"Second Best" History Edition

Can you name the things that place #2 in these historical categories?

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Last updated: June 15, 2020

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Category	First	Second
Country with the most World War II military deaths	Soviet Union	Germany
Biggest city in 1800 AD	Beijing	London
First man to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong	Buzz Aldrin
First U.S. president	George Washington	John Adams
Most common papal name	John	Benedict
First area annexed by Hitler leading up to WW2	Austria	Sudetenland
Most recent British prime minister	Boris Johnson	Theresa May
Biggest Soviet Union city in 1989	Moscow	Leningrad
Biggest European empire or country in 1800 by total area	Russia	Ottoman Empire
Most guessed Shakespearean play on this quiz	Romeo and Juliet	Hamlet
First human according to the Bible	Adam	Eve
Longest-reigning English monarch since the Norman conquest	Queen Elizabeth II	Queen Victoria
Biggest empire ever by maximum extent	British Empire	Mongol Empire
U.S. capital for the longest period of time	Washington, D.C.	Philadelphia
First host of the modern Olympics	Athens	Paris
Most recent country	South Sudan	Kosovo
First Soviet leader	Vladmir Lenin	Joseph Stalin
Most influential person in history, according to this quiz	Jesus	Mohammud
Oldest U.S. president when taking office	Donald Trump	Ronald Reagan
Most recent Castro to rule Cuba	Raúl	Fidel