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00:31Well, welcome to a special celebrity edition of Countdown here on More 4.
00:36We want you just to see how good famous people are with long words and maths questions,
00:43particularly when they've got a 10-foot clock tick-tocking away just behind them.
00:48Well, today we've got a show with a sports slant.
00:52One contestant is a former World Olympic Commonwealth champion with something like 26 medals to her name.
01:00And the other, well, he just watches a lot of sport.
01:02In fact, he knows everything there is to know about sport.
01:06Now, first of all, let's have a little chat with our 400-metre champion.
01:11That's Christine Orohugu.
01:13Christine, how are you?
01:14I'm very well, thank you.
01:15You're very welcome here today.
01:17Thank you for being here.
01:19Now, come on, tell me the truth.
01:21Have you ever watched Countdown?
01:22Have you ever competed at home on Countdown?
01:24I've watched Countdown, I've competed.
01:26Yeah?
01:27And you love it.
01:28And I've been rubbish.
01:30Don't worry about this.
01:31But the thing is, you're used to competing under pressure,
01:34but this is a different sort of pressure, I guess.
01:36You've got that big clock, you've got the lights, you've got the audience.
01:40How are you feeling?
01:41You can deal with this, I'm sure.
01:43In theory, I should be able to deal with this very well,
01:46after running in stadiums of, you know, 90,000-plus people.
01:50Exactly.
01:50But this is, this is terrifying.
01:53Listen, you're going to have a lot of fun.
01:54You're going to have a lot of fun.
01:55And up against you, Christine, you've got the sports whiz, actually.
01:58He's a great guy.
01:59He's a friend of ours.
02:00It's sports presenter, Colin Murray.
02:03Welcome, Colin.
02:07And just to put the fear of the Almighty in Christine's heart,
02:12you're pretty good at this game.
02:13Well, I was feeling...
02:14How are you feeling?
02:14I was feeling all right until your intro,
02:16and now I'm cacking myself.
02:19Yeah.
02:20It's...
02:21There's...
02:21Sitting in Dictionary Corner is nothing like sitting here.
02:25No.
02:25This is awful.
02:26And I've always sat there and pitied everybody that's sat here,
02:30and it's as bad as...
02:31And as great as I thought it would be.
02:32I did, though, finish third in the 800 metres at school,
02:36when I was 12.
02:37Good!
02:38So...
02:38And Christine doesn't know that.
02:41You can both...
02:42You can both sprint out of the, uh...
02:45Out of the studio very fast, indeed.
02:47Anyway, there we are.
02:48And over in Dictionary Corner, checking the words,
02:51it's our wonderful Susie Dent.
02:52Joined, and how we love her,
02:56brilliant comedian, writer and presenter,
02:58it's our very own Jo Brand.
02:59Welcome, Jo.
03:07And over at the board, of course, it's Rachel Riley.
03:13And we've got a special treat in store for our celebrity guests.
03:16We're being extra nice to you,
03:18so we've changed the scoring for the celebrity specials.
03:20And whereas normally if one contestant got a six-letter word
03:23and one got a seven,
03:24only the winning contestant would get the points,
03:26today everyone gets the points on the maths rounds
03:28and the letters rounds.
03:29It doesn't matter what your opponent gets,
03:30you'll get the points as well.
03:31Happy days.
03:32Excellent.
03:33Thank you, Rachel.
03:34And now, let's get down to business.
03:36Christine, it's a letters game.
03:38Off we go.
03:41A consonant, please.
03:42Thank you, Christine.
03:43Start with D.
03:46Another consonant.
03:47S.
03:49A vowel.
03:51E.
03:52A consonant, please.
03:55F.
03:56A vowel.
03:57O.
03:59A consonant.
04:02C.
04:03Another consonant.
04:05T.
04:08A vowel, please.
04:10U.
04:11And the consonant.
04:13And the last one.
04:14S.
04:15And here's the countdown clock.
04:19MUSIC PLAYS
04:49Christine.
04:51Five.
04:52A five.
04:53Colin.
04:53Seven, I think.
04:55Mm-hmm.
04:56And your five, Christine.
04:57Um, studs.
05:00Oh, why not?
05:01Sexy word.
05:02Go on.
05:03And Colin.
05:04Focused.
05:05Focused.
05:06Yes.
05:06Excellent.
05:07Well done, Colin.
05:07Good start.
05:08Good start, indeed.
05:09APPLAUSE
05:12Now, over in the corner.
05:15Joe.
05:16Um, I've got a seven.
05:17Yes.
05:18And, um, I don't...
05:19Are you sort of aware of that sort of thing that happens when you, when you, um, get undressed
05:25at night and you take your bits and pieces off and you think, oh, what's all that weird stuff
05:30lying on the carpet?
05:31Well, that is sock dust.
05:34LAUGHTER
05:34Now, then.
05:36And, any other, Susie?
05:37Um, yeah, there is an eight there.
05:39It's not as fun as sock dust, but custodes.
05:42Custodes in the Franciscan order of friars are guardians or wardens of a house.
05:47Well, well, well.
05:49Oh, that's a strange one.
05:50Seven plays five.
05:51Colin on seven.
05:53And we turn now to Rachel.
05:56Yes, Rachel.
05:57I'm going to give you some maths tips today to how to solve some of the countdown number
06:00puzzles.
06:01And even though Christine's won medals, I don't think I've ever met anyone as competitive
06:05as Colin.
06:06So, I asked him what kind of tips he'd want for the countdown numbers game and he said
06:09six more.
06:10So, I'm going to give you some tips that will help with other games as well, but especially
06:13the six more.
06:14I'm going to take you back to school.
06:15So, I'm going to be Miss Riley.
06:17Do you remember factors?
06:19Yeah.
06:20Yeah.
06:20He's lying.
06:22Factors are numbers that divide into other numbers to leave a whole number answer.
06:25So, the factors of 12 be 1, 12, 2, 6, 3 and 4.
06:29And it's really, really difficult to spot the factors of huge numbers and that's actually
06:33how they keep all of our information safe on the internet, times in prime numbers together.
06:37But when it comes to three-digit numbers like we have on countdown, there are some tips
06:41where you can just look at them and see what factors it has, which really, really helps
06:45solve the problem.
06:45So, I've previously selected some little numbers for you, Colin.
06:49I'm going to press the button now and get ourselves a target.
06:53648.
06:53So, you look at 648 and you might instantly know that because it's even, it's divisible
06:57by 2.
06:58But what you can also do with these numbers is if you add up the digits, it tells you something
07:03else.
07:03So, if you add 6 plus 4 plus 8 here, you get 18.
07:08If you then add these digits, 1 plus 8, and keep going until you have one digit, if this number
07:15is 3, 6 or 9, then this number is divisible by 3.
07:48Oh, OK.
07:50So, you've got a lot of brain power.
07:51I'm about to give you another numbers puzzle.
07:52And hopefully, this tip might come in handy for you.
08:02So, Rachel, it's a numbers game then.
08:05Yes.
08:05I hope you're paying attention, class, because I'm going to give you 6 little ones as to Colin's
08:10request.
08:10Yes.
08:10So, Christine, you've got him to blame.
08:12And they are 6.
08:14Awful.
08:143, 5, 2, 9.
08:19And another 2.
08:21Be small.
08:22And the target to reach 378.
08:25378.
08:27The target to reach 378.
08:27The target to reach 378.
08:30The target to reach 378.
09:02It started really well actually the adding together the three say oh it's an 18 one plus eight is nine
09:07about time the 30 seconds had run out
09:10oh Colin that was the clue you didn't need to do that bit it's all fixed I told you
09:18oh so that's no point absolutely what about Christine no I'm I'm in the same
09:25should we get and have another lesson shall we wait as you did you added it up
09:30and you realize that this is in the nine times table it's actually nine times 42
09:35right so once you have that you can say that five plus two is seven seven times
09:41six is 42 and 42 times nine is 378 but I think with a little bit of practice
09:47you'll be right there
09:53that's brilliant so we're standing still here seven plays five as we go into our
09:58our first conundrum chaps lean it yes yes Colin leaning forward fingers on
10:04let's roll today's countdown conundrum
10:10so
10:20so
10:22so
10:22so
10:38No. Let's have a look at it, shall we?
10:42It's...
10:43Madalist!
10:45Especially for you, Christine.
10:46There we are.
10:47All right, listen, it's early days and it's not easy.
10:50It's not easy.
10:51I'll tell you what we'll do.
10:52We'll have a teaser.
10:53It's itch core on the clue.
10:54It sounds like the Irishman is on the rebound.
10:57It sounds like the Irishman is on the rebound.
11:16Welcome back.
11:17I left with the clue.
11:18It sounds like the Irishman is on the rebound.
11:21And the answer to that, I like this, is ricochet.
11:27It's good, isn't it?
11:28Ricochet.
11:29There we are.
11:29So, Colin on seven.
11:32Christine on five.
11:33Plenty of time to go, Christine.
11:35Plenty of time.
11:35But I want to talk to you about what a career you've had.
11:39All of those medals, gold, silver, all the rest of it, but which one meant most to you, I wonder?
11:45Is it the gold or...?
11:47Well, I kind of have two answers.
11:49The first one's the gold.
11:50Obviously, it's Olympic gold.
11:51Everybody strives to get an Olympic gold medal.
11:54That's the creme de la creme of all the medals you could ever pick up.
11:59But I think London was also a special medal, because even though it was a silver, it was at home.
12:06And London 2012 Games, for most of us, at least have competed, probably one of the best Olympics we've ever
12:12been to.
12:12And it was in your sort of part of town, too.
12:14You were born just down the road.
12:15Yeah, I was born and raised in Stratford.
12:18Yeah, it was great.
12:19I tell people that the Olympics before in Beijing cost us a fortune to send everybody out to come and
12:26support.
12:26But for 2012, everybody could just walk to the stadium.
12:29What did you?
12:30We didn't even have to get the bus.
12:32We could just walk.
12:33All right.
12:33How old were you when you first thought, do you know something?
12:36I'm quite good at this.
12:38I was a lot later in years than most people think.
12:41Most people probably start from quite young.
12:43But I used to play netball before I did athletics.
12:45So I did netball from young.
12:47And then I switched to athletics about 18 years old.
12:50Oh, really?
12:51Yeah, I was a lot later.
12:52A lot later than people expect.
12:55Well, I'll tell you what, you made up for it, didn't you?
12:57Yes, I did.
12:58Thank you very much.
13:03Excellent.
13:04Now, Colin, you've got a very slim lead.
13:07Two points.
13:08Try this letters game.
13:09Cool.
13:10Ah, yes.
13:11I've always wondered this.
13:11Constantly, hello, Rachel.
13:13Hello, Colin.
13:14Uh, consonant, please.
13:17R.
13:18Uh, vial.
13:19I.
13:20Consonant.
13:21L.
13:22Vial.
13:24A.
13:25Consonant.
13:26Ah, consonant.
13:26Oh, no Riley.
13:27P.
13:28Uh, vial.
13:30I.
13:31And another one.
13:32E.
13:34And a consonant.
13:36T.
13:37And a consonant.
13:38And the last one.
13:39H.
13:40Stand by.
13:42BELL RINGS
13:43H.
13:57CULIN RINGS
13:58CULIN RINGS
13:58CULIN RINGS
14:12Colin.
14:13A six.
14:15Christine.
14:16I've got a five.
14:18And your five is...
14:20Trail.
14:22Trail? OK. Colin.
14:24A paler.
14:26Joe.
14:28I've got a six.
14:29Yes?
14:30This is something we always get our cat for Christmas.
14:33It's rat pie.
14:37Do you love that?
14:39Rat pie.
14:41Yes.
14:42Susie.
14:43I just have to be very mean here and just check Colin's spelling.
14:47P-A-I-L-E-R.
14:49Someone with a pale.
14:51It's not fair.
14:53If you're paler in appearance, it's without the eye.
14:55And, yeah, the bucket sense, it's not there, I'm afraid.
14:59Sorry.
14:59Oh, that was a bit of a disappointment for Colin.
15:01What else have we got, Armanda?
15:03Joe and Susie?
15:03Susie?
15:05Well, beyond rat pie, which sadly isn't in there yet,
15:08there is haplite, which is a term from geology.
15:11It's an igneous rock, typically pale.
15:14P-A-L-E in colour.
15:16And you'll find it in association with granite.
15:19APPLAUSE
15:23And rat pie, indeed.
15:24Christine, it's your letters game.
15:26Off you go.
15:27A consonant, please.
15:30L.
15:31Another consonant, please.
15:33Q.
15:34Vowel.
15:36U.
15:36A consonant, please.
15:41M.
15:43Vowel.
15:45O.
15:47Another vowel.
15:49A.
15:51Consonant, please.
15:53R.
15:54Oh, dear.
15:57Vowel, please.
15:59E.
16:01And then a consonant.
16:03And the last one.
16:04V.
16:04And here's the countdown clock.
16:09MUSIC PLAYS
16:38Yes, Christine?
16:40I have...
16:42A six.
16:43A six.
16:44And Colin?
16:44Six.
16:45Two sixes.
16:46Christine?
16:47Volume?
16:48Colin.
16:49Mauler.
16:50A mauler.
16:51Yes, your hand.
16:52Absolutely fine.
16:53Yeah.
16:54APPLAUSE
16:58There they are.
16:59And over in the corner, now,
17:02Joe and Susie.
17:03Joe.
17:03I've got a seven.
17:04Yes.
17:05And you know, like, when bands are really famous
17:08and they go on tour, I don't know if you know this,
17:10but they get extremely demanding.
17:12And there's a story that this particular band
17:15always demanded this particular meal when they were on tour,
17:19and that meal was called Quo Veal.
17:21LAUGHTER
17:22Quo Veal.
17:23You aware of that, Colin?
17:24Yeah, yeah, 100%.
17:25You know this?
17:26100%, right, yeah.
17:27They loved it.
17:28They got it, too, apparently.
17:29They got it, yeah.
17:30Susie, what else have we got?
17:32Erm, volume, yes, for six, and removal also for seven.
17:37All right.
17:38So, 13 plays 16.
17:39Christine's still in the lead.
17:41Well done there.
17:41And it's a numbers game.
17:42Now for Colin.
17:44Colin?
17:46Inspired by your lesson...
17:48Yeah.
17:48..I'll have one large...
17:49LAUGHTER
17:50..and five others that aren't large.
17:52You can still use factors with one larges, Mr Murray.
17:56Just put the numbers up, Riley.
17:57I'm watching you.
17:58LAUGHTER
17:58You've got eight, seven, three, three...
18:02Make a nine out of that.
18:04LAUGHTER
18:04..and 50.
18:06And the target...
18:08861.
18:09861.
18:11MUSIC PLAYS
18:40Well, Colin.
18:43863, I think.
18:44863?
18:45Yeah.
18:46What news, Christine?
18:48No, I'm...
18:49Too far?
18:50All right.
18:51I think Colin's gone slightly wobbly, have you?
18:54I think I have...
18:55Yeah.
18:56Oh.
18:57He's normally so good at these.
18:58This was a tricky one.
18:59Amazing.
19:00Can you do it?
19:01This was a tricky one.
19:01I found a way.
19:03Yes.
19:03It's a tricky one.
19:04If you say eight times eight is 64,
19:09three times three is nine,
19:11add them together for 73,
19:13add that to the 50 for 123,
19:16and times that by seven,
19:18you get 861.
19:20You're brilliant.
19:21APPLAUSE
19:24That's wonderful.
19:26Excellent.
19:27So, 16, phase 13.
19:30Christine's still in the lead as we turn
19:32with eager anticipation to Joe Brand.
19:35Joe?
19:36Right.
19:37Well, on the kind of general theme of words,
19:40I've decided that what I talk about today
19:42is very long words.
19:44And obviously, the country in Europe
19:46that's most famous for very long words
19:48is Germany.
19:49And I'm going to attempt
19:52an 80-letter German word,
19:59which is
20:00Right, and I'm sure you want to know what that means.
20:07Don't worry.
20:07It means the Association for Subordinate Officials
20:11of the Head Office Management
20:12of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services.
20:16Which I'm sure might come in useful in all our lives.
20:19LAUGHTER
20:19And I also found out
20:22the longest word in English
20:24has 189,819 letters,
20:30and it would take you
20:31three and a half hours
20:33to pronounce it correctly.
20:35Do you want me to do that?
20:36LAUGHTER
20:37I won't.
20:39But actually, seriously,
20:40it's the chemical name of titin,
20:42which is a giant protein
20:44that functions as a molecular spring
20:47which is responsible
20:48for the passive elasticity of muscle.
20:51You aware of that, Christine,
20:53in your running career?
20:54No.
20:54Fair enough.
20:55Now, the longest words
20:57in the dictionary in English,
20:58there is, of course,
20:59everyone knows this, I think,
21:00anti-disestablishmentarianism.
21:02Yes.
21:03Opposition to the disestablishment
21:05of the Church of England.
21:06And also, one of my favourites,
21:09which is phloxynoki nihilipilification,
21:12which means the estimation
21:13of something as worthless,
21:16which is quite a useful word, isn't it?
21:18Absolutely.
21:19And also, this isn't very nice,
21:22but I'm going to have a go at this as well.
21:23It's pneumo-ultra-microscopic
21:26silico-volcanic osiosis.
21:29Lung disease.
21:32Yeah, I know.
21:33I'm sure none of us have got that.
21:35And I think the thing about using
21:37kind of long words
21:38is it kind of flummoxes people a bit.
21:40And when I was at university,
21:42I used to work in a trucker's pub
21:44in Uxbridge.
21:45I'm sure you can imagine.
21:46And it was a bit of a difficult place
21:49to work some nights.
21:50And one night, a trucker came in.
21:52And this is absolutely true.
21:53He lifted up his vest
21:55and he had a very rude tattoo
21:56of a woman on his stomach.
21:58And he got a hold of the back of my head
22:00and pulled my face over the bar
22:02and went,
22:03What do you think of that, darling?
22:05So I said to him,
22:06Well, its penetrative use
22:07of disparate archetypes,
22:09coupled with its emergent visceral power,
22:12transcends a mere fusion
22:13of the visual and the tactile.
22:16And his mouth stayed open
22:18long enough for me
22:18to pour the contents
22:19of the ashtray into it.
22:21So...
22:21LAUGHTER
22:27That's lovely.
22:29That's lovely.
22:30Cos I think...
22:31Susie, did you read German at university?
22:34I did.
22:34So you were absolutely
22:36all over that Danube job?
22:38I'm not sure I'd be all over it.
22:40I could give it a go for you.
22:43Go on, then.
22:51Is it a question of getting the scissors out
22:52and just snipping bits off?
22:54It's like Lego.
22:54It's just like building blocks.
22:56I think German's such a great language
22:57cos it's just like coughing, isn't it?
22:59Brilliant!
23:02And sneezing, of course.
23:03And sneezing at the end.
23:04God bless you.
23:0616 plays 13.
23:08Christine in the lead.
23:09Let's have a teaser, shall we?
23:10It's the least and the clue.
23:11The very least they hope for is bronze.
23:14The very least they hope for is bronze.
23:25APPLAUSE
23:33Welcome back.
23:34I left you with the clue.
23:35The very least they hope for is bronze.
23:37Who do?
23:38Why?
23:38Athletes do, of course.
23:40That's the answer.
23:41Athletes.
23:42Colin, you report on football, snooker, darts,
23:46American football you love.
23:47As a young man, did you, were you a sportsman?
23:50Yes.
23:51I used, I'm the grandstand generation.
23:54Which for younger people watching might not get it.
23:57But there was only three TV channels.
23:58And we just had from midday through until dinner, all types of sport.
24:05So Des Lynham was basically my dad, growing up.
24:08I'd see him every Saturday and he would say, right, here's what you're getting.
24:11You're going to get some squash.
24:13So you're going to learn who your hanger can is.
24:15Then I'm going to give you a period of ice hockey from Bracknell.
24:18And then we're going to go to the horse race.
24:20And then we might come back to the ice hockey.
24:22But we're probably going to take you to rugby league.
24:24And you're going to find out all about Ellery Hanley.
24:26So that was the kind of upbringing where you didn't get to pick and choose.
24:29Oh, I'll subscribe to just football or just golf.
24:33So I'm kind of a bit nerdy that way.
24:35Like any sport, really.
24:36Baseball, the whole lot.
24:38And I've been lucky enough to interview her as well.
24:40Her.
24:40Her there.
24:41There she is.
24:42Yeah, back in 2012.
24:44So I love my Olympics.
24:46One of the two of us should have got medalists.
24:48Definitely.
24:49Indeed.
24:50Brilliant stuff.
24:51But American football you love too.
24:52I like it, yeah.
24:53We don't get too much of that over here in terms of television.
24:55Certainly not back when you were watching Des Lina, my guess.
24:58No.
24:58Well, I had American football wallpaper.
25:01It's probably explained why I didn't have many friends back in the 80s.
25:05But they used to.
25:06Channel 4 is responsible for that.
25:07So when Channel 4 came on, it might have been Countdown first.
25:10But followed by that was a lot of very strange sports that people didn't watch.
25:14And American football was big because they didn't bother explaining the rules.
25:17Here's just loads of guys pounding each other to death.
25:20And that was what people loved about it.
25:22Well, hold on.
25:22The other great love you've got is music.
25:24Yeah.
25:24Sport and music.
25:25Given a choice all those years ago, which way would you have gone?
25:28As a sports promoter or as a music promoter or agent or whatever?
25:33Well, I only had, I only have experience of one of those.
25:38And I was terrible at it.
25:39Mm.
25:40Um, there's a band now that most people know called Snow Patrol, who've sold millions of records worldwide.
25:46But when I used to put their concerts on, they used to play upstairs at Morrison's in Belfast.
25:51And I used to need to sell about 80 tickets to break even and never did any time that I
25:57would put Snow Patrol on in that little stage.
26:00So the band that cost me more money than they had to spend to be in a band.
26:04So I used to love them.
26:05I was so passionate about it.
26:06I put the gigs on, never make money.
26:08I think sports promotion's the way to go.
26:10I think that would be quite good.
26:12No offence, though.
26:13If I've got to go for a night out, Christine or Liam Gallagher, I'm going out with Liam.
26:18Yeah.
26:19You'd get home later.
26:21You'd get home later.
26:22Get home faster.
26:24Because, of course, Des Lynham, um, presented Countdown as well.
26:28Yeah, exactly.
26:29He did.
26:29There's a link there.
26:30He used to wink at the audience, didn't he?
26:32Yeah.
26:33Tell me this.
26:33Who was the most impressive you've met, either in musical?
26:36Oh, wow.
26:37That's a big question.
26:38I think Paul McCartney was pretty amazing.
26:41For someone who's done so much to be that down-to-earth, I interviewed him, and the next day got
26:46a call from a friend saying,
26:47Come out and get into the blacked-out SUV sitting outside Radio 1.
26:51And I got in the back, and it was Paul McCartney, and he just looked over his shoulder, and he
26:55went, I won't do the accent.
26:57He said, Listen to these three remixes of my single, and tell me which one you like.
27:00And I sat there, saying nothing, listened to the three, and I think the third one's been,
27:07All right, lads, out of the car and back into work, which was surreal.
27:11But he also sent my mum a birthday card, stuff like that, you know, and I mentioned she was a
27:15big fan.
27:16It's good.
27:17I think across the mall, in terms of Firebrand, I once made a little documentary on the film Kill Bill,
27:23and got to spend a day with Quentin Tarantino.
27:26Oh.
27:26And he was just, he made me look quiet.
27:31Like, this guy was non-stop, just spitballing ideas, sitting around, chatting to everybody,
27:37and that was an experience.
27:39That was like a year off your life, spending a day with him.
27:41So those ones you kind of remember.
27:43But listen, there's more nice than not.
27:45I think that's true.
27:46So we just hear about the ones that aren't.
27:48Good man.
27:49Yeah.
27:51Good to hear that being said.
27:54All right.
27:56Thank you, Colin.
27:57Now, Christine, you're ahead in the game, and it's your letters game now.
28:01I'd like to start off with a vowel, please.
28:04Thank you, Christine.
28:04O.
28:07Consonant.
28:08D.
28:10Consonant.
28:18Vowel.
28:19I.
28:21Another vowel, please.
28:24E.
28:25Consonant.
28:27P.
28:28I don't know if I've got it.
28:33Vowel, please.
28:35O.
28:36Oh, dear.
28:37And then a consonant.
28:39And the last one.
28:41M.
28:41And it's Countdown.
29:14Christine.
29:17Erm...
29:18I think I've got a six, but I don't know if I've spelt it right.
29:22We've come to that in a second. What about Colin?
29:25Six. Firm six. Christine.
29:27I'm dodging.
29:29Colin.
29:30Hooped.
29:32Susie.
29:33Yes, hooped is fine. You need two Ds for dodging.
29:36It is, isn't it? Yeah. Sorry.
29:39Oh, bad luck.
29:40Colin sprung a little lead there, three points, 19 to 16.
29:44But over in the corner, I'm sure that Jo and Susie are up to something.
29:48Jo?
29:49I don't know if you know this, but pigs actually get quite cold in the winter.
29:53So I've come up with an idea to keep their ears warm and that's a pig hood.
29:58LAUGHTER
30:01Thank you. A pig hood. I can just see it. Yes.
30:04A little pig hood. Susie?
30:05I think it should be in the dictionary and it's not...
30:07Grub hood is in the O-E-D, meaning the state of being a grub.
30:12I mean, when are you going to use that? But not pig hood.
30:14Erm, no, I was just with hooped as well for six.
30:17It was really tough, that one.
30:19All right.
30:20So, 19 to 16. Colin, it's your letters go.
30:23Er, consonant, please.
30:24Thank you, Colin.
30:25Z.
30:26Great.
30:27Have another one.
30:29R.
30:30Er, consonant, please.
30:32N.
30:34Another one.
30:36S.
30:37And another.
30:39T.
30:40And then vowel.
30:42I.
30:43And another.
30:45U.
30:46And another.
30:48A.
30:50And a final vowel.
30:52And a final.
30:54A.
30:55Stand by.
30:56All right.
30:57We will be...
30:58Isn't it aっ?
31:19Today!
31:21Yes, hello.
31:24All right.
31:24In Alaska.
31:25Hello and we will be Там.
31:25So soon.
31:25That's really nice.
31:26Well, Colin.
31:27A six.
31:29Christine?
31:30Five.
31:31And your five is?
31:33Tons.
31:34Thank you, Colin.
31:35A string.
31:37Yeah.
31:38Yes.
31:39A good six.
31:41Now, what have you conspired to produce for us?
31:43Jo?
31:44I've done very badly on this.
31:46I'm mucking around with Zitsan,
31:48which is maybe something you put on your spots,
31:50but, you know, that's horrible, isn't it?
31:53But, well, Susie, that's brilliant.
31:55Well, yes, you can get an eight out of there.
31:59Zarina's.
32:00T-Z-A-R-I-N-A-S.
32:01Empresses of Russia before 1917.
32:04Indeed.
32:09Nothing really.
32:1125 plays 21.
32:13And now, Christine, it's your numbers again.
32:16Hi.
32:17Can I have one large and the rest small, please?
32:20You can indeed.
32:20Thank you, Christine.
32:21Third time lucky.
32:22One large.
32:23Five little.
32:24Remember your tips.
32:26These ones, we have four, ten, seven, eight, ten.
32:32Tips might not come in handy.
32:33And the large one, 50.
32:35And their target, 369.
32:38369.
32:39And the large, ten, ten, ten, ten
33:11Christine?
33:12No, I'm stuck in 400.
33:16OK.
33:16So it's not close enough.
33:18What about Colin?
33:19Uh, 368.
33:21Ooh.
33:22368, yes.
33:24Off we go.
33:26Absolutely panicked.
33:28That's what happens with the maths round sometimes.
33:30Unbelievable. Difference of not sitting at home.
33:31Need to breathe through it.
33:3250 take away 4.
33:3450?
33:34Is 46.
33:37Yeah.
33:38And multiply it by the...
33:39Oh, Colin!
33:41What?
33:42That gets you to 368.
33:44One away.
33:45Yeah.
33:45Yeah.
33:47That's what I'm saying.
33:48I know.
33:49Yeah.
33:49I know.
33:50But if you hadn't have panicked,
33:52you know what you could have done?
33:53You could have said...
33:54I've got two tens left.
33:55You've got two tens left.
33:56Ten divided by ten, sorry.
33:57Ten divided by ten.
33:59That's what it means.
33:59That's it.
33:59Gives you the one to add on,
34:01and that would have got you ten points.
34:02But you get seven points still.
34:07Well done.
34:08All right.
34:0932 to 21.
34:10Colin, still in the lead there,
34:12as we turn to Susie.
34:14It's that blessed time of day.
34:16It's time for Susie's origins of words.
34:18Susie.
34:20Well, viewers of the regular countdown will know
34:23that I have a bit of a beef about American English.
34:26And not American English itself,
34:28but the fact that people hate it.
34:29And I can never quite understand why.
34:31And very often it's founded on myths.
34:34So this is a sporting one in honour of our contestants today.
34:37And it concerns football.
34:41Football is a name for a variety of different sports.
34:43It has been around for centuries.
34:46We know that Henry VIII had a pair of football boots.
34:49They were discovered fairly recently.
34:51They look a bit battered,
34:52but pretty recognisable as a pair of football boots.
34:56But the game hasn't always enjoyed royal approval.
34:59So back in 1363,
35:01King Edward III issued a proclamation
35:04that banned handball, football or hockey,
35:07coursing and cockfighting or other such idle games.
35:10And the idea is that he was promoting archery
35:13and all kinds of military exercises
35:15because that was what was needed to train young people
35:18so that they could fight in his cause.
35:20And in fact, the first record
35:22that the Oxford English Dictionary has for football
35:24is in an act that bans it.
35:28It's a 1424.
35:29It's an act absolutely forbidding it.
35:31But what about the name?
35:33Well, America and England aren't traditional rivals,
35:35probably, on the football field.
35:37But there's a different type of rivalry
35:39that's reigned for more than a century
35:40and that's what to call it
35:42because to Americans, it's soccer.
35:44And to the rest of the world, including Britain,
35:47it's football.
35:48But what people probably don't realise
35:50is that soccer is not an American invention.
35:53In fact, and Colin's nodding here
35:55because he knows all about this,
35:56it was an import from England
35:58and it was our term for the game until fairly recently.
36:01Go back to the early 1800s
36:03and football and rugby existed
36:05as pretty much different variations of the same game.
36:07They all had sort of similar rules
36:09but they weren't quite the same.
36:11And eventually a group of teams decided to get together
36:13and establish some kind of rules.
36:17It's used particularly for boys from public schools
36:20to be able to play each other
36:21because it was very much a public school game.
36:24And on the 26th of October 1863,
36:28there was a meeting at the Freemasons Tavern
36:30in Great Queen Street in London.
36:33And this eventually produced what became known
36:35as the Football Association
36:37and the first comprehensive set of rules for the game.
36:40Incidentally, at that first meeting,
36:42the first FA treasurer who represented Blackheath in London
36:46withdrew his club because it was a big fracas
36:49because he didn't allow,
36:52he didn't want the removal of two rules.
36:54The first allowed for running with the ball in your hand,
36:57so quite similar to rugby,
36:58and the second for obstructing such a rung
37:00by basically hacking an opponent
37:02which meant kicking them in the shins.
37:03He wasn't happy with the removal of that at all.
37:06In 1871, the Rugby Football Union followed suit
37:09and their kind of football,
37:10because it was called rugby football until then,
37:12had their own set of rules as well.
37:15Those new rules were really slow to spread to America
37:18where another version of the game was evolving,
37:20which of course became known as American football,
37:23the game that Colin loves.
37:25But it was traditional at public schools,
37:27and again, it was still pretty much played their football,
37:29to add an ER to the end of words.
37:33It was just kind of public school slang, if you like.
37:35So rugby football became rugger,
37:37and association football became A soccer,
37:41and eventually the A fell off and it became soccer.
37:45And because England and America,
37:48Britain and America like to be different,
37:49of course they decided they would have different names for the game.
37:51The Americans took soccer, and we stayed with football.
37:54True.
37:56APPLAUSE
38:00I didn't realise the soccer side of it.
38:02Of course, the rugby thing is still the RFU,
38:05the Rugby Football Union.
38:06Yes.
38:06So they're kept in the football there, at least.
38:09There we are.
38:10Thank you, Susie.
38:1132-21, Colin in the lead,
38:13and it's time for another teaser,
38:15which is set one lap.
38:16And the clue.
38:17You might see them set a one-lap record
38:20at the Reebok Stadium.
38:21You might see them set a one-lap record
38:24at the Reebok Stadium.
38:42You might see the Antelopes doing that.
38:52Antelopes.
38:53So, 32-21, Colin in the lead,
38:56and it's Colin we call on.
38:58Letters game, Colin.
38:59Consonant, please.
39:00Thank you, Colin.
39:01W.
39:03Consonant, please.
39:04P.
39:05And a vowel.
39:07I.
39:07And another.
39:09E.
39:11Consonant.
39:12R.
39:13And another one.
39:15T.
39:17And another, please.
39:19N.
39:22A vowel, please.
39:24I.
39:27And a final vowel.
39:30A final U.
39:34Stand by.
39:34And a vowel.
39:50And a vowel.
39:52And a vowel.
39:53And a vowel.
39:53And a vowel.
39:54And a vowel.
39:54And a vowel.
39:55And a vowel.
40:05Yes, Colin? A six. A six. Christine? Five. And your five, Christine?
40:12Wiper. Yes. Colin? Winter. And winter? Yes. No. Jo? Well, I must admit, sometimes when I go out to the
40:25pub, I don't think they provide you with quite big enough receptacles to drink in.
40:34And so I suggest that in the garden, in order for us all to just jump in it and enjoy
40:40themselves, they have a wine rut.
40:44Well, it's a perfectly sound, sensible idea. It would be perfect. Lie down in it. Of course. Never get up
40:49again.
40:52Thank you. Thank you. Susie? Yeah, we haven't been very lucky with the letters going to sixes as well. Loads
40:58of them. Turnip, unripe, punter. It can be winier. W-I-N-I-E-R.
41:03Yes. But I couldn't get to the seven. Or eight. Sixes. Sixes all the way. Thank you very much.
41:1038 to 26. Christine, final letters game of the day. Off we go.
41:16Consonant, please. Thank you, Christine. R.
41:19Another consonant. G.
41:24Consonant, please.
41:24F. A vowel.
41:30O.
41:32A vowel, please.
41:35E.
41:37Consonant.
41:38T.
41:40Another consonant.
41:43N.
41:43A vowel.
41:45I.
41:47A vowel, please.
41:49And the last one.
41:50E.
41:52Stand by.
42:24Well, Christine. Five.
42:28A five, Colin? Seven, I think.
42:30Now, Christine. Front. Colin.
42:34Well, Christine might be good at winning medals,
42:37but I'm good at 14.
42:40That's going to wonder. Thank you.
42:46Champion. Jo and Susie?
42:48I just got fart.
42:51LAUGHTER
42:51Well done for putting ing on the end.
42:53LAUGHTER
42:56And Susie?
42:57Much more boring, but it will give you an eight.
43:00It's a mineral, an orange-yellow mineral called orangeite.
43:03Orangeite.
43:04APPLAUSE
43:08OK, and now we turn to Rachel.
43:11Rachel, numbers time?
43:13Yes, it's my pick again this time,
43:15and I'm going to give you the kindest of all the number selections.
43:18Two from the top, no more six more, no need to panic,
43:21and four little ones to finish off the day.
43:24And they are seven, one, eight, nine, fifty, and one hundred.
43:31And the target, two hundred and forty-one.
43:34One, two, four, one.
43:37MUSIC PLAYS
43:38MUSIC PLAYS
44:06Colin?
44:07Uh, two, four, one.
44:08Two, four, one.
44:09And Christine?
44:10Nothing.
44:11LAUGHTER
44:12Don't worry.
44:14Colin?
44:15Still get blinded by this one, but...
44:16Nine take away seven is the two.
44:19Nine minus seven, two.
44:20Not the plat, by the hundred.
44:22Two hundred.
44:23Plus the fifty.
44:24And then take away the eight and the one.
44:25And you'll be able to sleep tonight.
44:27Well done, people.
44:29APPLAUSE
44:32All right.
44:33Fifty-five plays thirty-one.
44:35Into the final round.
44:36Now, fingers on buzzers.
44:38Let's roll our second Countdown Conundrum.
44:41MUSIC PLAYS
44:51Yes, Colin?
44:52Uh, rewinding.
44:54Rewinding?
44:55Let's see whether you're right.
44:59Rewinding.
44:59Oh, well done.
45:01APPLAUSE
45:05Well done, Colin.
45:07So, 65 to 31, which means that Colin gets a kryptonite,
45:12but you get our warmest thanks for coming.
45:15You're up against somebody who's a regular and has been for years.
45:19So, 31's a cracking score, frankly, against him.
45:22Thank you very much for coming.
45:23It's a goodie bag for you.
45:24I hope you've enjoyed it.
45:26It's been great, thank you.
45:27Excellent.
45:27I've only got one thing to say.
45:28Yeah.
45:28I've wanted one forever.
45:30I've always been turned down.
45:31Did I get a teapot?
45:32You won, so you must get a teapot.
45:34Yeah!
45:35And you get a kryptonite, too, as well.
45:36Oh, I've got to drink whiskey out of it.
45:39APPLAUSE
45:42And thanks to Joe for being such a great sport, as ever,
45:46and Susie, too.
45:47Thank you both very much, indeed, and Rachel, of course.
45:50I learn a lot from Joe when she's here.
45:52All these words that Susie never tells us are in the dictionary.
45:55I just love that, that rat pie, that...
45:58..like that, Chris.
45:58Yes, lovely.
45:59Well, that's another Celebrity Countdown safety tucked away.
46:02And if you love Countdown as much as we do,
46:05then join us every day at ten past two.
46:07You'll be sure of it.
46:11APPLAUSE
46:30Tomorrow night at five to seven, Jay Reena takes on Joe Brand
46:34in another Celebrity Countdown.
46:36Tonight at nine, we are on the edge of a clef in Scotland for Grand Design.
46:41Coming up next, the wildlife are making things difficult
46:44in Escape to the Chateau.
46:45glory tonight at nine miles.
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