To be Smarter is to Choose Well

To be Smarter is to Choose Well–or Just Do Three and Walk by Roxanne McDonald

Some contestants win big by choosing the right questions and knowing when to “drop out”.

And it seems that one can actually win easy money to boot—all one has to do is answer take the first three questions, use the three helps (cheat, copy, and save), and drop out of school…with what? 50k? Of course, most have that hunger for money triggering their moving forward….

This week brought more questions that stumped adults far removed from fifth grade. It also featured a contestant who started hard—by choosing to answer the hardest questions first, then saving the easier ones for the final stretch. But still she dropped out of school—on first grade questions!

Here are the questions and answers Avis and Ebony get:

Ebony takes two more questions:

1. Third Grade Geography
True or False: North America is in the Eastern Hemisphere.
2.Fifth Grade Algebra
If Y=3X and 3X= 12, then what number does Y equal?

Avis is then the new contestant:
3.Third Grade Astronomy
On which planet would a person weight the most?
4.Second Grade Social Studies
Which U.S. president is featured on the face of the nickel?
5.Fourth Grade Math

If the diameter of a circle is 4”, then what is the radius?
6.Fifth Grade U.S. Geography
True or False: Ohio shares a border with Illinois.
7.Fifth Grade Science
Density describes the mass of an object divided by what?
8.Fourth Grade Grammar
What is the adverb in the following sentence?
“My father snored loudly and it kept my mom awake.”
9.First Grade Spelling
[Foxworthy asks aloud] How many letters in the animal, yak?
10.Third Grade Animal Science
A giant panda’s natural habitat is on what continent?
11.Second Grade Math?
How many months of the year have 31 days?
12.First Grade World Geography
What is the only continent that is also a country?

1.False (Ebony wrong; Jacob right: Ebony uses SAVE)
2.12 (Ebony drops out of school)
3.Jupiter (Avis correct)
4.Thomas Jefferson (Avis correct)
5.2” (Avis PEEKS at Jacob’s paper)
6.False (Both Avis and Jacob get it right)

7.object’s volume (Spencer gets it right)
8.loudly (Avis right)
9.You read the word above: you had better have said 3. (Avis and Laura get it right)
10.Asia (both Avis and Laura right)
11.7 (Avis right)
12.Australia (in her out-loud naming of all the continents, Avis includes Australia; but she must have been too nerve-wracked by then, or having another “blonde moment,” for she drops out of school)

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