STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Teachers, don't read this.

And if one of the Jersey Shore cast members was your student, you probably shouldn't admit it.

Having made a splash on the MTV television series "Jersey Shore," three of the cast members from the reality show last night made another kind of splash on The Jay Leno Show.

A belly flop.

In a gameshow-like setting with three podiums and buzzers, Staten Island native Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Pauly D, and Snooki answered questions most elementary school students would ace. Not so for this orange tan crowd, however.

Starting off, Leno asked about first grade history.

"Now this should be an easy one. What year did we first celebrate our independence?" Leno asked. Sorrentino confidently answered 1767.

"No, close," Leno said. "It's nine more than what you said before."

After an extended period of looking at each other, Leno offered help.

"Do the math -- you need pens and pencils? Add nine to 1767."

Mike answered 1775 to laughs from the audience.

When Leno asked Snooki where the UN is located, she answered "United Nations."

"Yeah, where is it?" Leno prodded. "I'll give you a hint, you live there."

Snooki: "Albany"

Leno: "No."

She finally answered New York to much applause.

Snooki also called Vice President Joe Biden "Vice President Crone" and identified Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as singer Lionel Ritchie. Nobody was able to identify Richard Nixon and Pauly D. answered "Elvis" when Leno said "This guy from Hoboken, New Jersey, was known as 'Old Blue Eyes.'

Another history lesson came from the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

When Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. What wall was he talking about?" Leno asked.

"The dam," Snooki replied, adding the dam in Denver when asked further.

But perhaps the best line came from Snooki when a picture of former Vice President Dick Cheney was shown on the screen. She was able to identify him, but when Leno asked what his job was, her reply made Leno laugh.

"I thought he almost shot Bush," she said.

In the end, Sorrentino won with 8 points ahead of Snooki's 7 and Pauly's 6 points. Most of the points, however, came after a few wrong answers and hints from a mocking Leno.