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5th Grader "spoiler"

#1 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:37 am

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At the end of last week's 5th Grader episode, they showed this week's contestant and revealed that he would finally answer the $1 million question correctly. Wow! They've given away an awful lot before, just letting us know that some contestants would see that question (thereby eliminating the suspense for the entire hour) but to give away the result, too? :shock:

So it was surprising to see him get his second question (2nd Grade Grammar) wrong. And to see that Cody failed to save him.

But wait! Because he had bragged about being about to get the $1 million question, Jeff lets him see that one, just for fun. And, yes, he was able to get it right. Whoopdeedoo.

I guess they decided to celebrate April Fool's Day, a few days early. :roll:



And this wasn't a good day for Cody. The next contestant got up to $300K question, got it wrong...and again Cody was unable to save him. :(
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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:51 am

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I was surfing around last night - is Cody the kid that appears to be bi-racial? Was that the question about the age of a senator? I will admit I knew it wasn't 35, I thought it was 25!

I was surfing between Deal or No Deal, which I don't watch either. I had control of the channels last night. I prefer not having control, so I get to sleep faster.
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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:56 am

peacock2121 wrote:
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I was surfing around last night - is Cody the kid that appears to be bi-racial? Was that the question about the age of a senator?
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Yes and yes. If you didn't see the episode when they introduced this new class, Cody also has an identical twin who he auditioned with. They cast Cody instead of his brother.
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#4 Post by mrkelley23 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:58 am

Obviously because he's so much better, right?
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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:04 am

mrkelley23 wrote:Obviously because he's so much better, right?
They didn't say.

I wonder if Cody and his brother have been tempted to play that standard twin trick of switching places and seeing if anyone notices? 8)
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#6 Post by Kazoo65 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:57 am

I saw 5th Grader last night and was amazed at how dumb the contestants were. The first guy didn't seem to know the difference between the subject and predicate of a sentence! I wonder if they still make kids diagram sentences in English class-I had to from 4th to 10th grades. I know what part of a sentence is what. He also didn't seem to know what a proper noun is (a person's name, a specific place name-like Michigan).

FTR, I wouldn't have gotten the million dollar math question. I probably would have left after seeing the subject-math is NOT my strong point.

I actually thought the second guy would do better until that social studies question came up. I knew the answer to that one.

I wonder what would happen if they found an actual really smart person to put on. Maybe they'd give away the million. And WHY does it take an hour to answer 10 (or usually less) questions? I could do it in 15 minutes!
I'm just a game show nerd.
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#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:05 am

Kazoo65 wrote: And WHY does it take an hour to answer 10 (or usually less) questions? I could do it in 15 minutes!
It takes an hour because TPTB want to fill up a whole hour with one stack. And you couldn't do it in 15 minutes because Jeff Foxworthy has a whole bag full of tricks to drag it out.
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#8 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:42 am

I can't believe that you are still watching that show! :)
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#9 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:54 am

Kazoo65 wrote:I saw 5th Grader last night and was amazed at how dumb the contestants were. The first guy didn't seem to know the difference between the subject and predicate of a sentence! I wonder if they still make kids diagram sentences in English class-I had to from 4th to 10th grades. I know what part of a sentence is what. He also didn't seem to know what a proper noun is (a person's name, a specific place name-like Michigan).

FTR, I wouldn't have gotten the million dollar math question. I probably would have left after seeing the subject-math is NOT my strong point.

I actually thought the second guy would do better until that social studies question came up. I knew the answer to that one.

I wonder what would happen if they found an actual really smart person to put on. Maybe they'd give away the million. And WHY does it take an hour to answer 10 (or usually less) questions? I could do it in 15 minutes!
All in what you know. I found the "million dollar Q" to be ridiculously easy but I hate grammar questions and frequently struggle with them, even on this silly show. Didn't like them way back in the dark ages when I was in school either and apparently have made a dedicated effort to block it all out. I did get the one last night about the subject/proper noun correct but often struggle with those. But I don't recall them ever having what I thought was a truly hard math question though, at any level.
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#10 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:57 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I can't believe that you are still watching that show! :)
LOL

Made me laugh.
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#11 Post by slam » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:08 am

Could someone please post these million dollar questions here? Thanks!
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#12 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:28 am

slam wrote:Could someone please post these million dollar questions here? Thanks!
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Something like:
Of the 10 numbers from 11-20 what proportion are prime numbers.
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I recall they specifically used the word proportion although the cast member answered as a percentage. While they are the same principle they are two different answers. The show didn't seem to much care though as they accepted the answer he gave.
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#13 Post by slam » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:59 am

Thanks.

Certainly not the hardest math question I've ever seen. :)
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#14 Post by KillerTomato » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:59 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:
slam wrote:Could someone please post these million dollar questions here? Thanks!
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Something like:
Of the 10 numbers from 11-20 what proportion are prime numbers.
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I recall they specifically used the word proportion although the cast member answered as a percentage. While they are the same principle they are two different answers. The show didn't seem to much care though as they accepted the answer he gave.
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Actually, not to be a pitnicker, but it was "Olivia has 10 cards numbered from 11 to 20. If she picks randomly, what is the probability[/b] that the card will have a prime number?" This is essentially the same, but the wording (and the use of the word "probability") is subtly different.

So his answer of 40% was technically correct.
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#15 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:27 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I can't believe that you are still watching that show! :)
LOL

Made me laugh.
I know, he does it for us, so that we don't have to watch the show. :)
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