“Norms of 300 General-Information Questions: Accuracy of Recall, Latency of Recall, and Feeling-Of-Knowing Ratings”, 1980-06 (; backlinks):
[updated 2012 norms] Normative data were collected on 300 general-information questions from a wide variety of topics, including history, sports, art, geography, literature, and entertainment.
Male and female undergraduates at two different universities made a one-word response to each question either in a response booklet or at a computer console.
The reported data include the following for each question: (1) probability of recall for all n = 270 undergraduates, for males versus females, and for University of Washington subjects versus University of California, Irvine, subjects, (2) latency of correct recall, (3) latency of errors, and (4) feeling-of-knowing ratings for non-recalled items.
Correlations among these dependent variables, along with measures of reliability, are also reported.