Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is an American quiz game show that aired on Fox. It is produced by Mark Burnett and is hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. The show premiered as a three-day special which began on February 27, 2007 with the first two shows each a half-hour in length. Regular one-hour episodes began airing Thursdays from March 1 through May 10, and the first season continued with new episodes beginning May 31. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? was picked up for the 2007–08 season, which 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.
| Created by | Barry Poznick, John Stevens, Mark Burnett |
| Directed by | Don Weiner |
| Presented by | Jeff Foxworthy |
| Theme music composer | David Vanacore (Vanacore Music) with, Blessed Kateri Children's Choir |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 (Fox), 2 (Syndication) |
| No. of episodes | 98 (as of September 8, 2015) |
| Executive producer(s) | Mark Burnett, Roy Bank, Barry Poznick, John Stevens |
| Location(s) | CBS Television City, Hollywood, California |
| Running time | 44 minutes (Fox), 22–26 minutes (Syndication) |
| Production company(s) | United Artists Media Group, Zoo Productions |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Original network | Fox (2007–09, 2015), Syndication (2009–11) |
About Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Quiz series in which a contestant is asked questions taken from textbooks for first through fifth grade students to answer against a panel of fifth graders who would appear on the show. Jeff Foxworthy hosted the series.
Achievement of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
After surviving until September of 2009, the series was revived briefly in 2015. The only two contestants to win the $1,000,000 prize were George Smoot and Kathy Cox.
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