Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

The kids love to watch this show with me and tonight they were wanting to be on the game when they saw they would have won $300,000 by answering the question:

What two rivers does Mesopotamia sit between? The Euphrates and ____________. Do you know?

Bill guessed the Nile and they got quite a kick out of pointing out that he missed it and they all knew the other river - The Tigris, which we all learned from reading "The Story of the World."

I never learned that in school - but I knew it this evening. I learn so much from teaching them. Bonus point if you know what the word Mesopotamia means.........

Answer: Between two rivers

Edited to add: Thanks to Heidi for telling me I spelled it wrong. Some things I still haven't learned.