Beware: This article contains spoilers about the finale of The smartest person.
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For six weeks, many candidates competed to participate in the grand final. One person had known for weeks that he could be there, that is Jacob. “The pressure is enormous,” he says. But Martin and Frank are also visibly stiff with nerves.
It is up to Jacob to answer the first questions. The men are level with each other for a long time, with a small lead for Frank. Even after round three, the writer manages to maintain this lead. But unfortunately at the end of this lap Jacob takes the first place from him with 186 seconds.
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In the decisive round it becomes clear for whom the third place is. Martin leads for a while with 207 seconds, but in the end he is the first to drop out. Good news for Jacob and Frank, they are still in the race to achieve that coveted first place.
The denouement is approaching and the two remaining participants can hardly stand it anymore. “I think it’s exciting,” says Jacob. “I agree with that,” Frank adds.
The final between the two gentlemen is blood-curdling. At one point, the two have only one second difference on the counter. 60 for Jacob and 61 for Frank. In the end Frank manages to say nothing about the last question about bellowing, so that Jacob manages to beat him with three correct answers. That means that the curtain falls for Frank and that makes Jacob, as the first actor ever, the smartest of this season. The actor receives the trophy from the previous winner, comedian Lisa Loeb.
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Yuki Kempees also participated this season The smartest person. The DJ found the questions a lot more difficult than expected and unfortunately had to leave the stage after one episode. We spoke to him about his participation.
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