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Legendary stand-up comic Jeff Foxworthy played up his “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” host role at a fundraiser benefiting college scholarhips for high school students recently.
Foxworthy lead the third annual KIPP Atlanta Metro Schools fundraiser helping to bring in $940,000 last week. The money will be used for a scholarship endowment to help the students pay for college.
Six KIPP students were pitted against six celebrities in a trivia contest featuring math, science and history questions culled from KIPP’s curriculum. As expected, the kids whomped the adults 130 to 60. “I felt stupid!” exclaimed actress Terri Vaughn (“The Steve Harvey Show,” “All Of Us”) after the competition. “I needed a study guide!”
Indeed, the adults had to seek a “lifeline” – the audience – to get their first question correct: : “In the 1800s which person helped many South American countries gain independence from Spain?” The correct answer: Simon Bolivar. At another point, the judges appeared to give the adults 10 points for no apparent reason.
As the adults fell further and further behind, Foxworthy noted, “Does anyone see a pattern starting to develop here?” Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson facetiously asked at one point if the students on the panel could be used as a life line.
Peterson after the event told me he was able to tamp down his own competitive juices in this situation. “It’s okay to lose for a good cause.”
Jocelyn Dorsey, director of public affairs for Channel 2 Action News, said she dreaded the embarrassment of not knowing the answers to so many questions but enjoyed the camaraderie among the adults. “We never expected to win,” she said.
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