Miss America, Lauren Nelson, is smarter than a fifth grader2008-01-18 04:11:39
“I’m Lauren Nelson. I’m Miss America, and I am not smarter than a fifth grader.”That’s what Oklahoma's own Miss America just said on national television as she won $175,000 on the Fox game show, “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” But she proved she is smarter than a group of fifth-grade opponents.She won $175,000 by answering a math question correctly and then realizing she probably didn't know the correct answer to the next question worth $300,000.The $175,000 question was a fourth grade math question: What is the greatest common factor of 12 and 36?"I know this. I'm confident," Nelson said. Then, slightly tilting her tiara-adorned head and wavering just a second, she said, "I'm going to go with my gut and go with 12 and lock it in."Her opponents, all grade-school children, answered 12, 6, 4 and 4."Lauren, I don't know how to tell you this," host Jeff Foxworthy said. "You just won $175,000!"Nelson, of Lawton, earlier said her mother is a teacher who began grilling Ne
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