Today's Toronto Star has a Christmas trivia quiz (with one token Hanukkah question, natch) written by Mark Kearney and Randy Ray. Question 2 asks:
The original Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was believed to be born in the fourth century in what is now this country?
- Sweden
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- Czechoslovakia
- The Soviet Union
To which I can only respond with a quiz of my own. (Well, no, actually; my first response was (c).)
So, what do you think was the reason for the inclusion of choices (d) and (e)?
The question was recycled from an earlier quiz.
7(46.7%)
The authors thought the question was too hard, so they included two answers that could be eliminated immediately.
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The authors wanted to make the question harder, so they threw in a couple of trick answers.
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The authors haven't been paying much attention to world affairs in the last couple of decades, and honestly believe Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union are still countries.
3(20.0%)
All four wrong answers were filled in randomly from a database of country names past and present.
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What are you complaining about? Just be glad the right answer wasn't "The Ottoman Empire"!
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other
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Nuværende musik: You don't know how lucky you are, boy.
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