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Not to mention that this was posted and answered online, and it's possible that one or more of the students might have actually seen the question beforehand and memorized it. Some people have eidetic memories.

I have no respect for cheaters, but catching innocents in this little trap is absolutely unconscionable to me.

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This is mitigated somewhat by "there was one particular question that wasn't related to what they had all been taught in class"

But I agree

I don't think that actually is a mitigation. I had professors that asked questions on a take home that were related but had not been discussed during any class. I still find some of the views on this strategy to be odd.

It's incredibly unlikely that you wild stumble across a specific random false trivia fact in the whole of the internet, and internalize it without noticing it's wrong.

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