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World Records - Things that are the Longest

Can you name the people, places, and things that hold these records for longest something?
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Last updated: September 8, 2022
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First submittedNovember 30, 2011
Times taken76,219
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Longest What
Length
Answer
River in the world
6,650 km
Nile
River in North America
6,275 km
Mississippi /
Missouri
Country (east-west)
10,564 km
Russia
U.S. state (east-west)
2,128 km
Alaska
Coastline (country)
137,000 km
Canada
Mountain chain
7,000 km
Andes
Reptile species
7.67 meters
Reticulated
Python
Bone in the body
50 cm
Femur
Book of the Bible
(by chapters)
150
Psalms
Distance from Earth
(man-made object)
23.4 billion
kilometers
Voyager I
Longest What
Length
Answer
Time as U.S. President
12 years
Franklin Roosevelt
Reign as British monarch
70 years
Queen Elizabeth II
Reign as French monarch
72 years
Louis XIV
Dictatorial reign
52 years
Fidel Castro
Cave system
667.8 km
Mammoth Caves
Reign as #1 chess player
since 1950
19 years
Garry Kasparov
Running prime-time scripted
TV show (US)
33 years
The Simpsons
Broadway musical by #
of performances
13,725
The Phantom
of the Opera
Word in "Mary Poppins"
34 letters
Supercalifragilistic
expialidocious
Russian novel
560,000
words
War and Peace
td
+4
Level 50
Aug 17, 2014
It never ceases to amaze me at how little so many know their Bible on this site. Not a criticism, just sad to me. 24% knew that Psalms was the longest book in the Bible. Since it's basically in the middle, it just seems like a no brainer if you've ever opened a Bible.
kalbahamut
+14
Level 82
Aug 20, 2014
24% is probably higher than it should be, and I'm not even saying that people should be religiously illiterate. I think it's important to know about this stuff. Actually knowing the Bible is probably the one thing that helps most people become Atheist. But being able to name the longest chapter... not really that important and 24% is probably much much higher than the percentage who would know in general.
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Nov 22, 2018
Knew that Psalms was the longest book of the bible; misspelled it as "Psalm" (confused it with "Revelation", which IS singular)
ander217
+1
Level 75
Nov 16, 2020
Each song in the book is a psalm - "The 23rd Psalm", - but the book is a collection of them making it Psalms, plural.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 21, 2020
So there is only one revelation?
tom88
+4
Level 72
Aug 13, 2019
I've read the bible but never paid any attention to how long each book was, I got it by guessing different books of the bible
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Nov 16, 2020
Those miserable psalms. They're sooo depressing!
redsplat
+9
Level 74
Dec 15, 2020
This might be news to you @td, but some of us have never opened a bible.
4knowledge
+6
Level 42
Apr 22, 2021
Don't forget that not all of jetpunkers are christians
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 58
Dec 6, 2022
I doubt that not knowing statistical data about the bible necessarily makes someone an atheist or "not religious".

It also doesn't make someone religious if he knows that fact, maybe only because he spends too much time on jetpunk like we do :D

Yankee
+2
Level 51
Aug 17, 2014
Thank you for accepting "supercali," Quizmaster.
Osiris
+2
Level 62
May 5, 2018
Yes. I was dreading typing the entire word.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Dec 21, 2020
It accept just super.. which I think is... well not sure but I didn't like it.
WhelchareHistroy
+1
Level 52
Sep 26, 2023
did you wanna type the whole word
Yanni47
+2
Level 77
Mar 17, 2021
Just say it - it's super!
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 58
Dec 6, 2022
I was very close to missing that one because I didn't want to waste time trying to figure this word out.
mergan
+1
Level 33
Sep 5, 2014
Hey guys! I am new to JetPunk. Please check out my quizzes and let me know what you think! :-)
ander217
+1
Level 75
May 14, 2018
If you are at level 35 how can you be new to Jetpunk?
pkerr116
+4
Level 73
Oct 16, 2018
And four years later, still at 35...
Sifhraven
+3
Level 67
Dec 13, 2018
Im 25 and only on here a few days.

Edit: and if I wouldnt spend so much time reading all the comments id probably be at 35 hah. Average 5 mins of quizzing followed by 15'mins of comment reading...

Bobandy84
+6
Level 61
Nov 14, 2020
Nice to see you're still around Sifhraven! Coming up on your 2 year anniversary
Sifhraven
+3
Level 67
Dec 21, 2020
This comment makes me happy :) something personally adressed to me. And a really nice message too!

Funny though that at the time of your comment I had been away for some time (felt over a year but found a comment from me from march I think.. so less long than I thought.) and wasn't back yet if I am not mistaken just here since begin december again. Which is also again near my anniversary :)

All the best to you :)

Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 21, 2020
And I see your comment even got a like! (Now 2 ;) ) made my day :)
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Dec 6, 2022
And you're still here--congrats! I see your comments everywhere, so I guess you're a staple of the JetPunk community now :)
StanleyPortable
+1
Level 18
Mar 1, 2022
8 years later, still at lvl 35...
kapulani3
+1
Level 74
Dec 6, 2022
Maybe (s)he is dead or, on a brighter note, is so busy with life that there is no time for games.
Awesomeness101
+1
Level 54
Nov 10, 2014
the longest word is the chemical form of titin, 189,819 letters long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

BlackLab
+1
Level 65
Dec 7, 2022
Technical; not in dictionary; whether this should actually be considered a word is disputed
xterminate
+3
Level 51
Nov 16, 2014
You should add Doctor Who in as "longest-running sci-fi TV show." The 51st anniversary is in a week. :)
tom88
+1
Level 72
Aug 13, 2019
Thats cool! out of curiosity has it been 51 consecutive seasons of the same show? I know there have been multiple "doctor who"s but I've never been sure if they were multiple iterations of the same show or if they were separate shows all together
RobNobody
+3
Level 76
Aug 13, 2019
There have technically been two series. The first ran from 1963-1989 and had a total of seven Doctors. Then there was a made-for-TV movie in 1996 with the Eighth Doctor. Finally, they rebooted the series in 2005, which is still running as of now in 2019 and has had five Doctors thus far (well, technically six. Five and a half. It's complicated.)

Both series (and the TV movie) are within the same continuity, so it sort of depends how you look at it. In one way, it's two separate series: one that ran 26 years and one that is currently at 14 years. In another way, it's one series that had a 16-year hiatus. But no, either way it hasn't had 50+ consecutive seasons.

Zogvee
+1
Level 50
Dec 6, 2022
I was actually wondering if it ought to be Sesame Street.
davemcarlson
+1
Level 56
Sep 11, 2015
As of a few days ago, the Longest Reigning English Monarch can be updated as Queen Elizabeth II.
Walacama
+2
Level 81
Aug 22, 2016
Shouldn't Rasputin be on this quiz?
BrennoAU
+2
Level 43
May 22, 2022
Longest death montage perhaps? although I think St Elmo may be stiff competition.
blinky
+1
Level 58
Nov 9, 2016
Favre, DiMaggio, Revolution 9, Red Wings, longest movie...a lot of questions seem to have been removed.
InfiniteInsanity999
+1
Level 42
Dec 8, 2016
Should have gotten Lance Armstrong and Fidel Castro... yet Phantom of the Opera and Franklin Roosevelt were total guesses :D
Grga0702
+1
Level 41
May 11, 2017
Emmanuel Lasker was a chess world champion for 27 years.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/27-years-as-world-champion

PhileasFogg
+1
Level 43
May 11, 2017
I thought Voyager II was further out than Voyager I
JSWTW21
+1
Level 40
Nov 18, 2020
Voyager 1 is 14.1 billion miles away and Voyager 2 is 11.7 billion miles away.

I'm pretty sure voyager 2 was sent out before voyager 1 though.

TWM03
+2
Level 70
Sep 14, 2017
Currently the Amazon is believed to be the longest river in the world. Please at least accept it. There is debate as to whether the Nile or the Amazon is longer, and sometimes changes if they re-measure them. The Nile is (according to Wikipedia) 4258 miles long, but the Amazon is 4345 miles long. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length
TWM03
+1
Level 70
Sep 17, 2017
Please fix this. The Amazon is longer
Djilas
+2
Level 82
Nov 12, 2020
Your article currently says than Nile is longer.
FredB
+2
Level 95
Nov 12, 2020
It's disputed what's the longest river, therefore both Nile and Amazon should be considered valid answers.
JSWTW21
+2
Level 40
Nov 18, 2020
The Nile is usually considered the longest and the Amazon is usually considered the largest.
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 75
Oct 23, 2021
There's no debate over which is the largest, the Amazon discharges around 100x the volume of water that the Nile does.
MadaraUchiha
+1
Level 41
Dec 11, 2017
Monday night raw is now the longest tv show.

Who thought the badly scripted wwe could make it this far

Malbaby
+5
Level 71
Jan 29, 2018
Coronation Street in the UK is the longest scripted TV show in UK........ now in it's 58th Year.
Berney
+4
Level 80
Nov 16, 2020
I'd agree, the title of the quiz is "World Records" so why not include a world record rather than a US record? The UK prime-time scripted show 'Coronation Street' easily beats the answer here as it's now in its 60th year of continuous transmission.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Nov 16, 2020
That's amazing.
Shade9099
+1
Level 67
Jan 29, 2018
Note To Self: Hitler did not reign for 52 years
roleybob
+4
Level 75
Mar 26, 2018
11,000 performances? Pfft, that's nothing - the Mousetrap is on well over 25,000 performances in the West End
JonOfKent
+2
Level 56
Nov 16, 2020
I know, I also think that would make a more interesting question. When The Phantom of the Opera started the Mousetrap was already the longest-running show ever, I think. And it's still going.
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Feb 17, 2021
According to WP - 27,500th performance of The Mousetrap took place on 18th Sep 2018 and the show was forced to finally close in March last year due to Covid
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 85
Jun 6, 2022
I played Major Metcalfe in a production of The Mousetrap in Brooklyn, back in 2003. Enormous fun! Great play!
NOTKimJongUn
+5
Level 74
May 14, 2018
Longest things, huh?

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Aug 13, 2019
I made a quiz on a similar subject once. Had to change the title about six times before I got one that was accepted.
KrazyKookieKing
+1
Level 45
Feb 10, 2019
i though crime and punishment was the longest Russian novel. May be wrong.
RobNobody
+4
Level 76
Aug 13, 2019
Nah, not even close. Crime and Punishment has roughly 200K words. Long, but not absurdly so. For comparison, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has around 260K words, and George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books range from 290K to 425K. War and Peace, meanwhile, has around 580K.

To compare another way, the audiobook of Crime and Punishment read by Alan Munro runs about 25 hours. War and Peace read by the same narrator runs nearly 67.

BlackLab
+1
Level 65
Dec 7, 2022
Sam Malone stayed awake for several days listening to the whole narration.
Fuse
+1
Level 77
Feb 16, 2020
Needs updating!!!
matthias144
+4
Level 80
Nov 12, 2020
mid-ocean ridge is the longest mountain range

quote bij english wikipedia: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.

Jarl5
+1
Level 68
Nov 12, 2020
I was going to comment the same. Should say “terrestrial” mountain range
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 12, 2020
I don't know. It seems like a mid-ocean ridge is not a mountain range.
blizzrd33
+2
Level 79
Nov 12, 2020
It's a submarine mountain range. It very broadly fits the definition of a mountain range. As suggested by a comment above, mountains can be distinguished by adding terrestrial / submarine before them, but then where do you stop? The question didn't rule out mountain ranges on Mars either?
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Dec 8, 2023
Among trivia groups like JetPunk, mid-ocean ridge is commonly the answer. I would suggest adding terrestrial, but at the very least, please accept mid-ocean ridge / mid-Atlantic ridge as a type-in.
mf3
+2
Level 87
Nov 12, 2020
I agree with the above comment that Emanuel Lasker was the longest-reigning chess champion. Easy to verify.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 12, 2020
Added a caveat.
ReyFer
+1
Level 64
Nov 13, 2020
still sounds a weird way of measuring. In the chess world all champions are counted the same from Steiniz, but those from 1993-2000 where 2 championships where held at the same time during the FIDE-Kasparov war.

Kasparov held the FIDE title for only 7 years 1985-1992 and then he created his own world championship which only disappeared when he lost in 2000.

So: according to FIDE standards, he reigned for 7 years (less than Carlsen or Botvinnik). Counting the PCA years make no sense and still would only make 15 years, not 19 (and it was an unofficial competition anyway).

I'd have Lasker there, everybody considers him as the longest champion (27 years) even though there were no annual tournaments by then.

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 13, 2020
Fine, changed it to since 1950.
Yanni47
+2
Level 77
Nov 16, 2020
That's what tripped me up. I understood he became a chess champion in 1950 and thought, nah, can't be Kasparov because he was much later.
Walacama
+1
Level 81
Nov 16, 2020
Same, but then I realized it was 19 years. I was thinking at first, he wasn't even alive in 1950.
zaba2048
+1
Level 72
Nov 14, 2020
According to Interesting Fact 79, you should probably allow Amazon...
TenThousand
+1
Level 76
Nov 15, 2020
How many spellings do you allow for the Mary Poppins word?
ander217
+1
Level 75
Nov 16, 2020
The first few letters were enough for me.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Nov 16, 2020
I was going to ask if you could accept "V'Ger" for the Voyager answer, but then I remembered that I was thinking of a different Voyager.
MavsFanForLife25
+1
Level 73
Nov 16, 2020
Can you please accept Psalm for Psalms? I was trying Psalm for so long
daQuokka
+9
Level 66
Nov 16, 2020
Anyone else disappointed that you don't get to type all of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Alacave
+1
Level 56
Nov 16, 2020
Absolutely !!!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 21, 2020
Yes ! At least more than super. That is the easiest most normal part. Many people would know that when not even knowing the entire word (correctly). I would suggest to At least require "supercali" and maybe even supercalifrag(ilistic)
Evaristo
+2
Level 62
Nov 16, 2020
Those are NOT world records
Hampus
+1
Level 57
Nov 16, 2020
OK
JSWTW21
+1
Level 40
Nov 18, 2020
But... They are...
Feysand
+2
Level 36
Nov 16, 2020
The reticulates python can get up to ten metres, which was why I was so confused. Other than that, this is a great quiz
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Nov 16, 2020
It's certainly possible, but the longest every reliably measured was 7.67 meters.
ing
+2
Level 72
Nov 18, 2020
I thought I saw one once, but when I got up close, I realized it wasn't actually reticulated.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 60
Nov 19, 2020
Can you make Simpsons work? I wrote that, but I don't think it worked.
pandabros
+1
Level 32
Nov 23, 2020
lol for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, i just typed super and it worked
WaldoU
+1
Level 72
Jan 29, 2021
The longest reptile in the world is the Anaconda. The python is the largest in volume and weight, but the Anaconda can be almost 3m longer.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 29, 2021
No
Ender
+1
Level 28
Apr 8, 2021
Now..I wonder what the longest quiz/quiz with the most questions on Jetpunk is....
Ender
+1
Level 28
Apr 8, 2021
I wonder if anything is longer than the US Counties quiz.
Hampus
+1
Level 57
Apr 22, 2021
I hate Mary Poppins.
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 85
Jun 6, 2022
She speaks well of you.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Dec 7, 2022
What do you have against blue Michael Rooker?
Moostcho
+1
Level 67
Aug 29, 2022
Perhaps consider updating the quiz as Elizabeth's reign is now 2 years longer than it was 2 years ago
TheLightRider
+1
Level 32
Aug 30, 2022
Once The Simpsons is gone from prime time, WWE Raw will take over as longest running prime time scripted tv show as they've been around for 30 years by the start of 2023
Lomeo
+1
Level 52
Dec 6, 2022
Can you accept "thigh" or "thigh bone" for femur?
GlassMonkeyCode
+2
Level 67
Dec 6, 2022
Sure, I've opened the bible. I keep it with my sleeping pills.
RedStar12345
+1
Level 48
Dec 7, 2022
Please change the wording of: "Reigned 19 years as chess #1, since 1950".

This basically indicates that the player would have been the chess champion from 1950-1969, which has not happened (there were three different World champions during that period of time).

Suggestion: put "Reigned 19 years as chess #1. After the 1950s".

teribltylr
+1
Level 46
Mar 1, 2023
i feel very old, the 90's were 30 years ago... i was guessing shows from the 70's and earlier...
LuckyCat
+1
Level 59
May 11, 2023
I missed Voyager 1. shoulda gotten that one.
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