What's the highest point on the Continental Divide?

[DrJay]

What state, peak, and height? (OK to cheat, I knew about which one, but had to check to be sure.)

[Pego]

Without cheating, it is a peak in Colorado, forgot the name, around 4000m/14000 feet high.

[Marlow]

Re: What's the highest point on the Continental Divide?

OK to cheat

don't look if don't know where Gray's Peak is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grays_Peak

[tandfman]

I've got a stupid question. If it's OK to cheat, what's the point in asking the question? Anyone can Google highest point on the Continental Divide and come up with the right answer on the first page of hits (assuming Marlow, Wiki, et al are correct). Why say it's OK to cheat?

[Marlow]

Why say it's OK to cheat?

The ONLY good trivia questions are the ones that require research and are STILL hard!! I do that with my students occasionally and it takes very good critical thinking skills.

Try this one: What French singer covered US and UK hits successfully and got his/her stage name from the title of one of those songs?

The answer is googlable with the right choice of search terms.

[tandfman]

Why say it's OK to cheat?

The ONLY good trivia questions are the ones that require research and are STILL hard!!

I understand that. In this case, I just typed in highest point on the Continental Divide and got the answer. I don't consider that reseach; I didn't even think for a moment about the right choice of search terms. It wasn't hard at all.

[gh]

Marlow/tafnut has a long history of cheating (sorry, "cheating"); as I recall, within a month of the startup of the board we banned him for violating "fair-play" rules in that regard. And he wonders why I have a longstanding antipathy against him.

[dukehjsteve]

"cheating"/looking up entirely destroys the fun and integrity of " Track Trivia". What's fun is digging these pearls out of our nerdy T&F memory tanks ! No reason that same concept should not apply to occasional general trivia as well. Particularly with the advent of google-type computer resources for quickie answers.

[DrJay]

OK, OK. No cheating ever on any of my threads! Got that?!?!

(edit)

P.S. I figured about nobody would get this one without looking it up, but it's an interesting little fact.

Gray's Peak 14,270 ft. One of the easiest 14ers to hike in Colorado.

[tandfman]

I figured about nobody would get this one without looking it up, but it's an interesting little fact.

Gray's Peak 14,270 ft. One of the easiest 14ers to hike in Colorado.

I think you might be surprised at what some people can retrieve from the back of their brains. There are regularly trivia questions here (both T&NF and non-T&F that completely stump me, but that someone else nails.

Of course, if nobody gets the answer, you can always reveal it in a few days, but telling people to cheat, when cheating is very easy, seems to make the whole exercise pointless.

(If I'm not mistaken, that dead horse I've just beaten will be a thread-ender. )

Edit: Of course, I knew that once I posted that last line, somone would find a way to keep this thing going. :roll:

[wineturtle]

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/g ... alDiv.html


Great Divide
Eastern Divide
Northern Divide
St.Laurence Seaway Divide

Divided Definitions

[Marlow]

Marlow/tafnut has a long history of cheating (sorry, "cheating"); as I recall, within a month of the startup of the board we banned him for violating "fair-play" rules in that regard. And he wonders why I have a longstanding antipathy against him.

Oh, THAT'S the reason! :roll: I guess you never noticed that after that very first trivia question you posted back in the day, when I had no idea what 'cheating' was, I have NOT posted an answer after looking it up. But not to worry - you're 'antipathy' is neither reciprocated nor a cause of consternation here. 8-)

[dukehjsteve]

The above is a fair response IMO.... I do not recall you being a violator.

[Vince]

Marlow/tafnut has a long history of cheating (sorry, "cheating"); as I recall, within a month of the startup of the board we banned him for violating "fair-play" rules in that regard. And he wonders why I have a longstanding antipathy against him.

You sure can hold a grudge.

[Conor Dary]

OK, OK. No cheating ever on any of my threads! Got that?!?!

(edit)

P.S. I figured about nobody would get this one without looking it up, but it's an interesting little fact.

Gray's Peak 14,270 ft. One of the easiest 14ers to hike in Colorado.

Wow, that is great to know, since I have been up Gray's and Torrey's (just another half mile or so for another 14er} several times when I lived in Boulder. Its proximity to Denver and being a very easy climb made it the one to take sea level visitors to.