General Knowledge|Current Affairs|GK Today|Quiz|Trivia from General Knowledge Today » Superlatives http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com gk today,latest gk,current affairs,general knowledge,gk,quiz,trivia,puzzles,gk sms and more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:35:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top 5 Largest Planetary Moons http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/top-5-largest-planetary-moons-1034.htm http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/top-5-largest-planetary-moons-1034.htm#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:08:05 +0000 admin http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/?p=1034 Moon / Planet               KM          MILES

Ganymade(Jupiter)       5262.4     3,269.9

Titan (saturn)                   5150.0      3200.1

Callisto(Jupiter)             4820.6     2995.4

LO (Jupiter)                     3642.6      2995.4

Moon (Earth)                   3476.2      2160.0

]]> http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/top-5-largest-planetary-moons-1034.htm/feed 0 Burj Khalifa-The Tallest Building in the World http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/burj-khalifa-the-tallest-building-in-the-world-478.htm http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/burj-khalifa-the-tallest-building-in-the-world-478.htm#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:46:04 +0000 admin http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/?p=478 The world’s tallest animal is a giraffe and the world’s known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

The world’s tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

The giant who fought David in the Bible was 2.97m (9ft. 9in.) tall.

The oldest man to reach the Everest (8848 m), the world’s highest peak is a venezuelan. He is Ramón Blanco and he did it in september 1993, he was 60 years old.

tallest building in the world

World’s Tallest Tower

Burj Khalifa — The Tallest Building in the World

hold the title of the tallest buildings in the world.
Empire State Bldg.

The height of The Empire State Building in New York : 1,250 feet (381 m)
Eiffel Tower, Paris : 984 feet (300 m)
Statue of Liberty, New York : 310 feet (92 m)

World’s Tallest Building: Who Holds The Title?
The Petronas-Sears Controversy

Officially, the World’s Tallest Buildings are the Petronas Towers in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1483 feet / 452m) — but put Petronas side by side with the former title holder, Sears Tower, and look again. The casual observer would say Sears Tower is tops, and by quite a wide margin!

The highest occupiable floor of Sears is more then 200 feet higher than the top floor in Petronas and its antennas go even higher. So why are the Petronas Towers considered the World’s Tallest Buildings?

Because, in the tradition and lore of tall building, spires count, antennas don’t.

Spires are architectural features and they have been traditionally counted in a building’s height, a precedent that dates to the Chrysler Building.  Antennas are not normally considered architectural features.

So…based on the long and storied tradition of tall buildings, the winner by decision is the Petronas Towers.
Mt Everest. Mountain heights…
Mount Everest : 29,028 feet (8,853 m)
Aconcagua (South America) : 22,834 feet (6,960 m)
McKinley / Denali (North America) : 20,320 feet ( m)
Kilimanjaro, Africa : 19,340 feet (5,894m)
Elbrus, Southern Europe : 18,510 feet (5,642 m)
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Recreating1901 ! The world's shortest railway reopens in LA

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China Railway High-Speed (CRH) is World’s fastest train which runs at an average speed train of 350 km per hour. The super-high-speed train connects the cities of Guangzhou, which is a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, and Wuhan (a metropolis in central China). It is a distance of 1,069 km that takes only three hours to complete in the new high-speed train.

]]> http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/worlds-fastest-train-is-in-china-408.htm/feed 0 GK Questions Related to Largest Smallest Highest in the World http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/gk-questions-related-to-largest-smallest-highest-in-the-world-139.htm http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/gk-questions-related-to-largest-smallest-highest-in-the-world-139.htm#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:25:19 +0000 admin http://www.generalknowledgetoday.com/General-Knowledge-Current-Affairs/?p=139 Which is the Largest Continent

Ans : Asia

Which is the Largest Island

Ans : Greenland

Which is the Largest Ocean

Ans : Pacific

Which is the Largest Peninsula

Ans : Arabia

Which is the Largest Freshwater Lake

Ans : Lake Superior

Which is the Largest Archipelago

Ans : Indonesia

Which is the Largest Saltwater Lake

Ans : Caspian Sea
Which is the Largest Desert

Ans : Sahara (Africa)

Which is the Largest Delta

Ans : Sunderbans (Bengal)

Which is the Largest River

Ans : Nile

Which is the Smallest Continent

Ans : Australia

Which is the Highest Plateau

Ans : Pamir (Tibet)

Which is the Highest Mountain Peak

Ans : Everest (Nepal)

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