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Which country invented the World Wide Web?
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A - United States
105 votes (23.5%)
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B - Britain
264 votes (59.1%)
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C - Switzerland
47 votes (10.5%)
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D - Japan
31 votes (6.9%)
Total votes: 447
Answer: B — Britain
Explanation: British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland. That last detail makes Switzerland a particularly good distractor — and the US feels plausible because American companies went on to dominate so much of the commercial web.