Canada's Smartest Person
| Canada's Smartest Person | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Competition |
| Created by | Robert Cohen |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Robert Cohen |
| Production company(s) | Media Headquarters |
| Release | |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Canada's Smartest Person is a Canadian reality television competition series. Canadians compete in unique intelligence challenges to earn the title of "Canada's Smartest Person." The challenges are based on The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
The series is hosted by TV personality Jessi Cruickshank.
The show is produced by Media Headquarters, and broadcasts on CBC Television. The show originally aired in 2012 as a 2-hour special. It returned to CBC as a 9-part series in 2014. The 2014 series was the number one rated new Canadian program of the fall season. Canada’s Smartest Person returned for a second season on October 4, 2015. On March 31st, 2016 CBC announced the series would return for a third season as part of their fall/winter schedule.
During the broadcast, viewers participate in all of the challenges from home in real-time using the Canada's Smartest Person app. The app is one of the most popular interactive experiences ever produced in Canada, with over 1,000,000 intelligence tests completed over the first season.
Every week four Canadians compete in front of a studio audience. They are given a set of five challenges designed to test their abilities in one or more of the following intelligence categories: musical, physical, social, logical, visual and linguistic.
In the series finale, eight finalists compete to earn the title of Canada's Smartest Person.
The 2014 series opened with a one-hour documentary that explored the Theory of Multiple Intelligence.
The format is being exploited internationally by multi-media studio Electus. Electus has licensed Canada's Smartest Person to Turkey's TRT and Sera Film for production, and has secured deals in France, Norway, Sweden and Portugal
Premiere Date: March 18, 2012
Winner: Peter Dyakowski
Premiere Date: September 28, 2014
Finale Date: November 23, 2014
Winner: Braden Lauer
Premiere Date: October 4, 2015
Finale Date: November 22, 2015
Winner: Katy Warren
In the season finale, the winners from each episode competed in a series of competitions for the title of "Canada’s Smartest Person".
In the season finale, the winners from each episode competed in a series of competitions for the title of "Canada’s Smartest Person". The seven Gauntlet winners from the previous episodes were joined by a wildcard, determined by the Gauntlet loser who had accumulated the most points in their episode.
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