World Records & Landmarks

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1.Which airport has ranked for years as the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic?
- A. Tokyo Haneda Airport
- B. Dubai International Airport
- C. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- D. Beijing Capital International Airport
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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Did you know? Hartsfield–Jackson serves as a major hub for air travel in the United States.
2.Which church in Vatican City is the largest church in the world?
- A. Ulysses
- B. St. Peter's Basilica
- C. the Baroque
- D. Elizabeth Bennet
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St. Peter's Basilica
Did you know? St. Peter's Basilica took more than a century to complete.
3.Which dam on the Paraná River ranks among the world's largest producers of hydroelectric energy?
- A. Itaipu
- B. the heel bone
- C. the Asian night market
- D. A Study in Scarlet
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Itaipu
Did you know? Itaipu, run jointly by Brazil and Paraguay, is one of the world's largest hydroelectric plants.
4.Which country produces nearly all of the world's maple syrup?
- A. Russia
- B. Sweden
- C. the United States
- D. Canada
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Canada
Did you know? The Canadian province of Quebec leads maple syrup output.
5.Which library in Washington, D.C., is the largest library in the world?
- A. the Antikythera mechanism
- B. the fork in the left hand
- C. the Library of Congress
- D. the Ferris wheel
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the Library of Congress
Did you know? The Library of Congress was founded in 1800.
6.Which lost city was excavated at Hisarlik in Turkey by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s?
- A. Troy
- B. Braille
- C. super glue
- D. the kaleidoscope
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Troy
Did you know? Schliemann searched for Troy guided by the Homeric epics.
7.Which marketplace connects shoppers directly with local growers?
- A. the farmers' market
- B. the Thai wai
- C. the appendix
- D. The Lord of the Rings
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the farmers' market
Did you know? Farmers' markets sell directly from grower to buyer.
8.Which material grew out of Charles Goodyear's accidental heating of rubber with sulfur in 1839?
- A. the nazar
- B. vulcanized rubber
- C. the ampersand
- D. the saying "bon appétit"
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vulcanized rubber
Did you know? Vulcanization keeps rubber firm in heat and flexible in cold.
9.Which mountain climbers made the first confirmed climb to the summit of Mount Everest in 1953?
- A. The Stranger
- B. Edvard Munch
- C. laughter
- D. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Did you know? Hillary was a New Zealand beekeeper before Everest.
10.Which museum in Paris is the world's most visited art museum and one of the largest?
- A. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- B. St. Peter's Basilica
- C. the Louvre
- D. the QWERTY layout
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the Louvre
Did you know? The Louvre began as a royal palace before becoming a museum in 1793.
11.Which national park was established in 1872 as the world's first national park?
- A. Yellowstone
- B. the barcode
- C. the Mid-Autumn Festival
- D. the portrait of Dora Maar
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Yellowstone
Did you know? Yellowstone sits atop a supervolcano famous for its geysers.
12.Which office building near Washington, D.C., is one of the world's largest office buildings?
- A. the Pentagon
- B. the pupil
- C. The Tale of Genji
- D. Vincent van Gogh
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the Pentagon
Did you know? The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
13.Which plant can grow up to about a meter in a single day as the fastest-growing plant?
- A. The Starry Night
- B. Johannes Vermeer
- C. the Antikythera mechanism
- D. bamboo
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bamboo
Did you know? Bamboo is a grass, not a tree.
14.Which pyramid was the tallest man-made structure on Earth for more than 3,800 years?
- A. Chuck Yeager
- B. the Great Pyramid of Giza
- C. Chinese characters
- D. Wuthering Heights
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the Great Pyramid of Giza
Did you know? The Great Pyramid is the only surviving wonder of the ancient world.
15.Which royal castle near London is described as the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world?
- A. The Lord of the Rings
- B. Windsor Castle
- C. Quasimodo
- D. a dialect
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Windsor Castle
Did you know? Windsor Castle is one of the official residences of the British monarch.
16.Which sea route through Arctic Canada was first navigated by Roald Amundsen between 1903 and 1906?
- A. the Northwest Passage
- B. the bikini
- C. Canada
- D. the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
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the Northwest Passage
Did you know? The Northwest Passage links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
17.Which shipwreck was located in 1985 by a team led by Robert Ballard?
- A. the wreck of the Titanic
- B. the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
- C. the Dragon Boat Festival
- D. the espresso bar
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the wreck of the Titanic
Did you know? The Titanic wreck lies about 3,800 m deep in the North Atlantic.
18.Which statue in Gujarat, India, stands about 182 m tall as the world's tallest statue?
- A. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- B. Katakana
- C. Nighthawks
- D. the Statue of Unity
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the Statue of Unity
Did you know? The Statue of Unity honors the Indian statesman Sardar Patel.
19.Which train floats on magnetic levitation as one of the fastest commercial trains in the world?
- A. the Indo-European family
- B. the barcode
- C. the Shanghai maglev train
- D. umami
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the Shanghai maglev train
Did you know? The Shanghai maglev links the airport with the city at over 400 km/h.
20.Which trousers were patented in 1873 when Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis added rivets to work pants?
- A. France
- B. the modern pencil
- C. duct tape
- D. blue jeans
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blue jeans
Did you know? Riveted work pants were first made for miners in California.
21.Which dam spans the Yangtze River as the world's largest power station by installed capacity?
- A. the marine chronometer
- B. One Hundred Years of Solitude
- C. La Tomatina
- D. the Three Gorges Dam
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the Three Gorges Dam
Did you know? The Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River is the world's largest power station.
22.Which country counts the most time zones, thanks to its overseas territories?
- A. China
- B. the United States
- C. France
- D. Russia
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France
Did you know? France spans 12 time zones with its overseas territories.
23.Which ancient artifact recovered from a Greek shipwreck in 1901, worked as an astronomical calculator?
- A. the Renaissance
- B. cafezinho
- C. chopsticks
- D. the Antikythera mechanism
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the Antikythera mechanism
Did you know? The Antikythera mechanism used bronze gears to predict eclipse cycles.
24.Which ancient mummy was found by hikers in the Alps in 1991, about 5,300 years after his death?
- A. the foot
- B. Ötzi
- C. Loy Krathong
- D. the Italian aperitivo
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Ötzi
Did you know? Ötzi is nicknamed the Iceman.
25.Which archaeological site in Turkey is about 11,000 years old, among the oldest known monumental structures?
- A. the siesta
- B. Göbekli Tepe
- C. the little finger
- D. ancient Greek
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Göbekli Tepe
Did you know? Göbekli Tepe features large carved stone pillars.
26.Which city square in central Beijing ranks among the largest public squares in the world?
- A. the shopping cart
- B. the Antikythera mechanism
- C. Tiananmen Square
- D. Japanese
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Tiananmen Square
Did you know? Tiananmen Square is named after the gate at its north end.
27.Which clock was perfected by John Harrison to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea?
- A. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- B. The Old Man and the Sea
- C. the marine chronometer
- D. Richard Owen
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the marine chronometer
Did you know? Harrison spent decades building increasingly accurate sea clocks.
28.Which tree is famous for living over 4,000 years in North America?
- A. the white oak
- B. the giant sequoia
- C. the baobab
- D. the bristlecone pine
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the bristlecone pine
Did you know? The oldest bristlecone pines predate the pyramids of Giza.
29.Which material was discovered by accident in 1938 by chemist Roy Plunkett?
- A. Teflon
- B. eyebrows
- C. Johannes Vermeer
- D. the jigsaw puzzle
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Teflon
Did you know? Plunkett found the slick compound inside a failed refrigerant cylinder.
30.Which metro system has grown into the world's longest metro network by route length?
- A. the Shanghai Metro
- B. the QR code
- C. congee
- D. a proverb
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the Shanghai Metro
Did you know? The Shanghai Metro opened its first line in 1993. It has repeatedly traded the world's longest-network title with Beijing in recent years.
31.Which museum in Saint Petersburg began as the private collection of Catherine the Great?
- A. the body clock
- B. the State Hermitage Museum
- C. an antonym
- D. Art Nouveau
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the State Hermitage Museum
Did you know? The Hermitage was opened to the public in 1852.

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