Statistics for World Records - Things that are the Longest

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Longest What	Length	Answer	% Correct
River in the world	6,650 km	Nile	97%
Country (east-west)	10,564 km	Russia	97%
River in North America	6,275 km	Mississippi / Missouri	90%
Reign as British monarch	70 years	Queen Elizabeth II	88%
Coastline (country)	137,000 km	Canada	85%
U.S. state (east-west)	2,128 km	Alaska	84%
Mountain chain	7,000 km	Andes	75%
Bone in the body	50 cm	Femur	73%
Reign as French monarch	72 years	Louis XIV	69%
Time as U.S. President	12 years	Franklin Roosevelt	68%
Word in "Mary Poppins"	34 letters	Supercalifragilistic expialidocious	64%
Russian novel	560,000 words	War and Peace	53%
Reptile species	7.67 meters	Reticulated Python	44%
Running prime-time scripted TV show (US)	33 years	The Simpsons	44%
Distance from Earth (man-made object)	23.4 billion kilometers	Voyager I	37%
Dictatorial reign	52 years	Fidel Castro	36%
Reign as #1 chess player since 1950	19 years	Garry Kasparov	35%
Broadway musical by # of performances	13,725	The Phantom of the Opera	33%
Book of the Bible (by chapters)	150	Psalms	30%
Cave system	667.8 km	Mammoth Caves	24%