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00:16MUSIC CONTINUES
00:22Thank you very much indeed.
00:23Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong,
00:24and a very warm welcome to Pointless The Quiz,
00:26where the aim of the game is to find the most obscure answer possible.
00:30Let's meet today's player.
00:35And couple number one.
00:37Hello, I'm Antoinette, and this is my daughter, Cicely,
00:39and we're from south-east London.
00:40Couple number two.
00:41Hi, I'm Jackie, this is my brother, Mark,
00:43and we're from Croydon in south London.
00:45Couple number three.
00:46Hi, I'm David, this is my wife, Leanne, and we're from Derbyshire.
00:50And finally, couple number four.
00:51Hello, I'm Sylvia, and this is my husband, Ian,
00:54and we're from Lewisham in south-east London.
00:55And these are today's contestants.
00:58APPLAUSE
00:58Thank you very much indeed, all of you.
01:00It's lovely to have you all here.
01:02A very warm welcome to Pointless.
01:03That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:05A TV presenter who once compared the attention
01:08that she and her red-headed sisters got
01:09to being in a travelling circus.
01:12Had nothing to do with the fact that their teeny tiny car
01:14had square wheels.
01:15It is my Pointless friend, it's Angela Scandi.
01:17Hello.
01:18How are you, Angela?
01:20I'm good.
01:21Yeah, it was a bit like a travelling circus, you know?
01:23I think people found it quite funny for some reason.
01:28We got, like, lots of pats on the head.
01:30The red-headedness, you mean?
01:31The red...the...yeah.
01:33Multiple red-headedness.
01:34And also the sheer volume.
01:35There were six of you in the family.
01:37Six of us, yeah.
01:38Yeah.
01:38You know, a little creepy to be patting people's heads.
01:41A bit creepy.
01:41Not unannounced, but, like, also, maybe for good luck.
01:44Who knows?
01:44Maybe for good luck.
01:45Maybe they're hoping you would rub off on them.
01:47Exactly.
01:47If only.
01:48Quite right.
01:48I noticed South London getting some heavy representation today.
01:52A lot!
01:52I'm a North London woman, but South London's nice and leafy,
01:55isn't it?
01:56Well, that's true.
01:57Down there, I heard.
01:58Yes, yes.
02:00Now, then, Annie and Ian got through to the final last time
02:02and they did not win the jackpot.
02:04Which means we're adding another £1,000 to that,
02:06which means also that today's jackpot starts off at £2,000.
02:11There we are.
02:12If everyone's ready, let's play pointless.
02:19Now, just do remember all the time that it's the pair with the
02:23highest score at the end of each round that gets eliminated,
02:25so just keep your scores low.
02:26Every opportunity you might find to lower your choice of scoring
02:30answer, take it.
02:32Best of luck to everybody.
02:33Our first category today is...
02:37..years in history.
02:38Can you all decide in your pairs who's going first, who's going
02:40second?
02:41And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:47OK, and the question concerns...
02:51..historical events that happened in years ending in five.
02:55Angela?
02:56On each pass, we'll give you clues to events in history that took
02:59place when the year ended in the number five.
03:03Please simply give us your answers.
03:05Thank you very much.
03:06I hope you've all been revising things that happened in years
03:07ending in five.
03:08Here is our first board of seven clues.
03:10And we have...
03:11This conspirator in the gunpowder plot was found in the cellars
03:15beneath the Houses of Parliament and arrested, 1605.
03:19This commander of the British naval fleet was mortally wounded
03:21at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.
03:24This Jamaican-born nurse and businesswoman arrived in the Crimea
03:27to treat wounded British soldiers, 1855.
03:31This man founded the Salvation Army with his wife Catherine, 1865.
03:35The physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made this discovery, demonstrated by
03:40producing a photographic image of the bones of a hand, 1895.
03:45This British scientist won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his
03:49discovery of the neutron, 1935.
03:52And this conflict ended with the fall of Saigon, 1975.
03:58There we are, Cicely.
03:59Welcome to Pointless. Thank you.
04:00Great to have you here.
04:01Tell us all about yourself, Cicely.
04:03I'm a diversity and inclusion consultant and writer from
04:06South-East London.
04:07Very good indeed.
04:07What do you do for fun?
04:08Like painting, scrapbooking, walking my dogs.
04:12Scrapbooking?
04:12Yes.
04:13So what do you put in your scrapbook?
04:14Oh, anything.
04:15Sometimes when I travel I have to get rid of the clothes that I have
04:18because I've collected so much stuff to scrapbook.
04:21I mean, do you cut out little bits of cloth, stick them in?
04:24All kinds of things.
04:26Magazines, postcards, everything.
04:27And my sister used to stick in sort of straw.
04:30I remember the first time she went to McDonald's.
04:31We were from Northumberland.
04:32It was the early 80s.
04:33It was so exciting.
04:35She stuck the straw from her drink in her scrapbook.
04:39Oh, yeah.
04:39Oh, yes, that kind of thing.
04:40Absolutely.
04:40Very good.
04:41Well, it's very important, you know.
04:43Cicely, what are you going to go for?
04:44I think the Jamaican-born nurse is Mary Seacole.
04:50Mary Seacole, says Cicely.
04:52Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Mary Seacole?
04:56It is indeed Mary Seacole.
05:02And down that goes to 13.
05:04Great start to the show.
05:06Very well done indeed.
05:07Very good.
05:07Yes, she travelled to Crimea of her own accord
05:09and funded the trip herself.
05:11When she returned to England, she was penniless.
05:13But hopefully had a scrapbook.
05:15Yes.
05:16Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
05:18Mark, welcome back to Pointless.
05:20I have a feeling it's your third show.
05:22It is, yeah.
05:22It is.
05:23This is the show, I think.
05:25Let's hear a little bit more about you, Mark.
05:27Yeah, so when I have some spare time,
05:29which is very rare these days,
05:31I like to do some boxing, some Muay Thai, some martial arts,
05:35and I incorporate it with my personal training as well.
05:37So some of my clients, they get some of the benefits
05:39of my boxing experience as well.
05:42That's fun.
05:43Mark, let's get this third show underway for you
05:46with a lovely low score in this round.
05:48What would you like to go for?
05:49I'll go for the top one and say Guy Fawkes.
05:53Guy Fawkes, says Mark.
05:55Should we see how many of our 100 said Guy Fawkes?
05:59Guy Fawkes is right.
06:0113 is the only score we have at the moment.
06:0453 for Guy Fawkes.
06:05Guy Fawkes left England at the age of 21 to enlist in the Spanish army
06:10as they were fighting for another Catholic cause against the
06:13Protestant Dutch.
06:14It was during this time in the Spanish army that he adopted the
06:18Italian version of his name as a nickname, Guido Fawkes.
06:23Thank you very much indeed.
06:24Now, Leanne, welcome to Pointless.
06:27It's great to have you here.
06:27Tell us all about yourself.
06:28Hiya.
06:29I've been horse riding since I was three,
06:31and between me and my mum we've got five horses.
06:34Very nice.
06:34How often do you ride?
06:35Daily?
06:35Not very often at the minute.
06:37Yeah.
06:38But I'm hoping to get back into it.
06:39Very good.
06:40So who looks after the horses when you're not riding?
06:42My mum is practically the stable hand, to be perfectly honest.
06:45So she goes out and rides them all and has to lead them,
06:47presumably, so they all get a bit of exercise.
06:49Yeah, we have people that do that for us,
06:51but she does all the hard work of the grafting.
06:54Yeah, so we're cleaning out.
06:55Yeah.
06:55Now, Leanne, what would you like to go for on our board?
06:59The only one that I can have a bit of a stab at is the commander,
07:01so the second one down.
07:03We'll go with Lord Nelson.
07:04Lord Nelson, says Leanne.
07:06Shall we see how many of our 100 said Nelson?
07:10Lord Nelson, absolutely right.
07:12Well, 53 is our high score, and you pass it.
07:1443.
07:15All the threes.
07:16All the fives on that board, all the threes on this.
07:1843.
07:19Very good.
07:20His last words were reported to be,
07:22Thank God I have done my duty.
07:24There was another British victory ten years later in 1815,
07:27with Wellington defeating Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo.
07:32Thank you very much indeed.
07:33Ian, welcome back to Pointless.
07:35Great to have you here.
07:36Your second show.
07:37Cheers.
07:37We need to hear more about you.
07:39We discovered last time that you're a civil engineer.
07:41Tell us more.
07:42Well, actually, it was Jackie saying she was a qualified midwife
07:46that reminded me that I was once a completely unqualified
07:50and incompetent midwife when our daughter was born over 30 years ago.
07:55And because things happened very quickly and the professionals
07:58couldn't get to us in time.
07:59Yeah.
07:59So where did this happen?
08:00At home?
08:01At home.
08:01Did you have an idea what you needed to do?
08:04Well, I had attended my son being born.
08:06Yeah.
08:06But I still got it wrong because it's a daughter and I originally
08:10thought it was a boy.
08:13OK.
08:14It was the details that mattered, you know.
08:15Yes, exactly.
08:17That does happen a lot, though, I think.
08:20It's, um...
08:21LAUGHTER
08:21I'm not sure.
08:23But they...
08:23Like swelling, apparently.
08:25That's not unusual, is it?
08:26No.
08:27Yeah.
08:28OK, Jackie's...
08:30Jackie's keeping a council here.
08:31But, well, it all went well.
08:33It all went well.
08:34Well, huge congratulations.
08:36Ian, you're the last person to have this board.
08:38Would you like to give us a brief history lesson?
08:40Well, I don't know the Salvation Army one.
08:42The physicist, I think that's the X-ray.
08:44And the conflict, I think that's the Vietnam War,
08:47which is the one I'm going to go for.
08:48OK, we're going to go for Fall of Saigon.
08:50Vietnam War, says Ian.
08:52Let's see where we end up with that.
08:56Vietnam War is right.
08:5853 is our highest score and you pass that.
09:0128.
09:01There you are.
09:02You've broken off three jinx.
09:0428 for Vietnam.
09:06Very good.
09:06The stage musical Miss Saigon is set around the time of the Fall of Saigon.
09:11Let's have a little look at the other answers.
09:13X-Race was right.
09:1529.
09:16That would have scored.
09:17James Chadwick was the British scientist who won the Nobel Prize.
09:21That's seven.
09:22And William Booth and his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army.
09:27Scored 17.
09:28Thank you very much.
09:29We're halfway through the round.
09:30Let's have a look at those scores.
09:3113, Cicely.
09:32I mean, really, a very, very good score.
09:34Then we travel from there to 28, where we find Ian and Sylvia.
09:37From there to 43.
09:38Where we find Leanne and David and from there to 53.
09:41Where we find Mark and Jackie.
09:42You're a bit ahead, Jackie.
09:44But a brilliant answer from you.
09:45We'll see that you get into round two.
09:47So good luck with that.
09:47We're going to come back down the line now.
09:49Will the second this?
09:49Please step up to the podium.
09:55OK, we're going to put seven more clues to historical events
09:57that happened in years ending with the number five on the board.
10:01And here they are.
10:02We have...
10:04At Runnymede, this English king was forced to accept the terms
10:07embodied in the Magna Carta, 1215.
10:10The Prince of Wales, the future George IV, married this Catholic woman
10:14in a secret and illegal ceremony, 1785.
10:18Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across this body of water,
10:231875.
10:23This German-born scientist published groundbreaking papers
10:27on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and relativity, 1905.
10:33The state funeral of this wartime prime minister took place, 1965.
10:38This benefit concert, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure,
10:41was held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, 1985.
10:45And this woman became the first female African-American
10:49to be appointed US Secretary of State, 2005.
10:53There we are.
10:54Sylvia, welcome back.
10:55Lovely to have you with us again.
10:57Tell us a little bit more about yourself, Sylvia.
10:59Well, I mentioned before that I've recently retired
11:01and a few years ago we took it upon ourselves to improve our fitness.
11:06And so we started doing a walk around the South West Coast Path,
11:10which is 630 miles long.
11:13Yes.
11:14So each year we take a week out and we walk for 60 to 70 miles in the week.
11:19That's pretty good.
11:20And you can stay in lovely places, presumably, which is also quite fun.
11:23Absolutely.
11:23And really feel like you've had a day well spent.
11:25Yes.
11:26Yes, definitely.
11:27Definitely.
11:27But probably having too much food and cream teas as we go round as well.
11:32That's trouble.
11:32I know.
11:32That's trouble because you feel you've earned it.
11:34Definitely.
11:34You are on 28.
11:35If you could score 24 or less, you're into round two.
11:39Right.
11:39So I think I'm going to go for the bottom one,
11:43the US Secretary of State, and say Condoleezza Rice.
11:47Condoleezza Rice, says Sylvia.
11:49Here is your red line.
11:50Shall we see if we can get you below this red line with Condoleezza Rice?
11:56Condoleezza Rice is right.
12:01Wonderful. Gets you through.
12:02Beautiful. Down to 15.
12:04Very well done.
12:05Taking your total up to 43.
12:07An absolute trailblazer.
12:08She also became the first woman to serve as a national security advisor
12:12when she was appointed by George W Bush.
12:14Thank you very much indeed.
12:16And now, look, all the scores do end in three.
12:19David, welcome.
12:20Hiya.
12:20Great to have you here.
12:21Tell us all about yourself.
12:22My job is I teach science and in the meantime,
12:26I'm also part of a dramatic amateur group.
12:29Very nice.
12:29Rather than an amateur dramatic group.
12:31I said that the wrong way around.
12:31No way.
12:32But I like that.
12:33Amateur dramatic.
12:34We're an amateur group.
12:35We don't put on plays.
12:35We don't do anything really.
12:37We just turn up and go on with it.
12:38In a slightly amateur way.
12:40That's absolutely fantastic.
12:41So, you teach all the sciences?
12:43Yes.
12:43Up to 16-year-old, key stage four.
12:46And then I take chemistry on to key stage five.
12:48Very good.
12:49Now then, David, you are on 43.
12:51Nine or less is what we require from you.
12:54Yeah, I'm going to have to say the classic.
12:56I was going to go for the bottom.
12:57Thanks for that.
12:58That's the rule.
12:59So, top one for me, King John.
13:01Okay.
13:02King John says, David, you get a red line.
13:05It is down there.
13:06Where do we end up with King John?
13:10King John is right.
13:16King John 19, taking your total up to 62.
13:20Very nice.
13:21Three of the 63 clauses from the Magna Carta
13:24still exist in British law today.
13:26They grant freedom to the Church of England,
13:28guarantee the customs and liberties of the City of London,
13:31and uphold the right to trial by jury.
13:35Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
13:38Jackie, welcome back.
13:39Good to have you with us for your third show.
13:41We're at crunch time here.
13:43Tell us a bit more about yourself, Jackie.
13:45So, I've mentioned I'm a midwife.
13:48Yes, indeed.
13:49But midwifery, I fell into it, basically.
13:52Oh, really?
13:52What, like Ian?
13:55Not quite.
13:56But it wasn't what I first wanted to do.
13:58I actually wanted to be an artist when I was younger,
14:01and I went for a secondary school interview,
14:03and coming from first-generation Africans,
14:06my dad was like, at the interview, say,
14:08you want to be a doctor?
14:10And then I was planning to then be in medicine,
14:13but when I got to sixth form,
14:15one of my teachers mentioned,
14:17you're not smart enough for medicine.
14:19Oh!
14:20So, my mum and I had to brainstorm,
14:21and my mum told me,
14:23I actually named you after my midwife,
14:25and I always saw you as being in that sort of realm.
14:29So, I looked into it,
14:30and I kind of just fell into it by chance.
14:32And you fell into it? Yeah.
14:33But you do love it.
14:34I do.
14:35Very good.
14:35Now, Jackie, you're on 53.
14:37We really want a score of eight.
14:39Oh.
14:39Eight or less.
14:40This is not my round at all.
14:42Oh, Jackie.
14:43There's two that I think I kind of know,
14:46but I'm not even 100%.
14:47I think Matthew Webb became the first person.
14:51I'm just going to say the River Thames.
14:52OK, the River Thames.
14:54Shall we see the River Thames?
14:55You get a red line.
14:56It's down there.
14:58River Thames.
15:01I'm sorry, Jackie, that's wrong.
15:04That scores you 100 points,
15:04takes your total up to 153.
15:07It's OK.
15:07We will give the right answer at the end of the pass.
15:10Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
15:11Antoinette, welcome.
15:13Lovely to have you here.
15:14Tell us all about yourself.
15:16I work for a development agency
15:18in teacher professional development,
15:19so I do a lot of travelling for my work
15:21to East Africa and Southeast Asia.
15:24That's very nice indeed.
15:25And what do you do for fun, Antoinette?
15:27I'm a bit uncommitted when it comes to hobbies,
15:29so I have lots of trying it, failing,
15:32and trying a new thing.
15:33So I've done sailing, windsurfing, roller derby, tap dancing.
15:38Oh, you're very good, though.
15:40What's roller derby?
15:41It's kind of quite aggressive,
15:43chasing round the roller rink with lots of padding.
15:47Like trying to take them down.
15:49Yeah.
15:49Oh, God, you take people out?
15:51Yeah.
15:51Yeah, I've seen it in films.
15:53But it's not a good sport to be the worst person on the team.
15:57Oh, yeah, I imagine.
15:58I treasure my teeth too much, so I didn't last long in that.
16:03Antoinette, you're through to the next round, by the way,
16:05doesn't matter what you score,
16:06but you're in this lovely position
16:08to be able to fill in our board for us.
16:09I don't think I can fill in the board.
16:12I was going to say for Matthew Webb, the English Channel,
16:15and I think the state funeral is Churchill,
16:18but I'm going to go for the benefit concert of Live Aid.
16:21Live Aid, says Antoinette.
16:23There's no red line for you because you're already through.
16:24Let's see how many of our 100 said Live Aid.
16:31Live Aid is a good answer.
16:34Diana gets 39, taking your total up to 52.
16:37Did you know an estimate of one and a half billion people
16:40watched that concert?
16:42The good old days, hey?
16:44£110 million was raised for famine relief.
16:48Antoinette, you did really well, actually, on the board.
16:50The English Channel was a slightly better answer.
16:53It scored 37, but that doesn't really matter, does it?
16:56Winston Churchill, you landed on as well, 56.
17:00Albert Einstein was the German-born scientist at nine.
17:06And Maria Fitzherbert would score you two.
17:09Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
17:11That brings us to the end of our first round.
17:13It means we have to say goodbye to our first pair.
17:14Oh, Jackie and Mark. It's OK.
17:16Oh, I can't bear this.
17:17This is where we say proper goodbye.
17:19It's been really lovely having you on the show.
17:20Thank you so much for coming to play, and I'm sorry.
17:22I mean, I thought at least one of these shows...
17:24We had so much fun.
17:25..we would get you through.
17:25It's been lovely having you on.
17:27Jackie and Mark, brilliant.
17:29Back for the remaining three pairs, now time for round two.
17:37Very well done, everybody.
17:39Here we are in round two.
17:40Well done, Cicely, you were our lowest individual scorer in that round.
17:43And Sylvia and Ian, you were our lowest combined scorers.
17:46So very well done to you.
17:47And David and Leanne, just well done.
17:50That's all.
17:51Our category for round two today is...
17:55..European football.
17:56Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
17:58who's going to go second?
18:00And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
18:06OK, and the question concerns...
18:11..European Cup and Champions League finalists.
18:14Angela?
18:15In a moment, Xander is going to read out the names of six countries.
18:18We would like you to name any football team
18:20from one of these countries' leagues
18:22that has played in the final of the European Cup
18:25or its successor, the Champions League.
18:27Or the final of the Women's Champions League,
18:30which was previously known as the Women's Cup.
18:33That is from the 1955-56 season for the men's team
18:36and for 2001-2002 for the women's.
18:41And this is all up to 2023-24 season.
18:46I'm going to lie down there.
18:47Well done.
18:49Thank you very much.
18:50Now, as Angela's just mentioned,
18:51we are going to put a list of six countries up on the board.
18:54In fact, here they are.
18:55Let's not put that off.
18:57They are...
18:58..England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain.
19:03So, there we go.
19:05Antoinette, over to you.
19:08I'm going to say Ajax, from the Netherlands.
19:12Ajax, says Antoinette.
19:13You don't even need to say which country you're going for.
19:15You can just throw a name out there.
19:17And if it applies, we'll take it.
19:20Ajax.
19:20Shall we see how many of our 100 said Ajax?
19:23Ajax is right.
19:27This feels like a very good answer.
19:28Downing goes to 32.
19:3032 for Ajax.
19:32Yes, the men's team at Ajax have won four European titles,
19:35including three in a row in 1971, 72 and 73.
19:40Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
19:43Now, Leanne.
19:45Real Madrid.
19:47Real Madrid.
19:48Should we see how many of our 100 said that?
19:51Real Madrid is right.
19:5432 is the only score we have at the moment.
19:5645 for Real Madrid.
19:58Real Madrid or Real Madrid.
20:00I'm joking.
20:01The men's team hold the record for winning the most European
20:04Cup and Champions League titles.
20:07Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
20:09Now, Ian.
20:11I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly.
20:13Bayern Munich.
20:14Bayern Munich.
20:15Bayern Munich.
20:17Bayern Munich.
20:17Shall we see how many of our 100 people said that?
20:21Bayern Munich is right.
20:2345.
20:23Our high score, 32.
20:24Our low.
20:2637 for Bayern Munich.
20:28Yep, the men's side have reached the final 11 times,
20:31winning six of those.
20:33Thank you very much.
20:34We're already halfway through the round.
20:35Can you believe it?
20:36Let's have a quick recap of those scores.
20:3832 out to a net.
20:39Very well done.
20:39I'm the best scorer of the pass.
20:41We travel from there to 37 where we find Ian and Sylvia,
20:43and from there up to 45 where we find Leanne and David.
20:46So, David, you're a little bit ahead.
20:47Let's see what we can do in the next pass.
20:49Good luck with that.
20:50We're going to come back down the line now.
20:51Will the second players please step up to the podium?
20:57So then, Sylvia, we are looking for any football team
21:01from any of these countries that has been a finalist
21:03in any of these Cups or leagues.
21:05By the way, you're on 37.
21:06Should you score seven or less, you're straight into the head-to-head.
21:10Not a great topic for me.
21:11So, I think seven is probably a bit out of reach.
21:14I think there's a team called PSV Eindhoven.
21:18PSV Eindhoven, says Sylvia.
21:20Let's see how we do with that.
21:22You get a red line, Sylvia.
21:24PSV Eindhoven.
21:26It's right.
21:27Now, normally when people preamble their answer with yours,
21:31it goes incredibly low, just like yours just has done.
21:34There we go.
21:34Eight.
21:35Very well done indeed.
21:36That takes your total up to 45.
21:39Very impressive as a guest.
21:40PSV have appeared in and won one European Cup final.
21:44A penalty shootout, my favourite.
21:46Thank you very much indeed.
21:48Now then, David, your route out of here is to find a pointless answer
21:52and then we have a tie.
21:54Right.
21:54OK.
21:55I'll have to take a bit of a punt then and say Marseille.
21:59Marseille, says David.
22:00Shall we see?
22:01You don't get a red line, but you know what we need.
22:04Let's see how many of our 100 said Marseille.
22:08Marseille is right.
22:15Down it goes to 15.
22:16Take your total up to a lovely round.
22:1860.
22:19Marseille are France's most successful men's team in the tournament.
22:22They were the first French men's side to win in 1993.
22:27Thank you, Angela.
22:29Very well.
22:29Now then, Cicely, you're on 32.
22:3227 or less is what we need to get you into the head-to-head.
22:35OK.
22:36I have no idea.
22:37OK.
22:38Well, that's potentially good news for David or Leanne.
22:40Or this is the kind of preamble we heard from Sylvia
22:43and you're about to give us a pointless answer.
22:44I wish it were.
22:45I'm just going to name a random city in one of those places.
22:49I'm going to say Milan.
22:51Milan.
22:52OK.
22:53Here is your red line, Cicely.
22:56Let's see what happens when we say Milan.
23:03Milan is right.
23:0629 for Milan, which takes your total up to 61.
23:11There are two teams in Milan, but the one that's referred to
23:14colloquially as Milan are AC Milan.
23:17David's nodding.
23:18Yes, I knew that one.
23:20If you'd have specified Inter Milan, it would have been a tie.
23:24OK.
23:24I'll give you the best answers for each country.
23:27For England, there was no pointless answer.
23:29Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa scored six.
23:32And Leeds United, bless them, scored three.
23:35The only pointless answer for a French team was Reims, or as they say in
23:39La Franse, Reims.
23:42I didn't study it at school.
23:43Sorry.
23:44For Germany, Duisburg, Eintracht Frankfurt and Wolfsburg were all pointless, as was Turbina
23:53Potsdam.
23:53For Italy, Fiorentina, there were no pointless Dutch teams, nor were there any pointless Spanish
24:00teams.
24:01Valencia was the best answer scoring four.
24:04Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
24:06That brings us to the end of our second round.
24:07It means Cicely and Antoinette very narrowly by just one point, I'm afraid.
24:11You are the high scorers, so we have to say goodbye to you.
24:13But we'll see you again next time and expect great things.
24:15But thank you so much for playing Cicely and Antoinette.
24:18But for our two remaining pairs, it's now time for the Head to Head.
24:28Congratulations, Sylvia and Ian, David and Leanne.
24:30You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,
24:33which currently stands at £2,000.
24:37However, before we play the Head to Head, we have a little chance to throw some more
24:41money into that jackpot by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers.
24:44So this is just for fun.
24:46We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many figures in Irish mythology as they
24:54could, Angela.
24:55You will see six options.
24:56Four are the names of Irish mythological figures.
24:59Two are scoring, two are pointless and then two are plain wrong.
25:03£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
25:06Good luck.
25:07Thank you very much indeed.
25:08So can you find the pointless figures from Irish mythology from among these six?
25:14And we have...
25:23There we are.
25:25Does anybody know anything?
25:26Haven't got any.
25:27In which case I'm going to come straight to you, Sylvia and Ian.
25:31Oh, gosh.
25:31Just nominate one of those to be a pointless figure from Irish mythology.
25:35The unpronounceable one.
25:37The unpronounceable one.
25:38The fourth one.
25:38Which...
25:38Coo Calan?
25:39Yes.
25:40Is that the one?
25:40Shall we see if Coo Calan is a figure, a pointless figure to boot,
25:43from Irish mythology?
25:45Coo Calan.
25:49Definitely a figure from Irish mythology.
25:54Oh!
25:55One person.
25:58David and Ian.
26:00Shall we go for the one below?
26:02Because it's similar.
26:02Go Cthulhu.
26:03Yeah.
26:04Cthulhu.
26:04Cthulhu.
26:05Shall we see if Cthulhu is a pointless figure from Irish mythology?
26:09Oh, no!
26:10Oh, well.
26:11Never mind.
26:13So, Cthulhu is a monster created by fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft.
26:18Coo Calan, the son of a Celtic god and a mortal princess.
26:23Okay, shall we go to the rest?
26:24Brigid, the goddess of poetry, healing, fertility and sniffing, scored five.
26:30Arrietty, a red herring.
26:32Saoirse Ronan voices the title character, Arrietty, in Studio Ghibli's animated adaptation of The Borrowers
26:40and the two pointless answers that eluded you.
26:43Oma, a warrior poet credited as the inventor of the om alphabet used to write the very early Irish language.
26:51And Finnegas, a poet and fisher of the salmon of knowledge.
26:55Oh, bad luck.
26:57We didn't find any pointless answers there.
26:59Let's play the head-to-head.
27:02APPLAUSE
27:05Now, the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.
27:08You are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
27:10Best of luck to both pairs.
27:11Here is our first question and it is all about...
27:18Angela.
27:19We're going to show you five pictures of people who were born in Brooklyn, New York
27:23and we simply want you to tell us their names.
27:26Thank you very much indeed.
27:28Let's reveal our five famous people from Brooklyn and here they are.
27:56Silvia and Ian, you're our lowest scorers, you get to go first.
27:59I know B.
28:00I think I know E.
28:03I think E is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
28:06Ruth Bader Ginsburg, say Silvia and Ian for E, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
28:12David and Leanne, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
28:15I think B is Barbara Streisand.
28:18C, is it Michael Jordan?
28:20I'm not sure.
28:21I'm going to go A.
28:22Yeah.
28:22Yeah.
28:23We'll go with A, Jay-Z.
28:25A, Jay-Z.
28:26So we have Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jay-Z.
28:31Silvia and Ian went Ruth Bader Ginsburg for E.
28:34Should we see how many of our 100 said that?
28:39Ruth Bader Ginsburg is right.
28:43And...
28:44Down.
28:45That goes to six.
28:46Very well done indeed, Silvia and Ian.
28:48Meanwhile, David and Leanne are saying Jay-Z for A.
28:53Should we see if that's right?
28:54Should we see how many people said it?
28:55If it is Jay-Z.
28:58No, not Jay-Z.
29:00That means Silvia and Ian.
29:01Very well done indeed.
29:02After one question, you're up one nil.
29:04Jay-Z was born in Brooklyn, but that is a picture of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the artist,
29:10and would have scored you three.
29:12Barbara Streisand, you correctly identified, 41.
29:16Michael Jordan, you were right about as well.
29:2016.
29:20And finally, Bibi Rexha would score you 10.
29:25Very good.
29:26Yes, thank you very much indeed, Angela.
29:28Right.
29:28Well, here comes your second question, David and Leanne.
29:30You get to answer it first, but you've also got to win this one to stay in the game.
29:33So good luck.
29:33Our second question is all about unsuccessful Bond themes.
29:40We are going to play you clips from five songs that were written as potential theme songs
29:44to James Bond films, but were not chosen.
29:48As these songs weren't big hits, we'll also show you the initials of the acts who recorded them.
29:52Please work out the names of the acts performing these songs.
29:56Thank you very much indeed.
29:58And how much fun is this?
29:59We get to play Cubby and Barbara Broccoli for a moment.
30:02Yes.
30:03This is terrific.
30:04OK, here is song A.
30:08Fusion.
30:10And danger.
30:12I'm not can believe.
30:15Don't try turning tables on me.
30:22Too long as you know me.
30:29There is song B.
30:32There is a rumble in the sky and all the world can hear a call.
30:40They shudder at the fury of the mighty thunder ball.
30:45Thunder ball.
30:47Here is song C.
30:51There's only 24 hours.
30:56And that's not enough.
31:01To lie like you lie.
31:06Or love like you lie.
31:10Here is song D.
31:13E.
31:13Man with a golden gun.
31:20He's waiting somewhere out there for you.
31:28But you'll never see him.
31:32He'll be looking for you.
31:34And here is song E.
31:38He's tall and he's dark.
31:42And like a shark, he looks for trouble.
31:47That's why the zero is double.
31:51Mr. Kiss, kiss, ban, ban.
31:55OK.
31:56David and Leigh-Anne.
31:58Who would you like to go for?
31:59There's a couple that we know.
32:00But we don't have to take a chance on C with the initials
32:04and go Lana Del Rey.
32:05Lana Del Rey for C.
32:07Say David and Leigh-Anne.
32:09Now then, Sylvia and Ian.
32:11Can you talk us through that board?
32:12We're struggling.
32:15We don't know A.
32:16B, Johnny Cash.
32:18And E is Shirley Bassey.
32:20So, let's go with Shirley Bassey.
32:22OK.
32:22OK, you're going to go with Shirley Bassey.
32:24So, we have Lana Del Rey and Shirley Bassey.
32:26David and Leigh-Anne went for Lana Del Rey for C.
32:28Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
32:32Lana Del Rey is right.
32:36Very good answer.
32:38Down against 13.
32:40Meanwhile, Sylvia and Ian have gone for Shirley Bassey for E.
32:45Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
32:48Shirley Bassey also correct.
32:52That goes down to 41.
32:54Well done.
32:54David and Leigh-Anne are for two questions.
32:56It's one all.
32:57You're back in the game.
32:59Shirley Bassey, Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which was a potential theme song for the film Thunderball,
33:05but was eventually sung by Tom Jones and Lana Del Rey.
33:09Of course, her song 24 was written for Spectre.
33:11Sam Smith sang the actual theme song Writings On The Wall and went on to win an Oscar for it.
33:17I didn't know people wrote all of these songs and then just thought...
33:20It's extraordinary.
33:21Just auditioned them.
33:22In the way.
33:22Yeah.
33:23You'd be raging, wouldn't you?
33:24Hmm.
33:24Do you know the rest of them?
33:26Well, I think A is Blondie.
33:28It is Blondie.
33:29For Your Eyes Only by Blondie.
33:31Sheena Easton sang the actual theme tune for that.
33:34That got you 17.
33:36Next up.
33:37Johnny Cash, B.
33:39Thunderball by Johnny Cash.
33:41Doesn't quite sound like a Bond song, does it?
33:45Doesn't really.
33:45Tom Jones sang the theme tune.
33:4732.
33:48And finally...
33:49And finally.
33:50I'm going to kick myself when I hear this, because it's very familiar.
33:55Man With The Golden Gun.
33:58Lulu sang the theme to The Man With The Golden Gun.
34:01This was Alice Cooper.
34:02It's Alice Cooper.
34:03Yeah.
34:04Four.
34:06There we are.
34:07Thank you very much indeed.
34:08OK, whoever wins this third question goes through to the final
34:11and plays for that jackpot.
34:12Best of luck to both pairs.
34:13Our third question today is all about...
34:20Angela.
34:21We are going to give you five clues to things,
34:24the answers of which are all made up of letters
34:26that appear next to each other in the alphabet.
34:28Please, simply tell us what they are.
34:31Thank you very much indeed.
34:32Let's reveal the five clues to these intriguing answers.
34:35And we have...
34:36..the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
34:40It is the flag carrier of the Netherlands.
34:43Abbreviation for a type of radiation emitted by the sun,
34:46which is undetectable by the human eye.
34:48Type of barcode consisting of an array of black and white squares,
34:52typically read by the camera on a smartphone.
34:55Late 18th century diplomatic affair that nearly led the United States
34:59to war against France and word preceding jam in the hip-hop record label
35:07formed in 1984 by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons.
35:12There we are.
35:13Sylvia and Ian will go first.
35:16What type of radiation is in the song?
35:18UV?
35:19Yeah, go for the radiation one.
35:20We're going to go for the second one down, UV.
35:23UV, say Sylvia and Ian.
35:26Now, David and Leanne, can you talk us through that board?
35:28I think the barcode is QR.
35:31Is the airline KLM?
35:33J-K-L-M.
35:34Yeah.
35:35Can we go with that?
35:36We'll go top one, KLM.
35:38KLM.
35:38So, we have UV versus KLM.
35:40Well, Sylvia and Ian have gone for UV.
35:43Shall we see if that is right for the type of radiation?
35:46How many of our 100 said UV?
35:49UV is right.
35:55Down goes UV to 27.
35:58Meanwhile, David and Leanne have gone for KLM, the carrier of the Netherlands.
36:03Shall we see how many of our 100 said KLM?
36:08KLM is right.
36:10This is going to be close.
36:12And it wins.
36:13Look at that.
36:13Down to 22 for KLM.
36:15Very well done indeed.
36:16David and Leanne, after three questions, you're through to the final.
36:192-1.
36:19It was a great answer.
36:20QR, which you obviously knew, would have scored you 33.
36:24It stands for quick response.
36:27Then we go, down the bottom, it was...
36:29Deaf.
36:30There you go.
36:32Scores 10.
36:33Any idea of the remaining?
36:35Is it XYZ?
36:37I think it is.
36:38It is XYZ.
36:39And that was a pointless answer.
36:42There we are.
36:43Thank you very much indeed.
36:44That brings us to the end of the head-to-head round.
36:46And it means we say goodbye for now to Sylvia and Ian.
36:49We shall see you when you return for your third show,
36:51when I'm sure you can take it one step further.
36:54Meanwhile, thank you very much for playing Sylvia and Ian.
36:56For David and Leanne, though, it's now time for the pointless final.
37:00APPLAUSE
37:04Huge congratulations, David and Leanne.
37:06You have fought off all the competition and you have won our coveted pointless trophy.
37:18You now have a chance to win the pointless jackpot.
37:20And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at 2,000 pounds.
37:25APPLAUSE
37:25Well, here we are, your one and only appearance on Pointless,
37:28straight through to the final.
37:30Can't believe it.
37:31Yeah, but amazing.
37:32Listen, what do you want to see come up in this last round?
37:34Because we need a pointless answer from you.
37:36A bit more football, but probably unlikely.
37:37Periodic table elements.
37:39The classics would be great.
37:40The classics.
37:41Shall we see what we've selected for you for today?
37:45Four as ever.
37:46And they are Cinematic Bryans, World's Strongest Man and Woman,
37:51Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales,
37:53and Comedy Horror Musical Theatre.
37:55Hmm. Not looking very good, I'll be honest.
37:59Secretaries of State.
38:00I won't know anything on that.
38:01No.
38:03Do you want to go Comedy Horror?
38:04It could be anything, couldn't it?
38:06If it's actors or something, we might be able to find someone out of that.
38:09Yeah.
38:09Yeah, we'll go Comedy Horror Musical Theatre.
38:12Comedy Horror Musical Theatre, Angela.
38:15We are looking for the title of any track
38:17on the 1973 original London cast recording
38:21of the Rocky Horror Show,
38:23or any track on the 2018 original London cast recording
38:29of Young Frankenstein,
38:31first released on physical formats in 2021.
38:34Very best of luck.
38:35Thank you very much indeed.
38:36As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
38:39All you need to win that jackpot
38:40is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
38:43If you can find three pointless answers, we'll throw in a £500 bonus.
38:46Are you ready?
38:47Yes.
38:48Yeah.
38:48OK.
38:49Why not?
38:49Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
38:52There they are.
38:52Your time starts now.
38:55Er, well, there's the obvious time warp.
38:56It's all on your time warp.
38:57We've got to say time warp just there.
38:59Yeah.
38:59Better like dancing.
39:00There's a song in there about a transverse...
39:03Yeah.
39:03I can't remember the actual title of it.
39:04Frank Theatre?
39:05Is that just a character?
39:07Might have to be that one.
39:07Do you know anything from Young Frankenstein?
39:09No.
39:10That one's definitely not going to come in.
39:12Is it Frank and Theatre?
39:14It might just be a character.
39:16I think it's something like Am I Beautiful Trans...
39:19Trans...
39:20I think.
39:21Yeah.
39:21Or something along that line.
39:22I'm a beautiful transvestite.
39:23Yeah, I think so.
39:24Um, and then, like I say, you're just going to have to go with time warp.
39:27Time warp.
39:28Any others that are coming to you?
39:29Anything that's going to come...
39:30The last one is completely out into Young Frankenstein.
39:32Yeah.
39:33I can't think of...
39:34I know the story, but...
39:35Yeah, I don't know...
39:37I don't know the London version of it, though.
39:39Um, yeah, I'm just thinking of the London cast, but...
39:43Yeah.
39:44It's the one...
39:45It's probably the one musical I've not actually seen.
39:47Oh, no, it's all right.
39:48Could anyone else have?
39:49Never mind.
39:51Um...
39:51I'll go with those three then, yeah?
39:52Yeah.
39:53OK.
39:54OK, that is your time up.
39:55Let's have those three answers.
39:57Er...
39:57Time warp.
39:58Time warp.
40:00Frank Nfurter.
40:01Frank Nfurter.
40:02And...
40:02What was it?
40:03I'm a beautiful...
40:04That one.
40:05I'm a beautiful transvestite.
40:06I'm a beautiful transvestite.
40:08OK.
40:09And they're all from the top one, from the Rocky Horror.
40:11All from the Rocky Horror, yeah, yeah.
40:12OK.
40:12Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
40:15The beautiful transvestite, if that's right.
40:17We're not sure.
40:18I'm a beautiful transvestite.
40:19Yes.
40:20Least likely to be pointless.
40:21Time warp.
40:22Time warp.
40:23Time warp.
40:23I just wanted to say time warp.
40:24And Frank Nfurter goes in the middle.
40:25So, time warp, Frank Nfurter, I'm a beautiful transvestite.
40:28Yes.
40:28OK, well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
40:31And here they are.
40:33We have time warp, Frank Nfurter, and I'm a beautiful transvestite.
40:38Now, if one of these turns out to be pointless,
40:40you will be leaving here with £2,000.
40:42What would you like to do with that?
40:44I know we've got our little two boys at home, so I think treat them to a holiday or something
40:49like that.
40:50Well, let's hope one of these answers wins it for you.
40:52Time warp is your first answer.
40:54In this case, in fact, in all three cases, we are looking for any track on that 1973 original cast
40:59recording of the London Rocky Horror Show.
41:02So, let's see how many of our 100 people said time warp.
41:06Well, time warp's right.
41:07I don't think that was ever in any doubt.
41:09The question is, will it be pointless?
41:11If it goes all the way down to zero, you'll be leaving here with £2,000.
41:15Down we go through the 20.
41:1723.
41:19OK.
41:20We now leave terra firma, as it were, and we go to Frank Nfurter.
41:25The question is, is this a song?
41:28You're pretty sure it's a character.
41:29Maybe we're hoping it's a song as well, and a pointless song at that.
41:33£2,000 on it, if it is pointless.
41:35Frank Nfurter.
41:37No, bad luck.
41:39And your third and final answer, which you could sort of remember, you were hopeful for this one.
41:44I'm a beautiful transvestite.
41:46Shall we see if that is indeed a song from the Rocky Horror Show, I'm a beautiful transvestite?
41:52Oh, no!
41:53Bad luck.
41:55Oh, well, listen, you made a good list of that, I'm afraid.
41:58None of those were your categories.
42:00No.
42:00No, not at all, unfortunately.
42:02There we are.
42:02I'm afraid you don't, therefore, win today's jackpot, but you do win today's pointless trophies.
42:06So very, very well done indeed for that, David.
42:09And hard luck.
42:10It was sweet transvestite.
42:12Oh, I knew there was one.
42:13That you were thinking of.
42:14But it would have scored six, so it wouldn't have won you the money.
42:17Let's have a look at some of the pointless answers, starting with the songs on the original London cast recording
42:23of the Rocky Horror Show.
42:24Oh, I'm going home.
42:26Once in a while.
42:28Superheroes.
42:29And the sword of Damocles.
42:32And there were two more pointless answers.
42:34Hot patootie.
42:34Bless my soul.
42:35And touch it, touch it, touch it, touch me.
42:38Now moving on to the original London cast recording of young Frankenstein.
42:42Here are some pointless answers he could have had.
42:43Deep love.
42:45He's loose.
42:46He was my boyfriend.
42:49And Transylvania mania.
42:51The only scoring answers here were it could work.
42:55Putting on the Ritz.
42:56The brain.
42:56The experiment.
42:57And together again.
42:59Everything else was pointless.
43:00Very well done if you got a pointless answer at home.
43:03Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
43:05And thank you so much, David and Leanne.
43:06It's been lovely having you on the show.
43:07I'm sorry I didn't win our jackpot today.
43:09That will therefore roll over onto the next show.
43:11When we will be playing for £3,000.
43:16Join us then to see if someone can win it.
43:17Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Angela.
43:19Bye-bye.
43:20And it's goodbye from me.
43:21Goodbye.
43:43Bye.
43:44Bye.
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