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00:30Hello, everybody. Bang on time again.
00:33You can set your clock by countdown.
00:35Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:37Hello, Rachel Riley.
00:38Hello, Colin Murray.
00:39When I say bong, you only think the one thing, right?
00:42The bong.
00:44So it was this day in 1859 at the Big Ben bongs.
00:48First chime.
00:49Oh.
00:50Have you ever went up the Elizabeth Towers, it's now called?
00:53I've not, have you?
00:54No, but a bit of advice, if you do take the family,
00:56don't wear those shoes.
00:58Oh, no.
00:58292 steps to get to the Big Ben.
01:01The tower itself, 399 steps in that bad boy.
01:05No lift.
01:06No lift.
01:07No.
01:08It's a really good point you make, actually.
01:11It's very old-fashioned.
01:13It's very as it was.
01:14It's off by a couple of seconds every two weeks.
01:17They use, or they certainly did use, in my head they still do,
01:21pennies on the pendulum weight, which just changes it ever so slightly.
01:28Oh, wow.
01:28Isn't that beautiful?
01:29That's clever.
01:30Yeah.
01:30And the other amazing fact, because I know you're thrilled by this,
01:33is, do you know that Elizabeth Towers leans,
01:36not like the leaning Towers pizza,
01:37but it's got a 0.4 degree subsidence,
01:40so it doesn't even go straight up.
01:43I mean, 0.4 degrees, no one's going to argue about that, are they?
01:46Still, still low.
01:47What's the tallest building you've climbed?
01:51I once, for NSPCC, did a walk-slash-run up the Gherkin.
01:56My goodness.
01:57Yeah.
01:57Did you throw up?
01:58I didn't, but it did feel like I'd run a marathon,
02:00and I'm not a marathon runner.
02:01Absolutely.
02:01I could really feel it in the old quads.
02:03My goodness.
02:04Well, well done, you.
02:04Well done, you.
02:05OK, chiming in at the end of every round today is our G of the D,
02:09Susie Dent, and a man with many faces.
02:12It's Rory Bremner.
02:14APPLAUSE
02:14And our champion is David Edwards,
02:19who I'm boring to death chatting about road signs,
02:22because that's your business.
02:24You collect vintage road signs.
02:26Tell me about, what's, like, your favourite or the oldest ones?
02:29Because I do love the old ones.
02:31Well, I've started collecting them over the last couple of years,
02:33and these are the ones which are not especially old.
02:36They're probably 1950s, 1960s, but certainly old enough.
02:40And I think the favourite one I've got is actually from,
02:42any of the London viewers would know,
02:45Bell Corner in Hounslow,
02:47because it's actually chose the destination London Airport
02:52rather than Heathrow Airport.
02:54So it was in the good old days
02:56when there was only one airport in London rather than four,
02:59maybe five.
02:59No, I can't remember.
03:00But I do like that particular sign,
03:02and it's also the biggest.
03:04It takes a lot of space.
03:05David, good luck to you today.
03:06You're taking on literally the mystery man.
03:09Nayan Mistry is with us.
03:10If you become an octo-champ, that'll be your nickname,
03:13but a long way to go to then.
03:15I love the name Nayan.
03:17So I did a little bit of research,
03:18because first of all, it's a palindrome, right?
03:20So we don't get a huge amount of palindrome names,
03:22but Hannah would be an example, obviously, of a palindrome name.
03:25Do you know what your name means?
03:27It actually means eye.
03:28It does indeed mean the eye.
03:30Nayan, the all-seeing eye.
03:32So watch yourself.
03:33Watch yourself here.
03:35Nayan and David, good luck.
03:36And David, do you all up?
03:40Afternoon, Rachel.
03:41Afternoon, David.
03:42Start with the consonant, please.
03:44Start today with T.
03:47And another.
03:49R.
03:50And one more.
03:53T.
03:55And the vowel.
03:57U.
03:58And another one.
04:00O.
04:00And a consonant, please.
04:05B.
04:07Another consonant.
04:09G.
04:12Vowel.
04:14I.
04:17And a consonant, please.
04:21And a final S.
04:23At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:25bloom.
04:27Water.
04:27Remove.
04:29I.
04:38Can you believe we can do this?
04:43Bosem.
04:43I.
04:44If there's no phone, then I don't like you.
04:46And then the VOAA is in the room.
04:48Have eaten out the whole room.
04:49You have been.
04:50I think you haveпод cultivated from River Valley צbrocken.
04:51I.
04:52You have been TV?
04:52I.
04:52I.
04:53I.
04:54I.
04:54I.
04:54That's 30 seconds, guys. How do you get on, David?
04:58Seven. And nine. Six.
05:00Well done, what's the six? It's trouts.
05:02And want to start with seven? Outrigs.
05:05Outrigs. Outrigs. Susie.
05:08OK. Yep, to fit with outriggers is absolutely fine.
05:13And trouts, also in the dictionary.
05:16You can either have trout as the plural or trouts. Either way.
05:19OK, and we've got another fish which would also give...
05:22Would you use seven? That would be turbots.
05:24Good start, champ. Nian, let's have your first letters.
05:28Hi, Rachel. Hi, Nian. Could I get a consonant, please?
05:31You can indeed. T.
05:33And another consonant.
05:36S. And a vowel.
05:39E. And a consonant.
05:42F. And a consonant.
05:46G. Vowel.
05:49A. Vowel.
05:53I. Consonant.
05:57D. And...
06:00Vowel, please. Thank you.
06:02Lastly, E. And 30 seconds.
06:05E. And 30 seconds.
06:15E. And 30 seconds.
06:21MUSIC PLAYS
06:36Time's up, Nayan.
06:39I've got a five.
06:40And David?
06:41Six.
06:42The six there.
06:43Nayan, what's the word?
06:44Gated.
06:45And the six?
06:46Staged.
06:46Something that Rory Bremner is very familiar with now, the stage.
06:50What have you got over there?
06:51We've got, yeah, the sevens, we've got fidgets, you have.
06:55Feasted.
06:56Yeah.
06:56Quite a few sevens there.
06:57Yeah, a lot of sevens gone a-begging in that round,
07:00so let's switch to the numbers and regroup.
07:02David, you're picking.
07:03Too large, please.
07:04Thank you, David.
07:05Too large.
07:06Four little numbers have been your friends lately.
07:08Let's see if they are today.
07:10The selection is nine, five, three, seven,
07:15and the large one's 150.
07:17And the target, 165.
07:22Six five, numbers up.
07:23Six five, numbers up.
07:24Six five, numbers up.
07:25Six five, numbers up.
07:26Six five, numbers up.
07:27Six five, numbers up.
07:28Six five, numbers up.
07:29Six five, numbers up.
07:30Six five, numbers up.
07:31Six five, numbers up.
07:32Six five, numbers up.
07:33Six five, numbers up.
07:34Six five, numbers up.
07:35Six five, numbers up.
07:36Six five, numbers up.
07:37Six five, numbers up.
07:38Six five, numbers up.
07:39Six five, numbers up.
07:40Six five, numbers up.
07:41Six five, numbers up.
07:42Six five, numbers up.
07:43Six five, numbers up.
07:44Six five, numbers up.
07:45Six five, numbers up.
07:46Six five, numbers up.
07:47Six five, numbers up.
07:48Six five, numbers up.
07:49Six five, numbers up.
07:50The inaction from David and Nayan tells its own story.
07:56David? 165. Yeah, Nayan? 165. Lovely.
07:59David, let's go. 50 plus five.
08:0255. Times three. One way to get there.
08:05Slightly different. 100 plus 50 is 150.
08:08Five times three is 15. Yeah, we'll do that in our heads.
08:12APPLAUSE
08:14A tap-in, a setter, and your tea-time teaser is rate spurs.
08:19When it comes to goals, Cain is definitely able.
08:23When it comes to goals, Cain is definitely able.
08:26MUSIC
08:29APPLAUSE
08:34APPLAUSE
08:37Welcome back. The tea-time teaser.
08:44Rates spurs become superstar.
08:46The clue, a reference, of course, to Harry Cain.
08:49Nayan, let's get started again with letters.
08:51Consonant, please, Rachel.
08:53Thank you, Nayan.
08:54R.
08:55Another consonant, please.
08:59V.
09:00Consonant.
09:02G.
09:03Vowel.
09:06I.
09:07Vowel.
09:08A.
09:10E.
09:11And a final vowel, please.
09:24A final U.
09:26Speak to you in 30 seconds.
09:28Of the mots.
09:30A final vowel, you're a WiFi.
09:32Over and over.
09:35I'll admitic to you in years.
09:37I did not sleep.
09:41I would love to hear you.
09:42We, have to hear you with aлар.
09:43We'd love to hear you so many Hunt очень-y,
09:44we obviously enjoy working on this group.
09:45We had many videos here.
09:46achten.
09:46We've told you.
09:47We see Bradbury, here, as he anyhow.
09:48We met Fl박 justin.
09:49We now live a book, allох đi.
09:50We're waiting to get started with sn
09:55ausge-y stop.
09:56Nayan?
09:59Just a five.
10:01And David?
10:02Six.
10:03The six. You didn't look too confident. Let's find out.
10:06Nayan?
10:07Rival.
10:08And the six?
10:09Clavel.
10:10Oh, well, you should be confident, because that is absolutely fine.
10:13Anything else in the dictionary corner?
10:15There was a seven lurking there.
10:17Gravure, as in... It's a printing term, isn't it?
10:20Yes. Short for photogravure, which is when you get an image
10:24from a photographic negative and then you etch it using that onto a surface.
10:28There you go. More letters then, please. Jump in.
10:31Stop with a consonant, please.
10:32Thank you, David.
10:33M.
10:35And another?
10:37D.
10:39A vowel, please.
10:41O.
10:43Another vowel.
10:45E.
10:47Consonant.
10:48P.
10:50Consonant.
10:51C.
10:52And a vowel, please.
11:05And...
11:06Lastly, E.
11:07Half a minute.
11:08E.
11:10E.
11:11...
11:25MUSIC PLAYS
11:39David. Seven.
11:41And Nayan. Got a six. And a six. What's a six?
11:44It's placed. And the seven? Clamped. And clumped.
11:48Let's head over to Rory and Susie. Susie, of course.
11:51Hebrew origin, that name, means Lily. Oh, my name, yes.
11:56Yeah, where it comes from. I got a bit fascinated cos Nayan
11:59had been looking up everybody. Ah, yeah. Susanna's Lily.
12:02So are Lily in the corner alongside Rory. What have you got?
12:06OK, did you have placed, did you say? Yes. OK, well, again, M placed
12:10could have got you another two. Yeah. Yeah.
12:13Free picking. Who knew? It's straight from French,
12:16so it just means to put in position. Yeah.
12:19Just that one letter behind Nayan, which is frustrating in every round.
12:24We'll see how that changes, but let's switch to numbers.
12:26We got your ten points last time. Let's get your selection.
12:29Can I get two large, please, Rachel?
12:31You can indeed. Two from the top, four little,
12:33and hopefully some points clawed back. Let's see.
12:36The little ones this time, ten, eight, nine and four.
12:40And the big two, one hundred and seventy-five.
12:44And the target to reach four hundred and eighty-eight.
12:46Four-eight-eight. Numbers up.
12:48One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:49One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:50One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:51One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:52One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:53One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:54One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:55One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:56One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:57One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:58One hundred and eighty-eight.
12:59One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:00One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:01One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:02One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:03One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:04One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:05One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:06One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:07One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:08One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:09One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:10One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:11One hundred and eighty-eight.
13:124, 8, 8 the target.
13:20Nayan?
13:21I've got 4, 8, 5.
13:23Three away.
13:24David?
13:25490, not written down.
13:26Off you go.
13:289 minus 4 is 5.
13:30Yeah.
13:31Multiply by 10.
13:32500.
13:34Subtract the 10.
13:36490, two above.
13:37There you go.
13:37Seven points for you.
13:38How did we get 10?
13:39You could say 75 minus 10 minus 4 is 61 and 61 times 8 is 488.
13:49Nice.
13:51Well done if you've got that at home.
13:52Let's take a break from the game.
13:54Have a chat with Rory at Bremner.
13:56Rory, we love a chat about the natural world in this show.
13:59Rarely a week goes by that doesn't feature a bear or a penguin
14:04or some other beautiful creature.
14:06I know it's a fascination of yours as well.
14:08It is, absolutely.
14:09Well, I remember some years ago when I was on here,
14:12I talked about the swift, the wonderful thing of the beautiful bird,
14:15the swift, which travels 200,000 kilometres in a year.
14:19That's five times around the globe in a single year.
14:22It sleeps and eats on the wing.
14:24It sleeps on the wing.
14:24It shuts off half of its brain and then the other half of its brain.
14:28You're pretty good at that, I'd imagine.
14:29Yeah, I'm asleep now.
14:33It's a wonderful creature.
14:35And now, the lady who wrote about that, Catherine Rundell,
14:38she's now brought out a wonderful compendium is a good word, isn't it?
14:42It's a collection about all these animals, the giraffe and the hedgehog
14:46and the seahorse and the stork and the pangolin.
14:48If I were to ask you, what's the lifespan of a Greenland shark?
14:51I'll guess it's going to be older than us, average, I reckon.
14:5590?
14:56Well, there are Greenland sharks alive today.
14:58They were alive at the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666.
15:02No.
15:03And even earlier, 1606.
15:05They reckon, because they can now carbon date from protein in the eye,
15:10and they reckon anything between 250 and 700 years old,
15:15or 250 and 570, rather.
15:17Yeah.
15:18Incredibly old creatures.
15:19They're very, very deep.
15:20They swim about 2 1⁄2 to 3 1⁄2 kilometres an hour.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Very, very slow.
15:24They reach sexual maturity 150, so there's hope.
15:28I was about to say.
15:30There's hope.
15:31Fingers crossed.
15:32Rachel, if I was to say to you, what are elephants most afraid of?
15:37Well, I think cartoons would suggest it's mice.
15:40Yeah, you'd think mice, but actually it's bees.
15:44Bees?
15:44They're terrified of bees because they're frightened of bees flying up the trunk
15:48and stinging the soft tissue inside there.
15:50So sometimes in South Africa, in Southern Africa, where villages are threatened by elephant,
15:56some of them put beehives in because it's the one thing that elephants, they're very terrified of that.
16:02Here's one for you.
16:03Do you know the meaning of the phrase to kiss the hare's foot?
16:07Er, it's when you're running behind, isn't it?
16:12Yeah.
16:12When you're just too late, or you're kind of running behind the hair.
16:16She's good, isn't she?
16:17Yeah, it's when you're just too late for dinner.
16:20For dinner.
16:20When you're too late for dinner.
16:21And you've just, you've only, because you've just kissed the hare's foot, because, of course, the hare, very quick,
16:26its name, Latin lepus, is from the Latin name for swift foot.
16:29These are all in this extraordinary collection.
16:32It's full of wonderful stories about the creatures in the natural world.
16:35It's called The Golden Mole, and it's by Catherine Rondell.
16:38Brilliant.
16:39APPLAUSE
16:39Dear the gladys, please.
16:43Start with the consonant, please.
16:44Thank you, David.
16:46N.
16:47And another?
16:49S.
16:51Erm, and another?
16:53N.
16:55And another?
16:58X.
16:58Another vowel?
17:02I.
17:03Another vowel?
17:04O.
17:07Another vowel?
17:08E.
17:10Erm, consonant?
17:13P.
17:15And a...
17:16consonant, please.
17:19And a final S.
17:22Start the clock.
17:23MUSIC PLAYS
17:54Try an eight.
17:55You're going to try it.
17:56And Nayan?
17:56I've got a six.
17:58He's doing it to you again.
17:59What's the six?
18:00Poises.
18:01Poises.
18:01And David?
18:02Poxiness.
18:04Poxiness, Susie.
18:05Literally was just looking that up.
18:07It's not in.
18:09Oh!
18:10Poxiness.
18:10I feel that was a bit cruel, I have to say.
18:13I'm sorry.
18:15But I was there with you, and, yeah.
18:18Apologies.
18:19Wow.
18:20At the six points, go to Nayan.
18:22Were there any sevens, eights?
18:23Well, we're talking about long-lived Greenland sharks,
18:27and I can tell you that for eight, you could have had pensions.
18:32For eight.
18:33Nayan, there you go.
18:34Your first points on the letters and a long way to go,
18:37so let's keep the rule going.
18:39Could I get a consonant, please?
18:41Thank you, Nayan.
18:42P.
18:43And another.
18:45W.
18:46And another.
18:48L.
18:49And a vowel, please.
18:52A.
18:53And a consonant.
18:56T.
18:57Another consonant.
18:59L.
19:01Vowel.
19:02Vowel.
19:04I.
19:05Another vowel.
19:08E.
19:11And another vowel, please.
19:13And lastly, O.
19:16Here we go.
19:17Here we go.
19:18Here we go.
19:18Here we go.
19:19Here we go.
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19:35Here we go.
19:36Here we go.
19:37Here we go.
19:38Here we go.
19:47Nain? I've got a five. And David? Six. Nain? Petal. Petal. Ah. And David?
19:54Pallet. And pallet. There you go. Pallet and petal to Dictionary Corner.
19:59A whole load of words jumping out there. Oh, can we beat six? I don't think so.
20:03We can't, no. There's another six, which is wallet.
20:07And more, if you're being polite. There's more in there.
20:10There is. Polite's a good one.
20:1249, 16. Numbers time again. David?
20:16Three large, please. Thank you, David.
20:18Three large and three little coming up.
20:21And the three little ones are four, one and eight.
20:26The three large, 50, 25, 100.
20:30And sometimes this throws a bit of a challenge.
20:32The target? 198.
20:35198. Numbers up.
20:37All right.
20:40The three large, only one.
20:41And the two little ones are five.
20:43Zero.
20:44One, the two ancient pipes are six in the Voox.
20:47One, the two, many Pharisees.
20:48One, the two, one.
20:50One.
20:51Two, two, three, two.
20:51One, one.
20:53One, two, three, two, one.
20:56What's the right?
20:59Four, three, two!
21:01One, two, three, two, one.
21:02One, two, two, two.
21:04One, two, three, two.
21:07It's only easy if you say it. Nayan?
21:09198.
21:10And David?
21:11198.
21:12Off you go, David.
21:13Erm, four times 50.
21:15Four 50s are 200.
21:17Then 100 divided by 25...
21:19..is four.
21:21Divide the eight by that four and take away.
21:24198.
21:25Very good. Nayan?
21:26Snap. Exactly the same.
21:27Let's have a wee look.
21:30Yes. 10 points each.
21:32APPLAUSE
21:3459 plays 26.
21:37And Sally Quidd is your second Tea Town teaser.
21:40Sally Quidd.
21:41Sally had less than a quid to her name
21:44and she was living this way.
21:45Sally had less than a quid to her name
21:48and was living this way.
21:50BELL RINGS
21:52MUSIC
21:57APPLAUSE
21:59Welcome back.
22:00Sally Quidd.
22:01Sally had less than a quid to her name
22:02but was living this way squalidly.
22:03Squalidly is the answer.
22:04Six rounds of Countdown left.
22:05The champion's sitting comfortably.
22:06Let's see if we can change that, Nayan.
22:07Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:08Thank you, Nayan.
22:09G.
22:10And another.
22:11T.
22:12And another.
22:13H.
22:14Vowel, please.
22:15E.
22:16And another.
22:17I.
22:18And a consonant.
22:19N.
22:20Another consonant.
22:21T.
22:22Vowel, please.
22:23E.
22:24And another.
22:25I.
22:26And a consonant.
22:27N.
22:28Another consonant.
22:29T.
22:30Vowel.
22:31A.
22:32And a consonant, please.
22:34Lastly.
22:35D.
22:36Let's play.
22:37N. Another consonant.
22:40T. Vowel.
22:44A. And a consonant, please.
22:48Lastly, D. Let's play.
23:07T. Vowel.
23:22N. Another five.
23:24A five, and David.
23:25Seven.
23:26And a seven, the five, N. Taint.
23:28Yeah, and the seven.
23:29Heading.
23:30And heading.
23:32To Dictionary Corner, to Rory and Susie.
23:34Have we got Titan there?
23:36Titan. Yep, another seven.
23:38Yep.
23:39OK, yeah.
23:40To tighten a belt rather than a titan of industry.
23:43Exactly.
23:44Right.
23:45Quite a lot of sevens popping out there.
23:4766 plays 26.
23:49Another letters round.
23:51David Edwards.
23:52Um, consonant, please.
23:54Thank you, David.
23:55R.
23:56And another.
23:58N.
24:00And another.
24:01H.
24:03A vowel, please.
24:05I.
24:06Another vowel.
24:07A.
24:08Another vowel.
24:09E.
24:10Consonant.
24:11F.
24:12Consonant.
24:13Y.
24:14And another consonant, please.
24:16Lastly, B.
24:17Good luck.
24:18B.
24:19B.
24:20B.
24:21B.
24:22And another consonant, please.
24:23And another consonant, please.
24:24Lovely B.
24:25Good luck.
24:26B.
24:27B.
24:28B.
24:29B.
24:30B.
24:31B.
24:32B.
24:33B.
24:34B.
24:35B.
24:36B.
24:37David?
24:58Just five.
24:59And Nayan?
25:00Six.
25:00Come on.
25:01David?
25:02Heavy.
25:03Well, what have you missed? Nayan?
25:05Brainy.
25:05Come on. Brainy, the perfect word for a chemical engineer to get.
25:10Well done.
25:10Six points back.
25:11Dexterity corner.
25:12Well, yes, you could have strained to get another one,
25:14but you might have ended up with a hernia.
25:16Very good.
25:17Susie, origins of words today.
25:20I'm sitting back in the chair, ready to be thrilled.
25:23Well, I'm staying with animals, actually,
25:26because I've mentioned him once or twice on the programme before,
25:30but there's a linguist called Paul Anthony Jones
25:32who does this lovely blog called Haggard Hawks.
25:35He introduced me to a term that I had not heard before
25:39when it comes to being in the dictionary
25:41and when it comes to science,
25:43and that is Elvis.
25:46OK, so I'll come back to that.
25:48But he starts his story with the Lazarus species of animals,
25:53and I don't know if this is mentioned in Catherine's book,
25:56but essentially it's one that seems to come back from the dead.
25:58So you think it's extinct,
25:59but actually then they are rediscovered,
26:02and often these are caught on camera.
26:05So in 2018, a camera on an island off the coast of Tanzania
26:09snapped a picture of the first Zanzibar leopard
26:12to have been spotted in 16 years, assumed to be extinct.
26:16And the same goes for the Vietnamese mouse deer,
26:19apparently, that hadn't been seen for a while either.
26:21Anyway, I'll get to the number of this now,
26:23because sometimes a creature appears to have come back from the dead.
26:27It appears to be a Lazarus species.
26:30But actually, what biologists then discover
26:32is that although they share all the same traits,
26:35it's actually an entirely separate animal or species.
26:40So they kind of share so many characteristics,
26:43so it's almost as if they've kind of skipped a generation
26:45and then come back as something else.
26:47And there's a paleobiologist called Douglas Irwin,
26:52and he needed a name for this type of animal
26:54that almost sort of skips science and then comes back.
26:59And he decided they should be called Elvis,
27:02an Elvis species.
27:03Why?
27:04Because, as he explained...
27:05Well, Elvis Presley apparently himself claimed
27:08to have survived his demise in the 70s,
27:11but Irwin chose it because of the many Elvis impersonators
27:14that have appeared since Elvis had died.
27:17So these species almost seem to be copying one
27:20from sometimes centuries ago,
27:22but they're not quite the same thing.
27:24I love that.
27:24Isn't that great?
27:25Great choice of name for it.
27:29Well, Nayan, we need a Lazarus style come back.
27:32And the last round was maybe the start of it,
27:34so let's get more letters.
27:36A consonant, please, Rachel.
27:37Thank you, Nayan.
27:38T.
27:40Another.
27:42D.
27:42And another.
27:45R.
27:47And a vowel.
27:49O.
27:50And another.
27:52I.
27:53And a consonant.
27:55N.
27:57And another.
27:58M.
28:00Vowel.
28:03E.
28:05And another vowel, please.
28:07And my selection, a final I.
28:10Kind time.
28:12Vowel.
28:14Vowel.
28:15That's it.
28:16And another vowel sound.
28:32Vowel.
28:33I.
28:33It's time now and just the five again just the five here and David let's go with the six then
28:47okay then drone drone and David rodent rodent so we'll stay with the animals as we have back the
28:55dictionary corner yeah I think I saw retinoid for eight but that's not actually to do with your eye
29:00is it it isn't no it's to do with retinol which is vitamin A okay yeah so it's any of a group of
29:06compounds that has effects on the body like vitamin A very good bigot a bigot you don't need
29:11to know the meaning as long as it's in there David let's get more letters um consonant please
29:18thank you David R um and a vowel E another vowel O consonant N consonant D consonant N um vowel U
29:40U consonant D an vowel and lastly A last letters
29:52so
30:04so
30:06so
30:12MUSIC PLAYS
30:22David? Seven.
30:24And Nayan? And a seven. And a seven.
30:26What have we got? Rounded.
30:28Rounded, Nayan? Same again, rounded. Yeah.
30:31Well done, seven points each.
30:33I'm thinking that might be all, but let's check.
30:36It is. All from us, if any length.
30:38Felt that way, felt that way.
30:40Nayan plays 39.
30:42Nayan getting stronger as we go,
30:44but, David, the wind's already in the bag.
30:46Let's enjoy the last two rounds.
30:48Nayan, you're picking those numbers.
30:50Three large, please, Rachel.
30:51Three large, and by default, three little.
30:53Often a challenge, wasn't it the last time?
30:55Let's see if we can find one now.
30:57Final numbers, eight, seven, ten,
31:0075, 50, and 25.
31:04And the last target of the day, 849.
31:07849, numbers up.
31:097.
31:10850, in 2020.
31:12950, in 2014.
31:13It's just a countdown.
31:14749, the last target of the day, 849,
31:16849, the last target of the day, 849,
31:17850, in 2016.
31:181050, in 2015.
31:19741, the last target of the day.
31:21849, we got to go.
31:22track of the day, 950, we got to look through.
31:23We got to go.
31:24950, we got to go!
31:288, 4, 9.
31:41Nayan?
31:428, 50.
31:43And David?
31:448, 4, 8.
31:458, 4, 8.
31:47Off you go, Nayan.
31:48So I did 10 plus 7 is 17.
31:5010 plus 7, 17.
31:53Times 50 is 8, 50.
31:548, 50.
31:56Simple as that.
31:57David?
31:5875 plus 8.
32:0183.
32:02Multiply by the 10.
32:04830.
32:05Then that's 25.
32:07And then 25, 8, 5, 5.
32:097.
32:10Yeah, another one away.
32:11Rachel, it is amazing how many different ways you can get one away from 8, 4, 9.
32:16How do we get to 8, 4, 9?
32:18I can show you some more.
32:19So you'll have to leave it with me for a second.
32:21Yeah.
32:21Way more tricky than we thought it would be.
32:238, 4, 9.
32:25Proven elusive as I asked Nayan.
32:28The wonderful Nayan to put his finger on that buzzer.
32:30This is what it's all about.
32:32And David, you as well could put up another really big winning score if you can get this.
32:37As we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:39How do you say it?
32:40All right.
32:47MUSIC CONTINUES
33:10The conundrum eludes us in the studio. Let's reveal it.
33:15Who are we clapping? Nobody got it. Let me not clap.
33:20Let's just say thank you very much to Ney and Mystery for being here.
33:24Back to rugby for you. Just that frustrating show, wasn't it?
33:28Unfortunately, but I've had a good experience, great experience.
33:31I won't forget it, so thank you very much.
33:33Good whether you win or lose coming on here.
33:35But you've been winning, David. You know you're a really interesting champion.
33:39When you look at the scores, they're really, really good.
33:41It's consistency for you. You're not a flair player.
33:44You're like the defensive midfielder that never gets the credit.
33:47Halfway to being an octo-champ.
33:49Wow.
33:50Rory, thank you so much for being here today.
33:53Pleasure.
33:54Thank you, Susie.
33:56And Rachel.
33:57A name, of course, of Hebrew origin, popularised by the biblical figure Rachel, but it means you.
34:03Not as in Y-O-U.
34:05Yeah.
34:06But as in E-W-E. That's the meaning of yours.
34:08Bah.
34:09Well, funny you should make the bah sound.
34:12Colin is an anglicised version of a Gaelic word.
34:17I am a whelp.
34:19I'm a dog.
34:20My name comes from a Gaelic word for dog.
34:24Aw.
34:25Yeah.
34:26I got a rough deal.
34:27Susie, Rachel and I will be back tomorrow.
34:29You can count on us.
34:30Ruff.
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