when did are you smarter than a 5th grader first air
February 27, 2007
title: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? text: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is a game show franchise based on the television game show of the same name. The television show began broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company network as a special in the United States and Canada on February 27, 2007, and it grew to be popular enough that a half-hour-long syndicated TV series was developed by the owners. Since then, "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" has been replicated in several other countries, some versions under the same title, and some under modified ones. The first title: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (U.S. game show) text: began on September 6, 2007, and aired in the same timeslot. Following the end of the original run of the primetime version on September 18, 2009, a first-run syndicated version of the show ran from September 2009 to May 2011, with Foxworthy returning as host. On May 26, 2015, the program returned to Fox for a new, sixth season, with Foxworthy, again, returning as host. The show also airs internationally, and the format has been picked up for local versions in a number of other countries. "5th Grader" games are played by a single contestant, who attempts to answer ten title: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (U.S. game show) text: for the U.S. state of Georgia; and George Smoot, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In November 2006 it was pitched as "Do You Remember Grade School?" by Burnett and Zoo Productions to network executives in the form of a six-question quiz; the only network president who was able to win on the quiz was Fox's Peter Liguori. On January 31, 2007, Fox announced that they had picked up the show for an initial six-episode run, and on February 9 Foxworthy was announced as host. Less than eight weeks after title: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (U.S. game show) text: 2009. This version features a top prize of $250,000 and a tweaked format between the prime time version and the daytime version. On March 24, 2011, the show was canceled along with "Don't Forget the Lyrics!" due to low ratings. Reruns continued on several cable outlets for a year afterward; as of 2018, the reruns air on Light TV. On the syndicated version, each class had three kids in each episode, but there were nine kids who traded off with one another throughout both seasons. The class is as follows: The game play for this version of "5th Grader" is title: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? text: season of this TV program ranked 28th in the Nielsen ratings in the U.S., with an average of 12.7 million viewers per episode. The status of the Fox-TV series following the summer of 2008 was unknown, but the syndicated TV show debuted in late September 2009. Episodes from this series were also broadcast on MyNetworkTV one evening per week, and on the Country Music Television (CMT) channel it was broadcast on five evenings per week. GSN began airing the show November 6, 2011 in five-hour blocks starting at 7:00 p.m. Eastern/6:00 p.m. They currently air "Are You Smarter than a