World Records Quiz 2022 | 22 Amazing Trivia Questions

On Feb. 6, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to reign for seven decades. Festivities marking the anniversary will peek in a four-day weekend beginning on Thursday, June 2, with the annual military parade that marks the queen’s 70th coronation anniversary, also known as her “official birthday.” The queen celebrated her 96th birthday.

Rafael Nadal, 36, on June 5, 2022, beat Casper Ruud to win the French Open for the 14th time, making him the oldest man to win the French Open. It’s his 22nd Grand Slam win overall. The previous oldest French Open singles champion record holder was Andrés Gimeno (Spain), who won in 1972 at 34.

The Coca-Cola Company is ranked as the world’s top plastic polluter for the 4th consecutive year, according to the 2021 Break Free From Plastic report. In each year since 2019, Brand Audit found Coca-Cola branded products represent more pollution than the next two top polluters, PepsiCo and Unilever, combined. Claims about plastic packaging being eco-friendly made by big brands, including Coca-Cola and Unilever, are misleading greenwashing, according to a report by the Changing Markets Foundation. Case on point: The world’s largest plastic polluter, Coca-Cola, has spent millions promoting the notion that its bottles are 25% marine plastic.

Lego is the world’s largest toymaker. The Danish toymaker halted deliveries to Russia in March 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine. On July 12, the company announced it’s ceasing all operations in Russia “indefinitely.”

Poseidon’s ribbon weed, or Posidonia australis, found in Shark Bay, off the western end of Australia, is the world’s largest plant. The seagrass — not to be confused with seaweed and algae — spreads at least 180 km (77 square miles), about the size of Cincinnati. A new study published on June 1, 2022, in Proceedings of the Royal Society, shows that Shark Bay’s Poseidon’s ribbon weed colony is one giant organism that has been cloning for about 4,500 years, the largest known example of a clone in any environment on Earth.

Is it the largest organism on Earth?

Utah’s Pando, a clonal colony of 40,000 aspen trees connected by their roots, is the former “heaviest known organism.” covering an area of about 500 square meters (0.16 square miles) and weighing 6,000 tonnes. But the Humongous Fungus is probably even more enormous, weaving a web of mycelial tendrils (the root network of mushrooms) covering 3.7 square miles (9.6 square km) of Oregon’s Malheur National Forest. Scientists calculate it could weigh at least 7,500 tons and maybe up to 35,000 tons, making it the world’s most massive living organism.

At the age of 118 years, 76 days, French Lucile Randon, AKA Sister André (Sœur André), became on Apr. 19, 2022, the world’s oldest verified living person, following the death of Japanese Kane Tanaka at 119 years, 107 days.

While LeBron James, between ages 22 and 36, was the youngest NBA player to reach 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 25,000, 30,000, and 35,000 points in his career, Stephen Curry is the youngest NBA player to reach 3,000 3-Point Field Goals – an achievement he met in December 2021, at the age of 33 years, 289 days.

What happened in the 2022 NBA Finals?

On June 16, 2022, Stephen Curry won his first NBA Finals MVP award. He is the only player in NBA history to average at least five 3-pointers per game in the Finals – repeating the record in 2018 and 2022. Curry’s 31 3-pointers in 2022 were the most in a six-game series in any NBA Finals.

Completed in April 2022, and holding 60 apartments, New York City’s Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, is the world’s skinniest skyscraper. The 84-story residential house on “Billionaires’ Row” is the second-tallest residential tower in NYC, surpassed only by the nearby Central Park Tower and rising 1,428 feet (435 meters). The tower’s upper floors sway by a few feet whenever it gets windy, along with some very luxurious 360-degree view apartments.

Sky Bridge 721, The longest pedestrian suspension bridge, is located in the northeastern part of the Czech Republic near the border with Poland. The 721-meter (2,365-foot) -long bridge, which opened on May 13, 2022, was built at more than 1,100 meters (3,610 feet) above sea level. It connects two ridges of the mountains and hangs up to 95 meters (312 feet) above the valley below. The bridge will be closed for safety if winds reach 135 kph (84 mph). The previous longest pedestrian bridge is in Arouca, Portugal, and is 516 meters (1,693 feet) long.

Officially opened on March 18, 2022, the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey is the longest suspension bridge globally—with a main span of 2,023 meters (6,637 ft) connecting Asia and Europe. The bridge surpasses Japan’s previous record-holder Akashi Kaikyo Bridge by 32 meters (105 ft).

Arthur – the longest-running children’s animated series on American television – ended its 25 years and more than 250 episodes run on PBS on Feb. 21, 2022. The series’s final episode provides viewers a glimpse of what Arthur and his friends grow up to be. The Arthur characters will live on in a new podcast, games, and digital shorts, while reruns of the series will continue on PBS Kids.

Figures from the Small Arms Survey – a Swiss-based leading research project – estimate 390 million guns in circulation in the US in 2018. That’s a ratio of 120.5 guns per 100 people, making the US the only nation on Earth with more civilian firearms than people. In comparison, Canada has a ratio of 34.7 guns per 100 people, there are 12.9 guns per 100 people in Mexico, and The UK has a rate of 5.03 firearms per 100 people.

What happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas?

An 18-year-old shooter killed at least 19 children and two adults on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas – the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, decade ago.

How do mass shooters acquire guns in the US?

From 1966 to 2019, 77 percent of mass shooters obtained the weapons they used through legal purchases, according to data compiled by the National Institute of Justice, the research wing of the Justice Department.

With an estimated $185 million in ticket sales in its first weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness had the biggest opening weekend of the year, ahead of “The Batman’s” $134 million and the second biggest of the pandemic, behind “Spider-Man: Far From Home’s” $260.1 million.

Troy Kotsur joined “CODA” costar Marlee Matlin on March 27, 2022, as the only deaf Oscar winners. He won the best supporting actor award at the Academy Awards for portraying the father of a deaf family with a hearing child. Matlin was the first deaf person to win the prize when she became the youngest best actress winner at age 21 for the 1986 drama “Children of a Lesser God.”

At age 19, Belgian-British aviator Zara Rutherford became the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world and the first person to complete a circumnavigation in a microlight aircraft. On Jan. 20, 2022, Rutheford ended her five-month journey exactly where she started – in Belgium on Aug. 18, 2021.

Who was previously the youngest woman to fly solo around the globe in a single-engine plane?

The previous record-holder is American pilot Shaesta Waiz. Waiz escaped war as a child during the Afghan-Soviet conflict. In 2017, at the age of 30, she became the first Afghan woman to be a certified civilian pilot and the youngest woman in history to fly solo around the globe in a single-engine plane. Waiz said she is feeling euphoric about her record being broken.

The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, released by Mojang in May 2009, selling more than 238 million copies across all platforms (as of April 2021). Microsoft revealed Minecraft Legends, a spinoff game planned for 2023, during its annual gaming showcase on June 12, 2022. The game will be available on all major platforms. Watch the trailer.

With more than 1 million people participating, the annual Notting Hill Carnival is Europe’s largest street party. During the Coronavirus pandemic, the carnival, which celebrates Caribbean culture every August, had to be held online and finally returned to the streets of London on Aug. 27, 2022.

The European bison is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe – one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. A century ago, European bison were extinct in the wild but are now recovering through European reintroduction projects. The 7,000 bison living in Europe today descend from just 12 zoo animals.

Are there bison in the wild in the UK?

On July 18, 2022, three European bison were released to the wild in the UK for the first time in over a thousand years.

Long-running manga One Piece’s limited-edition single volume has been dubbed the longest book “in existence.” Due to its 21,450 pages, it can’t be read, making it more of a sculpture than a book. The book is priced at €1,900 (£1,640), designed by multidisciplinary artist Ilan Manouach. A limited edition run of 50 copies was sold out within days of the release on Sept. 7, 2022, according to its French publisher, JBE.

Is One Piece considered a well-known manga work?

The Guinness Book of Records lists Eiichiro Oda’s original One Piece manga as having the most copies published by a single author, with more than 416m copies printed.

Jikji, a collection of Confucian teachings, was printed by a group of Korean monks in the ancient city of Cheongju in 1377. Jikji is the world’s oldest surviving book printed with movable metal type, predating the earliest Gutenberg Bible by 78 years. The only known copy of Jikji is in France, after being purchased in 1877 and eventually donated to France’s national library. It has not been on display for over 50 years.

Fatou, a western lowland gorilla believed to be the oldest globally, celebrated her 65th birthday on April 13, 2022, at the Berlin Zoo. In 2019, Fatou was named the “oldest living gorilla in captivity” by Guinness World Records after Trudy, a gorilla born in 1956, died. Gorillas usually live up to 50 years in captivity.

The first appearance of Spider-Man’s black suit (which would eventually lead to the emergence of Venom) in a 1984 Spider-Man comic book page has been sold at auction on Jan. 13, 2022, for a record $3.36 million. The previous record-holder for an interior page of a U.S. comic book was art from a 1974 issue of The Incredible Hulk that featured the first appearance of Wolverine, auctioned at $657,250 in 2014.