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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio on the day that way back in 1942, the great country singer Tammy Wynette was born and she was often referred to as the first lady of country music.
00:44Who would ever forget, of course, her great number one hit, Stand By Your Man. It was number one in the US in, I think it was about 68 and then, of course, here in 75.
00:55And I don't know about you, Rachel, but actually I can leave Country Western.
01:00Any day. And it's difficult to sort of pick a favourite genre, but today I feel like Requiem masses, masses for the dead.
01:12And some of them, of course, are so wonderful.
01:15Well, let me tell you, masses for the dead. For instance, 4A has got a beautiful Requiem mass. I suppose every great composer had to have a Requiem mass.
01:23And what is this, the music to walk the coffin down the aisle to?
01:26It's, it's, it's, it's, it's played during a, during a, um, a funeral.
01:32That's your favourite type of music?
01:34Absolutely. Fantastic.
01:35So you're not a Justin Bieber fan then?
01:37No.
01:37No.
01:38Now, what about, what is your favourite genre of music? Come on.
01:41Well, I'm probably not a funeral dish. I'm not, I'm with you, actually, in Country and Western.
01:45Not for us, though. How about that?
01:46Not my cup of tea.
01:47I'll stick with the dead.
01:48It's to their own. Yep, lovely.
01:49Who's here?
01:50John Robertson's back, um, Rachel.
01:52Three great wins.
01:54Well, not great wins. The last one.
01:57You squeeze past on a crucial conundrum, which you didn't get.
02:01But anyway, welcome back. Welcome back.
02:03And you're joined today by Stephen Reid, a maths tutor from Lim in Cheshire,
02:08who, interestingly, has got the complete collection of Guinness Book of World Records
02:13from the first edition way back in 55.
02:16Yeah.
02:16That's fascinating.
02:18Uh, yeah, I started collecting them when I was six.
02:21Fantastic. So there we are.
02:23Good luck to you. Good luck to both of you.
02:24Big round of applause for our Stephen and John.
02:28And Susie's in the corner, joined once again by the wonderful, uh, broadcaster
02:32with some great stories on the history of sports, the origins of sports.
02:37It's John Inverdale. Welcome back, John.
02:40Now, John Robertson. Letters time for you. Good luck.
02:44Hello, Rachel.
02:45Hi, John.
02:46I'll start with a consonant, please.
02:47Thank you. Start today with G.
02:50And another.
02:53T.
02:54And another.
02:57R.
02:58And a fourth, please.
03:00N.
03:01A vowel, please.
03:03E.
03:04And another.
03:06A.
03:07And another, please.
03:10O.
03:12And a consonant.
03:15D.
03:17And another consonant, please.
03:19And a last one.
03:20F.
03:21And here's the countdown clock.
03:22D.
03:32And another.
03:36D.
03:36And another.
03:37D.
03:41And another.
03:42D.
03:43Well, John?
03:54Seven, Nick.
03:55A seven, Stephen.
03:56Eight.
03:57And an eight, John.
03:58Granted.
03:59Stephen.
04:00Dragonette.
04:01A dragonette?
04:03Excellent.
04:03Is that a sort of wagon?
04:06Marine fish, which often lies partly buried in the seabed,
04:11denoting a small dragon originally.
04:13I was thinking of a wagonette, a dragonette.
04:22What else have we got, John?
04:23We also have frontage, which is eight letters.
04:26And I have tangoed.
04:27Is that a word?
04:28Yes.
04:28You can be tangoed.
04:29Well, yeah.
04:30Well, not with a capital T, but as in he tangoed the night away.
04:34Of course.
04:34Yeah.
04:35There is a verb.
04:36That's absolutely fine.
04:37Exhausting business, I should think of.
04:39What, tangoing the night away?
04:40Oh, yeah.
04:40Now, what should we do here?
04:42Stephen on eight.
04:43John, yet to score.
04:44Stephen, your letters game.
04:46Thanks, Nick.
04:47Hi, Rachel.
04:48Hi, Stephen.
04:48Start with a consonant, please.
04:50Start with S.
04:52And again.
04:54R.
04:55And a vowel.
04:57E.
04:58And again.
05:00O.
05:01A consonant.
05:03S.
05:05Vowel.
05:05I.
05:07I.
05:08Consonant.
05:09M.
05:11Vowel.
05:14U.
05:16And a consonant.
05:18And lastly, L.
05:20Stand by.
05:21Henry.
05:30I.
05:31É.
05:32I.
05:39I.
05:40I.
05:40I.
05:41I.
05:42I.
05:42I.
05:43I.
05:47Stephen?
05:52Eight.
05:53And eight, John?
05:54Seven.
05:55And that's seven?
05:56Mousier.
05:57Mousier.
05:58And misrules.
06:00Misrules.
06:01Misrules, absolutely fine.
06:02Yes, to govern the country badly is to misrule it.
06:05Very good.
06:06Good start there from Stephen.
06:07John, any excitement in the corner?
06:11The only word that always excites me when I see it is rissoles.
06:15Rissoles.
06:16I haven't seen a rissoles since I was 12.
06:18Sick.
06:19And I don't see another one, actually.
06:21That could be the title of your autobiography.
06:24I haven't seen a rissoles since I was 12.
06:28There is an unpleasant joke in there somewhere.
06:32Anyway, 16 for Stephen.
06:34Cracking start there, Stephen.
06:35John, numbers game.
06:37I'd like one large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:40Thank you, John.
06:40One from the top row.
06:41Five little ones to start us off today.
06:43And this selection is three, ten, two, one.
06:49Another one.
06:50And the large one, 25.
06:52And the target, 552.
06:55Five, five, two.
06:56Five, five, five.
07:00One, two.
07:26Yes, John?
07:275, 5, 2.
07:29And Stephen?
07:30Yeah, 5, 5, 2.
07:30Mm-hmm.
07:31John?
07:3310 times 2 plus 1 plus 1.
07:3710 times 2, 20.
07:39Sorry, 20.
07:40Plus 1 plus 1, 22.
07:42Times 25.
07:43Times 25 is 550.
07:48Plus the 3.
07:49Oh, that's a shame.
07:51You need three 1s.
07:53Mm, I must have misread that.
07:55Never mind.
07:56Stephen?
07:5710 plus 1 is 11.
07:5910 plus 1, 11.
08:00Times 2 is 22.
08:01Times 2, 22.
08:02Times 25.
08:04Is 550.
08:05Then 3 minus 1 is 2.
08:07Yes.
08:07And add it on.
08:08And you haven't used any of those.
08:09Well done.
08:09Yeah, well done.
08:12Well done.
08:13Bad luck, John.
08:14Bad luck.
08:15But it's early days as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:18which is some cry in.
08:20And the clue, some cry in Parliament that this is far too prevalent.
08:24Some cry in Parliament that this is far too prevalent.
08:28And the answer to that is cronyism.
08:52Cronyism.
08:54Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant,
08:57you can email countdown at channel4.com to request an application form
09:02or write to us at contestants' applications, countdown leads, LS31JS.
09:10So, 26 to Stephen.
09:13My word, Stephen.
09:14Quick start there.
09:15It's your letters game now.
09:17Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:18Thank you, Stephen.
09:20G.
09:21And again.
09:23F.
09:24And vowel.
09:26E.
09:27And again.
09:29O.
09:30Consonant.
09:31J.
09:33Vowel.
09:34A.
09:36Consonant.
09:37T.
09:39Vowel.
09:42U.
09:43And a consonant.
09:46And the last one.
09:47C.
09:48Countdown.
09:48A.
09:59A razón.
09:59A.
10:00A.
10:01A.
10:01Stephen. I'll try a seven.
10:20A seven. And John?
10:22Five. And your five?
10:25Acute. Stephen.
10:26Out face.
10:28Out face somebody.
10:29You're in luck, Stephen. Yes. In the dictionary, to disconcert or defeat an opponent by confronting them boldly is to out face them.
10:36Out face. All right. And John?
10:39No, I was discombobulated by that word, which I didn't really know existed. So there we are.
10:44Out face. Susie, anything else?
10:45No, that was our best two for seven.
10:47Thank you. And John, letter's time for you. Good luck.
10:52Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:53Thank you, John.
10:55P.
10:55And another.
10:58D.
10:58And another.
11:01S.
11:02And a fourth.
11:04Q.
11:06And a consonant, please.
11:08N.
11:10Vowel.
11:11A.
11:12Vowel.
11:14E.
11:16Vowel.
11:18O.
11:18And a consonant, please.
11:24And lastly, T.
11:26Stand by.
11:26The.
11:28But.
11:35The.
11:36The.
11:37The.
11:38The.
11:38The.
11:39The.
11:46The.
11:48The.
11:48The.
11:48The.
11:51graves.
11:52Yes, John?
11:58Six.
12:00Six. And Stephen?
12:01Eight.
12:02John?
12:04Depots.
12:06Depots. And Stephen Reid?
12:08Notepads.
12:09Notepads. My word.
12:16Yeah, we've got notepads as well.
12:18And we also had Padstone.
12:20Not Padstone as in Cornwall, but Padstone.
12:22As in, something to do with building?
12:26Yeah, a block of stone or concrete built into a wall or other structure to distribute pressure.
12:32I see. Padstone.
12:33Padstone.
12:35All right. Now, it's numbers.
12:37They've come around for Stephen, the maths tutor.
12:41Two large, please, Rachel.
12:42Thank you, Stephen. Two from the top.
12:44And four little ones.
12:46And these numbers are ten.
12:49One.
12:50Two.
12:51Ten.
12:52And the large ones, twenty-five and fifty.
12:55And the target, seven hundred and eighty-three.
12:58Seven, eight, three.
12:59And the large ones, twenty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and fifty-five and
13:29Stephen?
13:30780.
13:32780.
13:34John?
13:34780.
13:36782.
13:37Stephen?
13:3825 minus 10.
13:4125 minus 10, 15.
13:43Plus 1.
13:4416.
13:45Times 50.
13:46Times 50, 800.
13:48Sorry, yeah, 800.
13:49Then 10 to 20.
13:51And the other 10.
13:53Yep.
13:55780, three away.
13:57And John?
13:5950 plus 25.
14:0150 plus 25, 75.
14:04Plus 2 plus 1.
14:05Plus 2 plus 1, 78.
14:08Times 10.
14:09Times 10, 780.
14:11Well done.
14:12Pretty near, but not quite close enough.
14:15783, Rachel.
14:17Possible?
14:18Yes, there were a couple of ways.
14:20One of them you could have said 25 plus 2 is 27.
14:25And then 50 minus 10, minus 10, minus 1 is 29.
14:29And times them together.
14:31Oh, well done.
14:31Thank you, Rachel.
14:32Fantastic.
14:32Fantastic.
14:35So, our Stephen Times winner is off the blocks.
14:38Well done, John.
14:39To Stephen's 48.
14:41Fantastic start there.
14:42But now, let's rest and turn to John.
14:44What have you got for us today, John?
14:46Well, I've got a half-time team talk for you, John, as well, all right?
14:48It's a game of two halves.
14:49You're not out of it yet, all right?
14:50I was going to talk about cycling, actually, simply because, you know, it's such an extraordinary
14:56growth sport over the last 20-odd years or so.
14:59And actually, I think if you were going to say, what is the single most significant event
15:02that's happened to sport in this country, it would be Chris Boardman winning a gold medal
15:06in Barcelona in 1992.
15:08Because without him, you'd never have had the Hoyes and the Wiggins and everything else.
15:11And, you know, he said at the time, his mission was to make cycling, our attitude to
15:17cycling, more than just about sport, about being a leisure activity, about an integral
15:20part of society.
15:22And that has kind of happened, really.
15:24But as I looked up, I was interested to see when the first bicycle had come around, because
15:28I kind of thought it would be six, seven, eight hundred years ago.
15:30But in many ways, the first defined bicycle was patented nearly 200 years ago by a guy
15:37called Karl von Dreis in Mannheim.
15:40In fact, it was 200 years ago this year.
15:42It was in 1817.
15:43And it was called a Laufen machine, because Laufen in German is to run.
15:46So it was a run machine, but it was on wheels.
15:48And then bit by bit, through France, it was obviously very much a big thing on the continent
15:53the whole while, which is why we kind of lagged behind, never fully embraced it.
15:57But the biggest development was towards the end of the 19th century, when the chain was
16:01invented.
16:02And then the Dunlop Tyre Company made these pneumatic tyres, which eventually meant that
16:09you had cycles like we've got now.
16:10And so, in fact, bicycles have really barely changed in 150 years.
16:16You know, obviously, you've got fold-away bikes and electric bikes and things like that.
16:19But essentially, you know, a bicycle is a bicycle when all is said and done.
16:22I think it's worth bearing in mind there's a guy called Fred Rompelberg, who is still alive.
16:25He's a Dutchman.
16:27A, he's got a great name.
16:28But also, in fact, you might know him with your passion for the Guinness Book of Records,
16:33because he holds the record for the fastest ever riding of a bicycle, and that was in
16:39the slipstream of a drag racing car in America, when he managed to reach the speed of 167 miles
16:47an hour on a bike, pedalling.
16:50Can you imagine that?
16:51That is crazy.
16:52But he still does bike tours all over the world.
16:54Not at that speed, I don't think.
16:56But he's clearly quite an extraordinary man as he heads into his latter years.
17:00Fantastic.
17:01What a great story.
17:02Thank you very much, John.
17:0748 plays 7, and it's John's letters game.
17:10Good luck, John.
17:11Thank you, Nick.
17:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:14Thank you, John.
17:16D.
17:17And another.
17:20L.
17:21And another.
17:23W.
17:24Vowel.
17:26E.
17:27And another.
17:29O.
17:29Another vowel, please.
17:33A.
17:35And a consonant.
17:37D.
17:38And a consonant.
17:41R.
17:43And a final vowel, please.
17:45And a final E.
17:48Stand by.
17:49And a consonant.
17:50And a consonant.
17:50And a consonant.
17:50And a consonant.
17:51And a consonant.
17:51And a consonant.
17:52And a consonant.
17:52And a consonant.
17:53And a consonant.
17:54And a consonant.
17:54And a consonant.
17:54And a consonant.
17:54And a consonant.
17:54And a consonant.
17:55And a consonant.
17:55And a consonant.
17:55And a consonant.
17:55And a consonant.
17:56And a consonant.
17:56And a consonant.
17:56And a consonant.
17:57And a consonant.
17:57And a consonant.
17:58And a consonant.
17:58And a consonant.
17:58And a consonant.
17:59And a consonant.
17:59And a consonant.
18:00And a consonant.
18:00And a consonant.
18:00And a consonant.
18:01And a consonant.
18:02And a consonant.
18:02And a consonant.
18:03And a consonant.
18:03And a consonant.
18:04And a consonant.
18:19Yes, John.
18:20Seven, Nick.
18:22Stephen?
18:22Eight.
18:24John?
18:25Waddler.
18:27Is that how you feel at the moment?
18:29And Stephen?
18:30Reloaded.
18:31And reloaded.
18:32All right.
18:33Very good.
18:33Reloaded.
18:34Well done.
18:34All right.
18:36Susie and John, any advances on reloading?
18:39I just sense that John is plotting some terrible act of violence any second now.
18:46All right.
18:47Anything else?
18:47No, we had reloaded.
18:48That's it.
18:48All right.
18:49Well done.
18:5056th place, seven.
18:51Stephen, off you go.
18:53Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:55Thank you, Stephen.
18:56M.
18:57And again.
18:59K.
19:01Vowel.
19:03O.
19:04And again.
19:05I.
19:07Consonant.
19:08V.
19:10Vowel.
19:12O.
19:13Consonant.
19:15S.
19:17Consonant.
19:19T.
19:19T.
19:19T.
19:20And a vowel.
19:21And to finish, A.
19:24And here's the countdown clock.
19:39Stephen?
19:57Six.
19:58John?
19:59Five.
20:00And your five?
20:02Moist.
20:03Moist?
20:04Oh, good.
20:05And Stephen?
20:06Vomits.
20:06Vomits.
20:09Well, I'm so pleased you two are here.
20:12What have we got?
20:14Any advance on vomits?
20:15We can improve vomits to Miss Stook for seven.
20:19Well done, Miss Stook.
20:20And Susie, that's it?
20:22Yes, thankfully that was ours.
20:24The pass swiftly off.
20:25Two playing seven.
20:27And now, John, numbers.
20:28Good luck.
20:29Thanks, Nick.
20:31One large, five small, please, Rachel.
20:33Thank you, John.
20:34One from the top row.
20:35Five little ones coming up.
20:37And this time they are eight, two, ten, three, four.
20:43And the large one, 100.
20:45And the target, 342.
20:48Three, four, two.
20:49Two, ten, three, four.
20:50So good.
20:53Bye.
21:02Bye.
21:07Bye.
21:12Bye.
21:13Bye.
21:13Bye.
21:16Bye.
21:16Bye.
21:17Bye.
21:17Bye.
21:18Bye.
21:18Yes, John.
21:213, 4, 2.
21:22And?
21:23Yeah, 3, 4, 2.
21:24And John?
21:253 times 100.
21:26300.
21:284 times 10.
21:3040.
21:312.
21:322, indeed.
21:333, 4, 2.
21:34There we go.
21:34And Stephen?
21:35I did 100 plus 10 plus 4.
21:38It's even 40.
21:38114.
21:39Times 3.
21:40Perfect.
21:41Well done.
21:42Well done.
21:43Thank you, everyone.
21:45So, 72 things.
21:47It's 17 as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is un-exactly.
21:52And the clue, they weren't unhappy.
21:54They were exactly the opposite and full of this.
21:56They weren't unhappy.
21:58They were exactly the opposite and full of this.
22:00They were full of exultancy.
22:26Exultancy.
22:26My, they were exulted.
22:3072 playing 17.
22:31And Stephen?
22:33Your letters game.
22:34Thanks, Nick.
22:35Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:36Thank you, Stephen.
22:37Z.
22:38And again.
22:40B.
22:42And vowel?
22:44I.
22:44And again.
22:46E.
22:47Consonant?
22:48M.
22:50Vowel.
22:53A.
22:54Consonant.
22:56B.
22:58Vowel.
23:00E.
23:02And another vowel.
23:03And lastly, another I.
23:06Countdown.
23:07E.
23:23¶¶
23:23Yes, Stephen?
23:39Six.
23:40Six, John?
23:41Six.
23:42Hold on.
23:43Stephen?
23:44Imbibe.
23:45Imbibe and John.
23:47There we go.
23:49Well, I should be doing wrong than this.
23:51Yes.
23:52Rest assured, you're going to be doing it.
23:53You're going to be doing a lot of it later on.
23:55Yes.
23:55We had the same.
23:57Now, John and Susie?
23:58Nothing more.
23:59That's it?
24:00Yes.
24:00Anything else interesting?
24:01Bays is there for five.
24:03All right.
24:0478 plays 23.
24:05John, now that you're on a roll.
24:11A letters game.
24:12Thanks, Nick.
24:13A consonant, please, Rachel.
24:15Thank you, John.
24:16S.
24:17And another one, please.
24:20L.
24:21And another.
24:21C.
24:25A vowel, please.
24:27E.
24:28And another one.
24:29E.
24:31And a consonant.
24:34R.
24:35And another consonant.
24:37L.
24:39And a vowel, please.
24:42O.
24:42And I'll finish with a vowel.
24:46And finish with E.
24:48Stand by.
24:55Yes, John?
25:21Just six, Nick.
25:22A six, even?
25:22Yes, six.
25:24John?
25:25Closer and...
25:27Yes, same word.
25:28Closer still.
25:29Yes.
25:29We can up that by one, a word called CELOS, C-E-L-L-O-S-E, which means...
25:38A biochemical term, today, now usually called CELOBIOS, and it's a disaccharide consisting
25:44of two glucose units.
25:46Oh, good.
25:48How wonderful.
25:4984 playing 29.
25:51And it's Susie we turn to for her wonderful origins of words.
25:55Susie?
25:56Well, we're going to talk about an ancient Greek and Roman custom that's still commonly practised
26:00in many countries today, and that's the process of a dowry, a woman's dowry.
26:07And I was going to mention a rather curiously related Greek cousin, which I will come to.
26:13But first of all, dowry, that's linked to endow, and it goes back to the Latin dowry, meaning
26:19to give.
26:20And it is money endowed, of course, by a bride or a bride's parents to her husband upon marriage,
26:28as opposed to a dowry, and a dowry was the money settled on a bride by the groom, again
26:33at the point of marriage.
26:35It's linked to endow, and it's also linked to dowager, a dowager being a woman whose
26:40husband is dead and who is in the enjoyment of some title or property that's come to her
26:44from him, apparently first used of Mary Tudor, widow of Louis XII, and of Catherine of Aragon,
26:51who was styled the princess dowager.
26:54But paraphernalia is strangely related, and it's not a word that we use remotely in connection
26:59with marriage these days.
27:00But until the Married Women's Property Act in the late 19th century, a husband would
27:05traditionally become the owner of all his wife's property when the couple married.
27:10But there was a partial exception to this, and that was her purely personal belongings,
27:16so clothes and jewellery, et cetera, she was allowed to keep until after her husband's
27:22death.
27:23These were her paraphernalia, and that is the word that comes from the Greek, paraferna,
27:27which means property apart from a dowry.
27:30So it was set apart specifically so that she could keep that, and he couldn't touch it within
27:35the confines of the law.
27:37Over time, the meaning loosened to come to refer to bric-a-brac, really, in the mid-18th
27:42century.
27:43So sort of bits and pieces, because they weren't considered particularly important.
27:46And then today, to the items that are needed for a particular activity, but always with
27:51that sense of the trivial.
27:53And in fact, another phrase that holds the same idea, really, is pin money.
27:57It's pin money.
27:58We use it today for a sort of small amount of money, but actually was originally the allowance
28:02given by a husband to a wife, so that she could buy things like pins for her, for her
28:09scarves, et cetera, and for her dresses, brooches, et cetera.
28:12But again, not very much money.
28:13It was mere pin money.
28:15How things is dead.
28:16Yeah.
28:1984 plays 29, and Stephen, it's your letters game.
28:26Thanks, Nick.
28:27A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:28Thank you, Stephen.
28:29T.
28:30And again.
28:32S.
28:34Vowel.
28:35O.
28:36And again.
28:38A.
28:39A consonant.
28:41Y.
28:43Vowel.
28:43E.
28:45A consonant.
28:47N.
28:49A vowel.
28:52I.
28:54And a consonant.
28:56And lastly, T.
28:58Go, go.
28:59Go, go.
29:01Yes, Stephen.
29:30And a seven.
29:30A seven, John?
29:32A six.
29:33And that six?
29:34Entity.
29:36Stephen?
29:36Station.
29:37And station.
29:38Nice.
29:39There we go.
29:40Any more sixes or sevens?
29:41We had a six for sanity and a seven for no tates.
29:44Well done.
29:45OK.
29:46No tates.
29:4791.
29:4891.
29:49Well done.
29:50John, it's the final letters game for you.
29:52Thanks, Nick.
29:53Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:55Thank you, John.
29:56L.
29:57And another.
29:59N.
30:00And a third, please.
30:02R.
30:04And a vowel.
30:06E.
30:07And another vowel, please.
30:10I.
30:11And a consonant.
30:13T.
30:15Like another consonant.
30:17S.
30:19And a vowel.
30:21A.
30:23And a consonant, please.
30:26And lastly, D.
30:28Stand by.
30:28And a consonant.
30:30And a consonant.
30:31And a consonant.
30:31And a consonant.
30:32And a consonant.
30:32And a consonant.
30:32And a consonant.
30:33And a consonant.
30:33And a consonant.
30:34And a consonant.
30:34And a consonant.
30:34And a consonant.
30:34And a consonant.
30:35And a consonant.
30:35And a consonant.
30:35And a consonant.
30:35And a consonant.
30:36And a consonant.
30:36And a consonant.
30:36And a consonant.
30:37And a consonant.
30:37And a consonant.
30:38And a consonant.
30:38And a consonant.
30:38And a consonant.
30:39And a consonant.
30:39And a consonant.
30:40And a consonant.
30:40And a consonant.
30:41And a consonant.
30:42And a consonant.
30:42And a consonant.
30:43And a consonant.
30:43And a consonant.
30:44And a consonant.
30:44John?
31:01Eight.
31:02Stephen?
31:02Eight.
31:03Two eights.
31:03John?
31:04Strained.
31:06Strained.
31:07John strained.
31:08And Stephen?
31:09Entrails.
31:10And entrails.
31:12Very good.
31:15Very good.
31:16Yeah, it's funny, isn't it, how you get some collection of words,
31:19that there are loads and loads of eights.
31:20So we had latrines there.
31:22Yep.
31:23Islander, tendrils, lots of options, really.
31:26That's the way they fall.
31:28All right.
31:2999, look at this.
31:3099.
31:31John on 37.
31:32And now, Stephen, final numbers game.
31:35Two large, please, Rachel.
31:36Thank you, Stephen.
31:37Two from the top and four little for the last one of the week.
31:40And these four small numbers are six, two,
31:43two and ten.
31:46And the large ones, 25 and 75.
31:49And the target, 443.
31:52443.
31:52And the line, two, one, three and a half.
31:54MUSIC CONTINUES
32:24John, 440 not written down.
32:29Let's try Stephen, shall we?
32:32OK, 75 minus 2 is 73.
32:35Yep.
32:36Times 6 is 438.
32:38438.
32:39And 10 over 2 is 5.
32:41And have it on.
32:42Yep, well done, 443.
32:43Oh, well done.
32:44Well done.
32:46Well done, Stephen.
32:48109.
32:48I think we've got one tremendous player here.
32:51So, let's go into the final round.
32:54It's conundrum time.
32:56John and Stephen, fingers on buzzers.
32:58Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:10Stephen.
33:11Bayoneted.
33:12Bayoneted.
33:13Let's see whether you're right.
33:15Bayoneted.
33:16Well done.
33:17Fantastic.
33:18Fantastic.
33:21That's the truth.
33:22First time out, 119.
33:23That's absolutely brilliant.
33:24Well done.
33:25Well done.
33:25But I'm going to thank you for coming because you've been a great sport.
33:30You had three good wins.
33:31And you're a pleasure to have here.
33:33So, thanks for coming.
33:34You're going to take that back.
33:35And a teapot with our highest team back to Farnham.
33:40Proud of place.
33:41Thank you very much indeed.
33:42Thanks for coming.
33:43Thank you, Nick.
33:44Good bloke.
33:44All right.
33:45Now, Stephen Reid, this is a tremendous way to kick things off, isn't it?
33:49119.
33:50Yeah, I'll take that.
33:51Yeah.
33:52See you tomorrow.
33:53Well done.
33:54All right.
33:55That's a good player, John.
33:57It is a good player.
33:58I thought John, as a rugby referee, actually might somehow have blown the whistle early today
34:02and just decided it was time to go.
34:05I thought that occurred.
34:07All right.
34:08John, see you Monday?
34:09Yeah, we'll do.
34:09All right.
34:10See you, too, of course.
34:11Have a good weekend.
34:12Now then.
34:12What have we learned from this?
34:14Never mess with a math teacher.
34:16I mean, a fantastic performance.
34:18119.
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