This season’s “smartest person” mistake? Candidates fail to repeat a single keyword from the previous question The smartest person in the world

“Damn, I really don’t know anymore,” Jeroen Lijnders shouted before answering the question at hand. For his first final question, Eric Van Looi wanted to know what five keywords were in the final video of the Collective Memory round. It was the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon at the Cannes Film Festival, but the comedians had completely forgotten about that question.

By guessing and guessing, they got no further than some keywords from the other two videos shown in the previous round. “Was it something from Sportpaleis?”, Lijnders tried first. And after he said, “Maybe a video with Trump?”, Vincent Voten’s power also went out. The two couldn’t help but laugh at their huge mistake.

“The smartest person not only knows a lot, but also has a good memory,” Eric Van Looy asked. And when he smiles and reveals the answers. “What a great start to this exciting final.” In the final, Jeroen Lijnders eventually won. He finished the game by naming the most common symbols on flags and will appear tomorrow in his fifth episode. This puts him in joint fourth place in the rankings and is almost a certainty in recent weeks.

The newcomer of the evening was singer Charlotte Adigiri. She can look back on her successful debut, because in 444 seconds she achieved more than the combined scores of Jeroen Lijnders (221) and Vincent Voeten (222). Although she eventually admitted that she was very nervous beforehand. “I was very nervous,” Adigiri admits. “People told me beforehand that I should be myself, but I started to doubt everything. I thought: ‘Who am I anyway?’ At one point, I literally Googled: ‘How do you be yourself?’”

The singer also said she once had to clean a portable festival toilet without gloves and stood out with her wardrobe choices. Not only did she borrow nail polish from Jeroen Lijnders, but she also wore a ring containing a Polaroid photo of presenter Eric van Looy. Completely falling from the sky. “How am I?” his voice rises. “Someone just came into my room and asked for a picture of ‘something really nice.’ I thought: What the hell is it going to be like, but now I’m a piece of jewellery.