Episode 6 Ultimate Brain

How can you squeeze every last drop of zing from a lemon?

How can you exhaust a guinea pig with only a heavy cabinet?

And will the cast of Wolfblood be able to sink their fangs

into the opposition?

You'll need to run your mind at full power to become the Ultimate Brain!

APPLAUSE

Welcome to Ultimate Brain!

I am on a never-ending quest for the great young minds of the world.

You know, we monkeys have a wise old saying:

"Ooh-ah, ooh-ooh, oh-ah."

My name is Doctor Brain!

Now, over here I have some of the finest young minds in the world.

Or so they believe.

And it's my task is to find out if they're right.

Shall we meet them? We might as well, I've got nothing else to do.

First, we have Joe, Ben, and Bella who are...

For some reason I like that name

-Are you going to win today, Doctor Joe?

-Yes.

Why? What is it about your team that makes you so brilliant?

-Because we're all amazing.

-Because you're all amazing. I like that.

Well, I hope you are. Good luck to The Green Gibbons.

our next team is...

They are Jessie, Maja, and Cleo.

Let's hope their brains aren't as muddled as their name suggests, eh?

So, do you like science?

-Yes.

-What's the best experiment you've ever done?

-Dissecting a lambs heart. That was fun.

-Yep.

You look like proper scientists to me. And girl power, girl power, eh?

-You think you're going to win?

-Yes.

-Definitely.

Let's do it! Fantastic! Yellow Chaos!

Finally, our Blue Team are stars of the hit CBBC series, Wolfblood.

Bobby, Louisa and Kedar.

Their characters have a keen sense of smell and so do I.

I can sniff out a nincompoop at 300 paces so be warned, teams!

-How are you?

-Good.

-Looking forward to a good game?

-Yes.

-Are you bright, are you clever?

-Like to think so.

Well, that's the main thing.

Who's the cleverest?

Probably Louisa. She looks cleverer.

Looks cleverer?

That's why I'm so clever because I look clever, don't I?

Yes. Wonderful, there we go, The Blue Moons.

Who's going to win? Who's going to get the Honour points?

We're ramping up tension here, folks.

All you've got to do is impress me with your incredible minds.

And above all, do your blinking best, do you know what I mean?

Let's get those grey engines revving with a nice question.

Hey, teams, get a load of this little beauty.

Do you know what that is?

It's a tubens rube. I mean a Ruben's Tube!

Yes, invented by the great German physicist Hienrich Rubens.

What a lovely guy. Knew him well.

So, what does it do? Well, I'll tell you!

This is a tube with gas coming out which is making little flames

which run all the way along 200 little holes there!

And in here it's blocked off by a speaker,

which can play noises and music like this -

HE PLAYS AIR GUITAR

So, what I want to know is, when we play some music or noises or sounds

through the speaker into the tube, what will happen to the flames?

Teams, you have a little while to think about your answers

and then I'm going to ask you.

OK, your thinking time starts...nowski!

This question has certainly caused our teams' brains to light up.

They'll need to think about affect the sound waves

will have on the flames.

OK, teams, that's thinking time up.

So, let me see your answers now!

Ohh. Interesting! Look, the teams are split between C, all

the flames get bigger, and A, the flames bend away from the speaker.

Dr Bobby, a-ooooh! Why A?

The vibrations will surely move the flames away.

So either that or it will put them out.

Ah, so the vibrations are going to make the flames move.

What is that process, the pressure of the vibrations?

I don't know.

I thought it was C but peer pressure has made us go with A.

Stand up for yourself.

Yellows, why are the flames going to get bigger?

Because the speakers would make air like...

It's going to force air through.

..force air through and to make fire, you need oxygen,

a source of something to make fire and um, flames.

Oxygen! I see, so that's going to force air through

and that's going to feed oxygen into the flames and make them grow!

And that's your theory? Ah, not bad, Dr Cleo, not bad, Yellows.

Now then, Greens, how was your thinking?

Was it similar or different?

Yeah, it was pretty much the same. Music will force air through and air

contains oxygen so the oxygen will make the flames bigger.

Only one way to find out, folks. Let's try it!

Welcome, welcome, welcome to my Boogie-Woogie Science Hootenanny.

Over here in the studio, we have The Flaming Rubenettes!

They're going to sing a little song for us now. Take it away!

MUSIC PLAYS

They're bending.

-Not away though.

-They're just getting bigger...

What are the flames doing?

-Getting bigger?

-They're dancing!

WARNING: This challenge has been performed by trained scientists.

WARNING: Do not attempt to do it at home

or experiment with flames at home or anything.

Well done, The Flaming Rubenettes. Well, did they bend away? No.

-Did they grow bigger?

-Yeah?

-Well, at times they did,

but what they actually did was something else - they danced!

They danced, folks, which means the answer was, "something else."

And here's why!

When the speaker sounds, it creates areas of high and low pressure

along the tube which affects how high the flames will burn.

Sometimes higher, sometimes lower.

When we play music, the pressure varies and each note

produces a pattern in the flames.

When lots of different notes are played together,

the flames dance along to the rhythm of the music, just like me!

Simple, right?

I'm not saying I'm simple.

Nobody got it right so nobody gets ten Honour points, oh!

What a shame.

HE LAUGHS

So, let's see what happens in the next round!

So, what's the challenge?

It's this, who can squeeze the most lemons inside one minute to

make a yummy, yummy, refreshing lemon drink

without using any electrical equipment or knives?

We gave our teams three days and a budget of £50 million,

divided by a million, to come up with their answers.

But who is going to be our lemon squeezer?

Just when he thought it was safe to leave his hutch,

the Guinea Pig was lured into the jaws of the Ultimate Brain.

But what could be more terrifying than this, his next sour challenge?

Huh?

The Guinea Pig!

APPLAUSE

Hi, buddy, how you doing?

I'm scared. What are you making me do today?

-You like lemons?

-No, I'm scared of them.

Do you feel like a bit of a lemon?

SILENCE

Let's find out what is the first plan.

It's the turn of the Yellow Team.

Yellow Chaos all hail from London. They are Jessie, Maja, and Cleo.

Cleo adores animals and would like to own a zoo

when she's older. Perhaps her desire to control wild things will help

her keep the Guinea Pig in check during this challenge. I hope so!

-Da-a-bum! Yeah!

-APPLAUSE

I've just done an amazing juggling act,

and you missed it because you were watching graphics.

That's your fault. You've only yourself to blame.

So, here we have the Yellow Chaos's plan. What's it called?

-What's the name of your plan?

-The Operation Crusher.

So I'm guessing, just a wild guess, that might involve uh...crushing?

-Yeah.

-Explain your plan.

Well, we put the lemons in a garlic press,

and then you squeeze the handles. It has holes in it

so when the lemon gets squeezed, all the juice falls through into a cup.

That's your scientific plan, is it?

Why do you hate me so much?

Because you're a Guinea Pig.

Oh stop moaning, you! Get on with it! Go on!

The Yellow Team's cunning plan involves putting

hot lemons into a large garlic-type press.

By soaking the lemons in hot water first, they hope this process

will soften the fruit, making it even more juicy.

By applying pressure, they

hope to release the juice quickly whilst leaving the skin behind.

Let's see how they get on.

-Three, two, one.

-Get squeezing!

Hurry up! Come on!

Start squeezing!

The mighty lemon is a great source of vitamin C, calcium,

and potassium.

and is known for its strong antibacterial and antiviral powers.

It's also made up of 5-6% citric acid which is

what gives it that really sour taste.

So why is it in the hot water again?

So it gives more juice, cos heated lemons give more juice.

Oh, they give more juice. Oh, I see, I didn't know that.

That's clever I should know that really, being a monkey scientist.

Look at that. More juice, more juice.

Going quite well, do you think? Come on, Guinea Pig!

-Come on!

-That's it.

-Get it out!

Get your muscles into it.

Ruining our plan, stupid Guinea Pig!

What are you? A man or Guinea Pig?

Ten seconds left. Come on, you've only got five seconds left!

Come on, more squeezing! Come on!

Oh, that's it. Time up.

Well done, well done. You see nice bit of juice there.

Oh, not a bad effort.

They managed to squeeze the juice from three lemons.

We'll measure the amount at the end of the round.

Joe, Ben, and Bella belong to the Green Gibbons.

They're all fond of science and experimenting

and team member Joe hopes to be an inventor when he's older.

What have his team brainstormed to answer THIS challenge?

So, what's the name of your plan?

The Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Lemon Press.

So how does it work? Tell me, what's the process?

So, we're going to put the lemons in and we're going to squish it

with a big lever.

And the lemon juice will drip through the colander

and end up in the tray.

-So you're applying pressure again?

-Yeah.

And you're hoping he's going to be strong enough.

What kind of contraption is this?

Looks like the stick of a shovel into a grilling plate.

It looks like you went into a

hardware store and blew all your money.

How dare you!

Oh, oh, bit of a fight. Come on, come on.

Let's have it, let's have it. Right. Get on with it, you!

It's time to see the plan in action.

They are also using the force of applied pressure and hope that by

using a pan with a long handle and a wider surface area, they will give

the Guinea Pig extra leverage to extract larger quantities of juice.

But will it be as easy-peasy as they thinky-pinky?

-Three, two, one!

-Get squeezing!

It seems the Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy has got off to

a difficult start.

Do you have any muscles?

You can do this, Guinea Pig!

Use your muscles if you have any!

Is it true that you can do six in one go on this thing?

No. You'd need some, like, big muscles.

Can you do more than one?

Stand on it now!

There you go, foot action!

Deploying weight.

He's having a go at least.

-Jump on it!

-I'm trying!

Come on, Guinea Pig!

Oh, time up, time up.

Oh, good shot!

That, my friends, is what we call a bull's-eye.

Yes, it's the turn of the Blue Moons! Awooo!

The Blue Moons are Bobby, Louisa and Kedar,

star's of CBBC's action drama Wolfblood.

Will they have a howling good idea for our next challenge?

Get it? Howling?

What's the name of your plan?

Operation Clamp, was it?

Yeah. Operation Clamp.

Operation Clamp.

Whose idea was that?

I don't know.

Take you long to think of it, did it?

What happens? Tell us.

Talk us through the process, the scientific formulae of your plan.

Basically you put a lemon in the clamp, a ripe lemon.

Squidgy ones.

Rip it first and tear the skin,

and then tear down, face it in the clamp and...

Then maybe go to a bottling plant,

get it carbonated, start a little business, get it labelled for you?

Organic Lemons.

Is this the idea is straight out of the minds of wolves, effectively?

What do you know about wolves, really?

-A lot.

-Quite a bit, actually.

-What type of wolf is a wolverine?

A Hugh Jackman looking one.

That's incorrect cos it's actually a type of badger. See? I'm not

just a Guinea Pig, I'm also someone who can read.

Whose idea was it to get him? Right!

Let's see if your plan works.

Guinea Pig, get to your squeezing station. Go, go, go!

-Come on, Guinea Pig!

-Go for the yellow ones!

The Blue Team think that using a clamp is the answer.

They hope that the Guinea Pig can exert more pressure on the lemons

by securing them into the clamp and tightening until each

lemon is completely squeezed and all the juice is drained. Will it work?

There's only one way to find out.

-Three, two, one, go, go, go!

-Go for it!

Stick it in! Stick it in!

Put it in, squeeze it!

Faster!

Squeeze those lemons!

What is the technical name for this scientific

-process that he is deploying?

-Useless.

Come on, Mr Guinea Pig!

C'mon, Guinea! Get on with it! Put some muscle into it.

You guys are just lemons in wolves' clothing.

-What are you a man or a Guinea Pig?

-That's good, that is.

-Thank you.

-There we go juices flowing.

-All the juice. Next one next one.

-Moving on, moving on!

-That's it, come on.

-Rip it, rip it.

-Get your back into it.

Now stick it in. Just try it!

-Times nearly up, times nearly up, you know.

-Squeeze!

That did not go as well as I'd hoped.

So, how much juice do you think you got out of those lemons?

A couple of pints?

A couple of pints?

Wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking, I should say so.

Let's have a look, Guinea Pig. It's time to measure up!

So, as you can see, the fruits of the teams' juicings have been

decanted into scientific measuring jugs

and now I can reveal the results of this round.

To help us score this challenge, the Guinea Pig is going to drink

the lemon juice.

Now, the Blue Moons produced just under 50ml.

Eurggghhhh.

Good work, Guinea Pig, that's it. Get it down you.

It's lovely, you know it is.

Wow, the Green Gibbons have moved into the lead with just

over 50ml.

Yummy! Last one.

And Yellow Chaos, they've tied with the Blues with just

under 50ml. Go on, Guinea pig, get it down ya!

He did it! Good on ya, Guinea! And the winners are the Green Gibbons.

10 Honour points! How do you feel? Awesome?

-Yeah.

-Amazingly amazing.

Why do you think your plan worked when other plans failed?

Cause we're the Ultimate Brains.

Ooooo, that feels like a challenge to me, folks.

Well, are they? Let's find out. It's time for the next round!

Now it's time for the teams to go ape, or wolf, or anything

they want. It's the brainless challenge!

"Pi squared is a healthy dinner for four". Great Uncle Bernard.

So now, we turn to the silly part of the brain,

the part of the brain known as Rough Man's Raspberry.

What's going to happen here is all of our contestants have

upon their backs a box of balls. Let's see 'em!

Wiggle it, wiggle it. Thank you very much.

So, within each box is exactly 25 little ping-pong balls

and what they're going to do is dance and dance and dance

and dance them all out

and the one with fewest ping-pong balls left in the box is the winner!

-Does everyone understand?

-Yes!

-Is everybody ready?

-Yes!

-Am I a monkey?

-Yes!

What's the square root of 356?

I don't know.

It doesn't matter. Let's dance!

MUSIC: "Firework" by Katy Perry

Stop, stop, stop, stop!

Time is up. OK, everybody back in your positions please.

And now the counting begins.

Are we ready? OK, folks, let's have a look.

So that's ten for the Greens!

A combined score of 10. Well done to the Green Gibbons.

Nine! Oh, nine, that's very good.

The Yellows are currently in the lead with nine, that's nine to beat.

Let's see how many the Blues have.

One, None!

YES!

That is the result for the Blues. They are the winners

and they get 10 Honour points.

Well done, Blues.

So, as things stand at the moment, it's a tie between the Green Gibbons

and the Blue Moons which means Yellow Chaos have some work

to do in this next round, Inspiration.

So, what do we have here?

Well, right here, we have a wardrobe full of stuff which is

very, very, very, very, heavy. Show them how heavy it is, Guinea Pig.

Come on get your back into it, push it! Come on!

Oh, dear. Look, he can't even shift it.

That's how heavy it is, folks. We're talking heavy.

So, how can the Guinea Pig move this wardrobe using only

a pair of orange gloves with rubber grip, a piece of rope and a

specially hired Viking wrestler all the way from there to the goal line?

You're going to have a couple of minutes to think about this,

then I'm going to ask you to draw out your plans and show me.

Are you ready? Your thinking time starts now!

Our teams have just one minute to think of an elegant solution.

Let's hope that it's "knot" too ropey, do you get it?

Knot?!

OK, folks let's see your plans NOW!

Let's have a look.

Hold them up, hold them up!

Ooh, Yellow Chaos, explain to me your graph there.

We decided that in order for it to have a good grip, we'd have to

tie the rope around a few times mainly at the bottom

because if it was at the top, it would just tilt sideways.

So, at the bottom it would kind of tug along more.

And then we would use the Guinea Pig to push it

and the wrestler to pull it using two of the ropes at the front

with the gloves so he doesn't get rope burn.

Ah, a bit of push and pull.

And I like that you've got a bit of safety and concern.

So, Yellow Chaos, I can see your plan being put into action here.

You've used all three of the props available. How does it look now that

you've seen it in action? Do you think it's going to work?

-Yes.

-Confident?

-Yes.

-Three, two, one!

-Get pushing and pulling!

Oh what's happening there? It's sort of working out. You can see there's

a bit of friction there at the bottom but its working quite well.

Eric the Viking having to pull quite hard there.

All that experience of life on the longboats, that's what that is.

Guinea Pig pushing with all his might. You tell em!

-You can do it!

-Come on come, on harder!

That's it, nearly there! It's nearly there, it's nearly there!

I think you've done it!

Well done! 34 seconds you did that in. Well done.

So, Green Gibbons, let me hear you say, "Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh!"

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh!

Monkey talk. So, what's your idea?

Well, ours is basically the same as Yellow Chaos.

Ah, yes, I see. You've got the Viking there and the gloves and

the rope goes round nice and low. It's exactly the same, isn't it?!

-Yes.

-So, we know it works

so that means that if that idea is the quickest idea, you'll both

get 10 points, you pleased?

Yeah.

Well done, Greens let's see the Blue idea.

What's the plan?

What we decided to do is push it over because it's got a slidier side

so we're hoping it's going to slide easier.

We did the same old rope all the way around, push

and pulling, we're ready to go.

We've got a slidey side and a bit of pull and push sounds good to me.

-Are you confident?

-I think so.

-Yeah!

-OK, so three two, one.

-Go, Guinea Pig!

-Go, go, go!

They smashed it out of the park.

It's all over, it's all over. Four seconds. You've beaten

the Yellow and Green score

by a massive half a minute using brains,

intelligence and Guinea Pig Viking power.

Well done, teams, the Viking wrestler can have a nice breather and a

little pint of mead while we show you and even easier way to do it.

The reason this works is very simple. The grippy side keeps

the gloves in place and the smooth side reduces

the friction between the cabinet and the ground.

This means it can be pushed along the floor relatively easily.

Ten points to the Blue Team!

That makes things pretty exciting

and pretty tense as we go into the final round.

HE HOWLS

Are you ready? Hands on your brains. Let's go!

Name a dinosaur that rhymes with "an enormous flex"?

Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Is the right answer. What part of a plant takes in water?

The roots.

Is the right answer.

Name a planet in the solar system beginning with N.

Neptune.

Is the right answer. What 2D shape has six equal sides?

Hexagon.

Is the right answer.

If you mix blue and yellow paint together, what colour will you get?

Green.

Is the right answer.

What is the unit of force beginning with N?

Oh. I've forgotten.

Newtons.

Newtons is the right answer.

What is 100 billion million multiplied by zero?

Zero.

Is the right answer.

Does a negative charge attract or repel a positive charge?

Repel.

-Can I have another one?

-Attract.

It had to be didn't, it?

OK, give me something beginning with T that can be used to

measure temperature.

Thermometer.

Is the right answer. Does sand dissolve in water? Yes or no?

Yes.

-No, we're going to have to hand it over.

-No!

"No" is the right answer. Wouldn't do much good for beaches, would it,

if sand dissolved in water, no?

That was the right answer and you were out of time

and that means the scores are as follows.

In third place, it's Yellow Chaos! Unlucky, Yellow Chaos!

-Well played. Did you enjoy yourselves?

-Yes.

-Good, I'm glad.

In second place with 16 points, it's the Green Gibbons!

Well done. Which means our winners this week with

a massive 30 Honour points, it's the Blue Moons!

Come on down! Come and join me, Blue Moons.

Yes, magnificent victory for wolfkind there.

5, 10, 15, that's a full house, folks.

Well, Blues, you've won. How do you feel?

I feel honoured.

What do you think was the secret to your success?

-Teamwork.

-Teamwork indeed.

-Did you have the biggest brains, do you think?

-Yes.

-Does this go to prove that wolves are cleverer then mankind?

-Yes.

Yeah, you think so? What about monkeys? We're pretty smart, right?

Your pretty smart but wolves are better.

Commiserations to the Greens and the Yellows. Come and join us,

it's time for the bow-down.

Well folks, we've had fun, we've enjoyed ourselves today.

-HE HOWLS

-I hope you've had fun too.

Come join us next time for more Ultimate Brain.