Browsing through this week's Entertainment Weekly, I cam across a Trivia contest that you can enter online. The grand prize is poor ( "a selection of DVDs") but the questions are reasonably challenging. The trouble is, if you actually do enter online, it's ludicrously simple to just search for and find the answers online.

Which made me realize - Google Killed The Trivia Competition. We now live in a world where even the most superfluous detail can be tracked down online immediately. Which not only makes trivia competitions stupidly easy, it brings into question the whole concept of "fact-based" learning. Why bother to try and remember dates, places and people when there's always Google?

Luckily some teachers are beginning to see the light, replacing repetitive learning of abstract facts with project based curriculums.