I have a reasonably good memory. In prehistoric days, this meant I was considered to be jolly clever: if I was asked a question I would either know the answer, or would remember a reference book related to the topic and go and look the answer up.
Then the internet and Google came along and changed all that, and I am now no smarter than the average person.
I do however still like general-knowledge quizzes. Our pub quiz team when we lived in Kent would always break even on the prize money, if not better, and every Christmas I look forwards to helping my M-I-L with the CAB quiz (you are allowed to search the internet, but the questions are always cryptic so Google is no use).
Unfortunately, in the ultra-modern age of Smart Phones, it's very rare to find a pub quiz that doesn't have someone frantically Googling the answer under the table, and, despite it being expressly forbidden, people post the cryptic CAB clues on "please help me with this quiz" websites.
The prize money in the average pub quiz around here will not usually cover a round of drinks for a team, so why do people do this sort of thing? It's just a quiz being done for fun, so there's no need to get all the answers. Do they think it's acceptable, and it's just me who thinks it's "cheating"? The CAB quiz is no fun any more, because as soon as you start Googling to try and break the cryptic clues down, you invariably come across the question and answer that someone else has posted.
I'm genuinely curous as to what people's values are. Am I just incredibly uptight compared to everyone else?