Post#363: Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Well you should be if you don’t happen to be a 5th grader. While catching some lunch, I also caught about 15 minutes of that show.
So I don’t understand the point of the show. Is the show mocking how stupid Americans can be, or does a show based on trivia really have to be dumbed down to the 5th grade level for people to want to watch it? (Where did Who Wants To Be A Millionaire go?) Maybe the creator of the show was aiming for both. Either ways, the woman who was on that show when I was watching made it really hard for me to watch it.
Q: How long has Person X run if he has run 3.4 megametres?
That was the first question. Well the full-grown adult there had no idea. Okay, maybe it’s been a few years since grade 5, maybe you haven’t been in Benson’s chem class where you have to memorize all your prefixes, and you’d know mega= 10^6. So the woman who was on said : “well I know kilometres is 1000, so mega must be.. like 10 000 or something”. So she obviously gets it wrong.
And of course, it’s the Asian kid who got this question right. It’s always the Asian kid.
But you know, how much is a megametre? Well maybe not everyone knows. So I let that one slide.
The question that made me really angry was:
Q: What element is the ozone layer made out of?
And she took the longest time to figure it out. That made me so mad. She was getting all logical with herself too: “oh, well.. mmm. I know we have problems with the ozone layer and that’s because of CO2… now I gotta figure out which element its made out of….” Dear god, woman. Did someone pay you to sound like an idiot?
Of course there were other questions on the show that I might have not gotten, but the ozone layer? That’s very… I don’t know. It just hurt to watch that show after a while. So I stopped after 15 minutes.
And whoever the woman was on the show, I’m sure you’re a geniunely nice person. But maybe that wasn’t the best show of choice to flaunt your intelligence…
