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From: ins_apmj@jhunix.UUCP (Patrick M Juola)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.math
Subject: Re: Trivial Pursuit errors?
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 18:08:47 EST
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In article <911@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>> From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
>> Trivial Pursuit has many incorrect answers in it.  Most of them are wrong
>> because they were worded incorrectly, like the example above.  
>
>> Here is a good example, the question reads:
>
>> "What surface area do you get when you slice a solid sphere?"
>
>> The answer given is "a circle" which is incorrect for several reasons.
>> How many can you name?
>  (Explanation that "surface area" is the wrong term.)

Another reason -- a circle is, by definition, the "locus of points
	EQUIDISTANT" et cetera.  In other words, it does not include
	its interior.  What was meant was a circle plus its interior.

A more fundamental reason -- No one specified that we had to make only one
	slice or that the slice(s) had to be in a plane.  I could describe
	several bizarre things I've done to oranges (which approximate
	spheres) in the kitchen that came out nothing like a circle.

						Pat Juola
						Hopkins Maths