I'm lucky there was only that one error in the sentence. If it was a spelling or grammar test I would have been far worse then a 5th grader.

And no, still couldn't tell you the difference.

then = time
Then, I went to the store

than = comparison
You're cooler than Bandoman

All correct, except that Ursa Major and Ursa Minor _are_ the constellations, and the dippers are just recognizable parts of these two constellations (as you've noted, the hindquarters, even though bears DON'T HAVE FRIGGING TAILS!). The dippers themselves are _not_ constellations. You can't have constellations within other constellations.

Another tidbit about the Big Dipper: if you follow the gentle arc of the handle, it points to Arcturus. (president of the Astronomy club in high school )

I'm not going to waste my time watching what is apparently a ridiculously plodding show, but a local radio station runs through the questions in the morning on my way to work, so I can hear and answer the entire set of questions in about 60 seconds. It's funny because the group on the morning show (5 main people, plus 2 more from time to time!) ridicule the contestants, and then proceed to answer half the questions incorrectly themselves.

The Big Dipper is only a "popular" constellation; it's actually part of Ursa Major (The Big Bear).

The Little Dipper, on the other hand, is pretty much the entire constellation "Ursa Minor."





(Not sure why the wikipedia picture only shows the "big dipper" part of Ursa Major highlighted, but the entire constellation is inclusive of the larger stars in the marked area. If you start connecting the stars, you can sort of make a sitting bear with the end of the dipper's handle as the nose and the cup of the dipper a little saddle.)

Arrested Development....

Regardless of how much money some of those people walk away with they are still not doing the game right. One kid last Thursday the guy exactly what to do and that was to pick the 5th grade questions first (to which the guy responded, "ARE YOU CRAZY???" Obviously you would want to get the harder ones out of the way while you have your cheats and the save. The kids are bright and I've never seen them get a question wrong (or at least they don't broadcast the wrong answers...they don't always tell you what the kids answered), so using the cheats and the save on the harder questions would be the wise thing to do. Instead they waste the cheats on questions they already know the answers to (they just get too nervous and second guess themselves), but if they got the harder questions out of the way first and had the kids help them out on those then I bet they would be more at ease about answering the easier questions and make more money. If that guy Thursday had started with the 5th grade questions, I bet he could have walked away with a million because he knew the answers to those questions after the kids were done helping him.

i had the same though calhoun. its amazing how stupid these people are to be afraid of 4th and 5th grade questions. some of them simply work their way up from the 1st grade questions. idiots.

I dont understand how people avoid the math questions on this show. Everyone uses math in their lives.

Why not save the hard questions for last? Get all the easy questions and bank $100,000 before you get stumped and have to drop out over "Which President made the Louisiana Purchase."

Assuming, of course, you're smart enought to get past "What is the area of a rectangle with a base that is 9 inches long and a height of 4 inches?"

Because the kids seem to know all the answers so use them to answer the 5th grade questions and then do the easier ones yourself.

The point is that they can't even do the easier ones themselves, can they? Might as well get the easy questions right and get some money. If the easy questions are really easy, they can save their cheats for the harder questions. It's not like the questions are worth different amounts of money if you pick the hard ones first.

What I don't understand is why they would use the "peek" cheat before they've used their "save." If they use the peek, they get to look at the other kid's paper... if the kid is right, then the save would have saved him anyway. If he's wrong, you're screwed either way unless you happen to know the right answer and are REALLY confident.

Exactly! I thought I saw someone use the "copy" cheat before the "save" cheat. To me they're really the same cheat, aren't they? You're going with the kid's answer no matter what. So why bother to copy a kid's answer when the save cheat is still available?

And why use the "copy" cheat before the "peek" cheat? Seems to me, I would still want some say-so before HAVING to take the kid's answer. Not that the kid would be wrong.....

This show seems pretty retarded to me. They must be working pretty hard to find dummies. With the cheats they give and the simplicity of the questions they should give away the million 9 times out of 10. I'm not saying its impossible to forget an answer or two (dates like Columbus Day is tough for the average joe), but with the cheats you should be able to walk away with 500,000 to one million no problem. When the lady got tripped up over figuring out the decades in 2 millennium I wanted to throw my TV out a window.

I am done with it. I can't stand Foxworthy and I don't need a reminder how illiterate Americans are. Foxworthy selling all those albums already proved that. The way they drag it out and try to build drama over a fucking question like which star is closest to earth just sickened me. If you don't know the Sun is a star jump off a building already and do the world a favor.

But there is a better chance. Why not increase your chances of winning more? And most of the time the people do know the correct answers, they just get nervous and jump to their cheats when they really didn't need to use them. And if they did get the harder ones out of the way first and still bailed on the easier questions, they still theoretically could get just as many questions right and still leave with the same amount either way. It's a win-win starting out with the harder questions.

I don't know if I can keep on watching this 5th Grader Show. If they ever got smart people on there it might be interesting, but when the woman had to peek at the question on what country would you be in if you crossed the northern boarder of the US I had to turn the TV off. If she didn't know it would be CanaDUHHHHHHHH, then I just don't know what to say...I am speechless. I am certainly done tonight, and I am not interested in seeing what happens to that idiot. Who do they get to be on this show???? The dumbest morons EVER??? They certainly would never be Jeopardy champions, I tell you that.

Seriously, you have to go through some hard stuff to get on some of the most famous game shows, like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune for example. It seems anybody who walks in the back door can be on this new show.

I thought the guy thinking California was further west than Alaska was worse than the woman not knowing Canada was north of us.

While that guy was a moron, I still say the CanaDUHHHHHHHHHHHH woman takes the prize for dumbest game show contestant I've ever seen.

The thing about this whole deal is that they do get smart people. The time I watched, the guy had graduated Suma Cum Laude and was an accountant. It's just there's so much stuff that people learn, that when they're put on the spot, they can't sort it out.

I felt a bit of Ann from Weakest link in Jeff Foxworthy. It was an interesting side to see.

No way. The Canada thing is MUCH, MUCH worse.

I can understand getting mixed up on election dates for old presidents or which president was which number of president, or some of the stuff you crammed for in school but never used in real life. However, struggling to remember (and needing help to boot) which star is closest to the Earth and what country boarders us to the north....sorry, just because they have a degree and make money doesn't mean they are smart. There are some real morons out there who figured out ways to get degrees and make money, but they are still morons.

I was shocked by the Canada question, as well as pretty amazed by the guy who was completely off on getting half the area of a square.

Foxworthy is a horrible host. He has next to no emotion, and is way too passive aggressive for me to watch.

The only thing enjoyable about this show, is how excited the kids get, or pretend to get. They seem to be really enjoying the whole thing.

If you were 10 years old and getting paid to make adults look dumber than a rock on a regular basis, wouldn't you be having a blast too?

Absolutely. Which is why it's the only part of the show I enjoy.

I dunno, that's one of the worst parts of the show to me... the kids just seem kinda fake. At least some of them are finally answering incorrectly (though I still haven't seen one in the "helper" position answer incorrectly).