1. What number comes right after four when you count?
Answer: five

2. What Roman numeral follows IV?
Answer: V

3. What word describes someone in fifth place?
Answer: fifth

4. What group size comes after four friends?
Answer: quintet

5. What 5-sided shape comes after a square?
Answer: pentagon

6. What clap do you give someone after four high-fives?
Answer: high five

7. What’s the five-letter word that follows the sequence “one, two, three, four”?
Answer: five

8. What hand signal comes after showing four fingers?
Answer: a thumbs-up

9. In music, what time signature can follow 4/4 in variety?
Answer: 5/4

10. What position is immediately after fourth on a podium?
Answer: fifth place

11. If a clock shows 4 o’clock, what hour is next?
Answer: 5 o’clock

12. After four minutes, what’s the next minute called?
Answer: the fifth minute

13. In a sprint relay, what runner follows the fourth runner?
Answer: anchor (if there’s a fifth)

14. In card ranks, what rank comes after four?
Answer: five (card)

15. In the alphabet, what letter comes after D (the 4th)?
Answer: E

16. After the fourth day of the workweek (Thursday in some calendars), what day comes next?
Answer: Friday

17. After four weeks, what unit of time completes?
Answer: one month (approximately)

18. If you stack four books, what’s the next piece to add to make five?
Answer: one more book

19. What scale degree comes after the fourth in music?
Answer: the fifth (dominant)

20. After four pushes on an elevator, what happens on the next push?
Answer: it goes to the fifth floor

21. After four acts in a play, what might follow?
Answer: the curtain call

22. After four quarters in a game, what usually comes next?
Answer: overtime

23. After four wheels on a car, what extra wheel might follow?
Answer: spare tire

24. After four seasons, what phrase describes the cycle restarting?
Answer: seasonal renewal

25. After four bytes (a nibble ×2), what unit comes next?
Answer: a quintet of bytes (not standard) — or simply a fifth byte

26. After four directions (N, E, S, W), what direction is often added?
Answer: center (or northeast, etc.)

27. After four pieces in a chess opening, what comes next?
Answer: development move

28. After giving four clues, what might a riddle-master do next?
Answer: reveal hint five

29. After four wheels roll, what sound often follows?
Answer: an engine hum

30. After four steps forward, what step comes next?
Answer: the fifth step

31. After four cups of tea, what might a host offer?
Answer: a biscuit

32. After four stitches, what does a seamstress do next?
Answer: knot the thread

33. After four guests arrive, what usually follows?
Answer: the host’s welcome

34. After four colors on a flag, what might be added for contrast?
Answer: an accent stripe

35. After four notes in a melody, what often follows?
Answer: the resolving note

36. After four syllables in a phrase, what might come next?
Answer: the fifth syllable

37. After four laps around the track, what’s the usual finish?
Answer: the finish line

38. After four points in tennis (40), what happens next if you win the point?
Answer: game

39. After four questions on a quiz, what often follows?
Answer: the fifth question

40. After four candles are lit (Advent), what comes next?
Answer: Christmas

41. After four strokes in rowing, what comes next?
Answer: the fifth stroke

42. After four ingredients in a recipe, what does a chef usually add?
Answer: seasoning

43. After four letters in a word, what letter might you type next?
Answer: the fifth letter

44. After four stops on a bus route, what’s the next thing the driver does?
Answer: proceed to the fifth stop

45. After four base hits in baseball by one team, what’s the next stat that might jump?
Answer: runs scored

46. After four nodes in a network path, what comes next?
Answer: the fifth node

47. After four beats in a bar, what follows in most Western music?
Answer: the next bar

48. After four candles on a cake, what’s the usual wish?
Answer: make a wish

49. After four wards in some hospitals, what comes next administratively?
Answer: the fifth ward

50. After four letters in the abbreviation “WWW.”, what comes next in a web address?
Answer: domain name

51. After four consecutive wins, what might a team aim for?
Answer: a five-game streak

52. After four pages of a book, where do you look next?
Answer: page five

53. After four chords in a progression, what might a musician play?
Answer: a turnaround

54. After four candles in a lantern, what’s the result?
Answer: brighter glow

55. After four seasons of a TV show, what often follows?
Answer: renewal (a new season)

56. After four siblings are counted, what comes next in the family?
Answer: the fifth child

57. After four stitches in medicine, what’s the next step?
Answer: suture knot

58. After four bytes equal 32 bits?
Answer: (correction) four bytes = 32 bits only if bytes are 8 bits; next is five bytes

59. After four games in a series, what might happen?
Answer: decisive game

60. After four zeroes in a number (1,0000), what place value appears?
Answer: ten-thousand

61. After four letters in the word “four,” what letter comes next in the alphabet sequence?
Answer: E

62. After four seasons of growth, what does nature show?
Answer: maturity

63. After four cubes stacked, what is the next cube in the stack?
Answer: the fifth cube

64. After four friends form a group, who could join to make it five?
Answer: a new friend

65. After four acts in a Shakespeare-style play, what might the playwright add?
Answer: epilogue

66. After four letters in a postal code, what comes next?
Answer: the fifth character

67. After four trains arrive, what might the station announce?
Answer: the next departure

68. After four bites, what might a hungry diner ask for?
Answer: more food

69. After four players on a team, what role might be added?
Answer: a substitute

70. After four colors mixed, what could the artist create?
Answer: a new hue

71. After four steps in a recipe, what often follows?
Answer: combine ingredients

72. After four chapters in a novel, what usually develops?
Answer: plot twist

73. After four gears engaged on a bike, what gear comes next?
Answer: the fifth gear

74. After four seasons, what sport’s playoffs might begin?
Answer: postseason

75. After four letters make an acronym, what might the fifth letter do?
Answer: change the meaning

76. After four test attempts, what might a student do next?
Answer: review mistakes

77. After four pips on dice, what number could you roll next?
Answer: five pips

78. After four wheels, what vehicle part might be added for support?
Answer: stabilizer

79. After four candies in your hand, what’s next if you take one more?
Answer: you have five candies

80. After four points scored, what usually happens in volleyball scoring?
Answer: the score increases to five

81. After four letters, what can make the word plural?
Answer: add -s

82. After four friends laugh, what might happen next in the joke?
Answer: the punchline

83. After four rounds in a contest, what often decides the winner?
Answer: the final round

84. After four notes on a piano, what’s the next key called (stepwise)?
Answer: the fifth key

85. After four vignettes in a story, what might an author add?
Answer: a connecting scene

86. After four layers of paint, what does the painter usually apply?
Answer: finish coat

87. After four sips of coffee, what might you feel?
Answer: awake

88. After four doors down the hall, which door is next?
Answer: the fifth door

89. After four clues are used, what might a detective do?
Answer: form a hypothesis

90. After four phone calls, what might the receptionist do?
Answer: log the messages

91. After four acts of kindness, what might a friend do?
Answer: return the favor

92. After four sprinkles on a cupcake, what’s the next decoration?
Answer: a cherry

93. After four lights change green in a row, what usually appears?
Answer: red (eventually)

94. After four decades, what’s the next milestone?
Answer: half-century approaching

95. After four colors on a traffic signal (rare), what could the fourth be?
Answer: pedestrian signal

96. After four equations solved, what might a student attempt?
Answer: a proof

97. After four letters in your initials, what comes next on a form?
Answer: full name

98. After four volunteers sign up, what role is still needed?
Answer: coordinator

99. After four corners of a square, what shape edge comes next if you add one more corner?
Answer: a pentagon corner

100. After four riddles in a set, what’s the next thing the riddle-writer often does?
Answer: creates the fifth riddle