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Can you name the things that rank 2nd in these categories?
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First submittedFebruary 27, 2020
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Category
First
Second
Most traded currency
U.S. Dollar
Euro
Most visited website
Google
YouTube
Largest planet in the solar system
Jupiter
Saturn
Last territory to become a U.S. state
Hawaii
Alaska
Most popular spectator sport in the world
Football
Cricket
Book of the Bible
Genesis
Exodus
Country with the most Olympic medals in swimming
United States
Australia
Highest grossing film of all-time
Avatar
Avengers: Endgame
Deepest lake
Baikal
Tanganyika
First independent country in the New World
United States
Haiti
Most common three letter word in English
The
And
Most-grown crop in the United States
Maize
Soybean
Most recent country to join NATO
Sweden
Finland
First U.S. president
George Washington
John Adams
Most common first name for men in England
during the Middle Ages
John
Thomas
Most common phobias in the U.S.
Public speaking
(Glossophobia)
Death
(Necrophobia)
Letter in the Greek alphabet
Alpha
Beta
Most valuable car company by market cap
Tesla
Toyota
Most-guessed Shakespeare play on this quiz
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Closest country to Cyprus
Turkey
Syria
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37 Comments
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 90
Sep 25, 2024
John Thomas was an extremely popular recurring character in Monty Python. He was like their 5th wheel or 3rd leg.
loganite
+8
Level 90
Sep 25, 2024
This reminds me of the Seinfeld standup routine where he talks about fear of death being second to fear of public speaking and says, "so if you're at a funeral, odds are you'd rather be the one in the casket than the one reading the eulogy!" ;)
mbridge97
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Level 85
Sep 25, 2024
Maybe add "dying" as acceptable for "death". Didn't think to change the form of the word, so went through all the other fears I could think of before time ran out.
cpgatbyu
+2
Level 86
Sep 25, 2024
Maybe "fear of death", too.
Speed4TheNeed
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Level 88
Sep 25, 2024
I tried "dying" as well before moving on. Whether that's allowed or not doesn't really bother me, though. The truth is I had no clue what the answer was, so I could have spent the better part of my remaining minute guessing random phobias. If I would have thought "dying" was close, I probably would have tried "death" fairly quickly.
jdmercia
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Level 85
Sep 25, 2024
Yep I had the same problem, I tried dying and just assumed it wasn’t the right answer when it wasn’t accepted.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 25, 2024
Added some type-ins. Thank you for the suggestions.
Ferbin
+1
Level 77
Nov 4, 2024
I tried thanatophobia and didn't work, so I moved on.
Mikenator
+1
Level 70
Sep 25, 2024
Sweden is the newest Nato-member, Finland second newest.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 25, 2024
Fixed
bigred34
+3
Level 46
Sep 25, 2024
a quick Google search shows many websites saying that Fear of Heights (Acrophobia) is the second most common phobia. Even an AI powered overview says the same thing :)
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Sep 25, 2024
Cool
nations12345eat
+1
Level 34
Oct 31, 2024
can you tell me your source

also see this link https://www.souletherapy.com/single-post/americas-top-7-phobias

brandybuck96
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Level 83
Sep 26, 2024
if you want to be taken seriously, maybe cite sources that aren't "many websites" or "AI powered" lol
ooftownroad
+7
Level 62
Oct 29, 2024
There's no sources for this quiz either
CaptainUnderpant
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Level 80
Sep 29, 2024
To be fair, there aren't any posted sources for what the quiz is claiming either. I see no reason to believe the quiz is more accurate than this comment
WhatIsLove
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Level 60
Oct 29, 2024
Looks like the source is this quiz but I couldn't find the table it references.

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/most-common-phobias

I'm really not a fan of this question because of how ambiguous it is, other sources indeed identify 2 completely different phobias as the top 2 for example. This quiz requires all questions to have a clear unarguable second.

sumguy
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Level 85
Sep 25, 2024
Are you sure that the fear of death you're talking about is necrophobia and not thanatophobia? Necrophobia is the fear of the dead and encompasses related associations like bodies, graves and funeral parlors, whereas thanatophobia is the fear of your own death.
mf3
+1
Level 88
Sep 27, 2024
I thought thanatophobia would be fear of Thanos, in Avengers: Endgame.
jkabq
+1
Level 63
Oct 29, 2024
thats what Thanos means.
Cyclonus
+1
Level 81
Sep 25, 2024
I didn't immediately think of "to", so i just moved on and figured I'd get back to it... but then got it a few questions later when typing "toyota". :-)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 26, 2024
Changed to most common three letter word. Thanks!
Xtrordinary
+3
Level 68
Sep 25, 2024
Why doesn't JetPunk work for the website question
Sifhraven
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Level 72
Oct 3, 2024
I did try it ;) . For me it is Jetpunk, wiktionary, google, wikipedia. Probably in that order.. (Not counting duolingo, since I switched to the app and I used to be on etymonline a lot. But well, jetpunk replaced that. I think those make up over 95% of the websites I use, if not more)
Wistful
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Level 72
Sep 26, 2024
It's a bit dubious, but wasn't Vermont the 2nd country to declare independence in the new world? The Vermont Republic existed from 1777 to 1791 according to Wikipedia, whilst Haiti declared independence in 1801.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
Oct 3, 2024
No Tom for Thomas?
martay
+1
Level 70
Oct 30, 2024
Tom, Tommy, the Tomster, Tom Man, Tom Tom, the Tomster makin' copies, Mr Tom, Tommy!
luxint
+1
Level 66
Oct 29, 2024
Great quiz. Thank you.
idontkn1
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Level 91
Oct 29, 2024
What is the source for the medieval first name question?

According to this https://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/william-agnes-among-the-most-common-names-in-medieval-england/

and this

https://dandavisauthor.com/common-names-early-13th-century-england/

The quiz answer is 7th and most sites I looked at show that it would have been William, Richard or Robert.

nations12345eat
+1
Level 34
Oct 29, 2024
i tried william
nations12345eat
+1
Level 34
Oct 29, 2024
where it says football is it american football or soccer?
erikj
+1
Level 66
Oct 29, 2024
pretty sure it's not American football. The internet claims that AF has 400 million spectators (shared 9th position with basketball), football has about 3.5 billion. (topendsports.com)
ooftownroad
+1
Level 62
Oct 30, 2024
yeah but jetpunk is primarily American, so maybe change it to Football/Soccer
nations12345eat
+1
Level 34
Oct 31, 2024
Islabonita was the one who made this quiz, it doesn't say where he/she lives but quizmaster lives in seattle
nations12345eat
+3
Level 34
Oct 29, 2024
according to https://www.souletherapy.com/single-post/americas-top-7-phobias, it says acrophobia is the second most popular phobia.
jmellor13
+2
Level 67
Oct 30, 2024
I feel certain End Game surpassed Avatar at the box office, and when I look on Wikipedia, the list says End Game "peaked" at #1 all-time and is now #2. Given that it was released after Avatar, it must have passed it if it was at one point the #1 grossing movie. Did Avatar get re-released in the last few years? It seems a bit cheap to count second-run tickets. It was also interesting to learn that John Adams is the second-most first president.
Ferbin
+1
Level 77
Nov 4, 2024
It was re-released. It is quite cheap.

And yeah, it should be just "president", without the "first". The way it's written now, Washington is the first first president.

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