[anigbrowl]

I disagree. 'Why should we study physiology?' and 'Give the cause of the war of 1812' (to name but two) are open-ended questions which encourage argumentation. Rote emorization, which is required by many other of the questions, has plenty of value - as does exercise for muscle tone. Your problem-solving and cooperation skills are going to be severely hobbled if you don't know anything without looking it up and have no ability to retain information.