I suspect you’re wrong; I expect the average American who’s never been to a hockey game to not have the first clue about this, to the point of basically not being able to guess at all. Certain biases might lead a casual fan to regularly guess certain wrong answers as a first attempt, but I expect that a casual fan given, say, 10 opportunities to guess would come up with a right answer with some reasonable, if small, probability, whereas a non-fan would probably do no better than guessing which names are common in the population in general.
Kidnap people, place them in a room with a slit in its door. In the room is a magic marker and a slip of paper. They have however long they want to write a name of a co-holder of the NHL record for most points by brothers and slip the paper with that name written on it through the slit, and if they get it right on their first and only try, they get to leave the room.
I predict a valley of incorrect answers between the higher performances of the clued in and the clueless.
I suspect you’re wrong; I expect the average American who’s never been to a hockey game to not have the first clue about this, to the point of basically not being able to guess at all. Certain biases might lead a casual fan to regularly guess certain wrong answers as a first attempt, but I expect that a casual fan given, say, 10 opportunities to guess would come up with a right answer with some reasonable, if small, probability, whereas a non-fan would probably do no better than guessing which names are common in the population in general.
This can be tested!
Kidnap people, place them in a room with a slit in its door. In the room is a magic marker and a slip of paper. They have however long they want to write a name of a co-holder of the NHL record for most points by brothers and slip the paper with that name written on it through the slit, and if they get it right on their first and only try, they get to leave the room.
I predict a valley of incorrect answers between the higher performances of the clued in and the clueless.