Yeah the amount of trivia folks like to throw out, and the assumptions made based on them is absolutely absurd.

I've ran into "OMG he didn't know that!" responses when one dev disapproves of a candidate. Inevitably I ask "Really how often do you need to know that? and if you needed to wouldn't you just google it and be done?" but we assume it means so much more and there you go.

Then someone else gets hired and they knew the trivia, but can't apply it or worse only really knew the answer and not the ramifications... or they just can't wrap their mind around / don't care to think of second order effects or whatever.