[traes]

Regarding general knowledge, it's a pretty well known phenomena within the community. Here's a video with the three players who spent the longest time at #2 in the world (see [0]) behind Magnus Carlsen answering basic trivia questions[1].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1uk3wa3/world_no_2s_...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyLJaaLEpE

[codechicago277]

They mostly did very well, other than Levon Aronian not knowing some basic chemical formulas and Hikaru’s brain freezing on the cube side question.