Crosswalk

**Crosswalk** is a challenge of visual intelligence on *Canada's Smartest Person*.

## Description

*Retrieved from CBC.ca*

When the "walk" sign lights up an eclectic group of pedestrians cross the crosswalk. Competitors must study the scene carefully. Then, using their visual smarts they’ll be asked to recall specific elements of what they’ve seen.

Adding to the complexity of the test, competitors don’t know what elements they need to recall until after the pedestrians have left the stage.

As in life where visual details come at us at a fierce pace and from all directions, the motion of the pedestrians walk adds to the difficulty of remembering specific details. The test is also designed so that the many colours, patterns and heights of the pedestrians provide visual distraction, which makes is harder to remember recall visual details.

## Episode 201

Crosswalk was the sole challenge of visual intelligence and the second challenge overall. Jessi Cruickshank explained to the contestants that the contestant in 1st place would earn 5 overall points, the contestant in 2nd place would earn 3, the contestant in 3rd place would earn 2, and the contestant in last place would earn 1. She then explained to the viewers the instructions and how they could play along with the contestants on the Canada's Smartest Person app.

For the first round, Jessi warned the contestants to take note of the numbers and colours of the umbrellas. The first question of this round was, How many umbrellas were open? The correct answer was 5. Both Maya Burhanpurkar and Jessica Joy answered correctly while Anthony Craparotta and Richard Pinnock erroneously answered 6 and 9, respectively. The second question of this round was, How many umbrellas had red in them? The correct answer was 4. All four contestants answered correctly.

For the final round, Jessi warned the contestants to take note of the horns and the baseball gloves of the pedestrians. The first question of this round was, How many people were carrying horns? The correct answer was 6. Both Anthony and Richard answered correctly while Maya and Jessica erroneously answered 5 and 7, respectively. The second question of this round was, How many people were carrying baseball gloves? The correct answer was 4. Only Maya answered correctly while Anthony, Jessica, and Richard erroneously answered 5, 6, and 7, respectively.

In total, Maya got 3 correct answers, Anthony got 2, Jessica got 2, and Richard got 2. The tie between Anthony, Jessica, and Richard was settled by how quickly they answered. Since Anthony answered faster on average than the other two did and Jessica answered faster on average than Richard did in the challenge, Anthony finished in 2nd place, Jessica finished in 3rd place, and Richard finished in last place. Therefore, Maya was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Anthony was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Jessica was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and Richard was awarded 1 for finishing in last place.

As for the public, the top performers, by percentage score, were Kevin Bower of London, Ontario, with 98%, Amanda Williams of Boundary Creek, New Brunswick, with 97%, Zach White of Toronto, Ontario, with 96%, and James Hardy of Ottawa, Ontario, with 96%. However, the scores for the public are calculated differently than the scores for the contestants.

### Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/blog/testing-intelligences-episode-9