World Records

Some interesting World Records

• Wal-Mart at various locations across the United States sets the guinness world Record for selling the most Guinness World RecordsTM books on 27 November 2009. The no. of books is 44,647 in 24 hours.

• Steve Schmidt set the guinness record for most lifts of a 100Kg weight in one minute only by teeth at Clark's Gym, Columbia, Missouri, US, on 30 Jan 2010. He lift the weight for 50 times in a minute.

• Record of largest coloured vinyl records is set up by Alessandro Benedetti (Italy) on 9 March 2010. He has a collection of 1,507 different coloured vinyl records.

• Record for longest distance driving on glass bottles is achieved by Li Guiwen (China) on 11 July 2010. The distance is 60.19m.

• The record of largest cream filled biscuit is named to Paul Thacker and Simon Morgan on 18 November 2010. The biscuit is 59cm long, 39cm wide 6.5cm high and 15.73kg in weight.

• Peter Glazebrook (UK) has set up the record of heaviest potato under giant vegetable category. The potato weights 3.76kg.

• A special version of Tetris (Nintendo World Championships Gold Edition) became the most expensive puzzle game. Its one copy was for $15000 in April 2008.

• The Guinness Record for earning the maximum score on the NES version of Tetris has been gotten by Harry Hong (USA) on 19 April 2009. He scored 999,999.

• Record for most games of chess played simultaneously is named to India's Sports Authority of Gujarat (India) on 24 December 2010 at the University of Gujarat Sports Grounds, Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. The no. of games was 20,480.
• Ted Robbins(UK) and Ben Day(UK) achieved the record for most jokes told in a minute by telling 17 jokes in a minute on 18 November 2010.

• American is the most common nationality among FarmVille players.

• Flight Control HD (Firemint,2010) is the first iPad game offering stereoscopic 3D functionality.

• Australia is the country with the highest rate of pet ownership per household as of 2010. Here, over 60% of households has had at least one animal as a companion and 83% has owned a pet at some point in their life.

• MGIMO University, as of 2010, records its name for teaching 53 full time languages during every academic term.

• Kevin Fast (Canada) record his name by pulling the heaviest house. The house weighed 35.9 tones. He pulled the house a distance of 11.95 meters.

• Collect-a-Can (South Africa) achieved the record for collecting the most steel cans by the collection of 2,656,284 cans between 1-31 October 2010.

• DM Williams (USA) records his name by growing the tallest cotton plant on 15 July 2010. The plant was 9.66m tall.