[0] Sample questions here: http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...
I wonder what sort of questions one would ask to implement such a age verification scheme these days. Ask, "what does AOL stand for?" or, "which one of the following audio clips is 'the dial-up tone'?". Or how about "what is a 'hanging-chad'?". Heck that last one doesn't even work anymore, there are 18 years today born after the 2000 election... I'm getting old.
Although I guess Google and widespread internet adoption has rendered this kind of age verification useless.
Even AOL, which I happen to know about is something I think few people in my country would be likely to know.
These questions strike me then as not purely relating to age but also to culture.
And even the dial-up tone question could be difficult for some people to answer. We had dialup at my child home but not everyone did.
And like you said, most questions can be Googled anyway.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper)
2. http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...
I've always pondered whether this could be an effective way of tricking children into learning bits of history like trying to understand jokes from The Simpsons or the little bits of trivia that used to pop up on the loading screens in Call of Duty single player modes.