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And Nogizaka Under Construction is underway

We are your hosts Bananaman

yoroshiku onegaishimasu

And they are Nogizaka-chan

What's this? What? What is all this?

What is that?

You can do it if you try!

And Himura-san what are we doing today

onegaishimasu

Here goes

NO Brains Championships

There it is

Its been 3 years since the last one

[ A tournament with history ]

The last NO Brains champion

was Yumiki

Well Wada was champ for awhile and Nakamura was champ too

However Wada was your classmate

What kind of school was this?

[ NO Brains champ prep school ]

All the Nogizaka members had their academic abilities checked

This time it was 5 subjects

plus they've added a show business common knowledge category

so it was a test on 6 total subjects

The member with the lowest total test score

will become the 4th NO brains Queen

But if you are smart and score in the upper range

you may get offers to do tv quiz game shows

[ Direct connection to job offers ]

To start off with

I'll announce the high scores

I'm going to announce the best 5

This is where you want to be

You want to be in there

I'm going to announce it right now

In 5th place

Nakanishi Aruno

You made it....congratulations

Its Nakanishi Aruno

She's a smart one

The average of her scores in each subject was really good

She only missed 1 math question

She's good at math

kakkoii

Nakanishi is bad at sports but

she's top 5 academically

I can do this

[ Academic Aruno ]

Its really only the dorkiness holding you back

[ No athletic talents whatsoever ]

Well?

I've never ever thought of myself as an unathletic dork

That's not what I was asking for comments about

[ No talk skills whatsoever ]

Now to announce 4th place

4th place overall

ehh her total score is

67 points

She beat Nakanishi by 2 points

Who is it?

Kaki!

So its Kaki

Kaki!

So Kaki

I guess she's smart

Kaki is very smart

You're smart

I'm pretty smart

sugoi....kakkoii

4th place overall

I'm so happy

kakkoii

She's good at art too

and she can play the squealing harmonica

[ multi-talented entertainer ]

kakkoii

Now coming up

3rd

Its a tie for 2nd place

There's 2 people in 2nd place

Total score of 71 points

71 points is a high score

I'll announce the first person

Sato Kaede

sugoi

I'm so happy!

You made it

kakkoii

How about it?

Since I didn't get 5th place

I thought I must have had a low score

You thought you dropped out of the best 5

hai

And you're good at sports

Its only your normal movement that's a problem

[ Spilling & flooding ]

God is messing with you a little bit

Humans always have a flaw somewhere

This is the universal gesture for talking about Sato Kaede

[ uncoordinated robot ]

But you did good

There's another person that scored 71 points

Who is it?

Yakubo!

There she is

But Yakubo did not get 1st place

I thought she'd get 1st

Yakubo is not in 1st place

eh this hurts

She got 2nd place this time

[ Actually she got 2nd place the last time too ]

In english and math and language and science and social studies she got 12 or 13 points

However she scored 7 points in common knowledge

She is lacking a little common sense

[ Lacking friends & common knowledge ]

But still that's 2nd place

2nd place is plenty

Who beat Yakubo then?

So 1st place

she scored way higher than 2nd place which was 71

83 points

This win is undisputed

Ikeda!

ahh its her

ah its her...Ikeda is a big factor

That makes sense since you have to be smart and artistic to get into art college

She's too powerful

arigatou gozaimasu

Ikeda got 1st place and it wasn't even close

[ Top score in all of group history ]

She was the only person to get a perfect score in math

wonderful

excellent work Ikeda

You did it

ah...I'm happy

There it is...now then

coming up next

we're doing the NO brains championships

[ The part you've all been waiting for ]

That's right...so in all the different subjects

we'd like to see some of your wrong answers

Starting with language

language

Here's a question

[ Write 生憎 in hiragana ]

The correct answer is ainiku

as in "Unfortunately Himura is out of the office"

Let's see some of the wrong answers

eh there she is...Yumiki

ehhh what did I do?

Yumiki's answer is right here

oh that's right

Himura is out of the office

oh that's right! Himura is out of the office

[ Just realized Himura is gone ]

It fit the sentence

if it fits then I thought it might be right

Sometimes you do get the same letter repeated like that

That's right

oh that's right Himura....that makes no sense

Let's look at Okamoto's answer

Okamoto's answer should be interesting

aw dammit

Himura is out of the office

Who is saying this?

aw dammit...Himura is out of the office

And I was so sure that was the correct answer

Well her sentence makes sense too

aw dammit...Himura is out of the office

Its not like you're calling Himura a creature or anything

[ Treated like a filthy beast? ]

We also had a kanji question

ahh that's a little difficult....[oseibo]

They had to write the kanji for year end gift

There's the answer

I get it

Ume gave the double thumbs up...so you got it?

I got it

You got it right

hai

Well the girl full of confidence....Ume

I hope you got it right

I'm sure I got it right

You're sure

Ume's answer is right here

I received a grave from the 5th members

ah she got it wrong

[ A grave is not a year end gift ]

eh she got something pretty important

She wrote the kanji for grave

So she received a grave

She used the wrong kanji radical on the bottom

That's how you remembered it

But new year's gift

I noticed that I was writing the kanji for grave as my answer

but I've seen it used like that sometimes so I wrote it down

ah well this is completely wrong

[ She actually wrote both kanji wrong ]

Next its Nakamura's answer

I received a 2nd party Holy Mother from the 5th members

You didn't need that extra [乙] in there

Don't need that

2nd party Holy Mother

[ First & Second party Holy Mother? ]

Next let's look at Inoue's answer

oh there's more?

I don't remember what I wrote

Inoue's answer is right here

I received a season ending mother from the 5th members

obo? obobo

obobo

obobo

I got an obobo

[ Nagi obobo ]

Lots of people wrote the kanji for mother

obobo

I knew to use [暮]

But I thought the [暮] went in front

Is that so

Next let's go to Tsutsui

Here it is

I received a live rice plant from the 5th members

eh?

A living....what is that?

living rice plant

A living rice plant

rice plant

I thought it was read as "hobo"

Its like you got one as a gift

Like a celebration

Like here's a plant

[ Harvesting festival? ]

There is such a thing as field rice so maybe that

Let's go to Sakaguchi

Wide range of answers for this one

Sakaguchi's answer

I received an item presentation from the 5th members

obutsuzou

She knew it meant she was receiving a gift

[ Can't give the right reading though ]

maybe she confused it with present

This says obutsuzou

I know what she's trying to say

Up next is math

This question asks what is Himura's weight as well as Hello Kitty-chan's weight and number of apples

If you slow down and do the math the question can be solved however

The answer is right here

yes give us the answer

99kg which is equal to 330 apples

It says Himura

That's a little on the heavy side

[ Not the real answer ]

A little heavier than my real weight

If we weighed you now you might be more than that

[ Exposing his stealth snacking? ]

We'll start with

Okamoto's answer

I think I got it right

huh?

I think I got it right

You think you got it?

I'm pretty sure I answered this correctly

really?

Then let's see Okamoto's answer

Here it is

900kg

900kg!

900kg...how about apples?

9000 apples

Why did you think you had it?

You wrote that Himura-san's weight is 900kg

The answer was 99kg and I remembered writing a 9 somewhere

I thought I got it right

If you think about it wouldn't it be weird for a person to weigh 900kg

You'd have to realize that

Do I look like 900kg to you?

[ Almost the 1 ton man ]

You've got to know that's not it

Next is Kaki

Kaki's answer is right here

270 apples

So Kaki made a simple mistake in her calculations

She had a mistake

but she included drawings to make it easy to understand

In the upper right she draw Shitara-san an apple and Hello Kitty

her drawing of Himura-san

ah you're right

He's fat!

[ Exaggerated illustration ]

How is that guy 81kg?

That's what 900kg looks like!

[ How Okamoto pictures Himura? ]

For a moment I didn't realize that was Himura-san

Kaki why did you make him so huge?

It said he weighs 30 Hello Kitty-chans plus 1 Shitara-san

so that seems about right

But your answer was 81kg

hai

Your drawings of the 72kg Shitara-san and the 81kg Himura look completely different

Coming up is the science category

science....science questions sound so hard

Speaking of science here's the question

[ What is the name of the new geological era named after the discovery of new stratum in Chiba in 2020? ]

This was a recent one

In 2020 a new stratum was discovered in Chiba...what was it named?

This is incredible

Maybe if you grew up in Chiba

lots of 5th members are from Chiba

Here's the correct answer

Chibanian

well sure

Didn't know it?

A low percentage of people answered this correctly

Well it is a recent event

Here is Iwamoto's answer

Hawaiian

[ Resort stratum ]

no no no no...that's a total lack of effort to write Hawaiian

How come?

The only word I know that ends in [an] is Hawaiian

But it was discovered in Chiba

That's true

It would be weird for Chiba to name something Hawaiian

I thought maybe Chiba was working on a new project

[ New Hawaiian center? ]

Riria-chan

Who me?

Riria-chan's answer is right here

Marie Anne

[ ALFEE stratum ]

That's from ALFEE's early days

The moment I saw those letters

the song Marie Anne played in my head

It got stuck in my head for so long it impeded my judgement

Got it

Now Yoda's answer

There's more?

Ririan

Ririan

[ Found the answer close by ]

Ririan Ririan

Ririan

Ririan

Maybe its because Ito Riria is here

maybe

Next its Tsutsui's answer

Daian

goi goisu~

goi goisu!

We'll give you the su

[ su bonus ]

Give her the su

Daian

Tsutsui are you a fan of Daian?

I like comedians so Daian-san popped up in my head

Did they come from Chiba?

Was Daian discovered in Chiba?

Let's see Tamura's answer

There's still more?

Adrian

Adrian!

[ Rocky's wife was found in the center of the earth? ]

Its a Rocky reference

ah Rocky

And then Kanagawa

Kanagawa's answer

Ironan

[ Parody movie? ]

She had to dig deep for that answer

I wish she actually wrote Ironman

Ironan doesn't have the same punch

Ironman...Ironman would have been good

Ironman would have been good though

Making jokes using words ending in [an] was pretty funny

[ Consecutive IPPONs ]

Ironan

Now for the next question

Next we have this

The food chain

You were asked to fill out this food pyramid

You had to draw in pictures in the empty space of your food pyramid

This question actually has a broad range of acceptable answers

What I mean is that with animals the answer looks like this

or if you include humans it changes to this

some people may include ocean life

So there's a broad range of acceptable answers here

Kawasaki

Kawasaki's answer is right here

I don't understand

Kawasaki?

If they couldn't identify what you drew then its an incorrect answer

Is #1 a person?

It looks human

But #4 looks human too

What is #3?

What's #3

Looks like a panda they'd put on the roof in olden days

[ retro kiddie ride? ]

What is #4

A person?

I believe its a bug

Its a bug

[ Sad level of artistic skills ]

Your bug and person look almost the same

wrong answer

Inoue

I'd like you to see Inoue's answer

Orca

Shark

Huge fish

Plankton

Sudden drop off

This was so close to being right

But on #2 you wrote samu instead of shark

[ Points deducted for samu ]

Everybody understood it was a shark though even with your misspelling

samu is more like "Hi! Sam!"

[ Friend of Osamu? ]

We don't know for sure...maybe there's a fish this big called Sam?

[ A new Sam species? ]

There's more unique answers to come

Up next is english

Draw what the english words are below

Here are some of their english translations

now then

These are the translations

Sounds like a lot of you answered wrong

hai Kaki

hai

Let's see Kaki's answers

yes here it is

There it is...so good

not just correct but well drawn

[ Textbook examples ]

so good

These look like pictures you'd see in a textbook

She can do this with just a rough sketch

Let's check out Ume's giraffe

ah! That works

Is this? What did you actually draw?

Its a giraffe

She knows it wasn't a giraffe!

[ Needs further discussion ]

You were drawing something else

Its a giraffe...its a giraffe

And what is a giraffe's most distinctive trait?

Its horns

wrong!

[ That giraffe doesn't exist ]

A drawing of a giraffe has to show its neck

nope...there wasn't enough space to draw the neck

Nobody draws just this part of a giraffe

[ Can't believe she drew a giraffe close up ]

If you drew its long neck for us then you would have got the points even if you can't draw

What is this? It looks like a mix between a deer and a wild boar

I knew it had to be some kind of animal so

since its the year of the dragon I thought they'd throw that in

So its a dragon

[ Gambled on the zodiac ]

Never quite made it to a giraffe then

no this is a giraffe

[ Still resisting ]

Yoda's giraffe

Yoda

So this is?

Is that a belly?

It looks like a mural....what is this?

Its a fat guy

That's bad....hold on now

Did you think giraffe means fat guy? Why is this?

Somehow the image in my mind

giraffe

that word just sounds fat

[ All she heard was fat ]

So would you say Himura is giraffe?

He's giraffe

[ Its settled ]

So I'm the only giraffe in here

So that's why she drew a fat guy

Let's see Tsutsui's giraffe

Tsutsui's giraffe

Is he trembling?

Its like somebody is being lit up

Did Tsutsui draw a picture of herself getting shocked?

[ Self portrait of herself getting shocked? ]

I read it as Girafee

Girafee

ah Girafee

Is he on fire?

[ english onomatopoeia ]

A person that's dazzling

OY! That guy is Girafee!

[ Nickname of a playboy? ]

Ogawa's giraffe

Girafee....Girafee

This is another Girafee

What is this? A disco ball?

I also thought it was something sparkly

Lots of people thought it meant dazzling

It means giraffe

[ Endless giraffe mistakes ]

Coming up let's look at microwave oven

microwave oven

Okamoto's answer

eh? What did I draw?

microwave oven

hai

YAAY!

What does this mean?

She drew several people...I don't know the meaning

Its a wave

ahh~ you mean this?

That's your microwave oven

That's the only part I understood

So you turned it into wave

wave

well drawn

Its pretty good if you look side to side

no its not good

[ Don't go easy on her ]

So the next one

We'll have to ask Mukai to understand it

Mukai

Why is there somebody inside of it?

What is this?

Its a Rikuro ojisan cheesecake

[ A famous Osaka product makes an entrance ]

How is this a microwave oven?

well is that pronounced micro?

micro

I thought that said Rikuro

micro

Rikuro

I figured that Rikuro oven meant that oven equals ojisan

So I drew a picture of Rikuro ojisan

I drew their cheesecake

ah so that's how we got here

Those things are delicious

[ Full score in flavor ]

She took it someplace different

Most people would know french fries

The probability has to be high

yes that's why we only have 1 picture for french fries

ehh Yumiki-sensei

Yumiki!

What did I write?

Here it is...dozo

I've come from France!

[ Who is this? ]

She wrote down french friends

So you thought it was french friends?

I've come from France!

[ Cheerful entrance ]

french friends

He showed up uninvited

I've come from France!

[ Surprise visit to Japan ]

Its french fries

That's right...I thought

giraffe?

I know giraffe

Giraffe is the only one I got right

ah really

Out of all the english animal words

alligator and giraffe are the only animals I know

[ Something's up with her pronunciation ]

Those are the only 2

But why giraffe? That's a difficult one

So alligator and giraffe...

Is it alligator?

[ Quiet down ]

Why do you point to yourself?

[ First person pronoun is alligator ]

The next question is right here

Himura-san do you understand that?

I understand

What's it mean?

Its says when Mr. Himura was a child

out of all insects

he liked beetles

correct answer

That's correct

It was pretty much the words beetles and insects

that confused a lot of people

Tomisato's answer

There was a time when Himura really loved the Beatles

Those are some deep thoughts

There was a time when Himura really loved the Beatles

[ Memories from long ago ]

That's why he has a Beatles haircut

[ Himura Starr ]

Sounds like I admired them

Tomisato I assume you thought beetles meant The Beatles

That's right

Sakaguchi's answer

Back when Himura was little

his collection of Power Ranger belts

was superior to all his friends collections

How did this happen?

How?

How did this happen?

Sakaguchi

hai

How did it end up like this?

I saw the word belt

ah beetles

beetles confused her

Why Power Rangers?

Well my dad

and Himura-san used to be childhood friends

yes

I heard Himura-san had lots of Power Rangers toys

and would play with them

Did the question ask you to write true stories about me?

[ Suddenly its story time ]

Why did you provide extra information?

I thought I saw the word belt in there

so I made the connection

That is too funny

Here is Yumiki-sensei's answer

Knowing that Himura-san loved chilled food

the most powerful instructor

challenged him to a fight

[ Butchering of the Japanese language ]

What is this about?

Even though you translated it to japanese

it still makes no sense

What is this most powerful instructor?

I translated it word for word

The chilled at the end

and he was trying to start a battle

battle?

That's beetle

ah...beetles the best of

yes plus the most powerful instructor of all time

[ The frozen foods master ]

The most powerful instructor

Himura is the only word she translated right

She used the wrong kanji for Himura-san

Hizuke-san

So is this guy Hizuke-san?

[ Same mistake as last time ]

I beg your pardon

beg your pardon

That is so wrong...very interesting

Okamoto's answer

Himura-san was kept in a freezer

when he was little

[ Translated into a horror movie version ]

That's so sad

child became chilled

Where did I go when I was little?

Since I saw the word in

and then the word best

I thought it was when he was the smallest

That's frightening

[ Next week the 4th ever NO Brains Queen will be decided! ]

[ Rare answers full throttle! Allegations of cheating!? ]

The title of the 35th single has been confirmed to be [Chance wa Byoudou]

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