Difference between revisions of "Peter Scott"

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Peter Scott was a finalist in Series 9. He was a retired quantity surveyor from Newark, Nottinghamshire.

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters		Guest	Lex	Max
433	19/05/1986	P	Alan Lee	38 – 53	Peter Scott	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman	Cathy Hytner	Rula Lenska	Della Thompson
434	20/05/1986	P	Peter Scott	56 – 30	Roy Brown	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman	Cathy Hytner	Rula Lenska	Della Thompson
435	21/05/1986	P	Peter Scott	26 – 55	Anne Tipp	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman	Cathy Hytner	Bill Tidy	Della Thompson
441	29/05/1986	QF	Peter Scott	13 – 63	David White	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman	Cathy Hytner	Bill Tidy	Della Thompson

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-'''Peter Scott''' was a finalist in [[Series 9]].  At the time of his appearance on countdown, he had recently been knighted for services to the navy having been a naval officer in World War II making him the only countdown contestant to have "sir" before his name.
+'''Peter Scott''' was a finalist in [[Series 9]].  He was a retired quantity surveyor from Newark, Nottinghamshire.
-He is most famous for his interest in the loch ness monster to whom he gave the scientific name of Nessiteras rhombopteryx (based on a blurred underwater photograph of a supposed fin) to the Loch Ness Monster so that it could be registered as an endangered species. The name was based on the Ancient Greek for "the wonder of Ness with the diamond shaped fin", but it was later pointed out to be an anagram of "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S".
-In 1962, he co-founded the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau with the then Conservative MP David James, who had previously been Polar Advisor on the classic 1948 movie based on his late father's doomed polar expedition Scott of the Antarctic.
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