Animal Kingdom
What animal holds the record for the largest eyes, measuring up to 27 cm (11 inches) across?
A) Blue Whale
B) Giant Squid
C) Colossal Squid
C) Colossal Squid
The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is the world's largest known invertebrate by weight and the heaviest of all cephalopods, reaching weights of up to 500 kg (1,100 lbs) to 750 kg (1,650 lbs) and lengths up to 10 to 14 meters (33 to 46 feet). They live in the freezing, pitch-black waters of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, typically at depths of 1,000 to 2,000 meters or more.
Who holds the record for the tallest person in recorded history, reaching an incredible height of 2.72 m (8 ft 11 in)?
A) Sultan Kösen
B) Robert Wadlow
C) John Rogan
B) Robert Wadlow
His continuous growth was caused by hypertrophy of the pituitary gland, which led to an abnormally high level of human growth hormone (HGH). He was born an average size (8.5 lb), but began growing at an extraordinary rate soon after. By age 8, he was taller than his father.
What iconic music video holds the record for the best-selling music video of all time, selling over 9 million copies?
A) "Thriller" by Michael Jackson
B) "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears
C) "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
A) "Thriller" by Michael Jackson
Released in 1983, the 14-minute musical horror film revolutionized the industry and remains the top-selling home video release of a music video.
Which submersible vehicle set the record for the deepest solo crewed dive in history when film director James Cameron piloted it to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in 2012?
A) Mir-1
B) Trieste
C) Deepsea Challenger
C) Deepsea Challenger
James Cameron piloted the single-person Deepsea Challenger to a depth of nearly 10,908 meters in 2012, setting the solo dive record.
Graham Barker from Australia has maintained a very unique, highly unusual collection since 1984. What exactly has he been carefully harvesting and storing in jars?
A) Lost shirt buttons
B) Belly button lint
C) Used dental floss
B) Belly button lint
Graham Barker has collected his own belly button lint daily for decades, even sorting it by color. GROSS!!
Which animal holds the record for the highest jump from a standstill?
A) Puma (Mountain Lion)
B) Kangaroo
C) Snow Leopard
A) Puma (Mountain Lion)
Spanning from the Canadian Yukon down to the southern Andes in Patagonia; it has the widest geographic range of any native land mammal in the Western Hemisphere. Pumas can sprint up to 50 mph (80 kph), leap up to 15–18 feet vertically, and broad-jump over 40 feet.
Kim Goodman holds the Guinness World Record for the furthest eyeball protrusion, being able to pop her eyeballs out of her eye sockets by how far?
A) 8 millimeters (0.31 inches)
B) 12 millimeters (0.47 inches)
C) 20 millimeters (0.79 inches)
B) 12 millimeters (0.47 inches)
Kim is originally from Türkiye (Istanbul), and received her Guinness world record on 2 November 2007.
Which media franchise holds the record for being the highest-grossing media franchise of all time across merchandise, games, and media?
A) Star Wars
B) Pokémon
C) Mickey Mouse & Friends
B) Pokémon
Built by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, what is officially recognized as the world's fastest supercomputer, breaking the exascale barrier?
A) Fugaku (Japan)
B) Tianhe-2 (China)
C) Frontier (USA)
C) Frontier
The Frontier supercomputer holds the record as the first verified exascale computer, capable of performing more than 1 quintillion (10¹⁸) calculations per second.
Kevin Shelley of the United States holds a rather painful record for breaking a specific household item using only his head. What did he smash 46 of in one minute?
A) Wooden toilet seats
B) Clay flowerpots
C) Fluorescent light tubes
A) Wooden toilet seats
Setting the record in 2007, Shelley managed to cleanly break 46 wooden toilet seats using his forehead within a 60-second time frame.
Which animal has the strongest bite force ever measured in a laboratory?
A) Great White Shark
B) Hippopotamus
C) Saltwater Crocodile
C) Saltwater Crocodile
The Bite Force Measurement is 16,414 Newtons (approximately 3,700 PSI or 3,700 pounds of force per square inch). The previous record holder was 13,300 Newtons set by an American alligator.
On October 6th, 2026, DonnaJean Wilde at 61 years old broke her own world record from 2024 doing what?
A) Longest time in an abdominal plank (female)
B) Longest Samson's chair/static wall sit (female)
C) Most pull-ups in 1 hour (female)
A) Longest time in an abdominal plank (female)
DonnaJean Wilde remained in a plank position for 5 hours straight, with her previous record being 4 hours and 30 minutes. She is a retired teacher from Magrath, Alberta, and planks for 2-3 hours everyday as regular daily exercise.
What was the estimated attendance at the historic 1991 "Monsters of Rock" festival at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, which is widely cited among the largest concert attendances in history?
A) 1.6 million people
B) 850,000 people
C) 2.5 million people
A) 1.6 million people
Featuring bands like AC/DC and Metallica just months before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the crowd estimates reached approximately 1.6 million.
What holds the record for the most distant human-made object from Earth?
A) New Horizons
B) Pioneer 10
C) Voyager 1
C) Voyager 1
Launched by NASA in 1977, Voyager 1 officially crossed into interstellar space in 2012 and remains the farthest spacecraft from Earth, traveling at over 38,000 mph (61,000 km/h).
Lithuanian entertainer Antanas Kontrimas set a bizarre record by lifting a person entirely off the ground using what part of his anatomy?
A) His beard
B) His teeth
C) His nose
A) His beard
Antanas Kontrimas successfully lifted a person weighing over 63 kg using a special clamp attached directly to his facial hair.
What is the longest-lived vertebrate known to science, with a Guinness World Record spanning nearly 400 years?
A) Galapagos Giant Tortoise
B) Greenland Shark
C) Bowhead Whale
B) Greenland Shark
Radiocarbon dating of their eye lenses shows they live anywhere from 252 to 512 years, reaching sexual maturity very slowly at around 150 years of age. Despite their slow pace, they are opportunistic scavengers and predators that eat fish, seals, carrion, and occasionally larger animals like polar bears or reindeer.
The record for the longest fingernails ever grown on a pair of hands belonged to Shridhar Chillal. What was their total combined length before he cut them?
A) 6.8 metres (22 ft 3 in)
B) 9.1 metres (29 ft 10 in)
C) 12.5 metres (41 ft 0 in)
B) 9.1 metres (29 ft 10 in)
He was born on January 29, 1937, in Pune, Maharashtra, India. He stopped cutting the fingernails on his left hand in 1952 (at age 14) after being scolded by a teacher for accidentally breaking a long nail.
Which TV show holds the world record for the most Emmy Awards won by a fictional series in television history?
A) Game of Thrones
B) Saturday Night Live
C) The Simpsons
A) Game of Thrones
The HBO fantasy epic accumulated 59 Emmy Awards over its eight-season run, the most for any scripted, fictional television series. (Saturday Night Live holds the overall record for a non-fictional/variety show).
Who holds the record for the most total cumulative time spent in space by any human being?
A) Oleg Kononenko
B) Peggy Whitson
C) Gennady Padalka
A) Oleg Kononenko
The Russian cosmonaut holds the ultimate world record for cumulative time spent in space, logging a historic total of 1,111 days across five separate missions.
Frenchman Michel Lotito entered the record books for his bizarre diet. Over the course of two years, what highly unusual object did he completely dismantle, grind down, and eat?
A) A city transit bus
B) A Cessna 150 airplane
C) A 50-foot metal Ferris wheel
B) A Cessna 150 airplane
Known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr. Eat-All"), Lotito suffered from pica, a condition giving him an appetite for non-nutritive objects. From 1978 to 1980, he consumed an entire light aircraft, and his digestive system allowed him to consume up to 900 g of metal per day.
Which land mammal has the most teeth, packing up to 252 in its jaw?
A) Giant Armadillo
B) Long-beaked Echidna
C) Opossum
A) Giant Armadillo
The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is the largest living armadillo species, growing up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) long and weighing between 18.7 and 50 kilograms (41 to 110 pounds). It can have up to 100 teeth in its mouth, but the Giant Armadillo holds the land record (though some species of snails have thousands of microscopic teeth, the armadillo wins for mammals).
What is the highest number of fully formed fingers and toes recorded on a single living individual, recognized as a Guinness World Record of polydactyly?
A) 28 digits
B) 34 digits
C) 40 digits
C) 40 digits
The most fingers and toes at birth are 14 fingers (7 on each hand) and 20 toes (10 on each foot) and belonged to a Akshat Saxena (India). The record was confirmed by doctors in India on 20 March 2010. Akshat has had an operation recently and has now got the normal number of digits.
Which actor holds the record for the most voiceover credits by an individual, having voiced characters in over 800 separate productions?
A) Frank Welker
B) Mel Blanc
C) Tara Strong
A) Frank Welker
While Mel Blanc is famously the "Man of a Thousand Voices," Welker holds the official record. He is the voice behind Megatron (Transformers), Scooby-Doo, Fred Jones, and hundreds of animals in Hollywood films.
Which element holds the Guinness World Record for being the densest naturally occurring substance on Earth?
A) Lead
B) Osmium
C) Uranium
B) Osmium
Osmium is a bluish-white transition metal in the platinum family. It is roughly twice as dense as lead, weighing approximately 22.59 grams per cubic centimetre.
Which British man holds the Guinness World Record for the most elastic skin, being able to stretch the skin of his stomach to 15.8 centimeters (6.25 inches) due to a medical condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome?
A) Nick Stoeberl
B) Ilker Yilmaz
C) Garry Turner
C) Garry Turner
Garry Turner can stretch his abdominal skin to an astonishing 15.8 cm because of a rare connective tissue disorder that affects collagen.