Answers - Are You Smarter than a Middle Schooler?

Have you seen the TV show - Are You Smarter than a 5th grader? It's one of my favorites! I feel dumb when I can't answer the 3rd grade geography question. I kick myself when I don't know the answer to a 5th grade science question!

This was my 3rd year writing the astronomy tests for Middle and High school age kids at this weekend's Northeast Kansas Regional Competition of the Science Olympiad:

National website - http://www.soinc.org/
Ks website -  http://webs.wichita.edu/scienceolympiad/

These kids are the future of America. Some of the best and brightest. At this year's event there were 22 categories ranging from Ecology to Disease Detection to Mousetrap Powered Vehicles. Winners go to the State Championships in Wichita. The National Championships are held in Madison, Wisconsin.

I've taken 3 questions from the Middle School test - not too easy/not too hard to see if you're smarter than a Middle Schooler.

Here goes:

1) Earth rotates...
A) Clockwise
B) Counter-clockwise

Answer - B

2) All the planets in the solar system orbit the sun in the same direction.
A) True
B) False

Answer - A

3) Which planet in our solar system has the most moons discovered so far?
A) Uranus
B) Neptune
C) Saturn
D) Jupiter

Answer - D-  Jupiter has 63 moons.

Also, which schools were the overall winners?

Middle School Division

1st - California Trail Middle School  2nd - Leawood Middle School

 

High School Division 

1st - St. James Academy  2nd - Olathe East High School

So.... Are you REALLY smarter than a Middle Schooler? Be honest!

Next blog - next week