Think you’re smarter than a fifth grader? How about a college student — from the 1920s?
Glenn and his co-hosts tried to answer just five questions on a 1922 college entrance exam from the University of Illinois.
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Here are the five questions:
1. Describe the conditions causing Achilles to stop fighting.
2. What was Franklin’s plan for the union of the colonies? Discuss his arguments in favor of it.
3. What characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are more than mere types? Defend your answer.
4. Summarize the chief ideas you gained from reading one of Thackeray’s essays in the English Humorist.
5. Point out four distinctly Poesque characteristics marking The Raven.
The foursome decided to combine their intellectual power for added value.
“Together, we are probably smarter than the average one quarter of a person,” Glenn said.
How did they do? Let’s just say on the first question, Pat and Stu determined that Achilles would need reconstructive surgery on his heel and be out for the rest of the season. ‘Nuff said.
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