Four players. Three rounds. Two players race. One winner takes it all. Kia ora, I'm Chris Kirk, and this is Brain Busters. Get ready for a series of escalating rounds, where we test our players on maths, memory, te reo, spelling and more, before it all leads up to this ` the Brain Buster. - Chilling out with your man Mike Falesiu. Will today's top two players be ready for the ultimate obstacle course? Let's hope they are, because it's about to get real. Let's go! 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 James Brown Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2020 Nau mai, haere mai, and welcome to Brain Busters. Today we have four players hoping they've got what it takes to be called the ultimate Brain Buster. We'll start with Mega Memory, before we move into our specialist rounds, where our players can choose from six of our options today. They'll hope to gain enough points to stay in this game and avoid elimination. So let's meet our players now. Firstly, Courtney, welcome to the show. - Thank you so much for coming. Right into your dancing? - Yeah. - Favourite style? - Hip-hop. How did we get into that? It kinda just started ` like, just kinda came along. - I don't know how it started, but I love it. - Favourite dancer? - Parris Goebel. - Oh, she's amazing, right? Great to have you here, Courtney. William. Right into your 18th century history? How do we go about enjoying that? - I find learning things pretty enjoyable, especially history. I'm pretty interested in the French Revolution period. - Fingers crossed it can pop up on the show today, then. - I mean, hopefully. - We will see what happens. Best of luck to you, William. - Lachlan, great to have you here on the show. Right into your Scouts. - Yeah. - How long have we been a part of Scouts for? - Since about 6 or 7. I started Keas. Thing is, I've been at Tinwald, but the only problem is that Keas Tinwald disbanded. And so I came back at Cubs Tinwald, and we do rallies and stuff. - But Allenton always cheats by using tech screws. - (LAUGHS) - All right. Well, shout out to both Scout groups there. - Yeah. Great to have you on the show, Lachlan. Addison. Our swimmer for the day. How long have you been swimming for? - I've been swimming since I was little, and I just decided to keep going because I really enjoy it. - Favourite stroke? - Backstroke. How do you not, like, bang into the wall and stuff? - We have, like, a stroke count, so how many strokes we do into the wall, so we know when we're coming up to the wall. - Very smart indeed, Addison. - Will that smarts transition here on to Brain Busters? - Hopefully. Let's find out. All right, great to have you all here. Let's get into our first round of the day. Let's play Mega Memory. 90 seconds on the clock for our players today in the first round. So let's get straight into it. Good luck. Your time starts now. What are triceps and biceps? - Courtney. - Muscles. What is the main product of Ben and Jerry's? - William. - Ice cream. What are the minimum number of plays needed for the card game Snap? - Lachlan. - Two. In the Shawn Mendes song, There's Nothing Holding what? - Addison. - Me back. What Disney film was about a girl who found Maui and returned the heart stone of`? - Lachlan. - Moana. Which singer-songwriter with the surname McCartney was the bassist for the Beatles? - William. - Paul. Which letter features on the Facebook logo? - Addison. - F. In the book Millions, a bag of what falls from the sky? - Lachlan. - Money. Which New Zealand city does a Hamiltonian come from? - Addison. - Hamilton. Was Enid Blyton a book author or a stuntwoman? - Addison. - A book author. What is the name of the populated islands that lie to the east of Canterbury? - Addison. - The Chatham Islands. And that is time up for Mega Memory. Great start, guys. Thank you all so much for playing. Let's take a look now at those scores. It's Addison with the early lead. She's sitting on 50 points. Lachlan has 30 points. William has 20 points. And Courtney has 10 points. So now we move into our specialist subject rounds, and starting us off today is Courtney. - What would you like to play, Courtney? - Blueprinter. Thank you very much. Let's play Blueprinter. Courtney, please step forward. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) - So, think we've got a pretty good memory? - Yeah, I hope so. We will find out very, very soon. So, we are playing Blueprinter today. You'll have 30 seconds to have a look at what your Blueprinter is, and then a further 30 seconds to lock in your answers. Best of luck. Here comes your Blueprinter. It's Waitaki Whitestone Geopark. Best of luck. Your time starts now. In New Zealand's Waitaki Whitestone Geopark, you can see all kinds of amazing fossils, ancient Maori rock art and spectacular geological features. Who needs dinosaurs, when right here in New Zealand we have prehistoric giant penguins and dolphins? Five seconds left now. (BUZZER) That is time up, Courtney, so now you'll have that 30 seconds to put in those answers. Good luck. That time starts now. There we go. All locked in, Courtney. How are we feeling? - Uh, All right. (CHUCKLES) - Let's find out now. Hope to see a whole lot of green. First one please. Clay Cliffs is correct. The Knot means you've got two. Three from three so far. Missed out there, unfortunately. And again. And again. Come on, give us green for the last one. Aw! Couldn't quite get there. Started off great, though, Courtney. There we go. That is it. Thank you so much for taking on Blueprinter. Courtney now has the lead with 70 points. Addison has 50 points. Lachlan is on 30 points. And William has 20 points. So next up to play their specialist subject round is William. What would you like to play, my friend? - I'd like to play Sequencer. - Thank you very much, William. Let's play Sequencer. William, please step forward. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) So, William, obviously love your history, so not a surprise picking Sequencer today. - Yeah, hopefully I do well. - Let's hope so. - Best of luck. Here comes your first sequence. - Thank you. Arrange. these authors by order of their birth from earliest to most recent. Excellent start there, William. In which order were these games first released? You actually had the order round the wrong way, The Game of Life coming first, then the Rubik's Cube, and lastly Jenga. In what order did these automobile events occur, from the earliest to most recent? - Do we know our cars, William? - Hopefully. That would suggest you do. In which order with these films first released? William goes right again. Arrange these pop groups in order of the earliest formed to most recent. - Tell me you've heard of all of them, William. - Some of them. Who haven't you heard of? - I didn't know the Bees Gees or Boyzone, but I knew Bon Jovi. - You need to go home and listen to the Bee Gees for me, OK? - OK. Absolute classic. But is it the right order? Well played there, William. Arrange these New Zealand artists in order of their birth year, earliest first. Very impressive, William. Finally... In which order were these All Blacks born, from youngest to oldest? Either way, you are correct. William, very, very well played. Some solid questions answered there ` six out of a possible seven. - Thank you so much for playing Sequencer. - Thank you. William has raced into first place with 140 points. Courtney has 70 points. Addison has 50 points. And Lachlan has 30 points. So we are halfway through our specialist subject rounds. And of course, everyone is wondering if they've got what it takes to head to that Brain Buster. - Getting closer to crunch time, where our final two contestants will go head-to-head. I hope they've been doing some training, because the Brain Buster is no joke. - Better tell 'em, Chris. - Will do. Mikey. Thank you very much for that. And don't forget, you can play from home as well. Simply head online to Heihei Games. Don't go anywhere. We'll see you a muri i te whakata. * Nau mai, hoki mai, welcome back to Brain Busters. Just before the break, we had Courtney and William take on their specialist subject rounds. And coming up to the front next, we have Lachlan. - So what would you like to play? - I'd like to play Identifier. Thank you very much, Lachlan. Let's play Identifier. Lachlan, please step forward. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) So, what have we been doing at Scouts at the moment, Lachlan? - We've basically been preparing for a rally. We're building a slide. - Oh, fun. Like, a big one? - Oh, about the size of the Brain Buster. - Oh, that's pretty big, then! - Yeah. - Awesome stuff, Lachlan. Well, let's get in to Identifier now. Best of luck. Here comes number one. Not wasting any time, is Lachlan. First one correct. Just the one simple move for Lachlan. Is it the right one? Yes. Very quick locking in these answers. - Oh! - But maybe a little bit too quick on that one. Back on track with that one. Well played, Lachlan. - Hmm... - Not sure with this one, Lachlan? - Tasman, I'm not quite sure about. Let's see. Do we have it? Yes. Nicely done, Lachlan. - Final one, Lachlan. Confident? - Yeah. Sigh of relief. Have we got it, though? Of course we have. Lachlan, great stuff, congratulations and thank you so much for taking on Identifier. William still has the lead with 140 points, just ahead of Lachlan, who now has 130 points. Courtney has 70 points. And Addison is on 50 points. So we just have one player remaining to take on their specialist subject round. That player is Addison. What would you like to play, Addison? - I'd like to play Spellbinder. - You sure can, Addison. So, let's play Spellbinder. Addison, please step forward. Welcome up to the front. You gotta be feeling pretty good, pretty confident after taking out Mega Memory to start with. - I'm a little bit nervous, but hopefully I can do good. Well, if Mega Memory is anything to go by, I'm sure you're gonna do great. Let's get straight into it. Here comes your first word. Please spell 'putrid'. Nice work. Element. Correct. Spell 'fabricate'. Awesome. Sparrow. Really good stuff here. Condensation. Excellent stuff, Addison. Pterodactyl. Just needed the one L for pterodactyl, sorry, Addison. And that does wrap up Spellbinder. Great job. Addison reclaims first place with 150 points. William has 140 points. Lachlan has 130 points. And Courtney has 70 points. So unfortunately, we do need to eliminate our first player today on Brain Busters. It's you, I'm afraid, Courtney. Still, thank you so much for coming on to the show. A $100 bank account has your name on it. So what are you going to do with that money? - Buy clothes. - Very wise choice, Courtney. Enjoy it. Have a shopping spree. And when you meet Parris Goebel one day, make sure you say hi to her for me as well. - I will. - Awesome, Courtney. Thanks for coming on the show. And congratulations to our three remaining players. For them, it's now on to the Brain Buster. - Only three players remaining, which means very soon the top two will be flying, climbing, and racing their way through the ultimate obstacle course to see who will be crowned as today's Brain Buster champion. - And before we can head to the Brain Buster, we have our Brain-teaser. Now, all of our players today have gone through their specialist subject rounds, and we are left with two options for our players to choose from. Today those options are Reo Rangatira and Equaliser. So, William, Lachlan and Addison, please select which one you would like to play now. Thank you, everyone, for voting. We'll take a look at William, who has decided to play... Equaliser Lachlan would like to play... Reo Rangatira. And Addison has chosen to play... Equaliser. There we go. Thank you very much. Let's play Equaliser. So, it is currently a very, very close game here ` just 20 points separating all of our players. Who will go through to that Brain Buster? Let's find out now. Best of luck. Here comes your first Equaliser for the Brain-teaser. - Lachlan. - A hundred. Is correct, well done, Lachlan. Lachlan. 129 was the answer there. One hundred and thirty two plus fifty three. Addison. Correct, Anderson. Addison. Addison is correct again. Thank you so much for taking on the Brain-teaser. Let's take a look now at the final scores. Addison has extended her lead out to 210 points. William has 140 points. And Lachlan has 130 points. So, Lachlan, I'm sorry to say you've just missed out by 10 points today. You have been eliminated from Brain Busters. - But of course you get to go home with a $100 bank account. - Yep. What will you be doing with the money, Lachlan? - I'll probably save it for something cool at some point. - Wise chose there, Lachlan. Thank you so much for coming, and best of luck with the next rally. It's been a great opportunity to be here, and I'm so glad I actually chose to sign up for it. - Great to hear, Lachlan. It's been a pleasure having you. Congratulations. And a big congratulations to William and Addison. For them, it's now on to the Brain Buster. - Upper body strength, lower body strength and mana is what one of our top two contestants will need to be crowned as today's Brain Buster champion. Who will it be? Don't go anywhere. We'll be back. * Welcome back to Brain Busters. We just have two players remaining, as they get ready to take on the ultimate obstacle course. It's time for the Brain Buster! - I'm here with our final two players, Addison and William. Well done to you both on making it this far. It's now time to take on the ultimate obstacle course. - You guys ready? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Awesome. Here we go. Jump up on our zip lines, and let's get ready to fly. Three, two, one, fly! Welcome to the Brain Buster, Addison and William. Nice work on the Brainstem zip line, but it only gets harder from here. Addison has a big lead in points, but that doesn't mean anything to the Brain Buster. Both players start on equal footing here. Speaking of footing, some nice footwork from William to get across the Molecule Steps. Addison and William getting a good look at the codes that they will need to remember shortly. Looks like Addison might have a bit of a lead, as she enters her code into the Hippocampus. And nice one! Oh, but William is right behind her. Both players climb the Parietal Lobe. Addison is in danger of losing her lead. Yes, William makes it to the top. It's still a very close race, though. Both William and Addison speed through the tunnel. William is the first to reach out on to the Frontal Lobe. Here comes Addison. Man, this is gonna be a tight one. First one to activate the Molecule Switch has got to have this in the bag. Who will it be? Ah, William gets it! Now hurry to the finish before` Yep, there's Addison's. Both players are now sprinting to the end, through the Basal Ganglia. William's still in the lead. And yes, William takes it out. - What a close race that was! William, I'll get you to bring it across this way. Addison, we'll start with you, though. So, so close. You had the lead at the start, then it was really tight between the two of you. What was going through your head the whole time there? - Just, 'Keep going.' - And you did such a fantastic job. Very, very close to coming out on top. Second place today. You should still be very proud of that. So a $100 bank account coming out to you. - What are you going to do with that money? - Go shopping with my friends. Nice choice. Have fun doing that. Thanks for coming on the show. William, congratulations. You were trailing there for a little bit, but managed to get into the lead. - Yeah, I just kept my pace up and kept going. Had some great form there on the course as well. So William, congratulations. For you, the journey is not over yet. Still one more thing to do. And that is, of course, taking on Amygdala. Well, William, from 18th century history to 21st century Brain Buster champion. - How does it feel? - It feels pretty good. Awesome. Congratulations on making it here. Really great run as well. You scored 140 points. Addison, who you took on in the Brain Buster, scored more points than you, though. The good thing is you get to take all 210 points of hers, add them to your score, and you're playing for $350. - A lot of money. - Yeah. I'm a bit nervous. Let's try and win you as much as we can. - Hopefully. - Here we go. Which country's national anthem begins with 'E Ihowa Atua'? - New Zealand - Of course it is. What sport has a position called goal attack? - Netball. - Well done. Which sweet baking ingredient is also called sucrose? - Salt? - Sugar. The state of New York has which two-letter abbreviation? - NY. Well done. Which movie features a tow truck called Mater? - Cars. - Cars is correct. Which group of four cartoon characters share their names with Renaissance painters? - The Ninja Turtles. - A fan of the Ninja Turtles? - Uh, maybe when I was a bit younger. - So you think you still remember their names? - Maybe a couple. Are the Renaissance painters, though? Correct. Well done. Which software company makes Photoshop? - Adobe. Correct. Also known, of course, as Adobe. Which town is further south ` Palmerston or Palmerston North? - Palmerston? - Locked in Palmerston. Didn't think it could have been a potential trick question? - I'm not too sure. - Palmerston is correct. Are traditional Christmas songs known as Carols or Karens? - Carols. - Have a favourite Christmas song, William? - Not really. Does Carol sing karens or does Karen sing carols? - Well, hopefully Karen sings carols. (DING!) - I think Karen does sing carols. Well done, William. Let's take a look at the board, and see you've won $280. William, congratulations. What are you gonna do with the money? - I might save it up, put it in the bank. - Congratulations. Take a look. $280. - Whoo-hoo! Nice, William. You happy with your performance? - Yeah. - I'm sure Karen who sings carols would be happy with it, man. - (LAUGHS) If you think you can take on the Brain Buster just like our man William, jump online and head to Heihei Games. - Thank you so much for joining us today. Until next time, that's it for Brain Busters. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2020 Thank you, NZ On Air.