Definitely the hardest of the lot. As a matter of interest, and as you guys are much more use than Google, how/why should I know Alexander Hamilton? The name is new to me.
Hamilton was the first US Secretary of the Treasury, and he was very famously killed in a duel with the Vice President at the time, Aaron Burr. He was also recently the subject of a huge Broadway musical that was performed all over the world.
One of the most important and influential founding fathers of the US. The introduction in Wikipedia gives a pretty good overview of his influence and achievements if you're not into reading the whole thing. He's also on the 10-dollar banknote.
There's a crazy popular Broadway play called "Hamilton" that won scads of theater awards and even the Pulitzer Prize. A performance was filmed and released by Disney.
His death in a duel (and the man who shot him) is basis of one of the most famous commercials of all time -- Got Milk?
All that's to say is you needn't be an American history buff to have heard of him.
I would assume people living outside of the USA might not be as familiar with Broadway productions or US television advertisements as people living within the USA.
Obviously they won’t be quite as popular in other countries, but the Hamilton musical was performed all over the world, so it certainly wouldn’t be that outlandish if non-Americans knew about him.
sorry, hadn't heard of him until now either. Hadn't seen the most famous commercial of all time for "got milk" either until today. I must live in a cave.
To be fair, as someone who is also from the UK I had not heard of him either until hearing in passing that there was a musical about him. And the Got Milk commercial was an American marketing campaign so also not known around the World
That's probably the case for most Brits, in the same way you probably don't learn about British history we aren't really taught about American history. Most of my US history knowledge comes from media (e.g. I'd only heard of Hamilton once the musical got big).
Not that I take the Hamilton comments as a complaint about the quiz, but, I feel like the obvious response no one pointed out explicitly is that a quiz about people who died or are buried in a major US city is going to be inherently US-centric.
On the question "Jazz trumpet player known as Satchmo", the correct answer will fill in if you simply type "Satchmo". This is understandable given that other quizzes likely allow some leniency in guessing his nickname, but one imagines this wasn't intended on a quiz where the nickname is part of the clue.
Despite being a British, I had heard of Hamilton as I did American history at school. Didn't know about Grant's tomb though, I guessed at a couple of presidents that I thought might have died in 1885 until I got the right one. It's made me want to look up the story behind that question.
Samuel Morse did not invent the telegraph. Telegraphy goes back to ancient times. He didn't invent the electrical telegraph either; many others proposed electric devices and invented limited-range systems, and the first people to make a commercially available electric telegraph system were William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in England in 1837. Their system used multiple needles and wires. Morse invented the first ARMATURE SYSTEM type of telegraph, which used a single wire that activated a "clicker" at the other end, in 1838. Morse did invent Morse code, however. His system became the standard in 1865.
But yeah, I came here to say the same thing. Never heard of many of these people lol
His death in a duel (and the man who shot him) is basis of one of the most famous commercials of all time -- Got Milk?
All that's to say is you needn't be an American history buff to have heard of him.