By taking the quiz on the world’s largest/highest/smallest things, you can test your general knowledge of the world’s largest/biggest/highest/smallest things. There are 80 questions in this quiz. If you answer any questions incorrectly, the result page will show you the correct answer with a ‘Learn more’ link.
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#1. The longest river in the world is : ? 4,180 miles long
*The Nile, 4,180 miles long
#2. The deepest/largest ocean in the world is :
* the Pacific Ocean, average depth 13,215 feet and 60,060,700 square miles
#3. The deepest lake in the world is :
*Lake Baikal in southern Russia is the world’s deepest lake. It is an estimated 5,387 feet deep (1,642 meters), and its bottom is approximately 3,893 feet (1,187 meters) below sea level. Lake Baikal is also the world’s largest freshwater lake in terms of volume. Learn more.
#4. The highest mountain peak in the world is :
*Mount Everest, 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) high, located on the border between Nepal and Tibet. Learn more.
#5. The largest delta in the world is :
*The Sunderbans Delta, (Also known as Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta or the Brahmaputra Delta, or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta in the Bengal region of South Asia, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Learn more.
#6. The largest continent in the world is :
*Asia. It spans 17,139,445 square miles – 29.1 percent of Earth’s total land mass — and has a population of 4.1 billion people. Learn more.
#7. The smallest continent in the world is :
* Australia is the world’s smallest continent. In total, it includes 2,967,909 square miles (7,686,884 square kilometers), which is slightly smaller than the country of Brazil as well as the contiguous United States. Learn more.
#8. The biggest country in the world in terms of area is :
*Russia. Total area is 17,098,242(6,601,668) square kilometres. Learn more.
#9. The largest country in the world in terms of population is :
*China. 1,415,045,928 people till 2018. Learn more.
#11. The longest highway in the world is :
*The Pan American Highway – which spans a whopping 48,000km. Learn more.
#12. The largest coffee growing country in the world is :
*Brazil produces about 2,249,010 metric tons of Coffee per year and the Coffee Plantation covers about 27,000 square km in the country with 74% Arabica and 26% Robusta. Learn more.
#13. The coldest place on the earth is :
*The East Antarctic Plateau, where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night. Learn more.
#14. The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is :
*Sicily is the largest island located in the Mediterranean Sea. The 9,927 square miles belong to Italy. Learn more.
#15. The world’s oldest known city is :
*Damascus may have been inhabited as early as 10,000 BC. Learn more.
#17. The driest place in the world is :
*The McMurdo Dry Valleys. Average rainfall per year: 0 millimeters. Learn more.
#18. The highest mountain range in the world is:
*The Himalayas. 8848 meters above sea level and length of the range is 1,500 mi or 2400 km. Learn more.
#19. The highest plateau in the world is :
*The Tibetan plateau covers approximately 2,500,000 km2 (970,000 sq mi), at about 5,000 m (16,000 ft) above sea level. Learn more.
#20. The longest railway in the world is :
*The China-Europe Block Train, also called Yixinou (spanning more than 8,000 miles), the route surpasses the world’s second- and third-longest routes, the Trans-Siberian railway (5,772 miles) and the Moscow-to-Beijing (4,340 miles) train. Learn more.
#21. The longest railway station in the world is : ? In New York
*Grand Central Terminal has 41 tracks on the upper underground level and 26 on the lower. Learn more.
#22. The longest railway platform in the world is : ? in Uttar Pradesh, India
*Gorakhpur railway station: 1,366.33 m (4,483 ft). Learn more.
#23. The longest railway bridge in the world is : ? in China
*The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge opened in June 2011, spanning 102.4 miles (165 kilometers). Learn more.
#24. The largest manganese producing country in the world is :
*South Africa is the world’s largest producer of manganese by a long shot, and in 2017 its output of the metal remained the same at 5.3 million MT. Learn more.
#26. The largest tin producing country in the world is :
*China: 125,000 metric tonnes (2014). Learn more.
#27. The lowest point on the earth is :
*Challenger Deep is the lowest point on Earth, which is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (36,201ft / 11,034m below sea level). Learn more.
#28. The largest/heaviest bell in the world is : ? at Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
*Tsar Bell (also known as the Tsar Kolokol III) weighs 216-tonnes. Learn more.
#29. The biggest sports stadium in the world is : ? in North Korea
*Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang of North Korea Capacity: 150,000. Learn more.
#30. The largest library in the world is : ? in Washington D. C.
*The Library of the U.S. Congress– 164 million items. Learn more.
#32. The lowest/smallest mountain range in the world is : ? in California, USA
*The Sutter Buttes rises almost 2,000 feet (610 meters) above the flat agricultural fields of the Great Valley of central California. Learn more.
#33. The largest bay in the world in terms of shoreline is : ? in Canada
*Hudson Bay is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 km2(470,000 sq mi). Learn more.
#34. The largest church in the world is : ? in Vatican City
*St.Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, 15160 square meters. Learn more.
#35. The largest peninsula in the world is :
* The Arabian Peninsula – 1,250,006 square miles. Learn more.
#36. The largest gulf in the world is :
* The Gulf of Mexico has a coastline of about 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles). Learn more.
#37. The largest railway tunnel in the world is : ? in Switzerland
*The Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. It is 57.104 km (35.5 mi) & 57.017 km (35.4 mi) in length and has 2 tubes. Learn more.
#38. The largest cinema in the world is : ? in Spain
*Kinepolis Madrid in Spain. it can hold up to 9,200 viewers at once and has twenty-five screens. Learn more.
#39. The tallest office building in the world is : ? in Dubai, the UAE
*Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (163 floors, 2,617 feet). Learn more.
#40. The largest car manufacturing company in the world is : ? in Germany
*Volkswagen Group in Germany overtakes Toyota as the world’s biggest carmaker. Learn more.
#41. The biggest bicycle manufacturer in the world is : ? In Taiwan
*Giant Manufacturing in Taiwan. Learn more.
#43. The longest canal in the world is :
*The Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal is the longest and the oldest canal in the world, connecting China’s the Yellow River and Yangtze River and going through several provinces in the country as well as connecting with several other rivers. The canal covers a length of 1,776 km (1,104 mi). Learn more.
#44. The longest wall in the world is : ? in China
*The Great Wall of China. It has a main-line length of 3,460 km (2,150 miles – nearly three times the length of Britain – plus 3,530 km (2,193 miles) of branches and spurs. Learn more.
#45. The largest zoo in the world is : ? in the USA
*San Diego is the largest and best zoo in the world. It covers a total land area of approximately 100 acres. Learn more.
#46. The biggest bird in the world is :
*Ostrich. But the largest (heaviest) flying bird today is the Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) of Africa. Learn more.
#47. The largest creature in the world is :
*The blue whale. It is 30 metres (98 ft) in length and 180 metric tons (200 short tons) or more in weight. The Blue Whale’s tongue weighs around 2.7 metric tons (5,952 pounds), about the size of an average Asian Elephant and its heart weighs about 600 kg (1,300 lb). Learn more.
#48. The largest dam in the world is : ? in China
*The Three Gorges Dam has a massive generating capacity of 22.5 GW. Learn more.
#49. The longest epic in the world is : ? by Vyasa (Sanskrit)
*The Mahabharata. Its longest version consists of over 100,000 śloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines. Learn more.
#50. The deepest river in the world is : ? in Africa
*The Congo River ~ 250 meters (820 ft). Learn more.
#51. The tallest animal in the world is :
*The giraffe measures up to 5.8 m (19 ft) tall to the top of the head, and despite being relatively slender, reaches a top weight of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb). Learn more.
#52. The fastest bird in the world is :
*Peregrine Falcons reach speeds of at least 124 mph and possibly as much as 168 mph when swooping from great heights during territorial displays or while catching pry birds in midair. Learn more.
#53. The smallest bird in the world is :
*Male bee humming birds. They live in Cuba, weigh 0.056 ounces and are 2.75 inches in length. The bill and tail account for half of this length. Learn more.
#54. The hottest place in the world is : ? in California, USA
*Death Valley. Average temperatures reach 47 degrees during summer, and it’s the driest place in the States. Learn more.
#55. The biggest planet of our solar system is :
*Jupiter’s mass, volume, surface area and mean circumference are 1.8981 x 1027 kg, 1.43128 x 1015 km3, 6.1419 x 1010 km2, and 4.39264 x 105 km respectively. Learn more.
#56. The brightest planet of our solar system is :
*Venus can be seen with the unaided eye from Earth. Venus was given the nickname evening star and morning star because of its bright, consistent presence. Learn more.
#57. The smallest planet of our solar system is :
*Mercury is the smallest planet in regards to both mass and volume. It is 4,879 km across and 3.3010 x 1023 kg; this tiny world is nearly 20 times less massive than Earth, and its diameter is about 2½ times smaller. Learn more.
#58. The brightest star is :
*Sirius, also known as the “Dog Star” or, more officially, Alpha Canis Majoris, for its position in the constellation Canis Major. Learn more.
#59. The smallest river in the world is : ? in the USA
*The Roe, Montana, US, 200 feet (61 m) long at its longest constant point, and had been named as the World’s Shortest River. Learn more.
#60. The largest sea in the world is :
* The Philippine Sea. Its surface area is 5,688,163 square km, the seabed is 5,718,199 square km, water volume is 24,785,853. Learn more.
#61. The smallest ocean in the world is :
*The Arctic Ocean. It has an area of about 6.1 million square miles and is about 1.5 times as big as the United States. It is bordered by Greenland, Canada, Norway, Alaska, and Russia. The average depth of the Arctic Ocean is 3,953 feet and it is 18,264 feet at its deepest point. Learn more.
#62. The largest lake by area in the world is :
* The Caspian Sea has the greatest surface area of any lake at 143,200 square miles (370,886 square kilometers) while Lake Baikal is the world’s largest freshwater lake in terms of volume Learn more.
#63. The largest freshwater lake in the world is : ? between US and Canada
*Lake Superior, US-Canada, is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest by volume. Its surface area is approximately 31,700 square miles. Learn more.
#64. The largest bay in the world in terms of area is :
*The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 square kilometres (839,000 sq mi). Learn more.
#65. The highest lake in the world is : ? in Peru
* Lake Titicaca has an elevation of 12,507 feet (3,812 meters) in the Andean Altiplano and is the highest large lake in the world. Learn more.
#66. The lowest lake in the world is : ? between Israel and Jordan
*The Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan. The surface of its water is 1,340 ft (408 m) below sea level. Learn more.
#68. The largest waterfall in the world is : ? between Zimbabwe and Zambia
*Victoria Falls is often called the largest waterfall in the world, although it is neither the highest nor the widest. It has a width of 1.7 kilometers (1 miles) and height of 108 meters (360 ft), roughly twice the height of North America’s Niagara Falls. Learn more.
#69. The highest waterfall in the world is : ? in Venezuela
*The highest or tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls, or Kerepakupai Merú, meaning ‘waterfall of the deepest place’, in Venezuela, which drop a reported 979 metres. Learn more.
#70. The deepest underwater trench in the world is : ? in the Pacific Ocean
*The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. In 2010 the United States Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping measured the depth of the Challenger Deep at 10,994 meters (36,070 feet) below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of ± 40 meters. Learn more.
#71. The largest gorge in the world is : ? in Tibet
*The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon (or Tsangpo Canyon), along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, is regarded by some as the deepest canyon in the world at 5,500 m (18,000 ft). It is slightly longer than the Grand Canyon in the United States. Learn more.
#72. The deepest gorge in the world is : ? in Nepal
*The Kali Gandaki Gorge is the world’s deepest. The Gandaki river flows through the gorge is older than the Himalayas and has (at its lowest point) an elevation of 1300 metres, creating a difference of 6800 metres (from the highest peak). Learn more.
#73. The largest archipelago in the world is :
*Malay Archipelago, the largest group of islands in the world, consist of the more than 17,000 islands of Indonesia and the approximately 7,000 islands of the Philippines. Learn more.
#74. The northernmost capital in the world is :
*Reykjavik is the world’s northernmost capital of a sovereign state, lying at 64°08 ′N. Learn more.
#75. The highest capital in the world is :
*La Paz, the administrative and de facto capital of Bolivia, stands at an altitude of 11,913 feet above sea level. Learn more.
#76. The highest mountain in the world is :
*Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain because it has the “highest elevation above sea level.” We could also say that it has the “highest altitude.” The peak of Mount Everest is 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) above sea level. Learn more.
#79. The nearest star to our solar system is :
*The two main stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which form a binary pair. They are an average of 4.3 light-years from Earth. The third star is Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.22 light-years from earth and is the closest star other than the sun. Learn more.
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