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00:31Hello, everybody. It is Thursday, the 4th of July.
00:34Welcome to Countdown, a special welcome to any American expats
00:38who are tuned in to Countdown. Howdy, Rachel Riley.
00:41I do get the occasional message from across the pond and letters,
00:44actual handwritten letters.
00:46Now, question for you.
00:47Have you ever been in the torch of the Statue of Liberty?
00:53No, have you?
00:54No, I haven't, and I knew you hadn't.
00:57Nobody has. Nobody watching, nobody here.
00:59Because in 1916, it was damaged by the Germans.
01:01And it's never reopened.
01:03Like, over a century later, they just decided, right,
01:06nobody's allowed in there.
01:07Right, you've got about 45 minutes to give me something interesting
01:10about a landmark in the United States of America on the 4th of July.
01:13OK, I'll work on it.
01:14That is your challenge. You have no choice but to accept it.
01:16As we head over to Dictionary Corner,
01:19always clutching a dictionary rather than a tabulae and satire.
01:23Yes, I googled on what the Statue of Liberty's holding, Susie Dent.
01:28I'm with us all this week.
01:31Ranveer sings back with us.
01:33APPLAUSE
01:35OK, and we have a new champion yet again, James Swinnard,
01:39and our jazz fan is back with us.
01:42Now, you are a massive film freak,
01:46and you and I have the same favourite movie.
01:51What about that?
01:5212 Angry Men.
01:53Fantastic film.
01:55Henry Fonda.
01:56You know what it is.
01:57You know, maybe we've got five favourite movies,
01:59but it's in them.
02:00I just think if, like, day one of film school,
02:03that's the movie you show.
02:04We are like brothers from another mother, aren't we?
02:06Jazz, 12 Angry Men.
02:08Anyway, James is with us going up against Elaine Coll,
02:11a Londoner who's been living in Swindon for a while.
02:13How are you today?
02:14I'm fine, thank you.
02:15Good, listen, I can find something to bond with anybody over.
02:18We love Kenya.
02:19I've been there about six, seven times.
02:20And it's the elephants in particular.
02:22Have a little chat to me about that.
02:24Oh, I do.
02:24I love elephants.
02:26I adopt elephants.
02:28So between me and my daughter and my granddaughter,
02:31we've got about five or six elephants we adopt.
02:34Well, listen, if you become our champion,
02:36we'll talk about that a bit more tomorrow,
02:38and I never forget, let me tell you.
02:39Good luck to Elaine and James.
02:43Nine letters, please, Mr Swinnerton.
02:45Hi, Rachel.
02:46A consonant, please.
02:48Start today with M.
02:50And a vowel.
02:51E.
02:52A consonant.
02:54D.
02:55A vowel.
02:57E.
02:58Another vowel.
03:00O.
03:01A consonant.
03:03N.
03:04Another consonant.
03:06L.
03:08Another consonant.
03:10T.
03:11And a vowel, please.
03:13And lastly, U.
03:15At the home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:41THEY CONFER
03:48James?
03:49Er, seven.
03:50Seven from you, and Elaine?
03:52Six.
03:52And a six, what's the six?
03:54Denote.
03:54That's a good start for your first round.
03:56And, James?
03:57Mounted.
03:58And mounted.
03:59Yep, very good indeed.
04:01Yes, can you do better, though?
04:02We did get an eight.
04:03Yeah.
04:04Unmelted.
04:05Unmelted.
04:06Mm.
04:07Seven, zero, Elaine, you're choosing these letters.
04:11Er, Rachel, can I have a consonant, please?
04:14Thank you, Elaine.
04:15R.
04:16And another one, please.
04:18C.
04:19And another one, please.
04:21H.
04:23Er, a con...
04:24Sorry, a vowel, please.
04:26O.
04:27And another one, please.
04:29I.
04:30And a consonant, please.
04:32S.
04:33And a vowel, please.
04:35O.
04:37And a consonant, please.
04:39L.
04:41And another consonant, please.
04:44And the last one.
04:45T.
04:46And 30 seconds.
04:47T.
04:48T.
04:48T.
04:49T.
04:49T.
04:49T.
04:49T.
04:51T.
04:51T.
04:51T.
04:52T.
04:53T.
04:53T.
04:54T.
04:55T.
05:24MUSIC CONTINUES
05:26Choirs, very good. And James?
05:27School. School choirs, we can put that together.
05:31Yes, we... Well, you might think chorist is there,
05:35but it's not, actually. You need chorister.
05:38So I know where you were going with that one.
05:39But there is an eight there,
05:41and it's all to do with a sort of stress hormone, really, cortisol.
05:45Cortisol, yeah. Very good. Connected to cortisone, then?
05:49Yeah, hydrocortisone. What's that? Yeah.
05:51Thank you very, very much.
05:53Numbers, first time today, James?
05:55One from the top, please.
05:57Thank you, James. One large, five little,
05:59potentially keeping it simple. Let's see.
06:02First one of the day.
06:03Seven, nine, two, eight,
06:07four, and the large one, 25.
06:10And the target, 206.
06:13Two of six. Numbers up.
06:14One, two, five, and the large one.
06:18One, two, three.
06:21One, two, and the area that is is a great investor.
06:36Joy, have been worth about 10 years.ядom
06:36you here? And the
06:37table?
06:45Time's up. 2.06, James.
06:472.06.
06:48And Elaine.
06:492.06.
06:49Yes, that's what you want for your first numbers game on national television.
06:53Off you go, James.
06:5525 times 8.
06:5625 times 8, 200.
06:58Add the 4, add the 2.
06:592.06, lovely.
07:00Elaine.
07:01Exactly the same.
07:02We believe you.
07:03Well done.
07:05APPLAUSE
07:06Get ready, everybody, for a world-class tea-time teaser.
07:10It's glib-num.
07:12Glib-num.
07:14Extravagant jewellery for the backside is just incompetent.
07:19Extravagant jewellery for the backside is just incompetent.
07:28APPLAUSE
07:38Welcome back.
07:39What a clue.
07:40Extravagant jewellery for the backside is just incompetent.
07:44Well, incompetent, Susie, is bumbling.
07:47And you separate it, bum-bling.
07:50So many questions.
07:51Bumbling, is that connected to bumblebee?
07:53And why do we say bling?
07:55OK, so, uh, bling is one of those great new words in the 1990s, and I think it was supposed
08:00to be bling, so light, reflecting off jewellery, was the idea.
08:04And, um, no, bumble, the bumblebee, the bumble was making a humming noise.
08:10That's where the bumble, it's an old word for humming.
08:12And, uh, bumbling, I think, is probably onomatopoeic in that you're just sort of, you know, pootling.
08:17One of your favourite words.
08:18Right up there.
08:19Thank you very much.
08:20Right.
08:20We're pooting along nicely, aren't we, James and Elaine?
08:23There's just seven points in it.
08:25We're enjoying every round.
08:26And you're up, Elaine.
08:27Right.
08:27Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:30Thank you, Elaine.
08:30R.
08:32And another one, please.
08:33G.
08:35And another one, please.
08:37J.
08:38And another one, please.
08:40T.
08:42Can I have a vowel, please?
08:44A.
08:45And another one, please.
08:47I.
08:48And another one, please.
08:52E.
08:53And a consonant, please.
08:55D.
08:56And a consonant, please.
09:01A final V.
09:03Elaine, impeccable manners.
09:04Here we go.
09:05Here we go.
09:35How many, Elaine?
09:36Five.
09:37Five.
09:38And James?
09:38Six.
09:39Six from you.
09:40Elaine, five.
09:41Rivet.
09:41And a six.
09:43Varied.
09:43And varied.
09:44And over the dictionary, con.
09:45Got a couple of sevens, haven't we?
09:47We had cortisol, didn't we?
09:48Which is a sort of medical term, in a way, for stress.
09:50Absolutely.
09:51We've now got triaged.
09:52Very nice.
09:53Yes.
09:54Sorting out priorities in a hospital, for example.
09:57And the other one that we got was Virgate.
10:00It comes up from time to time on the show.
10:02And Virgate was a varying measure of land a long time ago.
10:05Typically 30 acres.
10:06Excellent.
10:0729, 16 more letters, James.
10:09Consonant, please.
10:11Thank you, James.
10:12S.
10:13And a vowel.
10:14I.
10:16And another vowel.
10:18E.
10:19A consonant, please.
10:21N.
10:22And another consonant.
10:24R.
10:25A consonant.
10:27F.
10:29A vowel.
10:30O.
10:32A consonant.
10:33G.
10:34And a final vowel, please.
10:36And a final I.
10:38And half a minute.
10:40A consonant.
11:10Time's up, James. Seven.
11:12And Elaine. Seven. Seven as well.
11:15What we got there, James? Fringes.
11:17Fringes and Elaine.
11:18Foreign. And foreign.
11:21Foreign fringes. Very good indeed.
11:23You're looking at me with a mischievous
11:24glint in your eye. It could be one of two
11:26things. She's just Susie Dent.
11:28Or, Bea, you two have got a
11:30bigger word. No, I'm afraid it was the former.
11:34We only have
11:35sevens. You have foreigners.
11:36You can't have foreigns. No, that's exactly
11:38what I was looking at when I had the glint in my
11:40eye, but it's not there, unfortunately.
11:43We just have more sevens, yeah.
11:45We had ignores. Yes.
11:47Yes, fingers, that kind of thing.
11:50More numbers, please, Elaine. You're first time
11:52choosing, so we'll get to find out
11:54your tactics. Thank you.
11:56I've always wanted to say this. Can I have
11:58an inverted T, please?
12:00You can, and you have said it.
12:02Inverted T, one from the top,
12:03and five little coming up.
12:06It's a good one. The little one's five,
12:08four, ten,
12:10nine, and two,
12:11and the big one,
12:1225.
12:13And the target,
12:15356.
12:16Three, five, six. Numbers up.
12:17You're going to be tailed.
12:20You're going to be tailed.
12:26There, there's a little one.
12:33If you're tailed there,
12:40happen to you?
12:40You're like,
12:41say,
12:41you're real,
12:42you're crazy.
12:45Look,
12:46Haaretco event,
12:47you're looking,
12:483-5-6, Elaine.
12:503-5-5.
12:51Oh, no way! It could be decisive, James.
12:533-5-6.
12:54It was decisive. Off we go.
12:5710 plus 4 is 14.
12:59Yep.
12:59Times the 25.
13:01350.
13:02And then 9 minus the 5 plus the 2.
13:06It is another.
13:06Oh, it is 6, yep.
13:08Yeah.
13:083-5-6.
13:09APPLAUSE
13:12All right, let's head over to the dictionary corner.
13:14Ranveer Singh, let's do the checklist.
13:17OK.
13:20Monday, your story of woe, remind me, Monday was...
13:22Manchester United.
13:23Yes, yes, that's right.
13:24You didn't know Manchester United had ever won the European Cup.
13:27Well, I did know.
13:27I just thought it wrong online.
13:28How you say that?
13:30Yeah.
13:30Move on.
13:32Tuesday, Donald Trump's name wrong.
13:34I guess I forgot it. I was tired.
13:36Yeah, you got his name wrong.
13:36OK.
13:37And Wednesday, theft from a hotel.
13:39So...
13:39Well, yes.
13:40That I can't deny.
13:41This is your theme, not mine.
13:43Yes.
13:43My agent's going mad right now.
13:45This is meant to be my moment of glory.
13:46All I've done is do myself down.
13:49We were talking off air about mistaken identity or not knowing when somebody's famous and you have a belter here.
13:56Well, this is...
13:58This was about ten years ago in my defence.
14:01So, I was at Good Morning Britain, as it was then, the breakfast television on ITV, and we had this...
14:07I was doing the first hour of the show.
14:09I'd come out.
14:09There's an area, a cafe area, which we called, appropriately called Lovey's, which is what we do in telly.
14:15It's called Lovey's.
14:16Anyway, I was just in there on me and waiting to go in for my next bulletin.
14:19And I see this sort of young, scraggly, teenager-y looking chap.
14:26Ginger hair, scruffy, headphones in, rough T-shirt, just on his own.
14:30Well, you, like, where's my mobile phone, make sure it's in my front pocket type thing.
14:33Well, I thought, oh, look, it's a sixth-former and he's obviously on work experience.
14:38He looks a bit like...
14:39I said, excuse me, are you OK?
14:41He said, yeah, I'm fine, thanks.
14:42I said, now, look, the toilets are over there.
14:44If you've got any questions about what we do, you know, feel free and you can come into the studio,
14:48you know,
14:48if you want to come and see what we're doing.
14:49Can we have a guess who it is?
14:51Yes.
14:51OK.
14:53Ed Sheeran.
14:53Ed Sheeran's got to be.
14:55No.
14:55I gave it away because I said scruffy ginger hair.
14:57Yeah.
14:58It was Ed Sheeran, wasn't it?
15:00Wow.
15:01And so I went in about 40 minutes later.
15:02I thought, why has everybody come down to the studio?
15:05Anyway, this sixth-former on work experience picks up a guitar and to a room of about 30 of us,
15:11live on TV, starts playing one of his songs.
15:14I mean, honestly, the hair on my arm just stood up on end.
15:17And I just thought, that's ridiculous.
15:19I just couldn't apologise to him enough.
15:20But he came in, no entourage, nothing at all.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Amazing.
15:24Brilliant.
15:25Thank you so much for that.
15:27APPLAUSE
15:29All right.
15:30Well, listen, on the subject of mistaken identity, great to have Moby in the studio today as a champion.
15:36Off you go, James.
15:37More letters.
15:39Consonant, please.
15:39Ten Hag, at best.
15:41Thank you, jokes.
15:42T.
15:44Vowel.
15:45A.
15:47And a consonant.
15:48D.
15:50Another consonant.
15:51S.
15:53And another consonant.
15:55N.
15:56A vowel.
15:57O.
15:59Another vowel.
16:00A.
16:02Another vowel.
16:04E.
16:05And a final consonant, please.
16:07And a final L.
16:08And here we go again.
16:09A.
16:10A gen.
16:10A.
16:22A.
16:24A.
16:24A A.
16:37MUSIC PLAYS
16:40James? Seven. And Elaine? Six. And six from you. The six is...?
16:45Stolen. And the seven to increase your lead?
16:48Donates. Donates? Very good indeed.
16:51There's another one, isn't there? Yes.
16:53Er... Etalons. Etalons, yeah.
16:55In physics, they are reflecting light plates,
16:59glass plates used for measuring differences in wavelength.
17:02There you go. Etalons. Excellent.
17:0553, 23, 30 points in it,
17:09so absolutely not over yet, Elaine.
17:11And let's get more letters. Right. Can I have a consonant, please?
17:14Thank you, Elaine. M. And another one, please.
17:18S. And another one.
17:21F. Er... A vowel, please.
17:26I. And another one, please.
17:29U. Er... A consonant, please.
17:32W. Er... Another consonant.
17:36R. A vowel, please.
17:40A. And another vowel, please.
17:44And lastly, E. And start the clock.
17:47HEAVLE CLIPS
17:49And another one, please.
18:17Elaine? I've got a six.
18:20You've got a six. And what about you, James? Six as well.
18:22OK, points shared if they're in the dictionary.
18:26Furies. Furies. And James?
18:28Yeah, the same. Furies. Yep.
18:31All good? It is, yeah, not in the sort of avenging spirits,
18:34the spirits of punishment in Greek mythology,
18:36cos those have a capital F.
18:37But in terms of bouts of violent anger, it's absolutely fine.
18:41Thank you very much. Can we answer that, or is that it?
18:44We've got misfare, M-I-S-F-A-R-E.
18:49Another one, I don't know how I'd use it in a sentence.
18:51Yeah, but really archaic, this one, but it means to come to grief.
18:54So he really misfared that day. Oh.
18:56I thought it was going to be if you were charged the wrong amount of money for a ticket.
18:59Genuinely thought that's what you were going to say there.
19:01I understand. That's why I sit here, you sit there.
19:05Cos the other way round would be anarchy.
19:08Right, the score is 59-29.
19:11And we get more numbers now. James?
19:13One from the top, please. Another one large.
19:16Five, a little combo, this time in the five small ones.
19:20Nine, six, ten, eight and five.
19:24And the big one, 75.
19:27And you need to reach 928.
19:29Big eight, 928, numbers up.
19:31One quality.
20:00As in the end of the Die�ne, the great number.
20:029, 2, 8, the target, James.
20:059, 2, 8.
20:07And Elaine?
20:07No, I lost it, I'm afraid.
20:09Well, let's see, James.
20:1075 times 6.
20:1275 times 6, 450.
20:16Add the 9, add the 5.
20:17The 9 and the 5, yep, 464.
20:2110 minus 8 is 2.
20:24And multiple ends together.
20:25Nicely done, 9, 2, 8.
20:27Yeah.
20:29Let's get our second tea time teaser.
20:32Lily Corr, that Lily as in the name, so just one L.
20:35Lily Corr.
20:36Norman's act was popular with the miners.
20:39Norman's act was popular with the miners.
20:59The connection is the Collier Inn, and Norman Collier, of course, the late great comedian.
21:05Right, 69, 29, 6 rounds to go.
21:08It's been a good show so far, Elaine.
21:10And you're certainly relaxed enough, so let's see what happens.
21:13Let's get more letters.
21:15All right, can I have a consonant, please?
21:17Thank you, Elaine.
21:17L.
21:18And another one, please.
21:20C.
21:21And another one, please.
21:23S.
21:24And a vowel, please.
21:26I.
21:27And another one.
21:29E.
21:30And a consonant.
21:32L.
21:33And a vowel, please.
21:35A.
21:37And a consonant, please.
21:40N.
21:41And another consonant, please.
21:43Lastly, M.
21:45Let's play.
21:46It's milky.
21:50It's milky.SOUND,
22:13Let's play.
22:14Let's be there
22:14today.
22:16Time's up, Elaine. Seven. Seven there. And James?
22:20Just a six. The six is? Lances. OK, the seven, Elaine.
22:24Miss Call. Miss Call. So you basically find yourself.
22:28Yes. Well done, Miss Call. Could be missus. Don't want to pry.
22:33Let's go to the Dixie recorder. It's absolutely brilliant. Yeah, well done.
22:35Great seven. What else could we find in there? An eight.
22:38An eight, yes. Yeah, an eight.
22:41Micellars. Yes. Can I just say I use something called micellar...
22:44..micellar water to clean my face and take the make-up off?
22:47Yes. Micellar water is absolutely linked to this.
22:49So a micellar or a micelle is a group of molecules in a solution.
22:54You'll find them in detergents as well as cleansers. Very good.
22:5769, 36. More letters, James. Consonant, please.
23:01Thank you, James. G. And another. H. And another.
23:07D. And a vowel, please. E. And another. E.
23:13D. Consonant, please. B. And a vowel. O. And another vowel. A. And a consonant, please.
23:26And lastly, R. And a vowel.
23:29And a vowel.
23:30E. argument to lengthen.
23:30E. And a vowel.
23:42And a vowel.
23:44To lengthen.
23:45For the number of people.
23:45To lengthen.
23:49By chance.
23:51About seven seconds.
23:51MUSIC
23:59James, how many?
24:00Six.
24:01Andalene?
24:02Six.
24:03James?
24:03Badger.
24:04Andalene?
24:05Borage.
24:06Ooh.
24:07Yeah, yes, absolutely fine.
24:08It's a plant, it's often used medicinally, bright blue flowers
24:12and attractive to bees.
24:14Dictionary corner.
24:14We couldn't go beyond six, could we?
24:16No.
24:16Well, I live off the Grand Union Canal and I have been one of these,
24:19a bargy.
24:21Not barging through, but I think being on a barge.
24:23Being on a barge, lovely.
24:24Being in charge of it.
24:25Yeah, very nice.
24:26All right.
24:26Alistair Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent, you're doing more
24:29Origins of Words for us.
24:31Yes.
24:32Well, I have waited a few weeks before tackling this one.
24:36It was a story that was in the news but it really inspired a lot
24:40of argument and a lot of debate so I thought I would let the dust
24:43settle for a little bit before tackling the apostrophe,
24:46and particularly the apostrophe as used in street names because
24:52a little bit earlier this year the North Yorkshire Council announced
24:56that it was cutting apostrophes from street signs.
25:00So St Mary's Walk would no longer have an apostrophe in Harrogate.
25:03And people were absolutely up in arms about this.
25:08There was a local resident who went around painting in little
25:12apostrophes.
25:13And I can totally understand why people get so upset about this
25:17because they feel like standards are dropping.
25:20I have to say this has been the trend for a very long time so you
25:23will find lots of street signs without apostrophes now.
25:26And I think it's because when these are generated by computers
25:29apostrophes can actually have meanings, completely separate meanings
25:33and so it confuses the algorithms as far as I understand it.
25:38But this was at Harrogate as I say and Betty's Tea Room is
25:41possibly the most famous place that you can find in Harrogate.
25:44That dropped its apostrophe a very long time ago.
25:48Yes.
25:49So Rachel's reaction is very indicative of the sort of reactions
25:54that this elicited.
25:55But I'm here to do a little bit of balancing of the books if I can.
26:00And to tell you that we have never been quite sure how to use the apostrophe
26:05and some of our greatest writers have got it completely wrong.
26:08There's a wonderful linguist, a professor in the US, John McWater,
26:13who said that the apostrophes are the fish forks of punctuation.
26:17They sit there, you're not quite sure how to use them
26:19and you're almost sure to use them wrongly.
26:21And that is very true.
26:24First of all, apostrophe itself goes back to a Greek word for turning away
26:27and it was originally a rhetorical device for someone on stage
26:30addressing an absent person.
26:32And then in grammar they were used, or in punctuation,
26:35they were used to indicate absence of a different kind.
26:38So it's, as in it's cold today, obviously the apostrophe,
26:43is there for the I of is.
26:47Colin's completely shaking his head at this.
26:49It's just, it makes me angry when we get lazy in this way.
26:53Like, it replaces the I.
26:55We were all taught it at school.
26:56You need it because to tell us the difference
26:58between it's and it is abbreviated.
27:01I don't care what the problem is.
27:02Yeah, no, I understand and then it's...
27:04No, you started it.
27:05Don't try and settle everyone down.
27:07She's gasping, I'm angry, you've done this.
27:09So it's, you're right, it's used to indicate possession
27:12if it doesn't have an apostrophe.
27:14But yet we really confuse the issue by saying, you know,
27:16so the dog has lost its coat, no apostrophe.
27:20Colin has lost, sorry, Colin's coat, apostrophe.
27:24So it's actually pretty inconsistent when you think about it.
27:28We started to put them in in very strange places centuries ago as well.
27:32So one of the weirdest ones is Focsle, F-O-C-S-L-E,
27:38which has two apostrophes in it because it's an abbreviation of forecastle.
27:41It's the sort of lower deck at the front of a ship.
27:44Very, very strangely.
27:46Shakespeare used it completely differently.
27:49Jane Austen used it in so many different ways
27:51that nobody could quite work it out.
27:53So I'm not saying that apostrophes are not important.
27:56Of course they are for clarity and communication,
27:58but I'm here just to offer a little bit of reassurance
28:00that if you look back in the past,
28:02people haven't quite got it right then either.
28:04One of the best origins of words ever.
28:06I think we all agree.
28:07You hate it.
28:08I have not heard a gasp like that
28:12since my granny discovered that Bobby Ewing wasn't dead.
28:16It was that level of gasp.
28:18Unbelievable.
28:19Thank you, Susie.
28:21APPLAUSE
28:24OK, back to the game and Elaine.
28:27Right, can I have a consonant, please?
28:29Thank you, Elaine.
28:30G.
28:31And another one, please.
28:33P.
28:33And another one.
28:35R.
28:37And another one.
28:39C.
28:40And a vowel, please.
28:42I.
28:43And another one.
28:44O.
28:46And another one.
28:48E.
28:49And a consonant, please.
28:51N.
28:54And another one, please.
28:57Lastly, W.
28:58I'm kind.
28:58MUSIC
29:29Elaine. Eight. Eight from Elaine and James. Eight as well. And in eight as well. Elaine. Powering. James. I've gone
29:37cowering. Yes. Very good indeed. Powering and powering. Yes. They were great letters. Any nines, no? No, those were too.
29:4583.50. Three rounds to go. Not over yet. James. Consonant, please. Thank you, James. T. And a vowel. O.
29:58And another vowel.
29:59A. A consonant. Y. And a vowel. O. Another vowel. E. A consonant. R. Another consonant. T. And a final
30:18consonant, please.
30:19A final B. And last letters.
30:22A consonant.
30:23A consonant.
30:24A consonant.
30:36MUSIC PLAYS
30:52James?
30:54A seven.
30:54A seven from you, Elaine.
30:56Seven.
30:57And a seven as well.
30:58Very good.
30:58James?
30:59Battery.
31:00Battery.
31:01And Elaine?
31:02The same.
31:03Same as you.
31:04Let's have a look.
31:05Well done, both of you.
31:06Hello, your battery just ran out.
31:07As you know, you know your maths.
31:09That's too big a gap to make up.
31:11But what a game so far.
31:12And the dictionary corner.
31:13That was ours too.
31:14Yep.
31:15Love it.
31:16Excellent.
31:16All right.
31:17Going to need more numbers.
31:18Who am I going to call?
31:20Elaine, off you go.
31:21Right.
31:21Can I have...
31:23Oh, I have the inverted T again, please.
31:24The inverted T.
31:25You're only here once.
31:26Go for two inverted T's.
31:27Go for two of them.
31:28Live a little.
31:29Thank you, Elaine.
31:30Final numbers of the day.
31:31Eight, seven, nine, seven, ten and 75.
31:37This could be tricky.
31:38Let's see the target to go with them.
31:40Six hundred and ninety-three.
31:41Six nine, three.
31:43Numbers up.
31:45I'll be right back.
31:46Bye.
31:46Bye.
31:54Bye.
31:59Bye.
32:04Bye.
32:13693, Elaine.
32:15Yes, 693.
32:16Yes, going out with a buy-in. James?
32:17695.
32:18Oh, he must have buyed two. Look at that, he's human.
32:21Elaine, off you go.
32:229 times 75.
32:249, 75, 675.
32:27Plus 10, plus 8.
32:29There you go, 10 points for you. Well done.
32:31Yes.
32:33All right, let's get your finger on the buzzer.
32:35Mr Swinerton looking to hit the century.
32:38Elaine looking for a huge losing score of 77.
32:42So let's get the fingers on the buzzers.
32:4410 more points in Thursday's Countdown Conundrum.
32:51James, for the century.
32:53Dangerous.
32:53Let's have a look.
32:55Wonderful.
32:58100 points on the board.
33:00James, we will see you tomorrow.
33:02Well done.
33:03And Elaine, we have to say goodbye to you.
33:05But look, give me an honest answer.
33:06You want a pointless trophy.
33:07I know I can't give you a teapot,
33:09but you've had the experience of both.
33:11You want to just pick a favourite between?
33:14I'm sorry, I've got to say the other one
33:15because I've got the trophy.
33:18Well, you can apply to come on this show
33:20in 10 years again.
33:22No, my producer just told me 20 for you.
33:2420 for you.
33:25My son's applied.
33:27My son's applied.
33:28And what's his name?
33:30Alex Call.
33:31Yeah, Alex, I'm lucky.
33:32Your mum's ruined it for you.
33:34But it's always pointless.
33:35Our house of games.
33:37He's won a pointless trophy as well.
33:38Well, he's definitely not coming on then.
33:40No, we'd love to have any of the calls.
33:42You give us a call anytime.
33:43Thank you, Elaine.
33:43Thank you very much.
33:44Brilliant.
33:44Ramveer, last day for you tomorrow.
33:46Oh, I'm sad.
33:47I know, it's been really good.
33:48Love it.
33:48Love it.
33:49Susie, see you tomorrow?
33:50Yeah, see you then.
33:504th of July.
33:51What's your landmark, Rach?
33:53I've never been, but I'd love to go Grand Canyon.
33:56Oh, fantastic.
33:58Absolutely brilliant.
33:59Just go in the car.
34:00None of these special helicopter things.
34:02I'm not going near a helicopter.
34:03I'm not going on that glass walkway.
34:04Oh, it is really special.
34:06Just have a look from the side.
34:06So, so good.
34:07And Vegas is nearby.
34:09Bonus.
34:10All right, that's all from us.
34:11We are back tomorrow.
34:12Same time, same place.
34:13Last show of the first week of Series Nightly.
34:15So please do join us.
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