Getting another email 3-4 times a week is a big commitment, and it would be nice to get a sampler of what we're signing up for
EDIT: The website also says that it's a link per day, but your comment says "every other day". A daily link would be an even larger commitment
I'm not sure how to link to previous emails, but here is a sample of previous links: https://mix.com/thinkingaboutthings.
It started out as an every day email, but readers told me that every other day would give them time to read the articles.
Similarly, the author seems to mistake the difficulty in the question of "What country was George Washington born?" which is primarily the question of what does that even mean? The country that the spot of his birth became or the country which ruled the spot of his birth at the time? In fact, I'm not even sure what answer the author thinks is correct. Washington was a British subject (citizen? not sure) at birth but the "clue" the author provides seems to try to hint that Washington was born "in the US" whatever that would mean prior to the US's existence.
Nonetheless, I stand by the author's overall sentiment that facts should be connected together and not simply memorized, and the other examples were good.
[1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/07/was_brontosaurus_a_h... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus
He was an officer in the British colonial army before he became a traitor and a revolutionary, though. That's fairly well known so maybe the "trick question" is that he was actually born in the modern day US?