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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Thank you very much.
01:00Was special. Went on to play football for England. Over 900,000 career appearances. 26th year football career. Cap for England 53 times. Oh yes.
01:13Former England goalkeeper David James, MBE, is 46 today. And where's he celebrating? He's celebrating here in the Countdown studio. Happy birthday to you.
01:25Happy birthday, David. Brilliant stuff.
01:32I think the 900,000 was slightly over-egging it.
01:35I think I meant to say 900. In fact, it was over 1,000, wasn't it?
01:41It was over 1,000. All right.
01:42So, birthdays. I sort of don't bother with them, really. But I did on my 70th. And I took the grandchildren off to South Africa as a special treat. Not just for them, but for me, too, on safari. And that was a very special and unusual birthday for me.
01:59Because I normally keep things really quiet. What about you, Rachel? Have you found yourself under a strange sky on your birthday?
02:07Um, well, my 30th I spent with a Viking beard and Viking horns on on the top of a mountain in Lake Tahoe.
02:13Of course you did. Of course I did. Yes, it was a good disguise.
02:17Very good. But, Rachel, we've got with us now, again, Chris Leaney, son of Glen, runner-up back in 1999. He was the winner of the first teapot.
02:27Yeah. It's quite a valuable thing, you know.
02:29Yeah, it doesn't get used at all. It's very much a cabinet item.
02:32I should hope so. I should hope so. Anyway, from Chalgrove in Oxfordshire, an economic student at Bath, and you're a cricketer.
02:40And, uh, yeah, you had a good win against a terrific competitor, actually.
02:45But, so, we're pleased to see you here. You're joined by Stephen Bloom, a PE teacher from Amersham, who loves his football.
02:51And you've, uh, climbed Kilimanjaro. How long did that take?
02:55Uh, five days.
02:56Did it, really?
02:57Yeah. Not, uh, 24 times five days, but, uh, over the course of five days.
03:02Yeah.
03:02Um, it was a fantastic experience.
03:05How high is it? Can you remember?
03:06Uh, it's, uh, over 19,000 feet, and I think just over 6,000 metres.
03:11Really? All right. Well done.
03:13Now, interestingly, your father, Paul, your dad, competed in the last series of Countdown.
03:19He did, yeah.
03:19And he's in the audience?
03:20He certainly is.
03:21Fantastic. How did he do?
03:23No, he did well, but I'll hope to go one better.
03:25He's got his eye on you.
03:26I bet he has.
03:27All right. Big round of applause for Stephen and Chris.
03:30And over in the corner, of course, Susie and our birthday boy.
03:37We shall be talking to you a little bit later on, David, but now it's down to business.
03:42Chris Leaney, letters game.
03:44Afternoon, Rachel.
03:45Afternoon, Chris.
03:45Can I have a consonant, please?
03:47Thank you. Start this week with S.
03:50And another?
03:53F.
03:53And a vowel?
03:56U.
03:57And a consonant?
04:00G.
04:01And a vowel?
04:04I.
04:05And a consonant?
04:07P.
04:08And a vowel?
04:11O.
04:12And a consonant?
04:14M.
04:16And a final consonant, please.
04:19And a final P.
04:21And here is the countdown clock.
04:23What?
04:24I.
04:26And a consonant?
04:26I.
04:27I.
04:28I.
04:29I.
04:30I.
04:31I.
04:32I.
04:33I.
04:34I.
04:40I.
04:40I.
04:40And.
04:41Yes, Chris?
04:54Six.
04:55A six, and Stephen?
04:56Just a five.
04:57A five, your five?
04:59Pious.
05:00Pious and?
05:01Pompous.
05:02And pompous.
05:03Pompous, you need two O's.
05:05The P-O-N-P-O-U-S.
05:07Yeah.
05:08And Susie and David?
05:10Gimps.
05:11Gimps, yes.
05:12Yes.
05:12With a U, G-U-I-M-P-S, fishing lines made of silk bound with wire.
05:19Believe it or not.
05:20That will give you a six.
05:23Well done.
05:23All right, so Stephen's taken an early lead, and it's Stephen's letters game now.
05:27Stephen.
05:28Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:29Afternoon, Stephen.
05:30Can I have a consonant, please?
05:32Start with R.
05:34And another?
05:37S.
05:37And another?
05:39J.
05:41A vowel?
05:43A.
05:44Another vowel?
05:46I.
05:48And a third?
05:50E.
05:52A consonant?
05:54T.
05:56A vowel?
05:59A.
06:00And finish with a consonant, please.
06:02And finish with G.
06:03Stand by.
06:05Stand by.
06:35Stephen?
06:37Six.
06:37A six.
06:38Chris?
06:38Six.
06:40Stephen?
06:41Grades.
06:42Grades and?
06:42Raised.
06:44And raised.
06:45Yep.
06:46Another tricky one here.
06:48Still looking for good words.
06:49How do we get on?
06:52Guardies.
06:52Guardies, yeah.
06:53I had grades, but guardies obviously beats that.
06:56Yeah, they're a type of fish.
06:58A guardie is a type of fish, and it's a garfish.
07:01Any of a number of long, slender fish with beak-like jaws and sharply pointed teeth.
07:07And, yeah, another word for them is a guardie.
07:09So you can have guardies for seven.
07:11Yeah.
07:12You wouldn't want to be bitten by a guardie by the sound of it.
07:14Definitely not.
07:15Eleven plays Chris's six, and it's Chris's numbers game.
07:18Chris?
07:19Can I get two from the top, please?
07:21Thank you, Chris.
07:21Two large, four little ones.
07:24And for the first time this week, they are two, five, two, four, and the large ones,
07:31one hundred and seventy-five.
07:34And the target, four hundred and forty-eight.
07:36Four, four eight.
07:38Four, four, five, four, and the large ones.
08:08Yes, Chris?
08:10Four, four, eight.
08:11Four, four, eight.
08:12And Stephen?
08:13Four, four, eight.
08:14Chris?
08:15Uh, five times two is ten.
08:18Yeah.
08:18Plus the two.
08:19Twelve.
08:20Uh, plus the hundred.
08:22One hundred and twelve.
08:23And times it by four.
08:24Lovely.
08:24Four, four, eight.
08:26Stephen?
08:27Uh, same way.
08:28Very neatly done.
08:29Yeah, perfect.
08:30Very neatly done.
08:31Well done.
08:31APPLAUSE
08:32So, Stephen on 21, Chris on 16, as we go to our first teatime teaser, which is Satan Finn.
08:40And the clue.
08:41Were the monarch's daughters obsessed with a fizzy drink?
08:45Were the monarch's daughters obsessed with a fizzy drink?
08:48Welcome back.
09:04I left you with a clue.
09:04Were the monarch's daughters obsessed with a fizzy drink?
09:07And the answer is infantas.
09:12Infantas.
09:13Now, Stephen 21, Chris on 16.
09:16Stephen, letters game.
09:18Uh, start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
09:20Thank you, Stephen.
09:21V.
09:22And another.
09:24M.
09:25And a third.
09:27N.
09:29Uh, vowel.
09:30O.
09:32Another vowel.
09:34E.
09:34Another vowel.
09:39A.
09:40Consonant.
09:42R.
09:44Another consonant.
09:47S.
09:48And a final vowel, please.
09:49And the final one.
09:51O.
09:52And the clock starts now.
10:15And Stephen?
10:26Seven.
10:26And Chris?
10:27Also seven.
10:28Stephen?
10:29Moaners.
10:30And?
10:31Two moaners.
10:32Oh, no.
10:33Yeah.
10:33Any more moaners, David?
10:35No moaners, but we've got some mooners.
10:38Have you?
10:38Some mooners, yes.
10:39That's more allowed, those in the studio.
10:42And Susie?
10:43There was an eight there as well.
10:44Overmans, if you overstaff, something you overman.
10:48Very good.
10:48And that's their fate.
10:5028 to 23, still that five-point difference.
10:52Chris, let us go.
10:54Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:56Thank you, Chris.
10:57M.
10:58And another?
11:00D.
11:01And a vowel?
11:03I.
11:04And a consonant?
11:07T.
11:08And a vowel?
11:10U.
11:11And a consonant?
11:13R.
11:15And a vowel?
11:17A.
11:18Another vowel?
11:20E.
11:21And a final consonant, please.
11:23And a final G.
11:26Stand by.
11:27I.
11:27I.
11:28I.
11:28I.
11:29I.
11:30I.
11:31I.
11:49I.
11:50I.
11:50Chris?
11:59Seven.
12:00Seven, Stephen?
12:01Eight.
12:02Mmm.
12:03Chris?
12:03Matured.
12:05Matured and Stephen?
12:06Migrated.
12:07Migrated.
12:08Very good.
12:10Well done.
12:13Well done.
12:1436 to 23.
12:15Susie and David?
12:16Well, I was short of both of those, but Susie came up with equiline.
12:22Yeah, migrated, matured, and also muriate is there for seven,
12:27and that's a derivative of muriatic acid, another word for hydrochloric acid.
12:33All right, well done.
12:34As I say, 36 plays 23, and it's a numbers game for Stephen.
12:38Stephen?
12:39Can I have one large and five small, please?
12:41Thank you, Stephen.
12:42One large one and five small ones.
12:45And this time, the small ones are five, three, six, four, ten,
12:52and the big one, 100.
12:54And the target, 481.
12:57Four, eight, one.
12:58Four, eight, one.
13:00Four, eight, one.
13:00Yes, Stephen.
13:29Yes, Stephen.
13:31And Chris?
13:33Thank you, Stephen.
13:34100 times 5 is 500.
13:36Yes, 100 times 5 is 500.
13:38And then 10, 6 and 3 is 19.
13:40Yes.
13:41And take it away.
13:42Lovely.
13:43Well done, 4-8-1.
13:44Same way, Chris?
13:45Same way.
13:46Happy?
13:47All right, well done.
13:48So, same difference, 46 plays 33.
13:51As we turn to David James.
13:54David, you've got a story from the FA Cup Final in 1996 to tell us.
14:02Yes.
14:03As I've mentioned before on the show, the FA Cup holds a special place in my heart.
14:0896 was my first Cup Final.
14:12And the tradition then was to do the songs, which I didn't take part in for one reason
14:17or another.
14:18And the other tradition, obviously, was the Cup Final suit.
14:21And I'd been very fortunate to be a model for a very famous Italian fashion designer.
14:30And the lad said to me, well, Dave, can you get a suit?
14:35And I'm like, well, I can ask them, but, you know, whatever.
14:39I asked this designer and they said, you can have it, but at a price.
14:44So, I thought the lads wouldn't be interested.
14:46They'd rather have their one for free.
14:47But, no, they were quite happy to pay an extra bit of money for a special suit.
14:52Part of the sort of debating party, if you like, on what this suit was going to look like was certain John Barnes.
15:00And for those who followed John Barnes' fashion sense in the 90s, that was dangerous.
15:06Anyway, John got everything sorted out.
15:10And then the day of fitting arrived and we had these cream suits.
15:16We looked very dapper, if not a little bit odd, according to others.
15:21And, yeah, we went to the cup final. We lost.
15:24We looked like the band before the cup final.
15:28And forever will be associated as the FA Cup final suit year sort of thing.
15:35Fortunately, the cream suit doubled up for cricket clothes for travelling Bunbury's one year.
15:44So, yeah, it wasn't thrown away.
15:46And, yeah, I mean, the funny thing is, because we lost, we looked, apparently, we looked foolish.
15:53That might have been the performance, actually, because that wasn't much better.
15:56But, had we won...
15:57Do you remember the score, way back in 96?
15:59Yeah, 1-0, 87, and certain Mr... Canton?
16:02I can't remember his name, I can't remember.
16:04What happened to him?
16:05Yeah.
16:06I think you remember, yes.
16:07I think I remember.
16:08Yeah, had we won, we would have been the best-dressed team to have won the cup final.
16:12There we are.
16:13Yes.
16:14All right.
16:15Well done, David.
16:16Well done.
16:17Cream suits indeed, but we've got a fight on our hands here.
16:2246 to 33, and it's Chris's letters game.
16:26Chris.
16:27Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:28Thank you, Chris.
16:30N.
16:31And another.
16:33S.
16:34And a vowel.
16:36O.
16:38And a consonant.
16:40D.
16:41And a vowel.
16:42I.
16:43And a consonant.
16:44R.
16:45A vowel.
16:46U.
16:47Another vowel, please.
16:48A.
16:49And a final consonant, please.
16:50And a final L.
16:51Countdown.
16:52A.
16:53And a final consonant, please.
16:54And a final L.
16:55Countdown.
16:56B.
16:57And a final consonant, please.
16:58And a final L.
16:59Countdown.
17:00A clarinet, please.
17:01A clarinet, please.
17:02And a final consonant.
17:03A clarinet, please.
17:04If you haven't done.
17:05A clarinet, please.
17:06Bye.
17:08See you next time.
17:09Bye!
17:12Bye!
17:13Bye!
17:14Bye!
17:17Bye!
17:18Bye!
17:19Bye!
17:21Bye!
17:23Bye!
17:24Bye!
17:25Bye!
17:26Bye!
17:27Bye!
17:29Yes, Chris?
17:32A seven.
17:34A seven, Stephen?
17:35Also a seven.
17:36Chris?
17:37Ordinal.
17:38Now then.
17:39A sundial.
17:41And sundial.
17:42Yep, excellent.
17:43All one word.
17:44Very good.
17:45Now then, David and Susie, what have you conjured up for us?
17:49Well, I wasn't able to be either of those,
17:52but soon Susie's come out with a bit of a relic, haven't you?
17:57Yeah, a dinosaur is their fate.
17:59A dinosaur, well done.
18:03Very good.
18:0453 plays 40, Stephen.
18:07Letters time.
18:08I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:10Thank you, Stephen.
18:11N.
18:12And another.
18:14B.
18:15And another.
18:18L.
18:19A vowel.
18:21O.
18:22Another vowel.
18:24E.
18:25And a third.
18:27A.
18:27A.
18:29Consonant.
18:30Z.
18:33Another consonant.
18:35P.
18:38And a final consonant, please.
18:40And a final R.
18:42Stand by.
18:43And a final consonant, please.
18:44And a final consonant, please.
18:44And a final consonant, please.
18:45And a final consonant, please.
18:45And a final consonant, please.
18:46And a final consonant, please.
18:47And a final consonant, please.
18:48And a final consonant, please.
18:48And a final consonant, please.
18:48And a final consonant, please.
18:49And a final consonant, please.
18:50And a final consonant, please.
18:51And a final consonant, please.
18:52And a final consonant, please.
18:53And a final consonant, please.
18:54And a final consonant, please.
18:55And a final consonant, please.
18:56And a final consonant, please.
18:57And a final consonant, please.
18:58And a final consonant, please.
18:59And a final consonant, please.
19:00And a final consonant, please.
19:01And a final consonant, please.
19:02And a final consonant, please.
19:03Stephen.
19:14Six.
19:15And...
19:15Six.
19:17Two sixes, Stephen.
19:18Blazer.
19:19Chris.
19:19And Lona.
19:21And Lona.
19:22And in the corner, Susie, David?
19:25We have sixes as well.
19:29Bronze and...
19:31Bonza.
19:33Bonza.
19:33Yeah.
19:34First rate.
19:35Excellent in Australia and New Zealand.
19:38It's a naughty thing, yeah?
19:39Yes.
19:40Bonza.
19:41Bonza.
19:41Very good, all right.
19:42Yeah, a shortening of bonanza.
19:45That's where it comes from.
19:46All right.
19:4759 plays 46.
19:48Chris, numbers.
19:50Numbers game for you.
19:51Two from the top again, please, Rachel.
19:53Thank you, Chris.
19:54Two from the top.
19:55Four little.
19:56And this time.
19:57The selection is five.
19:59One.
20:00Two.
20:01Another five.
20:02And the big ones.
20:04One hundred.
20:05And twenty-five.
20:07And this target...
20:08Oh, dear.
20:09Three hundred.
20:10That'll be three hundred.
20:12Three hundred.
20:12One hundred.
20:13One hundred.
20:13One hundred.
20:14One hundred.
20:15One hundred.
20:15One hundred.
20:15One hundred.
20:15One hundred.
20:16One hundred.
20:16One hundred.
20:17One hundred.
20:17One hundred.
20:17One hundred.
20:17One hundred.
20:18One hundred.
20:18One hundred.
20:18One hundred.
20:19One hundred.
20:19One hundred.
20:19One hundred.
20:19One hundred.
20:20One hundred.
20:20One hundred.
20:20One hundred.
20:21One hundred.
20:21One hundred.
20:22One hundred.
20:22One hundred.
20:23One hundred.
20:23One hundred.
20:23One hundred.
20:24One hundred.
20:25One hundred.
20:25One hundred.
20:26One hundred.
20:26One hundred.
20:27One hundred.
20:28One hundred.
20:29One hundred.
20:30One hundred.
20:31One hundred.
20:32One hundred.
20:33One hundred.
20:34One hundred.
20:35Yes, Chris?
20:45Just about got 300.
20:46Well done, and Stephen?
20:48Yeah, last second, 300.
20:50Let's get this over with.
20:52Chris?
20:532 plus 1.
20:54Oh, that's one of the worst ones we've ever had.
20:56It's 3 times 500.
20:58Yes, I think my cat's could have got that.
21:00And Stephen?
21:01I've gone wrong.
21:02No, it's...
21:03Don't try that.
21:04We'll take you up on it.
21:065 take away 2 is 3 times 100.
21:08There we go.
21:09All right.
21:10So 69 plays 56 as we go into our second Tea Time teaser,
21:15which is Tool Bang.
21:17And the clue, you might fancy a bit of banana,
21:21but only on a Sunday.
21:22You might fancy a bit of banana,
21:25but only on a Sunday.
21:26OK.
21:34Welcome back.
21:42I left you with a clue.
21:43You might fancy a bit of banana,
21:45but only on a Sunday.
21:47And the answer, inevitably, is a longboat.
21:50Longboat.
21:51So 69, Stephen.
21:52Chris on 56.
21:54And it's Stephen's Letters game.
21:56Stephen?
21:57I'll start with a constant, please, Rachel.
21:58Thank you, Stephen.
22:00B.
22:01And another.
22:04F.
22:05And another.
22:07R.
22:09Vowel.
22:10I.
22:12Another vowel.
22:14E.
22:15And a third.
22:17I.
22:19A consonant.
22:22S.
22:23Another consonant.
22:27N.
22:29And a final consonant, please.
22:33And a final L.
22:36Stand by.
22:36And a final consonant, please.
22:37And a final consonant, please.
22:38And a final consonant, please.
22:38And a final consonant, please.
22:39And a final consonant, please.
22:39And a final consonant, please.
22:40And a final consonant, please.
22:41And a final consonant, please.
22:41And a final consonant, please.
22:42And a final consonant, please.
22:42And a final consonant, please.
22:43And a final consonant, please.
22:44And a final consonant, please.
22:45And a final consonant, please.
22:46And a final consonant, please.
22:47And a final consonant, please.
22:48And a final consonant, please.
22:49And a final consonant, please.
22:50And a final consonant, please.
22:51And a final consonant, please.
22:52And a final consonant, please.
22:53And a final consonant, please.
22:54And a final consonant, please.
22:55And a final consonant, please.
22:56Yes, Stephen.
23:08A six.
23:09A six.
23:10Chris.
23:10Also a six.
23:11Stephen.
23:12Rifles.
23:13Now then.
23:14Fibres.
23:16Fibres.
23:17Yep.
23:19Absolutely fine.
23:19Can we beat it, David?
23:21Susie has come up with risible.
23:23Yes.
23:24Laughable.
23:25Laughable, yeah.
23:25Yeah.
23:26Risible.
23:26There for seven.
23:28Well done.
23:2975, 62.
23:31Still that same gap.
23:32Chris.
23:34Letters game.
23:35Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:36Thank you, Chris.
23:38H.
23:39And another.
23:42R.
23:43And a vowel.
23:45U.
23:46And a consonant.
23:48T.
23:48And another consonant.
23:52L.
23:53And a vowel.
23:54E.
23:56And another vowel.
23:59O.
24:01And another vowel.
24:04I.
24:05And a final consonant, please.
24:07And a final D.
24:10Stand by.
24:24CHEERS
24:27CHEERS
24:31CHEERS
24:33CHEERS
24:35CHEERS
24:37CHEERS
24:38CHEERS
24:39CHEERS
24:40CHEERS
24:41CHEERS
24:42Chris?
24:43Six.
24:44As six. Stephen?
24:45Seven.
24:46Chris?
24:47Er...
24:48Loiter.
24:49And Stephen?
24:50Hurtled.
24:51Hurtled.
24:52Excellent.
24:53Yes.
24:54Very good word.
24:55What have we got over there?
24:56Er...
24:57Just another seven.
24:58Er...
24:59Luthier.
25:00L-U-T-H-I-E-R.
25:02A maker of stringed instruments, violins, guitars.
25:05That's right.
25:06That's right.
25:07Very good.
25:0882, please.
25:0962.
25:1020 points in it as we turn to Susie for her origins of words.
25:14I'm just going to return very briefly to one of your favourite facts, Nick, I think,
25:19is that the rostrum, the speaker's platform in the Roman forum, is from the Latin for beak,
25:26because the beaks or prows of ships were collected as trophies at war by the Roman sailors, the Roman soldiers,
25:35and they would collect these beaks and then decorate the speaker's platform in the forum with these beaks as tributes, really,
25:42or pledges to their pride and their glory.
25:45And over time, the rostrum, this word for beak, was applied not just to these prows decorating the platform, but to the platform itself.
25:53And we still have the rostrum today.
25:56And that goes back to a Latin word, rodere, ultimately, to bite or to gnaw the idea of a beak before it was applied to a ship.
26:06And it's given us rodent as well, so a sort of slightly strange neighbour, a rostrum and a rodent.
26:12I had an email from one viewer, Martin Hicks, who asked whether rostrum is linked to a roster,
26:17which is a list of duties, particularly given to military personnel.
26:21And that one has a slightly strange history, too, but it's not the same one.
26:25Because in Holland, the list of duties for men in the army was written down on ruled paper.
26:31No surprise there. But the lines for them resembled a gridiron.
26:35They thought of a gridiron whenever they saw this sort of lined paper with all the duties listed on it.
26:39And the Dutch name for a gridiron was rooster, from their word roosten to roast.
26:44And, of course, that eventually gave us roster.
26:47And it's slightly tied in.
26:49It's a little bit tangential here, but I had another email from John Carnarvon,
26:54who wondered where sledging in cricket comes from.
26:58And the link there, as I say, slightly tenuous, is that when we ridicule or criticise somebody,
27:03we give them a roasting, just as cricketers would give each other a sledging.
27:07And the idea is simply to do with the lack of subtlety and crudity involved in wielding a sledgehammer.
27:13That's where that one comes from.
27:14Oh, I see.
27:15In cricket.
27:16So, we've gone to the rostrum, to the roster, to a sledgehammer.
27:19Slightly secure to three, but hopefully it's answered some of our viewers' questions.
27:23Mark's at all the mine. Well done.
27:25Very good.
27:28There we go. 82 plays 62, and it's Stephen's letters game.
27:33Stephen, start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
27:36Thank you, Stephen.
27:38T.
27:39And another.
27:41S.
27:42And another.
27:44Q.
27:45A vowel.
27:47E.
27:49Another vowel.
27:50A.
27:51And another.
27:52U.
27:53A consonant.
27:54N.
27:55Another consonant.
27:56D.
27:57And a vowel, please.
27:58And the last one.
27:59A.
28:00Stand by.
28:02A.
28:03A consonant.
28:04D.
28:05And a vowel, please.
28:07And the last one.
28:08A.
28:09Stand by.
28:10.
28:16.
28:17.
28:19Um, Stephen?
28:44Six.
28:44A six.
28:45Chris?
28:46Uh, just a five, unfortunately.
28:48And your five?
28:50Quest.
28:51Stephen?
28:52Daunts.
28:53Daunts?
28:54Daunts, D-A-U-N-T-S.
28:55Mm.
28:56As in undaunted?
28:58Yes, you can't undaunt, that wouldn't be there, but undaunted is linked.
29:01Yeah, daunts, very nice.
29:03Very good.
29:04And in the corner?
29:06Dave and Susie?
29:07Um, unsate.
29:09Very good.
29:11And Susie has?
29:12Uh, quants are there as well, which are the, um, poles used for propelling a barge or a punt.
29:17Um, that is a quant.
29:20All right, so 88 plays 62.
29:23Now then, Chris, final letters game.
29:26Have a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:27Thank you, Chris.
29:29S.
29:30And another?
29:32T.
29:33And a vowel?
29:35E.
29:36And a consonant?
29:39K.
29:40And a vowel?
29:41O.
29:42And a consonant?
29:45Y.
29:47And a vowel?
29:49I.
29:50And a consonant?
29:53N.
29:54And a final consonant, please.
29:56And a final P.
29:58And the clock starts now.
30:00T.
30:01And a vowel?
30:26Okay.
30:27Yes, Chris?
30:32Seven.
30:33A seven, Stephen?
30:34Also a seven.
30:35Chris?
30:36Pinkest.
30:37Pinkest.
30:39Stephen?
30:39A pokeyest.
30:41And pokeyest.
30:42Yes, very nice.
30:43David?
30:44Can't beat that.
30:45And Susie?
30:47You can have the ballet term point with an S on, P-O-Y-N-T-E-S,
30:53and to be on point is to be on the tip of your toes if you're a ballerina.
30:57All right, so here we go.
30:5995, Stephen.
31:01Good score.
31:01Chris on 69, and it's Stephen's numbers game.
31:05Stephen, one large one, five small, please, Rachel.
31:07Thank you, Stephen.
31:08One large one, five Littlunds coming up.
31:11And for the final time today, your numbers are four, seven, four, three, two,
31:18and the big one, 25.
31:20And the target, 527.
31:22Five to seven.
31:26Five to seven.
31:55Yes, Stephen.
31:56I think 527.
31:57And?
31:58527.
31:58Both of you, Stephen.
32:017 times 3 is 21.
32:03It is indeed.
32:04Times by 25 is 525.
32:06And add the 2.
32:07527.
32:08Lovely.
32:09And Chris?
32:10Exactly the same way.
32:11Same way?
32:11Yep.
32:11Yep.
32:12All right, well done.
32:15So that takes Stephen over 100, 105.
32:19Chris on 79, two good players.
32:22Let's go into the final round.
32:23It's conundrum time.
32:24Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers.
32:26Let's roll that countdown conundrum.
32:48Stephen?
32:49Is it wickedest?
32:51Wickedest.
32:51Let's see whether you're right.
32:54Wickedest.
32:55Well done.
32:58Well done.
33:02A cracking performance, Stephen.
33:05Stephen Bloom.
33:07First time out, 115.
33:08Amazing.
33:09Amazing.
33:10But let's talk to Chris.
33:12Chris Leaney, how bad luck, mate.
33:14Because you toppled somebody who was a very high scorer.
33:17And along comes Stephen Bloom.
33:19But you go home.
33:21Your dad might have had the first teapot way back in 1999.
33:25But you've got one to join.
33:27I do, indeed.
33:28To join his.
33:29And take this goodie bag back to Bath with your teapot.
33:32All right.
33:33Well done.
33:33Now, Stephen, tremendous performance, that.
33:36So we shall see you tomorrow.
33:38Yeah.
33:39Fantastic.
33:39And dad's in the audience.
33:40Yeah.
33:41Went one better than him.
33:42Is that right?
33:43That's it.
33:43Wow.
33:44That's the way to do it.
33:45That's the way to do it.
33:45Didn't like to say anything, but.
33:47All right.
33:48And over in the corner.
33:48David, it's been a pleasure.
33:51Unfortunately, I didn't get a nine-letter word today.
33:53I didn't even get the conundrum.
33:54So I'm going to have to go home and do some homework.
33:57But there's always, you know, the next time you come.
34:00And I hope that you'll come soon again.
34:02It's been a real pleasure having you here.
34:04Great story.
34:04My pleasure.
34:04Thank you very much.
34:05Brilliant stuff.
34:06See you tomorrow.
34:07See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:08Yes.
34:08And Rachel, too.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:10I just, I love that story about the white suits.
34:12It's brought back so many memories.
34:13They were cream.
34:15Cream, and my apologies.
34:16White would have been ridiculous.
34:19All right.
34:20We'll see you tomorrow.
34:21See you tomorrow.
34:21Join us tomorrow when the wonderful Jalice Browndreth will be with us.
34:25Same time, same place.
34:26You'll be sure of it.
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