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jaybosamiya

I like this one:

What is the following rhyme about?

Thirty days has September,

April, June and no wonder,

All the rest have peanut butter,

Except my grandmother who has a little red tricycle.

A. Family relationships B. Calendar C. Food D. Exercise

source: http://www.britell.com/misc/turing.html

Not sure how long it'd stay viable though.

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That was an interesting list in terms of all the meta analysis that went into it. But of all the items in the list, I think this calendar one would fare the worst against a Watson style AI, who would have a ranking system for recognizing topics and culture. The well known calendar rhyme would be a partial match, plus half the words in the rhyme are about calendars. The other topics would be poor matches for food, family, etc, only hitting once each.

I cannot make heads or tails of this, and did follow the link. A computer would be more on the radar for an obscure rhyme than a person probably would.

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