The Second Best Quiz Quiz

Can you name the 2nd place answers?

created by HinduJesus

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*- not including the Antarctic and Arctic Deserts, which are technically the two largest, but not really what we think of when we hear the word "desert."
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Hint	Answer	What's First?
2nd longest river		Nile
2nd largest country by area		Russia
2nd person in space		Yuri Gagarin
2nd most popular website		Google
2nd largest lake		Caspian Sea
2nd most popular tourist destination		France
2nd highest mountain		Mount Everest
2nd most common cause of death		Respiratory Infection
2nd most populous nation		China
2nd most spoken language		Mandarin Chinese
2nd most abundant element in the universe		Hydrogen
2nd most used letter in the English language		E
2nd smallest country in the world		Vatican City
2nd largest desert*		Sahara
2nd largest land animal		Elephant

Hint	Answer	What's First?
2nd best selling album of all time		Thriller
2nd most World Series championships		New York Yankees
2nd most abundant element in the Earth's crust		Oxygen
2nd city to by destroyed by nuclear warfare		Hiroshima
2nd best selling book of all time		The Bible
2nd smallest US state		Rhode Island
2nd most consecutive MLB games played		Cal Ripken, Jr.
2nd Pope		Saint Peter
2nd most common world religion		Christianity
2nd largest planet		Jupiter
2nd largest bone in the human body		Femur
2nd man on the moon		Neil Armstrong
2nd to last book of the Bible		Revelation
2nd largest sea		Arabian
2nd tallest building in the world		Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai)
2nd most number of total speakers, but not native speakers	Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai)

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The Second Best Quiz

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Created Mar 17, 2010 in Miscellaneous
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	HinduJesus:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:09 GMT		2 points
	Any more suggestions for second things would be appreciated. Also, I have absolutely no idea why those three answers show up when you type the letter "a."

	Golden:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:28 GMT		1 point
	its four answers for me! That needs to be fixed. Also - I don't know who Chariman Mao, and even if you spelled it correctly, Little Red Book ought to be accepted and isn't. Good idea for a quiz though, but please fix up the little things so it's well executed.

	Fidelio:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:36 GMT		7 points
	Lake Superior should be accepted. Also, isn't the Eagles' greatest hits record the second best selling album of all time? It may be Back in Black if you don't count greatest hits albums, but if that's the case, you should specify it.

	caramba:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:39 GMT		0 points
	Rhino... spelled wrong, so I had to stop there. Will come back later.

	tcunningham12:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:40 GMT		1 point
	highest not higest

	caramba:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:40 GMT		2 points
	@HinduJesus: This stuff usually happens if you have a blank space, or nothing after a "/".

	HinduJesus:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:52 GMT		1 point
	Back in Black has sold 49 million copies, Eagles Greatest Hits has sold 42. These are world figures, you may be talking about American figures. I've fixed the spelling errors and added the suggested accepted answers, however, that now moves the number of surprise "a" answers up to 6. Still don't know why. I've emailed Sporcle, hopefully they get back to me soon.

	HinduJesus:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:03 GMT		1 point
	Surprise answer problem seems to be fixed. I disabled 1 character answers. I originally thought that it wouldn't accept "T" unless that option was selected, but I was mistaken. Quix is in perfect working order now.

	ellebob:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:28 GMT		1 point
	...except it won't accept T! (without adding a space)

	HinduJesus:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 02:35 GMT		1 point
	Okay, T is now accepted again, and the Surprise "a" answers seem to have stopped. We'll see how long it lasts....

	naturefreak2101:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 16:05 GMT		0 points
	Loved the quiz! You need a little grammar and tidying in your info-blurb up top, and I would also accept heart attack as a form of (or the end of) heart disease. Otherwise, very clever! 5/5

	Squinta:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 17:21 GMT		-3 points
	I would allow other possible spellings of Shepard, such as 'Sheppard' and 'Shepherd', both of which I tried to no avail. Good quiz though.

	csl:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 17:45 GMT		4 points
	Minor correction, but the last book of the Bible is "Revelation," not "Revelations."

	baconstud01:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 18:08 GMT		1 point
	I like the quiz...could be more lenient on 'heart disease' though. Shouldn't 'cardiac arrest' or even 'heart attack' count? That's technically what's killing you.

	HinduJesus:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 20:35 GMT		1 point
	Thank you for the suggestions, they've been added.

	betraisefold:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 23:27 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz - I hope you can get it working properly soon. Typing 'a' still triggers the answers for 2nd person in space and 2nd largest sea, in addition to what caramba said I notice this quite often happens when I type // instead of /. I would also display the answers as Lake Superior and South China Sea since that is what they are most commonly called to the best of my knowledge, although I would still accept Superior and South China. As people pointed out to me when I did the exact same thing Sahara is a more proper way to refer to the desert (Sahara itself means desert apparently) and neither of the two cities were truly destroyed by the atomic bombings, although I can't think of better wording at the moment.

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	mybeaglebelle:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 01:59 GMT		1 point
	If this is the 2nd best, whats the first? :p

	mrpotwtf69:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 02:31 GMT		1 point
	surprise is back I have 3 answers coming up, the heart disease answer, second person in space answer and 2nd longest river answer

	HinduJesus:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 05:54 GMT		1 point
	The Surprise A problem is fixed again, however, since I do not know why it happens nor how I fixed it, I doubt that it will stay fixed. I have still not received a response from Sporcle, so hopefully they get back to me soon. @betraisefold - thanks for your suggestions, they'd been added to the quiz.

	betraisefold:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 07:42 GMT		1 point
	It seems to be working now, good job. I did notice that Cardinals alone wasn't accepted and should be but since the quiz is now working as it should I have made it an editor's pick.

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	HinduJesus:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 03:23 GMT		4 points
	@newenglander: That's why I put an asterisk.

	dragonscale333:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 21:50 GMT		-1 points
	Didn't Islam surpass Christianity as the most popular religion in the world last year?

	HinduJesus:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 22:13 GMT		1 point
	@dragonscale333: Not quite. Christianity still has anywhere from 100 million to 400 million more followers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

	kristen58:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 23:45 GMT		1 point
	Isn't heart disease the #1 cause of death?

	HinduJesus:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 04:42 GMT		2 points
	@kristen58: In the US, but not in the world.

	Jam1:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 11:26 GMT		1 point
	Actually the 2nd most spoken language is Hindi. Spanish is 3rd.

	HinduJesus:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 15:11 GMT		1 point
	@jam1: incorrect. Spanish has the second most number of native speakers, while English has the second most number of total speakers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

	thisisaname:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 02:37 GMT		1 point
	Could you accept Rub al-Khali for Arabian Desert?

	HinduJesus:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 06:33 GMT		2 points
	@thisisaname: they are not the same desert. Rub al-Khali is part of the Arabian Desert. That would be akin to accepting "Texas" for "United States."

	joestein:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 14:49 GMT		3 points
	I was gonna say the second thing that Allen Iverson's talking about, but there's only one thing he's talking about: Practice.

	Scottique:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 12:41 GMT		1 point
	You asked for suggestions for other second things. My suggestions are "Second-closest star to Earth" (Alpha Centauri/Proxima Centauri, after the Sun, of course), "Second wife of Henry VIII" (Anne Boleyn), and "Second finisher in a horse race" (Place, where first is Win and third is Show). Great quiz! Thanks for accepting "Little Red Book." I knew it was Mao's book, but I can never remember the actual title, because the title "Quotations from Chairman Mao" is so dull--everybody knows it as just the Little Red Book!