But then again, back in high school (a decade ago) I participated in DialNet Masters (not televised, though) which was a competition about networking and Internet. Using the web was definitely allowed. My team won the 1st place, even though we did not "cram" as I know other teams did. We jokingly referred to it as "contest of hardcore googling", but to be fair, there were also challenges like making LAN IP addressing plan, or one that ended with a riddle (which I guessed in a divine stroke of luck).
Having said that, now we have semi-competent personal assistants, and also Google spoon-feeds you the facts by the means of knowledge panels, which would make it too easy if not just boring.