Article: Can YOU beat the COUNTDOWN KID; The TV show's best-ever contestant sets a special quiz for the Mail...

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Daily Mail (London)
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January 9, 2003
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SIXTH-FORMER Julian Fell has been hailed the best-ever player of Channel 4's letters and numbers game Countdown after he got a never-equalled 146 points in one game.The 18-yearold from York (pictured right) competed in a champion's edition of the show this week.The Mail asked him to devise a special brainteaser quiz...

(1) What is the longest word written in lower case letters in which you can fill in all the loops of the letters, as you can with the word 'bad'?

(2) Which adjective is the odd one out and why?

ABRIDGED - CURTAL - EVERTED - TRUNCATED.

(3) How many eight-letter words can you make out of ORANGIEST?

(4) Literacy' ...

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