Saturday, February 09, 2008

How quick are you?

A fun question used in a talk at the "Teachers Using ICT" conference:

What was the highest mountain in the world before the discovery of Mount Everest?

You have five seconds.

4 comments:

  1. Everest was still the tallest, but I'm sure the locals called it something else. Speaking of which, anyone seen and read Into Thin Air? Gobsmackingly unforgettable story.

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  2. I got that too, but depending on the context of the question and tone you could also have meant which was the perceived highest mountain - and I've no idea what that is. I always got those gender ones wrong, you know where the doctor at the hospital says I can't operate cause it's my son.

    A phrase myself and my brother used to use a lot that I always like, when talking about persons from the past, is "When was he", I he what age/century did he live in.

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