Oldest Things

Can you name these things that lived the longest or were founded the earliest?

Some dates are approximate

As of April 9, 2024

Quiz by

Rate:

Featured Quiz

Last updated: April 9, 2024

You have not attempted this quiz yet.

More quiz info >>

First submitted	November 26, 2011
Times taken	53,595
Average score	45.0%
Rating	3.78

Quiz and answer stats >>

Friends stats >>

5:00

Enter answer here:

/ 20 guessed

The quiz is paused. You have remaining.

Scoring
You scored / = %

      This beats or equals
      % of test takers
      also scored 100%
      
The average score is 

        Your high score is
        
      
Your fastest time is 
more stats >>
friends stats >>

Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...

Category

How old?

Answer

British monarch

96 years

Queen Elizabeth II

Sitting U.S. president

81 years

Joe Biden

Country with the oldest citizens

55.4 years

Monaco

Country with the longest continuous monarchy

since at least 539 AD

Japan

College in the United States

est. 1636

Harvard

University in England

est. 1096

Oxford

University in the world

est. 1088

Bologna

Person in the Bible

969 years old

Methuselah

City with the oldest stock market

est. 1602

Amsterdam

City with the oldest annual marathon

since 1897

Boston

Longest-lived mammal species

age 211

Bowhead Whale

Major League Baseball stadium

built in 1912

Fenway Park

Golf course

est. 1552

Old Course at St. Andrews

Canadian company

est. 1670

Hudson's Bay Company

Oldest tennis player to be ranked #1 in singles

36 years

Novak Djokovic

In 1994, he became the oldest heavyweight boxing champ

45 years

George Foreman

The world's oldest (and deepest) lake

25–30 million years ago

Lake Baikal

This pine from the southwest U.S. is the longest-lived species of trees

4851 years

Bristlecone Pine

He became the oldest person to win an Oscar for Best Director with "Million Dollar Baby"

74 years

Clint Eastwood

This capital city is the oldest continuously-inhabited European settlement in the Americas

founded 1496

Santo Domingo

Level 18

Jan 28, 2013

Bernard Hopkins broke Foreman's record. Please update that

Level 56

Sep 9, 2015

This was for Heavyweight, so I think it's OK.

Level 48

Jan 6, 2023

Hopkins was not a heavyweight

Level 82

Mar 17, 2013

If you liked this quiz, take my oldest cities in the world quiz.... that one doesn't get enough love. :(

Level 82

Jul 17, 2014

Since posting this comment, my oldest cities quiz has received an adequate amount of love. However, I've got this new abridged version that I think would be more accessible and enjoyable to the average person.

Level 79

Nov 6, 2019

Kal, how do you include hyperlinks in your comments? I would like to know ;)

Level 82

Nov 6, 2019

standard html coding

Level 79

Nov 7, 2019

thanks

Level 59

Jul 17, 2014

I was just at the Old Course in St Andrews last month. :)

Level 47

Jul 17, 2014

The oldest college is WIlliam and Mary not Harvard.

Level 82

Jul 17, 2014

W&M is 2nd oldest.

Level 43

Jul 17, 2014

The oldest English monarch was Queen Victoria, who died aged 91

Level 82

Jul 17, 2014

According to Wikipedia Victoria died at 81, not 91.

Level 55

Aug 19, 2015

Victoria was the longest reigning monarch. As I write, this record is about a month away from being broken.

Level 60

Jan 5, 2023

And now it's been over 7 years. RIP Queen Elizabeth.

Level 53

Jul 18, 2014

No San Marino?

Level 68

Sep 18, 2015

Elizabeth is now 89

Level 84

Mar 28, 2017

Coulda been worse. They could've called her Liz or Betty.

Level 48

Sep 2, 2016

How about adding Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara and oldest being according to Jain principle. He was actually 592.704 x 10^18 years old. It would only be apt since Bible characters are presented in this quiz.

Level 84

Mar 28, 2017

How did I miss Queen Elizabeth? D'OH!!

Level 50

Sep 28, 2017

This quiz threw me off because it listed the oldest English monarch as being 88, so I never thought to put Elizabeth II (who is now 91).

Level 71

Oct 2, 2017

Like General Knowledge Quizzes?.......... try my latest ...here it is

Level 86

Apr 15, 2018

I still don't know how I got the stock market one. That's not a fact I know, but for some reason the correct answer was the first city I thought to try.

Level 83

Aug 31, 2019

I read that one as 'country' and tried many variants on 'the Netherlands' before giving up. God knows how I knew that was the right country though, I must have dredged it up from some other quiz.

Level 30

Feb 28, 2019

Her Majesty the Queen is 92, not 88.

Level 37

Sep 1, 2019

^ She is now 93. To keep current, we should ask for the year of her birth rather than her "current" age.

Level 45

Jul 19, 2019

Oldest Lake is Lake Zaysan in Kazakstan which is 65 million years old

+10

Level 76

Aug 30, 2019

Fez, Morocco's university is oldest. Founded in 859, the link notes: The University of Al-Karaouine is considered by the Guinness World Records as well as UNESCO as the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world.

Level 57

Nov 17, 2019

+1, please correct

Level ∞

Nov 17, 2019

The modern university sprang from the Medieval university, not from madrassas. I believe there is a major distinction. That said, if you type "Fez", it will work now.

Level 60

Jul 7, 2021

could you also accept it as Qarawiyyin, Qarawiyin, Karawiyin, Karaouine, etc? I haven't known it as "Fez University" and i tried several spellings before i gave up

Level 67

Aug 31, 2019

Roger Federer was no.1 when he was 36 years old.

Level 70

Aug 31, 2019

The oldest singles No.1 is Roger Federer, the Pride of Switzerland at 36 years, 320 days

Level 69

Aug 31, 2019

Absolutely! He was number 1 in June 2018, a month and a half before his 37th birthday. Serena, who was born two months after Federer, has left the number 1 spot in May 2017.

Level ∞

Aug 31, 2019

Looks like you are right. I blame Wikipedia. I have a feeling that Serena will take back this record at some point, though.

Level ∞

Sep 8, 2022

Looks like Serena didn't break the record after all. It's still Federer, although Djokovic seems nearly certain to hold this record in a couple years provided he is allowed to compete.

Level 81

Apr 9, 2024

And you were right. Djokovic surpassed Federer on April 8, 2024.

Level 60

Aug 31, 2019

Must be something wrong with the age of the country with the oldes people ? 53 is not old !

Level 83

Aug 31, 2019

Oldest on average... not overall.

Level 60

Sep 1, 2019

I agree, if that's an average age, please say so!

Level 82

Sep 1, 2019

What else would it be? Did you think that every citizen of Monaco was exactly the same age? The clue clearly says "oldest citizens" not "oldest citizen"- so it also could not be the age of the single oldest person in the country. It has to be an average.

It could conceivably be the country with the highest life expectancy, but if you look at the number you would know that that's not what it is, either.

Level 60

Jan 5, 2023

Monaco is the country with the highest life expectancy as well though. Life expectancy and oldest average age of citizens go hand in hand.

Level 72

Nov 6, 2019

I wonder what the average age is for Vatican City, I would have guessed it would be the highest.

Level 67

Nov 17, 2019

It has to be. There are no children in Vatican City, and more than half the population is over 60 years old. I suspect that whatever source from which QM pulled that stat does not consider Vatican City a true country or excludes it from that metric because it has no children and no families. In any case, the average age there must be well over 53.

Level 52

Nov 17, 2019

I assume the "continuously-inhabited" qualifier for the oldest European city in the Americas is because of Nuuk?

Level 82

Feb 25, 2020

It's a commonly used qualifier since many times cities and settlements are built upon or near the ruins of previous cities and settlements. In this case, there were a few European settlements in the Americas before Santo Domingo, though not that many as the city was founded just 4 years after non-Norse European exploration of the continents began.

On other continents the same adjective is used and is in those cases more meaningful.

Level 84

Nov 17, 2019

Wait ... Methuselah wasn't a mammal?

Level 75

Nov 18, 2019

Methuselah isn't a species, nor a real-life mammal

Level 61

Mar 5, 2020

clams can be 400 years old

Level 79

Jan 4, 2023

Perhaps but don't think they're mammals

Level 18

Jan 4, 2023

can you take Queen Elizabeth as an answer to Queen Elizabeth II

Level 53

Jan 4, 2023

Al-Azhar University is the oldest though

Level 68

Jan 9, 2023

thanks

Level 81

Apr 9, 2024

Novak Đoković is now officially the oldest male tennis No. 1 in history. https://www.espn.com.sg/tennis/story/_/id/39902350/novak-djokovic-passes-roger-federer-oldest-men-no-1

Level ∞

Apr 9, 2024

The G.O.A.T. just gets better. Updated the quiz.

Countries of the World Quiz

US States Quiz

All Country Flags of the World

NBA Teams Quiz

Countries by First Two Letters in 90 Seconds

Europe Map Quiz

Random Capital to Country

US States by Borders in 30 Seconds

Word Scramble - Countries

Countries that Start with C

Country Flags Quiz #3

12 x 12 Multiplication Table in 2 Minutes

Random Country to Capital

Biggest Countries by Area

Africa Capitals Quiz

Save Your Progress