It's the last of the semifinals, and everyone is determined to claim that last spot in the Grand Final. Topics are the Bourne series of films, the US Masters, the history of Play School, and Arrested Development.

Tension is running high as contenders return with the battle of Berlin, the life and times of Mata Hari, the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and '80s Brat Pack films.

Four brilliant minds return with Kevin Smith's films, Anthony Bourdain, Adrien Brody and Star Trek.

Semi-finals week kicks off with the novels of Will Kostakis, the Animorphs books, Fountains of Wayne, and the history of Hogwarts houses. Let the brainpower showdown begin!

In the weekly final, the final heat winners return for one last chance to claim the final spot in the semi-finals. Tonight's slowburns are a character, a film director, a song and a toy.

In the final second chance heat, the contenders return with the TV series Victorious, Kendrick Lamar, Christian Bale and A Few Good Men.

Contenders Shane Taas, Georgie Low, Mark Panayiotis Notaris and Maddie Beck are back with French gastronomy, the history of East Timor, the renal system and singer Kelly Clarkson.

Four smart cookies are back with the geography of Malaysia and Singapore, The Magic Faraway Tree books, Queen Elizabeth II and pop duo WHAM!.

It's second chance week and contenders are back, ready to fight for redemption with Sylvia Plath, The Big Bang Theory, Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man and Arctic Monkeys.

With only two spots remaining in the semi-finals, the heat is on! The slow burns are a sport, a band, a city, and a musical.

What other show would take a deep dive into both The Falklands War and Billy Connelly's stand-up comedy? Then throw the RMS Titanic and the memoirs of Helen Forrester into the mix?

Sit back, put your feet up, and enjoy knowledge on the Australian Touring Car Championships, the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, Terry Pratchett's Witches, and chef Gordon Ramsay.

An episode with everything you never knew you needed to know about Australian native bees, The Guardians of the Galaxy, the English Premier League, and the novels of Nevil Shute.

The St George Illawarra Dragons, Orphan Black, the IP Man Films and Major Golf Championships. Some wildly different topics put to the test!

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, The Earthsea Quartet, Smallville, and the Rugby World Cup. Something for everyone!

Four subjects scientifically designed to make you smarter: Paul Kelly, triathlete Jan Frodeno, literary detective Hercule Poirot, and the Pitch Perfect film trilogy.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, Tom Hanks films, Scandinavian artist Anders Zorn, and John Farnham. Farnsy sang about taking the pressure down, we take it up.

Kicking off with wrestler Zack Sabre Jr, glam rockers The Darkness, The Pirates of Penzance, and comedian Norm Macdonald.

The questions are locked in, the chair awaits, and our four heat winners return. Slow burns are a country, a musician, a toy, and a TV show.

Welcome to another half hour of power, brain power that is, with the music of Carly Simon, Pokemon Generation II, the films of Shah Rukh Khan, and The Night Manager.

Stop thinking about what to make for dinner and think about these subjects: singer Luke Combs, Scorsese films with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Obernewtyn Chronicles and the geography of East Africa.

Got your daily facts? On the menu: The Vampire Diaries, Lewis Hamilton, The Culture novels, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Dig in.

We've got the history of Cholera, the music of Glee, The Young Ones and Australian beer because nothing says intellectual quite like a cold one!

Finish off a fast week with a slow burn as the weekly winners come back for a spot in the semi-finals. Slow burns for tonight are a person, an object, an event and a year.

We breathe life into The Karate Kid, Edge of Darkness, Planet Pirates, and the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

Get set to learn all about the Chicago Bulls, the heart warming classic Awakenings, Classic 90s Britpop and Celine Dion's 90s power ballads.

Need an excuse to avoid taking the bins out? Grab a seat and dive into the UEFA Champions League, Bert Kaempfert, TV's Evil Touch, and The Mighty Ducks. Who knew procrastination could be this cultured.

Thirty minutes to make you an expert on Lethal Weapon, the life and times of Sammy Davis Junior, The OC, and Absolutely Fabulous. Can we do it? Of course we can.

The weekly finalists face four special guest hosts for their slow burn; will they withstand the pressure? Slow burns for tonight are, a food, a sportsperson, a documentary, and a film director.

It's 50 years of world movies on SBS with the Dollars Trilogy, Meryl Streep, Akira Kurosawa, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It's like a film festival, but with more popcorn.

A drool-worthy episode celebrating SBS food with Adam Liaw's The Cook Up, Vietnamese street food, Greek delights, and Maeve's Food Safari.

Celebrate the drama and the reality that SBS has brought to audiences over the last 50 years, with The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Wayward Pines, The Good Fight and Eurovision.

Celebrate 50 years of SBS with a smorgasbord of sport: Italy in the FIFA Cup, the Tour de France, the 2005 Ashes series and the Matildas.

Our four heat winners are back, but who will win to secure a place in the semi-finals? Slow burns are an actor, a game, a sport, and a TV show.

If variety is the spice of life, then things are about to get fiery with Stephen King's Different Seasons, Shaquille O'Neal's career, the history of the banjo, and, because why not, chicken breeds.

Strap yourselves in, because you're about to undergo a crash course on Genesis, Melbourne Football Club, the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Sydney public transport.

Contestants test their knowledge of specialty topics, including Indian mythology, Rex Orange County, the life and films of Jocelyn Moorhouse, and residential laws in the ACT.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including the causes of the French Revolution, the video game God of War, Friday Night Dinner, and the films of Marilyn Monroe.

The four heat winners are back, but who will win to secure a place in the semi-finals? The topics include a character, a game, an artwork, and a musician.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including Sabrina Carpenter, Bill Clinton's presidency, Heart of Darkness to Apocalypse Now, and the films and music of `Weird Al' Yankovic.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including AC/DC, MCU's Bucky Barnes, the life and times of Joe Strummer, and Robert A. Heinlein's novels for juveniles.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including the Booker Prize shortlist and winners, the music of Pharrell, the life and works of Carl Gauss and The Martian.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Hull City FC, Martin Luther King and Bridgerton.

Get bowled over with international cricket, classic 20th century boardgames, Billy Joel and the Handmaid's Tale.

Contestants test their knowledge of specialty topics, including the UK version of Big Brother, video game Black Myth, Saint Longinus, and the musical Epic.

Contenders show off their knowledge of Hannah Montana, some Middle Eastern cuisine, traditional Scottish dancing and the history of antibiotics: sounds like the perfect date night.

Contestants test their knowledge of specialty topics, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ted Lasso, Bruce Lee, and Demon Slayer.

Contenders face two minutes of general knowledge, followed by the unpredictable slow burn round. Slow burn topics are an actor, a city, a historical event and a song.

It's a specialist subject smorgasbord with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, The Last of Us video game, John Ford Westerns and the Roger Moore Bond era.

Contenders show their knowledge of Steffi Graf, the White House Plumbers, TV's Euphoria and The Mighty Handful.

On offer is four minds, full of facts about Top Gun and their aircrafts, Russian Imperial History, the Australia Union Movement and Ancient Sparta.

Get set for four fascinating subjects to kick a new episode: 90s Australian Cinema, American Division 1 Colleges, Smashing Pumpkins and the food of Ancient Rome.

Contenders will face two minutes of general knowledge, followed by the dreaded slow burn round. Slow burn topics are an animal, a film, an invention and a band.

Keep that brain ticking over with four fascinating subjects like the Impressionism Art Movement, the dismissal of the Whitlam government, The Office US and Taylor Swift's Discography.

Massage your mind with facts about The Walking Dead, The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, the 2018 AFL season and the best animated feature in the Academy Awards.

Get ready for a crash course on the TV Show The Wire, New Zealand in the 2nd World War, the venues of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and Garage Rock in the 2000s.

It's a flurry of facts on Mastermind with Candide by Voltaire, Chef Julia Child, British sitcom 'People Just Do Nothing' and the 80s films of Harrison Ford.

To keep up the winning momentum, contenders must stay focused, especially with the semi-finals in sight. Topics include a character, an artist, a word, and a film director.

The quiz show that's not for the faint-hearted: vital human organs, the TV series Daisy Jones and the Six, the Jack Parlabane novels and mycology.

Contenders test their knowledge of specialty topics, including Disney villains, Dimension 20: Fantasy High, and Dark Castle's horror films.

Contenders test their knowledge of specialty topics, including Peter Brock and the Bathurst 1000, the Old Kingdom novels, Operation Sea Lion, and the puppet-based kids' show, Sesame Street.

Contenders test their knowledge of specialty topics, including Olympic marathon winners, photographer Frank Hurley, duplicate bridge, and Aussie marsupials.

The top contenders face off to secure their place in the semifinals. The slow burn topics are a performer, a city, a game and a historical event.

Contenders are quizzed on their great entertainment specialty subjects: Superstore, Ed Sheeran, Cass Elliot and Disneyland.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including Veronica Mars, Outkast, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and 18th Dynasty Egypt.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including what US country music, the female heroes of MCU, Man United's Jose and Ole and The Elephant Man have in common.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including The Mission Impossible films, Ready Player One, wine making in South Africa and the state of New Jersey.

The best four are back to vie for a place in the semi-finals. The slow burn topics are an animal, a band, a film and an invention.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including Gone Girl, jazz music theory, the rock band Evanescence and Lego.

Contenders test their knowledge on special topics, featuring the East India Company, the great Ingrid Bergman, the band Paramore and Ramin Djawadi's Game of Thrones soundtracks.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including the life and works of Lisa Kudrow, 1990s Hollywood hits, the Deadpool trilogy and A Song of Ice and Fire.

Contenders test their knowledge of speciality topics, including TV series 24, the music of Janet Jackson, dingoes and Civilization III.

The winners of the week return to compete for a spot in the semifinals. They face two minutes of general knowledge in the slow burn round, which features a musician, a scientist, food and a year as topics.

Contestants test their knowledge of specialty topics, including Sweet Valley High books, the history of classic pinball machines, fundamental particles, and American hip-hop in the 90s.

Get set to be bowled over by specialist knowledge of The Deccan Charger IPL cricket team, the Gaelic language revival movement, the history of Wimbledon, and the B-52s.

Contestants test their knowledge of specialty topics, including The Stooges, Mariah Carey, the works of Charlotte Bronte, and the career of basketballer Steph Curry.

The contestants are quizzed on their specialty topics: controversial personality Belle Gibson, the band Weezer, 65 years of Barbie and musician Fiona Apple.

The weekly final begins as Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X and Boomers compete to be the smartest. Slow burn topics are a TV Show, a book, a landmark, and a sportsperson.

The last heat begins and the specialty subjects include the journey of the winner on US Survivor, System of a Down, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and Leonardo da Vinci.

Heat three begins and the specialty subjects include Harry Styles after One Direction, the life and works of Harry Seidler, West Wing and Buddy Holly.

Heat two begins as generations choose their speciality subjects including Transformer toys, the history of Android, the life of Melivil Dewey and the Bridget Jones films.

Generation wars kick-off the first heat. Generation Z, millennial, generation X and baby boomer go head to head in the ultimate battle for knowledge.