Canada's Smartest Person

- Season 2

(2015)

The four contestants are an astrophysics prodigy, a senior leader in a Fortune 500 company, a hip hop artist with the stage name "iLLvibe", and a marketer/extreme skier. Challenge 1 called "Beat It", which tests music, requires the contestants to determine if two drum beating patterns played by up to five drummers simultaneously are the same or different. Challenge 2 called "Crosswalk", which tests visual, entails the contestants remembering certain aspects of a group of pedestrians crossing a crosswalk. Challenge 3 called "Human Lie Detector", which tests social, ...

The four contestants are a Youtube physics personality, a History teacher and Ph.D. candidate, an award winning radio host and producer, and a Toronto Argonauts cheerleader. Challenge 1 called "Double Take", which tests visual, requires the contestants to identify which two of six panels are the same. Challenge 2 called "Blow Back", which tests physical, entails the contestants, in specially equipped side moving and rotating chairs, to play a floor hockey-styled game against the others, with guest Scott Russell calling the play-by-play. Challenge 3 called "Mix Master", which tests...

The four contestants are a neuroscience student, a detective constable with the Saskatoon Police Department, a winemaker, and a competitive black belt in karate. Challenge 1 called "Cranium Crash", which tests logical, requires the contestants to complete a series of algebraic equations. Challenge 2 called "Twitterverse", which tests linguistic, entails the contestants to use up to one hundred thirty-one pre-selected words to come up with a tweet of one hundred forty characters or less on a pre-selected topic, with guest Perez Hilton judging the resulting tweets. Challenge 3 ...

The four contestants are a double honors graduate/amateur rock musician, an engineering student/comedy improviser, a software trainer/technical writer/wilderness tour guide, and a charity creator/extreme sports enthusiast. Challenge 1 called "Definition Dilemma", which tests linguistic, requires the contestants to choose which of four choices is either the definition of, a synonym for or an antonym of a given set of words. Challenge 2 called "Human Lie Detector", which tests social, requires the contestants to determine if guest Alan Thicke is telling the truth or a lie in a ...

The four contestants are an IT security expert, a retired car salesman, a musical therapist who owns her own cake business, and a university freshman/beer hawker. Challenge 1 called "Music Match", which tests musical, has the contestants choosing the two identical melodies or chords in sets of five. Challenge 2 called "Canvas Calamity", which tests visual, entails the contestants to create a canvas in ninety seconds using various media on a randomly chosen theme, with guest Sean O'Neill judging which canvas best embodies the theme. Challenge 3 called "Cranium Crash", which tests ...

The four contestants are a future surgeon and scientist who is pioneering new surgical techniques, a multi-lingual insurance company project manager, a musician/music teacher, and a professional football player who is also a Harvard graduate. Challenge 1 called "Double Take", which tests visual, requires the contestants to identify which two of six panels are the same. Challenge 2 called "Twitterverse", which tests linguistic, entails the contestants to use up to one hundred thirty-one pre-selected words to come up with a tweet of one hundred forty characters or less ...

The four contestants are a high school teacher who has always seen himself as the underdog, an insurance broker, a tax collector/independent filmmaker, and a matchmaker. Challenge 1 called "Letter Chaos", which tests linguistic, asks the contestants to form three words around a listed theme from a given set of color coded letters corresponding to them being in the same word. Challenge 2 called "Blow Back", which tests physical, entails the contestants, in specially equipped side moving and rotating chairs, to play a floor hockey-styled game against the others, with ...

The eight season 2 finalists are the seven preliminary round winners plus one wild card, the preliminary round non-winner with the highest preliminary round score. They are put through two more preliminary rounds to narrow the field down to four. The first preliminary round, which includes all eight contestants, is a speed round, which entails competing in mini challenges back to back, those challenges which encompass all six areas of intelligence. The two contestants with the highest score move onto the final four, the two contestants with the lowest score being ...