- Wait.
How did you get that right?
- Did I get it right? - Yeah!
- But you did it- - I guessed!
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- Hey, I'm Kim. - And I'm Ben.
We ask this question every year.
- [Both] Are we smarter than our our kids?
- That was weird.
- You not like saying stuff together?
(mumbling)
- I'm gonna stab him.
Every year before school starts we like to quiz ourselves...
- To see what our kids are getting into.
- Right. This year our kids are going to sixth grade
and ninth grade. - High school.
- Let it be known that I struggled when the kids
were going into like fourth grade.
- Right. So this will be interesting.
- So we have some questions from our producer.
We have not seen them. - That's right.
- We do not have the answer.
- Let's go. Let's start with sixth grade.
- Sixth grade.
- What is the top layer of the rainforest called:
emergent or understory?
One, two, three.
What'd you say?
- Emergent. - Oh, I went understory.
- It just sounded like the top layer of your pants.
Your underpants. (laughing)
- Are we just gonna erase this with our fingers?
- Turn there. Turn this over.
- Oh, look at that.
- We're not smarter than this.
Japan is an island and what body of water?
- Don't look over here?
- The specific ocean as I called it
when I was a sixth grader.
PC has joined us. - Hi.
- What do you call the process of breaking white light
into all the colors of the visible spectrum: reflection,
attraction, or refraction?
Three, two, one refraction.
Yay. I am nailing sixth grade.
- Which of the following PH numbers indicates
an alkali substance: 1 or 13?
- Oh, I know this one.
- Three, two, one.
Is it 13?
- The answer is 13.
- Last one, What is...Is that a five?
- Four fifths divided by-
- [Both] One half. - Okay.
Don't you do two and then one and then that's...
So isn't it divided by so maybe it's...
I think it's eight over five.
- Eight over five. - One and three fifths.
- I got it 'cause I knew how to do it.
Your logic was completely bonkers
and you somehow got it right.
- No. - Which is crazy.
- So I remember having to help Lola
- Yeah. - and then
to divide you actually like multiply
- Right. - To invert it
and you put two over one.
- But that's a tricky one because divided by one half
is the same
- [Both] It is multiplying by two.
- And I'm impressed that you got that.
That was a high end sixth grade.
That's what they call a trap question.
And I thought she would get that wrong.
- We learned that in fifth grade.
- You did not believe in me. - I did not believe in you.
(laughing)
I didn't. I'm very impressed.
You just beat me in sixth grade.
Good job PC. - Thanks for joining us.
- Smart kid. Okay. You're smarter than me right now.
- I feel so good about myself. Time for high school.
Let it be known that I was an honor student.
I have, I don't even remember what I ate for lunch though.
I remember nothing but 90s rap lyrics
and some bad movie quotes.
When toxins build up in a single organism is it:
bioamplification, bioaccumulation, or biomagnification?
I'm gonna say...three, two, one.
Bioaccumulation? - You're correct.
- It makes sense right- - Yes.
- 'cause that's accumulating.
What is the first element of the periodic table?
It's one of two, right?
You have to figure out which one it is.
- One of...
- That's not even an element. You just named a molecule.
- Oxygen. Sorry.
- The correct answer is Hydrogen.
- Yeah oxygen is like the sixth or seventh one.
Or maybe the eight one.
Yeah well its tricky 'cause if you look at it,
it's like got like fox ears.
So at the top there's hydrogen and then helium.
And then it goes down to like things like boron and carbon.
And then you move over to here to the noble gases.
- We would of never dated in high school.
- That's true.
- Just... You dated a lot.
Less nerdy people.
How long does it take the moon to revolve around earth?
24 hours, 27 days, 12 days, or one week?
- I don't know if I've ever thought about this before.
- So, okay.
- We'll think about it when you get don't with the question
- Because I would think that it would go 24 hours
but then there's phases of and sometimes you're not, so...
- I like what you' re thinking.
I like where your head is going.
- Man, you go into some weird places,
but you get there eventually.
- 27 days is that right? - Yes.
- Yeah. - Yay.
- A man selling hot dogs, french fries, and a soda
as a combo meal at a fairground has to pay the country $250
each day plus $2 for combo meals sold.
The price of a combo is $7.
How many combo meals must he sell to break even?
- My version of how it's word problems.
This makes my armpits sweat. Is it this?
- The correct answer is 50 combo meals.
- Wait what?
- How did you guess that?
- Because if you take $2 off the seven it's $5 he makes
for $5 each and you make two $50.
- Oh, that makes more sense than what I was doing.
Oh my gosh.
I am not performing well right now.
- Happens to everybody don't worry.
- All right. This one is gonna be revenge.
- Okay. - Solve three
parenthesis two X minus one close parenthesis
equals four X plus five.
- There's no way.
- How did you get that last question right?
Common sense.
- It's gonna take a minute here.
Okay. So I need to get these things to equal.
So I'ma do...
Four.
You forgot to carry the (indistinct).
- Wait.
How did you get that right?
- Did I get it right? - Yeah but you- I guessed!
- You did it completely wrong.
- I totally guessed. - You forgot to carry...
- Is that the right answer?
Oh my god. (screaming)
(mumbling)
- No she added everything wrong.
- I couldn't even logically tell you how there was no...
I just guessed. I just said four.
Are we smarter? One of us might be
than our sixth and ninth graders.
Hey kids, teachers, we love you.
The years gonna be weird. Okay.
We're gonna roll with it. - It might not be that weird.
- It might not be that weird.
We're just gonna roll with it.
- Let's hope for a less weird.
Let's hope for a year that progresses into normalcy.
- Whatever that is.
Anyway.
Yay me.
- Anyway, so thanks for watching.
So I am sad that I lost, but the good news is that Kim
gets to help with math homework.
- Absolutely not.
- Because she's better than I now. (laughing)
- Absolutely not.
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