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I've known about them since I was short too. That's sad that no one knew. I would think the Seven Wonders of the World would at least be recognizable to people, especially that one.

Speaking of Tut, I hope people know who he is.

king tutenkamen pharoh of egypt he was killed in teens, i think and he is usually called "the boy king" because of his age

Thank goodness for google.

Google tells me ( http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/list.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World) that the seven wonders of the world, in chronological order, are:

The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Lighthouse of Alexandria

If knowing what and where all of the above are makes you a nerd, then

HAIL THE NERDS!

I'm proud to associate myself with you all. 4laugh

I find it rather insulting that you assume just because someone doesn't know of the Hanging Gardens that they're automatically unintelligent.
I for one hadn't heard of them before reading this topic, and no doubt know a thing or two that most here don't.
I know, it's one of the wonders of the world, but that sort of thing just isn't taught in schools these days, you have to find out about it yourself. That's something that can be pretty hard to do without knowledge of the seven wonders to begin with.

Anyway, yes the general level of intelligence is definately dropping, but the fact that less people know about the Ganging Gardens isn't much to base it off.

Just to be difficult, I'd like to say that that's still really only a theory. It's the most plausible theory, but nonetheless it is still a theory.

Anyway, we're getting into somewhat controversial depths here. Firstly, how does one define intelligence? Is it the ability for abstract thought? Is it a large amount of knowledge at one's disposal? You can't define it in such simple terms, I've tried. I consider myself to have quite an extensive general knowledge but the fact I can't do calculus raises the fact whether I am or not 'intelligent'.
Just to add another variable into the works, perhaps it is America where standards are dropping, or wherever it is you come from.
Personally I think the aquistion of general knowledge static. It's not changing. There are always people who won't know what year the Battle of Hastings was or what it was, or what it's significance is, that's just an example.
Anyway, the fact that one does not know a bit of trivia does not make one unintelligent. That's just an absurd notion.