Episode 302

The second episode of Season 3 of *Canada's Smartest Person* aired on CBC at 8:00 PM on Sunday, November 20, 2016.

## Synopsis

The episode opened with a narration stating that six Canadians would be stepping into the arena for a chance to become *Canada's Smartest Person*. In order to present the six contestants that would be competing in this episode, a clip of Jennifer Martin, Chad "CJ" Studer, Christine Cho, Joshua Williams, Chris Williams, and Donna Hartt introducing themselves in that order was shown as they entered the stage. Jessi Cruickshank greeted the contestants and warned them that eliminations would be taking place all throughout an episode this season. Jessi announced that contestants would be competing in a universal challenge, the Speed Round, as their first challenge and that the bottom two finishers would be eliminated. The Speed Round tested, in order, the contestants' visual intelligence, logical intelligence, physical intelligence, musical intelligence, social intelligence, and linguistic intelligence. After the challenge was over, but before she revealed the results, Jessi introduced CSP SmartPlay as found on the show's Facebook page before stating that the show was going into a commercial break.

Jessi revealed that, in the Speed Round, Jennifer finished in 1st place with an overall percentage score of 86%, Joshua finished in 2nd place with an overall percentage score of 72%, Donna finished in 3rd place with an overall percentage score of 71%, and Chris finished in 4th place with an overall percentage score of 64%, leaving Christine and CJ as the bottom two finishers with overall percentage scores of 45% and 59%, respectively. Therefore, Jennifer was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Joshua was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Chris was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, Donna was awarded 1 for finishing in 4th place, and CJ and Christine were eliminated from the competition for being the bottom two finishers. Jessi prompted applause for CJ and Christine in spite of their shared elimination. Following this, a more elaborate clip presenting Joshua, Donna, Chris, and Jennifer in that order was shown. Jessi then introduced the Randomizer, which would randomly select the intelligence categories for the next three challenges, to the contestants. The Randomizer selected social intelligence for the second challenge with Human Lie Detector being the corresponding challenge. Jessi then presented the guest that would be hooked up to the polygraph machine for the challenge, Kardinal Offishall. Jessi asked Kardinal Offishall what was the one thing that rappers lied about the most, to which he responded that since 95% of a rapper's art does not reflect reality, rappers lie often in a way. By the end of the challenge, Donna got 3 correct answers, Jennifer got 1, Chris got 2, and Joshua got 3. The tie between Donna and Joshua was settled by the quality of their questions according to Kardinal Offishall's judgment. Since Kardinal Offishall deemed that Joshua's question was better than Donna's question, Joshua finished in 1st place and Donna finished in 2nd place. Therefore, Joshua was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Donna was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Chris was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and Jennifer was awarded 1 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, after the first two challenges, Joshua had received a total of 8 overall points, Jennifer had received a total of 6, Donna had received a total of 5, and Chris had received a total of 3. Jessi then thanked Kardinal Offishall for his presence before the two stated that the show would be right back after another commercial break.

The Randomizer selected musical intelligence for the third challenge with Beat It being the corresponding challenge. Jessi then introduced Shawn Byfield who, along with his tap dance crew, would be producing the rhythms for the challenge. By the end of the challenge, Donna got 3 correct answers, Jennifer got 2, Chris got 2, and Joshua got 3. The ties between Donna and Joshua and Jennifer and Chris were settled by how quickly they answered. Since Joshua answered faster on average than Donna did in the challenge, the former finished in 1st place and the latter finished in 2nd place. Additionally, since Chris answered faster on average than Jennifer did in the challenge, the former finished in 3rd place and the latter finished in last place. Therefore, Joshua was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Donna was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Chris was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and Jennifer was awarded 1 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, after the first three challenges, Joshua had received a total of 13 overall points, Donna had received a total of 8, Jennifer had received a total of 7, and Chris had received a total of 5. Since the contestant who was currently in 4th place would not be advancing to the fourth challenge, Chris was eliminated from the competition. Jessi prompted applause for Chris in spite of his elimination and prompted applause for Shawn and his tap dance crew before stating that the show was going into another commercial break.

The Randomizer selected linguistic intelligence and physical intelligence for the fourth challenge with Wobble Words being the corresponding challenge. Given that this would be a hybrid challenge, Jessi announced that it would be worth double the points. Joshua successfully stacked his word, 'errand', 2 minutes and 3 seconds into the challenge and Donna successfully stacked her word, 'dreams', 3 minutes and 13 seconds into the challenge, forcing Jennifer to stop her progress. Therefore, Joshua was awarded 10 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Donna was awarded 6 for finishing in 2nd place, and Jennifer was awarded 2 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, as a final total score for the first four challenges, Joshua had received a total of 23 overall points and finished in 1st place, Donna had received a total of 14 and finished in 2nd place, and Jennifer had received a total of 9 and finished in 3rd place. Since only the top two finishers could advance to the Gauntlet, Jessi congratulated Joshua and Donna on making it to the Gauntlet and prompted applause for Jennifer in spite of her elimination. Then, Jessi stated that the show was going into one last commercial break.

The final challenge, the Gauntlet, consisted of five sections that would test, in order, the contestants' physical intelligence, logical intelligence, visual intelligence, musical intelligence, and linguistic intelligence. Jessi told the contestants to take to their starting positions and wished them both luck before the challenge began. Donna struggled at the physical section, which allowed for Joshua to make it all the way to the visual section with a confident lead. Once she got past the physical section, Donna breezed through the logical section and recovered a lot of lost ground against Joshua. Though she was close, Donna never surpassed Joshua at the musical section and he went on to complete the linguistic section. Ultimately, Donna stopped at the musical section as Joshua hit the buzzer, which signalled his victory and his spot in the season finale. Jessi reminded the viewers that they should keep trying out challenges using CSP SmartPlay as found on the show's Facebook page. The show closed with Donna, Joshua, and Jessi celebrating onstage.

## Episode Progress

  WON  This contestant won the final challenge and advanced to the finale.
  LOST  This contestant lost the final challenge and was eliminated from the competition.
  ELIMINATED  This contestant was already eliminated from the competition.
     This contestant qualified for the final challenge due to a sufficient total score.
     This contestant was eliminated from the competition due to an insufficient total score.
     Denotes a challenge that is based on linguistic intelligence.
     Denotes a challenge that is based on physical intelligence.
     Denotes a challenge that is based on musical intelligence.
     Denotes a challenge that is based on visual intelligence.
     Denotes a challenge that is based on social intelligence.
     Denotes a challenge that is based on logical intelligence.

## Current Placements

### Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The placements of the contestants eliminated directly after their respective preliminary episodes' Speed Rounds are determined by how far below their overall percentage scores were from the corresponding average overall percentage score:
In Episode 301, the average overall percentage score was 59.17% and the overall percentage scores of Vincent and Rup were both 49%, resulting in differences of 10.17% for both contestants. Despite this shared difference, it is presumed that Vincent answered faster on average than Rup did based on their eventual call out order. Therefore, Vincent placed higher than Rup.
In Episode 302, the average overall percentage score was 66.17% and the respective overall percentage scores of Christine and CJ were 45% and 59%, resulting in respective differences of 21.17% and 7.17%.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Despite sharing a total score of 5 and an equal number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes in challenges, Steve had an average placement of 3.7 throughout his preliminary episode while Chris had an average placement of 4 throughout his. Therefore, Steve placed higher than Chris.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/blog/canadas-smartest-person-reveals-30-new-competitors-for-season-3