The King William's College 2004 Quiz

A UK college creates an annual quiz for their students. Here's the Questions and Answers from a previous year, if you want to get an idea of just what sort of esoterica you're seeking.

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You know you are screwed...

[fermion]

when you can't even read the instructions. I assume this is latin, and I just discovered that google does not have a latin translators, the bastards.

"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"

It seem to say something about write down the stuff you make up to the best of ability yours, but I will leave the real translation to those who are smart and well educated.

All I can say is that the test seems to over useless stuff. Give me a quiz over Star Trek or South Park or ATHF or TNMT. That would be time well spent and prove my superiority.

uuh.. google

[luvirini]

Funny how google seems to be my first thought for finding these..

And true enough quickly looking at the first section I was able to find answers to 9 withing few minutes... The last one would require probably few more minutes..

In a way it is strange how much information is searchable... and how the action of searching the web has taken over. Back when younger we were supposed to LEARN the history...:)

Re:uuh.. google

[Jonathan]

Exactly. That's why non-realtime trivia contents are meaningless in the modern epoch.

Re:uuh.. google

[fiddlesticks]

coupla point from the FA

'Q2: How do you make the quiz Googleproof? "I do put the questions through Google, and change some to make it more unlikely that the answers will be thrown up immediately, but there is only so much I can do in that respect." Q3: What do you consider to be cheating? "There's nothing I would regard as cheating. If you want to do it entirely through Google, good luck. The only question is, will it reduce your pleasure if you do so?" That is, perhaps, the best question Cullen has posed so far, to which the correct answer is: "Yes."


also, in earlier years 'If you weren't sure of the answer to a question, but it had nothing to do with Bruges, Delft, Dickens or Austen, it was probably Queen Elizabeth.'

in even earlier years, success would be rewarded with half a pint.

I believe Alan Cox does this quiz every year.

Interesting post..

[jtbauki]

I was thinking if they made an Slashdot Quiz how would it be, I wonder?

Slashdot Quiz

1. What is Raistlin Majere's middle name?

2. Name 10 species that existed in Middle Earth.

3. If someone offends you with a post, should you a). Flame him b). Flame him c). Flame him.

4. Name the past 10 iterations of intel's processor.

etc...

Re:Ken Jennings

[cioxx]

He still would have won. Remember, it's not that Ken Jennings was superior in every discipline that no amount of ambiguity could make him lose. The reason he was victorious is because he was better than the contestants on the panel.

Throwing these hard questions at him wouldn't have been enough. First, you would need someone who could beat Jenings in regards to accessible (easy) questions.

I like to consider Jenings' string of victories not as Jenings vs. Knowledge, but Jenings vs. Weak peers.

Re:Ken Jennings

[jrl87]

I got 25-30 , I wasn't really counting, but I did get more than 10% correct and I'm certain Ken can beat me, so I think that your guess is wrong.

A good deal of the questions (after I looked at teh answers) actually weren;t that hard to answer if the question had been straight forward. In my opinion most of the difficulty in those questions is not knowing what the answer is, because almost anyone can memorize answers, but having a broad enough knowledge of the topic in order to understand the question