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Archive Quiz: First ever Pointless episode

  • Published
    2 July 2024

Pointless first arrived on the BBC in 2009, and since then it has become a fixture of early evening television.

Try your hand at these topics from the first ever episode, broadcast on 24 August 2009, and see if you can win today’s jackpot which now stands at £0. It’s the taking part that counts.

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