World Records & Landmarks

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1.Which parliament on the Isle of Man is often described as one of the world's oldest continuous parliaments?
- A. the end-of-year house cleaning
- B. the Edinburgh Fringe
- C. the Tynwald
- D. the modern pencil
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the Tynwald
Did you know? The Tynwald claims more than a thousand years of history.
2.Which particle accelerator near Geneva is the world's largest particle accelerator?
- A. the Large Hadron Collider
- B. the food truck
- C. popcorn at the movies
- D. ThrustSSC
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the Large Hadron Collider
Did you know? The Large Hadron Collider is a 27 km ring under the French-Swiss border.
3.Which railway links Moscow with Vladivostok across about 9,289 km, the longest railway line in the world?
- A. freckles
- B. the Trans-Siberian Railway
- C. the Thai wai
- D. gift wrapping
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the Trans-Siberian Railway
Did you know? The Trans-Siberian Railway crosses eight time zones.
4.Which railway station in Tokyo is the world's busiest railway station by daily passenger flow?
- A. basketball
- B. the New Year's resolution
- C. Paul Cézanne
- D. Shinjuku Station
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Shinjuku Station
Did you know? Shinjuku Station has more than 200 exits.
5.Which railway tunnel runs about 57 km under the Swiss Alps as the world's longest railway tunnel?
- A. the Gotthard Base Tunnel
- B. the bikini
- C. Machado de Assis
- D. hanami
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the Gotthard Base Tunnel
Did you know? The Gotthard Base Tunnel opened in 2016 under the Swiss Alps.
6.Which seaport has ranked as the world's busiest container port since 2010?
- A. a dialect
- B. the Port of Shanghai
- C. the statue of David
- D. the slinky
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the Port of Shanghai
Did you know? The Port of Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
7.Which swimsuit was launched in 1946 and named after a Pacific atoll used for atomic tests?
- A. the fondue
- B. the bikini
- C. origami
- D. Edgar Allan Poe
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the bikini
Did you know? Designer Louis Réard chose the name days after the Bikini Atoll tests.
8.Which tunnel links England and France with the longest undersea section of any tunnel in the world?
- A. hot pot
- B. Tiananmen Square
- C. the Channel Tunnel
- D. birthday cake candles
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the Channel Tunnel
Did you know? The Channel Tunnel opened in 1994 after six years of digging.
9.Which vehicle holds the world land speed record?
- A. the TGV high-speed train
- B. ThrustSSC
- C. the Concorde
- D. a Formula 1 car
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ThrustSSC
Did you know? ThrustSSC broke the sound barrier on land in 1997.
10.Which material was rediscovered in 1951 by Harry Coover, who had first dismissed the sticky compound years earlier?
- A. the pop-up toaster
- B. Journey to the West
- C. super glue
- D. the Port of Shanghai
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super glue
Did you know? Coover had rejected the compound as useless for clear gun sights.
11.Which building held the title of world's tallest from 1931 to 1972?
- A. the Willis Tower
- B. the Empire State Building
- C. the Chrysler Building
- D. the Eiffel Tower
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the Empire State Building
Did you know? The Empire State Building was raised in about 410 days.
12.Which amusement park near Copenhagen is often cited as the world's oldest operating amusement park?
- A. Belgium
- B. Bakken
- C. the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
- D. the tooth fairy
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Bakken
Did you know? Bakken opened in 1583 beside a natural spring.
13.Which bridge carries a high-speed rail line near Shanghai across about 164 km as the world's longest bridge?
- A. the sticky note
- B. the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
- C. Les Misérables
- D. the jigsaw puzzle
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the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
Did you know? The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge opened in 2011.
14.Which burial site in Suffolk revealed a buried Anglo-Saxon ship treasure in 1939?
- A. Fauvism
- B. a synonym
- C. Impression, Sunrise
- D. Sutton Hoo
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Sutton Hoo
Did you know? Sutton Hoo's treasure included a famous ceremonial helmet.
15.Which castle in Poland is the largest castle in the world by surface area?
- A. Jackson Pollock
- B. karaoke
- C. the parachute
- D. Malbork Castle
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Malbork Castle
Did you know? Malbork Castle was built by the Teutonic Knights.
16.Which cave revealed its Paleolithic ceiling paintings in 1879 to a girl exploring with her father?
- A. the microwave oven
- B. the wrist pulse
- C. the Altamira cave
- D. The Metamorphosis
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the Altamira cave
Did you know? Altamira's bison paintings decorate the ceiling of a cave in northern Spain.
17.Which cave system in Kentucky is the longest known cave system in the world, with over 600 km mapped?
- A. Mammoth Cave
- B. eating with the right hand
- C. the Harbin Ice Festival
- D. coffee to go
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Mammoth Cave
Did you know? Mammoth Cave is a United States national park.
18.Which combat submarine built by David Bushnell in 1775, was the first submarine used in combat?
- A. the Turtle
- B. splitting the bill
- C. German
- D. The Arnolfini Portrait
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the Turtle
Did you know? The Turtle was a one-person egg-shaped craft powered by hand cranks.
19.Which fence in Australia stretches for thousands of kilometers as one of the longest fences in the world?
- A. the bow
- B. Girl with a Pearl Earring
- C. Florence
- D. the Dingo Fence
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the Dingo Fence
Did you know? The Dingo Fence was built to keep dingoes away from sheep flocks.
20.Which flood barrier project guards the Dutch coast as one of the world's largest flood protection systems?
- A. Count Dracula
- B. congee
- C. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- D. the Delta Works
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the Delta Works
Did you know? The Delta Works were built after the 1953 North Sea flood.
21.Which crossing links Denmark and Sweden by road and rail?
- A. the Channel Tunnel
- B. the Golden Gate Bridge
- C. the Øresund Bridge
- D. the Bosporus Bridge
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the Øresund Bridge
Did you know? The Øresund Bridge even has a tunnel section at its Swedish end.
22.Which monument in St. Louis rises 192 m as the tallest monument in the United States?
- A. Earth Day
- B. the Gateway Arch
- C. Loy Krathong
- D. the colossal squid
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the Gateway Arch
Did you know? The Gateway Arch commemorates the westward expansion of the United States.
23.Which museum complex in Washington, D.C., is the world's largest museum and research complex?
- A. waiting for the host
- B. the Klencke Atlas
- C. the Smithsonian
- D. an antonym
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the Smithsonian
Did you know? The Smithsonian grew from a bequest by English scientist James Smithson.
24.Which plant a palm of the Seychelles produces the heaviest seed in the world?
- A. the countdown
- B. the coco de mer
- C. Mandarin Chinese
- D. St. Patrick's Day
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the coco de mer
Did you know? The coco de mer seed can weigh around 20 kg.
25.Which railway crosses the Tibetan Plateau above 5,000 m as the world's highest railway?
- A. the Neanderthal
- B. the Qinghai–Tibet Railway
- C. The Stranger
- D. the Great Pyramid of Giza
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the Qinghai–Tibet Railway
Did you know? The Qinghai–Tibet Railway opened in 2006.
26.Which seed vault inside an Arctic mountain stores backup seeds from around the world?
- A. the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- B. the New Year's resolution
- C. shorthand
- D. popcorn at the movies
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the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Did you know? The Svalbard vault is built on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.
27.Which stadium in Pyongyang is widely listed as the world's largest stadium by capacity?
- A. the Adam's apple
- B. The Tale of Genji
- C. the Germanic languages
- D. Rungrado 1st of May Stadium
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Rungrado 1st of May Stadium
Did you know? Rungrado 1st of May Stadium can seat well over 100,000 spectators.
28.Which tree in California is the largest known tree in the world by volume?
- A. The Scream
- B. the foot arch
- C. Katherine Johnson
- D. the General Sherman tree
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the General Sherman tree
Did you know? The General Sherman is a giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada.
29.Which zoo in Vienna is often cited as the world's oldest zoo still in operation?
- A. Schönbrunn Zoo
- B. calluses
- C. Itaipu
- D. Yellowstone
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Schönbrunn Zoo
Did you know? Schönbrunn Zoo was founded in 1752.
30.Which sea creature is the largest invertebrate known to science?
- A. the colossal squid
- B. the lobster
- C. the giant octopus
- D. the box jellyfish
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the colossal squid
Did you know? The colossal squid lives in the deep waters around Antarctica.
31.Which is the oldest surviving dated printed book?
- A. the Gutenberg Bible
- B. the Domesday Book
- C. the Book of Kells
- D. the Diamond Sutra
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the Diamond Sutra
Did you know? The Diamond Sutra was printed in China in 868.

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