I thought grand canal would be an answer when I clicked on this quiz, but I was thinking of the one in Venice so I didn't guess it for china. Learn something new everyday.
Yes, I was thinking that the clue for grand slam was pretty obscure (ie localised), and a reference to winning the four major tennis championships in a calendar year would be the obvious clue for that answer.
Agreed. Baseball is a sport with very little presence outside America. I have never seen it on TV in the UK and could barely name you three teams. Tennis is a much more popular sport worldwide, and that clue would make the answer at lot more gettable for those of us who don’t live in America.
Despite the article (which is very inaccurate by the way) baseball is more popular than tennis in many metrics. It may not be more popular in your country, but there are many countries where it is in fact the most popular spectator sport. Furthermore, the total revenue of professional baseball leagues worldwide far outstrips that of tennis.
And sorry to pile on more, but the article you linked is just bad. Even if every single person in India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and every other cricketing country was a fan of cricket, that STILL wouldn't be 2.5 billion.
I don't know why you bother responding time and time again to things like this. It's not even like the question was claiming to define the term. My baseball knowledge is almost limited to knowing that there are bases and you can get a home run - from this I deduced it was baseball, so a sport (and had heard of grand slam from tennis and slam dunk from basketball), and had a lucky guess at the correct answer which was pleasing. I live in a country that has relatively little interest in baseball, even if it did I wouldn't follow it as I have almost no interest in any sport. I do however accept that baseball and sport generally is part of general knowledge and a big gap of mine and hence there will be questions on many general knowledge quizes I simply can't answer and on an American site I would expect this often to be about baseball. Also more broadly I have no idea why anyone would complain about this sort of thing on a great quality free of charge website. I just don't get it.
Clearly American with eight questions having obscure answers normal people don’t necessarily know about their culture. Why not do a more international one, America isn’t the only culture who uses this site, nor is it the largest.
But I do see how someone who is not familiar with baseball would think the answer was, Tennis Grand slam.
But anyway I think it should probably be accepted as an alternate answer.
And sorry to pile on more, but the article you linked is just bad. Even if every single person in India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and every other cricketing country was a fan of cricket, that STILL wouldn't be 2.5 billion.
Grand Canyon
Large musical instrument
Grand Piano
High-ranking chess player
Grandmaster
Bases-loaded home run
Grand Slam
Michigan's second biggest city
Grand Rapids
Where you'll see
a ribbon-cutting ceremony
Grand Opening
The Republican Party, by
another name
Grand Old Party
Famous covered market
in Istanbul
Grand Bazaar
Ballet leap with split legs
Grand Jeté
Clue
Answer
A Formula One race
Grand Prix
Leader of the Spanish Inquisition
Grand Inquisitor
New York's largest train station
Grand Central
What separates Texas and Mexico
Rio Grande
Group that determines if there is
enough evidence for a trial
Grand Jury
Links the Yellow and Yangtze rivers
Grand Canal
Belgium is a Kingdom. France is
a Republic. Luxembourg is a ...
Grand Duchy
Type of epileptic seizure
Grand Mal
Crime of stealing something worth
more than a certain amount
Grand Larceny
You can't Torquemada anything!