The team has had a minor change of heart on this issue, and is currently testing out "general reference" as a close reason for questions that really can be answered just by punching a painfully obvious search term into Google and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky." Its descriptive text:

> __general reference__  
> This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.

For now, it's only been deployed to a select few sites. I know English Language and Usage is one; I'm not sure what the others are. See [this blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/) for more.

> EDIT  
> The "general reference" experiment is over, and [the request to implement it network-wide](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason) is [meta-tag:status-declined]. See also [SE podcast #20](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/09/se-podcast-20/).