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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is common knowledge among educated people who pursue life long learning. [/quote]

Is it?  Is it really?  Do you have a list?  I would say it is not uncommon knowledge, but I wouldn't say it's that fundamental.  I would say most people would know about Dickens as the author of A Christmas Carol, and probably A Tale of Two Cities, but I think that's about as far as "common knowledge" stretches.

[quote]We expect teachers to be among this class of people, or at least we used to.  So, yes, not a good thing if a fourth grade teacher doesn't know this.  It shows that the teacher isn't reading enough outside her teaching to pick this type of knowledge up ambiently. [/quote]

I agree. It's not uncommon knowledge, but I'm not surprised that a person didn't know it and I don't think any less of the person.

Are we going to include other "common knowledge"?  Who lost last year's World Series? In what year was the Ford Mustang introduced? Explain the difference between an extra point and a field goal in football. Where was the first successful, commercial oil well in the US located? I consider all to be common knowledge and equally valuable in a game of trivia, but if somebody (even an elementary school teacher) didn't know the answer, I wouldn't hold it against that person.

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