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Pointless S34E06 (Sep 2025)
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00:00MUSIC
00:22Thank you very much indeed.
00:23Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome
00:25to Partners The Quiz, where knowing the obvious
00:27is actually a disadvantage.
00:29Let's meet today's players.
00:34And couple number one.
00:36Hello, my name's Lee and this is Shiva
00:38and we're from Preston in Lancashire.
00:40Couple number two.
00:41Hello, my name's Storm, this is my husband Richard
00:44and we're from Glantwick Major.
00:46Couple number three.
00:47Hi, I'm Usha, I'm from Hertfordshire
00:49and this is my lovely sister, Sharmilla, who lives in London.
00:52Couple number four.
00:53Hi, I'm Gordon, this is my wife Angela
00:55and we are here from sunny Glasgow.
00:57And these are today's contestants.
01:00Thank you very much, all of you.
01:01A very, very warm welcome to Pointless.
01:02It is lovely to have you here.
01:04That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:06A former Eurovision Song Contest presenter
01:08who is resisting the urge to commiserate
01:10when our players score nul point.
01:12It is my pointless friend, it is Angela Rippon.
01:15APPLAUSE
01:18Hi, Xander, no nul point today.
01:20Oh, no, it would be great if they get nul point.
01:22No, we want pointless, not nul point.
01:24I suppose, I suppose.
01:25Yes, no.
01:26Yes, yes.
01:27Pas de point.
01:28Pas de point.
01:29Oui.
01:30Sans point.
01:31Tout ça.
01:32Oui, peut-être.
01:35Shall we welcome our guests?
01:37I think we're probably just, yes.
01:38How lovely to see you all.
01:41Anyway, now then, listen, I must tell you, Vicky and Danny
01:44got through to the final last time and they did not win the jackpot,
01:47which means we are adding another £1,000 to that.
01:49So today's jackpot starts off at £2,250.
01:53There we are.
01:54Right.
01:55If everyone's ready, let's play pointless.
02:02Now, I must remind you that it's always the pair with the highest score
02:06at the end of each round that gets eliminated.
02:08So just keep your scores as low as you possibly can
02:10and we are all set to make it through to the final.
02:12Very best of luck to all four pairs.
02:14Our first category today is...
02:21Woo-hoo!
02:22..and you will decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
02:24who's going to go second.
02:25And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:31OK.
02:32Let's find out what the question is.
02:33Here it comes.
02:34We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
02:39..chemical elements that contain the letters G, C, S or E,
02:43as they could, Angela.
02:45Yes, indeed.
02:46We are looking for any element in the periodic table
02:49that contains one or more of the letters G, C, S or E in its name.
02:55And all of those elements you will find on the IU pack
02:58at the beginning of August of 2024.
03:01Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
03:04Shiva, we start with you.
03:06Tell us more about yourself, Shiva.
03:08We heard last time about your love of Gilbert and Sullivan.
03:11Absolutely.
03:12And besides, I mean, my parents wanted to make a singer of me
03:16when I was young.
03:18They tried really hard.
03:19It just wasn't working out.
03:21It wasn't going to happen.
03:22Then you went into Indian classical dancing.
03:24I did, yeah.
03:25I could do that.
03:26But singing was something I wanted to do as a kid,
03:29but somehow never got around to.
03:30But now I sing in a chorus.
03:31So...
03:32That's marvellous.
03:33Less pressure.
03:34A little bit less pressure.
03:35And somebody else does the heavy lifting.
03:36And how is the voice?
03:37It sounds OK.
03:40It's serviceable.
03:41Better when I speak than when I sing.
03:43No, I'm sure.
03:44Absolutely sure of it.
03:46OK, so how are we feeling about chemical elements?
03:50I'm concerned about mispronouncing it, but...
03:53Astatine.
03:55Astatine?
03:56Yeah.
03:57Astatine or Astatine, possibly.
03:58Astatine, Astatine.
03:59Let's put it to the column.
04:00See what the column makes of that.
04:01Astatine, Astatine.
04:03Astat...
04:04Something or other.
04:06There we are.
04:07Astatine.
04:08Look at that.
04:14Look at that!
04:15My goodness!
04:18Periodic table full of all those awkward teens.
04:19There we are.
04:20That's a pointless answer.
04:21Very well done indeed.
04:22Being a pointless answer, it adds £250 to today's jackpot,
04:26taking the total up to £2,500.
04:28Scores you nothing and gets us off to a rollicking start.
04:31So very well done indeed, Shua.
04:34Yes, what a great start to the programme there, Shua.
04:36Astatine is in fact a highly radioactive element
04:39and it exists only in very, very tiny amounts in nature.
04:43Thank you very much indeed.
04:44Now then, Richard, welcome back.
04:46It's lovely to have you with us again.
04:47We need to hear more about you, Richard.
04:49Well, I too like singing.
04:51Do you?
04:52Probably my finest moment was with the panto group
04:55that we were with when we lived in East Sussex.
04:57And they were called pants, but probably my finest moment on the stage
05:04was when they finally asked me to be the pantomime goose.
05:08Yes.
05:09I actually came on the stage.
05:10Yes.
05:11With my script inside there, with a little lamp on a shelf and a drink,
05:16my script went straight through me and fell in a long line behind me on the stage.
05:21But laying the egg is the easiest funny thing I've ever done in my life.
05:26But of course you wouldn't have known when to lay it,
05:27because your script was scattered across the stage.
05:29Well, I think they quickly gathered that up.
05:30OK, fed it back up inside.
05:32Yes.
05:33Because you need a script when you're a goose.
05:35Of course you do.
05:36You do.
05:37Because there's a lot of honking around.
05:38So, yeah.
05:39Fabulous.
05:40Richard, chemistry.
05:41Yes.
05:42Chemistry is right.
05:43I think I'd go with terbium.
05:45Terbium.
05:46Well, there's a golden egg if ever I heard one.
05:49Terbium.
05:50Shall we see if that's right?
05:51Shall we see how many people said terbium?
05:56It's a thing.
05:57It's a thing.
05:59It's very good.
06:02Oh, look, it's one of those as well.
06:04There we are.
06:05Terbium.
06:06Fantastic.
06:07It's another pointless answer.
06:08It adds another £250 to today's jackpot,
06:11taking the total up to £2,750,
06:13and it scores you nothing.
06:14This is just terrific.
06:16But huge pressure on Yusha.
06:17But there we are.
06:19Terbium is a soft metal that was used in the manufacture
06:22of the very first re-writable CDs.
06:26How clever.
06:27Wasn't it clever of you?
06:28Yes.
06:29Yeah.
06:30There we are.
06:31Now Yusha, welcome.
06:32Hello.
06:33Lovely to have you here.
06:34Tell us all about yourself.
06:35Erm, when we were younger, we used to live in Canada
06:37for a couple of years.
06:39And, erm, that's where I started my television career.
06:42Oh!
06:43Tell us more!
06:44Tell us more!
06:45So, I was in whatever the Canadian equivalent
06:48of primary school was.
06:50Yes.
06:51The television crew came to the school.
06:54And what they wanted to do was to film the children
06:57doing PE type activities.
07:00And I decided that I did not want to be the centre of attention
07:04and all the other kids were being really busy,
07:07being super athletic, you know, throwing things around
07:10and jumping in the air.
07:12And I was just crawling along on my knees, bouncing a little ball,
07:15thinking, I'm just staying out of the way here.
07:17And who did they focus in on?
07:20It was you.
07:21Presumably, was this right across Canada?
07:23Everyone had seen it.
07:24I think it was local news.
07:25Local. Thank goodness.
07:26There we are.
07:27Now, Yusha, to chemistry.
07:28And more particularly, to this issue of these prevailing
07:31pointless answers.
07:33I think I'm going to go with C. Borgium.
07:36C. Borgium.
07:37C. Borgium.
07:38Well, shall we see if we can continue this lovely run
07:40of pointless answers?
07:41C. Borgium.
07:44C. Borgium's right.
07:51Oh!
07:52One!
07:53One!
07:54One person got C. Borgium.
07:55There we are.
07:56Very well done.
07:57Lovely low score.
07:58And it's an artificial metal that was first produced back in 1974.
08:02Apparently, the method of production creates one C. Borgium,
08:07atom, every hour.
08:09So they're quite slow to produce, by the sound of it.
08:12Wow.
08:14Gordon, welcome back.
08:16Lovely to have you with us.
08:17This is your last chance to fill us in on details of your life, Gordon.
08:21Well, I guess I would say is that I like to travel.
08:23Yes.
08:24And I've been fortunate to do quite a bit of it,
08:26with obviously being in the RAF and holidays and things like that.
08:29Yeah.
08:30More recently, I've started taking to cruising.
08:32Very nice.
08:33So, two cruises ago, I asked Angela if she would be my wife.
08:37And the last cruise we were on was our honeymoon.
08:40Oh, but that's just two lovely four words.
08:41Where were you when you proposed?
08:43Athens.
08:44It was a Greek island cruise.
08:46I was supposed to do it in the final night, but my bottle crashed,
08:49and I had to do it in the first night.
08:51Oh, you have to.
08:52Get it all and done with.
08:53You'd have ruined the whole...
08:54You'd have been awkward and quiet,
08:55and Angela would have wondered what was going on.
08:57I would have really have ruined it if she said no.
08:59Oh, yes, that's true.
09:01Now, Gordon, what are you going to go for?
09:03So, hard for me to say, but Darmstadtium.
09:06Darmstadtium.
09:07Darmstadtium.
09:08Darmstadt in Germany.
09:09Darmstadtium.
09:10Darmstadtium.
09:11Darmstadtium.
09:12Anyway, let's see.
09:13Is that right?
09:14How many people said it?
09:15If it is.
09:16Darmstadtium, absolutely right.
09:18Well, one is our high score and nothing is our low.
09:23Ah, there you are.
09:24Very well done indeed, Gordon.
09:26Very well done.
09:27Another pointless answer.
09:28It adds another £250 to today's jackpot.
09:30Takes the total up to a lovely round.
09:323,000.
09:33Scores you nothing and is terrific.
09:36My jaw is on the ground here.
09:38That you all know these, but the city of Darmstadt in Germany
09:42is where the element was first produced and I can't wait
09:45to see what the other four are going to come up with.
09:47I know.
09:48More pointless answers, I suspect.
09:49More pointless answers, I suspect.
09:50Yeah.
09:51So good for the jackpot.
09:52Yes.
09:53It's just thriving in these chemistry rounds.
09:54I know.
09:55Amazing.
09:56Well, thank you very much.
09:57We're halfway through the round.
09:58Seems a good opportunity to have a little recap of those scores.
10:00Um, nothing is our best score.
10:02Well done, Shiver and Lee.
10:03Well done, Richard and Storm.
10:04Well done, Gordon and Angela.
10:06And then we go all the way up to one for our high scores.
10:09Usha and Sharmilla.
10:10So, Sharmilla, you are a bit ahead.
10:12You might just want to find a nice low scoring answer on the next pass
10:16to try and even things up a little bit.
10:17There we are.
10:18Good luck with that.
10:19We're going to come back down the line now.
10:20Will the second players please step up to the podium?
10:22There we are, Angela.
10:23Hi.
10:24There we are.
10:25Welcome back to Pointless.
10:27For your last show.
10:28I know.
10:29So sad.
10:30So sad.
10:31So there you were, in the Greek islands.
10:32Mm-hm.
10:33Gordon's been a bit shifty.
10:34It's been a bit odd all day.
10:35Did you know what was coming?
10:36No, I was actually.
10:37I was very surprised.
10:38Oh.
10:39Came out of a clear blue sky.
10:40Yeah, it was a nice surprise, though, and a good ring.
10:41So, you know.
10:42Very good.
10:43Very good.
10:44That sealed the deal.
10:45Absolutely right.
10:46Tell us a bit more about yourself, Angela.
10:47Gordon would probably say my hobbies are online shopping and drinking wine.
10:52But I do like to go and see live music.
10:55I've seen quite a few gigs this year whenever we can get some babysitters.
10:58Very good.
10:59Now then, Angela, let's go back to the periodic table.
11:02What are you going to give me?
11:03OK.
11:04I don't know what was coming.
11:05What was coming?
11:06No, I was actually.
11:07I was very surprised.
11:08What are you going to give me?
11:09OK.
11:10I'm going to go for strontium.
11:12Strontium.
11:13OK.
11:14You want a pointless answer to be sure of a place in the next round,
11:18which means you'll have a sort of red line of sorts,
11:20a theoretical red line anyway, and let's say it's that.
11:23Strontium.
11:24How many people said that?
11:33Five for strontium.
11:36Five.
11:37And it's the strontium salts that make those brilliant red sparks that you get in fireworks.
11:42They are an important component in fireworks.
11:45It's also the component of the thing that makes certain paints glow in the dark.
11:50Thank you very much indeed.
11:51Now, Sharmella, welcome.
11:52How lovely to have you here.
11:53Tell us all about yourself.
11:54Yes.
11:55Yes, so I work in publishing as an editor and organise events.
12:00But apart from us living in Canada when we were little, I lived in Japan for three years after university.
12:06Wonderful.
12:07Well, how is your Japanese?
12:08Not good.
12:09Not good.
12:10It was in the last century that I lived there.
12:12OK.
12:13But still, when you were there, were you getting pretty good at it?
12:15I knew enough to get by.
12:16No, it's good.
12:17Yeah.
12:18But, you know, I was teaching English.
12:20Yes.
12:21So, luckily, the people I was speaking to spoke English.
12:23We're all longing to learn English.
12:24There we are.
12:25Well, that's just as well.
12:26Now, Sharmella, you're on one.
12:29We are looking for a score of three or less.
12:31What are we thinking?
12:32This is such a bad subject for me.
12:34Oh, no.
12:35I'm going to say selenium.
12:37Selenium.
12:38There is your red line, Sharmella.
12:41Shall we see if we can get you below that red line with selenium?
12:45Selenium is right.
12:52Six for selenium.
12:54It's not bad at all.
12:55Taking your total up to seven.
12:56And selenium is what will give a bronzy tint to architectural glass.
13:02It means that it can reduce the impact of sunlight coming through it.
13:06Thank you very much indeed.
13:07Storm, welcome back.
13:10We must hear more.
13:11We must hear more about you, Storm.
13:13Well, I did say that we like volunteering in our community.
13:15Well, you did.
13:16Yeah, and this year we took part in an archaeological dig in our town,
13:21which was really interesting.
13:23So, who was leading that?
13:24A local archaeologist or did you bring someone in?
13:26It was the Cardiff University were leading it.
13:29Did you find anything?
13:30Yeah, it was really interesting.
13:31A lot of slag.
13:32Right.
13:33Yeah.
13:34OK.
13:35And after the slag, yes.
13:36Beneath that.
13:37They did find quite a lot.
13:38Yes.
13:39Now then, Storm, you're on nothing.
13:40We are looking for a target of six or less to get you into round two.
13:43OK.
13:44I've got a few.
13:45Good.
13:46Ten-a-scene.
13:47Ten-a-scene.
13:48Ten-a-scene.
13:49You get a red line.
13:50Timmy's even get you below that with ten-a-scene.
13:51You're through.
13:52And it's one of those.
13:53Our first double one of those.
13:54That's another pointless answer.
13:55It adds another £250 to today's jackpot.
13:56Takes the total up to £3,250.
13:57Scores you nothing.
13:58Leaves your total at nothing.
13:59Brilliant.
14:00And it's another one of those artificially produced radioactive chemical elements.
14:03And this one was named after the state of Tennessee.
14:05Thank you very much indeed, Lee.
14:06Welcome back.
14:25Welcome back.
14:27We must hear more about you, Lee.
14:29I've got four grown-up children and a grandson called Hunter.
14:32Hunter.
14:33One of my children.
14:35One of my children is in the Grenadier Guards.
14:37So I was lucky enough last year to watch him at Trooping of the Colour.
14:41That must have been very moving.
14:43It was.
14:44It was very, very hot that day.
14:45Oh, yeah.
14:46There were a few casualties that went down.
14:48Did you know which one he was?
14:50Could you spot?
14:51I always want to know.
14:52Well, my wife was next to me and all she kept saying was,
14:53that's not him who's gone down, is it?
14:55That's not him who's gone down.
14:56I went, no, he's still there.
14:57He's still there.
14:58He's still there.
14:59But you kind of recognised?
15:00Yes.
15:01Yes.
15:02His gate.
15:03His gate.
15:04There we are.
15:06Now then, Lee, you're on nothing.
15:07Do we think we can get double nothing?
15:08Hasium.
15:10Hasium.
15:11Hasium.
15:12You get a red line.
15:14Hasium.
15:15Get you below that red line.
15:23You're through.
15:24Good.
15:25It's another one of those.
15:26APPLAUSE
15:27Very well done indeed.
15:28It's another pointless answer.
15:30It adds another £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to £3,500.
15:35Scores you nothing, leaves your total at nothing and is simply all round terrific.
15:39Well done.
15:40Discovered in 1984 and its name is also derived from the German state of Hesse, which is where
15:47it was first made.
15:48There were actually 30 pointless answers.
15:50We've got astatine, which Chivet gave us.
15:53We've got bismuth.
15:54We've got cerium.
15:56We also have livermorium, neptunium and rutherfordium.
16:01Scandium.
16:03We had tennessee, which of course Storm gave us, and zirconium.
16:07So, well done if you've got any of those at home.
16:10Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
16:12That brings us to the end of our first round.
16:13It means we have to go back to our first pair with an enormously high score of seven.
16:17Sharmilla and Usha, it's been lovely to have you on for this round.
16:20We'll see you again next time when I'm sure we can take it much, much further.
16:23But meanwhile, thank you so much for playing Sharmilla and Usha.
16:25APPLAUSE
16:26However, for the remaining three pairs, now time for round two.
16:29APPLAUSE
16:34Oh, very well done.
16:36Very well done indeed.
16:37You made it through that round with flying colours.
16:40Best of luck to all three pairs.
16:42Our category for round two today is...
16:44Home furnishings.
16:47Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?
16:50And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
16:52OK, and the question concerns...
16:59Alternative definitions for furniture, Angela.
17:03Well, on each board, we're going to give you six definitions of words
17:06that can also be names of furniture.
17:09Now, to help, we're going to tell you the first letter of the word
17:12that we're looking for, together with the number of letters
17:15that each of those words contains.
17:18You just have to tell us what piece of furniture we're looking for.
17:21Thank you very much indeed.
17:22So, can you identify the pieces of furniture described by these clues?
17:26Here's our first board of six.
17:27To preside over a meeting.
17:29C, five.
17:30Empire, with its capital at Constantinople,
17:32that spanned much of the eastern Mediterranean region.
17:35O, seven.
17:37An area of ground that's been specially prepared so that plants can be grown in it.
17:40B, three.
17:42A person or thing, the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten.
17:46W, seven.
17:48A piece of land completely surrounded by water.
17:50I, six.
17:52And a group of senior ministers collectively responsible for government policy.
17:57C, seven.
18:00There we are.
18:01Lee.
18:03Um...
18:05I think I'll go with the Empire, with its capital as Constantinople,
18:09that spanned much of the eastern Mediterranean.
18:11And we'll go for Ottoman.
18:12Ottoman.
18:13The Ottoman Empire, says Lee.
18:14Shall we see how many of our 100 said Ottoman?
18:18Ottoman is right.
18:24Ottoman goes down to 19.
18:25Very solid start.
18:29Ottoman.
18:30That's actually a very good answer, because Ottoman is, as you probably know then,
18:33an upholstered seat of any shape.
18:35Not always, but quite often it doesn't have a back, so you can kind of lounge across it.
18:40Yes.
18:41Very comfortable piece of furniture.
18:42Thank you very much indeed.
18:43Now then, Richard.
18:45Hmm.
18:46Hmm.
18:47Hmm.
18:48I don't know two or three there, but I think I'll go for a group of senior ministers,
18:52collectively responsible for government policy, and that would be a cabinet.
18:56Cabinet, says Richard.
18:57Shall we see how many of our 100 said Cabinet?
19:03Cabinet's right.
19:0419 is the only score we have at the moment.
19:0728 is where Cabinet ends up.
19:12And they're not cheap pieces of furniture, if you get the right one,
19:15because in 2004 the Badminton Cabinet, which is an 18th century decorative ebony cabinet,
19:21was sold at auction for just over £19 million.
19:27And it was bought by a museum in Liechtenstein on behalf of Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein.
19:34Excellent.
19:35Yeah, I bet he didn't use it to put his underwear in either.
19:38Thank you very much indeed.
19:40Now then, Angela, you are the last person to have this board.
19:43Yeah.
19:44If you like, you can fill in all the blanks for us.
19:46To preside over a meeting would be chair, an area of ground, bed,
19:52and then a piece of land surrounded by water would be island.
19:56I think I will say chair for the first one.
19:59OK, chair.
20:00Says Angela.
20:01How many of our 100 people agree with that?
20:02Chair.
20:1133 for chair.
20:12Right, chair in 2009, an Art Nouveau armchair that was made by the designer Eileen Gray,
20:21once belonged to Yves Saint Laurent, the designer.
20:25That sold at auction, again, for a little over, someone had a lot of money to spare,
20:30£19 million again.
20:31It's always £19 million with these furniture collectors.
20:33I know.
20:34I know.
20:35Shall we clear the board then?
20:36Yes, I think we might.
20:37You were absolutely right there about chair.
20:39You were also right about bed.
20:42Bed scored 24.
20:44And also, of course, a piece of land surrounded by water.
20:47That would have scored you 57.
20:49The one in the middle, a personal thing, the name of which is unknown
20:52or temporarily forgotten, Xander?
20:54It's a what-not.
20:55It is!
20:56And if any of you had got a what-not, it would have scored just two.
21:00And a what-not, I bet you haven't got one in your house.
21:02It's one of those bits of freestanding furniture that you can put bits on.
21:06Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
21:08We are halfway through the round.
21:09Let's have a quick look at those scores.
21:1119, Lee and Shiva.
21:13Very, very well done indeed.
21:1428 is where we find Richard and Storm.
21:17And then 33, a little bit ahead of the field, Angela and Gordon.
21:20So, Gordon, you get the new board.
21:22Find a lovely low-scoring answer on it.
21:24Good luck with that.
21:25We're going to come back down the line now.
21:26Will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:28OK, let's put six more clues to items of furniture up on the board,
21:35and here they come.
21:36We have got...
21:37..an office that collects or distributes information.
21:41B, six.
21:43The front part of the upper body.
21:45C, five.
21:47A person employed in a theatre to help actors with their costumes.
21:50D, seven.
21:52A written set of facts and figures arranged in columns and rows.
21:55T, five.
21:57To pay a bill or an amount owed.
22:00S, six.
22:02And a Middle Eastern council or council chamber.
22:05D, five.
22:08There we are.
22:09Gordon, over to you.
22:12I think I'm going to go with a third one down and say dresser.
22:17Dresser.
22:18Shall we see if that is right?
22:20Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
22:21No red line for you as you're the highest scorers at the moment.
22:27OK.
22:3228.
22:3328.
22:34Taking your total up to 61.
22:36The Welsh dresser, which an awful lot of people, if they have the room in their kitchen,
22:40is something that they like to put in, usually made out of pine or something very similar.
22:44and, of course, it'll take lots of plates and bits and pieces
22:46and all the crockery that you've got in the house.
22:49And that's what it is.
22:50It's a thing for storage, for crockery.
22:53Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
22:55Now then, Storm, you're on 28.
22:5832 or less gets you into the head-to-head.
23:01I know a few.
23:02I think I'm going to go for to pay a bill or an amount owed
23:05and say settle.
23:07Settle. Settle.
23:09Shall we see if that's right?
23:11Here's your red line.
23:12Can we get you below that with settle?
23:14Yes, we can get you below that with settle.
23:21Down it goes to 14.
23:22That's an excellent answer.
23:2342, your total.
23:25I think you might have seen them very often.
23:28In a lot of pubs they have them sometimes, don't they?
23:30And they tend to have arms and a very high wooden back
23:33and a sort of box-like seat so that you can store things underneath.
23:37Very practical pieces.
23:38That's a settle, yes.
23:38That's a settle.
23:39Very practical pieces of furniture.
23:40Usually a bit of carvings on the back, aren't they?
23:42All of that.
23:43Yes, all of that.
23:44Yes.
23:44Thank you very much.
23:45Shiva.
23:46Hello.
23:47There's your board.
23:48Would you like to talk us through it and fill in the blanks?
23:50I can't think of the top one, I'm afraid.
23:52I feel like the second one would be chest.
23:55And a written set of facts and figures would probably be table.
23:58But I have a feeling both of them are going to be pretty high.
24:01So I'm tempted to take a chance with the Middle Eastern Council, a council chamber.
24:08I have a feeling it might be a divan.
24:10A divan?
24:11Yeah.
24:12A divan.
24:13I mean, it fits.
24:14I mean, in terms of letters.
24:16Well, listen, you want to be scoring 41.
24:18Here's your red line.
24:19What happens when we say divan?
24:22Oh, yes.
24:23Shiva, well done.
24:24Oh, well done, you.
24:26That's brilliant.
24:26Through you go.
24:29Ah, and it's a point of chance there as well, because we haven't had enough of those on this show.
24:34Very well done indeed.
24:35That adds a further £250 to today's jackpot, taking the total up to £3,750, scores you nothing,
24:42leaves your total at 19 and ensures you have a place in the head-to-head.
24:45Very well done.
24:46And you should have one, because a divan is a comfortable seat for more than one person.
24:51It has no back and no arms, and again, is another one of those nice, sort of comfortable, long things that you can lounge on.
24:57Shall we look at the rest of the board, then?
24:58Yes.
24:59Do you know what they are, Zander?
24:59I think I've got them all.
25:00Did it clear it?
25:01So what we've had so far, we had chest for the front part of the upper body.
25:04Got that.
25:04Chest scored 55.
25:06Yeah.
25:06And then table for written set of facts and figures.
25:09That was 31.
25:10And at the top, that's a bureau.
25:12It is.
25:13And that scored 20.
25:14Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
25:17That brings us to the end of our second round.
25:18And it means we have to say goodbye.
25:20Oh, Gordon and Angela.
25:22I'm so sorry.
25:23This is it.
25:24There's no au revoir here.
25:26It's been wonderful having you on the show.
25:27Thank you so much for coming and playing.
25:29I'm sorry we didn't get to send you home with a trophy, but as I say, thanks so much.
25:34Brilliant.
25:34Gordon and Angela.
25:35Good luck.
25:36But for our two remaining pairs, now time for the head-to-head.
25:38Huge congratulations, Shiver and Lee, Storm and Richard.
25:48You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently
25:53stands at £3,750.
25:56But before we play the head-to-head, we're going to give you another chance to top that
26:02up with yet more money by seeing if you can find a couple of pointless answers just for
26:05fun.
26:05So here goes.
26:06We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many guests on the Morecambe and Wise show as
26:14they could.
26:15Angela, that's lovely.
26:17My name is not going to be there, I warn you.
26:19Oh, that's a shame.
26:21So what we're going to do is show you six options.
26:24Now, four of them are famous people who have appeared on the show.
26:27Two of them are scoring, two of them are pointless, and two of them have not had the pleasure of
26:33appearing on the show at all.
26:35So you just have to name them, and £250 goes into the jackpot for every pointless answer
26:42you manage to come up with.
26:43So, good luck.
26:44Thank you very much indeed.
26:45So can you find the two pointless guests on the Morecambe and Wise show from these
26:49six?
26:51Shirley Bassey, Harold Wilson, Vanessa Redgrave, Fluella Benjamin, Ronnie Corbett, Elton John.
27:00Does anybody know anything?
27:01The ideas.
27:03Shirley Bassey's definitely been on, and Vanessa Redgrave's been on.
27:06I think Harold Wilson has.
27:08I don't think Fluella Benjamin has been on.
27:10She might have been too young.
27:11Yes.
27:12So...
27:13OK, Shiver and Lee, I'm going to ask you, who do you want
27:15to nominate?
27:16Harold Wilson.
27:17Harold Wilson.
27:18Shall we see if Harold Wilson is a pointless Morecambe and Wise guest?
27:24He's a Morecambe and Wise guest.
27:29Looking good.
27:30Yeah!
27:31It is good!
27:34Now then, Storm and Richard, who would you like to nominate?
27:38Oof.
27:38We're thinking Elton John, I think.
27:41Yeah.
27:41Elton John.
27:42You're going to go Elton John.
27:43Shall we see if Elton John is a pointless Morecambe and Wise guest?
27:48Definitely a Morecambe and Wise guest.
27:55Six.
27:57There we are.
27:58Elton, of course, did appear in 1976 and again in 1977.
28:04Shirley Bassey appeared in 1971 in their Christmas show, and that would have scored you 15.
28:09There is another pointless there, but I'm going to tell you who the two were not ever on the
28:12show.
28:13Fluella Benjamin, she never appeared on the show.
28:16And Ronnie Corbett also was never on Morecambe and Wise.
28:20But the other person who was, how could you forget Vanessa Redgrave?
28:24She was the other pointless answer there.
28:27Thank you very much indeed, and well done.
28:29And you managed to find £250 to add to our jackpot, which is terrific, taking it up to
28:33an altogether more satisfactory £4,000.
28:36But who will be playing for it?
28:38Well, we'll just have to find out in the head-to-head.
28:45OK, the first pair to win two questions.
28:47We'll be playing for that jackpot.
28:48You are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
28:50Best of luck to both pairs.
28:51Here's our first question.
28:53And it is all about negative flags.
28:58Angela.
28:58Well, we're going to show you national flags of five countries, but we've inverted the
29:04colours, so it actually gives them the look of a photographic negative.
29:08Please give us the names of the countries.
29:10And just remember that, as always, by country, we mean a sovereign state that is a member of
29:16the United Nations in its own right.
29:18Thank you very much.
29:19OK, let's reveal our five negative flags.
29:21Here they come.
29:22We have A, B, C, D, and E.
29:47There we are.
29:48Five negative flags.
29:49Now, Shiva and Lee, you get to go first.
29:52Um, we don't know all of them, so we're going to go for B and Portugal.
29:58B, Portugal.
30:01Portugal.
30:01Now, Storm and Richard, do you fancy talking us through the rest of that board?
30:05We think A is South Africa.
30:07Canada.
30:07We think C is Canada.
30:09A bit confused by D, but it looks suspiciously like Scotland, but we won't go for that anyhow.
30:14We'll go for E, and we think it's Bhutan.
30:16Bhutan, you're going to say for E. So, we have Portugal, and we have Bhutan.
30:21Shiva and Lee have gone for B and are saying Portugal. Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
30:25It is indeed Portugal.
30:34That goes down to 20.
30:36Meanwhile, Storm and Richard have gone for Bhutan for E.
30:41Should we see how many of our 100 said Bhutan?
30:43Is it right?
30:46It is right.
30:47And it wins you the point.
30:53And down it goes to five.
30:54Very well done indeed.
30:55Storm and Richard, after one question, you're up 1-0.
30:58Bhutan, yes.
30:59Beautiful country.
31:00I don't know if you've ever been.
31:00I've visited it twice.
31:02Have you?
31:02Absolutely stunning country.
31:04Interesting that you said you thought D might be Scotland.
31:06Actually, 52 other people thought it might be Scotland.
31:09It's actually Jamaica, and that would have scored you 12.
31:12Canada, yes, was the third one on the list.
31:15C, 95.
31:17Portugal, you got right.
31:18And South Africa, there, up at the top, which would have scored you 47.
31:22Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
31:24Here comes your second question.
31:26Now then, Shiva and Lee, you've got to win this one to stay in the game.
31:28Storm and Richard get to answer it first, so good luck.
31:31Our second question is all about ballets, Angela.
31:36Well, we're going to show you the titles of five ballets,
31:39but we've changed one letter in each word of their titles,
31:44so please work out what the full title of the ballet should have been.
31:47Thank you very much indeed.
31:48So let's reveal our five altered ballets, and here they are.
31:52We have...
31:53There we are.
32:06Now, Storm and Richard will go first.
32:13We'll go for number two, The Seven Deadly Sins.
32:16The Seven Deadly Sins, say Storm and Richard.
32:20Now then, Shiva and Lee, do you want to talk us through that board?
32:24The first one's Swan Lake, and that's probably going to be very high.
32:28I know the fourth one's Alice in Wonderland.
32:29And that also would probably be very high,
32:32so I'm sort of trying to see what three and five might be.
32:37Go for it.
32:38Just a simple man for number three.
32:41You're going to say a simple man for number three.
32:42So we have The Seven Deadly Sins and a simple man.
32:46Storm and Richard went for The Seven Deadly Sins for the second one.
32:49Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
32:51It's right.
32:58Seven Deadly Sins goes down to 30.
33:02Meanwhile, Shiva and Lee have gone for a simple man for Ice Sample Cam.
33:05Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
33:07Let's see if it's right.
33:07It is right.
33:14It is right.
33:15And it wins you the point.
33:16Very well done, indeed.
33:17More importantly, and you are back in the game, Shiva and Lee,
33:19after two questions, that's one all.
33:21It's a good job you did not settle on Swan Lake,
33:24because, of course, that would have been the one that everybody knew
33:26and would have scored you 50.
33:28And Alice in Wonderland would have scored you 45.
33:31The lowest score on the board was for the one on the bottom,
33:34which is, do you know?
33:35The Rite of Spring, yes.
33:37The Rite of Spring, wonderful music by Stravinsky,
33:40choreographed by Najinsky.
33:43Three people recognised it.
33:44Thank you very much, indeed.
33:46Well, it all comes down to a third question.
33:47This is the decider.
33:48Whoever wins this goes through to the final
33:49and plays for that jackpot.
33:51Best of luck to both pairs.
33:53Our third question is all about...
33:57Jennifer Lopez.
33:58Angela.
33:59And we're going to show you five clues
34:01that are facts about Jennifer Lopez.
34:04We want you to tell us the answers, please.
34:07Thank you very much, indeed.
34:08Here are our five J-Lo clues.
34:11And we have...
34:12In 2020, she and Colombian singer Shakira co-headlined
34:16the halftime show of this major US sports event.
34:20In the title of one of her 2002 UK Top 40 singles,
34:23she's described as being Jenny from this location.
34:271990s US TV series,
34:29in which she appeared as part of the Fly Girls dance troupe.
34:32Animated film franchise,
34:34in which she voices a saber-toothed tiger called Shearer.
34:37And US rapper,
34:39who featured on her 2011 UK number one single,
34:42On the Floor.
34:43There we are, Shiver and Lee.
34:45Do you think it's Pitbull?
34:46Yeah, yeah.
34:47Yeah.
34:48Go for the US rapper there, please.
34:51And say it's Pitbull.
34:52Pitbull.
34:53Pitbull, the US rapper.
34:55Storm and Richard,
34:57can you talk us through that board?
34:59No.
34:59Well, no,
35:01but we can say for the first one,
35:03we think it could be the World Series.
35:06OK, so we're going to go for the World Series.
35:07Pitbull versus the World Series.
35:09Shiver and Lee went for Pitbull, the US rapper.
35:11Let's see how many of our 100 people got that,
35:14the one she duetted with.
35:18Pitbull is right.
35:23That goes down to 15.
35:26Meanwhile, Storm and Richard are saying the World Series
35:30when she and Shakira co-headlined.
35:33Should we see how many of our 100 people said that,
35:35if it's right?
35:37No.
35:39Bad luck.
35:40But that means Shiver and Lee.
35:42You, after three questions,
35:44are through to the final, 2-1.
35:46Would you like to clear the board, Xander?
35:47Yeah, well, I can a bit.
35:49I'm going to say Super Bowl for the top one.
35:50Yeah, that's right.
35:5144 people got that right.
35:52Jenny, of course, is from The Block.
35:54The Block.
35:5549 knew that, yes.
35:5890s US TV series?
35:59I don't...
36:00Friends?
36:01No.
36:02In fact, it was the lowest score.
36:04It would have scored two,
36:05and the series was called In Living Colour.
36:07There we are.
36:08And the final one, the animated series?
36:10Madagascar?
36:11No, the other one.
36:13Sabre-toothed tiger.
36:14Ice Age.
36:14Ice Age, of course, is the Ice Age.
36:16Exactly.
36:1619 would have scored that, yes.
36:18There we are.
36:19Thank you very much indeed.
36:20Well, that means the pair leaving us
36:21at the end of the head-to-head round.
36:22It was hard fought.
36:24But Storm and Richard, I'm afraid you...
36:26But you live to fight another day.
36:27We shall see you next time
36:29and look forward to it very much indeed.
36:30Thank you, meanwhile, Storm and Richard.
36:33But for Shiver and Lee,
36:34it is now time for the Pointless final.
36:40Congratulations, Shiver and Lee.
36:41You have fought off all the competition
36:43and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
36:45You now have a chance
36:53to win the Pointless jackpot
36:54and at the end of today's show,
36:55the jackpot is standing at £4,000.
37:01So, all we need is one more
37:02Pointless answer in this round
37:03and you will take that £4,000 jackpot home with you.
37:06What would you like to see come up?
37:08We're both quite good on TV and films.
37:10OK, let's see what comes up
37:12and keep fingers crossed.
37:13Here is today's selection.
37:28We'll work together
37:29with the 21st century
37:30legal TV dramas
37:32or art and literature.
37:33If you feel confident
37:34with the third one...
37:34If you want to do that, that's fine.
37:36What do you think?
37:3621st century...
37:37Shall we try?
37:38Yes, we'll try that.
37:39OK, well, let us go for that.
37:4021st century US legal TV dramas.
37:43And we are looking for
37:44the name of anyone
37:45who received an acting credit
37:47in at least four episodes
37:50of the following US TV series.
37:53Better Call Saul,
37:55which was 2015 to 2022,
37:58or Suits, 2011 to 2019.
38:01Now, this is according to imdb.com
38:04as of July 2024.
38:07Best of luck.
38:08Thank you very much.
38:09Now, as always,
38:09you've got up to one minute
38:10to come up with three answers.
38:12All you need to win that jackpot
38:13is for just one of those answers
38:14to be pointless.
38:15Are you ready?
38:16That's what I would be.
38:17OK, well, let's put 60 seconds
38:19up on the clock.
38:20There they are.
38:20Your time starts now.
38:24Not really any.
38:26Actors in Suits.
38:27I mean, the most obvious one
38:28is Meghan Markle,
38:29and that's going to be...
38:30He's going to be in it.
38:31...very high.
38:32Lots of episodes.
38:33In Suits.
38:34Better Call Saul.
38:34Just think of Suits
38:36and think of actors
38:38that you've seen
38:38who wouldn't mind have been in it.
38:40I don't know any of the actors
38:43in Suits.
38:43I've never watched it.
38:44Have you watched Better Call Saul?
38:45Yeah, but, no,
38:46it's the same people
38:46from Breaking Bad.
38:47I think it's a crossover.
38:49Isn't it?
38:50It's just Bryan Cranston.
38:51Yeah.
38:52Aaron Paul.
38:53I don't know whether he was in it.
38:57Actors in Suits.
38:58Think of someone
38:58who might have appeared in Suits.
39:01Somebody
39:01appeared in Suits
39:03to just...
39:04Who played Meghan Markle's dad?
39:06He's also in
39:07the, um,
39:08Jack,
39:10the spin-off of, um,
39:12John Krasinski.
39:12Ten seconds left.
39:15Just spin-off
39:16of John Krasinski's
39:17who plays the dad.
39:20Dead dancing now,
39:21Don't get in.
39:22I'm afraid
39:23that is your time up.
39:24I'm so sorry.
39:26What can you give me?
39:27Three answers.
39:28We've drawn a
39:29complete blank.
39:30I started watching
39:31Breaking Bad,
39:32but I've only got to
39:32about season two or three,
39:34so I've not even seen
39:35any of them.
39:36Aaron Paul.
39:38Take a guess.
39:39Aaron Paul.
39:39Aaron Paul.
39:40And...
39:41Bryan Cranston.
39:42And Bryan Cranston.
39:43OK.
39:44We'll try
39:45Hannah Waddingham.
39:46Hannah Waddingham.
39:47For which?
39:48For Suits?
39:48Better Call Saul.
39:49Oh, for Better Call Saul.
39:50OK.
39:51Of those three,
39:52which is your best shot
39:53as a pointless answer?
39:54None.
39:56Maybe put Aaron Paul.
39:57OK, Aaron Paul
39:58we'll put last.
39:58Least likely to be pointless?
39:59Hannah Waddingham,
40:00because I don't think
40:00she's in it.
40:01Hannah Waddingham
40:02and then Bryan Cranston
40:03we put in the middle.
40:04Should we just go now?
40:05OK.
40:06Well, let's put those answers
40:07up on the board
40:07in that order
40:08and here they are.
40:09We have Hannah Waddingham.
40:11We have Bryan Cranston
40:12and we have Aaron Paul.
40:14Well, there they are
40:15up on the board.
40:16If one of these
40:16turns out to be pointless
40:17and wins you £4,000
40:18what would you like
40:20to do with it, Shiva?
40:22Holiday.
40:22Holiday.
40:22Absolutely.
40:23I'm hateful living.
40:24So holidays.
40:25Maybe I'll take my grandson
40:26away again with my daughter
40:27and my wife
40:28and then we'll do
40:29something together.
40:30Yeah, absolutely.
40:31I have a great fondness
40:33for the Highlands of Scotland.
40:34That would be wonderful.
40:35Well, wouldn't it be lovely
40:37if one of these
40:37somehow brings that prize
40:39in for you?
40:40Let's see.
40:41Hannah Waddingham
40:42is your first answer
40:42willing to act as in
40:43four or more episodes
40:44of Better Call Saul.
40:45Shall we see if Hannah
40:46Waddingham is...
40:46Let's see if she's right
40:47first, shall we?
40:51No.
40:52I'm afraid not
40:53Hannah Waddingham.
40:55We now turn to
40:56Bryan Cranston.
40:57We remain with
40:58Better Call Saul.
40:59Bryan Cranston.
41:00Might he be in it?
41:01Might he be pointless
41:02for £4,000?
41:05No, by luck,
41:07he's not, I'm afraid.
41:08Let us see if Aaron Paul
41:10is in it.
41:11And might he be pointless
41:12for £4,000?
41:16Oh, I'm so sorry.
41:18Well, there we are.
41:20I'm afraid that one
41:21didn't fall particularly
41:22well for you.
41:23Never mind.
41:23You didn't find
41:24a pointless answer,
41:24so I'm afraid you don't
41:25win today's Pointless jackpot.
41:26But you do win
41:28today's Pointless trophy,
41:29so don't forget that.
41:30And you've been fantastic.
41:32It's been lovely
41:32having you on the show.
41:33And you were so close
41:35because you were right
41:36that Better Call Saul
41:37is indeed a prequel
41:39to Breaking Bad.
41:41And Breaking Bad's
41:42two stars,
41:42Aaron Paul and
41:43Bryan Cranston,
41:44did in fact make
41:45cameo appearances
41:47in Better Call Saul,
41:48but they only appeared
41:49in a couple of them,
41:50not in four episodes,
41:52which is what
41:52we were asking for.
41:53And the wonderful
41:54Hannah Waddingham,
41:55of course,
41:55she was the star
41:56of that fabulous TV drama,
41:59Ted Lasso,
42:00for which she actually
42:01won an Emmy,
42:02but no,
42:03she was never
42:03in the other ones.
42:04So let's have a look
42:05at some of the
42:05pointless answers.
42:06And people that
42:07you could have named
42:08would have been
42:09Carol Burnett,
42:11Giancarlo Esposito,
42:13Kerry Condon,
42:14and Michael McKean.
42:16And in fact,
42:16the only cast members
42:18that scored points
42:18were Bob Odenkirk,
42:21Jonathan Banks,
42:22and Rhea Sehorne.
42:23Moving on to actors
42:24in four or more
42:26episodes of Suits.
42:27And here you could
42:28have had Gina Torres,
42:31Rick Hoffman,
42:32Sarah Rafferty,
42:33or Wendell Pierce.
42:34Now, the only scoring
42:35answers were
42:37Meghan Markle.
42:38Everybody would have
42:39got that, I think.
42:40Patrick J. Adams,
42:41Gabrielle Macht,
42:42and Katherine Heigl.
42:44Well, well done at home
42:45if you are fans
42:46of those series
42:47and you got
42:47a pointless answer as well.
42:49Thank you very much
42:50indeed, Angela.
42:51And thank you so much,
42:52Shiver and Lee.
42:52I'm sorry you didn't
42:53win our jackpot today.
42:54That will therefore
42:54roll over onto the next show
42:55when we will be playing
42:57for £5,000.
43:00Join us then
43:01to see if someone
43:01can win it.
43:02Meanwhile,
43:02it's goodbye from Angela.
43:03Bye.
43:04And it's goodbye from me.
43:05Goodbye.
43:06APPLAUSE
43:24Bye.
43:24Bye.
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