Ultimate Girl Power Ultimate Brain

Dr Brain, I've heard some rumours that I'm going to get flattened

-by some boulders today. Is that true?

-Well, possibly. Oh!

That reminds me. Right.

What band do boulders like the most?

Boulders. Well, boulders, do they listen to music?

Because I've spoken to a few boulders

and normally they just keep quiet.

They're very good listeners, boulders. I'm not too sure.

Maybe I should go and ask a few. I've seen a few around.

-I'm going to go and ask them what they...

-It's a joke! Oh.

Let's get on with the show.

Rock on!

Are you ready for this fiery experiment?

Which team can keep GP from being bowled over

in our creative challenge?

And who will bring home gold by coming last at our slow race?

Let's get to it!

This is Ultimate Brain!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

HE LAUGHS

Good to see you again.

I tell you what I want, what I really, really, really want.

I've got a zigaziggy, I've got a zigazig-ooh

but I haven't got a zigazig-ah.

I can't find one anywhere. Can't get them these days.

Yes, it's girl power day!

We're going to see if we can find the next great female scientist

to follow in the footsteps of people like Marie Curie with her X-rays,

Rosalind Franklin with her DNA.

HE LAUGHS You go, girl!

# Really, really wanna zigazig-ah. #

Let's meet the teams.

First up, our girls in green from Lancashire, it's...

Dressed in yellow and feeling mellow, it's...

From Birmingham.

And representing women of the world,

well, CBBC,

in blue The Next Step's Ella,

Hetty of Feather, AKA Isabel

and Millie of Inbetween.

# And girls they wanna have fun... #

SINGS: Girls just want to have fun.

-# Oh, girls just want to have fun. #

-Ooh, girls just want to have fun.

Yes, apart from when they're discovering things,

inventing things, becoming great politicians and scientists

and businesspeople and we have some of the greatest female minds

in the land in this very studio today. Shall we meet them?

Let's do it. Beginning with the Blues. How are you, Blues?

-We're good.

-Good, thanks.

-We're good.

It's good to see you here.

Celebrities!

Real celebrities here in my very own studio.

HE CHUCKLES

Now then, Dr Ella, I happen to know that a very good friend of mine,

my pet, Mr Guinea Pig, is a very big fan of your show, The Next Step.

-Amazing.

-Yes.

-Brilliant.

And he'd just like to show you a few moves. Would you mind?

No, that's absolutely fine. Go ahead.

Oh, that is very kind of you. Take it away, GP.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

Oh, brilliant.

Look at him go!

Right. I think that was good energy, but I think you might need to

point your toes a little bit more.

That might get you that edge further.

Do you think he'd make it to Nationals?

-Maybe. Just try a tiny bit harder.

-My best dance moves.

But I think you have the focus to get there, definitely.

Marvellous. And, Blues, what's your team name?

Groovy.

Yellows, how you doing?

-We're good.

-Good.

Good to meet you. Now, Dr Olivia, how are you feeling today?

Confident at all?

Very. Because due to the fact that Mars is in a certain position today

and also because out of all of the episodes of this show I've seen,

I think our team have been better than all of the other teams,

we are sure to win.

I'm a little bit frightened.

I'm almost being knocked over with your confidence.

Good luck, you Yellows. What's your team name?

HE LAUGHS

Greens, how you doing?

-Good, thanks.

-Great.

-Good.

-Where are you from?

-ALL:

-Lancashire.

-Lancashire.

IN LANCASHIRE ACCENT: Oh, yeah. I know somebody from Lancashire,

a very good friend, Professor Brian Cox.

Do you think that he would think

that you are some of the wonders of the universe?

I think he might. You're absolutely marvellous.

Now, one of you, I hear, would like to be a radio presenter.

-Which one is it?

-Me.

-It's you, isn't it?

Why do you want to be a radio presenter?

Cos I like music and I like talking to people.

Well, that's a perfect combination then, isn't it?

Could you do all the buttons as well?

Switch on the music and all that?

Perhaps you could give us a little go. Perhaps something like,

"Good morning, you're listening to BBC Radio Brain." Give it a go.

Good morning, you're listening to BBC Radio Brain.

Perfect. I'd like to wake up to that.

Have a little cup of coffee, go for a little drive.

Fantastic, Greens!

What's your team name?

Brilliant!

These teams are going to have to be on the ball today

because this is the show with a need for speed,

a craving for creativity

and a demand for ingenious ideas and inventions.

It's time for the warm-up.

Not that type of warm-up, GP.

Bring me my questions!

OK, folks, it's the warm-up round.

Don't forget, all these points count. Are you ready?

Take five, times it by four

add six and divide that by two.

Mini Einsteins.

-13.

-13.

-Is right.

-Yes!

What word am I spelling backwards?

Mini Einsteins.

-Habitat.

-Correct.

-Yes.

What is this sound?

RUMBLING AND CRASHING NOISE Scientific Sleuths.

Earthquake.

No, it's a bowling ball rolling and hitting some pins. Unlucky.

How many letters are there

in the word "momentum"?

Groovy Gravity Girls.

-Seven.

-No! It's eight. THEY LAUGH

Now, put yourselves in order of when your birthday is,

the earliest at this end

and the latest at that end

and when you've done it, press your brain.

Mini Einsteins.

Now, Greens have buzzed, let's have a look.

Yes! You're right.

Well done, Greens.

We were already in this order.

HE LAUGHS

Greens are rocketing ahead. Zoom!

HUMS: Fire, da-da-da don-don.

Fire, don-don-don.

Yes, I've got my protective gloves on today

which can only mean one thing - I'm going to do an experiment with fire.

Which, of course, is very different to playing with fire,

which is not something very clever to do

so don't do it at home!

So, now then, teams,

what I have in front of me here is an enormous meshy cage.

A tubular meshy cage

and in the middle is a little receptacle there

with some fuel in it.

Ah.

Now, what I'm going to do is set fire to the fuel

and then I'm going to spin the cage around

and I want you to tell me what's going to happen.

Will it be A, the flame will spread out to the edges of the meshy tube?

Or will it be B,

the spinning will extinguish the flame and knock it out?

Will it be C, the orange flame will change colour

and start to glow green?

Or will it be D, something else?

Something only you

or even you have thought of.

Your thinking time starts now. BUZZER SOUNDS

What do you think is going to happen?

I think it will make like a fire tornado

-so it'll spread to the edges.

-Yeah.

Our teams have got four choices.

Because the spinning force might go up through the top and down

pressuring it to go up.

Will this fire up their imaginations?

Fire up their... HE LAUGHS

-More oxygen, isn't it?

-Yeah, yeah.

-So...

Five seconds.

BUZZER SOUNDS

That's it. That's it. Your thinking time is up.

Let's see your answers now.

Put them up, put them up, put them up.

Oh! A, A, A.

Aye?

So, you've all gone for A.

OK, Yellows, let's start with you.

Why have you gone for A?

The mesh only has very small holes for the air to get through

so if it was spinning around,

it would go in through the top

therefore pressurising the flame to go around it.

Oh, I see.

Like a sort of centrifugal thing.

Oh, OK.

Now then, Greens, you've also gone for A.

What's your thinking?

We think that the air like pressure that's inside will push it outwards

so the fire would spread to the edges.

Ah. Pressure.

# Ding-ding-ding-ding-didle-din-din Under pressure

-# Pushing down on me BLUES:

-Pushing down on me

-# Pushing down on you...da-da-da-da

-Pushing down on you...do-do-do-do

-# Under pressure

-THEY GIGGLE

# Do-do-do-doodle-do-do. #

We love a good old singsong here on Ultimate Brain.

-# Under pressure. #

-OK, Greens, thank you.

Now then, Blues, you've gone for A as well.

Well, the fire needs oxygen for it to get bigger

and if it is spinning around, then it will get more oxygen

-and then we thought it would get bigger.

-Yes.

-So, more oxygen will make bigger fire.

-Yeah.

The cavemen discovered that. "More air make fire bigger."

But is it the right answer?

Well, we're going to find out cos it's time to do the experiment.

Here we go, folks.

HE LAUGHS

A step one. Cha-cha-cha

Hmm-hmm-hmm. Pick it up.

Put it in. Cha-cha-cha.

And light. HE HUMS

Close the thing. Pom-pom-pom.

And spin.

And stand back and watch what happens.

-# Fire

-HE GASPS

# I'll take you to burn... #

Look at that.

-Isn't it weird?

-# Fire... #

Now then, it's made a tornado.

As the flame burns,

the hot rises upwards

and fresh air is drawn inwards from the side.

When we turn the wheel, the mesh spins the air

as it moves into the cage and speeds up and the flame spins

to form a tornado.

A tornado of fire.

Which is going to be the name of our new dance show.

HE LAUGHS

Touring in all your theatres soon.

Look at that.

Isn't it extraordinary?

So, there we are. It was D, something else.

As in, it makes a tornado.

So, I'm afraid, teams, as beautiful as this is,

none of you get any points.

Tornado of fire.

HE LAUGHS

Well, our teams weren't on fire there. No points.

So, Guinea Pig and I were watching this movie,

brilliant action film with somebody like Nicolas Cage

and he was jumping out of helicopters, coming down ropes

and fighting people with swords and all this kind of stuff

and jumping across a bridge. Ah!

And then there was this brilliant bit

where there were these enormous boulders

and they were rolling down the hill towards him

and I said, "Oh, no, GP, what's going to happen?"

And he said, "I don't know, Dr Brain, what's going to happen?"

And then...the TV broke.

So we've no idea what happened.

I said, "Guinea Pig, what are we going to do?"

And he said, "You know what?

"There's only one way to find out.

"Let's make it ourselves!"

So, I've asked our contestants to come up with some brilliant devices

to show us what may have happened in the movie.

I gave them £50 each and two days to come up with their plans.

GP is teetering on the edge of a precipice

and three giant boulders 120 centimetres in diameter

are hurtling towards him at speed.

Boof!

Teams must come up with a way to prevent GP

from being knocked backwards off his ledge.

They will need to consider how they might divert

the path of the boulders and how they might defend GP

dampening the blow should he get hit.

Managing to keep GP on his feet will be rewarded with 10 points.

So, shall we see our hero stunt man?

Here he comes. Mr Guinea Pig!

MUSIC: Indiana Jones Theme Song

Oh. Oh!

DR BRAIN LAUGHS Brilliant, Guinea Pig!

I wish I had some popcorn.

So, GP, are you ready to face the boulders of doom?

I'm ready to be an action Guinea Pig, Dr Brain.

So, what our teams have got to do is find ways of stopping

the boulders of fire from knocking GP into the pit of doom.

Luckily, I've raided the BFG's snooker table for this.

Now, let's see what happens when you don't have a plan. Like this.

Oh.

DR BRAIN LAUGHS

# Like a rubber ball

# I come bouncing back to you

# Rubber ball I come bouncing back to you. #

DR BRAIN CHUCKLES

You look like one of the Mr Men from here.

GP GROANS Let's see the first plan.

It's a good job I'm incredibly strong.

So, Yellows.

Dr Aaliyah, you're a bit behind on points

after all that bravado at the beginning.

Do you think this is the plan

that's going to help you catch up the points?

-Yes.

-What's it called?

Bat To The Future.

I like it. Now, what's the scientific principle behind it.

-The bat has a wide radius.

-Yes, that's good.

Which means that there's more chance that even if it strokes the balls

then there's more chance that it will actually touch the balls.

Rather than if it was small, then it might miss entirely.

-That's good thinking.

-So, what's he wearing on his feet?

There's some Velcro on the floor and on the bottom of his shoes

so that he can stick to the floor and become more stable.

Oh, got it all covered.

The Scientific Sleuths have sent GP into the future with their plan

giving him a tennis racket shaped

bat and supers sticky Velcro shoes.

With its large surface area, the bat

is provided to help deflect balls.

Velcro is made up of two strips of material

with tiny stiffened hooks on one

that click to the tiny matted loops of the softer fibre on the other

when pressed together giving grip

to help GP stay in place.

Will GP ace this task or will he get smashed back into the pit below?

-What do you think, GP?

-I think this idea is a bit batty, Dr Brain.

Batty! HE CHUCKLES

Well, let's see if it works. In three, two, one, go!

BUZZER SOUNDS

Oh, nearly got him. Here comes the next one.

Two!

-Go, GP!

-Ooh!

Go on, GP!

That's right. Keep cheering him on. Here comes number three.

-ALL:

-Go on, GP!

Good shot, GP. It's like Wimbledon.

How did you feel that went, Yellows?

-Well.

-Well.

-Yeah.

-I think you might have caught up the points.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

-Well, let's find out when we see the next plan.

So, Blues, what's the name of your plan?

It's called The Great Almighty Protective Warrior,

-AKA The Shield Puncher.

-Shield Puncher.

I like it. The Shield Puncher.

We've got the foam to deflect the ball away from him

so that it doesn't hurt Guinea Pig

and then you've got the punch to punch it away

so he can defend himself.

Oh, very good, a double-pronged attack.

-Yeah, exactly.

-I like that, Blues.

Groovy Gravity Girls have got punchy with their plan

with a boxing glove fist on a stick

teamed up with a padded shield to absorb impact should GP get hit.

He might be able to see those boulders coming through his window

but we'll GP be able to deflect them and smack them into oblivion?

What do you think, GP?

It's a knockout idea, Dr Brain.

HE LAUGHS So, let's give it a go.

Three, two, one, go! BUZZER SOUNDS

-Go, Guinea Pig!

-Push it away!

-Punch it!

-Here comes number two.

-Go on, GP!

-ALL:

-GP, GP, GP, GP.

-Here comes the third.

-Whoo! Go on, GP!

-Go on, GP!

-Punch it!

-Punch it!

-Nearly got him.

-Yay!

Oh, oh, oh! He's toppling. He's toppling.

Is he going?

Ooh, that was close.

-You did it, well done, Blues.

-Whoo! Yes.

Nice one. It worked pretty well, didn't it? Are you happy?

-ALL:

-Yes.

-Very.

-Good.

Let's see the next plan.

Time to see if the Greens are on the ball.

What's the name of your plan?

-ALL:

-Diamond Dodge.

Now, what does it involve?

-The top of a diamond...

-Yes.

..and we're hoping that when the giant balls come down,

-then they will go either side of him.

-Ah.

And he also has sucker shoes so he can keep on the ledge.

I like your thinking. How do you feel, GP?

All right? Hello.

You're a bit silly, aren't you?

Yes.

He can't hear a thing.

Mini Einsteins have come up with the Diamond Dodge,

a sturdy shield that GP can manoeuvre to deflect boulders.

Like the Blues, they provided a look-out window

and like the Yellows, they've got an underfoot plan to keep GP sturdy.

This time giving him shoes with super-suckers

which with less air inside than out utilise pressure

to keep GP's feet stuck to the surface beneath.

Will this plan prove to be a cut above the rest?

Or will that heavy shield bring GP crashing down to earth?

Right, let's see it in action. Here we go.

Three, two, one, Geronimo!

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-Come on, GP!

-ALL:

-Yay!

-Oh, oh, nearly got him.

-Here comes number two.

-Come on, GP!

-Come on, GP!

-Oh, oh.

-ALL:

-Yay!

-He's teetering, he's tottering, and he's still there.

Number three. The final ball.

-Come on, GP!

-Ah!

-Aw!

Down he goes.

-THEY GIGGLE

-It looks ridiculous.

That's a failure for you and a big laugh for me.

Greens, oh, no, it didn't quite come off. Unlucky.

How do you feel?

-ALL:

-Sad.

-Oh, I'm sorry.

What a great round that was.

Guinea Pig was literally bowled over by that...

HE LAUGHS

It was really rock and roll.

Ha, rock and roll!

And other such jokes.

So, then, teams,

they were pretty good plans you came up with there, I thought.

Unfortunately, Greens, right on the last boulder,

over he went into the pit.

Why do you think that happened? What went wrong?

-He didn't do it properly.

-You're blaming him.

-Yes.

Oh, dear, Guinea Pig.

You got it wrong again and it's all your fault

that the Greens, unfortunately, get no points.

-I'm sorry about that.

-Aw.

So, Blues and Yellows, you managed it, didn't you?

You kept him on there, steady as a rock,

which means you both get 10 points!

THEY CHEER

Well, I'm glad they're happy.

Let's see what that does to the scores.

Blues and Yellows take the lead.

It's his favourite round. The split second round.

Now, I went to see a therapist the other day

because I've developed rather a phobia of balloons.

They really make the jump, even the word balloon makes me jump.

Balloon. Ah! What did I do that to myself for?

So, she said to me, "You know what you need to do to get over it?

"You've got to face your fear.

"Get three people to pop balloons as quickly as they can

"and it will all be gone and you'll feel fine."

So, that's what we're going to do.

So, on the sound of the signal, which is the guinea pig squeal,

which sounds a little like this... SQUEAK

they're going to pop their balloons as quickly as they can

and the fastest one is the winner. Are you ready, teams?

-ALL:

-Yes.

-SQUEAK

AAMNA LAUGHS

Well... HE CHUCKLES

Good glittering gracious, what a noise.

Come on, Yellows, catch up. There we go.

It's 10 points for the Greens.

THEY CHEER

Well done, you Greens.

Ah, and I got over my fear of balloons.

LOUD BANG Ah! Oh, no, I haven't.

Oh, well. Let's pop on to today's inspiration challenge.

Our teams are each going to be given a ball like this

in two halves which can be placed together like so.

Now, they've got all sorts of stuff here

that they can put inside or outside the ball to make it go slow.

But why would they want to make it go slow? I hear you ask.

Well, over here we have our race track.

Green, blue, yellow.

And once they've made their balls, what we're going to do

is race them down the tracks but this is a different kind of race.

The one who comes last wins but their ball must get to the end.

It can't just stop, it has to move but very, very slowly.

HE LAUGHS What do you think, GP?

It looks pretty good, right?

Looks fantastic, Dr Brain.

Do you think even you could do it, GP?

MUSIC: Chariots Of Fire Theme Song

It's the ball that needs to go slow, not you, Guinea Pig.

Oh. Let's see if our teams are any more inspired.

Three, two, one, go!

Now! BUZZER SOUNDS

So, how to slow the ball down.

Elastic bands around it then it will, like, cause friction.

-Something sticky on the outside.

-So, we need to get honey, I think.

-Inside, sugar inside?

-Sugar inside.

Yeah, I think you'll find that's sand.

Yellows thinking along the same line as the Greens there.

Elastic bands round it so that slows down so it isn't round and rolling.

-And you have to make it as heavy as possible.

-And also Blu-Tack as well

-in random places so it's sticky.

-OK. We have to make it heavy as well.

Do something, Greens.

Just chuck it in the baked beans.

THEY LAUGH

-What are you doing?

-Well, that certainly is something.

Just chuck it in the baked beans.

We have to put as much stuff in it as possible.

Halfway through your time now.

-Sand.

-Right, honey on the outside.

-Yeah, and then some beans.

-Honey on the outside.

-And then beans.

Remember, the task is to get to the end of the track last.

What are we going to stick on the outside with it, though?

-Elastic bands.

-Beans in the middle, why are we putting beans inside?

-Oh, no, no! That's...

-Hurry.

-Put this.

-Sand sticks to it now. Ew.

-Messy.

-10 seconds.

-Quick, quick. No more.

-It's so sticky.

-10 seconds to go.

-Ugh!

-Oh, sorry, I got it in your hair!

-The ball won't shut.

-Shall we test it?

Mmm. Look at all of that lovely honey.

-Let's test.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-That's it. Time up.

-It's not even closed.

And here we are at the Ultimate Brain Grand Prix.

They're under starter's orders.

But first of all, Greens, I'm sensing some positivity.

-You're feeling good, aren't you?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

What do you think you've done so well?

Put lots of beans and sand on it

and got very messy.

Yellows, on the other hand, you're not quite so sure, are you?

-No.

-No.

-I think we made a mistake.

I think we put too much honey in

because the purpose of the honey was to make the sand stiff.

I think we put in too much so now it's just runny.

Oh, well, I guess we will find out, won't we?

Blues, you haven't got a clue, have you?

-See what happens.

-We'll just see what happens.

-Ready for this, Guinea Pig?

-I'm ready, Dr Brain.

Ready, set, go.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-Oh, no.

-Oh!

-We win!

Well, after some very creative and messy thought,

unfortunately, it's failure all round.

In order to slow them down,

you all tried to make your balls weightier and stickier

to add more friction.

But, unfortunately, it was a little bit too much

and they just stood there

but they needed to get to the end of the track.

Yellows, honey was good

but unfortunately the sand has sort of turned it into a little solid

and it is kind of a dead weight

so that didn't go anywhere, unfortunately. Unlucky.

-Now, Blues, what was your biggest mistake?

-Honey.

-The honey.

-Yeah, the honey.

-The honey on the outside was our biggest mistake.

-Too much.

-We couldn't keep it shut and it fell open.

-You put it on before you closed it, didn't you?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

So you couldn't quite get it shut. It was doomed from the start,

unfortunately.

-Greens.

-We put nothing inside.

And that, my friends, was your biggest mistake.

Putting nothing in the middle and all on the outside.

Now, take a look at this.

Down it goes.

-That works a lot better.

-That works.

-It's going.

It's going.

It's going very slowly, do you see?

SPEAKS SLOWLY: Go...on, that's...it.

You're...going...to...win.

No team chose to use the heavy metal ball

but put it inside the plastic ball with lots of honey

and watch what happens as the centre of gravity shifts.

The outside ball can only go as fast as the inside ball.

The heavy, gloopy, viscous honey has just the right consistency

to slow the ball down

without stopping it completely.

So, if you had chosen the heavy metal ball and the honey,

you would have succeeded but you didn't, so you failed.

HE LAUGHS Did you get any points?

Now, it's time for the last round.

Wow. From the split second to the slow round

and now to the quick fire round.

Yes, here we go. It's the final round of the girl power games!

Are you ready, teams?

-ALL:

-Yes!

Hands on brains.

What ailment, known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia,

is GP suffering from now?

Mini Einsteins.

-Brain freeze.

-Is the right answer.

What word beginning with A describes a mixture of two metals?

Scientific Sleuths.

-Erm...

-Aluminium.

No, it's alloy.

What fatty substance keeps whales warm?

Groovy Gravity Girls.

Phlegm.

Blubber.

Which antibiotic beginning with P

was the first to be discovered? Groovy Gravity Girls.

-Paracetamol.

-No.

-Penicillin!

-It was penicillin.

-Oh! Sorry, guys.

True or false, a hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

Groovy Gravity Girls.

-True.

-Is right.

-Yes!

-Yes!

Humans share 50% of their DNA with which fruit?

Groovy Gravity Girls.

-Bananas.

-Is right!

Yes!

All the chemical elements on earth can be found on which table?

Mini Einsteins.

-ALEX GIGGLES

-What?

-Erm...

-Going to need an answer.

-A wooden table.

-No, is the periodic table.

What is the name of the liquid food that bees get from plants?

Scientific Sleuths.

Erm...honey.

No, it's nectar.

Where in your body would you find the bicep?

Mini Einsteins.

-Your l... Your arm!

-Your arm is right.

True or false,

humans have the same amount of bones in their neck as a giraffe.

Mini Einsteins. BUZZER SOUNDS

-True.

-It is true! Well done.

Very good. Well, what an incredible end to our girl power show.

I think I may have found my zigazig-ah after all.

And here are the results.

In third place, with 10 points,

it's the Yellows!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Well done. 10 points there.

In second place, with 14 points,

it's the Blues!

Well done.

Which means our winners

are the Greens... THEY CHEER

..with a massive, massive, enormous

22 points!

Well done, you Greens!

Wow. That was an absolutely fantastic one.

I'm exhausted.

Did you get any of the answers right? I hope so.

Join us again for more Ultimate Brain.

Oh, what a show! What a...

Oh! Hi, GP! Listen to my joke.

What band do boulders love listening to the most?

Are you still banging on about boulders, Dr Brain?

Yes! You see, it's brilliant, it's brilliant.

The Rolling Stones!

You get it? You know?

Mick Jagger, all that.

# I've got the moves like Jagger I've got the moves

# Like Jagger I've got the moves. #

Oh, I'm Mick Jagger.

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