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8 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
44 mins
The four contestants are an astrophysics prodigy, a senior leader in a Fortune 500 company, a hip hop artist with the stage name "iLLvibe", and a marketer/extreme skier. Challenge 1 called "Beat It", which tests music, requires the contestants to determine if two drum beating patterns played by up to five drummers simultaneously are the same or different. Challenge 2 called "Crosswalk", which tests visual, entails the contestants remembering certain aspects of a group of pedestrians crossing a crosswalk. Challenge 3 called "Human Lie Detector", which tests social, requires the contestants to determine if guest Amber Marshall is telling the truth or a lie in a series of stories about her life. Challenge 4 called "Letter Chaos", which tests linguistic, asks the contestants to form three words around a listed theme from a given set of color coded letters corresponding to them being in the same word. And Challenge 5 called "Balls of Fury", which tests both physical and logical and worth double the points, is a race to gather from a pile of numbered airborne balls the nine red ones to place into a grid to make three correct mathematical equations. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 2
44 mins
The four contestants are a Youtube physics personality, a History teacher and Ph.D. candidate, an award winning radio host and producer, and a Toronto Argonauts cheerleader. Challenge 1 called "Double Take", which tests visual, requires the contestants to identify which two of six panels are the same. Challenge 2 called "Blow Back", which tests physical, entails the contestants, in specially equipped side moving and rotating chairs, to play a floor hockey-styled game against the others, with guest Scott Russell calling the play-by-play. Challenge 3 called "Mix Master", which tests music, requires the contestants to determine which combination of eight electronic instruments are playing at any given time. Challenge 4 called "Pipe Fitter", which tests logic, has the contestants putting together a length of water piping through predetermined points along a wall. And Challenge 5 called "Spin-a-Speech", which tests both social and linguistic and worth double the points, has the contestants using as many of thirty pre-selected words to present a forty-five second speech on a randomly selected topic, with guest Mary Walsh judging the quality of the speeches on how convincing they are. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 3
44 mins
The four contestants are a neuroscience student, a detective constable with the Saskatoon Police Department, a winemaker, and a competitive black belt in karate. Challenge 1 called "Cranium Crash", which tests logical, requires the contestants to complete a series of algebraic equations. Challenge 2 called "Twitterverse", which tests linguistic, entails the contestants to use up to one hundred thirty-one pre-selected words to come up with a tweet of one hundred forty characters or less on a pre-selected topic, with guest Perez Hilton judging the resulting tweets. Challenge 3 called "Model Mayhem", which tests visual, has the contestants recreating a fifteen piece ensemble shown to them on a model. Challenge 4 called "Faces", which tests social, has the contestants judging the emotion conveyed by people only seeing their eyes. And Challenge 5 called "Twisty Tune", which tests both physical and musical and worth double the points, is a moving five note instrument, on which the contestant must play a seven note melody played to them without touching non-musical parts of the instrument itself or playing an incorrect note. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 4
44 mins
The four contestants are a double honors graduate/amateur rock musician, an engineering student/comedy improviser, a software trainer/technical writer/wilderness tour guide, and a charity creator/extreme sports enthusiast. Challenge 1 called "Definition Dilemma", which tests linguistic, requires the contestants to choose which of four choices is either the definition of, a synonym for or an antonym of a given set of words. Challenge 2 called "Human Lie Detector", which tests social, requires the contestants to determine if guest Alan Thicke is telling the truth or a lie in a series of stories about his life. Challenge 3 called "Pipe Fitter", which tests logic, has the contestants putting together a length of water piping through predetermined points along a wall. Challenge 4 called "Stack of Shapes", which tests visual, has the contestants choosing which three out of nine complex shapes are overlaid on a figure shown to them. And Challenge 5 called "Step Squad", which tests both musical and physical and worth double the points, has the contestants learning and performing a dance routine and additionally performing a dance solo, their performances judged by guest, choreographer Sean Cheesman. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 5
44 mins
The four contestants are an IT security expert, a retired car salesman, a musical therapist who owns her own cake business, and a university freshman/beer hawker. Challenge 1 called "Music Match", which tests musical, has the contestants choosing the two identical melodies or chords in sets of five. Challenge 2 called "Canvas Calamity", which tests visual, entails the contestants to create a canvas in ninety seconds using various media on a randomly chosen theme, with guest Sean O'Neill judging which canvas best embodies the theme. Challenge 3 called "Cranium Crash", which tests logical, requires the contestants to complete a series of algebraic equations. Challenge 4 called "Teeter Tower", which tests physical, has the contestants balancing an increasingly heavy table using a hand pulley while building a tower with their other hand on that table using small planks to a specified height. And Challenge 5 called "Spin-a-Speech", which tests both social and linguistic and worth double the points, has the contestants using as many of thirty pre-selected words to present a forty-five second speech on a randomly selected topic, with guest Steve Patterson judging the quality of the speeches on how convincing they are. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 6
44 mins
The four contestants are a future surgeon and scientist who is pioneering new surgical techniques, a multi-lingual insurance company project manager, a musician/music teacher, and a professional football player who is also a Harvard graduate. Challenge 1 called "Double Take", which tests visual, requires the contestants to identify which two of six panels are the same. Challenge 2 called "Twitterverse", which tests linguistic, entails the contestants to use up to one hundred thirty-one pre-selected words to come up with a tweet of one hundred forty characters or less on a pre-selected topic, with guest Dan Levy judging the resulting tweets. Challenge 3 called "Faces", which tests social, has the contestants judging the emotion conveyed by people only seeing their eyes. Challenge 4 called "Mix Master", which tests musical, requires the contestants to determine which combination of eight electronic instruments are playing at any given time. And Challenge 5 called "Balls of Fury", which tests both physical and logical and worth double the points, is a race to gather from a pile of numbered airborne balls the nine red ones to place into a grid to make three correct mathematical equations. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 7
44 mins
The four contestants are a high school teacher who has always seen himself as the underdog, an insurance broker, a tax collector/independent filmmaker, and a matchmaker. Challenge 1 called "Letter Chaos", which tests linguistic, asks the contestants to form three words around a listed theme from a given set of color coded letters corresponding to them being in the same word. Challenge 2 called "Blow Back", which tests physical, entails the contestants, in specially equipped side moving and rotating chairs, to play a floor hockey-styled game against the others, with guest Dan O'Toole calling the play-by-play. Challenge 3 called "Portfolio Pro", which tests logical, has the contestants calculating the profit from investments purchased and sold or on dividends paid. Challenge 4 called "Stack of Shapes", which tests visual, has the contestants choosing which three out of nine complex shapes are overlaid on a figure shown to them. And Challenge 5 called "Karaoke Nightmare", which tests both social and musical and worth double the points, has the contestants performing karaoke to background rhythm and lyrics they've never heard or seen to a randomly selected musical style, with guest Jully Black judging the quality of the performances. The two contestants with the highest score move to the gauntlet, a race testing all six concepts in six individual puzzles.
Episode 8
89 mins
The eight season 2 finalists are the seven preliminary round winners plus one wild card, the preliminary round non-winner with the highest preliminary round score. They are put through two more preliminary rounds to narrow the field down to four. The first preliminary round, which includes all eight contestants, is a speed round, which entails competing in mini challenges back to back, those challenges which encompass all six areas of intelligence. The two contestants with the highest score move onto the final four, the two contestants with the lowest score being automatically eliminated. The middle four contestants move to the second preliminary round, where in pairs of two, the contestants compete in more mini challenges, with the first to win three of those mini challenges within each pairing also moving to the final four. Those final four then compete in six standard challenges, again each testing a different area of intelligence. Challenge 1 called "Syllable Switch", which tests linguistic, has the contestants choosing the appropriate three or four syllables out of a group of nine which will form the missing word in a sentence. Challenge 2 called "Orders Up", which tests visual, entails the contestants to create a plate of food given the entrée food item, a theme and a plethora of other food accoutrement, with guest Mark McEwan judging which plate best embodies the theme while being visually appealing. Challenge 3 called "Sliding Scale", which tests musical, requires the contestants to play back a musical motive played to them using a seven string lyre. Challenge 4 called "Moving Sum", which tests logical, has the contestants doing mathematical calculations using numbered balls floating in the air. Challenge 5 called "Screen Test", which tests social, has the contestants coming up with a movie pitch based on randomly selected genre, main character, and surprise ending, with guest Cameron Bailey judging the quality of the pitches. And challenge 6 called "Ball Handler", which tests physical, has the contestants needing to launch five balls up a ramp, watch where each will fall along a bounce wall, catch the balls with the throwing hand, and then maneuver the five balls through a tilting labyrinth table into five slots without the balls falling off the labyrinth table. The two with the highest combined score over the six challenges moves onto the final super gauntlet, testing all six intelligences in one race, the winner who will be crowned Canada's Smartest Person Season 2.