Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by grant

I haven't watched it. It seems too much like posing sports trivia to non-sports fans.

If someone asked me who won a particular year's World Series, I probably couldn't even tell you the teams that played in it. (The year it happened I might have been able to tell you.) Does that make me dumber than a 5th grader?

Here are two examples from the episode I saw:

What is the closest star to the Earth?

How many sides does a trapezoid have?


The contestant needed to use a lifeline for both.