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The King William's College 2004 Quiz

Posted by michael on from the you-fail-it dept.

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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  1. uuh.. google by luvirini · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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...:)

    1. Re:uuh.. google by Jonathan · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

    2. Re:uuh.. google by fiddlesticks · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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