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Answer These ‘Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader’ Questions To See How Much You Remember From Elementary School
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!
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#1
What country is sushi from?
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#2
Do you know the name of the planet where one year equals to 88 days on Earth?
#3
In which country was the first fireworks invented?
#4
How many countries are in Africa?
#5
What do you call a scientist who studies rocks?
#6
Name the fastest flying insect?
Will Cable 3 years ago
Depends if it is alive or dead, something that splatted on the nose cone of a fighter jet will be going a lot faster
#7
How many nouns are in the following sentence: "The rabbit ran to the cafeteria and ate a big salad"?
#8
What is the area of a right triangle with a height of 4 and a width of 4?
#9
Do you know the month named after the Roman God of Wars?
#10
What is the group of bees usually referred to?
#11
Who walked on the moon along with Neil Armstrong?
#12
Before hearing thunder, why do you often see lightning first?
#13
To which country does Elton John belong?
#14
The first atomic bomb attack was on which city?
#15
Which one of these is a mammal: a seahorse, a sea lion, or a sea urchin?
#16
What revolutionary leader wrote the influential "Common Sense" in 1776?
Lene 3 years ago
Me neither. But I'm sure that somewhere in the world, a 5th grader have. 😊
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What type of animal can live on both water and land?
#18
What color in the visible light spectrum does chlorophyll absorb the least?
#19
What is the color of the spot in the middle of a Japanese flag?
#20
Name the fastest human sense?
Vic 3 years ago
Have you seen the speed at which nonsense flies out of some people's mouths??
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Froynlaven 3 years ago
Doesn't the next question make this one wrong? If the correct answer is hearing it has to be explained to me.
karen snyder 3 years ago
Yeah. This one needs more explanation. From what I read, the reason hearing is considered "the fastest" sense is because our brains translate the signal faster than our other senses.
Load More Replies... #21
Name the galaxy where Earth is located?
#22
What is the general term used to explain all kinds of harmful programs in a computer?
#23
How many compound words are in the following sentence? "Someone from the classroom was playing baseball in the cafeteria."
Will Cable 3 years ago
The whole place sounds like a Compound, with a security fence around it.
#24
Name the animal to visit space?
harpling 3 years ago
Answer: The dinosaurs that got blasted into space when the Earth was hit by a meteor.
Will Cable 3 years ago
Can't drink my coffee now thanks to making me laugh...thank you.
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#25
Name a famous emperor of the Roman Empire?
#26
What unit of measurement is abbreviated "oz"?
#27
Which continent is the least populated?
#28
What force pulls objects toward Earth’s core and keeps humans from floating in the sky?
roepi 3 years ago
This may feel like nitpicking but considering the amount of misunderstanding it has caused: its 'the force of gravity '. Gravity itself is not a force but it does cause one.
Load More Replies... Will Cable 3 years ago
Cats...knocking things off shelves and people love their cats so stay on earth
#29
How many syllables are in the word “creation”?
#30
Which of the following fractions is equivalent to 1/3: 9/27, 10/40, or 3/1?
#31
What are the three types of rock?
#32
The Great Sphinx in Egypt has the head of a man and the body of which species of animal?
#33
The bassoon is a member of what musical family?
#34
How many faces are there on a cube?
#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?
#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?
#37
Which African country has Addis Ababa as the capital city?
#38
In the initials of the federal agency known as NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?
#39
In the sentence, “Sally is a very good person,” what part of speech is the word “very”?
#40
The flag of the European Union features a circle of how many stars?
#41
What was the original name of the city that was renamed Constantinople in the fourth century AD by Constantine the Great?
#42
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?
harpling 3 years ago
What kind of farmer is counting a thousand pigeons without shooing them away? And what's in that field that attracts a thousand pigeons and keeps them from flying away while the farmer is counting them?
karen snyder 3 years ago
It's called a "word problem" in fifth grade math, harpling. Part of the exercise is to evaluate the necessary information and disregard the noise.
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If Barbara is facing north and turns 90 degrees to her left, what direction is she facing now?
#44
In which country the War of the Roses took place?
Will Cable 3 years ago
Every single one, they had one tin left and plenty of Quality Street but people wanted the Roses instead
#45
Which clouds are also referred as ‘Fair weather’ clouds?
#46
Which is the homophone for the word ‘one’?
#47
Where is Valley Forge located?
Will Cable 3 years ago
It's debris is floating in space following its destruction in Silent Running
#48
Name the capital of Egypt?
#50
Who discovered America in 1492?
#51
What is a group of puppies known as?
DrBronxx 3 years ago
Wouldn't it be "a litter"? If you called them "litter," you'd be calling them trash.
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What sentence ends with a question mark?
#53
Who wrote the play "Othello"?
harpling 3 years ago
Answer: The Italian author Giovanni Batista Giraldi, better known as Cinthio, wrote the story Shakespeare adapted.
DrBronxx 3 years ago (edited)
So you would be incorrect, then. The answer is still Shakespeare. Cinthio didn't write the play.
Load More Replies... #54
Name the country with four letters and last one in n?
#55
What is the other name of Hwang Ho River?
#56
Where are the beautiful islands of Seychelles located?
#57
Name the sea that separates Europe and Africa?
#59
Name the country where Napoleon Bonaparte was born?
roepi 3 years ago
Corsica is not a country. Napoleon was born in France. Corsica is part of France.
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What was the name of the first satellite pulled into orbit by the United States?
#61
What was the most widely grown crop in the Middle Colonies?
#62
What was the name of the last Queen of France?
#63
Who was the 16th president of the United States?
#64
If Pablo divides 111,111 by 11, what number does he get?
#65
Solve the following equation: 3 + 2/1 =
#66
Which huge waterfalls separate the United States and Canada?
#67
What is the capital of Utah?
#68
Name the two major inland seas of the world?
#70
Through which country does the prime meridian pass?
B-flat 3 years ago
And France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Ghana
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On which sea is the city of Venice located?
#72
Which is the longest natural beach on Earth?
#73
What is the number above the vinculum in a fraction known as?
#74
Who is the inventor of the World Wide Web?
#75
Which state in the USA is also known as the cheese state?
#76
What will be the value of 340*75?
#77
Which is the 19th letter of the English Alphabet?
#78
A decade equals how many years?
#79
How many bones does a human body have?
Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
Depends on the human. Tiny humans have roughly 300, which fuse as the child grows.
#80
Which is the longest bone in our body?
#81
Street artist Banksy is originally associated with which British city?
#82
How many human players are there on each side in a polo match?
#83
What is the other name for the ancient Egyptian writing system?
Will Cable 3 years ago
Hieroglyphics at the top and Lowerglyphics at the bottom
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If 1/10 is 10%, then what is the value of 1/4?
#85
Can you name the fastest swimming bird?
#86
Can you tell me about the four great inventions made in ancient China?
#87
What is the next number in the sequence 7, 14, 21, 28…….?
#88
How many minutes make 7 hours?
Will Cable 3 years ago
When asking your partner if they are ready yet and they say "A couple of minutes"
#89
What is an angle more than 90 degrees known as?
#90
If I bought 7 dozen mangoes, how many mangoes would I have?
#91
Name the sense organ that helps in maintaining body balance?
#92
What is the scientific study of birds known as?
#93
What is the function of lungs?
Will Cable 3 years ago
To be filled with pollution from international companies that claim they are Environmentally Friendly
#94
What is the chemical symbol of gold?
#95
Can you tell me the number of pairs of chromosomes that human beings have?
#96
What gives the blood its red color?
#97
Name the hardest known material on Earth?
Will Cable 3 years ago
A person from a cold country going for a night out in just jeans and a t-shirt
roepi 3 years ago
Both wurzite boron nitrate and lonsdeleite are harder then diamond.
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Name the city that was built on seven hills?
#99
What was published after Anne Frank’s death?
#100
What is the original name of the civil rights activist popularly known as Malcolm X?
#101
What is the nickname of Edward Teach?
#102
Which community of people had invented the world’s first writing system?
#103
What is the name of the coldest sea on Earth?
Some Random Person 3 years ago
The Amundsen Sea (or some other sea washing Antarctica, the data on the Internet varies) The Arctic is the name of the ocean and the North of our planet in general
#104
Mt. Fuji is the highest point located in which Asian country?
#105
What are oxymorons?
Eligijus Sinkunas 3 years ago
Answer: Antonyms used together to form a sentence or description.
#106
What are sets of words that are opposite in meaning called?
#107
What is the "…" punctuation called?
#108
Who wrote the play ’Romeo And Juliet’?
#109
What is the past tense of cut?
#110
How many bytes are in 1 Kilobyte?
#111
What is the full form of GUI?
#112
What is the full form of USB?
#113
Name an input device?
#114
Who wrote the poem ‘If’?
#115
Who wrote ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
#116
Name the author of the classic book characters ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’?
lauralett50 3 years ago
Samuel Wallace, . Mark Twain was a fake name he wrote under to protect his identity.
Justin Smith 3 years ago
So close. His name was Samuel Clemens not Wallace.
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In which language was ‘The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo’ originally published?
#118
If a football field is 100 yards long, how many feet long is the football field?
#119
What continent are the Pyramids of Giza located in?
#120
What is the longest river in the world?
Melissa Karr 3 years ago
Answer is Nile, not Amazon. Amazon River is known to be the widest
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Ron saves $32 every day. How much will he save in a year of 365 days?
#122
If a car is traveling at 40 mph, how long will it take to go 190 miles?
#123
True or false? The human shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint.
#124
Since the late 1930s, what calendar date has been designated for the inauguration of a United States president?
#125
What ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru?
#126
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?
#127
The interior angles of a triangle always sum to what degree?
#128
Who is the author of the 1960 novel about social and racial inequality, To Kill a Mockingbird?
#129
What's the capital of Connecticut?
#130
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the US from where?
#131
What is a hyperbole?
#132
What's the largest and deepest ocean in the world?
#133
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
#134
True or False: The platypus is a mammal.
#135
One inch is equal to how many centimeters?
#136
What river forms the border between Indiana and Kentucky?
#137
Which blood type is known as the universal recipient?
#138
The Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries was primarily a conflict between England and what other country?
#139
What is the most abundant element in the universe?
#140
How many teaspoons are in 5 tablespoons?
#141
In what US city do the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet and form the Ohio River?
#143
In English, "lice" is the plural of what word?
#144
Budapest is the capital of what European country?
#145
Known as "The Conqueror," what was the first name of the king who won the throne of England in 1066?
#146
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?
#147
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?
#148
How many congruent bases are present in a solid Prism?
#149
Round the number 2650 to the nearest thousand?
#150
How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?
#151
What are the three articles commonly used in the English language?
#153
Where do we see the Yukon River?
#154
Can you say the name of the lead singer of Smash Mouth?
#155
Who is the lyricist of the song ‘They gave me the key to the sky?
#156
Name the capital of Nevada?
#157
Where is Harvard University located?
#158
Name the river that flows through Glasgow?
#159
Can you name the river that flows through Paris?
#160
Name Europe’s largest port?
#161
Which is the largest strait of the world?
#162
What is the chemical name of salt?
#163
Name the largest country by population in the world?
#164
What is a fable?
#166
Can you name the mathematician who is known as the ‘Father of Trigonometry’?
#167
Do you know the number of days in the month of October?
#168
If a train was supposed to arrive at the railway station at 04:15 but arrived after 35 minutes, at what time did the train arrive at the railway station?
Will Cable 3 years ago
It didn't. It was in the UK and there was a rail replacement service by bus
#171
If I read ¼ of a book and my friend read ¾ of the same book, how much of the book did we read in all?
#172
Which number will this roman symbol represent: XXIV?
#173
Which is the basic unit of all life forms on this planet?
#174
What is the scientist who studies the soil known as?
#175
Which organ of the body helps in cleansing blood and removing toxins from the body?
#176
What is the boiling point of water?
#177
In which group of people were the first ones to celebrate Thanksgiving?
#178
In which year did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb?
#179
What is the name of the deepest point in Earth’s oceans?
#180
Which of these words means sparkle: ‘dazzle’, ‘dangle’, or ‘jazzle’?
#181
What would you call a character in a story that revolves around him or her?
#182
What are similar sounding words called?
Some Random Person 3 years ago
They're homophones (like: two/too; ate/eight; crews/cruise; no/know and so on).
#183
Who is known as the queen of pop?
#184
To which nation is Shakira originally from?
#185
What is used in a computer device to reduce the heat generated due to running the machine?
#186
What type of computer software is Chrome?
#187
Name an output device?
#188
Which is the second book in the ‘Harry Potter’ series?
#189
Name the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
#190
Who was the author of ‘The Jungle Book’?
#191
If I have five apples and you have four apples, how many more apples do I have?
#192
If a train leaves the station and travels at 60 miles per hour, how much time will have passed when it arrives at a station 300 miles away?
Will Cable 3 years ago
4 days as it was the wrong kind of snow or leaves on the line, wrong type of sunshine, or on strike again
#193
What is an antonym for beautiful?
#194
Which tool is used to estimate the likelihood of certain genetic outcomes?
#195
How many sides does a hexagon have?
#196
Can you say the tense of this sentence “We ate a large pizza yesterday?
#197
Who wrote ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?
#198
What is the dot over the lowercase letter I in the English alphabet called?
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Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
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