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00:22Thank you very much indeed.
00:24Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome
00:26to Pointless The Game, where you are always aiming for the lowest score.
00:29Let's meet today's players.
00:34And couple number one. Hi, my name's Abbas,
00:37this is my friend Amir and we're both from South London.
00:40Couple number two. Hello, I'm Antoinette,
00:42this is my daughter Cicely and we're from South East London.
00:44Couple number three. I'm Colin, this is my long-term partner Karen
00:48and we're from Northwich in Cheshire.
00:49And finally, couple number four. Hi, my name's David
00:52and this is my mum Angie and we're from Birmingham.
00:55And these are today's contestants.
00:57Thank you very much to all of you.
00:59A very warm welcome to Pointless The Game.
01:00Lovely to have you all here.
01:01That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:04She's a presenter who's hopefully bringing the luck of the Irish
01:07with her to today's players.
01:08Although I have said no to her request for the full river dance
01:11on set each day while she's here.
01:13I think it's for the best.
01:14It is my Pointless friend, it's Angela Scanlon.
01:16Thank you very much.
01:16Diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly.
01:21Beautiful!
01:21What about a high kick?
01:23Go on.
01:24I can do that one.
01:26No, I get it out of my system in the dressing room.
01:29If you hear the, you know, feel the building shake,
01:31that's... that's what's happening.
01:33Those feet of flames of yours.
01:34Oh, yeah.
01:35Surprised health and safety of the land.
01:37Tucked under here in a pair of wellies.
01:39Thank you very much. Anyway, a very warm welcome to you.
01:42Lovely to have you with us, Angela.
01:43Now, Sylvia and Ian got through to the final last time
01:45and they won the jackpot.
01:47So today's jackpot starts off back at £1,000.
01:50Won't be long before it grows.
01:52Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
02:00Now, just remember, it will always be the pair with the highest score
02:03at the end of each round that gets eliminated,
02:04so keep your scores as low as you possibly can.
02:06That's my advice.
02:07Best of luck to everybody. Our first category today is...
02:13The periodic table.
02:14Can you all decide in your pairs who wants to go first,
02:16who wants to go second?
02:17And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:23OK, let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.
02:26We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
02:30Chemical elements whose first letter is not repeated elsewhere in their name as they could, Angela.
02:36We are looking for any chemical element in the periodic table
02:39in which the first letter of its name does not appear again anywhere else in its name.
02:44The names are those approved by IUPAC as of October 2024.
02:49Thank you very much indeed.
02:52Amir, we come straight to you.
02:54Welcome back to Pointless.
02:55Great to have you with us for your second show.
02:57Tell us more about yourself, Amir.
02:58So, one thing about me is that I really like fishing.
03:02Fantastic.
03:03So, where do you fish or all sorts of places?
03:05Just, like, on a local river in South London.
03:08Yeah.
03:08And we catch, like, quite a few fish there, surprisingly.
03:11There we go. Good for you.
03:12Do you eat them?
03:13Uh, nah.
03:14No.
03:15Choke them back in?
03:16Yeah.
03:16Put them back in.
03:17So, what's on fish?
03:18This is course fishing, is it?
03:19Yeah.
03:19So, like, we've caught carp.
03:22Yeah.
03:23Um, one fish that we really want to catch in the future is a pike.
03:27Have you ever seen a pike?
03:29They're scary.
03:30They're really scary-looking fish.
03:31Yeah.
03:32Very good.
03:33Now, Amir, the chemical elements.
03:36How are we feeling about that?
03:37I probably could have revised more, but hopefully it goes off.
03:40OK.
03:40What are you going to go for?
03:41I'm going to go for dysprosium.
03:44Dysprosium.
03:45Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
03:49Dysprosium is right.
03:55And look at that!
03:56It's a pointless answer, Amir.
03:57Straight out of the tracks with a pointless answer.
04:00That adds £250 to today's jackpot, taking our total up to £1,250
04:05and scoring you absolutely nothing.
04:07Very well done indeed, Amir.
04:09Beautiful.
04:09Discovered in 1886 by a French chemist.
04:12The name is derived from the Greek word meaning hard to get,
04:15but it wasn't too hard for you to get, Amir.
04:17Well done.
04:18Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
04:20Cicely, welcome back to Pointless.
04:22Great to have you with us.
04:23It's your third show, my goodness.
04:24Yes, it is.
04:25Yes, this is the one.
04:26Yes.
04:26This is definitely the one.
04:27Yes.
04:28Tell us more about yourself.
04:30I consider myself the family archivist, so I'm really into, like,
04:33genealogy and collecting all of stuff from our family
04:36and putting together family trees, things like that.
04:38It's so important, that.
04:39Yes.
04:40Someone has to do it.
04:41Yes.
04:41My aunt and uncle called me to go down to Devon and visit them
04:44and put together all the pieces so that they...
04:46And they were very impressed because they thought all this
04:48knowledge was coming from inside my head.
04:50They didn't realise it was on the internet,
04:51so I felt very special.
04:54Cicely, what are you going to go for?
04:56Chemical elements with no repeated first letter.
04:59I'm going to go with boron.
05:02Boron, says Cicely.
05:03Shall we see how many of our 100 said boron?
05:08He's right.
05:10Nothing is the only score we have.
05:14Boron, ten.
05:16Not bad.
05:17Ten for boron.
05:18Boron is a metalloid.
05:20That's a new one on me.
05:21It means it has properties of metals and some nonmetals.
05:24I wonder what they are.
05:26What do you think the metal qualities are?
05:27It goes clang when you hit it, but smells.
05:31Oh.
05:31I don't know.
05:32I'm just guessing.
05:33It sounds good to me.
05:34In the absence of anything else, let's go with that.
05:36Thank you very much.
05:37Indeed.
05:37Now, Col.
05:38Hello.
05:39Welcome back to Pointless for your second show.
05:41Let's hear a little bit more about you, Col.
05:43OK.
05:43I worked for the emergency ambulance service for nearly 30 years,
05:47mainly as a paramedic and also an EMT.
05:49What I did once was I'd been to a job,
05:51I was carrying out the defibrillator.
05:53So I was walking back to the car and saw someone and got talking.
05:56I just put the defibrillator on top of the car and carried on
05:59having the conversation.
06:00Then just, airhead moment, just went round to the driver's side,
06:03got in the car.
06:05Toll control was clear.
06:06Oh, off you went.
06:06Started to pull off down the road.
06:08And there suddenly had this sliding noise on the roof.
06:10Clang.
06:11I looked in the rear view mirror and there's my defib bouncing
06:14behind me down the road.
06:15Thankfully, the HGV driver was pretty switched on
06:18and he managed to...
06:20Swerve.
06:20Swerve round it.
06:21Oh, well, there we are.
06:22Happy days.
06:22I tell you what, of all the things that could go wrong
06:24with a defibrillator, that sounds quite mild.
06:27Good stuff.
06:28Now, Col, what are you going to go for?
06:29Now, do a take a punt on one.
06:31Dip.
06:32Dip.
06:33Dip.
06:34OK, I'm going to go for...
06:36I'm hoping it's right and it's not, I've invented it.
06:38I think it's called zirconium.
06:40Zirconium.
06:40Yeah.
06:41Says Col.
06:41Shall we see how many of our 100 said zirconium?
06:46Zirconium is absolutely right.
06:47Well, ten is our high score and nothing is our low.
06:49Where is zirconium going to end up?
06:52Oh, it's another of those!
06:54Very well done indeed, Col.
06:56Another pointless answer.
06:57It adds another £250 to today's jackpot,
07:00taking the total up to £1,500.
07:04And it scores you nothing.
07:06I told you it would grow.
07:07Well done.
07:08It's used to make cubic zirconium,
07:10which is often used as a cheaper alternative for diamonds.
07:14Mm.
07:15Sparky.
07:16Thank you very much indeed.
07:18Now then, Angie, welcome to Pointless.
07:19It's lovely to have you here.
07:21Tell us all about yourself, Angie.
07:23Well, I'm retired at the moment,
07:25after 42 years in the civil service.
07:28Is it blissful being retired?
07:30Absolutely blissful, yes.
07:33What sort of things do you like to fill your time with?
07:35At the moment, I'm doing the couch to 5K.
07:38Very good.
07:40And learning how to run again.
07:43Yeah, I mean, I hope your running technique is good.
07:45You've got some good trainers.
07:46I've got a very good trainer.
07:47I've got David's girlfriend, who's my personal trainer.
07:51OK, I was thinking of the things on your feet.
07:52Oh, no, no.
07:53But no, very good trainers too.
07:54Also important.
07:55Very important.
07:56Now, how is your chemistry?
07:59Terrible.
08:00This is going to be fun.
08:03I'm hoping this is right.
08:06Lorentium.
08:07Lorentium.
08:08Shall we see how many of our 100 said Lorentium?
08:13Lorentium is absolutely right.
08:14Nothing wrong with that.
08:1610 is still our high score.
08:18Nothing our low.
08:20Oh, one for Lorentium.
08:22Very well done indeed.
08:24Beautiful.
08:25Named after Ernest Lawrence, the scientist who invented the circular particle accelerator, also known as cyclotron.
08:34Cyclotron.
08:34Like a superhero from the Marvel Multibus.
08:37On a bike.
08:38That guy.
08:39That kind of superhero.
08:40Ah, yeah.
08:41Thank you very much.
08:42Well, we're halfway through the round.
08:43Let's have a look at those scores.
08:44Nothing.
08:44The best score of the pass.
08:45Amir, Abbas, Cole and Karen all on nothing.
08:49Then we travel up to one where we find Angie and David.
08:51And then up to ten.
08:52Cicely and Antoinette.
08:53I mean, really, that shouldn't be the highest score.
08:55Ten.
08:56It's a piddling score.
08:57And yet, you are the high score.
08:59So, Antoinette, let's see if we can find a nice pointless answer, perhaps, for the next pass.
09:03Good luck with that.
09:03We're going to come back down the line now.
09:05Will the second players please step up to the podium?
09:11Now then, David, welcome to Pointless.
09:13Great to have you with us.
09:13Tell us all about yourself, David.
09:15Yes.
09:15So, as you said, I'm from Birmingham.
09:17I've had quite a few jobs during my young career.
09:21But one of my favourite jobs was actually being able to perform at Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford,
09:28reciting Shakespeare for a full year.
09:30Goodness me.
09:30I mean, are you an actor?
09:31Is that what you do?
09:32It was a sort of acting job there.
09:36Yes.
09:37So, it was good fun.
09:38It was very good fun.
09:39Not acting at the moment, but it was certainly good fun.
09:42Brilliant.
09:43Okay.
09:43Now then, you're on one.
09:45If you were to score eight or less, David, you'd be straight into round two.
09:49Chemistry is not my strong point.
09:50I'm going to say, though, rhodium.
09:54Rhodium, says David.
09:56You get a red line, David, and it comes in here.
10:00Rhodium.
10:00Where do we end up with that?
10:03Rhodium's right.
10:09Through you go.
10:10It's a pointless answer.
10:11Very well done, indeed.
10:13Being a pointless answer, it adds another £250 to today's jackpot,
10:16taking the total up to £1,750.
10:20Scores you nothing, leaves your total at one and gets you into round two.
10:25Very well done.
10:26Beautiful answer.
10:27And a beautiful metal is rhodium.
10:29Its luster and reflectivity make it useful in jewellery.
10:32Thank you very much.
10:33Indeed.
10:34Now, Karen, welcome back to Pointless.
10:36Great to have you with us here a second time.
10:37Let's hear a little bit more about you, Karen.
10:40Well, we'll grow a lot of fruit and veg in our garden.
10:43And I like to experiment, plus bake and make things out of everything.
10:49And I harvested the carrots.
10:53And I told Colin we were going to have carrot and coriander soup.
10:56So I don't label anything in the freezer.
10:58So any soups we have with spinach.
11:01Yeah, we've done that before.
11:02So it's soup na roulette when we actually have soups.
11:06Yeah, yeah.
11:07But that adds spice to life, though, doesn't it?
11:09Yeah, it does.
11:10Absolutely.
11:11I'm trying to think of the various things we've put over spaghetti
11:13that we thought was bolognese.
11:15It's just not super normal.
11:17Anyway, it'll do.
11:18It'll empty the deep freeze.
11:19Karen, you're on nothing.
11:21Should you score nine or less, you're through to round two.
11:24What are you going to go for?
11:25Right, well, Colin tried to drum something into me before we came.
11:30Plutonium.
11:31Plutonium, says Karen.
11:32Shall we see?
11:33Well, let's see where your red line is first to give us a sense
11:35of where we are.
11:36Can we get you below that with plutonium?
11:43Plutonium is absolutely right.
11:45Down.
11:46Yes, very well done.
11:47Down to one.
11:48Superb.
11:49Taking your total up to one.
11:52Plutonium is largely synthetic and it is produced in nuclear
11:55reactors from an isotope of uranium.
11:59Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
12:02Now Antoinette, welcome back for the last time.
12:04Yes.
12:05Will you tell us a bit more about yourself, Antoinette?
12:08So now I've been on Pointless, I think that's one of my life goals
12:11ticked off and my others are to have a bit part on Bridgerton
12:16and to have a goat farm in Portugal.
12:19I love you.
12:21I wonder, which do you think is probably going to be the easier?
12:24The goat farm in Portugal or the bit part in Bridgerton?
12:25I'm not sure because I've already been mistaken at an airport
12:27for one of the actresses in Bridgerton.
12:29So I think I'm halfway there.
12:30I think you probably are.
12:32Yeah.
12:32Excellent.
12:33How many goats do you envisage on the farm?
12:35I think it's going to start small scale, just a few.
12:38I can hear it, the clanging of bells.
12:41It's all distant.
12:42Whoa!
12:43That's a goat.
12:44That's a goat bleep.
12:47That's a goat.
12:47Now, Antoinette, you are on ten.
12:50Yes.
12:50You are the highest scorers at the moment.
12:51So let's have a lovely, lovely low score from you.
12:54So a chemical element where the first letter is not repeated.
12:57Well, I'm not sure if I'm making this up, but I'm going to say
12:59rubinium.
13:00Rubinium.
13:02It's definitely right on the criteria.
13:05Rubinium.
13:05Shall we see if it's right on the column?
13:07No red line.
13:09Oh, no!
13:10Oh!
13:13No rubinium.
13:14I'm sorry about that.
13:16That scores you 100 points.
13:18Takes your total up to 110.
13:19I'm really sorry about that.
13:20I thought that was a brilliant answer.
13:21So did I.
13:22It sounds delicious too.
13:23We'll clear this up at the end of the round.
13:25Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
13:27Now, Abbas, welcome back to Pointless.
13:28Show two for you.
13:30Tell us a bit more about yourself, Abbas.
13:32Yeah, sure.
13:32So I just graduated recently, which...
13:35Huge congratulations.
13:36From where?
13:37Doing what?
13:37Queen Mary University in London, studying economics.
13:41Excellent.
13:42Yeah, it's given me a lot of time, you know, to, I guess, venture out.
13:45So I've gone to a couple of places in Europe, just France and Germany so far,
13:48but I think the highlight would probably be going camping up north in Scotland
13:52near Loch Lomond with Amir.
13:54So have you started work yet or are you still keeping your options open?
13:57No, I'm still keeping my options open.
13:59Very good.
13:59Good stuff.
13:59Just trying to, you know, see where I'm sort of suited to.
14:03Very good.
14:04Now, Abbas, what are you going to go for?
14:05Doesn't matter what you score, you're through.
14:07Sure.
14:07Actually, Amir actually took the first thing that popped up to my head on the last pass,
14:12so I'm going to go with protactinium.
14:14Protactinium, says Abbas.
14:15No red line.
14:16Let's see how far down the column we get with that.
14:21It's right.
14:23In its career, protactinium has been a pointless answer.
14:26Oh, and it is again.
14:28There we are.
14:28Very well done indeed.
14:29What a great end to the round.
14:31Being a pointless answer, it adds another £250 to today's jackpot,
14:35taking the total up to £2,000.
14:37Scores you nothing, leaves your total at nothing and is terrific.
14:42Now, despite being largely useless with no commercial application,
14:45beyond scientific research, in 1961, 125 grams of protactinium
14:51was manufactured in the UK.
14:53Nobody seems to know quite why.
14:56I'll tell you a brilliant use for it.
14:57Go on.
14:58Pointless.
14:59Really good at putting money into our jackpot.
15:02Every single time.
15:04It's just absolutely, yeah.
15:06Magic.
15:07Absolutely unerring ability.
15:10Mm-hm.
15:10OK, Antoinette, shall I put you out of your misery?
15:12Please.
15:12There is no rubinium, but there is a rubidium.
15:16Mm.
15:17Yeah, and worst news, that was pointless.
15:20But it still wouldn't have been enough to see through.
15:23But it would have been nice for the jackpot.
15:25Now, there were over 50 pointless answers here.
15:27We've had a few of them already, so let's have a look at some of the rest.
15:30Antimony, bismuth, californium, curium, manganese, osmium, selenium, tennosine, and thorium.
15:44Well, I don't know if you've got one of those at home.
15:47Thank you very much.
15:48That brings us to the end of our first round.
15:49It means we have to say goodbye to our first pair.
15:51Oh, Antoinette and Cicely, I'm so sorry.
15:54Far too soon to be sending you home, and you were so close to a brilliant answer.
15:58Mm-hm.
15:58I'm sorry, it's been lovely having you on, though.
16:00Thank you so much for coming to play.
16:01Antoinette and Cicely.
16:02Brilliant.
16:03But for the remaining three pairs, it is now time for round two.
16:12Very well done, everybody.
16:14You've covered yourselves in glory.
16:16We had not one, not two, not three, but four pointless answers there.
16:20And Amir and Abbas, both on pointless, you were our lowest combined scores,
16:23so fantastic work on the near podium.
16:25Best of luck to everybody.
16:26Our category for round two this afternoon is...
16:32Can you decide in your pairs who wants to go first, who wants to go second,
16:36and whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
16:42And the question concerns...
16:46Musicians with shared names, Angela.
16:48On each board, we will show you six pairs of musicians
16:51in which the last name of the first person
16:53is the same as the first name of the second.
16:56We have removed each of these shared names
16:58and would like you to tell us what they are.
17:01We'll also give you the title of a single by each artist
17:03and the year that each song reached the UK Top 40.
17:07Thank you very much. This is fun.
17:09It's a nice one. Another fun round.
17:11OK, I hope this is fun. Anyway, here is our first board of six clues.
17:15And...
17:16I give you...
17:18Carly, blank, Webb.
17:20Nobody Does It Better, 1977.
17:22Lay Your Hands, 2005.
17:25Billy, blank, Corrie.
17:27We Didn't Start The Fire, 1989.
17:31Sorry, 2019.
17:34Tammy, blank, Anderson.
17:36I'm Gonna Run Away From You, 1971.
17:39Rose Garden, 1971.
17:42Kenya, blank, Jones.
17:45Strangers, 2023.
17:47Slave To The Rhythm, 1985.
17:51Leona, blank, Capaldi.
17:53Bleeding Love, 2007.
17:55Someone You Loved, 2019.
17:58And Katie, blank, Como.
18:01I Kissed A Girl, 2008.
18:04Catch A Falling Star, 1958.
18:08There we are, Amir.
18:09It is over to you.
18:11I know a couple of them.
18:13It's just a matter of which one's less.
18:15Exactly.
18:16What's it going to be, I wonder?
18:17And I'm going to say Leona Lewis Capaldi.
18:21OK, Lewis, you're saying, is the linking name there.
18:24Leona Lewis Capaldi.
18:25How many of our 100 said Lewis?
18:28Well, it's right.
18:3367 for Leona Lewis Capaldi.
18:36Two big hitters, Leona Lewis.
18:37And Lewis Capaldi, Bleeding Love, was the biggest-selling single
18:40of 2007 in the UK.
18:42And Someone You Loved was the biggest-selling single
18:44of 2019 in the UK.
18:47A couple of great Lewises.
18:48Great Lewises.
18:50Lewises squared.
18:51Lewises squared.
18:52Thank you very much.
18:53Indeed.
18:54Now, Karen.
18:55Karen.
18:56So, can you find the common name that links these artists?
19:00One of my favourites is Grace.
19:03It's Kenya Grace, Grace Jones.
19:05Kenya Grace, Grace Jones.
19:08For that one there, exactly.
19:10Strangers, slave to the rhythm.
19:11Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Grace.
19:15Grace is right.
19:17Now, 67 is the only score we have at the moment,
19:18and you whizz past that with Grace.
19:21Oh, look at that.
19:22Down to 21.
19:23Karen, this is terrific.
19:24Very well done indeed.
19:26Kenya Grace was raised in Britain but born in South Africa.
19:29And the idea for Grace Jones' iconic flat-top hair came to her late
19:33one night.
19:35A well-known stylist lived in the same New York apartment block as her,
19:38so she just yelled out the window in the middle of the night
19:41that she wanted a haircut.
19:43It would be quite exhausting living close to Grace Jones,
19:45wouldn't it?
19:45Because I imagine if she wants other things, like, I don't know,
19:48some hot Ribena or something.
19:49Sushi.
19:50In the middle of the night.
19:50Yeah, exactly.
19:50You know, you're chucking up a salmon roll.
19:52Sushi chef over there.
19:54Ah!
19:55Yeah, very demanding.
19:57There we are.
19:57Thank you very much indeed.
19:58Now then, Angie, you're the last person to have this board.
20:01Do you feel like talking us through it and filling in all our blanks?
20:05Top one's Carly Simon Webb.
20:09And then we've got Billy Joel Corey.
20:12I'm going for Tammy Lynn Anderson.
20:15Tammy Lynn Anderson.
20:18I think that's a brilliant answer, Angie.
20:20Let's see how many of our 100 people said Tammy Lynn Anderson.
20:23Lynn.
20:25Lynn is right.
20:2767 our high score, you pass it.
20:2921 is our low score.
20:31And you pass it.
20:33Look at that, six.
20:34Very well done indeed, Angie.
20:36Best answer on the board.
20:39Shall we go through the rest of them?
20:40The bottom ones, Ander, any ideas?
20:41That's hilarious.
20:42Katy Perry, Como.
20:43Of course.
20:45That would have got you 71.
20:48And then up top we have Simon for 47.
20:52And Joel, Billy Joel Corey, 27.
20:57Thank you very much.
20:58We're halfway through the round.
20:58Let's have a quick catch up of those scores.
21:00Six, Angie.
21:01Superb work.
21:02Angie and David looking very strong on the back of it.
21:0521s will be fine.
21:05Cole and Karen.
21:07And then up to 67.
21:08Amir and Abbas.
21:09There'll be something on that next board that'll be a low scorer.
21:12You've just got to make sure you find it.
21:13Good luck with that, Abbas.
21:14We're going to come back down the line now.
21:16Will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:22OK.
21:22Let's put six more pairs of musicians on the board with their shared names.
21:26And they are...
21:29Paloma Blank Hill, Stone Cold Sober, 2009.
21:33There You'll Be, 2001.
21:36Cliff Blank Ashcroft, The Millennium Prayer, 1999.
21:41Break the Night With Colour, 2006.
21:42Doja Blank Burns, Say So, 2020.
21:48Go, 2022.
21:51Janet Blank Star, Silly Games, 1979.
21:56Rock and Roll Waltz, 1956.
22:00George Blank Boone, Give Me the Night, 1980.
22:04Beautiful Things, 2024.
22:07Marry Blank Pickett, Just What I Always Wanted, 1982.
22:12Mustang Sally, 1966.
22:16There we are.
22:17David, over to you.
22:17You're on six.
22:18So 60 or less gets you into the next round.
22:21Yes, I think I'll go for the third one.
22:26Doja Cat Burns.
22:28Doja Cat Burns.
22:30Doja Cat Burns.
22:31Here is your red line.
22:32Nice and high.
22:33Can we get you below that with Cat?
22:37Cat is right.
22:39Cat gets you into the head-to-head.
22:42And it's a great score, 29, taking your total up to 35.
22:46Both songs peaked at number two and gained wide popularity
22:50through the news on TikTok.
22:53Fabulous.
22:53Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
22:55Now then, Cole.
22:56They are on 21.
22:5845 or less gets you into the head-to-head.
23:00There are a couple on there.
23:01It's a case of do a play it safe or do a roll the dice
23:05and take a more risky one.
23:07So I'm going to go for the bottom one.
23:09I'm going to go for Marie Wilson Pickett.
23:12OK, Marie Wilson Pickett.
23:13Wilson is the common name there.
23:16Here is your red line.
23:17Can we get you below that with Wilson?
23:23Marie Wilson, Wilson Pickett gets you into the head-to-head.
23:26Very well done indeed.
23:27Down that goes to 21.
23:29Exactly the same score as Karen.
23:30In fact, taking your total up to 42.
23:32Wilson Pickett was one of the singers who helped define the soul music
23:35of the 1960s.
23:37And Marie Wilson, born in Kneesden, London, was known for her beehive hairdo
23:42and has been referred to as the Kneesden Queen of Soul.
23:46Yeah.
23:46Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
23:48Now then, Abbas, I'm sorry to say you are our high scorers.
23:51Even before your brilliant answer, I bet you had some nice low scores.
23:55And you may still have some.
23:56Do you want to talk us through that board?
23:58I don't actually think I can, apart from the fourth one down,
24:02which I believe is Jackson.
24:04So I'll go with Jackson.
24:06OK, Janet, Jackson, star.
24:09Shall we see if that is right?
24:10Shall we see how many of our 100 said it?
24:12There's no red line for you as you are the highest scorers.
24:17Bad luck.
24:18Not Jackson scores you 100 points, taking your total up to 167.
24:23I can see what you were going for there, but it wasn't right.
24:26Xander, any clues?
24:27Well, we can go down from the top.
24:28Let's Paloma Faith Hill.
24:30Yes, 72.
24:33Cliff Richard Ashcroft.
24:35Mm-hm, 58.
24:38That one I'm racking my brains for, I can't think of that one.
24:42Janet Kaye, star.
24:44And that one scored you two.
24:46Yeah.
24:46Abbas and Amir.
24:47Next one.
24:48This is George Benson.
24:50Yes.
24:50Benson Boone.
24:51Benson Boone, 14.
24:53There we are.
24:54Thank you very much indeed.
24:55Right.
24:56Well, that brings us to the end of our second round.
24:58Oh, Abbas and Amir, this is where we say goodbye to you.
25:00You'll be back for one last pointless show.
25:03Next time we have to make it go all the way.
25:06But thank you so much for playing today, Abbas and Amir.
25:09For our two remaining pairs, it is now time for the Hedgehog.
25:19Huge congratulations, David and Angie.
25:21Cole and Karen, you are now one step closer to the final
25:24and a chance to play for our jackpot,
25:25which has doubled in size since the beginning of this show.
25:28It now stands at £2,000.
25:31We have a chance to throw even more money into it now
25:34by seeing if we can find a couple of pointless answers.
25:36So just for fun, here goes.
25:37We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
25:46Angela.
25:46You'll see six options.
25:48Four are titles of books in the original Babysitter's Club series
25:52by Anne M Martin.
25:53Two are scoring, two are pointless.
25:55And then two are just plain wrong.
25:58£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer, please.
26:02Thank you very much indeed.
26:04So can you find the pointless books on this board of six potentials?
26:09Beth finds the palace beautiful.
26:12Claudia and the phantom phone calls.
26:14Dawn and the big sleepover.
26:17Christy's worst idea.
26:19The Lottie project.
26:21And the secret life of Mary-Anne Spear.
26:24Does anybody know anything at all about the Babysitter series?
26:28Any goals?
26:29No. Totally.
26:30OK.
26:32In which case, David and Angie, would you like to have fun
26:35nominating one that might be pointless?
26:39Beth finds...
26:40Beth finds the...
26:41We'll go for Beth finds the palace beautiful.
26:43Shall we see if that is a pointless book in the series?
26:45Beth finds the palace beautiful.
26:49Oh, no!
26:51OK.
26:52Carl and Karen, what would you like to nominate?
26:55Dawn and the big sleepover.
26:57Dawn and the big sleepover.
26:58Shall we see if that is a pointless book?
27:02It's a book in the Babysitter series.
27:09One person knew that.
27:13So, Claudia and the phantom phone calls.
27:15That was book number two in the series.
27:18And that scored one.
27:20It was a red herring, Beth.
27:21That was the title of a chapter of Little Women by Louisa M Alcott,
27:25not Anne M Martin.
27:27The other red herring was The Lottie Project.
27:31A Jacqueline Wilson book.
27:33The two pointless answers were Christie's Worst Idea.
27:38That's number 100 in the series.
27:40The final pointless answer was The Secret Life of Mary Ann Spear.
27:44And that is book number 114.
27:47Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
27:49A bad luck.
27:50We didn't find any pointless answers.
27:52Oh, well, let's play the head-to-head.
27:58Now, the first pair to win two questions, we'll be playing for that jackpot.
28:01And you're now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
28:03So, best of luck to everybody.
28:04Our first question this afternoon is all about...
28:08Irish counties in pictures.
28:11Angela?
28:11We're going to give you five picture clues to the names of counties
28:14in the Republic of Ireland.
28:16We've given you the first letter of each county to help you.
28:19Please give us the names of these Irish counties.
28:22Thank you very much.
28:24So, here we have some pictorial clues.
28:27Can you work out what these Irish counties might be?
28:29And we have...
28:32A.
28:32M.
28:36B.
28:37S.
28:42C.
28:44K.
28:48D.
28:49W.
28:53And E.
28:54L.
28:55The poem begins with line one, then line two will continue the fun.
28:59Line three adds some more when it rhymes with line four,
29:02and line five often ends with a pun.
29:05LAUGHTER
29:06Genius.
29:07There.
29:07We.
29:08Are.
29:09Now, then, David and Angie, you're our low scorers.
29:11You get to go first.
29:12Yeah.
29:13Beautiful.
29:14We'll go for B.
29:16Sligo.
29:18Sligo.
29:19Sligo, say David and Angie.
29:21Now, Cole and Karen, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
29:24Er...
29:25First one is Mayo, Simon Mayo.
29:28Third one is Kerry Catone.
29:30This will be Kerry.
29:31Waterford.
29:32Last one is Limerick.
29:33Waterford.
29:33Go for...
29:34Which one do you want?
29:35D.
29:35Waterford.
29:36D.
29:36Waterford.
29:37So we have Sligo and Waterford.
29:39David and Angie went for B.
29:42Sligo.
29:42Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
29:46Sligo's right.
29:51Sligo.
29:52And down.
29:52That goes to 28.
29:55Meanwhile, Cole and Karen are going for Waterford for D.
29:59Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
30:01Waterford.
30:05Waterford is right.
30:0748 for Waterford.
30:09Very well done indeed, David and Angie.
30:11After one question, you're up 1-0.
30:13You took us through the board perfectly.
30:15Sligo, that is Sly Stone from the band Sly and the Family Stone.
30:19And the ancient Chinese game, Go.
30:22Simon Mayo.
30:24Mayo would have scored you 35.
30:26Still not quite enough.
30:28Kerry.
30:29That was, of course, Kerry Katona.
30:31So 61.
30:34And then Limerick.
30:36That is a Limerick about Limericks for Limerick.
30:39Score is 58.
30:41Thank you very much, Angela.
30:43OK, here comes your second question.
30:44Cole and Karen, you've got to win this one to stay in the game.
30:46Good luck.
30:46Our second question is all about...
30:51Scream Queens.
30:53We're going to show you the names of five female horror movie leads
30:56commonly dubbed Scream Queens,
30:59but we have removed alternate letters from their names.
31:01We'll also give you a film in which each one appears.
31:04Please give us the name of these Scream Queens.
31:07Thank you very much indeed.
31:08So can you identify these Scream Queens?
31:11And we have...
31:13N-V-C-M-B-L.
31:17Scream.
31:18J-N-T-E-G.
31:21Psycho.
31:22L-P-T-N-O-G.
31:26Us.
31:27J-M-E-E-C-R-I.
31:33And A-Y-T-Y-O-J-Y.
31:39The Witch.
31:41Cole and Karen, you get to go first.
31:44Two of those films are our favourites.
31:46Jamie Lee Curtis or Jamie Lee?
31:48Yeah, I think so.
31:50Right.
31:51We're going to plump for the actress in Halloween was Jamie Lee Curtis.
31:55Jamie Lee Curtis for Halloween, say Cole and Karen.
31:59Now, David and Angie, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
32:02I know the top one is Neil Campbell.
32:06Not sure about...
32:07The second one is Janet Leigh.
32:09The third one is Lupita...
32:12Lupita Ngo.
32:13Yeah.
32:14I'm not sure about the last one.
32:17We're going to go for Lupita Ngo.
32:21Ngo.
32:23For us.
32:25Lupita Ngo.
32:26So, we have Jamie Lee Curtis and Lupita Ngo.
32:30Cole and Karen went for Jamie Lee Curtis.
32:33Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
32:37Jamie Lee Curtis is right.
32:40And not easy to see.
32:42On that board, there we are, 25.
32:46Meanwhile, David and Angie are going for Lupita Ngo.
32:50So, for us, should we see how many of our 100 said that?
32:57Oh, I'm so sorry.
32:59But that means, Cole and Karen, very well done.
33:01You're back in the game after two questions.
33:03It's one all.
33:05Very unlucky.
33:06It was Lupita Ngo.
33:07Ngo, yeah.
33:08Close.
33:09That would have scored you three.
33:11But you took us well through the board.
33:13Neve Campbell, up top, 24.
33:17Janet Leigh, scored 16.
33:20And then down the bottom, Anya Taylor-Joy.
33:24Scored one.
33:26Thank you very much indeed.
33:28OK.
33:29Now, it all comes down to this third question.
33:31Whoever wins it goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.
33:33Best of luck to both pairs.
33:34Our third question is all about fountains, Angie.
33:39Yes, we're going to give you five clues to things involving the word fountain.
33:44Please give us the answers.
33:45Thank you very much indeed.
33:46Let's reveal our five fountain clues.
33:48Here they come.
33:49We have European capital city that is home to the Trevi Fountain.
33:54The ruins of Fountains Abbey are a 12th century monastery of this religious order that branched off from the Benedictines.
34:01Russian-born American author of the 1943 novel The Fountainhead.
34:07The memorial fountain to Diana, Princess of Wales, was opened in 2004 in this London park.
34:13And title of the 2004 UK Top 40 single by Fountains of Wayne.
34:19There we are.
34:21David and Angie, you get to go first.
34:24Go on, go to the top one.
34:26I don't know.
34:28Go for the top one.
34:30Which is...?
34:31Rome.
34:32You were going to say Rome for the top one.
34:33Yeah, for the top one.
34:34Now then, Cole and Karen, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
34:37Er...
34:38Not really.
34:41Er...
34:41Two...
34:42I'm going to have to take a stab on...
34:44Any look on three, four and five?
34:46No.
34:47No.
34:47Let's have a...
34:49Think of types of monks.
34:51Yeah.
34:52Francescans.
34:53Yeah, Francescans.
34:55Yes.
34:55OK, so we have Rome and we have Francescans.
34:58David and Angie have gone for Rome for the Trevi Fountain.
35:01Let's see if that's right.
35:02Let's see how many of our 100 said it.
35:07Rome is right.
35:10That goes down to 50.
35:12Meanwhile, Cole and Karen take a bit of a punt on the Francescans
35:16for this order of monks.
35:18Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Francescans?
35:21But is it right?
35:25Not Francescans.
35:26And that means very well done indeed.
35:28David and Angie, after three questions, you're through to the final.
35:302-1.
35:31It was Cistercian monks.
35:34That would have scored you one.
35:37The novelist was Ayn Rand.
35:40Scores two.
35:42Hyde Park.
35:43Scored 25.
35:46And then the bottom one, an absolute banger.
35:50Do you know it?
35:51Stacey's mum has got it going on.
35:53Yeah, great tune.
35:5410.
35:55Thank you very much indeed.
35:57That brings us to the end of our head-to-head round.
35:58I'm afraid the pair were saying goodbye to you.
36:00This is the second time you've been in the head-to-head.
36:02Second time you've been sitting there.
36:04And the second time I've had to say goodbye to you
36:05without sending you through to the final.
36:07Next time.
36:08It's all going to happen next time.
36:09It's been lovely having you on.
36:10Thank you so much, Cole and Karen.
36:11But for David and Angie, it's now time for the Pointless final.
36:18Well, huge congratulations, David and Angie.
36:21You have fought off all our competition
36:22and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.
36:31You now get a chance to win the Pointless jackpot.
36:34And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,000.
36:40I mean, it's lovely that you're here in the final and everything,
36:43but I can't bear it, you're leaving after only one show.
36:45We've only just got to know you.
36:46I don't.
36:47I mean, it seems ridiculously soon.
36:49It does.
36:49I mean, it has been an amazing, lovely, low-scoring progress
36:51throughout the whole show, so very, very well done.
36:54Richly deserved.
36:54And I think it would be absolutely right for you to take that jackpot
36:57home in light of that.
36:58What do you want to see come up?
36:59What's going to help you win it?
37:01I'd certainly say football, tennis.
37:05Shakespeare.
37:06Shakespeare, yes.
37:07Shakespeare.
37:07That would be nice.
37:09OK, well, let's see.
37:09You know what they're like, these four things.
37:11Sometimes terrifying, sometimes not so bad.
37:15Northern and Southern Hemisphere wine regions.
37:18Grace and Grace on TV.
37:21Cricketers of the Year.
37:23Perfect 10 geography.
37:28To cricketers?
37:29Yeah.
37:30Yeah?
37:31Cricketers of the Year?
37:31Yeah.
37:32OK, Cricketers of the Year.
37:33It is.
37:34We're looking for the name of any cricket player, male or female,
37:38who has been named one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year since 1950
37:44and who has represented either India or the West Indies.
37:49That's up to and including those named in April 2024.
37:53Typically, five players per year have been recognised with this honour.
37:56Best of luck.
37:58Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
37:59As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
38:02All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers
38:05to be pointless.
38:06Are you ready?
38:07Yes.
38:08OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
38:10There they are.
38:11Your time starts now.
38:14OK, so let's think of the West Indies.
38:17Darren, Sammy, could be one.
38:19Chris Gale.
38:20Chris Gale.
38:22Who else?
38:23What can you think?
38:23I'm trying to think back.
38:2540 seconds.
38:26Oh, yeah, I think.
38:26What are you back?
38:30Who's the guy?
38:31Tony Cozier?
38:32No, he's in contact.
38:34Oh, yeah.
38:35Yeah.
38:37Um...
38:38Gosh, my mind's gone black.
38:42Any...
38:42Any...
38:43I'm going through the team.
38:45Which is...
38:46I'm trying to think of a captain.
38:48And...
38:49Courtney Walsh.
38:50Who else?
38:51Courtney Walsh.
38:51Could be...
38:52Shiv Narayan.
38:53Chandapur.
38:54Yes.
38:55Shiv Narayan.
38:56Chandapur.
38:58Chandapur, yeah.
38:59Yeah.
39:02Um...
39:02So, do you want to say...
39:03I've got ten seconds.
39:04Darren, Sammy.
39:05Shiv Narayan.
39:06Chandapur and Chris Gale.
39:08And Chris Gale.
39:09Yeah.
39:10OK.
39:10All right.
39:12OK, it sounds like you've got your answers.
39:14There we are.
39:15Your minute is now up.
39:16What three answers can you give me?
39:18You could say which category in each case.
39:19Yeah.
39:20So, the all four cricketers of the year who played for the West Indies.
39:24Um...
39:24So, we're going for...
39:26Chris Gale.
39:26Chris Gale.
39:28Shiv Narayan Chandapur.
39:29Shiv Narayan Chandapur.
39:30And Darren, Sammy.
39:32Darren, Sammy.
39:33Yeah.
39:33Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
39:37Maybe Shiv Narayan Chandapur.
39:38OK.
39:38Shiv Narayan Chandapur we put last.
39:40Least likely to be pointless.
39:42Uh...
39:42Chris Gale.
39:43Yeah, Chris Gale.
39:44Chris Gale.
39:45And Darren, Sammy goes in the middle.
39:46OK.
39:47Well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
39:48And here they are.
39:50We have...
39:52Chris Gale.
39:53Darren, Sammy.
39:55And Shiv Narayan Chandapur.
39:57Uh, well, three lovely answers up on the board there.
40:00If one of these turns out to be pointless, you'll be leaving here with £2,000.
40:03What would you like to do with that?
40:05David, I'm going to ask you first.
40:06Well, I bought a house last year, so some of the money will go into that.
40:10That'll be very handy.
40:12Um, Angie, how about you?
40:14Um, I think I'd like a nice day out at Wimbledon.
40:18Oh, that'd be nice.
40:20Yes, that'd be a perfect thing to do.
40:22Brilliant.
40:22Well, let's hope one of these will be pointless and win it for you.
40:27Uh, Chris Gale, your first answer in all three cases we're looking for.
40:30West Indian cricketers have been Player of the Year.
40:32Let's see how many of our 100 said Chris Gale.
40:35Might Chris Gale be pointless for £2,000?
40:41Chris Gale?
40:43The six machine.
40:46Not a correct answer.
40:47OK, let's not dwell on that.
40:48Let's turn our attention to Darren Sammy immediately
40:50and see if we can make some reparations there.
40:53Might Darren Sammy be a Cricketer of the Year?
40:56Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
40:58Might Darren Sammy be pointless?
40:59More's to the point.
41:05OK.
41:06Not Chris Gale, not Darren Sammy.
41:08Shiv Narayan Chandapur is your third and final answer.
41:11This is the one you thought was your best shot at Pointless.
41:13Yes.
41:14Obviously, it has to be right.
41:15Of course.
41:16Then it has to be pointless.
41:17Yes.
41:17But if it's both of those things, you'll be leaving here with £2,000.
41:20Shiv Narayan Chandapur.
41:21How many of our 100 people said it?
41:24Oh, thank goodness.
41:26OK.
41:27Well, Chris Gale and Darren Sammy, I'm afraid, didn't come through
41:32for you, but Shiv Narayan Chandapur absolutely taking us down through
41:35the single figure.
41:36Still going down.
41:36Still going.
41:37You've done it!
41:37And there we are!
41:41Only one of them needed to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.
41:45And Shiv Narayan Chandapur has just won £2,000 for you.
41:49David and Angie.
41:50Brilliant.
41:50Huge congratulations.
41:52Save the best to last there.
41:53Let's have a little look at some of the other pointless answers.
41:57Starting with the cricketers of the year who played for India.
42:00Anil Kumblay.
42:03Harman Preet Kaur.
42:04She won the award in 2023.
42:06The first Indian woman to do so.
42:09Jasprit Bumrah.
42:10And VVS Lakshman.
42:13In fact, everyone was pointless apart from the following who all scored points.
42:16Sashin Tendulkar.
42:19Sunil Gavaskar.
42:21Virat Kohli.
42:22Kapil Dev.
42:24Rahul Dravid.
42:25And Zaheer Khan.
42:27Moving on to the cricketers of the year who played for the West Indies.
42:30You could have had Sir Everton Weeks.
42:33He won in 1951.
42:35Marlon Samuels.
42:37Richie Richardson.
42:38And there he is Shiv Narayan Chandapur.
42:40The scoring answers here were Brian Lara.
42:44Viv Richards.
42:45Garfield Sobers.
42:47Clive Lloyd.
42:48Desmond Haynes.
42:50Gordon Greenwich.
42:51Joel Garner.
42:53Malcolm Marshall.
42:54Michael Holding.
42:56Courtney Walsh.
42:57And Kirtley Ambrose.
42:59That would have been some team.
43:00Everyone else was pointless.
43:02Thank you very much indeed, Angela.
43:05And thanks once again to our winning players, David and Angie,
43:07who take away today's jackpot of £2,000.
43:10Brilliant.
43:12Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
43:16Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Angela.
43:17Goodbye.
43:18And it's goodbye from me.
43:20Goodbye.
43:21APPLAUSE
43:48collections enjoy TV,
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