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Pointless continued today with a bunch of contestants trying to get that all-illusive zero-scoring answer. 

The second round featured literary teachers as Alexander Armstrong displayed a list of six educators with the first letters from their associated book titles. 

At the bottom of the first board, Madame Fidolia was shown, along with the letters BS and author, Noel Streatfeild.

Contestant, Henry, decided to have a pop at guessing the book title, and it seemed he couldn’t have been further away from the correct answer.

Henry told Alexander he would like to answer with “Bravo Sierra”, using the police alphabet to help him out. 

Alexander seemed to be speechless with the answer, merely just saying: “Okay.”

Of course, with the correct answer being Ballet Shoes, the buzzer went off and the board flashed red.

Richard Osman took the opportunity to make a joke, telling Henry how bad his answer was.

He joked, alluding to the swear word associated with “BS”: “That answer really was Bravo Sierra.”

Richard added: “It would be a good title if Andy McNab thought, ‘Oh I’m gonna write some books set in a school…’”

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“That’s a good title,” Richard joked, while Alexander chuckled at his joke.

Sadly for Henry and his colleague Alex, the second round marked the end of the road for them. 

Last week, Alexander Armstrong scolded a celebrity for forgetting how the BBC show worked.

During a celebrity special with a host of stars from the 70s, Richard and Alexander welcomed Bay City rollers star Les McKeown and radio DJ David Jenson for a go on the hard quiz.

For the first round, the contestants had to name “UK cities with five or more letters in their name”.

David needed to score 88 or less to get into the next round, but answered incorrectly with “Weston-super-Mare”. 

Alexander cried out, “Oh no”,  while David seemed unimpressed as he scored 100.

Alexander said: “Oh no, David. Oh no, Les. I’m afraid that scores you 100 points. It takes your total up to 120.”

“Is that a good thing? Les quipped to which a stunned Alexander answered: “No! No, it’s not.”

Richard continued: “It’s not a city I’m afraid, you know what you could have said any answer, even London would have seen you through on this one, but Weston-super-Mare - not a city.”

Pointless airs weekdays at 5.15pm on BBC One.

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