The current snooker world champion is Belgian. When you think of the number of questions on the NFL and baseball you see on Jetpunk, one single question on snooker on a user-created quiz is hardly something to complain about. As far as I'm concerned it makes a nice change.
I am from the United Kingdom and the majority of quiz shows that I watch have majority UK-centric questions. Because of this all quizzes in this series will have niches that are UK-specific as well as other questions from other cultures, just like a US quiz would have
It's not good for quizzes to have questions that only Americans can answer, either, unless they have a name like "U.S. Trivia". Outside of quizzes that are specifically American, the U.S.-centric questions are usually known outside of the U.S. There are many British shows that are watched outside of the U.K., but those two aren't among them. Doctor Who, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Mr. Bean, Blackadder, The Avengers, Space: 1999, Blakes 7, and many more British comedies and sci fi shows have been syndicated outside of the U.K. (in the U.S. on such channels as PBS, A&E, and Syfy). I'm pretty sure that no station outside of the U.K. syndicates Blue Peter and University Challenge. I've only heard of them because of Doctor Who and The Young Ones, respectively.
There's a difference between questions being favoured towards people from the UK and questions that only people from the UK can answer. I am not trying to make a quiz that provides equal benefit to the masses, as JonOfKent stated there is enough stuff on this website to cater for Americans. That by no means results in it excluding Americans, it's not like the material in the questions is not easily accessible. Even if the TV show is not regularly shown on US channels you can quite easily find hundreds of articles and websites going into great detail about them. If you think this is futile then maybe just glance up the title of the quiz and the quiz series it is kept in and realise why you might not immediately know the answer :)
I vaguely agree with the idea that, in quizzes of general interest, questions should be guessable by people from any country (although I'm not sure how realistic it is to keep to that rigorously) but I absolutely disagree with the idea that the US questions on here are usually known outside of the US. There are any number of questions which are about companies and brands operating exclusively in the US, or arcane points of American history, the history of the NFL or of baseball, obscure US geography... the list goes on. Just today there is a featured quiz called 'famous people from Minnesota' with 9 people in I've never even heard of, much less know who they are, and I don't think I'm such an ignoramus.
Personally i think it's fine, as this is after all an American website, but by the same yardstick I think people creating their own websites should be able to make them as parochial as they want to.
Personally i think it's fine, as this is after all an American website, but by the same yardstick I think people creating their own websites should be able to make them as parochial as they want to.