Canada's Greatest Know It All

- Season 2

(2013)

Host Daniel Fathers introduces the ten people chosen to compete to become Canada's Greatest Know-It-All Season 2: northern ranger Abe Qamminiq who was born and still lives in the traditional Inuit culture; former Jeopardy! (1984) champion Doug Hicton who beat the IBM supercomputer in a human versus computer battle; retired systems manager Bill Robinson, who spends most of his time exploring the wild west coast on his boat; artist Owen Garratt who believes he can solve any problem using the creative right side of his brain; Ben Eadie who has his own DIY website and who has many projects on the go at given point in time; hang gliding champion Scott Gravelle who designs...

Bill Robinson is the first eliminated contestant, leaving nine in the running as Canada's Greatest Know-It-All. They are separated into two teams for the next two challenges, with the two highest scorers of the entrance exam on last week's blue team being this week's team captains who choose their respective teams. One member of the losing team for each of the two challenges goes into the danger zone for possible elimination. The first challenge is a three stage race each over a quarter mile. Each team is provided the exact same vehicle, which they will race against a higher ...

Abe Qamminiq is the second eliminated contestant, leaving eight in the running as Canada's Greatest Know-It-All. With last week's blue team now down by two people, one person from the orange team must volunteer to switch teams for the next two challenges. The decision is relatively easy as two people clash on the orange team, with one of them volunteering. One member of the losing team for each of the two challenges goes into the danger zone for possible elimination. The first challenge is a two round two-on-two competition to build a bridge spanning a twenty-five foot gap over a...

The latest eliminated contestant is Doug Hicton, leaving seven in the running as Canada's Greatest Know-It-All. The next set of challenges tests the competitors' abilities to complete tasks while distracted. Using a combination of past results and self-choosing, they are separated into two new teams, the resulting teams which has the practical people versus the scientific minds. In each of the two team challenges, one person from the losing team will be sent to the danger zone for possible elimination. The first challenge has team members skydiving while trying to memorize ...

Beth Furlong's elimination in a loss in the danger zone to Ben Eadie - his third such time in the danger zone out of a possible four - leads to Ben vowing revenge against Owen Garratt and Scott Gravelle who he believes threw him under the bus. The remaining six contestants are reorganized into two new teams of three apiece for the next two challenges, with one person on the losing team for each challenge going to the danger zone for potential elimination. The first team challenge is a two round one on knowing the world. The first round is creating an approximately three by ten meter sized world map to as much ...

Ben Eadie's luck runs out as he is the next eliminated contestant in his fourth trip out of a possible five to the danger zone. One person from each of the losing teams in the next two team challenges will be sent to the danger zone for possible elimination. For the first challenge, the existing two man team has the opportunity to pilfer any contestant from the three man team they want. That challenge, held at Canada's Wonderland, has the teams answering questions about the science, engineering and/or experience of some of the extreme rides, requiring them to actually go on ...

Laura Suen's elimination leaves four contestants standing, they who will now compete as individuals. Their first challenge, recycled from season one, is the pyramid of experience, where they are each asked the same ten questions about their experience on the show thus far, each provided with four answers from which to choose for each question. The contestant who answers all ten correctly the slowest - while not being told which answers they have incorrect, which makes this challenge more difficult than it seems since there are over one million possible combinations of answers -...

The elimination of Scott Gravelle, the well regarded front runner, leaves three in the finale: Carla Davidson, Owen Garratt and Andrew Rader. The loser of the first challenge is eliminated, leaving two heading into the final challenge. That first challenge, for which commentary is provided by Season 1 winner Ted Coffey, combines two Season 1 challenges which propelled Ted to victory, namely the disk hunt and the school bus drive. The final challenge is an ATV rally styled event with four parts between the rally races. Those four parts include creating and maneuvering a maze, putting together a jigsaw puzzle blindfolded, using an...

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