Hi all, first post in while after being deployed for nearly 15 months.
i just caught a program here in Europe and I need to ask the question…
Is this for real or is it staged?
Ex. “A triangle has two internal angles of 1, one, degree. How many degrees is the third angle?”
Answer given… : 1 !!
Interior angles of a triangle must equal 180 degrees.
Exterior angles of a triangle equal 360 degrees.
For example, a right triangle with two equal sides has one angle of 90 degrees and 2 angles both 45 degrees = 180 degrees.
Another example: 30-60-90 triangle = 180 degrees
Hehe you don´t need to explain it to me…but congrats you are smarter than a 4th grader (it was 4th Grade Measurements question)
I´m just not convinced that the show is for real.
Another ex. “USA has two rivers longer than 2000miles, Mississippi is one. What is the other?”
The person had no clue.
I wouldn’t have known the longest river question.
I had to look it up on google.
hehe,
I guess that, being from overseas, that one learns more about other countries then one does about ones own. Then again I only know about two huge rivers in the US. Guess I lucked out.
You don’t remember, because you don’t use it anymore. At some point I’m sure you knew most of the questions… But when you aren’t trying to remember something after 15+ years you are going to forget it.
I’m guessing they also pick the smartest kids in 5th grade so these kids have all this stuff down since its within a year or so of when they learned it
All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.
“All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.”
…toughest three years of your life, I’d wager. 
“All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.”
…toughest three years of your life, I’d wager.
i left that open specifically to see who’d chime in but yes, much harder than taking a triathlete in a bike race.
***"***You want the truth? YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
1’st and most important, thanks for serving and welcome home.
2’nd - I think its real. My wife, sons and I watch it some and the questions seem real and the people - well, they are not rocket scientists.
I remember one and I think they asked which was larger, the moon or the sun. You can guess the answer they gave. Granted though, when you are on TV with the lights and action I can believe it would distract many folks.
Hehe you don´t need to explain it to me…but congrats you are smarter than a 4th grader (it was 4th Grade Measurements question)
I´m just not convinced that the show is for real.
Another ex. “USA has two rivers longer than 2000miles, Mississippi is one. What is the other?”
The person had no clue.
According to Wikipedia, it is the Yukon. I would have never guessed that.
“All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.”
…toughest three years of your life, I’d wager.
Funny post of the Day Award to KDW!!!
p.s. No points for that lame comeback attempt roadhouse. Sorry.
“According to Wikipedia, it is the Yukon. I would have never guessed that.”
Apparently, Wikipedia is not smarter than a 5th grader. The answer is the Missouri River, which is longer than the Mississippi. The Yukon is 1980 miles long.
Yup, I would have said Missouri too, but Wiki says that doesn’t count as it is a tributary of the Mississippi. According to them the longest in the U.S. is the Jefferson-Missouri-Mississippi, the second longest is the Yukon.
But you are right is that they have the wrong length for the Yukon on their “longest rivers of the world page”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length
There is also a long discussion on the controversies on determining longest rivers.