Table 4.
Year 2 undergraduate medical students’ collective answers to the 10 questions in the area of general knowledge*
| Question | Correct answer | Students’collective answer (median) | Students’ collective answer–mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Number of marriages of Elizabeth Taylor? |
8 |
4 |
4 |
| 2. How old was Mozart when he died? |
35 |
38 |
40 |
| 3. Minutes duration of “Casablanca”? |
102 |
120 |
122 |
| 4. Year when “Hamlet” was published? |
1603 |
1642 |
1637 |
| 5. Number of diseases in ICD–10? |
14 400 |
48 132 |
76 480 054 |
| 6. Average house price in the UK? |
238 976 |
193 271 |
369 819 |
| 7. Population size of Cape Town? |
3 740 196 |
3 000 000 |
19 384 089 |
| 8. Price of van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”? |
39 700 000 |
15 000 000 |
3 875 825 789 |
| 9. Population size of Indonesia? |
246 900 000 |
20 000 000 |
682 312 629 |
| 10. Number of views of “Gangnam Style”? | 1 764 039 000 | 278 000 000 | 1 610 122 583 |
*Number of responses N = 175.