Is Europe a country?
- Dec. 6th, 2007 at 2:28 PM
The show is called "are you smarter than a 5th-grader". Apparently in the course of the show our hero, Kellie Pickler, "was unsure whether or not a roadrunner was a bird, hoped that a foreign language might be English, stated she felt "really smart right now" after identifying that "watermelon" contains two E's, said that a piccolo was a percussion instrument, stated that she thought Europe was a country but France was not, and decided that Franklin Pierce was a US president because her ears were pierced."
Reminds me a bit of this.
Where's France?
- Nov. 9th, 2005 at 8:31 AM
Don't ask CNN, anyway...
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What group invaded the British Isles from France about a thousand years ago, and in what year?
- Oct. 23rd, 2005 at 9:17 PM
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