Statistics for World Records - Things that are the Smallest

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Description	Answer	% Correct
Shortest month by number of days	February	98%
Smallest country	Vatican City	93%
Smallest planet	Mercury	92%
Smallest U.S. state by area	Rhode Island	87%
Deepest part of the ocean	{Mariana} Trench	84%
Lowest place by elevation (U.S.)	{Death} Valley	83%
Lightest element of the Period Table	Hydrogen	79%
Lowest place by elevation on land	{Dead} Sea	77%
Country with the lowest population density	Mongolia	77%
Smallest bird species	Bee Hummingbird	73%
Sign of the zodiac with the shortest name	Leo	69%
Lowest U.S. Army rank	Private	66%
Smallest U.S. state by population	Wyoming	65%
Least populous country on the Asian mainland	Bhutan	62%
Smallest country by population to win the FIFA World Cup	Uruguay	62%
Element with the shortest name	Tin	60%
Smallest wind instrument in a standard orchestra	Piccolo	55%
Book of the Bible with the shortest name	Job	46%
Shortest Bible verse	Jesus {wept}	39%
Shortest unit of distance theoretically possible to measure	{Planck} length	24%