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[which_chick]

Also, for those who would like to join me in feeling terribly stupid, it's time again for the King William's College General Knowledge Paper. Unfamiliar with this? Try Wikipedia.

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[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Non-contextual archaic gibberish does *not* make a good test of knowledge. This test is more a test of local trivia and the understanding of the twisted mind of whichever sadistically pedantic twit it is who puts the exam together. The Wiki article makes it clear that he specifically crafts the questions to be friendly to searches in the physical KWC libraries rather than online resources; since he's biasing the questions towards answers which *cannot* be commonly found online, this exam will tend increasingly towards a near-total nonalignment with what the rest of the English-speaking world would recognize as "knowledge" rather than "Manx literary set of shibboleths". That is, unless the test becomes popular enough among the intellectually self-regarding that it generates its own online "shadow" of hypertext from which it will, by its very design, flee like the proverbial groundhog.