[GSM] Pointless (Final)

[diginova]

Hello, I'm

Alexander Armstrong

diginova and a very warm welcome to Pointless, the quiz show where the popular answers mean nothing and the obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players. Give a big round of applause for

CuddlyCaucasian

,

Cybele

,

N

and

xofelf

!



Today's Jackpot currently stands at £1,500.

On each of the following questions, the BBC polled 100 people and gave them each 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as possible for each subject. Find out what they didn't know, and you'll end up victorious!

Spoiler: Rules

Rounds I-IV

Starting from Player 1 and going down the list, you will be given a subject and have to give a response that matches the subject. If you give an answer that is

wrong

, you get

100 points

. Points are bad.
If the answer is correct, you earn a number of points equal to the number of people that came up with your answer. If you happen to come up with an answer that

nobody

came up with—a

Pointless

answer—you get

0 points

, the best possible score, and £250 is added to the Jackpot.
After everyone has answered, we then go up the list in the reverse order for a second pass (the player that answered first will also answer eighth and so on). The player with the

highest score

at the end of every other round is eliminated and has to leave.

Round V

In this round, the remaining two players go Head to Head to determine who will take home our Pointless trophy and entry into the Semifinals of the Game Show Marathon!
The lowest-scoring player overall gets to answer first. They choose one of the clues up on the board and give an answer that fits. Then the other player gets to choose one of the remaining clues.
After both players have answered, the scores are revealed, and the lowest scoring player wins the point.
The right to answer first switches to the other player and another question is asked.
The player to get

two out of three

correct advances to both the Pointless Final and the Semi-Final Round of Game Show Marathon 2015!

Final

In the Final, the champion is given a choice of two categories. Once they choose a category, three sub-categories are given.
They must then give three answers that fit the sub-categories, in any ratio they choose.
If any of those answers happens to be Pointless, they win the Jackpot, otherwise they still retain their spot in the Semi-Finals.

[diginova]

Our first category of the night is

ONE WORD FILM TITLES

.

On each pass, we're going to give you seven pairs of actors and a year. I want you to tell me which film with a one-word title those actors appeared in in that year.

Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze (1990)

Cher & Nicolas Cage (1987)

Ingrid Bergman & Humphry Bogart (1942)

Keira Knightley & James McAvoy (2007)

Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves (1994)

Faye Dunaway & Jack Nicholson (1974)

John Travolta & Queen Latifah (2007)

CuddlyCaucasian

, you have been randomly selected to go first.
Choose which of the seven items you want to answer—and remember, we're looking for the

most obscure

, but if it's wrong, it scores the maximum 100 points!

[CuddlyCaucasian]

Well let's go with the only one I know!

John Travolta & Queen Latifah (2007): Hairspray

[diginova]

You're saying

Hairspray

.

Let's see if that is correct, and if so, how many points it is worth.

Spoiler: Result

10! Looks like the one you knew was a good one!
It's based off the musical, which is itself based off the 1988 film of the same title, but that one didn't feature Travolta in drag.

Cybele

, which of the six remaining will you take a shot at?

Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze (1990)
Cher & Nicolas Cage (1987)
Ingrid Bergman & Humphry Bogart (1942)
Keira Knightley & James McAvoy (2007)
Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves (1994)
Faye Dunaway & Jack Nicholson (1974)

[N]

Well, shit. I don't know anything about movies.

[diginova]

Well, shit. I don't know anything about movies.

If it makes you feel any better, I only know 3 of these. I try to go all different categories, though, thus the pop culture category coming up.

[diginova]

Also, a quick update as I realized Pointless is far shorter than the other games in the Marathon and far more dependent on narrow fields of knowledge:
I'm going to double up the first two rounds—Two passes each on two separate categories before elimination, total I+II score (so a maximum of 400). Once it gets down to 2, it will still be best of 3 though.

Sorry for the inconvenience in announcing this after the round had started.

[Cybele]

Okay, so I know a couple of these, but they feel like they're high-scorers. I'm going to hope that

Keanu's 1994 movie of Speed

is the most obscure of the... maybe 4 up there I could guess.

[diginova]

You're thinking

Speed

is a good choice.

Let's see if it's up there and where the discs stop.

Spoiler: Result

57... I think that's a higher score than you expected.
It seems like people in the UK love their cheesy '90s Keanu Reeves movies.

N

, there are five films still on the board. Which one will you choose?

Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze (1990)
Cher & Nicolas Cage (1987)
Ingrid Bergman & Humphry Bogart (1942)
Keira Knightley & James McAvoy (2007)
Faye Dunaway & Jack Nicholson (1974)

[Cybele]

Goddamn, really?

[xofelf]

Oh huh, not quite the format I was thinking, but a'ight.

[diginova]

Oh huh, not quite the format I was thinking, but a'ight.

I'm going based off the show... they do one round of clues and one round of freeform.

[xofelf]

Lol I meant how the question is formatted. I like it though

[Cybele]

Oh huh, not quite the format I was thinking, but a'ight.

I'm going based off the show... they do one round of clues and one round of freeform.

Tbh, I was expecting the freeform round to come first, but I've only seen like 2 episodes, max.

[CuddlyCaucasian]

I always see more of the clue questions, in recent episodes at least!

[diginova]

The first two rounds are always one of each, but there's no specific order. It is 7 choices in Round I and 6 in Round II though.

[N]

I really have absolutely no idea this is so embarrassing

Is the 2007 one Avatar?

[diginova]

Were Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in

Avatar

?

Let's see what the discs decide.

Spoiler: Result

I'm sorry, that's incorrect, so you score the maximum of 100 points.
I'll go into more details after the pass as xofelf can have another shot at it.

xofelf

, still five films on the board. You're last on this pass, so feel free to talk through the board.

Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze (1990)
Cher & Nicolas Cage (1987)
Ingrid Bergman & Humphry Bogart (1942)
Keira Knightley & James McAvoy (2007)
Faye Dunaway & Jack Nicholson (1974)

[xofelf]

hmmm.. I know two of these... I'm going to go with the one I'm sure on.

Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze (1990):

Ghost?

[diginova]

You seem pretty confident in

Ghost

.

Will it be good to go with what you knew, or would it have been better taking a risk? Let's see.

Spoiler: Result

It's right, but it was also very popular, but 70 points is at least better than 100.

Now to look at the rest of the board.

Ingrid Bergman & Humphry Bogart (1942) starred in

Casablanca

, which would have scored you

22

.
Sadly, N, Keira Knightley & James McAvoy (2007) were in

Atonement

, worth

24

.
The two best on the board are Cher & Nicolas Cage (1987) in

Moonstruck

and Faye Dunaway & Jack Nicholson (1974) in

Chinatown

, both scoring

8

.

After one pass, CuddlyCaucasian is in the lead with

10

, followed by Cybele, xofelf and finally N at

100

.

[diginova]

And here are seven more for the next pass. We're going in reverse order this time, so

xofelf

, it's your shot at the board.

ONE WORD FILM TITLES

.

Kate Winslet & Leonardo Di Caprio (1997)

Meryl Streep & Woody Allen (1979)

Elizabeth Taylor & James Dean (1956)

Honor Blackman & Sean Connery (1965)

Madonna & Antonio Banderas (1996)

Sigourney Weaver & Sam Worthington (2009)

Jessica Lange & Dustin Hoffman (1982)

[N]

I know one of these!!

[xofelf]

uhhhhh.... let's go with...

Elizabeth Taylor & James Dean (1956):

Giant?

[diginova]

Going back in time for

Giant

.

Let's see if that is correct, and how many points it is worth if so.

Spoiler: Result

10! It seems like the first pick of each round is lucky!
Very good job, and your combined score of

80

means you'll be in a safe position going into the next question.

N

, which of the six remaining do you know?

Kate Winslet & Leonardo Di Caprio (1997)
Meryl Streep & Woody Allen (1979)
Honor Blackman & Sean Connery (1965)
Madonna & Antonio Banderas (1996)
Sigourney Weaver & Sam Worthington (2009)
Jessica Lange & Dustin Hoffman (1982)

[N]

N, which of the six remaining do you know?

Kate Winslet & Leonardo Di Caprio (1997)

Titanic!