Results: Bigger, Brighter, Better
Published on 05/24/2016
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In a continuous race to break records, and better each other, builders and countries are always trying to take home the record for the biggest everything. How many of these present record holders have you heard of (providing that those records are not being broken right this minute)?
Largest building (sq. ft.) -- New Century Global Center -- Chengdu, China -- presently largest footprint with over 18 million square feet incorporating office, water park, university and hotels
10%
192 votes
Largest building being planned -- Tesla Gigafactory -- Nevada, New Mexico -- planned facility would take up 24 million square feet
9%
165 votes
Largest airport -- King Fahd International Airport -- Dammam, Saudi Arabia -- 780 square kilometers
8%
151 votes
Largest hotel-- First World Hotel -- Genting Highlands, Malaysia -- 7,351 rooms, shops, restaurants, theme park and casinos
7%
123 votes
Largest private home -- Tuscan Castle -- Tuscany, Italy -- 115 bedrooms, 100 bathrooms, 154,139 sq ft of accommodation
4%
79 votes
None of these
75%
1392 votes
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You've heard the saying "Bigger is always better". Well, sometimes bigger is just...well, bigger. How many of these big record holders are you familiar with? Biggest diamond -- Pretoria, South Africa -- founded in 1905, 3,106-carat diamond was finally cut into 9 large stones and 100 smaller ones
16%
303 votes
Biggest tumor -- Shanxi Province, China -- Yang Jianbin had the 110 kg tumor removed in 2014
7%
135 votes
Biggest family -- Ziona Chan -- Baktwang, India -- he has 39 wives, 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren
6%
110 votes
Biggest baby -- Aversa, Italy -- boy weighing 10.2 kg (22 lb 8 oz) who was born to Sig. Carmelina Fedele in September 1955
9%
160 votes
Biggest spider -- Madeira, Portugal -- Desertas wolf spider with a body length of 1.6 inches, with legs the size of a dinner plate
5%
98 votes
Biggest pizza -- Milan, Italy -- at Milan World's Fair, almost a mile long, weighing over 5 tons
9%
167 votes
None of these
67%
1253 votes
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Bigger does not always mean better, and it certainly has no correlation to brighter. Here are some of the current brighter record holders. How many of these do you know? Brightest city in the world -- Las Vegas, Nevada -- earned honor by being brightest city as seen from space
25%
461 votes
Brightest star in the sky -- Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky
23%
425 votes
Brightest eyes in the world -- Nong Youhui of Dahua, China, has eyes that reflect neon green when light is shined directly on them like those of a Siamese cat, which can also see very well in the dark
6%
107 votes
Brightest children in the world -- Singapore is officially the country with the world's smartest high school students
7%
132 votes
Brightest person in the world- Terence Tao. an Australian-born Chinese American mathematician has an I.Q. of 230, received a Ph.D from Princeton at 20 and at 24 became the youngest ever full professor at UCLA.
4%
78 votes
None of these
58%
1080 votes
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