Hershey chocolate and Lebron James are easy enough. Lebron James is probably the most famous athlete in America. He is the star player of a sport that has a major presence overseas. I don't know anything about soccer, but I know Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi. If a question asked for Real Madrid's leading scorer, I could at least take a few educated guesses at who it might be. Same thing with the Cavaliers question. The first guesses in some order should be Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Stephen Curry, and Lebron James.
I barely know that name, and I don't know what are the Cleveland Cavaliers. As for Hershey, ok, I never encountered that name in any movie but I admit I'm not really into cinema.
Rooney, Ronaldo and Messi are international stars. James may be big in the US, but is not well known outside (the name rings a bell for me and before doing this quiz I would be able to tell you he did some sort of sport thing in the US, but knew nothing more specific than that). Hershey's we have in Australia, so that wasn't tricky. Comcast was my second guess after AT&T - I'm not really sure why I know that, but I do.
I'm all for making quizzes less American-centric and expanding everyone's horizons and helping people not assume that their narrow cultural knowledge is general, but... come on! Anyone who follows basketball, anywhere in the world, knows about LeBron James! He *IS* a global superstar! The only hiccup might be that some people don't know he plays for the Cavs, but it *IS* called general *knowledge*, which implies you have to know some stuff.
I would say that knowing what sport are Cleveland Cavaliers playing is harder than guessing James himself. :-) Anyways, I would be very interested how would you like to make a quiz abouz the US "less US-centric."
Yeah I didn't get this because I didn't know what sport Cleveland Cavaliers play but everyone knows who LeBron James is. I don't watch sport but NBA is watched generally by people all over the world so I think this question is fair enough. Comcast is the only one I think would be tough for people outside of US.
As an American, I got them all pretty quickly. I think that outside the U.S., folks might not know the Cavs. Maybe add something about taking his talents to South Beach. Not sure if that would help. Or maybe switch the question so the answer is Jordan.
biffaroo, I don't think that South Beach rings a bell for most foreigners. I got LeBron because I assumed that the Cleveland Cavaliers are a sports team and guessed famous American sports stars. But Jordan is extremely famous and can be considered general knowledge world-wide.
Al Gore is not the rage, he was a person known globally, as every US presidential candidate is, much more so in elections that make the news like that one. I'm a sports fan and I know the Cavaliers. James is a very well known person too, the Cavaliers? Not so much. I bet you that half the non-US people who know who Kobe Bryant was know the team he played for, same for Michael Jordan (at least before the Netflix series). As for Hershey, I am very much into movies, but I'd never heard that name before. American industry doesn't have the same reach in every single country out here.
The stats certainly bear out that Comacast is not as "easy" as most of them. It's not even available where I live, so my first guesses were the (also hated) Cox and Verizon.
Surprised no one's talking about Pebble Beach. I'm an American and that's the only one I personally haven't heard of. Maybe it's one of those things that's more famous overseas than in its own country, or maybe it just has to do with the fact I know absolutely nothing about golf.
I just kept guessing big sports until I got it (I think I went through American football, baseball, basketball, tennis and volleyball before I got to golf). Unfortunately you can't really do that with the James and Comcast answers as for James you need to know the sport to be able to even start guessing and I suspect no-one outside of America is likely to have heard of Comcast. I'm old and quite worldly but haven't heard of it
Tris Speaker was known as "The Grey Eagle," and, as everyone knows (except my daughter's boyfriend), he was baseball's greatest center fielder from 1907-1928.
I've read so many English novels since I was a kid that I always thought it was "grey." I stumble when "gray" is required. We see a lot of "grey" here--not just books but movie titles, etc.
... I think these questions are still pretty easy... but given the quiz description explaining that this is aimed at non-US audiences, I feel like there are a few questions that were poorly selected. Many non-Americans probably don't know/care/remember who ran against Bush in 2000 (the election fiasco not being as big of a story overseas), most non-Americans have never watched ESPN, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had never heard of ComCast or LeBron James. The ComCast question in particular seems like something that only Americans would actually know.
This was the election when Bush sued in the US Supreme Ct to stop vote counting. When they recounted votes in a public non-governmental count paid for by the newspapers in Florida, it turns out Gore won. Not in the limited recount of the Supreme Court ruling, but if you read the article announcing the results, they admit in the third paragraph that Gore won when all regular votes were counted. Even though up to 40,000 Floridians were disenfranchised....originating the term "cleansing the voter rolls." According to the CEO of Home Depot, who owned the firm hired, when he reported he found few felons, aliens, etc, to remove, he was told to err on the side of taking away the vote--so if a woman 29 yrs old shared a last name with a 60-yr-old male felon, she had to cast a "provisional ballot," something also introduced in this election, never counted and destroyed shortly thereafter. These procedures now have all become a part of America's elections, "targeting" voters.....
As a Belgian, I wouldn't complain about the Bush-Gore question, it's a pretty famous election, I clearly remember the suspense with Florida and all that. Of course, it's even easier because Al Gore has remained famous for other reasons.
Sports fans probably know LeBron but Kobe is more famous and more people recognize the Lakers as a basketball team. Kobe or Chicago Bulls/Michael Jordan would be better. Gore should be easy for anyone with an interest in politics. I don't think I would know about Hershey without Jetpunk. For pebble beach I just guessed all kinds of sports. I did get Comcast and ESPN this time but have no idea how.
The other day I noticed Hershey bars at the supermarket checkout. They may have been there for years but I didn't notice. They never were notably advertized anyway.
I don’t know about the rest of the Europe but in the UK, most people know who Gore is (the 43rd President, right? Lol). ESPN is readily available on most TV packages or is streamed and LeBron James is probably one of the most well known American athletes along with Jordan, Woods, Sampras, Brady, Bryant, Phelps and my personal favourite: Roddick. Comcast is defining trickier, but gets mentioned often enough in American TV shows for me to have been able to guess it.
Got 'em all with 1:30 left. Struggled trying to remember who ran against Bush in 2000. Kept thinking Dukakis but duh... finally the hanging chads kicked in and remembered Gore.
Good quiz, although I agree you have to live in or spent significant time in the states to ever hear about Comcast (I actually kept typing ATT). As for Lebron, I think he is fairly well known worldwide.
What on earth are the Cleveland Cavaliers? Newsflash for Americans: nobody in other countries plays American football or baseball, basketball is not that big in most countries either.
South Korea, Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, The DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Panama, Canada (which also has MLB teams) play damn well. Mexico, UK, the Netherlands, Italy, China, Nicaragua, and Colombia play in World Cup Baseball. Most (all? not sure) of these countries have players in the MLB.
I *hate* to agree with kalba, but on some occasions, he's spot on. I find baseball extremely tedious and don't understand how so many people in so many countries find the profound apathy required to sit through an entire game of it (but then again, at least it's shorter than cricket), but they do, and, although not in Europe, in many places on several continents. As for basketball, it's pretty much played everywhere, so I really don't get the point you're trying to make.
Basketball is very popular in a lot of places. Argentina, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Croatia, France, Germany, Turkey, and especially China come to mind. It's *huge* in China. No idea where you got the notion it is only popular in the US.
Nobody in other countries plays American football or BASEBALL? lol...you sure about that?? Total ignorance. Let me guess, you're European aren't you? Did you forget all about north, central, south America, Asia? Europe isn't the entire world. lol
I don't follow Basketball, and Comcast doesn't exist in the St. Louis area, so I guess this isn't common knowledge for all Americans. If the quiz stuck to common knowledge it would be easy for most Americans.
All the properties are from London though, I always figured it was English. Unless they have different properties in the US? In Australia they are the London ones. Would feel weird if you weren't going for Mayfair and Park Lane etc.
You can learn about the differences on JetPunk, you know. There are quizzes for the UK and US versions of the board (maybe more). Definitely not the same properties.
It's funny how convinced British people are that they invented certain things (Monopoly, The Internet, I had one guy I met argue vehemently that Woolworth's was British- it's not). It's not like it's hard to look up. Monopoly, AND "The Landlord's Game" which it was based on, are both from the USA. The original version was produced by Parker Brothers, and American company, and the original Monopoly board featured properties from Atlantic City. The version with London properties is a knock-off. The two most expensive properties on the original board are Boardwalk and Park Place. As an aside... if you want to win the game you shouldn't go for them. The red and orange properties give you by far the best returns statistically speaking.
In fairness, here in Australia, and I suspect many other places in the world, the version you typically encounter is the London version. I certainly assumed it was British for most of my life. It was only on this site I discovered otherwise. Of course, upon making that discovery I didn't vehemently argue that it was in fact British. I know, I know, this is the internet and we shouldn't let facts get in the way of our beliefs, but there you go.
To be fair on the internet one that's probably because most people (incorrectly) think the world wide web and the internet are the same thing, and the world wide web's creation is attributed to a Brit.
It would seem that Comcast is no longer the largest cable provider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple-system_operators). AT&T now comes in at the top spot with 25.1M subscribers. Comcast is in second with 22.5M. As cord-cutting becomes more popular, those numbers are going to diminish even further. That's what cable channels like ESPN and TNT get for foisting Stephen A Smith on the world and injecting commercials every 6 minutes into rebroadcasts of The Italian Job. My blood pressure just went up thinking about it.
Never even heard the name Cleveland Cavaliers in my life, although I guessed it was probably from basketball because that's what I know the least. I consider myself lucky that the answer was one of the only 3 basketball players I know! Not sure I'd ever heard of Comcast either.
Yes, some of them didn't even have regular uniforms so plaid, periwinkle, artisan white, fire truck red and every other conceivable color a person might wear should be accepted.
Or we could logically stick to the vast majority, famous standard Confederate uniform color of gray.
"Even if you're not an American, you'll probably be able to answer most of these" Never heard of Pebble Beach nor have I heard of "the Big 3," or Al Gore, never knew what rebel soldiers wore, and don't have any particular care for the casino industry in Vegas. What kind of 'easy' trivia is this? I've lived in Massachusetts my whole life and this quiz still frustrates me quite a bit. 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
Well I'd wager the problem is your age. If you've never even heard of Al Gore, you probably aren't older than 16. He was the vice president from 1993-2001 and lost a very famous and contentious presidential election to George W. Bush. Whether or not you care for the casino industry (I certainly don't) has no bearing on whether you know where it is. I actually think that might be the easiest question on this thing. Vegas is famous all over the world. The Rebel uniforms are basic US history. GM and Ford are the most famous US automakers by far. I could see not knowing Chrysler. That one's not so famous anymore Pebble Beach is less well-known for sure, but the others are pretty easy.
If you have lived in Massachusetts all your life and you don't know about the US civil war, you should start to question yourself. And if you have no idea that Las Vegas is famous for casinos, I wonder if there's another Massachusetts on a different planet.
I'm not American and I knew about the colours of the civil war uniforms before I even understood that war's significance from some Scrooge McDuck comic where he (or his ancestor) rode a steamship down the Mississippi and was shot at by both sides, blue and gray.
There's also a scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly where Blondie and Tuco are happy to see soldiers in grey uniforms but it turns out their blue uniforms were covered by dust.
As an non American, never heard of Hershey chocolate (or maybe heard in movies but dit not catch the name or remember it), never heard of Comcast (can you name providers of cable TV of many foreign countries?) and never heard of LeBron James (like most of people around me, I can name some soccer players but I am strictly unable to name any basketball players from any country, including mine!).
The S stands for Seaboard, as in Eastern Seaboard Propaganda Network. Because the rest of the country couldn't care less about the Yankees and Red Sox, yet you'd think they were the only two teams in baseball if all you watched was ESPN.
This criticism is like ten years out of date, but anyway: there are many more Yankees and Red Sox fans than Cincinnati Reds fans. Sorry to tell you. For some reason, people who want to gripe about an east coast bias at ESPN think baseball is the only sport that exists. The Jets, Giants, Knicks, and Celtics don't get a whole lot of coverage. The Lakers, Cavs, Warriors, and Rockets do. Ditto the Cowboys, Chiefs, 49ers, and Browns. It's almost like the network focuses on the teams with the biggest fan bases and the ones that command the most attention generally. New York and Boston are huge sports markets. If the teams there are good, they'll get coverage. It's also why ESPN doesn't cover hockey at all.
The other sports are much more popular, so they draw more viewers. Same with teams. This is not rocket science.
I'm English and I got 16. Didn't know Pebble Beach and the last 3. Never heard of James LeBron and the cavalier Clevelanders, or whatever they are. I would have thought Hershey is reasonably well known in the UK, and Ford, General Motors & Chrysler certainly are. I've seen enough westerns in my time to know the soldiers representing the south in the civil war wore gray / grey
The answer for Hershey should be: "chocolate". Or perhaps: chocolate (allegedly). Or maybe: brown substance they claim is chocolate but actually tastes like vomit.
I typed "Xfinity" for the Comcast question. Feel like it should count considering its the company that owns Comcast. But I guess on a small technicality it is not correct
South Korea, Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, The DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Panama, Canada (which also has MLB teams) play damn well. Mexico, UK, the Netherlands, Italy, China, Nicaragua, and Colombia play in World Cup Baseball. Most (all? not sure) of these countries have players in the MLB.
In fact, it was the only time there were 2 sitting presidents in office.
Or we could logically stick to the vast majority, famous standard Confederate uniform color of gray.
The other sports are much more popular, so they draw more viewers. Same with teams. This is not rocket science.
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The Comcast or ESPN (I was wondering if it's another of these 4 letters personality types XD ), I had absolutely no clue.
Hershey, I knew about because some of the youtubers I watch commented on the transphobes wanting to boycott the brand.