Are you smarter than a 5th-grader?
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- February
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That’s what  guess the network?  Fox wants to know.
I’m not all that big on game shows, but in my house, we have gotten temporarily sucked in to “Deal or No Deal” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” (the primetime Regis version).
So this one, promising intellectual humiliation to adults is probably too much for us to pass up and we’ll probably get hooked for a few weeks before they start airing it every other night for two hours and we get utterly bored with it.
It’s only six episodes for now, but by using “American Idol” as a run-up, it’s all but guaranteeing a longer pickup. The first two eps are half hours, on at 9:30 p.m. Feb. 27 and 28., then moving full hours for the next four Thursdays.
The set will be reminiscent of a classroom and the subjects range from art to social studies. The big twist? The adults can get help from actual grade-school students (I’m assuming fifth-graders, but  believe it or not  that’s not clear in the release about it) in answering questions such as:
• In what state is Mount Rushmore located?
• What are the colors of a rainbow?
• What are the names of the five Great Lakes?
So, will you get sucked in? Did you know the answers to the aforementioned questions before you clicked on the embedded links?
Full disclosure  I got the first one right (I wasn’t positive, but I had a 50-50 chance of being right, and I was). I knew the second (though the Wikipedia definition includes a seventh color that I don’t think is usually taught in the 5th grade). I had four of the five lakes off the top of my head, but I always forget the fifth!
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You were never taught HOMES, Amy?
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Erie
Superior
That came across as much snottier than I intended. Just wanted to proclaim the greatness of that mnemonic device, and I came across as a punk. My bad.
That’s OK. But I was taught HOMES at some point. The problem is, I can’t remember HOMES to prompt my memory for the lake names. A mnemonic device only works if you can remember it…
How do fifth graders get onto this show?????????? Here, I will show how- tell how good of a speller I am. And I’m not looking out of the dictionary. First, in third or fourth grade I was runner-up in the spelling bee. I think I was runner-up, and a fifth-grader was the “superior species,” as I would say. Look: metamorphosis,thermophobia (which I’m not sure if it is a word), and my IQ test score was 113 on Tickle tests.com. I am eleven years old, and probably have an IQ of a sixth or seventh-grader. SSSSWWWWWWEEEEETTTTT!!!!