I can't remember then, what makes them need to choose a new kid?

It's one peek, save, and copy per contestant, and only 2 aids per kid, so by the third clue you have a new kid.

I'll admit I'm watching this. Apparently, it got great ratings last night.

It's actually two questions per kid regardless if you use your cheats or not. A good strategy may be to go with the strengths of the kid and answer those questions while you have the kid with you. Anyway, the UCLA guy is either a ringer or a complete moron. A US history major who did not know Johnson was the first President who was impeached should be ashamed. He wasn't even close - John Q. Adams? What? UCLA should demand he return his diploma.

So, is it in October?

Jesus... this thing had to be faked.

Either that, or they're screening for the dumbest motherfuckers they can find.

(Okay... I almost missed the closest star to the Earth. I was going to go with Proxima Centauri until I realized it was, like a first grade-level question.)

Impeachment is really close to being indicted, which then goes into a trial.

Both Johnson and Clinton were impeached and then put on trial in the Senate. Both were found not guilty. And both were brought up on bullshit charges, but that's another story.

Nixon would've been impeached, and likely found guilty by the Senate and removed from office had he not resigned before the impeachment process began.

I'm positive that we were doing simple geometry like finding the area of squares, circles, and triangles in either the fifth or sixth grade. I remember the math teacher I had for grades five and six, and he did cover that stuff. (Actually, the way the triangle area question was worded, it was basically a simple algebra problem that I don't think we did until later grades.)

This show is meaningless

So what if the questions came from a 5th grade textbook. Theres plenty of things 5th graders are going to know because they are learning them currently.

Ask me a lot of math questions and I'll get a lot of them wrong. Ask a 5th grader to pay a bill and that will put them in their place

I had no idea Columbus Day was such a hard question. It's usually around October 11th.

So far the only ones I got wrong were the impeachment one and the millenia question.

I totall agree. It's like they use the same people you find on Leno's "Jaywalking".

Why not just ask when Arbor day for Flag day is? Same significance.

I'm right after the border question... MEXICO?! I've gotten three wrong so far. Ep 1: Johnson and the area of a triangle, Ep 2: closest star (I thought it was a trick question and I said the moon).

Congrats, you've just qualified to be on the next episode!

Not anymore silly than calling a moon the moon. That's like calling a dog Dog

2 episodes, 3 questions wrong. I'm happy with the tally (AND I got the millenia question right and I thought that was so easy it was a freebie).

The moon isn't a star, it's a trapezoid.

GatorDeb, I didn't know you were on Millionaire!

10 questions: http://www.fox.com/areyousmarter/features/index.htm

Well I was 10 for 10, "Smarter then a 5th grader" but can't figure out how to post it like GatorDeb did so I guess I'm not that smart.

Printscreen->paste into Paint, cut out the middle, open a new document in paint, paste the center over, save->upload into Photobucket->copy and paste the image code

I wonder if Howard Stern is going to sue these guys. Yet another blatant ripoff of what he's done years ago.

He went on a big rant the other day about it. He kept saying someone should cut him a check for ripping off his idea. But today he said he wasn't going to sue.

Somehow I doubt he was first either. I'm not saying he ripped it off, but someone somewhere probably did it before him. The idea isn't that amazing, so I'm sure lots of people have come up with a similar idea independently of each other.

Okay, my wife likes this show because hey, she teaches 5th grade. But I don't see how anyone can watch this (or most similar modern gameshows) without the use of the DVR. I've only watched the first episode, but man did they drag it out... there must have been only around 10 minutes of actual questions and answers. The first guy pretty much got everything wrong he could, and it still took over more than half the episode.

Ursa Major? That's a 4th grade question?

First time I watched and I completely agree with this. But its not just this show. It's pretty much all of the "new wave" of prime time game shows, starting with "Millionaire". They have glacial pacing. Because I guess people are more interested in stupid banter than actual gameplay.

It's been a while since I've been in grade school, but some of these questions seem BS. I don't remember going much past the planets in the solar system, let alone memorizing constellations. I thought first grade was mostly coloring and taking naps.