The more you know, the more options you have to consider before coming to a conclusion. This was a big problem when I played rapid-fire, Jeopardy-style trivia

The more you know, the more options you have to consider before coming to a conclusion. This was a big problem when I played rapid-fire, Jeopardy-style trivia games in school. One learned to dread questions that were in a field you actually knew. The knowledge slows you down! Trivia questions are generally written by knowledgeable non-experts. But a question which is clearly phrased from the perspective of a knowledgeable non-expert can be imprecise enough to cause an expert to pause, and pauses are deadly in rapid-fire trivia. It's hard to construct a perfect example, but suppose you got a question that boils down to "who first demonstrated radio"? A lot of people will blurt out "Marconi" -- he did, after all, apparently score the first patent for a radio set, and he was a good self-promoter. But the physicist or historian, who might know about Tesla and Oliver Lodge, will object, or at least hesitate for a fatal moment.