Player Makes Fifth Grade History
Player Makes Fifth Grade History by Roxanne McDonald
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“Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?” contestant Pat becomes the first to flunk fifth grade—with a third grade science question. |
Poor Pat. He didn’t answer correctly and he didn’t think to use a cheat, a copy, or a save? [Not sure why he couldn’t or didn’t use the save on his very first question; maybe I should have been paying attention!?] And of course they had to make a big deal about Pat being the one to make “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?” history!
Anyway, here is Pat’s question, followed by the questions for the next contest, Deborah Bassett, who was using the money she won for charitable service!
1.Third Grade Science
What’s the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere?
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Troposphere
2. Fourth Grade U.S. Geography
What is the southernmost U.S. state?
3. Third Grade World Geography
What is the world’s longest river?
4. Second Grade Math
How many feet are in a mile?
5. Fifth Grade Astronomy
The planet Mars has how many moons?
6. First Grade Animal Science
True or false: the koala is a marsupial.
7. First Grade Grammar
How many proper nouns are in the following sentence?
“In Oklahoma, Oprah met our ostrich Ozzie.”
8. Third Grade Math
How many of the interior angles of a Scalene Triangle have the same degrees?
9.Fourth Grade U.S. History
What’s the most common first name among U.S. presidents?
1. Troposphere [I recall now: Pat used student Kyle, who got it wrong.]
2. Hawaii [Deborah got it right.]
3. Nile [Deborah and Jacob both right]
4. 5,280 [Deborah, Laura, and all classmates got it right.]
5. 2 [Deborah says 0, but Laura is right.]
6. True [Everyone got it right]
7. 3 [Deborah peeked at Spencer’s paper; Spencer was right.]
8. 0 [Deborah copied Alana, who was the only classmate to get it right.]
9. James [Deborah had dropped out of school, but had second-guessed, after guessing James, the name John. All the fifth graders, however, got it right.]
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