sad state of affairs

i watched "are you smarter than a fifth grader tonight."

it scares me that people are truly this dumb. seriously. using "cheats" on questions such as ...

how many sides on a trapezoid?
what country shares the longest border with the USA?
what star is closest to the earth?
true or false? fiction books are not assigned numbers in the dewey decimal system.
how many decades are in two millennia?

unbelievable and pathethic.