So you think you’re smarter than a fifth grader?
Another one of these shows that you just cannot get enough of. Another one of these game shows where you have to use your brains and prove to the world just how smart you might be.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER definitely is a challenge to grown-ups. Contestants are asked questions from the 1st to the 5th grade over various topics. I’m sure that most of them think and tell themselves: “I’ve got this; this is going to be so easy”. Wrong. Not when you’re playing for a million dollars it’s not. The questions are in fact grade school levels but what matters is how much you remember from your time in school when you were a kid. And that will definitely depend on what kind of student you were back then. Most of the contestants are professionals like doctors, engineers, economist…pretty smart people right?
But just when they think it can’t get any worse, they get asked the trickiest questions. Questions they don’t even think have answers.
Luckily, contestants are able to take the test along with actual fifth graders. It is not recommended to cheat in school right? But in ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER, you definitely can, up to a certain point that is. Can’t make it too easy after all, or the game won’t have an actual meaning.
Contestants get a peek (they can look at their classmate answer and decide if they want to go with it or not), a copy (they have to go with their classmate’s answer), or a save (which comes in handy in case they wrongfully answer a question).
The least amount of money you could leave with from the game is twenty-five thousnad dollars and the most 1 million!
Now the last step into the game is making it to the $500 000 question. If the contestant gets it right, they can choose to go for the million dollar question. IUf they get it right, they become a millionaire, if it’s the other way, they go all the way down to $25000. Now this is serious money we’re talking about!
So far, not a single person has one the million. The few that got to the million dollar question and tried to answer it all got it wrong. Life isn’t fun after grade school now is it? Who would have ever thought that these fifth grade questions would be worth millions today!
