Can you name the the thing that would precede each clue in alphabetical order?

Clue	Alphabetically Prior	Theme
…Paraguay, Peru…		Countries of the World
…Iridium, Iron…		Periodic Table Elements
…Maryland, Massachusetts…		U.S. States
…December, February…		Months
…Challenger, Columbia…		Space Shuttles
…Dancer, Dasher…		Santa's Reindeer
…Pisces, Sagittarius…		Signs of the Zodiac
…Demeter, Dionysus…		Greek Olympian Gods
…Grumpy, Happy…		Seven Dwarfs
…Mars, Mercury…		Planets
…Pierce, Polk…		U.S. Presidents
...Michigan, Ontario...		The Great Lakes

Clue	Alphabetically Prior	Theme
…Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc...		Pixar Movies
…England, France…		FIFA World Cup Winners
…Dalton, Lazenby…		James Bond Actors*
…Cardinals, Cubs…		MLB Team Names
…Greg, Jan…		Brady Bunch Kids
…Chatham, Churchill…		U.K. Prime Ministers
…Indian, Pacific…		Oceans of the World
…Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Richard II...		Shakespeare Plays
…Asia, Australia…		Continents
…Saturday, Sunday…		Days of the Week
…Preposition, Pronoun…		Parts of Speech
…Ezekiel, Ezra…		Old Testament Books

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Alphabetically Prior Quiz

by caramba

Created May 4, 2010 in Miscellaneous
Featured Jun 3, 2010
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	gowhere:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 19:37 GMT	9 points
	Why is the response on the oceans arctic and not atlantic? Do I not understand the quiz correctly?

	SporcleAdmin:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 19:42 GMT	8 points
	Whoops, sorry, the ocean clue has been fixed.

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	caramba:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 19:48 GMT	6 points
	Oceans must have been stuck in there just before publication - perhaps the original Canadian provinces was too "provincial"!

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	caramba:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:08 GMT	12 points
	@imbetterthanu001: You probably aren't expecting a response to that remark but, here's what was going on inside this quizmaker's head. Obama is the current president of the USA. Obama is routinely in the middle of the pack in the quiz results tables for Presidents quizzes. He is not as obvious an answer as you would think! In fact, in this particular quiz, Obama has currently been answered correctly less than 46% of the time!

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	irice22:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:15 GMT	34 points
	Incredibles should be after Finding Nemo, not Monsters Inc.

	agrigator717:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:17 GMT	11 points
	@ Wilson & @ Slew: Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. Hope that helps! =)

	caramba:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:22 GMT	-4 points
	@irice22: Another question added after I contributed the quiz, but I can answer your point. The title is "The Incredibles". Although "The" and "A" are dropped for many movie quiz title games, when you go strictly alphabetical, the movie title really does begin with a T, not an I. Otherwise, people will argue the other way.

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	adal:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:37 GMT	28 points
	Hmm..Country with PA? Pakistan! No, after that... Palau! No, after that... Panama! No?!? How can there possibly be another one in between PAN.. and PAR.. ?!? ... Three Minutes later... AAHHAA! (In other words: nice choice on that one. As with most of them really)

	tk925:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:47 GMT	7 points
	I must admit, I'm pretty astonished that 91% of people didn't get the British Prime Minister. I spent a second puzzled that it wasn't David Cameron, but it's someone far more memorable. Purely for reasons related to the Simpsons, I'd still have preferred Lord Palmerston or Pitt the Elder, though.

	caramba:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 20:55 GMT	1 point
	@tk925: Funny, I wanted to use one of those two, as well, but I believe the answer would have been too obscure or subject to debate. (and we have to protect poor Wade Boggs). ...not that every answer isn't going to be debated by somebody...

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	89Hen:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 21:25 GMT	5 points
	Good quiz. I kept wanting to put in 'participle' for the parts of speech.

	Hejman:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 21:43 GMT	6 points
	If I turned my monitor upside down for the calculator quiz, can I turn it backwards for this one? Apparently my mind just doesn't work in this direction!

	smreidy113:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 22:04 GMT	13 points
	oh, brady bunch, you always have to be in the way of good quiz results.

	shapular:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 22:59 GMT	7 points
	Did anybody else naturally put Monday after "...Saturday, Sunday...", forgetting that you were supposed to be thinking alphabetically, and get it right anyway?

	Woopee:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 23:00 GMT	8 points
	and here I was thinking that there was no president whose name starts with "O"...

	mavrxboy2:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 23:42 GMT	8 points
	I'm surprised the Atlantic Ocean came in 5th. There are four oceans. This quiz names two of them FOR you... you don't know the other two?... You've never heard of the Atlantic Ocean? Come on now.

	rockhopperlad:	Jun 3rd, 2010 at 23:50 GMT	-3 points
	I somehow overlooked the MLB teams clue altogether. I didn't know the Pixar movie. Other than that, got them all. Great quiz.

	jaho:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 00:06 GMT	8 points
	The British Prime Minister one is difficult because there are several possibilities not far before Chatham alphabetically (Blair, Brown, and Cameron in addition to the correct one.)

	koopa08:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 00:46 GMT	5 points
	Just out of curiosity, why add the second word in the clues category???

	caramba:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 00:57 GMT	9 points
	@koopa08: Because that's how it was done in the original Alphabetically Next quiz! You'll have to ask enough. I do like the format; it's like you're filling in a list.

	Fish1987:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 01:14 GMT	2 points
	Spent nearly three minutes trying to figure out what could possibly come between Panama and Paraguay, but other than that, nice quiz!

	MghtyRoach:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 01:28 GMT	4 points
	@caramba: No, if you're doing it strictly alphabetically you _always drop the article_ no matter what. To be anything remotely considered correct in English, The Incredibles comes after Finding Nemo.

	NightOwl:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 01:29 GMT	4 points
	For those who wanted to use "predicate" or "participle" for parts of speech, you were close, but no cigar. They are indeed related to verbs (a part of speech), but predicate refers to the part of the sentence containing the verb (and usually other words) and which says something about the subject. A participle is a form of a verb used as an adjective to describe something, such as "singing waiter."

	Hen1:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 09:34 GMT	4 points
	"Richard I" isn't a Shakespeare play, it's "Richard II" you're thinking of.

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