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JimBentley

Is there a current seeding list anywhere? I make it as follows: 1. David O'Donnell (8 wins, 880 points) 2. Michael MacDonald-Cooper (8 wins, 780 points) 3. Tim Reypert (8 wins, 773 points) 4. Barry Smith (7 wins, 648 points) 5. Richard Priest (6 wins, 697 points) 6. Peter Davies (6 wins, 642 points...

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Monday 19 May 2008 (Series 58, Game 95) C1: ROSS WATT (2 wins), a police sergeant from Dumbartonshire C2: CARL DUNDAS, a freelance teacher of languages from Barnsley DC: Susie Dent and Richard Digance ROUND 1 B F H O E A T R O ROUND 2 P N M D L O I A E ROUND 3 S R G Z O E I T W ROUND 4 A I E I O C D...

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jasoncullen wrote:Well done to all who took part in this quiz. In particular, a special congrats should go to Jim Bentley who scored a near perfect score

Thanks, Jason, and thanks for the quiz. I think it helped that most of my guesses turned out to be right!

How's about a music quiz for the next one?

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Congratulations on not dying this last year, David! And have a good night tonight - can you put a tenner on no. 2 in the fourth for me? Ta.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:
16. B (Poss A or B but I think shoulder blade is clavicle)

Dinos, it's A, trust me. Shoulder blade = scapula, collar bone = clavicle. I studied medicine many years ago and although I've forgotten most of it, I'm still pretty good on the bones.

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I'll have a go and like Howard, I'll try to say how sure or not I am of my answers (of course, the mind works in a funny way, so things I think I know are true sometimes turn out to be false): 1. A (100% sure) 2. A (100% sure) 3. D (100% sure) 4. C (fairly sure) 5. C (fairly sure) 6. A (fairly sure)...

JimBentley · Re: Monday 12 May 2008 (Series 58, Game 90) I know. I'm worse than Stalin.

I know. I'm worse than Stalin.

JimBentley · Re: Monday 12 May 2008 (Series 58, Game 90) Yep. Count 'em.

Yep. Count 'em.

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Monday 12 May 2008 (Series 58, Game 90) C1: Don Gill, appearance 2 C2: Tony Betts, a retired C of E clergyman from Northallerton DC: Susie Dent and Martin Jarvis Summary of game: ROUND 1 P T A N U M S I R ROUND 2 J L D R E A E H S ROUND 3 T L A C U N Q A D ROUND 4 R W S M E I O T S ROUND 5 25 8 7 5 ...

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Does anyone have the following Countdown cues? 1. The early 90's Countdown clock music, which was changed in favor of the current arrangement. 2. Tim Halpert's remixed version of both the main Countdown theme and the Countdown clock music Hmm, this quiz seems different to the other quizzes, but sti...

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OPTIMAL in round 8...thought DC would be on that one. Dunno what's going on with Peter at the moment, he's missing easy stuff left, right and centre.

Oh - PETIOLAR, Dinos, from PETIOLE. No PETIOLA ,I'm afraid.

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Monday 5 May 2008 (Series 58, Game 85) C1: Peter Davies, appearance 3 C2: Mike Nelson from Adderbury, near Banbury in Oxfordshire DC: Susie Dent and Jenny Bond Summary of game: ROUND 1 R X M I E I R C T ROUND 2 I E O Y R T B P S ROUND 3 F W N E I A L N D ROUND 4 O E U S T L N T R ROUND 5 50 7 5 2 3 ...

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OK, I'll have a go at starting!

1.
2. X
3. Manilla
4. Buenos Aires
5. Hardness
6. 1314
7. Dunno, probably not the gay one.
8.
9.
10.
11. In the wrist
12. Wyoming
13. Sammy Lee
14.
15. Knight
16.
17. 1926
18. Patricia Routledge
19. 3/1
20.

Cheers, Jason, nice quiz!

JimBentley

No-one's ever said anything that nice about me before!

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Well done, Charlie, that's great news. I always knew you were clever enough to do it, despite what those other people said.

Of course, this is just an excuse to put off getting a proper job, isn't it, you workshy fop?

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Middlesbrough - not yet certain of avoiding relegation (again). Still, three points better off than your lot, Jason

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Jason Larsen wrote:Ben, thank you for your admiration for me all this time.

Jason, you really are taking the piss, aren't you?

JimBentley

It's just seems a very unlucky way to miss out on making the finals IMO. What am I missing here? Why is it more unlucky for the chap who scored more in the first 4 of his 5 games, than the chap who scored more in all 5 of his games? I think what Joseph may be getting at here is using points differe...

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Jason Larsen wrote:The people whose relatives may someday appear on Countdown.

How would they know? What if their relatives are just foetuses now? I don't think you've thought this through properly.

JimBentley

Nobody fell on September 22, 1986, but I have an interesting fact about my date of birth. September 22 marks the day in which only 100 days remain in any calendar year. Is that including the 22nd? Because I make that 101. If you got up on September 22nd and thought "Aha, there's only 100 days ...

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I did ((100 + 50) x 3) - 25 - 10, which seemed really obvious and straightforward, so I was surprised when neither contestant got it, then even more surprised when Carol came out with her convoluted method in the end.

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Yes, I imagine that must be it.

Tell us about your dream, Jason. You said it was 'unusual'. I'd like to hear about that.

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Damian, I don't know who this Tom guy is and I've never heard of these "quiz machines" being around in England. Jason, Tom is Tom Hargreaves, who was an octochamp back in Series 47, when he was just 16. He's older than that now, of course. He was blindingly good, but lost out in the final...

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Monday 28 April 2008 (Series 58, Game 80) C1: Ben Hanks - now with red hair! - an undergraduate maths student from Mickleover in Derbyshire (appearance 7) C2: David Preedy, a semi-retired IT consultant from Surrey; supports Barnsley FC, which was founded by his great-great uncle DC: Susie Dent and K...

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15. TERATOGEN and
16. WILLPOWER

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Jason Larsen wrote:Jim, you're kidding.

No, I'm not, Jason. I wouldn't joke around about something like this.

Charlie Reams wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:Jim, you're kidding.
Jim you wag, everyone knows Uncle Adolf only shops in Boots.

He was in boots. They were made of patent leather and had four inch heels, with shiny buckles on the sides.

JimBentley

Are you sure about that? Because I could've sworn I saw him in Tesco this afternoon.

He was buying frozen meat products, mainly, but also had a large tub of Vaseline and some condoms in his basket. I dread to think of what he had planned.

JimBentley

Best of luck with this, Martin. As for brushing up on general knowledge, there's very little you can do in the short space of time you have (OK, it might be a while between now and your recording date, but it would take years and years of dedicated study to get really good at the whole general knowl...

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Awesome. So at the current rate, how long will it be before this place overtakes the previous place in number of posts? (Remember to factor in the rate of posts at the mailing list as well, it's not static!) Using my special statistical techniques - which include the complex discipline of guessing ...

JimBentley

I'm unsurprisingly jimbentley on ISC and have been playing a lot more lately. People who've played me before will be pleased to know that I retain my amazing ability to miss the fucking obvious, and also to play "words" that blatantly don't exist, but sound like they possibly could (in an ...

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Monday 21 April 2008 (Series 58, Game 75) C1: Ben Hanks (appearance 2), a student C2: John Morrell, a retired financial advisor from Barnoldswick in Lancashire DC: Susie Dent and Paul Zenon Summary of game: ROUND 1 F P E S P A E B N ROUND 2 T D A M C I E R A ROUND 3 L T D I E N O C W ROUND 4 X T I A...

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I'm disappointed with the range of Jasons available in this poll. No Jason King (as played by mad Peter Wyngarde)? No Jason Alexander (alias George Costanza and Duckman)? No Jason Pierce out of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualised? All these Jasons are better than the Jasons in the poll - except for Jason L...

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I was actually talking about average score rather than ratings. If you look at his participation in the WSC, 2005 : average 358 2003 : average 378 2001 : average 359 For the others I can't find the information on the net, but we're seriously talking about average 100 points more per game on the Int...

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Yeah, I was going to link the games, but then decided...meh, people here are resourceful, they'll find 'em if they really want to. The only other 100% numbers players are Dominic Marsh from Series 53 (1 win, 1 loss) and Graham Dugdale from Series 55 (who I thought at the time was going to be an octo...

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Monday 14 April 2008 (Series 58, Game 70) Player 1: Hugh Shand, appearance 2 Player 2: Carole Algie, a full time carer from Surrey Dictionary Corner: Susie Dent and Jo Brand Summary of game: ROUND 1 N G D E O A J N E ROUND 2 A F E M O Z M R I ROUND 3 N G D O E I E L V ROUND 4 I T R E I T N W S ROUND...

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I don't know. My book (edition prior to the current one) offers "BEGAT archaic past of BEGET". Either it was removed for the current edition, or Corby's made a balls-up. The latter case is so preposterous as to surely be wrong, but it seems like an odd candidate for removal. I don't know w...

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It's a landslide! But yes, it would make a lot of sense.

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Jim, I know you're kidding. But I'm not kidding. Here's the front cover of her last album, which was a smash hit all around the world (except in Germany): http://www.fahnn.co.uk/images/eva01.jpg She is an odd-looking lady, it is true, but her rhythmic flow is so irrepressible as to override the aes...

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Who is Eva Braun, anyway? I'm sorry. Hahaha, I was only pulling your leg, Jason. You know how I like a bit of fun sometimes. In fact, I don't know Eva Braun at all! I do know who she is though and can't believe you've never heard of her. She's a world-renowned hip-hop artist, recently voted by Spin...

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Jason Larsen wrote:Also, Jim, no wonder that you feel guilty about giving a facetious answer to my question. Eva Braun must not be a very nice lady.

How dare you! She's a good friend of mine and will be very upset when I tell her about this. Shame on you.

JimBentley

I'm sure Jono meant ABNEGATOR, but I'll take all the credit if it's right. No, he definitely meant ABENGATOR. It's a Malaysian crocodile with a pointed snout and purplish blotchy markings. Is it related to the BATORANGE, the favourite fruit of the Caped Crusader? Not related to it in the physical s...

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Charlie Reams wrote:I'm sure Jono meant ABNEGATOR, but I'll take all the credit if it's right.

No, he definitely meant ABENGATOR. It's a Malaysian crocodile with a pointed snout and purplish blotchy markings.

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jimbentley wrote:I'm going to have to break with the consensus of opinion here. I'll say Eva Braun.

I feel a bit guilty now about giving a facetious answer to Jason's question. Sorry, Jason.

My real answer is, of course, Stephen Hawking.

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I'm assuming they were determined by the result of the last numbers round.

I think.

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Hmmm...there's a few reasons that I don't think that's true, Joseph. When I was on, I went for loads of risky words (i.e. stuff I vaguely remembered, stuff I'd just made up, etc.) and I reckon that going for a dodgy one near the start of a game is quite harmful, as I found that it really threw me of...

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I'm going to have to break with the consensus of opinion here. I'll say Eva Braun.

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Ginger Jono wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDkLFcCZyI

Fucking hell, I think that's where the Doctor Who scriptwriters got their inspiration from in the seventies (and eighties, to a lesser extent). Thanks Jono! You are indeed a ginger god.

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Monday 7 April 2008 (Series 58, Game 65) C1: MATTHEW COATES (1 win, 91 points) C2: SUSAN WILSON, a retired nurse from Sheffield DC: Susie Dent and Dr. Phil Hammond Summary of game: ROUND 1 R E F L A E T J O ROUND 2 U A E S K T D P O ROUND 3 R N A I B S E L V ROUND 4 A O I T R N C A L ROUND 5 75 2 2 ...

JimBentley

It's just odds, isn't it? If the offer is 3 for a possibility of 20 (win) or negligable (lose), then effectively your stake is 3 and the potential winnings are 20, which means you're getting roughly 6/1 for what in reality is a 50:50 (evens) chance. That's a bet you've got to take.

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Bit of both, Joseph. I wrote a thing to extract the words ages ago, but I had to do a bit of extra pissing about in Excel to get the + letters (the extras on top of LOCATES, that is). It would be pretty easy to automate the whole thing, but I can't be arsed doing it tonight.

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Did somebody call for a nerd? LOCATES (ALECOST, LACTOSE, LOCATES, TALCOSE) + A ALECOSTS + B OBSTACLE + G GELCOATS + I SOCIETAL + L COLLATES + N LACTONES + P POLECATS + R CROTALES + R SECTORAL + U OSCULATE + Y ACOLYTES + AG GALACTOSE + AL ALLOCATES + AR ESCALATOR + BN CONSTABLE + BO BOOTLACES + BS OB...

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Monday 31 March 2008 (Series 58, Game 60) C1: RICHARD PRIEST (appearance 6), a psychiatric nurse C2: RICHARD WILSON, a shopkeeper from Sunderland DC: Susie Dent and Lynda Baron Summary of game: ROUND 1 R P R E A E G C I ROUND 2 L E M T U R D I N ROUND 3 O S E O P L Y E M ROUND 4 R A S J U O T E F RO...

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According to what I have, it's looking like this: 1. David O'Donnell (8 wins, 880 points) 2. Michael MacDonald-Cooper (8 wins, 780 points) 3. Tim Reypert (8 wins, 773 points) 4. Barry Smith (7 wins, 648 points) 5. Richard Priest (5 wins, 516 points) 6. Jason Cullen (4 wins, 421 points) 7. Tony Durra...

JimBentley

I did make a cake, shaped like a hat. But then I ate it, and took no pictures.

Sorry about that. If it''s any consolation, it was a quite misshapen and disturbing-looking cake.

It was enjoyable though. I enjoyed it.

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Did DC mention NEEDIER in round 1? I can't remember. Also, a nice alternative for round 5 (25, 1, 10, 7, 9, 9, target 568): (9 x 9 x 7) + 1 = 568. Richard was really good today, I thought, probably his best one yet. That's four centuries in five appearances now and he seems to be getting stronger. I...

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However, my hunger for corn on the cob-related anecdotes is not yet satisfied.

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Corby wrote:Did I mention my corn-on-the-cob observation - or cobservation, if you will - on the old group?

Would anyone like to hear it?

I would like to hear this cobservation, Jon, and if you have any other corn on the cob-related stories or anecdotes, I would very much like to hear those too.

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Monday 24 March 2008 (Series 58, Game 55) Player 1: TONY DURRANT (3 wins, 302 points) Player 2: RICHARD PRIEST, a psychiatric nurse from Newcastle-under-Lyme Dictionary Corner: Susie Dent and Ann Widdecombe Summary of game: ROUND 1 D T S R E A O P N ROUND 2 L G S A I O B X A ROUND 3 R D C L O U A N ...

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jasoncullen wrote:Is ABSAIL a word in round 2? CountMax doesn't allow it

It's ABSEIL, I'm afraid, Jason.

JimBentley

Vaguely pointless but nice round 10 alternative:

((100 - 1) x (9 + 3) - 6) / 2 = 591

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