Just ask.(News)

From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: May 1, 2005 | Copyright information

DID the Channel 4 quiz Countdown have another name originally? I can remember different girls doing the numbers and the letters? - Agnes Irvine, Falkirk.

# THE show is based on the French quiz Des Chiffres et Des Lettres (Digits and Letters) which has been running in France for more than 30 years. In the UK, it has only ever been known as Countdown and it was first broadcast on the opening night of ...

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