Canada's Greatest Know It All

- Season 1

(2012)

Host Daniel Fathers introduces the ten people chosen out of the thousands of entries to compete to become Canada's Greatest Know-It-All Season 1: Thomas Porter who lives off the grid; self-proclaimed Renaissance man Cary Lucier who moves from career to career whenever he gets bored with the last one; former CFO Sabina Dawson who gave up her boardroom life to sail around the world; former US naval engineer Jennifer Salisbury who loves to hunt; retired schoolteacher Stephen Drooker who does whatever he wants in his vast free time; oil rig boss Ted Coffey who is used to being the boss in his own private world; Nick Nelson, who professes to be better than perfect; carpenter Wayne Skuhala...

With schoolteacher Stephen Drooker being the first eliminated competitor, nine remain in the running for Canada's Greatest Know It All. Additional information is provided about some of the competitors including: Sabina, who admits that her ocean sailing experience was not as smooth sailing as she would have liked, but who also admits that she learned from her mistakes; and Wayne chucking in a life of academia for one of manual labor. For the two challenges in this episode, Daniel randomly separates the nine into two teams. For their first challenge, each team is provided an ...

Cary Lucier being the second eliminated competitor is welcome news to the remaining eight, who saw Cary as the non-team player. As a result, the atmosphere among the eight is much more relaxed and reverential toward the other seven. Additional information provided about the competitors includes: Dan being awarded many academic achievements, which in large part stems from his ability to stick to tasks out of fascination; Nick professing to be as physically accomplished as he believes he is mentally accomplished; and Ted being expelled permanently from school in grade 9 due ...

The elimination of Nick Nelson leaves seven competitors in the running for Canada's Greatest Know-It-All Season 1. Additional information provided about the competitors includes: Dave working on a project to send his cell phone into space in a home made device to act as a space camera; and Dan having a side interest in performing improvisational comedy. For the first time, the competitors will be competing as individuals, with the loser of each of the two challenges automatically sent to the danger zone for potential elimination. The first challenge, using a WWII Lancaster ...

Six competitors remain after the elimination of Dan Dicaire. After the last set of challenges as individuals, the six are again placed into two random teams of three for this next set of challenges, with one competitor from the losing team in each of the two challenges going into the danger zone for potential elimination. The first challenge is having a car drive over a ramp to hit an intended target on the ground. The team whose car comes closest to the target wins. The variables include the size of the car chosen, the speed to drive the car, the horizontal distance of the ...

The competitor number is down to five with the latest eliminated being Sabina Dawson. To give them a break, Daniel takes them on a commercial jet boat tour on the Niagara River. What they aren't told however, but what some guess, is that this trip was not just for fun. After the tour, they are given a pop quiz of twenty questions all about the Niagara region, all the answers which were just provided to them by the tour boat operator. The competitor with the fewest correct answers in this pop quiz - which is really their first challenge in this set of two - is automatically sent to...

With the latest elimination of Thomas Porter, the competitor figure is down to four, who are split into two teams of two for the next set of challenges. The first challenge, in three rounds, is to determine how many standing objects a bullet can pierce through. Each round uses a different type of firearm, a different type of bullet and a different type of material through which the bullet will travel. The team that guesses the closest number of objects without the bullet going over that number wins the round. The team that wins the challenge is the one that wins the most rounds, ...

With Jennifer Salisbury being the latest competitor eliminated, the three finalists are determined: Ted Coffey, Wayne Skuhala and Dave Spencer. Their first challenge is to find in order a set of four disks out of a hundred disks strewn through the Know-It-All pit based on the numerical answers to questions, with the fastest two moving onto the final two challenges. This challenge not only requires knowledge of those answers, but a good sense of direction, a good sense of distance, and being able to stay calm under pressure as each wrong disk results in a 2 minute time penalty. The penultimate challenge, worth 100 points...

A behind the scenes look at the first season of the show is presented. The creative team first discuss the notion of what constitutes a know it all. Creator Brad Brough talks about how he came up with the show's concept, and how it was developed for the Discovery Channel. The creative team talk about the casting process, wanting a diverse group of competitors and a non-actor as the host, the latter which did not happen and which resulted in a bromance between Brough and eventual host, actor Daniel Fathers. They talk about wanting to develop challenges that were screen friendly, and solvable ...