I miss those big album covers, where ne could read the liner notes without the need of a magnifying glass.
My high school American History teacher had what I thought was one of the most clever exam questions ever: "When did Sgt. Pepper teach the band to play?"
It requited two pieces of knowledge -- that the album was recorded in 1967, and that it contained the lyric "It was 20 years ago today ..." Neither was unfair to expect of students, because the 20th anniversary just happened, and Mr. Morgan had used the album as a cultural touchstone when he taught the '60s.
The reason I thought it was clever was that it required putting together two disparate pieces of information and doing a little thinking rather than just spitting back bullet points.