Third Party Candidates
This 2016 presidential hopeful is perhaps now best known for forgetting what Aleppo is
Gary Johnson
This recent console was Nintendo's worst selling, with experts blaming too much emphasis on the controller and poor selection of games.
Wii U
When directing his last symphony, this German composer was out of time with the orchestra because he couldn't hear, and at a certain point was conducting with his back to the orchestra.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
This world leader, derided for being short, was actually 5'6"
Napoleon
The Meadows, Nevada
Las Vegas
This president is one of the few former presidents to have served two terms and then run for office again under a party he founded: The Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt
This follow up to the Play Station Portable was predicted to be a big success, but competition from smartphones and the 3DS proved to be too much for it to bear
PS Vita
This composer wrote the famous overture to this operatic setting of 'Don Juan' the morning of the premiere, suffering from a giant hangover.
Victims of this famous witch hunt were not burned at the stake, but were mostly hanged or died in prison.
The Salem Witch Trials
Red Stick, Louisiana
Baton Rouge
This Alabama governor, a defender of Jim Crow legislation, challenged LBJ in the 1968 election.
George Wallace
Nintendo's early attempt at virtual reality failed to get off the ground; literally, you needed to keep the system on a stand as you wore it.
Virtual Boy
This composer who wrote the Messiah hated the sound of orchestras tuning; when somebody untuned the orchestra's instruments as a joke so tuning would take longer, this composer tore his wig off and flew into a rampage.
George Frederic Handel
This Scandinavian country was not given its name as a prank to keep other settlers away; it just happened to be winter when it was founded
Iceland
River of January, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
This socialist candidate from Indiana ran for president from jail four times between 1904 and 1920
Eugene Debs
Sega DreamCast
This composer, the namesake of a widely used music software, was once literally dragged away from a feast of oysters and champagne to drunkenly direct a concert.
Jean Sibelius
Evidence points to this Viking explorer "discovering" North America centuries before Christopher Columbus did.
Lief Erikson
Eat, Germany
Essen
This texas businessman ran for president in the nineties, and is one of the most popular third party candidates in US history with over 18% of the popular vote.
Ross Perot
This console, developed in the 1980s by Phillip's and Sony as a CD attachment to the SNES, is now only known for its abysmal knock-off Zelda games
Phillips CDI
This 19th century French composer known for wistful piano works like "Gymnopédies", once stipulated that a piece of his be repeated 840 times, which takes about 35 hours.
Erik Satie
The murder of this New York woman in the 1964 is a popular example of the bystander effect in Psych classes, even though numerous witnesses were concerned and called the police.
Kitty Genovese
Of the Monks, Iowa
De Moines