How do I know what my DC don't know?! what constitutes general knowledge?!?

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What are the basics of "general knowledge"?!

As an example
We don't really follow football at all in our house.
I hear the stuff and vaguely pay attention and I occasionally watch england in a major tournament. I few up watching a Question of Sport in a world before streaming/gaming etc where we all watched stuff we perhaps wouldn't choose because we only had 1 telly etc. This added hugely to my general knowledge.
My 12 y/o DS just said something along the lines of "Arsenal are winning the World Cup" and we realised he doesn't really get it.
What else doesn't he know? And what will he need to know?

Grateful to hear your thoughts?

Teachers always comment at parents' night that our DC has excellent general knowledge. They know nothing about football.
They do know about history, geography, politics, music, business, etc. We talk to them a lot - about news, current affairs, music, films, our work, etc. We also bought them children's newspapers when they were younger. And read to them every night.

I have no interest in football, but know the names of lots of teams because parents did the pools.

Lucy Worsley for history as well.

Dh and ds like to read random pages of an encyclopedia. I think that's got to help with ds's general knowledge.

My 9yr old is self taught and basically knows everything about football....mainly he Google's and learns lol
I'm clueless 😂

It has a huge age bias, I am sure your 12 yr old could teach you a few things that are more common among teenagers in the online world than 'Arsenal winning the world cup'

It isn't a class marker or any other type of mn bullshit of them reading Wikipedia (lol), it is just children being children, in my circle I have a a niece who is privately educated and helicopter parented from birth who can bring up any relevant meme at any given moment and describe the history of the meme, another nephew who could talk all day about the transfer market and why Kane potentially going to germany is good for his career, my own son who is bilingual in Cantonese and english (only on MN is these types of descriptors is needed) is dumb as fuck in general knowledge, but he can explain in detail as to how england was robbed in the ashes or as to why a pc game going into early access is just another scam..

It is nothing other than just being a demographic situation that our parents went through and is a tale as old as time