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00:15MUSIC CONTINUES
00:23Thank you very much indeed.
00:24Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless, the quiz,
00:27where the more obscure your knowledge,
00:28the better your chances of winning.
00:30Let's meet today's players.
00:35And couple number one.
00:36Hi, I'm Kath.
00:38This is my husband Andy and we're from a little town called Horwich
00:41on the West Pan Am Wars.
00:43Couple number two.
00:44Hi, I'm Rebecca and I'm from Bainstoke
00:47and this is my Uncle Rory from Mid Wales.
00:50Couple number three.
00:51Hi, I'm Sid. This is my wife Emma and we live in Carlisle.
00:54And finally, couple number four.
00:56Hi, I'm Hetty.
00:57This is my cousin Katie and we're both from the Cambridgeshire Fens.
01:01And these are today's contestants.
01:02APPLAUSE
01:03Thank you very much all of you and a very, very warm welcome
01:06to Pointless. It's lovely to have you here.
01:07That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
01:09An actor and comedian who called appearing on Taskmaster
01:12the time of her life.
01:13For that's before she met yours truly.
01:15Please welcome my Pointless friend.
01:17It's Susan Wakoma.
01:20APPLAUSE
01:22It's all true. It's all been leading up to this moment.
01:25Oh, come on, it has.
01:25Everything in my 37 years has led to now.
01:28To this. This show.
01:30This. After this, it's over.
01:32It's finished. Career done.
01:33Be plain with us. Are you enjoying it?
01:35I am having a really, really lovely time.
01:37I'm learning loads as well.
01:38Good. Lots and lots.
01:40So, no, having a wonderful time.
01:41Splendid. Well, it's lovely to have you here.
01:43Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
01:45Now, Adam and Steve won the jackpot last time.
01:47We've had a terrific run of wins, actually.
01:49All bodes very well for whoever gets into the final today.
01:52So, there we are.
01:53Yes, but this is all my preamble for saying today's jackpot
01:56therefore starts off back at £1,000.
02:00It'll grow.
02:00If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
02:08It is my duty to remind you that it is always going to be
02:10the pair with the highest score at the end of each round
02:12that gets eliminated.
02:13So, just keep your scores low.
02:14Best of luck to everybody.
02:15Our first category today is...
02:20Can you all decide in your pairs?
02:22Who's going to go first?
02:23Who's going to go second?
02:24And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:30And the question concerns...
02:36OK.
02:38So, on each board, we're going to give you seven clues to people,
02:43places and things that all begin with the letters C, A, P.
02:47We'll also tell you the number of letters in each answer.
02:51Please tell us the answer that you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.
02:55Best of luck at home.
02:56Thank you very much indeed.
02:57Let's reveal our first board of seven clues and here they come.
03:00We have...
03:01A hot beverage consisting of espresso and foamed milk,
03:04sometimes served with a dusting of chocolate.
03:06Ten.
03:07Island at the south of the Bay of Naples, opposite the Sorrento Peninsula.
03:11Five.
03:12The genus of plants to which all bell peppers and chilli peppers belong.
03:16Eight.
03:17A drum-like device used chiefly on ships to assist with hauling heavy ropes,
03:21cables or chains.
03:22Seven.
03:24Nickname of Lancelot Brown, the foremost English garden designer of the 18th century.
03:29Ten.
03:30In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the family to which Juliet belongs.
03:34Seven.
03:35And an officer in the British Army ranking between Lieutenant and Major.
03:40Seven.
03:41There we are.
03:43Cath, welcome back to Pointless.
03:46Now, tell me, how long have you and Andy been married?
03:49Well, we've just celebrated our golden wedding a couple of weeks ago.
03:51Wonderful.
03:52That is terrific.
03:54APPLAUSE
03:54How did you celebrate?
03:56We had a lovely celebration with about 40 friends and family.
04:01Perfect.
04:01And we're about to go off to Japan for our golden wedding.
04:05Oh, that's just perfect.
04:06Oh, well done.
04:07That's the way to do it.
04:08Fantastic.
04:09Cath, looking at this board of things beginning CAP,
04:13what do you think is going to be the lowest that you know?
04:18I'm just checking that capability has got ten letters.
04:21I'm going for Capability Brown.
04:23Capability Brown.
04:24Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
04:26Capability.
04:29Capability Brown is a terrific answer.
04:34Look at that.
04:35Down it goes to 19.
04:37Wonderful score.
04:38Excellent.
04:39Capability Brown designed more than 170 landscapes,
04:43including Blenheim Palace and Warwick Castle.
04:46Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
04:47Now, Rebecca, welcome back.
04:49Thanks.
04:49Great to have you show two.
04:51Yes.
04:51We need to know more about you, Rebecca.
04:52Tell us.
04:53Tell us.
04:54Well, another thing I love to do for fun is go to church
04:57and help out at church with kids.
05:00And we recently just did our summer camp at church,
05:04which I was leader, and normally we all camp out outside.
05:07Yeah.
05:08But I have, like, a really dislike for things that crawl,
05:12like spiders and bugs and things like that.
05:14Yeah, I can see that being a problem with camping.
05:16One of the days I came back in to my supposedly safe study
05:19and there was a spider which was about this big in my bag.
05:24And so I had to...
05:25You brought the spider in, though, Rebecca?
05:26I think it was pasta, but, you know...
05:29No.
05:29Actually, he's too scared of spiders to do that, so...
05:31OK, now, Rebecca, what are you going to go for on our board?
05:34I'm not really great with spelling,
05:36but I think cappuccino has ten letters.
05:41Well, it's definitely a hot beverage with espresso and phone milk.
05:43Let's see if it's right.
05:44How many of our 100 people said cappuccino?
05:47It's absolutely right.
05:49Right!
05:49OK.
05:5070 for cappuccino.
05:53Now, I love this.
05:56This drink, cappuccino, gets its name
05:59from the cappuccino order of friars.
06:01Their robes or habits were brown-coloured,
06:04like the brown colour of the drink.
06:06There we are.
06:07Lovely.
06:08Very nice, thank you very much indeed.
06:09Now, Emma, welcome to Pointless.
06:11It's great to have you here.
06:11Thank you. Look, new people, new.
06:13Hello!
06:14Emma, tell us all about yourself.
06:16So I work in medical publications
06:18and in my spare time I like to take our dog
06:21to compete in dog shows.
06:23Oh, really? Tell us about your dog.
06:25So he's a two-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Dexter.
06:29Very nice indeed.
06:30And that's quite a lot of upkeep.
06:31Yes, he's got quite a long coat, so...
06:33Yes.
06:34Yeah, his products are more expensive than mine.
06:36I mean, do you do the grooming yourself
06:37or do you take it to a special person who does it?
06:40I do the grooming at home.
06:41Wow, you have all the tools.
06:42All the tools, yeah.
06:44Marvellous.
06:44OK, now, what are you going to go for on our board?
06:47I think I'm going to go for the Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
06:51and say Capulet.
06:53Capulet, says Emma.
06:54Let's see how many of our 100 agree with Emma.
06:56Capulet.
06:58Capulet is absolutely right.
06:59Well, 70 is our high score and you're on 54.
07:03Not bad.
07:05Excellent.
07:06The enemy of the Capulets are the Montagues,
07:09the family to which Romeo belongs.
07:11Mmm.
07:12We love a little bit of...
07:15..fighting between families.
07:17I wondered what you were going to say there.
07:18I know.
07:18I was just thinking...
07:19Yes, we love a little bit of...
07:21We need to have fighting in order to have stories.
07:24Yes, you're probably right.
07:25We do.
07:25We do need a...
07:26But let's not fight.
07:27Not in real life.
07:28Yeah, not in real life.
07:29Not in real life.
07:30Come on.
07:30Can't we just chat?
07:31We should be friends.
07:33Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
07:34Now then, Katie, welcome to Pointless.
07:36It's terrific to have you here on your first show.
07:39Please introduce yourself to the world.
07:41I'm Katie and I am a fundraising manager
07:44for a wonderful LGBTQ plus charity in the UK.
07:48And in my spare time, I'm usually found in charity shops
07:52finding material to turn into clothes.
07:55So I'm a big sewer.
07:57Love sewing.
07:57A big sewer.
07:58Are you wearing a Katie creation?
07:59I am wearing a Katie creation, yes.
08:01Talk us through the fabric.
08:02So from a charity shop, this is curtains,
08:04and curtains are really good quality material.
08:06I've seen the sound of music, don't you?
08:07Right?
08:08Basically, yes.
08:09I am Maria Von Trapp is what I'm saying.
08:11Yeah, yeah.
08:12Amazing.
08:13Katie, this board is all yours.
08:14Yes.
08:14Would you like to talk us through it and fill in the blanks?
08:16Yes.
08:17So there's one I'm very confident on
08:19and one where my brain's given me a word.
08:21So I'm hoping let's go with what my brain's given me
08:24and go for the third one down, the plants, and say capsicum.
08:29Capsicum, says Katie.
08:30It's what I was thinking too,
08:31and it's definitely what Hetty's thinking.
08:33Yes, capsicum.
08:39Well, look at that.
08:40Well, 19 is our low score at the moment.
08:4228 for capsicum.
08:45Great work, Katie.
08:46So green peppers have a savoury, bitter flavour,
08:49whereas orange, red and yellow ones are sweeter.
08:53Red peppers provide more vitamin C than the other colours.
08:57So get that down here.
08:58There we are.
08:59Good for scurvy.
09:00As they should say in their adverts.
09:02So...
09:03Right.
09:03What do you think?
09:05Well, the Bay of Naples is the beautiful island of Capri.
09:08You're absolutely right.
09:09And that would have scored 27.
09:11What do you think about that?
09:12That is a capstan.
09:14Capstan.
09:14Perfect.
09:15And that goes for 12.
09:18And then...
09:19And a cap-tin.
09:19A cap-tin, which would have scored 69.
09:23Now we are.
09:24Thank you very much indeed.
09:25Well, we're halfway through the round.
09:26Let's have a quick look at those scores.
09:27I can tell you 19.
09:29Very well done indeed, Kath.
09:30The best score of the pass.
09:32Then we travel from 19 to 28,
09:33which is where we find Katie and Hetty.
09:34From there to 54, where we find Emma and Sid.
09:37And 70, our high score is Rebecca and Rory.
09:39Rory, you get the new board.
09:41Let's hope there's something nice and low scoring on that
09:43that you can have a go at.
09:44Good luck with that.
09:45We're going to come back down the line now.
09:46Will the second players please step up to the podium?
09:52OK, let's put seven more clues on the board to things beginning with CAP.
09:56And here they are.
09:58We have a town or city serving as the seat of government for a country or province.
10:03Seven.
10:04Historical region in central Turkiye known for its striking and unusual geological formations.
10:10Ten.
10:11Surname of Truman.
10:12The American author of the book Breakfast at Tiffany's.
10:15Six.
10:16An extremely narrow blood vessel.
10:19Nine.
10:19The tenth sign of the zodiac often represented as a goat with a fish's tail.
10:24Nine.
10:25The largest living rodent in the world, native to Northern and Central South America.
10:30Eight.
10:30And a feature on a web page intended to identify the user as a human being and not a bot.
10:37Seven.
10:38There we are.
10:40Hetty, welcome.
10:41Great to have you here.
10:41Tell us all about yourself.
10:43Yes.
10:44I'm Hetty.
10:45I'm an events manager in the charity sector.
10:47Excellent.
10:48How often a year are you putting events on?
10:50Quite often, yeah.
10:51It's like, yeah, most months there will be an event.
10:54I mean, they're big deals, aren't they?
10:54Yeah.
10:55And usually you have to be in sort of the crack of dawn.
10:57Crack of dawn and then working till the end of it as well.
11:00Yeah.
11:00Yeah.
11:01Ready for bed after the event's done.
11:03I bet you are.
11:03Yeah.
11:04Well, good for you.
11:04You are on 28.
11:06If you can score 41 or less, you are into round two immediately.
11:09What do we make of this board?
11:11Yeah, I know a few, but I think I'm going to go for the surname of Truman,
11:16the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, as Capote.
11:19Capote, says Hetty.
11:21You get a red line and it's there.
11:22Can we get you below that with Capote?
11:27Truman Capote, absolutely right.
11:29And you are in round two.
11:31Very well done.
11:32Team Gallagher's 22, taking your total up to a lovely round 50.
11:36So, Truman Capote was actually born Truman Persons.
11:41Truman took his stepfather's surname, Capote, when he was about 11 years old.
11:46Truman Persons.
11:47Persons.
11:48Persons.
11:48Persons.
11:49Persons.
11:49Persons.
11:50Many persons.
11:52People.
11:53Truman People.
11:53Truman People.
11:54There we are.
11:55Man.
11:55Truman Being.
11:56There we go.
11:57That would be a much better name.
12:00That would be lovely.
12:01There we go.
12:01Thank you very much indeed.
12:02Now, Sid.
12:04Welcome to Pointless.
12:05Terrific to have you with us.
12:06Tell us all about yourself.
12:07I'm Sid.
12:08I'm a radiologist.
12:10Living close to the Lake District.
12:11We enjoy outdoor activities.
12:13I'm currently in the process of hiking the Wainwrights.
12:16Very nice indeed.
12:17I mean, yes, of course, you're in Carlisle.
12:19Actually, where the Armstrongs come from, just north of Carlisle.
12:21Very beautiful round there.
12:23Marvellous.
12:24Sid, you are on 54.
12:26Should you get 15 or less with your answer, you are straight into round two.
12:32So, I've got a few of them.
12:34I'm trying to think which will be the lowest.
12:35I'll go for the blood vessel as a capillary.
12:38Capillary, says Sid.
12:39Here is your red line.
12:41Low as it is, maybe it's not beyond capillary.
12:43Let's find out.
12:46Capillary.
12:47Absolutely right.
12:49This is a big one.
12:5050 for capillary.
12:51Takes your total up to 104.
12:54OK.
12:55Capillaries connect the smallest branches of arteries and veins.
12:58The walls of capillaries are just one cell thick,
13:01so molecules of oxygen and nutrients can pass through.
13:04That's nice.
13:05There we go.
13:06Do you want to know something?
13:07Yes.
13:07I went to go and give blood and I got sent home.
13:10Why?
13:10Because they said that my veins are too small.
13:12In fact, the phrase was, your veins are insignificant.
13:16Wow.
13:17Yeah, yeah.
13:17So I got sent home with a biscuit and some orange juice.
13:19Well, at least you got the biscuits.
13:20At least I got a biscuit.
13:22Anyway, there we go.
13:22Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
13:24Now, Rory.
13:25Welcome back to Pointless.
13:26Good to have you here.
13:27I should like to know more about you.
13:29When I was younger, we used to travel around throughout North America
13:32with my family.
13:33I was about 13 once and we ended up in Washington, D.C.
13:37and my mother, who's quite outgoing, decided to just wave
13:39at some random person she thought she'd seen on TV once.
13:42Hmm.
13:43And that random person decided to come over and speak to us.
13:45He turned out to be a senator called Joe Biden.
13:48Oh!
13:48And he was very friendly to us.
13:50He actually took us up a lift that said senators only
13:52and personally escorted us to the Senate chamber,
13:55sat with us for half an hour and was really friendly.
13:57What a nice thing to remember.
13:59Do you think that was a sort of daily occurrence for him?
14:01I wonder.
14:02He just seemed a really lovely chap.
14:04Yeah.
14:05Well, there we are.
14:05That's nice to hear, isn't it?
14:0733 is your target, Rory.
14:09You are on 70 at the moment.
14:10I wonder, have you found a nice answer on this board
14:14that will score you that or less?
14:15I don't know anything about the zodiac, really,
14:18but I do follow constellations to some degree,
14:20so I'm going to go for Capricorn.
14:23Capricorn for the goat with a fish's tail.
14:26Keep that quiet, don't they?
14:28Haven't seen the fish's tail.
14:29No.
14:30Anyway, there we go.
14:31Capricorn is what you're saying.
14:32You get a red line and it's there.
14:34How many of our 100 said Capricorn?
14:4161 for Capricorn, taking your total up to 131.
14:45OK, so Capricorns are born between around the 22nd of December
14:50and the 19th of January.
14:52Famous Capricorns include Greta Thunberg and Michelle Obama and me.
14:57Oh, look at that.
14:58Yeah, with my fish's tail.
14:59Don't look.
15:00Yeah.
15:01Your secret is safe with me.
15:02It's a secret.
15:03There we are.
15:04Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
15:06And now, Andy, we come to you.
15:08Welcome back to the programme.
15:10Lovely to have you with us.
15:11Tell us more about yourself, Andy.
15:12OK.
15:13Well, I've been involved with tennis for most of my adult life, certainly.
15:17I have a role with tennis Lancashire, which involves the nice thing
15:21of being able to give grants to clubs who need it.
15:24My biggest tournament is actually our Bolton tournament.
15:27We have about 200 players playing 21 events over nine days.
15:31Across what?
15:32That's what's up for fortnight, is it?
15:33No, nine days.
15:35Nine days.
15:35Over 13 courts.
15:37Very good indeed, Andy.
15:39Now, listen, you're on 19.
15:40It doesn't matter what you score, you're through to the next round.
15:42A brilliant low score from Kath in the first pass.
15:45Ensured that.
15:45What would you like to go for?
15:47You have a free hand.
15:48It's a bit of a guess, but the South American rodent, I think,
15:52is a Capybara.
15:53A Capybara, says Andy.
15:55No red line.
15:56You're already through.
15:57Let's see how many of our 100 said Capybara.
16:02It is right.
16:06And down it goes to 27.
16:07Very well done indeed.
16:09Taking your total up to 46.
16:11Oh, brilliant.
16:11So, it's actually pronounced Capybara.
16:14And they are twice as big as beavers
16:16and can grow over four feet long and weigh 175 pounds.
16:21Do you know what?
16:21They are so big that you don't think of them as rodents.
16:24No.
16:24They've got that rodent...
16:26Yeah, they're like rodents.
16:27Yeah, that's not selling it.
16:28OK, all right.
16:30Do you have any clues on that?
16:32Mm-hm.
16:33Let's go for it.
16:33Capital at the top.
16:35Capital, yes.
16:3551 people got capital.
16:37Any idea?
16:38Um...
16:39What is that?
16:40Do you want me to tell you?
16:41Yes, go on.
16:42OK, it's Cappadocia.
16:43Oh, yes.
16:44Which was our lowest answer with five.
16:47And then...
16:48Do you know the final one?
16:49Feature on a web.
16:50Isn't it called something like Captcha?
16:52That's it.
16:53Captcha with 31.
16:55There we are.
16:56Look at that.
16:56Brilliant.
16:57Thank you very much indeed.
16:59Well, that brings us to the end of our first round.
17:01It means we have to say goodbye to Rory and Rebecca.
17:03This has been the second round one exit, I think.
17:05Next time.
17:06Next time.
17:07Next time.
17:07We'll take it all away.
17:08Anyway, thank you very much for playing Rory and Rebecca.
17:11But for the remaining three pairs, it is now time for round two.
17:19Very well done, everybody.
17:21We have cruised through to round two.
17:23And I have various plaudits to hand out.
17:25Kath, our lowest individual scorer.
17:28And Kath and Andy, our lowest combined scorers.
17:30So it's all going on on the near podium.
17:32Very well done indeed.
17:33Good luck to everybody.
17:34Our category for round two today is...
17:38Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
17:40who's going to go second?
17:42And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
17:48OK, and the question concerns...
17:55OK.
17:55Susan.
17:56All right, so we are going to give you 16 faces of actors
18:00who have appeared in James Bond's films
18:02that starred Daniel Craig as 007.
18:05We have added their initials as additional clues.
18:08Please give us your best answer.
18:10Thank you very much indeed.
18:12So, as Susan mentioned, we're going to put 16 faces up.
18:15They stay for the whole round.
18:16You simply have to call out the name of anyone you see
18:18on that gallery of marvellous actors.
18:22And here they are.
18:22And their initials are...
18:40There we are.
18:42Andy, I wonder who you would like to pluck out.
18:47I'm struggling here, so I'll have to go for Judi Dench.
18:51You're going to go for Judi Dench.
18:53Yeah.
18:53Let us see how many of our 100 people said Judi Dench.
18:57Judi Dench is right.
19:0172 for Judi Dench.
19:04OK.
19:05Apparently her response to being killed off in Skyfall was,
19:08How dare they?
19:09Like that.
19:11That's a good impression.
19:12Not bad at all.
19:13Thank you very much.
19:15Now then, Emma.
19:16Who have you got your eye on?
19:18I've got a couple that I know.
19:20I'm going to say Rami Malek.
19:22Rami Malek.
19:23Says Emma.
19:24Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
19:25Rami Malek.
19:28Rami Malek is right.
19:30It beats 72, which is the only other score we have.
19:3321 for Rami Malek.
19:36Excellent.
19:37Excellent.
19:37Excellent.
19:38So, Lucifer Safin, the villain, surprise, surprise, in No Time To Die,
19:43is who Rami Malek played.
19:44In an interview, he said that during filming, he didn't ever want
19:47to go back to his trailer and wanted to stay on set watching
19:50everything that goes on.
19:52Oh, that's nice.
19:53Is it?
19:54That's nice.
19:55When you're dressed as the villain and then you're just stood at the back.
19:57Oh, that's quite creepy.
19:58Watching everything.
19:59It shows enthusiasm.
20:00It does.
20:01It does show, yes.
20:01May that spirit in him never die.
20:04No time to die.
20:05No, none.
20:06No time to die.
20:08Thank you very much indeed.
20:10Now, Hetty, who are you going to go for?
20:13Yeah, James Bond's not really my strongest subject,
20:16but I do recognise Gemma Arterton.
20:19Gemma Arterton, says Hetty.
20:21Shall we see how many of our 100 people said that?
20:23Gemma Arterton.
20:25Yes.
20:32Nine.
20:33Very well done, Hetty.
20:34This is great.
20:35Top scoring.
20:36Really, really good score.
20:38So, Gemma Arterton played Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.
20:42She is a rookie MI6 agent based in Bolivia,
20:45who meets a sticky end covered in crude oil.
20:48A homage to the death of the woman in Goldfinger,
20:51who is found painted in gold.
20:53Mm.
20:54Thank you very much indeed.
20:55Well, we are halfway through the round.
20:56Let's have a quick look at those scores.
20:57Nine, Hetty, the best score of the pass.
20:59Very well done to you.
21:0021 is where we find Emma and Sid.
21:0272, Kath and Andy.
21:04A little bit ahead of the field there.
21:06Who knows what magic you can wreak with your brilliant answer in the next pass, Kath.
21:10Let's hope it's enough to keep you in the game.
21:12Good luck with that.
21:13We're going to come back down the line now.
21:14Will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:21Well, we are looking for the names of all these Daniel Craig-era Bond actors.
21:25And, yeah, you're going to see if you can find the lowest scoring one you know.
21:30Katie.
21:33So, I know quite a lot.
21:34I think I'm going to go for Lashana Lynch.
21:37Lashana Lynch.
21:39Let's see how many of our 100 people said Lashana Lynch.
21:42Here is your red line.
21:43Lovely and high.
21:47Very well done.
21:49You are in the head-to-head with room to spare four for Lashana Lynch,
21:54taking your total up to 13.
21:56Excellent, excellent score.
21:57So, Lashana Lynch played No Me, a.k.a. 007, in No Time To Die.
22:02Because it was such a physical role, Lashana Lynch had to go through
22:05a stunt assessment as part of her casting process.
22:09Do you think you'd pass the stunt assessment?
22:11No.
22:11A stunt assessment, as in, do you think you'd be able to do your stunts?
22:14Yes.
22:14I could save them that.
22:15I could just say, I would.
22:16You're like, I shan't.
22:17Don't book the studio.
22:19I'd have stunt hands.
22:21Yeah, no, I wouldn't.
22:22Stunt everything.
22:23No.
22:23There we are, thank you very much indeed.
22:25Sid, you're on 21, Sid.
22:27Should you score 50 or less, the head-to-head is yours.
22:30So, there's a couple on there that I think I know but I'm not 100% sure of,
22:34so I think I'll play it relatively safe and go for Hugh Dennis.
22:37Hugh Dennis, our very own Hugh Dennis, we can say.
22:40He has sat.
22:41Has he been here?
22:42Just there, yes, yes.
22:43Hugh.
22:44I feel him.
22:45Yes.
22:46Here is your red line.
22:47Let's see if we can get you below that with Hugh Dennis.
22:53Well done.
22:54You are in the head-to-head.
22:55Down he goes to 31.
22:56Taking your red line for 52.
22:59Hugh Dennis, a star of Pointless and No Time to Die in which he played Dr Hardy.
23:05This was quite a small role.
23:07Hugh Dennis is reported as saying that he spent about three days working on the film.
23:11Apparently, he had an interview with MI5 when he was at university.
23:15It could have been the real 007.
23:18Well, yes.
23:18But that's MI5.
23:19Yes.
23:20MI6.
23:21It's a different building.
23:22Different building.
23:23Different department.
23:23It is actually a different building.
23:24Oh, I don't know.
23:25Maybe it's not a different building.
23:26Maybe it's not.
23:27But a very different organisation.
23:28Maybe they want us to think they're different buildings.
23:30Maybe that's what they want.
23:32Thank you very much.
23:33Yes.
23:35Kath, I'm so sorry.
23:37You are our high scorers.
23:39Even before your brilliant answer.
23:41But would you like to talk us through the board?
23:42No, I really would not.
23:46So, I'll go for Ben Whishaw.
23:48You're going to go for Ben Whishaw.
23:49There he is.
23:50Let's see how many of our 100 said Ben Whishaw.
23:52No red line for you, I'm afraid, as you are the high scorers.
23:56Ben Whishaw, absolutely right.
24:02Surprisingly low.
24:0313 for Ben Whishaw, taking your total up to 85.
24:07Really good.
24:08Low score.
24:09So, Ben Whishaw first appeared as Q in Skyfall.
24:12Ben Whishaw was the first Q who was younger than James Bond.
24:16Hmm.
24:17Hmm.
24:18Now.
24:18OK, I can do a few of these.
24:20All right, let's go.
24:20I'm not going to do them in order because where's the fun in that?
24:23Jump, jump in.
24:23Javier Bardem.
24:24And you would have scored 16 with Javier Bardem.
24:27I can do Rory Kinnear.
24:29Rory Kinnear.
24:30That would have scored you 10.
24:31Oh, and let's do Ralph Fiennes.
24:33Ralph Fiennes.
24:34Would have scored you 42.
24:37Let's do Eva Green.
24:38Yes, of course.
24:4016.
24:41And the amazing Sarah Hadland.
24:43Hadland.
24:44Yes.
24:44Nice low score.
24:45Lovely Sarah Hadland.
24:46Fine, you've got her.
24:47And there is...
24:48Ah, he's just superb.
24:51Oh, yes.
24:52Mads Mikkelsen.
24:53There we go.
24:54There we go.
24:54Would have scored you 14 if you've got Mads.
24:56Top left.
24:57Naomi.
24:58I don't know what her name is.
24:59Harris.
25:00Harris, Naomi Harris.
25:01That's right.
25:01Would have scored you 20 if you've got Naomi Harris.
25:03And the last three.
25:05ADA.
25:05Is Ana de Ames.
25:07Ana de Ames.
25:08Would have scored you 11.
25:09Yes.
25:10And then we have remaining Léa Seydoux.
25:14Léa Seydoux.
25:15Would have scored you six.
25:16And finally, Geoffrey Wright.
25:17Would have scored you five.
25:19There we are.
25:20Look at that.
25:20Look at that.
25:21Marvellous.
25:22Lovely people.
25:22Thank you very, very much indeed.
25:23That brings us to the end of our second round.
25:25It means we have to say goodbye to Kath and Andy for the second time.
25:28We will see you next time.
25:30When it will all happen.
25:31I'm quite certain.
25:32I'm looking forward to it.
25:33Kath and Andy, thanks so much.
25:34For the remaining two pairs though, now time for the head-to-head.
25:43Well, congratulations, Hetty and Katie.
25:44Sid and Emma, you are now one step closer to the final
25:47and a chance to play for our jackpot,
25:48which currently stands at £1,000.
25:52But before we play the head-to-head,
25:54let's see if we can't make that jackpot a bit bigger
25:56by finding a couple of pointless answers.
25:58So here goes, just for fun.
25:59We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
26:04Hit songs written on Tin Pan Alley as they could.
26:08Susan.
26:08OK, so you will see six options.
26:12Four are titles of hit songs written by songwriters
26:14who worked in the music publishing area known as Tin Pan Alley
26:18in New York in the early 20th century.
26:21Two of which are scoring and two are pointless.
26:24And two are not hit Tin Pan Alley songs.
26:28£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
26:32Thank you very much indeed.
26:33Let's reveal our six potential pointless Tin Pan Alley songs
26:36and here they are.
26:38We have Take Me Out To The Ball Game,
26:41Wendy Darling, Alexander's Ragtime Band,
26:44I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Arizona Jamboree
26:46and Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home.
26:50There we are.
26:51If anyone knows anything, share it.
26:54Anyone know anything?
26:55I don't.
26:56In which case, Hetty and Katie, what would you like to nominate
26:59as your pointless Tin Pan Alley song?
27:01I'm feeling Ragtime Band.
27:03Yeah, let's do it. Go for it.
27:05We're going to go for Alexander's Ragtime Band.
27:08It's a great piece.
27:09Shall we find out if that is a pointless answer?
27:11Alexander's Ragtime Band.
27:21Oh!
27:21Nearly.
27:24Two of our hundred got that.
27:26Now, Sid and Emma, what would you like to go for?
27:29What should we go for?
27:30Erm...
27:30Should we go for Arizona Jamboree?
27:32Let's go for that one then.
27:33We'd like to go for Arizona Jamboree.
27:35Arizona Jamboree, is that a pointless Tin Pan Alley song?
27:39Oh, no, bad luck.
27:42Oh, well.
27:43There we go.
27:43Yes.
27:44Sadly, it was one of our red herrings.
27:46There was a famous Alabama Jubilee, but no Arizona Jamboree.
27:50Do you know...?
27:52I mean, I know some of these songs are real songs.
27:55Take me out of the ballgame.
27:55There's a song.
27:56That is a song.
27:57And that would have scored you one.
28:00In which case, I'm going to go for I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
28:03and Bill Bailey, won't you please come home,
28:05is our two pointless answers.
28:06And you are correct.
28:07Absolutely correct.
28:08Those two are.
28:09So, yes, Bill Bailey, won't you please come home,
28:12is actually a Tin Pan Alley song.
28:13So, Wendy Darling was one of our red herrings.
28:16Of course, Wendy Darling is a character in Peter Pan.
28:19She's a Peter Pan ally.
28:23Did you get it?
28:23Good.
28:24Yeah.
28:26Cool. Thank you so much.
28:27Well, listen, that made up for the fact
28:28we didn't get any pointless answers.
28:30I think we are agreed.
28:31Let's play The Head to Head.
28:54Thank you very much indeed.
28:59Let's reveal our five Susan facts.
29:01And here they are.
29:02We have...
29:03US singer who recorded the 1991 UK Top 40 single,
29:07My Name Is Not Susan.
29:08Susan Sarandon was Oscar nominated for playing this character
29:11alongside Geena Davis's Thelma in a 1991 film.
29:15Susan was a dog of this breed given to the future Queen Elizabeth
29:18the second on her 18th birthday.
29:21Adjective that precedes Susan in the name of a revolving tray
29:24placed on a table.
29:26And surname of Susan, as well as her siblings, Lucy, Peter and Edmund
29:30in The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
29:35There we are.
29:36Now, Hetty and Katie, you're our low scorers,
29:37so you get to go first.
29:39OK.
29:40We think we know all but one,
29:42but we're going to go with the bottom one,
29:45the surname of Susan as Pevensey.
29:48Pevensey, say Hetty and Katie.
29:51Sid and Emma, what would you like to go for?
29:53Do you want to talk us through the board?
29:54So, we only know a couple of them.
29:56We think it's Thelma and Louise.
29:58And Queen Elizabeth's dog breed corgi we're going to go for,
30:02but we'll go for Thelma and Louise.
30:03You're going to go for Louise.
30:05So, we have Pevensey versus Louise.
30:07Hetty and Katie went for Pevensey,
30:09the surname in the Narnia books.
30:11How many of our 100 said that?
30:15Pevensey is right.
30:21That's a great answer.
30:22Very well done.
30:23Ten for Pevensey.
30:24Meanwhile, we've got Louise from Sid and Emma.
30:27Shall we see how many of our 100 people said that?
30:33Louise is right.
30:3733 for Louise.
30:38Very well done indeed.
30:39A clear win there for Hetty and Katie.
30:41After one question, you're up 1-0.
30:43Excellent.
30:44So, the US singer that we're looking for is Whitney Houston,
30:47which would have scored you the lowest amount,
30:50which is eight.
30:51And then next we have corgi, 39.
30:54And then the adjective is lazy.
30:57That's what we're looking for with 34.
30:59Now, did you know all subsequent corgis bred by the Queen
31:03were descended from Susan?
31:06No.
31:07All of them.
31:08They were Welsh corgis, weren't they?
31:09Were they Welsh?
31:10I think so.
31:10Can you do a Welsh accent?
31:12That's the second time I've asked you.
31:13The second time we've asked.
31:14And the second time you're going to decline?
31:15No.
31:16OK.
31:16I shall not.
31:17There we go.
31:19We did it.
31:19Hey!
31:21Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
31:23Well, here comes our second question.
31:25Sid and Emma, you get to answer it first.
31:26You've got to win it, though, to stay in the game, so good luck.
31:29Our second question is all about...
31:33OK.
31:35So, we're going to show you five pictures of birds
31:38with V-shaped or notched tails.
31:40We'll also give you the alternate letters of their names.
31:43Please tell us the most obscure bird.
31:46Thank you very much indeed.
31:47Let's reveal our five birds.
31:48And here they come.
31:49We have...
31:49A.
31:51S-A-L-W
31:55B.
31:57B-A-K-D-O-G
32:02C.
32:03S-I-S-R-T-I-E-F-Y-A-C-E
32:11D.
32:12D.
32:12A-C-I-T-R.
32:16And E.
32:18S-I-T.
32:22There we are.
32:23Sid and Emma, you will go first.
32:26I don't know.
32:28Yeah, do you want to go?
32:29Come on.
32:31We're going to go for D as Arctic Turn.
32:34Arctic Turn for D.
32:36Very good.
32:37Now, Hetty and Katie, do you feel like talking us through the rest of that board?
32:40I think no two of them.
32:42Yes.
32:42Swallow and Swift.
32:43Yeah.
32:44What do you think?
32:44I think Swift.
32:45I'm going to go E.
32:46You're going to go E-Swift.
32:48So, we have Arctic Turn versus Swift.
32:50Sid and Emma went Arctic Turn.
32:52Let's see if that is right for D.
32:54How many of our 100 people said it?
32:57Arctic Turn is right.
33:02Down it goes to 19.
33:06Meanwhile, Hetty and Katie have gone for E and are saying Swift.
33:10How many of our 100 said that?
33:14Swift is right.
33:18That goes down to 38.
33:19Well done, Sid and Emma.
33:21Back in the game after two questions, it's one all.
33:23Excellent.
33:24Hetty and Katie, you made the right decision.
33:26Because Swift was better than Swallow, which you guessed correctly,
33:29which would have been worth 56.
33:33Next.
33:34Oh, I'm going to go in on B.
33:35Oh, go!
33:35Let's go, let's go.
33:36The Black Drongo.
33:38Excellent.
33:39You think I wasn't going to come in on that.
33:41Oh, no, no, no, no.
33:42You're totally right.
33:42And that was worth two.
33:44But do you know this?
33:45I don't.
33:47This is a scissor-tailed flycatcher, which was our pointless answer.
33:52Beautiful.
33:53There we are.
33:53Thank you very much indeed.
33:55Right.
33:55All comes down to a third question.
33:56Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays with that jackpot.
33:58Best of luck, everybody.
34:00Our third question is all about...
34:04Abbreviations in finance and economics.
34:06OK.
34:07So, we're going to show you five sets of initials that are used in the world of finance and economics.
34:13We'll also tell you the words that these initials stand for, but we've missed out the last word in each
34:20case.
34:21Please tell us the missing word that you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.
34:26Best of luck.
34:27Thank you very much indeed.
34:28Let's reveal our five clues to these finance and economics abbreviations.
34:47There we are.
34:49Hetty and Katie will go first.
34:52What should we go for?
34:56We're not feeling confident, but we're going to go for one we think we know, which is APR rate.
35:02Rate.
35:03And your percentage rate.
35:05Now, Sid and Emma, would you like to talk us through that board?
35:09So, we think RIP is recommended retail price.
35:13And GNP, we think, is gross national product.
35:16And then ROI, we think, is return on investment.
35:18So, we'd like to go for investment for the bottom one.
35:21OK.
35:22Return on investment, say Sid and Emma.
35:24So, rate versus investment.
35:26Hetty and Katie went for rate for annual percentage rate.
35:29How many of our 100 said that?
35:32Rate is right.
35:36Down to 51.
35:39Meanwhile, Sid and Emma are going for investment.
35:43Return on investment.
35:47That is absolutely right.
35:50And it wins you the point and gets you into the final.
35:53Very well done indeed.
35:5333 it goes down to.
35:55It means, after three questions, you are through to the final.
35:572-1.
35:58Excellent.
35:59Congratulations.
36:00So, what we have left, RRP, recommended retail price,
36:04which scored 72.
36:06We have EPS, earnings per share, which scored 25.
36:11And finally, gross national product, which scored 40.
36:15Thank you very much indeed.
36:16That brings us to the end of our head-to-head.
36:17It means we say goodbye to our golden pair, Hetty and Katie.
36:20And you'll be back next time.
36:21And we'll look forward to seeing you then.
36:22Thank you so much for playing.
36:23Hetty and Katie.
36:25For Sid and Emma, though, it is now time for the Pointless Point.
36:32Congratulations, Sid and Emma.
36:34You have fought off all the competition and you have won
36:36our coveted Pointless trophy.
36:43You now have a chance to win the Pointless jackpot.
36:46At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £1,000.
36:51The question is, what would you like to come up?
36:53What's going to help you win that?
36:54I think maybe something science or geography or...
36:59For me, some bits of sport, maybe Formula One or football.
37:02I mean, these are all grist to the Pointless mill.
37:04Let's see, let's hope one of the four categories we put up here
37:07appeals to you.
37:08Today's selection is this.
37:21What do we think?
37:22What do you think?
37:23It's female rappers, surely.
37:26I think we'd really struggle with female rappers.
37:29And the horse racing one, I think, is out.
37:31I think we're kind of left with geography.
37:33Yeah.
37:34It's what you asked for.
37:35I think we have to go for that one.
37:37I'll go for that one.
37:37Yeah, let's go for perfect ten.
37:38Perfect ten geography.
37:40Excellent.
37:40We are looking for the name of any country that has exactly ten letters in its name.
37:47Or any national capital city that has exactly ten letters in its name.
37:52In each case, that's the usual short form names in English.
37:55And ten letters, whether the name comprises of one word or more.
37:59As always, by country, we mean a sovereign state that is a member of the UN in its own right.
38:05Good luck.
38:07Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
38:11All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers to be pointless.
38:14If you come up with three pointless answers, we will throw in a £500 bonus.
38:19Are you ready?
38:20Yes.
38:20Good.
38:20Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
38:22There they are.
38:23Your time starts now.
38:25What have you got?
38:26What have you got?
38:26Countries.
38:27I think one's got ten letters now.
38:30I think T-A-T-I-K-S-T-A.
38:32I thought Tajikistan, but that's nine.
38:34Paramaribo.
38:37Paramaribo.
38:38Is that one?
38:40Is that how it's pronounced Paramaribo?
38:42Stick with that as a capital.
38:43El Salvador?
38:44Is that ten?
38:46Maybe ten.
38:47El Salvador.
38:50Try it as ten.
38:51Yeah.
38:53Um...
38:55Addis Ababa.
38:56How many's that got?
38:57Maybe around that.
38:58Addis Ababa.
38:59P-B-A-A.
39:00Yeah.
39:00Ten.
39:01Addis Ababa.
39:02Give me more time to think, because we have one country and two capitals, don't we?
39:06T-A-J-Z-A-T-A-T-T-A-T-T-A-T-A-T.
39:09I think it's got nine.
39:11El Salvador, you said.
39:12Yeah.
39:13That's a country.
39:14Ten seconds left.
39:16And then Paramaribo, what's the last one? Addis Ababa.
39:19Mm.
39:20Okay.
39:20Should we go with that?
39:21Should we go with that?
39:21Yeah.
39:24There we are.
39:25Your time is up.
39:25And I liked the way you just stood serenely for the last five of those seconds.
39:29You had it all. You had it all with room to spare.
39:31Let's have your three answers.
39:33And if you could say in each case, which category?
39:34So, we're going to go for a country as El Salvador.
39:37El Salvador.
39:38And then capitals,
39:41Paramaribo. Paramaribo.
39:42And Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa.
39:44Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
39:47Probably Paramaribo.
39:49Paramaribo we'll put last. Least likely to be pointless?
39:51El Salvador. El Salvador.
39:53And Addis Ababa goes in the middle.
39:55OK, well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
39:57And here they are.
39:59El Salvador, Addis Ababa, Paramaribo.
40:03If one of these turns out to be pointless and wins you £1,000,
40:06what would you like to do with that?
40:09So, we have a baby on the way,
40:10so I'd like to put the money towards the shopping list.
40:14Yes, absolutely. Have you got anything yet?
40:16Just a few bits of clothes. Yeah.
40:18But we need the expensive stuff.
40:19You do need the changing table. Yes.
40:21That's when it all comes real. The travel system.
40:24Yes, all of that. Yes, absolutely.
40:26Well, money very, very well spent.
40:28And congratulations. Thank you.
40:29Your first answer was El Salvador.
40:31Let's find out how many of our 100 people went for that
40:34as a country with ten letters in its name.
40:36El Salvador. Is it pointless?
40:40It's right.
40:42Well... It counted right.
40:44So far, so good.
40:45Still going down.
40:47El Salvador down through the teens.
40:48Is it pointless down through the single...
40:50Oh, three.
40:54Not a pointless answer.
40:55So we now turn to Addis Ababa.
40:57Let's see how many of our 100 people named Addis Ababa as a capital city
41:01with ten letters in its name.
41:05Addis Ababa.
41:06Absolutely spot on.
41:09If it goes all the way down to zero, you leave here with £1,000 in your pockets.
41:12Down we go into single figures with Addis Ababa.
41:14Still going down.
41:15Still going down with Addis Ababa.
41:16There's one.
41:20How did they have time to do this?
41:22They've been counting all the letters.
41:24And I thought these were absolute shoe-ins, I have to say, but there we are.
41:28Paramaribo is your third and final, and you thought your best shot at a pointless answer.
41:34Let's see how many of our 100 people said Paramaribo.
41:36Please, can it be pointless?
41:39Well, he's right.
41:42Your first answer, El Salvador, went down to three.
41:45Your second answer, Addis Ababa, went down to one.
41:48Paramaribo, taking us down through the single figures.
41:50Still going down, still going down, still going down.
41:51You've done it! Look at that!
41:52Very well done, indeed.
41:54Perfect.
41:56Beautifully ordered as well, but crucially, Paramaribo is pointless,
42:00and it means you have won £1,000.
42:03Very well done, indeed, Susan.
42:05Congratulations.
42:06Well done, well done.
42:07So, you were so good at quickly coming up with answers that had exactly ten letters.
42:12Paramaribo, as I'm sure you know, is the capital of Suriname.
42:15Let's have a look at some other pointless answers,
42:18starting with countries with ten letters in their names.
42:21You could have had Azerbaijan, Mozambique, South Korea, the Bahamas.
42:26And the only scoring answers were New Zealand, Luxembourg, Bangladesh, El Salvador, which you said,
42:32Madagascar, Kazakhstan, and Timor-Leste.
42:36Every other country with ten letters in its name was pointless.
42:39Now, moving on to capital cities with ten letters in their names.
42:44Here are some of the pointless answers.
42:46You could have said Bratislava, Luxembourg, Montevideo, Panama City.
42:52The only scoring answers here were Copenhagen, Georgetown, Addis Ababa, Bridgetown, Mexico City, and Wellington.
43:01Every other ten-letter capital was pointless.
43:04Very, very well done at home if you got a pointless answer.
43:07Thank you very much indeed, Susan.
43:08And thanks once again to our winning players, Sid and Emma,
43:10who continue our winning streak and take away today's jackpot of £1,000.
43:15Very well done.
43:17Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on pointless.
43:21Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Susan.
43:22Goodbye.
43:23And it's goodbye from me.
43:24Goodbye.
43:53I'll see you next time.
43:55Bye.
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