USA Today’s Greg Toppo has a piece in yesterday’s paper about the new reality show coming out from Survivor creator Mark Burnett, called “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” He’s kind enough to include my trenchant observation that most parents helping out with homework are already on this game show pretty much every night of the week. Here: For $1 million, are you smarter than these kids?. PS -- I guessed the turtle answer -- correctly. Luck.
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