Clive Spate (born 16 January 1952) is a British game show contestant. He was the winner of the eighth series of Countdown and has won many other TV quizzes, including the 2003 series Grand Slam, a contest between previous quiz show champions which also featured Olav Bjortomt, Mark Labbett, Graham Nash and David Edwards, among others.
He appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (Series 15, Episode 13), broadcast on 27 March 2004, where he won £125,000.
Spate is also a former tournament Scrabble player. He was the top rated UK player in 1991, 1994 and 1995. He competed at the World Scrabble Championship in 1993, finishing ninth out of sixty-four. The winner that year was Countdown Champion of Champions Mark Nyman – the first UK Scrabble player to hold the World Championship title.
Spate gradually retired from the game, although he made a brief comeback in 2003, when he was the runner-up at the British National Scrabble Championship.
External links
- Clive Spate Scrabble tournament results at cross-tables.com
References
- "Clive Spate - Countdown".
- "Grand Slam (TV series) : Who, What, Where, when".
- "Uk-scrabble : Message: Top rated UK player". Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- WSC 1993 results at cross-tables.com
- "Uk-scrabble : Message: Runners -up NSC". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2023.