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Which country invented the World Wide Web?
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A - United States
111 votes (23.9%)
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B - Britain
272 votes (58.5%)
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C - Switzerland
49 votes (10.5%)
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D - Japan
33 votes (7.1%)
Total votes: 465
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.