Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
T/F Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein for Lord Byron.

DD spent forty minutes on this ONE question once in high school. It enraged her that she KNEW all of this deep, deep background about Lake Geneva, the year-without-a-summer, etc. etc. and yet she couldn't figure out if she was supposed to go with "dumb" or "dumber" on that question, which constituted 10% of her quiz score.

The solution to this problem is to:

(1) Quickly recognize that you are dealing with a choice between "dumb" and "dumber".

(2) Guess, because there's no possible way to win, so you've already lost.

(3) Move on.