Most knowledgeable

[John B. Foster]

What subject/topic would you say you have the most knowledge about?

Many smart people here. Interested to read the replies.

 

[Azrael]

I'm a generalist. A fox, not a hedgehog.

I know a little about many things, but not everything about one thing.

 

[typefitter]

Fighting on the Internet.

I'm joking. English football, probably. Space. Architecture. I know the right restaurants in probably 100 American cities. But obviously there are people who know far more than I do about those subjects, starting here. (@Starman's political posts notwithstanding, he knows a ****load about human spaceflight.) I wouldn't call myself an expert on anything. Closest I might get is writing non-fiction. I feel like I know how to do that. But that's not really a subject in which you can claim expertise.

 

[TigerVols]

British punk and New Wave music
Civil War’s western theater
Francisco Coronado’s traipsing across the Southwest
Bicycles
Irish Coffee
How to expertly cook meat
SEC football and basketball
Digital marketing
TV production
The Obama Administration
Alfa Romeos
American fighter aircraft

 

[typefitter]

British punk and New Wave music
Civil War’s western theater
Francisco Coronado’s traipsing across the Southwest
Bicycles
Irish Coffee
How to expertly cook meat
SEC football and basketball
Digital marketing
TV production
The Obama Administration
Alfa Romeos
American fighter aircraft

We should definitely hang out.

 

[swingline]

Just enough to be the third-place finisher on Jeopardy! Which is to say, a mile wide and an inch deep.

 

[maumann]

I would rather be the guy soaking up information than conveying it, but I do know a bit about ...

Class C motorhomes
American oval track motor racing
Early manned spaceflight
The Detroit Tigers
Florida football, pre-HBC (Head Ball Coach)
1970s AM hit radio

 

[Azrael]

One of the delights of growing older is understanding how little you know.

On the other hand, you should know yourself pretty well by then, and that's sort of great. Rare as it is.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Nothing. Nothing at all.

 

[WriteThinking]

I wouldn't presume to say I'm an expert on anything.

I do have what I would consider "almost-expert" knowledge of marine mammals (a lifelong love) and pretty strong knowledge of U.S. history (always a favorite subject in school, and some of the best teachers I had were in that topic). Pretty good with regard to psychology as a general subject, too (my minor in college, I have an interest in it and social sciences, and have had some personal exposure and experiences that have kept me interested in the topic).

Otherwise, I suspect that I'm like a lot of journalists: I know a little about a lot of things, and am easily engaged and interested in almost anything.

 

[Chef2]

Pink Floyd
Kansas City Royals
Ford Automobiles
Radio marketing
High School officiating

 

[spikechiquet]

cribbage
90s Christian Rock
90s/00s college hockey
beer styles and origins

After that...I just fake it til I make it

 

[Wenders]

Geography (thanks to the Carmen Sandiego franchise and my parents who refused to buy me a Nintendo as a kid)
Harry Potter
Various sports of my alma mater
Random useless crap that gets my trivia team points every Monday in pursuit of free beer
Queen (the band, not the person)

I've meant to try out for Jeopardy but if a category ever came up that was something along the art history/religion/Shakespeare outside of Romeo and Juliet line, I'd be sunk.

 

[Songbird]

I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know
if you know what I mean

 

[Scout]

If I was a journalist looking for a source, what would I be considered an expert in?

Just a different way to think about the question.

 

[misterbc]

Stock market
WWII......always learning
1950s F1
1960s Baseball and Drag Racing
Miatas
Winter on Canadian prairies
British Invasion

 

[BrownScribe]

- The Rise of Right-Wing Politics and Hitler in Post World W1 Germany
- The Jail Blazers Era of The Portland TrailBlazers
- The Dennis Erickson Years at Oregon State
- Getting scammed by roommates off Craigslist
- 90s country music

Gosh, I need to get a life :/

 

[qtlaw]

70's pop music (man I loved AM radio as a kid)
70's baseball/basketball/football
70's/80's R&B
....
yeah, and law (better be after 30 yrs.)

 

[CD Boogie]

I'm an expert at looking like I know what I'm doing in most adult situations, when in truth I'm pretty much winging it like everyone else. Also Sega Hockey '93. I will crush anyone, doesn't matter what team you saddle me with.

Also, 1980s in NFL, MLB and NBA, mostly from repeatedly reading the Zander Hollander complete handbooks, the Sporting News NBA Registers, the Red and Green books, and god knows how many issues of SI, Baseball Digest, Sport, Inside Sports, Pro, etc.

Man I spent a lot of time reading sports stuff in the 1980s. It was glorious.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Jeeps (specifically 2006 TJs)
The inner workings of large car dealerships
Deer hunting
Firearms
Trout fishing
Bicycles (especially the 2015 Specialized Roubaix)