Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? (UK)

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Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? (UK)

Format	Game Show
Created by	Mark Burnett
Starring	Noel Edmonds (primetime) Dick & Dom (daytime)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	2 (primetime) 1 (daytime)
No. of episodes	20 (primetime) 50 (daytime)
Production
Producer(s)	Twofour
Running time	60mins (inc. adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel	Sky One
Picture format	16:9
Original run	7 October 2007 - present (primetime) – 12 November 2007 - 1 February 2008 (daytime)
Chronology
Related shows	Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
External links
IMDb profile

Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? is a British game show, based on the US programme Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, currently airing on Sky One. There are currently two editions, one airing weekly in primetime (hosted by Noel Edmonds) and one airing daily during daytime (hosted by Dick and Dom). Games are played by a single contestant, who attempts to answer ten questions (plus a final bonus question). Content is taken from primary school textbooks, two from each school year from ages 6 to 10. Each correct answer increases the amount of money the player banks; a maximum cash prize of £250,000 in primetime and £50,000 in daytime can be won.

1 Format
2 Classmates
3 Jackpot question
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Format

In each game, the contestant (an adult) is asked a series of eleven questions, spanning ten subjects (such as History, Maths or Social Studies) taken from textbooks for 6 to 10 year-old students. Each question is associated with an age level; there are two questions per age group, from 6 to 10. The player can answer the questions in any order, and each correct answer raises their cumulative amount of winnings to the next level (see table). There is a safe point after 5 correct answers, guaranteeing the player the value of the fifth question, and after ten questions players may take a jackpot question for the top prize.

Contestants have three forms of assistance (two cheats and a save) each available for use once per game (up to, but not including, the final question):

Peek: The player is shown their classmate's answer and may choose whether to go along with it or not - however, they must answer the question upon using this cheat.
Copy: The player is locked into using their classmate's answer, without being able to see it first.
Save: If the player answers incorrectly but their classmate is correct, they are credited with a correct answer. This is used automatically on the contestant's first incorrect response.

Once all three forms of assistance are used, the children no longer play an active role in the game.

Question		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Value	prime	£250	£500	£1,000	£2,500	£5,000	£10,000	£15,000	£25,000	£50,000	£100,000	£250,000
Value	daytime	£250	£500	£750	£1,000	£1,500	£2,500	£5,000	£7,500	£15,000	£25,000	£50,000

[edit] Classmates

Along the way, the player can be assisted by a "classmate", one of five school-age cast members, in answering the questions. The classmate, chosen for two questions at a time, attempts to answer the question at the same time as the contestant, writing their answer on a virtual blackboard hidden from the contestant's view. Prior to the show, the children are provided with workbooks which contain a variety of material, some of which could be used in the questions asked in the game. One of the producers, Hannah Dobson, is quoted as saying: “A lot of it they’ve seen at school, it’s just refreshing their memories, really”. However, when pushed as to whether the packs contained a random selection of the syllabus or a very specific selection of information, she replied: “I would say it’s somewhere in the middle.” It can be argued that the questions are actually not representative of the general knowledge of the average 10-year old, however, as the TimesOnline article states, to have entitled the show "Are you Smarter Than a 10 Year Old Who’s Been Handpicked for High Academic Achievement and Been Given a Revision Pack While You Haven’t" would not have been as catchy as the current title.^[1]

[edit] Group A

Reece
Qasim
Louis
Lizzie
Katie

[edit] Group B

Richard
Luisa
Lewis
Kaya
Kieran

[edit] Group C

Lloyd
Meisha
Jack
Rhiannon
Jonathan

[edit] Reserve children

Some children were used as reserves and as such could appear in any of the groups.

Lisa
Kieran
Ryan
Mae

[edit] Jackpot question

The rules change slightly for the jackpot question. The player is only shown the subject of the question before deciding if they will continue or drop out. However, if they choose to see the question, they are no longer eligible to drop out and must answer the question, with no assistance from the classmates. A wrong answer on the question will cause the contestant to drop back down to the prize for 5 questions.

If the contestant gets any answer wrong (and is not saved), they "drop out", and a contestant doing so in the first five questions loses all their winnings. For this reason, they may choose to drop out at any point during the game, which entitles them to leave the game with any winnings they have accumulated.

If, at any point during the game, the player chooses to drop out or is flunked out, they must face the camera and state, "I am not smarter than a 10 year old."