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[dead] greatzebu
The difficulty ratings on these questions are cruel mockery.
benched
Just because you can use the complexity of C++'s full rule set to contrive vexing and ambiguous trivia, doesn't mean it's necessarily important to know all of it.
throwaway092834
It's not important because you should use it in your projects.

It's important because other people will use it, sometimes inadvertently.

breadbox
True. But neither does it mean that you gain anything by being ignorant of it.
Revex
I think this is a pretty fun little quiz engine. I don't speak c++ very often, and was pleased to pass the medium difficulty with reasonable confidence. I looked for a difficult problem, but it looked too hard for me to care about thinking about it right now, but maybe one day.
zwegner
It's good to be reminded of one's ignorance in C++ every once in a while. I'm really amazed that there are compilers for it that actually work.

As a side note, thanks for making a quiz site that works quite nicely without any javascript!

EDIT: this got deleted or flagged off the front page, what's the deal? Even though I'm not a fan of C++, it was still pretty interesting.