It's just a bunch of multiple choice questions from elementary school. Why would you get this if you go to school? Meh.
There's not much to Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, and breaking the idea down to its basics just shows how lightweight the concept is, and just how important all the television stage glitz is to expand it to an hour long show. It's just a bunch of multiple choice or true/false questions of elementary school levels of difficulty, aimed at showing just how much or little you paid attention in class. The addition of Millionaire-like lifelines extend the concept, like the ability to use a fifth grader's answer as your own.
Clearly the game was rushed to market, just in case the television show tanked. Jeff Foxworthy and the five selectable kids look to have been rendered by art school dropouts using a freeware 3D program. Luckily you don't have to look at the poorly lipsynching Foxworthy muppet for long since he only shows up on camera to introduce the game and to set off the Million Dollar Question. At least he continues his game show chatter for much of the game. Sure, they're relegated to the "here is your question" basics as well as the generic introduction script, but at the very least the game designers wrangled the "You might be a redneck if…" comedian for a few hours in the recording booth. Why they didn't do the same for the five kids in the game...