I made up a quiz about the American Presidents here.
It has 40 questions. In the modern electronic age you can probably look up most or even all of the answers. So what to do about that?
1) The quiz is not for money or credits or anything, so if you ``cheat'' you only cheat yourself.
2) Be honest with yourself and take it in three hours.
3) USE the web and see how long it takes you to finish it. You can make up some way to measure how well you did by combining how many you got right with how long it took.
4) The answers, that I will post later in the week or next week, have lots of other information of interest. So whichever of 1,2,3 you do or something else, read the solutions (even those you got right) and be enlightened.
It is actually titled Prez Trivia Quiz. This might not be accurate.
What is trivia? I think it is knowledge that does not connect to other knowledge and hence is not important. Some of my questions are trivia, and some are not. I give examples of each:
What is the most common middle initial for a president? This is clearly trivia. I don't know the answer and its no on the quiz, but I might put it on the next time I do this, four years from now.
Five presidents ran again for president four or more years after leaving office. Name them and how thy did. This is not trivia (what word means the opposite of trivia? See later). Since Trump ran four years later and won it is of interest to see what circumstances in the past lead to a former prez (a) running again, and (b) winning.
If you are so inclined you can, for each question on the quiz, say if its trivia or not. YMMV.
I googled "opposite of trivia" and got this informative website (I am not being sarcastic) here.
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