# There is no such thing as a stupid reference question

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**Created:** [April 29, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-reference-question/301779 "2005-04-29T20:50:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-reference-question/301779/21 "2005-04-30T22:55:10Z")

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It’s not so bad that others don’t know history, it’s those same others who think you’re some kind of a freak when YOU do.

In a class on religions the role of church and state, and how they have comibned and evolved over the centuries was gone over. So Henry VIII of England got a mention, for casting off the authority of the Pope over the English church. Someone mentioned “all those wives of his he killed” and I said “Only two of them actually” I could name them all, in order, and their various marital fates, and that same person acted as if it were a parlor trick game “Oh, all those details, I never try to remember stuff like that.”

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