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@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ unnecessary negative form, otherwise good.
 
 > The Navy won the first Army-Navy football game.
 
-should specify the official event name, otherwise good.
+perfect.
 
-> The paperback version of the book "The Da Vinci Code", as of July 2007, still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon.
+> The paperback version of the book "The Da Vinci Code",
+> as of July 2007, still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon.
 
 obtuse phrasing, dated topic, otherwise good
 
@@ -134,7 +135,8 @@ facile
 
 deceptive phrasing
 
-> As of July of 2007, more people search Google for  "Harry Potter" than "Hillary Clinton" (according to GoogleTrends).
+> As of July of 2007, more people search Google for "Harry Potter" than "Hillary Clinton"
+> (according to GoogleTrends).
 
 obtuse phrasing, dated topic, otherwise good
 
@@ -154,27 +156,54 @@ obtuse phrasing, dated topic, otherwise good
 
 > What percentage of bronze is typically made of copper?
 
-reductive
+As written, the correct answer is 100%.
+All bronze alloys contain copper.
+Being more generous,
+there is no standard composition of bronze.
+The subject can only guess at the interrogator's intent.
+Average by weight produced?
+Over what time frame?
+In the U.S. or globally?
 
 > How many countries have at least one McDonald's?
 
 As of when?
 
 > How many employees did eBay have in the first quarter of 2006
+
 > What was the population of Miami (within the city limits, not the entire metropolitan area) in 1990?
+
 > How many casualties did the French suffer in the Battle of Waterloo?
+
 > What is the range in miles of a Minuteman Missile?
+
 > What is the percentage of IT jobs in the US were unfilled in 1997?
+
 > The Supremes' (with Diana Ross) song "Stop! In the Name of Love" was how long? (minutes, seconds)
+
 > How many undergraduates attended Cambridge in 1990?
+
 > If you could jump 50 feet straight up into the air, how many seconds would you be airborne before you landed?
+
 > How many gallons are in a bushel (they are both measures of volume)?
+
+I wonder if Hubbard had the same thought I did
+while reading [[macgregor_1994_judgemental-decomposition|MacGregor et al. (1994)]].
+
 > How many sovereign rulers has England had in the last thousand years?
+
 > If the air temperature was 5 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) and the wind speed was 15 mph, what would the temperature adjusted for wind-chill be?
+
 > Average cost of testing in software development is what percentage of total project costs?
+
 > On average, if a software development project was projected to take 17 months, it actually takes how many months?
+
 > How many meters tall is the Sears Tower?
+
 > How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
+
 > In 2005, the average combined MPG for all US cars and light trucks on the road was how much?
+
 > The average house in the United States uses how many gallons of water per day?
+
 > What was the average price in the United States of a house sold in 2001?