Re: Using google to weed out too-obscure answers

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., castrioti <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Hi all-- (warning, longer message)
> 
> A teammate who has not yet seen the same information come 
up over and 
> over in multiple tournaments wanted to know how to best 
judge 
> difficulty for the purpose of writing gettable questions. That was 
> about the time of the earlier "Hooey" Thread. Naturally, typing 
> answers to questions ALONG WITH their giveaway clues into 
google was 
> 
> --Wesley (wondering what to call the "scale.")

The obvious answer is the Mohs scale of question hardness. 
(9150 google hits for Mohs+scale).

-- dml

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