Show Me Your Brain! Ultimate Brain

Will these two bottles of pop send your mind into a fizz?

Can Guinea Pig steal my thunder with these photobombing inventions?

And can this can move like magic

with the power of s-s-tatic electricity?

It's time for Ultimate Brain!

Thank you, bless you, bless you.

-DRAMATIC PIANO RIFF

-Brrum!

If you want to be captivated by cleverness...

-DRAMATIC PIANO RIFF

-Brrum!

..bamboozled by brilliance and jiving to genius...

FAST-PACED DANCE MUSIC

..you have come to the right place. My name...is Dr Brain!

Ha-ha, still got it! Ow!

This is Ultimate Bra-a-a-ain!

Let's meet the mega-minded contestants vying for victory

on today's show - we're green with envy over their enormous brains.

From Newcastle, it's the Green Team.

Bright as a bunch of brainy bananas, from Aberdeen in Scotland,

It's the Yellow Team.

Brimming with brilliance,

our celebrity team from CBBC's Show Me What You're Made Of,

it's the Blues!

This week's bright young mega-minds

are going to be playing for points, and what do points get you?

Honour, prestige, respect and a trip to Mars.

Warning, all trips to Mars are subject to delays of up to 75 years.

Welcome, the Greeennn teeeamm. How are you, Greens?

-Good.

-Good, thanks.

-Excellent.

-Excited.

Excited, are you? Oh, good, I like to hear that.

Now, Dr William, what would you like to be

when all this school stuff is finished?

A zoologist.

A zoologist, oh, that's nice, you like animals?

-Yes.

-Any particular animals that you like?

-A rhino.

A rhino, oh, they are quite big, aren't they?

-Yeah.

-I've got a mate who's a rhino, Pete his name is,

he has got a rival science show, actually, but it's not very good.

All he does is run into things and smash them up cos he's so massive.

Never start a fight with a rhino, they're pretty 'ard,

d'you know what I mean? What is your team name?

The Mutated Magpies, very unusual but brilliant name.

Nice to meet you, the Greens.

Hi, Yellows.

-Hi!

-How are you doing?

-Good.

Dr Zain, are you ever known as Zain the Brain?

-Yes.

-Ha-ha, you definitely will be from now on.

What's the name of your team?

The Pink Fluffy Doughnuts! Good to meet you, the Yellow Team.

CANNED CHEERING

# Blues, Blues, Blues, Blues I've got the Blues. #

-Stacey.

-How are you?

-Very well, thank you.

-You look really lovely today.

-Thank you so much, so do you.

-We have similar hair.

-Yeah, we have, haven't we?

Now, Dr Jazmin, are you a member or any particular organisations?

I'm a member of Two Step, that's a dance crew.

I am kid parliament and I am also a mentor and I'm school council.

Now, I want somebody to sort out less taxation on monkeys,

er, and less taxation on bananas for monkeys.

If you could sort all those out that would be great.

Thank you very, very much. There we go, it's the Blue team!

-Whoo!

-OK, teams, I hope you've

had a bite of brilliance,

a cup of hot genius and a slice of cunning cake with

clever custard, because your brains will need to be bursting

at the seams to take home the honour from this show. So let's do this.

-Are you ready?

-ALL: Yeah!

Let's do it. Brain ignition - ignite.

Oh, here we go then, teams, here we go.

This brain ignition is all about liquids in liquids,

but don't worry - nobody is going to get wet.

Here we have Ultimate Brain cola -

mmm, full of sugar

and bad for your teeth and your liver

and pretty much everything else you can think of.

Mm, yummy!

And Ultimate Brain diet cola, with hardly any sugar

but just as much fizz.

Now, observe as I weigh them on our super hi-tech weighing scale.

There, you see, they are almost

the same weight.

Now then, my teams of intrepid scientific explorers, the question

for you is - when we place both the regular Ultimate Brain cola

and the Ultimate Brain diet cola into the water tank,

what will happen next?

Oooh!

Look at the confusion on their faces. Do you know what it will be?

Well, the answer is easy,

but to make it simpler for everybody we've got four choices for you, OK?

Count them - one, two, three, four.

Will they, the two bottles...

Or something else of your own thinking

that perhaps I haven't thought of.

Is that possible, I ask you?

Now then, teams, your thinking time starts now!

So, four choices, hey? The teams need to think

carefully before making their brainy bottle decision.

Their brains are bubbling away,

but will they get in a fizz?

What do you think will happen?

KLAXON SOUNDS

That's it. No more thinking, no more talking, your time is up.

It's time to reveal your answers NOW!

Oh, OK, this is good.

Oh...oh!

Three Ds. Well, 3D - muhaha! So, Greens, what have you got?

Why D?

Because the diet cola has more fizz, it's going to sink

and the regular cola is just going to float.

Ah, so you think the sugary one is going to float?

-Yeah.

-And the non-sugary one is going to sink?

-Yes.

-Oh very interesting. All right, OK.

Now, Yellows, what's your answer?

Well, we think that the diet cola will float

because it's got less sugar, meaning that it will float,

and then the normal cola will sink.

OK, oh, so the opposite of Green, then,

so Green think it is going to go like this.

And Yellow think it's going to go like that.

So, Blue, what do you think it's going to do?

The Blue are feeling very similar to the Yellow.

-Yes.

-So we think the diet is going to float

and the regular is going to sink like a stone.

Oh, have our talented teams of mighty minds cracked this

cola conundrum, or has it left everyone in a bit of fizz?

Now then, yes, they do weigh roughly the same amount,

but let's see what actually happens when we place them into the water.

Here we go, folks, are you ready?

-STACEY: # Ahhhh... # OK.

-In three...in two...a-one-ah...

Ah, we did it.

-That one is floating!

-Now, then, here we have so, amazing there,

look, look, yes, so, so the regular cola is sinking.

'So, despite being about the same weight, one sinks and one floats.

'This is because the regular cola contains a large amount of sugar,

'whereas the diet cola only contains a small amount

'of sweetener, and it's ever so slightly lighter and it floats.'

So the amazing answer is D - something else.

So, that means everybody chose D, so you will all get five points.

Well done.

But also, because the Yellows and the Blues,

you got it exactly right, I'm going to give you two bonus points.

-ROBOTIC VOICE:

-It's time to change the way you think.

Get creative with your cunning and think outside the brain box. BEHOLD!

We call the next challenge the Ultimate Brain Photobomb Test.

Now, being the host of the greatest science show in the universe

and on account of my earth-shattering good looks

and supermodel haircut, of course,

I naturally get all the attention at these celebrity red carpet events,

but poor lesser celebrities are always trying to photobomb my pics.

Now, can the contestants invent a device to launch

someone above the heads of a crowd of incredibly attractive Dr Brains?

So that they can photobomb the pictures and, for once,

steal just a teeny-weeny tiny little bit of the limelight from

this dashing monkey scientist. Ha-ha!

But who can take on a challenge such as this?

Only the daredevil of experiments, the stuntman of science - just say

"danger" and "scientific advancement" and see him

come running with a smile on his fearless face.

It's Guinea Pig!

Ah-ha, hi, there, Guinea Pig, are you ready?

-No.

-Yes.

-No.

-Yes.

-No.

-Yes.

-No.

-Yes.

-No.

-No.

-Yes.

Ah, ha-ha, I got you!

-COCKNEY ACCENT:

-You got a lot of guts, mate,

I like that in a Guinea Pig.

Now, our teams were given two days and a budget of £50

to design their solution to this challenge.

So, our teams need to invent a way to bounce GP

so he can photobomb above those gorgeous Dr Brains.

They can use anything that squishes, squashes, or stretches,

as long as it bounces back with enough force to send GP sky-high.

So, GP may not climb or touch any of the dashing Dr Brains here

and the cummerbund around his waist that he wears must be

clearly seen for the photo to qualify as a photobomb.

Ha-ha, right, teams, let's see what happens when GP attempts

to photobomb without the help of you, my brilliant, brainy boffins.

But Dr Brain, I am going to go straight through the roof.

Yep, and so will the viewing figures for this show if you do it, GP.

Yes, this is what we call the planless plan.

Here we go now, we are going to see GP in action, ha-ha,

look at that, like a kangaroo with a pocket full of bricks.

Rubbish, isn't he? Well, there you go, that's what happens

when you don't have a plan.

Let's see what happens when you do.

-AMERICAN ACCENT:

-Hi, there! OMB! That means, "Oh, my bananas!"

Here I am at the Monkey Academy Acting Awards, the Banana-naftas,

here with my good friends, the Green Team,

and they have designed something

to help my friend Guinea Pig here to photobomb all the celebrities.

Now, tell me, Green Team, what do you call your device?

The spring springboard, let's call it that.

Why not? So now, talk me through the science now, Dr Luc.

What kind of forces are in motion?

The springs will coil up, get some energy

and be able to push that board up and he will go up into the air.

When GP pushes down on the board, the springs will compress,

giving them elastic potential energy.

They will want to stretch out back out to their normal position,

converting this stored energy to kinetic force,

hopefully propelling GP into the air.

Now then, shall we see if it works?

-Yeah!

-Guinea Pig, you have 30 seconds

to do as many photobombs as you can.

Are you ready? A three, a two, one - bombs away!

Now, he needs to get stable, doesn't he?

-COMMENTATOR VOICE:

-'And the Mutated Magpies

'have really got Guinea Pig photobombing in style here.

'Wow, we can really see this cummerbund, there he is.

'Oh, and again, oh, and there it is again, incredible stuff.

'They're really getting the full potential out of this

'elastic potential energy here.

'Their photobombing invention working a treat.

'Ah, they're racking up an incredible score

'but what will be the final result?'

BELL RINGS

Ah, that's time up, time up, time up.

That actually worked a bit!

Have you any idea how many he might have managed do you think?

-Er...

-More than ten.

-It's more than that, shall I tell you?

-Yeah.

-What, what, what?

-32.

-Yes!

-That's good, isn't it?

-Yeah!

Let's see the next plan.

And what do we call this?

The ultimate trampoline.

What's the science behind it, Dr Zain?

The springs will uncoil and while Guinea Pig

goes down the trampoline fabric will go down as well,

and then the springs would want to coil up again to their normal shape.

The Pink Fluffy Doughnuts are also

using elastic potential energy to

propel GP into the air. This time,

though, the springs are stretching

rather than being squashed, but just as before, they want to go back

to their normal length, and when

they do, GP should be sent flying.

-Well, shall we see if it works?

-Yes.

Here we go, in three, two, one - bombs away!

Jump.

-COMMENTATOR VOICE:

-'The Pink Fluffy Doughnuts have really put a spring

'in Guinea Pig's step here.

'Where's that cummerbund? There it is! And again, oh, and again.

'He's still bouncing, he's still scoring.

'It's elastic potential energy in action,

'but will it be enough to beat the Greens?'

BELL RINGS

That's time up, that's time up, that's time up.

How do you think that went?

-OK, yeah.

-You think the science worked?

-Yes.

-You got him into the air, didn't you?

-Yeah.

-How well do you think you did?

High twenties, maybe.

Well, I can tell you, you scored...

-35.

-Yes.

-Whoo!

But will it be enough to beat the Blues? Let's find out.

What have you made for me here?

Well, these shoes are second to none, Dr Brain.

Rob, do you want to tell him very quickly how they work?

So, you have got the platform shoe, the pink bit.

-Yes.

-Underneath, it has got a load of springs

to give it that extra bounce.

-Yes.

-And with the Zimmer frame he will be able to balance

and move without falling.

Team Show Me What You Are Made Of hope to harness our old friend

elastic potential energy by squashing springs under

each of GP's fabulous shoes, but they are strapping them

to his feet, rather than letting him jump free.

Hmm, what could possible go wrong?

Come on, Guinea Pig. Get on with it, son.

-Three, two, one...

-Show me what you're made of!

-Come on, GP.

-Come on, GP.

Oh, oh, he's down.

Oh, and it's a disaster, Guinea Pig is down, there he goes.

Show Me What You Are Made Of have shown us

what they are made of - rubbish, they failed to live up to the name.

They had the right idea with the elastic potential energy

springy shoes, but even with the Zimmer frame

they couldn't get the stability they needed.

-BELL RINGS

-That's time up, I'm afraid.

Now then, Blues, you needed to beat 35 photobombs, didn't you?

-Do you think you've done it?

-I bet we have got this in the bag!

-Feeling confident.

-Well, I am glad you are feeling confident.

The number that you scored is a very yummy number that looks

a bit like an Easter egg.

Yes, it's zero!

That was good, come on, guys.

Better than I expected, you know.

So, the Greens' spring board really harnessed the

elastic potential energy, giving GP plenty of bounce.

The same can be said for Yellows' ultimate trampoline,

but the Blues, oh, dear.

Their mistake was that they didn't have enough bounce

or stability in their fabulous looking shoes.

The Greens did very, very well.

I am going to give them five,

and that means the Yellows are the winners with ten points!

The points are close, but not too close.

Only one team will emerge as victor.

Who has more brains than Albert Einstein butter

on Isaac Newton toast? Let's find out in the next round.

This round is all about quick reactions.

GP, let's test your reactions. GP?

GP!

Eh?

Incredible, but not in a good way. Gerroff!

So, one member of each team will stand with their elbows held

out in front of them thus wise, supporting a mini trifle

and then, when you hear the signal, you must flip the

teetering trifle off your elbows... and catch it with your hands.

The winner is the first person to grab

the cherry from your desert mid-flight, ha-ha.

Clear as custard and jelly and cream, and little bits on top.

Mmm, ho-ho, trifle...

OK, time to get into position.

Ready?

Whoa! Jeepers, you guys totally trashed those trifles.

-COMMENTATOR VOICE:

-Let's take a look at that again.

Oh, there is definite use of the elbow there.

Referee! But was it trifle to hand or hand to trifle,

and who got there first?

Rob from the Blues there whirls away victorious.

He certainly thinks he's got

the fastest elbow in the west

but they're all so quick,

it is impossible to judge.

Activate the slowmonizer, let's have a look.

Oh, look, Dr Ellen has gone,

surely she's got... Oh, no she's dropped it, who's going to take it?

It's Gabe from the Yellows who gets there first.

Even though Dr Rob thought he was the winner,

it's actually ten points to the Yellows.

Oh, that was exciting, wasn't it?

Du-dum, du-dum. Now, it's time for our teams

to engage their brains again.

Yes, it's the Inspiration Challenge. Hoo-hoo-hoo!

Now, GP, shall we talk mind over matter?

-I am not sure I mind.

-Why, what's the matter?

Ha-ha, brilliant...

-WIND HOWLS

-..quite brilliant.

The real question is, can you move something

with the power of your mind?

Answer - no, but we can use static electricity to move objects.

Choose which object you want to create static with

and one team member will take to the course.

If you can get the can to the next coloured zone,

another team member takes over.

Can you move the can all the way to the end and into the recycling bin?

Ooh, I hope so!

Warning - you are not allowed to touch the can with your objects

or you will be DISQUALIFIED!

That's my angry face. Grrrr!

But you can choose as many objects as you like to create the static.

-COCKNEY ACCENT:

-I'm good like that, aren't I?

I'm nice to you, you've got to admit that.

Now, teams, you have two minutes, just two minutes,

to muster your mega minds.

-Are we good to go?

-Yeah!

I love it, your time starts, oh, er, now!

What if the hair...? The hair, the hair.

So, when you rub an object like a balloon through your hair,

negatively charged invisible electrons jump from

one object to the other, giving them different charges.

This static or non-moving electricity has the power

to pull very light objects with the positive charge towards them,

like our empty can of pop here.

But different objects create different amounts of static.

Choose carefully, my friends, for an electrifying result.

-KLAXON SOUNDS

-OK, that's it, that's it.

Your time is up.

OK, Greens, static fanatics - you're up first.

The rest of you must wear your blindfolds and your ear defenders.

OK, so you can't take a peak or hear how the team challenge is going.

Alrighty?

Now, have you decided on the materials you are going to

-use to create your static?

-Yes.

-What are they?

My hair, balloon, can.

Very, very good. Simple - hair, balloon, hair.

I like it, OK, are we ready to go?

Yes.

Your minute starts...now.

KLAXON SOUNDS

So, good rub on the head.

Now, don't forget you can't touch the can, you must not touch the can.

Nah.

'Well, the Mutated Magpies seem to have the right idea

'but they're just not generating enough

'negatively charged electrons.'

-What do you think?

-Cloth.

-Cloth?

-Come on, come on, Luc.

-Yes, no?

Are you going to try it with a cloth this time?

'Oh, dear, if only they had stuck to the balloon

'instead of switching to the cloth.'

Work a bit harder with the hair, you have plenty of it.

That's it, that's it.

Now, maybe try the other side of the can, see if it will push it.

'Balloon to hair, but not hair enough.'

Should be working, so we will try another plan here, you see,

the old pipe rub.

-BELL RINGS

-I am afraid that is time up, Greens.

Let's see how far you got.

'You didn't want to go, did ya?' Unlucky there, Greens.

Didn't get anywhere. Well, let's see how the next team do.

-AMERICAN ACCENT:

-# It's the turn of the Yellas

# Dr Amy and a couple of fine fellas. #

So, what's your plan?

Well, we're thinking about using the plastic rod for all of

the three segments, because we think that will give the most charge.

-Right, shall we see if it works?

-Yeah.

There is only one way to find out, your time starts now!

KLAXON

Here we go, and here we are, and er, look, yes, yes, yes,

getting the rod there, and holding it over the can.

Oh, and it's not really moving anywhere.

'The Pink Fluffy Doughnuts are building up

'negatively charged electrons all right. Well done.'

But they are using

the wrong end of the pipe, oh, no!

'They're using the area

'that wasn't charged.'

Put it on your hair.

'Right, that's the right idea, Dr Zain.

'No, if only they'd rubbed it more.

'The Yellows are failing to get the can moving,

'just like the Greens, and they are running out of time.'

BELL RINGS

Oh, I'm afraid that's time up! Dr Zain the Brain, how far did you get?

Nowhere.

Nowhere. It didn't get anywhere, did it?

-AMERICAN ACCENT:

-# They're Blues and they're dramatic

# So they should be pretty good with the static. #

Here they are, the Blue team.

Hey, what did you think, did you enjoy that little ride?

-We're ready, we're ready.

-Just for you, that little ride.

So, you've thought about your plan.

We've got a point to prove. The shoes were a disaster.

OK, let's see it, then. Your time starts NOW!

Oh, whacking himself!

-COCKENEY ACCENT:

-'Careful, Rob,

'you'll have someone's eye out, mate!

'Oh. ow, that was that was pole-slap-tastic.'

STACEY: Nice and quick, dude.

Self injury - oh, trying the side of the can.

Unusual manoeuvre, seeing if it will move that way.

Should we try something else?

-Ahhh.

-Rubbing the head.

-Sorry, Stacey!

It's moved, it's moved!

You're already winning as you got it to move.

'This is s-s-statically fantastical.

'YES, finally the balloon is working.

'They have built up negatively charged electrons

'which are pulled the positively charged can along, woo-hoo!'

BELL RINGS

There we go, that's time...

Come with me, come with me, and let us see how well you've done.

Well, let's see, the Greens scored here,

the Yellows scored here

-and you have scored...

-Wooo!

-..here.

-Amazing!

-Which means you've won this round.

First time!

The Mutated Magpies failed to generate enough

static electricity to get their can moving,

and the Pink Fluffy Doughnuts

kept missing the static sweet spot,

and their can went nowhere too.

But the Show Me What You Are Made Of team built up

some seriously super static with their balloon-to-hair action.

They used the negatively charged invisible electrons to pull

the positively charged can along the course to victory.

Now, as the final round approaches, let's find out what the scores

have to say about themselves.

But there are plenty of points left to play for in the quickfire round.

It's still anyone's game on Ultimate Brain.

Now, the time has finally come when our marvellous minds will

do battle in the greatest brain-testing battle

known to man or monkey.

Yes, it's the quickfire round.

Hands on your desks, here we go, your 60 seconds start now.

What is the name of the long appendage that

hangs from an elephant's face?

Trunk.

Trunk is right.

The molten rock that flows from a volcano after it erupts...

Lava.

-Lava, correct.

-Yes!

-Very good.

What is the name of the closest star to the Earth?

-Blue.

-Sun.

It's right.

What is a chemist's favourite kind of tree?

Blues.

-Oak?

-Chemis-tree!

-Wrong, chemistry.

-Ha-ha-ha.

What is the name of the part of the human skeleton that

protects our Ultimate Brains?

Blues.

-Skull.

-Is right.

The scientific name of which cooking ingredient is sodium chloride?

-Yellow.

-Salt.

-Correct, salt.

-How many legs in total do a cow and a chicken have?

-Yellow.

-Six.

Is right.

In which country is the famous volcano Vesuvius?

-Greens.

-Italy.

-Correct.

-Yes!

-That's time up, everybody. Marvellous.

Oh, my, that was quickfire fun wasn't it?

Da-dum, da-dum da-dum!

Well, that was quick and fast and not in any way slow.

Your brains were buzzing, your buzzers were buzzing,

everybody's buzzing. What a buzz! Are you buzzing, GP?

-I'm buzzing.

-I'm buzzing,

everybody's buzzing, everybody's buzzing,

but who out of you brilliant bunch of boffins are the winners?

DRUMROLL

Oh-ho-ho, the tension, eh, Guinea Pig?

In third place, with 14 points,

it's the Green Team!

-Yeah.

-Well played, 14 points, that's still pretty good, 14, well done.

In second place, with 23 points...

-it's the Blue team!

-Whoo!

Which means our Ultimate Brain winners,

with 31 points, it's the Yellows!

Wow, they were awesome.

Yes, if it's honour you are after,

its Ultimate Brain honour you've won.

Salute your victors, teams.

See you next time for more awesome,

brain-busting science on Ultimate Brain!