Geography · World records
World Records Trivia Quiz
Biggest, Tallest, Deepest The planet's biggest, tallest, deepest and oldest: mountains, oceans, animals, towers, bridges and roller coasters, including records that fell in 2025.
151 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This World Records Trivia Quiz has 151 questions: 53 easy, 61 medium and 37 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 151 World records questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Measured from its base on the sea floor, which Hawaiian volcano stands about 10,200 m tall, taller than Everest?
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Mauna Kea
Guinness puts it at 10,205 m from base to top, but only 4,205 m of it pokes out above the waves.
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Which animal has the longest pregnancy of any mammal, nearly 22 months?
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Elephant
A newborn calf weighs about 100 kg and can stand within an hour.
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The biggest shark that ever lived, maybe 15 m long or more, is the monster Jason Statham fights in a 2018 film. Name it.
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Megalodon
It died out millions of years ago, and we know it mostly from fossil teeth.
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Which small reef creature strikes with one of the fastest blows in nature, a club-like claw so quick it makes bubbles that pop in the water?
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Mantis shrimp
Its club strikes so fast that collapsing bubbles hit prey a second time, smashing snail and crab shells.
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The world's longest venomous snake, reaching about 5.5 m, can rear up and look a person in the eye. Name it.
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King cobra
Despite its name it's not a true cobra, and it mostly eats other snakes.
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The strongest electric shock of any animal, 860 volts, comes from a species named by Smithsonian scientists in 2019. What kind of animal?
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Electric eel
Scientists found the 'eel' was really three species, and the new Electrophorus voltai packs the biggest punch.
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Which monkey's call, heard up to 5 km away through the jungle, makes it the loudest land animal in the Americas?
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Howler monkey
Groups shout at each other at dawn to mark their patch, so they don't have to fight.
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Which tiny sea creature can turn back into a baby when it's hurt or starving, earning it the nickname 'immortal'?
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Jellyfish
It can reverse its life cycle and start over again and again, though most still get eaten.
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Which whale has the biggest brain of any animal and makes clicks of about 230 decibels, the loudest sound in the animal world?
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Sperm whale
It uses those clicks like sonar to find giant squid in the pitch-black deep.
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Nicknamed 'The Big House', the largest stadium in the Americas, with 107,601 seats, belongs to which US university?
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University of Michigan
An ice hockey game held there drew 104,173 fans, a Guinness record.
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Everest is highest above sea level, but which Ecuador volcano's summit is the farthest point from the centre of the Earth?
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Chimborazo
Earth bulges at the equator, so its top sits over 2 km farther out than Everest's: NOAA calls it the closest point to the stars.
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The world's largest turtle can dive nearly 1.2 km deep, deeper than most whales and seals. What kind of turtle is it?
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Leatherback
Adults can weigh about 450 kg, and some swim over 16,000 km a year between beaches and feeding grounds.
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The world's highest mountain that nobody has ever climbed, 7,570 m tall, is in which country, which banned mountaineering in 2003?
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Bhutan
Gangkhar Puensum saw failed attempts in the 1980s; Bhutan then banned high peaks in 1994 and all climbing in 2003.
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Often called the world's most venomous snake, it lives in remote outback deserts but is very shy. What's it called?
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Inland taipan
The Australian Museum says it's far from the most dangerous snake: it's shy and lives in remote semi-desert.
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Old harpoon tips found in living whales showed which Arctic whale can live over 200 years, the longest of any mammal?
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Bowhead whale
In 2007 a bowhead caught off Alaska still carried the head of a 19th-century harpoon in its body.
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Medusa, the longest snake ever kept in captivity at 7.67 m, starred in a haunted house in Missouri. What kind of snake is she?
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Reticulated python
She was measured in 2011 and also held the title of longest snake alive.
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Ming, the oldest individual animal ever aged by scientists, was 507 years old when it was dredged up in the North Atlantic. What kind of animal was it?
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Clam
It was named after the Chinese dynasty that ruled when it was born, around 1499, before Shakespeare was alive.
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The world's heaviest spider is named after prey it almost never eats. What's it called?
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Goliath birdeater
It can weigh about 175 g, as much as a small kiwi fruit, and mostly eats insects, frogs and mice.
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In 2005 Israeli scientists grew a tree from a 2,000-year-old seed found at an ancient fortress. What kind of tree?
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Date palm
The male seedling was nicknamed Methuselah, and six more ancient seeds have since been sprouted.
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In 2025 scientists filmed which heavyweight, the heaviest animal without a backbone, alive in the deep for the first time?
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Colossal squid
The one they filmed was only a 30 cm baby, near the South Sandwich Islands; adults can weigh about 500 kg.
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151. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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