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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:35Big day down in London tomorrow at Tate Modern because a big new exhibition is opened.
00:40Rachel, it's very interesting. I can't fully understand it, to be quite honest.
00:44It's called In Real Life.
00:46OK, if we park that over there for a second.
00:48It's the brainchild of an Icelandic Danish artist rejoicing in the name of Olafur Eliasson.
00:57It's an installation.
00:58Now, installation art, of course, is a recognized genre, but this one's really rather interesting
01:04because it's intended to make you more and more aware of your senses, Rachel.
01:09Oh, yes.
01:09For instance, there are indoor rainbows.
01:13OK, a vast wall covered in moss, not just any old moss, but Icelandic moss.
01:20OK, and there's another one you can walk through, disorientating fog.
01:26Have you come across this gentleman?
01:28I haven't, but I have looked up his work now and it does look kind of interesting.
01:32He's got kind of geometric shapes to represent the sun and it does look quite pretty.
01:36And the sound of an indoor rainbow is quite appealing.
01:39I'll try the Icelandic Dane, Olafur, and see how I feel.
01:44I'll report back.
01:45Lovely.
01:45OK.
01:47Now, we've got Tom with us, Rachel.
01:48Tom Silverlock, the quiet one, with five great wins.
01:54I think you're a piece of installation art.
01:57That's what you are.
01:58I feel like a piece of installation art sometimes.
02:02Well, you're joined by Aaron Samuel, retail manager from London.
02:06Welcome to the studio.
02:07Hi.
02:07We got married last year.
02:09Yeah, September.
02:10My wife, Galen.
02:11Excellent.
02:12And you got married in a church on Abbey Road.
02:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:15And then guess where you had the pictures taken?
02:17Yeah, it's pretty obvious, to be fair.
02:19Of course you did.
02:20Yeah.
02:20Crossing out.
02:21A bit of traffic that day.
02:22Indeed.
02:23And your wife, is she here today?
02:25Yeah, she's in front now.
02:26Excellent.
02:27And she's called Girling.
02:29Girling, yeah.
02:29Excellent.
02:30Well, she'll be cheering you on.
02:32We all will.
02:32Yeah.
02:33Big round of applause now for Aaron and Tom.
02:38Aaron and Tom.
02:40Well done.
02:41And over in the corner, Susie, of course, with the wonderful Michaela Strachan, TV presenter.
02:47Ah, it's great to have you back.
02:49Great to be back.
02:50More from you later.
02:51We had stickleback stories yesterday.
02:53I wonder what we're going to get today.
02:55We'll wait and see.
02:56Tom.
02:57Come on, Tom.
02:58You know how it works.
03:00Hi, Rachel.
03:00Hi, Tom.
03:01Can I have a consonant, please?
03:03You can, indeed.
03:04T.
03:05And a vowel.
03:07E.
03:08And a consonant.
03:10R.
03:11And a vowel.
03:12A.
03:13And a consonant.
03:15And a vowel.
03:17And a vowel.
03:19And a consonant.
03:21And a consonant.
03:24And a consonant.
03:28You.
03:29And here's the countdown clock.
04:01well Tom seven a seven Aaron seven two sevens Tom
04:07takia and Aaron attack here as well there we go any more sevens Michaela
04:14Susie uh what if we get a centaur yes we got a centaur and we also had
04:20keratin yes very good seven points apiece Aaron your letters game afternoon
04:27Rachel a consonant this thank you start with s and another ah and a vowel
04:36please a and another e consonant G and a consonant C and a another
04:52consonant is M and a vowel oh and a final consonant please a final T stand by
05:10so
05:17so
05:37Aaron seven of us and Tom seven
05:41Aaron coaster now Tom I've got the same the same yeah these guys have played before
05:50Michaela what news Susie are we allowed this one because it's a it's French really
05:55escargot we are are we yes fantastic then escargot
05:59all thank you now it's 14 points apiece and now Tom it's your numbers game can I have
06:08one large and five small please the usual thank you Tom one from the top five little
06:13and and this time they are seven two three four another two and a large on twenty five and your
06:23target four hundred and fifteen four one five
06:31so
06:42so
06:43so
06:43so
06:57well Tom four ten Aaron four ten as well but not ran down okay so let's start with you Aaron
07:09uh two times two times four two times two is four times four sixteen times twenty five is four
07:17hundred and add the seven and the three and the remaining seven and three four ten well Tom I did
07:23it exactly the same way where's that five got to Rachel four one five leave it with me Nick
07:30I certainly will so it's twenty one points apiece as we turn to our first tea time teaser which is
07:37held canal and the clue they were always swapping partners here excuse me they were always swapping
07:44partners here excuse me
08:02and the answer that of course is dance hall
08:11dance hall
08:13now Rachel I know
08:14now Rachel I know
08:15you've cracked it by that wide smile of yours
08:18yes a few dead ends but if you say twenty five times three is seventy five two times four is
08:25eight add that on for eighty three and then seven minus the second two is five you have the product
08:31of two primes our old friend for four fifteen
08:34well done
08:35well done
08:36well done
08:36well done
08:37very good
08:39all right so it's twenty one apiece and Aaron it's your letters game off we go
08:44can I have a consonant please
08:46thank you Aaron
08:46R
08:48and another
08:50S
08:51and a vowel please
08:52a
08:53a
08:55and another
08:55E
08:56and a consonant
08:58V
09:00and a consonant
09:02N
09:05and a vowel please
09:06and a vowel please
09:09and a consonant
09:10T
09:13and a final vowel please
09:16a final I
09:18stand by
09:20stand by
09:51yes Aaron
09:52a seven
09:53a seven
09:54and
09:54I've got an eight
09:55an eight
09:57okay Aaron
09:58er
09:59retains
10:02Tom
10:03faunters
10:03yes
10:05very good
10:05people who boast
10:06are vaunters
10:07very very nice
10:11well done
10:13vaunters
10:14now
10:15what does the corner have to offer us I wonder
10:18Nicaela
10:18well I'm crossing my legs which makes me think of urinates
10:24sorry sorry
10:25don't worry
10:27you've only got another forty five minutes
10:29now
10:29Susie what have you got
10:31no those are our two eights actually vaunters and urinates
10:33that's it thank you
10:34yeah
10:34so twenty nine to twenty one
10:37Tom on a twenty nine
10:38Tom
10:39your letters game
10:40can I have a consonant please
10:41thank you Tom
10:42P
10:43and a vowel
10:44O
10:46and a consonant
10:47W
10:48and a vowel
10:49E
10:51and a consonant
10:52M
10:54and a vowel
10:56A
10:57and a consonant
10:59S
11:00and a consonant
11:02L
11:04and a vowel
11:05and the last one
11:06E
11:08stand by
11:38and a vowel
11:38a vowel
11:39and a vowel
11:39and a vowel
11:39well Tom six Aaron just a five let's have your five and then we'll turn to
11:51Tom Aaron loans now Tom weasel a weasel yes very nice pop goes the weasel
12:00Michaela I think I prefer weasel but I got weapons yeah Susie yeah no seven
12:06was the best that we could do that's it moving on 35 to 21 Tom's in the lead now
12:11Aaron it's your numbers game good luck can I have a six more please you can indeed
12:17thank you and six little ones coming up this for a while and they are one two
12:23seven one oh dear ten and four and the target three hundred and seventy three
12:31seven zero
13:03Aaron I 370
13:06370 Tom 370 off we go Aaron okay 4 plus 1 is 5 yep times a 7 35 add the
13:192 37 and then
13:21times a 10 370 lovely and Tom I've done it slightly different is 2 plus 7 is 9 2 plus
13:297 times 4 times 4 times 4 36 plus 1 37 again and then times 10 10 points well done
13:37well done very good
13:4345 to 31 sees Tom sees Tom in the lead but Aaron's on his heels all right as we turn
13:48to Michaela Michaela yesterday talked about little stickleback missing a fin
13:54And today we want to talk about, I don't know, some wild experiences you've had.
14:00I'm going to tell you a poem that I've written about something a bit bigger than a stickleback.
14:06And it's a bit of a quiz for you, actually, because you've got to guess what it is that I'm
14:11talking about.
14:12OK, here are the clues.
14:14Some are leopards, some are tigers, some are even whales.
14:18Some are zebras, some are bulls.
14:21A clue, they all have tails.
14:24Some are bronze, some are lemons, some are even blue.
14:28Some are salmon, some are white.
14:31Confusing, but it's true.
14:33Cats, nurses, angels, prickly, frilled and swell.
14:38Wing heads, bonnet heads, hammer heads as well.
14:41What are they all?
14:43They're crazy names, but can you guess?
14:45If I give you a clue, I think you should.
14:48Some are great whites, some are grey.
14:52Some have spots, stripes, silver tips.
14:55They all have different marks.
14:56Gummy, dusky, soupfin.
14:58They're all the crazy names of...
15:01I got them.
15:03Sharks.
15:03Sharks.
15:04A zebra.
15:05Now, that was the one that foxed me early on.
15:07A zebra?
15:07So there are many, many different types of sharks.
15:10And when I wrote that poem, years ago I wrote a book called Michaela Strachan's Really Wild Adventures.
15:15And I thought, let's write a poem about sharks.
15:18And I looked up in a book to see all the different names of sharks.
15:21And it surprised myself.
15:22I thought, gosh, I didn't realise there were so many different names for sharks.
15:26So I put them all into that poem.
15:28Good for you.
15:29Many thanks.
15:30That's very interesting.
15:35Excellent.
15:36Now, Tom, your letters came.
15:38Can I have a consonant, please?
15:39Thank you, Tom.
15:41Z.
15:43And a vowel?
15:44I.
15:45And another vowel?
15:47O.
15:49And another vowel?
15:51A.
15:52And a consonant?
15:54C.
15:56And another consonant?
15:58D.
15:59And another consonant?
16:01S.
16:02And another consonant?
16:05F.
16:07And another consonant?
16:09And the last one.
16:10L.
16:12And it's Countdown.
16:15I.
16:16I.
16:29I.
16:44Well, Tom, five, Aaron, can I try a six, please, a six, Tom, folds, and Aaron, a zodiac,
16:55nice one, very good, yeah, well done indeed, you're creeping up a little bit, 37 to Tom's 45,
17:03but before we go on, now Michaela, Michaela and Susie, what's up? Well, I would have put an S on
17:09that, and then you could have had zodiacs, I thought that, but that's why I went backwards,
17:15yeah, yeah, thank you, 37, well done, Aaron there, now, we're back with you, it's your letters game,
17:23Aaron, can I have a consonant, please, thank you, Aaron, R, and a vowel, U, and a consonant,
17:35L, and a vowel, I, and another vowel, please, O, and a consonant, T, and a consonant, S,
17:51and a vowel, A, and another vowel, please, and the last one, U,
18:01stand by.
18:05Theatone, T, and a vowel, please, and the vowel, please, and the vowel, please,
18:35Aaron?
18:36Seven.
18:37Tom?
18:39I'll try seven.
18:41Aaron?
18:42Out sale.
18:44Yes, Tom?
18:45I've got the same there.
18:47There we go.
18:49Popped up before that?
18:51Yeah, it has to sell better or faster than a competitor.
18:54Absolutely fine.
18:55Michaela?
18:57Taylors, we came up with again, just seven.
18:59Yeah, good.
19:00And the other, Susie?
19:00And Sotoir, the fine chain necklace.
19:04Oh, yeah, the necklace, yeah.
19:05It's another seven.
19:05Sotoir.
19:06All right, 52 to 44.
19:09Tom maintains his lead.
19:10Tom, your numbers game now.
19:12Can I have one large and five small, please?
19:15Yeah, back to the regular.
19:17One large five little coming up, Tom.
19:18And for the next round, they are ten, seven, four, four, one, and the large 125.
19:28And the target, 760.
19:31Seven, six, zero.
19:32BCI, two, one.
19:33Three, two, two.
19:36Three, two, one, and the mingles.
19:57Three, four, five, one.
19:58One, two, one.
20:00Three, two.
20:01One, two.
20:01One, two, one.
20:02Well, Tom?
20:05761.
20:06761.
20:07Aaron?
20:08Yeah, 761 as well.
20:10Both of you, all right.
20:11Let's turn to Tom.
20:13I've got 4 minus 1.
20:16Is 3.
20:17Times 10.
20:18Is 30.
20:19Times 25.
20:20Times 25, 750.
20:24Plus 4 plus 7.
20:26Yep, one away.
20:28Aaron?
20:28Pretty similar, but almost the same.
20:30Again, just 4 minus 1.
20:32Times 25.
20:34Times 10.
20:35Yeah.
20:36Plus 7 plus 4.
20:37Yeah, same thing.
20:38So where's that one got to, then, Aaron?
20:40760, Rachel.
20:41Well, if you get your 3 with 7 minus 4 equals 3,
20:45then you can times that by 25 for 75.
20:48Chuck on a 1 for 76.
20:50And times it by 10 for 760.
20:52Look at that.
20:53Very good.
20:58Excellent.
20:59Elegantly done.
21:00So there we are, 59 to 51.
21:03Tom's favour, as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser,
21:06which is saloon pie and the clue.
21:09Did the Polish couple have a spaghetti dish
21:11before they went for a dance?
21:14Did the Polish couple have a spaghetti dish
21:16before they went for a dance?
21:33And the answer to that is they went for a polonaise.
21:44And then complicated about a polonaise.
21:46What sort of dance is that?
21:47It's from the French for Polish because it's a slow dance of Polish origin.
21:51Triple time, intricate march or procession.
21:55And it is also a dish.
21:57A polonaise is an adjective.
21:59It means garnished with hard-boiled egg yolk, breadcrumbs and parsley.
22:02OK.
22:04Thanks for that.
22:0659 to 51.
22:07Aaron, your letters game.
22:09Can I have a consonant, please?
22:11Thank you, Aaron.
22:13G.
22:14And another.
22:16R.
22:18And a vowel, please.
22:20E.
22:20And a final vowel, please.
22:36And a final A.
22:47Stand by.
23:05And a vowel, please.
23:20I'll stay with a seven.
23:22A seven.
23:23Tom?
23:24I've got a seven.
23:26Off we go, Aaron.
23:28Four ages.
23:29Now, Tom?
23:30I've got the same word.
23:33We worked out a couple of sevens.
23:35I think we've got corsage.
23:37Yes.
23:39Corsages and also Fiacre with an S at the end.
23:43Small four-wheeled carriages for public hire.
23:47Well, well.
23:49Thanks, Michaela.
23:5066 plays 58.
23:52Same difference.
23:52Tom.
23:53Tom, letters game.
23:54Can I have a consonant, please?
23:56Thank you, Tom.
23:57M.
23:58And another one.
24:01M.
24:03And another.
24:05W.
24:06And a vowel.
24:08E.
24:10And a consonant.
24:12M.
24:13And a vowel.
24:15A.
24:16And a consonant.
24:18V.
24:19And a vowel.
24:21O.
24:23And another vowel.
24:24And the last one.
24:26I.
24:28Go down.
24:31It's a verb.
24:33Do you think it's a verb?
24:59Do you think it's a verb?
25:00Well, Tom?
25:01Seven.
25:03Aaron?
25:04Just six.
25:06And your six is?
25:08Domain.
25:09Domain. Now, Tom?
25:11I've stuck an E on the end.
25:12Oh, yes, you can do that for a vineyard in France, Domain, with the E.
25:18Smart move, Tom Silverlock.
25:21And over in the corner?
25:23We've got quite a good one.
25:24I think we should say it together, because I think it'll work.
25:26OK.
25:27One, two, three.
25:28Mad women.
25:34I've never seen it written down, mad women.
25:37Mad women.
25:38Interesting, isn't it?
25:39And yet there are so many more mad women than there are men.
25:41Anyway.
25:44You are in trouble.
25:46I know.
25:46That's why I said it.
25:4873 to 58, Tom agrees with me.
25:51And as we turn to Susie for her origins of words.
25:55Susie?
25:57Well, I'm going to talk about the number nine.
25:59Today, lucky number nine, because I had an email, a question from eBoston.
26:04Why do we talk about giving something the whole nine yards?
26:07And this is a question that is put to linguists and etymologists and lexicographers all the time.
26:14And I have to say, it is still a bit of a mystery.
26:18I'll give you the most popular theory, and that's that the whole nine yards involves the length of ammunition belts
26:24in World War II aircraft.
26:25So the idea was that if a target was shot at with a full belt of ammunition, it was given
26:30the whole nine yards.
26:33In fact, the recent evidence suggests that nine is simply a random number because we've discovered records from earlier decades
26:41which talk of the whole six yards of a story and a couple of other numbers as well, which suggest
26:46that it's simply a metaphor for everything.
26:48And they simply took a number, and it's like the whole of that particular area.
26:52So it is used just purely figuratively and may not have any kind of concrete origin at all.
26:59And this kind of number inflation isn't very unusual.
27:03I'm going to end with another one, which will be like on cloud nine.
27:07Now, we've always thought that that goes back to a meteorological guide that was published at the end of the
27:1219th century called the International Cloud Atlas, which listed 10 classifications of clouds.
27:17And number nine was the cumulonimbus, which is a kind of towering, fluffy cloud.
27:22And we thought that's where it came from.
27:24It was certainly popularized by a radio show, the Johnny Dollar radio show.
27:27He was a fictional insurance investigator, got into all sorts of scrapes, and every time he was not unconscious, he
27:33would be sent to cloud nine where he fully recovered.
27:36So that's probably what popularized cloud nine.
27:39But once again, if you look at the OED, you will find that cloud seven existed as a state of
27:44euphoria and so on.
27:46So we've changed our numbers.
27:47We've flipped things all the way through these expressions.
27:50It's really frustrating because you want to get to the absolute nub of it.
27:53It's quite rare to do that.
27:55But the stories are great, so I thought I'd tell you about those.
27:57Excellent.
27:59Very interesting.
28:02I like the ammunition belt.
28:04They're really nine yards long, were they?
28:06A belt of ammunition.
28:07They feed it through the machine gun.
28:08Yeah, some of them were, which is why it made such sense.
28:11Now, that sounded right, didn't it?
28:13Yeah.
28:13Give him the whole nine yards.
28:15It's 73 to 58, Tom in the lead, and it's Aaron.
28:19Return to Aaron, letters game.
28:21Can I have a consonant, please?
28:22Thank you, Aaron.
28:24T.
28:25And a vowel.
28:26A.
28:28And a consonant.
28:30G.
28:32And a vowel.
28:34E.
28:36And a consonant.
28:38R.
28:38And a vowel.
28:41U.
28:43And a consonant.
28:45P.
28:46And a consonant.
28:49D.
28:52And a final vowel, please.
28:54A final I.
28:57Stand by.
28:59Tese.
28:59Come by.
29:02I.
29:02D.
29:02And a vowel.
29:22Down.
29:22I.
29:22And a vowel.
29:23Two.
29:25A vowel.
29:26One.
29:26Yep.
29:27Indeed.
29:27One.
29:28Eight.
29:29Aaron?
29:30Seven.
29:31A seven, Tom?
29:32I've got a seven.
29:33Aaron?
29:34A Gordia.
29:35Gordia and?
29:36Uprated.
29:39Uprated, yes.
29:40To promote or just increase in value is absolutely fine.
29:45Uprated engine, yeah.
29:47Michaela and Susie.
29:48Michaela?
29:49We had something fairly similar, really, didn't we?
29:51To that, which is upgrade.
29:53To upgrade, yeah.
29:55That's it?
29:55That was it.
29:56Moving on, thank you.
29:5780 to 65.
29:58Tom, final letters game for you.
30:01I'll have a vowel, please.
30:03Thanks, Tom.
30:04E.
30:05And another one.
30:07A.
30:08And a consonant.
30:10S.
30:11And a vowel.
30:13E.
30:14And a consonant.
30:16D.
30:17And a consonant.
30:19Y.
30:20And a consonant.
30:22P.
30:24And a consonant.
30:26N.
30:27And a vowel.
30:28And the last one.
30:30I.
30:32Stand by.
30:34And a consonant.
30:36Or a 녃.
30:36And a consonant.
31:03well Tom six Aaron six so Tom speedy now Aaron pained and pained yes and pained
31:18Michaela Susie well aniseed aniseed it's a lot to ease aniseed yes we've got
31:26to ease yes we have we got we've got to be so aniseed thanks for that to 86 for
31:30Tom Aaron on 71 it's Aaron's numbers game good luck I'll go six more again yep gambling time thank
31:39you and good luck six little ones and the final numbers of the day are six two eight three four
31:47and six and the target four hundred and twelve four one two
32:25Aaron just four oh three four oh three Tom
32:31I've got 400 not written down okay well we're going to talk to Aaron first uh six times six
32:39is face six add four is forty six times six thirty six add four for forty eight plus two is
32:47ten yep
32:48times two four hundred and add the three and add the three yep there we go Rachel can you help
32:55us
32:55four one two I got two one away so leave it with me so it's a tricky tricky one all
33:00right so 86 to 76
33:03wow that means uh we're in for a crucial conundrum gentlemen
33:10good luck to you both two good players fingers on buzzers let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum
33:25tom silver lock expansion expansion expansion expansion is he right he is oh well done
33:40well done tom well done and well played take this goodie bag back to um back to london thanks for
33:48coming you played very well proud to have you here tom silver lock six wins woo see you tomorrow
33:57mikaela and susie we'll see you tomorrow yes i think so all right that was fun it's good game
34:01actually rachel can you help i can so i haven't got any homework if you say three plus six is
34:08nine
34:08times the other six for 54 minus two for 52 times that by eight for 416 and take away the
34:16four four hundred and
34:17terrific well done
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