quiz question

It's a leap year and they're Irish twins.

They were gestated by surrogates using the mother's eggs?

Triplets?

I'll bet you're right, dlowan!

Seems too obvious to be right.

It fits for sure, but this guy usually doesn't go for those trick sort of questions - they're usually questions that test knowledge of concepts or facts-not that sort of 'gotcha' trying to fool you kind of thing.
That's why I like to go - I always learn A LOT- because they aren't questions like this.
But then again, I don't know if it was the usual guy doing the quiz - I wasn't there. It could have been someone else whose modus operandi is to try to baffle- which he successfully did apparently as no one at the quiz was thinking of it that way either.
These are really, really smart people and only one lady got it and Rob said it seemed like she'd heard the question before.

Anyway - I'll ask him. Thanks.

Anything to do with "superfetation"?

Ah-hah! That works...and even if that's not the answer he was looking for - it's correct AND I learned something I didn't know! Thanks George.

(the bolded part could explain how they were born on the same day).

But what you learn at such places is infinitessimal compared with what there is to know and at best you become fragmented and at worst are being steered. And the cleverer you are made to think yourself the easier it is to steer you.

I'll tell you the main things I'm learning:

1) geography. Because of the particular and specific timing of my school years in the American public school educational system, I learned very little geography. In the seventies when I hit junior high and highschool, which is when I would have taken geography - they switched the focus and even the name of the curriculum to Social Studies. We focused on things like current events and issues and sociological trends, etc. thus I got very little history and almost NO geography to speak of.
And because I really like current event and issues and studying sociological trends, I didn't really think about or explore that which I was missing.

But when I am exposed to geography and history- I remember that I like it. I love reading and looking at maps, etc. I won't go back to school, so this is a pleasant way to be exposed to these little tidbits which then inspire me to read and learn more on my own.
It's also fun, if you have a fun team- and we do.

2)The other thing I've learned which I hadn't ever really thought about before, is how different a British life and education was as compared to an American life and education experienced at the same time. My teammates are constantly amazed at what I was exposed to and know as compared to what they were exposed to and know and vice versa.
We were living in the world at the same exact time, but our experiences were so different. It's interesting.


Yeah, well I'm good for music and state capitals, some movie and book questions and a laugh or two.
I have no illusions about why I'm on the team.

I'm also very good at current events- see that Social Studies mindset HAS paid off.