two players race, one winner takes it all. Kia ora tatou. I'm Chris Kirk, and this is Brain Busters. Get ready for a series of escalating rounds where we test our players on a wide variety of subjects before it all leads up to this ` the Brain Buster. Malo e lelei, everyone. It's the one and only King Mikey Falesiu of the ultimate obstacle course, where mental ability and physical agility combine with a test of smarts in our winner-takes-all prize finale. Kia ora for that, Mikey. And don't forget ` you can play from home as well. So, let's meet today's Brain Busters! (ENERGETIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC) Captions by Julie Taylor. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2020 Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome to Brain Busters. Today, four more players are here, excited, waiting and ready to take on the challenge. First, they need to tackle their specialist subject from our six options and score enough points to avoid elimination and stay in the game. First up, let's meet them, though. And today we are joined by Te Miringa. Welcome to the show. How are we feeling about being on Brain Busters? Um... Excited. Bit nervous. (CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY) Right into your kapa haka. What do you love about it? I just like the singing and` Feel free to sing and of your answers today on the show as well. (CHUCKLES) Next up, we do have Joel. I hear you can do something pretty crazy with your eyes. What is that? I can flick my eyelids upside down. I don't know if I really wanna see if, but, of course, I have to now anyway. So go for gold, Joel. LAUGHS: Oh my gosh. If you make it to the Amygdala, please don't do that when we're right beside each other. OK? Yeah. (CHUCKLES) Thanks, Joel. Next up, we have Holly. Now, I hear you're right into your baking, and you've made a gravity cake. What on Earth is a gravity cake? You get M&Ms and you put them on a stick, and then you get the packet, and so it sorta looks like it's pouring it into the cake. Very clever. Well, aren't you smart? Hopefully that cleverness will transition into Brain Busters today. And we also have Jayden here. Jayden, right into your rugby. Now, someone's telling me you're a little bit heartbroken about a certain Crusader who's now in Blues colours. Yep. Dan Carter should be in the Crusaders. I agree with you there as well, Jayden. Well, hey, thank you, everyone, for coming on the show. Great to have you here. Let's get into our first round today. It is Mega Memory. 90 seconds on the clock, everyone. 10 points if you buzz in and get it right. 10 points will be deducted if you get it incorrect. Good luck. Your time starts... now. Which food comes in brown, caster, icing, raw and white? Holly. Sugar. (DING!) Which tech brand includes the Galaxy S20 in its product range? Jayden. Samsung. (DING!) Which New Zealander directed, wrote and starred in Jojo Rabbit? Jayden. Taika Waititi. (DING!) What is the largest human organ? Joel. Skin. (DING!) Pork is meat from which animal? Holly. Pigs. (DING!) Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are commonly known as...? Jayden. Search engines. (DING!) The Australian soap Home and Away is based in which seaside location? Jayden. Sydney. (BUZZ!) Summer Bay. Which New Zealand singer's first single was called Royals? Holly. Lorde. (DING!) In which book would you find the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke` Joel. The Bible. (DING!) On Sesame Street, what colour is Elmo? Holly. Red. (DING!) Who was appointed as the captain of the Black Ferns in 2019? Wanna give a guess for the final question? (BUZZ!) The correct answer was Leslie Elder there. Raced through it, though, team. Great job. Let's take a look now at that leader board. Holly is in first place with 40 points. Joel and Jayden share second with 20 points. And Te Miringa is yet to score. So now we move on to our specialist subject rounds, and as Te Miringa is yet to score, you have the pleasure and privilege of going first. So what is your chosen subject? Reo Rangatira. Fantastic. Let's play Reo Rangatira. He pehea te pai o to mohiotanga? How good is your knowledge? If you're a rangatira of Te Reo, you'll be point-scoring in Reo Rangatira. Let's get her some points on the board now. Te Miringa, please step forward. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) All right. Give it your best. 20 points for each correct answer. Good luck. How many people does 'tena koutou' greet? More than three? Is that it? (DING!) It is. What is a Maori word for tooth? Niho. (DING!) You got it. Sir Paora Reeves was the first Maori to be Governor-General of New Zealand. True or false? False? (BUZZ!) It was actually true there. What is a korowai? A cloak. (DING!) Correct! That is Reo Rangatira. Thank you so much, Te Miringa, for playing. Te Miringa is on 60 points. Holly is on 40 points. Joel is on 20 points, and so is Jayden. So, next to take on their specialist subject round is Joel. What have you chosen? Equaliser. Thank you, Joel. This is Equaliser. Turn number-crunching into point-scoring with mental arithmetic that rewards you with points if you can keep up with the equation. He can do crazy things with his eyes, but can he do crazy-fast equations? Let's find out. Joel, please step forward. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) 20 points for each correct equation answered. Joel, good luck. (DING!) (DING!) Nice start, Joel. (BUZZ!) Five. (DING!) It's correct. (DING!) You got it. (DING!) You've got it. (DING!) That is correct and does complete Equaliser. Joel, a very strong round there. Six total correct out of a possible seven. Almost a perfect score there. You're clearly very, very fast for that. Thank you so much for playing Equaliser. Joel is in first place with 140 points. Te Miringa is on 60. Holly has 40. And Jayden has 20. Of course, Holly and Jayden still have to tackle their specialty subject rounds, but we're getting pretty excited for that Brain Buster, Mikey. Yes, Chris, but you know what you're gonna need to complete this bad boy? You're gonna need three things. Number one ` upper-body strength. Number two ` lower-body strength. And number three ` most importantly ` pure heart. I know they've got this, Chris. Come on! Kia ora for that, Mikey. And don't forget, you can play from home as well. Just head online to Heihei Games. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back after the break. * Nau mai, hoki mai. Kia ora, and welcome back to Brain Busters. Just before the break, we had Joel and Te Miringa take on their specialist round. And now it is Jayden's turn. So, Jayden, what have you chosen? Identifier. Thank you very much, Jayden. Let's play Identifier. Arrange, eliminate and identify to pass the science test and stack up the points. All right, Jayden. Let's get some points on the board. Please step forward. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) What do you think? Perfect score will get Dan Carter back to the Crusaders? Hope so. (LAUGHS) Good luck. 20 points for each correct answer. Let's get into it. How've we done for our first one? Nice start, Jayden. Nice stuff, Jayden. On track for him to come back to the Crusaders. Doing fantastic, Jayden. He's been super quick locking in these answers. Was he too quick there, though? No, he was good. Final Identifier question. Is he coming back to the Crusaders? Not quite! (LAUGHS) Just missing out on the final one there. I wasn't sure what we were gonna do if you did get seven out of seven. But still a great job there, Jayden. Thank you so much for playing Identifier. Joel is on 140 points; so is Jayden. Te Miringa is on 60, and Holly is on 40. So it is just Holly left to take on her chosen subject, and what is that, Holly? Sequencer. Excellent choice. Let's play Sequencer. Take the mystery out of history, getting things chronologically correct to win points. Last but certainly not least, Holly, please step forward. 20 points for each correct sequence. Holly, good luck. Here comes your first one now. In what order were these songs released ` from earliest to most recent. Some great songs there. And is it the right order? You bet it is. In what order were these people crowned Supreme Halberg Winner? Now we're done. Sarah Ulmer. Should've kept it the same way it was to start with. Order these Scarlett Johansson films from the oldest to most recent release. There we are. Back on track. In what order are these tennis grand slams held from earliest in the year to latest? Can we finish with a correct answer? Absolutely we can. Holly, thank you so much for playing Sequencer. Joel and Jayden have 140 points. Holly is on 100. And Te Miringa is on 60. So it does mean, Te Miringa, I am sorry to say, but you have been eliminated from Brain Busters. Thank you so much for playing. What are you gonna do with the money? I'm gonna get presents for my family whose birthdays are coming up. Excellent choice. Thank you so much once again. As for our remaining three players, though, it is one step closer to that Brain Buster. Mikey, are we feeling excited? Yeah, I'm excited, Chris, because very soon, our top two finalists will be joining me here on the ultimate obstacle course to turn their points into money. Cheers for that, Mikey. And before we can get to that Brain Buster, we have the Brain Teaser. Now, all of our players today have already taken on their specialty subject rounds, and we have two remaining. The two options are Blueprinter or Spellbinder. So, Joel, Holly and Jayden, the choice is now all yours. Please vote for which one you would like to play now. Thank you very much for voting. Let's start with Joel and see what he has picked. Blueprinter. Jump across to Jayden and see what he has picked. He picked Spellbinder. So the deciding vote is Holly. What has she chosen? Blueprinter. Two to one. Let's play Blueprinter. Put your memory under pressure for rapid recall of maps, plans and diagrams. Blueprinter requires pinpoint accuracy for point-scoring power. So, our scores are pretty close among our players, so this could be very interesting. For the Brain Teaser, 30 points for each correct buzz-in answer. But if you buzz in and get it incorrect, you will lose 30 points. Good luck, and let's reveal today's Blueprinter. We're on a blimp. Your time starts now. Blimps are from a unique family of aircrafts called airships. They don't use wings to fly; instead, blimps are filled with thousands of cubic metres of helium, a gas which is lighter than air, to lift off into the sky. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) 10 seconds left to memorise, everyone. And that is time. So, let's see where our first location is on the blimp. Where is this? Jayden. Spindle. Is it the spindle? (DING!) Yes indeed. What is this location? Holly. Uh, the... air scoops. (DING!) Holly's got it. Please tell me this one. Joel. The helium valve. Quick on that and is correct. (DING!) Here's your next one. Holly. The aft ballonet. (DING!) It is. And your last one now. Holly. The catenary curtain. (DING!) To jump into the lead, she's got it. Congratulations, Holly. That was super fast answers for Blueprinter. Thank you so much for playing. Let's look now at that leader board. After trailing going into the Brain Teaser, Holly now has the lead with 190 points. Joel and Jayden are tied with 170 points. So it was very close in the Brain Teaser. So we now go to a tie-breaker between Joel and Jayden. How this is going to work is I'm just going to ask a question. The first person to buzz in and give me the correct answer will go through to the Brain Buster. However, if you do buzz in and get it incorrect, the other player will go through. Good luck to you both, and here is our tie-breaker question. Which supermarket has the initials NW? Jayden. New World. (DING!) Is correct. Quick on that buzzer. Congratulations, Jayden. You are now through with Holly to that Brain Buster. Joel, unfortunately, it does mean you have been eliminated from Brain Busters. A really, really great, strong game from you. You get to go home with a $100 bank account as well. What are you going to do with the money? I'm gonna save it up to try and buy a GoPro. Great choice. Good luck with all your GoPro adventures, Joel. Holly and Jayden, congratulations. You are now on to the Brain Buster. That's right, Chris. Our finalists will be joining me very soon to face the true test of power, strength, speed and pure heart. The catch is there can only be one winner. Who's it going to be? Don't move a muscle. We'll be right back after the break. Putting money aside rather than spending it right away is called saving. Kia ora, and welcome back to Brain Busters. Our four players have taken on Mega Memory, their specialist subject round, plus the Brain Teaser. And now our top two players will tackle the Brain Buster. I'm joined here with our two finalists Holly and Jayden. Now, Holly, how are you feeling? And what's one part of the course you're looking forward to? I'm pretty excited. I'm a bit nervous, and I'm looking forward to the climbing wall. Nice, nice. And how about you, Jayden? Oh, yeah, I'm feeling pretty excited and can't wait to finish it. Cool. Say no more. Let's jump up on to our zip lines, and let's get ready to fly. Here we go. Three, two, one, let's go! It all comes down to this for Holly and Jayden. Who will take out the ultimate obstacle course? Both players are quick out the gate, heading down the neurotransmitters and on to the molecule steps. Both super fast, but Jayden just that little bit ahead right now as he speeds through the corpus callosum. Hope he took enough time to memorise the code. Let's find out. Yes! Nice one. Holly not far behind, punching in her code as Jayden scales up the parietal lobe. Awesome job with the code, Holly. Jayden, whoa, through the tunnel already. Holly likes to bake gravity cakes, but how will she go with gravity working against her? Pretty well as she gets up the parietal lobe with no problems. Jayden continues to speed his way across the course, just about at the DNA molecule ladder. Yes, here he goes. Will he have luck with the switches? Or will it slow him down? Here comes Holly, but Jayden's switches have activated. He's on his way down. Jayden is one basal ganglia away from having this race won. And, yes, congrats, Jayden. Holly's activated her switch now too, and she heads for the finish. An amazing run from Holly, but Jayden was just unstoppable today. And there is Holly. Fantastic racing. Bring it in. Firstly, we'll chat to Holly. How was that? How was the Brain Buster? It was tiring. A lot of fun, though? Yeah. Good to hear. And, Jayden, congratulations. You are now crowned the Brain Buster. How does it feel? Oh, it feels really good. Excellent. So, Holly, I'll go back to you for a second, because, unfortunately, I do have to tell you that you have been eliminated from Brain Busters. But you get to go home with a $100 bank account. What are you going to spend the money on? I think I'll buy myself a guitar. I think you should buy yourself a guitar, Holly. Great to have you on the show. And as for Jayden here, it is on to Amygdala. All right, Jayden. We said if you got your specialty subject right, we'd get Dan Carter back to the Crusaders. You're here now for Amygdala. Surely, that's enough to impress the man, right? Yeah, hope so. (LAUGHS) Well, good luck. So, here's how it's gonna work. With Holly's points of 190 and your points of 180, you're playing for a combined total of $370. So, each correct answer is worth $37. All the best, and let's get you some money. Here comes your first Amygdala question. The harmonica is played with the hands and which other body part? Feet. (BUZZ!) Mouth is the answer there. Which horticultural product is associated with the Zespri brand? Uh, not too sure. Soap? (BUZZ!) Kiwifruit. Oh. Which city was the capital New Zealand directly before Wellington? Auckland? (DING!) You got it. There we go. In which environment on Earth are the pelagic zones found? Tropical? (BUZZ!) Ocean we were looking for. Complete the title of this book by Ransom Riggs published in 2011. 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar...' Children. Probably the most confident you've been about an answer. Has he got it? (DING!) Does indeed. Which singer-songwriter with the surname Cyrus played the title role on Hannah Montana? Miley Cyrus. Watched a bit of Hannah Montana in the past? No, none at all. You sure? Yeah. OK. But you think you got this one. Yep, hopefully. All right. (DING!) You got it. Beginning with the letter 'S', what name is given to the place where a character or item is placed in the game world? Uh... Set? Not too sure about that one. Good guess being 'set'. (BUZZ!) Spawn was the answer there. Oh! 'Pu' is the chemical symbol for which element with a similar name to Goofy's dog and a celestial body that is not a planet any more? Pluto. Plutonium! Corrected his answer. But is it the correct answer? (DING!) It is indeed. In which country is the Kaaba, the shrine, at the centre of the Great Mosque located? Uh... Brazil? Most sacred place in the world by Muslims. Oh. But is it Brazil? (BUZZ!) Saudi Arabia was the answer. Ah. Your final Amygdala question. TVNZ 2's current logo is black, white and what other colour? Green. Locking in green for your final Amygdala answer. A few colours to choose from. Yep. Is it green, though? (BUZZ!) Oh! No, it's not. It is purple. And let's take a look at what you have scored ` $148. You're definitely gonna know what the colour is now when you watch the show back. But great job. $148 is all yours. What are you gonna do with the money? Probably save it until I want something. Save for the sake of saving ` a great plan. Hey, Jayden, put it there. Thank you so much for coming on the show. It's been an absolute blast having ya. Awesome effort, Jayden. If you think you got what it takes to be here on Brain Busters, jump online and head to Heihei Games. Thank you so much for joining us today. We'll see you next time with more Brain Busters. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2020