and obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players.

-Couple number one.

-I'm Mike, this is Ian.

We both met at Oxford University.

-I'm from Worcester and he's from Swansea.

-Thanks very much.

-Couple number two.

-I'm Rackie.

This is my sister Emma and we come from West Berkshire.

Couple number three.

Hello, I'm Mike and this is my brother Jeff.

We're both originally from the East End of London.

And our fourth and final couple.

My name is Owen and this is my wife Jane

and we're from Lampeter in West Wales.

Thank you very much. These, ladies and gentlemen, are our contestants.

APPLAUSE

Thanks, all of you. We'll find out more about you as the show goes on.

There's only one person left for me to introduce.

With a cranium so jam-packed with of interesting facts,

it's amazing he can lift his head off the desk.

He is my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya.

CHEERING

-How are you? Are you well?

-I'm very well.

-Excellent.

We've only got one returning pair. It should be a good show though.

-We've got a nice jackpot building up, don't we?

-Yeah.

We got proper, really good, old school Pointless question

for question one. The sort of thing that people...

Anyone who's revised for Pointless will do well in question one.

Excellent. I look forward. Thanks very much, Richard.

All our questions on Pointless

have been put to 100 people before the show.

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

Everyone is trying, of course,

to find a pointless answer which none of 100 people give

and each time that happens we will add £250 to the jackpot.

As Richard said, nobody won the jackpot last time

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

CHEERING

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

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

and there is to be 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.

OK, our first category today is...

World Geography. Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first and who's going to go second?

And who ever is going first, please, step up to the podium.

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

We give 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

..as they could. Richard.

We're looking for any country of the world that is not

a member of the EU beginning with one of those six letters.

As always, by country we mean a sovereign state that is

a member of the UN in its own right.

Very best of luck and we are looking

for the names as they are commonly known in English.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

OK, so, any non-EU member states starting with any of those letters.

Welcome, Mike. Mike Y, you are.

-Yeah, Mike Y, not Mikey.

-Not Mikey.

-No.

-I won't be going there.

-No, don't.

Mike, so, you met each other at university.

Have you now left university?

Yeah, we've left university

and gone on to try and get proper jobs but obviously...

What sort of proper job are you going for?

-I'm a research analyst at the moment for a local IT software company.

-OK.

-But overall maybe your world geography is...

-It's reasonable.

..enough to keep you in the game, do you think, after this round?

-I would hope so.

-OK, well, it's over to you.

I'm going to say,

"Uganda."

"Uganda," says Mike. Uganda. Let's see if that's right and,

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

Absolutely right.

25.

APPLAUSE

That's a solid start, Mike. Well done.

The main exports of Uganda are coffee, fish and fish products.

What do you think fish products are?

Like Billy Bass the little singing fish.

Now then, Emma, we come to you. Welcome to the show.

You and Rackie are sisters. Where are you from, West Berkshire?

-West Berkshire, yeah.

-And what do you do, Emma?

-I'm a student at university.

-And what are you reading?

-I'm reading English, drama and education.

-Very good indeed.

Of those three,

which is the direction you're probably going to go in at the end?

Probably the drama side of things, I think.

How is your geography?

It's shocking.

Luckily, Rackie's geography is brilliant.

So, no pressure.

But I, yeah,

I think I'm going to...

I'm going to go for the P.

And I hope it's a country not in the EU

and I'm going to say,

"Papua New Guinea."

I think you're going to be all right.

Papua New Guinea is not in the EU.

LAUGHTER

Let's have a look and see if that's right.

Papua New Guinea, is it right, how many of our 100 people said it?

Absolutely right.

9.

APPLAUSE

Very well done, Emma.

9 for Papua New Guinea.

Well done, Emma. A very good start to the show.

It occupies one half of New Guinea.

Jeff, welcome back.

Tell us what happened last time.

We did all right in the first round.

We got through the first round but then Tom, Dick and Harry got us.

Nothing wrong with that round.

It was a great round, I thought, Tom, Dick and Harry.

-Famous Toms.

-Celebrated Harrys.

-And well-known Dicks.

-Lots of well-known Dicks.

LAUGHTER

-Nearly got that out, didn't we?

-Never mind. You are back today.

And guess what? The answer to all your prayers - non-EU countries.

Right, I got an answer.

It's a bit of a chancy one but I think it's worth taking.

I'm going to go

East Timor.

East Timor. Let's see if it's right and, if it is,

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

It's right.

9 is our lowest score so far.

Down it goes. Look at that.

1. Very well done indeed.

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-Very good. East Timor.

-Brilliant. Well played, Jeff.

So far we have had an Oxford University versus

Cambridge University versus the East End of London.

And the East End has won with flying colours.

Yeah, East Timor and Timor comes from the Malayan Indonesian

word for East as well, so it is East East, essentially.

Now then, Jane.

Welcome to the show. Where are you from, Jane?

I'm originally from Kent but in Lampeter now.

What do you do in Lampeter?

I'm a graduate support officer at the university.

Remember, we are looking for non-EU countries beginning with

the letters E, U, R, O or P.

I'm hoping, being from Wales,

I understand the language is spoke there.

I'm going to go for

Patagonia.

"Patagonia," says Jane. Let's see if that's right and,

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

Bad luck, Jane.

Unfortunately an incorrect answer which means you score

the maximum of 100 points.

Yeah, sorry, Jane. It's not a country, I'm afraid, Patagonia.

It's part of South America, largely in Argentina.

It sounded a good answer though, Patagonia.

It's got the ring of a country to it, doesn't it?

Thank you. We are halfway through the round.

Let's look at the scores as they stand.

1, our best score of that pass. Jeff,

very well done. Up to 9 where we find Emma and Rackie.

Up to 25 where we find Mike Y and Ian. And then, I'm afraid,

a long way up to 100, where we find Owen and Jane.

So, Owen, best of luck with the next pass.

We need a very low score from you.

We'll come back down the line now,

can the second players take their place at the podium.

OK, so we're looking for non-EU countries starting with

-the letters E, U, R, O or P. Owen.

-Yes.

-What's your biggest hobby?

-I like making music in my spare time.

What sort of music do you make?

-Drum and bass but I make a bit of everything.

-That's amazing.

-Do you have a name or do you just...

-I do have a name, yeah. Zentrix.

-Zentrix.

-I love a bit of Zentrix, do you?

-Yeah!

-That brilliant song that goes...

-HE BEATBOXES

-That's it!

-T-k-tsk, t-k-tsk, t-k-tsk, t-k-tsk, dook-k-k-k-k-k...

HE IMITATES AN EXPLOSION

-I'm going to be whistling that all evening.

-Oh, yes, my friend! Zentrix.

-How's your geography?

-It's not too bad.

Most of the answers I had are gone

so I'll have to...well, yeah, have a risky one, I think.

I don't even know if it's a country. Maybe I just made it up in my head.

Um, Rajiqistan?

-This is fun.

-We're already on 100, it doesn't really matter, does it?

Rajiqistan!

HE LAUGHS

Sounds like something on the back of a Cheeky Girls album,

something they might have made up! "Come with me to Rajiqistan."

Let's see if it exists. How many people said Rajiqistan?

I'm sorry. But that's a brilliant country.

-Why not?

-It's a much better name than some of these other names.

-Yeah. I had to take a risk, we were already on 100.

-Yes.

Anyway, bad luck, Owen. 100 points is what you score for that

and that takes your total up to an unbeatable 200.

Yes, there's a Tajikistan and a Rajasthan in India as well.

"Rajiqistan" is a drum and bass DJ from Glasgow.

-I knew where he was from though!

-To be fair, that's Rajiqi STAN!

So it's Rajiqi Stan.

-Mike, how are you on geography?

-Not too bad.

-Of course the pressure's off now, if I can say.

-It is a little bit.

Even if you score 100 points you're still through to the next round.

-So I think I will...have a punt now.

-I tell you what,

there are definitely going to be some pointless answers out there.

I think it's a country. I'm going to say Eritrea.

Eritrea, says Mike. No red line for you

as you're through whatever happens.

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

12 for Eritrea, 12. Takes you total up to 13. Well played, Mike.

Well done, Mike. Very solid again.

Eritrea, it's Africa's second newest country after South Sudan.

-Now then, Rackie.

-Yup.

-Rackie. You're from West Berkshire.

-Yes.

-And what do you do?

I'm currently a student at the University of Bristol.

-Bristol, and what are you studying there?

-Studying zoology.

-Do you have pets yourself?

-Yes. Quite a few.

-You have a zoo of your own?

-Almost, yeah.

-How many pets at the last count?

-About 25.

-Amazing.

You're through to the next round whatever happens,

that's the good news so take as many risks as you like.

I'm going to go for a "P" country and say Palau.

Palau. Let's see if that's right and if so, how many of our 100 said it.

Very well done.

Very well done indeed, Rackie!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's a pointless answer, it adds £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to £10,000.

Five figures, it scores you nothing

and it leaves your total at 9.

A very impressive single-figure score. Brilliant, Rackie, well done.

Brilliant play, Rackie, absolutely one of those familiar pointless

answers that we quite often have.

Now then, Ian. You read geography.

-Well, yeah, so this should be a good round.

-Should be a doddle, surely.

We've had a pointless answer. You'll have to follow that up.

-What do you do now?

-I currently work in online retail.

-What do you do when you're not working, Ian?

-I like my sport.

Play a lot of football.

I used to do archery but now I just coach my dad who is

a multiple British and European blind archery champion.

Wow, that's brilliant.

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-Good for him.

-OK, anyway, how is your geography?

-Not as good as you might think.

I've got a couple of answers that I'm toying between.

Well, you're through whatever happens. Why not have a bit of fun?

-May as well go for "E"...

-(Let's have another pointless answer.)

..and go Equatorial Guinea.

There's no red line for you, you're already through so let's see,

Equatorial Guinea, did anyone say it?

There we are, Equatorial Guinea, very popular pointless answer.

Have people started to learn about it though?

Oh, two people!

-APPLAUSE

-Very well done, great score, Ian,

very well done indeed.

-2 takes your total up to 27.

-Well played, that's a terrific score,

actually the best score you could've come up with

because we've had the best three answers you could possibly have got

between you, so very well done, everyone.

Let's look at those lowest three answers.

One pointless answer which was Palau which Rackie gave us.

Jeff gave as East Timor. There's El Salvador, should have been 2

but Equatorial Guinea as well. Brilliantly played by everyone.

Some of the other lower scorers -

United Arab Emirates would've scored you 5.

-The USA would only have scored 8.

-They're not going to like that!

Philippines would've scored you nine, as would Ukraine

and Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, 10.

Rwanda, 16. Oman, 21. Russia and Peru both would've scored you 31

and the highest three answers were Ethiopia, 36. Egypt, 37

-and Uruguay, top of the pile on 45.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

At the end of our first round the pair who'll be leaving us

with a high score of 200...

Oh, I'm sorry. Owen and Jane.

And I was torn between Patagonia and Uzbekistan as well.

But I wasn't too sure on the Uzbekistan.

-Anyway, you've learned a lesson.

-I have.

We've learned several lessons in fact.

Patagonia - not a country, does exist.

Rajiqistan - not a country, doesn't exist.

Jane and Owen, we'll see you again next time,

we'll look forward to that. Meantime, thank you for playing.

-Owen and Jane.

-APPLAUSE

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

Obviously there's only going to be room for two pairs

in our head-to-head round so one pair sadly will be leaving us

at the end of this round.

Well, Rackie and Emma. That was just fantastic, wasn't it?

-Was a pretty good round for me.

-Yeah, very good.

A lovely low-scoring total. Really very good. Ian and Mike, not so bad.

-29.

-I feel embarrassed.

-Uganda.

-So embarrassed.

Well, you're through, you're still here.

And Mike and Jeff. It was this round last time that saw you off.

-BOTH:

-It was.

-How you feeling?

-Now that we've got to this round,

we just want to go that bit further.

We just hope there's not another question on Tom, Dick and Harry.

-It's not going to happen.

-Or their relatives.

It's going to be fine.

Very best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category of Round Two is...

..Theatre. Is this better than Tom, Dick and Harry?

-Worse. It's not good.

-OK.

The best of luck.

Can you decide in your pairs, who's going to go first

and who's going to go second?

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

OK, and our question concerns...

Plays and their Playwrights. Richard.

On each pass, we're going to show you the names of six plays.

We need you to tell us the name of the playwright, please.

Give us a nice obscure answer and score fewer points,

but an incorrect answer will score you 100.

Six on each pass so 12 in all to have go at at home. Good luck.

Thanks, Richard. We are looking for

the playwrights of these famous plays

and we have got...

I'll read those one last time.

There we are, six plays. We need six playwrights.

-Mike, you didn't look too excited.

-No.

-Now you've seen them, how do you feel?

-No better.

Theatre. As if you'd pick theatre.

I'm going to go with Midsummer Night's Dream

and say William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare says Mike for Midsummer Night's Dream.

Let's see if it's right and if it is, how many knew that answer?

-That's good.

-There we are - 81.

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81.

It is better than 100.

In that situation, you've just got to get out as unscathed as you can. It's the truth.

-Only 81.

-I know. 19 people didn't know that answer. Extraordinary.

OK, Rackie?

I should know these. I recognise a couple of titles and I know who

wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, but I cannot for the life of me

remember who it is.

I'm going to have to guess.

I'm going to go with Arcadia and say Edgar Allan Poe.

-Sorry.

-Edgar Allen Poe for Arcadia. Let's see if that right.

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

Bad luck. It was a good shot. I'm afraid that was a wrong answer.

That scores you the maximum of 100 points. Richard.

Sorry, Rackie, as your sister said,

you did get a pointless answer in the previous round.

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

-Now, Jeff.

This is one of my favourite subjects.

I'm going to have to have a complete guess.

I'm going to say Tom Stoppard for Look Back In Anger.

Look Back In Anger. Tom Stoppard, says Jeff.

Let's see if that's right, and if it is, how many people knew that answer?

Did you hear that collective exhalation

when you picked Look Back In Anger?

You were very nearly right. I'm afraid you were wrong though.

LAUGHTER

100 points is what you score. I'm so sorry, Jeff.

-Richard.

-Mike, it turns out you're the theatre expert.

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

The two of you between you just scored a pointless answer

because Tom Stoppard wrote Arcadia and nobody knew it. Pointless answer.

-Pointless.

-Pointless. Let's go through the rest. Educating Rita.

-Willy Russell.

-that's right. It would have scored 15. Private Lives?

-Terence Rattigan.

-Noel Coward. Look Back In Anger?

-John Osborne.

-Yup.

It would have scored 8 and a Streetcar Named Desire?

Tennessee Williams.

Absolutely, Tennessee Williams would have scored you 16.

So Arcadia the best answer.

Let's take a look at the scores. 81! That's a great score.

Mike and Ian, you are looking so strong right now. 81 - brilliant!

Way ahead of the field.

100 is where we find Jeff and Mike and Rackie and Emma.

We'll come back down the line.

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

OK, we're going to put six more plays on the board. Here they come.

We have got...

I'll read all those one last time.

Remember, we are looking for the playwrights who wrote these plays

and obviously you're going to try to find the one you think

the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Mike, we need a low score from you. You're the high scorers on 100.

-Do you go to the theatre much?

-Yeah, every week. Sometimes, I go in.

LAUGHTER

I knew quite a few on the first pass. This one, I know one for sure.

There's one that is eluding me.

I'm going to have to say

the Importance Of Being Ernest. Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde says Mike for the Importance Of Being Earnest.

There's no red line for you as you're a joint high scorer.

Let's see if it's right and,

if it is, how many of our 100 people said Oscar Wilde.

It is right.

32.

APPLAUSE

32. It takes your total up to 132.

Well played.

It premiered on Valentine's Day 1895.

Emma, what do you make of this board?

-I know all of them which is great.

-This is good.

It's a case of choosing the one that will be the lowest scorer.

I wouldn't have thought that

Arcadia would have been a pointless answer.

Jerusalem, I think I'm going to go for which is Jez Butterworth.

Let's see if it's right and,

if it is, how many of our 100 people said it and if Jez Butterworth

gets you below that red line, you are through to the next round.

How many people said it? Is it right?

-Yup, you've done it.

-Very well done.

And it's a pointless answer.

That's what you need, Emma. Very well done indeed.

That adds £250 to today's jackpot. It takes the total up to £10,250.

It scores you nothing and leaves your total at 100 points.

-Very well done indeed. Richard.

-What a team!

They've both had a pointless answer.

-That's one of your bests friend - Jez Butterworth?

-He is, yeah.

-Will he be happy that he's a pointless answer.

-I don't know.

I think he'd have been delighted to have been an answer on the show.

Pointless answer - double delighted!

Ian, we come to you, the last person.

We are looking for the playwrights of these plays.

The last time I went to the theatre was probably to watch

the Chuckle Brothers when I was about eight years old.

Really? Really, really?

Yeah, I'm going to have to say The Caretaker

and say Scott F Fitzgerald.

Scott F Fitzgerald, says Ian.

You want to be scoring 50 or less to stay in the game.

Above that red line, we say goodbye to you.

Above that red line, you stay.

F Scott Fitzgerald for The Caretaker.

Let's see if it's right and,

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

Sorry, mate. I should have known. Mate, I'm so sorry.

I'm afraid that scores you 100 points.

That takes your total to 181. Sorry.

-Sorry. Richard.

-Yeah, sorry. It was actually by Harold Pinter.

-Oh, yeah.

Of course(!)

It would have scored you 10 points. Noises Off?

Michael Frayn.

The wonderful Michael Frayn would have scored 5 points.

The Crucible?

-Um, Arthur Miller.

-Arthur Miller. Absolutely right.

It would have scored 21 and Waiting For Godot?

-Samuel Beckett.

-Samuel Beckett and that would have scored 16 points.

Very well done if you said that. The best answer there - Jez Butterworth.

Thanks very much. At the end of Round Two,

our pair with the highest score who will be leaving us is Ian and Mike.

-You didn't know any of that?

-No.

-Not a clue.

I knew the second board, but Ian - so bad!

I'm really annoyed. Really, really annoyed at you.

Anyway, Ian and Mike, well see you again next time.

Thanks very much for playing.

APPLAUSE

For the two remaining pairs, things are about to get even more

exciting as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulation, Rackie and Emma, Jeff and Mike.

You are now only one round away from the final

and a chance to play for the jackpot which currently stands at £10,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Only one pair can play for that money and to decide which pair

it's going to be, you are now going head-to-head.

This time, you are allowed to confer.

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

Mike and Jeff, this is virgin territory for you.

How are you feeling?

We're up against a strong team so...

Not one, but two pointless answers between them. One apiece.

-Rackie and Emma, how are you feeling?

-Nervous.

-Surprised.

-But pleased?

-Yup.

-You've done very well indeed.

The very best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

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

LAUGHTER

Richard?

We are about to show you five photographs, now,

of famous people with their hair in rollers.

Can you identify who they are, please? And pick the most obscure.

Best of luck.

Can't wait. OK, here we go.

Let's reveal our five people with their hair in rollers.

TITTERING

Why not? And we have got...

there we are, people with their hair in rollers.

Rackie and Emma, you've played best throughout the show so far

so you get to go first.

-Right.

-Do you know who E is?

-I think that might be Ian McKellen.

-Dressed up.

-Does it look a bit like him?

-Where going to, erm...

take a bit of a gamble...

and say E...is Ian McKellen.

E, Ian McKellen.

Now then, Mike and Jeff,

you can talk us through all those people with hair in rollers.

-We'd love to. We use rollers a lot, the two of us, as you can see!

-Yeah.

I know B is, I think, Kelly Osbourne. I think.

And C we know is either Beatrice or Eugenie.

A looks very, very familiar but I can't quite place her.

-Which one shall we go for?

-B, at least we know.

I don't think we're going to beat E.

Yeah, I think C would be a big score.

Yeah, we'll have to go for B and say Kelly Osbourne.

B, Kelly Osbourne, say, Mike and Jeff.

So, Rackie and Emma have said that...

E is Ian McKellen. Let's see if that's right

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

said Ian McKellen for E.

Absolutely right.

Wow, 7, very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE

Superb. Ian McKellen it was.

Now, then, Mike and Jeff, you have said Kelly Osbourne for B.

Kelly Osbourne. Let's see if Kelly Osbourne's right

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

It is Kelly Osbourne.

Is it going to beat 7, though?

Ooh, 39.

APPLAUSE

Very well done, Rackie and Emma,

after one question you are up 1-0. Brilliant.

Yeah, unlucky, Mike and Jeff, there's only one answer that would've beaten

Emma and Rackie's very good score, there, and that is A.

You said she was familiar,

she's familiar to anyone who watches Strictly.

It's Camilla Dallerup.

Would have scored you three points.

Now, C, it's one or the other, isn't it?

So, is actually quite a low scorer, I think,

because people couldn't remember which one. What do you reckon?

-Beatrice.

-Absolutely. That would have scored 26.

She wore that extraordinary hat to the Royal wedding

that everyone was talking about. You know, she auctioned off to charity.

-Yeah.

-£81,000 she gave to charity for that hat.

-Really?

-Yeah.

And now D, guess who she is. It's Shirley Bassey. Shirley Bassey.

Some people in the audience got that. Would have scored you 18 points.

Thank you very much, Richard, for that. There we are.

Here comes our second question.

Mike and Jeff, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

Best of luck. It concerns...

-Richard?

-Yeah, we're going to give you five sets of initials, here,

for films directed by Stephen Spielberg.

Can you pick the most obscure?

So, let's reveal our five initials of Stephen Spielberg films

and here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all again without the dates.

Now then, Mike and Jeff, you go first this time.

THEY WHISPER

We're going to go for...

SL, which is Schindler's list.

Schindler's list, say Mike and Jeff, for SL.

-Rackie and Emma, how are you doing on this board?

-Oh.

-We know two.

-J, jaws.

-Yes.

-TCP...

-"The" something.

"The" is a good guess!

We're going to go for the last one

and say Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

So, we have Schindler's list versus Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Mike and Jeff went for Schindler's list, SL, let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said Schindler's list.

Ooh, it's good. 19, very well done, Mike and Jeff.

APPLAUSE

OK, let's find out,

Rackie and Emma said Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Is it right and how many people said it?

It is right.

Mike and Jeff obviously need this point to stay in the game.

Oh, and they've got it! They've got it! Very well done.

APPLAUSE

Great!

Very well played.

After two questions, Mike and Jeff, Rackie and Emma,

-you are drawn 1-all. Richard?

-It's a cracking head-to-head, isn't it?

Two very strong teams, here. Let's go through the rest of this board.

J, as you rightly say, is Jaws. Would have scored 40 points.

-Now, WH, took me ages to get this one as well.

-War Horse.

-War Horse.

Yeah, War Horse. Isn't it weird how difficult that looks?

15 that would have got you. The best answer on the board is TCP.

Do you know that? Starred Oprah Winfrey.

-The Colour Purple.

-Oh, yes!

The Colour Purple. Would have scored you 8 points.

Very well done, if you got that one at home.

Thanks very much, Richard. So, here comes your third question.

The decider. Whoever wins this goes through to the final

and plays for that massive jackpot.

OK, best of luck, here it comes. It concerns...

-Richard?

-It can't all be celebrities with their hair in curlers.

We're going to give you five clues, now, to facts about the Trojan War.

The team who comes up with the most obscure answer

is going to go through to the final. Very, very best of luck, both teams.

OK, let's reveal our five clues to facts about the Trojan War

and here they come. We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

There we are. Five clues to facts about Troy.

Now then, Rackie and Emma, you are to go first.

THEY WHISPER

I think the character played by Orlando Bloom was Paris.

Paris, played by Orlando Bloom in the film Troy. Mike and Jeff?

I think the second one, I'm pretty sure that's Helen of Troy.

The Greek warrior was Achilles and I think, Helen of Troy?

Let's go for that.

Yeah, we'll go for Helen of Troy,

for the woman whose face launched 1,000 ships.

OK, you're going to say Helen of Troy.

Helen of Troy, whose face launched 1,000 ships.

So, Rackie and Emma, you have said the role that Orlando Bloom played

in the 2004 film Troy was Paris.

Let's see if that's right

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

It's right. Very well done, Rackie.

Oh, with its own low score. Look at that, 11, very well done indeed!

APPLAUSE

Well said, Rackie. Well trusted, Emma.

Mike and Jeff, you have said that the person described by Marlowe

as the face that launched 1,000 ships was Helen of Troy.

Let's see if that's right

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

This will decide who goes through to the next round

and who says goodbye to us at the end of this.

Absolutely right.

APPLAUSE

36.

36. Two good answers but after three questions, Rackie and Emma,

you are through to the final, 2-1. Very well done.

Yes, well played, everybody, there. Let's take a look through the rest.

There's a couple of answers that would have seen you to the final.

The first of which is, "The ruins of Troy are in this modern-day country".

Do you know that?

-Turkey?

-It is Turkey, yeah. Northwest Turkey, they think.

It would've scored you 5 points.

The Greek warrior, absolutely, was Achilles.

Played by Brad Pitt in the same film as Orlando Bloom was Paris.

Would have scored you 62 points, so it would have done you no good.

And the commander of the Greek army

would have seen you through to the jackpot round as well.

Agamemnon. Agamemnon would have scored 8 points.

The best answer on that board is Turkey.

OK, thank you very much indeed.

So, the losing pair at the end of the head-to-head,

I'm afraid, it's Mike and Jeff. Oh, but you fought valiantly!

I'm afraid, though, defeated by Rackie and Emma.

Whoa, when they put their heads together they are unstoppable!

-Very strong team.

-Yeah.

Anyway, listen, very, well done to Rackie and Emma.

Mike and Jeff, you've done so well to come through. In both games

you played so well and a brilliant head-to-head.

-Sorry to say goodbye to you now, but thanks so much for playing.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

But for Rackie and Emma, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Massive congratulations, Rackie and Emma, you fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy, so very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot, partly thanks to you,

stands at a magnificent £10,250.

APPLAUSE

You've done Bristol and Cambridge universities proud.

We've had Playwrights and their Plays,

we've had World Geography,

we've had people with their hair in rollers, Trojan War,

Stephen Spielberg, I mean,

all sorts of things you've come sailing through and you've scored

a couple of pointless answers on the way, so very, very well done.

What would you like to see come up in this round?

Disney. Disney films would be great.

What, just take the pressure off a bit? Disney.

-It's all been quite highbrow, hasn't it, so far?

-Yeah.

Anyway, best of luck. Now the rules are very simple,

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

Do that and you will go home with that jackpot of £10,250.

Firstly, you've got to choose a category

and here are the five you can choose from. They are...

-BOTH: Hollywood actresses.

-Really? Good. Unanimous.

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

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many Charlize Theron films

as they could. Richard?

Yeah, we're looking for any feature film made for cinema release

for which Charlize Theron has received an acting credit

up to the beginning of October, 2012, please.

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

but voice performances do count. Very, very best of luck.

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

and all you need to win that £10,250 is just for

-one of those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-BOTH: Yes.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are.

Your time starts now.

-OK, do you know any?

-She was... Do you not?

-Crash.

-She was...

Wasn't she? No. Oh, no, that was the other one.

She was in Monster, um...

-She was in The Italian Job but I think that won't be pointless.

-OK.

OK. Any voiceovers? Voices that she's done?

I can't think of any voices that she's done.

She was in Hancock with Will Smith.

Oh, yes, yes, that's a good one.

-Not many people will say that, will they?

-Go for that. I don't know.

-I can't think of any.

-Monster?

Yes, she won an Oscar for that, though, so...

I can remember the dress she was wearing at the Oscars,

-but I can't remember what it was for.

-It was for Monster.

-Monster?

-Um...

-Great.

-I can't think of any.

-Those are the only three that I can think of.

-We've got three, um...

Oh, she was in a new film, Snow White And The Huntsman, and she was

in something else recently as well, but I can't remember what it was.

-Ten seconds left.

-Shall we go for Snow White And The Huntsman?

-Yes.

-Hancock.

-And...

-Monster?

-Yes.

-Can't think of any voiceover things?

-Nope.

-I think that's all I can think of. No Disney?

-No.

-Ha-ha!

Your time is up. We were looking for Charlize Theron films.

-I now need your three answers.

-OK, we're going to go for Monster...

-Monster...

-..Hancock...

-Hancock...

..and Snow White And The Huntsman.

..and Snow White And The Huntsman. Now of those three,

which do you think is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-BOTH: Hancock.

-OK, Hancock we'll put last. Your least likely?

-Monster.

-You think Monster? OK, let's pop those up on the board

in that order and here they come. We have got...

OK, we were looking for Charlize Theron films.

Monster was your least-confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer to be able to win

that jackpot of £10,250, so let's find out,

is Monster right and if it is, how many people said it?

Down it goes... Oh, 18.

APPLAUSE

-18, not bad. That was the one she won an Oscar for.

-I think so, yes.

OK, £10,250. Rackie, what will you be doing with that if you win?

Um...I've just started doing some video blogging

and I'd quite like to maybe buy a bit more equipment for that,

-but I'd also quite like to go to Disney World.

-Very good,

well, with that amount of money, you ought to be able to do both,

-I'd have thought.

-Yeah.

-Emma, how about you?

I really would love a new mixer for our kitchen because it's...

-For a desk, I was thinking...

-No, not that.

No, really just for baking, so, um...

We are looking for Charlize Theron films,

let's hope nobody said your next answer, Snow White And The Huntsman.

This has to be right, has to be pointless,

for you to win that jackpot of £10,250.

Let's see how many people said Snow White And The Huntsman.

OK, well, it's right.

Monster took us all the way down to 18,

Snow White And The Huntsman is

now taking us down through the 30s,

through the 20s into the teens.

Oh, there we are at single figures.

-5.

-APPLAUSE

5. This is all moving very much in the right direction, I would say.

Everything is now riding on your last answer.

We're looking for Charlize Theron films.

We have to hope that absolutely nobody said your third

and final answer which was Hancock.

This was the one you didn't have any argument about

which should be your last answer.

-You both said this should be the one to put last.

-Yeah, hopefully.

Very, very best of luck.

This has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot, so for £10,250,

let's find out, is Hancock a pointless answer?

Well, it's right.

Monster took us down to 18,

then Snow White And The Huntsman took us all away down to 5.

Hancock now taking us down

into the teens, into single figures.

Oh, no.

APPLAUSE

Bad luck. Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that all-important

pointless answer, so I'm afraid you don't win

today's jackpot of £10,250, which rolls over onto the next show.

You have been great contestants. You do, of course, get to take home

our Pointless trophy, so very well done.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, you played terrifically throughout, so tough luck there.

The only other film you mentioned, The Italian Job,

-that would've scored you 9 points, so...

-I've thought of another one.

-Which is?

-Prometheus.

-Would have scored 12 points.

-That's OK.

Amazing. She's done a lot of films,

there's only five pointless answers. She chooses her films very well

because a lot of them are very memorable, but we'll go through

the five pointless ones, see if you got any of these at home.

She was in Battle In Seattle,

about the World Trade Organisation protests with Woody Harrelson,

Head In The Clouds with Penelope Cruz, In The Valley Of Elah with

Tommy Lee Jones from 2007 - that would've been a pointless answer.

She was Britt Ekland opposite Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers

in The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers

and Trial And Error also a pointless answer there. Very well done

-if you said any of those at home.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

We have to say goodbye to you, Rackie and Emma.

Been great having you on the show.

You've been fantastic contestants. Thanks for playing. Brilliant.

APPLAUSE

So, Rackie and Emma didn't win our jackpot today, which means

it rolls over onto the next show when we'll be playing for £11,250.

APPLAUSE

Join us then to see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

-..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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