Post Quiz: Planetary Superlatives - Answers
Created | Updated Dec 3, 2017
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Planetary Superlatives: Answers
Why do we always want to know these things? Just nosy, we guess.
Multiple choice.
- The highest mountain in the world:
- Mount Everest
- Nanga Parbat
- Mount Pinatubo
- The Riffelberg
- The longest river in the world:
- Indus
- Volga
- Mississippi
- Nile or Amazon, depending on who's measuring
- The deepest lake in the world:
- Lake Tanganyika
- Caspian Sea
- Lake Michigan
- Lake Baikal
- Largest country in the world (by land area):
- China
- Australia
- Russia
- Canada
- Smallest island in the world:
- Greenland
- Tory
- Patmos
- Bishop Rock
- Oldest continuously inhabited city in the world:
- London
- Baghdad
- Damascus
- Jerusalem
- Smallest sea in the world:
- Baltic
- Yellow
- South China
- Marmara
- Smallest desert in the world:
- Gobi (Mongolia)
- Carcross (Canadian Yukon) (One square mile.)
- Mojave (US)
- Bledow (Poland)
- Deepest hole in the world:
- Kola Superdeep Borehole (Murmansk) (The name gave it away.)
- Project Mohole (Pacific Ocean)
- Kimberley Diamond Mine (South Africa)
- Berkeley Pit (Montana, USA)
- Fastest animal in the world:
- Lion
- Blue Wildebeest
- Peregrine falcon
- Flying snake
Go around bragging that one of these superlatives is on your continent. We dare you.