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00:24Thank you very much indeed.
00:25Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless,
00:28the quiz where the more obscure your knowledge,
00:30your chances of winning.
00:31Let's meet today's players.
00:37And couple number one.
00:38Hi, my name's Alfie, this is my friend Zan and they're both from London.
00:41Couple number two.
00:42Hi, I'm Emily, this is my partner Cal and we're from Sheffield.
00:45Couple number three.
00:46Hi, I'm Darren, this is my daughter Hallie
00:48and we're from Filey in North Yorkshire.
00:50And finally, couple number four.
00:52I'm Charlie, this is my partner Nicola and we're from Dunbar.
00:55And these are today's contestants.
00:57Thank you very much indeed.
00:59I need all of you a very, very warm welcome to Pointless.
01:01It's lovely to have you all here.
01:02That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:04Your Gethin's as good as mine.
01:06Only it's not, probably.
01:07Mine's probably a bit better,
01:08because mine is my new Pointless friend Gethin Jones.
01:14How are you, Gethin?
01:15Very well, thank you.
01:16Thanks for having me back.
01:17Listen, it's a pleasure.
01:18How do you feel your first show went?
01:20Yeah, my feedback is very good actually.
01:21Good.
01:22Lovely seeing you live in action.
01:23Thank you very much.
01:24And it was a good game actually.
01:26It was a good game.
01:27It was a really tight game.
01:28Yeah.
01:29And for my part, I thought you were extremely good.
01:32Very deft.
01:33Yeah, it's easy with the answers in front of you.
01:34I know, but even so, it was very good.
01:36I thought you did very, very well.
01:38So yes, thank you very much indeed.
01:39If you just ask the next person to come in,
01:41thank you very much on your way out.
01:42As you know, don't, don't.
01:44Stay.
01:45It's too short of notice.
01:46And now, Lola and Sue got through to the final last time
01:48and they did not win the jackpot, I'm sorry to say.
01:51Which means we add another £1,000 to that,
01:53so today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.
01:57Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
02:04Just something to remember.
02:07At the back of your mind while you're playing,
02:09we will always eliminate the pair with the highest score
02:11at the end of each round,
02:12so just keep your scores as low as you possibly, possibly can.
02:14And everything should be great.
02:16Best of luck to everybody.
02:17Our first category today is...
02:24Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
02:26who's going to go second?
02:27And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:34OK, and the question concerns...
02:41Get in.
02:42On each pass, we're going to give you the names of seven US presidents,
02:46but each is missing part of their name,
02:48which has been replaced by blanks.
02:50The missing part is also the answer to a separate clue,
02:54which we'll give you as well.
02:56So please give us the missing answer
02:58that you think, of course, is most obscure.
03:01Good luck.
03:03Here is our first board of clues.
03:04Blank, Clinton.
03:08A printed statement of money owed for goods or services.
03:11Herbert, blank.
03:13A verb meaning to vacuum a floor.
03:15John, blank, Adams.
03:18Title character played by Jack Klugman
03:20in a TV series about a forensic pathologist.
03:22James, blank.
03:24Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald
03:26won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in this cycling race.
03:29Abraham, blank, a city in the East Midlands
03:33known for its medieval cathedral.
03:35Blank Pierce, the pilgrim who interrupts the squire
03:38in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
03:41And Jimmy, blank, maiden name of the country singer
03:45played by Rhys Witherspoon in Walk the Line.
03:49There we are, Alfie. Welcome back.
03:51Thank you. It's terrific to see you again.
03:52Tell us a bit more about yourself.
03:55Yeah, so in the last show I mentioned I graduated from KCL.
03:58I guess a fun fact was that I was the president
04:01of the Doctor Who Society for two years.
04:03The Doctor Who Society. Yes.
04:05How many members were there?
04:06A good amount.
04:07I think we ranged from, like, 40-plus.
04:09That was our first screening.
04:10It kind of dwindled down as, like, weeks went on.
04:12But it was a nice little community towards the end.
04:14Nice little community of Whovians.
04:16Exactly.
04:17There we are.
04:18And did you have to stand up and address them
04:19at the beginning of each meeting?
04:20Yeah, press iPlayer.
04:21Very easy job.
04:22Very good.
04:23But you're just welcome, everyone.
04:24Yeah.
04:25And we watched...
04:26We had a Sarah Jane Adventures week as well,
04:27so obviously it's a pleasure to meet the face behind Mr Smith.
04:30There we are.
04:31Well, listen, it's a pleasure to meet you too.
04:32Alfie, these presents with bits missing.
04:36OK.
04:37I'm going to take a guess on the third one and say Dexter.
04:42On the third one?
04:43John?
04:44John Adams.
04:45Shall we see if that is right?
04:46Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Dexter?
04:51Oh.
04:52I'm afraid not.
04:53Dexter, Alfie.
04:54That scores you 100 points.
04:56Sorry.
04:57Hmm.
04:58Dexter is a no-no.
04:59I'll give you the answer at the end.
05:00I'm actually a little bit more offended that you remember
05:02Alexander from Sarah Jane Adventures,
05:04but you don't remember the Cyberman in Episode 11 of Series 5.
05:12Alfie, does that not ring a bell?
05:14No.
05:15Sorry.
05:16Disappointing.
05:17Yeah.
05:18Oh.
05:19Don't know what to say.
05:20Sorry.
05:21Emily, welcome back.
05:22Hi.
05:23It's wonderful to have you with us again.
05:24Tell us more about yourself.
05:25You're an ecologist, we discovered last time.
05:27Yeah.
05:28In my spare time, I quite like doing hula hooping.
05:32Do you now?
05:33Yeah.
05:34That's quite a...
05:35I mean, I suspect we all quite like a bit of hula hooping,
05:37but that sounds like you do it a bit more seriously.
05:38Do you own a hoop?
05:39Yeah.
05:40So, I was at a festival, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago,
05:43maybe more than that.
05:44Yeah.
05:45And I saw someone doing it and I just thought it looked really cool.
05:47That's for me.
05:48I just found a class where someone was doing it and I've been doing it for about 12 years
05:52or so.
05:53Yeah.
05:54How many hoops at once can you spin?
05:55Um, maybe three.
05:56Yeah.
05:57Arm, arm, waist.
05:58Maybe neck or, yeah, waist or knees.
06:01Oh, wow.
06:03Emily, what are you going to go for on our board?
06:06Um, I'm not sure how low scoring is going to be, but Herbert Hoover.
06:11Shall we see how many of our 100 said Hoover?
06:16Uh, Hoover's absolutely right.
06:19And not Henry Hoover, as some people often think.
06:2247 is what that scores.
06:25Very good, yeah.
06:26Not including its east or west wings, the White House has floor space
06:30of approximately 55,000 square feet, which is a lot of hoovering.
06:34That's an awful lot of hoovering.
06:36Heavens above.
06:37There we are.
06:38Darren.
06:39Welcome from Filey.
06:41Beautiful, beautiful, Filey.
06:43Um, and tell us all about yourself.
06:44Uh, I'm a telecoms engineer.
06:46I've been for 36 years.
06:48Um, that's my day job.
06:49My night job is, uh, I sing in a rock band.
06:53Sing and play guitar.
06:54What sort of rock band is it?
06:56Uh, we do our own stuff.
06:57We do some covers.
06:58We've got some really good musicians in the band, so it's happy days.
07:00How many in the band?
07:01Four of us.
07:02Four of you?
07:03We're called Dog House.
07:04Dog House.
07:05If you're in the Filey area, or probably slightly broader, I imagine.
07:08Slightly broader.
07:09I imagine you travel.
07:10Yeah.
07:11Yes.
07:12Now, Darren, all of these presidents' names have bits missing.
07:14Can you supply them?
07:15I'm going to go for the third one.
07:17It's, uh, John Quincy Adams.
07:19Quincy.
07:20Different detective.
07:21Shall we see how many of our 100 said Quincy?
07:26Quincy's right.
07:27100 is our high score, 47 is our low score, and you pass both of those.
07:3120 for Quincy.
07:32Very well done.
07:33Quincy, yeah.
07:34Not Dexter, but Quincy.
07:36The TV show Quincy M.E. ran from 1976 to 1983, almost twice as long as John Quincy Adams was president for.
07:45There you are.
07:46Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
07:48Nicola, welcome to Pointless.
07:49It's lovely to have you here.
07:51Tell us all about yourself, Nicola.
07:52As Charlie said, we live in Dunbar, which is on the east coast of Scotland.
07:56Lovely.
07:57I'm the director of a small engineering company based here in the UK, and we're involved in the energy business.
08:04So that keeps me pretty occupied Monday to Friday.
08:07Very good indeed.
08:08The thing I always remember at Dunbar is the station has a little well head in it.
08:12There's a...
08:13I don't know if that's a real well.
08:15It does still have a well head.
08:16Yeah.
08:17Yeah.
08:18I don't think there's any water there.
08:19No.
08:20But it's a good memory.
08:21Well, yeah.
08:22Ah.
08:23Dunbar, lovely station.
08:24Anyway, Nicola, you're the last person to have this board.
08:27Would you like to fill in all our blanks?
08:29I don't think I can do them all, but definitely the top one is Bill Clinton.
08:34Abraham Lincoln for the city in East Midlands.
08:38Pierce, I don't know.
08:39But the bottom one I'm going to go for, and I think that's Jimmy Carter.
08:43Carter, says Nicola.
08:45Shall we see how many of our 100 said Carter?
08:49Carter is right.
08:50Well, 20 is our low score.
08:5439 is where you end up with Carter.
08:55Not bad at all.
08:57Yeah.
08:58You chose the best one of the ones you knew there, so well played.
09:03Okay.
09:04Bill Clinton, you were right, Nicola.
09:06Bill Clinton, 65.
09:09James, this got me for ages.
09:11I couldn't think.
09:12Laura Kenny...
09:13Is it Madison?
09:14It is Madison.
09:15James Madison, yeah.
09:17Yeah.
09:18He scored eight.
09:19And there's Lincoln.
09:20Highest on the board, 73.
09:22And this is Franklin Pierce.
09:24Franklin Pierce, four, one.
09:27Franklin Pierce.
09:28The best answer on the board, yeah.
09:29There we go.
09:30There we are.
09:31Thank you very much indeed.
09:32Okay.
09:33Well, we're halfway through the round.
09:34Let's have a quick look at those scores.
09:3620.
09:37Darren, the best score of the pass.
09:40And then we travel from there to 39, where we find Nicola and Charlie.
09:42From there to 47, where we find Emily and Cal.
09:44And from there up, I'm afraid, to 100.
09:46Alfie, I'm sorry, Alfie and Zan.
09:48That's where you are currently residing.
09:50Everything could change in the next pass, Zan.
09:52Let's have a low-scoring answer from you.
09:54Good luck.
09:55We're going to come back down the line now.
09:56Will the second players please step up to the podium?
10:01Okay, let's put seven more clues to US presidents on the board
10:04with little bits missing.
10:06And here they are.
10:08Blank S Grant, a novel written by James Joyce.
10:12Barak Blank, a coastal town in Japan whose name translates as small beach.
10:17Blank Blank Harding, rapper who had the 1994 UK Top Ten single Regulate with Nate Dogg.
10:25James A Blank, lasagna-loving comic strip cat created by Jim Davis.
10:30George W Blank, a small, densely-branched shrub.
10:35Blank Cleveland, a Blue Muppet character originally performed by Frank Oz.
10:40And Woodrow Blank, the name given to the volleyball by Tom Hanks' character
10:45in the film Castaway.
10:48Charlie, welcome to Pointless.
10:50Great to have you here.
10:51Tell us all about yourself, Charlie.
10:52Well, I live in Dunbar with Nicola.
10:55I spent the last year setting up my own lift and escalator consulting company.
10:59So you consult, you give people advice on what the best lift and escalator they should.
11:04Yeah, OK.
11:05Very good indeed, Charlie.
11:07And what do you do for fun?
11:08We've got a racehorse, so that takes a bit of our time up.
11:11That's fun.
11:12You travel round with it, clearly.
11:13Well, the trainer does.
11:15But do you sometimes go along and watch it?
11:17Oh, we always go and watch it.
11:18Always.
11:19Is it you're a syndicate?
11:20No, we own it ourselves.
11:21You own it yourselves.
11:23Excellent.
11:24Good stuff.
11:25We should all be in lifts, clearly.
11:27Charlie, you're on 39.
11:28If you can score 60 or less, you are into round two.
11:32What would you like to go for?
11:34I'm going to have to go for, I think, George Washington.
11:38OK.
11:39What, for the one, two, three, four, five.
11:41The fifth one down.
11:42OK.
11:43George Washington says, Charlie, you get a red line.
11:45Here it comes.
11:46I'm so sorry, Charlie.
11:51I'm sorry.
11:52That W is an initial.
11:54Oh.
11:55That scores you 100 points and takes your total up to 139.
11:59Sorry.
12:00Nicola gave Charlie the look there straight away.
12:03Yeah.
12:04I think everyone will have felt the same.
12:05It's difficult, though, when you're up there, isn't it, Alexander?
12:07It certainly is.
12:08It certainly is.
12:09We'll get the answer a bit later.
12:10We will.
12:11Thank you very much indeed.
12:12Now then, Hallie, welcome to Pointless.
12:14Good to have you here.
12:15Tell us all about yourself.
12:16Hi.
12:17I'm Hallie.
12:18I've got a master's degree in zoology.
12:20And for my final year project, I trained praying mantises.
12:24What do you train them to do?
12:25To sing?
12:26No.
12:27That might be a PhD project, though.
12:30Could be.
12:31But I train them to basically respond to little 3D printed hoverflies
12:36and wasps.
12:37Yeah.
12:38So we were trying to see if they could recognise danger visually.
12:40Wow.
12:41Yeah.
12:42Wow.
12:43Have you been marked about with their wasp hoverfly?
12:45No, no.
12:46I hope I've not messed their brains up.
12:47No.
12:48Phew.
12:49Phew.
12:50So should they find themselves back in the wild?
12:51Yeah.
12:52They can just get on with their praying?
12:53Yeah.
12:54Good.
12:55OK, Hallie, you are on 20.
12:56Doesn't matter what you score.
12:57You're through come what may.
12:58But I bet you've got a good answer.
12:59What are you going to go for?
13:00I'm going to go for Ulysses for the first.
13:02Ulysses S Grant.
13:03Shall we see if that is right?
13:04Shall we see how many of our 100 said it?
13:06You don't get a red line for the lovely reason.
13:08As I said, you're already through.
13:11Ulysses is right.
13:16That goes down to 31.
13:1851 your total.
13:19Very, very strong.
13:21In 2022, the BBC website published some tips for reading or attempting to read Ulysses.
13:28One from the Irish ambassador to the US simply said,
13:32If anyone is looking for an easy read, it's not for them.
13:36So we come to you, Cal.
13:38Welcome back to Pointless.
13:39Good to have you here a second time.
13:41Tell us a bit more about yourself, Cal.
13:43Well, I think I mentioned my band Faint Paint.
13:45Faint Paint?
13:46Yes, in the last time.
13:47Just getting another shout out there.
13:48But I also play a number of musical instruments as well as that.
13:51So everything really from...
13:53If it's got strings, I can play it, hopefully.
13:55See, that's good.
13:57Gethin is a stringed instrument player as well.
14:00I play it terribly, but I can play it.
14:02Really?
14:03So you play...
14:04You're a guitarist in the band?
14:05I'm a guitar and recently sort of auto harp and balalaika as well.
14:09What's an auto harp?
14:11It's like a little mini harp that you can press buttons on.
14:14It's used a lot in country music.
14:17OK, very good indeed.
14:18Now, Cal, you're on 47.
14:19Ninety-one or less gets you through.
14:20Can you supply the missing parts of these presidents' names?
14:24I think I'll go for James A. Garfield, the lasagna, lovely comic strip cat.
14:28James A. Garfield.
14:29You get a red line, it's nice and high.
14:31Where do we end up with Garfield?
14:36Very, very good indeed.
14:38There we are.
14:39Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
14:40Now then, Zan.
14:41Hello.
14:42Zan, welcome back to Pointless.
14:43Listen, there's a chance here.
14:44You've been thrown a fabulous bone, but we'll come to that in a moment.
14:47Tell us a little bit more about yourself, Zan.
14:48Well, I was also at university.
14:49I was the president of the squash club because growing up, I used to play squash.
14:52And in England, I came to number twelve in the country.
14:53I was the president of the country and I was the president of the squash club.
14:54I was the president of the country.
14:55And I was the president of the country.
14:56I was the president of the country.
14:57So, I can relate.
14:58By contrast, President James A. Garfield worked as a carpenter, teacher, preacher, and a lawyer.
15:02There we are.
15:03Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
15:04Now then, Zan.
15:05Hello.
15:06Zan, welcome back to Pointless.
15:07Listen, there's a chance here.
15:08You've been thrown a fabulous bone, but we'll come to that in a moment.
15:12Tell us a little bit more about yourself, Zan.
15:14Well, I was also at university.
15:15I was the president of the squash club because growing up, I used to play squash.
15:19And in England, I came to number twelve in the country.
15:22And in Hertfordshire as well, I was like the county champion for about...
15:25The county champion of...
15:26Yes, it's that, Zan.
15:28Everyone's thinking, well, I've definitely seen him before.
15:30Yeah.
15:31You still playing squash?
15:32I still play more for the local team in Harrow.
15:34Good stuff.
15:35Zan, now look, here's the point.
15:38We have to score 38 here or less.
15:40Otherwise, it's goodbye.
15:42What are we thinking?
15:43Do you want to talk us through the board?
15:45Yeah, sure.
15:46I'm hoping my politics degree helps me here.
15:48So, the second one is Obama.
15:51I know it's bush for George, but it's just more shrub.
15:55But I'm going to go for the bottom one.
15:56I'm going to go with Wilson.
15:58OK, Woodrow Wilson.
16:00You get a red line and it comes in sort of there-ish, I'm going to guess.
16:03Shall we see where you end up with Wilson?
16:0548 for Woodrow Wilson, taking your total up to 148.
16:18Yeah.
16:19Tom Hanks' wife since 1988 is Rita Wilson as well.
16:23So, Tom Hanks' volleyball was called Wilson and his wife, his actual wife, is called Wilson.
16:29Rita Wilson.
16:30Rita Wilson.
16:31Since 1988.
16:32Was there a connection between the two?
16:33I wonder.
16:34It was the brand of the ball as well, wasn't it?
16:36It was the brand of the ball, of course it was.
16:38I wonder if I've done that island as well, but I liked your idea better.
16:40Yeah.
16:41OK.
16:42Here we go then.
16:43Barack Obama would have been 75.
16:45Then we had Warren G Harding, which would have been a pointless answer.
16:53I wasn't familiar with Warren G, the rapper.
16:56No.
16:57George W Bush would have got 50.
17:00And then...
17:01This is Grover.
17:02Grover Cleveland would have got 18 points, which also would have been great for you, Zan.
17:07Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
17:09That brings us to the end of our first round.
17:10It means we have to say goodbye to Zan and Alfie.
17:13Oh, I'm so sorry.
17:14Do any of these make sense now, once you see them filled in?
17:16Do you think, oh, I should have known that maybe?
17:18Yeah.
17:19There we go.
17:20There's a thing to remember next time.
17:22When you're in for your third time, in fact, next time.
17:24So we must see you beyond round one.
17:26Thanks so much for playing Zan and Alfie.
17:28For the remaining three pairs though, it is now time for round two.
17:37And there we are, magically in round two.
17:39Well, not magically at all, through your own hard efforts there.
17:43And very well done indeed.
17:44Darren, our lowest individual scorer.
17:46And Hallie and Darren, our lowest combined scorer.
17:48So fabulous work there.
17:49What a team.
17:50But you all did brilliantly.
17:52You mostly did brilliantly.
17:54Best of luck to everybody for round two.
17:56Our category for it is...
17:58Classical music.
18:01Can you all decide in your pairs?
18:02Who's going to go first?
18:03Who's going to go second?
18:04And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
18:11OK, let's find out what the question is.
18:13Here it comes.
18:14We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many instruments
18:19played by BBC Young Musician competitors as they could.
18:24Gethin.
18:25BBC Young Musician is a national music competition
18:28primarily for classical musicians.
18:30Broadcast every two years on BBC Television and BBC Radio 3.
18:34We're looking for any musical instrument played by a competitor
18:38in the category finals or the grand final of the competition
18:42in the last decade, as of August 2024.
18:46So that's from the 2014 competition up to and including the 2022 competition.
18:52Thank you very much indeed.
18:54So, Emily.
18:56I mean, do you follow any of the Young Musician contests?
18:59Oh, yeah.
19:00Have you seen?
19:01Every year.
19:02They are.
19:03I mean, they're genuinely wonderful to watch.
19:04But, yes.
19:05Maybe I will have to after this.
19:06Might be quite niche.
19:07So this is basically going to be a bit of a guess and fingers crossed.
19:11Yeah.
19:12I think I'll go with oboe.
19:15Oboe, says Emily.
19:17Should we find out how many of our 100 said oboe?
19:19Oboe.
19:21Oboe is right.
19:27Down it goes to 18.
19:28What a great start to the round.
19:2918 for oboe.
19:30Does she know that it's your instrument?
19:32I don't know.
19:33I don't believe she does.
19:34I don't know.
19:35Did you know that it's my instrument?
19:36No, I didn't know.
19:37Did you know that I had an instrument?
19:39Yes.
19:40Yes.
19:41The oboe has a very important job in any orchestra, doesn't it?
19:44Well, it does.
19:45Yes.
19:46Well, it gives the note.
19:47It gives the A.
19:48For everyone else, indeed.
19:49Yeah.
19:50There we go.
19:51Thank you very much indeed.
19:52Gethin.
19:53Now then, Hallie.
19:54Hello.
19:56What are you thinking?
19:58I myself, I'm a young musician.
20:02Are you?
20:03But I don't play any classical instruments.
20:05Except for guitar, I guess you could say that.
20:07OK.
20:08But I'm going to go with French horn.
20:10French horn, says Hallie.
20:11Shall we see how many of our 100 people said French horn?
20:16French horn is right.
20:1818 is the only score we have at the moment.
20:21And you pass it with French horn, down to nine.
20:23Very well done indeed, Hallie.
20:25Without doubt, my favourite brass instrument.
20:27Beautiful tone on a French horn.
20:29It comes from hand-tin horns used in the 17th century.
20:32If you uncoiled it, it would be 13 feet long.
20:36There we are.
20:37Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
20:39Now then, Nicola.
20:41A little prayer there from Nicola.
20:43So, instruments played by the category finalists
20:45in BBC Young Musician of the Year.
20:47So, I am a brass instrument player.
20:53Yes.
20:54Meaning I have to side with the brass instrument.
20:57And I'm thinking tenor horn.
21:01Tenor horn, says Nicola.
21:04Tenor horn.
21:05Shall we see what happens when we say tenor horn?
21:08Tenor horn.
21:11I'm so sorry, Nicola.
21:13I'm sorry, that's incorrect.
21:14Scores you 100 points.
21:16Sorry about that.
21:17That's so unlucky, that.
21:18Going for the obscure, which is the name of the game,
21:20but the tenor horn was most recently played
21:22in the category finals in 2012.
21:24So, just outside our timeframe.
21:27Mmm.
21:28There we are.
21:29Thank you very much indeed.
21:30Well, we're halfway through the round.
21:31Let's have a quick look at those scores.
21:32Nine for Hallie.
21:33Very well done indeed.
21:34Hallie and Darren.
21:35Once again, they're always scoring low, these two.
21:37Then we travel from there to 18, where we find Emily and Cal,
21:40and then up to 100.
21:42I'm so sorry, Nicola and Charlie.
21:44That's where you are.
21:45Charlie, let's have a brilliant answer from you this time,
21:47and maybe we can turn things around.
21:49Good luck with that.
21:50We're going to come back down the line now.
21:51Will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:56OK, Charlie, remember, we're looking for any instrument
21:58played by BBC Young Musician of the Year competitors
22:02in one of the final categories.
22:04Yeah, it's not my thing.
22:06I used to play a cello when I was at school.
22:08Oh, you should be careful saying things.
22:10Sometimes we have to take the first instrument you've said.
22:13I want to go with cello.
22:14Oh, phew!
22:15In that case...
22:16In which case, don't be careful.
22:18Keep speaking.
22:19So...
22:20OK, cello.
22:21Sorry, yeah.
22:22Cello.
22:23That's good.
22:24Phew.
22:25You don't get a red line, I'm afraid, Charlie,
22:26because you are our high scorers.
22:28Let's see how far down the column we get with cello.
22:32Cello is right.
22:37Down he goes to 36.
22:38Takes your court luck to an unbeatable 136.
22:41Yo-Yo Ma started learning the cello at four years old
22:44and performed to Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower three years later.
22:49But...
22:50Mmm.
22:51Talent.
22:52Extraordinary.
22:53Extraordinary talent.
22:54Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
22:55Now, Darren.
22:56Great news.
22:57You're through to the head-to-head.
22:58Doesn't matter what you score.
23:00So, instruments played by these young musicians?
23:03I helped run an open mic on a Thursday night in my local pub
23:07and a guy turned up once with a harp
23:10and he was absolutely brilliant, so I'm going to say harp.
23:13Harp.
23:14Shall we see if harp is right?
23:15How many of our 100 said that?
23:16There's no red line for you because you're already through.
23:20Harp is absolutely right, Darren.
23:23I think this might be a low scorer.
23:27Or not.
23:29Well, that means it's pretty good.
23:3020 takes the good luck to 29.
23:32According to Celtic myth, the Dagda,
23:34who was chief of the original inhabitants of Ireland,
23:37played the harp to put the seasons in the right order.
23:41Very useful for that.
23:42Yes, the harp.
23:43It's one of the things it does best.
23:44Mm.
23:45Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
23:46Now, Cal, you are on 18.
23:48It doesn't matter what you score.
23:49You're through to the next round.
23:51What would you like to go for?
23:53I'll take a point and say balalaika.
23:56Balalaika.
23:57I mean, why not?
23:58You're through anyway.
23:59What happens when we say balalaika?
24:00There's no red line.
24:01You're already through.
24:04No, but it was fun.
24:06There we are.
24:07Balalaika.
24:08Scores you 100 points.
24:09Takes your total up to 180s.
24:11There are only two pointless answers.
24:12I was going to say, do you want to have a go?
24:14Yeah, I might.
24:15You'd be good at this.
24:16There was a brilliant finalist called Rob Burton,
24:18who plays the saxophone.
24:20Saxophone would not have been a pointless answer.
24:23Would have got 18.
24:24Oh, 18, for goodness sake.
24:25Saxophone as a saxophone.
24:27Yeah, got anything else?
24:28Oh, yeah.
24:29Bass trombone.
24:30You could have one of those.
24:32Bass trombone would have been a pointless answer.
24:34There you go.
24:35Very good.
24:36As would have a flugelhorn.
24:38Nine points for bassoon as well as French horn.
24:41Seven points for tuba.
24:42Three points for a recorder.
24:44Goodness.
24:45Thank you very much indeed, Getham.
24:47That brings us to the end of our second round.
24:48And it means we have to say goodbye to Charlie and Nicola.
24:51I'm so sorry.
24:52Oh, listen, this was just your first show.
24:55This was really just to show you how it works.
24:57Next time.
24:58That's when it's serious.
24:59Charlie and Nicola, thank you so much for playing.
25:01For the two remaining players, though, it is now time for the head-to-head.
25:04Congratulations, Hallie and Darren.
25:12Emily and Cal, you are now one step closer to the final
25:14and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £2,000.
25:19However, we now have a chance to throw some more money into that jackpot
25:23by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers
25:25just ahead of playing the head-to-head.
25:27So here we go, just for fun.
25:28We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
25:32..fictional dragons as they could, Gethin.
25:35You will see six options.
25:37Two are scoring, two are pointless
25:39and two are not famous fictional dragons at all.
25:43£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
25:47Thank you very much indeed.
25:48So, simply, can you find the two pointless fictional dragons
25:51from this list of six?
25:53Here we go. We have...
26:02..Gran, Dreamfire and Glaurung.
26:07There we are.
26:08Does anybody know anything?
26:10I think I might have spotted a red herring.
26:11I think Lalvani might have been the second name of someone on Dragon's Den.
26:15Ah, right.
26:16I think I might be wrong.
26:17No, Dreamfire is a dragon in House of the Dragon.
26:20And Elliot is a Disney dragon, I think.
26:22Ah, OK. OK.
26:24OK, a lot of stuff coming out here.
26:26Yes, you're right, Tej Lalvani, that's it.
26:29Very well spotted.
26:30OK, so, Hallie and Darren,
26:33who would you like to nominate as a pointless fictional dragon?
26:36Well, I might go for Lee.
26:38Cool.
26:39I'm going to go for Lee Jun Fan.
26:41OK, Lee Jun Fan.
26:42Shall we see if that is a pointless fictional dragon?
26:45No, no!
26:48Not Lee Jun Fan.
26:50Now, Emily and Kao, would you like to nominate one?
26:53I don't know if the ones that we've said would mean that they would have points.
26:56I think you might be right, yeah.
26:57So, we should go for a different one.
26:59Glaurung sounds like something from Lord of the Rings.
27:01So, maybe, would you be happy with Glaurung?
27:03Yeah.
27:04Shall we try Glaurung?
27:05Let's see, is Glaurung a pointless dragon?
27:10Glaurung is a dragon.
27:15And it's a pointless one as well.
27:18Very well done indeed, Emily and Kao.
27:21Glaurung there from J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion.
27:24Well done.
27:25Lee Jun Fan is actually Bruce Lee's Chinese name.
27:29Bruce Lee was nicknamed Little Dragon and starred in Enter the Dragon
27:33and Way of the Dragon.
27:35Lalvani, that's the red herring.
27:37Tej Lalvani, as you said, was a dragon on Dragon's Den for a while.
27:42You mentioned Elliot, Darren, the dragon friend from the 1977 and 2016 Disney films Pete's Dragon.
27:49You've got one point for that.
27:51And then...
27:52Well, I'm going to guess people might remember Vermithrax pejorative as a name.
27:55So, I thought that might not be pointless.
27:56But maybe it is.
27:57It is pointless.
27:58The dragon from the 1981 film Dragon Slayer.
28:01And Dreamfire, as you said, was from House of the Dragon with one.
28:05So, yeah.
28:06There we are.
28:07Thank you very much indeed.
28:08And well done.
28:09You managed to find a pointless answer.
28:10Which means we can add £250 to the jackpot.
28:12So, it now stands at £2,250.
28:16But who will be playing for it?
28:17Well, let's find out from head to head.
28:19APPLAUSE
28:24Now, the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot
28:27and you're now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
28:30Best of luck to both pairs.
28:31Here is our first question and it's all about...
28:34Edible fish, Gethin.
28:37Yeah, we're going to show you five pictures of edible fish,
28:41but they're still in the water rather than on the plates.
28:46We'll also give you the first letters of their names.
28:49We need the lowest scoring fish.
28:51Thank you very much.
28:52So, can you identify these edible fish?
28:54And we have...
28:55A, H.
29:02B, C.
29:08C, D, S.
29:15D, H.
29:21And E, T.
29:24There we are.
29:28Five edible fish.
29:29Hallie and Darren, you are our low scorers, so you get to go first.
29:35What's C?
29:36No, don't know.
29:37Shall I just go for Haddock?
29:38We'll go for A, Haddock.
29:41A, Haddock, say Hallie and Darren.
29:45Haddock, now then.
29:46Emily and Cowell, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
29:49B is cod.
29:50E is tuna.
29:52C is Doversoll.
29:54I wish I knew what D was.
29:57But I think I'm going to go for the Doversoll with C.
30:01You're going to go C, Doversoll.
30:02So we have Haddock and we have Doversoll.
30:04Hallie and Darren said Haddock for A.
30:07Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
30:11Haddock is right.
30:12That goes down to 35.
30:13Meanwhile, Emily and Cowell are going for Doversoll for C.
30:15Shall we see how many of our 100 said Doversoll?
30:17Doversoll is right.
30:2132 for Doversoll.
30:22Very well done indeed.
30:23Hallie and Darren, after one question you are up 1-0.
30:25Hallie, you look surprised by that result.
30:27Cod would have got 65 on the board.
30:28Halibut would have got you 10.
30:32And finally, Tuna with 64.
30:33Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
30:34Right, here comes your second question.
30:35Emily and Cowell.
30:36And finally, Tuna with 64.
30:39Right, here comes your second question.
30:40Emily and Cowell, you've got to win this one stay in the game.
30:53So good luck.
30:54Our second question is all about...
30:57Dad's Army Plateau.
31:03I have to take a look at the G& cómo.
31:04Yeah.
31:06Dad's Army platoon members, Gethin.
31:10Yeah, we're going to show you the surnames of members of the Warmington-on-Sea platoon
31:14in the TV sitcom Dad's Army,
31:16but we've rearranged the letters in their names into alphabetical order.
31:22Please give us just the surnames of these characters.
31:26Thank you very much indeed.
31:27So can you unscramble these alphabetical anagrams?
31:30We have...
31:36There we are.
31:42Now, Emily and Cal, you get to go first this time.
31:50OK, I'm going to have to go for the bottom one maybe and go for Manoring.
31:54You're going to say Manoring for the bottom one.
31:56Now then, Hallie and Darren, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
32:02Jones for the second one.
32:03And I think it could be Zephyra for the first one,
32:08and it doesn't ring a bell with me.
32:13I think we'll have to go Jones.
32:14You're going to go Jones.
32:15So we have Manoring and we have Jones.
32:17OK, Emily and Cal went Manoring.
32:19Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
32:24Manoring is right.
32:2533 for Manoring.
32:32Meanwhile, Hallie and Darren have gone for Jones for the second one.
32:35Should we see how many of our 100 said that?
32:37Jones.
32:41Jones is right.
32:43It's a big one, though.
32:4458 for Jones.
32:45Very well done indeed, Emily and Cal.
32:47You're back in the game after two questions.
32:48It's one all.
32:49Yeah, just about got Jones myself.
32:52At the top one, not Zephyra, but Fraser.
32:56Fraser for 23.
32:59Anything else on there, Alexander?
33:01Godfrey.
33:02Godfrey would have got 27, but the best answer on the board?
33:06No, go on.
33:07Cheeseman.
33:08Oh, for goodness sake.
33:09There we are.
33:10Score of one.
33:11Marvellous.
33:12Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
33:13Right, it all comes down to this third question.
33:16Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for the jackpot.
33:18Best of luck to both pairs.
33:19Here is our third question, and it's all about...
33:23Rihanna, Gethin.
33:25Yeah, here are five clues to facts about Rihanna.
33:29We'd like you to answer the one you think the fewest of 100 people knew.
33:33Thank you very much.
33:34So let's reveal our five Rihanna facts, and here they are.
33:37Title of her 2007 single that was appropriately UK number one
33:42for ten weeks during a rainy summer.
33:45Caribbean island she was born on.
33:47Singer, known for her 2009 UK top ten single T-shirt,
33:51who was Rihanna's drill sergeant when they were in the army cadets together.
33:56Her surname, which she used as the name of her fashion range.
34:00And British band, whose 2012 UK top ten single Princess of China
34:05featured her vocals.
34:07There we are.
34:08Now, Hallie and Darren, you get to go first again.
34:11I know the first two, and I know the bottom one.
34:14Oh, first one.
34:17We'll go for the first one, umbrella.
34:19Umbrella.
34:20Say, Hallie and Darren, now then, Emily and Cal,
34:22can you talk us through that board?
34:24No.
34:26Should we just guess for Caribbean island?
34:28Yeah.
34:29Oh, I think it might be Barbados.
34:34Barbados, say Emily and Cal for the island.
34:37So we have umbrella and we have Barbados.
34:40Hallie and Darren went umbrella for the top one.
34:43Let's see how many of our 100 said umbrella.
34:48Umbrella's right.
34:49That goes down to 41.
34:55Meanwhile, at the last minute, inspiration dawned on Emily and Cal
34:59going for Barbados, the island she was born on.
35:02Let's see how many of our 100 said Barbados.
35:04It's right.
35:10And it wins the point.
35:11Superb work.
35:1229 for Barbados.
35:13And that, Emily and Cal,
35:15sees you through to the final after three questions, 2-1.
35:17Darren's so unlucky, because if you got the bottom one as well,
35:21which is Coldplay,
35:23you'd have made it through, because that scored eight.
35:26And the other two, Rihanna fan Alexander?
35:30I don't know.
35:31The other two, if you go on with her surname,
35:33which she used as the name of a fashion range,
35:35would have scored 19 with Fenty.
35:38And the top answer would have been Chantelle with three.
35:43Thank you very much indeed.
35:45That brings us to the end of the head-to-head round,
35:46and it means we have to say goodbye to Hallie and Darren.
35:49Only for now, we'll see you again next time.
35:51And look forward to it very much.
35:52But thanks so much for playing and playing so well, Hallie and Darren.
35:55For Emily and Cal, though, it's now time for the pointless final.
36:02Huge congratulations, Emily and Cal.
36:03You've fought off all the competition
36:05and you have won our coveted pointless trophy.
36:14You now have a chance to win the pointless jackpot.
36:16And at the end of today's show,
36:17the jackpot is standing at £2,250.
36:23Well, you contributed to that jackpot in the bonus round there.
36:26We had a lovely pointless answer from you.
36:28And in fact, it was always going to happen.
36:29You were in the head-to-head last time.
36:31You very narrowly avoided going into the final then.
36:33This time, off you go.
36:35Here we are in that final.
36:36What do you want to see come up?
36:39Anything to do with natural world,
36:42animals, plants, geography.
36:44Be good for me.
36:45Music for me, I think.
36:47OK.
36:47Well, four things, as you know, will appear on the board.
36:50Let's hope there's something you feel you can have some fun with here.
36:55Today's selection is this.
36:56I think, if you don't mind, I think Bristol Trip Hop,
37:08because, yeah, I think Massive Attack or maybe Portishead will come up,
37:12which...
37:12I mean, yes, that's probably both of the characters.
37:14I don't know.
37:16Let's find out.
37:17Bristol Trip Hop, get them.
37:19OK, yeah.
37:20We are looking for any track on these albums released by acts associated with the Bristol Trip Hop genre.
37:28We're looking for any track on Massive Attack's 2006 Best Of Album, Collected.
37:35Or any track on Portishead's three albums.
37:42So that's Dummy, released in 1994, Portishead from 1997, or third from 2008.
37:52Best of luck to you and everyone playing at home as well.
37:54Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
37:56Oh, this is going to be fun.
37:58As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
38:01All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
38:04However, if you can find three pointless answers, Cal, we'll throw in a £500 bonus.
38:11Are you ready?
38:12I think so.
38:12OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock like you need them.
38:16And there they are.
38:17Your time starts now.
38:19So, I think for Massive Attack, Five Man Army, I think is one of their songs.
38:26Butterfly Court.
38:28And there's also Inertia Creeps.
38:32For Portishead, I mean, there's obviously, like, Biscuit might be a good one for there.
38:40So maybe, I'm trying to think what's going to be pointless out of there.
38:42Maybe Five Man Army, Five Man Army for Massive Attack.
38:48Biscuit for Portishead and Butterfly Court, maybe, for Massive Attack.
38:52Yeah, I think we've got our answers.
38:53OK, we've got our three answers.
38:55Let's stop that clock.
38:56Who needed it?
38:57What answers are you going to give me?
38:59OK, so for Massive Attack, could we go Five Man Army?
39:01Five Man Army.
39:03And Butterfly Court.
39:04Butterfly Court.
39:06And then for Portishead, could we go for Biscuit?
39:08Biscuit.
39:09Of those three, do you think that one has a better chance than another of being a pointless answer?
39:14I think maybe Biscuit for Portishead.
39:15Biscuit will put last.
39:16Least likely to be pointless?
39:18Maybe Five Man Army.
39:19Five Man Army and Butterfly Court goes in the middle.
39:21OK, well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order, and here they are.
39:26We have Five Man Army, Butterfly Court, and Biscuit.
39:33Well, I have to say, I just love it.
39:36I love it, because that has been up on the board for a lot.
39:39It's a hoary old classic, that Bristol trip-up.
39:41It's been so many people have sort of gone, no, not that.
39:44Not that, not that.
39:46And finally, it's found its pair.
39:49It's just one of them.
39:50It's been so exciting hearing you go through.
39:52I have no idea if any of these are right or pointless, but it's been great.
39:56Just that it matched so well.
39:58Now, £2,250 is up for grabs.
40:00If one of these turns out to be pointless, what would you like to do with that?
40:04We're currently saving up to get a camper van,
40:06so that we can do some travelling around with our dog, Bobby.
40:10Very nice.
40:11We'll probably go towards that.
40:12That would be very nice.
40:13Cal?
40:13I've also been borrowing my guitarist Mark's guitar for a long time now,
40:17and I would love to be able to get my own.
40:18It's high time you had your own.
40:20Yeah, fair enough.
40:22OK, well, let's just put these to the test.
40:25Five Man Army.
40:26In this case, we're looking for tracks from Massive Attacks, 2006.
40:29Best of album collected.
40:31Shall we see if Five Man Army is on that?
40:33Shall we see if it's pointless?
40:37Oh, phew.
40:38Five Man Army is very much on that album.
40:41It just has to go all the way down to zero, and you'll leave here with £2,250.
40:45Down we go.
40:46Five Man Army still going down through the single figures.
40:48Still going down.
40:49You've done it!
40:49Very well done, indeed.
40:51Huge congratulations.
40:54Five Man Army was a pointless answer.
40:56You are going home with the jackpot of £2,250, at least.
41:01Because I did say, if you get three pointless answers, we'll throw in a £500 bonus.
41:06So let's just put the other answers to the test.
41:08Butterfly Caught.
41:09We're still with Massive Attacks.
41:10Best of album.
41:11Let's see how many of our 100 said, Butterfly Caught.
41:14Might it be pointless as well?
41:18It's right.
41:21Well, Five Man Army was pointless.
41:24This, just to see if it goes some way to helping you qualify for that bonus.
41:28Down we go.
41:29Still going down.
41:29Still going down.
41:30You've done it.
41:30Yep, there we are.
41:31That's the second pointless answer.
41:32On its own, it doesn't mean anything.
41:36But in conjunction with a third pointless answer, it will win you that bonus of £500.
41:41We just have to see if Biscuit is on Portishead's album's dummy, Portishead, or third.
41:48Biscuit.
41:49And is it pointless?
41:50How many of our 100 people said it?
41:51Biscuit.
41:54Yep, Biscuit is there.
41:56You did put this as your last answer deliberately.
41:59You thought it was your best shot.
42:00There's an extra £500 on this if it goes down to pointless.
42:04Down it goes.
42:05Still going down.
42:06Still.
42:06You've done it very well, David, Steve.
42:08Congratulations.
42:09Biscuit was another pointless answer.
42:11You have taken your jackpot winnings up to £2,750.
42:16Brilliant.
42:16So good.
42:18Triple pointless.
42:19I think you mentioned inertia creeps as well.
42:22That also would have been a pointless answer.
42:25So you were on fire.
42:26You don't get anything more for that, though, I don't think.
42:28There's some more pointless answers.
42:29You probably know them anyway, Cal, to be fair.
42:32You had Five Man Army, Inertia Creeps, Karma Coma would have been on there.
42:37Rising Sun as well.
42:39And the other pointless answers were Future Proof and What Your Soul Sings.
42:43And then tracks on Portishead's three albums.
42:47Pointless answers would have been All Mine.
42:50It could be Sweet, Numb, We Carry On.
42:53And the only scoring answers here were Sour Times, It's a Fire, Glory Box, Roads and Wandering Star.
43:00But I get the feeling you don't really care about those.
43:03Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
43:04And thanks once again to our winning players, Emily and Cal, who take away today's jackpot of £2,750.
43:09Brilliant.
43:13Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
43:16Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Gethin.
43:18Goodbye.
43:19And it's goodbye from me.
43:20Goodbye.
43:20Thank you very much.
43:50Thank you very much.
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