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Free Weird World Records quiz: 89 trivia questions and answers — the craziest records. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
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From the loudest animal to the one with the most teeth, this quiz explores the most surprising records of the animal and natural world. A fun way to test your knowledge of extremes.
This quiz currently has 89 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 17 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: Pistol shrimp. The pistol shrimp produces a 218 decibel sound by snapping its claws.
Answer: Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is the largest by volume and surface area.
Answer: Pacific Ocean. It is home to the Mariana Trench, the deepest point.
Answer: Platypus. The platypus is a monotreme mammal that lays eggs.
Answer: About 11 days. By the end he was hallucinating and had memory problems. Guinness World Records has since stopped recognising this kind of record, considered too dangerous.
Answer: Oymyakon. Cars there sometimes run constantly for fear of not restarting, and children only stay home from school below… -52 °C. Eyelashes freeze as soon as you step outside.
Answer: Anticonstitutionnellement. It is often taught at school as the record. Dictionaries do accept a few even longer but much rarer words, such as 'intergouvernementalisations'.
Answer: Chile. It stretches from the Atacama Desert, one of the driest in the world, to the glaciers of Patagonia. Laid over Europe, it would run from Norway to the Sahara.
Answer: Malala Yousafzai. A Pakistani campaigner for girls' education, she survived a Taliban attack in 2012. She received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Answer: Mid-Atlantic Ridge (underwater). The Mid-Atlantic Ridge stretches approximately 65,000 km.
Answer: Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon. It measures approximately 500 km long and 6,000 metres deep.
Answer: 408 km/h. Recorded during a tropical cyclone in Australia in 1996.
Answer: Papua New Guinea. Steep mountains and isolated valleys allowed hundreds of communities to develop their own language. About one in eight of the world's languages is spoken there.
Answer: Mawsynram. Locals weave turtle-shell 'umbrellas' worn on the head and back. Bridges there are even made from living tree roots.
Answer: Valeri Polyakov. A doctor by training, he wanted to prove a human could last the length of a trip to Mars. On his return, he insisted on walking out of the capsule.
Answer: General Sherman. About 84 metres tall, it exceeds 1,400 m³ of wood and is thought to be over 2,000 years old. Hyperion is taller but much slimmer.
Answer: In Switzerland. It runs beside the Niesen funicular in the Bernese Oberland. It is reserved for maintenance staff, except during a very gruelling annual race.
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