Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

[Eaglestrike]

I wonder how they do their screening process. I think shows like jeopardy and who wants to be a millionaire would pick smarter people. This one has to pick the dumbest people they can find.

The first guy on today graduated with a 3.33 GPA at college and the lady currently going graduated with a 3.87 GPA as an honors student for high school.

[Nuketwig]

It's not that the questions are hard, it's that you kind of start to second guess yourself. I wouldn't have known that a polar bear is bigger than a grizzley, and I thought the figure for ocean coverage was 75% so I was torn on that question as well.

[Exoduso]

lmao @ this guy... took him like 4 times realize there was no "the" in the phrase.

[Epical]

The show is retarded they only manage to get through like 5 questions in an entire episode.

Precisely what I was thinking when I watched it. For the last 15 minutes of the show, this was the timeline:

Question before -> Commercials -> Show new question -> Commercials -> Ponder/choose answer -> Commercials -> Whether they're right or not -> end.

Also, when the show started, the FIRST thing I thought of was Millionaire. The on-screen layout/sounds/lifelines/everything was like a direct rip for a show better fitted for Disney Channel. And heh @ Fox saying 30 million actively watched the premiere... that was just the PVRs/Tivos/idling TVs/TV Tuner software being minimized that no one bothered to turn off.

SHOW SUCKS!

[Panella]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think when I see the questions they ask and it's listed up as "2nd grade" level or the like .... and they're things I never learned until high school

[Xavier]

Question before -> Commercials -> Show new question -> Commercials -> Ponder/choose answer -> Commercials -> Whether they're right or not -> end.

I noticed that too, and it was really annoying. It felt like every commerical break was followed by Jeff smiling and another commercial break.

I still think its fun to watch in a "how can you be so stupid...wait, do I really know the answer" kind of way.

[Exoduso]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think when I see the questions they ask and it's listed up as "2nd grade" level or the like .... and they're things I never learned until high school

Just shows you how crappy the school system is lol.

[Eaglestrike]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think when I see the questions they ask and it's listed up as "2nd grade" level or the like .... and they're things I never learned until high school

I learned most of that stuff in elementary school. But then I was special and went to a Magnet elementary school, must be the reason why I learned such complex stuff like on this show.

[Tirrock]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think when I see the questions they ask and it's listed up as "2nd grade" level or the like .... and they're things I never learned until high school

I got that exact same feeling.

[Foustian]

Anyone ever watch 1 vs 100? There's another shining example of America's stupidity. For example, 54 out of 100 people didn't know what side of a car is perpendicular to the curb when you parallel park.

There were some other really dumb ones, but that one just really stuck out cuz of the immense number of people that got it wrong.

[BRP]

A large portion of Americans are idiots. Have you ever seen the Jay Leno skit, "Jaywalking"?

Jay Leno is made of fake and AIDS.

[Swampthing]

I watched the episode with the woman that said mexico bordered more US land than canada. That was a sad answer. But for the rest of the show, you can't blame people for not knowing something like "how many sides does a trapezoid have?" Because they learned it in second or third grade, and then haven't thought about it for a single second since then. And this woman was at least 35.

Some of the things are common sense, like the US borders question. But others, like the trapezoid question, have just been long forgotten.

[ciechi]

I dont think the show will survive if it goes at the pace it has been going at. Amarok is right. It's too slow and they like ask 2 questions and take a break every time. It's ridiculous. I also like how the show brags to be the highest rated show in 8 years..... thats only because its on after american idol....

[Eaglestrike]

I watched the episode with the woman that said mexico bordered more US land than canada. That was a sad answer. But for the rest of the show, you can't blame people for not knowing something like "how many sides does a trapezoid have?" Because they learned it in second or third grade, and then haven't thought about it for a single second since then. And this woman was at least 35.

Some of the things are common sense, like the US borders question. But others, like the trapezoid question, have just been long forgotten.

I hope I am experiencing genuine memory loss before I forget that a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with one set of parallel sides.

[Annihilator]

Someone posted a link to a vid on here about something like that. Guy asked ppl name a country that starts with U people said Utah. Even im not that dumb. What channel is this thing on btw?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S3X1K93ff5I

[Swampthing]

Whether you do or you don't doesn't change the fact that the general public doesn't know very much to begin with. And if I had no reason to know the definition of a trapezoid nobody should expect me to.

Just because I learned something 30 years ago doesn't mean I should be able to remember it today. It's not automatic.

[Septimus]

I watched the episode with the woman that said mexico bordered more US land than canada. That was a sad answer. But for the rest of the show, you can't blame people for not knowing something like "how many sides does a trapezoid have?" Because they learned it in second or third grade, and then haven't thought about it for a single second since then. And this woman was at least 35.

Some of the things are common sense, like the US borders question. But others, like the trapezoid question, have just been long forgotten.

I hope I am experiencing genuine memory loss before I forget that a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with one set of parallel sides.

Go out into the working word and spend a decade staring at Excel spread sheets. You will be amazed at the genuine memory loss that you suffer.

[Eaglestrike]

I watched the episode with the woman that said mexico bordered more US land than canada. That was a sad answer. But for the rest of the show, you can't blame people for not knowing something like "how many sides does a trapezoid have?" Because they learned it in second or third grade, and then haven't thought about it for a single second since then. And this woman was at least 35.

Some of the things are common sense, like the US borders question. But others, like the trapezoid question, have just been long forgotten.

I hope I am experiencing genuine memory loss before I forget that a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with one set of parallel sides.

Go out into the working word and spend a decade staring at Excel spread sheets. You will be amazed at the genuine memory loss that you suffer.

This is why I'm a lazyass, so I can be completely useless to society, but keep some intelligence.

[Swampthing]

so I can be completely useless to society, but keep some intelligence.

oxymoron?

[Foustian]

so I can be completely useless to society, but keep some intelligence.

oxymoron?

You don't need to be stupid to be useless.