Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grade History Student?
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grade History Student?
Earlier this year, Fox brought back the popular Jeff Foxworthy-hosted quiz show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" The premise of the show is straightforward enough, but the effect of watching is not. While I can always count on Jeopardy! to make me feel dumb, "Are you Smarter Than..." usually just leaves me feeling unretentive, reminding me of all the things I once knew but forgot. How does your grade school memory fare? Test yourself with these real-but-unused questions from the show.
Earlier this year, Fox brought back the popular Jeff Foxworthy-hosted quiz show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" The premise of the show is straightforward enough, but the effect of watching is not. While I can always count on Jeopardy! to make me feel dumb, "Are you Smarter Than..." usually just leaves me feeling unretentive, reminding me of all the things I once knew but forgot. How does your grade school memory fare? Test yourself with these real-but-unused questions from the show.
In 1782, what became the official bird of the United States?
Name the ship the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England to the Plymouth colony in America.
Who lost the presidential election to John Quincy Adams in 1824 and then went on to defeat him four years later?
Who was the first woman to make a solo flight in an airplane across the Atlantic?
Famed physicist Albert Einstein was born in what country?
Which classical composer wrote the 1787 work "A Little Night Music"?
In the 1950s, Dr. Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine that would protect people from what disease?
Who was the only president to later become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who is the author of the poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty called "The New Colossus"?
In which U.S. State did the Civil War Gettysburg battle take place?