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1. Any good quiz starts with a cabbage. This one was grown by Scott A. Robb in Alaska, in 2012, and broke the world record for being what was then the 'heaviest green cabbage'. How much did it weigh in at?
2. Next we go to Connecticut to find what was then the 'largest cloned animal'. On January 6, 2000, scientists successfully cloned six babies from skin cells taken from the ear of which animal?
3. No world record tour would be complete without a clever dog. Meet Jumpy, from California. When he broke the record he set it at 19.65 seconds - but for doing what?
4. From California to Delaware: In 2016, Lynnea C. Salvo became the 'oldest woman to cross America by bicycle' when she completed the 3,163 mile ride from Oceanside, California, to Bethany Beach, Delaware. But how old was she at the time?
5. We all love those photos of the heavily tattooed, or the multiple piercings, and Kalawelo Kaiwi from Hawaii certainly does not disappoint. He also became the proud owner of what was then the 'largest flesh tunnel (earlobes)'.
Measured in April 2015, the holes in Kala's earlobes are reported to be about the diameter of which crockery item?
6. The oldest standing record in this quiz dates back to 1927 and still stood in 2020! Measuring 17ft 6in at the time of his burial, in Kensett, Iowa, which part of Hans N. Langseth's body was record-breaking?
7. Another 'weight' question: The Guinness world record for the 'largest tape ball' went to the Portland Promise Center (USA) in Louisville, Kentucky in 2011. It had a circumference of 3.89m (12ft 9in) and weighed in at 907.18kgs (2000lbs) That is approximately the same weight as which big-game animal?
8. At the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey on August 1st 2014, Anthony Brooks achieved the 'most Rubik's cubes solved underwater'. How many Rubik's cubes did Anthony solve in a single breath?
9. The next record comes from above rather than in New Mexico. Felix Baumgartner was the 'first person to break the sound barrier in freefall' when he descended from 128,100 ft. Can you remember in which year he did this?
10. We finish in New York. On the menu at Serendipity 3 in New York City is the home to what was the world's 'most expensive dessert'. How much, in November 2007, would the Frrrozen Haute Chocolate ice cream sundae have set you back?
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