- Three, two, seven, nine.
- [Announcer] That is correct.
- How do they know this?
- [Girl] Are you kidding me?
- [Announcer] Welcome to today's academic challenge.
You may only use what's on your table.
There will be three rounds,
and the questions will get harder.
What is the largest animal living today?
Team A.
- Blue whale.
- [Announcer] Team B.
- Blue whale.
That is correct.
- [Mom] Good job, guys.
What is the square root of 144?
- 12.
- [Announcer] Correct again.
- [Student] Jenny, you know this.
Go Jenny.
- India.
Neil Armstrong.
- Neil Armstrong.
- [Both] William Shakespeare.
- [Announcer] Correct.
We are tied.
- [Girl] Okay, stay focused.
Stay focused.
- [Woman] Team B?
Team B.
- [Announcer] For round two, we're going to
give both teams, some additional resources.
- [Student] Okay.
Facts of 2017.
Wow.
- [Announcer] Who was the first
president to live in the white house?
- John Adams.
- [Announcer] That is correct.
- Oh my God, bro.
- Come on.
- [Announcer] What does the acronym, LCD, stand for?
- [Mom] Wow.
- He can do this one.
- Liquid crystal display.
- [Announcer] Correct.
- How do they know this?
- Go with it. Just go with it.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Sargasso sea.
- [Girl] What?
- [Announcer] That's correct.
- Eight minutes and 20 seconds.
- [Announcer] Correct.
- [Jenny] Samuel Morse.
- [Announcer] Correct.
- [Jenny] Denver, Colorado; Santa Fe,
New Mexico; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
- [Announcer] That is correct.
Let's pull back the curtain.
- Are you kidding me?
That's so not cool.
I'm offended that they had such an unfair advantage.
- It was way too fast.
- [Announcer] Please have your team
captain open the envelope on the table.
- 70% of teachers assign homework,
requiring access to the internet,
and yet five million households
with school aged children do not
have high speed internet service at home.
That just puts five million other
people at a disadvantage, which is not okay.
- Nearly 50% of students say they
have been unable to complete a homework
assignment because they did not
have access to the internet or a computer.
- It just broke my heart because I
didn't know that the percentage was so high.
Everything he does is on the computer.
So, if he didn't have access to that,
he wouldn't have a chance.
Someone may not be pulling the grade,
not because they're not smart,
they just don't have access to what all the other kids have.
- [Mom] Oh that's so great.