Remember, people from all over the world ask questions on WikiAnswers. The person asking the question simply may not know an answer to something that we consider to be obvious.
Saladin was an Obvious sucessful ruler, he became so famous he had all the good stuff
they are all the same length...
This website was set up to help people if they have a question to ask.
During President Herbert Hoover's presidency his press conferences were limited by a number of restrictions. Hoover wanted all press questions sent to his staff in advance of a press conference. He answered only the ones he wanted to and during the conferences, follow up questions were not allowed. In fact, even the questions submitted in advance the president declined to answer, were not allowed to be published. So if Hoover chose not to answer a question submitted in advance concerning unemployments. The newspaper could not publish the unanswered questions.
Are you serious? Its obvious that all those apes are on crack.
If we simply ignored every obvious school question - the site would clog up with unanswered questions. When I see an obvious 'homework' question, I usually try to point the questioner to work out the answer themselves in addition to providing the answer.
Cost benefit analyses
My guess is because serious questions are in need of research; stupid and obvious ones are easy-to-answer.
True or false questions are to make sure you're paying attention and understand the material. If you have been keeping up with your work, it will be obvious whether the statement is true or false.
WikiAnswers' aim is to create a database full of questions and their corresponding (correct) answers. This means that all questions - no matter how simple they may be - deserve an answer. We will try our best to answer such questions correctly.
by looking it up
This seems to have an obvious answer. The answer was obvious to all present.
It means reading and thinking about questions that aren't obvious in the book and/or article. For example; Questions about the the future (in the reading).
the best rugby club in the world is chepstow rfc rather obvious question though i suppose all questions deserve an answer
look it up on google.com they have all the answers to all the questions
Literal Questions are Lieral and found directly in the text for example. "This girl had very pretty Marigold flowers." The questions would be, what kind of flowers does the girl have? These are obvious questions.
WikiAnswers is an obvious place to start.