I don't think many people would recognize a present-day photo of McCartney though. Like most old white dudes, he's lost almost all the character in his face.

Paul McCartney also died in 1966 so there is that.

That's true: if you ask everyone who knows me, I will win in a landslide.

How is the answer here not Barack Obama honestly.

I wonder who the least known person in the world is?

Some teen mom that gave birth and locked her kid up somewhere and only she knows about it?

barack obama

Barack who?

All,

Unscientific poll of 179 people who answer questions like this for $.05 each on Amazon Mechanical Turk, probably about half of whom are in India:



Obama: 179/179 (Obama/President Obama/Barack Obama)
Queen Elizabeth: 174/179 (Elizabeth/The Queen/Queen Elizabeth/Queen Elizabeth II)
I accepted various misspellings of Barack and Elizabeth and even "Kwan."
Wrong answers: Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, Ms Bush, Elizabeth Taylor,Jone Johnson Lewis

Do they only get paid if they get it right?

A-Rod,

Criteria for this one was they get paid as long as they put at least one word in each box.

Is your HIT closed because I just went and tried to find it to make some quick money?

B/c I'm wondering if the Liz Taylor answer was a joke and shouldn't be counted.

Though I suppose we could assume that the user with the humorous mind would be equally likely to joke about the Obama answer so maybe not.

Seems pretty conclusive: Obama is the World's Best Person.

So this person knows of someone who's not famous enough to have a Wikipedia page, well enough to think of her while responding to some survey, yet apparently doesn't have much of an idea what she looks like. Really random ****.

How is Kwan an acceptable answer? Also, only asking people with Internet access is biasing the results, just a tad.