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00:00Thank you
00:57Thank you
01:00Never, I met his mum and his dad, nice people, but I've never met the princes, but I think he's
01:07making a good show of things, isn't he?
01:08Yeah, he's doing a good job
01:09Looks like a really nice guy
01:10Very likeable
01:11And they're married just over a year now, I think
01:16And we're all waiting with bated breath to hear whether they've got something to tell us
01:22What would you give a king to me on his birthday?
01:24An heir apparent
01:25Well, something he hasn't got already
01:27Didn't Boris Johnson get him a tandem for the wedding?
01:30Something like that
01:30Oh, did you?
01:31No, I'd get one of those, you know those little tents that you put the dogs in as you're cycling
01:35along?
01:35Because they've got a little spaniel, haven't they?
01:37So maybe he hasn't got one of those little dog carrier bike things
01:41They've got a little Cocker Spaniel
01:43I bought one of those little things that you attach to a bicycle for the children
01:49For the grandchildren
01:50But they love it
01:51My children, they're all about 30 stone
01:53But my grandchildren
01:54And they adored it
01:56Anyway, enough of this
01:57Because there's very serious business to be done here
01:59Particularly with Rob Gibney
02:01Welcome back, Rob
02:02Eighth seed, four wins, total of 486 points
02:06And you were last with us in April
02:08That's right
02:09And in the meantime, you've been boning up on things or just mowing the lawn?
02:13I've been very busy working actually
02:14So, mowing the lawn
02:16Helping my wife in the garden
02:18Trying to clear out the garage on eBay
02:20And trying my best to basically be a good house husband
02:24Good for you
02:25Alright, well, good to see you
02:27Eighth seed
02:27Let me tell you, Rob
02:28You're up against a pretty formidable young chap here
02:31By the name of Jonathan, the kid, Rawlinson from Sheffield
02:36Yesterday, he completed his OctoChamp run
02:38That's eight wins in a row
02:40Yeah
02:40And he came in with a whopping score of 860 points
02:44So he's actually number one seed
02:46Yeah
02:47So let's see how he can get on
02:49He's very good
02:49But then suddenly he goes all wobbly
02:52You know
02:53And then he regroups
02:55But I think he was scoring over 100 pretty much consistently, weren't you?
02:59Most games
03:00Most games
03:01No, he's a good chap
03:02We like Jonathan
03:03He's very modest
03:04We like that
03:04So let's carry on
03:06With a big round of applause
03:08For Rob and Jonathan
03:16And in the corner, Susie
03:17We'll be talking at length to you later on
03:19You'll be keeping us in line
03:20And we'll be hearing about your origins of words
03:22And you're joined also, of course, on her penultimate appearance, if I can put it that way
03:28With Penny
03:29Yes
03:29What about this 30th birthday for Prince William?
03:33Any words of encouragement?
03:34I thought you were about to say my 30th birthday
03:35I was going to say, well, it's years ahead
03:38You can start saving now
03:40I always find that I run out of dental floss
03:42So I just think you can't do better than a nice bit of dental floss
03:46That would be my present
03:49Oh, I think he'd be riveted by that
03:52Now then, let's start the business of the day
03:55Rob, take it away
03:57Thank you, Nick
03:57Rachel, could we start with a vowel, please?
04:00We can, thank you, Rob
04:01Start this quarterfinal with O
04:03And another
04:04E
04:07And a third
04:09I
04:11And a consonant
04:13Z
04:15And another
04:16K
04:18And another
04:20L
04:22And a vowel
04:24A
04:26And a consonant
04:29S
04:30And a final
04:33consonant, please
04:34And a final
04:35N
04:36Here's the countdown clock
04:41We'll be right back
05:03We'll be right back
05:08yes Rob a risky six all right Jonathan I'll stay with a five a five your five
05:17Johnson snake snake Rob zoinks zoinks oh hello oh yes I like the choice of a
05:27comic isn't it it sounds like it doesn't it smash wallop zoinks whoa oh it's not
05:33there about which is really bad luck because a lot of those words as you say
05:37that it will come up in comics as exclamations are in but that's not one
05:40of them I'm afraid and in the corner no zoinks but what have you got for us
05:44Kellen as in Kellen and morphine yes you wrap it around an ankle for instance
05:50wouldn't you yes I'm soft white clay used for medicine now then Jonathan take it
05:55away afternoon Rachel I'll say Jonathan I can have a bow please thank you start
05:59with E and a consonant W and a vowel A consonants H vowel U consonants D vowel I
06:26consonants S and a final vowel please and a final O and here's the clock
06:37so
06:49so
06:50so
07:04Jonathan?
07:05Er, just a six.
07:06A six.
07:07Rob?
07:08Also a six.
07:10All right.
07:10Jonathan, six.
07:11A showed.
07:12Showed.
07:13And washed.
07:14Washed.
07:16Showed and washed.
07:17Washed.
07:17Washed and showed.
07:18What else have we got over there?
07:20Any?
07:20You've got a six.
07:21You've got a nice one with seven.
07:23Yes.
07:23It's not actually that nice, but it's hideous, in fact.
07:27That's seven.
07:28It's worthwhile, though.
07:29Yeah.
07:29It's very good.
07:31All right.
07:31So there we are.
07:33And six to Rob.
07:36Jonathan, 11.
07:37Our number one seed.
07:38Rob, off you go.
07:41Could we start with a consonant this time, Rachel?
07:44Thank you, Rob.
07:45N.
07:45And another.
07:48T.
07:48E.
07:49And a third.
07:51R.
07:52And a fourth.
07:55C.
07:56And a vowel.
07:58I.
07:59And another.
08:01E.
08:02And another.
08:06A.
08:07And another.
08:10A.
08:10I.
08:12And a final consonant, please.
08:14And the last one.
08:15R.
08:16Stand by.
08:17Stand by.
08:18And a second.
08:19In a second.
08:38And a second.
08:39In a second.
08:46In a second.
08:48Yes, Rob?
08:50A seven.
08:52A seven.
08:52Jonathan?
08:53Seven.
08:54All right.
08:55Rob?
08:56A certain.
08:57Right.
08:58Certain.
08:59And Jonathan?
09:00Inertia.
09:01Inertia.
09:02Oh, very good.
09:02That's a good one.
09:03Very well known.
09:05I like that.
09:06You happy over there?
09:08Yes, very happy.
09:08Oh, yes.
09:09We're just having a little look at what we've come up with.
09:11You've just come up with criteria.
09:13I came up with scent.
09:17That's the only eight criteria.
09:20All right.
09:21Thirteen to eighteen.
09:23Jonathan leads.
09:24And Jonathan, it's your letters game.
09:26Can I start with a vowel, please, Rachel?
09:28Thank you, Jonathan.
09:30O.
09:30And a consonant.
09:33F.
09:34Vowel.
09:36E.
09:37Consonant.
09:39L.
09:40A vowel.
09:43U.
09:44Consonant.
09:45T.
09:48Vowel.
09:50I.
09:52Consonant.
09:54S.
09:55And a final vowel, please.
09:58And the last one.
09:59O.
10:01Here we go.
10:02We go.
10:03Cause.
10:23There we go.
10:30물.
10:31There we go.
10:31There we go.
10:32The most.
10:33Jonathan. An eight. Eight. And Rob? Eight. Eight, all right. And Jonathan, your eight? Out flies. Out flies, good. I've
10:42got the sign. Right. Check it out there, Jonathan. Very good. Excellent.
10:52And in the corner? There's a slightly more frivolous seven, which is footsie, as in playing footsie under the table.
11:01Footsie? Very good. All right. So, Rob, first numbers game of the day. Place your order.
11:08Thank you, Nick. Rachel, I'd like one large and any other smalls, please. Thank you, Rob. One large, number five
11:16small ones for the first one of this quarterfinal. And these five small are four, nine, five, eight, and three.
11:25And the one large, twenty-five. And the target should reach seven hundred and seven.
11:30Seven oh seven.
12:03Seven oh eight.
12:04Seven oh eight.
12:05Jonathan. Seven oh six, but it's not written down.
12:08Right. Take it away, Jonathan.
12:11So, five four is a twenty.
12:13Five times four is twenty.
12:15Add eight to twenty-eight.
12:17Yeah.
12:18Times twenty-five.
12:20Times twenty-five is seven hundred.
12:22And then add the nine and take the three.
12:24And then nine less, what, sorry?
12:26Add the nine and take the three.
12:27The three.
12:28Yeah.
12:28Four, the six.
12:29And that's one away.
12:31Very good.
12:33And Rob?
12:33Uh, nine times three is twenty-seven.
12:37Nine times three is twenty-seven.
12:38Five minus four is one.
12:40Yep.
12:42Uh, add those together.
12:43Twenty-eight.
12:43Multiply by the twenty-five.
12:46Again, seven hundred.
12:47And you have an eight left over.
12:49And that's one the other way.
12:50Very good.
12:51Well done.
12:52But, not perfect, is it, Rachel?
12:55Um, well, if Rob would have stuck with his nine times three is twenty-seven.
12:59Times that by twenty-five.
13:01And you get six hundred and seventy-five.
13:03And then eight times four is thirty-two.
13:07You can add that on.
13:08Seven is seven.
13:14That, that is the way to do it.
13:16That's what we call perfection, Rachel.
13:19Penny, speak to us.
13:20Uh, so all this week I've been talking about things that your mum says and whether they
13:26have merit.
13:27And I can't believe that there is one person here, or one person probably watching, whose
13:32mum has at some stage not said you treat this place like a hotel.
13:36Uh, and so they always just say, you know, and when we go around to other people's houses,
13:41they're doing you a favour.
13:42It is your duty to make sure that you do them favours back.
13:46And I, I think I'm a very good guest.
13:49Uh, I always take my own rubber gloves.
13:50I've got very big hands, and I always take my rubber, my own rubber gloves, because otherwise
13:53trying to squash them into tiny, tiny rubber gloves, uh, makes them feel claustrophobic.
13:59And I can't wash up without them.
14:01Still with me.
14:03Uh, except that there I was at a friend's house in Scotland, and I was there for a week,
14:09and I sort of didn't take my rubber gloves off, to be honest.
14:12There was a lot of washing up.
14:13There were a lot of us, and they kept on having guests.
14:17And one particular family came over, and they spent all day with us.
14:21So I was in and out of the sink, and I only took my rubber gloves off to eat.
14:25And as they left, the 14-year-old girl was heard asking her mother,
14:30but why did the cleaner have to eat all her meals with us?
14:35LAUGHTER
14:36Sometimes you can go a little bit too far with the cleaning, I think.
14:40It's extraordinary. You would like to come up to our house, would you?
14:43You could spend a week, a fortnight there.
14:44Yeah.
14:46Floors, dusting, all sorts.
14:47There'll be a lot of stuff in the skip.
14:49Yeah, me included, probably.
14:51Now then, it's time for a tea-time teaser, and the teaser is a fib lust.
14:56And the clue, this person has a lust for telling fibs.
15:18Welcome back. I left you with a clue.
15:20This person has a lust for telling fibs.
15:23And clearly a fabulist.
15:26A fabulist.
15:27Susie?
15:28Well, it can be quite literally somebody who composes fables,
15:32but more often it's a liar,
15:34so someone who invents very elaborate and very dishonest tales.
15:39Hence the clue.
15:40Hence the fabulist.
15:42Nothing to do with fabulous.
15:4328 to 33, Jonathan's still just in the lead.
15:47As we turn to you, Jonathan, see what you can do with this letters game.
15:51Can I start with a bow, please, Rachel?
15:53Thank you, Jonathan.
15:54I.
15:55And a consonant.
15:56Consonant.
15:57R.
15:59And a vowel.
16:00E.
16:02Consonants.
16:04D.
16:05Vowel.
16:07O.
16:09Another vowel, please.
16:11E.
16:13Consonants.
16:15F.
16:20And a final vowel, please.
16:23And the last one.
16:25I.
16:26Clock time.
16:27Is.
16:28Come.
16:56I.
16:57I.
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16:58Jonathan?
16:59Just a six.
17:00A six, and Rob?
17:03Eight.
17:05Jolly good. Jonathan?
17:09No, sorry.
17:10No? All right.
17:11Rob?
17:13Fireside?
17:14Fireside, excellent Fireside class, it's all one word.
17:16Very good.
17:21What's happened here is the baton has changed, or indeed the crown has changed,
17:25because Rob is now in the lead.
17:27Ooh, Jonathan.
17:2836 to 33, Rob leads,
17:31and Rob, it's your letters game.
17:33Thanks, Nick. Can we start with a
17:35consonant, please, Rachel?
17:36Thank you, Rob.
17:37And another?
17:41V.
17:42And another?
17:44P.
17:45And another?
17:48N.
17:50And another?
17:52D.
17:54And a vowel?
17:57E.
17:58And another?
18:00A.
18:02And another?
18:05E.
18:07And another.
18:08And the last one?
18:10A.
18:12Standby.
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18:43rob just six and jonathan a seven i think all right rob vandal a vandal and d plane d plane
18:55yeah why not horrible but very good one yeah for these purposes yes to disembark from a plane is to
19:01deplane it plane that is not they never say that when you're getting off a plane can you just
19:06remember when you're deplaning to take all your stuff because the overhead lockers might have
19:10shifted and you might find some other animals it's very american but it yeah it does happen yeah
19:17well leaders switch back jonathan to 40 and uh robert 36 so the fight is on jonathan let us
19:25go uh can i start with a vowel please thank you jonathan i on a consonant s vowel o consonants
19:38x vowel a
19:42consonant s vowel e uh consonant please h and a final vowel please and final u here we go
20:05so
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20:32Yes, Jonathan?
20:34A seven.
20:34A seven, Rob?
20:35A seven.
20:36Mm-hmm.
20:37Jonathan?
20:38Anxious.
20:39Anxious.
20:39I'm anxious as well.
20:40You're both anxious?
20:42Good reason to be anxious.
20:43What have you got for me?
20:44Anxious.
20:45Anxious.
20:46Anxious all round.
20:46Anxious all round.
20:47All right.
20:4947 to 43.
20:52Johnson back there.
20:53And it's a letters game, Rob.
20:56Thanks, Nick.
20:57Can we start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
20:58Thank you, Rob.
20:59R.
21:01And another.
21:03C.
21:04And another.
21:07J.
21:08And another.
21:11M.
21:12And a fifth.
21:14G.
21:16And a vowel.
21:18A.
21:19And another.
21:22E.
21:23And another.
21:26I.
21:27And a final vowel, please.
21:30And a final.
21:31E.
21:33Stand by.
21:34All right.
21:34All right.
22:05Rob.
22:08I'll stick with a six.
22:10All right.
22:12Jonathan.
22:13A six also.
22:14Rob, six.
22:15KG.
22:16KG.
22:17And yes.
22:18Mirage.
22:19Mirage.
22:20Yeah.
22:21Nice word.
22:22Yes.
22:23Very good.
22:23Anything else?
22:24There was a seven actually.
22:25Grimace.
22:26Grimace.
22:27Is there to Grimace.
22:28All right.
22:2949 to 53.
22:30Close run thing.
22:32Jonathan clinging on to his lead there.
22:34But now it's time to release our Grimace.
22:38Relax and listen for the wisdom of Susie.
22:41Susie.
22:42Well, Beastie has been getting a lot of mentions, Rachel's cat.
22:47And is being much maligned for her super-sized nature.
22:51But we often talk about cats and we were wondering the other day, weren't we, about the origin
22:56of who's she, the cat's mother, which is something that a lot of us as children were scolded for.
23:02If we use the word she instead of referring directly to usually somebody who's in the room
23:07and usually they were a little bit older.
23:09There's no colourful story behind it, but it was probably used because a cat's mother is usually
23:15some nameless unknown feline.
23:18I don't know if you know Beastie's mother, Rachel.
23:20But I think it was just the idea of anonymity.
23:24It dates back to the late 19th century, so it's very, very old.
23:27But staying on the feline theme, that cats, as I've mentioned many times before, appear
23:32so often in the English language and so many idioms.
23:35And I've talked before, I think, about the cat's pyjamas being one of those nonsense phrases
23:39like the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, for something excellent.
23:42They all go back to the roaring 20s when there was much wordplay and frivolity around.
23:47But they go, cats appear a lot.
23:49So, good for Beastie, I say.
23:51Very good.
23:52Very good.
23:57Very good.
23:5949-53, Jonathan leads.
24:01Jonathan, numbers game.
24:04I'll take a risk with four large.
24:06Take a risk in the quarterfinal.
24:08I think it's possibly a good decision.
24:09Thank you, Jonathan.
24:10Four from the top and two little ones, your favourite.
24:13And for this game, the small ones are six and two, and the large four, 25, 75, 50, and 100.
24:21And the target, 535.
24:245-3-5.
24:515-3-5.
24:56So, Jonathan.
24:585-3-5.
25:00Yes, and Rob?
25:015-3-3.
25:03Right.
25:04Take it away, Jonathan.
25:06100 plus 2.
25:07100 plus 2, 102.
25:09Times by 6.
25:10Times 6, 612.
25:11And then 50 divided by 25 is 2.
25:14It is...
25:15Take it away.
25:166-10.
25:17And then take 75.
25:18Perfect.
25:195-3-5.
25:20Well done.
25:26Well done.
25:27Well done, Jonathan.
25:28Stretch is your lead.
25:296-3 to 49.
25:31But now it's time for a tea time teaser.
25:32And the teaser is, eat sushi.
25:35And the clue, it's about taking a break.
25:37And then another, and then another.
25:39It's about taking a break, and then another, and then another.
26:02Welcome back.
26:03I left you with the clue.
26:04It's about taking a break, and then another, and then another.
26:07And the answer is, hiatuses, hiatuses.
26:1263 to Rob's 49.
26:16Rob, don't let him run away with this now.
26:19It's your letters game.
26:20Can you start with a consonant, please?
26:22Thank you, Rob.
26:24D.
26:24And another.
26:27N.
26:28And another.
26:30W.
26:31And another.
26:34Y.
26:35And a vowel.
26:37A.
26:39And another.
26:40O.
26:41And a consonant.
26:44G.
26:45And another.
26:47R.
26:48And a final vowel.
26:50And a final.
26:51E.
26:53Stand by.
26:55And a vowel.
26:55And a vowel.
27:09And a vowel.
27:11And a vowel.
27:12And a vowel.
27:14And a vowel.
27:15And a vowel.
27:15And a vowel.
27:15And a vowel.
27:15And a vowel.
27:15and a vowel.
27:24Yes, Rob
27:27I've got a seven a seven good Jonathan has 70 all right Rob first a dowager
27:35Dowager very good and the same way you're both Dowages
27:39Excellent my good words good words now in the corner a couple of sevens a wagoner and wordage
27:46Wordage yes the number of words. Yes is word. Yes, very good
27:50Seventy to fifty six and Jonathan take it away
27:54Can I start with a vowel please Rachel? Thank you Jonathan. Oh, and the consonants
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28:01down a
28:05Consonant and
28:07Val I
28:11Consonant L
28:14Val
28:16you
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28:20P and a final vowel please and a final
28:26E here's the clock
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