Easy U.S. General Knowledge

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.

Hershey is fairly easy - no idea about the other two though

But I am sure Al Gore is all the rage in Europe?

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.

*ding*

We'll make an exception and accept both grey and gray. :)

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.

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.

yeah, as a non-American I agree. I expected the questions to be more about stuff the USA is famous for, not who provides your cable TV :D

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.

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.

Which is why it is called "U.S General Knowledge." You weren't forced to know everything on this quiz.

No one in other countries play baseball????

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.

Should I go on the Germany General Knowledge quiz and say the same thing? Or would I just be an "ignorant American"?

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.

But Jefferson Davis was not president of the United States.

It isn't, it was fundamentally derived from a board game called The Landlords Game created by American woman Elizabeth Magie

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.

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.

It's a very famous golf course on the central coast of California, right on the water. And it costs $$$

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.

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.

gray is the americanized spelling of the color.

because nobody calls them that??

There is a British version of Monopoly, but the original is American. Its spaces were (mostly) named after streets in Atlantic City, New Jersey.