So, Clinton Wasn’t The First President To Be Impeached?
Author: Stacy28 Feb
Kids, a prime post-Idol timeslot…and Jeff Foxworthy…how can you go wrong?
So last night, we watched Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader Anyone? and, I am truly embarrassed to be an adult. Actually, that’s probably an over-reaction. I’m embarrassed to be an adult when people like “Seth” (Seth had a 3.0 GPA at UCLA! He majored in US History, but doesn’t know when Columbus Day is!) and “Lakeisha” are put on national television as representatives of adults. Come on, no one struggles that much with remembering the Mayflower was the ship the Pilgrims came over on. I suspect a fifth grader would have done a better job constructing that last sentence, by the way.
For the record, CU and I scored a respectable 4 out of 6 questions correct (Snarkwife had a 2.7 GPA at UCSB and majored in Political Science! CU had a 2.7 GPA at Tulane and majored in Finance!)…although CU is disputing my ruling that his answer for finding the height of a triangle was incorrect. He thought the calculation format he blurted out should suffice, and that the actual answer, which was “4″, was just a given. I told him there was a chance once he plugged the variables in, he could have come up with the wrong answer.
He fought that rather obvious logic but…come on…we all know I was right. Just to throw him a bone, I offered to pause the show while he went and got a piece of paper to finish up his answer…he did not find that amusing. To be fair though…I guess…I had all sorts of problems with that question in general, because they never even said what kind of triangle it was. And, my answer was a²+b²=c²
Yeah, that’s pretty much what it’s like in the Snarkwife/CU household during TV-viewing time…it’s even better with a bottle of wine.
Of course, I’d love for Fox to air a show next month called Are You Smarter Than An Adult?, where 10-year olds try to do things like maneuver in-law relations, tackle the challenges of a workplace performance review with a maniacal, vindictive boss…work with an insurance company on your blown-off roof claim…and get out of a cell phone contract.
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6 Responses for "So, Clinton Wasn’t The First President To Be Impeached?"
Yep, there’s a reason we forget most of the stuff they teach us in fifth grade, although I am happy to say I am apparently homeschooling my children properly, as they yell out all of the right answers when they show clips of the show. (We haven’t watched it)
FWIW, the area of a triangle is ALWAYS:
1/2 base x height.
Though the correct answer can be found in other ways, CU was on the right path. and a²+b²=c² is Pythagorean’s Theorem which is used to find the lengths of the sides of a right triangle. The area formula doesn’t require the triangle to be ‘right’.
Gah.. sorry… I was stumped on Columbus Day at first, but for the most part beat the pants off the 5th graders (2.75 GPA from Oregon State University, majored in Computer Science). Lakeisha went high for the fourth grade questions, so she may have an easy go if it tonight.
Well then…so far, based on my scientific research, those of us who had college GPAs of less than 3.0 are smarter than people who had GPAs of 3.0 or above.
And, I skipped the third grade, so I’m allowed to get any third grade questions wrong…right?
Oh.. and another FWIW, I had answered the who was impeached question earlier in the day, when my 4th grader quized me on the way to dinner. Which was followed by a whole long conversation about Slick Willy’s troubles, which THANK YOU Mr. President for opening THAT can of worms.
However, I think one of the waeknesses in the ‘being adult’ thang, is that we have an older format of RAM that only allows recall one per 24 hour period, because once the show aired the question I drew a big old blank, before answering weakly ‘Stephen Taylor’?
*sigh*
You and CU sound like me and G. Except in our house he pretends he’s not waching and then says, “Turn it up.” Yea… dosen’t like reality TV my ass.
The show is a train wreck (which is what makes it *so much fun*!!)
We’re not MENSA folks at Chez Donahue, but we didn’t miss a one the other night. (Which is kinda frustrating, because I *so* want my wife to miss one so I can gloat!!!)