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I remember back when I was a paramedic. We'd ask people questions to help identify potential head injuries. What year is it? What month is it? Who is the president? Who is the vice president? It was amazing how man non-head-injury patients could not answer these. Not because they were stupid, but because they were unexpectedly put on the spot.
Of course, every now and then I'd mess around with some patient who obviously did not have a serious head injury, and if they got all the questions correct, I'd go on to "Who is the speaker of the house?" and continue down the path until finally getting to something like "Who was the minority Whip in the Senate under Calvin Coolidge?" That usually stopped even the smart ones. They'd give me a quizzical look, then we'd start laughing.
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