Episode 15 Pointless

Thank you. I'm Alexander Armstrong. Welcome to Pointless, where all the questions were put to 100 people

and all our contestants do is find the answers they couldn't think of. Let's meet today's players.

-Couple number one.

-I'm Cassie from London. Helen's from the Wirral. We're friends from university.

-Couple number two.

-I'm Beth, this is my boyfriend Andy, from Portsmouth.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Chris from Belfast. This is my father, Richard.

-And couple number four.

-I'm Vicky, this is my nephew Alex, from Derbyshire.

Thank you. These, ladies and gentlemen, are today's contestants.

We'll find out more about you as it goes along. That leaves just one more person to introduce.

Sweeping up misinformation like a kindly Latvian hotel maid, it's my Pointless friend, Richard.

Hiya. Hi, everybody. Hiya.

-Afternoon.

-And to you.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

-We should let people know there's an enormous moth in the studio.

-Yeah.

If you catch something or someone starts brushing stuff... It's like a beast!

You say moth. I think it's a bat.

-It could be a bat.

-It is massive.

-I mean, it was about...that size.

-Yeah, yeah.

-It was huge!

-Anything else we can look forward to apart from the moth?

-I had a whole thing prepared.

-We've gone moth.

-The moth has rather upset my rhythm, if I'm honest.

-Fair enough.

-I've been slightly put off.

-There it goes!

-What... It's... It's like Vincent Price.

-NERVOUS LAUGHTER

-OK, thanks very much indeed.

-It's a pleasure.

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

Our contestants need to find the obscure answers they didn't get. Everyone wants a pointless answer

that none of our 100 people gave. Each time that happens, we add 250 quid to the jackpot.

Ian and Jessica won last time, so today's jackpot starts at £1,000.

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

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

The pair with the highest score will go home.

Our first category today is... tennis.

Tennis. Can you all decide who's going first and who's going second?

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

OK, let's find out what the question is. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many US Open tennis champions as they could.

-Richard?

-We're looking for the name of any male or female tennis player who's won a US Open singles title

from the beginning of the open era in 1968 through to the 2012 event.

Anyone who's won a US Open title from 1968 to 2012. Very best of luck.

Thank you very much. Now Helen and Cassie, you all drew lots and today you get to go first.

Is that the face of somebody who has a lot of good tennis knowledge?

-I do know some tennis players, but not many obscure ones.

-You're from the Wirral. What do you do?

-I work for an investment management firm in Chester.

-You and Cassie met at university?

-We did, yes.

-And you've been friends ever since?

-Yeah. 20 years ago.

-Excellent.

-What do you get up to in your spare time, Helen?

-I like cooking.

And I like buying shoes!

I'm struggling to think!

That'll do - cooking and buying shoes. Two vital functions.

-I think so.

-Otherwise you'd be barefoot and hungry.

-Anyway, we are looking for winners of the US Open.

-OK.

Pete Sampras?

Pete Sampras said Helen. Is that right? How many of our 100 said it?

It's right.

Still going down.

Look at that. 19.

Not a bad answer at all. Pete Sampras.

Yeah, 19 points and he won it aged 19 in 1990. The youngest man to win the US Open.

-He won it five times in all.

-Beth, welcome to the show.

-You're from Portsmouth.

-Yes.

-What do you do?

I work in youth theatre and also in Portsmouth dockyard.

-What do you do in Portsmouth dockyard?

-I'm a PA for a shipbuilding company.

Good stuff. How's your tennis?

Em...yeah. I know a few tennis players,

but I'm going to take a punt on Andy Roddick.

Andy Roddick. Andy Roddick.

Cassie thinks that's good. Let's see if it's right and, if it is, how many said it.

It's right!

Very well done indeed, Beth.

That was a punt worth taking. Five for And Roddick.

A very good start to the show.

He won in 2003, Andy Roddick.

-What's the biggest moth you've ever seen at your dockyard?

-Nothing as big as this one!

-It's enormous, isn't it?

-I haven't seen it for 3 minutes.

Either it's gone to sleep or it's planning something.

-Richard, welcome to the show.

-Thank you.

-You are from County Fermanagh. What do you do there?

I'm retired now, but I worked in the NHS.

Very good. What are your hobbies?

-I play in a country band. Badly.

-What do you play?

-Guitar.

-Yeah.

-With three other fellas. We play at weekends in clubs and pubs over there.

That's about it. A bit of golf, but not as often as I would like.

-Do you follow sport?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Enough to feel confident here?

-I had Andy Roddick,

-which isn't much good now. I'll say Jimmy Connors.

-Jimmy Connors, says Richard.

Is that right? How many said it?

It is right.

Five is our best score so far.

21, Jimmy Connors.

21. Not bad.

Well played, Richard. He scored more than Pete Sampras.

He's won as many titles - five.

-Alex, welcome back.

-Hi.

-Another statement shirt there.

-Thank you, yeah.

-Remind us what you do.

-I work in public relations.

-Excellent. And how are you at your tennis?

-I went to the Australian Open last year.

Ask me about that or Wimbledon and I'd be better.

I'm going to play it safe

-and say Andy Murray.

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

It is right.

46.

46. That is high.

That is really playing it safe, I have to say!

The first British man in 76 years to win a Grand Slam title when he won the 2012 US Open.

Thanks. We're halfway through. Five was the best score of that pass. Very well done, Beth.

A lovely low score.

Then up to 19, Helen and Cassie.

21, Richard and Chris.

Then up to 46 to Alex and Vicky. Vicky, this can't happen.

I will not stand for you leaving at the end of this round.

We'll have to have a low score from you. Best of luck. Can the second players now step up to the podium?

Vicky, we're looking for winners of the US Open since the start of the open era.

-You are the high scorers on 46.

-But it's not 100.

-It's not.

-Almost!

-It's less than half a hundred.

-Yes.

-Remind us what you do, Vicky.

-I work for a bank.

-And in your spare time?

-I'm researching my family tree.

-So how has that gone? How far back?

-I've got back to about 1660.

-Any skeletons...? What a stupid question! It's ALL skeletons!

-It's all skeletons.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

A murderer.

-Good.

-And a man that was hung for stealing a meat pie.

-Wow.

-So I'm hoping the genes aren't passed down to me.

-If we go out this round, it could get nasty.

-Hanged for a meat pie! When was that?

-When was the meat pie incident?

-About the 1700s.

Wow.

-They really liked their meat pies back then.

-It would have been amazing if you'd said 1984.

-Vicky...

-Yes.

-A brilliant answer, please.

OK. Alex has put me in a bit of a difficult position, but I think I'll take a gamble

-on Andre Agassi.

-Andre Agassi. Alex is now nodding.

Where was Andre Agassi on the first pass, Alex?

Andre Agassi. No red line for you, but let's see. Is it right? How many people said Andre Agassi?

It is right.

Still going down. Very well done!

Only our second single-figure score. Nine takes your total up to 55.

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

-In '94 and '99, Andre Agassi.

-Did you know Andre Agassi, Alex?

-Yes.

-You should have said it.

-He should have.

-After my 100 last time, I didn't want to let the aunt down again.

-That's fair enough.

-That makes sense. Now, Chris...

-Hi.

-Welcome to the show. Belfast. What is it you do?

-I work for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.

-What department?

-It's the waste management department.

We regulate anybody who deals with any sort of waste - from car breakers up to district councils.

-Any infestations of moths?

-Infestations of bats - there's plenty of those to deal with!

I'm still borderline bat, actually.

I think it might be a pterodactyl.

You know, they say they're extinct... Perhaps we've disturbed a pterodactyl's nest.

-That is feasible.

-More than that! I'd say it's probable.

The size of the thing! And it emitted that high-pitch scream

as it dive-bombed Cassie.

Chris, how is your tennis? How is your knowledge of tennis?

It's not too bad. Jimmy Connors was the first thing that popped into my head. Thanks, Dad(!)

-There's a couple of names, but I think I'll try Lleyton Hewitt.

-Lleyton Hewitt.

Vicky and Alex are the high scorers on 55. You're on 21. If you can score 33 or less, you're through.

There's your red line. Is it right, though? Richard, what do you think?

-I think it is. I think it is.

-Let's find out. And if it is, how many said it?

-It's right.

-It's right.

Five is our lowest score so far.

Oh, one for Lleyton Hewitt! Fantastic, Chris.

That's a great answer. 22 your total now. Lleyton Hewitt.

That's a terrific answer. Well done. He won in 2001.

-Now, Andy, welcome to the show. What do you do?

-I'm an architect.

-Do you design residential or commercial?

-Mainly commercial.

Do you have a grand design plan for a place for you and Beth somewhere on the dockyards?

-Maybe a bit outside Portsmouth, really.

-A bit outside, OK. Tennis - how are you on tennis?

-Not too bad. I've got a few names in my head.

-You're 50 behind our high scorers.

If you can score 49 or less, you avoid equalling their high.

I'm thinking about women's tennis as everyone's gone men's.

I think I'll go pretty safe and go Serena Williams.

Serena Williams says Andy. OK, there is your red line.

-If Serena Williams gets you below that red line... Is it too safe?

-Mmm, could be quite high, yeah.

We'll see. Vicky will be watching keenly, as will Alex.

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

It is right.

Yep, you've done it!

Very well done. 18 for Serena Williams. Your total is 23.

The first female answer in the round sees you safely through to the next round.

-Cassie....

-Hi.

-Cassie.

-What do you do?

-I work for a women's sports charity.

-Do you?

-Yeah.

-That's why this is making me a little but nervous.

-OK. So what does the charity do?

The Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation.

-You'll have approved of Andy's choice of answer.

-I was very pleased to hear a woman.

-What do you get up to? Are you a fan of sport generally?

-I spend a lot of time watching it.

I've been to the US Open. I've been to all the Grand Slams,

-but this stage is making me very nervous.

-Everything you say is making Vicky and Alex nervous!

Just to fill you in. They're on 55. You're on 19.

-So 35 or less.

-I've got a feeling that Sam Stosur won it, who's an Australian,

a few years ago, but I'm not going to say her. I'm going to say Kim Clijsters.

Kim Clijsters. OK. There's your red line. Get below that and you're in Round Two

and once again we say goodbye to Vicky and Alex. Kim Clijsters. Is that right? How many said it?

It's right.

And you're in the next round. Very well done. Look at that! One!

One, taking your total up to 20. The lowest total of the round.

Three times winner. Sam Stosur also won. She won in 2011. She'd have scored one point as well.

But it's a more impressive-sounding answer, Sam Stosur, isn't it?

I'll tell you a few more people who scored one point - Rod Laver, Justine Henin, Mats Wilander,

Lindsay Davenport, Stan Smith and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario - all scored one point.

Let's look at the pointless answers. There's nine. Gabriela Sabatini, the Argentinean player,

another Argentine, Guillermo Vilas,

Hana Mandlikova, the Czech,

a couple of Australian men from the '70s - John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall,

the Spaniard Manuel Orantes, who won in '75,

Marat Safin, the Russian, Margaret Smith Court and Svetlana Kuznetsova.

All pointless. Very well done if you said those. Let's look at the ones most of our 100 people answered.

Rafael Nadal would have scored you 28.

Roger Federer, 39. Alex, you know what's up the top.

-I was going to say Rod Laver, but I didn't know if he won it.

-He did. And would have scored one.

I know why you went for a safe answer. It's a real shame. 46 points, the biggest of all.

Thank you, Richard. So I'm sorry to say the pair who will be leaving us with their high score of 55,

two perfectly good answers there, but Vicky and Alex, it's you again.

-Oh, well.

-I'm so sorry. And you had the tennis chops. You knew some good answers, Alex.

-My mind just went blank.

-It's going to be a difficult Christmas.

It's been lovely having you both. Vicky and Alex, great contestants.

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

So one pair gone, three now remain.

That was very close. This will be a very exciting game. Only three points between you there.

-Helen and Cassie, you were... you did very well.

-Thank you.

-You were the lowest.

But it's going to be very exciting. Best of luck. Our category for Round Two is...non-fiction.

Non-fiction. Can you all decide who's going first and second?

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

OK, the question concerns...works of non-fiction and their authors.

-Non-fiction works and their authors. Richard?

-On each pass, six works of non-fiction.

Just tell us who wrote them. A nice, obscure one scores fewer points.

An incorrect answer scores 100. There's going to be 12 in all.

OK, we're looking for the authors of these non-fiction works.

HE READS THE LIST

I'll read that one last time.

There. Six works of non-fiction. Cassie, what do you make of that board?

Em, I know two or three, I think.

I'm going to go The God Delusion

and Richard Hawkins.

Richard Hawkins. OK, let's see if Richard Hawkins is right and, if it is, how many said it.

-Oh!

-Oh, Cassie.

I'm afraid we will discover in the fullness of time,

but that is a wrong answer and scores the maximum 100 points.

Sorry. I'll give the correct answers at the end. Ironically, Chris and Beth both now believe in God.

LAUGHTER

-Now then, Beth.

-Yeah.

Tricky.

I'm going to play it safe on the one I'm pretty sure of

and go with Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, says Beth. How many people said it?

It's right.

57.

57 for Charles Darwin.

Published in 1859.

-There. Now, Chris. You're the last person to have this board.

-I am.

-It seems like we only just put it up and here we are...

-It's not going to make much of a difference!

-It couldn't have been a worse category.

-Oh, no. Talk us through it and have a thought on each one.

I have heard of Leviathan, but I can't for the life of me think who the author was.

A History of English-Speaking Peoples, I don't know if he's written any books,

but somebody has done a lot of History Of books. It may be Simon Schama.

-Possibly.

-Simon Schama, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

OK, let's see if Simon Schama is right and how many people knew that.

Oh, bad luck, Chris!

I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer and scores you 100 points.

-Sorry, Chris. Written by the Simon Schama of his day - Winston Churchill.

-Oh!

Would have scored you 9 points.

Cassie, it's not Richard Hawkins, it's Richard Dawkins.

-If you'd just dropped your H, you'd have got it.

-I can sometimes speak like that as well!

-It's annoying. I know the top one and should have gone for that.

-What is it?

-Bill Bryson.

It would have been a bigger scorer. 35. Richard Dawkins would be 17. Richard 'awkins!

-He'd have got it.

-Could have had it. If you were just a bit more Cockney!

I've not lived in London long enough.

The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom is TE Lawrence. Would have scored 11 points. Leviathan?

The surname is Hoare - H-O-A-R-E, isn't it?

So what you're saying to me is...

Well, maybe it's not.

No.

-Tell me who it is.

-Thomas Hobbes.

-Oh, it's Thomas Hobbes.

-3 points, so it's the best answer up there.

Thank you very much indeed. Let's take a look at those scores.

Beth and Andy, 57, cracking score, the lowest of the pass, as it turns out.

Oh, Cassie, so close!

-Chris, so far away!

-Yeah.

And yet there you both are on 100. Yes, Helen, Richard, you each know what you have to do.

Best of luck. Can the second players take their places at the podium?

We'll put six more works of non-fiction on the board. Here they come. We have got...

I'll read those a second time.

We are looking for the authors of these works of non-fiction

and, Richard, you need to find the one that will score the fewest points, so you stay in the game.

I'm as bad as he is on this. I really am.

-Is that a slightly nicer board?

-No, not at all.

-OK.

Das Kapital, Adolf Hitler, just because it sounds German!

OK, Das Kapital...

Is it by Adolf Hitler?

-Unlikely.

-No red line for you. You're the joint high scorers.

No. Not so much.

I'm afraid it scores you 100 points and it takes your total up to 200.

-Sorry, Richard.

-It is German though, to be fair. And Hitler did speak impeccable German.

If we can say one thing about Hitler, it's his German was absolutely exemplary, wasn't it?

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

Andy...

Andy, there's good news. You're through to the next round.

That is good news. I haven't got a clue.

The only one I think that I might deduce out of that,

maybe Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History Of Time?

-Stephen Hawking. Are you sure it's not Stephen Dawking?

-No, I'm sure.

No red line for you. You're already through.

But let's see if Stephen Hawking is right for A Brief History Of Time.

Yep, absolutely right.

30.

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30 takes your total up to 87.

Well done, Andy. Published in 1988.

-Quite frequently tops those polls of books that have been bought and never read.

-Yes.

-A lot of people have got it on their bookshelves.

-I haven't even got it on my bookshelf.

-I haven't either.

Well, it's brief. I can say that for it.

Now then, Helen, the high scorers are Richard and Chris on 200. You're on 100.

If you can score 99 or less, you are through to the next round. I think you know a few here.

I'm going to go for The Wealth Of Nations, Adam Smith?

Adam Smith, says Helen for The Wealth Of Nations. Here is your red line, nice and high.

Let's see if Adam Smith is right and if it is, how many said it.

Very well done.

8.

That's a great answer, 8, just what you needed. 108, your total. You are in the head-to-head.

Well played, Helen. From 1776. Some people say it's the birth of modern capitalism and economics.

-Let's look through the rest of this board. Das Kapital, it wasn't Hitler.

-Karl Marx.

-Absolutely right.

-31 points. The Road To Wigan Pier?

-Is George Orwell.

-George Orwell.

It would have scored you 15 points.

The biggest scorer up there is The Female Eunuch.

-Which is Germaine Greer.

-Yeah, 36 points.

And the best answer on the board is Silent Spring.

It's an environmental book from the States by Rachel Carson.

It would have scored 1 point. Terrific answer if you got that.

Thanks very much. At the end of that round, our losing pair with a score of 200, it's Richard and Chris.

-That didn't play to your strengths.

-Definitely not.

-Not at all.

Well, you had a good crack at it, but Adolf Hitler...

-Close(!)

-Yeah, German.

-There we go.

Thanks so much for playing. We'll see you again next time. We'll look forward to that.

-Chris and Richard!

-APPLAUSE

But for the remaining two pairs, it's now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Andy and Beth, Helen and Cassie, you're one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot of £1,000.

To decide which pair will go through to the final to play for that money, you'll now go head-to-head,

but you are now allowed to confer. The first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

Andy and Beth, you're the lowest scoring pair.

I think that's largely owing to Richard Hawkings.... Richard Hawkins.

-Yeah, that's right.

-Yeah.

-We had the highs of Kim Clijsters, the lows of Richard Hawkins.

-We're still here.

-Very well done.

Andy and Beth, exemplary answering from you. Very solid. You've come through and there you are.

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

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

-Richard?

-We'll show you five pictures of actors or actresses whose surnames begin with N.

Can you identify the most obscure of these five? Good luck.

Let's reveal our five actors beginning with N and here they come.

There we are, five actors beginning with N.

-Andy and Beth, you've played best throughout the show so far, so you go first.

-OK.

WHISPERING

A is Sam Neill.

I don't know who B is.

We're going to go with A, Sam Neill.

Sam Neill, say Andy and Beth for A.

Now, Helen and Cassie, the rest of the board is yours. Talk us through it.

C, we think, is Edward Norton,

D is Liam Neeson,

E is Jack Nicholson.

-I don't think we know B.

-I don't know who she is.

-I think Sam Neill will win, but shall we go C?

-Yeah.

-Ed Norton, C.

C, Ed Norton. So we have Sam Neill and we have Ed Norton.

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

It's right.

18.

APPLAUSE

18 for Sam Neill.

Helen and Cassie, you've gone for Edward Norton.

-You think that won't beat Sam Neill?

-No.

-OK, let's find out.

Edward Norton, is it right, how many people said it?

It is right.

Will it go down lower than 18? It's going to be close.

Oh, it does. Look at that, wow, 4!

-APPLAUSE

-4 for Edward Norton.

Very well done indeed. Helen and Cassie, after one question, you are up one-nil. Richard?

Only people who really know about films know Ed Norton, but Sam Neill was in Jurassic Park and all sorts.

B would have beaten both of them, but let's get to her last.

Let's start with Jack Nicholson because he's the biggest scorer up there.

He would have got you 65 points.

Then Liam Neeson next to him would have scored you 31.

And the best answer up there that would have beaten even Edward Norton,

Vertigo was recently voted the best film of all time

and the star of Vertigo is Kim Novak.

Would have scored 2 points. Very well done if you said that.

Thanks, Richard. Here comes your second question. Andy and Beth, you need to win it to stay in the game.

It concerns...

-Famous paintings, Richard?

-We'll show you the names of five famous paintings now,

but we've left a word out of the title of each one. Can you fill it in, please?

Let's reveal the names of our five famous paintings. Here they are. We have got...

I'll read those all again.

There we are, five famous paintings with a missing word.

Now, Helen and Cassie, you answer first this time.

WHISPERING

We're going to go for the top one, Girl With A Pearl Earring.

Girl With A Pearl Earring, say Helen and Cassie.

Andy and Beth, the board is yours.

Yeah, we were going to go with that one.

We were pretty confident about the last one.

-You can say what the last one is.

-The last one might be The Last Supper, but the other three...

-You have to win this question to stay in the game.

-I know.

OK, we'll go for the Salvador Dali one, Metamorphosis Of Time.

Helen and Cassie both nodding frantically at that. Why didn't you go for it?

-We were between the two. We didn't know that one for sure, to be fair to them.

-OK.

Metamorphosis Of Time, say Andy and Beth. Helen and Cassie went for Girl With A Pearl Earring.

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

Yeah, absolutely right.

59.

APPLAUSE

Well, it's a high score, but it's correct.

Andy and Beth have gone for The Metamorphosis Of Time by Salvador Dali.

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

Oh!

Interesting. An incorrect answer,

which means, Helen and Cassie, after only two questions, you are through to the final two-nil. Richard?

I bet you weren't the only people to say Metamorphosis Of Time with the melting clocks and so on.

Actually, it's Metamorphosis Of Narcissus.

It would have scored you 3 points.

There are two more tough answers up there.

The bottom one is The Last Supper, but would have scored just more than Girl With A Pearl Earring - 66.

Now, these other two...

The Moon Woman by Jackson Pollock would have scored you 1 point.

The bottom one is pointless.

It's the famous painting of the guy in the bowler hat with the apple obscuring his face by Magritte

and it's The Son Of Man.

That was pointless, so three very tough answers.

-Well done if you got all five of those.

-Thank you very much indeed.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head is Andy and Beth.

Yeah, I thought that was right, Metamorphosis Of Time.

Metamorphosis Of Narcissus, there we are. We'll all remember that for at least another half hour.

I'm so sorry, Andy and Beth, but we'll see you again next time.

It would have been over in one game and that would've been no fun.

Helen and Cassie, we'll see you in a moment in the final, but Andy and Beth, thanks for playing.

-See you next time.

-APPLAUSE

But for Helen and Cassie, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Helen and Cassie, you've beaten all the competition

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

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot and at the end of today's show, it stands at £1,000.

APPLAUSE

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

First, choose your category and here are your five options.

-I'm quite good at Playwrights.

-I can't do Playwrights.

-Let's go for Football.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah, yeah.

All right, my husband is going to kill me. I'm going to go for Football.

-Don't say he's going to kill you yet.

-He won't kill me. He'll be shouting answers at the screen.

-Maybe they'll be the answers that you get.

-Let's hope so.

Let's hope it's a weird, time travel, shouting through glass ability. Maybe it'll all come good.

Here comes your question. We gave 100 people 100 seconds

to name as many winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion as they could. Richard?

We're looking for the name of any football manager who has won the Champions League

or its equivalent before that, the European Cup, from 1956 to 2012.

Any manager who has won that tournament twice or more, please.

Anyone who has won that tournament twice or more. Very best of luck.

You have one minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that jackpot of £1,000 is for just one answer to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yeah.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

Europe's not my thing. OK, I'm a Forest fan.

-I think Brian... Who was manager?

-Brian Clough?

-Brian Clough.

-I don't know. Name some clubs.

-Chelsea.

-We could probably say Pep Guardiola.

I don't know if they won it twice when he was managing Barcelona. I know they've won it once.

-Like Premiership football...

-No, well, it's Europe, so...

I'm terrible at European football. This was the problem if Europe came up.

France's manager, Italy...

So...

Oh, God, names just disappear, don't they?

Can you think of any international managers that you've seen that manage countries?

Jose Mourinho probably hasn't...

Who was that Liverpool one?

Ten seconds left.

-Eriksson?

-Sven-Goran Eriksson? I don't think he has, but... No.

Not that have managed, um...

OK, I'm afraid your time is up.

We're looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion. I now need your three answers.

-Brian Clough.

-Brian Clough.

Pep Guardiola and...

-We'll say Jose Mourinho.

-And Jose Mourinho.

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

-Probably Brian Clough, but I'm doubting whether he even...

-OK, Brian Clough we'll put last.

-And your least likely?

-Mourinho.

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

We were looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion.

Your first answer, Jose Mourinho, was least likely to be pointless.

Only one answer has to be pointless for you to win £1,000.

Let's find out. Jose Mourinho, is it right, how many people said it?

Well, it's correct. I don't think that was in much doubt,

but how far down is he going to go?

He's taking us down through the 40s, into the 30s, into the 20s.

21.

-APPLAUSE

-21.

Not a bad answer.

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer, so you only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

£1,000, a nice, little bijou prize there.

Helen, what would you do with your share of that?

Go on a little jaunt somewhere, I think, or buy some more shoes.

-I thought you were going to learn to drive?

-Yeah, I might take some driving lessons.

-Well, you can drive somewhere, go somewhere in a car.

-Yeah.

-Cassie, how about you?

I always said, because I'm on here with Helen and we met at university 20 years ago,

I always said we'd throw a big party for everyone we're still friends with.

Excellent. Good idea.

Two more chances to win that jackpot and make that party happen.

We're looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion.

Let's hope nobody said Pep Guardiola. So, for £1,000, let's see how many people said Pep Guardiola.

It's also correct. Now, Mourinho took us down to 21.

Guardiola now taking us down through the 30s, into the 20s. If this goes down to zero, you leave with £1,000.

Still going down... 7. Now, this is getting very exciting.

APPLAUSE

-That's a cracking answer. Think how pleased you'd be with that in normal game play.

-He's beautiful as well.

And he scored you only 7 points.

Sadly, not pointless.

Only one more chance to win today's jackpot.

-Brian Clough you thought was your most likely to be pointless.

-Yeah.

-Why was that?

I suppose it's a long time ago. I'm a Forest fan, but I wasn't a Forest fan at the time.

I am starting to doubt whether he was the manager.

-Do you think people might have overlooked him or you think it's doubtful it's correct?

-I don't know.

OK, let's hope Brian Clough is a correct answer.

Let's hope nobody said it. We're looking for winning managers in Europe on more than one occasion.

This has to be right and pointless for you to win that jackpot,

so for £1,000, let's find out, Brian Clough, is it pointless?

It is right.

Now then, Mourinho took us down to 21,

Guardiola down to 7,

Brian Clough now taking us into single figures. Still going down.

3!

-APPLAUSE

-Well done.

-Very, very well done.

Three excellent answers there.

And you got it in absolutely the right order as well.

Oh, only three away!

Unfortunately, it's only pointless answers in this last round that will win you that jackpot,

so I'm afraid you didn't find that pointless answer and the jackpot rolls over on to the next show.

-You've been fantastic contestants and you do take home our Pointless trophy, so well done.

-Thank you.

Thank you very much. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Yeah, it was a very good effort at that question, three correct answers up there.

Only one man has ever won three European Cups and that's the late Bob Paisley of Liverpool.

He would have scored 5 points, Bob Paisley. Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers.

The first one and the last one are probably the easiest ones to get.

Arrigo Sacchi won it with Milan twice.

Bela Guttmann won it twice with Benfica in '61 and '62.

Dettmar Cramer won it with Bayern Munich twice.

Ernst Happel won it with Feyenoord and Hamburg.

Jose Mourinho also won it with two different teams.

Jose Villalonga won it twice with Real Madrid

and the two years afterwards, Luis Carniglia won it twice with Real Madrid.

Two more Real Madrid wins for Miguel Munoz and Nereo Rocco won it twice for Milan.

And probably the one most people will have got if people got one,

Vicente del Bosque who won it twice with Real Madrid.

Stefan Kovacs of Ajax also was a pointless answer. Well done if you got one.

Unlucky. You played brilliantly. It was a very tough final category.

-Did you know any of those?

-Del Bosque, I imagine my husband will be shouting that,

but the rest of them, no, not even close. I don't feel too bad.

Three brilliant answers. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you, Helen and Cassie.

-Thank you so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Great contestants!

APPLAUSE

Helen and Cassie didn't win our jackpot today, so it rolls over on to the next show

when we'll be playing for £2,000.

-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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