Are you smarter then a 5th grader?

[coolieman1220]

so i found this lil quiz. lets see what u guys get.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/newsletter/mu-html/ny-et5thgrade0227-quiz,0,3118508.triviaquiz?coll=orl-middayupdate-utility

i got an 85, 3 wrong, be honest noww

[Rockefella]

85 for me. Forgot what an adverb was, thought the lowest prime number was 1, and thought chimpanzees were in Asia. Hell, if someone can find me a 5th grader that gets all of these right I'll buy them a cheeseburger.

[baddabang]

85% too. Missed the one on the Representatives, prime numbers, and compound word. Pretty much all the shit that nobody cares about.

[Kitdy]

90%. I was thinking it may be an adverb as it is a word that youuse before a verb to describe it but i picked adjective. That prime number shit is suspicious though - I think 1 is a prime, but they just don't teach that in elementary school - or it depends on who you ask if 1 is considered prime or not. I had a good idea where the grand canyon was and used my knowledge to find out the four corners. I did about as good on the test as I would have when I was a fifth grader I think (substituting Canadian shit for shit though)

[Jack_Bauer]

I got 90%. Didn't know the Representative one, and I have no idea what the Four Corners even is. :p

[Kitdy]

I got 90%. Didn't know the Representative one, and I have no idea what the Four Corners even is. :p

Four corners are as you may have guessed, four states that meet in a corner. You can spin around and be in all the states at once - how nice. I only knew the representatives one because I followed the last few US elections and learned that the House elects every presedential election and in between every presedential election - hence every 2 years.

[NSXType-R]

I got a 100%.

20. Who was the first president of the United States?

Correct -- Answer: George Washington

A. John Adams
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington

Score: 100% --

[coolieman1220]

2 is a prime #. i always thought it was 1 till i had it drilled in my head that it isn't.

[Kitdy]

2 is a prime #. i always thought it was 1 till i had it drilled in my head that it isn't.

Independent though is not looked well upon in schools.

[johnnynumfiv]

75%, w00t for being a pollack.

[The_Canuck]

80...screw september, four corners, prime numbers and chimpanzees.

[deffenbaugh03]

85% as well. Why isn't 1 prime? It can only be divisible by one and itself.

[baddabang]

75%, w00t for being a pollack.

I'm ashamed of you. :p

[Leo_Ant]

70%, missing everyone about US geography and measure units...Oh, and the equinox...

[brandisher]

75% 4 corners, equinox, prime number and those 2 english questions got me good:(

[baddabang]

75% 4 corners


Dude you live in Utah and missed that?

[Cotterik]

wtf theyre all american questions. **** that lol

[Vindesh17]

75, the american questions threw me off, except the geography related ones.

[Timothy (in VA)]

I got 90%.

I'm pretty sure 1 was considered a prime number when I was in fifth grade :p. I also missed the question about the term of office for U.S. Representatives; I confused them with Senators :o.

[zeppelin]

I got 90%, four corners and US rep term screwed me.

I'm Canadian though, so screw your US-slanted testing.

Oh and also it should be "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" The ironing is delicious.

[Cyco]

95% - I got the 4 corners question wrong - but that makes it slightly biased against non-USians

[Kitdy]

Oh and also it should be "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" The ironing is delicious.

Oh, the ironing is delicious. I say we make a counter test to "Are you smarter than an 5th grader?", called "Are you smarter than a second year engineering student?"

Then we go around asking 10 year olds and they all get silly looks on thier faces except for the pocket geniuses that we beat up and bar from entering the competition.

After this, we make it into a TV show like "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and then make a mockery out of people. Hell, they don't even have to be engineering questions. Just general knowledge. Whatever. Then a bunch of old people get pissed off at engineering students. Hilarity ensues.

[zeppelin]

Pitch it to Fox, they'll air anything.

And I am all for anything that advocates beating children.

[Jack_Bauer]

Ok, try this little English quiz on for size, it's a real toughie. And be HONEST with your scores. :p

http://www.indypromotions.co.uk/?id=3

I only got 9/10 and I have a degree in English! :o

[The_Canuck]

Ok, try this little English quiz on for size, it's a real toughie. And be HONEST with your scores. :p

http://www.indypromotions.co.uk/?id=3

I only got 9/10 and I have a degree in English! :o

5/10 and my grade was B? wierd...

[Cyco]

On Jack's test I got 2:eek: :o :o :o :o

[clutch-monkey]

6/10 for jack's test..some terms i didn't understand

[Kitdy]

2/10.

[Sweeney921]

65%, i guess i'm pretty dumb. Any idea how a fifth grader would score?

[NSXType-R]

Yup, I got a 2. Haha, the average of the two tests drop by a lot. (100+10)/2 = 55. I fail! :D

[zeppelin]

Ugh, 5/10 on the English one, and I usually consider myself pretty good with English.

[Vindesh17]

Ok, try this little English quiz on for size, it's a real toughie. And be HONEST with your scores. :p

http://www.indypromotions.co.uk/?id=3

I only got 9/10 and I have a degree in English! :o

5/10. This is disappointing.:(

[brandisher]

Dude you live in Utah and missed that?

I had a brain fart:o

[ScionDriver]

70% (Yeah I thought I was smart) I got the heptagon, House term, Prime number, Chimps native land, Incas native land, and the Autumn equinox.

In my defense I had the house term narrowed to 6 or 2 and couldnt remember. I thought Incas were from Mexico which is part of North America and I couldnt remember if I change the clocks in Autumn in Sep or Oct and I thought Oct.

[sutton4481]

95%- Who the heck except for pagans needs to know when the equinox is?

6 of 10 on the grammar quiz...that's pretty tough.

[crisis]

80%. Not bad for an Australian. Worst part is I got allthe U.S. type questions right except the presidential term.

[Boomer4ES]

100% for me, although one or two were half guesses.

[taz_rocks_miami]

Ok, try this little English quiz on for size, it's a real toughie. And be HONEST with your scores. :p

http://www.indypromotions.co.uk/?id=3

I only got 9/10 and I have a degree in English! :o

4/10, I should have paid more attention back in my school years. :o

[Sauc3]

Ok, try this little English quiz on for size, it's a real toughie. And be HONEST with your scores. :p

http://www.indypromotions.co.uk/?id=3

I only got 9/10 and I have a degree in English! :o
8/10. I didn't complete year 9.

I didn't do the original quiz, because it's biased towards American 5th graders. If there was a worldwide quiz which represented year 5s from all over the world then it would achieve a fair result, but with this one you can call the smartest people from a certain country stupid because they didn't know a certain question because it's obviously American.

[twinspark]

75% and 5/10. Some of the questions I had no clue to, due to not being a native speaker of the language, and not being an American.


Why isn't 1 prime? It can only be divisible by one and itself. If I remember right, it's just an agreement to make some other theories easier.

[henk4]

65%, i guess i'm pretty dumb. Any idea how a fifth grader would score?

I got 65% too, no idea what a "compound" word is, got the chimps wrong, the ostrich, the turtle, the four corners, the presidents period, (so does it mean that you can rid of Bush now already, or do we have to wait some more years), I also thought 1 as the first prime, (being only divisible by itself or 1)....

[Egg Nog]

I got 90%. Didn't know the Representative one, and I have no idea what the Four Corners even is. :p

Same result for me. I've know what four corners is, but I definitely don't know which states it involves. Not bad for a Canuck I guess.

[henk4]

I got 5 in the Oxford test, they are asking about things that i simply have no clue about....(morpheme anyone??)

[Egg Nog]

I got 5 in the Oxford test, they are asking about things that i simply have no clue about....(morpheme anyone??)

A morpheme is the smallest basic peice of language that can carry meaning (it could be a word or a prefix). They can be used productively to form more meanings. The morpheme "un" could be combined with "do", for example, to make the word "undo".

Man, I never thought I'd get anything out of that anthropology course :)

[Egg Nog]

95%- Who the heck except for pagans needs to know when the equinox is?

6 of 10 on the grammar quiz...that's pretty tough.

The equinox has huge importance to weather and seasons. It's actually one of the few questions on there that goes beyond frivolous trivia. The real question is: Why does anyone still teach young children about yards and inches?

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

6/10 for the grammar, 50% for the 5th graders test... how embarassing...

I guess an A in English Literature A-level and mainly A's in my GCSEs didn't help!

[IBrake4Rainbows]

It's american spelling and literature.

for the record i am not as smart as an American 5th grader (60%), but i'd bank on the average American not being as intelligent as an Australian 5th grader on issues relating to Australia.

Cookie for the first American who finds out who australia's first Prime Minister was.

[drakkie]

To be honest this is a useless quiz. In primary school we learned more important stuff than this ! Like complex calculations, Dutch language and the position and capital of every country in the world (still know most of it !)... These things seem like useless trivia and definately not soemthing you'll ever need in your further working career.

That offcourse is the difference between the European and the American school systems. You learn stuff by heart and we learn to apply stuff. Which is better ? I don't know. I can only tell that a ex-classmate that scored real high, scored real low on a international american school in Egypt. Then she went to a British school and scored pretty good again. She missed out a lot of the trivia stuff, you all have been learned and she lagged behind...

She now studies Maths in The Netherlands again and apparently scores best of all 1st year students...

[henk4]

A morpheme is the smallest basic peice of language that can carry meaning (it could be a word or a prefix). They can be used productively to form more meanings. The morpheme "un" could be combined with "do", for example, to make the word "undo".

Man, I never thought I'd get anything out of that anthropology course :)

"I" is a morpheme?

[Egg Nog]

"I" is a morpheme?

Yup. :)

[henk4]

Yup. :)
wow, impressive...

[blackcat77]

85. I have no idea what a "compound word" is...

[MadMax13]

Apparently YOUR not, Coolie. Because the correct spelling is "Are You Smarter THAN a 5th Grader"...

[Rockefella]

Apparently YOUR not, Coolie. Because the correct spelling is "Are You Smarter THAN a 5th Grader"...

Apparently YOU'RE not. ;)

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

Double ownage! Even I got that... and I'm apparently not that smart :p

[VtecMini]

Worth noting that like so many 'intelligence' tests, it's just a general knowledge test. Nothing to do with being 'smart' at all.

I got 8/10 on the English one. One was a bit of a brain fart and the other I had no idea about. It was the last one. I can't even remember what it was about even now...

[MadMax13]

Apparently YOU'RE not. ;)


I actually did that on purpose to see anyone, mainly you, would catch it, if so then great, if not then i would have made fun of you some more, lol...

[kingofthering]

So...Rocafella's ownage collapses back onto him/herself.:D:D:D:D:D:D

[henk4]

I actually did that on purpose to see anyone, mainly you, would catch it, if so then great, if not then i would have made fun of you some more, lol...

hm, not a very convincing escape route:)

[drakkie]

Ow my god ! Somebody call an ambulance ! We have a serious case of TRIPLE-OWNAGE !! :D

[mj9977]

100.:eek:

[blingbling]

i got every question right that were irrelated to america

[blingbling]

So...Rocafella's ownage collapses back onto him/herself.:D:D:D:D:D:D
hm, not a very convincing escape route:)><
:D

[clutch-monkey]

i got every question right that were irrelated to america
by the looks of it, you then proceeded to fail jack's quiz :D

[Luxurioux]

I know almost nothing about American Geographical things, and also.. some basic astronomy and.. prime numbers. Also Biology. Im dumber than a 5th grader.

[go.pawel]

I scored 95%! :) And I'm not even American. Yay!


Cookie for the first American who finds out who australia's first Prime Minister was.

I'm not American, but (maybe THEREFORE? :D) I know that it was sir Edmund Barton. How much does it cost to send a cookie to Europe via airmail? :D

[IBrake4Rainbows]

sorry. i only post to the US. i find the cookie does not make the rough journey to the Tricity.

but thanks for playing - you get this complimentary pen!

[Equinox]

I scored 65%... I felt bad but then noticed there were 7 others there to.

I think I'll just quit now and take the money. How much do I get.;)

Damn 5th graders and there book of knowledge brains.