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Nobel Prize-winning Physicist On "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"
Flipping channels, I happened upon this. George Smoot was really amiable. The little girl he was up against asked what he won the Nobel prize for. Told that it was for helping to figure out the origin of the universe, she said that he 'must be really smart'. Asked about his Nobel prize money, Smoot said he donated it to a scholarship fund that he hoped some of the kids on the show would be recipients of. I just watched a little, but he didn't miss any questions while I was watching.

Smoot's book Wrinkles in Time was one of the first I read in my quest to learn what was known about the universe.

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Looks like George did OK. And it already made it to his Wikipedia page.
"On September 18, 2009, Smoot appeared as a contestant on the Fox television show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. He reached the final question, where he correctly answered Maine as the location of Acadia National Park, becoming the second person (and first male) to win the one million dollar prize."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smoot

(The first person to win the million dollars: "Kathy Cox, the Superintendent of Schools for the State of Georgia, was the first person to have correctly answered the $1,000,000 question (MDQ): 'Who was the longest reigning British Monarch?' The answer was Queen Victoria.")