Q 01/05

Jeanne Calment, whose 122 years are the longest verified human lifespan, said she met which painter in Arles?

A) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

B) Paul Cézanne

C) Vincent van Gogh

D) Paul Gauguin

Answer · why

C) Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles in 1888 and 1889, when Calment was 13 and 14. She remembered that he gave her a condescending look, and said she forga...

Q 02/05

In Britain, a 100th birthday can bring a congratulatory card, once sent as a telegram, from which figure?

A) The prime minister

B) The monarch

C) The lord chancellor

D) The home secretary

Answer · why

B) The monarch

The monarch has sent these greetings since 1908, when Edward VII's secretary congratulated a Lincolnshire clergyman on reaching his hundredth year. An...

Q 03/05

Which Japanese prefecture, where a 1945 battle destroyed most family registers, was named a longevity 'blue zone'?

A) Okinawa

B) Hiroshima

C) Hokkaido

D) Nagasaki

Answer · why

A) Okinawa

Okinawa joined the blue zone list in 2005 for its many people aged 100 or more. Because its registers were rebuilt after the war, some researchers que...

Q 04/05

Who became the first US president to live to 100, celebrating the birthday in October 2024 while in hospice care?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Ronald Reagan

C) Herbert Hoover

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

D) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1, 2024, more than nineteen months after choosing hospice care at home in Plains, Georgia, so that he could spend h...

Q 05/05

Which British Army veteran raised over £30 million for the NHS by walking laps of his garden as he turned 100?

A) Andy McNab

B) Tom Moore

C) Simon Weston

D) Johnson Beharry

Answer · why

B) Tom Moore

Tom Moore set out to raise £1,000 with a hundred laps behind his walking frame. More than 1.5 million people donated, and a charity single made him th...