Champagne bottle sizes

[davver]

super, magnum, nebuchadnezzar, methuselah... what order do they go in, what sizes are they and why those names?

[moonacre]

Quarter-Bottle (6.3 fluid ounces), Half-Bottle (12.7 fluid ounces), Bottle (25.4 fluid ounces), Magnum (50.8 fluid ounces 2 bottles), Jeroboam (101.6 fluid ounces 4 bottles), Rehoboam (147 fluid ounces 6 bottles), Methuselah (196 fluid ounces 8 bottles), Salmanazar (304.8 fluid ounces 12 bottles), Balthazar (406.4 fluid ounces 16 bottles), Nebuchadnezzar (508 fluid ounces 20 bottles). How they got their names isn't known for sure. Someone started it all by calling a bottle Jeroboam ( the founder and first king of Israel). Biblical names were then used to name other sizes of bottles.