Are you smarter than a 10 year old.

[Zarlak]

Anybody ever watched this? It's on in the background and they have some kids on stage who are all straight A students 10 years old. They bring out some random person to answer questions age 6/7/8/9/10 that have been written by primary school teachers to try to win money.

Anyway, there is some retard on who didn't know how to spell pneumatic. Just kept repeating p....n....p....n....p....n....p....n....p....n....p....n.... over and over.

The 10 year old she had with her to bail her out with a 'lifeline' sort thing if she got it wrong was looking at her like;

Spoiler

Are they all this stupid?

EDIT: She's pretty tasty though. The contestant not the kid before you vultures get your jokes in.

 

[Karel_Poborsky]

If you ask questions based around the type of stuff the 10 year olds are learning at school, than of course they are going to know more of the answers. But if you asked a 10 year old a question about A-level law they wouldn't have the slightest clue.

It annoys me because it's a silly concept.

 

[Zarlak]

If you ask questions based around the type of stuff the 10 year olds are learning at school, than of course they are going to know the answers. But if you asked a 10 year old a question about A-level law they wouldn't have the slightest clue.

It annoys me because it's a silly concept.

Exactly, I know that the kind of questions they get asked are stuff we learnt so many years ago we have forgotten about it but seriously, not being able to spell pneumatic even though you know it starts pn?

 

[Solius]

It's still a lie of a show. It should be called 'Are you smarter than a 10 year old of above average intelligence for his age', because you get your average 10 year old on there and they'll have covered their desk in snot by the time they need to answer a question.

 

[Pexbo]

Are you smarter than a ten year old?

Or if it was more specifically worded... Can you answer questions that you will have no reason to know other than the fact it is part of the national ciriculum now, and wasn't when you were a kid, so therefore a ten year old will know it and you wont?

Hmm it's got a ring to it.

Edit - yeah, people above me got the same drift.

 

[Karel_Poborsky]

Exactly, I know that the kind of questions they get asked are stuff we learnt so many years ago we have forgotten about it but seriously, not being able to spell pneumatic even though you know it starts pn?

Yeh. I must say since I've come back from University I've been surprised at the lack of intelligence floating around the country. I think I just got used to being surrounded by intelligent people. That's not to say that less gifted people are any less important to society, or should be ridiculed however.

 

[KingEric7]

I watched this the other week. You don't half get some right spackers on it. One of them was asked a question under the category "8 years of age - Literacy", or something like that. She was then asked to find the connective word in a sentence that went along the lines of, "She took the cat out then watched some television".

The woman was then given a clue after she stressed the apparent difficulty of the question, which made the answer significantly harder to answer the question incorrectly. After trying to make the situation a lot more dramatic than it actually was (again) and, by doing so, drawing pitied looks from children a fraction of her age, one of the hosts then repeated the question, stressing the "then" this time.

She confessed in the end to taking a stab in the dark, guessing the correct answer in the process, then jumping around like an absolute maniac when it transpired that she had won £500.

This woman was a teacher.

 

[The Flying Potato]

I watched this the other week. You don't half get some right spackers on it. One of them was asked a question under the category "8 years of age - Literacy", or something like that. She was then asked to find the connective word in a sentence that went along the lines of, "She took the cat out then watched some television".

The woman was then given a clue after she stressed the apparent difficulty of the question, which made the answer significantly harder to answer the question incorrectly. After trying to make the situation a lot more dramatic than it actually was (again) and, by doing so, drawing pitied looks from children a fraction of her age, one of the hosts then repeated the question, stressing the "then" this time.

She confessed in the end to taking a stab in the dark, guessing the correct answer in the process, then jumping around like an absolute maniac when it transpired that she had won £500.

This woman was a teacher.