I was going to say dime but thought they wouldn't have that bc people would complain it's too US-centric. So instead I tried one eighth and 1/8, but never thought to try eighth. D'oh
Omega should be acceptable, alpha/beta/omega is sometimes used in ethology, especially in wolves to categorise animals into one of three social types (although actual wolf experts say the idea of an 'alpha wolf' in the wild is a myth).
I STILL insist that you should accept Half, Quarter, Dime! It is just as legitimate a response as the given answer; it is the next in the series of US coins. Dollar, half, quarter, dime, nickel, penny.
Dime was my first guess... BUT no one in America calls a 50-cent coin simply "Half", it's always called a "Half Dollar". Dime would only be next if it was "Half dollar, quarter". In its current state, "dime" is wrong.
I am incredibly proud of myself that I couldn't get the Star Sign question in the slightest. I tried to type in all the ones I could think of (which was only about 5 others) after which I gave up.
I suppose I can see an argument for being "proud" of not knowing astrology, as much as one can ever really be proud of ignorance, but I'm very curious what your argument is for being proud of not knowing astronomy.
No, I meant astronomy. I said that I can sort of understand them being proud of not knowing astrology, but I wondered why they would be proud of also not knowing astronomy. Not knowing the zodiacal constellations requires ignorance of both both.
How about accepting Georgy Malenkov as a type-in for Nicky K? Definitely not as the main answer since he held the title only for six months and the actual power for a week or so, but it would warm a pedant's heart.
Not from the US so had zero clue about how to go about solving the US state sequence. Didn't even occur to me that it was about the area size of the states, and I think its because so many maps do that thing where they show Alaska in a little box that is often not to scale. Just looked at a correct scale map, Alaska is so much bigger than I realised. I always thought Texas was the biggest state and I was so wrong.
The last one should actually be Malenkov, not Khrushchev - Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the USSR, albeit briefly as he was subsequently ousted by Khrushchev