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00:00MUSIC CONTINUES
00:23Thank you very much indeed.
00:24Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless,
00:26the show where we are always striving to find the most obscure
00:29answers. Let's meet today's players.
00:35And couple number one.
00:37Hello, I'm Chris from Hull, this is Erica from London
00:39and my friends and former work colleagues.
00:42Couple number two.
00:43Hello, I'm David and this is my lovely wife Lynne
00:45and we're from Doncaster in South Yorkshire.
00:47Couple number three.
00:48Hi, I'm Tom, this is my partner Abby and we're from Nottinghamshire.
00:52And finally, couple number four.
00:54Hi, I'm Keith and this is my son James.
00:56I'm from Shrewsbury and he's from London.
00:57And these are today's contestants.
00:59APPLAUSE
01:00Thank you very much, all of you.
01:01A very, very warm welcome to Pointless.
01:03It's lovely to have you here.
01:04That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:06A star of the Great British Bake Off's Extra Slice,
01:10whisking him the best for his third show.
01:13It is the yeast we can do.
01:15One more of these, my pointless friend.
01:18It's Tom Allen.
01:19Wow.
01:20I mean, that's it.
01:21That's great.
01:23That was lovely.
01:24What a lovely introduction.
01:25Oh, wasn't it?
01:26I'm having such a great time.
01:27I'm so pleased you are.
01:28Yeah, and I've taken to wearing casual clothes underneath.
01:32And like a news reader.
01:33Oh, I see.
01:33So I actually have different...
01:34I've got navy blue...
01:35Don't tell anyone, I've just got a plain navy blue trouser.
01:37Haven't even tucked in.
01:38I was going to say, you've neglected to tuck in the shirt.
01:40Means we can see the bit where you've spilled your tea on the shirt.
01:43Oh, no, that is water.
01:44That is water.
01:45That is water, that.
01:46Because I had a water bottle.
01:47Always a bit embarrassing.
01:49Yes.
01:50Glad we explained it, though.
01:51Glad we explained it.
01:52I'm glad we had that out.
01:54I'm glad.
01:55I'm glad.
01:56I'm glad too.
01:57Yeah.
01:57But it's fun, you know.
01:59Got a good show going on here.
02:01We have got a good show going on.
02:02I think this is going to go to series, you know.
02:04I think it might.
02:04I think this 15-year pilot you've been doing is going to pay off.
02:09I like it.
02:10Now, Karen and Michael, by the way, got through to the final last time
02:12and they did not win the jackpot.
02:14So we're adding another £1,000 to that,
02:16which means today's jackpot starts off at £2,750.
02:21There it is.
02:22Great.
02:22If everyone's ready, let's play pointers.
02:30Now, just remember...
02:31Apologies, Tom.
02:32He got quite upset last time because he said,
02:34that's the rules of the game.
02:35Surely people know and I'm about to tell you the rules of the game.
02:37Well, no, it's important.
02:38I get now it's important because people are starting to watch all the time.
02:41Well, I suppose they are, but, I mean, you're completely right.
02:44I'm going to try and get this out of the way as quickly as possible, Tom.
02:46At the end of each round, the pair with a high score will be eliminated,
02:48so try and make sure you're not that pair by keeping your scores low.
02:50That's it.
02:51Roughly.
02:52OK.
02:53You know what I mean.
02:53Anyway, best of luck to everybody.
02:55Our first category today is...
02:59Chemistry.
03:00That's nice.
03:00Can we all decide on our pairs who's going to go first,
03:02who's going to go second?
03:02And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
03:09OK, let's find out what the question is.
03:11Here it comes.
03:12We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
03:17chemical elements that contain the letters A, C or T as they could, Tom.
03:22Mm, that's right.
03:23We're looking for any element in the periodic table that contains one
03:27or more of the letters A, C or T in its name.
03:31We chose act as chemical elements can react with one another.
03:34Like you and I.
03:35Yes.
03:36It's our chemistry.
03:38That's literally our chemistry together.
03:39And this is according to IUPAC as of October 2024,
03:44which is the International Union of Petrol and...
03:47No, I don't know what it is.
03:48Who cares?
03:49It's a thing.
03:50Let's trust it.
03:51Thank you very much indeed.
03:52OK, so there we are.
03:53Without further ado, Erica, we come straight to you.
03:55Welcome to Pointless.
03:56How lovely to have you here.
03:57Hello.
03:58Tell us all about yourself.
03:59I work at a car body shop,
04:01so I spend a lot of time talking to people
04:02who are very angry about their cars not being fixed.
04:05Oh, I see, because they've sent them in having pranged,
04:08which is the word, isn't it?
04:09Yes.
04:10So I'm the person that organises all their stuff
04:12when you've had your accident, so, yeah.
04:13You've got to keep them sweet,
04:15then you've got to go through to the back room.
04:17Bit of banter, I should think.
04:18Yes, older banter.
04:19A lot of banter.
04:20Old banter, yeah.
04:21Yes.
04:22You've heard words from a sailor.
04:23Oh.
04:24Terrible.
04:25I can believe it.
04:27Erica, what are you going to go for on our periodic table here?
04:32I'm going to go with the one that came first into my head,
04:34which is always a bad move.
04:37Titanium.
04:38I don't know if that's a bad move.
04:40Let's see what happens when we say titanium.
04:46Absolutely correct.
04:5039.
04:50Titanium.
04:51Not bad.
04:52Not bad.
04:52Not bad at all, Erica.
04:53Not bad at all.
04:54Titanium metal connects well with bone,
04:56so that's why it gets used a lot for joint replacements
05:00and tooth implants as well.
05:02That's because it connects well with bone.
05:03I thought it was just because it was light and durable.
05:05No, that's golf clubs.
05:07No.
05:07Ah, you're completely right.
05:08It's used in golf clubs as well.
05:09Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
05:11David, am I right in thinking...
05:14No, it's only your second show, isn't it?
05:15Second show, yeah.
05:16Oh, phew.
05:16For a moment I was thinking it was your last show.
05:18No.
05:19David, tell us more about yourself.
05:21As I said in the first show, I'm retired
05:22and one of our passions is travelling.
05:26We love travelling all over.
05:27We've been to over 60 countries in the world now.
05:30Oh, fantastic.
05:31And presumably you're always planning the next travel.
05:33Oh, yes, yes.
05:33Where's your favourite place?
05:35It's a real toss-up between New Zealand and Norway.
05:39They're so spectacular in their own ways.
05:42Yeah, there we are.
05:43David, what are you going to go for?
05:45Californium.
05:47Californium.
05:48OK, shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
05:52Californium is right.
05:5539 is our only score.
05:57And you pass it.
05:59Oh, down to two.
06:00Very well done indeed, David.
06:01Californium.
06:02Nearly pointless.
06:03Nearly pointless.
06:04Californium was first produced in 1950 by a team
06:07at the University of...
06:09California!
06:10Durham!
06:11Durham.
06:12California, man.
06:14Excellent.
06:15Thank you very much.
06:15Very cool.
06:17Tom, welcome back to Pointless.
06:19This is your third show, I think.
06:20Yep, third time lucky.
06:21Yes.
06:22Yeah.
06:22Tell us a bit more about yourself, Tom.
06:25So I like to play video games quite a bit in my spare time.
06:28Very good indeed.
06:29We went to watch some e-sports at the start of this year.
06:33So we went to an arena and watched some games played by
06:38professional teams.
06:38Professional teams.
06:39Yeah.
06:40And so how many people watched that, David?
06:42Oh, I don't actually know, to be honest.
06:44Quite a lot.
06:45Yeah, yeah.
06:46It was a big arena.
06:47Everyone's sort of sitting there.
06:48The point is where people get on their feet and cheer.
06:50Yeah, yeah, definitely.
06:51They just send emojis.
06:53They just send emojis of people standing there.
06:54I suppose you can.
06:55You can send stuff onto the big screen at the back.
06:57Oh, no.
06:58No, no, no.
06:59That would be weird.
07:01Tom, so chemical elements with any of these letters in?
07:04A, C or T?
07:06I might have to say a bit of a gamble.
07:08I think Einsteinium.
07:10Einsteinium, says Tom.
07:11Shall we see if that's right?
07:13How much of a gamble is this?
07:16Phew.
07:17A gamble that paid off.
07:1939 is our high score and you pass it.
07:212 is our low score and you join it.
07:24Very well done indeed.
07:28Einstein's theory of relativity led to the equation E equals MC...
07:31That's great.
07:32Yeah.
07:33See?
07:34It's great crowd work.
07:36And that was used to predict the amount of energy released
07:38during a nuclear test explosion.
07:40And this element was discovered in the blast debris.
07:44Debris.
07:45Debris, if you like debris.
07:47I think Americans say debris, don't they?
07:49Well, I think that's where they did it.
07:50That's where they did it.
07:51Debris it is.
07:52Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
07:54Now, James, welcome back.
07:55Oh, it's your third show as well.
07:56It is, yeah.
07:57Heavens above.
07:58Tell us a bit more about yourself, James.
08:00So, I've recently moved in with my girlfriend in Greenwich.
08:03Congratulations.
08:04Oh, Greenwich, how lovely.
08:05It is very nice.
08:06Too nice for me, probably.
08:07But it's lovely.
08:08And are you flat, house, flat?
08:10A flat.
08:10Flat, yes.
08:11Is it fully kitted yet?
08:13It is fully.
08:13We've got a new sofa which the people who moved it in weren't happy about.
08:16They were like, this is too big for the door, but we made sure they got it in.
08:19How many floors did they have to go up?
08:20Only two.
08:21Oh, that's OK.
08:22They'd have loved that.
08:23It wasn't like they didn't have something nice and comfy to sit on on the landings.
08:27You know, it's fine.
08:29James, what are you going to go for?
08:31Moscovium.
08:33Moscovium, says James.
08:33Shall we see what happens when we say that?
08:35Moscovium.
08:38Moscovium is right.
08:3939, still our high score.
08:41Two are low.
08:42You pass the high score.
08:45Oh, one.
08:45We have a new low score.
08:47Very well done indeed, James.
08:47Very good.
08:49Moscovium.
08:49Sounds like something in a Bond film, doesn't it?
08:51Doesn't it?
08:52The name refers to the Moscow region, as you'd imagine,
08:55where the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research is based.
08:59That sounds like a happy place.
09:00That sounds like somewhere that could easily be featured in a Bond film.
09:05Couldn't it?
09:06Yeah, it could easily be.
09:07Thank you very much indeed.
09:08Tom, we're halfway through the round.
09:09Let's have a look at those scores.
09:10One, James, the best score of the pass.
09:11Well done, James.
09:12And Keith looking pretty good on the back of it.
09:14Twos were behind Tom and Abby and David and Lynne.
09:16And then 39.
09:18I mean, why so randomly?
09:20Titanium should have been such a high score.
09:21I do not know, but I'm afraid, Chris, it's where you find yourselves.
09:25So good luck dreaming up a lovely score that can redress the balance.
09:29We're going to come back down the line now while the second players
09:31please step up to the podium.
09:36Keith, welcome back to Pointless.
09:38Great to have you with us a third time.
09:40Tell us a little bit more about yourself, Keith.
09:42Well, one of the projects that my wife has set me
09:45is to reduce the number of guitars that I've got.
09:47How many currently?
09:48Well, that's hard to say, but it's less than 20.
09:51I think when anyone says that's hard to say, that's too many.
09:54Too many guitars, I think.
09:55Well, it's a matter of opinion.
09:57How many of them are electric?
09:58How many are acoustic?
10:00It's about...
10:01It's about half and half.
10:02You see, electric guitars take up less space.
10:04They do.
10:05And that's an argument I shall put to my wife.
10:07Yeah, exactly.
10:08Keith, look, you're on one.
10:10Brilliant score from James.
10:11Means 37 or less gets you into round two.
10:13So, yes, any chemical element that contains one of these letters?
10:18OK, I'm going to go for neptunium.
10:21Neptunium, says Keith.
10:23You get a red line and it comes in here.
10:26Neptunium.
10:29Neptunium, absolutely right.
10:32Gets you through.
10:35And it's one of those!
10:37I wondered how long it would be
10:38before we heard that lovely fanfare.
10:41Yes, that's a pointless answer.
10:43It adds £250 to today's jackpot,
10:46taking the total up to a lovely
10:47and altogether more satisfactory £3,000,
10:50scores you nothing and leaves your total at one.
10:52Very well done indeed.
10:53Yeah, that's very good.
10:55And I don't know why it's called neptunium
10:56when it was discovered on Earth.
10:57Doesn't make sense.
10:58Yes, I suppose.
10:59Californium is from California.
11:01Yes, yes.
11:02Moscovium, Moscow.
11:03It is Moscow, yes.
11:04Yes, yes.
11:04Neptunium.
11:05Oh, Ebsfleet.
11:07Oh, I don't know where it was discovered.
11:08No, it is.
11:09You're completely right.
11:10It's Ebsfleet.
11:10That's where it goes from.
11:11Yeah, I don't know.
11:13Extraordinary.
11:14Now, Abi, welcome back to Pointless.
11:17Great to have you with us again for the last time.
11:19This is your last chance to tell us things about yourself, Abi.
11:22Well, similar.
11:23I also go to concerts quite a lot.
11:25I go with my sister.
11:25So, we've been to about 31 together.
11:29But some of them are repeats.
11:31So, it's not like 31 different acts.
11:33So, have you been to any band more than twice?
11:36Yeah.
11:37Who?
11:37Which?
11:38I've seen Harry Styles like five times.
11:40OK.
11:40Does it just get better and better and better and better?
11:43Yeah.
11:43It depends where you see him.
11:44He's really good in Wembley, so...
11:46He's good in Wembley.
11:47I've heard that.
11:47Good in Wembley.
11:49Brilliant.
11:49Well, that sounds exciting.
11:50Now, Abi, you're on two.
11:5236 or less gets you into the next round.
11:55It's not the best round for me, but Tom scored so well,
11:58so I'm going to go for Chlorine.
12:00Chlorine, says Abi.
12:02Chlorine.
12:03You get a red line.
12:03It comes in...
12:05here.
12:07Chlorine.
12:09Chlorine's right.
12:13You're in round two.
12:15And down it goes to 12, taking your total up to 14.
12:18Very well done.
12:19Chlorine.
12:19Yes.
12:20Chlorine.
12:21Oh, it just reminds me of swimming.
12:23Doesn't it?
12:24Isn't it exciting?
12:25Widely used in the chemical industry.
12:27They love it there.
12:28They love it.
12:29Using it to make thousands of substances,
12:31ranging from bleaching agents, pesticides, glue and PVC.
12:37I did not know that it had all those uses other than the swimming pool.
12:41Such a great one, isn't it?
12:43Thank you very much indeed.
12:44Now, Lynne, welcome back to Pointless.
12:47Let us hear more about Lynne.
12:49In my spare time, I like to research my family tree.
12:53That's exciting.
12:54Yeah.
12:55What's your first port of call when you're researching?
12:58Mainly online.
13:00Yeah.
13:01And then you send for death certificates, birth certificates,
13:05to make sure you've got the right person.
13:07Yeah.
13:07So you haven't been going around sort of graveyards?
13:10Oh, yes.
13:11I mean, that's quite exciting, isn't it?
13:12Yeah.
13:13I love a good graveyard.
13:15Where, of all the places you've been, did you feel,
13:18oh, yes, this is my spiritual home?
13:20I trace my two times great-grandmother to Paris,
13:23who went to the building where they got married from.
13:26Wow.
13:27Yeah.
13:27So it's very interesting.
13:29Fascinating.
13:30Very addictive as well.
13:31Yeah, I bet.
13:31Yeah.
13:32Where's it going to go after Paris?
13:33Yeah.
13:34Now, Lynne, you're on two as well.
13:3536 or less gets you into the next round.
13:38Yeah.
13:38Not my best subject.
13:39I'll try potassium.
13:41Potassium, says Lynne.
13:42Here is your red line.
13:44Can we get you below this red line with potassium?
13:52Yes, we can.
13:54Down goes potassium to 12.
13:56Exactly the same combination of scores as Tom and Abby had.
13:59That's taking your total up to 14.
14:01Potassium, if dropped into water, will produce a lilac flame
14:04the moment it skims the surface of the water.
14:06Very exciting.
14:07Very exciting.
14:08A cushion.
14:09It whizzes round.
14:10I always think potassium with bananas.
14:13If you drop a banana in water, you don't see a flame, do you?
14:16Yeah.
14:16A banana would be a much more interesting fruit.
14:19If.
14:19If.
14:20It spontaneously combusted.
14:22If it did that.
14:22In the water, yeah.
14:24Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
14:25Now, Chris, welcome to Pointless.
14:26Hello.
14:27It's great to have you here.
14:28I'm sorry that I'm addressing you while you've got the high
14:31scorer's red 39 on the front of your podium.
14:35But introduce yourself.
14:36Hello, I'm Chris.
14:37I'm 47.
14:38I'm from Hull in East Yorkshire.
14:39I work in a call centre for a large housing association.
14:43One of the largest ones.
14:44I'm a fully qualified bingo caller as well.
14:47And I've worked in a couple of museums.
14:49How long is the qualification process for bingo calling?
14:51It took about three hours.
14:53Yeah.
14:55If you were partially qualified, that would be about two hours.
14:57Fully qualified, the three hour mark.
14:59The three hours, that's right.
15:00Very good.
15:02Listen, bingo calls sometimes come up on Pointless.
15:04It's one of the things our question setters really like.
15:06That'd be fun.
15:07Now, Chris, you're on 39.
15:09I'm afraid you're the high scorers, but I bet you got a good answer.
15:12Well, this is when I wish I would have paid more attention
15:14in science at school, but I'm going to say plutonium.
15:17Plutonium, says Chris.
15:18There's no red line for you, I'm afraid, as you're the high scorers
15:20even now.
15:21But what happens when we say plutonium?
15:25.
15:32Down to three.
15:34Not bad at all.
15:35Taking your total up to 42.
15:36Yeah.
15:37Plutonium was used in early heart pacemakers as a thermoelectric
15:40generator.
15:41That's easier than using a banana, isn't it?
15:44Great answers there.
15:45There were about 30 pointless answers you could have gone for.
15:49A few of them are curium, gallium, manganese.
15:54Neptunium.
15:55Well, actually, Keith, you gave us that one.
15:58Oganesson.
15:59Palladium, which of course was discovered by Bruce Forsyth.
16:01Bruce Forsyth.
16:03He was actually made of palladium.
16:05People don't realise that.
16:06I know, they don't know.
16:07That's why he could tap so beautifully.
16:08That's why, because he was pure palladium.
16:12Protactinium.
16:12Radon.
16:13And, of course, there's thorium.
16:15So well done at home if you've got any of those.
16:17Thank you very much indeed.
16:18That brings us to the end of our first round.
16:19It also means we have to say goodbye to Chris and Erica,
16:20who are our high scorers.
16:22But, listen, what heavy heart we have,
16:24we can leaven by knowing we're going to see you next time.
16:27So we'll look forward to that.
16:28Chris and Erica, thank you for playing.
16:30But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.
16:34APPLAUSE
16:38Very, very well done, everybody.
16:40You passed your chemistry with flying colours,
16:43and nobody with flying colours-er than Keith,
16:46who was our pointless scorer there,
16:48so lowest individual scorer.
16:49And on the back of that, Keith and James,
16:51our lowest combined scorer.
16:52So well done there.
16:53But well done, everybody.
16:54Great to have you with us.
16:55Best of luck for round two.
16:57Our category for it today is...
17:00Yes.
17:02Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
17:04who's going to go second,
17:06and whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
17:11OK.
17:12And the question concerns...
17:19Tom?
17:19On each board, we're going to show you six clues to people,
17:22places and things that have the same name as a station
17:26on the Madrid Metro system.
17:29To help, we'll also give you their initials
17:31and the numbers of letters in each word.
17:33So, all you have to do is give us the answers.
17:36You might say it's a little bit niche, but I like it.
17:39I like it. We'll see.
17:40Anyway, here is our first board of six clues.
17:43And they are...
18:36There we are.
18:39David.
18:40Yes.
18:41Hmm.
18:43Tempting numbers here.
18:44I'm going to go for the top one and say Bilbao.
18:48Bilbao, says David.
18:50Shall we see how many of our 100 said Bilbao?
18:54Bilbao is right.
19:00Down it goes to 14.
19:01Very well done.
19:02Great start to the round.
19:03Bilbao.
19:04And Bilbao also has its own metro system.
19:06The glass canopies over the entrances to many of the stations
19:10on the Bilbao metro are nicknamed Fosteritos after Norman Foster,
19:16the architect who designed them.
19:17Thank you very much indeed.
19:18Now, Tom.
19:19So, can you identify the metro stations from these clues?
19:24I think I'm going to go the second one down, the artificial waterway
19:27and say Canal.
19:28Canal, says Tom.
19:29Shall we see how many of our 100 said Canal?
19:34Well, 14 is the only score we have.
19:37And Canal scores 47.
19:39Thank you very much.
19:41Canal station was named after Madrid's water company,
19:44Canal de Isabel Segunda, whose offices are located nearby.
19:48It was during Isabel II's reign that a modern water supply
19:51was provided for Madrid.
19:53Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
19:54Now, James, you're the last person to have the board.
19:57Do you want to fill in all our blanks?
19:59I can do number three, which I think is Buenos Aires,
20:03and the bottom one is Sol, for Sol Campbell.
20:06I can't do the other two.
20:08I'm going to risk Buenos Aires.
20:10OK, Buenos Aires.
20:13Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
20:15Buenos Aires.
20:18Buenos Aires is right.
20:19Well, 47 is our highest score.
20:21And you pass it.
20:2335 for Buenos Aires.
20:25Good.
20:26So difficult, isn't it,
20:27knowing what that group of 100 people are going to know?
20:29Well, I know.
20:30James, you made the wrong choice, though.
20:32Sol was actually a better answer.
20:34That would have scored you 11.
20:35Oh.
20:35Yeah.
20:36So it goes to show the people we ask aren't very good at football.
20:41Sander, what are your thoughts on this?
20:43I can give you Goya for the Spanish artist.
20:46That's very good, isn't it?
20:47Yes.
20:47Goya would have scored you 13.
20:49And this city in the Peruvian Andes.
20:51Where are the Andes?
20:52At the end of your armies.
20:53At the end of your armies.
20:54Oh.
20:54What did you say?
20:57Um...
20:57It's...
20:58Cusco.
20:58It's...
20:59Cusco.
21:00Cusco, thank you.
21:01I heard something you said.
21:04Cusco is what it is.
21:05The battle score you ate.
21:06Thank you very much indeed.
21:08Well, we're halfway through the round.
21:08Let's have a quick look at those scores.
21:10I can tell you 14, David, is the best score of the pass.
21:12Very well done indeed.
21:13We travel from there to 35, where we find James and Keith.
21:16And from there to 47, where we find Tom and Abby.
21:19Currently not way ahead, but Abby.
21:21Let's find a lovely low score and get you into the head-to-head.
21:24Good luck with the next pass, which is coming right now.
21:26So will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:33Let's put six more clues to things that share their names with stations
21:36on the Madrid Metro on the board.
21:38And here they are.
21:39The only country in South America that has coastlines
21:42on both the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.
21:46C8.
21:47Spanish aeronautical engineer who invented the Autogiro JDLC for 226.
21:53The third largest of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
21:58I5.
21:59Type of Spanish dry-cured ham with a name meaning belonging to the mountains.
22:05S7.
22:06Californian city linked to Marin County by the Golden Gate Bridge.
22:13SF39.
22:14And Spanish composer who wrote the music for the ballets
22:17El Amor Brujo and the three-cornered hat.
22:23MDF 625.
22:25There we are.
22:27Keith.
22:28And by the way, you're on 35, so even at this early stage,
22:3011 or less would get you into the head-to-head.
22:33Hmm.
22:34Not too good on this board.
22:35I'm going to go for the type of Spanish dry-cured ham and say salami.
22:41Salami, says Keith.
22:42Here is your red line.
22:43What happens when we say salami?
22:49Bad luck, Keith, I'm afraid.
22:51Not salami.
22:52That scores you 100 points.
22:53Takes your total up to 135.
22:55Sadly, salami is only six letters and salami isn't a station on the Madrid Metro.
23:00Although it would be fun.
23:02Would be fun, though.
23:03Next stop, salami.
23:05Ay-ay-ay.
23:06Where do you get off?
23:08Well, thank you very much indeed.
23:09Now, Abbey, 47 is your score at the moment.
23:1387 or less gets you into the head-to-head.
23:16The answers to these clues are also names of metro stations.
23:21I'm going to go for Ibiza.
23:23You're going to go for Ibiza.
23:24For the third one now.
23:25The third largest of the Balearics.
23:27Shall we see how many of our 100 said,
23:28Ibiza, you get a red line and it comes in nice and high.
23:31There it is.
23:32Ibiza.
23:34Ibiza is absolutely right.
23:36You are in the head-to-head.
23:39And, Dan, that goes for 32.
23:40Taking your total up to 79.
23:42Oh.
23:43Ibiza station located beneath the street it was named after.
23:46Inside is a ceramic mural created in 1983 that pays homage to the island,
23:51depicting white buildings against a blue sea during a red sunset.
23:57Thank you very much indeed.
23:58Now, Lynne, you're through to the next round.
24:02Doesn't matter what you score.
24:03So low is your score and so high is Keith and James'.
24:06Would you like to talk us through the board?
24:08I'd have a guess at the first one, Columbia.
24:11I don't know the second one.
24:13I think the ham is Serrano.
24:16And the one I'm going to go for is San Francisco.
24:21You're going to go for San Francisco linked to Marion County by the Golden Gate Bridge.
24:25No red line because you're already through.
24:27How many of our 100 said San Francisco?
24:33San Francisco is right.
24:35Down he goes to 44.
24:36Taking your total up to 58.
24:39Yes, good answer there.
24:41Lynne, actually, you did know a better answer when you said Serrano,
24:44not salami, which would have scored you 11, Serrano.
24:48I love Serrano.
24:49What do you like on the other ones?
24:50I can do some of them.
24:51OK.
24:52I can guess at the other one.
24:53Columbia, which we heard from Lynne.
24:55Yes, that was correct.
24:56That would have got 16.
24:57We have Manuel de Fire at the bottom.
24:59Oh, Manuel de Fire, yes.
25:01Good answer.
25:02That would have been one.
25:03That's exciting.
25:04An aeronautical engineer.
25:06I'm going to have a guess.
25:06Just because you think it's going to be De La in the middle, I'm guessing.
25:11De La.
25:11Sure.
25:14J, Spanish.
25:15Juan.
25:15I'm going to say Juan de la...
25:18I'm not going to...
25:19C-R-O...
25:21Juan de la sieva.
25:23It is Juan de la.
25:24Juan de la sieva.
25:25A wonderful answer.
25:27That would have been three.
25:28Well, that brings us to the end of our second round.
25:30It means, Keith and James, I'm afraid, we have to say goodbye to you
25:32and it's a real goodbye.
25:34It's been lovely having you on the show.
25:35Thank you so much for playing.
25:36I'm sorry we're sending you back trophy-less,
25:38but you've acquitted yourselves exceedingly well, though.
25:41Thank you so much for playing, Keith and James.
25:43For the remaining two pairs, though, now time for the head-to-head.
25:53Huge congratulations, Lynne and David, Abby and Tom.
25:55You're one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,
25:58which currently stands at £3,000.
26:02However, before we play the head-to-head,
26:04we have an opportunity to throw some more money into that jackpot
26:06by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers.
26:08So here goes.
26:09Just for fun, you understand, we gave 100 people 100 seconds
26:13to name as many Team GB gymnasts as they could.
26:19Tom Allen.
26:20Yes, you'll see six options here.
26:22Four are the names of gymnasts who have represented Team GB
26:25at the Summer Olympic Games.
26:27Two are scoring, two are pointless,
26:30and then two are not Team GB gymnasts at all.
26:35£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
26:39Thank you very much indeed.
26:40So, can you identify the pointless gymnasts from these six?
26:46Sam Oldham, Cathy Williams, Walter Teisel,
26:50Taras Riley, Elizabeth Lyne and Somersault.
26:56Somersault, it's not that one.
26:56I'm pretty sure that Sam Oldham is one.
26:59I was going to say Sam Oldham.
27:00Yeah, but I feel like that will score.
27:01So, I think obviously the bottom one is probably a red herring.
27:05Somersault, yeah.
27:05Yeah, that's a red herring.
27:06So, I don't know, other than...
27:08What do you think?
27:08We'll take one of the other four, then.
27:10Yeah.
27:11What do you say?
27:12We'll go for Taras Riley.
27:15OK.
27:15We'll go for Taras Riley.
27:17Taras Riley.
27:18Shall we see if Taras Riley is a pointless GB gymnast?
27:23Oh, no!
27:27Anyway, there we go.
27:28Abi and Tom, what are you going to go for?
27:30Walter Teisel?
27:31Walter Teisel.
27:32You're going to go for Walter Teisel.
27:34Shall we see if Walter Teisel is a pointless Team GB gymnast?
27:45And a pointless one as well.
27:48They're well done indeed.
27:50Well, either, therefore, Elizabeth Line or Somersault is real.
27:57Which one do you think?
27:59I think Elizabeth Line.
28:00Well, let me tell you, Somersault is a red herring.
28:05Good.
28:05But Elizabeth Line, not a red herring, because she represented Team GB at Athens in 2004.
28:11And she was pointless as well.
28:13So, she would have been a good one to go for.
28:15Taras Riley is not a gymnast.
28:18He's a reggae singer.
28:19And he featured on Major Lazer's song, Powerful, that was used in a gold medal winning routine
28:23at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
28:27Sam Oldham would have scored you one, and Cathy Williams would have scored you one as well.
28:31Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
28:33And well done.
28:33You managed to find a pointless answer, which means we can add £250 to today's jackpot,
28:38taking the total up to £3,250.
28:41But we're going to have to find out who's going to play for that in the Head to Head.
28:50Now, the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.
28:52You are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
28:55Best of luck to both pairs.
28:56Here is our first question, and it is all about...
29:00..cake decorating tools and accessories, Tom.
29:03Yes, we're going to show you five pictures of tools and accessories used in cake decorating.
29:09We've also given the first and last letters in each word of their names.
29:12All you have to do is tell us what they are.
29:15Thank you very much indeed.
29:16So, let's reveal our five tools and accessories.
29:20Here they come.
29:20We have...
29:54There we are.
29:56Now then, Lynn and David will go first.
29:59Over to you, pick one.
30:01Erm...
30:02I'll go for E.
30:03Edible glitter.
30:06Edible glitter, say Lynn and David.
30:08Right, Abi and Tom, over to you.
30:09Talk us through that board.
30:10What do we think?
30:13Well, I think the top one is piping bags,
30:16and then the next one is icing something,
30:19but I don't know what the second word is.
30:22And then I feel like the B is, like, short...
30:24Shorten or something, but I don't know.
30:27I think, yes, C is something cutters, I think.
30:30Yeah, so...
30:31I can't get the first word.
30:33We'll probably have to go for A with piping bags.
30:36OK, you're going to go for A.
30:37They look oddly medical, don't they?
30:39There.
30:40Piping bags.
30:41So, we have edible glitter and we have piping bags.
30:44Lynn and David have gone for edible glitter for E.
30:46How many of our 100 people said that?
30:51Edible glitter is right.
30:55That goes down to 32.
30:58Meanwhile, Abi and Tom have gone for piping bags for A.
31:02Let's see how many of our 100 said piping bags.
31:08Piping bags...
31:09Here's right, but it's 60.
31:11Very well done indeed, Lynn and David.
31:13After one question, you're up 1-0.
31:15Yes, very good answers.
31:17They were very tricky, I thought, these.
31:20B, fondant smoother.
31:23Would have been seven.
31:25And the one that you were trying to get the second word of, D,
31:29icing comb.
31:30Of course, comb.
31:31Would have scored you 19.
31:32But the best one to go for there was C, if you knew it,
31:36because that is plunger cutters.
31:39Plunger cutters.
31:40And that would have been a pointless answer.
31:41Mm.
31:42Thank you very much indeed.
31:44OK, now, here comes your second question.
31:45Abi and Tom, you've got to win this one to stay in the game.
31:47Here is our second question and it is all about...
31:52..tails, Tom.
31:53Tails.
31:53Mmm, tails.
31:55We are going to give you clues to things with a title
31:57that contain the word tail or tails.
32:02However, we've removed all but the first letter
32:04of the other words in the title.
32:06So, all you have to do is fill in the blanks
32:08and give us the full title.
32:10Thank you very much indeed.
32:12Let's reveal our five tails.
32:15And we have 2004 animated film starring Will Smith
32:18as the voice of a fish called Oscar S. Tail.
32:22Role-playing video games set in the worlds of Dana and Renna,
32:26released in 2021.
32:28Tails O. A.
32:31Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel,
32:33made into an award-winning TV drama in 2017.
32:37T. H. Tail.
32:39Solo studio album by Sting, which reached number two
32:43in the UK in 1993.
32:46T. S. Tails.
32:49And Chaucer's Stories of a Journey by Pilgrims,
32:52including A Knight and A Miller.
32:54T. C. Tails.
32:58There we are. Abby and Tom will go first.
33:01Erm, so I think the top one is Shark Tale.
33:05OK, you are going to say Shark Tale, Abby and Tom.
33:08Now then, Lynne and David,
33:10would you like to talk us through that board?
33:13Er, I know The Handmaid's Tale,
33:15but I think the one we are going to go for is The Canterbury Tales,
33:19the bottom one.
33:20OK, The Canterbury Tales.
33:22So we have Shark Tale and we have The Canterbury Tales.
33:25Erm, in the order they were given, Tom and Abby went for Shark Tale.
33:28Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
33:33Shark Tale. Absolutely right.
33:36That goes down to 37.
33:40Meanwhile, Lynne and David have gone for The Canterbury Tales.
33:43Shall we see how many of our 100 said that for The Chaucer?
33:48The Canterbury Tales is right.
33:52That goes down to 48.
33:53Very well done indeed, Abby and Tom.
33:55Back in the game.
33:56After two questions, it's one all.
33:58Oh, yes.
33:59That was very tense as well.
34:01Lynne, you nearly said The Handmaid's Tale,
34:04which would have been correct,
34:06and that would have scored 28,
34:08which would have got you through to the final.
34:10Any ideas on the other ones there, Xander?
34:13Ten Summoner's Tales is the sting up, I think.
34:16That is correct.
34:17That would have scored five.
34:19But the last one there, do you know what that would be?
34:20Tales of...?
34:22Tales of Arise.
34:23And that was a pointless answer.
34:26Thank you very much indeed.
34:28Right, here comes the third question.
34:29Whoever wins this one goes through to the final
34:30and plays for that jackpot.
34:32Best of luck to both pairs.
34:34Our third question is all about...
34:41We're going to show you the names of five kingdoms
34:43or princedoms that existed in various parts of Britain
34:47at some time between the era of Roman rule
34:50and the Norman Conquest.
34:52However, we've removed alternate letters from their names
34:54just to make it even more tricky.
34:56Please fill in the missing letters.
34:57Tell us the names of these kingdoms or princedoms.
35:01Thank you very much indeed.
35:03OK, shall we reveal our principalities or kingdoms?
35:06I don't know why it's not a principality, I was about to say.
35:08A princedom.
35:09A princedom.
35:10Maybe it is.
35:10It says princedom here, but it could be a principality.
35:12Maybe.
35:12Oh, well, let's see.
35:13Here they come.
35:16P-W-S-K-N-M-R-I-E-S-A-G-I and W-S-E.
35:27There we are.
35:28Lynne and David will go first.
35:33We'll take a gamble on the top one, say Powis.
35:37Powis, say Lynne and David.
35:39Now, Abi and Tom, do you want to talk us through the rest of that board?
35:43OK, I'm just going to take a guess at the bottom one
35:46and say that it's Wessel.
35:48Wessel.
35:49Yeah.
35:50So, we have Powis and Wessel.
35:51Lynne and David went for Powis.
35:53Let's see how many of our 100 said Powis.
35:57Powis is right.
36:02Down it goes to 25.
36:05Meanwhile, Abi and Tom have gone for Wessel for the bottom one.
36:09Shall we see if Wessel is right?
36:13No, I'm afraid not Wessel, which means well done, Lynne and David.
36:17After three questions, you're through to the final 2-1.
36:20Sorry about that one.
36:21Yeah.
36:22I'm going to guess Wessex.
36:24But it was Wessex.
36:25You're right.
36:25Yeah, Wessex.
36:26That would have scored you 26 if you got it right.
36:29The second one down is Kent.
36:31Kent, yes.
36:32That would have scored 28.
36:33Mercia.
36:35Mercia is a very good one to get.
36:36That would have scored you the lowest amount.
36:38That was nine.
36:39East Anglia.
36:40That's what I was going to say.
36:41East Anglia, of course.
36:42That would have scored 30.
36:43Thank you very much indeed.
36:45Now the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round.
36:47Tom and Abi.
36:48And I think this is our final goodbye.
36:50Thank you so much for coming to play.
36:51It's been lovely having you on the show.
36:52Tom and Abi.
36:53Brilliant.
36:54For Lynne and David though, now time for the Pointless final.
37:00Well, huge congratulations, Lynne and David.
37:02You've fought off all the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
37:06Yeah.
37:12You now have a chance to win the Pointless jackpot.
37:15And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £3,250.
37:20We simply need a Pointless answer from you.
37:23So the question as ever is what would you like to see come up?
37:27Sport.
37:28For me.
37:29And geography, of course.
37:31And geography.
37:31Yeah, geography.
37:33David's got flags, so...
37:35We'll see.
37:36Something like that.
37:36Let's have a look.
37:37Four things will appear and let's hope something here leaps out.
37:43Peace and Quiet.
37:45Female rappers.
37:47The Apprentice.
37:49Andy Murray.
37:51What do we think?
37:52Peace and Quiet might be...
37:54Well, the middle two are out.
37:57Yeah.
37:58Do you want to take a gamble on Peace and Quiet?
38:00Because it's random.
38:00Might be things with Peace and Quiet in.
38:02Yeah, or...
38:04Yeah, we'll take a gamble on Peace and Quiet.
38:06You're going to go for Peace and Quiet, Tom.
38:08Well, nice choice.
38:10Oh, good.
38:10I like that choice.
38:11We're looking here for the name of any person who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize from the years
38:172000 to 2024 inclusive.
38:22Or we are looking for any word of four or more letters in the lyrics of Bjork's 1995 single, It's
38:29Oh So Quiet.
38:31Very best of luck to both of you.
38:33Thank you very much.
38:34As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
38:37All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
38:40Are you ready?
38:41Yeah.
38:41Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
38:43There they are.
38:44Your time starts now.
38:45Yeah.
38:45So, who do you think?
38:46The Peace Prize is Bob Dylan.
38:49Bob Dylan?
38:50Oh, yeah.
38:50Yeah.
38:51Who else do you think?
38:53I don't know.
38:54What about the Irish?
38:57The Irish when they signed the...
38:59John Hume.
39:00John Hume.
39:01So, Bob Dylan.
39:02John Hume.
39:03Bob Dylan.
39:04Yeah.
39:04And then...
39:06In Paisley.
39:08Is that 2000?
39:10Well, yeah.
39:12Yeah, 20 years.
39:13It's 20 years ago, isn't it?
39:15I think so.
39:16Well, do you want to go for some words in the...
39:18No, I don't know any words.
39:20No, I don't know any words.
39:20No.
39:21No, no, no.
39:22Night, I...
39:24Night.
39:24I know here, but I don't feel like I'm one of those.
39:27So, if we go for...
39:30John Hume.
39:31John Hume.
39:32Bob Dylan.
39:32Bob Dylan and Ian Paisley.
39:34Ian Paisley.
39:35What's the little lady...
39:36Dan's saying that.
39:37The lady who was over there.
39:38I'm going to say...
39:40Maybe...
39:40No, she's Southern Ireland.
39:42Oh, I don't know.
39:43No, I don't know.
39:44Go for that.
39:45OK, that is your minute up.
39:47Let's have your three answers.
39:49Yeah.
39:50Right.
39:51We'd like to go for Mo Molen.
39:54Mo Molen.
39:55In the top one.
39:56I was guessing that wasn't a Buick lyric, but I don't know.
39:59Maybe.
40:00Sorry, yeah.
40:00Mo Molen.
40:01John Hume.
40:02John Hume.
40:04And...
40:06Bob Dylan.
40:07And Bob Dylan.
40:08Yeah.
40:08Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer,
40:10do you think?
40:11John Hume.
40:11John Hume.
40:12Least likely to be pointless?
40:14Bob Dylan.
40:14Then Mo Molen goes in the middle.
40:16So, Bob Dylan.
40:17Mo Molen.
40:18John Hume.
40:19But let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
40:21And here they are.
40:22We have...
40:25Bob Dylan.
40:26Mo Molen.
40:27And John Hume.
40:29If one of these turns out to be pointless,
40:30you'll be leaving here with £3,250.
40:34What would you like to do with that?
40:36It's our golden wedding anniversary in 15 months' time.
40:41Oh, huge congratulations.
40:42I've already booked a cruise for ourselves, our four grandchildren,
40:48our two children, our two other, our daughter-in-law and son-in-law as well.
40:53It's all ten of us.
40:54That's lovely.
40:55We're going irrespective of what happens today, but...
40:57Oh, well, that's wonderful.
40:58Wouldn't this help, though?
40:59I mean...
41:01Give the kids some spending.
41:02Exactly.
41:03Just add to the glory of it.
41:05Now, very best of luck.
41:06Your first answer was Bob Dylan.
41:07In all three cases, we're looking for people who've won the Nobel Peace Prize since 2000.
41:12Let's see how many of our 100 said Bob Dylan.
41:17Oh!
41:18Oh!
41:20Maybe it wasn't the Peace Prize.
41:21No.
41:22OK, let's turn our attention to Mo Molen.
41:24Did Mo Molen win the Nobel Peace Prize?
41:29No!
41:31OK, come on.
41:32John Hume, please, can you have won the Nobel Peace Prize?
41:36John Hume, surely £3,250, is riding on this.
41:43Oh, no!
41:44I'm so sorry.
41:45No problem.
41:46No problem.
41:47I'm so sorry.
41:49Yes.
41:50It wasn't really your category, that one, was it?
41:52No.
41:52I'm afraid you haven't won today's jackpot.
41:54But don't forget you have won today's pointless trophies.
41:57Yes!
41:58And deservedly so.
41:59You've been terrific.
42:00It's been lovely having you on, David.
42:02Bad luck, though.
42:03Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42:05Oh, literature.
42:07John Hume did win the Nobel Peace Prize, but it was in 1998.
42:11Oh!
42:11Sorry about that.
42:13Let's have a look at some of the pointless answers you could have given, though.
42:17Starting with any individual who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize between the years 2000 and 2024.
42:22Could have had Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, and Shirin Ibadi.
42:30The big scorers were Barack Obama, Al Gore, and Malala Yousafzai.
42:35And moving on to any word of four or more letters in Bjork's song, It's Oh So Quiet.
42:41I won't read out the whole lyrics, but you could have had nuts, riot, shout, swell.
42:49The only scoring answer here would have been love, until, peaceful, still, fuse, blow, fall, falling, boom, never ring.
42:56Then what's bell, devil, loose, when, and zing.
42:59Every other word of the lyrics was pointless.
43:01Well done if you got a pointless answer at home.
43:04Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
43:06And thank you, Lynne and David.
43:08I'm sorry you didn't win our jackpot today.
43:09That will therefore roll over onto the next show,
43:11when we will be playing for £4,250.
43:14Oh, wow.
43:16Join us then to see if someone can win it.
43:18Meanwhile, it is goodbye from Tom...
43:20..and it is goodbye from me.
43:21Goodbye.
43:22APPLAUSE
43:38..and I'm out of the way.
43:48I'm not sure that you're right.
43:49Bye.
43:49Bye.
43:50Bye.
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