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Biggest Things by Category

Can you name the largest thing in each of these categories?
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: December 1, 2023
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First submittedFebruary 2, 2011
Times taken83,997
Average score77.3%
Rating4.35
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Category
Answer
Country (population)
India
Country (land area)
Russia
Mountain (height)
Mount Everest
Animal species
Blue whale
Land animal species (weight)
African elephant
Land animal species (height)
Giraffe
Tree species (height)
Coast redwood
Building (height)
Burj Khalifa
Desert (non-arctic)
Sahara
Planet (this solar system)
Jupiter
Public corporation (revenue)
Wal-Mart
Category
Answer
U.S. state (land area)
Alaska
U.S. state (population)
California
Lake / inland sea
Caspian Sea
Freshwater lake (volume)
Lake Baikal
Freshwater lake (area)
Lake Superior
Island (area, non-continental)
Greenland
Waterfall (height)
Angel Falls
River (volume)
Amazon
Human internal organ (weight)
Liver
Human bone
Femur
Longest cave system
Mammoth Cave
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Level 67
Nov 11, 2013
I'd really be curious as to who were the 1% that missed elephant with the picture shown. My 3-year-old daughter said elephant when the picture popped up.
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Level 77
Dec 20, 2013
i know that a few times i have done a quiz at work and was halfway through and my boss walked up and i had to slickly minimize the window, so my time ran out while i was talking to my boss and i missed some easy ones. I'm afraid i've been that 1% before. :-(
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Level 78
Feb 26, 2016
Probably people who started the quiz, then just let it time out without answering any questions.
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Level 51
Sep 19, 2017
@Cy, stats only count those who answered at least one question.
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Level 63
Jul 21, 2018
The dog ate my homework, too.
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Level 66
Dec 27, 2019
@aesthus, so? Elephant isnt the first question so it is possible (even if it was the first, you can answer questions out order. My eye sometimes fall on a question before getting around to reading the next in line (during typing) so I answer that first.
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Level 71
Sep 4, 2017
Maybe because they just quickly gave up because they just don't want to play ^^
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Level 33
May 13, 2018
Maybe those who gave up as soon as they started the timer saying "This is too hard"
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Level 66
Jun 19, 2019
Or anyone that is not on a computer but a tablet or smartphone... plus the people that just start the quiz and read the questions instead of inspecting the page and looking at pictures and colors and other stuff that is not the quiz itself.
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2020
Residents of Middle Earth who thought it was oliphaunt.
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Level 78
Jun 23, 2022
1% is negligible.
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Level 65
Mar 9, 2024
3% now
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Level 52
Feb 28, 2023
sometimes we misread things...
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Level 67
Dec 20, 2013
I didn't know "blue whale" was its own species. I typed "whale" about thirty times. I thought they were classified just as different types, like dogs. Oh well. Learned something new.
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Level 61
Nov 12, 2018
Not at all! If you look at a blue whale vs. sperm whale, they are very different.
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Level 66
Dec 27, 2019
If you look at a chihuahua and a saint bernard, they're even more different..
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Level 67
Mar 8, 2020
Absolutely not. A Chihuaha and a St.Bernard are very similar animals, differing only by size.

A blue whale has no teeth but baleens, it filters huge amounts of water to catch very small preys (mostly plankton and krill), it has two blowholes… A sperm whale has teeth, it hunts for big preys (medium to large squids and octopuses, rays and fish), it has only one blowhole…

Not only are they not the same species, but neither the same family and parvorder.

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Level 48
Dec 20, 2013
I tried all of the great lakes, but I forgot Superior....I feel like a grade-A idiot.
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Level 59
Dec 20, 2013
Just remember HOMES. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.

/Michigan nerd alert.

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Level 55
Feb 28, 2016
Nah, I think that's just a regular nerd alert. :) (Not that any of us who are on here taking this quiz for fun should be talking!)
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Level 60
Dec 2, 2023
I always think one from Canada (Ontario), one from the US (Michigan), the best of both worlds (Superior), and then Huron and Erie I just hope for.
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Level 50
Dec 20, 2013
Okay, it says mountain - then Himalayas. The mount (or peak) is Everest.
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Level 82
Dec 28, 2013
Everest is a mountain. The Himalayas are a mountain range.
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Level 60
Dec 2, 2023
Mount stands for mountain, fyi.
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Level 9
Dec 21, 2013
Good Quiz !!!
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Level 61
Jan 2, 2014
Like many, I got all but the last two - which is fairly frustrating because I have been in Mammoth Cave, and just couldn't remember the name of it after all these years. As a Canadian who doesn't follow sports, I have very little chance of knowing another country's largest stadiums, but I'm still happy with 24/26.
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Level 52
Jun 14, 2014
Nice quiz, but way too much things from US.
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Level 66
Jun 19, 2019
They like it big over there.
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Level 53
Jul 30, 2014
I missed the cave question so I looked it up. I'm not sure if this is accurate, but it looks like the biggest cave (passage) is in Vietnam....the Son Doong cave. You might want to check it out. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090724-biggest-cave-vietnam/
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Level 61
Oct 20, 2016
Maybe that's the biggest, but Mammoth cave has the greatest length of total passageways, which is what the question asks for.
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Level 48
Dec 8, 2014
Could accept 'Giant Redwood' for Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) - as this is a common name for it. - this is different from Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) - Kind of bad form to have a mix of Latin binomial and Common names
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Level 84
Mar 9, 2024
Perhaps the question has changed since this comment was made (it's been nearly 10 years), but the correct response is coast redwood (S. sempervirens), not giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum).
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Level 72
Feb 25, 2016
I feel like you need to put some qualifier next to the animals (living). I was all set to whip out some dinosaur nerd knowledge. But, sadly, it was just an elephant and a giraffe.
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Level 66
Dec 27, 2019
Ahem.. I em... that it asked for animal species that lived in trees hahaha, thought it was a bit odd clue haha oops. (In my defense it was 3.30 am and the first were all amimals)
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Level 68
Jul 19, 2020
I did the same thing, and it's 8 am 🤦‍♀️
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Level 64
Mar 12, 2024
Blue Whale is the largest animal ever though.
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Level 81
Feb 25, 2016
I can't spell Mammoth, otherwise I would have gotten 100%. Oh wait, I just spelled it correctly.
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Level 29
Feb 25, 2016
Tried all the great lakes which was how I got Michigan Stadium :)
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Level 69
Feb 27, 2016
How about accepting General Sherman for the Tree species (weight)?
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Level 61
Oct 20, 2016
But that's a specific tree, not a species
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Level 18
Feb 29, 2016
LOL, the only reason i got lake michigan is because i thought it was the largest freshwaterlake.... LOL
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Level 34
Dec 15, 2016
michigan-huron is technically the largest lake
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Level 73
Feb 18, 2017
Wouldn't the aspen be the heaviest tree?
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Level 67
May 13, 2018
I think you should accept "Salto Angel". Cheers.
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Level 95
Jan 2, 2019
I got the river while trying to insert the corporation
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Level 48
Jan 29, 2019
I spelled baikal wrong :(
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Level 38
Jul 14, 2019
i'm suprised wal-mart isn't widely guessed
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Level 66
Dec 27, 2019
Maybe because it is not "widely" available. Other countries dont have walmarts so people wouldnt immediately think about it, even when they háve heard about it through movies or quizsites.
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Level 74
Jan 6, 2020
Apple is kinda obvious answer, but not always right. Microsoft and Amazon are so close with their value I think they both visited #1 in 2019.
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Level 76
Dec 1, 2023
you're thinking market capitalization, this is asking by revenue. I typed in apple 10 times and still wondered why it didn't accept it
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Level 29
Feb 13, 2020
I wrote amazon for public revenue and got the river by accident!
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Level 61
Mar 5, 2020
mauna key is a bigger mountain. at least add "on land"
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Level ∞
Mar 5, 2020
Mauna Kea* is not higher than Everest. Maybe taller, if you are a nitpicker, but certainly not higher.

Fun fact: the summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is actually furthest from the center of the Earth.

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Level 82
Dec 1, 2023
Would you consider buildings in Denver to be "higher" than the Burj Khalifa then? Maybe make the qualifier (height above sea level)
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Level 60
Dec 2, 2023
No, Mt. Chimborazo isn't the answer. Quizmaster is just stating a fun fact.
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Level 65
Mar 9, 2024
Buildings are not, in fact, a part of the ground
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Level 51
Mar 8, 2020
Am I the only one that typed in amazon for the biggest corporation but the answer popped up for biggest river
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Level 62
Jul 19, 2020
Read the comments above and you'll find the answer is no.
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Level 40
Nov 11, 2020
Burj al Khalifa should work
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Level 70
Dec 1, 2023
It's named after a person so it's not correct to put the definite article.
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Level 77
Feb 13, 2021
having the tree species right after all the animal questions made me try and think of the heaviest and tallest animals that live in trees :( those are the only ones i missed haha
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Level 59
Jun 23, 2022
Answering Coast/coastal sequoia fills in the answer for giant sequoia and not the answer it actually applies to.
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Level 75
Nov 29, 2022
I suggest Seqouia as a type in for Sequoia. I guessed it, but couldn't spell it.
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Level 60
Jun 12, 2023
Shouldn't the quaking aspen be heaviest tree species? Pando is the heaviest tree and heaviest species overall on earth. Unless this is about highest average tree weight which could be sequoia, this question is wrong.
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Level 52
Mar 12, 2024
Where does it ask about the heaviest tree species?
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Level 76
Dec 1, 2023
Who measures a company by revenue??? I typed Apple multiple times even when it didn't take it the first time thinking I'd done something wrong. It should be by market cap. Interesting it's Wal Mart though.
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Level 52
Mar 12, 2024
it even says revenue in the question?
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Level 76
Dec 14, 2023
The arctic relates to the area near the North Pole, so the largest non-arctic desert is the Antarctic Desert.
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Level 62
Mar 9, 2024
True. Why hasn't this been fixed?
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Level 59
Mar 9, 2024
The desert question tripped me up... somehow thought it wanted the largest Arctic desert
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Level 62
Mar 9, 2024
Salto Angel should be accepted. This is original spanish name, used in many countries
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Level 52
Mar 12, 2024
since angel alone works I think it's ok
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Level 55
Mar 9, 2024
Tried elephant, wasn't good. Tried African elephant, also wasn't good for whatever reason😑
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Level 69
Mar 9, 2024
Well you definitely didn’t, because “elephant” worked for me and you only left this comment today
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Level 32
Mar 11, 2024
Since when is Wal-Mart the bigest public corporation?
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Level 52
Mar 12, 2024
since it had the highest revenue in 2022/2023
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Level 52
Mar 12, 2024
This needs an update, India isn't the country with the highest population anymore. Otherwise great quiz :)