Anthony Craparotta

**Anthony Craparotta** was a contestant on Season 2.

## Background

*Retrieved from CBC.ca*

Anthony's ready to leave it all out on the Canada's Smartest Person stage to claim the title. Will his natural stage prescence as a hip hop artist lead him to claim victory? He tells us: "You only live once, and I figure while you're here be a champion as often as you can."

Better known to the public as “iLLvibe,” Anthony is a rising musical talent who has produced multiple studio albums. His album “Sex, Love & Hip Hop Soul” was nominated for a Toronto Independent Music Award. His single “On Tonight” was an international success and was featured on MTV. He recently created a music video for Maestro Fresh Wes who will be featured on his album “Firebreather” that goes on sale this Fall.

Anthony wants to show Canada that there is no better feeling than being the underdog that comes out on top. Everyone better watch out for this scrappy competitor because he’s here to contend – and drop the mic on this whole competition!

## Episode 201

Before Anthony was summoned to the stage, a clip of him and the other three contestants, Maya Burhanpurkar, Jessica Joy, and Richard Pinnock, introducing themselves was shown. In this clip, apart from introducing himself, Anthony stated that he is a hip hop artist who plans to use his social, musical, and linguistic intelligences to win. In the first challenge, Beat It, Maya and Anthony both got 4 correct answers, but the former answered faster on average than the latter did. As a result, Anthony finished in 2nd place and was awarded 3 overall points.

In the second challenge, Crosswalk, Anthony got 1 correct answer in the first round and 1 in the second round. Anthony, Jessica, and Richard all got a total of 2 correct answers, but Anthony answered faster on average than the other two did and Jessica answered faster on average than Richard did. As a result, Anthony finished in 2nd place and was awarded 3 overall points.

In the third challenge, Human Lie Detector, Anthony was the first contestant to ask guest Amber Marshall his question about one of her stories. He asked how long her boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend had been broken up for by this point. Amber replied that it had been about a year. Anthony got 0 correct answers. As a result, Anthony finished in last place and was awarded 1 overall point. In the fourth challenge, Letter Chaos, Anthony got 3 points. As a result, Anthony finished in 2nd place and was awarded 3 overall points.

In the fifth challenge, Balls of Fury, Anthony finished catching his red balls 50 seconds into the challenge and correctly completed his equation grid and finished 1 minute and 16 seconds into the challenge. As a result, Anthony finished in 1st place and was awarded 10 overall points. After the first five challenges, Anthony had received a total of 20 overall points. As a result, he finished in 1st place and was congratulated by Jessi, along with Maya, for qualifying for the Gauntlet.

In the sixth and final challenge, the Gauntlet, Anthony gained the early lead on Maya as the former completed the first three sections at a decent speed and arrived at the physical section just as the latter finished unscrambling her final word at the linguistic section. However, Maya managed to catch up to Anthony due to both her speed in completing the subsequent two sections and Anthony having a couple of mishaps at the physical section. Right after this though, Anthony finally completed the physical section and proceeded to the logical section, which he completed with ease. Ultimately, Maya stopped at the physical section as Anthony hit the buzzer, which signalled his victory and his spot in the season finale. After the challenge ended and Anthony was declared the first finalist of the season, Anthony and the other three contestants celebrated onstage with Jessi.

### Summary of Results

 3

  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.
### Notes

1. ↑ Despite sharing a total score of 4, Maya answered faster on average than Anthony did in the challenge. Therefore, Maya and Anthony placed 1st and 2nd, respectively, for this challenge.
2. ↑ Despite sharing a total score of 2, Anthony answered faster on average than both Jessica and Richard did and Jessica answered faster on average than Richard did in the challenge. Therefore, Anthony, Jessica, and Richard placed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, respectively, for this challenge.

## Episode 208

Before Anthony was summoned to the stage, a clip of him and the other six finalists, Tim Blais, Marco Iannuzzi, Alex Manea, Dan Tweyman, Jason Vander-Hoek, and Katy Warren, introducing themselves was shown. In this clip, Anthony stated that it is important for him to represent the hip hop community as there are a lot of stereotypes about that community and that he is here to shatter those stereotypes. A narration also recapped in this clip that Anthony was the first to claim his spot in the season finale after a dominant display of musical smarts. Jessi greeted the contestants and made them take notice of an empty eighth podium to the left of Jason's. She then announced that it is a wildcard spot that would be taken by the contestant who had earned the highest total overall score without winning their preliminary episode's Gauntlet. This additional finalist was revealed to be Heather Whittaker, who joined the other finalists on stage. In the first challenge, the Speed Round, Anthony received an unknown overall percentage score, however, it was between 65% and 79%. As a result, he finished somewhere between 3rd and 6th place along with Dan, Jason, and Heather and the four had to compete in the second challenge in which two of them would be eliminated from the competition.

In the second challenge, Ultimate Face-Off, Anthony competed against Dan. Anthony won the **Old School Math** mini-challenge, won the **Stack of Shapes** mini-challenge, and won the **Ping Tac Toe** mini-challenge, defeating Dan 3-0. As a result, Anthony tied with Jason for 1st place and both were congratulated by Jessi for advancing to the third challenge.

Before the third challenge, Syllable Switch, began, Anthony performed a brief rap about how he would perform excellently in the challenge. In this challenge, Anthony got 3 correct answers. As a result, Anthony finished in 3rd place and was awarded 2 overall points.

In the fourth challenge, Orders Up, Anthony was the first contestant to present his surf and turf dish based upon the theme of **romance** and it consisted of some noodles, an onion skewer, sauces, and many rose petals. Guest judge Mark McEwan commented that the floral components of Anthony's dish stood out and that he would have used something other than onions for the skewer. Mark ranked Anthony in last place for his dish and Anthony was awarded 1 overall point as a result.

In the fifth challenge, Sliding Scale, Anthony locked in the correct sequence of notes in 57 seconds. As a result, Anthony finished in last place and was awarded 1 overall point.

In the sixth challenge, Moving Sum, Anthony got 3 correct answers. As a result, Anthony finished in last place and was awarded 1 overall point.

Jessi commented that, although Anthony displayed his rapping talents earlier in the show, there is more to Anthony behind the mic. Following this, a clip of Anthony was shown in which he stated that he just has to win *Canada's Smartest Person* and that he never quits. The clip also showed footage of Anthony performing on stage and working on music projects and jobs and he also stated that he also handles music video production, bookkeeping, finances, and grant applications for his music and other artists' music. In the seventh challenge, Screen Test, Anthony was the last contestant to pitch his film and he had to pitch a mystery film with a mad scientist protagonist and with a new king being crowned at the end of it. He said, "Let me invite you down a journey of a road of mystery. We fade up and you see our main core character, his name is Dr. Bartholomew, and Dr. Bartholomew is tasked by the American government to find a new king for this new world order and, of course, there are many really interesting dark scenes where he connects with these young individuals and we see him really prying into their personalities. But the interesting twist towards the end of the movie is, in fact, that Dr. Bartholomew's own son is, in fact, the king of the world, which we really did a good job of throwing you off the son nice and early cause they've got an interesting relationship. But right towards the end, we've got a nice heartfelt moment and the king is crowned: it's Dr. Bartholomew Junior." Guest judge Cameron Bailey asked Anthony what would shock and surprise him when watching his mystery film, to which Anthony responded that the viewer is expected to feel like Dr. Bartholomew doesn't really have a relationship with his son, but then see that he finds it in speaking with the other young individuals. Cameron ranked Anthony in last place for his pitch and Anthony was awarded 1 overall point as a result. By having only 6 overall points by this point in the finale, Jessi informed Anthony that, unfortunately for him, it was mathematically impossible for him to advance to the Super Gauntlet. In spite of this, she also told him that he would compete in the next challenge anyway in order to maintain fairness regarding the overall scores. Jessi then stated that the show was going into another commercial break.

In the eighth challenge, Ball Handler, Anthony finished catching his red balls 46 seconds into the challenge and finished sinking his white balls 2 minutes and 10 seconds into the challenge. As a result, Anthony finished in 2nd place and was awarded 3 overall points. After the previous six challenges, Anthony had received a total of 9 overall points. As a result, he finished in 4th place and was eliminated along with Tim. Jessi prompted applause for Tim and Anthony in spite of their shared elimination.

After the ninth and final challenge, the Super Gauntlet, ended and Katy was crowned Canada's Smartest Person, Anthony and the other finalists, except for Marco, celebrated onstage with Katy's mother and Jessi.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://web.archive.org/web/20151223162911/http://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/participants/anthony
2. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/blog/meet-the-first-four-competitors-for-season-two