- Hip hop to history, maths to memory. Kia ora. I'm Chris Kirk, and this is Brain Busters. We start with four, but in the end, they can be only one. - Stay fresh with your boy, Mikey Falesiu. Now, it's one thing to see the Brain Buster on TV, but in reality, it's a different story. I hope our four players are ready for today, because it's about to go down. - Kia ora for that, Mikey, and don't forget, you can play from home as well. So let's meet today's Brain Busters. Captions by Annie Curtis 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 more players hoping they've got what it takes to be called the ultimate Brain Buster. Now we will start, as always, with our specialist rounds, where our players can choose from our six options. They will then hope to get enough points to stay in this game and avoid elimination, so let's meet our players now. First up, we've got Aaron. Aaron, all the way from Auckland, man. How's it going? - Pretty good. - How does it feel to be here in Brain Busters? - It feels awesome. - Ready to go? - Yep. - Excellent. Moving along, we have Jae. Right into your cooking, Jae. What's your favourite thing to cook? - I love cooking a good steak on the barbecue. - Top tip for cooking steak? - You've got to rest it at - the end. It's a must` must do. - Fair enough, and medium rare? - Rare? What's` - Medium rare, definitely. - Always. Nice to have you on the show, Jae. Next up, we've got Holly. Went over to Japan last year? - Yeah. - Lucky you. What do we love about Japan? - I like the history and the culture and definitely the food. - (EXHALES) Maybe some Japanese history or culture questions popping up today on Brain Busters. You never know. Next up, we also have Evie. Evie, excited to here on Brain Busters? - Yes, very excited. - Nice. When you're not at school, what are you doing? - I'm tramping. - Tramping? Where do you like to tramp? - Um, I love tramping around - Arthur's Pass and Hamner Springs. - Beautiful places as well. Thank you for coming on the show. Good luck, everyone. Let's get straight into it now with our first round of the day. It's Mega Memory. Let's get straight into it with Mega Memory. 90 seconds is on the clock. Best of luck to our players. Your time starts... now. What is the name of the third Harry Potter novel? Jae? - Philosopher's Stone? - (BUZZ!) - Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. What type of plant is a punga? Evie? - Fern? (DING!) - Who was the original lead singer of Queen? Jae? - Freddie Mercury? (DING!) - What is the largest ocean in the world? Holly? - Pacific? (DING!) - What is the name of the main character in Minecraft? Jae. - Steve. (DING!) - Which singer told us she was 'Just gonna shake it off?' Aaron? - Taylor Swift? (DING!) - Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are all` Jae. - Premier League? (BUZZ!) - ...are all names of teams playing which sport? Football. In the Disney cartoon comics, who was Minnie Mouse the girlfriend of? Holly. - Mickey Mouse. (DING!) - Which group's first names were Kevin, Nick and Joe? Evie. - Jonas Brothers. (DING!) - 'NE' is the chemical symbol for what element? Holly? - Neon. (DING!) - In the movie Shrek, where does the Muffin Man live? Jae? - A castle? (BUZZ!) - Drury Lane. What two eating implements, when combined, form a spork? Evie. - Fork and a spoon. (DING!) - Name a carbohydrate that can be used to dry out` Jae. - (EXHALES) Bread? (LAUGHS) (BUZZ!) - ...dry out a wet cell phone? Rice. - Oh. - What type of balls were left behind on the moon? (BUZZ!) Golf balls. Dan Corbett presents which part of TVNZ One's news bulletin? Jae. - Sports? (SIREN SOUNDS) - Weather, and that is time up. Thank you all for playing our first round of Mega Memory. Let's take a look at the leaderboard. Holly has 30 points, Evie also has 30 points, Aaron is on 10 points, and after answering a whole lot of questions, Jae is back down to zero points. But Jae, I think we can change that right now as we move into our specialist subject rounds. So what have you chosen to play? - Uh, Spellbinder. - Thank you very much, Jae. Let's play Spellbinder. He was very eager in Mega Memory; how eager will he be in Spellbinder? Let's find out. Jae, please step forward. (TENSE MUSIC) Wanted to answer as many questions as you could in Mega Memory. - Yeah, why not? Just have a go at it, I guess? - (CHUCKLES) Absolutely. Ready to go for Spellbinder? - Oh, yep. - Sweet as. Here comes your first word. Assertive. (DING!) Nice work. 20 points on the board for Jae. Fibre. (DING!) Also correct. Herbivore. (DING!) Nicely done, Jae. Rejuvenate. (BUZZ!) E-N-A-T-E. - Oh. - Spell 'compression'. (DING!) Great stuff. Your final Spellbinder word is... 'simultaneously.' (BUZZ!) Just needed the 'u' in there, and that does wrap up Spellbinder. Thank you so much for playing our first round. Jae is on 80 points, Holly has 30 points, Evie has 30 points, and Aaron has 10 points, and next up to the front, we have Aaron. So what have you chosen to play? - Reo Rangatira. - Thank you very much, Aaron. Let's play Reo Rangatira. Swapping out his rugby boots for his Brain Buster shoes. Aaron, please step forward. So right into your rugby, mate, as well. What position do you play? - Second five. - Oh, the quick guy. - (CHUCKLES) - All right. All the best. - Thank you. - 20 points for each Te Reo focused question. Here comes your first one. What is a Maori word for stir, as in 'to stir food?' - Ranuranu. (DING!) - Correct. Nice start, Aaron What is an English word for 'te hore'? - Ship? (BUZZ!) - 'E tipu e rea mo nga ra o to ao' is the beginning of a proverb written by who? - Is it... Potatau Te Wherowhero? (BUZZ!) - What is a Maori word for smear, spread, or apply like ointment? - Parua. (BUZZ!) - Pani, the correct answer. Nga Tumanako, Whangara-Mai-Tawhiti, me Te Whanau a Apanui. - Ropu kapa haka. (DING!) - Correct. Your final Reo Rangatira. Karetao are used in a traditional form of entertainment. What are 'karetao?' - Puppets. (DING!) - Is correct, and that is the end of Reo Rangatira. Thank you so much for playing, Aaron. Happy with the result? - Little bit. - You did really good. Thanks heaps for playing. You can take a step back to your podium. - Thank you. Jae has 80 points, Aaron is on 70 points, Holly has 30 points, and Evie also has 30 points. So two of our players today have already gone through their specialist subject round, and when we return from the break, our remaining two will have a go, and of course, everybody is wondering, 'Can I get to that brain buster?' - Only one will be crowned as today's Brain Buster. Who will be going home, and who will be making it to the Amygdala? Can't wait to find out. - Neither can I, Mikey, and I'm sure everybody at home is the same, and if you want to get in on the action, you can. Just head online to HEIHEI Games. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back for more Brain Busters. * - Nau mai, hoki mai. Welcome back to Brain Busters. Now just before the break, Jae and Aaron had a go at their specialist subject rounds, and next to have a turn, it is Holly. So, Holly, what have you chosen to play? - Identifier. - Thank you very much, Holly. Let's play Identifier. Will that Japanese history pop up and Identifier? Let's find out now. Holly, please step forward. (TENSE MUSIC) Ready to go, Holly? - Yep. - Excellent. Let's get straight into Identifier. Selected those first two straight away, but took our time with our final option. (DING! BUZZ!) Needed to swap 'porcupine' out for 'ostrich'. See if we've got this one, Holly. (DING!) Great stuff. First Identifier points on the board. (DING!) Now we're on the right track. Good work, Holly. Hovered over that Done button for a while. Unsure about this one, Holly? - Yeah. - Let's see. (DING! BUZZ!) Needed to swap granite for chalk. (DING!) Nicely done there. Fingers crossed we can end nice and strong for Identifier. (DING!) We sure can. Great work, Holly. Thank you so much for playing identifier. Holly jumps to the lead with 110 points, Jae is on 80 points, Aaron has 70 points, and Evie has 30 points. So, Evie, you are our last player to take on our specialist subject round, so what have you chosen to play? - Equaliser. - Thanks, Evie. Let's play Equaliser. Trying to avoid elimination, it's Evie. Please step forward. (TENSE MUSIC) Had a really nice Mega Memory round, Evie. Let's see if we can back it up with Equaliser. Here comes your first equation. - 608. (DING!) - Correct. - 135. (DING!) - Also correct. Great start. - WHISPERS: 44 - 4... 40. (BUZZ!) - 66. - Uh... 42. (BUZZ!) - 82. - 18. (DING!) - Quick to answer, and it's correct. Nicely done. Your final Equaliser equation. - 72. (DING!) - Is the correct answer to our final Equaliser equation. Nicely done there, Evie. Had a really great quick start, fell off a little bit in the middle, but brought it home in a great style. Thank you so much for playing, Evie. - Thank you. - And before you know it, all of our players have taken on their specialist subject round, so let's see the final leaderboard standings. Holly and Evie share the lead with one 110 points, Jae is on 80 points, and Aaron is on 70 points. So, Aaron, I'm sorry to say, but you have been eliminated from Brain Bustards Get to go home with a $100 bank account, though, so what are you going to do with that money, Aaron? - So I figured out what any other 13-year-old would do ` go to the nearest supermarket, buy as much junk food as I can, and then eat it. - A very honest answer, Aaron. Appreciate that. Good luck, and don't eat it all at once. - I'll try not to. - (LAUGHS) Sweet as, Aaron. Congratulations also to our three remaining players. For them, it's getting closer to the Brain Buster. - It's almost crunch time for our two finalists. I hope they've got their best moves ready, Chris. - Absolutely, Mikey, and before that, they've got to move through the brainteaser. So all of our players have gone through these specialist subject rounds, and now we are left with two options for our players to choose from. Those remaining options are ` Blueprinter and Sequence. So, Jae, Holly and Evie, please choose which one you would like to play now. Thank you very much for voting. Let's start with Jae, who has voted for... Sequencer. We'll jump across to Evie, who has voted for... Blueprinter. Holly, the deciding vote. Sequencer. Thank you very much for voting. Let's play Sequencer. Our brainteaser is very interesting today, because our players are only 30 points away from each other, and of course, get an answer right for our brainteaser, you gain 30 points, but get it wrong, you lose 30 points, so this could be very, very interesting. Let's get straight into it. Good luck to everyone. Sequence these things in order they were invented ` earliest to latest. Jae. - Uh, the wheel, gunpowder, chess. - Jae thinks it's wrong. (DING! BUZZ!) Yeah, needed to swap gunpowder and chess. Still plenty of chances, though. In which order did these major New Zealand earthquakes take place? Holly. - Napier, Christchurch, Kaikoura. - Answers locked in for Holly. Wants to have a solo lead. (DING!) And she gets it. In what order were these movies released? Jae. - Frozen, Finding Dory, Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse. - Jae really looking for this one to be right. (DING!) And it is right. Nice work, Jae. Last one. In what order did these woman debut for the Silver Ferns? Jae. - Kayla Cullen,... Maria Folau, and Irene Van Dyke. - Jae hoping this is right. Need this one to be right if he wants to have any chance of staying in the game. (BUZZ! DING!) Unfortunately not. Needed to swap around Irene Van Dyke and Kayla Cullen, and that does our brainteaser. Thank you all for playing. Let's take a look at the leaderboard. Holly has 140 points, Evie is on 110 points, and Jae is on 50 points. Jae, we had one in that brainteaser, but I think we needed a couple more there to be in with a chance. Unfortunately, you have been eliminated from Brain Busters. You get to go home with a $100 bank account. So what are you going to do with that money, Jae? - I'll put it towards some more cooking utensils to, um, get some better steaks. - Excellent. I'll have to try some food at some point as well, Jae. - (CHUCKLES) Sure thing. - Thank you very much, and congratulations to Holly and Evie. It is now onto the Brain Buster. Who out of our two players have what it takes to beat the Brain Buster? There can only be one winner. Don't go anywhere. * - Kia ora, and welcome back to Brain Busters. Our four players have gone through Mega Memory. They've tackled this specialist subject, and now it's on to the big one. It's the Brain Buster. - I'm joined here with our two finalists. Well done, girls, on making it this far, Holly and Evie. Now, Holly, hockey is your thing, right? - Yes, it is. - You think your hockey skills will help you win today? - Um, they could do. - Nice. All the best, and Evie, Sudoku. Tell us about that. - I love doing sudokus. - Nice, and who got you into that? - My dad did. - Oh, I'm sure Dad is very proud that you made it this far. Girls, time to jump up onto a zip lines, and let's get ready to fly. Here we go. Three, two, one, go! Holly has a 30 point lead over Evie, but will she be able to hold on to that lead by winning this race? Down the neurotransmitters they go, and onto the molecule steps, then they can retrieve their code for the next part of the race. Holly gets to it first, but hang on. She's got to walk along the rails like Evie is doing. Oh, no, she'll have to go back and do it again. That'll push her back a bit. Evie is at the hippocampus with her code and success. She has a solid advantage now, but Holly's catching up. Great work so far from these two. Who's going to make it up the parietal lobe first? Evie's struggling a bit, and Holly has well and truly made a comeback. It's neck and neck as both players make their way through the tunnel. Holly's out in front and now heading for the DNA molecule ladder. It's all about luck at this point. Who will get the number combination first? Holly's made it. Not far to go now. There go the lights. She can now hit to the basal ganglia. Evie's side has lit up too. The basal ganglia is the final obstacle. Evie is creeping up. Holly, you better move it. Holly for the win. Hard luck, Evie. Chris, that was a close one. - And we hit it. Gotta finish. There we go. (CHUCKLES) Nice work, Evie. Nice work, Holly. We'll start with you, Evie. Had the lead there at the start, but unfortunately Holly managed to catch up to you, beating you in the end. But did we have fun on the obstacle course? - We definitely did. - Good to hear. Congratulations, Evie. A $100 bank account is all yours. So what are you going to do with that money? - I'm going to save it for university or for buying a new house. - Smart choice, Evie. Thanks for coming on the show. Congratulations, Holly. It was a wee bit dicey at the top there, but we came right and came away with the win. Congratulations. We enjoyed the race? - Yes, I really did. It was really fun. - Awesome effort. Congratulations. So one more thing left for Holly to do, and of course that is Amygdala. Holly, well, you've made it here to Amygdala. So far no Japanese history or culture questions have popped up. Still a chance, though. Maybe there's one. Maybe there's two. Maybe there is any in my hand, but you never know until we get to those questions. So Holly, you are playing for $250 today. - Yep. - Let's try when you all that money. The Game Cube, Wii and Switch are video game consoles produced by which company? - Nintendo? (DING!) - Correct. The name of which New Zealand city translates into 'second lake?' - Uh, Rotorua. (DING!) - Correct. Nicely done, Holly. Which American talk show host has a segment on their show called Mean Tweets? - I don't know. - Wanna give it a guess? - No, pass. - Don't know any talk show hosts? - No. (BUZZ!) - Jimmy Kimmel was the answer? What colour sandpaper was used by the Australians to cheat against South Africa in 2018? - Red? - Guessing the colour? - Yeah. - Red. (BUZZ!) Unfortunately not. It was yellow. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, who is Huck's best friend? - John. - That definitely looked like a guess. - Yeah. - John. That's Holly's answer locked in. (BUZZ!) Not the right guess today, though. Tom Sawyer was the answer. Which small green vegetable is named after the capital city of Belgium? - Brussels sprout. - That one didn't look like a guess. (DING!) You are correct. That is right. What effect does adding salt have on the freezing point of water? - It makes it higher. - Only two ways it can really go. (BUZZ!) It lowers it. Which country won the 2018 Football World Cup? - Brazil? Brazil love their soccer. (BUZZ!) Wasn't Brazil. France, the correct answer. In Dora the Explorer, what kind of animal is Swiper? - A fox. - You used to watch a bit of Dora the Explorer? - Yeah. - Is it a fox? (DING!) Sure is. Here comes your final Amygdala question. How many months are there in two years? - 24. - 24. How'd you get to 24? - There's 12 months in a year. - When you put it like that, I guess it makes sense. You never know until you hear that ding, though. (DING!) And there it is. Nice work, Holly. $125. Congratulations on being a Brain Busters champion today and going home with that money. What are you going to do with it? - Um, I want to buy a kitten, but I'm not sure about how my parents will react to that. (CHUCKLES) - That's a great choice, Holly, And I think you just got to ask your parents on TV as well. Hey, thank you so much for coming on the show, Holly. - Good stuff, Holly. Awesome confident finish there. If you think you can take on the Brain Buster just like our girl Holly, jump online and head to HEIHEI games. - That's it from us. See you next time for more Brain Busters. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2020 Thank you, NZ on Air.