I guess the real question is, will adding things that no one knows at first to the distribution help at all? I suppose it did in the case of Norse mythology, as mentioned, but I suspect what would happen is you'd get a lot of griping for a while until people finally clued in that these weren't going to go away. In other words, you'd need a concerted effort to ignore the gripes and start introducing these sorts of questions. On the one hand, this is a good idea - on the other, I think it may actually encourage listing somewhat. Think about it - you're talking about subjects most people generally don't know about (for many reasons, although most notable of which is they're just not really taught in schools unless you intentionally seek it out - maybe a sad statement of fact, but something that just has to be dealt with). So if these subjects start to come up, are they going to go into in-depth research on the myriad names that might come up - or are they going to memorize a list and some facts? I'm pretty sure I'd be more encouraged to do that than anything else. If you're willing to sacrifice the listing factor for just getting these different questions in, I say go for it - and to be sure, not everyone will list. But just like with Norse mythology, only a handful of people will probably be really inspired into a deep, researched knowledge of the subject - the rest will find some reference book. That's my two cents.
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