Reliability of the Internet

[Gwylan]

For this quiz I'm doing for Mrs G (see pop music thread), I'm posting a question about capital cities. I wanted to check when the capital of Pakistan switched from Karachi to Islamabad. A quick search of the web brought up several pages and from that I found that in Islamabad became the capital in ...


... 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972


I'm sure that if I looked on a few more pages the gaps would be filled in

And we wonder why kids using the web get things wrong.

 

[Nottseagull]

Wasn't the capital Lahore? Whichever it was, I thought it changed far more recently than 1972.
Another country you could use is the one which changed its capital to Sucre (either Paraguay or Bolivia). Or if yo wanted a trick question, try Holland; apparently, their capital is not the seat of parliament!

 

[Notters]

Wasn't the capital Lahore? Whichever it was, I thought it changed far more recently than 1972.
Another country you could use is the one which changed its capital to Sucre (either Paraguay or Bolivia). Or if yo wanted a trick question, try Holland; apparently, their capital is not the seat of parliament!

Presumably because Holland isn't a country?

 

[Gwylan]

Wasn't the capital Lahore? Whichever it was, I thought it changed far more recently than 1972.
Another country you could use is the one which changed its capital to Sucre (either Paraguay or Bolivia). Or if yo wanted a trick question, try Holland; apparently, their capital is not the seat of parliament!

No, the previous capital was Karachi but I've given up trying to find the answer to it.

I've already sorted out the question anyway. But it's just a reminder of how unreliable the whole web is - yet kids are told to use it for homework.

 

[beorhthelm]

Presumably because Holland isn't a country?

while true, thats semantics: Holland is commonly used to mean the Netherlands, like England is often used to mean UK.

the Dutch government sits in the Hague.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

while true, thats semantics: Holland is commonly used to mean the Netherlands, like England is often used to mean UK.

the Dutch government sits in the Hague.

or Den Haag

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

For this quiz I'm doing for Mrs G (see pop music thread), I'm posting a question about capital cities. I wanted to check when the capital of Pakistan switched from Karachi to Islamabad. A quick search of the web brought up several pages and from that I found that in Islamabad became the capital in ...


... 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972


I'm sure that if I looked on a few more pages the gaps would be filled in

And we wonder why kids using the web get things wrong.

A trip to the library would be one way in finding out accurate information

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Just checked in my copy of Oxford Dictionary Of The World and it says Islamabad became the capital in 1967.

 

[Nottseagull]

while true, thats semantics: Holland is commonly used to mean the Netherlands, like England is often used to mean UK.

I'll have to stop calling it Holland because it really annoys me when Americans refer to Britain as England!

I'm surprised Seagullsovergrimsby hasn't stated that Holland used to be part of his beloved county of Lincolnshire.

 

[Gwylan]

A trip to the library would be one way in finding out accurate information

It would - but it's an hour there and back to the library and I was trying to finish the quiz in the 30 mins before I started work.