{"id":2882,"date":"2007-11-07T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/07\/leicester-family-scoop-britains-brainiest-prize\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:24:59","slug":"leicester-family-scoop-britains-brainiest-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/07\/leicester-family-scoop-britains-brainiest-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester family scoop Britain\u2019s Brainiest prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"203\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ChouhanFamilyBritainsBrainist232x180.jpg\"\/>A FAMILY from Leicester have become Britain\u2019s brainiest family and scooped a \u00a320k prize.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Karen Chouhan, her daughter Chhaya, 17 and son Amar, 10, beat off stiff competition to claim the title organised by technology giant Nintendo. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They will use the prize to fund Chhaya and Amar through University. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Jubilant mum and charity worker, Karen said: \u201cIt still hasn\u2019t sunk in yet that us, the Chouhan\u2019s from Leicester are Britain\u2019s Brainiest Family. We\u2019re both amazed and speechless! This is such an amazing prize and Chhaya and Amar will benefit so much from the free university fees.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In a nail biting finale hosted by Catchphrase legend Roy Walker, the Chouhan family used their combined knowledge to identify, memorise, analyse, compute and visualise various puzzles and brain teasers on family favourite Big Brain Academy.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe family qualified for the London final after breezing through their regional heat in Milton Keynes. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The family decided to enter the competition after daughter Chhaya spotted the Britain\u2019s Brainiest Family stand on a family shopping day. The Chouhan\u2019s practiced whenever they could using Amar\u2019s Nintendo Wii console.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDad Jagdish, watching in the audience said: \u201cWe saw other families taking part and thought it would be fun but never imagined that we could win. Over the last few weeks the family has shared some great moments practicing on the Wii. We\u2019ve all thoroughly enjoyed it.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>And in another scoop for the family, they are also in line to front Nintendo\u2019s national advertising campaign for Big Brain Academy. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe search for Britain\u2019s Brainiest Family began in October with heats held in shopping centres in Newcastle, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Southampton and Bristol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FAMILY from Leicester have become Britain\u2019s brainiest family and scooped a \u00a320k prize. &#13; Karen Chouhan, her daughter Chhaya, 17 and son Amar, 10, beat off stiff competition to claim the title organised by technology giant Nintendo. &#13; They will use the prize to fund Chhaya and Amar through University. &#13; Jubilant mum and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}