Series of Things #2

Can you guess what comes next in these series?
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Series
Next in order
Bronze, Silver
Gold
Once, Twice
Thrice
Primary, Secondary
Tertiary
Million, Billion
Trillion
Half, Quarter
Eighth
Species, Genus
Family
Bad, Worse
Worst
Twin, Triplet
Quadruplet
Alpha, Beta
Gamma
1A, 2B, 3C
4D
Un, Deux
Trois
A New Hope,
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Aries, Taurus
Gemini
Captain, Commodore
Admiral
Uranium, Neptunium
Plutonium
John Paul II, Benedict XVI
Francis
Paleolithic, Mesolithic
Neolithic
Byzantium, Constantinople
Istanbul
Genesis, Exodus
Leviticus
Earl, Marquess
Duke
Page, Squire
Knight
Kilo, Mega
Giga
Alaska, Texas, California
Montana
Lenin, Stalin
Khrushchev
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52 Comments
+15
Level 75
Jul 5, 2013
Half, Quarter could also be followed by Dime (US coins)
+47
Level ∞
Feb 12, 2025
12 years later... That will be accepted now. Who says we don't listen to user feedback?
+1
Level 64
May 19, 2025
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
+22
Level 63
Mar 31, 2014
For "Once, Twice..." I totally tried "three times a lady". :D
+4
Level 80
Nov 5, 2014
Or "fee times a mady" if you're Buckwheat.
+2
Level 61
Mar 28, 2016
Ditto.
+1
Level 82
Aug 4, 2020
Me too!
+1
Level 31
Sep 19, 2014
its alpha beta and omega.. not gamma
+42
Level 92
Oct 22, 2014
No it's not. Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon...Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
+3
Level 66
Mar 27, 2016
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).
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Level 72
Feb 13, 2025
It really shouldn't.
+22
Level 78
Mar 30, 2016
agree with pctjunkie - gamma correct; omega incorrect
+16
Level 74
Aug 25, 2021
no its actually alpha, beta, sigma
+4
Level 46
Nov 14, 2022
listen here mate, you know nothing about anything ur dumb
+17
Level 86
Feb 12, 2025
You all are wrong It's alpha, beta, and Ligma
+9
Level 75
Mar 27, 2016
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.
+4
Level 79
Mar 28, 2016
I am from the US and dime was not on my radar. I bet the majority of the people would not have thought of dime, but rather eighth.
+12
Level 87
Nov 27, 2022
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.
+2
Level 66
Apr 8, 2018
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.
+18
Level 80
Feb 21, 2022
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.
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Level 86
Feb 27, 2023
Astrology*
+14
Level 80
May 11, 2023
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.
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Level 85
Feb 12, 2025
You can say that again!
+4
Level 81
Sep 12, 2018
Ford Aries, Ford Taurus... this doesn't make any sense...
+13
Level 91
Jul 19, 2019
Thank you for accepting "twa" for those of us who are terrible at spelling french words.
+1
Level 88
Feb 13, 2025
Twa is Scottish for two.
+1
Level 79
Feb 12, 2025
24/24, fun
+4
Level 85
Feb 12, 2025
The Solid/Liquid and Un/Deux questions are also in "Series of Things 3" quiz. They should probably just be in one of them.
+3
Level 96
Feb 12, 2025
Khrushchev is spelled incorrectly,
+1
Level ∞
Feb 12, 2025
Fixed
+3
Level 67
Feb 12, 2025
The clock whizzed down while I typed in the names of lots of US states. Did not get it.
+7
Level 75
Feb 13, 2025
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.
+2
Level 72
Feb 13, 2025
Same here. I tried his name first, too. Count me as a supporter.
+1
Level 81
Feb 13, 2025
Why is the Montana question the only one with three clues?
+2
Level 93
Feb 14, 2025
It's not. 1A, 2B, 3C... also has three clues. One in each column for symmetry! ;)
+1
Level 48
Feb 20, 2025
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.
+1
Level 54
Apr 18, 2025
Yeah, I thought that too, from the advert "Texas, duh duh duh, the big one"
+1
Level 52
Apr 20, 2025
I knew it was area just did not know the sizes of the states in America.
+1
Level 60
Mar 21, 2025
I am maybe not proud about knowing the name of the third book of the pentateuch in English, but I am quite okay with it.
+2
Level 62
Mar 24, 2025
Putin should be an acceptable answer to the last one (Lenin/Stalin/Putin).
+1
Level 32
Apr 11, 2025
This was my guess too, I see now that it was going for chronological order, but the clues could be interpreted differently.
+6
Level 20
Apr 21, 2025
why??? khrushchev was after stalin, its in order?
+2
Level 76
Apr 1, 2025
Could one eighth and or 1/8 be accepted as well.
+2
Level 55
Apr 18, 2025
Half, quarter, sixth.
+1
Level 66
Apr 18, 2025
Ok, thrice is a word?
+2
Level 33
Apr 18, 2025
Thrice is indeed a word, my comrade
+1
Level 58
Apr 18, 2025
Trotsky would've also made sense for Lenin and Stalin btw if you were to go by the big three revolutionaries
+3
Level 20
Apr 21, 2025
"big three revolutionaries" has no order, in leaders it was khrushchev after stalin (who was after lenin)
+1
Level 57
Apr 18, 2025
The legal age for marriage in Massachusetts is 18, no exceptions.
+4
Level 85
Jun 11, 2025
You do realize that the interesting facts shown are random, right?
+1
Level 58
Dec 25, 2025
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
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Level 51
Jan 30, 2026
I'm surprised that the combined score for the third book of the Bible was so low, when the majority of Jetpunkers must surely be from the USA .......