I don’t know, so I Googled “CONI OSIR AIGA” and the first hit was this thread!
Definitely. This would be cool. I’d be glad to help.
Someone with whom I am acquainted made up an article for Wikipedia as a demonstration of why to be skeptical of anything you read there. It stayed up for years before being removed, and in that time was copied to hundreds of other places on the web. It is my sincere hope that it only exists on the web, so it would be something that someone would ONLY know if they Googled it. I don’t know if that’s the sort of thing you’d want to do or how you’d handle it.
Here’s a copy of the article: http://wikibin.org/articles/oyster-injustice.html
It has certainly stumped me! What’s the answer?
Another option: change the wording in the question, so that it is tilted towards a word choice that is not “preferred” among the reputable sources. Presumably, a nonthinking googler would use the misleading phraseology and be thrown off by it. For example,“live birth abortion” instead of the preferred medical terminology would steer one towards prolife sites rather than prochoice.
Ah, it is a fiendishly clever little puzzlement, no? Look here–
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**Jesus’ **Adversary is often symbolically represented by the number “666.”
694 - 666 = 28.
On the cover of the Beatles’ “White Album,” there are said to be several clues for the observant peruser which indicate that Paul Is Dead. One of these is a car in the background whose license plate reads, “28 IF.” It is said that this means Paul’s age would be 28 IF he had lived.
Paul Is Dead. Yet he lives! Jesus died… yet he lives! Need I say more?
I agree that this approach is more practical. Ask a couple of obscure things that nobody would know, and see if they take the bait and google it.
Exactly, that’s the point I was making. Searching online for the answers, using Google or anything else, won’t help you at all. That’s the way the questions were designed. However, you can still answer the questions by thinking about them, and searching online can then help you to verify that your answer is in fact correct.
Then don’t couch it in terms of “was Mr. Ed a horse?” or “what kind of animal was Mr. Ed?” Make it a True/False: “True/False: Mr. Ed was a zebra.”
I got the wiki page.
I think you succeeded. Simply Googling leads me to believe that the answer to the first is Italy and the second one I’m stumped… other than something about 33-gonal numbers and Jesus being 33
Heh, this is tougher than I thought.
I assumed that one way to get wrong answers would be to use terms that creationists, moon hoaxers or climate change deniers invented. However, the sites from the pseudo-scientists usually appear as the third or fourth choices. The first choices are usually good debunking or sourced sites.
It actually gives you hope for humanity. 
Wait, I just found that entering “Psychic Powers” gives us as the first 2 choices sites that are credulous*. Maybe that will be one of the best methods, to tell subjects to define pseudo scientific items, normally even the believers do not agree with the terms or evidence so some answers will demonstrate where they got the info.
- And there go my hopes for humanity…
So, what are the real answers?
A slight tangent, but you could hand out questions where google wouldn’t be helpful at all.
A while back I saw a difficult quiz that a university or college would give to their students before christmas. A good score would be more than 5 correct answers out of a few hundred questions. They would be allowed to bring these quizzes home with them for the holidays for research and then redo the quiz early next semester. All the questions were phrased in a way that would make it very hard to look up in encyclopedias or the internet.
Edit: Seems the quiz is from King William’s College in the Isle of Man and the quiz is called General Knowledge Paper. The person making the quiz even checks the questions on google to make sure they can’t readily be answered from there.
I will be putting these two questions and eight more up in a new thread in MPSIMS, with a small cash prize to the first person to send me all ten correct answers. I have Mod permission to do this, but I’ll provide more details when the new thread goes up. At the moment, I’m just doing a bit of ‘beta testing’ of the questions with the help of some friends. Patience!