Here you go: the answers to our Are You Smarter Than the Person Who Writes Questions for "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" quiz.

1. A fox calls a den home, but what animal lives in a holt? Hint: It's a good swimmer. (My hint: It's not a walrus or a whale).
Answer: An otter.

2. Count the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to it to determine what?
Answer: Temperature. Now you may be thinking that this is just ridiculous, but it turns out to be pretty true—although the number to add may be 38, and not 40. That’s what science journalist Robert Krulwich found in a report he filed for ABC.

3. An octopus has 8 arms, but how many arms does a squid have?
Answer: Another instance of how this card game needs to go back to fifth grade and pay more attention. The answer is “10, but two are tentacles.”

4. What's the name of a baby that has a zebra for a dad and a horse for a mom?
Answer: A zorse. No joke. They’re also called zebroids (as in zebra hybrid). A zebroid can be the child of a zebra and a horse or a zebra and anything else that it finds attractive.

5. True or False? Another name for a meteor is a shooting star.
Answer: True.

6. True or False? Only the male turkey gobbles, not the female turkey.
Answer: False

7. Name the only two countries in South America that Brazil does not share a border with.
Answer: Chile and Ecuador

So. Did you get them right? And are tentacles arms, or is that question just silly? Discuss.

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