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00:24Welcome to a new week on Countdown.
00:26This is a very crucial week in the 11th series of Countdown, because by the end of this
00:31week we shall have a Countdown champion.
00:33We are still on the quarterfinals, so let's meet our third quarterfinalists, Ken Heaton
00:37and Marianne Crowell.
00:47I shall tell you first all about Marianne Crowell.
00:49She is the only lady we have in these quarterfinals.
00:53She is a private tutor in mathematics from Alistair in Derbyshire, and she featured in
00:58what was probably the best game of the series, although we did have a cracking quarterfinal
01:02the other day, but the best game of the regular series.
01:05And she had a real seesaw battle with Diana Beasley.
01:09Now that game ended in a draw with 51 points each.
01:12It was Marianne who won the replay, and she also had two other victories for a points
01:17total of 211, and a high score of 57.
01:21She is therefore our number three seed.
01:24Good luck to Marianne Crowell.
01:33Now, Ken Heaton.
01:34Ken Heaton comes to us from Nelson, and he was certainly no stranger to victory.
01:40His ship came in three times, and in winning those games he achieved an average of 55.3,
01:45which is the second highest of any of our quarterfinalists, and he had a top score of 68.
01:50That was, in fact, the second highest score of the series, the highest score being 69.
01:54However, he was deposed as champion by Marianne Crowell.
01:58So, Ken is really out for revenge today.
02:01So, good luck to Ken.
02:02Number six seed.
02:11Well, among the more sensational words on offer from our Guardian of the Dictionaries last time
02:16on Countdown was the word passage.
02:19Well, he certainly didn't need to lobby our support for us to book him back again,
02:24because he's a man that I'll go all the way with.
02:28Yes, we always have room for Russell Harty.
02:39Isn't it remarkable the way he says all these things with a dead pun expression,
02:45and gets his pun of flesh out of everything?
02:49Talking of puns of flesh, reminds me of Helen of Troy.
02:53And a friend of mine had a housekeeper, and said about this housekeeper,
02:57if Helen had looked like her, Troy would still be standing.
03:03Which brings me to my little friend, Frieda Thornton,
03:06because she is more beautiful than Helen of Troy,
03:08and certainly a dance like Terry,
03:09because she's sitting on a shorter Oxford Dictionary.
03:11Here's Frieda.
03:12Thanks.
03:19She actually sits behind the shorter Oxford Dictionary,
03:22although we don't use that.
03:23She sits behind that,
03:24so we can't quite see what they're doing behind those big books,
03:27what mischief they're getting up to.
03:28But it says, in fact, of course,
03:29the concise Oxford Dictionary that we refer to,
03:32and all the words, of course, have got to be in that.
03:34And Frieda will not allow any word that is not in the C-O-D.
03:37OK, now as it's the start of the week,
03:39let's meet the lady whose selection of letters
03:43has been known to reduce our contestants to quivering wrecks.
03:47It's Frieda Heitner herself, Cathy Heitner.
03:57So, Marianne and Ken are all set.
03:59Marianne Crowell, number three,
04:00Ken Heaton, number six.
04:01Round one, Marianne to go.
04:03Consonant, please.
04:05D.
04:06Consonant.
04:07L.
04:08Consonant.
04:09And G.
04:11Consonant.
04:13K.
04:15Foul.
04:17I.
04:18Consonant.
04:21S.
04:23Foul.
04:24A.
04:26Foul.
04:28I.
04:31Foul.
04:34And an E.
04:36Here we are, and here we go.
04:47Here we go.
04:49Here we go.
04:53Here we go.
04:55Here we go.
04:56Here we go.
04:57Here we go.
04:57Here we go.
04:57Here we go.
04:58Here we go.
04:58Here we go.
04:59Here we go.
05:00Here we go.
05:02Here we go.
05:09Marianne? Six. Six. And Ken? Seven. Here, Marianne, six. Sailed. Sailed? Yes, sailed. Got this nautical theme going through, haven't
05:18we? Sailed. And Ken? Dislike. Dislike? Yes, dislike for seven. Good. Russell?
05:25Well, I think we can't go beyond seven. I hope we have a dirty word here again. I don't know
05:33whether to say it or not. I'll just spell it. S-I-L-A-G-E-D. Sailed. But that
05:37doesn't beat his dislike. Yeah. Or even meet with it. No. Okay. Sailed would have been okay, would it? Yes,
05:43it would. Yes. Are you sure, Fede? I am. Thank you.
05:47Okay. Seven is the most we can get here. So, and Ken's got seven. And it's now your turn, Ken.
05:53Consonant, please. Thank you. And?
05:55Consonant. T. Consonant. And Y. Consonant. D. Vowel. U. Vowel. O. Vowel. E. Consonant, please. T. And a consonant, please.
06:19And an F.
06:21Right. Let's go on this one.
06:53Ken. Five.
06:55Five, says Ken. Marianne. Six.
06:57Good. So, chance for you, Marianne. Ken. Found. Found. But you've found a six-letter word.
07:03Touted.
07:05Touted.
07:06T-O-U-T-E-D.
07:08Touted, yes. Touted for business. Touted, Russell.
07:11Touted. We can't really go beyond six, I don't think. The problem would be knotted. N-U-T-E-D.
07:16If that's not another rude word, I don't know. Touted, anyway, is a six-letter word.
07:21OK. Touted, nutted. All right. Six and seven. So, now, we look towards you, Marianne, for your choice.
07:28Consonant, please.
07:31E. Consonant.
07:33Y. Consonant.
07:35L. Consonant.
07:38And T. Consonant.
07:42D. Vowel.
07:44O. Vowel.
07:47A. Vowel.
07:51E. Vowel.
07:55And an O.
07:56Right. Now then, countdown number three.
08:00B.
08:01B.
08:02B.
08:03B.
08:03B.
08:04B.
08:05B.
08:05B.
08:06B.
08:07B.
08:07B.
08:08B.
08:09B.
08:09B.
08:10B.
08:11B.
08:12B.
08:15B.
08:16B.
08:17B.
08:18B.
08:30B.
08:30B.
08:31B.
08:32B.
08:32B.
08:33B.
08:33B.
08:34B.
08:35B.
08:35B.
08:35B.
08:36B.
08:38B.
08:45B.
08:45Bloated. Okay, so seven apiece. Now, let's go straight to the numbers and ask you, Ken, to choose six numbers,
08:52please.
08:53Two from the top. Yes. One from the next. Yep. One from the next and two from the bottom, please.
08:58Okay, thank you very much. That's six, nine, one, seven, twenty-five, and a hundred.
09:07Right, settle.
09:11144.
09:12144.
09:1614.
09:2614.
09:2614.
09:2815.
09:2916.
09:2918.
09:3220.
09:46144, Ken.
09:48144.
09:49Good, Marianne.
09:50142.
09:51142. Two away.
09:52Bad luck. Let's now check off 144.
09:56But before we do that, let's first say hello to a lady who should really have been an army officer
10:01because she's so good at handling divisions.
10:03Carol Mather.
10:12Okay, 144. Ken and Carol.
10:146 multiplied by 25.
10:166 multiplied by 25 is 150.
10:207 take away 1 is 6.
10:227 take away 1 gives us another 6.
10:25Subtract that from 150.
10:26Yeah, 144. Looks easy then, doesn't it?
10:29Okay, well that's, of course, 144.
10:3110 points gives you now a gross score of 24 and Marianne 13.
10:36So that's, it's not bad for the halfway point, so very good indeed.
10:40Um, I don't want to, Russell, labour the point about, uh, you being my teacher at school,
10:45but seeing you on this programme, which is not really a quiz programme, but people colloquially
10:49call it a quiz programme.
10:50And I can remember being, I'm sure I can remember being very proud of you when I was in 4B.
10:54Uh, you coming back having been on Criss Cross Quiz on TV now, is that right?
10:59Yes, but that's part of history now, Criss Cross Quiz.
11:02This was a, a programme hosted by Barbara Kelly, as some of you may remember, that you, uh, you
11:07say, um, you were quizzed and then you gave a cross or a nought, and you were a cross
11:12and now it was a nought, excuse me.
11:13And I had applied, don't ask me why, applied to the, um, on the panel of Criss Cross Quiz
11:19as a, as a contestant.
11:21And to my amazement, I sort of, was invited to go to Granada Studios, and I told, foolishly
11:27and stupidly told everybody, I'm going to be on, I'm going to be on Criss Cross Quiz.
11:30Let's watch it, watch it.
11:32I got to the studio and started, do you tremble?
11:34Yeah.
11:35Well, you know, you tremble in the middle of a quiz.
11:37And I was placed opposite a woman who had a chip shop in Eccles, and I thought, well,
11:41I'm going to win all this, hands down.
11:43Schoolteacher, yeah.
11:44Chip shop, no.
11:46First question, who was the wife of Charles II, to me?
11:50Uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, thank you, that's all we have time for.
11:54She says, Catherine Berganza, and Barbara Kelly turned to me and said, thank you very much
11:58from coming from Giggleswick all that way, we'll see you again sometime.
12:01Take ÂŁ25 premium bonds.
12:02And I went outside, rang home crying, I must have been about 35 then, and, uh, I said,
12:10Mother, I didn't get one right.
12:12She said, never you mind, there's a lovely apple pie in the oven, you come straight home,
12:15kid, don't worry about it.
12:17Never again.
12:19Well, as they used to say in Criss Cross Quiz, they used to say, let's roll on to the
12:22next round, you remember that?
12:23No.
12:23So we will roll on to part two of Countdown in about two minutes from now.
12:46Well, here, here in the hushed Countdown studio, the third quarter-final is in progress here.
12:52Marianne Crowell, number three seed on 13, Ken Heaton, number six seed on 24.
12:58It's round five, and it's Ken to go.
12:59Consonant, please.
13:01K.
13:02Consonant.
13:03And W.
13:05Consonant.
13:07Q.
13:08Consonant, please.
13:10And T.
13:11Vowel.
13:13A.
13:14Vowel.
13:16O.
13:17Consonant.
13:19N.
13:21Consonant.
13:24C.
13:25A vowel, please.
13:27Oh, there you go.
13:29And the U.
13:31C, U.
13:32Here we go.
13:32Here we go.
13:34Here we go.
13:35Here we go.
13:38Here we go.
13:49Here we go.
13:50Here we go.
13:50Here we go.
13:50Here we go.
13:50Here we go.
13:50Here we go.
13:50Here we go.
13:51Here we go.
13:52Here we go.
13:53Here we go.
13:54Here we go.
13:54Here we go.
13:57Here we go.
14:03Yes, Ken. Five. Five, says Ken. Marianne? Five. Five, says Marianne. What's yours, Marianne? Quack. A quack. Quack, yes, Ken.
14:13Count. Quack and count for five, Russell.
14:16Well, I think we're maybe sixing here. I think we maybe have a sixer, a boundary. Anything one can do,
14:23two can do better. A toucan. Toucan. Yes, also a bird, of course. Toucan, T-O-U-C-A-N.
14:29Do we have that? Yes, we do. Here it is. It's a birdie. Yes.
14:32Oui, it's a birdie. Aye, toucan. Okay, so toucan there, four, six. Good. 18, 29, and it is round six,
14:38and it's Marianne.
14:40Consonant, please. M. Consonant. S. Consonant. B. Consonant. T. Consonant. And D. Foul. I.
14:58Um, Foul. I. Foul. You. Foul. And an I. Okay, here we go.
15:47Yes, Marianne.
15:47Seven.
15:48Good.
15:49Ken?
15:50Six.
15:51Six, he says, with an air of resignation.
15:53What is the six, Ken?
15:54Misted.
15:56Misted.
15:56Misted.
15:57Well, you've missed the seven, perhaps, because here it is.
16:00Dumbest.
16:01Dumbest.
16:02Yeah, with a B in the middle.
16:03Yes.
16:04Dumbest, Frieda and Russell.
16:06Well, it's...
16:07I don't know.
16:07Can we have dumbest?
16:08Yes, D-U-M-B-E-S-T.
16:10I was going to go for stymied.
16:12S-T-I-M-I-E-D.
16:14But...
16:15But you can't have it, because it's spelt as a Y and not an I.
16:18And she only has I's for me.
16:20And I don't know why I couldn't have an I.
16:23I'm so unstyled.
16:24And remain the dumbest.
16:26So we accept dumbest for seven.
16:28Good.
16:28So seven good points for you.
16:30That's narrowed the gap to just four now, Marianne.
16:32You'd be delighted to know.
16:33Twenty-five, twenty-nine.
16:34Three rounds to go.
16:35Last letters game, Ken.
16:37Consonant, please.
16:38R.
16:40Consonant.
16:41T.
16:42Consonant.
16:45W.
16:47Vowel, please.
16:49A.
16:50Vowel.
16:51E.
16:52Consonant.
16:54Y.
16:56Consonant.
16:58S.
16:59Vowel, please.
17:02Under no.
17:04Here's the clock.
17:05The clock.
17:06The clock.
17:07The clock.
17:08The clock.
17:22The clock.
17:24The clock.
17:26The clock.
17:27The clock.
17:27The clock.
17:29The clock.
17:29The clock.
17:32The clock.
17:32The clock.
17:33The clock.
17:34The clock.
17:34The clock.
17:35Yes, Ken. Seven. Seven this time. Good man. Remarienne. Seven. Good. What's yours? Swatter. A swatter? Yes. Do you mean,
17:44just spell it actually. S-W-A-T-T-E-R. Yes, not a swatter like I was at school
17:49swatting for my English exams with Russell standing over there. No, not a swatter. Ken. Toaster. T-O-A-S
17:56-T-E-R. Toaster and swatter. Okay, well done. Seven points. Russell.
18:00Toaster and swatter. Don't have me. Are you sure that I wasn't right about stymied? Yeah, I must confess you
18:08were right. See, she's going to have to stay in after school today. Stymied can be spelled with a knife,
18:13but toaster and swatter, we both agree, can be go through that. What about rotates? That also would go in.
18:21R-O-T-E-T-E-S. But we can't go beyond three, six, seven.
18:26Right. Well, we've got the seven there, so 32, 36. Scores going on quite nicely. Four points still between them.
18:32So now we have Marian's choice of numbers.
18:35Two from the top. Certainly, yes. Two from the next. Yes. And two from the next. And two from the
18:40next. Thank you.
18:41See what that gives you. That's eight and nine, ten, three, one hundred, twenty-five.
18:49Right. And here's Marian's figure now. Very good figure. Six hundred and fifty-one. Six hundred and fifty-one. Here
18:58we go.
19:26You're welcome.
19:29Well, well, well, 651, Marianne.
19:32652.
19:33652. And Ken?
19:34650.
19:36Ah, well, one away both sides, so we have to go through them both.
19:40So, Marianne, 652, please.
19:43100 minus 8 is 92.
19:46All right, 100 minus 8 is 92.
19:499 minus 3 is 6.
19:509 minus 3 is 6.
19:5392 times 6 equals 652.
19:56Hmm, 6 times 92 is not 652, it's 552.
20:03Oh, dear.
20:05Oh, dear, oh, dear.
20:06So, no, so you haven't got, you haven't got your target figure, so sorry about that.
20:11So, no points to you, Ken, now.
20:12You're looking at 600 and what?
20:15650.
20:16650 now, let's see.
20:178 times 100.
20:19Okay, 8 times 100 is 800.
20:239 minus 3 is 6.
20:25Yep, 9 minus 3 is 6, again.
20:28Multiplied by 25.
20:30Multiplied by 25.
20:32Is 150.
20:33Is 150.
20:34Subtract from 800.
20:35We'll take that away from that.
20:36650.
20:37And you do get 650.
20:38Correct answer.
20:48Well, we've had, we thought we had 652.
20:51We have got 650.
20:53Can we get 651?
20:55Yes, 651.
20:569 times 25 is 225.
21:01Subtract the 8 from that, and you get 217.
21:04If you know your 217 times table, if you multiply it by 3, you get 651.
21:18Well done, Carol, and well done, Ken.
21:20Everyone, Marianne watching, will be very sorry for you about your little miscalculation there.
21:25And with the scores at 32 and 43, well, you can't win.
21:28But if you were to get this and lose just by that one point, well, really, everyone would be so
21:32sorry for you.
21:34So let's see what happens now as we approach this conundrum, this third quarterfinal conundrum.
21:40So will you now please reveal today's quarterfinal conundrum?
21:51On four seconds.
21:53Surviving.
21:54Surviving.
21:55Well, sir, you've certainly survived.
22:07So there he is, Ken Heaton.
22:09Ken Heaton from Nelson with 53 points.
22:12Well on his way now to the semifinal.
22:14So well done to you, Ken.
22:15Well done.
22:17And Marianne, it would have been terrible if you'd just lost by one point.
22:20Oh, yes, yes.
22:21It's okay.
22:23Okay, well, you've got the dictionaries, and we now have the countdown pen to take.
22:26So we say good luck to you and your endeavours as a maths tutor and everything that you do.
22:32We're very sorry to lose you, especially because, frankly, you are the only lady.
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