From: billy@anon.com 
  
 "John Levine"  wrote in message news:10a7eve$k2 
 $1@gal.iecc.com... 
 > According to billy bookcase : 
 >>> We ran through a few questions, with the final one being: 
 >>> 
 >>> "In which U.S. state did you live in 1964?" 
 >>> 
 >>> "In *1964*?!?!? " 
 >>> 
 >>> "Oh, if you don't remember, we can try something else." 
 >>> 
 >>> "Of course I remember, I was ten years old." 
 >>> 
 >>> So I correctly identified the state and my top-up went through. 
 >>> 
 >>> How in the world did they know where I lived in 1964? 
 >> 
 >>They didn't. 
 > 
 > For each question they ran through a list of possible answers of which 
 > one was correct and the rest were wrong, so I am pretty sure they knew 
 > what answer they wanted.  There are 50 US states so the chances that their 
 > short list would have had the correct answer by accident was pretty low. 
  
 Interesting. 
  
 So what were some of the other questions, if you don't mind me asking ? 
  
 Also they seemed to have missed a trick 
  
 As providing at least one set of options which *doesn't* include the 
 correct answer, is a very effective means of tripping people up. 
  
  
  
 bb 
  
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