58 "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader" Questions To Stump Your Adult Friends With

Picture this: It's a brisk evening in 2007 when TV legend Jeff Foxworthy appears on your screen. He asks you just one haunting question...

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH-GRADER??

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Well, now's your chance to find out! All you have to do is correctly answer these Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader questions that were once posed to real-life contestants. Go on, now... show Jeff Foxworthy what you're made of, once and for all!

And don't worry — we've included the questions and the answers, so you'll never be totally stuck.

1.If a car is traveling at 40 mph, how long will it take to go 190 miles?

2.How many nouns are in the following sentence: "The rabbit ran to the cafeteria and ate a big salad"?

Three. The nouns are rabbit, cafeteria, and salad.

3.What unit of measurement is abbreviated "oz"?

Ounces

4.True or false? The human shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint.

True

5.Which one of these is a mammal: a seahorse, a sea lion, or a sea urchin?

Sea lion

6.Which continent is the least populated?

Antarctica

7.Since the late 1930s, what calendar date has been designated for the inauguration of a United States president?

January 20

8.In the initials of the federal agency known as NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?

Aeronautics

9.What revolutionary leader wrote the influential "Common Sense" in 1776?

Thomas Paine

10.What was the name of the first satellite pulled into orbit by the United States?

11.What ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru?

Incas

12.What type of animal can live on both water and land?

Amphibians

13.How many sides does a hexagon have?

Six

14.If you need 1/2 cup of flour and you only have a 1/4 measuring cup, how many times do you need to use it to get the right amount of flour?

Two times

15.The interior angles of a triangle always sum to what degree?

180 degrees

16.What was the most widely grown crop in the Middle Colonies?

Wheat

17.What was the name of the last Queen of France?

Marie Antoinette

18.Who is the author of the 1960 novel about social and racial inequality, To Kill a Mockingbird?

Harper Lee

19.What force pulls objects toward Earth’s core and keeps humans from floating in the sky?

Gravity

20.What's the capital of Connecticut?

21.How many countries are in Africa?

54

22.In the sentence, “Sally is a very good person,” what part of speech is the word “very”?

Adverb

23.How many syllables are in the word “creation”?

Three

24.The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the US from where?

France

25.What do you call a scientist who studies rocks?

Geologist

26.Which of the following fractions is equivalent to 1/3: 9/27, 10/40, or 3/1?

9/27

27.What are the three types of rock?

28.What is a hyperbole?

An exaggeration to show emphasis

29.What's the largest and deepest ocean in the world?

Pacific Ocean

30.How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?

10

31.True or False: The platypus is a mammal.

True

32.Who was the 16th president of the United States?

Abraham Lincoln

33.How many compound words are in the following sentence? "Someone from the classroom was playing baseball in the cafeteria."

Three

34.One inch is equal to how many centimeters?

2.54

35.What river forms the border between Indiana and Kentucky?

Ohio River

36.Which blood type is known as the universal recipient?

AB

37.The Great Sphinx in Egypt has the head of a man and the body of which species of animal?

38.The Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries was primarily a conflict between England and what other country?

France

39.What is the most abundant element in the universe?

Hydrogen

40.The flag of the European Union features a circle of how many stars?

12

41.How many teaspoons are in 5 tablespoons?

15

42.The bassoon is a member of what musical family?

Woodwind

43.In what US city do the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet and form the Ohio River?

Pittsburgh

44.How many feet is 2.5 yards?

7.5 feet

45.How many faces are there on a cube?

Six

46.If Pablo divides 111,111 by 11, what number does he get?

10,101

47.In English, "lice" is the plural of what word?

Louse

48.What color in the visible light spectrum does chlorophyll absorb the least?

49.What was the original name of the city that was renamed Constantinople in the fourth century AD by Constantine the Great?

Byzantium

50.Budapest is the capital of what European country?

Hungary

51.Known as "The Conqueror," what was the first name of the king who won the throne of England in 1066?

William

52.What is the area of a right triangle with a height of 4 and a width of 4?

8

53.You peer through a window into a room and count 20 eyes. If each person has a typical number of eyes, how many people are in the room?

10

54.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?

60%

55.On a class field trip, there are four buses taking 36 students to the zoo. Each bus carries the same number of students. How many students are on each bus?

Nine

56.Solve the following equation: 3 + 2/1 =

5

57.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?

16

58.A farmer notices that every day for the past 10 days, the number of pigeons in his field has doubled. There are 1,024 pigeons in the field today, and there were two pigeons there the first day. How many pigeons were there yesterday?

This post contains content written by Whitney Jefferson, kalliehoffman, Hannah Dobrogosz, Casey Rackham, Syd Robinson, and Kayla Harrington. It was compiled by Laura Frustaci.