Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show)
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Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is an American quiz game show. It originally aired on Fox where it was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. It is produced by Mark Burnett.[1] The show premiered as a three-day special which began on February 27, 2007, with the first two shows each a half-hour in length. Regular one-hour episodes began airing Thursdays from March 1 through May 10,[2] and the first season continued with new episodes beginning May 31. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? was picked up for the 2007–08 season,[3] which began on September 6, 2007, and aired in the same timeslot.[4] Following the end of the original run of the primetime version on September 18, 2009, a first-run syndicated version of the show ran from September 2009 to May 2011, with Foxworthy returning as host.[5] On May 26, 2015, the program returned to Fox for a new, 4th season, with Foxworthy, again, returning as host. On February 14, 2019, it was announced that the program would be revived on Nickelodeon with new host John Cena,[6] airing from June 10 to November 3, 2019.[7] There are new reports that the show may be returning on Amazon Prime Video with new host Travis Kelce.[8]
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Genre | Game show |
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Directed by | Don Weiner |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Network | Fox |
Release | February 27, 2007 (2007-02-27) – September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) |
Network | Syndication |
Release | September 21, 2009 (2009-09-21) – March 24, 2011 (2011-03-24) |
Network | Fox |
Release | May 26 (2015-05-26) – September 8, 2015 (2015-09-08) |
Network | Nickelodeon |
Release | June 10 (2019-06-10) – November 3, 2019 (2019-11-03) |
5th Grader games are played by a single contestant, who attempts to answer ten questions (plus a final bonus question). Content is taken from elementary school textbooks, two from each grade level from first to fifth. Each correct answer increases the amount of money the player banks; a maximum cash prize of $1 million can be won on the Fox version, $250,000 in the syndicated version, and $100,000 on the Nickelodeon version. Along the way, contestants can be assisted by a "classmate", one of five school-age cast members, in answering the questions. Notably, upon getting an answer incorrect or deciding to prematurely end the game, contestants must state that they are "not smarter than a 5th grader".
Two people have won the $1 million prize: Kathy Cox, superintendent of public schools for the U.S. state of Georgia; and George Smoot, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
One person has won the $100,000 prize on the Nickelodeon revival: Alfred Guy, a college dean at Yale University.[9][10][11]
The show also airs internationally, and the format has been picked up for local versions in a number of other countries.