Can you name these longest things? - sporcle

Can you name these longest things? Enter an answer in the box below Correctly named answers will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 7 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Popular trivia games today Fast Math 2 23892 One-Word #1 Songs 19346 Political Parties with Electoral Votes 9521 Sports Figures In Other Words 8521 Vowel-less Book Titles 7831 Four Letter Things 7246 Populated Neighboring Countries 4390 And more...
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The longest...	Answer	Info
Harry Potter book		870 pages
Jeopardy champion		74 games
human bone		~ 19 inches
planetary orbit		164 years
ears - dog		13.75 in. right, 13.5 in. left
land mammal gestation period		Up to 760 days
MLB hitting streak (player)		56 games
country (by coastline)		202,080 km
U.S. state (by coastline)		6,640 miles
serving U.S. president		1933 to 1945
venomous snake		Up to 22 feet
river - world		~ 4,160 miles
river - U.S.		~ 2,540 miles

The longest...	Answer	Info
serving pope		1846–1878
Broadway show		1/26/1988 -
bird (by wingspan)		Up to 13 feet
mountain range (exposed) - world		~ 5000 miles
mountain range - U.S.		~ 3000 miles
running TV show - U.S.		61 years
running game show - U.S.		Began 9/4/1972
Russian Czar reign		1682 to 1725
nerve in the Human Body		Up to 35 inches
song to reach #1 on Billboard		8:36 minutes
book in the Bible		150 chapters
French king reign		1643 to 1715
constellation		1303 sq. degrees

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The Longest

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Published: May 12th, 2009

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	marmarmar:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	7 points
	Wow, that was surprisingly difficult.

	vogz:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	10 points
	price is right has existed that long? well i'll be damned...good for you bob barker...sorry we had to resort to drew carey

	santinit:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	3 points
	Drew Carey is awesome. I wish I could get paid to subtely ridicule contestants on the Price is Right.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT	24 points
	I don't think "Pius," without the number, should be acceptable for the Pope answer. I don't know anything about popes but I just guessed the name and got it. Kind of a cheat since a bunch of them have had that name.

	radiosilence:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	12 points
	Now... can anybody guess the shortest song to reach #1 on the Billboard chart (at an astounding one minute, 36 seconds)? Maybe that will show up on a future quiz.

	CANDM:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	30 points
	Re: this quiz title: ...that's what she said.

	JohnJF:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	15 points
	American Pie is the longest song to reach #1. Looks like I have a new favorite piece of useless information to mention in social situations.

	zalagreensbury:	May 12th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT	5 points
	This has been one of my favorite quizzes...and I'm not just saying that because I actually got most of the questions right.

	RebeccaAMax:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:04 GMT	6 points
	er...the Mississippi River? (also - if Pius is acceptable for the pope, Louis should be acceptable for the king. Which is to say, Pius should not be acceptable.)

	debbiedoesnothin:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:05 GMT	9 points
	If just Pius counts for pope then just Louis should count for French king. I vote requiring for Pius + the number.

	JAJDH:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:15 GMT	8 points
	I was only picturing the continental United States. Apparently, my brain is stuck in 1958.

	Babomomebeo:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	10 points
	radio silence: is it "Stay" by Maurice William and the Zodiacs? I know the length of that one because it's on my itunes most played list. good quiz. RIP Pluto.

	Edge:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	1 point
	@vogz: Price is Right has had other regular hosts besides Barker and Carey. The first was Bill Cullen, and I think there have been others as well.

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	JAJDH:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	9 points
	And yes, I DID try Dirk Diggler as soon as I clicked start. And Ron Jeremy. I hang my head in shame. (...no, not that one.)

	sevorak:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	7 points
	@RebeccaAMax: The Missouri is longer than the Mississippi by 220 miles.

	maniacalclown:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	1 point
	25/26. Only one I didn't get was the dog, although I admit that I would not have gotten Pius if the number was required (which it probably should be), and I pulled a LOT of these out of absolutely no where. Great quiz.

	jawa88:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:48 GMT	2 points
	I must be way behind the times because I had to have the number for Pius...Ridiculously fun quiz!!! I got most of the answers from previous quizzes on sporcle =)

	brock:	May 12th, 2009 at 05:59 GMT	3 points
	it didn't accept cobra for me. is it required to be king cobra or no?

	acadec:	May 12th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT	5 points
	1. the longest word in the english language is not antidisestablishmentarianism, it's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolvanoconiosis. 2. the second letter (i) of "river" is capitalized in Missouri River.

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	zalkon2004:	May 12th, 2009 at 06:56 GMT	7 points
	Skip - the quiz asks for the longest "exposed" mountain range

	Yojimbo28:	May 12th, 2009 at 07:06 GMT	11 points
	I've never seen a Harry Potter movie or read any of the books, and I was still able to remember every one of the titles - except the right answer! FML. Anyway, great quiz.

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	adal:	May 12th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT	6 points
	Is Psalms the longest book in the Bible by words as well, or just the number of chapters? Words (or pages) would seem the more logical thing to measure the length of a book by.

	OscilatingGibbon:	May 12th, 2009 at 08:46 GMT	6 points
	@adal: Acts is longer by word count.

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	CarmineClash:	May 12th, 2009 at 09:11 GMT	7 points
	@patrick "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolvanoconiosis" is only the longest word because its makers made it to be. "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest non-fabricated, non-scientific word in the English language.

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	Zalx:	May 12th, 2009 at 09:59 GMT	5 points
	@kyle - double check the spelling. It's 'oe' not 'eo' (whatever Scoobius Pip may say)

	milkmeister:	May 12th, 2009 at 10:27 GMT	-1 points
	@CarmineClash: Isn't "Floccinaucinihilipilification"? I make it 29 letters against 28 for antidis...etc

	bismark76:	May 12th, 2009 at 11:19 GMT	3 points
	i would not have guessed the missouri river is the longest in the US

	HalfWelsh:	May 12th, 2009 at 11:45 GMT	5 points
	Guessed the 14th for Louis 1st time and nearly let out a small cry of delight until I remembered I'm teaching right now! Shh!

	Rackie:	May 12th, 2009 at 11:46 GMT	3 points
	I must have tried every Louis except the right one - damn my inability to correctly type Roman numerals in a Sporcle quiz!

	444444:	May 12th, 2009 at 11:50 GMT	0 points
	Can someone tell me why Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" doesn't work? It's 12 minutes long.

	DudeMeister4:	May 12th, 2009 at 12:13 GMT	0 points
	@444444 Meat Loaf's song is 5:14 minutes, I don't know what version you are listening to. @sporcle The "I" in missouri rIver is capitalized. Also, I typed in "Rocky" and it didn't accept it. Did it think I was referring to Rocky Balboa or something?

	davidr:	May 12th, 2009 at 12:57 GMT	1 point
	@Carmine: But `antidisestablishmentarianism' was also fabricated to be long. The -arianism at the end is completely redundant: it takes a viewpoint (antidisestablishment), makes it into sombody who holds that viewpoint (an antidisestablishmentarian) and then refers to the viewpoint held by such a person (-ism). But the viewpoint held by those whose viewpoint is antidisestablishment is just antidisestablishment. Likewise, a disciplinarian is somebody who believes in discipline, not disciplinarianism.

	Ads:	May 12th, 2009 at 13:15 GMT	-3 points
	@ jim I found this quiz to be quite non-american biased... I'd call the US ones TV, Sports, Geography, History, Geography, Geography, TV, TV, Music. For me, biased is the something like the "click & clack" answer in the twosomes quiz. Great Quiz.

	Kevin:	May 12th, 2009 at 13:41 GMT	-1 points
	@adal - The Judeo-Christian Bible is never referenced by page number. In this case, chapter count is an appropriate way to quote its length.

	Dawn:	May 12th, 2009 at 13:50 GMT	4 points
	Wikipedia says Meat Loaf's song is 12 minutes, but that is the full version. The single version was cut in half and that was probably the version that charted to #1.