[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's Effect on American Knowledge

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 23:35:50 UTC 2007


> 1) You've just been knighted by Queen Elizabeth. She takes away the sword.
> What does she say afterwards?

"I dub thee, Sir Thomas"?

> 2) What are lemmings known for?

Jumping off cliffs. A theory which was meant to explain the regular
and sudden drops in their population. Those drops were later
discovered to be caused by interactions with predator population
numbers.

> 3) What form are raindrops?

Slightly flattened spheres.

> 4) What do dolphins drink?

I imagine they are the same as whales and get their water from the
food they eat.

How did I do? (That's without looking anything up)



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