Q 01/05

How many living centenarians did the United Nations estimate worldwide in 2020?

A) 57,300

B) 173,000

C) 573,000

D) 1.2 million

Answer · why

C) 573,000

That was almost four times the estimate for 2000.

Q 02/05

From what age is a person classed as a supercentenarian?

A) 110

B) 115

C) 120

D) 125

Answer · why

A) 110

Only about one in a thousand centenarians gets there.

Q 03/05

Which Frenchwoman is the oldest person whose age has ever been verified?

A) Lucile Randon

B) Jeanne Calment

C) Marie-Louise Meilleur

D) Eugénie Blanchard

Answer · why

B) Jeanne Calment

She outlived both her daughter and her grandson.

Q 04/05

How old was the oldest verified person in history when she died in 1997?

A) 113

B) 116

C) 119

D) 122

Answer · why

D) 122

Her lifespan is more than three years longer than the next-oldest documented person.

Q 05/05

In which Provençal town was the world's oldest verified person born and did she spend her life?

A) Avignon

B) Nîmes

C) Aix-en-Provence

D) Arles

Answer · why

D) Arles

Her father sat on the town council and her husband ran a drapery there.