Channel 4’s long-running Countdown quiz has topped its first feminine champion in an astonishing 26 years.
The present, which has been on virtually daily of Channel 4’s 42-year historical past, has not had a feminine champion since 1998.
Fiona Wooden, from Kinross in Scotland, received the collection closing Friday with a nine-letter anagram, which she recognized as being “lassitude.” She and fellow contestant Chris Kirby had been neck and neck till that final spherical, in an extremely tense closing marking the conclusion of the ninetieth collection of the present. She lastly triumphed with a rating of 96 to Kirby’s 89.
The Guardian newspaper reports that Wood responded to her win, afterwards revealing that she virtually didn’t enter her software to participate: “I simply can’t consider it. I’m not identified for being decisive, and I assumed lengthy and exhausting earlier than I made a decision to use, and I’m simply so glad that I did.”
And she or he added that she was responding to the host Colin Murray’s name for older contestants and extra girls to participate. The Guardian reviews that functions from these social teams have soared in response.
Solely 5 of the various winners of the present have been girls previous to Wooden’s victory. The present, which made its debut on the day of Channel 4’s launch in 1982, is tailored from the French TV collection Des Chiffres et Des Lettres (‘Numbers and Letters’). In a pleasingly easy and never-changing format, contestants should make the longest phrases they will consider from a selection of 9 letters chosen at random, full two mathematical puzzles and eventually full a nine-letter anagram.
