My small talk skills

Meme: The Rock Driving, 3 panels:

1st panel: The Rock driving and casually asks, "How do you know so much about history?"

2nd: panel: Girl in back seat responds, "I read about it."

3rd panel: The Rock, surprised, turns around to look at her

Background: Honestly, I started making this meme to ask if anyone else goes through this weird situation with others and emotionally process the confusion about it. Until just now, I thought that people would ask that because they either (a) wanted to learn how to learn about history as if I knew some secret technique, or (b) were fairly uneducated on the topic and thought my knowledge of it was interesting. Now, I think I realized that most people weren't asking for either a or b reasons. They were asking to make small talk, which I would completely shut down by answering the question directly.

Right? Is that why people would ask something like that?