0:00:23 > 0:00:29Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong. Welcome to Pointless, where all the questions were put to 100 people
0:00:29 > 0:00:36and all our contestants do is find the answers they couldn't think of. Let's meet today's players.
0:00:39 > 0:00:45- Couple number one.- I'm Cassie from London. Helen's from the Wirral. We're friends from university.
0:00:45 > 0:00:50- Couple number two.- I'm Beth, this is my boyfriend Andy, from Portsmouth.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54- Couple number three. - Hi, I'm Chris from Belfast. This is my father, Richard.
0:00:54 > 0:00:59- And couple number four. - I'm Vicky, this is my nephew Alex, from Derbyshire.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04Thank you. These, ladies and gentlemen, are today's contestants.
0:01:04 > 0:01:10We'll find out more about you as it goes along. That leaves just one more person to introduce.
0:01:10 > 0:01:16Sweeping up misinformation like a kindly Latvian hotel maid, it's my Pointless friend, Richard.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Hiya. Hi, everybody. Hiya.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26- Afternoon.- And to you. - How are you?- I'm very well.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31- We should let people know there's an enormous moth in the studio.- Yeah.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37If you catch something or someone starts brushing stuff... It's like a beast!
0:01:37 > 0:01:39You say moth. I think it's a bat.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- It could be a bat.- It is massive.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45- I mean, it was about...that size. - Yeah, yeah.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49- It was huge!- Anything else we can look forward to apart from the moth?
0:01:49 > 0:01:56- I had a whole thing prepared. - We've gone moth.- The moth has rather upset my rhythm, if I'm honest.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01- Fair enough.- I've been slightly put off.- There it goes!
0:02:02 > 0:02:07- What... It's... It's like Vincent Price. - NERVOUS LAUGHTER
0:02:07 > 0:02:12- OK, thanks very much indeed. - It's a pleasure.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18All our questions have been put to 100 people before the show.
0:02:18 > 0:02:24Our contestants need to find the obscure answers they didn't get. Everyone wants a pointless answer
0:02:24 > 0:02:29that none of our 100 people gave. Each time that happens, we add 250 quid to the jackpot.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34Ian and Jessica won last time, so today's jackpot starts at £1,000.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Right, if everyone's ready let's play Pointless.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46OK, in this first round I'll take an answer from each of you, but there's no conferring.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50The pair with the highest score will go home.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54Our first category today is... tennis.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Tennis. Can you all decide who's going first and who's going second?
0:02:58 > 0:03:03And whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:03:09 > 0:03:13to name as many US Open tennis champions as they could.
0:03:13 > 0:03:19- Richard?- We're looking for the name of any male or female tennis player who's won a US Open singles title
0:03:19 > 0:03:24from the beginning of the open era in 1968 through to the 2012 event.
0:03:24 > 0:03:30Anyone who's won a US Open title from 1968 to 2012. Very best of luck.
0:03:30 > 0:03:36Thank you very much. Now Helen and Cassie, you all drew lots and today you get to go first.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41Is that the face of somebody who has a lot of good tennis knowledge?
0:03:41 > 0:03:46- I do know some tennis players, but not many obscure ones.- You're from the Wirral. What do you do?
0:03:46 > 0:03:53- I work for an investment management firm in Chester.- You and Cassie met at university?- We did, yes.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- And you've been friends ever since? - Yeah. 20 years ago.- Excellent.
0:03:57 > 0:04:03- What do you get up to in your spare time, Helen? - I like cooking.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06And I like buying shoes!
0:04:07 > 0:04:10I'm struggling to think!
0:04:10 > 0:04:14That'll do - cooking and buying shoes. Two vital functions.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18- I think so.- Otherwise you'd be barefoot and hungry.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24- Anyway, we are looking for winners of the US Open.- OK.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Pete Sampras?
0:04:26 > 0:04:31Pete Sampras said Helen. Is that right? How many of our 100 said it?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34It's right.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Still going down.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Look at that. 19.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Not a bad answer at all. Pete Sampras.
0:04:45 > 0:04:51Yeah, 19 points and he won it aged 19 in 1990. The youngest man to win the US Open.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56- He won it five times in all. - Beth, welcome to the show.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- You're from Portsmouth.- Yes. - What do you do?
0:04:59 > 0:05:03I work in youth theatre and also in Portsmouth dockyard.
0:05:03 > 0:05:09- What do you do in Portsmouth dockyard?- I'm a PA for a shipbuilding company.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Good stuff. How's your tennis?
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Em...yeah. I know a few tennis players,
0:05:16 > 0:05:21but I'm going to take a punt on Andy Roddick.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Andy Roddick. Andy Roddick.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28Cassie thinks that's good. Let's see if it's right and, if it is, how many said it.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32It's right!
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Very well done indeed, Beth.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43That was a punt worth taking. Five for And Roddick.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47A very good start to the show.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49He won in 2003, Andy Roddick.
0:05:49 > 0:05:55- What's the biggest moth you've ever seen at your dockyard? - Nothing as big as this one!
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- It's enormous, isn't it? - I haven't seen it for 3 minutes.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03Either it's gone to sleep or it's planning something.
0:06:09 > 0:06:15- Richard, welcome to the show. - Thank you.- You are from County Fermanagh. What do you do there?
0:06:15 > 0:06:19I'm retired now, but I worked in the NHS.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Very good. What are your hobbies?
0:06:21 > 0:06:26- I play in a country band. Badly.- What do you play?- Guitar.
0:06:26 > 0:06:32- Yeah.- With three other fellas. We play at weekends in clubs and pubs over there.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37That's about it. A bit of golf, but not as often as I would like.
0:06:37 > 0:06:43- Do you follow sport?- Yeah, yeah. - Enough to feel confident here? - I had Andy Roddick,
0:06:43 > 0:06:49- which isn't much good now. I'll say Jimmy Connors. - Jimmy Connors, says Richard.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Is that right? How many said it?
0:06:53 > 0:06:55It is right.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Five is our best score so far.
0:06:59 > 0:07:0221, Jimmy Connors.
0:07:03 > 0:07:0621. Not bad.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Well played, Richard. He scored more than Pete Sampras.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13He's won as many titles - five.
0:07:13 > 0:07:19- Alex, welcome back.- Hi. - Another statement shirt there. - Thank you, yeah.
0:07:19 > 0:07:24- Remind us what you do. - I work in public relations.
0:07:24 > 0:07:29- Excellent. And how are you at your tennis?- I went to the Australian Open last year.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Ask me about that or Wimbledon and I'd be better.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37I'm going to play it safe
0:07:37 > 0:07:43- and say Andy Murray. - OK. Let's see if that's right and, if it is, how many people said it.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47It is right.
0:07:50 > 0:07:5146.
0:07:54 > 0:07:5646. That is high.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00That is really playing it safe, I have to say!
0:08:00 > 0:08:08The first British man in 76 years to win a Grand Slam title when he won the 2012 US Open.
0:08:08 > 0:08:14Thanks. We're halfway through. Five was the best score of that pass. Very well done, Beth.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16A lovely low score.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Then up to 19, Helen and Cassie.
0:08:19 > 0:08:2121, Richard and Chris.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Then up to 46 to Alex and Vicky. Vicky, this can't happen.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29I will not stand for you leaving at the end of this round.
0:08:29 > 0:08:35We'll have to have a low score from you. Best of luck. Can the second players now step up to the podium?
0:08:37 > 0:08:42Vicky, we're looking for winners of the US Open since the start of the open era.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47- You are the high scorers on 46. - But it's not 100.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- It's not.- Almost! - It's less than half a hundred.- Yes.
0:08:50 > 0:08:56- Remind us what you do, Vicky. - I work for a bank. - And in your spare time?
0:08:56 > 0:09:01- I'm researching my family tree. - So how has that gone? How far back?
0:09:01 > 0:09:08- I've got back to about 1660. - Any skeletons...? What a stupid question! It's ALL skeletons!
0:09:08 > 0:09:12- It's all skeletons.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14A murderer.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19- Good.- And a man that was hung for stealing a meat pie.
0:09:19 > 0:09:24- Wow.- So I'm hoping the genes aren't passed down to me.
0:09:24 > 0:09:30- If we go out this round, it could get nasty.- Hanged for a meat pie! When was that?
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- When was the meat pie incident? - About the 1700s.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35Wow.
0:09:35 > 0:09:42- They really liked their meat pies back then.- It would have been amazing if you'd said 1984.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49- Vicky...- Yes. - A brilliant answer, please.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54OK. Alex has put me in a bit of a difficult position, but I think I'll take a gamble
0:09:54 > 0:09:59- on Andre Agassi.- Andre Agassi. Alex is now nodding.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04Where was Andre Agassi on the first pass, Alex?
0:10:04 > 0:10:10Andre Agassi. No red line for you, but let's see. Is it right? How many people said Andre Agassi?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13It is right.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Still going down. Very well done!
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Only our second single-figure score. Nine takes your total up to 55.
0:10:24 > 0:10:31- Maybe that's enough to keep you in the game. Let's hope so. - In '94 and '99, Andre Agassi.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- Did you know Andre Agassi, Alex? - Yes.- You should have said it.
0:10:34 > 0:10:42- He should have.- After my 100 last time, I didn't want to let the aunt down again.- That's fair enough.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46- That makes sense. Now, Chris...- Hi.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52- Welcome to the show. Belfast. What is it you do?- I work for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57- What department?- It's the waste management department.
0:10:57 > 0:11:03We regulate anybody who deals with any sort of waste - from car breakers up to district councils.
0:11:03 > 0:11:10- Any infestations of moths? - Infestations of bats - there's plenty of those to deal with!
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I'm still borderline bat, actually.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18I think it might be a pterodactyl.
0:11:20 > 0:11:27You know, they say they're extinct... Perhaps we've disturbed a pterodactyl's nest.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31- That is feasible.- More than that! I'd say it's probable.
0:11:31 > 0:11:37The size of the thing! And it emitted that high-pitch scream
0:11:37 > 0:11:40as it dive-bombed Cassie.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48Chris, how is your tennis? How is your knowledge of tennis?
0:11:48 > 0:11:55It's not too bad. Jimmy Connors was the first thing that popped into my head. Thanks, Dad(!)
0:11:55 > 0:12:01- There's a couple of names, but I think I'll try Lleyton Hewitt.- Lleyton Hewitt.
0:12:01 > 0:12:08Vicky and Alex are the high scorers on 55. You're on 21. If you can score 33 or less, you're through.
0:12:08 > 0:12:14There's your red line. Is it right, though? Richard, what do you think?
0:12:14 > 0:12:19- I think it is. I think it is. - Let's find out. And if it is, how many said it?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- It's right.- It's right.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Five is our lowest score so far.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Oh, one for Lleyton Hewitt! Fantastic, Chris.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36That's a great answer. 22 your total now. Lleyton Hewitt.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41That's a terrific answer. Well done. He won in 2001.
0:12:41 > 0:12:46- Now, Andy, welcome to the show. What do you do?- I'm an architect.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50- Do you design residential or commercial?- Mainly commercial.
0:12:50 > 0:12:58Do you have a grand design plan for a place for you and Beth somewhere on the dockyards?
0:12:58 > 0:13:05- Maybe a bit outside Portsmouth, really.- A bit outside, OK. Tennis - how are you on tennis?
0:13:05 > 0:13:12- Not too bad. I've got a few names in my head. - You're 50 behind our high scorers.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16If you can score 49 or less, you avoid equalling their high.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20I'm thinking about women's tennis as everyone's gone men's.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24I think I'll go pretty safe and go Serena Williams.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Serena Williams says Andy. OK, there is your red line.
0:13:28 > 0:13:34- If Serena Williams gets you below that red line... Is it too safe? - Mmm, could be quite high, yeah.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39We'll see. Vicky will be watching keenly, as will Alex.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Let's see if it's right and how many said it.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45It is right.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Yep, you've done it!
0:13:49 > 0:13:53Very well done. 18 for Serena Williams. Your total is 23.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00The first female answer in the round sees you safely through to the next round.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03- Cassie....- Hi.- Cassie.
0:14:03 > 0:14:08- What do you do?- I work for a women's sports charity.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- Do you?- Yeah.
0:14:10 > 0:14:17- That's why this is making me a little but nervous.- OK. So what does the charity do?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20The Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation.
0:14:20 > 0:14:26- You'll have approved of Andy's choice of answer. - I was very pleased to hear a woman.
0:14:26 > 0:14:32- What do you get up to? Are you a fan of sport generally? - I spend a lot of time watching it.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37I've been to the US Open. I've been to all the Grand Slams,
0:14:37 > 0:14:43- but this stage is making me very nervous.- Everything you say is making Vicky and Alex nervous!
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Just to fill you in. They're on 55. You're on 19.
0:14:46 > 0:14:52- So 35 or less.- I've got a feeling that Sam Stosur won it, who's an Australian,
0:14:52 > 0:14:58a few years ago, but I'm not going to say her. I'm going to say Kim Clijsters.
0:14:58 > 0:15:04Kim Clijsters. OK. There's your red line. Get below that and you're in Round Two
0:15:04 > 0:15:10and once again we say goodbye to Vicky and Alex. Kim Clijsters. Is that right? How many said it?
0:15:12 > 0:15:14It's right.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21And you're in the next round. Very well done. Look at that! One!
0:15:23 > 0:15:27One, taking your total up to 20. The lowest total of the round.
0:15:27 > 0:15:34Three times winner. Sam Stosur also won. She won in 2011. She'd have scored one point as well.
0:15:34 > 0:15:39But it's a more impressive-sounding answer, Sam Stosur, isn't it?
0:15:39 > 0:15:46I'll tell you a few more people who scored one point - Rod Laver, Justine Henin, Mats Wilander,
0:15:46 > 0:15:52Lindsay Davenport, Stan Smith and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario - all scored one point.
0:15:52 > 0:15:58Let's look at the pointless answers. There's nine. Gabriela Sabatini, the Argentinean player,
0:15:58 > 0:16:01another Argentine, Guillermo Vilas,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Hana Mandlikova, the Czech,
0:16:03 > 0:16:08a couple of Australian men from the '70s - John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall,
0:16:08 > 0:16:12the Spaniard Manuel Orantes, who won in '75,
0:16:12 > 0:16:17Marat Safin, the Russian, Margaret Smith Court and Svetlana Kuznetsova.
0:16:17 > 0:16:24All pointless. Very well done if you said those. Let's look at the ones most of our 100 people answered.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Rafael Nadal would have scored you 28.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Roger Federer, 39. Alex, you know what's up the top.
0:16:32 > 0:16:38- I was going to say Rod Laver, but I didn't know if he won it. - He did. And would have scored one.
0:16:38 > 0:16:45I know why you went for a safe answer. It's a real shame. 46 points, the biggest of all.
0:16:45 > 0:16:51Thank you, Richard. So I'm sorry to say the pair who will be leaving us with their high score of 55,
0:16:51 > 0:16:56two perfectly good answers there, but Vicky and Alex, it's you again.
0:16:56 > 0:17:02- Oh, well.- I'm so sorry. And you had the tennis chops. You knew some good answers, Alex.
0:17:02 > 0:17:07- My mind just went blank.- It's going to be a difficult Christmas.
0:17:09 > 0:17:14It's been lovely having you both. Vicky and Alex, great contestants.
0:17:15 > 0:17:20But for the remaining three pairs it's now time for Round Two.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26So one pair gone, three now remain.
0:17:26 > 0:17:33That was very close. This will be a very exciting game. Only three points between you there.
0:17:33 > 0:17:39- Helen and Cassie, you were... you did very well.- Thank you. - You were the lowest.
0:17:39 > 0:17:47But it's going to be very exciting. Best of luck. Our category for Round Two is...non-fiction.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53Non-fiction. Can you all decide who's going first and second?
0:17:53 > 0:17:58Whoever's going first please step up to the podium.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03OK, the question concerns...works of non-fiction and their authors.
0:18:03 > 0:18:10- Non-fiction works and their authors. Richard?- On each pass, six works of non-fiction.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Just tell us who wrote them. A nice, obscure one scores fewer points.
0:18:14 > 0:18:19An incorrect answer scores 100. There's going to be 12 in all.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23OK, we're looking for the authors of these non-fiction works.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25HE READS THE LIST
0:18:34 > 0:18:37I'll read that one last time.
0:18:45 > 0:18:51There. Six works of non-fiction. Cassie, what do you make of that board?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Em, I know two or three, I think.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58I'm going to go The God Delusion
0:18:58 > 0:19:01and Richard Hawkins.
0:19:01 > 0:19:08Richard Hawkins. OK, let's see if Richard Hawkins is right and, if it is, how many said it.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- Oh!- Oh, Cassie.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15I'm afraid we will discover in the fullness of time,
0:19:15 > 0:19:19but that is a wrong answer and scores the maximum 100 points.
0:19:19 > 0:19:26Sorry. I'll give the correct answers at the end. Ironically, Chris and Beth both now believe in God.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28LAUGHTER
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Now then, Beth.- Yeah.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Tricky.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39I'm going to play it safe on the one I'm pretty sure of
0:19:39 > 0:19:43and go with Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, says Beth. How many people said it?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52It's right.
0:19:53 > 0:19:5557.
0:19:58 > 0:20:0057 for Charles Darwin.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Published in 1859.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07- There. Now, Chris. You're the last person to have this board.- I am.
0:20:07 > 0:20:13- It seems like we only just put it up and here we are...- It's not going to make much of a difference!
0:20:13 > 0:20:19- It couldn't have been a worse category.- Oh, no. Talk us through it and have a thought on each one.
0:20:19 > 0:20:25I have heard of Leviathan, but I can't for the life of me think who the author was.
0:20:25 > 0:20:32A History of English-Speaking Peoples, I don't know if he's written any books,
0:20:32 > 0:20:37but somebody has done a lot of History Of books. It may be Simon Schama.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41- Possibly.- Simon Schama, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
0:20:41 > 0:20:47OK, let's see if Simon Schama is right and how many people knew that.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Oh, bad luck, Chris!
0:20:51 > 0:20:56I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer and scores you 100 points.
0:20:56 > 0:21:02- Sorry, Chris. Written by the Simon Schama of his day - Winston Churchill.- Oh!
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Would have scored you 9 points.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08Cassie, it's not Richard Hawkins, it's Richard Dawkins.
0:21:08 > 0:21:14- If you'd just dropped your H, you'd have got it.- I can sometimes speak like that as well!
0:21:14 > 0:21:20- It's annoying. I know the top one and should have gone for that. - What is it?- Bill Bryson.
0:21:20 > 0:21:25It would have been a bigger scorer. 35. Richard Dawkins would be 17. Richard 'awkins!
0:21:25 > 0:21:31- He'd have got it.- Could have had it. If you were just a bit more Cockney!
0:21:31 > 0:21:33I've not lived in London long enough.
0:21:33 > 0:21:39The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom is TE Lawrence. Would have scored 11 points. Leviathan?
0:21:39 > 0:21:42The surname is Hoare - H-O-A-R-E, isn't it?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44So what you're saying to me is...
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Well, maybe it's not.
0:21:49 > 0:21:50No.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Tell me who it is.- Thomas Hobbes.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58- Oh, it's Thomas Hobbes.- 3 points, so it's the best answer up there.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02Thank you very much indeed. Let's take a look at those scores.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07Beth and Andy, 57, cracking score, the lowest of the pass, as it turns out.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Oh, Cassie, so close!
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Chris, so far away!- Yeah.
0:22:12 > 0:22:18And yet there you both are on 100. Yes, Helen, Richard, you each know what you have to do.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Best of luck. Can the second players take their places at the podium?
0:22:26 > 0:22:32We'll put six more works of non-fiction on the board. Here they come. We have got...
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I'll read those a second time.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51We are looking for the authors of these works of non-fiction
0:22:51 > 0:22:57and, Richard, you need to find the one that will score the fewest points, so you stay in the game.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00I'm as bad as he is on this. I really am.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05- Is that a slightly nicer board? - No, not at all.- OK.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Das Kapital, Adolf Hitler, just because it sounds German!
0:23:10 > 0:23:12OK, Das Kapital...
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Is it by Adolf Hitler?
0:23:15 > 0:23:19- Unlikely.- No red line for you. You're the joint high scorers.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24No. Not so much.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28I'm afraid it scores you 100 points and it takes your total up to 200.
0:23:28 > 0:23:35- Sorry, Richard.- It is German though, to be fair. And Hitler did speak impeccable German.
0:23:35 > 0:23:41If we can say one thing about Hitler, it's his German was absolutely exemplary, wasn't it?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44I'll give the correct answer at the end of the pass.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Andy...
0:23:46 > 0:23:50Andy, there's good news. You're through to the next round.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53That is good news. I haven't got a clue.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59The only one I think that I might deduce out of that,
0:23:59 > 0:24:03maybe Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History Of Time?
0:24:03 > 0:24:07- Stephen Hawking. Are you sure it's not Stephen Dawking?- No, I'm sure.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10No red line for you. You're already through.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14But let's see if Stephen Hawking is right for A Brief History Of Time.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Yep, absolutely right.
0:24:20 > 0:24:2230.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24APPLAUSE
0:24:24 > 0:24:2630 takes your total up to 87.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Well done, Andy. Published in 1988.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35- Quite frequently tops those polls of books that have been bought and never read.- Yes.
0:24:35 > 0:24:41- A lot of people have got it on their bookshelves.- I haven't even got it on my bookshelf.- I haven't either.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47Well, it's brief. I can say that for it.
0:24:47 > 0:24:53Now then, Helen, the high scorers are Richard and Chris on 200. You're on 100.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58If you can score 99 or less, you are through to the next round. I think you know a few here.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03I'm going to go for The Wealth Of Nations, Adam Smith?
0:25:03 > 0:25:08Adam Smith, says Helen for The Wealth Of Nations. Here is your red line, nice and high.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12Let's see if Adam Smith is right and if it is, how many said it.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Very well done.
0:25:19 > 0:25:208.
0:25:20 > 0:25:27That's a great answer, 8, just what you needed. 108, your total. You are in the head-to-head.
0:25:27 > 0:25:33Well played, Helen. From 1776. Some people say it's the birth of modern capitalism and economics.
0:25:33 > 0:25:40- Let's look through the rest of this board. Das Kapital, it wasn't Hitler.- Karl Marx.- Absolutely right.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44- 31 points. The Road To Wigan Pier? - Is George Orwell.- George Orwell.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46It would have scored you 15 points.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50The biggest scorer up there is The Female Eunuch.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- Which is Germaine Greer. - Yeah, 36 points.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56And the best answer on the board is Silent Spring.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00It's an environmental book from the States by Rachel Carson.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04It would have scored 1 point. Terrific answer if you got that.
0:26:04 > 0:26:10Thanks very much. At the end of that round, our losing pair with a score of 200, it's Richard and Chris.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- That didn't play to your strengths. - Definitely not.- Not at all.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Well, you had a good crack at it, but Adolf Hitler...
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- Close(!)- Yeah, German.- There we go.
0:26:22 > 0:26:27Thanks so much for playing. We'll see you again next time. We'll look forward to that.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30- Chris and Richard! - APPLAUSE
0:26:30 > 0:26:34But for the remaining two pairs, it's now time for our head-to-head.
0:26:39 > 0:26:44Congratulations, Andy and Beth, Helen and Cassie, you're one step closer to the final
0:26:44 > 0:26:47and a chance to play for our jackpot of £1,000.
0:26:47 > 0:26:53To decide which pair will go through to the final to play for that money, you'll now go head-to-head,
0:26:53 > 0:26:59but you are now allowed to confer. The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Andy and Beth, you're the lowest scoring pair.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08I think that's largely owing to Richard Hawkings.... Richard Hawkins.
0:27:08 > 0:27:14- Yeah, that's right.- Yeah. - We had the highs of Kim Clijsters, the lows of Richard Hawkins.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- We're still here.- Very well done.
0:27:16 > 0:27:23Andy and Beth, exemplary answering from you. Very solid. You've come through and there you are.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Very best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36OK, here's your first question and it concerns...
0:27:41 > 0:27:46- Richard?- We'll show you five pictures of actors or actresses whose surnames begin with N.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Can you identify the most obscure of these five? Good luck.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Let's reveal our five actors beginning with N and here they come.
0:28:05 > 0:28:10There we are, five actors beginning with N.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15- Andy and Beth, you've played best throughout the show so far, so you go first.- OK.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17WHISPERING
0:28:17 > 0:28:19A is Sam Neill.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22I don't know who B is.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31We're going to go with A, Sam Neill.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Sam Neill, say Andy and Beth for A.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39Now, Helen and Cassie, the rest of the board is yours. Talk us through it.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41C, we think, is Edward Norton,
0:28:41 > 0:28:43D is Liam Neeson,
0:28:43 > 0:28:46E is Jack Nicholson.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48- I don't think we know B. - I don't know who she is.
0:28:48 > 0:28:53- I think Sam Neill will win, but shall we go C?- Yeah.- Ed Norton, C.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57C, Ed Norton. So we have Sam Neill and we have Ed Norton.
0:28:57 > 0:29:02Andy and Beth said Sam Neill. Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04It's right.
0:29:08 > 0:29:1018.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12APPLAUSE
0:29:13 > 0:29:1518 for Sam Neill.
0:29:16 > 0:29:20Helen and Cassie, you've gone for Edward Norton.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23- You think that won't beat Sam Neill? - No.- OK, let's find out.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27Edward Norton, is it right, how many people said it?
0:29:28 > 0:29:30It is right.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Will it go down lower than 18? It's going to be close.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36Oh, it does. Look at that, wow, 4!
0:29:36 > 0:29:40- APPLAUSE - 4 for Edward Norton.
0:29:42 > 0:29:48Very well done indeed. Helen and Cassie, after one question, you are up one-nil. Richard?
0:29:48 > 0:29:54Only people who really know about films know Ed Norton, but Sam Neill was in Jurassic Park and all sorts.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58B would have beaten both of them, but let's get to her last.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02Let's start with Jack Nicholson because he's the biggest scorer up there.
0:30:02 > 0:30:06He would have got you 65 points.
0:30:06 > 0:30:10Then Liam Neeson next to him would have scored you 31.
0:30:10 > 0:30:15And the best answer up there that would have beaten even Edward Norton,
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Vertigo was recently voted the best film of all time
0:30:18 > 0:30:20and the star of Vertigo is Kim Novak.
0:30:20 > 0:30:24Would have scored 2 points. Very well done if you said that.
0:30:24 > 0:30:30Thanks, Richard. Here comes your second question. Andy and Beth, you need to win it to stay in the game.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32It concerns...
0:30:34 > 0:30:39- Famous paintings, Richard? - We'll show you the names of five famous paintings now,
0:30:39 > 0:30:45but we've left a word out of the title of each one. Can you fill it in, please?
0:30:45 > 0:30:50Let's reveal the names of our five famous paintings. Here they are. We have got...
0:31:04 > 0:31:06I'll read those all again.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23There we are, five famous paintings with a missing word.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Now, Helen and Cassie, you answer first this time.
0:31:27 > 0:31:29WHISPERING
0:31:33 > 0:31:37We're going to go for the top one, Girl With A Pearl Earring.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41Girl With A Pearl Earring, say Helen and Cassie.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44Andy and Beth, the board is yours.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47Yeah, we were going to go with that one.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54We were pretty confident about the last one.
0:31:56 > 0:32:01- You can say what the last one is. - The last one might be The Last Supper, but the other three...
0:32:01 > 0:32:06- You have to win this question to stay in the game.- I know.
0:32:06 > 0:32:10OK, we'll go for the Salvador Dali one, Metamorphosis Of Time.
0:32:10 > 0:32:15Helen and Cassie both nodding frantically at that. Why didn't you go for it?
0:32:15 > 0:32:20- We were between the two. We didn't know that one for sure, to be fair to them.- OK.
0:32:20 > 0:32:25Metamorphosis Of Time, say Andy and Beth. Helen and Cassie went for Girl With A Pearl Earring.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said that.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33Yeah, absolutely right.
0:32:33 > 0:32:3559.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37APPLAUSE
0:32:37 > 0:32:40Well, it's a high score, but it's correct.
0:32:40 > 0:32:45Andy and Beth have gone for The Metamorphosis Of Time by Salvador Dali.
0:32:45 > 0:32:49Let's see if that's right and if it is, how many people said it.
0:32:51 > 0:32:52Oh!
0:32:52 > 0:32:55Interesting. An incorrect answer,
0:32:55 > 0:33:02which means, Helen and Cassie, after only two questions, you are through to the final two-nil. Richard?
0:33:02 > 0:33:07I bet you weren't the only people to say Metamorphosis Of Time with the melting clocks and so on.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10Actually, it's Metamorphosis Of Narcissus.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13It would have scored you 3 points.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15There are two more tough answers up there.
0:33:15 > 0:33:21The bottom one is The Last Supper, but would have scored just more than Girl With A Pearl Earring - 66.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Now, these other two...
0:33:23 > 0:33:27The Moon Woman by Jackson Pollock would have scored you 1 point.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29The bottom one is pointless.
0:33:29 > 0:33:36It's the famous painting of the guy in the bowler hat with the apple obscuring his face by Magritte
0:33:36 > 0:33:38and it's The Son Of Man.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41That was pointless, so three very tough answers.
0:33:41 > 0:33:46- Well done if you got all five of those.- Thank you very much indeed.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head is Andy and Beth.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54Yeah, I thought that was right, Metamorphosis Of Time.
0:33:54 > 0:34:00Metamorphosis Of Narcissus, there we are. We'll all remember that for at least another half hour.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05I'm so sorry, Andy and Beth, but we'll see you again next time.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09It would have been over in one game and that would've been no fun.
0:34:09 > 0:34:14Helen and Cassie, we'll see you in a moment in the final, but Andy and Beth, thanks for playing.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16- See you next time. - APPLAUSE
0:34:18 > 0:34:22But for Helen and Cassie, it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29Congratulations, Helen and Cassie, you've beaten all the competition
0:34:29 > 0:34:33and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy, so very well done.
0:34:38 > 0:34:44You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show, it stands at £1,000.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46APPLAUSE
0:34:47 > 0:34:51To win that money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54First, choose your category and here are your five options.
0:35:06 > 0:35:12- I'm quite good at Playwrights. - I can't do Playwrights.- Let's go for Football.- Are you sure?- Yeah, yeah.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17All right, my husband is going to kill me. I'm going to go for Football.
0:35:17 > 0:35:24- Don't say he's going to kill you yet.- He won't kill me. He'll be shouting answers at the screen.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28- Maybe they'll be the answers that you get.- Let's hope so.
0:35:28 > 0:35:33Let's hope it's a weird, time travel, shouting through glass ability. Maybe it'll all come good.
0:35:33 > 0:35:37Here comes your question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds
0:35:37 > 0:35:43to name as many winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion as they could. Richard?
0:35:43 > 0:35:48We're looking for the name of any football manager who has won the Champions League
0:35:48 > 0:35:53or its equivalent before that, the European Cup, from 1956 to 2012.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Any manager who has won that tournament twice or more, please.
0:35:56 > 0:36:01Anyone who has won that tournament twice or more. Very best of luck.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04You have one minute to come up with three answers
0:36:04 > 0:36:09and all you need to win that jackpot of £1,000 is for just one answer to be pointless.
0:36:09 > 0:36:13- Are you ready?- Yeah.- OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15There they are. Your time starts now.
0:36:15 > 0:36:19Europe's not my thing. OK, I'm a Forest fan.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23- I think Brian... Who was manager? - Brian Clough?- Brian Clough.
0:36:24 > 0:36:29- I don't know. Name some clubs. - Chelsea.- We could probably say Pep Guardiola.
0:36:29 > 0:36:35I don't know if they won it twice when he was managing Barcelona. I know they've won it once.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39- Like Premiership football... - No, well, it's Europe, so...
0:36:39 > 0:36:44I'm terrible at European football. This was the problem if Europe came up.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46France's manager, Italy...
0:36:46 > 0:36:48So...
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Oh, God, names just disappear, don't they?
0:36:51 > 0:36:57Can you think of any international managers that you've seen that manage countries?
0:36:57 > 0:37:00Jose Mourinho probably hasn't...
0:37:01 > 0:37:03Who was that Liverpool one?
0:37:04 > 0:37:06Ten seconds left.
0:37:06 > 0:37:12- Eriksson?- Sven-Goran Eriksson? I don't think he has, but... No.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15Not that have managed, um...
0:37:15 > 0:37:18OK, I'm afraid your time is up.
0:37:18 > 0:37:23We're looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion. I now need your three answers.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26- Brian Clough.- Brian Clough.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Pep Guardiola and...
0:37:29 > 0:37:32- We'll say Jose Mourinho. - And Jose Mourinho.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:37:35 > 0:37:41- Probably Brian Clough, but I'm doubting whether he even... - OK, Brian Clough we'll put last.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43- And your least likely?- Mourinho.
0:37:43 > 0:37:48Mourinho. OK, let's put those up on the board in that order and here they are.
0:37:52 > 0:37:56We were looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00Your first answer, Jose Mourinho, was least likely to be pointless.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04Only one answer has to be pointless for you to win £1,000.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08Let's find out. Jose Mourinho, is it right, how many people said it?
0:38:09 > 0:38:13Well, it's correct. I don't think that was in much doubt,
0:38:13 > 0:38:15but how far down is he going to go?
0:38:15 > 0:38:19He's taking us down through the 40s, into the 30s, into the 20s.
0:38:19 > 0:38:2021.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23- APPLAUSE - 21.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Not a bad answer.
0:38:25 > 0:38:31Unfortunately, not a pointless answer, so you only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34£1,000, a nice, little bijou prize there.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Helen, what would you do with your share of that?
0:38:37 > 0:38:42Go on a little jaunt somewhere, I think, or buy some more shoes.
0:38:42 > 0:38:47- I thought you were going to learn to drive?- Yeah, I might take some driving lessons.
0:38:47 > 0:38:52- Well, you can drive somewhere, go somewhere in a car.- Yeah. - Cassie, how about you?
0:38:52 > 0:38:57I always said, because I'm on here with Helen and we met at university 20 years ago,
0:38:57 > 0:39:02I always said we'd throw a big party for everyone we're still friends with.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04Excellent. Good idea.
0:39:04 > 0:39:08Two more chances to win that jackpot and make that party happen.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12We're looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion.
0:39:12 > 0:39:18Let's hope nobody said Pep Guardiola. So, for £1,000, let's see how many people said Pep Guardiola.
0:39:20 > 0:39:24It's also correct. Now, Mourinho took us down to 21.
0:39:24 > 0:39:30Guardiola now taking us down through the 30s, into the 20s. If this goes down to zero, you leave with £1,000.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34Still going down... 7. Now, this is getting very exciting.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36APPLAUSE
0:39:38 > 0:39:45- That's a cracking answer. Think how pleased you'd be with that in normal game play.- He's beautiful as well.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47And he scored you only 7 points.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50Sadly, not pointless.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53Only one more chance to win today's jackpot.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58- Brian Clough you thought was your most likely to be pointless. - Yeah.- Why was that?
0:39:58 > 0:40:04I suppose it's a long time ago. I'm a Forest fan, but I wasn't a Forest fan at the time.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07I am starting to doubt whether he was the manager.
0:40:07 > 0:40:13- Do you think people might have overlooked him or you think it's doubtful it's correct?- I don't know.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16OK, let's hope Brian Clough is a correct answer.
0:40:16 > 0:40:22Let's hope nobody said it. We're looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion.
0:40:22 > 0:40:27This has to be right and pointless for you to win that jackpot,
0:40:27 > 0:40:30so for £1,000, let's find out, Brian Clough, is it pointless?
0:40:30 > 0:40:32It is right.
0:40:32 > 0:40:36Now then, Mourinho took us down to 21,
0:40:36 > 0:40:38Guardiola down to 7,
0:40:38 > 0:40:42Brian Clough now taking us into single figures. Still going down.
0:40:42 > 0:40:443!
0:40:44 > 0:40:47- APPLAUSE - Well done.- Very, very well done.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50Three excellent answers there.
0:40:50 > 0:40:54And you got it in absolutely the right order as well.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Oh, only three away!
0:40:56 > 0:41:02Unfortunately, it's only pointless answers in this last round that will win you that jackpot,
0:41:02 > 0:41:08so I'm afraid you didn't find that pointless answer and the jackpot rolls over on to the next show.
0:41:08 > 0:41:15- You've been fantastic contestants and you do take home our Pointless trophy, so well done.- Thank you.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18Thank you very much. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:41:22 > 0:41:27Yeah, it was a very good effort at that question, three correct answers up there.
0:41:27 > 0:41:33Only one man has ever won three European Cups and that's the late Bob Paisley of Liverpool.
0:41:33 > 0:41:39He would have scored 5 points, Bob Paisley. Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers.
0:41:39 > 0:41:43The first one and the last one are probably the easiest ones to get.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Arrigo Sacchi won it with Milan twice.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49Bela Guttmann won it twice with Benfica in '61 and '62.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Dettmar Cramer won it with Bayern Munich twice.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55Ernst Happel won it with Feyenoord and Hamburg.
0:41:55 > 0:41:59Jose Mourinho also won it with two different teams.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02Jose Villalonga won it twice with Real Madrid
0:42:02 > 0:42:07and the two years afterwards, Luis Carniglia won it twice with Real Madrid.
0:42:07 > 0:42:12Two more Real Madrid wins for Miguel Munoz and Nereo Rocco won it twice for Milan.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16And probably the one most people will have got if people got one,
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Vicente del Bosque who won it twice with Real Madrid.
0:42:19 > 0:42:24Stefan Kovacs of Ajax also was a pointless answer. Well done if you got one.
0:42:24 > 0:42:28Unlucky. You played brilliantly. It was a very tough final category.
0:42:28 > 0:42:33- Did you know any of those? - Del Bosque, I imagine my husband will be shouting that,
0:42:33 > 0:42:37but the rest of them, no, not even close. I don't feel too bad.
0:42:37 > 0:42:42Three brilliant answers. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Helen and Cassie.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46- Thank you so much for playing. - Thank you.- Great contestants!
0:42:46 > 0:42:48APPLAUSE
0:42:49 > 0:42:54Helen and Cassie didn't win our jackpot today, so it rolls over on to the next show
0:42:54 > 0:42:57when we'll be playing for £2,000.
0:42:58 > 0:43:04- Join us then to see if someone can win it. It's goodbye from Richard. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.
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