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Smarter than a Fifth Grader gives the simplest questions

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Wag

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He breezed right through all the questions.

The first one that sort of stumped me is the 5th grade science question is:

What is the symbol AG on the Periodic Table (and I'm sure all you Science Geeks here will get it no problem)? He got it, it's Silver.
 
I got all of last night's ones except for the blood type question...

Can't believe they didn't know the 100 years war...
 
I hate all the damn commercials. They ask one question, 2 minutes later they go back to a 4 minute commercial break.
 
I could never understand why they have people read Romeo and Juliet at such a young age. It's filthy.
 
Maybe because it's art? It's not like anyone understands what the hell Shakespeare is saying these days anyways (put me to sleep in the 7th grade).

Anyhoo, the guy easily just won $500,000. I bet he screws it up now. Ah, he dropped out.
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Maybe because it's art?

Anyhoo, the guy easily just won $500,000. I bet he screws it up now.
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I'm not saying it's not, just that for a country that was so mortified by Janet Jackson's boob, the play has some pretty graphic parts to it. I mean, it's about a teenager going for a thirteen year old, having sex with her and then killing themselves over the weekend.
 
Wow. The 5th Grade Geography Question was the only difficult question: "What country does Russia share the longest land border with?"

Lucky he dropped out, because he would have gotten it wrong (me too).

I hear you about Romeo and Juliet, but I assume they have kids read it because there are other kids in it they can relate to it. To be honest I'd much rather read something like Henry V or Hamlet than R&J, but that's just me.

I didn't even read Beowulf until I got into college and took Eng-101 (you would think that came first).
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Wow. The 5th Grade Geography Question was the only difficult question: "What country does Russia share the longest land border with?"

Lucky he dropped out, because he would have gotten it wrong (me too).

I hear you about Romeo and Juliet, but I assume they have kids read it because there are other kids in it they can relate to it. To be honest I'd much rather read something like Henry V or Hamlet than R&J, but that's just me.
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Henry V is a much better choice. And if the dingbat yesterday would have read it, she wouldn't have lost 😉
 
Originally posted by: Wag
He breezed right through all the questions.

The first one that sort of stumped me is the 5th grade science question is:

What is the symbol AG on the Periodic Table (and I'm sure all you Science Geeks here will get it no problem)? He got it, it's Silver.
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mensa guy won the $1M?
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Maybe because it's art? It's not like anyone understands what the hell Shakespeare is saying these days anyways (put me to sleep in the 7th grade).

Anyhoo, the guy easily just won $500,000. I bet he screws it up now. Ah, he dropped out.
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With the rules for the last question, I don't expect that anyone will ever go for it. The risk is too high, and you have no idea what the question will be.
 
Originally posted by: Wag

I didn't even read Beowulf until I got into college and took Eng-101 (you would think that came first).
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When I read that I was wondering why you'd read Beowulf in an engineering class... I mean, you don't have to read Beowulf to understand a Beowulf cluster. 😕

Then I realized ENG = English. 😱
 
Well, in all seriousness I wouldn't have thought Khazakstan had the longest land border with Russia. You would think it was a country like China.

As far as the questions go, it sort of reminds me like the earlier version of "Do You Want To Be A Millionaire" where most of them were ridicullously simple, and they had million dollar winners left and right. I mean how many of us knew the answer to the first million dollar question? "What was the name of the bug that cause the name of computer bug?" or something like that? I know I did. That wasn't so hard. Now all the questions above $8,000 can be relatively difficult, but at least you get to see them first and decide before you walk away.
 
Russia hardly borders China, but it does border Mongolia quite a bit. I would of guessed Kazakhstan, but I'm kind of a history/geography nerd.
 
Originally posted by: Wag
He breezed right through all the questions.

The first one that sort of stumped me is the 5th grade science question is:

What is the symbol AG on the Periodic Table (and I'm sure all you Science Geeks here will get it no problem)? He got it, it's Silver.
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Most of the elements symbols are similar to the name, silver is one of the few exceptions.
 
Originally posted by: txrandom
Russia hardly borders China, but it does border Mongolia quite a bit. I would of guessed Kazakhstan, but I'm kind of a history/geography nerd.
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You probably would have flunked out on the grammar question. 😉

My guess was Mongolia, partly because China seemed to obvious, and partly because I knew Mongolia took up a good section in the middle of Russia's border with China. The question was also a bit unclear - China really has TWO borders with Russia, so one could argue based on the wording of the question that they shouldn't be added together (if it turned out that China was the right answer). I checked a map after the show and it looks like China's two borders are longer than Mongolia's, so I guess I was way off. 😱 I wouldn't have taken the chance though.

Edit: Also, did they say after the question that the border is 4000 miles? That struck me as way off, and Wikipedia says it's only 1300 miles.
 
Originally posted by: txrandom
Russia hardly borders China, but it does border Mongolia quite a bit. I would of guessed Kazakhstan, but I'm kind of a history/geography nerd.
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We know grammar isn't your strong point.

 
Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: Wag
FYI the answer to the final question was Khazakstan.
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Yeah, that question is on a fifth grade level.
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At my elementary school, we didn't learn the countries of Eurasia until 6th grade. I'm interested in how they determine that the questions are "5th grad" level.
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: Wag
FYI the answer to the final question was Khazakstan.
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Yeah, that question is on a fifth grade level.
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At my elementary school, we didn't learn the countries of Eurasia until 6th grade. I'm interested in how they determine that the questions are "5th grad" level.
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I doubt they would even know where Khazakstan was...
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Edit: Also, did they say after the question that the border is 4000 miles? That struck me as way off, and Wikipedia says it's only 1300 miles.
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They didn't give any facts or figures, they just said Kazakhstan had the longest land border with Russia.

You have to remember when many of us went to school (the guy was 40, I am 38) geography didn't exist as a subject in the public schools (at least it didn't in the NYC Public school system). Plus those countries didn't exist. All we knew of that region was they put out a crapy little car named the Yugo and had some really good female gymnasts, that's about it.

 
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: mugs
Edit: Also, did they say after the question that the border is 4000 miles? That struck me as way off, and Wikipedia says it's only 1300 miles.
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They didn't give any facts or figures, they just said Kazakhstan had the longest land border with Russia.

You have to remember when many of us went to school (the guy was 40, I am 38) geography didn't exist as a subject in the public schools (at least it didn't in the NYC Public school system). Plus those countries didn't exist. All we knew of that region was they put out a crapy little car named the Yugo and had some really good female gymnasts, that's about it.
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very true. 5th grade for the people taking the test was vastly different than 5th grade of today.
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: mugs
Edit: Also, did they say after the question that the border is 4000 miles? That struck me as way off, and Wikipedia says it's only 1300 miles.
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They didn't give any facts or figures, they just said Kazakhstan had the longest land border with Russia.

You have to remember when many of us went to school (the guy was 40, I am 38) geography didn't exist as a subject in the public schools (at least it didn't in the NYC Public school system). Plus those countries didn't exist. All we knew of that region was they put out a crapy little car named the Yugo and had some really good female gymnasts, that's about it.
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There was something about 4000 miles on the screen (not spoken, just on the screen) after that question, because both my wife and I were surprised that it said 4000 miles.
 
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