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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to the last countdown of the week.
00:34Thank you so much for being here.
00:36We've made it through another week together.
00:39And Rachel Riley, just a little understated for me today, the outfit, I have to say.
00:44It's the man in the flamingo jumper.
00:46You've outpinked me. I love it.
00:49It's one of my favourite ever. I love it.
00:50It's Friday.
00:51Now, it is Friday. It's Oscars weekend, which is always fun.
00:56And it's International Women's Day today.
00:58We talked about it last year, of course.
01:00And, of course, it changes every year, the theme that's put forward for International Women's Day.
01:04And it's about investing in women, I suppose, in a nutshell.
01:08It's about gender inequality.
01:10Yeah, and speaking of investing in women, I'm going to give a big shout-out to my friend Nimko Ali.
01:14Yes.
01:14Do you know Nimko?
01:15No.
01:15She campaigns against FGM, and she has a foundation, the FIRE Foundation, and it's about investing in grassroots organisations, women's organisations in Africa, to end FGM.
01:25She's a brilliant woman.
01:26So she's my big shout-out for International Women's Day.
01:28Absolutely.
01:29We'd love to talk about it all day, but we've got a quiz to get on with.
01:32Thank you very much, Rachel.
01:33Over in Dictionary Corner, then, to our Susie Dent.
01:36What a week we have had.
01:39Oh, wow.
01:39So good, so good.
01:41It's coming down now, but hopefully going to come back up again today.
01:43Oh, wow.
01:44My goodness, this week, Isabel becoming an octo-champ.
01:47It's been absolutely sensational, and Rory, it's been quite a ride.
01:50I'm just looking at your sweater.
01:51It's still the flamingo thing.
01:52That's a victory for women as well, because the costume designer, who is a woman, she said,
01:56you're going to dress as a flamingo.
01:57And he said, no.
01:58And she said, well, I'm going to have to put my foot down.
02:00Hey!
02:02Right.
02:03Well, let's meet two new countdown faces.
02:06First up, it's Jane Ashley from Littleborough in Rochdale.
02:10Retired head teacher, but, you know, from talking to you, it feels like you're always
02:14running something, climbing something, swimming something.
02:17Bit of a Wonder Woman.
02:18Tell me about some of your highlights.
02:21I've skydived over Uluru in Australia.
02:25Whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River.
02:28Wow.
02:29I ran the London Marathon a couple of years ago.
02:31And just recently, I'm back from Nepal, where I trekked in the Himalayas, up to Annapurna
02:37base camp.
02:38Wow.
02:39I doffed my cap to you.
02:40But, you've never been on bullseye.
02:43Meet Fiona Povey from Colville in Leicestershire.
02:47I mean, come on, Zambezi, whatever.
02:49Loads of people have done that.
02:49Yeah.
02:49So, you went on the old Jim Bourne bullseye?
02:54Absolutely, yes, yes.
02:55Right.
02:55Back in 91, I think it was, yeah.
02:57Did you win a speedboat?
02:59Luckily, no.
03:00Living in the middle of the country.
03:01That never mattered, did it?
03:03Some of the prizes.
03:04Have you still got your bendy bully?
03:05Absolutely, yes.
03:06Yeah.
03:06Yes, and I got my little name badge and Jim and Tony signed it on the back.
03:11That's brilliant, isn't it?
03:12And Keith Della was the darter.
03:13How did he do?
03:15Yeah.
03:15He did okay.
03:17Yeah, he did all right.
03:17It's a bronze bully.
03:18Oh, we could talk about this, this all day.
03:21Let's get on with it.
03:22Right, Fiona and Jane.
03:23Best of luck to both of you.
03:27Right, time to take the first steps.
03:29Jane, letters.
03:30Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:31Good afternoon, Jane.
03:32Consonant, please.
03:34Start today with F.
03:36Consonant.
03:39L.
03:39Vowel.
03:41U.
03:43Another vowel.
03:44A.
03:46Consonant.
03:48N.
03:48N.
03:50Vowel.
03:52I.
03:53Consonant.
03:55G.
03:57Vowel.
03:59E.
04:01And I'll finish with a consonant, please.
04:04Finish with J.
04:05At home and in the studio.
04:07Let's play Kaito.
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04:37Jane? A risky seven.
04:40Oh, I'll start with a risk. And Fiona?
04:43I'll just go for a five. Let's have the five. What is it?
04:46Fungi. Jane? Fleeing.
04:48Erm, no. Erm, I know what you mean.
04:51You can de-louse, you can sort of try and get rid of your fleas,
04:54but it's not there with that spelling, I'm afraid. I'm sorry.
04:57All right. Dextry corner?
04:59It was also for seven, gainful and finagle.
05:02Oh, finagle, I love that word.
05:04And it is American English, for those who don't like American English.
05:06So did Joe Biden finagle the last election?
05:09Could be.
05:11Your first time picking the letters, Fiona. Off you go.
05:14Start with a consonant, please. Thank you, Fiona.
05:17D. And another.
05:20C. And a third.
05:23N. And a fourth.
05:26C. And vowel.
05:31O. And another vowel.
05:35A. And a consonant.
05:46S. And another consonant.
05:50Lastly, T.
05:5230 seconds.
05:5330 seconds.
05:54Good.
05:55They say, make me do.
05:56Good time.
05:57What are the method?
05:59Sorry.
06:00F Anne, talk about слышatch.
06:01Theviamente.
06:03And that is not the same.
06:04That was good.
06:05You should know it was Yaela.
06:06The understand what the decent man ran.
06:07Doesn't首先 talk about.
06:09What an~"
06:10Let's do it.
06:11What's called weird then?
06:12Ouridetown.
06:13Cuz over there.
06:14T'mka t with rat,
06:15That's dope.
06:16We want there.
06:17How are that?
06:18Wait, exactly.
06:19Seriously.
06:20What's yourinflammatory?
06:21And that's time, Fiona.
06:26Eight.
06:27Eight, look at that, from the five to eight.
06:30And Jane?
06:32Seven.
06:32And a seven from you. What's the seven, Jane?
06:34Coasted.
06:35What have you spotted? What's the eight?
06:37Accosted.
06:38Accosted.
06:39Well done, you.
06:39Yes.
06:42Can we go beyond that, Susie and Rory?
06:44That was our best.
06:45Sadly not, no.
06:47Deakins was there for seven, but that was, yeah, accosted, well done.
06:50So a 13-point lead then for Fiona, but 10 points up for Gav's first numbers.
06:55Jane, you're choosy.
06:56One large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:58Thank you, Jane. One from the top.
06:59Five little.
07:01First one of this contest is six, four, three, three, nine.
07:08And the large one, 25.
07:10And the target, 610.
07:13610, numbers up.
07:20610, the target.
07:46Jane?
07:47610.
07:48That's it.
07:48And Fiona?
07:49Yeah, 615.
07:51I was getting there, but no.
07:52Well, listen, hold on to that.
07:53You never know.
07:54Jane might have gone wrong, but I don't think so.
07:56Off you go, Jane, Ashley.
07:586 times 4.
07:596 times 4, 24.
08:00Times 25.
08:01Times 25, 600.
08:033 divided by 3 is 1.
08:05Yeah.
08:06Add to the 9 and add on.
08:09And a good ten points.
08:10Well done.
08:10Yes.
08:12Let's get our first Tea Town teaser this Friday afternoon.
08:16Dan's bike.
08:17Dan's bike.
08:18Dan's ridden his bike here for a spot of fishing.
08:21Dan's ridden his bike here for a spot of fishing.
08:24Welcome back.
08:41Well, Dan's ridden his bike here for a spot of fishing.
08:43He's on the bank side.
08:45He's on the bank side.
08:47Right, let's get back to it.
08:48There's no real champion or challenger.
08:49There's just Fiona picking the letters.
08:52Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
08:54Thank you, Fiona.
08:55R.
08:56And another.
08:57T.
08:59And another.
09:01S.
09:02And a vowel, please.
09:04E.
09:05And another.
09:07O.
09:08Consonant.
09:10W.
09:12Consonant.
09:13P.
09:15Vowel.
09:17A.
09:19And a consonant.
09:20And lastly, L.
09:22Thanks, Rich.
09:24You not.
09:34I.
09:35Bye.
09:36Bye.
09:47Go on then, Fiona, how many?
09:57Six.
09:57Jane.
09:58Six for me as well.
09:59Six as well.
10:00Here we go.
10:00Will we get our first even round of the day?
10:03Lowest.
10:04Lowest.
10:05Waters.
10:06Waters and lowest.
10:07No problems at all.
10:09No, absolutely fine.
10:10Any advance on six?
10:11I can give you seven for Stapler.
10:14Stapler's name, is it?
10:15Yep.
10:16Good spot.
10:16Salter, with a silent P, which is a book of Psalms.
10:20But you can get to an eight with an anatomical term,
10:24petrosal.
10:25And petrosal is the dense part of the temporal bone
10:28at the base of the skull.
10:30OK.
10:31More letters.
10:32Jane.
10:32A consonant, please.
10:33Thank you, Jane.
10:34H.
10:36Foul.
10:38I.
10:40Consonant.
10:41L.
10:42Consonant.
10:44S.
10:45Foul.
10:45E.
10:48Another vowel.
10:50I.
10:51Consonant.
10:53G.
10:55Consonant.
10:57T.
10:59And a vowel.
11:02And a final U.
11:04And half a minute.
11:05T.
11:06T.
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11:12First time off, Jane, Ashley?
11:37Seven.
11:38Seven from you. Well done. And Fiona?
11:39Seven as well.
11:40Seven as well. Jane?
11:41Sleight. S-L-E-I-G-H-T.
11:45And Fiona?
11:45Same.
11:46Let's have a look. Sleight, spelt that way.
11:50Yeah, Sleight's hand.
11:51Yeah, absolutely.
11:52With an IU left, come on, Roy, there's nothing better than that.
11:55Yeah, I think there's an eight there.
11:56We had Nelson Mandela earlier in the week,
11:58and that says all South Africa.
12:01And it's the word lighties. Lighties.
12:04Lighties, yeah.
12:05They are boys or young men,
12:07and I think it comes from the idea of being light of heart and carefree.
12:10Well done, both of you. Honours even again.
12:13Just three points in it.
12:14You'd expect that, wouldn't you, with two newbies with us today.
12:17Fiona, you're picking these numbers.
12:19I'll go for two large and four small, please.
12:22Two from the top, four from the other ones.
12:25And the second numbers of the day are five, one, three, six.
12:31And the large one's 150.
12:35And your target, 868.
12:37868, numbers up.
12:38Oh no.
12:46And the third one is….
12:51You're gonna go for twofold.
12:55And they're all moving on.
13:008.68, big target. Did you get there, Fiona?
13:13No, 8.57, I think.
13:14Gina?
13:15No.
13:16And, of course, 11 too far outside.
13:18So, Rachel, it's all yours. Open goal for you?
13:21Yes, I found a way.
13:22If you start with 100 plus 50, 150, take away five for 145.
13:29Times that by six for 870.
13:32And you have three minus one for two to take away.
13:358.68.
13:36Brilliant.
13:37APPLAUSE
13:388.68, nailed.
13:42It hasn't done any damage at all here to the scores, Jane and Fiona.
13:45So, you can relax. You're both doing very well.
13:48And you can enjoy the company of Rory Bremner.
13:50We've had some lovely chats this week, haven't we?
13:52We have. I've enjoyed it.
13:53And thank you for having me once again.
13:55Always love doing it. Thank you, all of you.
13:56But I'm very lucky, because I get to spend the week in the company of people who are brilliant.
14:00But what about people who aren't very good at what they do?
14:03But even more than that, who have no idea how bad they are.
14:06In fact, they say, I'm very good.
14:08In fact, I'm the best.
14:09I'm probably the best ever at doing this.
14:12And there is a name for this.
14:14There's a name for this effect.
14:15It is the Dunning-Kruger effect.
14:18And this was invented.
14:20It was a professor of sociology at Cordell University called David Dunning
14:25and his research student, Justin Kruger.
14:29And they wrote an article called,
14:31Unskilled and Unaware of It, How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence
14:35Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.
14:39And their research method, so they set a test,
14:42which is based on things like logic and grammar and social skills.
14:45But the key finding afterwards, because they asked,
14:47how did you think you did in the exams?
14:49And obviously, the more competent ones, they had a realistic sense.
14:52They said, well, you know, I didn't do very well.
14:54And probably, you know, they didn't have an exaggerated sense of how they'd done.
14:57But the not so competent ones tended to say,
15:00well, you know, I think I did really well.
15:02I think I probably got 90%, 95%.
15:04And this is what the Dunning-Kruger effect is all about.
15:08And it was based on something that happened in 1995
15:11called the Great Pittsburgh Bank Robberies.
15:14But these were carried out by MacArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson.
15:18Now, Clifton Johnson told MacArthur Wheeler, he said,
15:21you know, the key ingredient of invisible ink is lemon juice, OK?
15:24So lemon juice, just imagine, and MacArthur Wheeler thought,
15:27if I covered myself in lemon juice, it would make me invisible.
15:32And so, off they said, covered himself,
15:34and he actually, and he tested the theory,
15:36because he wasn't stupid.
15:38He took a picture with a Polaroid of his,
15:40obviously, he took the picture of the wall behind him,
15:43couldn't see what he was doing or completely missed.
15:45Anyway, and it worked, and he thought, I'm on it, I'm on it.
15:47So out they went, they robbed the bank,
15:49and sure enough, about a week later,
15:51Clifton Johnson was arrested.
15:53And about a couple of months later,
15:54they put the thing on television,
15:55and they showed the CCTV camera.
15:58And within an hour, they picked up MacArthur Wheeler,
16:01and they went and they picked him up in his house,
16:03and he was led to the prison man uttering the words,
16:06but I wore the juice!
16:08I wore the juice!
16:11It was MacArthur Wheeler,
16:11or some say he's known as MacArthur J. Wheeler.
16:15So he's got a J in the middle of his name,
16:17like Donald J. Trump.
16:18You know what the J stands for?
16:20Genius.
16:23Thank you, Rory.
16:27Let's go again, Jane.
16:28More letters.
16:29Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:30Thank you, Jane.
16:31Another consonant.
16:34T.
16:36A vowel.
16:38E.
16:39Consonant.
16:41R.
16:43A vowel.
16:45U.
16:47Another vowel.
16:50E.
16:52Consonant.
16:53V.
16:55Another consonant.
16:58P.
16:58And finish with a vowel, please.
17:03Finish with O.
17:05Here we go.
17:06Here we go.
17:06We'll see you next time.
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17:30Jane. A six. A six from you. And Fiona. Six as well. Six as well. Well done. Jane. Proved.
17:43And Fiona. Vetoed. Vetoed and proved. Dictionary corner. We've got reputed. Reputed for seven.
17:52Nice. Nice indeed. Two sixes here. Keeps it all nice and close, Fiona. So let's go round again.
17:56We'll start with a vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Fiona. I. And consonant. S. And another. F. And another. K. And a vowel. E. And another. I. And consonant. M.
18:21And another. T. And another consonant. Lastly, L. Start the clock.
19:02Fiona. Eight. Jane. Six. Six from you. What have you got, Jane?
19:09Missile. M-I-S-T-L-E. Yeah. And what have you found, Fiona?
19:12Milkiest. Yes. Milkiest. Absolutely brilliant. There's no missile on its own, sadly. Missile thrush.
19:19Well, that was a very, very good word indeed. Nothing flaky about Jane's performance. So still close enough.
19:25Eleven points. Back to the numbers, Jane.
19:27One large and five small, please, Rachel. Thank you, Jane. One from the top row.
19:32Five from the others. Once more. And this five small selection is ten, seven, six, one, nine.
19:41And the large one, 100. And the target, 807.
19:45807. Numbers up.
19:47807. Numbers up.
19:47807. Numbers up.
19:53One, 100. And now environment.
19:54Three from the others.
19:54Got you.
19:55One, 100.그럼.
19:55Two, 100.
19:56One, 100.
19:57Two, 100.
19:57Two, 100.
19:59Sixteen.
19:59Two, 100.
20:00Six.
20:00Two, 100.
20:01Two.
20:02Ten.
20:02Two, 100.
20:03Two, 100.
20:03Two, 100.
20:04Three, 100.
20:04Four.
20:04Three, 100.
20:05Two, 100.
20:05Two, 100.
20:06Four, 100.
20:06Four, 100.
20:06Four, five.
20:06Two, 100.
20:07Four, 100.
20:08One, seven, nine.
20:08Three, 100.
20:10Three, 100.
20:11Xi.
20:11One, two, zero.
20:11Two, seven, two, seven, two, 100.
20:14Well, it's been a long week. Nice to get a numbers round like this. Jane?
20:218.07. Yes, Fiona? 8.07. Nice. Off you go, Jane.
20:259 take away 1 is 8 times 100 plus the 7. I'm not wasting the ink.
20:30Yeah, same way? Yep. There you go. Nice. Well done.
20:36OK, just one more part of Countdown to go this week.
20:39Let's save her every round.
20:40Your last tea time teaser before the weekend is Soil Lord.
20:45Soil Lord. It sounds like a fin, but it's on the way in.
20:48It sounds like a fin, but it's on the way in.
21:06Hello again. It sounds like a fin, but it's on the way in.
21:08A dorsal fin. A dorsal. I get it, Susie.
21:12I can work it out. A windowsill, a dorsal.
21:15Probably that little step when you walk in.
21:17Yeah. Just never heard anybody say it.
21:19Watch the dorsal on the way in. I mean, come on.
21:22I know, but it means that you don't have to wonder
21:24whether there's two H's in threshold.
21:27It means the same thing.
21:29That's a great point. Thank you.
21:30Nobody's crossed the threshold yet, have they, on this Countdown?
21:34It is very close indeed. Just 11 points in it.
21:37We've got two challengers today.
21:39And it's Fiona who's going to pick these letters.
21:42I'll start with a consonant this time, Rachel.
21:44Thank you, Fiona.
21:45N.
21:46And another.
21:48P.
21:49And a third.
21:51N.
21:52A vowel, please.
21:55E.
21:57And another.
21:59A.
22:00Consonant.
22:02T.
22:05Consonant.
22:06D.
22:09Vowel.
22:11E.
22:12And another vowel.
22:14And lastly, I.
22:17Let's play.
22:22All righty, all righty.
22:51Many, Fiona?
22:52Seven.
22:52Yes, and Jane?
22:53Seven.
22:54There you go.
22:54Thought so, Fiona?
22:55Painted.
22:56Yeah.
22:57Painted as well.
22:58No worries at all.
22:59Well done, both of you.
23:00Susie and Rory, what have you managed to come up with?
23:03You can have an eight, actually.
23:05We sometimes have on Countdown pinnate,
23:06which can describe leaves or branches that have leaves on either side.
23:12Yeah.
23:13Pinnated is there as an extension of that.
23:16And actually, it's often used, and I guess in relation to feathers,
23:19for birds, the bittern and the grouse.
23:21Fantastic.
23:22Well done.
23:24Jane, you're picking these letters.
23:26Start with a consonant, please.
23:28Thank you, Jane.
23:29R.
23:30A vowel.
23:33O.
23:34Another vowel.
23:35E.
23:36Consonant.
23:37G.
23:40Another consonant.
23:41T.
23:44Vowel.
23:45A.
23:48Consonant.
23:49R.
23:51Another consonant.
23:53N.
23:55And finish with a vowel, please.
23:57Finish with U.
23:59Good luck.
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24:14Good luck.
24:15Good luck.
24:17Good luck.
24:18And that is time. Jane?
24:34Just a six.
24:35A six. Fiona?
24:37Seven, I think.
24:38I think a seven. OK, just a six, Jane?
24:41Greater.
24:42And you think a seven, we're going to have to confirm it either way.
24:44Grot. G-A-R-R-O-T-E.
24:47Oh, I was looking at this, Fiona.
24:49I was looking at every single spelling.
24:52Unfortunately, there are lots of spellings in the dictionary,
24:54but that one is specifically US English.
24:56Dictionary corner.
24:57Two sevens.
24:59Gaunter or grunter.
25:03But I think there is an eight, and that's outrange.
25:06Outrange.
25:07Have a longer range, then.
25:08Excellent stuff.
25:09Let's take a little break and get our final origins of words of the week.
25:13And it's been games all the way this week.
25:15Yes, and so I'm going to end with quiz.
25:17Yay.
25:18Which is one of the most colourful words when it comes to etymology,
25:25because there's a very popular story that has arisen around it.
25:29And it may be true, the detective work still goes on.
25:33And this story tells how back in the 1700s, so a long time ago,
25:41Richard Daly, who was the manager of a playhouse, a theatre in Dublin,
25:47he took on a bet that he could get a word that meant absolutely nothing
25:51into popular parlance within 24 hours.
25:55And in the course of that time, the word that he, you know,
26:00just randomly, it is said, chanced upon, was quiz.
26:03And he had it pasted right around Dublin overnight.
26:08So graffitied absolutely everywhere, posters, et cetera.
26:12And the effect was so impressive that actually he won his bet.
26:17And it came originally, therefore, to mean someone who was a bit of a joker,
26:21a bit of a chancer.
26:23But a bit like Posh and all those lovely stories,
26:27there is no evidence that confirms that this actually took place.
26:32So where does it come from?
26:33Well, it's quite appropriate for International Women's Day in some ways,
26:37because the very first people to mention it were both Charlotte Bronte
26:40and also Jane Austen before her.
26:43So in Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen says,
26:45where did you get that quiz of a hat?
26:47It makes you look like an old witch.
26:49It's from Northanger Abbey, as I say.
26:52And then Charlotte Bronte and the Professor in 1857.
26:55He was not odd, no quiz,
26:57yet he resembled no-one else I had ever seen before.
26:59So, again, the idea is of something eccentric, something strange,
27:03or just something that's kind of not quite right.
27:07But eventually, the meaning settled on the idea of not just odd,
27:12but also whimsical, so the idea of sort of question something
27:15quite light-hearted, which is where we get in the modern sense of quiz today.
27:19As to where it comes from, two possible theories.
27:22Quiz in Latin means who,
27:24so it could be just somebody who wants to know everything,
27:26or indeed, it may just be a riff on inquisitive.
27:29Love it.
27:33And Jane has 52, Fiona has 57, four rounds left.
27:37Can't wait. Fiona, let's go.
27:39Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
27:41Thank you, Fiona.
27:42M.
27:43And another.
27:45S.
27:46And a third.
27:48R.
27:49And a vowel.
27:51I.
27:52And another vowel.
27:54O.
27:56And a third vowel.
27:58U.
28:00Consonant, please.
28:02B.
28:05Consonant.
28:07R.
28:07And a vowel, please.
28:10And lastly, E.
28:13And there it is.
28:14Countdown.
28:14And there it is.
28:15And there it is.
28:15And there it is.
28:16And there it is.
28:17And there it is.
28:17And there it is.
28:17And there it is.
28:18And there it is.
28:18And there it is.
28:19And there it is.
28:19And there it is.
28:19And there it is.
28:20And there it is.
28:20And there it is.
28:21And there it is.
28:21And there it is.
28:21And there it is.
28:22And there it is.
28:23And there it is.
28:23And there it is.
28:24And there it is.
28:25And there it is.
28:26And there it is.
28:26And there it is.
28:27And there it is.
28:27And there it is.
28:28And there it is.
28:29And there it is.
28:30And there it is.
28:31And there it is.
28:32And there it is.
28:33Fiona?
28:46Seven.
28:47Jane?
28:47Seven.
28:48Fiona?
28:49Mouse ear.
28:50Oh, mouse ear.
28:51Same word.
28:52Yay.
28:53Hey, how do we get on, Rory?
28:56One more seven.
28:58If you're a lot of pressure, it's a bruiser of a question.
29:03The bruiser is there.
29:04Bruiser, mouse ear.
29:06Nothing beyond that.
29:06Right, let's get our final letters round.
29:09Jane, Ashley, what are you going to do?
29:11A vowel, please.
29:12Thank you, Jane.
29:14A.
29:15Another vowel.
29:17O.
29:19Consonant.
29:20Y.
29:23Consonant.
29:25X.
29:28Another consonant.
29:30S.
29:30A vowel.
29:35U.
29:39A consonant.
29:41W.
29:45Another consonant.
29:47T.
29:49Finish with a vowel, please.
29:51Finish with...
29:52A.
29:53That's letters.
29:54editor.
29:55Floring.
29:55And let itas.
30:04Do it, of course.
30:05Do it.
30:09Yeah.
30:11It's real.
30:12Give me a number, Jane.
30:26I'll risk a five.
30:28Fiona.
30:28I'll go with a four.
30:30OK, the safe, as safe as they can be, the safe four.
30:33Waxy.
30:34Waxy.
30:35And, Jane, what are you going to go for?
30:37Wasty, W-A-S-T-Y.
30:40It's not there.
30:42I'm afraid.
30:43Was there anything beyond Waxy?
30:45We had three fives, but that was as far as it got.
30:48What did you have?
30:49Autos, A-T-A-C, which is the same as A-T-A-C,
30:52and it means the loss of control of body lead movements in medicine.
30:57Or there was, because, satay, as a chicken satay.
31:01Yes.
31:01Waxy scores four.
31:03Fiona, when you wrote Waxy down, you were left with autos.
31:06I know.
31:07But it doesn't mean anything.
31:08You get those four points, that means you get a nine-point lead,
31:11which means we would be on a crucial countdown conundrum.
31:14But we've still got the numbers round, the last numbers round.
31:17So are you going to play it safe or are you going to gamble?
31:20You get the time it takes Rachel's board to revolve.
31:22Oh, no, hold on.
31:24That's Boozard again.
31:25Off you go.
31:25I'll go for two large and four small again.
31:31Two large, four small, and a possible crucial conundrum to finish the week.
31:36Last numbers round.
31:37Six, three, eight, two, and the big ones, 125.
31:44And the target, 428.
31:46428.
31:47Last numbers.
32:18428, the last target.
32:21Fiona?
32:22428.
32:23And Jane?
32:24428.
32:24Go ahead, Fiona.
32:26Six minus two is four.
32:28Yep.
32:28Times 100.
32:29400.
32:30Add the 25 and the three.
32:32That'll do.
32:34And Jane?
32:34I did eight divided by two equals four.
32:37Times 100.
32:38Add the 25 and the three.
32:39Lovely.
32:40Crucial territory.
32:41Well, listen, both of you have done so well today, Jane and Fiona.
32:45You both scored heavy, but Countdown's special prize, a.k.a. the teapot, is still up for grabs.
32:52Let's get your finger on the buzzer, Jane.
32:55Your finger on the buzzer, Fiona.
32:56Let's reveal today's crucial countdown.
33:00Conundrum.
33:31And time is up.
33:32No points handed out.
33:34Jane and Fiona missed the target.
33:37So those nine points were everything.
33:39Fiona wins.
33:42Oh, my goodness me.
33:44Right.
33:44Well, let's throw it open.
33:47You think you got it quite early, didn't you, Rachel?
33:49Is it occupants?
33:51It is.
33:53When you get the teapot, you'll be back here on Monday.
33:55You'll get the goodie bag, Jane.
33:57What a great show.
33:58What a great end to the week.
33:59I hope you really felt part of it today.
34:00Did.
34:01It was lovely.
34:01Thank you very much.
34:03Rory, we'll see you again soon.
34:04Hope so.
34:05Yeah.
34:05Thank you very much again.
34:06And well done.
34:07Good.
34:07Yeah.
34:08And Monday, Susie?
34:09Monday.
34:10I will be there.
34:10Have a lovely weekend.
34:11Oof, cracking week.
34:12Well, on International Women's Day, spare a thought for Pasha,
34:15because it's like Mother's Day for Russians and Ukrainians,
34:18but for all women.
34:19And Pasha currently has six women living in his house.
34:21No.
34:22So it's a very expensive day of flowers for him.
34:24It really is.
34:25It really is indeed.
34:26Happy days.
34:27Thank you so much for watching this week.
34:28We will see you back on Monday.
34:30Rick Edwards will be in Dictionary Corner.
34:32And Susie, Rachel and I will be waiting on you.
34:34You can count on us.
34:35You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:41You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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