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00:01MUSIC PLAYS
00:23Thank you very much indeed.
00:24Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless,
00:27the quiz that puts obscure knowledge to the test.
00:29Let's meet today's players.
00:35And couple number one.
00:37Hello, I'm Damian.
00:38This is my wife, Michelle, and we're from County Derry.
00:41Couple number two.
00:42Hi, I'm Rezban from Bradford.
00:43This is my friend Yusuf from Essex.
00:45Couple number three.
00:46Hi, I'm Emma from Holton Village,
00:48and this is my dad, Arthur, from Bristol.
00:50And finally, couple number four.
00:52I'm Marcus, this is my wife, Ali, and we're from Cardiff.
00:54And these are today's contestants.
00:56Thank you very much indeed.
00:58A very warm welcome to each and every one of you.
01:00That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:02For the last time, she's less live, love, laugh,
01:05more live, love, roll on the floor laughing, or ruffle,
01:08as the millennials watching might like to say.
01:10Hello, millennials, if you're watching.
01:12It's my Pointless Friend, it is Judy Love.
01:14I'm all in my feels.
01:17I'm all in my feels.
01:21I mean, just hearing you say it's the last one, it's real,
01:25it really hits me.
01:26I know.
01:27It's the last one.
01:28It's been just so lovely.
01:29It's been so lovely having you.
01:30I've had such a nice time.
01:32One of my favourite filmings.
01:33Everyone's great.
01:34The team's great.
01:35You know, everyone's just so luscious.
01:38The food's been good.
01:39The eye candy's been great.
01:41The knowledge has been fantastic.
01:43Oh, Judy.
01:44We're going to miss you.
01:45I'm going to miss you.
01:47I mean, I don't have to leave yet.
01:50You don't have to.
01:51If you could just stay.
01:52Just for this show.
01:53Well, if you could stay for this show, obviously,
01:55because that's contracted, but, you know.
01:57He loves me a minute ago,
01:59and now he's talking about the contract.
02:00Oh, my God.
02:01No, but it's been absolutely fantastic.
02:03This show is amazing.
02:05Do you know what I'm excited about?
02:07I'm excited to go out there and use the knowledge that I've learned
02:10and have those conversations.
02:12All those sovereign states that are members of the UN in their own right.
02:14All those things about peaches and nectarines and countries
02:17and missing letters.
02:18Oh, don't.
02:19All those things.
02:20Are you going to set me off now?
02:21All the things we've done, all the times we've had.
02:23The memories we've been laying down.
02:25I know more pictures we're going to create like this.
02:28We had the wedding flowers run where nobody knew anything.
02:31I mean, it's just so amazing.
02:33It's lovely.
02:34Well, thank you very much indeed, Julie.
02:37Really lovely having you here.
02:38Now, Sue and Jim got through to the final last time
02:41and they did not win the jackpot,
02:42so we add another £1,000 to that.
02:44So today's jackpot starts off at £5,000.
02:47Right, if everyone's ready, let's play pointers.
02:50APPLAUSE
02:56At the end of each round, it is our job, our sorry task,
02:59to have to eliminate the pair with a higher score,
03:01so please keep your scores low so it's not you,
03:04because that would be awful.
03:05Best of luck to everybody.
03:06Our first category today is...
03:11Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first?
03:12Who's going to go second?
03:13And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
03:16MUSIC
03:20OK, and the question concerns...
03:24Blank ING, UK number one singles, Judy.
03:28On each pass, we're going to give you seven songs
03:31that have reached number one on the UK singles chart,
03:35but we have removed a word from each title that ends with ING.
03:40We have also given you the name of the artist of each single
03:44and the year it reached the top of the charts.
03:46Please give us the missing ING words.
03:49Thank you very much indeed.
03:51So let's reveal our first board of seven INGs.
03:53And here they are.
03:54We have...
03:56Blanking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran, 2014.
03:59The House of the Blanking Sun, The Animals, 1964.
04:04Blanking Satellite, Tasman Archer, 1992.
04:07Blanking Around, Kylie Minogue, 2000.
04:11I Knew You Were Blanking For Me, Aretha Franklin and George Michael, 1987.
04:16I Hear You Blanking, Dave Edmonds, 1970.
04:20And Blanking Love, Leona Lewis, 2007.
04:25Michelle, welcome back.
04:28For what it turns out is your third and final show.
04:30It is.
04:31Oh, this is where it all has to count.
04:33Now, Michelle, tell us a little bit more about yourself.
04:35Well, we've recently had a new addition to your family.
04:38Not a baby, but a turtle.
04:40A turtle?
04:41Mm-hm.
04:42What sort of size of turtle?
04:43It's a tiny turtle that will grow to the size of the palm of your hand.
04:46Wow.
04:47So our five-year-old sat on a wishing chair when we were on holidays
04:50and whenever he came off he wished for a turtle called Dragon.
04:53So the turtle never arrived and then all of a sudden the turtle came.
04:57Thank goodness it was a turtle and not a dragon.
04:59That would be appalling.
05:00Those wishing chairs sometimes get the wrong end of the stick.
05:03So we now have a turtle called Dragon.
05:05Right.
05:06There we are.
05:07But a very, very happy five-year-old.
05:08What's your five-year-old called?
05:09Tag.
05:10Tag!
05:11Tag!
05:12Tag!
05:13Sorry, that's a hey-ducky gag there.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Wonderful.
05:17Now, Michelle, what are you going to go for on our board of Ings?
05:21I think I'm going to go for Ed Sheeran and Thinking Out Loud.
05:25Thinking Out Loud, says Michelle.
05:27Shall we see how many of our 100 said that thinking?
05:30It is indeed Thinking Out Loud.
05:32And down that goes to 17.
05:3517 for Thinking Out Loud.
05:37The song reached number one in its 19th week.
05:41It was the longest climb from entering the top 40s to number one in history.
05:45Wow.
05:46Like a chart mountaineer.
05:47That's what he is.
05:48Yeah, we are.
05:49Thank you very much indeed.
05:50Now then, Rezwan.
05:51It is also your third and final show.
05:52Tell us more about yourself, Rezwan.
05:53Yeah, so ever since me and Youssef have been at uni ten years ago, we've been a big fan of the show.
06:06We've always wanted to come on, even though, as you know, we're not very good.
06:11But we're just happy to be here.
06:12I beg to differ.
06:13No, we just haven't given you the right questions.
06:15That's what happens.
06:16That's a better answer, yeah.
06:17You know, you can't guarantee that you're going to know everything.
06:20And nobody in their right minds, unless they're Judy or Richard, knows everything.
06:24Rezwan, what are you going to go for on our board?
06:27I'm struck between two, but I think I'll go with Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis.
06:33Leona Lewis is Bleeding Love.
06:34Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Bleeding?
06:39Bleeding is right.
06:4017 is the only score we have at the moment and 40 for Bleeding.
06:45Interestingly, high score there.
06:47Well, Leona Lewis became the first X Factor contestants to have two number one singles in the UK charts.
06:54Yes.
06:55Thank you very much indeed.
06:57Emma, welcome back to Pointless.
06:59Hi.
07:00It's only your second show.
07:01It is.
07:02Tell us a bit more about yourself, Emma.
07:03So I work in the automotive industry and I'm a massive EV advocate, so electric vehicle advocate,
07:09and I support businesses in decarbonising their transport operations.
07:13Very good indeed.
07:14And when you put the decarbonisation programme behind you, what do you love to get up to?
07:18I'm really into, like I said last time, community theatre.
07:20So anything to do with acting, singing and dancing is what I do in my free time.
07:23OK.
07:24Are you part of the recruitment as well for that?
07:26I do.
07:27So I work on stage and off stage.
07:28I'm also part of a creative team, so I like to choreograph and direct as well.
07:31Wow.
07:32All encompassing.
07:33All encompassing.
07:34There we are.
07:35Now, Emma, the board.
07:36What are you going to go for?
07:37We're going to go for Spinning Around by Kylie Minogue.
07:40Spinning Around.
07:41Spinning.
07:42Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
07:44Spinning is absolutely right.
07:4740 is still our high score.
07:49Till now, 53 for Spinning.
07:52Well, this song was co-written by Paula Abdul.
07:56And it was Kylie's first UK number one single since 1990.
08:01Yeah.
08:02I'm quite shocked by that.
08:03That's right.
08:04And she's suddenly relaunched.
08:05Yeah.
08:06To huge acclaim.
08:07Definitely.
08:08I think Kylie, every song she has has got into it.
08:10You know a Kylie song.
08:11It's fantastic.
08:12Thank you very much.
08:13Yeah, thank you, Judy.
08:14Now then, Marcus, welcome to Pointless.
08:16Are you OK?
08:17Great to have you here from Cardiff.
08:18Yeah, yeah.
08:19Tell us all about yourself, Marcus.
08:20I'm a social worker.
08:21I like football.
08:22I'm a big fan of football.
08:23I'm watching football.
08:24Watching.
08:25Do you play at all?
08:26I used to, but not anymore.
08:27I think I'm a bit too lazy now with having a child.
08:30Yeah, you've got a child.
08:31How old is your child?
08:32She's two.
08:33Two next month.
08:34She's two.
08:35What's her name?
08:36Lavinia.
08:37Lavinia.
08:38Oh, Lavinia.
08:39How very sweet.
08:40Now, Marcus, this is your board.
08:42Would you like to grasp it by the horns and fill in all the blanks for us?
08:46I'm going to have to take a stab at one because I'm not sure of any of them,
08:49if I'm being honest.
08:50So I've guessed for the animals and the House of the Rising Sun.
08:53House of the Rising Sun, says Marcus.
08:55This is a total guess.
08:56Total guess.
08:57OK.
08:58Well, let's see if it's right, shall we?
09:01Well, absolutely spot on, Marcus.
09:04Yep.
09:05The House of the Rising Sun scores you 73.
09:08That's quite a big score, Marcus, but it's better than 100.
09:12I'm previously a social worker, so I commend you.
09:15This is definitely a day off for you.
09:17Alexander, do you know the rest of these?
09:19Um, yes.
09:20Aretha Franklin and George Michael, I knew you were waiting.
09:23Yes, that is right, and that would have been 47 points.
09:27And then underneath...
09:28Dave Edmonds, I hear you knocking.
09:29I hear you knocking, Boo Boo.
09:31And that was 22 points.
09:33And the third one...
09:34Tasmin Archer is...
09:36Starts with an S.
09:37I can't remember what that is.
09:39Sleeping.
09:40Sleeping Satellite.
09:41OK.
09:42And that was the lowest score, which was at 16 points.
09:45There we are.
09:46Thank you very much indeed.
09:47Well, we're halfway through the round.
09:48Let's have a look at those scores.
09:49Michel, 17, the best score of the past.
09:51Very well done indeed.
09:52We travel from 17 up to 40, where we find Rezwan and Yusuf.
09:55From there to 53, where we find Emma and Arthur.
09:58And from there to 73, where we find Marcus and Ali.
10:00So we go up as we go further away from the tower.
10:03So, Ali, yes, you have a bit of a mountain to climb,
10:06but not massive.
10:07You get the new board, which will help, I hope.
10:09Find a lovely low score on that.
10:10We might see you in round two.
10:12We're going to come back down the line now.
10:13Will the second players please step up to the podium?
10:19OK, let's put seven more UK number one singles
10:22with a missing word ending in ING up on the board,
10:25and here they are.
10:26We have...
10:27Blanking With You, Smokey Robinson, 1981.
10:31Blanking Ball, Miley Cyrus, 2013.
10:34You'll Never Stop Me Blanking You, Sonia, 1989.
10:38I Gotta Blanking The Black Eyed Peas, 2009.
10:42I'm Blanking Behind You, Eddie Fisher with Sally Sweetland, 1953.
10:47Blanking Lights, The Weekend, 2020.
10:50And Blanking Me Softly, Fuji's 1996.
10:55Ali, welcome to Point. It's great to have you here.
10:57Tell us all about yourself.
10:59Hiya, I'm a digital marketing coordinator
11:01for a further education college in Cardiff.
11:04Very good indeed.
11:05And when you're not doing that, what do you love to get up to?
11:08So, pre-Little Girl, we used to go on very long walks,
11:11and now we go on a lot flatter, slightly shorter walks.
11:14Slightly flatter, shorter walks.
11:15Do you have one of those clever things that Lavinia can go in on your back?
11:18We don't.
11:19She is a runner.
11:20Oh.
11:21So, she needs...
11:22She needs...
11:23I think if we put her in it, she'd be wriggling out of it.
11:24Yeah, I know, fair enough.
11:25But, yeah, she's a good...
11:26Oh, but that's good.
11:27She accompanies you.
11:28Yeah. Oh, yeah, and she's very engaged.
11:29If there's some ducks around, we're having a great walk.
11:32Well, this is good.
11:33Now, listen, you are on 73, Ali.
11:35We're looking for a lovely low score to keep you in the game.
11:38What would you like to go for on this board?
11:41So, there's a couple that I know,
11:43but I think I need to go for one I'm a bit unsure of
11:47to try and get a pointless answer.
11:48So, can I go for blinding lights by the weekend?
11:51Blinding lights.
11:53Shall we see if that's right?
11:54Shall we see how many of our 100 said it?
11:56There's no red line for you, Ali,
11:58as you are high scorers at the moment.
12:00Blinding.
12:02It is blinding.
12:03Very well done, indeed.
12:08Down it goes to 21.
12:09This is terrific.
12:10Taking your total up to 94.
12:12Well, in early 2024, it became the first song
12:15to reach 4 billion streams on Spotify.
12:19Now, that is a lot.
12:21That's a terrifying number.
12:224 billion.
12:24Yeah.
12:25Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
12:26Arthur, welcome back.
12:29Show two.
12:30Great to have you with us again.
12:31That's a terrific shirt as well, if I may say, Arthur.
12:33Tell us a bit more about yourself.
12:34Well, I'm a cat lover and a couple of years ago
12:37I found myself looking after a colony of feral cats.
12:40How on earth did that happen?
12:42I spotted one in a hedgerow opposite where I live,
12:45went over and gave it some cat food.
12:47Yeah.
12:48I was there again the next night
12:49and when I did it again, eight more suddenly appeared.
12:52Huh?
12:53Yeah, so there were nine altogether.
12:54So you'd adopted them somehow?
12:56Well, my own cat wouldn't have liked that very much.
12:59Oh, I see, I see.
13:00So you had to keep this firmly at arm's length.
13:02Yeah, absolutely.
13:03But with the help of a local charity,
13:05I managed to get them all rehomed.
13:06So I was very happy to do that.
13:08Gosh, well done you.
13:09Fantastic.
13:10So now, Arthur, you're on 53.
13:1240 or less gets you into round two.
13:13Yeah.
13:14What are we thinking on this board?
13:15Erm, there's one I'm tempted to have a punt at,
13:18but I'll play it safe and go with the top one.
13:20Being with you.
13:21Being with you, Smokey Robinson.
13:24Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
13:26Here is your red line, Arthur.
13:28Being.
13:29Where do we end up with that?
13:32Being is absolutely spot on.
13:35You're in round two.
13:36Look at that, Arthur.
13:37Very well done indeed.
13:38Down to 18.
13:39Taking your total up to 71.
13:42So Smokey Robinson's only solo UK number one single.
13:46He topped the charts in 1970 as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
13:51with the song Tears of a Clown.
13:54Mm-hmm.
13:55I'm shocked by that.
13:56Solo UK number one.
13:57Yeah.
13:58It was great.
13:59Thank you very much.
14:00Terrific song.
14:02Now, Yusuf, welcome back to Pointless.
14:04Good to have you with us.
14:05This third appearance.
14:06Tell us a bit more about yourself, Yusuf.
14:07Yeah, sure.
14:08I think getting away from kind of medicine, kind of my recent hobbies,
14:11I've been enjoying learning some history.
14:13So, at the moment, I'm kind of learning some kind of Roman history
14:16in terms of when things change from the fall of the Republic
14:19to the start of the Roman Empire.
14:21How exciting.
14:22Yeah, I mean, it's a fascinating period.
14:24Yeah, and there's a...
14:25I think there's lots you can learn in terms of how societies work
14:27and there are some corridors in terms of...
14:29Yeah.
14:30Even today, you can see kind of...
14:31And also how societies tumble as well.
14:33Yeah.
14:34Yeah.
14:35Now, Yusuf, you are on 40, which means 53 or less gets you into round two.
14:39What are you going to go for?
14:41I'm probably going to go for the bottom one.
14:43So, Killing Me Softly.
14:44Killing Me Softly, says Yusuf.
14:46You get a red line and it comes in here.
14:49The question is, will you get below that red line with Killing?
14:52That's right.
14:56One of those very, very, very popular songs.
15:01That scores you 70, takes your total up to 110.
15:04Now, I must say, this is one of my most favourite songs,
15:06with the amazing Lauryn Hill, but previously recorded by Roberta Flack
15:11under the title Killing Me Softly, with his song.
15:14She performed it with the Fugees at the MTV Movie Awards in 1996.
15:21That was my time.
15:23Yeah.
15:24I mean, Lauryn Hill, the Fugees, they were amazing.
15:27Big and Smalls, all of that era.
15:29It was fantastic.
15:30Yeah.
15:31Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
15:32Now, Damien, welcome back to Pointless.
15:34Good to have you with us again, your third show.
15:37Tell us a bit more about yourself, Damien.
15:40Well, when I was a bit younger, I used to play a bit of Gaelic football
15:44and Hurling for my club, Slacknail.
15:46And now I coach the underage.
15:49Oh, do you?
15:50My young boy is nine and a half, so I'm coaching at his age now.
15:54Do you coach which one? Gaelic football or Hurling?
15:57Hurling, yeah.
15:58Excellent.
15:59Very good. How are they doing?
16:00Aye, they're coming along nicely.
16:02That's good.
16:03They're doing all right.
16:04Very good. Good for you, Damien.
16:05And now, you're on 17.
16:0692 or less.
16:07That's basically a correct answer.
16:09Would you like to talk us through that board?
16:11Well, Wrecking Ball and I Got a Feeling.
16:14It's a two-o-definitely.
16:15If I had to guess all or two, you'll never stop me loving you
16:20or I'm standing behind you.
16:22But I'll go with I Got a Feeling.
16:24OK, I Got a Feeling for the Black Eyed Peas.
16:26You get a red line, Damien, and it comes in up here.
16:29Nice and high.
16:30Shall we see if Feeling is Right?
16:32It is right and it gets you into round two, Damien.
16:36Very well done indeed.
16:37Down it goes to 41.
16:39Taking your total up to 58.
16:41Now, that song was blowing up the charts because it was number one
16:45in the American charts for 14 weeks consecutively.
16:48So that's really good.
16:49Apart from one, Damien took us through the board pretty well.
16:52So the first one which you said, Wrecking Ball, which was 57.
16:57And then the next one would be You'll Never Stop Me Loving You.
17:01That was 66.
17:03And so, Damien, you actually said standing behind you,
17:07but it was walking behind you and that would have got three points.
17:11That was the lowest on the board.
17:12Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
17:13That brings us to the end of our first round
17:15and it means we have to say goodbye to our doctors, Yusuf and Rezwan.
17:19Oh, dear.
17:20This is a final goodbye.
17:21Thank you so much for coming to play.
17:23It's been great having you here.
17:24Yusuf and Rezwan.
17:25Excellent.
17:27Well, for the remaining three pairs, now time for round two.
17:35Very well done indeed, everybody.
17:37Superb work in that first round.
17:39Michelle, our lowest individual scorer in the round.
17:42Michelle and Damien, lowest combined scorers.
17:44So good work on the near podium.
17:46But best of luck to everybody.
17:47Our category for round two today is...
17:51Tennis.
17:52Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
17:54who's going to go second?
17:55And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
18:02OK, let's find out what the question is.
18:04Here it comes.
18:05We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many
18:08Wimbledon singles champions whose surnames contain the letters
18:13L, O, V or E as they could, Judy.
18:17We are looking for just the surnames of any winner
18:21of the Wimbledon Ladies or Men's Singles Championship
18:25whose surname contains any of the letters L, O, V or E.
18:30This is since the start of the Open Era in 1968 up to and including 2024.
18:39Thank you very much indeed.
18:40So, Michelle, we come to you first.
18:43I am going to say Izanicevic, Goran Izanicevic.
18:47So you're saying Goran Izanicevic.
18:50Let's see if that is right.
18:52Let's see how many of our 100 said it.
18:58I'm really sorry. That's incorrect.
19:00That scores you 100 points. I'm really sorry, Michelle.
19:02We're going to have to clear that up at the end of the round.
19:04OK, Judy, thank you very much. Now then, Emma.
19:08Surnames of Wimbledon players with L, O, V or E in their surname?
19:13Er, Leighton Hewitt.
19:14Leighton Hewitt, says Emma.
19:16Shall we see how many of our 100 said Hewitt?
19:20Hewitt is right.
19:22And that, I think, is a low score.
19:27Look at that!
19:28Not just a low score, it's one of those ones.
19:30That's a pointless answer.
19:31And being a pointless answer, it adds £250 to today's jackpot,
19:35takes the total up to £5,250 and scores you nothing.
19:39Very well done indeed, Emma.
19:41That's absolutely fantastic.
19:42Leighton Hewitt has an E in his surname.
19:45The Australian won Wimbledon in 2002.
19:49Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
19:51Now then, Ali.
19:52Please, may I go for Martina Ravnatalova?
19:55OK, Martina Ravnatalova.
19:58Shall we see if that is right?
19:59Shall we see how many of our 100 people said it?
20:01If it is Ravnatalova?
20:07Bad luck!
20:08A lot of people getting anagrams of answers here.
20:10I'm afraid that scores you 100 points.
20:13Sorry, Ali.
20:14Looks like that's another one we're going to have to clear up
20:16at the end of this round.
20:17There we are.
20:18Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
20:19Well, we're halfway through the round.
20:20Let's have a look at those scores.
20:21I mean, it's a tale of extremes here.
20:23The best score of the pass is nothing.
20:24Very well done indeed, Emma.
20:26That's where we find Emma and Arthur.
20:27And then 100 is where we find Ali and Marcus and Michelle and Damien.
20:31So, Marcus and Damien, it's between the pair of you.
20:34See who stays and who leaves at the end of the round.
20:36Best of luck to both pairs.
20:37Thank you, guys.
20:38We're going to come back down the line now.
20:39Will the second players please step up to the podium?
20:44Right.
20:45Marcus, remember, we are looking for Wimbledon singles champions
20:48whose surnames contain any of the letters L, O, V or E.
20:54And you're on 100.
20:55You're joint high scorers.
20:56Yeah.
20:57Um...
20:58Sharapova.
20:59Sharapova.
21:00Says Marcus.
21:01You don't get a red line because you're joint high scorers.
21:03How many of our 100 said Sharapova?
21:08Sharapova is right.
21:13And down that goes to there.
21:16My goodness.
21:17Wow.
21:18And the extremes continue.
21:19Another pointless answer.
21:20Yeah.
21:21And that adds another £250 to today's jackpot,
21:23taking the total up to £5,500.
21:26And it scores you nothing and leaves your total at 100.
21:30Very well done.
21:31Now, only is the money getting topped up,
21:32but that was another great answer.
21:34Maria Sharapova's surname contains an O and a V.
21:38The Russian was 17 when she won in 2004.
21:42Fantastic.
21:44Thank you, Judy.
21:45Now then, Arthur.
21:46You have to score 99 or less.
21:48Right.
21:49I'll go for Chris Evert.
21:50Chris Evert.
21:51Evert, says Arthur.
21:52Here is your red line.
21:54Couldn't be higher.
21:55How many of our 100 said Evert?
21:59There we are.
22:00Very well done indeed.
22:01Through you go.
22:06Another lovely O score.
22:07Two for Chris Evert.
22:08Taking your total up.
22:09Two.
22:10That's fantastic.
22:11Champion three times.
22:13If you include her married name, Chris Evert-Lloyd,
22:16she's the only Wimbledon singles winner
22:18to have all the letters of love in their surname.
22:22Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
22:24Now then, Damien, you're on 100.
22:26We basically require a sort of minus one score from you
22:30to ensure you have a place in the next round,
22:32but a pointless answer would help.
22:34I'll try Lindsay Davenport.
22:38Davenport, says Damien.
22:40There's no red line for you as you are joint high scorers at this point.
22:43Let's see how many of our 100 said Davenport.
22:47Davenport is right.
22:54Oh, look at that!
22:56Wouldn't you know it!
22:57Fabulous.
22:58Another pointless answer, which adds another £250 to today's jackpot,
23:02taking the total up to £5,750.
23:05It scores you nothing, leaves your total at 100,
23:08and it means we enter a tie-break scenario.
23:11So, I'm going to ask each of the tied pairs to come up with a new answer.
23:14You can now confirm before you give your answers.
23:16And I'm going to ask the pair closer to the column first.
23:18Damien and Michelle, what would you like to go for?
23:20We'll go with Andre Agassi. Andre Agassi.
23:28Now then, Marcus and Ali, what would you like to go for?
23:33Rafael Nadal.
23:34Nadal.
23:35So, we have Agassi versus Nadal.
23:36Damien and Michelle went for Agassi.
23:38Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
23:40Agassi, no red line at this stage as you're tied.
23:47Bad luck.
23:48Not for Agassi.
23:49That scores you 100, takes your total up to 200.
23:52Now then, Ali and Marcus, you have a red line and it is up here.
23:57You want to score 99 or less and you have gone for Nadal.
24:01How many of our 100 said Nadal?
24:06Nadal is right.
24:12And that scores you eight, taking your total up to 108.
24:16Very well done indeed.
24:18Agassi doesn't have any letters of love, unfortunately.
24:23Ali, you were unlucky.
24:24It's Navratilova.
24:26And Michelle, you were really unlucky.
24:29His name is Ivan Nisovich.
24:32And that would have been a pointless answer.
24:35Right.
24:36So, let's look at some more pointless answers.
24:39You could have had...
24:41Bartoli.
24:42Davenport, which we heard.
24:44Halep.
24:46Hewitt, which we also heard.
24:48Kerber.
24:49Krychik.
24:50Maresmo.
24:51Novokna.
24:52Sharapova, which we had.
24:54So, well done at home if you got any of those pointless answers.
24:58Thank you very much.
24:59Indeed, that brings us to the end of our second round.
25:01It means we have to say goodbye to our second pair.
25:03Damien and Michelle, I'm so sorry.
25:05This is where we part company with you.
25:07It's been wonderful having you here.
25:09Thank you so much for playing.
25:11Damien and Michelle.
25:13But for our two remaining players, it is now time for the head-to-head.
25:16Congratulations, Arthur and Emma, Ali and Marcus.
25:24You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,
25:28which currently stands at £5,750.
25:31But before we play the head-to-head, we have a chance to throw even more money
25:35into that jackpot by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers.
25:38So, here goes.
25:39We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
25:46..and the British Podcast Award winners as they could, June.
25:48Yes.
25:49You'll see six options.
25:50Four are the titles of podcasts that have won awards
25:53at the British Podcast Awards.
25:55Two are scoring, two are pointless and two are just wrong.
26:00£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
26:04Thank you very much indeed.
26:05So, can you spot the pointless winners of the British Podcast Award
26:09from these six potentials?
26:11Get Birding, Media Storm, Stuck with Stacey Dooley, Bloody Mabel,
26:18Dear Daughter and Beef and Dairy Network Podcast.
26:23Does anybody know anything?
26:25Any ideas?
26:26Do you guys?
26:27I thought I was going to know some, but I know.
26:29OK.
26:30I guess who Stacey Dooley is.
26:31So, Arthur and Emma, what one do you want to go for?
26:34Take a punt on Bloody Mabel.
26:35Yep.
26:36We'll take a punt on Bloody Mabel.
26:38Bloody Mabel.
26:39Shall we see if that is a pointless podcast winner?
26:44No.
26:45Not that.
26:46Ali and Marcus.
26:48I'll go for the bottom one.
26:49You're going to go for Beef and Dairy.
26:50Shall we see if that is an award-winning podcast?
26:52A pointless one.
26:55It absolutely is an award-winning podcast.
26:59It's a very good podcast, in fact.
27:01Ah, let's look at that.
27:03A pointless one as well.
27:04Very well done indeed.
27:07Fantastic.
27:08Well, Bloody Mabel.
27:09This was a red herring.
27:11Bloody Mabel is the nickname of Selena Gomez's podcaster character
27:16in the TV series Only Murders in the Building.
27:19Another one which was a red herring.
27:21There's no such thing as Stuck with Stacey Dooley,
27:23but there is an award-winning podcast called Grounded with Louis Ferroux.
27:28And there was Media Storm.
27:31That scored one.
27:32It won Best Current Affairs Podcast in 2022.
27:35And Their Daughter.
27:37That scored ten.
27:38It won Podcast of the Year in 2022.
27:40And the other pointless answer was Get Birding.
27:44It won the Climate Award in 2022.
27:47Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
27:49And well done.
27:50You managed to find one pointless answer,
27:52which means we can add £250 to the jackpot.
27:54So it now stands at a lovely round.
27:56£6,000.
27:57But who will be playing for it?
27:59Well, let's find out on the head-to-head.
28:01APPLAUSE
28:06Now, the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot,
28:08and you are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
28:11Best of luck to both pairs.
28:12Here comes our first question, and it is all about...
28:15..geological formations, Judy.
28:19We are going to show you five examples of geological features,
28:23together with the alternate letters of the type of features they are.
28:27Please name these formations.
28:29Thank you very much indeed.
28:31So let's reveal our five geological formations, and here they come.
28:35We have...
28:36A. C. L. E. A.
28:41B. F. U. T. L. N.
28:48C. C. N. O.
28:54D. M. S. R. O. R. C.
29:01And E. A. C.
29:06There we are.
29:07Now then, Arthur and Emma, you get to go first.
29:11OK, we'll go for D. Mushroom rock.
29:15Mushroom rock, say Arthur and Emma for D.
29:19Now then, Ali and Marcus, can you talk us through that board?
29:23We don't know A, but we think that E is arch and we think that C is canyon,
29:28but we're going to go for a bit of a guess at B and go for fault line.
29:32Fault line.
29:33So we have mushroom rock and we have fault line.
29:35Arthur and Emma said mushroom rock for D.
29:38Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
29:49There we are.
29:50Nine for mushroom rock.
29:52Meanwhile, Ali and Marcus are going for B and are saying fault line.
29:56Shall we see if that's right?
29:57Shall we see how many people said it?
30:06Down to 32.
30:07Very well done indeed, Arthur and Emma.
30:09After one question, you are up 1-0.
30:11Let's clear up the ones that you knew.
30:13C, it was canyon and that would have been 46 points.
30:18And E would have been arch, but that was 49 points.
30:24Do you know the top ones, Zander?
30:26I do not know.
30:28It's caldera, which would have been a really good one because it was 5 points.
30:32Yeah.
30:33I mean, if I were going to have a secret lair, I think I'd have it under that.
30:36I'm telling you.
30:37It's beautiful though, isn't it?
30:38Yeah.
30:39Beautiful.
30:40Thank you very much.
30:41Now, here comes your second question.
30:42Ali and Marcus, you've got to win this one.
30:44Stay in the game.
30:45Good luck.
30:46Our second question is all about European royal houses, Judy.
30:52We're going to show you the name of five historical European monarchs together with the dates of their reign.
30:59We'll also give you alternate letters of the royal houses to which they belonged.
31:04Please fill in the gaps and give us the answer the fewest people knew.
31:08Thank you very much indeed.
31:10So, let's reveal our five dynastic clues and here they are.
31:15We have...
31:45There we are. Now, Ali and Marcus, you get to go first.
31:58Please, may we go for the second one, Grimaldi.
32:01Grimaldi, say Ali and Marcus.
32:04Grimaldi. Now then, Arthur and Emma, can you talk us through that board?
32:08The first one is orange. Don't know what the third one is.
32:11I'm guessing the fourth one is Savoy, but we'll go for the bottom one, Romanov.
32:15You're going to say Romanov.
32:17So, we have Grimaldi and we have Romanov.
32:19Well, Ali and Marcus went for Grimaldi.
32:21Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
32:26Grimaldi is right.
32:27Down it goes to 11.
32:3411 for Grimaldi.
32:36Meanwhile, Arthur and Emma have gone for Romanov.
32:39Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
32:44Romanov, absolutely right.
32:46Ooh, it's a high score.
32:4767.
32:48Very well done indeed, Ali and Marcus.
32:50After two questions, you're back in the game.
32:52It's one all.
32:53Romanov was actually the highest on the board.
32:56The next one after that was Savoy, which scored 33.
33:00And then we've got at the top is orange.
33:03You were correct, which was 26.
33:06Zara, did you know this?
33:07Well, is it something like Bregatza?
33:09But a slightly different pronunciation, which I think...
33:12Oh, Breganza, that's right, yes.
33:14Which would have been five points.
33:16Yeah.
33:17That was the lowest on the board.
33:19Well done, either way.
33:20Thank you very much indeed.
33:21OK, here comes the decider.
33:22Whoever wins this goes through to the final
33:23and plays for that £6,000 jackpot.
33:25Best of luck to both pairs.
33:26Our third question is all about...
33:32We are going to give you clues to five television dramas
33:35set in the seaside towns and villages around the country.
33:40We are going to give you the initials of the show,
33:43the names of two stars and the year it was first broadcast.
33:47Please name these shows.
33:49Thank you very much indeed.
33:50OK, let's reveal our five TV dramas.
33:53And here they are.
33:54B, David Tennant, Olivia Colman, 2013.
33:59G, John Sim, Richie Campbell, 2021.
34:04D, M, Martin Clunes, Caroline Katz, 2004.
34:09S, Rose Williams, Crystal Clarke, 2019.
34:14And B, P, Chris Marshall, Sally Bretton, 2023.
34:19There we are.
34:20Arthur and Emma, we will come to you first.
34:23Erm...
34:24Go with the top one.
34:25Yeah.
34:26We'll go with the top one and say Broadchurch.
34:28Broadchurch, say Arthur and Emma.
34:30Now, Ali and Marcus, can you talk us through that board?
34:32Erm, Doc Martin.
34:34But we're going to go for the bottom one,
34:36which we think is Beyond Paradise.
34:38Beyond Paradise, say Ali and Marcus.
34:40So we have Broadchurch and Beyond Paradise.
34:43In the order they were given.
34:44Arthur and Emma went for Broadchurch.
34:46Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
34:51Broadchurch, absolutely right.
34:55That goes down to 39.
34:58Meanwhile, Ali and Marcus are going for Beyond Paradise for the bottom one.
35:02How many of our 100 said that?
35:04Beyond Paradise is absolutely right.
35:10And it wins you the point.
35:11Very well done indeed.
35:12Down it goes, in fact, to 19.
35:13And it means, Ali and Marcus, after three questions,
35:17you're through to the final 2-1.
35:19Well done.
35:20Let's have a look at the other answers.
35:22You did say Ali, Doc Martin, which would have been 67 points.
35:27That would have taken you out of the game.
35:28And then we had Grace, the second, which would have been 12 points.
35:33And we had Santatown, which was the lowest point, coming in at one.
35:37Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
35:39That brings us to the end of the head-to-head round.
35:41And it means, Arthur and Emma, we have to say goodbye to you.
35:43We'll see you again next time for your third and final attempt
35:45at the Pointless Summit.
35:47But thanks so much for playing, Arthur and Emma.
35:49For Ali and Marcus, though, it is now time for the Pointless final.
35:56Congratulations, Ali and Marcus.
35:58You have fought off all the competition
36:00and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
36:09You now have a chance to win the Pointless jackpot.
36:12And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £6,000.
36:17APPLAUSE
36:18Well, now, that's a serious jackpot.
36:20What would you like to see come up?
36:21Something geography-based.
36:23Football. Football would be a good one.
36:25Yeah.
36:26OK.
36:27Well, let's just see.
36:28Four things will appear on the board.
36:29Let's just hope there's something up there
36:31that you feel able to have a go at.
36:34Today's quartet is this.
36:37World's strongest man and woman.
36:39Glovers on film.
36:41Books for very young children.
36:44New York City.
36:46What do we think?
36:47I think New York City.
36:48Yeah.
36:49I think we'll go for New York City, please.
36:50New York City it is.
36:51Right.
36:52We are looking for any word that is not a number
36:55that appears in the name of any station
36:58on the New York City subway on the island of Manhattan.
37:03As of August 2024, by number we are also excluding
37:09ordinal numbers, first, second, third, et cetera,
37:14we will accept other words that are abbreviated
37:17on the subway map and signage.
37:21Or we are looking for any word or four or more letters
37:25in the lyrics to the 1980s single theme from New York,
37:29New York by Frank Sinatra,
37:32which became one of his signature songs.
37:35Good luck.
37:36Thank you very much indeed.
37:37Now, as always, you've got up to one minute
37:39to come up with three answers.
37:40All you need to win that jackpot
37:42is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
37:44If you can come up with three pointless answers,
37:46we'll throw in an extra £500 bonus.
37:49Are you ready?
37:50OK.
37:51Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
37:53There they are.
37:54Your time starts now.
37:55OK.
37:56So you know the song, don't you?
37:57So...
37:58Yeah, but I...
37:59So there's a bit that says King of the Hill.
38:01So I think we go for King and Hill.
38:02And then I think for the subway stations,
38:04like you've got, I think maybe Upper,
38:06for like Upper East Side.
38:07You'd be more likely to get her for the song,
38:09do I think?
38:10Or Hell's Kitchen.
38:11I'm not sure if it's a subway station,
38:12but I think...
38:13I think it might be.
38:14So maybe go for Kitchen.
38:15OK.
38:16So you want to go with one on the top and then...
38:17I think Kitchen,
38:18and I'm just trying to go through the song.
38:19Yeah.
38:20Go through it in your head
38:21and just think of a random word in there.
38:23How many letters is it for?
38:24I think...
38:25I think we might go for...
38:26I think heap might be a word in the song.
38:28Heap.
38:29Which it might not be,
38:30but I think it's worth going for it
38:31because King of the Hill is pretty...
38:32Um...
38:33Hept up.
38:34Let's go for it in your kitchen.
38:35Yeah.
38:42Maybe leaving.
38:43So leaving, heap.
38:44Leaving, heap.
38:45Ten seconds left.
38:46And then...
38:47I think...
38:48I think kitchen.
38:49Yeah.
38:50I don't think anything else in New York.
38:51New York.
38:56OK.
38:57That is your time up.
38:58Let's have your three answers.
38:59What have you got?
39:00Um...
39:01Yeah.
39:02Heaps one.
39:03Heap.
39:04Leaving.
39:05Leaving.
39:06And these are both from the lyrics to New York, New York.
39:08And then we'll go for kitchen.
39:09And kitchen from the top category.
39:11OK.
39:12Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
39:14Heap.
39:15OK.
39:16Heap we'll put last.
39:17Least likely to be pointless?
39:18Kitchen.
39:19Kitchen.
39:20Leaving.
39:21Heap.
39:22OK.
39:23Well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
39:24And here they are.
39:25We have kitchen.
39:26We have leaving.
39:27And we have heap.
39:28Well, three good answers up there.
39:31If one of these turns out to be pointless, you'll be leaving here with £6,000.
39:35What would you like to do with that?
39:37I think it'd be coming towards our house.
39:39We're moving next month.
39:40You're moving next month?
39:41Yeah.
39:42Oh, that'd be very timely.
39:43Yeah, it'd be nice.
39:44And it needs a little bit of love.
39:45So...
39:46OK.
39:47Here I am!
39:48LAUGHTER
39:49Very good.
39:50OK.
39:51Well, let's put these to the test.
39:52Your first answer was kitchen.
39:53In this case, we're looking for any single word that appears in a subway station in Manhattan.
39:58You've gone for kitchen.
39:59Shall we see if that's right?
40:00Shall we see how many people said it?
40:01Is it pointless?
40:02No bad luck.
40:03No kitchen there.
40:04So let's move swiftly on to leaving.
40:05We're now looking at words of four or more letters in the lyrics to New York, New York.
40:14Let's see.
40:15How many of our 100 people said leaving?
40:17Might that be pointless?
40:19Leaving is right.
40:22Kitchen was incorrect.
40:24But leaving is absolutely spot on.
40:26If this goes all the way down to zero, you will be leaving here with £6,000.
40:31Twelve.
40:34OK.
40:35Not a pointless answer.
40:36Let's turn to your third and final answer, which is heap.
40:39And again, same criteria.
40:40The lyrics of New York, New York.
40:42How many of our 100 said heap?
40:44Might it be pointless?
40:46Good.
40:47Heap is right.
40:49Kitchen was incorrect.
40:51Leaving took us all the way down to 12.
40:54Heap takes us down.
40:56Passing 12.
40:57Single figures for heap.
40:58Still going down with heap.
40:59Still going down.
41:00Still going down.
41:01You've done it!
41:02Very well done indeed.
41:03Huge congratulations.
41:05Heap was a pointless answer.
41:07Think of all those wonderful things you can do to your house now.
41:10You have won £6,000.
41:13Wow.
41:14That is so amazing.
41:16I was rooting for you.
41:17I'm so excited.
41:18That's making me leave with so much joy.
41:21Hell's Kitchen is in Manhattan, but is not on the name of any subway stop.
41:26You also said Hill in your chat, and that was pointless as well.
41:30And King, but that scored one point.
41:33Let's have a look at some more of the pointless answers.
41:36Starting with subway stations in Manhattan, you could have had Columbia,
41:42Lexington, Museum, and Rockefeller.
41:46In fact, every word was pointless apart from the following, which all scored points.
41:51Broadway, Grand, Avenue, Central, City, Street, Times, Harlem, Station, Bridge, Christopher, East,
42:03Newson, Park, Penn, Place, South, Square, Trade, Union, Wall, West, and World.
42:13Everything else was pointless.
42:15Moving on to the lyrics to New York, New York.
42:18Here are some of the pointless answers you could have had.
42:21Heart, Hill, Shoes, These.
42:25And again, loads of pointless answers here.
42:28The only scoring answers were News, Spreading, Start, Leaving, you said.
42:35Part, Today, City, Town, Want, There, Anywhere, Blues, King, Never, Number, Sleeps, That, and Wake.
42:48Very well done to you at home if you got a pointless answer.
42:52Thank you very much indeed, Judy.
42:54And thanks once again to our winning players, Ali and Marcus,
42:56who take away today's jackpot of £6,000.
42:59Join us next time as we put more obscure knowledge to the test
43:03and find out who our next co-host will be.
43:06Thank you so much to Judy.
43:07You have been amazing.
43:08Thank you so much.
43:09Bye, bye, bye.
43:11And so for the final time, it is goodbye from Judy.
43:14Bye.
43:15Bye.
43:16And it is goodbye from me.
43:17Goodbye.
43:18APPLAUSE
43:19Vic, Gary.
43:21The Co-host,ince, for the final time.
43:22And we will see you next time.
43:24So, you can't see you next time.
43:26Bye.
43:27Bye.
43:28Bye.
43:29Bye.
43:30Bye.
43:31Bye.
43:32Bye.
43:33Bye.
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