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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Technology marches on and here's the technological advance.
00:38Indeed, produced by or invented by the Imperial College in London,
00:42which could save billions of pounds of food waste, Rachel.
00:46Brilliant, brilliant invention, I think.
00:48It's a spoilage sensor.
00:51It's smartphone linked.
00:54And you can hold your smartphone up to packaging, food packaging, for instance,
00:59which has got a paper-based electric gas sensor.
01:03It's called PEGS.
01:04And it senses, it sniffs quietly, unbeknown to us.
01:08It's sniffing all the time to find out whether gases are being produced,
01:13which would detect the fact that the food had gone off.
01:16A little bit of ammonia here, a little bit of ammonia there.
01:19Brilliant, though.
01:20Very clever.
01:21You with us?
01:22I'm with you.
01:22It's a shame my nan's not around to see that, because she used to do the other way.
01:25She used to eat mouldy food.
01:27And when I went round there, she had, we once found a jar of mincemeat, you know, the fruity stuff.
01:32Yeah.
01:32Ten years out of date.
01:34She said, oh, it's not been open.
01:35Put it back.
01:35It's been fine.
01:36And also, once I was, I bought some fresh potatoes, and she said, why have you bothered doing that?
01:41She had some old ones that, you know, when they smell like garden, they've just gone.
01:46And to prove her point, she got this little newspaper cutting, I think from the News of the World or
01:50something,
01:50that said you could eat gone off food to prove that I was just one of these young things that
01:54was, you know, weak.
01:57Now then, who's with us?
01:58John Osmond is with us, Rachel.
02:00Rachel had a great, a great win yesterday.
02:04Excellent stuff.
02:05So, retired civil servant from London, loves bird watching.
02:08Yes.
02:09But no, he's a teapot owner.
02:11So, good luck to you today.
02:12Thank you, Nick.
02:13You're up against Vamsley Pratapa, student at Cambridge, reading economics, and is also, you're a hockey player and a pool
02:21player.
02:21Yes, I am.
02:22Which is more fun?
02:24Ooh.
02:24Well, I'm probably equally bad at both, but at least with pool, you can play at any time of the
02:28day.
02:29In the evenings, yeah?
02:30In the evenings, in the mornings.
02:33Oh, really?
02:34In the shower, you know.
02:36Oh, right.
02:36I'll find a way.
02:37You'll find a way.
02:38Yeah.
02:39Ducking lectures, perhaps.
02:40Anyway, good luck to you.
02:41Good luck to you both.
02:42Have fun.
02:43Big round of applause now for Vamsley and John.
02:45John Osmond.
02:52And over in the corner, Susie, and renowned TV broadcaster.
02:57You are renowned.
02:58Am I renowned?
02:59You have been a treasure for a long time.
03:02You're wonderful.
03:03He's trying to say that I'm about 100 years old.
03:04No, I'm not saying that at all.
03:06Before you leave Imperial College, by the way, a very quick story.
03:10There's a gentleman who's the father of a friend of mine, and he works at Imperial College.
03:14He's 95 years of age.
03:16And the bit I love is that he's just been extended as contract for another three years.
03:21Oh, good man.
03:21So I think that's brilliant.
03:23Excellent.
03:23Lovely.
03:24Lovely.
03:25Gloria, more from you a little bit later, but now John.
03:27It's the first letters game, and it's for you.
03:31Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:32Good afternoon, John.
03:33Consonant, please.
03:35Start today with F.
03:36And a vowel.
03:38E.
03:40A consonant.
03:42T.
03:43And a vowel.
03:45U.
03:47A consonant.
03:49S.
03:50Another consonant.
03:52N.
03:53Another consonant.
03:55Y.
03:56A vowel.
03:59A.
04:00And a consonant.
04:02And lastly, G.
04:05It is the countdown clock.
04:08BELL RINGS
04:37Well, John?
04:40A six.
04:41A six.
04:41FAMCY?
04:42Just a six.
04:43Just a six.
04:44John?
04:45I'm safe.
04:46FAMCY?
04:47Farson.
04:50And in the corner of there, Laura?
04:52Well, I started off with gutsy, and then that was no good.
04:56And then I had safety.
04:57And that's about it, really.
04:59Yes.
04:59What about you, Susan?
05:00Gutsy is good.
05:00Angsty is in.
05:02If you're feeling a bit angsty, a bit unsettled.
05:04Safety for six as well, but couldn't get beyond six.
05:08OK, so, FAMCY, off we go.
05:12Letters go.
05:12Hi, Rachel.
05:13Hi, FAMCY.
05:14Could I go for a consonant, please?
05:16Start with S.
05:17And a vowel.
05:19I.
05:20And a consonant.
05:22R.
05:23And another consonant.
05:26C.
05:27And another consonant.
05:29N.
05:31And a vowel.
05:32E.
05:33And another vowel.
05:35O.
05:36One more vowel.
05:39A.
05:40And a consonant, please.
05:41And lastly, R.
05:44Stand by.
05:45BELL RINGS
05:47BELL RINGS
05:47BELL RINGS
05:53BELL RINGS
05:53BELL RINGS
06:15BAMCY.
06:16Um, just a seven.
06:18A seven.
06:19And John?
06:20Corsa, seven.
06:22BAMCY?
06:22Corsa.
06:23And?
06:24Corners.
06:26And corners, Gloria.
06:28And eight, in this case.
06:30Yes?
06:31Scenario.
06:32Scenario.
06:33Very good.
06:34Oh, great.
06:39Anything else, Susie?
06:40Uh, no, just stands to sevens.
06:42Otherwise, carrion and carnies.
06:45Thirteen apiece, and it's John's numbers game.
06:47John?
06:48Uh, could I have one large and five small, please, Rachel?
06:51You can, indeed.
06:52Thank you, John.
06:52One from the top and five little to start the day.
06:55And the first selection is three, one, ten, two, nine.
07:01And the big one, fifty.
07:03And the target, four hundred and forty-two.
07:06Four-four-two.
07:08Eight, one, ten, nine.
07:12Six, six, means that Joey literally will get no meat for this, sir.
07:12And a three, two, two, three, two.
07:25And two, three, two, one.
07:34One, two, three, two.
07:37Well, John?
07:39Yes, 442.
07:40Fancy?
07:41442.
07:42Off we go.
07:43John?
07:4450 times 9.
07:46450.
07:4810 minus 2.
07:508.
07:50Lovely.
07:51Super.
07:52Thanks, Fancy.
07:53Same way?
07:54Yeah.
07:55There we go.
07:55Just wave it under John's nose.
08:0223 apiece as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
08:05which is a sleep hit and the clue.
08:07Every time she's asleep, she's hit by this and wakes up in terror.
08:12Every time she's asleep, she's hit by this and wakes up in terror.
08:31Welcome back.
08:32I left you with the clue.
08:33Every time she's asleep, she's hit by this and wakes up in terror.
08:37And the answer to that is Ephialtes.
08:40She suffered from Ephialtes.
08:42Or even, is that the way to pronounce it?
08:45Yes.
08:45It's a tricky one, this.
08:46Yes, Ephialtes.
08:47A really rare term, as you might guess, for a nightmare.
08:51Comes from the Greek for leaping upon.
08:53And the idea of the nightmare, also the mare part,
08:55was a demon that would come and lie on sleeper and suffocate them.
09:00So, all fairly worrying.
09:02That's a nice bedtime story, isn't it?
09:04Yes.
09:04F-E-L-T's.
09:06Now, 23 apiece.
09:08Famsi, what are you going to do about this letters game?
09:10Hi, Rachel.
09:11Could I have a consonant, please?
09:13Thank you, Famsi.
09:23And the last one, C.
09:41Stand by.
10:13Vamsi.
10:14Uh, six.
10:16That's six.
10:16John?
10:17Also six.
10:19Vamsi?
10:20Uh, culted.
10:22John?
10:23Exotic.
10:25Uh, did you say culted?
10:26Yeah.
10:27Yeah, it's not there, I'm afraid.
10:29Um, it's very fancy.
10:31Yeah.
10:32Not in.
10:33Exotic we can have.
10:35Yes, we can.
10:35Yes, we had exotic.
10:36And also coiled.
10:38Yep.
10:40Called, Susie, anything else?
10:41No, just six is tough on that one.
10:4329 plays 23.
10:45John.
10:46Six point lead there.
10:47John.
10:48Your letters game.
10:49Off you go.
10:50Uh, consonant, please.
10:51Thank you, John.
10:52P.
10:53And a vowel.
10:55A.
10:57Consonant.
10:58S.
11:00Consonant.
11:01K.
11:02A vowel.
11:04U.
11:05Another vowel.
11:07I.
11:08A consonant.
11:10C.
11:12A consonant.
11:14L.
11:16And a vowel, please.
11:18And the last one.
11:19O.
11:21Stand by.
11:22See you soon.
11:22Do you have numpy?
11:40See you soon.
11:42Bye.
11:42Bye.
11:43Bye.
11:52Well, John?
11:53Six.
11:55Vamsi?
11:55Six.
11:56Thank you, John.
11:58Plucks.
11:58And your six, Vamsi?
12:00Plucks.
12:01There we go.
12:03And over in the corner, now Gloria.
12:05I'm afraid I'm in misery this time.
12:07I didn't get anything really over about four or five.
12:09And Susie?
12:10Well, I did equally badly, but I heard a whisper from Rachel
12:13who got to seven, which is great, which is cupolas.
12:16C-U-P-O-L-A-S.
12:18Rounded domes forming a roof or ceiling.
12:20Indeed.
12:21Please.
12:21Now, 35 plays 29.
12:24And now we turn to Vamsi for his numbers game.
12:28Could I have one large and five small?
12:31You can indeed.
12:32One large and five little ones.
12:34Thank you, Vamsi.
12:35And for this round, they are 10, 7, 4, 9, 7.
12:41And the large one, 100.
12:43And the target, 285.
12:462-8-5.
13:18Vamsi.
13:19287.
13:20Two away, John.
13:22290.
13:23And 290.
13:24Let's stick with Vamsi.
13:26Yes, sir.
13:267 times 4 is 28.
13:284 is 28.
13:30Times the 10.
13:31280.
13:32And add the other 7.
13:33287.
13:34Two away.
13:35There we go.
13:37285, Rachel.
13:38How tricky is that?
13:40Lots of dead ends, but if you say 9 minus 4 is 5,
13:46100 minus 5 is 95, and 10 minus 7 is 3.
13:52You times them together for 285.
13:54Excellent.
13:55Wonderful.
13:58285.
13:59Now, let's pause and turn to Gloria.
14:03Gloria, you go to France a great deal,
14:05and sometimes you have a surprise along the way.
14:07Yeah, we do.
14:08Actually, our family, we bought a family house down there between us,
14:12which is great because we can all go,
14:14or just some of us can go, which is very nice.
14:16So we travel that route quite a bit.
14:18And there was one particular day, and we didn't know what had happened,
14:21but from the moment we checked in,
14:23they sort of like treated us like cotton wool
14:25and sort of brought us to the front of the line,
14:27and then they changed our tickets from back there to right up at the front.
14:32And Steve and I were thinking, well, this is a bit of a treat,
14:35but nobody said, oh, I like Ripoff Britain or anything.
14:38We didn't think we were being upgraded or any treatment because of what we did.
14:41So anyway, we settled down in the seats.
14:44And when it came to, after takeoff, when it came to a cup of tea or whatever you wanted,
14:48the air hostess came along, and she put her face right into Stephen's like this.
14:52Excuse me, so she went, would you like a cup of tea?
14:56And so he went back a bit and went, yes, very nice, thank you very much.
15:01Do you take sugar?
15:04No, I don't.
15:06And actually, it transpired.
15:07This went on the whole flight.
15:09And then it transpired.
15:10We find out that on the boarding pass, for whatever reason we don't know,
15:13he was listed as deaf.
15:16So every time, that's why we were up at the front,
15:19so that we'd be near them.
15:21It was hilarious.
15:22So sometimes I still, to this day, go, would you like a cup of tea?
15:27I like these little things that sort of happen in life.
15:31Lovely story.
15:32Excellent.
15:33Now, point in it only.
15:35John, 35, Vamsi, 36, and John, it's your letters game now.
15:40Off we go.
15:41A consonant, please.
15:42Thank you, John.
15:43N.
15:44And a vowel.
15:46E.
15:47Consonant.
15:48S.
15:50A consonant.
15:52R.
15:53And a vowel.
15:53A.
15:56And a consonant.
15:58D.
15:59And a vowel.
16:03I.
16:05And a consonant.
16:07C.
16:09And a consonant, please.
16:11And lastly, S.
16:13Stand by.
16:15And a organ.
16:15bespokew sheet.
16:18And a consonant.
16:37And a dies.
16:38The rhythm.
16:42And a consonant.
16:43And a consonant.
16:45Well, John?
16:46Seven.
16:48A seven.
16:49Ramsey?
16:49Just six.
16:50Your six is?
16:51Raised.
16:52John?
16:53Cardies.
16:55Cardies, indeed.
16:56Yes.
16:57Very good.
16:59Yeah, woolly Cardies.
17:00All right.
17:01Good.
17:02Now, what about the corner?
17:05All I had, really, was sacred.
17:07Quite like that word, anyway.
17:08Sacred.
17:09Susie?
17:10There is a nine there, which I have to say, I missed at the beginning.
17:14Acridness.
17:15Acridness.
17:15The quality of being acrid.
17:17Indeed.
17:17Not nice.
17:24Acridness.
17:2542 plays, 36.
17:27John?
17:28Back in the lead.
17:29Ramsey, your letters came now.
17:31Could I have a consonant, please?
17:32Thank you, Ramsey.
17:33H.
17:34And a vowel?
17:36O.
17:37And a consonant?
17:39L.
17:40And another consonant?
17:42D.
17:42And a vowel?
17:44E.
17:45And a consonant?
17:47R.
17:49And a vowel?
17:51A.
17:52And a consonant?
17:54W.
17:55And a vowel?
17:56And the last one?
17:58U.
18:00And it's Countdown.
18:01A vowel?
18:04A vowel?
18:10I...
18:11A vowel?
18:33Yes, Ramsey.
18:34Just a six.
18:35And John?
18:37Probably the same six.
18:38Let's see, Ramsey.
18:40A holder.
18:41And?
18:41Also a holder.
18:42Oh, no.
18:43That was really difficult, wasn't it?
18:45What about the corner?
18:46We have a seven, actually.
18:48And it's walled, W-H-O-R-L-E-D.
18:52Yes, twisted, convoluted, spiralled in some way.
18:56Excellent.
18:56Yeah.
18:56Excellent.
18:5748 to 42.
18:59And, John, it's your numbers game now.
19:01Off we go.
19:03Could I have one large and five small, please, Rachel?
19:05You can indeed.
19:06Thank you, John.
19:07One large five.
19:07Let's see if you can make your lead slightly more commanding.
19:10Let's see.
19:11The five small ones are six, eight, one, nine, and another one.
19:16And the large one, 50.
19:18And this target, 331.
19:21Three, three, one.
19:23Three, four, five.
19:25This target, 341.
19:26Three, four.
19:26Three, four.
19:50All right.
19:53Well, John?
19:543, 3, 2.
19:57Mamsy?
19:573, 2, 6.
19:59Stick with John for the minute.
20:01John?
20:026 plus 1.
20:046 plus 1, 7.
20:06Times 50, 350.
20:09And subtract 9, 8 and the other 1.
20:119, 8 and the 1 for 1 above.
20:133, 3, 2.
20:14And 3, 3, 1, Rachel?
20:16It was there, Nick.
20:18If you say 50 minus 9 is 41.
20:21Times by 8 is 328.
20:25And then 6 over the 2 ones added together gives you 3 to add on for 3, 3, 1.
20:30Smashing.
20:31There you go.
20:33That's wonderful, Rachel.
20:343, 3, 1, indeed.
20:35But now it's time for our second Tea Time Teaser, which is film agent and the clue.
20:40Her thoughts of soft fruit existed only in her imagination.
20:44Her thoughts of soft fruit existed only in her imagination.
21:05Welcome back.
21:06I left you with the clue.
21:07Her thoughts of soft fruit existed only in her imagination.
21:12And the answer to that is figmental.
21:16Little figments?
21:16Yes, existing only in the imagination.
21:20Figmental.
21:2155 to 42.
21:23Vamsi, your letters game.
21:24Could I have a consonant, please?
21:25Thank you, Vamsi.
21:27G.
21:28And a vowel?
21:29I.
21:30And a consonant?
21:32M.
21:33And another consonant?
21:35F.
21:36And a vowel?
21:38O.
21:39And a consonant?
21:41M.
21:42And a vowel?
21:45E.
21:46E.
21:46Another vowel?
21:48I.
21:49And a consonant, please.
21:51And lastly, W.
21:53Stand by.
21:55W marking.
22:08shear.
22:09See you later.
22:09Bye bye bye bye bye.
22:10Bye bye bye bye bye bye.
22:21Bye bye bye bye.
22:23Bye bye bye bye.
22:26Vamsi?
22:27Just four.
22:28Four and?
22:29Dodgy five.
22:31Vamsi?
22:32Mine.
22:33Now then.
22:34Gimme?
22:36Yes, as in gimme some more cake.
22:38Yes, it's in the dictionary.
22:39Well done.
22:40Yes, I was just about to ask if that actually was allowed.
22:43Those Americans wear these baseball hats with brown names on them,
22:47which are known as gimme hats.
22:49But gimme to me sounds very slang.
22:51Dictionary is full of slang.
22:53Oh, right.
22:54Yes, sweet old dog.
22:56But it has to be.
22:57But we don't want to hear you saying anything.
23:00I thought gimme would be slang actually, so there we go.
23:03Well done, youth.
23:04And the other susie?
23:05No, that was our best as well.
23:06Gimme.
23:07Yeah.
23:07Gimme hat.
23:08Sixty plays forty-two.
23:09John, it's your letters again.
23:12A consonant, please.
23:13Thank you, John.
23:14N.
23:15And a vowel.
23:17E.
23:18And another consonant.
23:21R.
23:21And another.
23:22T.
23:25And a vowel.
23:26A.
23:27And a consonant.
23:30N.
23:31And a vowel.
23:33O.
23:35A consonant.
23:37T.
23:37And a consonant.
23:40And the last one.
23:41R.
23:43Countdown.
23:44And a consonant.
23:46And a consonant.
24:01And a consonant.
24:03And a consonant.
24:03And a consonant.
24:04And a consonant.
24:05And a consonant.
24:07And a consonant.
24:15What do you make of that, John?
24:18A dodgy seven.
24:20Fancy?
24:20Safe six.
24:22And that six is?
24:23Tana.
24:24How much of a dodge is this, John?
24:26Can you have ornata?
24:28I'm just looking at that exact thing, John,
24:30and it would need to be specified
24:32because it's more than a single syllable,
24:34and it's not, which is really bad luck,
24:36because I had that down too.
24:38Sorry.
24:39We do have a seven, though.
24:41Torrent.
24:42Torrent?
24:43Yeah.
24:44Very good.
24:44And there was a six for rotate.
24:47Susie?
24:48Entrant will be another seven.
24:52So 60 to 48.
24:55That's tight enough.
24:56What about Susie?
24:57Susie and her wonderful origins of words.
25:00What have you for us today?
25:02Well, thanks to Diana Harrington,
25:04who asked about the origin for like the clappers,
25:07going at something like the clappers,
25:08so very fast, very hard,
25:10and where that came from.
25:12And the answer is World War II,
25:14and RAF slang.
25:15Slang for the military, the army,
25:18the RAF has given us a lot of expressions,
25:21actually, in English,
25:22like pushing the envelope,
25:24where the envelope is a set of combinations,
25:27whether it's speed, altitude, range, etc.
25:30So that started off in the air as well.
25:33And this one did too.
25:34The first record that we have is from a 1942 newspaper piece.
25:38A pilot chased by the enemy goes like the clappers, or full out.
25:44And by far, the most likely image that it's resting on is the clappers of bells,
25:49because a really early form of the expression was to go like the clappers of hell.
25:53And probably the rhyme of hell and bell really helped there.
25:57And Gary Martin, the linguist,
25:59also guesses that RAF pilots often came from English public schools,
26:03where the ringing of handbells to mark the beginning of a class,
26:06or the beginning of school,
26:08was really common.
26:09And bells were rung, you know, really vigorously sometimes,
26:13when it was time to get to chapel, etc.
26:14So maybe the image of schoolboys dashing to class,
26:18while handbells were being rung so energetically,
26:22matched the meaning of the phrase very well.
26:24So we think that's where it comes back to.
26:26And you're just going to stay with bells for a little bit.
26:29Peeling of bells.
26:30We talk about the peeling of bells.
26:31That's a shortening of a peel,
26:32because a bell summons or calls people to church.
26:37Dumbbells were originally bells without clappers,
26:39used for practising bell ringing,
26:41or tintinnabulation, as it's called,
26:44way before they, of course, came into the gym and weightlifting.
26:48And finally, the word poltergeist.
26:50That shows a really unlikely history with bells,
26:52because poltern in German means making a racket,
26:56but it's the sibling of a really ancient word for a bell
26:58that makes really loud noises.
27:01Wow.
27:06That's wonderful.
27:08So 60 to 48.
27:10Vamsi, your letters came now.
27:13Hi, Rachel.
27:14Could I have a consonant, please?
27:15Thank you, Vamsi.
27:17S.
27:18And a vowel.
27:19U.
27:20And a consonant.
27:22B.
27:23Another consonant.
27:25T.
27:27And another consonant.
27:29P.
27:30And a vowel.
27:32O.
27:33And another vowel.
27:34E.
27:36And another vowel.
27:38I.
27:39And a consonant.
27:41And the last one.
27:42S.
27:44Stand by.
27:46And a consonant.
28:04And a consonant.
28:04And a consonant.
28:04And a consonant.
28:04And a consonant.
28:04And a consonant.
28:04And a consonant.
28:05And a consonant.
28:05And a consonant.
28:05And a consonant.
28:17BAMSY?
28:18I'm not sure if this is an actual word, so I'll go risky seven.
28:22How about John?
28:24Also risky seven.
28:26Oh, this is nerve-wracking. BAMSY?
28:29Posties.
28:30Posties and bus stop.
28:34Bus stop is two words, I'm afraid.
28:37And you can be a postie, however.
28:40You can be a postman or a postwoman.
28:42It's absolutely fine.
28:43It's good.
28:44Yeah.
28:44Gloria.
28:45We have a brilliant seven, I think.
28:46She said bragging.
28:48That's all Susie's doing.
28:50Piteous for a seven.
28:51Piteous.
28:52Oh, that's a good word, isn't it?
28:55Piteous is a sad word.
28:56Anything else, Susie?
28:57It's descriptive, really.
28:58No, seven will stop for us.
29:00Well done, the posties.
29:02Ah, five points behind only.
29:05Sixty plays 55.
29:06VAMSY on 55.
29:08John, final letters game.
29:10A consonant, please.
29:11Thank you, John.
29:12M.
29:13And a vowel.
29:15E.
29:17A consonant.
29:19R.
29:20Another consonant.
29:22T.
29:23And a vowel.
29:25I.
29:26A consonant.
29:28R.
29:29And a vowel.
29:30E.
29:32A consonant.
29:34T.
29:35And a vowel.
29:37And lastly.
29:38I.
29:41Stand by.
29:42And a vowel.
30:03And a vowel.
30:03And a vowel.
30:03And a vowel.
30:04And a vowel.
30:04And a vowel.
30:04and a vowel.
30:04And a vowel.
30:14Yes, John?
30:16A doubtful eight.
30:19Vamsi?
30:20Six.
30:21And your six is?
30:23Now, John?
30:25Remitter?
30:28It's absolutely brilliant.
30:29And we didn't have it, so even more brilliant.
30:31Well done.
30:32Yes.
30:33Very good.
30:38Well scored, John.
30:39Now, Gloria?
30:41Nothing more.
30:41That's it, Susie?
30:43Well, we couldn't beat that, but we had termite,
30:46and we had a trireme, an ancient Roman galley with three banks of ores.
30:50But a remitter, somebody who gives something back, obviously.
30:53Excellent.
30:54Well done.
30:54Remitter.
30:55Excellent.
30:57Six to eight to fifty-five.
30:58Vamsi, final numbers game.
31:01Good luck with this one, Vamsi.
31:02Could I have one large and five small, please?
31:05And I do ask everyone in this position, but you're 13 behind.
31:08Is that your gamble, one large?
31:10Yes.
31:10Okay, you need this one to force the crucial conundrum.
31:14Good luck.
31:15Final numbers are nine, two, four, one, ten, and the large one, twenty-five.
31:23And the target, two hundred and seven.
31:26Two zero seven.
31:27Good luck, gentlemen.
31:28or other large number of numbers,anie,
31:56Bye.
32:00Vamsi. 207. Yes, John. 208. Vamsi. 25 minus 4 minus 1 is 20. Minus 4 minus 1, 20. Times
32:1310. Times 10, 200. Plus 9, minus 2. And it was a good gamble, kind of, in the end. Well
32:18done. 207. Well done. Mmm. So 68 to 65, final round, conundrum, my
32:34gentlemen. Fingers on buzzers. Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:11No. Two good players. Great tension, but no. Stymied. Who in the audience? Come. I
33:18could. Yes, madam? Unreeling. Unreeling. Let's see whether you're right. Unreeling.
33:31Well done. Vamsi, you just spotted afterwards, yeah? Yeah. Oh, that's bad luck. You played
33:38really well, too. Very well. And gave John a big scare. Definitely. A very big scare,
33:44yeah. Yeah. So the lead was sort of oscillating around there. But anyway, back to Cambridge,
33:50back to your economic studies, back with this goodie bag and the hockey and the pool. Yeah.
33:56And our thanks for coming, too. Thank you very much. It's been great being here. We've enjoyed
34:00having you. Travel safely. Thanks. And we shall see John Osmond, the survivor, tomorrow. Well
34:09done. Well done indeed. Excellent stuff. And Gloria, to last day tomorrow. Whether you like
34:13it or not, you're going to see me tomorrow because it's my last day and I'm looking forward
34:17to it. We look forward to it very much. Susie, see you tomorrow. Likewise. All right, you keep
34:21an eye on Gloria there. I will. And Rachel. I'll keep an eye on both of them. Indeed. See you
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