Pointless Celebrities (2010) s11e12 Episode Script
BBC Music Day
1 APPLAUSE Thank you very much indeed.
Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and a very warm welcome to this special BBC Music Day edition of Pointless Celebrities, the game where we aim for the obscure and we ignore the obvious.
Let's meet this evening's Pointless celebrities.
APPLAUSE And couple number one Hello, I am Shaun Keaveny from BBC Radio 6 Music.
And I'm Lianne La Havas, a singer from London.
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couple number two Hi, I'm Ella Eyre and I'm a singer from London.
Hi, I'm Clara Amfo and I'm a presenter of BBC Radio 1.
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couple number three Hello, I'm Suzy Klein from BBC Radio 3.
And I'm Lesley Garrett, a kind of user-friendly opera singer.
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and finally, couple number four.
Hi, I'm Amy Macdonald and I'm a singer-songwriter from Glasgow.
And I'm Chris Hawkins, a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Thank you all very much indeed.
Wonderful to have you all here.
We'll get a chance to chat further throughout the show, of course, as it goes along.
So that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
He's recording an album of geography-themed covers from the '80s, including Wake Me Up Before You Togo, I Just Called To Say Vanuatu, and Every Little Thing She Does Is The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard! Hiya.
Hi, everybody! Good evening.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Happy BBC Music Day to you.
And right back to you! You've got bunting around your Oh, have I? .
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around your desk.
I can never really see, I'm sure it's lovely.
Oh, lovely to have you all here.
A lot of faces that say, "I really regret coming on the show," currently looking back at me at the moment.
Yeah.
A lot of nerves.
But a very glamorous line-up.
I mean, look at some of the stuff people are wearing.
Look at Shaun Keaveny.
Doesn't he look amazing? It's just coincidence that I'm wearing that.
Lovely to have you all here.
Of course, we have one very classy podium, that's podium three.
We've got Radio 3 and opera, so they're clearly going to win.
But lovely to have everyone else here as well.
You know what, they might not win because we've got two very, very good players here who've been here before.
Shaun Keaveny has been here before.
Uh-huh.
Got himself a pointless answer.
Wow.
But then also got knocked out in Round One.
Yes.
Wow.
We don't talk about That's So, Lianne, he'll be relying on you not to get him knocked out.
And Clara Amfo.
Hello.
Jackpot winner.
I know.
Yeah, how about that? She's got a trophy.
She's got a jackpot.
Oh, it's going to be so exciting.
Oh, I mean, it's Yeah.
I can't think of a better way to celebrate BBC Music Day.
Now as this evening's show is a celebrity special, each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.
Nice of them.
We're going to start off with an enhanced jackpot of ã2,500.
There we are.
Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
The only thing you have to remember is this - the pair with the highest score at the end of each round gets eliminated.
So just make sure your score is lovely and low and you'll be absolutely fine.
Best of luck to all four pairs.
Our first category this evening is Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.
And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, and our Theatre question concerns Olivier or Tony Award winners.
Richard? Yeah, it's not as scary as it sounds.
We're simply going to show you 16 famous people on the board.
They've all won Olivier or Tony awards.
But who are they, please? Very best of luck.
Thank you very much.
As Richard said, we'll put this board up, it's going to remain there for the whole round.
We won't be changing halfway through the round.
16 images, you just have to shout out the name of anyone you think you recognise on this screen.
Here are those people.
16 faces.
Ooh.
All of them either Olivier and/or Tony Award winners.
Just let you digest that board.
Shaun, welcome back to Pointless.
Good to be back.
Good to have you with us again.
And what's the first record you bought, Shaun? It was Anarchy In The UK by the Oh, no, it wasn't, it was St Winifred's School Choir.
"Grandma, we love you.
" What was your first-ever record? Yeah.
Swords Of A Thousand Men.
Tenpole Tudor.
Same.
Yeah? Exactly the same.
How weird is that? Yeah.
Then my second one was Green Door by Shakin' Stevens, which is slightly less cool.
I did also buy (Do) The Hucklebuck by "If you don't know how to do it then you're out of luck," yeah.
"Twist and run around.
" THEY HUM TUNE OF (DO) THE HUCKLEBUCK That's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
Yeah! So what was it? What do you think it really was? I think it wasit could have been Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello, actually.
That's great.
That would be moderately cool.
Yeah.
It's an amazing single, isn't it? Yeah.
We had the Dansette and everything, you know.
The stackable Dansette.
Stack them up! Yeah.
There was just a sweet way the arm would come and sort of kiss the edge of the record, it would drop down.
Aah! That's a very romantic recollection, that, Alexander, yes.
Very nice.
Shaun, who are you going to go for on our board here? This is tough.
Yeah.
I've got a I'm getting the blank now.
I'm getting the blank because there's one that I'm just going to go for it.
I love this sort of Wilkinson pose here.
Oh, this is reallythis is extremely high-risk, this.
Because I could go safe but I'm not, I'm going to go for Sidney Poitier.
Let's see, Sidney Poitier.
Let's see if that's right.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Sidney Poitier.
" It's not Sidney Poitier! Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Shaun.
Oh! I'm sorry.
That scores 100 points.
Sorry, Shaun.
What an unusual Pointless career you've had, Shaun, thus far.
That's what I wanted to go for, the contrast.
Yeah.
I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.
Clara, welcome back.
Hello.
Lovely to have you with us again.
Nice to be back.
How did it all start for you? Music? Oh, goodness me.
Your career? My career was just me just not being able to stop talking, and me liking music a lot and just forcing people to let me do that professionally.
So, yeah.
I used to work in the office at a radio station, I was always arguing with my old head of music about the songs we should be playing, then he decided to shut me up and give me a job.
"Why don't you do it, then?!" So it was literally that? Pretty much.
And a lot of hard work.
Yeah.
A lot of hard work.
Yeah.
Now, Clara, who are you going to go for on our board.
I .
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am going to go for Bernadette Peters.
Bernadette Peters? Yes.
Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Bernadette Peters.
On this occasion, though, that is absolutely right.
Bernadette Peters, down it goes .
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to two! Oh! Very well done indeed.
Two for Bernadette Peters.
Very well played, Clara, terrific start to the show for you.
There she is in the top row.
She's won three Tonys, Bernadette Peters, including for Annie Get Your Gun.
Thank you very much indeed.
Lesley, welcome to Pointless.
Wonderful to have you here with us.
I'm very excited.
What's your earliest music memory, Lesley? My earliest music memory would be round the piano at home with my family.
We made lots of music in our house.
I was born in Thorne, which is on the South Yorkshire coal field, and everybody sang, everybody played something.
There were brass bands everywhere and choirs everywhere.
So I think my earliest remembrance of music is in the community, is just all of us getting together and doing it.
And it's been like that ever since, really.
And I just think making music is the closest thing to heaven, really.
Well, beautifully said, Lesley.
Who would you like to go for on our board? Well, I'm going to go a bit old school, I think.
So I'm going to go for Dick Van Dyke.
Dick Van Dyke, says Lesley, let's see how many of our 100 people said Dick Van Dyke.
Dick Van Dyke is absolutely right.
100 is our highest score, two is our low score.
28 for Dick Van Dyke! Not bad at all.
Yeah, a Tony Award winner.
He was also given a special BAFTA and he took the occasion, 2017, he took that occasion to apologise for his Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
That was overdue.
He apologised to the British people.
Isn't that sweet? Oh, that's nice.
Thank you, Richard.
Pleasure.
Amy, welcome to Pointless.
Hi.
Wonderful to have you.
Now how did it all start for you? Michael Jackson was my first true musical love.
That was my first-ever concert.
But I taught myself to play the guitar after seeing the Scottish band Travis headline at T in the Park festival.
And after that I just wanted to play the guitar, so that's where it started.
So live music sort of got you? Yeah.
Yeah, just seeing them on the stage, seeing them play all their instruments and just belt out the songs, it was really inspiring.
But your big start is wonderfully old school, because you sent a demo off to .
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you were replying to an advert in the NME? I did, yes.
NME magazine used to always have adverts in the back of it, and I would literally scour them every week.
Yeah.
And I sent a demo off and, from then, I signed a record contract with Universal Music, so Within how long after you sent off the demo? It was less than a year.
That's amazing.
Yeah, so That's so exciting! It was pretty old school.
Uh-huh.
Now, Amy.
Oh! We turn our attention to our Tony and Olivier Award winners.
There is one that I think could be pointless, but I'm not entirely sure that I've got the name right.
So I'm going to just go easy because Shaun's helped me out here.
SHE LAUGHS I think I'm going to go for Scarlett Johansson.
Scarlett Johansson, let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Scarlett Johansson.
" It is right.
100 still the high score, two still the low.
And you end up on 18.
Not bad at all, Amy.
Very well done.
Well played, Amy.
Won a Tony for her Broadway debut in A View From The Bridge.
Very good.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
We are halfway through our round.
Let's have a look at our scores.
Two, Clara, if you please.
Just showing all that form again.
Hey! The best score of the pass, very well done indeed.
Then 18 is where we find Amy and Chris, not bad.
28, Lesley and Suzy.
Oh, Lianne and Shaun, I'm so sorry.
You're currently on 100, you are our high-scorers.
Lianne, a lovely low score from you, just in case.
Good luck with that.
We're going to come back down the line now.
Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK.
Now then, Chris, welcome to Pointless.
Now Chris, tell us about BBC Music Day.
It's an amazing celebration, all packed into one day.
A fantastic way to celebrate the power of music for all ages and all different genres as well.
This is right across all the different BBC platforms? All across the UK, every genre of music and all over the BBC.
I think this is, is this the fourth year it's been going? Yeah, and it gets bigger and bigger every single year.
Fantastic.
Now, Chris, there you are, you're on 18.
It means, even at this early stage of proceedings Yeah.
If you can score 81 or less, Round Two awaits.
All to lose, then, isn't it? Yeah.
OK, I think I'm going to go British.
But I thinkthe problem is I'm not 100% sure it's him, but I'm going to just take a punt .
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on Matthew Kelly.
"Matthew Kelly," says Chris.
Yeah.
A lot of nodding.
Let's see.
There's your red line, Chris.
If you get below that with Matthew Kelly, Round Two beckons.
Let's see how many people said, "Matthew Kelly.
" It very much is Matthew Kelly.
And you are very much in Round Two.
There we are.
Down it goes to 17! Not bad at all.
Taking your total up to 35.
Good work, Chris.
Yeah, the brilliant Matthew Kelly won an Olivier Award for his work hosting You Bet! LAUGHTER Not really.
No.
He played Lenny in Of Mice And Men.
He did.
Thank you very much.
Suzy, welcome.
Hello.
Lovely to have you here.
Your career has been interesting because you, I mean, you started out, you degree was music.
Yep.
Then you went into production.
But not music production, you went into sort of current affairs.
Anyway, you've now been brought back to music and as a presenter.
How did you make the jump? It was entirely unintentional.
I was producing period dramas for the BBC and doing bits and pieces like producing the Proms, and then suddenly somebody dropped out of the screen test.
And I happened to have bothered to wash my hair that day - which is not always the case - and I thought, "Oh, just sit down and have a go and read the autocue," because we've got nothing to do for 20 minutes.
And I really enjoyed it.
And I suddenly thought, "If this is genuinely a job ".
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why has nobody told me about it?" And it seemed so much easier than doing a proper job.
I know! I just thought, "I quite fancy this.
" Yeah.
Well, now, Suzy, you're on 28.
If you can score 71 or less, you're through.
I know who the man is in the top left corner and just so closely have the name on the tip of my tongue! And it's driving me mad.
Yeah.
Me, too.
So I'm not going to go for him.
So I'm going to go for the person in the exact diagonal opposite bottom right there, and I'm going to say that I think that is the impeccably elegantly-dressed Yul Brynner.
"Yul Brynner," says Suzy.
Here is your red line, can you get below this red line with Yul Brynner? Let's find out.
It is Yul Brynner.
You are in Round Two.
Yay! Down it goes to 32, taking your total up to 60.
APPLAUSE Well played, Suzy.
Yeah, he won a Tony for his role in The King And I.
He then won an Oscar for the film adaptation of it as well.
And then won a special Tony after he'd done 4,500 performances on Broadway of The King And I.
4,500? Yeah.
Can you imagine? Wow! Wow-ee.
Ella, it's lovely to have you here.
Thank you.
It's lovely to be here.
Before you went into music, you were a competitive swimmer.
I was, yeah.
Wow! How long were you doing that for? Um I was doing it for as long as I remember.
I quit when I was 13.
Yeah.
But by the time I quit, I was doing about three to four hours of training a day.
As well as going to school and dance after school as well.
Yeah.
Then I left and I went to the Brit School in Croydon and I studied musical theatre, so I should be good at this round.
You should be.
Should be.
97 or less keeps you in the game.
I know and I'm really I feel like I know a lot of their faces but I'm rubbish with names, so You've got this.
You reckon? I reckon so.
OK.
Viola Davis? Viola Davis.
Yes.
OK, "Viola Davis," says Ella.
Here is your redline.
Can you get below this redline I hope so.
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with Viola Davis? Let's find out how many people said it.
It's right and you're through.
Very well done.
Look at that, down to 1! APPLAUSE Podium two are on fire, taking your total up to 3.
Very well done indeed.
I mean, three points between two answers is very, very impressive on podium two, well done.
She's another one, she won her Tony for her role in Fences and then went on to win the Oscar for the same role.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Now, Lianne, welcome.
I'm so sorry.
Hi.
I've got to welcome you while you've got a big red 100 on your podium already.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
I'm sorry.
It's great to have you here! Thank you.
How did it all start for you? I started singing when I was about seven years old.
Yeah.
And I really liked the movie Sister Act 2.
MURMURS OF AGREEMEN I became obsessed with Lauryn Hill after that and I tried to, like, sing like what I heard on the film.
You got to sing with Prince.
I did.
How did that come about? I just got a call from my manager that day, saying, listen, you need to have your phone on you, Prince is going to call.
And then I went out and forgot my phone.
As you do! And then, basically, we got Prince to call my friend's phone, and I answered the phone outside of this bar that we were in, I was on the street.
And it was this really low voice that said, hello.
And I was like, "Hello?" I said, "Can I just check who this is?" And he said, "I think you know who this is.
" In the end you got to sing with him? Yes.
You went out to Paisley Park? We became friends after that.
I went to Paisley Park.
We performed live together on Saturday Night Live.
And, yeah, I sang with him various random occasions.
And it was very, very, very amazing.
Incredible.
Lianne, do you want to talk us through that board? Have a shot at as many of those as you like.
I know who a few of them are.
I think I'm going to go, oh, I don't know.
It's between two.
I'm going to try Billie Piper.
"Billie Piper," says Lianne.
No red line for you, I'm afraid, as you are the highest scorers.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Billie Piper.
" It's right.
Not bad.
Look at that, down to 14.
Very well done indeed.
Oh! Lianne, that takes your total up to 114.
Well played, Lianne.
Nice way to end the round.
Let down by your partner, I'm afraid.
Yeah.
But, you know.
Again.
Now, Shaun Yeah.
The one you thought was Sidney Poitier, you're going to kick yourself.
Yeah.
Dame Judi Dench.
Oh! That was on the tip of my tongue, man! Yeah.
How embarrassing.
That would have scored you 68 points, Dame Judi.
Shall we go through the rest now? The top left is a pointless answer.
He played Alan Bennett in the Lady In The Van but he's won three Olivier awards.
You must have worked with him at some point.
Alex Jennings.
Yes.
Alex Jennings.
A pointless answer.
Very well done if you said that.
Next to Bernadette Peters is Idina Menzel, the voice of Elsa in Frozen, would have scored you five points.
This next gentleman is Harry Belafonte.
Oh! Yeah.
Harry Belafonte, absolutely.
11 points.
Next to Harry Belafonte Ingrid Bergman.
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Ingrid Bergman, would have scored you 11.
Next to Judi Dench is Hugh Jackman.
I was going to say Marti Pellow! 21 points.
Then we have Helen Mirren.
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Helen Mirren.
Correct.
56 points for Helen Mirren.
Then Ian McKellen.
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Sir Ian McKellen would have scored 23.
And anyone for this next one? Pointless answer? Does it begin with a T? Oh No! LAUGHTER Won his Tony for his role as Aaron Burr, in Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr.
That's it! That's a pointless answer.
Very well done if you said that.
Very good indeed.
Thank you, Richard.
We are at the end of our first round.
That means we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs.
Lianne and Shaun, I'm so sorry.
Far too soon to be sending you home.
14 was a brilliant score, Lianne.
I should have gone first.
Yeah.
You should have.
Thank you so much, Lianne and Shaun.
Wonderful to have you here.
APPLAUSE But for our remaining three pairs, it is now time for Round Two.
Well done, everybody.
We've made it through to Round Two.
This is very exciting indeed but, no, fabulous scoring there.
Very well done, as I say, brilliant to have you all here.
Best of luck to all three pairs.
Our category for Round Two this evening is Can you all decide, in your pairs, who's going to go first, who's going to go second? And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, and the question concerns Richard.
On each board we are going to show you the names of six different animals or symbols that are the national symbols of various countries outside of the UK.
Just need to tell us what country these things are symbols of, please.
Six on the first board, six on the second.
As always, by country, we mean a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right and all of these are taken from the CIA World Fact Book.
OK, so let's reveal our first board of six symbols or animals and here they are.
We have got I'll read those again.
So, then, Ella.
Which of those do you fancy going for? I know three, but I'm trying to decide which one I think is going to be the lowest.
I'm going to go with maple leaf, Canada.
"Canada," says Ella, for maple leaf.
Let's see if that's right.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Canada.
" It's right.
GASPING FROM AUDIENCE It's right.
APPLAUSE Definitely right.
It's a really obvious one.
Yeah, 92 of our 100 got that.
Yes, that's what we call officially, it's a bit of a Shaun Keaveny of an answer! It's on the flag, isn't it, maple leaf? Yeah, yeah.
Thank you very much.
Suzy.
So, I'm pretty confident that Angkor Wat temple is Cambodia.
"Cambodia," says Suzy, for Angkor Wat temple.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
It is Cambodia.
92's the highest score.
You've passed that comfortably.
Oh, look at that.
13.
Very well done indeed, Suzy.
Well played, Suzy.
Built in the 12th century, the Angkor Wat temple.
Thank you very much, Richard.
Now, Amy, this board's all yours.
Do you want to talk us through as many of those as you like? I don't think we'll be here very long, me talking you through it! I think I'm just going to have to go with the Star of David and Israel.
"Israel," says Amy, for Star of David.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
It's right.
78, not bad.
Could have been a lot higher.
Yeah, let's clear up the other big scorer on that board which was kiwi, which is New Zealand, of course.
It scores even more than Canada, New Zealand, would have scored you 94 points.
These other two are the best answers.
Zebra is Namibia.
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Botswana.
Botswana.
Not a million miles away.
No.
Would've scored you two points.
And the gyrfalcon is a national symbol, very well done, one point if you said, "Iceland.
" Iceland.
Oh, yeah.
That's the answer.
Wonderful.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
We're halfway through our round.
Let's have a look at those scores.
13, Suzy.
What about that? Brilliant score there.
We then travel up to 78 where we find Amy and Chris and then 92 where we find Ella and Clara.
We're going to come back down the line now.
Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK, let's put six more symbols or animals up on the board and here they come.
We have got I'll read those all again.
Chris.
What are we thinking? Well, my mind's gone blank but I'm not sure that I know any others, other than Ireland.
For? The shamrock, sorry.
For the shamrock.
"Ireland," says Chris.
Let's see.
Here is your red line.
Your red line is quite low.
Let's see how close to that red line you get with Ireland.
It's right.
Oh, the door's opened a chink there for Clara and Ella.
That scores 90.
Takes your total up to 168.
Yeah, I think you were pretty lucky to score 90.
That is ten people going, "Shamrock? No, doesn't ring a bell.
"Doesn't ring a bell.
" Now, Lesley, look at that, you're through to the next round.
A brilliant score from Suzy.
Yes.
And that, combined with a high score from Chris and Amy behind you.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter what you score here.
Even 100 points sees you into the next round.
Really? Oh, great.
OK.
Then I can play it dead safe, I think, and go for giant panda, China.
Giant panda, China.
Stands to reason, surely? No red line.
You're already through.
How many people said, "China"? It is China.
And down it goes to 80.
Taking your total up to 93.
APPLAUSE You know they're no longer endangered, giant pandas? They're still vulnerable, but they've been reclassified.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, wow.
The Chinese have been so successful In their breeding? Yeah, exactly.
That's good news, isn't it? That's lovely.
Ah! That's just improved the whole round.
Clara.
Man! Now, listen, we've got a competition on our hands here.
75 or less.
It's lovely to meet you all.
I think I might know the red and white checkerboard but, again, I could be very, very wrong.
I'm going to say bald eagle and the United States.
Bald eagle and United States.
Here is your red line.
You have to do get below that red line with the USA.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said the US for the bald eagle.
It's right.
Oh.
And you've done it! 74! Look at that.
Beautifully judged, if I may say.
166 is your total.
You are through to the head-to-head.
Well done.
Oh, well played, Clara.
Very nicely done.
23 different countries have eagles, but the USA, the only one with a bald eagle.
Another species that used to be endangered but is no longer, so that's good news.
That's nice.
If you had to go for the red and white checkerboard, what would you have said? Croatia.
Is the correct answer, as well.
That would have been a lovely low score, 12 points for Croatia.
It's on their football kit, it's on the flag.
Yeah.
Now, the dodo is Mauritius.
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Mauritius, yeah.
And that would have scored you 11 points.
And the best answer, the fennec fox, very well done if you said Algeria.
Two points for Algeria.
Thank you, Richard.
At the end of our second round, we have to say goodbye to another of our pairs.
Chris and Amy, I'm afraid we have to say goodbye to you.
Thank you for coming to play.
It's been lovely having you here.
Thank you for having us.
Chris and Amy.
Thank you.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE But for our two remaining pairs, it is now time for the head-to-head.
So, here we are in the head-to-head of our BBC Music Day special.
Very exciting.
Congratulations, Suzy and Lesley, Ella and Clara.
You're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot currently standing at ã2,500.
APPLAUSE This is where you have to decide who's going to go through to the final and play for the jackpot.
We do it by making you go head-to-head.
The big difference is you are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
You can have a good chat.
And the first pair in this round to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.
This is going to be so exciting.
Best of luck to both pairs.
Let's play the head-to-head.
Here is your first question.
And it concerns Richard.
We're going to play you five clips of songs that later became top 40 hits for other artists.
These are the originals.
Can you tell us who performed these originals, please? Excellent.
Let's have a listen to our five clips, and here they come.
We have extract A.
# The minor fall, the major lift # The battle king composing hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Here is B.
# And I will always love you I will always love you.
Here's C.
# Girl, you'll be a woman soon # Love you so much, can't count all of the ways I'd die for you, girl And all they can say is he's not your kind.
Here's D.
# We had divine scent to know what to say # Mind is a razor blade # To call for hands of above to lean on Wouldn't be good enough for me, no.
And here is E.
# Along the watchtower # Princes kept the view # While all the women came and went # Their foot servants too # Outside in the distance A wildcat did growl.
OK, there we go.
And we come to you, Suzy and Lesley, as our low scorers, first.
WHISPERS: Leonard Cohen, because he's more niche than the other five.
OK.
Yes.
OK.
We're going to go for A, Leonard Cohen.
"Leonard Cohen" Yeah.
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say Suzy and Lesley, for A.
Leonard Cohen.
Ella and Clara, it looks like you landed on that one, as well.
Yeah.
Do you want to talk us through the others? B, Dolly Parton.
One of them was Neil Diamond, I believe.
Oh.
I think it was Neil Diamond.
Or was it Roy Orbison? Oh! Um Shall we go for Dolly or go for Neil? What do you reckon? How confident are you that it's Neil? I could be wrong.
Maybe just keep it safe? I think we're going to be safe Yeah.
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and go for Miss Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton for B? Yeah.
So we have Leonard Cohen and we have Dolly Parton.
Yeah.
Suzy and Lesley went for Leonard Cohen for A.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
Leonard Cohen is right.
Ah.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Oh, that is a good one.
Down.
Very well done indeed, Suzy and Lesley.
APPLAUSE Ella and Clara, meanwhile, have gone for Dolly Parton for B.
Let's see if that is right.
Let's see how many people said, "Dolly Parton.
" It is Dolly Parton.
And that goes to 38.
Yeah.
APPLAUSE Well done, Suzy and Lesley.
After one question, you are up 1-0.
Yeah, very well played.
Of course, hits for Alexandra Burke and Jeff Buckley and various others, Hallelujah.
The Dolly Parton song, huge hit for Whitney.
Elvis tried to record it, but Dolly wouldn't let him.
Financial reasons.
But Whitney, obviously, had the last laugh, she made a fortune out of the Whitney version.
Let's have a little listen to C.
Girl Is it Neil Diamond? Is it Roy Orbison? It's Neil Diamond Oh! .
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and would have scored you 2 points.
Oh, man! No! I need to trust my gut more.
Yeah.
Urge Overkill had a hit with that after it was featured in Pulp Fiction soundtrack.
Yeah.
Two points for that.
We didn't know this next one.
D.
We had divine scent To know what to say.
You get rid of the lyrics, you realise that's Heartbeat by Jose Gonzalez.
The Knife.
The Knife was the right answer.
And that was a pointless answer.
Yep.
Did you know that? I did.
What?! And the last one.
All along the watchtower.
Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan.
Of course, All Along The Watchtower.
Later a hit for Jimi Hendrix Experience, would've scored you 25 points.
So you knew all of those, Clara? I actually did.
I need to trust my gut instinct better.
Oh, well.
And a pointless answer.
Anyway, there we are.
We'll put that behind us.
Thank you, Richard.
Here comes your second question.
Ella and Clara, you have to win this to stay in the game, but you get to answer first, slight advantage there.
And our second question concerns Richard.
Yeah, we're going to show you five pictures now with organs of the human body highlighted.
We'll give you the first letter of those organs.
Can you tell us what they are, please? Thank you very much indeed.
Let's reveal our five organs and here they come.
We have got There we are.
Five organs of the human body.
Ella and Clara will go first.
Ah I think it's between A and E.
Not D? I think that's very obvious.
We think.
Yeah, maybe.
We're going to go for A Yeah.
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which is the small intestine.
You said last time you had to go with your gut, so LAUGHTER Well, there we go.
"Small intestine," say Ella and Clara.
Now, Suzy and Lesley, do you want to talk us through that board? Lung, kidney, large intestine, stomach.
Yeah.
Since they've gone for the small intestine, shall we go for the large one, just mix it up a bit? We'll have a larger intestine.
OK.
We're going to go large.
Why not? We have small intestine, we have large intestine.
Ella and Clara have gone for small intestine.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
44 for small intestine.
Suzy and Lesley have gone the large intestine.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
It's right.
Oh! 50 for large intestine.
Well done.
Size isn't everything, it turns out.
So, very well done indeed.
Ella and Clara, after two questions, you're back in the game.
It is 1-1.
Yeah, small intestine is the best answer on the board, could not have beaten it, so, very well done.
Went with my gut.
Your deliberations were quite right.
B is lung.
That would have scored you 88.
Kidney would have scored you 78.
And is it news to anyone else that one's stomach is that high up? Yes! Yes! I thought it was a bit lower down.
That's right underneath your lungs.
That's crazy.
I'm so glad you're not a doctor.
LAUGHTER Would have scored you 60 points if you'd said stomach.
OK, here comes your third question.
I knew this was going to be close and, boy, is it close.
Whoever wins this third question goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot for their charities.
Best of luck to both payers.
Our third question this evening is all about Richard.
Definitions of words that end "-cious", we'll also give you alternate letters of the rest of the word, but what are these words, please? Very best of luck, both teams.
OK, let's reveal our five clues.
Here they come.
We have got I'll read those again.
Suzy and Lesley.
Right.
I think there's only one we haven't got.
It's not the last one.
So we were sort of debating between the first two.
Do you think we should go for the first one? Yeah.
Yeah? Yeah.
I like that one.
We think it is mendacious.
Mendacious.
Not telling the truth, mendacious.
Now, Ella and Clara, do you want to talk us through the rest of those words? I don't know what three is.
I think the second one's tenacious, but I don't know what it means! No, I don't think it actually means I don't think so either.
It doesn't mean that.
We're going to go with precious.
Yeah.
You're going to go with precious? Yes.
We have mendacious, we have precious.
Suzy and Lesley have gone for mendacious.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
Mendacious is right.
Look at that.
Down to ten.
Very well done indeed.
APPLAUSE Ella and Clara, meanwhile, have gone for precious.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Precious.
" Quite a lot.
Precious is right.
Down it goes to 51.
APPLAUSE Which means, after three questions, very well done indeed, Suzy and Lesley, you are through to the final, 2-1.
Yeah, very well played.
Let's take a look, there's one answer that would have beaten mendacious.
It's not the second one.
You were quite right, it is tenacious.
That's what tenacious means.
Oh! Oh! It would've scored you 39 points.
I really didn't think it meant that.
The bottom one wouldn't have won you a point.
It's not a massive score, actually.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
22 points.
ALL: Oh! Obviously panicked a few people amongst our 100.
We can't get this one.
This is the best one.
It's Fugacious.
Fugacious.
That would've scored you two points.
Would never have got that.
I don't know that one.
Thank you very much indeed.
That means the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, Ella and Clara, I'm so sorry it's you.
You've done so well today.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
You've been brilliant from start to finish, it's been a treat having you, thank you for coming.
Ella and Clara, wonderful.
APPLAUSE But, for Suzy and Lesley, it's now time for our Pointless final.
Congratulations, Suzy and Lesley.
You've fought off all the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.
Yes! I always wanted one of those! You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities and, at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at ã2,500.
There it is.
APPLAUSE Well done, you.
A really impressive performance right across the show.
We've had some brilliant low-scoring answers and here you are, we just need a the pointless answer from you in this last round.
Now what's going to help you? What do you want to see come up in this last round? Well, something about classical music or opera or science, I'm very happy with science.
She's very good with words.
Wordy things, maybe bookish, or cinema.
I shouldn't say that because, if it comes up, it's going to be terrible.
Anything will do.
OK, well, the four things will appear on the board.
Let's hope something up here appeals to you.
We've got today That's almost exactly what you asked for, that's uncanny!? I think I'd like to leave now on a high.
Yes.
Can we quit while we're ahead? None of those do it for me.
Right, shall we do Films Set In India? I don't know any.
Are you good with that? Not really.
Let's do that.
Let's have Films Set In India.
OK.
Very best of luck.
Three classic films here.
Hopefully you will have seen at least one of them.
Hope you have at home, as well.
We're looking for anyone who appeared in any of the following three films, according to IMDB.
So anybody who was in the 1985 film A Passage To India.
Oh! Anyone who was in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel from 2012.
Or anyone, including voice-overs, from the 2016 version of The Jungle Book.
So, the cast of A Passage To India, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Jungle Book.
Very best of luck.
Oh, I feel much better now.
I thought it was Bollywood.
Good.
There we are.
This is not so bad.
Not so bad.
And you've got up to a minute to come up with three answers.
OK.
Only one has to be pointless to win that money for your charities.
You don't have to answer all three, just focus on whichever one or ones you like the look of.
Are you ready? Yeah.
OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
There they are.
Your time starts now.
I've seen two.
Yes, OK.
So tell me who you know? I can't remember anybody.
Right.
Start with A Passage To India.
Oh, that wonderful actress who has just died.
Um.
Yes? I can't remember a single person.
OK, good, that's fine.
Hold on.
Let's move on.
Let's do The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
It helps that I haven't seen any of these three films.
Carry on.
You're doing very well.
I have.
It's just my mind has gone blank.
Just something else they've been in.
I may just go for a short walk while she thinks.
I just can't think of anybody.
This is terrible.
Oh, come on.
I'm going to say I think we should say something like Judi Dench Ten seconds.
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because she's in everything.
I'm sure she's in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, she's in everything.
Maggie Smith.
Right, that's good.
Dame Maggie Smith.
We're going to say Maggie Smith.
That's hardly a zero answer.
It's not going to be pointless, but we'll say Dame Maggie Smith.
I'm afraid your time is up.
Let's have your three answers.
That is so embarrassing.
Can we do something else? Don't worry.
OK.
Eileen Atkins.
I'm just saying that.
Eileen Atkins for which one? Maggie Smith.
Maggie Smith.
And Judi Dench.
Yeah.
For which film? Don't know! Whichever you feel like.
Right, all three of them definitely were staying in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Yes.
Eileen Atkins, Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench.
Of those three Sorry.
Of those three, I love that only Judi Dench gets her damehood mentioned.
I'm pretty sure they're all dames, aren't they? You're quite right.
Which of those three is your best shot at a pointless answer? None of them.
Shall we say, "Eileen Atkins"? Eileen Atkins.
We'll put Eileen Atkins last.
OK, least likely to be pointless? Let's say, "Judi Dench.
" So Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins is our order.
This is a disaster.
Desperate.
OK, let's put those answers on the board in that order, here they are.
We have got Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Eileen Atkins.
There we are.
Three answers on the board there.
Any of those could turn out to be pointless and win the jackpot for you.
Which charities are you playing for? I'm playing for a wonderful Sheffield-based charity called Lost Chord which exists to give young musicians the chance to perform for Alzheimer's and dementia sufferers in their care homes.
Wonderful.
Suzy, how about you? I am playing for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
They are some of the best doctors and nurses in the world and I think they're amazing.
Wonderful.
APPLAUSE Two lovely charities there.
Let's hope one of these answers might win that jackpot for them.
Your first answer was Judi Dench.
In all three cases, we're looking for the cast members of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Let's find out how many of our 100 people said Judi Dench.
If she's pointless, your charities will be ã2,500 richer.
Well, Judi Dench is right.
Oh, yeah.
Just has to be pointless now.
Down we go with Dame Judi.
Down to 45.
APPLAUSE We got one right.
Not a pointless answer.
Let's hope nobody said your next answer, Maggie Smith.
Again, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the film we're looking at.
They were both in it.
If Maggie Smith is pointless, ã2,500 will be going to your charities.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Maggie Smith.
It's right.
Judi Dench was right, took us down to 45.
Maggie Smith passes 45.
Down through the 30s, down through the 20s into the 16 for Maggie Smith! APPLAUSE That's not bad.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very interesting.
Well, you ordered that perfectly! Now, listen, if we can continue this downward slope then Eileen Atkins really ought to be pointless.
Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope.
If she is, you'll be leaving with that jackpot for your charities.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Eileen Atkins.
" Oh, bad luck.
Bad luck, bad luck.
Well, it was tough and, actually, when that minute's running and the lights are on, it's really very, very hard to marshal all your thoughts.
It's a very quick minute, isn't it? It is, I'm afraid.
You didn't find that pointless answer so I'm afraid you don't win this evening's jackpot.
But, as it is a celebrity special, we're going to donate ã500 to each celebrity pair for their respective charities.
Thank you.
It's been lovely having you on.
You played so well.
Suzy and Lesley.
And you get a Pointless trophy each, as well.
APPLAUSE A terrific performance throughout, very well played.
You are going to recognise some of the names on this list I know.
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particularly Passage To India.
You think you've got some Passage To India answers? I don't know if they're pointless.
I've got Nigel Havers.
Nigel Havers.
Nigel Havers.
Let's take a look, shall we? Shall we? There he is.
Nigel Havers.
Pointless answer.
Art Malik, a pointless answer.
Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey.
All of those, pointless answers.
In fact, everyone in that film apart from Alec Guinness, Judy Davis and Peggy Ashcroft, everyone was a pointless answer, very well done if you got one of those.
Some big names here, as well.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
People love this film.
Liza Tarbuck is a pointless answer.
Louise Brealey, Molly Hooper in Sherlock amongst many other things.
Ramona Marquez, who you'll know best from Outnumbered.
She's the daughter in Outnumbered.
Yeah.
Tom Wilkinson, pointless answer.
Tom! He's a neighbour.
Is he? He's going to kill me.
Uh-oh.
Every one pointless there apart from Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel, Ronald Pickup and Penelope Wilton.
Everyone else is a pointless answer.
And The Jungle Book.
The more recent one, 2016.
Garry Shandling, the comedian.
Giancarlo Esposito.
Jon Favreau who's also the director of that film.
Lupita Nyong'o who won her Oscar for 12 Years A Slave, of course.
Everyone pointless there apart from Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Neel Sethi and Christopher Walken.
Everyone else a pointless answer, well done if you got one at home.
Thank you very much indeed, and thank you so much, Suzy and Lesley, we've loved having you on the show.
Thank you so much for playing.
Suzy and Lesley! Thank you.
APPLAUSE Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless Celebrities.
Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.
Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me.
Goodbye.
APPLAUSE
Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong, and a very warm welcome to this special BBC Music Day edition of Pointless Celebrities, the game where we aim for the obscure and we ignore the obvious.
Let's meet this evening's Pointless celebrities.
APPLAUSE And couple number one Hello, I am Shaun Keaveny from BBC Radio 6 Music.
And I'm Lianne La Havas, a singer from London.
APPLAUSE .
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couple number two Hi, I'm Ella Eyre and I'm a singer from London.
Hi, I'm Clara Amfo and I'm a presenter of BBC Radio 1.
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couple number three Hello, I'm Suzy Klein from BBC Radio 3.
And I'm Lesley Garrett, a kind of user-friendly opera singer.
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and finally, couple number four.
Hi, I'm Amy Macdonald and I'm a singer-songwriter from Glasgow.
And I'm Chris Hawkins, a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Thank you all very much indeed.
Wonderful to have you all here.
We'll get a chance to chat further throughout the show, of course, as it goes along.
So that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
He's recording an album of geography-themed covers from the '80s, including Wake Me Up Before You Togo, I Just Called To Say Vanuatu, and Every Little Thing She Does Is The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard! Hiya.
Hi, everybody! Good evening.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Happy BBC Music Day to you.
And right back to you! You've got bunting around your Oh, have I? .
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around your desk.
I can never really see, I'm sure it's lovely.
Oh, lovely to have you all here.
A lot of faces that say, "I really regret coming on the show," currently looking back at me at the moment.
Yeah.
A lot of nerves.
But a very glamorous line-up.
I mean, look at some of the stuff people are wearing.
Look at Shaun Keaveny.
Doesn't he look amazing? It's just coincidence that I'm wearing that.
Lovely to have you all here.
Of course, we have one very classy podium, that's podium three.
We've got Radio 3 and opera, so they're clearly going to win.
But lovely to have everyone else here as well.
You know what, they might not win because we've got two very, very good players here who've been here before.
Shaun Keaveny has been here before.
Uh-huh.
Got himself a pointless answer.
Wow.
But then also got knocked out in Round One.
Yes.
Wow.
We don't talk about That's So, Lianne, he'll be relying on you not to get him knocked out.
And Clara Amfo.
Hello.
Jackpot winner.
I know.
Yeah, how about that? She's got a trophy.
She's got a jackpot.
Oh, it's going to be so exciting.
Oh, I mean, it's Yeah.
I can't think of a better way to celebrate BBC Music Day.
Now as this evening's show is a celebrity special, each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.
Nice of them.
We're going to start off with an enhanced jackpot of ã2,500.
There we are.
Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
The only thing you have to remember is this - the pair with the highest score at the end of each round gets eliminated.
So just make sure your score is lovely and low and you'll be absolutely fine.
Best of luck to all four pairs.
Our first category this evening is Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second.
And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, and our Theatre question concerns Olivier or Tony Award winners.
Richard? Yeah, it's not as scary as it sounds.
We're simply going to show you 16 famous people on the board.
They've all won Olivier or Tony awards.
But who are they, please? Very best of luck.
Thank you very much.
As Richard said, we'll put this board up, it's going to remain there for the whole round.
We won't be changing halfway through the round.
16 images, you just have to shout out the name of anyone you think you recognise on this screen.
Here are those people.
16 faces.
Ooh.
All of them either Olivier and/or Tony Award winners.
Just let you digest that board.
Shaun, welcome back to Pointless.
Good to be back.
Good to have you with us again.
And what's the first record you bought, Shaun? It was Anarchy In The UK by the Oh, no, it wasn't, it was St Winifred's School Choir.
"Grandma, we love you.
" What was your first-ever record? Yeah.
Swords Of A Thousand Men.
Tenpole Tudor.
Same.
Yeah? Exactly the same.
How weird is that? Yeah.
Then my second one was Green Door by Shakin' Stevens, which is slightly less cool.
I did also buy (Do) The Hucklebuck by "If you don't know how to do it then you're out of luck," yeah.
"Twist and run around.
" THEY HUM TUNE OF (DO) THE HUCKLEBUCK That's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
Yeah! So what was it? What do you think it really was? I think it wasit could have been Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello, actually.
That's great.
That would be moderately cool.
Yeah.
It's an amazing single, isn't it? Yeah.
We had the Dansette and everything, you know.
The stackable Dansette.
Stack them up! Yeah.
There was just a sweet way the arm would come and sort of kiss the edge of the record, it would drop down.
Aah! That's a very romantic recollection, that, Alexander, yes.
Very nice.
Shaun, who are you going to go for on our board here? This is tough.
Yeah.
I've got a I'm getting the blank now.
I'm getting the blank because there's one that I'm just going to go for it.
I love this sort of Wilkinson pose here.
Oh, this is reallythis is extremely high-risk, this.
Because I could go safe but I'm not, I'm going to go for Sidney Poitier.
Let's see, Sidney Poitier.
Let's see if that's right.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Sidney Poitier.
" It's not Sidney Poitier! Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Shaun.
Oh! I'm sorry.
That scores 100 points.
Sorry, Shaun.
What an unusual Pointless career you've had, Shaun, thus far.
That's what I wanted to go for, the contrast.
Yeah.
I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.
Clara, welcome back.
Hello.
Lovely to have you with us again.
Nice to be back.
How did it all start for you? Music? Oh, goodness me.
Your career? My career was just me just not being able to stop talking, and me liking music a lot and just forcing people to let me do that professionally.
So, yeah.
I used to work in the office at a radio station, I was always arguing with my old head of music about the songs we should be playing, then he decided to shut me up and give me a job.
"Why don't you do it, then?!" So it was literally that? Pretty much.
And a lot of hard work.
Yeah.
A lot of hard work.
Yeah.
Now, Clara, who are you going to go for on our board.
I .
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am going to go for Bernadette Peters.
Bernadette Peters? Yes.
Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Bernadette Peters.
On this occasion, though, that is absolutely right.
Bernadette Peters, down it goes .
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to two! Oh! Very well done indeed.
Two for Bernadette Peters.
Very well played, Clara, terrific start to the show for you.
There she is in the top row.
She's won three Tonys, Bernadette Peters, including for Annie Get Your Gun.
Thank you very much indeed.
Lesley, welcome to Pointless.
Wonderful to have you here with us.
I'm very excited.
What's your earliest music memory, Lesley? My earliest music memory would be round the piano at home with my family.
We made lots of music in our house.
I was born in Thorne, which is on the South Yorkshire coal field, and everybody sang, everybody played something.
There were brass bands everywhere and choirs everywhere.
So I think my earliest remembrance of music is in the community, is just all of us getting together and doing it.
And it's been like that ever since, really.
And I just think making music is the closest thing to heaven, really.
Well, beautifully said, Lesley.
Who would you like to go for on our board? Well, I'm going to go a bit old school, I think.
So I'm going to go for Dick Van Dyke.
Dick Van Dyke, says Lesley, let's see how many of our 100 people said Dick Van Dyke.
Dick Van Dyke is absolutely right.
100 is our highest score, two is our low score.
28 for Dick Van Dyke! Not bad at all.
Yeah, a Tony Award winner.
He was also given a special BAFTA and he took the occasion, 2017, he took that occasion to apologise for his Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
That was overdue.
He apologised to the British people.
Isn't that sweet? Oh, that's nice.
Thank you, Richard.
Pleasure.
Amy, welcome to Pointless.
Hi.
Wonderful to have you.
Now how did it all start for you? Michael Jackson was my first true musical love.
That was my first-ever concert.
But I taught myself to play the guitar after seeing the Scottish band Travis headline at T in the Park festival.
And after that I just wanted to play the guitar, so that's where it started.
So live music sort of got you? Yeah.
Yeah, just seeing them on the stage, seeing them play all their instruments and just belt out the songs, it was really inspiring.
But your big start is wonderfully old school, because you sent a demo off to .
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you were replying to an advert in the NME? I did, yes.
NME magazine used to always have adverts in the back of it, and I would literally scour them every week.
Yeah.
And I sent a demo off and, from then, I signed a record contract with Universal Music, so Within how long after you sent off the demo? It was less than a year.
That's amazing.
Yeah, so That's so exciting! It was pretty old school.
Uh-huh.
Now, Amy.
Oh! We turn our attention to our Tony and Olivier Award winners.
There is one that I think could be pointless, but I'm not entirely sure that I've got the name right.
So I'm going to just go easy because Shaun's helped me out here.
SHE LAUGHS I think I'm going to go for Scarlett Johansson.
Scarlett Johansson, let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Scarlett Johansson.
" It is right.
100 still the high score, two still the low.
And you end up on 18.
Not bad at all, Amy.
Very well done.
Well played, Amy.
Won a Tony for her Broadway debut in A View From The Bridge.
Very good.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
We are halfway through our round.
Let's have a look at our scores.
Two, Clara, if you please.
Just showing all that form again.
Hey! The best score of the pass, very well done indeed.
Then 18 is where we find Amy and Chris, not bad.
28, Lesley and Suzy.
Oh, Lianne and Shaun, I'm so sorry.
You're currently on 100, you are our high-scorers.
Lianne, a lovely low score from you, just in case.
Good luck with that.
We're going to come back down the line now.
Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK.
Now then, Chris, welcome to Pointless.
Now Chris, tell us about BBC Music Day.
It's an amazing celebration, all packed into one day.
A fantastic way to celebrate the power of music for all ages and all different genres as well.
This is right across all the different BBC platforms? All across the UK, every genre of music and all over the BBC.
I think this is, is this the fourth year it's been going? Yeah, and it gets bigger and bigger every single year.
Fantastic.
Now, Chris, there you are, you're on 18.
It means, even at this early stage of proceedings Yeah.
If you can score 81 or less, Round Two awaits.
All to lose, then, isn't it? Yeah.
OK, I think I'm going to go British.
But I thinkthe problem is I'm not 100% sure it's him, but I'm going to just take a punt .
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on Matthew Kelly.
"Matthew Kelly," says Chris.
Yeah.
A lot of nodding.
Let's see.
There's your red line, Chris.
If you get below that with Matthew Kelly, Round Two beckons.
Let's see how many people said, "Matthew Kelly.
" It very much is Matthew Kelly.
And you are very much in Round Two.
There we are.
Down it goes to 17! Not bad at all.
Taking your total up to 35.
Good work, Chris.
Yeah, the brilliant Matthew Kelly won an Olivier Award for his work hosting You Bet! LAUGHTER Not really.
No.
He played Lenny in Of Mice And Men.
He did.
Thank you very much.
Suzy, welcome.
Hello.
Lovely to have you here.
Your career has been interesting because you, I mean, you started out, you degree was music.
Yep.
Then you went into production.
But not music production, you went into sort of current affairs.
Anyway, you've now been brought back to music and as a presenter.
How did you make the jump? It was entirely unintentional.
I was producing period dramas for the BBC and doing bits and pieces like producing the Proms, and then suddenly somebody dropped out of the screen test.
And I happened to have bothered to wash my hair that day - which is not always the case - and I thought, "Oh, just sit down and have a go and read the autocue," because we've got nothing to do for 20 minutes.
And I really enjoyed it.
And I suddenly thought, "If this is genuinely a job ".
.
why has nobody told me about it?" And it seemed so much easier than doing a proper job.
I know! I just thought, "I quite fancy this.
" Yeah.
Well, now, Suzy, you're on 28.
If you can score 71 or less, you're through.
I know who the man is in the top left corner and just so closely have the name on the tip of my tongue! And it's driving me mad.
Yeah.
Me, too.
So I'm not going to go for him.
So I'm going to go for the person in the exact diagonal opposite bottom right there, and I'm going to say that I think that is the impeccably elegantly-dressed Yul Brynner.
"Yul Brynner," says Suzy.
Here is your red line, can you get below this red line with Yul Brynner? Let's find out.
It is Yul Brynner.
You are in Round Two.
Yay! Down it goes to 32, taking your total up to 60.
APPLAUSE Well played, Suzy.
Yeah, he won a Tony for his role in The King And I.
He then won an Oscar for the film adaptation of it as well.
And then won a special Tony after he'd done 4,500 performances on Broadway of The King And I.
4,500? Yeah.
Can you imagine? Wow! Wow-ee.
Ella, it's lovely to have you here.
Thank you.
It's lovely to be here.
Before you went into music, you were a competitive swimmer.
I was, yeah.
Wow! How long were you doing that for? Um I was doing it for as long as I remember.
I quit when I was 13.
Yeah.
But by the time I quit, I was doing about three to four hours of training a day.
As well as going to school and dance after school as well.
Yeah.
Then I left and I went to the Brit School in Croydon and I studied musical theatre, so I should be good at this round.
You should be.
Should be.
97 or less keeps you in the game.
I know and I'm really I feel like I know a lot of their faces but I'm rubbish with names, so You've got this.
You reckon? I reckon so.
OK.
Viola Davis? Viola Davis.
Yes.
OK, "Viola Davis," says Ella.
Here is your redline.
Can you get below this redline I hope so.
.
.
with Viola Davis? Let's find out how many people said it.
It's right and you're through.
Very well done.
Look at that, down to 1! APPLAUSE Podium two are on fire, taking your total up to 3.
Very well done indeed.
I mean, three points between two answers is very, very impressive on podium two, well done.
She's another one, she won her Tony for her role in Fences and then went on to win the Oscar for the same role.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Now, Lianne, welcome.
I'm so sorry.
Hi.
I've got to welcome you while you've got a big red 100 on your podium already.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
I'm sorry.
It's great to have you here! Thank you.
How did it all start for you? I started singing when I was about seven years old.
Yeah.
And I really liked the movie Sister Act 2.
MURMURS OF AGREEMEN I became obsessed with Lauryn Hill after that and I tried to, like, sing like what I heard on the film.
You got to sing with Prince.
I did.
How did that come about? I just got a call from my manager that day, saying, listen, you need to have your phone on you, Prince is going to call.
And then I went out and forgot my phone.
As you do! And then, basically, we got Prince to call my friend's phone, and I answered the phone outside of this bar that we were in, I was on the street.
And it was this really low voice that said, hello.
And I was like, "Hello?" I said, "Can I just check who this is?" And he said, "I think you know who this is.
" In the end you got to sing with him? Yes.
You went out to Paisley Park? We became friends after that.
I went to Paisley Park.
We performed live together on Saturday Night Live.
And, yeah, I sang with him various random occasions.
And it was very, very, very amazing.
Incredible.
Lianne, do you want to talk us through that board? Have a shot at as many of those as you like.
I know who a few of them are.
I think I'm going to go, oh, I don't know.
It's between two.
I'm going to try Billie Piper.
"Billie Piper," says Lianne.
No red line for you, I'm afraid, as you are the highest scorers.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Billie Piper.
" It's right.
Not bad.
Look at that, down to 14.
Very well done indeed.
Oh! Lianne, that takes your total up to 114.
Well played, Lianne.
Nice way to end the round.
Let down by your partner, I'm afraid.
Yeah.
But, you know.
Again.
Now, Shaun Yeah.
The one you thought was Sidney Poitier, you're going to kick yourself.
Yeah.
Dame Judi Dench.
Oh! That was on the tip of my tongue, man! Yeah.
How embarrassing.
That would have scored you 68 points, Dame Judi.
Shall we go through the rest now? The top left is a pointless answer.
He played Alan Bennett in the Lady In The Van but he's won three Olivier awards.
You must have worked with him at some point.
Alex Jennings.
Yes.
Alex Jennings.
A pointless answer.
Very well done if you said that.
Next to Bernadette Peters is Idina Menzel, the voice of Elsa in Frozen, would have scored you five points.
This next gentleman is Harry Belafonte.
Oh! Yeah.
Harry Belafonte, absolutely.
11 points.
Next to Harry Belafonte Ingrid Bergman.
.
.
Ingrid Bergman, would have scored you 11.
Next to Judi Dench is Hugh Jackman.
I was going to say Marti Pellow! 21 points.
Then we have Helen Mirren.
.
.
Helen Mirren.
Correct.
56 points for Helen Mirren.
Then Ian McKellen.
.
.
Sir Ian McKellen would have scored 23.
And anyone for this next one? Pointless answer? Does it begin with a T? Oh No! LAUGHTER Won his Tony for his role as Aaron Burr, in Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr.
That's it! That's a pointless answer.
Very well done if you said that.
Very good indeed.
Thank you, Richard.
We are at the end of our first round.
That means we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs.
Lianne and Shaun, I'm so sorry.
Far too soon to be sending you home.
14 was a brilliant score, Lianne.
I should have gone first.
Yeah.
You should have.
Thank you so much, Lianne and Shaun.
Wonderful to have you here.
APPLAUSE But for our remaining three pairs, it is now time for Round Two.
Well done, everybody.
We've made it through to Round Two.
This is very exciting indeed but, no, fabulous scoring there.
Very well done, as I say, brilliant to have you all here.
Best of luck to all three pairs.
Our category for Round Two this evening is Can you all decide, in your pairs, who's going to go first, who's going to go second? And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, and the question concerns Richard.
On each board we are going to show you the names of six different animals or symbols that are the national symbols of various countries outside of the UK.
Just need to tell us what country these things are symbols of, please.
Six on the first board, six on the second.
As always, by country, we mean a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right and all of these are taken from the CIA World Fact Book.
OK, so let's reveal our first board of six symbols or animals and here they are.
We have got I'll read those again.
So, then, Ella.
Which of those do you fancy going for? I know three, but I'm trying to decide which one I think is going to be the lowest.
I'm going to go with maple leaf, Canada.
"Canada," says Ella, for maple leaf.
Let's see if that's right.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Canada.
" It's right.
GASPING FROM AUDIENCE It's right.
APPLAUSE Definitely right.
It's a really obvious one.
Yeah, 92 of our 100 got that.
Yes, that's what we call officially, it's a bit of a Shaun Keaveny of an answer! It's on the flag, isn't it, maple leaf? Yeah, yeah.
Thank you very much.
Suzy.
So, I'm pretty confident that Angkor Wat temple is Cambodia.
"Cambodia," says Suzy, for Angkor Wat temple.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
It is Cambodia.
92's the highest score.
You've passed that comfortably.
Oh, look at that.
13.
Very well done indeed, Suzy.
Well played, Suzy.
Built in the 12th century, the Angkor Wat temple.
Thank you very much, Richard.
Now, Amy, this board's all yours.
Do you want to talk us through as many of those as you like? I don't think we'll be here very long, me talking you through it! I think I'm just going to have to go with the Star of David and Israel.
"Israel," says Amy, for Star of David.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
It's right.
78, not bad.
Could have been a lot higher.
Yeah, let's clear up the other big scorer on that board which was kiwi, which is New Zealand, of course.
It scores even more than Canada, New Zealand, would have scored you 94 points.
These other two are the best answers.
Zebra is Namibia.
.
.
Botswana.
Botswana.
Not a million miles away.
No.
Would've scored you two points.
And the gyrfalcon is a national symbol, very well done, one point if you said, "Iceland.
" Iceland.
Oh, yeah.
That's the answer.
Wonderful.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
We're halfway through our round.
Let's have a look at those scores.
13, Suzy.
What about that? Brilliant score there.
We then travel up to 78 where we find Amy and Chris and then 92 where we find Ella and Clara.
We're going to come back down the line now.
Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK, let's put six more symbols or animals up on the board and here they come.
We have got I'll read those all again.
Chris.
What are we thinking? Well, my mind's gone blank but I'm not sure that I know any others, other than Ireland.
For? The shamrock, sorry.
For the shamrock.
"Ireland," says Chris.
Let's see.
Here is your red line.
Your red line is quite low.
Let's see how close to that red line you get with Ireland.
It's right.
Oh, the door's opened a chink there for Clara and Ella.
That scores 90.
Takes your total up to 168.
Yeah, I think you were pretty lucky to score 90.
That is ten people going, "Shamrock? No, doesn't ring a bell.
"Doesn't ring a bell.
" Now, Lesley, look at that, you're through to the next round.
A brilliant score from Suzy.
Yes.
And that, combined with a high score from Chris and Amy behind you.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter what you score here.
Even 100 points sees you into the next round.
Really? Oh, great.
OK.
Then I can play it dead safe, I think, and go for giant panda, China.
Giant panda, China.
Stands to reason, surely? No red line.
You're already through.
How many people said, "China"? It is China.
And down it goes to 80.
Taking your total up to 93.
APPLAUSE You know they're no longer endangered, giant pandas? They're still vulnerable, but they've been reclassified.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, wow.
The Chinese have been so successful In their breeding? Yeah, exactly.
That's good news, isn't it? That's lovely.
Ah! That's just improved the whole round.
Clara.
Man! Now, listen, we've got a competition on our hands here.
75 or less.
It's lovely to meet you all.
I think I might know the red and white checkerboard but, again, I could be very, very wrong.
I'm going to say bald eagle and the United States.
Bald eagle and United States.
Here is your red line.
You have to do get below that red line with the USA.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said the US for the bald eagle.
It's right.
Oh.
And you've done it! 74! Look at that.
Beautifully judged, if I may say.
166 is your total.
You are through to the head-to-head.
Well done.
Oh, well played, Clara.
Very nicely done.
23 different countries have eagles, but the USA, the only one with a bald eagle.
Another species that used to be endangered but is no longer, so that's good news.
That's nice.
If you had to go for the red and white checkerboard, what would you have said? Croatia.
Is the correct answer, as well.
That would have been a lovely low score, 12 points for Croatia.
It's on their football kit, it's on the flag.
Yeah.
Now, the dodo is Mauritius.
.
.
Mauritius, yeah.
And that would have scored you 11 points.
And the best answer, the fennec fox, very well done if you said Algeria.
Two points for Algeria.
Thank you, Richard.
At the end of our second round, we have to say goodbye to another of our pairs.
Chris and Amy, I'm afraid we have to say goodbye to you.
Thank you for coming to play.
It's been lovely having you here.
Thank you for having us.
Chris and Amy.
Thank you.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE But for our two remaining pairs, it is now time for the head-to-head.
So, here we are in the head-to-head of our BBC Music Day special.
Very exciting.
Congratulations, Suzy and Lesley, Ella and Clara.
You're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot currently standing at ã2,500.
APPLAUSE This is where you have to decide who's going to go through to the final and play for the jackpot.
We do it by making you go head-to-head.
The big difference is you are now allowed to confer before you give your answers.
You can have a good chat.
And the first pair in this round to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.
This is going to be so exciting.
Best of luck to both pairs.
Let's play the head-to-head.
Here is your first question.
And it concerns Richard.
We're going to play you five clips of songs that later became top 40 hits for other artists.
These are the originals.
Can you tell us who performed these originals, please? Excellent.
Let's have a listen to our five clips, and here they come.
We have extract A.
# The minor fall, the major lift # The battle king composing hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Here is B.
# And I will always love you I will always love you.
Here's C.
# Girl, you'll be a woman soon # Love you so much, can't count all of the ways I'd die for you, girl And all they can say is he's not your kind.
Here's D.
# We had divine scent to know what to say # Mind is a razor blade # To call for hands of above to lean on Wouldn't be good enough for me, no.
And here is E.
# Along the watchtower # Princes kept the view # While all the women came and went # Their foot servants too # Outside in the distance A wildcat did growl.
OK, there we go.
And we come to you, Suzy and Lesley, as our low scorers, first.
WHISPERS: Leonard Cohen, because he's more niche than the other five.
OK.
Yes.
OK.
We're going to go for A, Leonard Cohen.
"Leonard Cohen" Yeah.
.
.
say Suzy and Lesley, for A.
Leonard Cohen.
Ella and Clara, it looks like you landed on that one, as well.
Yeah.
Do you want to talk us through the others? B, Dolly Parton.
One of them was Neil Diamond, I believe.
Oh.
I think it was Neil Diamond.
Or was it Roy Orbison? Oh! Um Shall we go for Dolly or go for Neil? What do you reckon? How confident are you that it's Neil? I could be wrong.
Maybe just keep it safe? I think we're going to be safe Yeah.
.
.
and go for Miss Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton for B? Yeah.
So we have Leonard Cohen and we have Dolly Parton.
Yeah.
Suzy and Lesley went for Leonard Cohen for A.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
Leonard Cohen is right.
Ah.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Oh, that is a good one.
Down.
Very well done indeed, Suzy and Lesley.
APPLAUSE Ella and Clara, meanwhile, have gone for Dolly Parton for B.
Let's see if that is right.
Let's see how many people said, "Dolly Parton.
" It is Dolly Parton.
And that goes to 38.
Yeah.
APPLAUSE Well done, Suzy and Lesley.
After one question, you are up 1-0.
Yeah, very well played.
Of course, hits for Alexandra Burke and Jeff Buckley and various others, Hallelujah.
The Dolly Parton song, huge hit for Whitney.
Elvis tried to record it, but Dolly wouldn't let him.
Financial reasons.
But Whitney, obviously, had the last laugh, she made a fortune out of the Whitney version.
Let's have a little listen to C.
Girl Is it Neil Diamond? Is it Roy Orbison? It's Neil Diamond Oh! .
.
and would have scored you 2 points.
Oh, man! No! I need to trust my gut more.
Yeah.
Urge Overkill had a hit with that after it was featured in Pulp Fiction soundtrack.
Yeah.
Two points for that.
We didn't know this next one.
D.
We had divine scent To know what to say.
You get rid of the lyrics, you realise that's Heartbeat by Jose Gonzalez.
The Knife.
The Knife was the right answer.
And that was a pointless answer.
Yep.
Did you know that? I did.
What?! And the last one.
All along the watchtower.
Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan.
Of course, All Along The Watchtower.
Later a hit for Jimi Hendrix Experience, would've scored you 25 points.
So you knew all of those, Clara? I actually did.
I need to trust my gut instinct better.
Oh, well.
And a pointless answer.
Anyway, there we are.
We'll put that behind us.
Thank you, Richard.
Here comes your second question.
Ella and Clara, you have to win this to stay in the game, but you get to answer first, slight advantage there.
And our second question concerns Richard.
Yeah, we're going to show you five pictures now with organs of the human body highlighted.
We'll give you the first letter of those organs.
Can you tell us what they are, please? Thank you very much indeed.
Let's reveal our five organs and here they come.
We have got There we are.
Five organs of the human body.
Ella and Clara will go first.
Ah I think it's between A and E.
Not D? I think that's very obvious.
We think.
Yeah, maybe.
We're going to go for A Yeah.
.
.
which is the small intestine.
You said last time you had to go with your gut, so LAUGHTER Well, there we go.
"Small intestine," say Ella and Clara.
Now, Suzy and Lesley, do you want to talk us through that board? Lung, kidney, large intestine, stomach.
Yeah.
Since they've gone for the small intestine, shall we go for the large one, just mix it up a bit? We'll have a larger intestine.
OK.
We're going to go large.
Why not? We have small intestine, we have large intestine.
Ella and Clara have gone for small intestine.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
44 for small intestine.
Suzy and Lesley have gone the large intestine.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
It's right.
Oh! 50 for large intestine.
Well done.
Size isn't everything, it turns out.
So, very well done indeed.
Ella and Clara, after two questions, you're back in the game.
It is 1-1.
Yeah, small intestine is the best answer on the board, could not have beaten it, so, very well done.
Went with my gut.
Your deliberations were quite right.
B is lung.
That would have scored you 88.
Kidney would have scored you 78.
And is it news to anyone else that one's stomach is that high up? Yes! Yes! I thought it was a bit lower down.
That's right underneath your lungs.
That's crazy.
I'm so glad you're not a doctor.
LAUGHTER Would have scored you 60 points if you'd said stomach.
OK, here comes your third question.
I knew this was going to be close and, boy, is it close.
Whoever wins this third question goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot for their charities.
Best of luck to both payers.
Our third question this evening is all about Richard.
Definitions of words that end "-cious", we'll also give you alternate letters of the rest of the word, but what are these words, please? Very best of luck, both teams.
OK, let's reveal our five clues.
Here they come.
We have got I'll read those again.
Suzy and Lesley.
Right.
I think there's only one we haven't got.
It's not the last one.
So we were sort of debating between the first two.
Do you think we should go for the first one? Yeah.
Yeah? Yeah.
I like that one.
We think it is mendacious.
Mendacious.
Not telling the truth, mendacious.
Now, Ella and Clara, do you want to talk us through the rest of those words? I don't know what three is.
I think the second one's tenacious, but I don't know what it means! No, I don't think it actually means I don't think so either.
It doesn't mean that.
We're going to go with precious.
Yeah.
You're going to go with precious? Yes.
We have mendacious, we have precious.
Suzy and Lesley have gone for mendacious.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
Mendacious is right.
Look at that.
Down to ten.
Very well done indeed.
APPLAUSE Ella and Clara, meanwhile, have gone for precious.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Precious.
" Quite a lot.
Precious is right.
Down it goes to 51.
APPLAUSE Which means, after three questions, very well done indeed, Suzy and Lesley, you are through to the final, 2-1.
Yeah, very well played.
Let's take a look, there's one answer that would have beaten mendacious.
It's not the second one.
You were quite right, it is tenacious.
That's what tenacious means.
Oh! Oh! It would've scored you 39 points.
I really didn't think it meant that.
The bottom one wouldn't have won you a point.
It's not a massive score, actually.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
22 points.
ALL: Oh! Obviously panicked a few people amongst our 100.
We can't get this one.
This is the best one.
It's Fugacious.
Fugacious.
That would've scored you two points.
Would never have got that.
I don't know that one.
Thank you very much indeed.
That means the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, Ella and Clara, I'm so sorry it's you.
You've done so well today.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
You've been brilliant from start to finish, it's been a treat having you, thank you for coming.
Ella and Clara, wonderful.
APPLAUSE But, for Suzy and Lesley, it's now time for our Pointless final.
Congratulations, Suzy and Lesley.
You've fought off all the competition and you've won our coveted Pointless trophy.
Yes! I always wanted one of those! You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities and, at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at ã2,500.
There it is.
APPLAUSE Well done, you.
A really impressive performance right across the show.
We've had some brilliant low-scoring answers and here you are, we just need a the pointless answer from you in this last round.
Now what's going to help you? What do you want to see come up in this last round? Well, something about classical music or opera or science, I'm very happy with science.
She's very good with words.
Wordy things, maybe bookish, or cinema.
I shouldn't say that because, if it comes up, it's going to be terrible.
Anything will do.
OK, well, the four things will appear on the board.
Let's hope something up here appeals to you.
We've got today That's almost exactly what you asked for, that's uncanny!? I think I'd like to leave now on a high.
Yes.
Can we quit while we're ahead? None of those do it for me.
Right, shall we do Films Set In India? I don't know any.
Are you good with that? Not really.
Let's do that.
Let's have Films Set In India.
OK.
Very best of luck.
Three classic films here.
Hopefully you will have seen at least one of them.
Hope you have at home, as well.
We're looking for anyone who appeared in any of the following three films, according to IMDB.
So anybody who was in the 1985 film A Passage To India.
Oh! Anyone who was in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel from 2012.
Or anyone, including voice-overs, from the 2016 version of The Jungle Book.
So, the cast of A Passage To India, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Jungle Book.
Very best of luck.
Oh, I feel much better now.
I thought it was Bollywood.
Good.
There we are.
This is not so bad.
Not so bad.
And you've got up to a minute to come up with three answers.
OK.
Only one has to be pointless to win that money for your charities.
You don't have to answer all three, just focus on whichever one or ones you like the look of.
Are you ready? Yeah.
OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
There they are.
Your time starts now.
I've seen two.
Yes, OK.
So tell me who you know? I can't remember anybody.
Right.
Start with A Passage To India.
Oh, that wonderful actress who has just died.
Um.
Yes? I can't remember a single person.
OK, good, that's fine.
Hold on.
Let's move on.
Let's do The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
It helps that I haven't seen any of these three films.
Carry on.
You're doing very well.
I have.
It's just my mind has gone blank.
Just something else they've been in.
I may just go for a short walk while she thinks.
I just can't think of anybody.
This is terrible.
Oh, come on.
I'm going to say I think we should say something like Judi Dench Ten seconds.
.
.
because she's in everything.
I'm sure she's in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, she's in everything.
Maggie Smith.
Right, that's good.
Dame Maggie Smith.
We're going to say Maggie Smith.
That's hardly a zero answer.
It's not going to be pointless, but we'll say Dame Maggie Smith.
I'm afraid your time is up.
Let's have your three answers.
That is so embarrassing.
Can we do something else? Don't worry.
OK.
Eileen Atkins.
I'm just saying that.
Eileen Atkins for which one? Maggie Smith.
Maggie Smith.
And Judi Dench.
Yeah.
For which film? Don't know! Whichever you feel like.
Right, all three of them definitely were staying in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Yes.
Eileen Atkins, Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench.
Of those three Sorry.
Of those three, I love that only Judi Dench gets her damehood mentioned.
I'm pretty sure they're all dames, aren't they? You're quite right.
Which of those three is your best shot at a pointless answer? None of them.
Shall we say, "Eileen Atkins"? Eileen Atkins.
We'll put Eileen Atkins last.
OK, least likely to be pointless? Let's say, "Judi Dench.
" So Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins is our order.
This is a disaster.
Desperate.
OK, let's put those answers on the board in that order, here they are.
We have got Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Eileen Atkins.
There we are.
Three answers on the board there.
Any of those could turn out to be pointless and win the jackpot for you.
Which charities are you playing for? I'm playing for a wonderful Sheffield-based charity called Lost Chord which exists to give young musicians the chance to perform for Alzheimer's and dementia sufferers in their care homes.
Wonderful.
Suzy, how about you? I am playing for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
They are some of the best doctors and nurses in the world and I think they're amazing.
Wonderful.
APPLAUSE Two lovely charities there.
Let's hope one of these answers might win that jackpot for them.
Your first answer was Judi Dench.
In all three cases, we're looking for the cast members of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Let's find out how many of our 100 people said Judi Dench.
If she's pointless, your charities will be ã2,500 richer.
Well, Judi Dench is right.
Oh, yeah.
Just has to be pointless now.
Down we go with Dame Judi.
Down to 45.
APPLAUSE We got one right.
Not a pointless answer.
Let's hope nobody said your next answer, Maggie Smith.
Again, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the film we're looking at.
They were both in it.
If Maggie Smith is pointless, ã2,500 will be going to your charities.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Maggie Smith.
It's right.
Judi Dench was right, took us down to 45.
Maggie Smith passes 45.
Down through the 30s, down through the 20s into the 16 for Maggie Smith! APPLAUSE That's not bad.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very interesting.
Well, you ordered that perfectly! Now, listen, if we can continue this downward slope then Eileen Atkins really ought to be pointless.
Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope.
If she is, you'll be leaving with that jackpot for your charities.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said, "Eileen Atkins.
" Oh, bad luck.
Bad luck, bad luck.
Well, it was tough and, actually, when that minute's running and the lights are on, it's really very, very hard to marshal all your thoughts.
It's a very quick minute, isn't it? It is, I'm afraid.
You didn't find that pointless answer so I'm afraid you don't win this evening's jackpot.
But, as it is a celebrity special, we're going to donate ã500 to each celebrity pair for their respective charities.
Thank you.
It's been lovely having you on.
You played so well.
Suzy and Lesley.
And you get a Pointless trophy each, as well.
APPLAUSE A terrific performance throughout, very well played.
You are going to recognise some of the names on this list I know.
.
.
particularly Passage To India.
You think you've got some Passage To India answers? I don't know if they're pointless.
I've got Nigel Havers.
Nigel Havers.
Nigel Havers.
Let's take a look, shall we? Shall we? There he is.
Nigel Havers.
Pointless answer.
Art Malik, a pointless answer.
Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey.
All of those, pointless answers.
In fact, everyone in that film apart from Alec Guinness, Judy Davis and Peggy Ashcroft, everyone was a pointless answer, very well done if you got one of those.
Some big names here, as well.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
People love this film.
Liza Tarbuck is a pointless answer.
Louise Brealey, Molly Hooper in Sherlock amongst many other things.
Ramona Marquez, who you'll know best from Outnumbered.
She's the daughter in Outnumbered.
Yeah.
Tom Wilkinson, pointless answer.
Tom! He's a neighbour.
Is he? He's going to kill me.
Uh-oh.
Every one pointless there apart from Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel, Ronald Pickup and Penelope Wilton.
Everyone else is a pointless answer.
And The Jungle Book.
The more recent one, 2016.
Garry Shandling, the comedian.
Giancarlo Esposito.
Jon Favreau who's also the director of that film.
Lupita Nyong'o who won her Oscar for 12 Years A Slave, of course.
Everyone pointless there apart from Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Neel Sethi and Christopher Walken.
Everyone else a pointless answer, well done if you got one at home.
Thank you very much indeed, and thank you so much, Suzy and Lesley, we've loved having you on the show.
Thank you so much for playing.
Suzy and Lesley! Thank you.
APPLAUSE Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless Celebrities.
Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.
Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me.
Goodbye.
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