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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio. On the day that, over in the US, at Salt Lake City, an event takes place. It's the Salt Lake City Comic Con, which presumably is a conference. Huge conference. Last year, apparently, 72,000 people pitched up. Why do they do that?
00:47It's all about the love of comics and some of the great characters who appeared in films based on comic books. For instance, Val Kilmer, who was in Batman Forever, he'll be there.
00:58And also our very own Catherine Tate from Doctor Who. She'll be there as well. Comics, big, big business over many, many years.
01:06And up in Glasgow, this very weekend, there's a similar sort of thing happening. So comics live on. Indeed, they do. When I was a kid, we sort of, I don't know why, but comics were frowned on.
01:18And we were allowed the eagle, which had apparently some sort of educational bent to it. But I remember Desperate Dan and his cow pie with a tail sticking out one end of it and the horns the other.
01:31What about you? Were you allowed comics as a kid?
01:33I wasn't particularly into comics, but it does sound interesting, that whole Comic Con extravaganza. I'm not so into comics, but I think if they had something with Game of Thrones, they do kind of fantasy comms as well.
01:46And everyone dresses up. It might be quite fun to get involved that way.
01:49Well, here's something not to miss out on. That's Phil Peel, who's back again with some great wins.
01:56103.96. I hope you're not on the slide there, Phil.
01:59A business analyst from Durham. We've never really asked you what sort of businesses you analyse. Do you work for one particular company?
02:08It's very much IT based in the utilities industry, so gas, electricity, water.
02:13OK. And you're analysing what?
02:15Kind of process how computer systems work and what they need to be able to do to help improve them.
02:21Well, you're doing pretty well here, I can tell you.
02:23Thanks.
02:24Very well indeed. You're joined by Jordan Hale. Welcome, Jordan.
02:27From Wallasey, up here in the Wirral.
02:31You're a senior support worker in the social care sector.
02:35That's right, yeah.
02:35But also, and I don't know what this beer's going to do with it, you're an aspiring actor.
02:40You've done a lot of commercials too, apparently.
02:42Yeah, yeah, I've done a few commercials, yeah. Obviously, you can't talk about those, but yeah, I've done a few.
02:46And you've done some short feature films and things?
02:48Yeah, and some independent features, yeah.
02:49Good for you.
02:50It's a hard old grind, but you'll get a breakthrough.
02:53Yeah, I hope so.
02:54And then, yeah, we'll want your autograph.
02:56Anyway, listen, good luck today.
02:58Good luck in the acting career as well, and well done for, you know, working in that hard press sector, really.
03:04It's tough, isn't it?
03:05Thanks, yeah.
03:05Yeah, that is, yeah.
03:06Thanks very much.
03:07Let's have a big round of applause, then, for Jordan and Phil.
03:14And over to Paula Susie, of course, and his stories from the great outdoors are fascinating.
03:20And what's got us all on tenterhooks, of course, is that when you were here yesterday, every game, you produced a couple of animals.
03:28Well, let's hope I can do the same again today.
03:30With about 20 million species to choose from, hopefully there should be one for every single word.
03:35I know that you'll do it.
03:36All right.
03:37Thank you very much, Steve Backshaw.
03:39Now, Phil, letters came.
03:42Hi, Rachel.
03:43Hiya, Phil.
03:44Hello.
03:44Can we start with a consonant, please?
03:46Start today with T.
03:48And a vowel?
03:50I.
03:51Consonant?
03:53S.
03:55A vowel?
03:56O.
03:57A consonant?
03:59T.
04:00Another consonant?
04:02D.
04:04A vowel?
04:05E.
04:07Consonant?
04:09M.
04:10And a final vowel, please.
04:12And a final O.
04:14And here's the countdown clock.
04:16T.
04:18T.
04:18T.
04:19T.
04:20Yes, Phil?
04:48Eight.
04:50And eight, well done, Jordan.
04:51Seven.
04:52And that seven?
04:53Omissid.
04:54Yes, Phil?
04:55Moodiest.
04:56Yeah.
04:57Moodiest.
05:00And Steve, Susie, Steve?
05:05Well, I've got the largest species of deer, which is a moose, and perhaps if you got attacked
05:10by one, you'd been moosed.
05:13I'm pretty sure that's not a word.
05:14Oh, sadly not.
05:15Moose will do for the purposes of our internal game.
05:20What else have we got?
05:21We have Moodiest and Sodomite, both for eight.
05:24Phil's on eight, and now we turn to Jordan.
05:27Let us go.
05:27Hi, Rachel.
05:28Hi, Jordan.
05:29Can I have a consonant, please?
05:32Start with S.
05:33And a vowel.
05:35A.
05:36And another vowel.
05:38E.
05:39And a consonant.
05:41L.
05:42And another consonant.
05:45N.
05:47And a vowel.
05:49I.
05:51And a consonant.
05:53L.
05:55And a vowel.
05:58E.
05:59And a consonant.
06:00And lastly, S.
06:02Countdown.
06:03And a vowel.
06:04And a vowel.
06:04And a vowel.
06:05And a vowel.
06:05And a vowel.
06:06And a vowel.
06:06And a vowel.
06:06And a vowel.
06:07And a vowel.
06:07And a vowel.
06:08And a vowel.
06:08And a vowel.
06:08And a vowel.
06:08And a vowel.
06:09And a vowel.
06:09And a vowel.
06:10And a vowel.
06:10And a vowel.
06:11And a vowel.
06:12And a vowel.
06:12And a vowel.
06:13And a vowel.
06:13And a vowel.
06:14And a vowel.
06:14And a vowel.
06:15And a vowel.
06:16And a vowel.
06:16And a vowel.
06:17And a vowel.
06:17And a vowel.
06:18And a vowel.
06:18And a vowel.
06:19And a vowel.
06:20And a vowel.
06:21And a vowel.
06:22Yes, Jordan.
06:35Five.
06:36A five and...
06:37Six.
06:38And a six.
06:39Jordan.
06:40Seals.
06:41Yes.
06:42And allies.
06:44And allies.
06:45Yeah, very good.
06:46Can we do better?
06:47There are Nellies for seven, as in silly people.
06:51Yes.
06:51Yeah.
06:52That would give you a seven and a couple of animals, I think.
06:54Yeah.
06:55The two animals were seals and snails.
06:58Well done.
06:59Well done.
07:00And lastly, if it's a dog, it's in there somewhere.
07:03All right.
07:0414 to Phil.
07:06Jordan yet to score.
07:07Plenty of time for that.
07:08Now, Phil, your numbers game.
07:11Could I have two large and four small, please?
07:14Thank you, Phil.
07:14Two from the top, four little ones coming up.
07:16And the first numbers game of the day is four, five, six,
07:21eight.
07:22And the large two, one hundred and seventy-five.
07:26And the target, nine hundred and twenty-five.
07:28Nine to five.
07:29We'll see you next time.
07:30We'll see you next time.
07:30We'll see you next time.
07:31We'll see you next time.
07:31We'll see you next time.
07:32We'll see you next time.
07:32We'll see you next time.
07:33We'll see you next time.
07:33We'll see you next time.
07:34We'll see you next time.
07:35We'll see you next time.
07:35PHONE RINGS
08:05PHONE RINGS
08:35Welcome back. I left with a clue.
08:52It's the place where everything seems to go right over your head.
08:56And the answer to that is that you're in an underpass.
09:00Underpass.
09:01So, 24 points to fill.
09:03Jordan yet to score, but bags of time, Jordan.
09:05Off you go. Letters go.
09:07Could I have a consonant, please?
09:09Thank you, Jordan.
09:10G.
09:12A vowel.
09:13A.
09:15A consonant.
09:16A consonant.
09:17R.
09:19A vowel, please.
09:22O.
09:23A consonant.
09:24F.
09:27A...
09:27Not a consonant.
09:29L.
09:31A vowel.
09:33I.
09:34A consonant.
09:37W.
09:37And a vowel, please.
09:41And, lastly, E.
09:44Stand by.
09:44A vowel.
09:45A vowel.
09:46A vowel.
09:46A vowel.
09:47A vowel.
09:47A vowel.
09:47A vowel.
09:47A vowel.
09:48A vowel.
09:48A vowel.
09:48A vowel.
09:48A vowel.
09:49A vowel.
09:49A vowel.
09:49A vowel.
09:50A vowel.
09:50A vowel.
09:50A vowel.
09:50A vowel.
09:50A vowel.
09:51A vowel.
09:51A vowel.
09:51A vowel.
09:51A vowel.
09:52A vowel.
09:52A vowel.
09:52A vowel.
09:53A vowel.
09:53A vowel.
09:54A vowel.
09:54A vowel.
09:54A vowel.
09:55A vowel.
09:56A vowel.
09:56A vowel.
09:57A vowel.
09:58A vowel.
09:58A vowel.
09:59A vowel.
09:59A vowel.
10:00A vowel.
10:00A vowel.
10:01A vowel.
10:02A vowel.
10:02Jordan.
10:16Six.
10:17Six.
10:18Yes, Phil.
10:19Six.
10:20Jordan.
10:21Golfer.
10:22And?
10:23Foiler.
10:24Foiler.
10:25It's not in, I'm afraid.
10:28No foiler, sorry.
10:30Bad luck.
10:30Bad luck.
10:31Works for Jordan, though.
10:33Now, the corner.
10:35Susie and Steve.
10:36What have you got, Steve?
10:38Well, there's lots of smaller ones, owl and wolf and things like that.
10:41The one I picked up on was liger.
10:44And a liger is an artificial hybrid between a tiger and a lion, which creates the largest kind of big cat.
10:53But it is something which probably has never happened in the wild, despite the fact that in certain places in India, you do get lions and tigers in the same habitat.
11:01It's unnatural, no?
11:02It is totally unnatural, yes.
11:04So it's unhealthy.
11:05And the opposite, if you do it the other way around with a female lion and a male tiger, it's called a tigon.
11:14Tigon.
11:15That rings a distant bell somewhere.
11:17Anything else?
11:18No more animals, I don't think, but there is foliage there for seven.
11:22Foliage, well done.
11:2324 plays six, and now, Phil, it's your letters game.
11:27Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
11:28Thank you, Phil.
11:29S.
11:31And a vowel.
11:32A.
11:33And a consonant.
11:36N.
11:37And a vowel.
11:39U.
11:40And a consonant.
11:42R.
11:43Another consonant.
11:45B.
11:47A vowel.
11:49U.
11:50Another vowel.
11:53E.
11:54And a final consonant, please.
11:56And a final V.
11:57Standby.
11:58Standby.
12:29Phil.
12:30I've got a six.
12:31A six.
12:32And Jordan.
12:33Five.
12:35And that five?
12:35Bairns.
12:36B-U-R-N-S.
12:37Phil.
12:38Braves.
12:39Yes.
12:40And in the corner, Susie and Steve.
12:42We've got ravens.
12:43Well done.
12:44And Venus, as in the Venus flytrap, the carnivorous plant.
12:4830 plays six.
12:50And now, Jordan, your numbers game.
12:53One big and the rest small, please.
12:55Thank you, Jordan.
12:56One from the top five, little.
12:58And these numbers are seven, five, another five, three, eight, and 75.
13:08And the target, 125.
13:11One, two, five.
13:12One, two, five.
13:25Yes, Jordan?
13:441, 2, 5.
13:451, 2, 5.
13:46Phil?
13:461, 2, 5.
13:47Yes, Jordan?
13:485 plus 5 equals 10.
13:50Yep.
13:518 take away 3 is 5.
13:538 minus 3 is 5.
13:55Times those together.
13:5650.
13:5750 plus the 75.
13:58Perfect.
13:591, 2, 5.
14:00Phil?
14:01I did 7 plus 3 is 10.
14:03Yep.
14:06Multiply by 5 is 50.
14:10Plus the 75.
14:11Lovely.
14:11Same result.
14:121, 2, 5.
14:13Well done.
14:15Thank you, Jordan.
14:17So, 40 plays 16.
14:19As we turn to Steve to see what he's got up his sleeve today.
14:23Yes, Steve.
14:24Well, I've been talking about ways that animals can surprise us, and particularly have surprised me.
14:30We, this year, lost a great hero of mine.
14:33A man called Amos Zahavi, who is a great Israeli biologist.
14:37I was lucky enough to meet him when I was trekking across Israel's Negev desert in the late 1990s.
14:43And he'll always be best remembered for his hypothesis.
14:46It's an incredibly elegant biological theory called the handicap principle, which deals with the fact that ornamentation in some animals seems to run against the whole idea of evolution.
14:57And particularly the peacock's tail.
14:59You know, why does this animal have this enormous, vast tail which slows it down, which is cumbersome, which seems to make it less fit?
15:06And Zahavi's idea was that it's an honest signal.
15:09It's a way of saying, imagine how fit and how strong I must be to survive to this age carrying this whacking great tail behind me.
15:16And it's something that you see very often in nature, and particularly in birds.
15:20I was walking through the forest in New Guinea, and I came across a perfectly cleared circle of land with what appeared to be a maypole in the middle of it, decorated with all kinds of sticks.
15:30And it was the dancing stage of a bowerbird.
15:34And bowerbirds, these are not their nests.
15:36It's something that the male creates as a stage that it can dance on to attract the female.
15:41In Australia, I've seen these bowerbird nests, and they've been adorned with all kinds of beetle wings and butterfly wings and flowers, which are used as a way of making it seem more attractive.
15:51Even in one particular place, one was adorned with a whole army of little toy plastic soldiers that the bird had clearly found in some kid's bedroom nearby.
16:00And one particular species, the satin bowerbird, will only have blue accoutrements around its bower.
16:05So those would normally be things like beetle wing cases and butterfly wings and flowers.
16:09And I have knelt alongside a satin bowerbird, bower, and taken out one of the blue pieces of flower and replaced it with a red flower.
16:20And the bird came flying down out of the treetops, landed right in front of me, picked up the red thing, threw it aside from the bower and got into my face going,
16:28So angry, so furious that I'd messed up his display, which was his perfect way of finding a female.
16:37And it seems that, in birds at least, it is the males who are the most glamorous, but also the most moody.
16:44Fantastic. What a wonderful thing.
16:47I think I've seen a little film about that bird that, you know, decorates its area.
16:54And that particular satin bowerbird is almost certainly the same one that Sir David Attenborough knelt alongside on the life of birds, maybe 20 years beforehand.
17:04Wonderful story. Beautifully told. Thank you, Steve.
17:07Now, 40 plays, 16, and it's Phil's letters game. Yes, Phil.
17:11Consonant and star, please, Rachel.
17:12Thank you, Phil.
17:13P.
17:15And a vowel.
17:16U.
17:17And a consonant.
17:19M.
17:21And another consonant.
17:23N.
17:24And a vowel.
17:26O.
17:28Another vowel.
17:30A.
17:31A consonant.
17:33T.
17:34Another consonant.
17:36D.
17:37And a final vowel, please.
17:40And a final I.
17:42Stand by.
17:43OK.
17:43D' зачży.
17:53No систем, D'iplin, d'afePP.
17:54Stay suppose.
17:56Have a jinоны.
17:56See you soon.
17:56See you soon.
17:56Go.
17:57No Labour.
17:57soldiers.
17:58There's hopefully.
17:59Heaven's safe.
17:59Go.
17:59Go.
18:00Go.
18:00Go.
18:01Go.
18:01Go.
18:01Go.
18:01Go.
18:02Go.
18:03Go.
18:05Go.
18:07God.
18:07Go.
18:07Go top.
18:08Go.
18:08Go.
18:09Go.
18:11Go.
18:11Go.
18:11Yes, Phil.
18:15Six.
18:15And Jordan, five.
18:17Your five?
18:19Mount.
18:19Mount.
18:20And Phil, podium.
18:22Podium.
18:22Mount the podium.
18:23Yep.
18:25And in the corner, Susie, Steve?
18:27So, I've got puma.
18:30There's also tinamu, which is a ground-dwelling bird that you find in South America.
18:35It's not massively dramatic, but you hear the sound, the call, all the time when you're in the rainforest.
18:40Very good.
18:40And a puma.
18:42Susie, anything else?
18:43Impound is there for seven as well, but not as exciting as tinamu.
18:4746, please.
18:4816.
18:49Jordan, let us game.
18:51Another vowel, please, Rachel.
18:53Thank you, Jordan.
18:54U.
18:55A consonant.
18:58S.
18:59And a vowel.
19:01E.
19:03And a consonant.
19:04Z.
19:06And a vowel.
19:09A.
19:09And a consonant.
19:12C.
19:13And another consonant.
19:15T.
19:16And a vowel, please.
19:19And a vowel, please.
19:23And lastly, O.
19:26Countdown.
19:27E toutes cesonges, you may have been.
19:48And who?
19:48And we have been.
19:50And you have been.
19:51Sorry.
19:51I wish you had a vowel.
19:52And a vowel, please.
19:53I have been.
19:53Yes, Jordan.
19:59Seven.
20:00A seven, Phil?
20:01Just a six.
20:02And your six?
20:03Court.
20:04Jordan.
20:05Tracers.
20:06How are you spelling that one, Jordan?
20:08T-R-A-C-E-R-S.
20:10There's only one R in the selection, I'm afraid.
20:12Yeah, it was.
20:13OK, sorry.
20:14Bad luck.
20:15What can we have, I wonder?
20:16I've got, like, rats and cats, which is just a bit depressingly ordinary.
20:21I've got no stories about them, really.
20:23But you keep a 100% record.
20:26That's worth having.
20:27Anything else, Susie?
20:28That's true.
20:29And there is an eight there.
20:30Outraces to exceed in speed.
20:32Outraces.
20:33To outrace somebody.
20:34All right.
20:3952 to 16.
20:40And now, Phil, it's your numbers game.
20:42Can we try three large and three small, please?
20:45Thank you, Phil.
20:45Three from the top and three little coming up.
20:48And these three little ones are seven, three and eight.
20:52And the three large ones, 100, 75 and 25.
20:57And the target, 322.
20:59Three, two, two.
21:00Three, two, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
21:30Yes, Phil.
21:343, 2, 1.
21:353, 2, 1.
21:37Jordan, 3, 2, 4.
21:39Phil, 3 times 100 is 300.
21:42300.
21:4475 over 25 is 3.
21:46Yep.
21:47Multiplied by 7 is 21.
21:50It is indeed.
21:51I guess she won away.
21:513, 2, 1.
21:52Well done.
21:53Well done, Phil.
21:54But 3, 2, 2.
21:55Rachel.
21:56It was there.
21:56If you say 8 minus 7 is 1.
22:00100 minus 1, 99.
22:03Times that by 3 for 297.
22:06And Adam, 25.
22:073, 2, 2.
22:08Well done.
22:093, 2, 2.
22:10Indeed.
22:12And now it's time for our second tea time teaser, which is fear right.
22:17And the clue.
22:18I fear the writing could be on the wall for you if you have too many glasses of this.
22:23I fear the writing could be on the wall for you if you have too many glasses of this.
22:29Oh, fire water.
22:55Fire water.
22:56Dangerous stuff.
22:5859 plays 16.
23:00Fill on 59.
23:01Jordan, your letters game.
23:04Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
23:05Thank you, Jordan.
23:06T.
23:07And the vowel?
23:09A.
23:10And the consonant?
23:13R.
23:15And another consonant?
23:17T.
23:18And the vowel?
23:21I.
23:22And a consonant?
23:24R.
23:24And a consonant?
23:28N.
23:30And a vowel?
23:32A.
23:35And a consonant, please.
23:37And lastly, G.
23:39Stand by.
23:40And a consonant, please.
23:41And a consonant, please.
23:42And a consonant, please.
23:43And a consonant, please.
23:44And a consonant, please.
23:45And a consonant, please.
23:45And a consonant, please.
23:46And a consonant, please.
23:47And a consonant, please.
23:47And a consonant, please.
23:48And a consonant, please.
23:49And a consonant, please.
23:50And a consonant, please.
23:51And a consonant, please.
23:52And a consonant, please.
23:53And a consonant, please.
23:54And a consonant, please.
23:55And a consonant, please.
23:56And a consonant, please.
23:57And a consonant, please.
23:58And a consonant, please.
23:59And a consonant, please.
24:00And a consonant, please.
24:01And a consonant, please.
24:02And a consonant, please.
24:03And a consonant, please.
24:04And a consonant, please.
24:05Yes, Jordan.
24:12Seven.
24:13A seven.
24:14Phil.
24:15Just a six.
24:17And that six?
24:18Rating.
24:19Rating.
24:20And Jordan?
24:21Tarting.
24:22Yeah, tarting something up.
24:23It's absolutely fine.
24:24Well done.
24:25What has Steve got for us, I wonder?
24:28Oh, it's really disappointing.
24:30I've only got a gnat.
24:32Well done.
24:3359 to 23.
24:35Phil.
24:36Off we go.
24:37Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:38Thank you, Phil.
24:39L.
24:40And a vowel.
24:42I.
24:43And a consonant.
24:44T.
24:46And a vowel.
24:47E.
24:49And a consonant.
24:51L.
24:52Another consonant.
24:54N.
24:56A vowel.
24:57A.
25:00Another vowel, please.
25:03O.
25:04And a final consonant.
25:06And a final H.
25:08And here's the countdown clock.
25:21Mm, Phil. Seven.
25:42A seven. Jordan. Six.
25:45And that's six. Loathe.
25:49Elation. Elation.
25:51Very good.
25:52Can we beat Elation, I wonder?
25:55Another seven. We'll give you ethanol.
25:58Yes.
25:59Yep. As for animals...
26:02Just a lion. A lion, though.
26:0566 to 23.
26:07Susie, you're geared up for your wonderful origins of words, a daily delight.
26:13Well, I have to thank Paul Anthony Jones,
26:15who wrote a great book called The Accidental Dictionary
26:17that I like delving into from time to time.
26:20And he reminded me about one particular word which we bandy about these days,
26:24but which actually has quite a dark history to it.
26:27So these days when a film fails to earn any money at the box office,
26:30we tend to call it a bomb.
26:32But if it's really successful, we call it a blockbuster, which is still literally a bomb.
26:38And the reason why it takes us back to wartime and Britain at the height of the Second World War.
26:44And this is when the Royal Air Force began developing a new design for a huge aerial bomb.
26:50It was called the High Capacity, or HC, bomb.
26:53It took a long time to develop.
26:55But when it did emerge, it was nine feet long, the first one, in 1941,
26:59half a tonne of steel and weighed a total of 4,000 pounds.
27:03And if that's not enough, a staggering three-quarters of that was made of pure explosive amytol,
27:10so one of the most explosive materials around.
27:13And on the 31st of March of 1941, the first of these was dropped in an air raid on the city of Emden.
27:19That's in northwest Germany.
27:21And one of the pilots involved in the raid described, quite sad,
27:24this how whole houses took to the air.
27:27Then the war intensified.
27:29The need for greater, bigger bombs emerged.
27:32And by the end of the war,
27:33more than 120,000 HCs have been dropped on German targets.
27:39To the RAF pilots, these were simply called cookies.
27:42And there was a tradition of calling bombs sort of quite affectionate names, really,
27:46big birthers, or it's quite a strange thing.
27:48It's, I suppose, a little bit of black humour.
27:50But it was the Americans who decided to call them blockbusters,
27:53because they were so huge that they could literally destroy an entire block.
27:58And thanks to American wartime reporters, that crept into the English lexicon.
28:01And it's stayed there ever since, thankfully, not to describe bombs so much,
28:04but to describe anything that makes a massive impact.
28:07Indeed. Well done.
28:11And, of course, the race to build the Vegas carries on.
28:15Gasty.
28:1666 plays 23.
28:18And, Jordan, your letters again.
28:21Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:22Thank you, Jordan.
28:23Y.
28:24And another consonant, please.
28:26P.
28:28And the vowel.
28:29E.
28:30And another vowel.
28:33I.
28:34And a consonant.
28:36S.
28:37And another consonant.
28:39R.
28:40And a vowel.
28:42E.
28:44And a consonant.
28:46X.
28:48And another consonant, please.
28:51And lastly, T.
28:54Countdown.
28:54Let's go.
28:56T.
28:57FM filer.
29:04And another consonant, please.
29:05T beasts, suas cron?
29:07And another consonant, please.
29:10So, let's go.
29:17E.
29:19Tば them.
29:21Yes, Jordan.
29:26Seven.
29:27Seven and?
29:28Seven.
29:28Jordan.
29:30Experts.
29:31Experts and?
29:32Expires.
29:33Very good.
29:33Yes, very good.
29:34Good enough?
29:35Yeah.
29:36What else have we got in the corner?
29:37So, we've got pyrites, which are minerals.
29:42I think one of the pyrites is bulls gold.
29:44Is that right?
29:45Yeah, absolutely right.
29:45Yeah, shiny.
29:47I've also got yeti, or yetis.
29:49Well done.
29:49So, obviously, there is the mythological creature, which is believed to probably be results of a Himalayan brown bear leaving scat and sign, and people mistaking them for that.
30:00And there's also the yeti crab, which is a deep-sea crab, which has incredibly hairy pedipalps.
30:06Indeed.
30:07Well done.
30:0873 to 30.
30:09Phil, final.
30:10Letters game for you.
30:11Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:12Thank you, Phil.
30:13N.
30:14Anna, vowel.
30:16I.
30:18Anna, consonant.
30:18T.
30:21And a vowel.
30:23U.
30:24And a consonant.
30:26D.
30:27And a consonant.
30:29M.
30:31And a vowel.
30:33E.
30:34And a consonant.
30:36P.
30:38And a final vowel, please.
30:41And a final I.
30:44Downtown.
30:44M.
30:45M.
30:46M.
30:48M.
30:48M.
30:48M.
30:49M.
30:50M.
30:50M.
30:54M.
30:54M.
30:55M.
30:56M.
30:56M.
30:56M.
30:56M.
30:57M.
30:58M. M.
30:58M. M.
31:00Yes, Phil?
31:16Six.
31:16A six.
31:17And Jordan?
31:18Seven.
31:19Phil?
31:20United.
31:21Jordan Hale?
31:23Minutes, it's on when you said...
31:24Minutes, yeah, absolutely fine.
31:25Well done.
31:26It's a meeting.
31:27Well done, good score.
31:28I'm so sure to have that one.
31:29Yeah.
31:29I mean, I've got pied, which is, in biology, what you say,
31:33if something's black and white, it's pied.
31:36It'll do.
31:36Yeah.
31:37Susie?
31:38A couple of eights.
31:39Impudent and unpitied.
31:42Perfect.
31:43Well done.
31:4673 plays 37 into the final numbers game for you, Jordan.
31:52Two big, the rest small, please.
31:54Thank you, Jordan.
31:55Two from the top and four not from the top for the final one.
31:57And this last selection is three.
32:00Two.
32:01Four.
32:02Seven.
32:03And the large one's 50.
32:04And 100.
32:06And target, 745.
32:09745.
32:09Five.
32:10Five.
32:10Five.
32:11Five.
32:11Five.
32:12Five.
32:13Five.
32:13Five.
32:14Five.
32:14Five.
32:15Five.
32:15Five.
32:15Five.
32:16Five.
32:16Five.
32:17Five.
32:17Five.
32:17Five.
32:18Five.
32:18Five.
32:19Five.
32:19Five.
32:20Five.
32:20Five.
32:21Five.
32:21Five.
32:22Five.
32:22Five.
32:22Five.
32:23Five.
32:23Five.
32:23Five.
32:23Five.
32:24Five.
32:24Five.
32:24Five.
32:25Five.
32:25Five.
32:25Five.
32:26Five.
32:26Five.
32:26Five.
32:27Five.
32:27Five.
32:28Five.
32:28Five.
32:29Five.
32:29Five.
32:30Five.
32:30Five.
32:31Five.
32:31Five.
32:32Five.
32:32Five.
32:33Five.
32:33Jordan.
32:417, 4, 5.
32:42And 7, 4, 5.
32:44Thank you. Jordan.
32:457 times 100, 700.
32:47Yep.
32:48Plus the 50.
32:497, 50.
32:50Minus the 3, minus the 2.
32:51Lovely. 7, 4, 5.
32:53And Phil, same way?
32:55Yeah, there we go.
32:56APPLAUSE
32:5783 to 47, as we go into the final round,
33:03conundrum time.
33:04Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers,
33:06let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:40Nope.
33:41No, we're stumped here.
33:43Surprisingly.
33:44Who in the...
33:44Lots of hands.
33:46You, sir.
33:47Intrusive.
33:48Intrusive.
33:49Let's see whether you're right.
33:51Intrusive.
33:52Intrusive, indeed it is.
33:53Well done.
33:54Well done.
33:57Well done.
33:59So, 83 plays 47 at the final knockings.
34:04Jordan, you played well.
34:05You held him right back.
34:07But he takes the day.
34:08It does.
34:09So, thank you very much for coming.
34:11And good luck with the acting career.
34:13Take this goodie bag back.
34:15Well done.
34:15Cheers.
34:15Thanks.
34:16We'll see you tomorrow, Phil.
34:19Well done.
34:19Well done.
34:19See you tomorrow.
34:20And Steve and Susie, until tomorrow.
34:23Yeah.
34:23Thank you, Rachel, of course.
34:25See you tomorrow.
34:26All right.
34:26Same time, same place.
34:28You'll be very sure of it.
34:28A very good afternoon.
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