If you live in the US, you have surely watched the Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader game at least once. If you are not familiar with the show’s concept, though, it is based on adult participants answering questions from different 5th-grade textbooks. While this may seem simple enough, you would be surprised to see how many 5th-grade questions had grown-up professionals scratching their heads in confusion.
The game aired from 2007 to 2011, then was revived in 2015 and again in 2019, with this latest edition still running. The new Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader host is professional wrestler and actor John Cena. The show's success resulted in many countries launching their own versions.
The entire premise of the game is to show how little adults usually remember the stuff they learned in elementary school. Even though most of these people are well-educated, they often have no answers to the 5th-grade trivia questions.
We in no way assume that trivia questions for 5th graders can define your level of intelligence. Things a fifth grader has to learn at school sometimes have very little connection with practical, useful knowledge, and as we don’t use these things a lot, we tend to simply forget most of them.
But if you feel like having some fun and playing a quiz game with your friends, we have collected a bunch of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader questions you can try to answer. Don’t forget to let us know in the comments how many questions you actually scored!
#22
What is the general term used to explain all kinds of harmful programs in a computer?
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11points
#23
How many compound words are in the following sentence? "Someone from the classroom was playing baseball in the cafeteria."
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#28
What force pulls objects toward Earth’s core and keeps humans from floating in the sky?
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9points
#29
How many syllables are in the word “creation”?
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#30
Which of the following fractions is equivalent to 1/3: 9/27, 10/40, or 3/1?
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#32
The Great Sphinx in Egypt has the head of a man and the body of which species of animal?
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9points
#35
If a shopping cart contains one apple, two bananas, three oranges, and four hot dogs, what percentage of the cart's total contents is fruit?
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#36
You have 20 pairs of shoes, but there is only room in your closet for eight shoes. How many pairs of shoes do you have to get rid of?
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#38
In the initials of the federal agency known as NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?
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8points
#39
In the sentence, “Sally is a very good person,” what part of speech is the word “very”?
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#40
The flag of the European Union features a circle of how many stars?
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8points
