Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
These days Jeff Foxworthy is unarguably best known for his FOX televsion gameshow Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
The show’s premise is fairly simple. An adult contestant is brought up on stage and set behind a podium, faced with a screen covered in trivia questions and a panel of fifth grade children. The contestant must then answer questions from a variety of primary-school questions, occasionally using the students to their advantage to help answer questions. With each successfully answered question comes an increase in winnings, bringing the contestant closer to the $1 million payout.
As all this is going on the contestant is questioned and taunted by Jeff Foxworthy, who constantly points out their inadequacies in answering simple, grade school-level trivia. And, if the contestant flunks out or drops out prematurely (which they usually do), Foxworthy forces them to face the camera and admit that they are not smarter than a fifth grader.