In what state is Mount Rushmore located?
What are the colors of a rainbow?
What are the names of the five Great Lakes?
Are you, or have you ever been, a doody-head?
According to a Fox press release, these are the kind of grade school textbook questions contestants on the upcoming game show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" will be expected to answer. Well, except for that last one.
But some people may be asking themselves that final question if they can't remember the book learnin' they absorbed between first and fifth grade. For the people who are going to be on this show, enough time has passed between the recess years and adulthood -- long enough to mistakenly think, for instance, that Roy G. Biv was a one-night stand in college.
Luckily they'll have real live children available to help them remember those tricky science, math, history and geography questions. Some of those those kids might be doody-heads though, so watch out.
Now, you may think it cruel to test people's stupidity as opposed to their intelligence, but unless Fox really screws up the presentation, this sounds like great television. Better than "Deal or No Deal," a game show that a chicken, a monkey or a horse could play as easily as a human.
Fox needs a game show to get them through the "Idol" off-months. The genre's worked well for NBC; why shouldn't Fox get a piece of that action?
According to the press release, the show will air half-hour episodes Tuesday, Feb. 27, and Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 9:30, expanding to one-hour episodes following "American Idol" on Thursdays, March 1 and 8, at 9:00. After that, the show will lead off Thursdays, March 15 and 22, at 8.
Lastly, in case those questions up top stumped you....
1. Mount Rushmore is located in South Dakota.
2. The colors of a rainbow are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
3. Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
4. If you've been alive for longer than 5 years, then yes, you have probably behaved like a doody-head at some point, according to my grade-school aged niece.
Posted by unregistered user at 2/16/07 7:25 a.m.
This show sounds easier than probably is for the contestants. Everyone thinks they're smarter than a 5th grader...until the questions are asked.