Are You Smarter than the One-question Whiz?

Are You Smarter than the One-question Whiz? by Roxanne McDonald

Well, okay, the contestant to get only the very first question right is preceeded by twins who go quite far into “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”

But how pitiful, how embarrassing, to have three cheats, a second-grade question, and a ten year-old on your side, and then bomb…not only flunk out but identify the question with a lot of unrelated and unrealistic chatter.

That’s what happens to Jennifer L. when she gets the second-grade measurements question (below). She muses how there are some 3,000+ feet in a yard, and says

something about how she just recently covered this kind of stuff in chemistry tutoring sessions…! Whooey. Even the usually politely stoic classmates were stunned, one throwing up his hands as if to say, “Where did you get this one?”

Anyway.

Here are the questions that took the twins to 175k and Jennifer L. to, well, back to 2nd grade math class.

Questions for Cory and Chad

1.First Grade Spelling
How many days of the week do not start with ‘T’ or ‘S’?

2. First Grade Geography
True or false? Including Alaska and Hawaii, there are more U.S. states that border the Pacific Ocean than border the Atlantic Ocean.

3. Second Grade Vocabulary
What word can mean both an instrument used to draw circles and also a device used for determining direction?

4. Second Grade Animal Science
Cows exist in herds, while ants live in groups called what?
a) colonies
b) communities
c) clusters

5. Third Grade Math
An Isosceles Triangle has how many equal sides?

6. Third Grade Life Science
Russet and Yukon Gold are varieties of what vegetable?

7. Fourth Grade World Geography
Mt. Everest is located in what mountain range?
a) Andes
b) Alps
c) Himalayas

8. Fourth Grade Social Studies
According to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, what government official in the executive branch also serves as president of the U.S. Senate?

9. Fifth Grade History
What former U.S. president was the first to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Questions for Jennifer L.

10. Third Grade Grammar
The sentence “Alana always ate anchovies.” is an example of which of the following?
a) alliteration
b) future tense
c) compound sentence

11. Second Grade Measurements
If Jacob stands on Spencer’s shoulder, they are 2 1/2 yards high. How many feet is that?

1. three [twins right]
2. false [everybody right]
3. compass [twins right]
4. a) colonies [twins right]
5. 2 [twins say 2, but peek first at Spencer’s paper, which says 1. they go with 2 anyway and are correct]
6. potato [everybody right]
7. c) Himalayas [twins think it is Alps, but cheat off/saved by Jacob, who gets it right]

8. vice president [twins have no idea, though Mom in audience gets it right and Jacob, whom they copy, also gets it right]
9. Theodore Roosevelt (in 1906) [twins take the money and run, but not before saying they are not smarter than a fifth grader]
10. a) alliteration [Jennifer gets it right]
11. 7 ½ (there are three feet in a yard) [Jennifer copies Markie, who says 78]

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