I Want My Half-hour Back!

I Want My Half-hour Back! by Roxanne McDonald

And I don’t mean give back the wasted half-hour, but give us back the full hour of “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”

It is totally understandable if the reason behind the time truncation is that the kids get too tired in a full hour-length show. And would I prefer to have both “Are You Smarter…”

AND Big Brother, if that’s the case—that the game show had to give way to the best reality TV? Okay, okay, I will quit gripin. Cause I love “Are You Smarter…,” but I am fixated on Big Brother (which I have discussed at great and boring lengths elsewhere, here).
Anyway, after all that emoting on my part, not all that much excitement or scandal or someone to be sacrificed to the cheeky appeared on this week’s episode. (Though, Foxworthy was especially foxy and just as funny.)

Clay Sellers (looove that name) made a good load of dough, answering more questions than we might expect him to, repeating as he did the third grade and all.

Here are his questions:

FIRST GRADE ANIMAL SCIENCE
1. True or false? All camels have two humps.

FIRST GRADE MEASUREMENTS
2. If you’re traveling due Southeast and make a 180-degree turn, what direction are you now heading?

SECOND GRADE MATH
3. What’s 101 + 98 + 4?

SECOND GRADE U.S. GEOGRAPHY
4. What city is the capital of Texas?

THIRD GRADE WORLD GEOGRAPHY
5. The Baltic Sea is surrounded by what continent?

FOURTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
6. The phrase “of the people, by the people, for the people” is stated in which of the following?
a. The Declaration of Independence
b. The U.S. Constitution
c. The Gettysburg Address

THIRD GRADE CULTURAL STUDIES
7. True or false? English is an official language of India

FIFTH GRADE ASTRONOMY
8. Halley’s Comet is named after an English astronomer. What was his first name?

1. false [Clay right]
2. Northwest [Clay right]
3. 203 [Clay right]
4. Austin [Clay right]

5. Europe [Clay peeks at Kyle’s paper; Kyle says Asia; Clay goes with Europe and is right.]
6. c. Gettysburg Address [Clay says b, but Kyle saves him with the right answer]
7. True [Clay copies off Jacob’s paper; Jacob is right.]
8. Edmond [Edmond G. Halley, but Clay had decided that answering a question he had no cheats left for and had no idea of the answer for was not worth risking 100k, so he dropped out of school.]

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