Episode 104

The fourth episode of Season 1 of *Canada's Smartest Person*, **Do You Want to Dance?**, aired on CBC at 8:00 PM on Sunday, October 19, 2014.

## Contestants

 **Victoria Leenders-Cheng** | 33
 **George Millar** | 71
 **Mary Rose** | 39

## Synopsis

The episode opened with Jessi Cruickshank narrating that, in the previous weeks, Albert Tam, Chris Tessaro, and Mith Das had qualified for the *Canada's Smartest Person* finale and four more fierce competitors would try to do the same that night. After the intro, Jessi introduced herself and stated the theme and purpose of the show before listing the six intelligences, Visual, Linguistic, Physical, Social, Musical, and Logical. She then introduced her co-host, Jeff Douglas, who went on to introduce the Canada's Smartest Person app and explain how viewers could use it to participate in the episode's challenges in synchronization with the contestants. In order to present the four contestants that would be competing in this episode, a clip of Yahaya Baruwa, Mary Rose, Victoria Leenders-Cheng, and George Millar introducing themselves in that order was shown. Jessi personally introduced the contestants to the viewers and summoned them to the stage before explaining to them how the evening would proceed. Jessi announced that logical intelligence was going to be the first intelligence that the contestants would be tested on before Jeff revealed that Human Calculator would be the corresponding challenge. By the end of the challenge, Yahaya got 1 correct answer, Victoria got 7, George got 1, and Mary got 8. The tie between Yahaya and George was settled by how quickly they answered. Since George answered faster on average than Yahaya did in the challenge, the former finished in 3rd place and the latter finished in last place. Therefore, Mary was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Victoria was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, George was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and and Yahaya was awarded 1 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi stated that the show was going into a commercial break.

Jessi briefly restated how the evening would proceed to the contestants and announced that linguistic intelligence was going to be the second intelligence that the contestants would be tested on before Jeff revealed that Haiku You would be the corresponding challenge. Jessi then introduced Seán Cullen, stating that he would serve as a guest judge in the challenge. As the contestants were constructing their haikus, Seán joked that poetry works at its best in competitive form. By the end of the challenge, Seán ranked George in 1st place, Mary in 2nd place, Victoria in 3rd place, and Yahaya in last place. Therefore, George was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Mary was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Victoria was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and Yahaya was awarded 1 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, after the first two challenges, Mary had received a total of 8 overall points, George had received a total of 7, Victoria had received a total of 5, and Yahaya had received a total of 2. Jessi commented to Yahaya that he should not give up since he still has time to make a crazy comeback. Jeff reminded the viewers how they could share their results obtained from challenges on the Canada's Smartest Person app on Facebook and Twitter before Jessi stated that the show was going into another commercial break.

Jessi reminded the viewers that the show doesn't categorize one's intelligence based solely on their knowledge of facts and figures and announced that visual intelligence was going to be the third intelligence that the contestants would be tested on before Jeff revealed that Spaced Out would be the corresponding challenge. Victoria finished both of her shapes first in 52 seconds, George finished both of his shapes second in 1 minute and 5 seconds, and Mary finished both of her shapes third in 1 minute and 22 seconds, forcing Yahaya to stop his progress on his first shape. Therefore, Victoria was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, George was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Mary was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and Yahaya was awarded 1 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, after the first three challenges, Victoria, George, and Mary had each received a total of 10 overall points and Yahaya had received a total of 3. Jessi commented that a three-way tie has never happened before and that Yahaya may be down, but he is not out. Directly after, Jessi announced that social intelligence was going to be the fourth intelligence that the contestants would be tested on before Jeff revealed that Faces would be the corresponding challenge. Yahaya got 4 correct answers, Victoria got 3, Mary got 4, and George got 2. The tie between Yahaya and Mary was settled by how quickly they answered. Since Yahaya answered faster on average than Mary did in the challenge, the former finished in 1st place and the latter finished in 2nd place. Therefore, Yahaya was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Mary was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Victoria was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and George was awarded 1 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, after the first four challenges, Mary had received a total of 13 overall points, Victoria had received a total of 12, George had received a total of 11, and Yahaya had received a total of 8. Jessi commented that it was a close competition before stating that the show was going into another commercial break.

Jessi commented that one could feel the tension since the competition was so close and announced that the next challenge would test the contestants' musical intelligence and physical intelligence simultaneously. Jeff revealed that Step Squad would be the corresponding challenge. Before the challenge began, four dancers performed a brief yet impressive dance routine. Jessi then introduced Sean Cheesman, stating that he would serve as a guest judge in the challenge. By the end of the challenge, Sean ranked Mary in 1st place, Victoria in 2nd place, Yahaya in 3rd place, and George in last place. Therefore, Mary was awarded 10 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Victoria was awarded 6 for finishing in 2nd place, Yahaya was awarded 4 for finishing in 3rd place, and George was awarded 2 for finishing in last place. After the challenge, Jessi revealed that, as a final total score for the first five challenges, Mary had received a total of 23 overall points and finished in 1st place, Victoria had received a total of 18 and finished in 2nd place, George had received a total of 13 and finished in 3rd place, and Yahaya had received a total of 12 and finished in last place. Since only the top two finishers could advance to the Gauntlet, Jessi congratulated Mary and Victoria on making it to the Gauntlet and prompted applause for George and Yahaya in spite of their shared elimination. Jeff then revealed that, on a score out of 600, the best performers of the night were, in order, Randy Oram of Glovertown, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a score of 583, Hannah Warren of Ottawa, Ontario, with a score of 548, Tomás Shea of Saint John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a score of 525, Jonathan Waite of La Broquerie, Manitoba, with a score of 523, and Tim Johnson of Edmonton, Alberta, with a score of 522. Then, Jessi stated that the show was going into one last commercial break.

Jessi revealed that, in relation to two pie charts, Victoria performed best in challenges of visual intelligence (consisting 28% of her pie chart) and Mary performed best in challenges of physical intelligence, logical intelligence, and musical intelligence (each consisting 22% of her pie chart). Physical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, logical intelligence, social intelligence, and musical intelligence, based on the related challenges, consist 17%, 11%, 17%, 11%, and 17% of Victoria's pie chart, respectively, and linguistic intelligence, social intelligence, and visual intelligence, based on the related challenges, consist 13%, 13%, and 9% of Mary's pie chart, respectively. The final challenge, the Gauntlet, consisted of five sections that would test, in order, the contestants' visual intelligence, musical intelligence, logical intelligence, physical intelligence, and linguistic intelligence. Jessi told the contestants to take to their starting positions and wished them both luck before the challenge began. Mary gained the early lead on Victoria as the former got through the first two sections quickly and the latter struggled to fill her last slot at the visual section. However, Victoria made a comeback and surpassed Mary who was struggling at the logical section. Ultimately, Mary stopped at the logical section as Victoria hit the buzzer, which signalled her victory and her spot in the season finale. Jessi reminded the viewers that they should keep trying out challenges on the Canada's Smartest Person app and that they could share their results on Facebook and Twitter. The show closed with the four contestants 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.
### Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Despite sharing a total score of 4, Yahaya answered faster on average than Mary did in the challenge. Therefore, Yahaya and Mary placed 1st and 2nd, respectively, for this challenge.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Despite sharing a total score of 1, George answered faster on average than Yahaya did in the challenge. Therefore, George and Yahaya placed 3rd and 4th, respectively, for this challenge.

## State of the Nation

As for the public, the top performers, on a score out of 600, were Randy Oram of Glovertown, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a score of 583, Hannah Warren of Ottawa, Ontario, with a score of 548, Tomás Shea of Saint John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a score of 525, Jonathan Waite of La Broquerie, Manitoba, with a score of 523, Tim Johnson of Edmonton, Alberta, with a score of 522, bruinsandblues of Waterloo, Ontario, with a score of 516, Chris Kraemer of Mississauga, Ontario, with a score of 516, and Craig Paquette of Calgary, Alberta, with a score of 515.

In terms of age, the demographic of individuals aged 18-49 performed the best with an average percentage score of 59%, the demographic of individuals aged 17 and under performed the second-best with an average percentage score of 53%, and the demographic of individuals aged 50 and over performed the worst with an average percentage score of 51%.

The top overall performing Canadian cities, by percentage score, were Thompson, Manitoba, with 84%, Glovertown, Newfoundland and Labrador, with 83%, and Fort St. John, British Columbia, with 83%.

## Current Placements

### Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Despite sharing a total score of 12 and an equal number of 1st place finishes in challenges, Rhiannon placed 2nd in one challenge and Yahaya did not place 2nd in any. Therefore, Rhiannon placed higher than Yahaya.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Despite sharing a total score of 14, Tova placed 1st in one challenge and Kiel did not place 1st in any. Therefore, Tova placed higher than Kiel.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Despite sharing a total score of 19, Roselyn placed 1st in two challenges and Lisa placed 1st in one. Therefore, Roselyn placed higher than Lisa.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/blog/episode-3-recap-canadas-smartest-person-shows-off-its-moves
2. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/m\_episodes/canadas-smartest-person-episode-4
3. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2563740096
4. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/blog/state-of-the-nation-episode-4