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Famous Seconds Quiz

Can you name these widely-credited things that come second?
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Last updated: January 6, 2024
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First submittedNovember 3, 2010
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Average score72.7%
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U.S. President
John Adams
Greek letter
Beta
Wife of Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
Book of the Bible
Exodus
Most populous country
China
Man to walk on the moon
Buzz Aldrin
Child of Princess Diana
Prince Harry
Largest country by area
Canada
Smallest U.S. state by area
Delaware
Largest U.S. state by area
Texas
Highest mountain
K2
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Element in the Periodic Table
Helium
Most populous city in the U.S.
Los Angeles
Person (Biblical)
Eve
Roman Emperor
Tiberius
Soviet Dictator
Joseph Stalin
Harry Potter book
Chamber of Secrets
Indiana Jones movie
Temple of Doom
Largest planet in the Solar System
Saturn
Female Prime Minister of the UK
Theresa May
Star Wars movie
The Empire Strikes Back
Holiest city in Islam
Medina
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Level 68
Jun 20, 2013
Good quiz. Couldn't remember Buzz Aldrin, but remembered Michael Collins, who was in the command module and never landed.
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Level 49
Jul 20, 2017
Didn't know how to spell Aldrin, lol
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Level 65
Mar 14, 2020
It is spelled l i g h t y e a r
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Level 26
Jun 20, 2013
Heh, my cat's called Tiberius. I shall have to remember that one.
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Level 33
Jun 22, 2013
You've got a cat named Tiberius and you didn't know there was an Emperor Tiberius?!?! Really?!?
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Level 65
Mar 14, 2020
What is weird about that?
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Level 79
May 28, 2021
I wonder who named his cat and after whom 🤔
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Level 65
Aug 29, 2013
Is he named after Captain Kirk's middle name?
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Level 81
Jul 20, 2017
Please accept NekroNeko's Cat for Tiberius.
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Level 44
Jun 22, 2013
Please accept Israel for Jacob.
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Level 65
Aug 29, 2013
The question doesn't specify it, but technically Israel is acceptable if it doesn't matter who gave him the name. The question should probably specify whether the name is given by the parents or by God.

Either way, I think Jacob probably should be the correct answer here.

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Level 68
Nov 5, 2014
Am I the only one who put in Lillith for Biblical person?
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Level 41
Jan 12, 2015
Hopefully (:
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Level 75
Mar 10, 2015
I think Lilith appears as Adam's first wife mainly in Gnostic and some Jewish writings. In the Christian Bible, I've seen a few translations which listed Lilith as the night demon mentioned in Isaiah 34:14, but that is far later than the second person named.
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Level 82
Jul 20, 2017
gnostic texts. Which mean the only reason why she's not held as the 2nd person in mainstream Christian tradition as opposed to Eve is just random luck about which of the many contradictory early Christian texts were incorporated into the Bible and which weren't.
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Level 95
Jun 14, 2017
You misspelled "strikes" in Empire Strikes Back, just fyi.
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Level ∞
Jun 15, 2017
Fixed, sorry about that.
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Level 67
Jun 16, 2017
I am astonished that more people apparently knew the identity of the second Roman emperor than the title of the second original Star Wars movie. Although I bet if I looked back in a few weeks or months it would have changed.
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Level ∞
Jun 16, 2017
Read the comment above
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Level 84
Jul 7, 2017
I'm surprised by the very low number for the Star Wars question (52% as I write this comment). Wonder if it would make a difference if the clue specified release date, rather than plot chronology?
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Level 37
Jul 20, 2017
I'm sure that Star Wars is less significant to the greater public than

real world events. Most of us don't live in fantasy world.

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Level 65
Mar 14, 2020
Actually I think most do. I dont think there is a soul in the world that doesnt watch tv or read books or daydream ( I said or, not and, I know plenty of people do not watch tv). And even in everyday functioning you need fantasy. If someone throws a frisbee, you need to imagine where it ends up, if you go by current reality you will be too late.
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Level 63
Jun 16, 2017
I was like wait... there was a second female PM of the UK? Didn't even think about the present.
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Level 56
Jul 20, 2017
Turns out Henry VIII was married to another Anne as well. No wonder Anne wasn't accepted.
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Level 88
Feb 8, 2024
Strangely, the quiz accepted just "Anne" for me today. I wonder why it was changed. I think it should require the last name, since as you mentioned, wife #4 was an Anne as well.
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Level 60
Jul 20, 2017
Attack of the clones is Star Wars II?
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Level 66
Jul 20, 2017
Attack of the Clones may be called Episode II, but the second Star Wars movie filmed and produced is Episode V.
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Level 84
Jul 20, 2017
Yep, once again a Harry Potter question is the only thing preventing a perfect score. As if Harry Potter stuff hasn't been focused on enough. In all of human history, of everything that came first and then had a second, we can't get through 20 or so questions without resorting to more Harry Potter crap? *sigh*
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Level 76
Jul 20, 2017
I feel the same about Star Wars crap.
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Level 62
Feb 1, 2020
I guessed “part II”
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Level 83
Aug 12, 2020
same here on potter and star wars , the amount of potter quizzes on here makes me think jetpunk has been overrun by a lot of overgrown kids .just take a look at any book quiz list, its ridiculous . grow up you people.
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Level 56
Jul 20, 2017
I'm not a real HP fan, but i feel like that book series is now an exceptional cultural reference of modern literature. Take into account that HP series are somehow more read than many classics. EVER.
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Level 65
Feb 2, 2024
Third most sold book ever. Only the Bible and the Works of Mao beat it.
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Level 61
Jul 21, 2017
I specifically sat through all of the films to increase my odds on these quizzes. Sadly, I blanked on this one and missed it regardless
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Level 66
Aug 28, 2022
This is how a lot of non-USA people feel about the Delaware question, by the way.
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Level 43
Feb 2, 2024
it was a massive cultural phenomenon. not jetpunks fault you dont get it.

its just a quiz get over yourselves. All general trivia has this kind of stuff.

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Level 82
Feb 2, 2024
Everything I like and know about is important cultural information worthy of contemplation and everything I don't know is therefore unimportant childish nonsense that shouldn't count as knowledge on a knowledge quiz! Wahhh!
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Level 71
Jul 23, 2017
Good quiz, it is surprising how we have been conditioned to favour the first, biggest, best, newest, smallest, etc. and we have to think for the second in line.
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Level 65
Mar 14, 2020
Great quiz!! missed medina tiberius and exodus
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Level 66
Feb 11, 2021
Why as many as 4 questions on just the US alone? 18% of the quiz! Moonwalker, Indiana Jones and Star Wars, while of US origin, are at least fairly international in interest, but 4 strictly US questions are vastly over-representative on what is supposedly a general quiz.
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Level 71
Mar 24, 2021
I managed to get them with a little thought but it did train my brain to read 'highest mountain' as 'highest U.S. mountain'
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2021
Is god not a person?
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Level 49
Feb 2, 2024
hard to say, but probably not.
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Level 23
Mar 31, 2022
I am gay
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Level 74
Apr 8, 2023
You're not alone
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Level 45
Dec 31, 2022
Somehow I got more correct answers here than on the Firsts and Lasts quizzes.
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Level 71
Jan 6, 2024
Outdated. India Surpassed China
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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2024
Fixed, thank you!
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Level 50
Jan 6, 2024
Technically, Attack of the Clones could be considered the second Star Wars movie. It is #2. You should specify the second one by the order of release.
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Level 55
Feb 4, 2024
I think of the second Star Wars movie so automatically as "Empire" I had to think hard to get the rest of the answer. Thought "Empire" would be accepted.