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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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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. [/quote]

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