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00:15MUSIC PLAYS
00:22Thank you very much indeed.
00:24Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless,
00:26the show that makes big winners out of the lowest scorers.
00:28Let's meet today's players.
00:34And couple number one.
00:35Hi, I'm Sammy, this is my husband Graham and we're from Marlowe.
00:39Couple number two.
00:40Hi, I'm Bella and this is my friend Gina and we're from North West London.
00:45Couple number three.
00:46Hi, I'm Luke, I'm from Manchester and this is my friend Marcus from Liverpool.
00:50And finally, couple number four.
00:52Hello, I'm Simon, this is my wife Louise and we live in West Norfolk.
00:56And these are today's contestants.
00:58APPLAUSE
00:59Thank you very much indeed, all of you.
01:00A very warm welcome to Pointless.
01:02Lovely to have you all here.
01:03That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:05A comedian who likes to throw dinner parties.
01:08If I could host a dream party with any five guests, living or dead,
01:12I think I'd go for living ones.
01:13It's my Pointless friend, it is Tom Allen.
01:16APPLAUSE
01:18Great to be here at the table.
01:20I do like a nicely laid table.
01:23Yes, so do I, I couldn't agree more.
01:24Nice way to add a bit of ceremony to the days.
01:27Quite right, days need ceremony.
01:28I think so and what better ceremony than this church service we call Pointless.
01:33There we are.
01:33Thank you very much indeed.
01:35Now, Sam and Niall got through to the final last time and they did not take the jackpot home with
01:40them.
01:40So we add another £1,000 to that.
01:42So today's jackpot starts off at £2,250.
01:47Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
01:55It's only right that I remind you that the players with the highest scores at the end of each round
02:00will be eliminated.
02:01So yes, just remember that before you give your answers and keep your scores as low as you possibly can
02:05and everything should be great.
02:06Best of luck to everybody.
02:07Now, our first category today is...
02:13Pop Legends. Can you all decide in your pairs who wants to go first, who wants to go second?
02:16And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:23OK, let's find out what the question is.
02:25Here it comes.
02:26We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many of Radio 2's ultimate ABBA songs as they could, Tom.
02:34In 2024, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ABBA's Eurovision win,
02:38BBC Radio 2 asked listeners to vote for their favourite ABBA song.
02:44Listeners voted for their top 30 songs from a shortlist of 45 made up of ABBA's UK Top 40 singles,
02:49plus a selection of other songs chosen by a panel of ABBA experts.
02:52I know, you might have been one of them.
02:54We'd like you to name any of the songs that made the top 30 of the listeners' vote.
03:00Thank you very much indeed.
03:01So there we are.
03:02Graham, welcome to Pointless.
03:04Terrific to have you with us.
03:05Tell us all about yourself.
03:06I'm Graham, I'm from Marlowe.
03:08I'm a vicar in a church in Marlowe.
03:11Marlowe Bottom, actually.
03:12I'd love to say bottom on the BBC.
03:14So, yes, we live in Marlowe Bottom.
03:16And is it a lovely church in Marlowe Bottom?
03:18The people are fantastic.
03:20The church is a bit 1960s Scout Hut, so not so nice.
03:25But the people in it are fantastic.
03:27And that's what matters.
03:28Yes.
03:28And actually, while we're here, can I give a shout-out to Mary?
03:31No, I'm afraid you can't...
03:33Good, she is your biggest fan and watches every show.
03:37She's one of our older members, but an absolute star,
03:40and so she'll be very pleased to get a mention.
03:43Mary.
03:44Well, there we are.
03:45Now, Graham, ABBA.
03:48I think, whether it's exactly right or not,
03:52lay all your love on me.
03:54Lay all your love on me, says Graham.
03:56Shall we see how many of our 100 people said that?
03:58Lay all your love on me.
04:01It's right.
04:07And look at that, Daniel, there's a four.
04:09This is a terrific start, not only to the round,
04:12but also to the show.
04:12Graham, well done you.
04:14Well done, Graham.
04:1519th on the list there.
04:16It wasn't initially planned to be released as a single,
04:18so no music video was made for it.
04:21Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
04:23Now then, Bella.
04:24Welcome to Pointless, lovely to have you here.
04:26Will you introduce yourself to the room and indeed to the country?
04:30Yeah, so my name is Bella and I'm from north-west London
04:33and I'm a social media manager, so I make lots of TikToks.
04:37There we are.
04:38What kind of TikToks do you make?
04:39Yeah, so I make them for, like, businesses,
04:41so I have to, like, promote their products.
04:43But it looks a bit weird because I, like, walk around public spaces
04:46just, like, filming and people think you're a bit weird
04:48because you're just lip-syncing in the middle of nowhere.
04:49So what if you're filming yourself?
04:52Do you have a stick?
04:53I yell at my mum in the street to get the right ankle.
04:56Oh, so she is your camera operator?
04:58Yeah.
04:59She's kind of scared of me now.
05:01Yeah, I bet.
05:02Now, Bella, what ABBA song are you going to nominate from this list?
05:06I'm going to go with Dancing Queen.
05:08I know it's a bit basic, but, yeah.
05:10OK, let's see what happens when we go for Dancing Queen.
05:15Bella is right.
05:2048 for Dancing Queen.
05:21It came first in the Radio 2 List of Nepal.
05:24ABBA's biggest-selling song in the UK shifted more than a million,
05:27more than a million copies.
05:29It was also their only chart-topper in the United States.
05:32They were big in America, though, presumably.
05:34They must have had a following there.
05:35I don't know. Thank you.
05:37You asked me questions, but I didn't know the answer.
05:39Well, I don't know. I didn't really want the real answer.
05:40I just wanted your supposition.
05:42Oh, I think they were huge in America.
05:44Thank you very much.
05:45And now then, Luke, welcome back to Pointless.
05:49Tell us a bit more about yourself, Luke.
05:51So, as Marcus mentioned, I play powerchair football as well with him.
05:59But I am more of a developmental coach.
06:03So we get a lot of young disabled people that come through the doors
06:06that basically, you know, they don't know what's available to them
06:09or what opportunities they've got to be able to get involved in
06:12competitive sport.
06:14So my club, Green Bank, who we both play for,
06:18we allow those opportunities for those young adults to try and get
06:22into disability sport.
06:23But that must be amazing for them.
06:24They must think, oh, look, that's a fabulous hobby, isn't it?
06:26Yeah, yeah.
06:27It enriches lives and, you know, it's not just the sport as well,
06:30it's a social thing, you know, it gets them out of the house and
06:33doing things and meeting new people and friends.
06:35Good.
06:36Luke, are you an ABBA fan?
06:38Not particularly, no.
06:39No.
06:40But you are aware of the combo.
06:42Yeah, I'm aware, yeah.
06:43I'm aware of the combo.
06:44What would you like to go for?
06:46Don't know if it's right, but I'm going to say Voulez-vous.
06:48Voulez-vous, says Luke.
06:50Shall we see how many of our 100 said Voulez-vous?
06:54Voulez-vous is right.
06:5648 is our high score and you pass it with Voulez-vous.
06:59Down and down and down and down.
07:00Those are five.
07:01This is terrific.
07:02Very well done indeed.
07:03Five.
07:04Great choice, Luke.
07:0514th on the list.
07:06Also the title track of their 1979 album,
07:09the disco-flavoured song Voulez-vous,
07:11has a backing track that was recorded in Miami, Florida,
07:14not in Sweden.
07:15No.
07:15So, further evidence that they did have a big presence in America.
07:19There we are.
07:20Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
07:21Now, we come to you, Louise.
07:23Welcome back to Pointless.
07:24Lovely to have you with us again.
07:25Tell us more about yourself, Louise.
07:27OK, so last time I told you that I've been in the pub trade
07:29for 40 years.
07:31Yes.
07:31But I actually have a miniature pub at home.
07:34How miniature?
07:35Will you say that?
07:35Miniatures are 1 12th scale.
07:38OK.
07:38So, my...
07:39When I first met Simon, his mum, Brenda,
07:41was really into doll's houses.
07:43Yes.
07:43So, we sort of, you know, got together and went to shows
07:46and that together.
07:47So, over the years, I've got a cafe, a cake shop.
07:51I've done up my childhood bungalow.
07:53Yeah.
07:54And I also have a pub called the No One's Inn.
07:56Nice.
07:57I love that.
07:58Well, they would be, but they just don't fit.
08:01Fabulous.
08:01Louise.
08:02So, we are looking for these ABBA songs.
08:04What are you going to go for?
08:05I do like ABBA.
08:06This is good.
08:08I'm not going to go with my favourites.
08:10I think that would be too high.
08:11So, I'm going to go with Does Your Mother Know?
08:12Does Your Mother Know, says Louise.
08:15Shall we find out how many of our 100 said that?
08:19Does Your Mother Know is right.
08:2048 is our high score, 4 is our low.
08:22You pass the high score.
08:258.
08:26Well done.
08:27But Does Your Mother Know?
08:28Yes, yes.
08:2918th on the list.
08:31A rare example of an ABBA single where neither of the women
08:34take lead vocals.
08:35It's Bjorn doing most of the singing on that one.
08:38I'm not sure I'd know whose voice was whose.
08:40I just assume they always speak as a 4.
08:42Yes.
08:43Do you know what I mean?
08:43I wouldn't...
08:43Yes.
08:44They just have that sound.
08:45Yes.
08:46It's an upbeat Europop.
08:47Well, anyway, there we are.
08:48Yes, thank you very much indeed, Tom.
08:49Well, we're halfway through the round.
08:50Let's have a quick look at those scores.
08:51Four.
08:52The best score of the pass.
08:53Very well done indeed, Graham.
08:55And indeed, Sammy.
08:56And we travel from there to five,
08:57which is where we find Luke and Marcus.
08:59And from there to eight,
08:59where we find Louise and Simon.
09:00And from there to 48,
09:02where we find Bella and Gina.
09:05So, yeah, you're a little bit ahead.
09:06But Gina, your ABBA expertise is going to come to the four
09:10in the next pass.
09:10So, good luck with that.
09:11We're going to come back down the line now.
09:13Will the second players please step up to the podium?
09:19There we are.
09:20Now, Simon, remember,
09:22we're looking for any ABBA song that appeared on this list
09:25of Radio 2's 30 ultimate ABBA songs.
09:29Welcome back to Pointless.
09:30Great to have you with us again, Simon.
09:32And let's hear a little bit more about you.
09:33OK.
09:35I'm a keen fisherman when I get the chance.
09:39That usually involves trips to France with my youngest son
09:43and my brother.
09:45And we fish 24 hours a day for a week.
09:49Is that what you do?
09:50In shifts?
09:51No, no, no, no, no.
09:53You basically camp at the side of a lake.
09:56I see.
09:57And you fish 24 hours a day through the night.
10:00Through the night.
10:00So, one of you has got the fishing line tied to their big toe.
10:03No, no, everyone's fishing.
10:04You have alarms.
10:05Oh.
10:05So, if you're asleep and it goes off, you jump up with a fright,
10:10fall over.
10:10Yeah.
10:12Something like that.
10:13Good.
10:13Yeah.
10:14Well, that sounds fun.
10:15Simon, you are on eight.
10:1639 or less gets you into round two.
10:20I'm going to say Chicka-Tita.
10:23Chicka-Tita?
10:24Yeah.
10:24Says Simon.
10:25Here is your red line.
10:27Shall we see if we can get you below that red line with Chicka-Tita?
10:32Chicka-Tita is right.
10:34Tita.
10:34Yeah.
10:35Gets you through to round two.
10:37And it goes down to 14.
10:38Very well done indeed.
10:40Taking your total up to 22.
10:42Chicka-Tita, or as Terry Wogan used to call it,
10:45Chicka-Tita.
10:46Take your teeth out, tell me what's wrong.
10:49Terry Wogan, I think, referred to it.
10:5113th on the list.
10:52It was recorded to be performed at a benefit concert at the UN,
10:55at the General Assembly, with royalties from the song donated
10:58to UNICEF.
10:58So ABBA haven't earned a penny from that song.
11:02Chicka-Tita.
11:02Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
11:04Now then, Marcus, welcome back to Point.
11:06It's great to have you with us a second time.
11:08Tell us a bit more about yourself.
11:10So, apart from football, I like to play poker as well.
11:15And that's actually where me and Luke become close friends.
11:19How often do you play?
11:20Is there a poker school?
11:21Every day.
11:22Every night?
11:23Yeah.
11:24Are you all pretty much of a level, or is the one person
11:27who always wins?
11:28There's some pro players, but then there's some...
11:32We call them fish, and they're not very good, so...
11:35Right.
11:37So, yeah, you hook them in.
11:38Yeah.
11:39OK, Marcus, you are on five, which means 42 or less
11:42gets you through to the next round.
11:44I think I only know one song remaining.
11:47I think Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.
11:49Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, says Marcus.
11:51You get a red line, and it comes in nice and high.
11:54Let's see if we can get you below that with Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.
11:59Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.
12:02Gets you into round two.
12:05Down it goes to 19.
12:06Take your total up to 24.
12:08Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, brackets, a man after midnight.
12:11Close brackets.
12:11What happens if the man arrives before midnight?
12:14That's the thing.
12:15That's just...
12:15There's no appetite.
12:16The four of them will say, sorry, no meatballs for you.
12:21Sixth on the list.
12:22You've never been to an Ikea?
12:23No, I have, I have, I have.
12:26Sixth on the list there.
12:28When Madonna sampled it on her song, Hung Up,
12:30she had to write a begging letter to Benny and Bjorn for permission
12:33because the ABBA songwriters rarely let anybody sample their music.
12:39Thank you very much indeed.
12:40Now, Gina, welcome.
12:41It's terrific to have you here, Gina.
12:42Tell us all about yourself.
12:44Well, I'm Gina.
12:45I just graduated, like, a couple of months ago
12:48and I'm kind of just from everywhere, really.
12:52I don't have, like, one set place.
12:54My dad is half Egyptian, half Turkish.
12:57My mum is half Russian, half Syrian, but grew up in Saudi Arabia
13:00and I grew up in Lebanon and then moved to Scotland for a while
13:04and now I live in London.
13:05That is brilliant.
13:07I never know what to say when people ask me where I'm from.
13:09No, just say that and they'll just enjoy the journey.
13:13That is fantastic.
13:14You've just graduated.
13:15What have you graduated in?
13:16I did film.
13:17Very good indeed.
13:18Where were you doing that?
13:19Westminster.
13:20Excellent.
13:21I was with Bella as well.
13:22Well, fantastic.
13:23She hasn't roped you in, I noticed.
13:24She doesn't scream at you on the other side of the street.
13:27Not really.
13:28No.
13:28She hasn't asked me even though I'm the one with the film degree.
13:31That kind of hurts.
13:31I would keep it that way by the sounds of things.
13:35I'm not sure she treats her crew that well.
13:37OK.
13:38Gina, you're on 48.
13:39We need a low score from you.
13:41Can you name one of these top 30 ABBA songs?
13:44I don't know if this is going to be one of the ones on the list,
13:47but it's my favourite ABBA song.
13:48Thank you for the music.
13:50Thank you for the music, says Gina.
13:51Look, and that gets an appreciative nod from everybody.
13:54No-one else got that with their song.
13:56Let's see.
13:56There's no red line for you because you're the highest scorers
13:59at the moment, but let's see what happens when we say
14:01thank you for the music.
14:04Thank you for the music.
14:06Absolutely right, Gina.
14:10And look at that, down against to eight.
14:12This is a terrific score, taking your total up to 56.
14:15Third on the Radio 2 list.
14:17Originally recorded in 1977 but only released in the UK
14:20as ABBA's last single during their initial period of fame,
14:23it reached 33 in the charts in 1983.
14:27Thank you very much indeed, Dom.
14:30Now then, Sammy, welcome to Ports.
14:32Hi. Great to have you here.
14:33Tell us all about yourself, Sammy.
14:35Well, I'm also a vicar, but I'm a vicar of a school,
14:37so I'm a school chaplain.
14:38Do you also teach RE as well as being chaplain?
14:41I do teach a little bit of that, yes, as well, yeah.
14:44And do, like, fundraising things and all sorts of things.
14:48Craft club.
14:49Craft club.
14:50Yes.
14:50Yes.
14:51Very good.
14:51Well, that sounds fun.
14:53Yeah.
14:53And now, you are on four, which means 51 or less gets you
14:56into the next round.
14:58I wonder what you'd like to go for.
15:00Have you had all your best answers taken?
15:02I've got quite a lot of ABBA songs running through my head,
15:05but I'm trying to remember what they're actually called,
15:07which is not so easy.
15:09But I'm going to go for, and I hope it's on the list,
15:11Honey, Honey.
15:12Honey, Honey.
15:13Here's your red line.
15:14Let's see what happens when we say Honey, Honey.
15:19He's right.
15:22Gets you through, Sammy.
15:27Down to one.
15:28The best till last is what we say.
15:31Taking your total up to five.
15:33Very well done.
15:33Yeah, brilliant answer.
15:35Never even released in the UK.
15:36It's 28th on Radio 2's list.
15:39The pointless answers, though, you would have needed to get
15:41Andante Andante, an album track from 1980.
15:45Don't Shut Me Down, one of the new tracks that came out in 2021.
15:50And Eagle was another pointless one.
15:54Also My Love, My Life, Our Last Summer, Summer Night City,
15:58and The Visitors were all pointless answers you could have got.
16:02Well done at home if you got one of those.
16:05Maybe you're on your way to a hen party dressed as Abba.
16:10Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
16:11That brings us to the end of our first round.
16:12It means we have to say goodbye to Gina and Bella with a high score
16:15of 56.
16:16Sorry to be saying goodbye to you so soon, but we'll see you next time.
16:19And we're already looking forward to that.
16:21Gina and Bella, thank you so much for playing.
16:24But for our remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.
16:32Very, very well done, everybody.
16:34Welcome to round two.
16:36This is your reward for being so fantastic in that first round.
16:39Sammy, our lowest individual scorer of the whole round.
16:42Very well done indeed.
16:43And Graham and Sammy, our lowest combined scorers.
16:45So it's all going on on podium one.
16:48Best of luck to everybody.
16:49Our category for round two today is...
16:53European languages.
16:54Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
16:56who's going to go second?
16:57And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
17:03OK, and the question concerns...
17:07..German words used in English, Tom.
17:10Absolutely. Super, ja, genau.
17:13On each pass, we're going to give you six clues to German words
17:17that are used in the English language.
17:19The English language.
17:22We will give you the initial letter of each word,
17:25plus a translation and a brief description of its use in modern English.
17:29Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
17:31Let's reveal our first board of six clues.
17:33And here they are.
17:35Can you guess what these German words are?
17:38S.
17:38Sour cabbage.
17:39German dish of shredded cabbage pickled in salt.
17:42W.
17:43Desire to travel.
17:44A strong yearning or fondness for travelling.
17:48P.
17:48Noisy ghost.
17:49A supernatural being that is supposedly responsible for disturbances
17:52such as loud noises and the movement of objects.
17:55L.
17:56Leading theme.
17:57A recurring theme throughout a musical or literary work associated
18:00with a particular person or situation.
18:03H.
18:04Behind land.
18:05The remote areas of a country away from the coast or major rivers.
18:10A.
18:11Fear.
18:12A feeling of deep anxiety or dread.
18:17There we are.
18:18Sammy.
18:19Hello.
18:21Sammy, what are you making of our German words here?
18:25I'm going to go for L.
18:26The leading theme.
18:28I think it's a leitmotif.
18:30Leitmotif, says Sammy.
18:31Shall we see how many of our 100 said leitmotif?
18:37Leitmotif is right.
18:42Oh, it's a good answer.
18:44Four for leitmotif.
18:46Four.
18:47Great answer, Sam.
18:49Famous leitmotifs in modern films include the Imperial March
18:53in Star Wars that plays whenever Darth Vader enters.
18:56Or is nearby.
18:57Or the two-note shark theme in Jaws.
18:59Mmm.
19:00But I think it's a Wagnerian thing, isn't it?
19:02I think it's used in the Ring Cycle?
19:03Yes, you're completely right.
19:05It was all part of his Gesamtkunstwerk.
19:08Oh, yeah.
19:09Where he brought all the elements of drama together.
19:11Everything from the spectacle, the writing, the singing, the music,
19:16the whole, every aspect of drama thrown into one massive 360-degree experience.
19:22Very exciting.
19:23How long does it last?
19:24I don't know, five days.
19:26Usually.
19:28My...
19:29Samtkunstwerk.
19:30Now, Marcus, what are you making of our board here
19:35and what would you like to go for?
19:37Erm, I'm going to say Poltergeist.
19:41Poltergeist for the noisy ghost.
19:44Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Poltergeist?
19:50Poltergeist is right.
19:51Well, four is the only score.
19:53We have 57 for Poltergeist.
19:55Yeah.
19:56Great, great word there, Poltergeist.
19:57The Enfield Poltergeist is one of the most famous British stories
20:01of paranormal activity.
20:02Did you know about it?
20:03No, I didn't.
20:03Police were called to the North London house in 1977,
20:06with knocking, furniture moving and whistling were reported.
20:09It has spawned several radio and television programmes and a play.
20:13All of which have just passed me by.
20:15Passed me by.
20:16Passed you by.
20:16It rings a bell, as I imagine they would.
20:20Brilliant.
20:22Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
20:23Now, Simon, you are the last person to have this board.
20:27Would you like to dazzle us with your German?
20:29Yeah.
20:31Um, sauerkraut?
20:32I think it's wanderlust.
20:35Angst, I think, is the last one.
20:37But I'm going to go for the fifth one, and I hope I'm right.
20:40I'm going to say hinterland.
20:42Hinterland, says Simon.
20:44Shall we see if hinterland is right for the hidden territory?
20:48Hinterland.
20:50Hinterland is absolutely right.
20:51That 57 is our high score, and you pass that four as our low score.
20:55And there you are on 26.
20:57Very well done.
20:58Hinterland.
21:00Uh, yes.
21:01Very, very good.
21:02Very good choices.
21:03Simon went through the board actually very, very well,
21:06but actually did know a better answer there,
21:08and maybe this will cause you some angst.
21:12Angst.
21:13But don't worry.
21:14Don't you worry.
21:16We could have had angst.
21:17That would have scored 15.
21:19Wanderlust.
21:20You're correct.
21:21That was 37.
21:23Sauerkraut.
21:23Of course, one that a lot of people know.
21:25Yes.
21:26I mean, a proper sauerkraut is fermented, of course.
21:28Oh, people love...
21:29Not merely pickled, but fermented.
21:30It's very good.
21:30Very good for you.
21:31People go on about microbiome and things like that.
21:34That sauerkraut is a great example of something you can have for that.
21:37Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
21:38We're halfway through the round.
21:39Let's have a look at these scores.
21:40Four.
21:40Well done, Sammy.
21:41Once again, with the low scores there, Sammy.
21:44She's very, very good.
21:45Uh, then we travel from there to 26 where we find Simon and Louise,
21:48and from there up to 57 where we find Marcus and Luke.
21:51A little bit ahead there, but Luke, a brilliant answer on the next board,
21:55could turn everything around, so good luck with that.
21:57We're going to come back down the line now.
21:59Will the second players please step up to the podium?
22:05OK, we're going to put six more German words used in English
22:08up on the board, and here they are.
22:11L, store, a beer that is typically light in colour and body,
22:17having been matured after fermentation.
22:20G, health, exclamation used to wish good health
22:24to someone who's just sneezed.
22:27S, harm joy, pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
22:33K, children's garden, an establishment where preschool children
22:38can learn and play.
22:40B, education novel, a book dealing with its hero's formative years,
22:46a coming-of-age story.
22:48And S, play game, an elaborate speech or story,
22:52typically one used by a salesperson.
22:55There we are.
22:56Now, Louise, you're on 26.
22:58Should you score 30 or less, you'd be straight into the head-to-head.
23:03I'm going to go with the last one and say spiel.
23:06OK, spiel or spiel, here is your red line.
23:10Let's see if we can get you below this red line with spiel.
23:16Spiel is right.
23:20Very good indeed. Look at that, 29.
23:2330 needed, 29 attained, taking your total up to 55.
23:27Also, where we get glockenspiel from.
23:29Spiel.
23:30It goes back to an old, high-German word, spiel on,
23:33which also means to play.
23:35Thank you very much indeed.
23:37Now then, Luke, on 57th.
23:39We need a low score from you, Luke.
23:40Yeah, it's going to be difficult, I think.
23:42It is quite difficult.
23:44Yeah, I only know one for sure.
23:46I'm going to have to go with it.
23:47Kindergarten.
23:48OK, kindergarten for the K in the middle.
23:51Let's see how many of our 100 said kindergarten.
23:53There's no red line for you as you're the highest scorers at the moment.
23:59Kindergarten is right.
24:0164, taking your total up to 121.
24:05The founder of the kindergarten was a German educator and reformer
24:08named Friedrich Freubel.
24:10He opened his first infant school in 1837 in the town of Blankenburg.
24:15Yes.
24:16Thank you very much.
24:17Now, Graham, there you are on four.
24:21You are through to the next round, even if you score 100,
24:24which I would know you won't, but if you were to score 100,
24:26you'd still be in the head-to-head.
24:27Would you like to talk us through the board and fill in the blanks?
24:30L Store?
24:31Am I allowed to say Lidl on the BBC?
24:34A G is Gesundheit?
24:37S...
24:38I don't know.
24:40B sounds like backstory, but that doesn't sound like a very German word.
24:44I'm going to go with Gesundheit.
24:46You're going to go with Gesundheit for health.
24:48Shall we see how many of our 100 said Gesundheit?
24:50There's no red line for you for the lovely reason that you're already through.
24:53Gesundheit.
24:56Gesundheit is right.
24:57All right.
25:0131.
25:02Take your total up to 35.
25:04Mm.
25:05Yeah.
25:05Gesundheit.
25:07Gesundheit.
25:08Sander, do you know the rest of them?
25:09Well, I think it's a lager, isn't it?
25:11The very top there.
25:13Very good.
25:14It's a lager.
25:15Yes, absolutely correct.
25:16And that would have scored 58.
25:19Schadenfreude is the harm joy.
25:22Schadenfreude.
25:23That would have scored 13.
25:24And then the last one, an education novel, a book dealing with its hero's formative years, a coming-of-age
25:28story.
25:29This is a rather niche, it's Bildungsroman.
25:33Indeed it is.
25:34A Bildungsroman.
25:36And that would have scored you three.
25:38There we are.
25:39That brings us to the end of our second round.
25:40It means we have to say goodbye to our second pair of the show.
25:43Marcus and Luke, I'm afraid you are that second pair.
25:45You've done twice as well as you did in your first show.
25:48Keep this trajectory up and we'll see you in the final next time.
25:51We'll look forward to that.
25:52Marcus and Luke, thank you very much.
25:53For the remaining two pairs, it is now time for the head-to-head.
26:03Huge congratulations, Graham and Sammy, Simon and Louise.
26:05You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,
26:09which currently stands at £2,250.
26:13Before we play the head-to-head, though,
26:15we have a chance to throw more money into that jackpot
26:17by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers,
26:19just for fun, you understand.
26:20So here goes.
26:21We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
26:29Yes, you're going to see six options here.
26:32Two are scoring, two are pointless,
26:33and two are not titles of Captain Underpants novels at all.
26:36Captain Underpants, of course, written by Dave Pilkey.
26:41£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
26:44Thank you very much indeed.
26:45So can you identify the pointless Captain Underpants novels from these six?
27:11There we are. I don't know if anyone knows anything, but now would be a great time to share.
27:15Our kids read them, but I've no idea.
27:17I would possibly say not the top one and not the bottom one.
27:20That's exactly what I thought.
27:21OK, so, Graham and Sammy, it's over to you.
27:23What would you like to nominate as a pointless Captain Underpants novel?
27:27Shall we go for...
27:29Wedgie Woman?
27:29Yes, Wedgie Woman.
27:32We're going to have a guess at the wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman.
27:35OK, the Wicked Wedgie Woman.
27:37Is that a pointless Captain Underpants novel?
27:41It's definitely of that canon.
27:47Ah, scoring four.
27:50Scoring four.
27:51Simon and Louise.
27:52Which one do you want to go for?
27:53It's got to be the perilous plot of Professor Poopypants.
27:56OK, Professor Poopypants.
27:59Shall we see if that is a pointless Captain Underpants novel?
28:06Well, Poopypants is another in the series.
28:11Ah, two.
28:13Oh, well done.
28:15You were so good because you immediately picked the incorrect ones,
28:18the ones that aren't novels in the series.
28:21The Mega Mean Time Machine is a title in Francesca Simon's
28:24Horrid Henry book series, Horrid Henry and the Mega Mean Time Machine.
28:27And also, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living
28:30and Became Mixed-Up Zombies is a cult horror musical from 1964.
28:33So, well done on that.
28:35Then, from the remaining four, you picked the worst two you could pick.
28:39The ones to go for as pointless answers were
28:41The Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Roboboxers
28:44and The Tyrannical Detaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000.
28:49Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
28:50And, well, we didn't find any pointless answers,
28:53but it was a fun world to dwell in for a moment or two.
28:56Let's play the head-to-head.
29:02OK, now the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot
29:05and you're now allowed to confer before you give your answers, which is nice.
29:09Best of luck to everybody.
29:10Our first category today is...
29:14Tom Allen's slices of cake. Tom Allen.
29:17Mmm, you're welcome.
29:19We're going to show you five slices of cake that I have drawn to the best of my ability.
29:24We'll also give you the names of those cakes, but we've taken slices out of them,
29:29so you'll only see every other letter.
29:31All you have to do is name the cakes.
29:33Here we go. Five cakes as drawn by Tom.
29:37We have cake A, B-T-E-B-R.
29:44B, C-O-O-L-N.
29:50C, F-N-A-T-F-N-Y.
29:57D, V-C-O-I-S-O-G.
30:01I think that's a beautiful painting, by the way.
30:03I could see that on the wall of a very expensive house.
30:07Ooh, OK.
30:08Maybe there's a market for that.
30:09I don't know.
30:10I'd love to see myself on a...
30:11Market of one.
30:12Market of one.
30:13But there.
30:14I'll gladly have it framed, sell it to you.
30:18D-B-S-T-R-E.
30:21Mmm.
30:23OK, there we are.
30:24Five beautifully reimagined slices of cake.
30:29There we go.
30:30Now, Graham and Sammy, you're our low scorers, so you get to go first.
30:39We're going to have to go with something that we think is probably quite a high scorer.
30:44So, we're going to go with Fondant Fancy, C.
30:48You are going to go with C, Fondant Fancy.
30:52Simon and Louise, can you talk us through the other slices of cake?
30:56We wish we could.
30:57We wish we could.
30:57Buttenberg is A.
30:59A.
31:00Victoria sponge.
31:01Victoria sponge is D.
31:03Unfortunately, we're struggling with the other two.
31:05I think the second word is taut in the E, but I don't know what it is.
31:10No.
31:11So, we'll have to go...
31:12Victoria sponge.
31:13Yeah, we'll go D, Victoria sponge.
31:15You're going to go Victoria sponge.
31:16So, we have Fondant Fancy, Victoria sponge.
31:18Graham and Sammy went for Fondant Fancy for C.
31:21How many of our 100 said that?
31:26Fondant Fancy.
31:29Absolutely right, and it's not a bad score.
31:32Down and go to 17 for Fondant Fancy.
31:35Simon and Louise, meanwhile, have gone for Victoria sponge for D.
31:39Should we see how many of our 100 said that?
31:44Victoria sponge is right.
31:4761 for Victoria sponge.
31:49That means well done, Graham and Sammy.
31:50After one question, you're up 1-0.
31:53I'm just delighted that they looked like cakes.
31:57Yeah.
31:58So, A.
31:59Battenberg.
32:00Nobody was challenged by that.
32:02I'm getting up to high score.
32:0377.
32:04Now, the more difficult ones.
32:05OK.
32:06Shall we do E first?
32:07Let's do E.
32:07Tauta, as Simon pointed out, is absolutely right.
32:10It's a Dobos tort.
32:12It's from Hungary.
32:13Would have scored you one.
32:14OK, so then we come to...
32:15Then we come to...
32:16This thing, I mean...
32:17I want to say...
32:19But that's not going to be right.
32:22Chocoflan.
32:23Chocoblan.
32:25Frustratingly, if you'd gone with any instinct to say chocoflan,
32:28you would have been absolutely right.
32:29And you would have got a pointless answer.
32:31No.
32:31Chocoflan is a Mexican dessert that combines chocolate cake,
32:35flan and a caramel topping.
32:37Wonderful.
32:37Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
32:39OK, here comes your second question.
32:40Simon and Louise, you have to win this one to stay in the game.
32:42So, good luck.
32:43Our second question is all about...
32:49Boring!
32:51We're going to show you five types of freshwater habitat.
32:55Hmm.
32:56That is bodies of water that have a low salt content
32:58and provide a home to a wide variety of plants and animals.
33:01OK.
33:02However, we've removed alternate letters from the names.
33:05Please give us these freshwater habitats.
33:08Thank you very much indeed.
33:09Let's reveal our five freshwater habitats and here they come.
33:11We have M-R-H-P-N, W-T-A-D, S-R-N and L-K.
33:23There we are.
33:25Now then, Simon and Louise will go first.
33:29Graham.
33:30No.
33:31No.
33:31No.
33:32Right, we're going to go to the third one down and say Wetland.
33:36Yes.
33:36Wetland, say Simon and Louise.
33:38Graham and Sammy, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
33:43Well, marsh, pond, lake at the bottom and my wife has pulled a blinder
33:48and come up with the S one.
33:50I think it's Strand.
33:53Are you going to go for Strand?
33:54We're going to go for Strand.
33:55You're going to go for Strand.
33:56We have Wetland and we have Strand.
33:58In the order they were given, Simon and Louise went for Wetland.
34:01Let's see how many of our 100 said that for the middle one.
34:05Wetland is right.
34:11Down it goes to 16.
34:13Not bad.
34:14Now, meanwhile, Graham and Sammy have gone for Strand for the fourth one down.
34:19At the last minute, Sammy suddenly saw Strand.
34:21Is Strand right?
34:22How many people said it if it is?
34:26It is right.
34:31And it wins the point for you.
34:33And it goes down to four.
34:34Very well done indeed.
34:35And that means, Graham and Sammy, after only two questions,
34:39you are straight through to the final.
34:402-0.
34:41Yeah.
34:42We were actually thinking of spring as the answer then,
34:46which would have scored seven.
34:47But there is a meaning of Strand that can refer to a freshwater area,
34:53such as a rivulet.
34:54So we can accept that.
34:56And four of our 100 said that at polls, so it scores four.
35:00At the top, yeah, Marsh.
35:01That was popular.
35:02It's 39.
35:03And the next one down, Pond, of course, 46.
35:06And the last one you might have thought was Lake,
35:10but it's actually Lorraine Kelly.
35:13No, it is Lake.
35:15It is Lake.
35:15And that would have scored a huge amount of 77.
35:18There we are.
35:18Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
35:20That means the pair are leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round.
35:22Simon and Louise, I'm afraid it is you.
35:23We will see you next time when it will be your third show,
35:26and I'm sure we can take it through to the final on that occasion.
35:29But thanks so much for playing, Simon and Louise.
35:31For Graham and Sammy, though, it is now time for the Pointless final.
35:39Congratulations, Graham and Sammy, you have fought off all the competition
35:41and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
35:44Hooray.
35:50You now have a chance to win the Pointless jackpot.
35:53And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,250.
35:59Well, as ever, it's all going to hang on a pointless answer.
36:03So, it's all down to what comes up on the board.
36:05What would you like to come up on the board?
36:08Sport or... Sport for him.
36:09Literature.
36:10Literature for me, maybe.
36:12OK.
36:12I mean, something on the Bible, but...
36:15That would be good.
36:15I doubt that would come up, but...
36:17Let's have a look and see.
36:19Today's selection reads...
36:23No way.
36:24Senior church figures.
36:26I'm not going to know that.
36:28Comedy, horror, musical theatre.
36:30Things with lots of vowels in their names.
36:32And the 2023 Men's Rugby Union World Cup.
36:37Senior church figures it is, though.
36:40I don't know.
36:40What?
36:41Well, don't assume.
36:43What?
36:43I don't know.
36:44Do you know the rugby one?
36:45I don't know.
36:45I don't know what the question is.
36:47When people have a very particular strong suit...
36:51Yeah.
36:52..and it comes up, and you think, well, there we are,
36:54the number of times people are shy of it for that very reason.
36:57Because you don't want to look...
36:59Well, listen...
37:00We're quite informal church people, so if it's all about hierarchy...
37:04If it's like Catholic cardinals, we won't know any of them.
37:06OK.
37:07No, no, I don't exactly...
37:08I totally respect that.
37:09I don't think I'll know.
37:10It's certainly not the second one.
37:11Oh, I don't know.
37:12Should we just go for the obvious?
37:14That's last year's World Cup.
37:15I don't even know who...
37:15Oh, South Africa beat England in the final.
37:17If you don't know that, then you're not going to know the answer.
37:19Oh, let's try it.
37:20OK, go on then.
37:21Come on, let's do senior church figures for the vicar and the vicar.
37:24OK.
37:25We are looking for the name of any Archbishop of Canterbury from 1660,
37:29when the post was reinstated following the restoration of the monarchy,
37:32all the way up to September 2024.
37:36Or the name of any Archbishop of Westminster from 1850,
37:39when the post was created by the Catholic Church,
37:41up to September 2024.
37:44Very best of luck.
37:46Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
37:48As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
37:50All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers
37:53to be pointless.
37:54Are you ready?
37:55Yeah.
37:56OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
37:58There they are.
37:59Your time starts now.
38:01Cranmer, Temple.
38:02Runcie.
38:03Runcie.
38:05Who was in between these two?
38:07Williams.
38:08Who wrote that book?
38:09Ramsay.
38:10Yeah.
38:12Temple, Ramsay.
38:13Yeah, Ramsay.
38:14Yeah, Ramsay might be good.
38:16What's his first name?
38:17Runcie.
38:19Robert Runcie.
38:24Michael.
38:25Michael Ramsay.
38:26I was going to say Corsair, but not.
38:27No, he's not.
38:28Yeah.
38:30Er...
38:31Cranmer.
38:31Who's after Cranmer?
38:32Anyone have known back then, do you?
38:34No, after Cranmer.
38:35Sorry, who's after Cranmer?
38:36Don't know.
38:36Don't know anyone back then.
38:38Um...
38:39Well, yeah.
38:3919th century.
38:40Cranmer's going to not be a pointless answer.
38:4219th century.
38:45Um...
38:45I think let's go Runcie.
38:48And Ramsay.
38:49OK.
38:51Yeah.
38:52But we don't know Ramsay.
38:52Ten seconds left.
38:53William Ramsay.
38:56Michael.
38:57Michael.
38:57Michael.
38:58Michael Ramsay.
38:58William Temple.
39:00Robert Runcie.
39:01OK, there we are.
39:02That is your time up.
39:03Let's have your three answers.
39:05Robert Runcie.
39:07Robert Runcie.
39:08William Temple.
39:09William Temple.
39:10And Michael Ramsay.
39:12And Michael Ramsay.
39:13And these are all in the first category.
39:15Archbishops of Canterbury.
39:16Yes, they're all Archbishops of Canterbury.
39:17There we are.
39:17Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
39:20Ramsay, we think.
39:21OK.
39:21Michael Ramsay we put last.
39:23Least likely to be pointless?
39:24Runcie.
39:25No.
39:25Robert Runcie.
39:26And then William Temple goes in the middle.
39:27So, Robert Runcie.
39:28William Temple.
39:30Michael Ramsay.
39:31Let's put those answers up on the board in that order then.
39:33And here they are.
39:34We have...
39:39Well, if one of these turns out to be pointless,
39:41you will be leaving here with £2,250,
39:44what would you like to do with that?
39:46Well, we've got three children of very expensive age,
39:50so we will probably blow it all on a holiday for the two of us,
39:53I think.
39:53I think that sounds like a very sensible thing to do.
39:55Sammy, anything you need to add to that?
39:57I think we'd give a little bit to charity,
39:59but, yeah, we might put it onto a holiday.
40:02Very nice.
40:03Well, that would be a lovely thing to do.
40:04Let's hope one of these fine names will allow that to happen.
40:08Robert Runcie is your first answer.
40:09In all three cases, we are looking for Archbishops of Canterbury.
40:12Let's see how many of our 100 people said Robert Runcie.
40:14Might he be pointless?
40:17Well, he's right, but we knew that.
40:20It's a question of how many people remembered Robert Runcie,
40:23because £2,250 is riding on this if it's pointless.
40:27Down we go to ten with Robert Runcie, not quite into single figures.
40:30So let's turn quickly to William Temple, exactly the same criteria.
40:35How many of our 100 people named William Temple
40:37as an Archbishop of Canterbury?
40:41William Temple is also right.
40:44Well, Robert Runcie took us all the way down to ten.
40:46William Temple now takes us down through the twenties.
40:49Into the teens, passing ten.
40:51Still going down with William Temple.
40:52Still going down with William Temple.
40:54One.
40:56Oh, that's annoying.
40:59Not a pointless answer.
41:00So we now turn our attention to Michael Ramsey.
41:02You put Michael Ramsey last.
41:04You thought that was your best shot at a pointless answer.
41:07So if William Temple scores one, by that logic,
41:09Michael Ramsey should be pointless.
41:11How many of our 100 people said it?
41:15Right.
41:18£2,250 riding on Michael Ramsey.
41:22Might he be a pointless Archbishop of Canterbury?
41:24Down we go.
41:25Through the teens into single figures.
41:26Still going down...
41:27Oh, no.
41:28Five for Michael Ramsey.
41:30Oh, I'm so sorry.
41:32Well, you've done very well.
41:34Three great answers.
41:35Down to one with William Temple.
41:37But I'm afraid we didn't find the all-important pointless answer,
41:39so I'm afraid you are not taking home today's jackpot.
41:41But you have won today's pointless trophies.
41:44So very, very well done indeed for that.
41:46Oh, such good answers.
41:48You were so unlucky.
41:49William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1940s,
41:51but his father Frederick was also Archbishop of Canterbury.
41:55Nepo, baby!
41:57And Frederick Temple was pointless.
42:00His father, if you've got his father.
42:01But we could have had some other pointless answers.
42:04Let's see those.
42:05Cosmo Lang, who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1928.
42:10Not to be confused with Cady Lang, who, of course, sang Constant Craving.
42:16Frederick Cornwallis, 1768, you could have had.
42:19Randall Davidson, of course.
42:20No favourite of yours, Graham.
42:221903.
42:22Thomas Tennyson.
42:24Huge, huge hit in 1695.
42:28The other pointless answers were Archibald Campbell Tate,
42:31Charles Manor Sutton, Edward White Benson, Gilbert Sheldon,
42:35John Bird Summer, John Potter, John Tillotson,
42:38Matthew Hutton, Thomas Herring, William Juxson,
42:40and, of course, William Wake or was it William Wacky?
42:44We don't know.
42:45Archbishops of Westminster in the Catholic Church since 1850.
42:49There are only four pointless answers here.
42:52They were Bernard Griffin, Francis Bourne, Herbert Vaughan
42:55and John Heenan.
42:58Very well done and blessings to you
43:00if you've got a pointless answer at home.
43:02Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
43:04And thank you, Graham and Sammy.
43:05It's been wonderful having you on the show.
43:06I'm sorry we didn't win our jackpot today.
43:08That will therefore roll over onto the next show
43:09when we will be playing for £3,250.
43:15Join us then to see if someone can win it.
43:17Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Tom.
43:19Amen.
43:20And it's goodbye from me.
43:21Goodbye.
43:23APPLAUSE
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