Record Breakers Quiz

Question 1

What is the tallest building in the world?

Accepted Answer

Burj Khalifa

Answer

Empire State Building

Answer

Shanghai Tower

Answer

One World Trade Center

Question 2

What is the longest river in the world?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Answer

Amazon

Answer

Mississippi

Answer

Yangtze

Question 3

Which country is the largest in the world by land area?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Answer

USA

Answer

Canada

Answer

China

Question 4

What is the world's smallest country by area?

Accepted Answer

Vatican City

Answer

Monaco

Answer

San Marino

Answer

Liechtenstein

Question 5

Which is the world's most populous country?

Accepted Answer

India

Answer

USA

Answer

China

Answer

Indonesia

Question 6

What is the world's deepest lake?

Accepted Answer

Lake Baikal

Answer

Lake Superior

Answer

Lake Titicaca

Answer

Caspian Sea

Question 7

What is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level?

Accepted Answer

Mount Everest

Answer

K2

Answer

Kangchenjunga

Answer

Denali

Question 8

Which ocean is the largest in the world?

Accepted Answer

Pacific

Answer

Atlantic

Answer

Indian

Answer

Arctic

Question 9

What is the world's longest wall?

Accepted Answer

The Great Wall of China

Answer

Hadrian's Wall

Answer

The Berlin Wall

Answer

The Israeli West Bank Wall

Question 10

Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Uranus

Answer

Neptune

Question 11

What is the world's largest desert?

Accepted Answer

Antarctica

Answer

The Sahara

Answer

The Arabian Desert

Answer

The Gobi Desert

Question 12

What is the world's most spoken language (by native speakers)?

Accepted Answer

Mandarin Chinese

Answer

English

Answer

Spanish

Answer

Hindi

Question 13

What is the world's oldest university still in operation?

Accepted Answer

Bologna University

Answer

Oxford University

Answer

Paris University (Sorbonne)

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Cambridge University

Question 14

What is the lowest natural point on Earth's surface?

Accepted Answer

The Dead Sea shore

Answer

Death Valley

Answer

The Mariana Trench

Answer

The bottom of Lake Baikal

Question 15

Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Answer

USA

Answer

Australia

Answer

Norway

Question 16

What is the world's best-selling book of all time (excluding the Bible)?

Accepted Answer

Don Quixote

Answer

Harry Potter (series)

Answer

The Lord of the Rings

Answer

A Tale of Two Cities

Question 17

What is the fastest speed ever recorded for a land animal?

Accepted Answer

112 km/h

Answer

100 km/h

Answer

130 km/h

Answer

140 km/h

Question 18

Which country has won the most Nobel Prizes?

Accepted Answer

USA

Answer

UK

Answer

Germany

Answer

Japan

Question 19

What is the world's largest living organism?

Accepted Answer

Honey fungus in Oregon

Answer

Blue whale

Answer

Giant sequoia tree

Answer

A giant clam

Question 20

What is the world's oldest known living tree?

Accepted Answer

Methuselah (a bristlecone pine)

Answer

The General Sherman sequoia

Answer

A Greenland spruce

Answer

An olive tree in Crete