Donna Hartt

**Donna Hartt** was a contestant on Season 3.

## Background

*Retrieved from CBC.ca*

With her unique abilities, Donna doesn’t just think her future on Canada’s Smartest Person is bright – she can see it. A jill-of-all-trades who happily claims to have attended the school of life, she has held a myriad of jobs including owning her own mobile massage business. Finally following her true calling in 2010, Donna now dedicates herself as a psychic medium to connecting people in the living world with loved ones who have passed.

This stepmother of four loves all kinds of adventure. She has wake boarded, snow boarded, roller-derbied and is even a licensed skydiver! Creative as well as sporty, Donna loves making art and sewing.

This “Mountain Medium’s” supernatural talent and diverse, adventurous nature make her an intimidating competitor – if only her opponents could see it coming!

## Episode 302

As Donna entered the stage with her competitors, a clip of her and the other five contestants, Christine Cho, Jennifer Martin, Chad "CJ" Studer, Chris Williams, and Joshua Williams, introducing themselves was shown. In this clip, Donna claimed that people think she is odd but that she should not be underestimated. In the first challenge, the Speed Round, Donna received an overall percentage score of 71%. As a result, Donna finished in 3rd place and was awarded 2 overall points.

With the first challenge and the resulting double elimination out of the way, a more elaborate clip presenting Joshua, Donna, Chris, and Jennifer in that order was shown. In this clip, Donna claimed that she has been able to see spirits since she was three years old. In the second challenge, Human Lie Detector, Donna was the first contestant to ask guest Kardinal Offishall her question about one of his stories. She asked what it was he had thought he had hit before learning the truth. Kardinal Offishall replied that he wasn't sure, but that its consequential moan made it sound like the Loch Ness Monster. Donna and Joshua both got 3 correct answers, but Kardinal Offishall deemed that Joshua's question was better than Donna's question. As a result, Donna finished in 2nd place and was awarded 3 overall points.

In the third challenge, Beat It, Donna and Joshua both got 3 correct answers, but the latter answered faster on average than the former did. As a result, Donna finished in 2nd place and was awarded 3 overall points.

In the fourth challenge, Wobble Words, Donna dropped her blocks twice, once 29 seconds into the challenge and again 1 minute and 26 seconds into the challenge, and successfully stacked her word, 'dreams', 3 minutes and 13 seconds into the challenge. As a result, Donna finished in 2nd place and was awarded 6 overall points. After the first four challenges, Donna had received a total of 14 overall points. As a result, she finished in 2nd place and was congratulated by Jessi, along with Joshua, for qualifying for the Gauntlet.

In the fifth and final challenge, the Gauntlet, 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. After the challenge ended and Joshua was declared the second finalist of the season, Donna and Joshua celebrated onstage with Jessi.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://www.cbc.ca/smartestperson/participants/donna-harrt