Australia's Brainiest Kid
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Australia's Brainiest Kid is a television game show produced in Australia.
The first series was produced in May 2004 and was first broadcast by the Seven Network on Sundays, starting 28 November 2004. It was hosted by Anna Coren. The second series was produced in 2005 and was first broadcast on the Ten Network at 6.30pm on Sundays, starting September 25th. It was hosted by Ten newsreader Sandra Sully.
The format was taken from the British series entitled Britain's Brainiest Kid. The show was publicised through Australian primary schools, with children sitting an online test, some of these taking a supervised written test, and some of these appearing on the show.
Currently Channel Ten no longer markets the show as "Australia's Brainiest Kid", but as "Australia's Brainiest" series.
- 1 Both series
- 2 Channel Seven series
- 3 Channel Ten series
- 4 Australia's Brainiest Specials
- 4.1 Australia's Brainiest Comedian
- 4.2 Australia's Brainiest TV Star
- 4.3 Australia's Brainiest Quiz Master
- 4.4 Australia's Brainiest Housemate
- 4.5 Australia's Brainiest Radio Star
- 4.6 Australia's Brainiest Olympian
- 4.7 Australia's Brainiest Musician
- 4.8 Australia's Brainiest Neighbour
- 4.9 Australia's Brainiest Footballer
- 4.10 Australia's Brainiest Cricketer
- 5 External links
Both series
The format of the show is the same in both series except for the numbers of shows and children - in the first, 4 heats and final, 12 children per show; in the second, 7 heats and final, 9 children per show.First round
The first round contains twelve multiple choice general knowledge questions (four possibilities for each question). The children have five seconds to answer each question and earn one point for each correct answer.
In the first series, there were twelve children; in the second, nine.
The highest six go through to the next round.
In the first series final, five children went on to the second round after this. The remaining seven played three more questions before the tiebreaker (see ).
Second and third rounds
Order of play: Code breaker
In the second and third rounds, the order of play is important. This game decided this order. A sequence of digits appear on the screen of 3 digits or more. Each digit corresponds to two or three letters, just as on a telephone keypad. The contestants are given a number code and a word clue. The order of play is the order in which the contestants find the answer. The broadcasts of this segment were significantly shortened as the contestants took a long time to answer.
Second round
In the second round, the children have to choose two categories and had 45 seconds (60 seconds in the first series final) for each category to answer as many questions as possible, earning one point per correct answer.
There are twelve categories in all and each category could only be chosen once, making the order of play important.
The highest three go through to the next round.
Third round
In the third round, the children have to choose numbers from a 6x6 "memory board" (called that because the categories of questions behind the numbers are only revealed for 10 seconds). There are five (six in the first series final) questions in each child's special subject and 21 (18 in the first series final) general knowledge questions. The first child's special subject questions were highlighted in red, the second child's in gold, and the third child's in blue. The general knowledge questions are highlighted in silver.
Correct answers to general knowledge questions earned one point, questions from their special subject two, and questions from other the children's special subjects three. The children generally chose questions from their own special subject. In the first heat of the first series, one child consistently chose another questions from another's special subject.
Questions could only be attempted once.
The third round was sometimes stopped early because one child has such a large lead that they were guaranteed to win.
In the first series final, two (?) extra questions were answered by each child before a winner was found.
Tiebreaker game: Matching Pairs
Matching Pairs was the tiebreaker game. Two lists of four items were given. Each item in one list corresponded with exactly one item in the other list. The fastest children to match up the four pairs progressed to the next round.
Channel Seven series
Over 5000 children sat the online test, some of whom were selected to sit the supervised test. All of them won copies of the 2004 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
Everybody in the third round went on to the final; they were competing for an Apple Computer iBook.
The winner of the first series final, Aaron Chong, won the title of "Australia's Brainiest Kid" and A$20 000 to be held in trust until he turns 18.
Channel Ten series
About 12000 children sat the online test, some of whom were selected to sit the supervised test. The seven winners of the heats plus two others who made it into the final rounds of the heats played in the final.
This series had considerably more children participating, mainly due to the popularity of the first series.
All contestants received a Mathemagic computer tutor from the Australian Mathematics and Literacy Institute as a "participation" prize. The heat winners received ASUS laptops. The winner won a AU$20 000 trust fund.
The winner of the second series final, William Xi, won the title of "Australia's Brainiest Kid" and A$20 000 to be held in trust until he turns 18.
Series Two experienced lower ratings than the first series.
Australia's Brainiest Specials
Channel 10 have made several specials for the show starring celebrities including
- Australia's Brainiest Comedian
- Australia's Brainiest TV Star
- Australia's Brainiest Quiz Master
- Australia's Brainiest Housemate
- Australia's Brainiest Radio Star
- Australia's Brainiest Olympian
- Australia's Brainiest Musician
- Australia's Brainiest Neighbour
- Australia's Brainiest Footballer
- Australia's Brainiest Cricketer
Australia's Brainiest Comedian
Aired on November 24, 2005, repeated on April 16, 2006The winner was Mikey Robins with Red Symons and Bob Downe running up. Other contestants were Peter Berner, Hamish Blake, Greg Fleet, Libbi Gorr, Colin Lane and Andy Lee.
Note : The only episode to date which has been rated PG (for 'mild coarse language').
Australia's Brainiest TV Star
Aired on February 12, 2006The winner was Julia Zemiro with Andrew G and Gary Sweet running up. Other contestants include James Mathison, Axle Whitehead, Kate Kendall, Paul Mercurio, Mark Holden and Ann-Maree Biggar.
Australia's Brainiest Quiz Master
Aired on February 19, 2006The Biggest winners from Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Sale of the Century and Temptation join to see who is the greatest of the quiz winners.
The winner was Stephen Hall with Rob Fulton and William Laing runners-up. Other quiz master contestants included: Martin Flood, Maria McCabe, Virginia Noel, Brigid O'Connor, Trevor Sauer and Cary Young.
Australia's Brainiest Housemate
Aired on February 26, 2006Featured various housemates over the five series of Big Brother which had been previously aired at the time.
The winner was Jemma Gawned with Chrissie Swan and Tim Brunero runners-up. Other contestants included: Bree Amer, Trevor Butler, Jess Hardy, Saxon Small, Pete Timbs and Greg Logan.
Australia's Brainiest Radio Star
Aired on March 5, 2006Featuring radio announcers from the major FM networks such as DMG, Macquarie Radio Network and Austereo.
The winner was Tom Gleeson with Jo Stanley and Matt Parkinson runners-up. Other contestants included: Barry Bissell, John Blackman, Brigitte Duclos, Biance Dye, Samuel Johnson and Amanda Keller.
Australia's Brainiest Olympian
Aired on March 12, 2006The winner was Steve Moneghetti with Neil Brooks and Matt Welsh runners-up. Other contestants included: Steven Bradbury, Elka Graham, Shane Kelly, Tamsyn Lewis, Nova Peris and Kerri Pottharst.
Moneghetti chose to donate his prize money to [K.I.D.S Foundation], a children's charity.
Australia's Brainiest Musician
Aired on March 19, 2006The winner was Phil Burton with Toby Allen and Dave Graney runners-up. Other contestants included: Angry Anderson, James Blundell, Cosima De Vito, Leo Sayer, Melissa Tkautz and Katie Underwood.
Burton chose to donate his prize money to Club Friday.
Australia's Brainiest Neighbour
Aired on March 26, 2006Featured actors from Neighbours.
The winner was Stephen Lovatt with Nell Feeney and Caitlin Stasey runners-up. Other contestants included: Stefan Dennis, Patrick Harvey, Blair McDonough, Ben Nicholas, Brett Swain, and Eliza Taylor-Cotter.
Lovatt chose to donate his prize money to Open Family Australia.
Australia's Brainiest Footballer
Featuring players from the various codes of football such as soccer, AFL and rugby league.
The winner was Adam Kingsley with Michael Crocker and Nathan Buckley runners-up. Other contestants included: Andrew Ettinghausen, Peter Everitt, Josh Hannay, Jeremy Paul, Jade Rawlings and Paul Wade.
Kingsley donated his prize money to the [McGuiness McDermott Foundation].
Australia's Brainiest Cricketer
Featuring Australian cricketers. Some of the contestents will be include Colin Miller, Damien Fleming, Geoff Lawson, Greg Blewett and Greg Matthews.
External links
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