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.

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  • 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. Spate is also a former tournament Scrabble player. He was the highest 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 only UK Scrabble player to date 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 UK National Scrabble Championship. Although no longer playing Scrabble; together with his wife Sheila, he runs the biannual Nottingham Nomads weekend tournament which attracts players of all abilities from all over the UK and further afield. (en)
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  • 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. (en)
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  • Clive Spate (en)
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