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Miss America, Lauren Nelson, is smarter than a fifth grader
2008-01-18 04:07:00 ?I?m Lauren Nelson. I?m Miss America, and I am not smarter than a fifth grader.?That?s what Oklahoma's own Miss America just said on national television as she won $175,000 on the Fox game show, ?Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?? But she proved she is smarter than a group of fifth-grade opponents.She won $175,000 by answering a math question correctly and then realizing she probably didn't know the correct answer to the next question worth $300,000.The $175,000 question was a fourth grade math question: What is the greatest common factor of 12 and 36?"I know this. I'm confident," Nelson said. Then, slightly tilting her tiara-adorned head and wavering just a second, she said, "I'm going to go with my gut and go with 12 and lock it in."Her opponents, all grade-school children, answered 12, 6, 4 and 4."Lauren, I don't know how to tell you this," host Jeff Foxworthy said. "You just won $175,000!"Nelson, of Lawton, earlier said her mother is a teacher who began grilling Nelson a...
By: Goss INDIA
Lauren Nelson traps sexual predators.
2007-05-22 03:44:00 I didn’t know if I should laugh or applaude when I read this story. Recently crowned Miss America, Lauren Nelson, has been helping the NYPD trap online sex predators. She set up an online profile using photographs of herself when she was 14 years old. The operation included Miss America meeting these people face-to-face, with ...
Miss America Lauren Nelson Goes Undercover in Sex Sting
2007-04-25 20:09:00 Miss America, Lauren Nelson, can add crime fighter to her resume. Lauren recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators. Officers with Suffolk County’s computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager. “I got to chat online with ...
By: Gone Hollywood
Miss America Pageant 2007 Crowns Miss Oklahoma Lauren Nelson Winner
2007-01-30 19:59:01 2007 Miss America Pageant crowns Miss Oklahoma Lauren Nelson winner. Monday night at Aladdin Las Vegas hotel, or currently named Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, Nelson received her crowning tiara from 2006 Miss America Jennifer Berry, also from Oklahoma. Lauren is the daughter of Mark and Sherrell Nelson. She has one sister Morgan, 16, and one ...
Lauren Nelson Crowned Miss America 2007
2007-01-30 17:13:02 Lauren Nelson, Miss Oklahoma, is Miss America 2007. Lauren Nelson, an aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America on Monday night, the second year in a row that a Miss Oklahoma has won the crown. Nelson, 20, of Lawton, Okla., is a student at the University of Central Oklahoma and wants to get her master’s degree ...
By: Gone Hollywood
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