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00:23Thank you very much indeed.
00:24Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless,
00:27the show where the aim of the game is to avoid the obvious
00:29and find the obscure answers.
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.
00:42Couple number two.
00:43Hi, my name's Hugh and this is my wife Jane
00:45and we're from Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire.
00:47Couple number three.
00:48I'm Charlie, this is my partner Nicola and we're from Dunbar.
00:51And finally, couple number four.
00:53Hi, I'm Darren, this is my daughter Hallie
00:55and we're from Filey in North Yorkshire.
00:57And these are today's contestants.
00:59Thank you very much, all of you.
01:00A very, very warm welcome to each and every one of you.
01:03It's lovely to have you here.
01:04That just needs one more person for me to introduce.
01:06A down-to-earth TV presenter
01:08who says he struggles a bit with luxuries,
01:10which is just as well.
01:11You should see the dressing rooms.
01:12It's my pointless friend, it's Gethin' Jokes.
01:14It's true.
01:16Yeah.
01:17It's true.
01:18It's cold in there.
01:19It's cold in there.
01:20It's cold in there.
01:21Yeah, I don't like a fuss.
01:22Although I've not been offered a cuppa all week.
01:25Have you not?
01:26No, it's a bit sad.
01:27I mean, a cup of tea would have been something.
01:28I mean, unbelievable.
01:29Is it the same for you or...?
01:30No, I've literally got an embarrassment.
01:31I mean, look.
01:32You've got...
01:33Oh, you're sorted.
01:34There we go.
01:35Yeah, I'm fine.
01:36Is that nice, is it?
01:37Nice and warm.
01:38Do you know what I love about it
01:39is they put a little bit of navy rum in there,
01:41which I think is just fabulous.
01:44There we go.
01:45I'm on the beer.
01:46Cheers, everyone.
01:47There we are.
01:49There we are.
01:51Right.
01:52Ready.
01:53Thank you very much indeed.
01:54Right.
01:55Well, Emily and Cal won the jackpot last time,
01:57so today's jackpot starts off back at £1,000.
02:00I say they won it.
02:01They won three pointless answers,
02:03so they got a little bonus as well.
02:05Fantastic.
02:06Anyway, I digress.
02:07If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
02:14At the end of each round, as is customary,
02:17we will be eliminating the pair with the highest score.
02:20So if you don't wish to be that pair,
02:21keep your scores as low as you possibly can.
02:22That's it.
02:23That's the rule.
02:24Best of luck to everybody.
02:25Our first category today is...
02:31Could you all decide in your pairs?
02:32Who's going to go first?
02:33Who's going to go second?
02:34And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:40OK, let's find out what the question is.
02:42Here it comes.
02:43One hundred people.
02:44One hundred seconds.
02:45To name as many...
02:46..Shakespeare's plays that do not contain the letter W
02:51in their title, as they could get in.
02:54We are simply looking for any Shakespeare play
02:57whose usual short title, as listed on the Shakespeare's Plays page
03:01of the RSC's website, does not contain the letter W for William.
03:06Thank you very much.
03:07Indeed.
03:08Xan, welcome back to Pointless.
03:10This is your third show.
03:12Yeah.
03:13This is time for Xan to shine.
03:14Hopefully, yes.
03:15Let's hear a little bit more about you.
03:16What else do we not know?
03:18Well, my previous job was a zipline instructor.
03:21So, I used to send lots of kids down a zipline and through courses at Go Ape.
03:26Wow.
03:27Where were you doing that?
03:28Fantasy Park.
03:29Oh, that's fun.
03:30How long's the zip wire there?
03:31It's about 30 seconds, I would say.
03:34Okay.
03:35It's quite long.
03:36I like a zipline in seconds.
03:38That's good.
03:39So, good stuff, Xan.
03:42Well, let's see how long you can hold on here.
03:45We've had some quite early exits from you and Alfie.
03:48I think we have to see you through into round two.
03:51Xan, what are you going to go for?
03:53I'm going to go with King Lear.
03:55King Lear, says Xan.
03:57Now, W's in that.
03:58Let's see how many of our 100 said King Lear.
04:01King Lear's right.
04:03Not bad at all.
04:0818 for King Lear's, and well done.
04:11In 2024, the RSE hosted a production of this play by a Ukrainian theatre company.
04:17The company was formed in 2022 from all sorts of people, but no professional actors.
04:22The play was performed in Ukrainian without surtitles.
04:26There we are.
04:27Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
04:29Now, Hugh, welcome to Pointless.
04:31It's great to have you here from Hertfordshire.
04:32Tell us all about yourself.
04:34Well, I'm retired now, but when I was working, I was a food service management consultant.
04:40And one of the interesting jobs I had to do was to carry out a review of the catering on oil rigs in the Arabian Gulf.
04:48And to get from the oil rigs, we had to fly around in a helicopter.
04:52And it was a bit frightening, actually, because the helicopter pilots were all ex-Vietnam War pilots.
04:58And so when you put the cans on, it was all heavy rock music.
05:01And so, luckily, we got around OK.
05:04You got around OK.
05:05Yeah.
05:06And then you'd arrive at the oil rig and there would be the captain's table laid up for you.
05:10And you'd sit down, tuck your napkin in and sample.
05:13I'm afraid it wasn't like that.
05:15No, no, no.
05:16This is what I'm picturing.
05:17Don't ruin it.
05:18And you'd go, mmm, mmm.
05:19The apple sauce is a bit sour.
05:21And then you get back on the flight to the next oil rig.
05:24This one, yeah.
05:25Yeah.
05:26Maybe not quite like that.
05:27How long were you on the rigs?
05:28I think it was six rigs and it took us two weeks to go round the ring.
05:30OK.
05:31All right.
05:32Well, that sounds fun.
05:33Now, Hugh, what can you give me?
05:36Coriolanus.
05:37Coriolanus, says Hugh.
05:38Should we see how many of our 100 people said that?
05:40Coriolanus.
05:43Coriolanus, absolutely right.
05:4518 is the only school we have at the moment.
05:49And that goes down to four.
05:50Very well done indeed, Hugh.
05:52Way to make your mark on the show.
05:54So good.
05:55In 2007, actor William Houston played the lead role.
05:58One reviewer said that he'd seen Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen play the part,
06:03but that Williams was the best of the three.
06:06Thank you very much indeed.
06:07Nicola, welcome back to Pointless.
06:09Good to have you here from Dunbar.
06:11Tell us a bit more about yourself, Nicola.
06:13So, Charlie and I have a racing greyhound that has retired,
06:18so she is living her life out very happily with us in our home in Dunbar
06:24and enjoying the beaches and the wonderful countryside around there.
06:29Wonderful.
06:30You may know that greyhounds don't need a lot of exercise,
06:32so, you know, they're quite a lazy animal,
06:35so that suits us quite well, thank you.
06:38They're given to laziness.
06:39Extraordinarily.
06:40Yes, they are.
06:41But when they go, they go.
06:43They go quickly.
06:44I mean, yeah.
06:45Short distance.
06:46Very good.
06:47Now, Nicola, what are you going to go for?
06:48So, I have been looking at this topic a little bit,
06:52so I'm going to go with Henry VI Part 3.
06:57Henry VI Part 3, says Nicola.
06:59Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
07:05Henry VI Part 3, absolutely right.
07:07Well, 18 is our high score, 4 is our low.
07:10You pass the high and you end up there.
07:12Very well done indeed, Nicola.
07:14That is a pointless answer.
07:15And it adds £250 to today's jackpot,
07:18taking the total up to £1,250.
07:20It scores you nothing and earns you our undying respect.
07:24Yes, well done indeed.
07:26King Henry VI succeeded to the thrones
07:28of both England and France before the age of one.
07:31Part 3 sees the death of King Henry.
07:35Thank you very much indeed.
07:37Now then, Hallie, welcome back to Pointless.
07:39Great to have you with us a second time.
07:41Tell us a bit more about yourself, Hallie.
07:43I like to scuba dive when I'm in warm water countries
07:46and when I've got the time.
07:47I've got my Paddy Divemaster licence.
07:50I mean, are you not tempted by the grey waters of the North Sea?
07:53Maybe if I was wearing a wetsuit underneath a dry suit.
07:56Yeah.
07:57With a coat on underneath as well.
07:58Yeah, yeah.
07:59But it'd be quite exciting in the murky grey.
08:01I mean, I've heard it's like really nice clear water,
08:03loads of stuff to see,
08:04but I'm not strong enough.
08:06You're strong enough willed?
08:08No.
08:09But, I mean, it's only cold for the first...
08:10Ha!
08:11..that bit when you go in.
08:13Then it's fine, isn't it?
08:14I've not heard that.
08:15OK, you've not heard that.
08:16OK.
08:17What is the most exciting scuba dive you have done?
08:20I've been scuba diving in the Galapagos Islands.
08:22Yeah.
08:23We went to a dive site called Kicker Rock
08:25and we dove down and a literal school of hammerhead sharks
08:29swam past us while we were under water.
08:31Quite scary or was that OK?
08:32Very cool.
08:33Very cool.
08:34Very cool.
08:35OK.
08:36Not scared of hammerhead sharks.
08:37Who's scared of hammerhead sharks?
08:38I would be.
08:39Um, Hallie, what are you going to go for?
08:41Um...
08:42I'm going to go for the Merchant of Venice.
08:47Merchant of Venice, says Hallie.
08:48Don't see any Ws there.
08:49How many of our 100 said that?
08:51Merchant of Venice is right.
08:54Down we go to 11.
08:5511 for the Merchant of Venice.
08:56The first recorded performance was at court in 1605 in front of King James and his courtiers.
09:10It was performed there again two days later.
09:14They liked it so much.
09:15Sounds that way.
09:16Yeah.
09:17Maybe it went on tour after that.
09:18I don't know what they were doing in 1605.
09:21Did they tour back then?
09:23I should think they probably did tour back then.
09:24Yeah, they probably did.
09:25Yeah.
09:26I mean, limited, but around London maybe.
09:29But there we go.
09:30Thank you very much indeed.
09:31We're halfway through the round.
09:32Let's have a quick look at those scores.
09:33I can tell you nothing, Nicola.
09:34The best score of the pass.
09:35Hats off to you.
09:36Nicola and Charlie looking pretty strong on it.
09:38Four is where we find you and Jane.
09:4011 is where we find Hallie and Darren.
09:42And then up to 18 where we find Zan and Alfie.
09:45So you're a little bit ahead.
09:46Alfie, we're going to need your expertise here to get you back in the game.
09:50Good luck with that.
09:51We're going to come back down the line now.
09:52Will the second players please step up to the podium?
09:58There we are.
09:59Darren, welcome back to Pointless.
10:01Tell us a bit more about yourself, Darren.
10:03As I said, I'm a telecoms engineer.
10:05But I do play in a band where we do lots of charity gigs.
10:10And we have been together about four years.
10:13And we just really enjoy it.
10:14It's my retirement thing.
10:16It's a four-piece band.
10:17Four-piece band.
10:18Your guitarist and singer.
10:19I'm a rhythm guitarist.
10:20Rhythm guitarist.
10:21We've got an excellent guitarist, Mackenzie.
10:23Oh, he is very good, Mackenzie.
10:25Very strong.
10:26Tell by the name.
10:27Very good indeed.
10:28And you're the lead vocalist.
10:29Yes, that's right.
10:30My wife allowed me to have a studio in my house.
10:33So we do the practice in my house.
10:35And it's all good fun.
10:36Good stuff.
10:37Now, listen, Darren, you're on 11.
10:39If you could score six or less, even now,
10:41you'd be getting into round two.
10:43I'm going to say Titus Andronicus.
10:45Titus Andronicus, says Darren.
10:47Here is your red line.
10:49Shall we see if we can get you close to that
10:51with Titus Andronicus?
11:00Very well done.
11:01You are through.
11:02Down to two.
11:03Brilliant.
11:04Taking your turn up to 13.
11:05How about this?
11:06This has the highest death count of any Shakespeare play,
11:10including a fly in Act 3, Scene 2.
11:13Very few people survive.
11:15That's attention to detail, isn't it?
11:17Yes.
11:18Even the fly.
11:19Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
11:21Charlie, welcome back to Pointless.
11:23Great to have you here again.
11:24Tell us a bit more about yourself and your life up in Dunbar.
11:27It's lovely at the moment and my lovely neighbours love me even more
11:31because I'm an avid baker, so I'm always baking cakes and...
11:34Wow.
11:35Desserts and stuff.
11:36See, that's the way to be a popular neighbour.
11:39So, what's the best bake you do, Charlie?
11:41I love a lemon drizzle, a coconut and a coffee and walnut cake as well.
11:45Yes.
11:46So, yeah.
11:47Oh, fantastic.
11:48What's the most ambitious thing you've made?
11:49I tried a Battenberg.
11:50It wasn't easy to...
11:51No, I just think not.
11:52..get together, actually.
11:53Was it good, though?
11:54It was edible.
11:56I'll take that.
11:58Very good.
11:59Now, Charlie, you're on nothing.
12:00A brilliant score from Nicola in the first pass means 17 or less
12:03gets you into the next round.
12:05It's not my strong point, this.
12:07I think I'm going to go for...
12:09Is it Timmons Athens?
12:11Timmons Athens.
12:13Shall we see what happens when we say Timmons Athens?
12:16You get a red line and it is here.
12:19Timmons or Timmons Athens.
12:24I'm so sorry, Charlie.
12:25I'm so sorry, we can't accept that, sadly.
12:28I'm afraid that scores you 100 points.
12:30I'm sorry, it takes your total up to 100.
12:32Charlie doesn't need us, just purely by Nicola's reaction
12:35a lot of the time she does it for us.
12:38There we are.
12:39Thank you, Gethin.
12:40Sorry, Charlie.
12:41Right.
12:42Now, we come to you, Jane.
12:44Hello.
12:45Welcome to Pointless.
12:47Tell us all about yourself, Jane.
12:48Well, like Hugh, I'm also retired.
12:50Before I retired, I didn't have quite as an exciting career
12:54as Hugh did.
12:55I worked, ooh, quite a long time in the NHS,
12:59in human resources management, which I enjoy.
13:03But happy retired now.
13:05Very good.
13:06And what do you love getting up to, Jane?
13:07Oh, well, we have a dog.
13:08Lovely.
13:09Dogs always keep you very busy.
13:10Don't they?
13:11So, Dixie keeps us busy walking.
13:14In addition to walking the dog, I read a lot.
13:18I belong to a book group.
13:19I will always have a book on the go.
13:21Yes, good.
13:22Same.
13:23Jane, you're on four, which means 95 or less gets you
13:26into the next round.
13:27What would you like to go for?
13:28OK, I'll go for Love's Labour's Lost.
13:31Love's Labour's Lost, says Jane.
13:33You get a red line.
13:34It's way up there.
13:35Let's see if we can get you below that red line
13:37with Love's Labour's Lost.
13:40There we are.
13:41Well done.
13:47Down it goes for three.
13:48Very well done indeed.
13:49Taking your total up to seven.
13:51Well done, Jane.
13:52So good, Jane.
13:53Yeah, comedy where four young men pledged
13:55to withdraw from the world for three years
13:57and have nothing to do with women.
13:59Enter a princess of France
14:01and her entourage of three ladies.
14:04Dot, dot, dot.
14:06Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
14:08Now, Alfie, welcome back to Pointless.
14:12Oh, the landscape has changed somewhat
14:14since we last spoke.
14:15We'll come to that in a moment.
14:16Tell us a bit more about yourself, Alfie.
14:18Yes, as you said, my expertise is English.
14:20I was an English student, graduated from KCL.
14:22I really enjoy reading as well.
14:23I like Gothic fiction.
14:25And with my degree, I'd hope to get into the writing
14:28or journalism field.
14:29Very good indeed.
14:30Good stuff.
14:31Now, you're on 18.
14:32We are looking for a target score of 81 or less.
14:35What are we going to go for?
14:37So I'm going to go for King Henry VIII.
14:40King Henry VIII, says Alfie.
14:43This is the one I had up my sleeve, Gethin.
14:45Had up my sleeve.
14:47You get a red line and it's up here.
14:49Let's see where we end up with King Henry VIII.
14:52It is right.
14:54Gets you through.
15:00Oh, one.
15:01I was hoping that for going all the way down.
15:04But listen, that's very, very good.
15:05One taking your total up to 19.
15:07Brilliant work, Alfie.
15:08Excellent.
15:09So it's the one you had up your sleeve.
15:10Did you know, though, during the production of Henry VIII
15:12at the Globe Theatre in 1630,
15:15Canon news for special effects set the thatch free for light
15:18and the theatre burned to the ground.
15:21I mean, theatres were burning down everywhere.
15:24You had all kinds of things going on in theatres.
15:26It's different now.
15:27They were just highly flammable.
15:28It's different now, isn't it?
15:29Different.
15:30A great round.
15:31Charlie, you're looking at me.
15:32You want things cleared up.
15:33It's Tymon of Athens.
15:36You missed a whole word out, so that's why we couldn't accept.
15:39That, here are some of the low schools.
15:42Two for King John, Tymon of Athens,
15:44and Troilus and Cressida would have also got two.
15:48One for Henry VI, part one, Henry VIII,
15:51and Measure for Measure.
15:53There were only three pointless answers.
15:55Cymbeline, Henry VI, part three, Nicolated,
15:59and Pericles.
16:01Well done if you got some of those at home.
16:03Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
16:05That brings us to the end of our first round.
16:06It means we have to say goodbye to our first pair of the show.
16:08Charlie and Nicola.
16:09I'm afraid that's you.
16:10I'm so sorry.
16:11You were just an of...
16:12Just an of away from a brilliant answer.
16:14Anyway, we'll see you next time,
16:16when I'm sure Pointless will ensure you go a lot further.
16:19But thank you so much, Charlie and Nicola.
16:21But for the remaining three pairs, it is now time for round two.
16:24Thank you very much.
16:30Very well done, everybody.
16:32You absolutely aced that round, if I may say.
16:35Our lowest individual scorer of the remaining contestants, Alfie,
16:38lovely low score of one.
16:39Very well done indeed to you.
16:40Hugh and Jane, our lowest combined scorers.
16:42So, fantastic work there.
16:44But well done, everybody.
16:45And best of luck to you all.
16:46Our category for round two today is...
16:51Can you all decide in your pairs who wants to go first,
16:53who wants to go second?
16:54And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
17:01OK, and the question concerns...
17:07Gethin.
17:08Yeah, we're going to show you 12 clues
17:10to different types of outdated technology.
17:13We'll also give you the first letters of the words in the answers,
17:16as well as the number of letters in each word.
17:19Please give us what you think is the most obscure answer on the board.
17:23Now, some of these technologies may still be popular with purists
17:26or hipsters of the like, but all have died out
17:30or have been superseded in one way or another.
17:33Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
17:35So, we are looking for these items of outdated technology on the board.
17:41We have...
18:06Old type of portable computer storage device that lives on
18:10in the design of the save icon.
18:13FD64.
18:16Machine for writing printed words,
18:18on which characters are produced by striking
18:20through an inked ribbon onto paper.
18:23T10.
18:25And communication device on which the digits are arranged
18:28in a circular layout and a wheel is spun with one finger
18:31to dial a number.
18:33RT69.
18:36There we are.
18:37Zan, it's over to you.
18:39Right.
18:40I think I'm going to go for the second from the top.
18:45That's a Zeppelin.
18:47A Zeppelin, says Zan.
18:49Shall we see if that is right?
18:51Zeppelin.
18:52It very much is right.
18:58And Zeppelin takes us to 29.
19:00Very well done indeed, Sam.
19:02I think that's...
19:03I would love to go on a Zeppelin.
19:05I would travel by Zeppelin all the time.
19:07Because you've got a lot of space and it travels slowly
19:09and graciously.
19:10It'd be just beautiful.
19:12You haven't got time for that.
19:13You're a busy man.
19:14But you could do so much on a Zeppelin.
19:16Wow.
19:17You could use that time.
19:18Because you can get up and do things.
19:20Don't you think, Darren?
19:22You could get lots of work done.
19:24You could work out.
19:25You could eat Hugh.
19:26You could tuck the napkin in.
19:28Maybe see what the Zeppelin workers are feeding you.
19:31It would be nice.
19:32I don't want to eat Hugh, Xander.
19:34You don't want to eat Hugh?
19:35No.
19:36OK, no, that's a very good point.
19:37I mean, it's a broad menu.
19:39I'm loving this.
19:40Sorry, sidetrack, sorry.
19:41Hugh, what are you going to go for?
19:43I'm going to go for the last one.
19:45And I think that's a rotary telephone.
19:47A rotary telephone, says Hugh.
19:49Shall we see how many of our 100 people said rotary telephone?
19:54Rotary telephone.
19:56Absolutely right.
19:58Well, 29 is the only score we have at the moment.
19:59And you pass it.
20:0014 for rotary telephone.
20:01Well done, Hugh.
20:02Yeah.
20:03Letters were included next to the numbers,
20:05because in the early days,
20:06initials of the telephone exchange needed to be dialled first.
20:08So, WH for Whitehall and so on.
20:12That used to take time too, didn't it?
20:14The old...
20:15Well, it did.
20:16Well, you could take your finger out.
20:17You only had to do the first bit and then it would go back.
20:19It's quite speedy, I remember.
20:21It's quite speedy.
20:22It did quite quick.
20:23Bit of a technique to it.
20:24I quite enjoyed the old rotary telephone.
20:26Nice weight to it.
20:27Yeah.
20:28And you could just sit there and wrap it on.
20:30It was fun.
20:31On your Zeppelin.
20:32Yeah, on my Zeppelin.
20:33Oh, I was born in the wrong century.
20:35Um, now then, Hallie.
20:37This is your board.
20:38Philia Boots.
20:39I know second from the bottom is Typewriter,
20:42but I'm going to go with Walkman for number one.
20:45For the top there, Walkman.
20:47Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Walkman?
20:54Walkman's right.
20:5529 was our high school.
20:5741 for Walkman.
20:59Hmm.
21:00Apparently, when it was launched in New York,
21:02there was a waiting list of two months.
21:04Extraordinary.
21:05Hallie, you did choose the best of the two that you knew.
21:08Uh, just moving on to the third one there,
21:10the Teletech service.
21:11That is CFAX.
21:12Here's, of course, CFAX.
21:14Uh, 31.
21:15All type of portable computer storage device.
21:17It's a floppy disk.
21:18It is indeed a floppy disk.
21:2027.
21:21The other one you knew, Hallie, was, of course,
21:23the Typewriter, which would have scored 58.
21:26Thank you very much indeed.
21:27Well, we are halfway through the round.
21:29Let's look at those scores.
21:3014, Hugh, well done.
21:31The best score of the past.
21:32Then we travel from there to 29,
21:33where we find Zan and Alfie.
21:35From there up to 41,
21:36where we find Hallie and Darren.
21:38So, yes, Darren, you get the new board.
21:40Find a lovely low score,
21:42and all manner of things will be well.
21:44Uh, let's come back down the line now.
21:45Will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:48OK, let's put six more clues to different types
21:53of outdated technology on the board,
21:55and here they are.
21:57We have the Apple MP3 player launched in 2001
22:01with the ability to store up to 1,000 songs.
22:04I, 4.
22:06Low-cost duplicating device that works by forcing ink
22:09through a stencil onto paper.
22:11M, 10.
22:13Videotape format first released in 1975,
22:16which lost out to VHS in the battle to become the market leader.
22:20B, 7.
22:22Early form of timekeeping device,
22:24which indicates the time of day by position of a shadow.
22:27S, 7.
22:29Device that processes an image
22:31and then transmits it through the telephone network
22:33in the form of audio frequency tones.
22:36F, M, 3, 7.
22:38And type of bicycle that was named after two British coins of the time.
22:43P, F, 5, 8.
22:46There we are, Darren.
22:48On 41 at the moment and our high scorers at the moment.
22:52I can't believe this is all outdated, really.
22:54I know, it's unbelievable.
22:55You should see my studio.
22:56Yeah.
22:57I'm going to go for fax machine.
22:59Second from bottom.
23:00There we are.
23:01The device that processes an image, etc.
23:02Shall we see how many of our 100 said fax machine?
23:04There's no red line for you as you're currently the high scorers.
23:09Well, he's right.
23:14Well done, Darren.
23:15Down he goes to 23, takes your turn up to 64.
23:18There was the IBM Simon, which was launched in 1994.
23:23It was a portable personal digital assistant
23:25with the ability to send a fax.
23:27Unfortunately, it only had a battery life of one hour,
23:30so it turned out to be a bit of a flop.
23:32Not very good, really.
23:34No.
23:35That's a shame.
23:36But in every other department, including its name,
23:38which is wonderful.
23:39Not to be confused with that brilliant Simon game
23:42with four colours on.
23:44Do you remember that?
23:45What was that?
23:46And they would play one note.
23:47You had to hit that note.
23:48They would play two notes.
23:49The things would light up.
23:50You'd play the two notes.
23:51Do you remember that?
23:52Yes.
23:53You had to remember the order of the notes.
23:54The tune got longer and longer and longer.
23:56Let me just Google that.
23:57You carry on.
23:58OK.
23:59Thank you very much indeed.
24:00Now then, Jay, you are on 14.
24:0349 or less gets you into the next round.
24:06OK.
24:07I'm going to go for the third one, Diane.
24:09I believe that's Betamax.
24:11You're going to say Betamax for the video format,
24:13first released, etc.
24:14Shall we see how many of our 100 said Betamax?
24:17Here's your red line.
24:21Betamax is right.
24:23And it gets you into the head-to-head.
24:24Very well done indeed with that, Jane.
24:2725 it scores.
24:28Takes you up to 39.
24:30When Sony first introduced the Betamax videocassette in America,
24:33it came with a TV set and a wooden cabinet,
24:36but it was expensive in today's money.
24:39But that in 1975 would have been so exciting.
24:42So cool.
24:43I mean, the idea...
24:44I remember still blowing my mind that you could record telly.
24:47Yeah.
24:48I still find it kind of weird.
24:51I mean, I don't know what these people are doing with their cameras,
24:54but...
24:55Anyway, there we go.
24:57Now, Alfie.
24:58Alfie, you are on 29.
25:0034 or less gets you into the head-to-head.
25:03Do you feel like talking us through that board?
25:05I'll try.
25:06So the top one's iPod.
25:07The one below that, I'm not really sure, maybe Multiplier.
25:10I don't know what the timekeeping device is,
25:12and then the bicycle would be Penny Farthing.
25:14So I'm just going to go for the bottom one and say Penny Farthing.
25:18Penny Farthing, says Alfie. Here is your red line.
25:21Can we get you below this red line with Penny Farthing?
25:27Penny Farthing is right.
25:31Ooh, 54 for Penny Farthing.
25:33Takes your total up to 83.
25:35A quick start on the Penny Farthing.
25:37Penny Farthings became popular in the 1870s.
25:39They were fast, and although falls were painful,
25:41riding over rough surfaces and cobbles were more comfortable
25:44than any of the types of bicycles.
25:46But more importantly, if, Alfie, you'd have gone for iPod,
25:50you would have scored 34.
25:53Exactly what you needed to get through to the next round.
25:57Then we had a Mimeograph,
26:00which would have been the only pointless answer.
26:03That would have been a great answer.
26:05And the one that's missing there is Sundial,
26:08which would have got 44.
26:10Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
26:12That brings us to the end of our second round.
26:14And it pains me to say, Alfie and Zan,
26:16this is where we have to say goodbye to you.
26:18I'm sorry we're not sending you home with a trophy,
26:20but it's been great.
26:21Thank you so much for coming to play.
26:22Anyway, Alfie and Zan, well done.
26:23But for our two remaining players, now time for the head-to-head.
26:33Congratulations, Hugh and Jane, Hallie and Darren.
26:36You are now one step closer to the final
26:38and a chance to play for our jackpot,
26:40which currently stands at £1,250.
26:43But now we have a little chance, before we play the head-to-head,
26:46to put some more money into that jackpot
26:48by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers.
26:50So, just for fun, here goes.
26:52We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
27:01Yeah, you can have six options.
27:02Two are scoring, two are pointless
27:05and two are not NME award winners at all.
27:09£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
27:13Perfect.
27:14So, can you find the pointless NME award winners
27:16from these six potentials?
27:22Now, there we are.
27:27Does anybody know anything about anything to do with this?
27:31I've heard of Cilla Black.
27:34Hugh and Jane, I'm going to come straight to you.
27:37Who would you like to nominate as NME award winners?
27:41I think we'll go for Cilla Black.
27:43All right, yeah.
27:44OK, shall we see if Cilla Black is a pointless NME award winner?
27:49No.
27:50She is, technically.
27:52She is an NME award winner.
27:55Yeah, but it was such a long time ago.
27:58Oh!
27:59Oh!
28:00One person said Cilla Black.
28:02Hallie and Darren, what are you going to nominate?
28:04I know the Maccabees are a band.
28:06Yeah, the Maccabees are a band.
28:07BDI, Ash are a band.
28:08I'm tempted to go for Kutch because it's a Welsh word for Keddle.
28:12But I think we could go for BDI, which are Liam Gallagher's band.
28:17Yeah.
28:18BDI.
28:19OK, shall we see if BDI are pointless NME award winners?
28:22There we are.
28:27Yeah.
28:28No BDI.
28:29Liam Gallagher has won multiple NMEs over the years, but his band BDI have never won one.
28:37So that's a slight red herring.
28:39You also picked out the other one as well, being a Welshman, picked out Kutch, which is a hug.
28:44Or Embrace, of course.
28:46Embrace won Best New Band in 1998.
28:49So that was the other red herring there.
28:51The top two are your pointless answers.
28:54The Maccabees won Best Album and Best British Band.
28:57Aphex Twin won Single of the Year in 2000.
29:00And Ash won Best Single for Burn, Baby Burn.
29:03Ash scored one.
29:05Thank you very much indeed, Gethin, and bad luck, we didn't find any pointless answers,
29:08but we've learnt a bit, which is exciting.
29:11Let's play the head-to-head.
29:17Now, the first pair to win two questions will be played for that jackpot,
29:20and you are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
29:23Best of luck to both pairs.
29:24Here is our first question, and it is all about...
29:31You're going to see five pictures of famous people who were all born in Trinidad and Tobago,
29:37together with their initials.
29:39Please tell us their names.
29:40Thank you very much indeed.
29:41Let's reveal our five Trinidad and Tobago-born celebs.
29:44And we have...
29:45A.
29:46F.
29:47B.
29:48B.
29:49N.
29:50M.
29:51C.
29:52W.
29:53D.
29:54T.
29:55M.
29:56And E.
29:58B.
29:59L.
30:00D.
30:01T.
30:02T.
30:03M.
30:04And E.
30:05B.
30:06L.
30:07R.
30:08T.
30:09T.
30:10M.
30:23T.
30:24E.
30:25B.
30:26L.
30:27Brian Lara, say Hugh and Jane.
30:30Now, Hallie and Darren, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
30:33I only know Nicki Minaj.
30:35Fluella Benjamin, Trevor McDonald, I don't know C.
30:39Fluella Benjamin? Yeah, A.
30:42You're going to go for Fluella Benjamin for A.
30:44In the order they were given, Hugh and Jane went for Brian Lara.
30:47Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Brian Lara?
30:52Brian Lara is right.
30:57It's a good answer. Down it goes for two. Very well done indeed, Hugh and Jane.
31:03Hallie and Darren, meanwhile, have gone for Fluella Benjamin for A.
31:07Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Fluella Benjamin?
31:12Fluella Benjamin is right.
31:1826 for Fluella Benjamin. Very well done indeed, Hugh and Jane.
31:21After one question, you are up 1-0.
31:23Yeah. Hugh, well done for picking out the best answer on the board.
31:26And you did the best you could.
31:28You picked the best out of the ones you knew with Fluella Benjamin.
31:31And Nicki Minaj would have got you 50.
31:34Winston Duke is the actor from the Black Panther.
31:38And Jordan Peele's Us, which would have scored four.
31:41And Sir Trevor McDonald with 51.
31:45Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
31:48OK, here is your second question.
31:50Hallie and Darren, you've got to win this one to stay in the game.
31:52Good luck.
31:53Our second question is all about...
31:55Seasons.
31:57Gethin.
31:58We're going to give you five clues to things related to the word season in some way.
32:03We have added the initial letters of the answers as additional clues.
32:08Thank you very much indeed.
32:09So, let's reveal our five seasonal clues and here they are.
32:13Singer-songwriter who had a UK number one single in 2024 with Stick Season, NK.
32:20Season of the Year commonly known as Fall in the United States, A.
32:25Musical set in Manhattan at the end of the 1980s that features the song Seasons of Love, R.
32:31Quattro Stagione, or Four Seasons, is a well-known variety of this Italian dish of flat, circular dough with toppings, P.
32:40And character in P.G. Woodhouse's novel The Mating Season, who is rescued by his valet Jeeves, B.W.
32:49There we are.
32:50Hallie and Darren will go first.
32:52I know the last one.
32:53It's either knowable or the line.
32:56I do.
32:57I know the last one.
32:58Do you know the last one?
32:59Yeah?
33:00Yeah.
33:01Do the last one.
33:02We'll go for the last one and we'll say Bertie Wooster.
33:05Bertie Wooster, say Hallie and Darren.
33:08Now then, Hugh and Jane, can you talk us through that board?
33:11No, is the answer.
33:12The season of the year commonly known as Fall in the United States is Autumn.
33:16We don't know the musical and the Quattro Stagione is pizza.
33:21I'd go for pizza.
33:22Yeah, we'll go for pizza.
33:23You're going to go for pizza.
33:24OK, so we have Bertie Wooster and we have pizza.
33:27Hallie and Darren said Bertie Wooster.
33:29Let's see how many of our 100 said that for the P.G. Woodhouse character.
33:34Bertie Wooster is right.
33:40That goes down to 20.
33:42Meanwhile, Hugh and Jane have gone for pizza.
33:45Let's see how many of our 100 people said pizza.
33:48What?
33:50Pizza absolutely on the money.
33:53But it's a high score.
33:55Very well done, Hallie and Darren.
33:56After two questions, it's one all.
33:58Did you know that the singer-songwriter who had a UK number one single in 2024 with six season,
34:03one of our 100 said Nick Knowles.
34:05I can confirm that is not the case.
34:08It was Noah Khan, which would have scored 14.
34:12You were absolutely right, Hugh.
34:14Fall would have been Autumn.
34:16That would have scored 82.
34:18And Alexander.
34:201980s.
34:21Musical.
34:22Set in Manhattan.
34:23Seasons of Love.
34:241980s.
34:25I'm drawing such...
34:26Oh, I know.
34:27Rent.
34:28Very good, yeah.
34:29It's been really, really popular, hasn't it?
34:31And six, that would have scored.
34:33Thank you very much indeed.
34:34Right, here comes your decider.
34:36Whoever wins this third question goes through to the final place for that jackpot.
34:38Best of luck to everybody.
34:39Our third question is all about...
34:45Gethin.
34:46We're going to show you five words that are used to represent letters
34:49in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
34:51But we've taken away their first and last letters.
34:54Please give us the word that you think the fewest of our hundred people knew.
34:59Thank you very much indeed.
35:00So let's reveal our five clues to the NATO phonetic alphabet.
35:03Here we go.
35:14There we are.
35:15Now, Hugh and Jane will go first.
35:19What's the second?
35:20Right there.
35:21I'd go for the third, wouldn't you?
35:23OK, let's go for it.
35:24We'll go for the middle one.
35:25Sierra, S.
35:26Sierra, say Hugh and Jane.
35:29Now, Hallie and Darren, can you talk us through that board?
35:32Golf, Bravo, Tango at the bottom one, and Kilo.
35:36We'll go for Golf.
35:37You're going to go for Golf.
35:38You're going to go for Golf.
35:39You're going to go for Golf.
35:40So we have Sierra and we have Golf.
35:41Hugh and Jane went for Sierra.
35:43Let's see how many of our 100 said Sierra.
35:50Sierra's right.
35:52And that goes down to 41.
35:55Meanwhile, Hallie and Darren have gone for Golf.
35:58Should we see how many of our 100 said Golf?
36:03Golf is right.
36:06And it wins it for you.
36:07Look at that.
36:08Very well done.
36:09Down goes Golf to 10.
36:10This is brilliant.
36:11And it means Hallie and Darren, after three questions,
36:14are through to the final 2-1.
36:15Golf, yeah.
36:16Well played, Darren.
36:17Bravo would have got 37.
36:19Kilo would have given you 11.
36:22And Tango scored 26.
36:26Thank you very much, Gethin.
36:27That brings us to the end of our head-to-head round.
36:29It means we have to say goodbye to Hugh and Jane.
36:31I mean, not bad going for a first show.
36:33No.
36:34Pretty good.
36:35Well, we'll see you next time.
36:36We'll expect great things, Hugh and Jane.
36:37Thank you so much for playing.
36:38For Hallie and Darren, though, it's now time for the Pointless final.
36:45Congratulations, Hallie and Darren.
36:47You've fought off all the competition and you have won
36:49our coveted Pointless trophy.
36:58You now have the chance to win our Pointless jackpot.
37:01And at the end of today's show,
37:02the jackpot is standing at £1,250.
37:06So, as ever, the question is, what would you like to see come up?
37:10My head's so full of rubbish.
37:12Anything.
37:13Anything.
37:14Let's go for it.
37:15See, that's perfect.
37:16Is that kind of detritus that's going to win you the jackpot?
37:18I honestly want anything.
37:19He knows.
37:20I can just chill here.
37:21OK, well, there'll be four choices appearing on the board.
37:23Let's hope one of these appeals to you.
37:25Today's selection looks like this.
37:28Ancient and legendary history on film.
37:31Andy Murray, the post office, Australian pop.
37:36I know a few Australian pounds.
37:39I'm thinking top or bottom.
37:40Don't know anything about the post office.
37:42Australian pop.
37:43You want to do Australian pop?
37:44Australian pop.
37:45Yeah.
37:46OK, Australian pop it is. Get in.
37:48OK.
37:49To date, Kylie Minogue has had seven UK number one singles.
37:53We'd like you to name any song by Kylie Minogue
37:56that reached the top 40 of the UK singles chart,
37:59but never made it to number one.
38:02And this is according to officialcharts.com as of July 2024.
38:07Or, we're looking for any word of four or more letters
38:11in the lyrics of Men At Work's 1983 UK number one single,
38:15Down Under.
38:16We'll accept contractions,
38:18but we won't accept the words down or under.
38:21Best of luck to you and to everyone playing at home as well.
38:24Thank you very much indeed, Gethin.
38:25Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
38:28All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers
38:30to be pointless.
38:31If you can find three pointless answers,
38:33we'll throw in a £500 bonus.
38:35Are you ready?
38:36Yes.
38:37OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
38:39There they are.
38:40Your time starts now.
38:43Chanda.
38:45I know the lyrics for Down Under.
38:48Speak...
38:49Fried, Kombi, Bombay.
38:56Lady, Nervous, Breakfast.
39:00You've got too many now.
39:02Right.
39:03I think nervous.
39:04Nervous, Breakfast.
39:05Nervous, Breakfast.
39:06Fried.
39:08Nervous, Fried Breakfast.
39:09Nervous, Fried Breakfast.
39:10Nervous, Fried Breakfast would be good.
39:11A Nervous, Fried Breakfast.
39:12Are you happy then?
39:13Yeah.
39:14I think so.
39:15What about that?
39:16We'll stop the clock.
39:17And your three answers are...
39:18Nervous, Fried Breakfast.
39:19Nervous, Fried Breakfast.
39:20Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
39:22Fried.
39:23Fried.
39:24We'll put that last.
39:25Least likely to be pointless?
39:26Breakfast.
39:27Breakfast.
39:28Nervous goes in the middle.
39:29And just to confirm, these are all...
39:31Down Under lyrics.
39:32Down Under lyrics.
39:34OK, well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
39:36And here they are.
39:37We have...
39:43Well, I think they look fantastic answers.
39:45We'll find out soon enough how fantastic they are.
39:47If one of them turns out to be pointless,
39:48you'll be leaving here with £1,250.
39:51What would you like to do with that?
39:53I don't know.
39:54Dad wants new video games.
39:57He likes gaming.
39:58I might get him a game.
39:59They're taking me on pointless.
40:00I want a bike, actually, so I can go for cycles.
40:02OK.
40:03A bike and a game.
40:04Darren, anything else you want to add to that?
40:06Well, we recently come back from holiday
40:07and Hallie and her boyfriend, Harry,
40:09ended up in hospital with a stomach bug.
40:11So I'd give it to Hallie.
40:13So her and Harry can have a good holiday together.
40:16Oh, that's nice.
40:18Very good.
40:19OK, right.
40:20Well, let's see what happens with these answers.
40:21Breakfast is your first.
40:22In all three cases,
40:23we are looking for words of four letters or more
40:25in the lyrics to Down Under.
40:27How many of our 100 said breakfast?
40:28Might it be pointless?
40:32Well, he's right.
40:33£1,250 is yours if this goes all the way down to zero.
40:37Down we go with breakfast.
40:41Is it going to be pointless?
40:42Still going down.
40:43Still going...
40:44Yes, it is.
40:45Very well done indeed, Hallie and Darren.
40:48Huge congratulations.
40:49Breakfast is a pointless answer,
40:50which means you are taking home today's jackpot of £1,250.
40:54At least today's jackpot of £1,250,
40:57because I did say if you got three pointless answers,
41:00we would throw in a £500 bonus.
41:01So let's put nervous to the test.
41:03Might nervous also be pointless?
41:06Well, nervous is right.
41:09Breakfast took us all the way down to zero.
41:12Nervous, if it takes us to zero, puts us well on the way to adding that bonus.
41:18Down we go, through the single figure.
41:19Still going down, still going...
41:20Oh, to one.
41:21Oh, bad luck.
41:23Well, listen, huge congratulations.
41:25Who cares about nervous?
41:27Breakfast won you the jackpot today of £1,250.
41:30Brilliant.
41:31True.
41:35Yeah, I think.
41:36Wow. Yeah, well played.
41:37Your third answer, fried.
41:39It's a pointless answer.
41:40You were so, so close.
41:42If it had gone with Bombay fried breakfast,
41:45that would have been triple pointless.
41:47Let's have a look at some of the pointless answers.
41:49Kylie Minogue, which you got rid of straight away.
41:52Give me just a little more time.
41:54Would have been number two in 1992.
41:56In Your Eyes got to number three.
41:58On an art like this, got to number two.
42:00And Padam Padam, number eight in 2023.
42:03A few more big hits that were pointless answers.
42:06Great songs on here too.
42:07Never too late.
42:08Put yourself in my place.
42:09Step back in time.
42:11What do I have to do?
42:12Where the wild roses grow.
42:14That was a duet with Nick Cave.
42:15And word is out.
42:17They were all pointless.
42:18And then moving on to words in Down Under.
42:21Some more pointless answers.
42:23Beer.
42:24Breakfast, which we've said.
42:25Hippy.
42:26Travelling, which was the first word of the whole song.
42:29The other pointless answers were.
42:31Because, Bombay.
42:32Bread.
42:33Buying.
42:34Can't.
42:35Cause.
42:36Does.
42:37Flow.
42:38Foot.
42:39Four.
42:40Fried.
42:41Full.
42:42Gave.
42:43Glow.
42:44Head.
42:45Here.
42:46Just lying.
42:47Made.
42:48Much.
42:49Plenty.
42:50Thank you so much, Gethin.
42:51And thanks once again to our winning players, Hallie and Darren,
42:53who take away today's jackpot of £1,250.
42:56Brilliant.
42:58Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
43:02Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Gethin.
43:03Goodbye.
43:04And it's goodbye from me.
43:05Goodbye.
43:06Goodbye.
43:07APPLAUSE
43:08APPLAUSE
43:09APPLAUSE
43:10MUSIC
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