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00:23Thank you very much.
00:31Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33This show is all about words and numbers.
00:36And the amazing thing, Rachel, is how many people pronounce words incorrectly.
00:40I read an article only the other day which listed quite a lot of them.
00:45And I know that you would never pronounce any of these incorrectly.
00:48But many do.
00:50So, for instance, there's a word here that I'm new to, actually.
00:57It's mispronounced quinoa.
01:00But quinoa, apparently, is what... What is a quinoa?
01:04Quinoa is the grain.
01:06Oh, is it?
01:06Yeah, it's a grain. Kind of looks a bit like couscous.
01:09Well, well.
01:10Another one, of course, is mischievous, which is so frequently mispronounced as mischievous.
01:15And finally, and everybody... Well, we drink so much of it, actually.
01:20Expresso, which perhaps should be pronounced correctly as espresso.
01:24And finally, the most mispronounced one of all, although it's not used every day in everyday language, is karaoke, which
01:32should be pronounced karaoke.
01:34Quinoa, okay.
01:35I'm not going to complain if you call it karaoke.
01:38Quinoa.
01:39Do you like that?
01:40Okay.
01:41Sorry.
01:41Which particular mispronunciation do you favour, or have you ever been accused of?
01:47Oh, I love when Pash was on tour a while ago, and he was going around place names in England.
01:52They've got the most bizarre spellings, don't they?
01:54So he was telling me where... I was saying, you know, where are you off to next?
01:56And he was going to High Wycombe.
01:58I said, no, you're going to High Wycombe.
02:00And he goes, no, no, no, no, we're combi.
02:02It's spelled W-Y, you know, which is understandable.
02:05And he had a Dutch singer one year who went on stage and said, you know, thank you for having
02:10us, Western Super Mare.
02:12Which is brilliant.
02:14It's got a charm to it.
02:15Yeah, he finally believes me that it's Tottenham now, not Tottenham.
02:19Tottenham.
02:19We're back to Tottenham.
02:20But wasn't it, um, Aussie Arzile?
02:23Yeah, that's right.
02:23He called it Tottenham for all those years.
02:24It was quite cute, isn't it?
02:25He was a delightful man.
02:27Now, this Tom Silverlock is back, electrical engineer from Camden.
02:32And another close call on Friday.
02:34But nonetheless, you've got three wins.
02:37And you've got your teapot.
02:38Yes, I'm very pleased about the teapot.
02:40I know, it's great.
02:42I'm delighted for you.
02:43Yeah.
02:43I'm delighted for you.
02:44You're joined by Marwan Riach, math student at Imperial College from Twyford in Berkshire.
02:51And you were elected to the Youth Parliament as the member for Wycombe.
02:55Not Wycombe.
02:56Not Wycombe, no quite.
02:59How are you doing?
03:00Not bad, thank you.
03:00And year in year?
03:02Second year.
03:02Second year.
03:03That's excellent.
03:04What does this Youth Parliament do when it's at home?
03:07Well, it's just a body of 600 members of Youth Parliament that try and voice the opinions of people who
03:13can't vote.
03:14Okay.
03:14All elected representatives are spanned from the ages of 11 to 18.
03:19There's an annual meeting in the House of Commons every November.
03:21Okay.
03:22So we actually get to sit in the chamber itself.
03:24Oh, that's fun.
03:25Yes, it was good.
03:26Excellent.
03:27All right.
03:27Well, you're in a different chamber here.
03:29I am.
03:29But I hope you have as much fun here as you did there.
03:32Good luck to you both.
03:32Big round of applause for Tom and Marwan.
03:39And over in the corner, yes, Susie, of course.
03:42And for the last time, TV presenter, Susie Perry.
03:46Susie, welcome back.
03:48Very nice to be here.
03:51Good luck.
03:52But now, it's over to Tom.
03:54Tom, your letter's going.
03:56Hi again, Rachel.
03:57Hi, Tom.
03:58Can I have a consonant, please?
04:00Start today with B.
04:02And another one?
04:03D.
04:05And another?
04:07G.
04:08And another one?
04:10N.
04:11And a vowel?
04:13I.
04:14And another vowel?
04:16A.
04:17And another vowel?
04:19E.
04:20And a consonant?
04:22L.
04:23And another consonant?
04:25And P.
04:26And here's the countdown clock.
04:58Well, Tom?
05:00I've got an eight.
05:01An eight.
05:02Marwan?
05:02Seven.
05:03And your seven is?
05:04Sealing.
05:05Tom?
05:06Pleading.
05:07Yes, that's got it.
05:08It's very good.
05:09Good man.
05:13Very good.
05:14Good player.
05:15Now, Susie, Susie and Susie.
05:18Well, there's another Susie.
05:20There's three of us there.
05:22That was the best we could do.
05:23Pleading.
05:23Eight.
05:24That's it?
05:24Yeah.
05:25All right.
05:27Marwan, your letters came.
05:29Hi, Rachel.
05:30Consonant, please.
05:31Thank you, Marwan.
05:32Start with S.
05:33Another consonant?
05:35T.
05:36A vowel?
05:37U.
05:39Consonant?
05:40R.
05:42Consonant?
05:43S.
05:45A vowel?
05:46O.
05:48A vowel?
05:49A.
05:51Consonant?
05:52W.
05:54And a final consonant?
05:56A final R.
05:58Stand by.
05:59Stand by.
06:00Stand by.
06:24MUSIC PLAYS
06:29My one. Five.
06:31And Tom? Six. My one. Worst.
06:35And Tom? Straws. Yes.
06:38In the corner. Susie?
06:41Another six arrows, but couldn't do better than six. No.
06:46Any more sixes? No more sixes.
06:48Just that six. Thank you.
06:5114 points to Tom, and it's Tom's numbers game. Yes, sir?
06:54Can I have two large and four small, please?
06:57You can indeed. Thank you, Tom. Two large, four little.
06:59And the first one of the week is...
07:01Six, ten, three, two, twenty-five and seventy-five.
07:09And the target... nine hundred and eighty-eight.
07:12Nine, eight, eight.
07:13One, two, twenty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and
07:22thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five
07:30and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty
07:30-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and
07:30thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five
07:30and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty
07:30-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and
07:30thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five and thirty-five
07:36and thirty-five and thirty-five
07:44Yes, Tom.
07:46I've got 985.
07:48Three away.
07:49Now, Marwan.
07:50988.
07:51Firmly spoken.
07:53Marwan.
07:5325 plus 75 is 100.
07:58Times 10 is 1,000.
08:00Yep.
08:002 times 6 is 12, and subtract that from 1,000.
08:03Close the gap.
08:04Well done.
08:05Well done.
08:08Well done.
08:09That's good 10 points.
08:1110 plays 14.
08:12As we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is hard water and the glue.
08:17He was plummeting this way before his parachute opened.
08:21He was plummeting this way before his parachute opened.
08:42Welcome back.
08:43I left with the clue.
08:44He was plummeting this way before his parachute opened.
08:48And the answer to that is that he was plummeting earthward.
08:54Earthward.
08:55At some speed, at some speed, I'm sure.
08:5710 plays 14.
08:58Marwan on 10.
08:59And it's Marwan's letters game.
09:02Yes, sir.
09:02I'll have a consonant, please.
09:04Thank you, Marwan.
09:23A final consonant, please.
09:27A final seat.
09:30Stand by.
09:31Hello, Marwan.
09:33Bye.
09:33Bye.
09:42Bye.
09:47Bye.
09:47Bye.
09:48Bye.
09:52Bye.
09:56Bye.
10:03Mowen?
10:03I've got a seven.
10:05A seven.
10:05Tom?
10:06I've got an eight.
10:07You're seven, Mowen.
10:09Octaves.
10:10Tom?
10:11Overcast.
10:12Very nice.
10:13Well done.
10:13Overcast.
10:14Oh.
10:18And in the corner?
10:21Overcast, if you switch the end round, you get over-axe.
10:24Yes.
10:24Over-axe.
10:25Yes, another overword is over-mast, which is to provide a sailing ship with two heavy
10:30a mast.
10:31OK.
10:31So a few eights there.
10:34All right.
10:3422 to 10.
10:36Tom?
10:37Another letters game to play with.
10:39Can I have a consonant, please?
10:41Thank you, Tom.
10:42N.
10:42And another?
10:44C.
10:45And another one?
10:47R.
10:49And another one?
10:51T.
10:51And a vowel?
10:53I.
10:54And another vowel?
10:55U.
10:56And another vowel?
10:58A.
10:59And another vowel?
11:01I.
11:02And a consonant?
11:04And lastly, another N.
11:07Stand by.
11:08And another vowel?
11:26And another vowel?
11:27And another vowel?
11:28And another vowel?
11:28And another vowel?
11:28And another vowel?
11:28And another vowel?
11:29And another vowel?
11:30and another vowel?
11:36And another vowel?
11:39Tom?
11:40I've got a seven.
11:42Yes, Marwan?
11:43I've also got a seven.
11:44Maybe the same one.
11:46Tom?
11:46Curtain.
11:47And?
11:47Curtain.
11:48And curtain.
11:50Curtain's for everyone.
11:51Curtain's for us all.
11:52That's what we had, too.
11:54All right.
11:55So, 29 plays 17.
11:57Marwan, here we go.
11:58A mathematician for the numbers game.
12:01One large and five small, please.
12:03Thank you, Marwan.
12:04One from the top.
12:05Five not.
12:06Time for the mathematician.
12:08Possibly close the gap.
12:10These numbers are two.
12:11One, ten, three, four.
12:15And the large on 100.
12:17And the target, 981.
12:20981.
12:20que la sea, la cultura.
12:23No, three...
12:28No!
12:36No, three...
12:39No, three...
12:43No, three...
12:52Mowen.
12:53981.
12:54981.
12:55And Tom?
12:55988.
12:56Not reading down.
12:58Mm-hmm.
12:58So, Mowen.
13:00So, 2 plus 4 is 6.
13:022 plus 4 is 6.
13:04Times by 3 is 18.
13:06Yeah.
13:07Add the 1 for 19.
13:09And then 10 times 100 is 1,000.
13:1310 times 100, 1,000.
13:15Subtract the 19.
13:18Lovely.
13:18Well done.
13:19Well done.
13:20Very good.
13:22So, springs you up to within two points of Tom's 29 as we turn to Susie.
13:29Susie, what have you got for us?
13:31Well, we were all just discussing what we would do if we didn't do this for a living.
13:36And then Tom asked me how I got into biking and broadcasting.
13:41So, I think I'll tell that story.
13:44For you, Tom.
13:45There you go.
13:46So, back in the 90s, I passed my bike test and I loved bike racing.
13:52I've always loved Formula 1 and watching the bike racing on grandstand as it used to be back in the
13:57day, growing up on a Sunday.
13:59And had a bunch of friends that were bikers and we all used to hang out together and go to
14:04the British super bikes back then, which are road bikes, production bikes.
14:11And I just used to love watching it on the TV and I was one of those people that shouted
14:15at the TV all the time, why don't they do this and why don't they do that?
14:18And, you know, my friend said, why don't you ring up and ask them why they don't do it?
14:22And I managed to get the phone number of the producer at Sky, it was then.
14:28And I rang his landline and it connected to his mobile phone, which would never happen these days.
14:34And I was chatting away with him.
14:35It was really lovely.
14:36And he said, who are you?
14:38And I said, I'm just somebody that really likes watching bike racing.
14:41But I'm just wondering why you don't do more with the helmet off, more character interviews.
14:46And he said, why don't you come and see me?
14:50So put the glad rugs on in 1997 and set off to Middlesex and had a meeting with him and
14:57took a tape that I had interviewing some of the riders, which was not very good.
15:01And he ripped it to pieces as well in the interview, but it was all very constructive.
15:06And at the end of the chat, he said, do you want to be a reporter?
15:10And I just couldn't believe it because I actually thought that I would go into music promotion because that was
15:15my dad's world.
15:16And I'd grown up with a lot of live music and I really thought that I would do that.
15:20But I started as a reporter in 1997.
15:23And at the time, there were no women at all in the sport.
15:26So I was the first female motorcycle presenter, reporter, whatever you want to call it, in the world.
15:32And it was something really new and eyebrow racing for some people.
15:38It took a while to kind of settle in.
15:41But what an extraordinary opportunity I had by just picking up the phone and being a bit cheeky, really.
15:47And that's that's kind of how it all started.
15:50And my first live broadcast was a six hour live show at Brands Hatch.
15:54And suddenly you find yourself with talkback and people talking to you in your ear and you're interviewing foreign riders
16:01that don't speak English that well with the noise of bikes.
16:03And it was it was just crazy.
16:07You know, it really was.
16:08But there was something very addictive about it.
16:11And I loved it.
16:12And they gave me a chance.
16:13And I spent three years there.
16:15And then and then I moved to the BBC and did the Formula One and everything afterwards.
16:20So it was an interesting start to a career that I hadn't expected to happen, shall we say.
16:26What a great lesson.
16:27Pick up the phone.
16:28Pick up the phone.
16:29You never know.
16:30You know, you never know.
16:31And it worked.
16:32It worked.
16:32Brilliant.
16:33Yeah.
16:33Thank you so much.
16:38Well done, Susie.
16:39Glad it did work as well.
16:41You're a great great asset to the sport.
16:43That's for sure.
16:44That's for sure.
16:4429 plays 27.
16:46Tom.
16:48Tom.
16:49Your letters came.
16:50Can I have a consonant, please?
16:52Thank you, Tom.
16:53T.
16:53And a vowel.
16:55O.
16:56And a consonant.
16:58L.
16:59And a vowel.
17:00E.
17:01And a consonant.
17:03C.
17:04And a vowel.
17:06U.
17:07And a consonant.
17:09R.
17:10And a consonant.
17:12S.
17:13And a vowel.
17:15And lastly, I.
17:18Stand by.
17:21You.
17:31I.
17:48I.
17:48I.
17:50Tom.
17:51Eight.
17:52Yes, Moen.
17:54Six.
17:55And your six is?
17:57Soiler.
17:59Tom.
18:00Cloyster.
18:01Very nice.
18:02Very good, yeah.
18:03Excellent.
18:07Now, Suzy's, what have the Suzy's produced?
18:11No, Soiler, just to say, not in the dictionary.
18:13Sorry.
18:14We had one other eight, didn't we?
18:16Yeah, Coulters.
18:18Coulters, which is with blades fitted in front of a ploughshare.
18:21Oh, OK.
18:22Yeah.
18:2337 to 27, ten points in it.
18:25Marwan, your letters game.
18:27Off you go.
18:28A vowel, please, Rachel.
18:29Thank you, Marwan.
18:30A.
18:31And a consonant.
18:32G.
18:33And a vowel.
18:36E.
18:37And a consonant.
18:39R.
18:40A vowel.
18:41U.
18:42A consonant.
18:44C.
18:45Consonant.
18:47S.
18:48Consonant.
18:49K.
18:51And a vowel, please.
18:54And lastly, O.
18:56Stand by.
18:56We'll see you next time.
18:58We'll see you next time.
18:59We'll see you next time.
19:00We'll see you next time.
19:01We'll see you next time.
19:06We'll see you next time.
19:08We'll see you next time.
19:11We'll see you next time.
19:12We'll see you next time.
19:13We'll see you next time.
19:14We'll see you next time.
19:15We'll see you next time.
19:15We'll see you next time.
19:15We'll see you next time.
19:16We'll see you next time.
19:16We'll see you next time.
19:16We'll see you next time.
19:17We'll see you next time.
19:18We'll see you next time.
19:18We'll see you next time.
19:19We'll see you next time.
19:23We'll see you next time.
19:28Mowen.
19:29Risky, seven.
19:30Tom?
19:31Six.
19:32Your six is?
19:33Sucker.
19:35Mowen.
19:35Suckage?
19:37Just looking that up for you.
19:38For some reason, I thought that might come up, but it's not there, I am afraid, Mowen.
19:42Sorry.
19:43Susie?
19:45Struggling with that one.
19:46Courage for seven.
19:48And courage.
19:49Well done.
19:5043 plays 27.
19:52Tom, building a bit of a lead there.
19:54Tom, your numbers game.
19:55Can I have two large and four small, please?
19:58You can indeed.
19:59Thank you, Tom.
20:00Two from the top, four little.
20:02And this time around, your selection is one, seven, nine, seven, fifty and seventy-five.
20:11And the target, 117.
20:14One, one, seven.
20:46Yes, Tom?
20:48117.
20:49Marwin?
20:50117.
20:51Tom?
20:5250 plus 75.
20:54One, two, five.
20:55Minus seven, minus one.
20:56Easy.
20:57One, one, seven.
20:58And Marwin?
20:59Seven plus seven equals 14.
21:02Yep.
21:03Minus one is 13.
21:04Minus one, 13.
21:05Times the two, times that by nine.
21:07And times it by nine.
21:08Lovely.
21:09Well done.
21:12Well done, guys.
21:13So that's 53, 53 to 37.
21:17As we turn to our tea-tum-tees, our second one of the day.
21:21And it's their gang.
21:23And the clue, their gang would get together once a month for a bit of a party.
21:26Their gang would get together once a month for a bit of a party.
21:46Welcome back.
21:47Welcome back.
21:47I left you with a clue.
21:48Their gang would get together once a month for a bit of a party.
21:51They'd get together for a gathering.
21:55A gathering is the answer to that.
21:5653 plays 37.
21:59Tom on now, 53.
22:01It's Marwin's letters game, Marwin.
22:03Vowel, please, Rachel.
22:04Thank you, Marwin.
22:05E.
22:06Another vowel, please.
22:08A.
22:08And a consonant.
22:10M.
22:11And a consonant.
22:12S.
22:13And a vowel.
22:16O.
22:17And a consonant.
22:19R.
22:20And a consonant.
22:22F.
22:24A consonant.
22:26P.
22:28And a final consonant, please.
22:32A final R.
22:34Stand by.
22:35R.
22:35R.
22:36R.
22:36R.
22:37R.
22:38R.
23:05Moen.
23:06Seven.
23:07And Tom.
23:08Seven.
23:09Moen.
23:10Reforms.
23:11And?
23:13Farmers.
23:14Yes.
23:15Happy?
23:16Yes.
23:17Happy.
23:17Susie.
23:18A bit similar to your word, you could have had performs.
23:22Could have had another pointer for eight.
23:24Yep, and forearms were there as well for another eight.
23:27Forearms, yeah.
23:2860 to 44.
23:29Tom.
23:31Here we go.
23:31Letters game.
23:32Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
23:35Thank you, Tom.
23:35T.
23:37And a vowel.
23:38I.
23:39And a consonant.
23:41N.
23:42And a vowel.
23:44E.
23:45And a consonant.
23:47Y.
23:48And a vowel.
23:50A.
23:51And a consonant.
23:53T.
23:53And another consonant.
23:55P.
23:56And lastly, H.
24:02Stand by.
24:05And a consonant.
24:23And a consonant.
24:23And a consonant.
24:23And a consonant.
24:26And a consonant.
24:36Tom.
24:37Five.
24:38Marwan.
24:39Six.
24:40And a six.
24:41Tom.
24:42Patty.
24:43Now, Marwan.
24:44Hentai.
24:46Hentai is brilliant, yes.
24:48It's a sub-genre of Japanese manga and anime, etc.
24:52Very well done.
24:54Well done.
24:55Anything else, Susie?
24:56Could have had a seven.
24:58Could have had patient.
24:59Patient.
25:00Well done.
25:01All right.
25:02So, ten points.
25:03Tom, ten points in the lead.
25:04Sixty plays fifty.
25:06So, we turn to Susie for her origins of words.
25:09Now, Susie.
25:10I have to thank Ian Curry in Wheatley in Oxfordshire.
25:13Nick, who wants to know the origins of some words and expressions, which can be loosely linked, he thinks.
25:19A Martinette, he begins with.
25:20A strict disciplinarian.
25:22Where did it come from?
25:23Did it involve someone called Martin, he wonders.
25:26Then he says, if they observe in discipline, these Martinettes, they may get shirty or lose their rag.
25:32Where did those originate?
25:33So, I'll start with those last two, actually, because they're quite simple.
25:37If you get shirty, it's linking into keeping your shirt on, if you like, with the reference to the idea
25:43that somebody might take their shirt off ready for a fight.
25:46So, it simply is related to that bad temperedness and aggression, possibly.
25:52Losing your rag is probably a reference to rag in slang, which means your tongue.
25:57So, originally, the expression was to take out your rag, in other words, to give somebody a right tongue lashing
26:03if you were going to reprimand them.
26:05And losing your rag is simply sort of losing the flow of your tongue because you get so, so angry.
26:12Martinette.
26:14Martinette goes back to the reign of Louis XIV.
26:17This is an eponym, so this is named after a particular person.
26:20So, the San King of France, he had a somewhat chaotic army, but fortunately for him, his army contained a
26:28Lieutenant Colonel Jean Martinet, who was made Inspector General of the Infantry, and he created this incredibly rigorous system of
26:36drilling and, notably, discipline.
26:39He apparently liked to use the cat of nine tails for punishment when his soldiers didn't quite follow instructions.
26:46The weapon at the time was the musket, and they were notoriously inaccurate.
26:50So, what Martinet did, or Martinet did, was train his troops to fire in group volleys.
26:55In other words, if they all fired at once, they were likely to hit something.
26:58That was the idea.
26:59He got them marching in neat lines.
27:02He introduced the bayonets, eventually, and his name became associated with strict military discipline and gradually slipped into English, to
27:10mean anybody who thinks rules are rules and should be stuck to.
27:14He, incidentally, was killed in a friendly fire accident in 1672, perhaps, by the volley shots that his army had
27:22perfected.
27:22Who knows?
27:23But that's where Martinet comes from.
27:25Very good.
27:30He was probably shot by one of his, you know, recruits that he'd been beating up.
27:36Maybe.
27:36Shouting at.
27:37No, he's fragging, apparently.
27:39Fragging, yeah.
27:39Fragging, yeah.
27:40Unpleasant business.
27:41Well, certainly is for the person who's been fragged.
27:44Sixty to fifty.
27:46Tom, the lead.
27:47Marwyn, your letters game.
27:49Consonant, please.
27:51Thank you, Marwyn.
27:52S.
27:53A vowel.
27:55I.
27:55Consonant.
27:57M.
27:58Consonant.
27:59R.
28:00A vowel.
28:02O.
28:03Consonant.
28:04T.
28:06Consonant.
28:08W.
28:09Vowel.
28:10E.
28:12And a final consonant.
28:14And a final S.
28:17Stand by.
28:18Vowel.
28:20Okay.
28:49Marvin. Seven. And Tom? Of course, seven as well.
28:53Mm-hmm. Marvin? Mossier. Tom? Weirdos.
29:00Indeed. Indeed. Weirdos. Yeah.
29:02Susie, what have you got over there? I also had weirdos. You've heard weirdos?
29:05But Susie's got an eight. There is an eight, yeah.
29:08It's a dialect term and it's mis-word. It's the plural of mis-word,
29:12which is a harsh, angry or cross-word. Mis-word's there for eight.
29:16Lovely. Lovely.
29:21Thank you. Now, Tom, final letters game.
29:26A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tom.
29:29G. And a vowel.
29:33O. And another consonant.
29:36B. And a vowel.
29:40E. And a consonant.
29:44L. And a vowel.
29:47A. And a consonant.
29:50V. And another vowel.
29:55E. And a consonant.
29:57A final D.
29:59Stand by.
30:00A A consonant.
30:01G A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:08A meaning.
30:29A consonant.
30:32Tom.
30:34Six.
30:35Marwan.
30:36Seven.
30:37Yes, Tom.
30:38Globet.
30:39Now, Marwan.
30:40Beloved.
30:41Well done.
30:42Excellent.
30:43Yeah.
30:44Very, very good.
30:44That's an important score, Marwan.
30:46My word is.
30:48What about the corner for Susie's?
30:50What about the corner?
30:51What have you got?
30:52That's what we say.
30:53I had beloved.
30:54Nothing better.
30:55No, otherwise down to lovage for six.
30:58Lovage and beloved.
30:59Yeah.
31:00Very good.
31:00Sixty-seven to sixty-four.
31:02Oh, Tom, this is tough.
31:05Marwan, it's a numbers game for the maths student.
31:07One large and five small, please.
31:09Thank you, Marwan.
31:10One large, five little and banking on a crucial conundrum, possibly.
31:14Final numbers of the day are eight, three, nine, one, ten and the large one, one hundred
31:23and the target, six hundred and forty-three.
31:26Six, four, three.
31:27Six, six, four, three.
31:58Marwan.
31:59No, messed up.
32:01Tom.
32:026.40.
32:04And 6.40.
32:06Tom.
32:078 minus 1 times 100.
32:098 minus 1 is 7 times 100, 700.
32:139 minus 3 is 6 times 10.
32:1760.
32:18Take it off to 700.
32:20Yep, and you still have that crucial conundrum, but well done.
32:23Well done.
32:24And Rachel, 6.43.
32:27If you say 9 minus 1 is 8 times 8 is 64 times 10 is 640,
32:35and Chuck on the 3 for 6.43.
32:37Well done.
32:38Well done.
32:42Well done.
32:44But there's no escaping these crucial conundrums,
32:47because we've got another one.
32:48Marwan versus Tom, 64 to 74.
32:51Fingers on buzzers, chaps.
32:53Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:59Marwan.
33:00Mortified?
33:02Mortified.
33:02Let's see whether you're right.
33:05Rest of the time.
33:07Oh, poor Marwan.
33:08Down to Tom.
33:09Take your time, Tom.
33:11Deformity.
33:13Deformity.
33:13Is that right?
33:15Let's see whether you are.
33:18Fantastic.
33:19Oh, well done.
33:20Oh, poor Marwan.
33:26What happened there?
33:27It was a panic thing.
33:28Yeah, I just blanked.
33:30Just got...
33:30Nervs got better with me.
33:32Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
33:33Listen.
33:33You take this goodie bag back to Imperial College
33:37with our very best wishes.
33:39Who's got four wins, then?
33:42Me, apparently, yeah.
33:43And one teapot.
33:44Well done.
33:45Well done.
33:46We'll see you tomorrow.
33:48Well done, Tom.
33:48I look forward to it.
33:49Ah, it's been good.
33:50You played very well.
33:51You're getting strength, too.
33:53Yes.
33:53Yeah.
33:54I'm on a roll now, yeah.
33:55You are a bit.
33:56See you tomorrow.
33:56Well done.
33:57Well done.
33:58You come and see us as soon as you're back
34:00from your world travels.
34:02End of the road for me today.
34:03Off on a different road, I will.
34:05It's been an absolute pleasure.
34:07For us, too.
34:09Susie, see you tomorrow?
34:10Yeah, you will.
34:10See you then.
34:11All right.
34:11And Rachel also.
34:12And it was a cruel irony that that last conundrum was mortified
34:15because I could see it as soon as Marwan said that.
34:17It was mortified.
34:19Easily done.
34:20It's different in the studio.
34:21Very different.
34:22We'll see you tomorrow.
34:23See you tomorrow.
34:24Of course you will.
34:24Same time, same place.
34:25You be sure of it.
34:26A very good afternoon.
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