Britain's Best Brain is a television programme running in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 and saw ordinary members of the public undertake various tasks, all scientifically designed to test different parts of the brain. The show ran every Wednesday and was aired from 28 October to 16 December 2009. The winner, crowned 'Britain's Best Brain 2009', was Matt Clancy, a 29 year-old marketing consultant from London.

The show was hosted by former Live & Kicking

Live & Kicking

Live & Kicking was a BBC Saturday morning children's magazine programme, running from 1993 to 2001. The fourth in a succession of Saturday morning shows, it was the replacement for Going Live!, and took many of its features from it, such as phone-ins, games, comedy, competitions and the showing of...

presenters Jamie Theakston

Jamie Theakston

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 and Zoë Ball

Zoë Ball

Zoë Louise Ball is an English television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting the 1990s children's show, Live & Kicking.-TV career:The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his...

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A free to play browser game was launched on 3 October 2009 and was commissioned by Tiger Aspect Productions

Tiger Aspect Productions

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 and developed by Fish in a bottle

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Rounds

• Calculation: designed to test the parietal lobe
  Parietal lobe
  The parietal lobe is a part of the Brain positioned above the occipital lobe and behind the frontal lobe.The parietal lobe integrates sensory information from different modalities, particularly determining spatial sense and navigation. For example, it comprises somatosensory cortex and the...
  
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• Memory: designed to test the temporal lobe
  Temporal lobe
  The temporal lobe is a region of the cerebral cortex that is located beneath the Sylvian fissure on both cerebral hemispheres of the mammalian brain....
  
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• Recognition: designed to test the occipital lobe
  Occipital lobe
  The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain containing most of the anatomical region of the visual cortex. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann area 17, commonly called V1...
  
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• Co-ordination: designed to test the cerebelum.
• Risk: designed to test the frontal lobe
  Frontal lobe
  The frontal lobe is an area in the brain of humans and other mammals, located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere and positioned anterior to the parietal lobe and superior and anterior to the temporal lobes...
  
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Qualifying leaderboard

Pos.	Player	Age	Home Location	Heat	Brain Score
1	Matt Clancy	29	London	2	1040
2	Mike Park	22	Warrington	4	982
3	Andrew Copley	36	Cambridgeshire	4	971
4	Jo Knight	39	County Durham	3	940
5	Chris Teear	42	Northampton	2	917
did not qualify
6	Jess Brice	25	Chesterfield	3	901
7	Dan Whelan	20	Cambridge	2	896
8	Niall ??	48	Belfast	6	874
9	Emma ??	27	Bristol	6	872
10	Su Crown	30	London	2	850
11	Kirk ??	2	Cleveland	6	841
12	David ??	29	Pitlochry	6	822
13	Matt Walters	39	Leicester	3	807
14	Sharon Forbes	54	Chippenham	2	781
15	Ryan Howle	24	Manchester	1	754
16	Chris ??	48	Crawley	4	740
17	Marcia ??	46	Sutton	6	729
18	Kevin Laing	20	Stevenage	3	727
19	Karyn Cooke	19	County Durham	7	717
20	Natalie Keane	35	Edgware	3	712
21	Jackie McCoan	42	Pembrokeshire	1	678
22	Owen Hughes	21	Derbyshire (Long Eaton)	5	667
23	Andy ??	36	Conwy	5	666
24	Stacey ??	26	Berkshire	5	649
25	Lesley ??	36	Leeds	7	615
26	Gemma ??	28	Bridgend	7	605
27	Moez ??	23	Manchester	4	579
28	Catherine Cran	25	London	1	576
29	Sonia Ashta-Sidhu	29	Middlesex	1	557
30	Helen ??	39	West Sussex	5	542
31	Anthony ??	34	Cambridgeshire	5	536
32	Jules May	47	Montrose	1	530
33	Samantha ??	37	Middlesex	4	485
34	James ??	41	Epsom	7	476
35	Edward ??	59	Galashiels	7	309

Grand Final leaderboard

Pos.	Player	Age	Home Location	Brain Scores
				Calculation	Memory	Recognition	Co-ordination	Risk	Total
1	Matt Clancy	29	London	162	270	120	255	0	807
2	Jo Knight	39	County Durham	162	178	142	277	0	759
3	Andrew Copley	36	Cambridgeshire	135	231	102	254	0	722
4	Mike Park	22	Warrington	109	240	168	184	0	701
5	Chris Teear	42	Northampton	147	25	52	234	0	458