Category: General knowledge

The fairer sex...?

25-Feb-10 10:29

 

I was rather impressed by an article which appeared in the Express today revealing that women are the smartest sex having proven their victory in a brainy battle of the sexes. Women apparently came out on top after participating in a worldwide five-month online game of Trivial Pursuit, in which millions of players had their general knowledge tested. The balance of power shifted a number of times, but women correctly answered a total of 4,088,139 questions in comparison to the men who answered 4,077,596 questions correctly, so there wasn't a huge in-balance there.

Apparently, the most questions were selected from the entertainment category, followed by science and nature, sports and leisure, history, arts and literature, geography and people and places. It is no surprise to me that the majority of the female participants picked the entertainment category, as it is generally an area that lies close to our hearts and is also something that we are constantly exposed to. Often, we find the latest entertainment gossip via the newspapers, chat magazines, on the web, on the box and also by word of mouth as most of us girls do like to talk, so we should be experts by now.

There is an ongoing debate that will probably continue for many years to come regarding who really is the smarter sex, and I don't honestly believe there is one, but I do feel quite proud to be female after reading today's article, so well done to the ladies!

Donna