And both of them completed their runs in the same one-hour episode, so you can guess the results.
There were some very nice close-ups of the firehouse dalmation, Wilshire, though. I'm sure the silvercamaro household appreciated that. (And if they somehow missed the program, what with all the slithery excitement they've been having this week, there's a video clip of Wilshire available on the 5th Grader web site.)
Spoiler
The fireman got off to a bad start, jumping right into a 3rd Grade US Geography question and then needed to be saved from his wrong answer.
And a few questions later, he walked with $50K instead of taking his chances on his (correct) hunch on 4th Grade Science.
The policeman really wanted to do better than the fireman, because of their interservice rivalry, but he got let down by Mackenzie on 4th Grade Nature.
TPTB apparently instruct the kids to always look worried before their answers are revealed, even when they know they're right, in a cheap trick to drag out the tension. It becomes extra poignant, then, when they really are wrong.
Two questions later was 1st Grade Earth Science.True or False? The Hawaiian Islands were once known as the Sandwich Islands.
He perfectly described a weathervane as it is typically seen atop barns, but he burned his Peek anyway.By definition, what does a weathervane measure? A. Rainfall, B. Wind direction, C. Air Temperature.
And a few questions later, he walked with $50K instead of taking his chances on his (correct) hunch on 4th Grade Science.
Wilshire gave several barks of encouragement throughout, but I think what he was really saying was, "Sit down and let me play, why don't you?"The Laws of Motion are named for what English scientist who first published them in 1687?
The policeman really wanted to do better than the fireman, because of their interservice rivalry, but he got let down by Mackenzie on 4th Grade Nature.
The policeman only remembered that it was a word that sounded like "chloroform." He copied Mackenzie, who unfortunately had answered "conifer." This dropped him to $25K.What pigment found in plant leaves uses energy from sunlight to make food?
TPTB apparently instruct the kids to always look worried before their answers are revealed, even when they know they're right, in a cheap trick to drag out the tension. It becomes extra poignant, then, when they really are wrong.
Edited to remove the answer spoiler from one of the questions. BTW, the 5th Grader PTB apparently have terminated the relative of MBFFB who used to do the official transcripts for them, so somebody on their message board does an unoffical version, now.
