The Guinness Book of World Records
State Capitals
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100

The McGuire Twins, Billy and Benny, hold the record for what? Is it world's richest twins, heaviest twins, or longest-haired twins?

World's heaviest twins

100

This state capital shares its name with a singer who died in a 1997 plane crash, a type of omelet, and the actor who played Uncle Jesse on Dukes of Hazzard. 

Denver

100

Michael J. Fox played this skateboarding protagonist in the Back to the Future film franchise.

Marty McFly

100

This is the French equivalent of "Miss," to denote a young or unmarried woman.

Mademoiselle

100

This designates the grade range between elementary and high school.

Middle school

200

Robert Wadlow, who had hyperplasia of the pituitary gland, holds the record for what?

Tallest man, at 8 feet, 11 inches

200

This state capital shares its name with a 1995 film about a man who retakes all of his childhood schooling in order to claim his inheritance and a university in Harrisonburg, Virginia?

Madison, WI

200

This is the baseball term for a ball that is struck high in the air.

A fly ball

200

She was Waylon Flower's spunky sidekick.

Madame

200

This is the designation for no longer young, but not yet old.

Middle age

300

In 2024, Joey Chestnut beat Takeru Kobayashi and his own World Record by eating 83 of these in 10 minutes.

hot dogs

300

This state capital was named by Roger Williams, who believed the site was chosen by God.

Providence, RI

300

This phrase means that you would like to hear what will be said or see what will happen while not being noticed.

Fly on the wall

300

Heidi Fleiss, who ran a prostitution ring in Los Angeles, was known as this in the tabloids.

The Hollywood Madam

300

This 1973 song by Steeler's Wheels was featured in a grotesque scene in the 1992 film Reservoir Dogs.

"Stuck in the Middle With You"

400

At 64 days, 22 hours, Robert Timm and John Cook hold the world record for what? Is it jump roping, ultramarathoning, or continuous airplane flight?

Continuous airplane flight

400

This  is the most arid state capital.

Phoenix, Arizona

400

This 1988 Bettle Midler song, which was featured on the Beaches soundtrack, repeats the words "fly" several times in the closing lines.

Wind Beneath my Wings

400

This novel by Gustave Flaubert, about a doctor's wife who lives beyond her means to escape the banality of her provincial life, was adapted to film twice, in 1946 and in 2014

Madame Bovary

400

This is the setting for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Middle Earth

500

at 14.42 years, Arica Chile holds the Guinness World Record for what?

Longest sustained period without precipitation

500

These two state capitals start with the name of a month.

Augusta, GA and Juneau, AK

500

This song, written by Bart Howard in 1954, became widely known through Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording.

"Fly Me to the Moon"

500

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

Madame Curie

500

This 1871 book by George Eliot is subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life."

Middlemarch