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37 unusual facts about Guinness


2005 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 2005 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final (sponsored by Guinness) was a hurling match played on Sunday 26 June 2005 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork, County Cork,.

Abram Games

1946, he resumed his freelance practice and worked for clients such Shell, Financial Times, Guinness, British Airways, London Transport, El Al and the United Nations.

Alessandro Padoa

Ivor Grattan-Guinness (2000) The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870–1940.

Arkle

His strength was jokingly claimed to come from drinking Guinness twice a day.

Arkle Challenge Trophy

It was backed by Guinness from 1994 to 1999, and from 2000 to 2011 it was sponsored by the Irish Independent newspaper.

Bodiam railway station

It was surrounded by hop fields, mainly owned by Guinness, and helped to serve the industry in the area, bringing hop-pickers to and from the fields and transporting hops to the breweries.

Champion Bumper

In its early years it had various sponsors, including the Tote and Guinness.

Charlie Naughton

In 1955, he starred in the first Guinness television commercial, playing the zoo-keeper with a German seal.

Complete Index to World Film

Citwf, compiled online by Alan Goble and Valan Publishing since 2004, is a Guinness Record as the world's largest published film-related database, with over 720,500 title entries.

Derek Vanlint

He worked on advertisements for such companies as British Airways, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Guinness, Kellogg's, Levi's, Maxwell House, Pepsi, and Visa.

Donnchadh Ó Hámsaigh

It was not at Downhill when the house burned, eventually coming up for auction in the 1960s, at which point it was purchased by the Guinness company.

Dundee Dell

The restaurant, located at the intersection between 50th Street and Underwood Avenue, bills itself as a neighborhood pub, and has decorated its walls with memorabilia from various British and Irish beer and liquor companies, particularly Guinness.

Eddie Flynn

In 1938, Flynn played for St. James' Gate Football Club (sponsored by Guinness Brewers, where Flynn was also employed at the time) in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

Gem Archer

"We went to the pub and I couldn't stand not knowing if I was a part of the band. After less than half a pint of Guinness I said, 'What does Liam say?' And Noel said, 'It's my fucking band. I'll have who I want.'"

George Brudenell-Bruce, 4th Marquess of Ailesbury

During the legal proceedings in 1891, many offers came to buy to great Savernake estates, including Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, then Chairman of the Board, and former CEO of the Guinness Company.

Gisenyi

Gisenyi is also home to Bralirwa, the only brewery in Rwanda, which manufactures various local beers Primus and Mützig, as well as Amstel, Guinness and a range of Coca Cola brand soft drinks.

Gretchen Franklin

Clutching a Yorkshire Terrier dog in one hand and a glass of Guinness in the other, she was the life and soul of the party; Julia saw that there was much comic mileage to be gained from such a character, and as a result Ethel Mae Skinner was born.

In the Name of the Grandfather

The episode contains numerous jokes about Ireland and references to Irish culture including the Giant's Causeway, Blarney Castle, James Joyce, Bloomsday, leprechauns, Guinness, Riverdance, U2 and the film Once.

Irish Mountaineering Club

In 1957, with the aid of a grant from the Guinness brewing company (which remains a major supplier of refreshments to the club's members), the club purchased a farmhouse at Glendasan, near Glendalough, County Wicklow, and converted it into a mountain hut, to be run by the Dublin section.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

The book touches on the rise of model theory as well as proof theory, and on the emergence of American research on the foundation of mathematics, especially in the hands of E. H. Moore and his students, of the postulate theorists, and of Quine.

James Yuill

In 2010, he produced a version of "Jingle Bells" for a Guinness commercial, using pint glasses containing varying levels of Guinness to create the tune.

LMR 57 Lion

British Rail Class 08 diesel shunter 13030 (later D3030 the 08022) was sold to Guinness at Park Royal in 1985 where it was given the name 'Lion'.

Maurice Tremlett

He stood down from the captaincy after the 1959 season and, after a few games in 1960, he retired to a job with Guinness.

Millennial Rites

These include "a thoughtful man levitating in a voluminous blue cloak" in New York and "a blond-haired man in a dirty beige trenchcoat" drinking Guinness in a Dublin pub.

Paul Stader

Stuntman Ted Batchelor (born 1959), originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and a Guinness record holder, visited Stader's Malibu home and set himself on fire.

Rachel Joynt

She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness advert.

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

Alongside commercial work for Wedgwood Pottery, Shell Petroleum, Guinness and The London Underground, he also painted many members of London’s fashionable Bright Young Things - including writer Edith Sitwell and photographer Cecil Beaton.

Sarah Purser

Sarah Purser became wealthy through astute investments, particularly in Guinness.

Shawn Bishop

Bishop played for and captained Holmes Street, Tiger Bay in the Guinness Greatest of de Street four-a-side tournament in 2008.

Supersaturation

Some beverage products such as ales and stouts, e.g. Guinness, rely on this effect to produce the 'head' on the surface of the poured product.

The Black Stuff

Guinness, a drink sometimes referred to as "the black stuff"

Thomas Street, Dublin

The street runs from Cornmarket to the Saint James's Gate Brewery, where Guinness is brewed; there Thomas Street connects with James's Street.

Urban Light

The work appeared in a Guinness commercial and in a Vanity Fair article featuring cast members of the television series Glee, as well as in numerous amateur photos posted online.

Victoria's Way

Many of the sculptures include small motifs of modernity, such as a small pint of Guinness beside a Ganesha and a mobile telephone tucked into the back of a starving Buddha.

Wellington Statue, Aldershot

Local tradition says there is a bottle of Guinness and a packet of sandwiches sealed up inside the base, left by a forgetful workman called Albert Barber when the statue was moved from London to Aldershot.

West Twyford

Abbeyfields Close is one such residential development, built in 1984 as a series of garden squares, on land formerly owned by Guinness, although its name hints that it might have originally been agricultural land forming part of Twford Abbey estate.

West Vancouver

It was financed by the Guinness family, in conjunction with the development and marketing of the British Properties.


Alfajor

According to Guinness World Records, the biggest alfajor in the world, measuring almost two meters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height and weighing 464 kilograms, was made on 11 December 2010 in Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay.

Anne Swithinbank

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Chaylon Brewster

Brewster was again asked to make a whole new beat for the track, and then Guinness Book record holder D.O. and Derrty Ent's Prentiss Church were included in the track alongside Brockway Biggs.

Ecclefechan

Ecclefechan also has links to the Guinness family, the story of the Whistling Ploughboy of Ecclefechan under the title A Guinness With a Difference was produced by ministries and charts the ploughboy's influence under God on the Guinness family.

Ernest Saunders

He had a career in management with Beecham, Great Universal Stores and Nestlé before becoming chief executive of Guinness plc (now a part of Diageo plc) in 1981, remaining in the position until 1986.

Errol Christie

Christie was listed in the Guinness World Records, then known as The Guinness Book of Records, for notching up the most amateur title wins.

Family of the Year

The band has been a mainstay of summer festivals, including LollapaloozaSummerfest, Downsview, BottleRock Napa Valley, Guinness Oyster & Music Festival, Launch SacramentoMariposa Folk Festival, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and others.

Galaxian

-- Note: Guinness World Records source their Arcade world records scores from Twin Galaxies --> until beaten by newcomer Aart van Vliet, of the Netherlands, who scored 1,653,270 points on May 27, 2009 at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, USA.

Henry Guinness

Born at Burton Hall, Stillorgan, County Dublin, his father Henry's home, Guinness was educated at Winchester College and then the Royal Indian Engineering College, and worked as an engineer in the Indian Public Works in 1880–95.

Hryhoriy Nestor

Nestor reportedly had original old passports from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union, major powers who occupied Western Ukraine since 1891; however, he never provided copies to Guinness, the Gerontology Research Group or even Ukrainian scientists.

Hugo Guinness

Guinness also co-wrote the story to Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Island Savings Centre

The Stick dwarfs the one at Eveleth, Minnesota by 29 metres (Eveleth's is 33 m/110 ft), however Guinness originally said the Minnesota hockey stick was the largest as it was constructed from pure wood, while the Expo stick had a steel framework.

John Hoye

OTC also won two major awards for new works - The LWT Plays on Stage Award in 1988 for The Harlot’s curse written by Rodney Archer and Powell Jones; and the Guinness/Royal National Theatre Festival Award for Roberto Calvi is Alive and Well written by Roy Smiles.

John Replogle

After Harvard, he was hired by Guinness Brewery as head of strategy for Guinness Americas and Caribbean.

Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne

Catherine Ingrid Guinness (b. 1 June 1952), who married 1stly 1983 (divorced 1988) James Donald Charteris, Lord Neidpath (b. 1948), only surviving son and heir of the Earl of Wemyss and March, by whom she has issue 1 son and 1 daughter.

Laksha

Laksha Gala Sankeertanarchana was a Guinness record-breaking mass singing event held at Hyderabad.

Nissan Juke

A Nissan Juke driven by stunt-driver Terry Grant claimed a Guinness World Record when it was driven round the Goodwood Hill Course on two wheels in 2 minutes 55 seconds.

Pankratov

Svetlana Pankratova (1971), declared by the Guinness Book of World Records to have the longest legs of any woman

Park Royal Shopping Centre

The Centre was started alongside the Guinness family's British Properties developments nearby, and was named after the London suburb of Park Royal where a Guinness brewery stood.

Philip Woodfield

Woodfield and Steele also represented the British Government at that meeting, along with William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Paul Channon, a millionaire Guinness heir and minister of state at the Northern Ireland Office; the IRA was again represented by Adams and Ó Conaill, along with Seán MacStiofáin, the leader of the delegation, Séamus Twomey, Martin McGuinness, Ivor Bell, and Myles Shevlin, a solicitor.

Philip Yea

Yea's thirteen-year career at Guinness/Diageo mainly involved financial positions but also saw him in a number of wider-ranging roles including the Chairmanship of The Gleneagles Hotel and Guinness Publishing.

Pippa Greenwood

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Professor Splash

Danny Higginbottom, another claimant of the Guinness Book of Records title

Sangita Myska

Myska has also worked as a current affairs presenter and reporter on The Daily Politics with Andrew Neil on BBC Two; on Real Story with Fiona Bruce for BBC One; presented Outrageous Fortunes – Guinness for BBC One and BBC Three; and BBC Two's Current Affairs series Lifting the Bonnet; BBC1 World Olympic Dreams:Mongolia Rising www.bbc.co.uk/18075876; BBC1 The One Show www.BBC.co.uk/news/uk-13143206

Sepúlveda

Sepulveda Boulevard, a street in Los Angeles listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest municipal street in the world, stretching from the north end of the San Fernando Valley to the south end of San Pedro, California, a distance of about 43 miles.

Southgate, Michigan

Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar located in Southgate and holds the Guinness record for the world's largest commercially available hamburger, weighing 185.8 pounds.

Squire sidecars

In 2002 Motor Cycle News set a Guinness World Record for a motorcycle and trailer reaching a timed speed of 139.5mph at Millbrook in Bedfordshire, UK, pulling a Squire D21 trailer behind a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 motorcycle.

Telephone directory

The Guinness World Record for ripping the most telephone directories is 27; the record for French telephone directories is 29, held by Georges Christen.

The Card

It starred Alec Guinness as Denry Machin, Petula Clark as Nellie Cotterill, Valerie Hobson as the Countess, and Glynis Johns as Ruth Earp.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

Time Won't Let Me Go

It features Guinness World Record Holder Bryan Berg, who holds the record for highest house of cards.

Ubykh language

Ubykh has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records (1996 ed.) as the language with the most consonant phonemes, although it may have fewer than some of the Khoisan languages.

UniDisc

Based in Palo Alto, California and founded in 1989, the first product published was the Guinness Disc of Records, an interactive version of the Guinness Book of Records that included hundreds of video and audio files, including Steve Woodmore the world's fastest talker and the longest words spoken in a dozen languages.

Woodruff, South Carolina

Wilson Casey, Trivia Guinness World Record holder, professional entertainer/speaker, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist in 500+ newspapers.