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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader

Mar 08, 2008

8-9 PM · Fox · Returns Sept. 5

The Jeff Foxworthy-hosted game show will have a bunch of well-known faces in its classroom this season, including Jennie Garth, Gene Simmons, Star Jones, and...Nobel Prize winner George Fitzgerald Smoot III? (Please let that be the only time Star Jones and Nobel Prize are ever used in the same sentence.) As for the kid participants, ''we've just finished casting our new class,'' says exec producer Barry Poznick. ''This season we went to 15 different states to find them.'' Way to make the other 35 states feel really dumb, Barry.

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Originally posted Sep 05, 2008 Published in issue #1010-1011 Sep 12, 2008 Order article reprints

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