Can you name the thing that does NOT fit in each category?

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NOTE: 'Shared' means NOT unique. EG. a shared presidential surname is Adams (John and John Quincy)
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Presidents
•Edison •Lincoln •Reagan •Washington

Shared Presidential Names
•James •William •Richard •Andrew

Shared Presidential Surnames
•Bush •Jackson •Harrison •Roosevelt

First Ladies (U.S.)
•Vivian •Abigail •Martha •Jacqueline

U.K. Prime Ministers
•Hughes •Churchill •Thatcher •Chamberlain

13 Original Colonies
•Florida •Georgia •Delaware •Connecticut

Ivy League Schools
•Cornell •Rutgers •Columbia •Dartmouth

Ivy League Locations
•Richmond •Providence •Philadelphia •New York City

U.S. Olympic Host Cities
•Chicago •Lake Placid •Los Angeles •Salt Lake City

Olympic Host Capitals
•Paris •Berlin •Madrid •London

On the front of U.S. Currency
•Grant •Adams •Franklin •Jefferson

Major WWII Battles
•Verdun •The Bulge •Stalingrad •Normandy

Major Civil War Battles
•Bull Run •Antietam •Frankfort •Gettysburg

Ancient Wonders
•Great Wall •Great Pyramid •Statue of Zeus •Hanging Gardens

Shot to Death
•MLK Jr. •M. Gandhi •Malcolm X •Pope John Paul II

Wives of Henry VIII
•Mary •Jane •Anne •Catherine

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	Bobman1:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 05:42 GMT		1 point
	I really enjoyed it but thought that providing the category theme made it a bit too easy--at least at first. Likewise, withholding that might make it too tough. "What? A bunch of president or girl names!! How do I pick?" My suggestion would be to tier the game, if possible with a hint for the category theme that we can click on or not; a perfect score would be one where we asked for no hints, and for each hint we needed, a point would be deducted, or something like that. Is that even possible? Provides for two tiers of challenge.

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	tigerschick:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 06:13 GMT		20 points
	Considering you are given the correct answer if you get one wrong within the game ... is it really necessary to not tell you those same wrong answers on the stats page??

	tigerschick:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 06:16 GMT		6 points
	@Bobman1 - there is a programme on BBC4 (I hesitate to say 'quiz show' because BBC4 is quite highbrow!) called Only Connect where the contestants have to find a link between 4 things that don't appear to be linked ... a bit like your first suggestion. Don't know if it's on any other BBC format but it's worth looking out for.

	ThereIsBearGum:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 06:54 GMT		-3 points
	Way too US centric

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	Fergenaprido:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 07:51 GMT		17 points
	@Chile: I would disagree that the remaining U.S. categories are 'really general knowledge'. The rest of the world doesn't typically learn about first ladies, ivy league schools, or the U.S. civil war unless they are taking a U.S. History class. So yes, it is a US-centric quiz (and I don't see any warning in the title, so perhaps it's been removed since your comment), and 3 U.S. president questions is a bit much, but it remains an excellent thought-provoking quiz.

	WeaselKing1000:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 08:30 GMT		5 points
	Pretty surprising that Adams turned out to be the one who doesn't appear on US currency, considering his role in the Constitution etc. I guessed Grant because I figured he was 'just' a Civil War general who happened to become President for a few years, so has much less of a case than Adams to be on currency. But there you go. I guess that question is pretty straightforward for Americans though, because it does concern stuff you handle every day, after all.

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	singin185:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 10:57 GMT		7 points
	Maybe it's because I'm from Richmond, but the Ivy League question seemed really obvious. Since Ivy League schools are pretty much exclusively in the Northeast, I think it would be better to make all the choices northeastern cities.

	megascarp:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 11:22 GMT		3 points
	@ jujiejay, What bothers me is when people make that John Paul II or any pope for that matter as intelligent, eloquent and brave. Tell me what's brave or intelligent about a man who denounces the use of condoms and in the process is by proxy murdering millions of people around the world. All based on a doctrine which has absolutely 0% proof what so ever. What's brave about sitting in the obscenely lavish surroudings of the Vatican while millions of his followers can't afford clean water? He may have stood for good on earth but his ignorance of reality was really a poison affecting in some way almost everyone on earth. He could have been brave and brought the church some way closer into modern society but he didn't.

	xolkan:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 11:58 GMT		0 points
	gah only one I missed was the Ivy League locations.

	catcherj:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 12:48 GMT		0 points
	@WeaselKing1000: I can see how the US currency category would be highly difficult for non-Americans, but it's not that easy for Americans either. Grant is on the $50 bill and Franklin is on the $100, neither of which are bills I use particularly often.

	Murf1013:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 13:21 GMT		13 points
	To all of those criticizing the quiz for having questions about the US: not every quiz has to be designed for a "world audience." This is a trivia website run out of the Pacific Northwest of the US; it's not a UN Summit.

	Platonicus:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 13:22 GMT		1 point
	For me as a German the Ivy League questions were the only ones I got wrong and I will never remember them I guess.

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	Murf1013:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 13:35 GMT		20 points
	@juviejay: point 1: It's absurd to suggest that this question is in poor taste. It's a straight forward, important question: "which of these 4 historical figures wasn't assassinated?" Honestly, you seem to have good intentions, but I must tell you that it was a very silly comment. point 2: "All we remember?" I don't know why you would think that the existence of this particular question means that no one remembers anything about Gandhi, Dr. King, and Malcolm X other than how they died. That's more than hyperbole; it's entirely false.

	444444:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 13:53 GMT		11 points
	Adams actually is on US currency. He's on the back of the $2 bill, plus he was on one of the presidential dollar coins released in 2007.

	4tothe4th:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 13:58 GMT		4 points
	I thought the statue of zeus was the odd wonder out - damn you Civ II!

	jackmerlin:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 14:22 GMT		0 points
	1. What are Ivy league schools anyway" I'm British and I've not got a clue. 2. I got all of them right the second time round because you gave me the answers. I say you withhold them completely.

	pgrossma:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 14:36 GMT		2 points
	Why do so many people think that there is an Ivy League School in Richmond?

	pgrossma:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 14:39 GMT		3 points
	@jackmerlin, the Ivy League Schools are Harvard (Cambridge, MA), Yale (New Haven, CT), Princeton (Princeton, NJ), Dartmouth (Hanover, NH), Brown (Providence, RI), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Cornell (Ithaca, NY) and Columbia (New York City, NY)

	TheFlyingBarney:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 14:49 GMT		0 points
	@murf1013: yes, but if you're going to make a quiz as US-centric as this, at least say so in the title? Nearly half the questions were about US history rather than history in general, and yet no mention of America anywhere...

	TheFlyingBarney:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 14:50 GMT		1 point
	In fact, just corrected myself - 10 out of the 16 questions were exclusively about the US.

	Zak6009:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 15:58 GMT		8 points
	This is one quiz where the 'US-centric' gag/meme is for real.

	guide:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 16:20 GMT		0 points
	444444: Thanks, that clue has been changed.

	munga:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 16:53 GMT		8 points
	@juviejay - So history only bears remembering if it doesn't hurt our feelings?

	MovieGuru:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 17:17 GMT		5 points
	"US Centric" was in the title but was taken out upon being published. For proof, see ChileNoseJam's comment in the archived section

	RonB:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 18:33 GMT		-1 points
	I didn't know carp was a staple of the diet in the UK until I started Sporcle.

	willwoodlen:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 21:51 GMT		1 point
	Murf1013: Regarding your response to juviejay, I wanted to hit the up arrow about 100 times but Sporcle wouldn't let me.

	Gillmacs:	Nov 16th, 2012 at 23:24 GMT		2 points
	Seems like it has way too much time. It's multi choice so it's essentially a case of you know it or you guess. I had over 4 mins left at the end - I could have Googled all of the answers in that time!

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	OwningAllUNewbs:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 03:47 GMT		-3 points
	11 correct. Interesting quiz

	mrmanheim:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 13:06 GMT		1 point
	nice idea, but as many commenters: (1) way too much time (not much of a challenge), and (2) many of them would have been good challenges to not have given the hint.