- We start with four, but in the end, they can be only one. Kia ora, I'm Chris Kirk and this is Brian Busters. Who has the mind power to get through all of the rounds and end up at this ` The Brain Buster. - Check it out. It's your boy, Mikey Falesiu. I hope today's four players got their A-game ready because if you think this is going to be a walk in the park, you better think again. - Kia ora, Mikey. And don't forget, you can play from home as well. So let's meet today's Brain Busters. (BRAIN BUSTERS THEME) 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, we have four players hoping they've got what it takes to be called the ultimate Brain Buster. So first, we'll get into our specialist subject rounds where our players would choose from six of our options. Hopefully, they score enough points to be able to carry on in this game and avoid elimination. So let's meet today's players. Firstly, we have Holly. Holly, how many siblings do you have? - I have two. I'm the middle child. - Middle child. So what's the best thing about being the middle child? - Well, there's lots of perks of being the middle child. But you don't have to do anything first and you don't get treated like a kid. You're just the right mix of everything. - Nicely said, Holly. Good luck to you in Brain Busters today. Next up, we have Ellie. Ellie. Welcome to the game. - Hi. - What are we looking forward to on Brain Busters? - I think the obstacle course looks pretty cool, so I'd like to make it into that round if I can. - You think you can get there? - I hope so. - Good luck to you. We also have Harry. Harry, right into your sport? - Yup. - Rugby player? - Yup. - Favourite player? - Uh, Richie McCaw. - Oh, nice choice. So, what, you're a loosie then? - Ah, yes. - How's the season gone so far? - Oh, yeah. We're doing pretty good. - Pretty good? - Yeah. - Nice work. Hopefully you can transition that good luck on Brain Busters today. And lastly, we have Dom. Dom, welcome to the game. - Hi. - When we're not at school, what are we doing? - Either playing games or playing guitar. - Nice. Well, you're playing a game right now. Pretty important game as well. Playing for some good money. So good luck to all of you. And let's get straight into it with our first round of the day. It's Mega Memory. Let's get straight into it. 90 seconds on the clock. Best of luck to all of our players today. Your time starts now. What sport is also known as ping-pong? (BUZZER) Dom? - Table tennis. - Which is the longest river in South America? (BUZZER) Dom? - The Amazon River. - Which book was published first, Little Women or Captain Underpants? (BUZZER) Ellie? - Little Women. - In which country is the city of Melbourne? (BUZZER) Harry? - Australia. - Is a frankfurter a soup or a sausage? (BUZZER) Holly? - A sausage. - In a game of pool, what is the name of the stick that players use? (BUZZER) Dom? - Cue. - What is the scientific study of atmospheric phenomena called? (BUZZER) Ellie? - Astrology? - Meteorology. What professional sport does Serena Williams play? (BUZZER) Holly? - Tennis. - What is the largest island in the world? (BUZZER) Ellie? (BUZZER) Time's up. Greenland. Who wrote The Hunger Games trilogy? (BUZZER) Holly? - Susan Collins. - What is bigger, a string quartet or an orchestra? (BUZZER) Dom. - An orchestra. - What is the name of New Zealand's biggest online auction website? (BUZZER) Harry? - Trade Me. - Who does Sophia the First's mother marry? (BUZZER) The King. What does the abbreviation BBC stand for? (BUZZER) Dom? - British... (BUZZER) - Time's up. British Broadcasting Corporation. That is time up also for our round of Mega Memory. Thanks, everyone, for playing the first round. Let's take a look at the leaderboard. Holly has 30 points. Don also has 30 points. Then we have Harry on 20 points and Ellie is on zero points. So we move into our specialist subject rounds now. And first to have a turn, it is Ellie. So what are we playing, Ellie? - Blueprinter. - Thank you very much. Let's play Blueprinter. All right, let's test Ellie's knowledge and memory right now. Please step forward. First up, no pressure. 20 points for each correct answer that you can remember. So 30 seconds on the board. You can memorise all of them and then you have 30 seconds to put in your answers. Got it? - Yeah. - Sweet as. Good luck. Let's see what it is today. Rome monuments. Best of luck. Your time starts now. Rome has more than 280 fountains in it. The most famous of them is the Trevi Fountain. Nearly 700000 euro in coins is tossed into it every year Ten seconds, Ellie. And just like that, 30 seconds is up. So now 30 more seconds to put in those answers. Your time for that starts now. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) Ten seconds left. Five seconds. There we go. Just in time, getting in that last one there, but are they all in the right spot? Let's find out now. (BUZZER) Missed the first one. But we got the Spanish Steps. Nice work. And the Trevi Fountain. Got that one also. (BUZZER) Missed out on Piazza del Popolo. Got that one though. And last one... (BUZZER) Missed out on Pantheon, but still not a bad effort, good start to your round. So thank you so` - Thank you. - No, thank you for playing, Ellie. Ellie has first place with 80 points. Holly is on 30 points. Dom is also on 30 points, then we have Harry on 20 points. So next up, it is Harry. Harry, what are we playing? - Ah, Reo Rangatira. Thank you very much, Harry. Let's play Reo Rangatira. Let's test his Te Reo now. Harry, please step forward. How are the nerves, Harry? - Ah, yep, they're pretty good. Pretty good? All right, channel those nerves. Best of luck. 20 points for each correct answer. Here comes your first one. What is an English word for kaumatua? - Father? (BUZZER) - Elderly. Kiwi sporting legend, Phil Tataurangi now has a son, Kahu, following his legacy. What sport do they share? - Rugby? (BUZZER) - Golf. What is the Maori word for basket or kit? - Kete. - There we go. Nice work, Harry. Last Reo Rangatira question. The great forest of Tane is known as Te Waonui a...? - Tara? (BUZZER) - Unlucky there, but still, thank you so much for playing Reo Rangatira. Ellie is on 80 points. Harry has 40 points. Holly is on 30 points and so is Dom. So we've already gone through two of our players for this specialist subject rounds. And we'll have two to go shortly after the break. But what is on everyone's mind is, 'can I get to that Brain Buster?' - Very soon our top two will face the wrath of the ultimate obstacle course. It's about to get real up in here. I can feel it, Chris. - Shot for that, Mikey. And of course, 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. Welcome back to Brain Busters. Just before the break, Ellie and Harry headed to the specialist subject rounds. And next up, we have Holly. Holly, what have you chosen to play today? - I'm playing Identifier. - Thank you very much, Holly. Let's play identifier. Can Holly avoid elimination? Let's find out now. Please step forward. Now potentially in that elimination spot, Holly. Need to try to avoid it, right? - OK. - 20 points for each correct answer. Give it your best shot. Here we go. Eliminate the three creatures that are vertebrates. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) First answer locked in. Can we get some good points on the board already? Oh, needed to swap out lobster for shark and shrimp for turtle. It's all right. Plenty of opportunity. eliminate the three that are not minerals. Speedy locking in to those answers. Can we give 20 points to Holly? Yes, we can. Arrange these animals by average life span from shortest to longest. See how well Holly knows her animals. Needed to swap box turtle and rabbit around there. Eliminate the three that are not arachnids. Have we got it? Needed to swap out scorpion for fly this time. So, so close. All right. Final one, Holly. More points on the board. Let's go. Eliminate the three man-made phenomenon. All right, Holly. Need this one. Need some points. Yes, there we go. Nice finish for Identifier. Good work, Holly. Thank you so much for playing. - Thank you. Ellie is on 80 points. Holly is on 70 points. Harry is on 40 points and Dom is on 30 points. So, by my calculations, Dom, it's just you left to have a go at your specialist subject ground. So what have you chosen? - I've chosen Spellbinder. - Thank you very much, Dom. Let's play Spellbinder. Let's see if Dom can now avoid elimination. Please step forward. So Dom, you've seen everybody else go. How are the nerves feeling now, being last to go? - Um... Well, I know that there's some answers that you wouldn't expect. So, you know, I'm confident in my skill, but you never know. - Let's see what pops up. 20 points for each correctly spelled word. Here comes your first one. Botanical. Great stuff. Marriage. Correct. Spell musician. You got it. Miniature. Correct. Nice work. Hungrily. Also correct. Doing great here, Dom. Your next word is antioxidants. Correct. Nice work. Added an 's' on the end. Your final Spellbinder word is... Gruesome. That is correct. Dom, a perfect score in Spellbinder. You said you were confident. Rightly so. How does it feel? - It feels good knowing that I can spell all of those. I've been practising a bit. - It's paid off as well. Dom, congratulations. Thank you so much for playing Spellbinder. - Thank you. With seven out of seven, Dom has one hundred and seventy points. Ellie is on 80 points. Holly has 70 points and Harry has 40 points. So unfortunately, Harry, you have been eliminated from Brain Busters. Thank you so much for playing. Of course you get to go home with a $100 bank account. So what are we going to do with that money, Harry? - Save it for, um, maybe going to university. - Nice. I like your future planning. Nice work. All the best for that, Harry. And thank you so much once again for playing. As for our three remaining players, it's one step closer to the Brain Buster. - Farewell to one player, which means for our three remaining players, know what time it is? - It's crunch time. - It sure is, Mikey. And before we do get to the Brain Buster, we have our Brain Teaser. Now, all of our players have gone through this specialist subject rounds and we are left with two options for our players to pick from. Today, those options are Equaliser or Sequencer. So, Holly, Ellie and Dom, please select which one you would like to play now. Everyone has locked in their votes. Let's start with Holly, who has voted for Equaliser. We'll jump across to Dom and see what he has chosen. Sequencer. So it's down to Ellie, who has picked... Equaliser. So let's play Equaliser. So now Holly and Ellie stole the choice away from Dom. Good thing too, because Dom's currently way out in front. So we need some serious points by the two of you if you want to catch up. Of course, 30 points if you buzz in and get the equation correct. But buzz in and get it wrong, you lose 30 points. Here comes your first equation. Best of luck. (BUZZER) 656. Next equation. (BUZZER) Holly? - 23. (BUZZER) - 43. (BUZZER) Ellie? Nice work, Ellie. (BUZZER) Holly? (BUZZER) So close. 296. Last Equaliser Brain Teaser. (BUZZER) Out of time there, the correct answer was seven. So, just like that, it is the end of our Brain Teaser. Thank you all for playing. Let's take a look now at the leaderboard. Dom is on 170 points still. Ellie is on 110 points. And Holly has gone down to 10 points. Had to give it a go, Holly. Unfortunately, wasn't able to quite get there. So you have been eliminated from Brain Busters. Thank you so much for playing, Holly. Of course, you get to go home with a $100 bank account. So what are you going to do with the money, Holly? - I'm probably just going to save it. - Any plans for what you're saving for? - Maybe something in the future. Something big. - Nice. Saving for the sake of saving. It's a good plan, Holly. So thank you so much once again for coming on. And congratulations also to Ellie and Dom. As for you two, it's time for the Brain Buster. - The ultimate obstacle course with our final two players will compete to be crowned as today's Brain Buster. But only one winner, though. Who's it going to be? Find out soon. Calculator! - The money that you earn before paying tax is called... * - Calculator! - We asked for the name of money earned before taxes removed. The answer is gross income. Welcome back to Brain Busters. We now have our two finalists locked in and ready to take on the Brain Buster. - Our final two competitors, only one winner. - I'm joined here with Ellie and Dom. Ellie, you really love your sports. - Yeah, I'm real passionate about sports. - So then you should breeze through the Brain Buster, right? - I hope so. - Well, all the best. And Dom, a bit of a gamer? - Yeah. I like to play some games. - Favourite game? - Probably a game called Half Life 2. It's sort of a puzzle game and you solve things. - Cool. Nice. Well, let's hope that you can solve out the Brain Buster, man. All the best to you both. Have fun. Big smiles. Here we go. Three, two, one, go! Dom is currently at the top of the leaderboard. Ellie has some work to do to take this out. They're off the zip line. And Ellie is first down the Neurotransmitter. And a big jump from Dom, there. After the Molecule Steps comes the Corpus Collosum. Dom's got his code and... Whoops! Close call there, Ellie. Now they have their unique codes, they can use them to engage the Hippocampus. Just like that. Ellie slightly ahead in this race, but Dom can close that gap at any time. Both scaling the Parietal Lobe. Ellie is a powerhouse through the tunnel. Dom is hot on her heels, though. This is where can all change ` the Frontal Lobe. Dom and Ellie making it look way too easy. No time for any mistakes. Ellie's first at the DNA Molecule Ladder and already flipped the switch. And there's Dom, woo. Another big jump. Both scrambling under and over the Basal Ganglia to the finish. Who's going to win, Chris? - Wow. Hands on! Gotta hit it to finish the race. There we go, Dom! I'll get bring it across Ellie. But we'll start with you first, Dom. What a race. That was super fast. Have you caught your breath, Dom? - Yeah. - Just about? Nice. How was the race for you? Did you enjoy it? - Oh yeah. It was fun. Messed up a couple times, but... - Got through it and was super competitive as well. - Yeah. So second place today, Dom, for Brain Busters. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Of course, not going home empty handed. $100 bank account is all yours. So what are you going to do with the money, Dom? - I'm saving up to buy a new computer so... - Put it towards that? - Yeah. - Nice choice. Cheers heaps, Dom. Ellie, congratulations. You are today's Brain Busters champion. How does it feel? - Pretty tired, but feels pretty good. - Nice. You said you were confident before the race. How are you feeling when you're going through the course? - I feel like slipping and sliding a bit. - But got there in the end and came away with the win. So congratulations to you, Ellie. So it is now time for Amygdala. Ellie, congratulations on making it to the Amygdala. Of course, super excited to go through that Brain Buster. Has the adrenaline calmed down a bit or is still pretty pumped? - Still pretty pumped, but not as tired as I was before. - Fair enough. OK, so you're going to be more pumped when you realise how much money you're playing for. So you scored a total of 110 points today and then Dom scored 170 points. He scored more points than you and you get to take all those points away from him. Combine those together. $280 you are playing for. - That's pretty good. - A lot of money. - Yeah. - You ready for it? - Yeah. - $28 for each correct question. Good luck. Here is your first one. Name the North Island town that has a reputation for smelling like rotten eggs. - Rotorua. - Correct, nice start. Which geometric shape is subject of Pythagoras's theorem? - A triangle? - It's correct. Which Charade-inspired word guessing game requires competitors to draw pictures? - Pictionary. On a roll. What is the only Olympic swimming style and which the competitor faces up? - Backstroke. - You got that one. A croque madame sandwich includes ham, egg and two kinds of what? - Cheese? - A guess, is it? - Yeah. Two kinds of cheese. Cheese is correct. Nicely done. All right, here's your next one. How many months make up the winter season? - Three. - Makes sense. - Yeah. I hope so. - So do I. It is three. What is the more common term for the part of our body known as the encephalon? - Your nose? - Is the answer nose? - I didn't think so. - Brain. Here on the show, Brain Busters! All right, next one. With the chemical symbol HG, which element shares its name with a planet in our solar system? - Mercury. - How well do you know the periodic table? - I know, like roughly the first 20 or so, but not super well. - Can we add some more dollars here? Yes, it is Mercury. Nice work. OK, here comes your last Amygdala question. Best of luck. Which kind of radiation with the abbreviation UV can be harmful to human skin if unprotected? - Ultraviolet rays or, ultraviolet. - Confident with this one? - We just learnt in science. So hopefully my memory is pretty good. - You're right, your memory is pretty good, it is ultraviolet. Congratulations. As we take a look, $224 a whole lot of money. So what are you going to do with it, Ellie? - Probably buy some food. - Buy some food. What's your favourite type of food? - The canteen food is pretty good. - OK, nice. Make sure you share with some of your friends then, all right? - Yeah. - Sweet. Well, hey, Ellie, thank you so much for coming on the show. It's been great having you. - Awesome work, Ellie. If you think you could take on the Brain Buster just like Ellie, jump online and head to Heihei Games. - Thank you so much for joining us today. Until next time, that's us for Brain Busters. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2020