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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown.
00:32It's Wednesday, September the 25th.
00:35How did that happen?
00:37Summer in the rear view mirror.
00:39Colder and longer nights ahead.
00:40Thank you for spending the afternoon with us.
00:43We will keep you warm.
00:44How are you doing, Rachel?
00:45Good, how are you?
00:45Good, yes.
00:46Well, Superman was born in this day.
00:48Not...
00:49Superman was born?
00:50Well, not the comic Superman.
00:51That was a different time.
00:52But in terms of the physical manifestation,
00:55the late great Christopher Reeve,
00:57for most people outside of comics,
00:59it was the film.
01:00So I've got a lovely quiz for you
01:02because it's been a while.
01:03Okay.
01:03I'm going to give you a comic book character
01:06and you just have to tell me
01:08whether I've made it up
01:09or they actually exist.
01:11Okay.
01:11Arm fall off boy.
01:13Arm fall off boy.
01:15What he does is he detaches his limbs
01:18and beats people with him.
01:21I have to go through the psychology
01:23of would you make up something so ridiculous?
01:26And I'm going to go, it's real.
01:28It's real.
01:29Not just real.
01:30DC Comics.
01:34Dog welder.
01:36Dog welder's from Gotham
01:38and he welds...
01:39He's got this ability,
01:40unique ability,
01:41to weld dogs to people's faces.
01:45Weld dogs to people's faces?
01:47Yeah.
01:48I mean, you're trying to make me think
01:49it's not real.
01:51I'm going to go real.
01:53Dog welder.
01:54I just...
01:54I don't...
01:55You made up something that ridiculous.
01:57DC.
01:58It's a DC comic book.
01:59You cannot make this up.
02:00Short-lived, but it happened.
02:02I don't think that movie's coming.
02:04Now, finally,
02:05Lexi Luther.
02:06Now, she's a dictionary compiler.
02:08A seemingly mild-mannered and polite,
02:11but at night she prowls the streets,
02:13beating people with dictionaries.
02:15They wish that she was beating them
02:17with dictionaries,
02:18what she gets up to.
02:19I mean, obviously that's real.
02:21Yeah.
02:21Doesn't exist.
02:22You get the complete clean sweep.
02:25Well done to you,
02:25but you're right.
02:26That's the movie we want to see.
02:28Wow.
02:28Listen, maybe it should exist
02:30because it would be DC.
02:32Just like Dictionary Corner.
02:34Be afraid.
02:35Be very afraid.
02:36There she is.
02:37It is Susie Dent,
02:38our special guest all this week.
02:40The Robin Derr Batman
02:41is the presenter
02:42and country music fanatic,
02:44a superhero of the airwaves,
02:46Bob Harris.
02:49Right, our champion for real
02:51is Trisha Dadd,
02:53who's lived a life
02:54of working in music,
02:55performing,
02:56teaching,
02:57conducting,
02:58all sorts of stuff.
02:59We talked about singing yesterday,
03:01Trisha,
03:01but tell me about
03:01playing the piano
03:02and your love of that.
03:03Well,
03:04my sister started
03:06when she was seven
03:07and I was five
03:08and as soon as she started,
03:10I wanted to start too.
03:12And I was
03:14sent to
03:15Junior Guildhall
03:16when I was 12,
03:18which is a
03:18Saturday morning college
03:20for people
03:21who are reasonable pianists
03:22and so on,
03:23reasonable musicians.
03:24and from that
03:25I went straight on
03:26to full-time Guildhall
03:27and from that
03:29I went into
03:30beginning,
03:30well,
03:31I did a year
03:31at the Royal Ballet School
03:33as a pianist,
03:34not as a dancer
03:36and then went into freelancing
03:38and it's been,
03:40it's just been a joy.
03:41I feel like we've connected there
03:42because you want to see me
03:43play Black Beauty
03:44two fingers,
03:45two fingers.
03:46That's great.
03:47You're up against
03:48Caroline Hoffman
03:49who joins us
03:49from Leash
03:51on the island of Ireland.
03:52How are you today?
03:53I'm very good.
03:54Thank you,
03:54Caroline.
03:54Really nice to have you here.
03:56So much I want to talk to you about
03:56but I'm going to go
03:57all business here
03:58because
03:59you're the youngest
04:00appointed CEO
04:01to a chamber of commerce
04:02in Ireland
04:03and now you work
04:04for The Cube
04:05which that's not,
04:06it's not working for
04:07the TV show
04:08like on the quiz show.
04:09It's not working that.
04:10Tell us what The Cube is.
04:11So we're a low carbon
04:12centre of excellence
04:13based in the heart of Ireland
04:14working with businesses
04:15and communities
04:16on their sustainability
04:18and decarbonisation journey.
04:20So sustainability
04:20is really important
04:21at the moment
04:23and meeting our targets
04:24so that's our role.
04:25I know it's a really
04:26ignorant thing to say
04:28because there's more
04:29to it than this
04:29but you know
04:30it's two people
04:31who grew up
04:31on the same island
04:34wind's not a problem
04:35for us.
04:35I think we should be
04:36making a lot of money
04:37out of this going forward.
04:39The Green Pound
04:40as someone who's
04:40a business person
04:41and an environmentalist
04:42has got to be right
04:44at the top of the list
04:44in Ireland, right?
04:46Look, there's issues
04:47around planning
04:47and getting community buy-in
04:49but there's other things
04:50to look at
04:51like solar power
04:51and solar farms.
04:52We do get a lot of sunshine
04:54even on our homes
04:55so it's something else
04:56worth looking at.
04:58Well you two
04:58the wind beneath my wings
04:59today let me tell you.
05:00Caroline and Trishé
05:01good luck.
05:03APPLAUSE
05:03And a new experience
05:05for Trishé Dard
05:06champion
05:07picking first.
05:09May I have
05:10a vowel please?
05:11You may indeed
05:11thank you Trishé
05:12start today with E.
05:14And another
05:15I
05:17and a third
05:19O
05:20and a consonant
05:22R
05:24and another
05:25T
05:27and another
05:28S
05:31and a vowel
05:32A
05:34and a consonant
05:36T
05:39and a consonant
05:42please
05:42lastly M
05:44and at home
05:45and in the studio
05:46let's play
05:46countdown.
06:15It's a
06:17Tricia?
06:18I hope I've got an eight.
06:20And Caroline? A seven.
06:22What's the seven? It is matters.
06:24I hope, I hope, Tricia.
06:27Amortise?
06:29Amortise. Very well spotted, yes.
06:30It is to write or pay off the debt slowly.
06:33Definitely there for eight. Well done.
06:35And Bob? Toastier for eight.
06:37Yes. And, da-da, we have a nine.
06:40I start with a nine. Are you watching, Richard Osman?
06:43Are you watching?
06:45Estimator.
06:46Estimator. Nice.
06:47Yeah.
06:49Well, I estimate that's two nines.
06:51Two nines in three shows.
06:52Yeah. And a lot of this one left.
06:54Keep trying.
06:56Let's get on to the second letters round.
06:58And Caroline?
07:00I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
07:02Thank you, Caroline.
07:03D. A vowel.
07:07U.
07:08Another vowel.
07:09E.
07:11A consonant.
07:12S.
07:14Another consonant.
07:15R.
07:17A vowel.
07:19O.
07:20A consonant.
07:22P.
07:23Another vowel.
07:26A.
07:27And I'll finish with a consonant, please.
07:29Finish with G.
07:3130 seconds.
07:31information, you can do much more than you know.
07:32With a vowel.
07:36And I'll be in shape with you.
07:37And, that's a descent.
08:00I know in the other section.
08:01But again, we got plenty of message with us about passing, 2, 3, and the signs.
08:02Caroline?
08:03A six.
08:05And Tricia?
08:06Seven.
08:06The six, Caroline?
08:08Spirit.
08:09What a start for Tricia, what have you got?
08:11Aroused.
08:12Aroused?
08:13Yeah, very good seven.
08:14Very exciting, seven points for you, really good start from the champion.
08:19Bob still scribbling away, I can't stop him,
08:21cos technically he's not one of the contestants.
08:23What have you got?
08:24Well, we've got grouped for seven, but you've got a great eight.
08:29Yes, there is one that upgrades.
08:31Upgrades.
08:32Upgrades.
08:32Oh, a very special thing if they come along.
08:35I'm sure Bob gets a few of those to Nashville.
08:37At 15-0 as it stands at the moment.
08:40And we're on to the numbers first time today.
08:43And Tricia?
08:44Could I have one from the top and any other five, please?
08:48You can indeed, thank you, Tricia.
08:49One large, five, little, coming up.
08:52And the first numbers of today's contest are two, one, five, five, seven, and 100.
09:01And the target, 486.
09:03Four, eight, six.
09:05Numbers up.
09:364-8-6, Trisha.
09:38Yes, 4-8-6.
09:39Caroline?
09:394-8-6.
09:40Well done. Off you go, Trisha.
09:42Five times a hundred.
09:45500.
09:46And then seven twos of 14 and take it away.
09:49Yeah, perfect.
09:504-8-6.
09:50Same way, Caroline?
09:51Same way, yeah.
09:52There you go.
09:53Ten points each.
09:56Everybody on the board, first tea-time teaser is Fuel Trade.
10:01Fuel Trade.
10:02He had a trade account at the petrol station but never paid up.
10:05He had a trade account at the petrol station but never paid up.
10:08Thank you, Caroline.
10:37And another?
10:40S.
10:41A vowel?
10:43E.
10:44Another vowel?
10:46O.
10:46A consonant?
10:48X.
10:50Another vowel?
10:53U.
10:54A consonant?
10:56A consonant?
10:56G.
10:57Another vowel?
10:59E.
11:01And a consonant to finish, please.
11:02Lastly, N.
11:04Thanks, Rich.
11:05něk
11:07Tens
11:07Tens
11:07H
11:08Tens
11:22Tens
11:34Tens
11:36Caroline.
11:37Just a five.
11:38Difficult, that's Trisha.
11:39Yes, just a five.
11:40Yeah, Caroline.
11:41Sexes.
11:42And for you, Trisha.
11:44Jeans.
11:45I need two S's for sexes.
11:47I'm afraid, Caroline, I'm sorry.
11:49But it was so tricky, this one.
11:51Five was the max for us as well.
11:53Jenis we had instead of jeans, but that was it.
11:56That's it?
11:57Yes.
11:57All right, we'll just move on then.
11:59I'll get more letters from Trisha.
12:01Vowel, please.
12:02Thank you, Trisha.
12:03You.
12:04And another.
12:06A.
12:07And a third.
12:08E.
12:10And a consonant.
12:11N.
12:15Consonant.
12:17R.
12:19And another consonant.
12:21T.
12:22And a vowel.
12:25O.
12:26And a consonant.
12:29G.
12:30And another consonant, please.
12:33Lastly, F.
12:34And half a minute.
13:06Tricia?
13:07Seven.
13:08Caroline, how many?
13:09Five.
13:09And the five is?
13:11Grant.
13:11And the seven?
13:13Fortune?
13:14Fortune.
13:14Very nice.
13:15There you go.
13:16Seven points for you.
13:18Bob and Susie, what are you scheming?
13:20We've got a pair of eights.
13:22Yeah.
13:22Out range.
13:24Out range.
13:24In one.
13:25Yes, usually five further if it's a gun.
13:28And frontage as well.
13:29A bit more obvious for eight.
13:30All right, brilliant.
13:31All right, 37-10.
13:33Long way to go, Caroline.
13:33And a big ten points here in the numbers.
13:36I'll go for two large, please, Rachel.
13:38Thank you, Caroline.
13:38Two from the top.
13:39Four from the bottom.
13:41And these four little ones are three.
13:44Eight.
13:45Eight.
13:46Four.
13:47And the large two, 50.
13:48And 25.
13:50And the target, 203.
13:53203.
13:53Numbers up.
13:54Two.
13:55Two.
14:22One.
14:24Just to confirm, then, Caroline, did you get it?
14:27203.
14:28Yeah, and Trisha?
14:29Yes, the same.
14:30Off you go. Let's see if you did it the same way.
14:32Caroline?
14:32So, four multiplied by 50 gives you 200, plus the tree for 203.
14:36Not even picking up the pen.
14:38Well, unless Trisha's done a bit of showboating.
14:40Well, I did eight times 25.
14:42Still not touching it.
14:43Plus the tree.
14:45No, that's not showboating. Well done.
14:46Ten points each.
14:4947 plus 20s.
14:51We have our third chat of the week with Bob Harris.
14:53Yesterday, the story was just wonderful.
14:57But I want to talk country music today, because we haven't really this week,
15:00and that's your life and passion for such a long time now.
15:04And I think since you're last here, we've had another country-to-country festival,
15:08and it's just getting bigger and bigger.
15:10This thing doesn't know when to stop.
15:12It's incredible, Colin.
15:13I think it's official, you know.
15:16Country music is the fastest-growing genre, music genre, in Britain today.
15:22How do we know that?
15:23Who works that out?
15:25I've never answered.
15:26Have you ever answered a phone in, hello?
15:27We're just wanting to see what music you're now into that you weren't?
15:30Yeah.
15:31Who does all that?
15:31It's true.
15:32In terms of numbers, streaming, sales, all of that.
15:36Yeah.
15:36And, you know, the incredible success of the country artists that are coming over here now to play.
15:44I mean, the thing that prompted all this in my head was that I was at the Morgan Wallen concert
15:50in Hyde Park in the summer.
15:5251,000 people were there.
15:56Yeah.
15:56It was fantastic.
15:57I mean, one of the people that played was Alana Springsteen, who I co-hosted Country to Country with last
16:05March.
16:06And C2C in itself, three nights at O2, I think in total 75,000 people attend.
16:14Yeah.
16:14It is Nashville coming to the UK.
16:17And so Country, the other thing about it, Colin, that I love, and I think you will probably agree with
16:23this, it continues to be performance music.
16:28So it still is, you know, people say, well, there are no bands.
16:31Funnily enough, Richard Osmond talks about there being no bands in the charts these days.
16:36Yeah.
16:37Well, you find the bands in country music.
16:39Yeah.
16:39Because it is bass, drums, lead guitar, pedal steel, probably, fiddle or whatever, lead vocals.
16:46Yeah.
16:46But it's still performance music and great songs and, you know, that's one of the main reasons I love it
16:52so much.
16:53Brilliant.
16:53And bring that on to Countdown Country.
16:56Brilliant.
16:57Thank you very much.
17:01Right.
17:02Here we go.
17:02Let's get back to our main stage.
17:05So far, our Champions has down 47 points, Caroline on 20, and still plenty of time to catch up.
17:10So, Trisha, you're picking these letters.
17:12A consonant, please.
17:14Thank you, Trisha.
17:15N.
17:16And another.
17:18D.
17:21And a vowel.
17:24A.
17:32And a final consonant.
17:34A final G.
17:36And another, please.
17:37D.
17:39And a vowel.
17:42A.
17:44And a final consonant.
17:47A final G.
17:49Start the clock.
17:49A.
17:51A.
17:51A.
18:02A.
18:09A.
18:18A.
18:19A.
18:20How many, Trisha?
18:21Er, I'd better go for six.
18:23And Carline?
18:24Seven.
18:25A seven. The sixth, then, Trisha?
18:27I had potage with one T.
18:30OK, and Carline?
18:32Derange.
18:32There's no P for potage, I'm afraid, Trisha. I'm sorry about that.
18:36And derange is just the one R?
18:38Derange, only one R. No, very good.
18:40Very good indeed. Well, as do we have Bob?
18:42We have granted...
18:44Yes.
18:45..for seven.
18:46Yeah, and we have a lovely brightly coloured marine fish called a dragonet.
18:50Yes. For eight.
18:51Beautiful. We had that quite recently, didn't we?
18:52Yeah, we did. Nice one to have as well.
18:54Brilliant. There you go, Carline, on the board
18:56when it comes to the letters and your choosing now on the charge.
19:00I'll start with a consonant, please.
19:02Thank you, Carline.
19:03T.
19:04A vowel.
19:06I.
19:07And another.
19:08A.
19:09A consonant.
19:11Y.
19:13A consonant.
19:13R.
19:16A vowel.
19:17E.
19:18A consonant.
19:20P.
19:22A vowel.
19:24I.
19:25And I'll finish with a consonant, please.
19:27Finish.
19:28With N.
19:29And good luck.
19:30A consonant.
20:08Good.
20:10Thought it might be brilliant.
20:11I jumped out a little bit, but could we paint a different picture?
20:15Just another seven from us.
20:17Inertia.
20:17Inertia.
20:18Yeah.
20:19We can't go above.
20:20We cannot go above.
20:21All right.
20:22Third numbers round of the day.
20:24That means, Trisha, you are back in charge.
20:27May I have two large and four small, please, Rachel?
20:30You may indeed.
20:30Thank you, Trisha.
20:31Two large, four small.
20:33Coming up.
20:33And for this round, the four small ones are one, ten, one, and eight.
20:40And the large two, 175.
20:42Let's see what kind of challenge we have this time.
20:45895.
20:46895.
20:47Numbers up.
21:18Time's up.
21:18Trisha.
21:20895.
21:21And for you, Caroline?
21:22895.
21:23Oh!
21:23Big moment, Trisha.
21:24Off you go.
21:25Well, I hope it's right.
21:278 times 100.
21:29800.
21:30100 plus 75.
21:32875.
21:32And then the two ones times ten.
21:36Two ones together for two times ten.
21:38That's the only way I saw, so good spot.
21:40895.
21:40Well done.
21:43Good ten points for Trisha as we get our second tea time teaser.
21:47Vera drown.
21:48Vera drown.
21:49Vera was drowning in the red.
21:51Vera was drowning in the red.
22:09Hello again.
22:10Vera was drowning in the red.
22:12Overdrawn was the tea time teaser.
22:15Well, Caroline, you have a deficit of 30 points as it stands at the moment.
22:19That is not insurmountable.
22:21And it's your letters.
22:22I'll start with a consonant, please.
22:24Thank you, Caroline.
22:48And I'll finish with a consonant, please.
22:51Finish with L.
22:52All right, countdown.
23:24That's time.
23:25Caroline.
23:26An 8, not written down.
23:27OK, and for you, Trisha?
23:28And I'll risk a 9.
23:30Oh, my goodness me.
23:30All right, the 8.
23:32Retinals.
23:33Retinals.
23:33Now, for 18 points, Trisha.
23:36Outliners.
23:37Outliners.
23:37OK, so just first, retinals.
23:39Unfortunately, you have to have it in the singular.
23:41It's a math noun.
23:43But it's irrelevant anyway, because outliners is brilliant.
23:45It's in the dictionary.
23:46Well done.
23:50What did you get?
23:51What did you get?
23:51We did get it.
23:52Yeah.
23:53Crazy round.
23:54Crazy round.
23:56Trisha, your letters.
23:58Vowel, please.
23:59Thank you, Trisha.
24:00A.
24:01And another?
24:03U.
24:04And a third?
24:06O.
24:07And a consonant?
24:09P.
24:11And another consonant?
24:14D.
24:28And a final consonant, please.
24:33Final L.
24:34Good luck, everybody.
24:34Good luck, everybody.
25:05There'll be no maximums here, Trisha.
25:07How many?
25:08Only a five, I'm afraid.
25:09Yeah, Caroline.
25:10Five for me as well.
25:11Well done both of you, Trisha.
25:12Allowed.
25:13Yeah, Caroline.
25:14Could.
25:15Yes.
25:16Yeah.
25:16Yeah, we...
25:18If it's five or below, not even interested, Bob.
25:22What have we got?
25:23We've got Placid.
25:25Good spot.
25:26Which is a good one for six.
25:29And...
25:29You can add a letter to that, so you can get to Placoid for seven.
25:34And it describes fish scales that are tooth-like in appearance.
25:38Oh, well, there you go.
25:40Great word from Dixonry Corner.
25:42As we pause for origins of words, Susie Dent.
25:45Yeah, well, thanks to Sherilyn Osborne from Blackpool,
25:48who tells us that her favourite word is schnozzle,
25:52because it makes her laugh.
25:54And she says,
25:54I know it means nose, but I wonder how it came about.
25:57Unlike the word snotter, she says, which is self-explanatory.
26:01Whenever I hear the word snotter,
26:02I remember talking to a group of builders
26:05who said that in their sort of lingo,
26:07to have a snotter on the ceiling
26:09was to have a little bit of plaster
26:10that hadn't been smoothed out.
26:13Anyway, schnoz, schnozzle, is your nose, obviously.
26:17And you might guess that it's from Yiddish,
26:20because Yiddish has that...
26:22It's just got that sound to it.
26:23And also, in Yiddish, there are lots of words
26:25which are very similar to do with the nose.
26:27So you have schnabel, you have schnuck,
26:30you have schnoitz, which is your snout.
26:33And ultimately, it's related to a German word, schnautzer,
26:36which means the same thing, your snout.
26:39And, of course, that gave us the dog, the schnauzer,
26:41which in German is schnautzer.
26:43And that's got the sort of heavy whiskers
26:45around quite a kind of prominent muzzle.
26:48But there are so many words in English
26:50related to the nose that begin with S-C-H or S-N.
26:55And most of them actually go right back to the Middle Ages,
26:57so they've been with us for a while.
26:58So there's snout, you have snoot as well.
27:02Now, that was a riff on snout.
27:04And so when we're snooty, we walk around
27:06as if our noses are stuck up in the air.
27:09We have snot and snotty based on snout.
27:13We have snuff, we have snuffle, we have snivel,
27:16we have snore.
27:18A lot of these are Germanic,
27:20so that you can see the whole sort of link
27:22between Yiddish and German,
27:23and then eventually English as well.
27:26So schnozzle is just such a wonderful sounding,
27:28word, and it sounds quite affectionate, doesn't it?
27:31But, yeah, all to do with a very big family.
27:33But I always will say that it's not related,
27:35as you might say, to sneeze,
27:37which seems to be another one that belongs in the same family.
27:39But if you remember, that began as a mistake
27:41because someone misread a long F
27:44for one of the old-fashioned S's.
27:46So by rights, we should be sneezing, not sneezing.
27:49Thank you, Susie.
27:53Four rounds left in today's countdown.
27:55And back to it, Caroline.
27:56You're picking the letters.
27:57I'll start with a consonant, please.
27:59Thank you, Caroline.
28:26And here we go.
28:58Caroline, give me a number.
28:59A five.
29:00A five from you.
29:01And Tricia?
29:02I'll try a six.
29:03OK.
29:04At the five, Caroline?
29:05Games.
29:06Games.
29:07What are you trying, Tricia?
29:08Egoism.
29:10Egoism is there as well as egotism.
29:12So absolutely fine for six.
29:14Bob, what did you spot?
29:15We have got a seven, actually.
29:18Jammies.
29:19Ah, goodness.
29:20Your PJs.
29:21Excellent.
29:22Right, 93.39 as we get our final letters round.
29:26Tricia.
29:27A vowel, please.
29:29Thank you, Tricia.
29:30U.
29:31And another.
29:32E.
29:35And a third, please.
29:38O.
29:39And a consonant.
29:42T.
29:43And another consonant.
29:48D.
29:50And a vowel.
29:54O.
29:55And a consonant.
29:58N.
30:01And a consonant.
30:03Lastly, S.
30:05Last letters.
30:05O.
30:36That's time. Tricia. Eight. And for you, Caroline? Five. The five is? Six. You might as well have had a
30:42seven. You know what I mean? She's got an eight. And Tricia? Well, I don't know that I have, but
30:45outshone? Outshone. Outshine is in the dictionary. Outshone is the past tense. Well done. That's the best we can do,
30:51I guess. Another eight. Duotones. Duotones. Duotones, yeah. So, in publishing, I remember they're called halftones as well. So, they
30:59are illustrations that are based on a single original and they've got two colours to them. Sounds like a folk
31:04band from the 60s, doesn't it? The duotones.
31:07Right. 20 points still up for grabs. Maximum and Tricia, you've already hit the century. Unbelievable stuff. Caroline, let's enjoy
31:14these last two rounds. Your numbers. I'll go for three large, please. Thank you, Caroline. Three large. Three little coming
31:21up. Final numbers of the day.
31:23Seven, four, nine, one hundred, fifty and seventy-five. And the target, seven hundred and eighty-eight. Seven, eight, eight.
31:32Numbers up.
31:33Four, nine, one hundred, fifty and eighty-five.
31:35Two, ten.
32:037-8-8, Caroline?
32:05I lost it.
32:06No worries.
32:07And Trisha?
32:087-8-8, I think.
32:09You're unbelievable today.
32:10Off you go.
32:127 times 100.
32:147 times 100.
32:16That's 75.
32:177-7-5.
32:18And then add on the 4 and the 9.
32:20Another one, if you see that one particular way,
32:22you're home straight.
32:24Well done.
32:27All the ones for Trisha.
32:2939 for Caroline.
32:3010 points up for grabs.
32:31Let's play right to the end.
32:33Fingers on the buzzers, please.
32:35Let's reveal this Wednesday afternoon.
32:38Countdown conundrum.
33:00Caroline.
33:01Is it magnifoite?
33:02Let's have a look.
33:04Yes.
33:07Pleased for you to get that, Caroline.
33:08I think the nerves played a big part in the early part of the show, right?
33:12Yeah.
33:12Yeah, it's quite tricky to be in front of everybody, but, look, really enjoyed it.
33:16Yeah, I could imagine sitting on your sofa and you beat me by about 70 points.
33:21I think it was just one of those days.
33:22Bit of nerves and Trisha was on fire.
33:25Well, I can't believe it, actually.
33:27That's right.
33:28111, you didn't get the conundrum.
33:30My goodness me.
33:31My goodness.
33:31Caroline, safe trip home.
33:33Thank you so much for being here.
33:34Thank you very much.
33:35Wow.
33:36Trisha announces herself as a serious challenger.
33:38We'll see you tomorrow.
33:40Excellent.
33:41Bob and Susie, thank you.
33:43Thank you very much.
33:44And, Rachel, before we finish,
33:45I've saved the best and worst real comic book characters
33:48for the end of the programme, and they're connected.
33:50So I find my favourite, I Scream.
33:53Scream, and it's a Marvel character who, wait for it,
33:56could transform himself into any flavour of ice cream,
34:00and I love this bit of detail, including a banana split,
34:03and then you could eat him as a kid,
34:04and then he would just regenerate.
34:06Oh, right.
34:07That's the superhero I want to know.
34:09Yeah, my kids would like that one.
34:10Right, not so much the other superhero that's connected.
34:13This is no word of a lie.
34:15Soft Serve.
34:18A comic book character who has the power to poop ice cream.
34:23I don't know how that would save the world,
34:25but, I mean, I'd watch the film.
34:28Yeah.
34:28No thanks.
34:29I think we'll have a bag of crisps.
34:30See you tomorrow.
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