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2008 Sun Bowl

The halftime show included a performance by musical group The Village People as Sun Bowl officials broke the Guinness World Record for largest Y.M.C.A. dance.

Adam Brodsky

Between August 3, 2003 and September 21, 2003, Brodsky set the Guinness World Record for the Fastest Tour by Solo Performer with 50 shows in 50 states in 50 days, and then performed in Washington DC the following night.

Anna-Maria Botsari

Between 27th and 28th February 2002, Anna-Maria Botsari achieved a new Guinness World Record in Kalavryta, Greece, by playing 1102 opponents in a little over 30 hours.

B-25 Empire State Building crash

She survived a plunge of 75 stories, which still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall.

Cathie Jung

Cathie Jung (born 1937) is an American Victorian dress and corset enthusiast residing in Old Mystic, Connecticut, United States, who currently holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest waist on a living person.

Derek Boyer

Boyer currently holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest truck pulled, after he pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51,840 kg (114,287 lb - 51.84 metric tons) over a level 100 ft (30.48 m) course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 6 March 2005.

Diet Coke and Mentos eruption

A Guinness World Record of 2,865 simultaneous geysers was set on October 17, 2010, in an event organized by Perfetti Van Melle at the SM Mall of Asia Complex, in Manila, Philippines.

Ghazal Srinivas

Kesiraju Srinivas (born 14 October 1966 in Tekkali, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh ), popularly known as Ghazal Srinivas, holds the Guinness world record for most languages sung.

Jade Kindar-Martin

In the six years they performed together, the two became known equally for their highly technical bicycle acrobatics and dramatic skywalks, including their Guinness World Record-setting double skywalk across the River Thames in London in 1997.

Jones Jones Jones

Jones Jones Jones was an event held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales on the 3 November 2006, which broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname—Jones.

Pillows and Blankets

Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) convinces Jeff (Joel McHale) to organize a meeting to get Troy and Abed back together and build a blanket-pillow fort worthy of a Guinness world record.

Pittsfield, New Hampshire

The town claimed the Guinness World Record in July, 2001, as the place where the most number of people wore Groucho Marx glasses at the same time (522).

Pleiads

Richie Knucklez holds the official Guinness World Record for this game with 279,090 points recorded on June 4, 2011 at the Annual Classic Video Game and Pinball Tournament held at the legendary Funspot in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.

Salahuddin Choudhudy

In 1989, Salahuddin Choudhudy, from Calcutta, circumnavigated the world aboard a Hindustan Contessa classic automobile for a distance of 24,900 road miles in 39 days, 20 hours, and 15 minutes, earning him the current Guinness World Record for first and fastest circumnavigation by car.

Seesa

Seesa is the remake of Tamil film Agadam which has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest uncut film which has a running time for 2 hours, 3 minutes and 30 seconds, a first in world cinema.i This film also beat the record held by Russian Ark, which used a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot.

Sheena Reyes

As a Motorsport Model at the 2010 Australian Grand Prix, Reyes broke the Guinness World Record at Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Albert Park for Putting on the Most Pairs of Under Pants in 60 Seconds: 22 Pairs.

Thomas Michael O'Shaughnessy, Jr.

Derek Levy, Mike Lee and Jeff Horn, all of the Southern California Paddleboard Club and O’Shaughnessy got back on their boards and paddled back 105 miles after only a day and half of rest, they established a Guinness World Record by being the first and fastest to cross what is known as the “Florida Straits,” from Havana Harbor to the Southern-most buoy of the United States in Key West.

Totem tennis

A Guinness World Record attempt for the most people playing Totem Tennis simultaneously occurred on the December 3, 2006 at Lake Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Trenticular

Trenticular concept was introduced by the Guinness World Record winning Artist Limnesh Augustine and team in the year 2012 in Bahrain.


see also

Aerobie

The Aerobie's first Guinness World Record was set by Scott Zimmerman at 1,257 feet (383.1 meters) in 1986 at Fort Funston, San Francisco.

Bob Blumer

On June 12, 2010, Blumer broke the Guinness World Record for making the largest bowl of salsa at the 26th Tomato Fest in Jacksonville, Texas.

Govinda sport

In 2012, one of Mumbai's leading Govinda groups, namely the Jai Jawan Govinda Pathak from Jogeshwari, had made an entry into the Guinness World Record and the Limca Book of Records by forming a human pyramid of 9-tiers (43.79 feet tall) at the Dahi Handi event held in Thane.

Nevado Mismi

Ed Stafford holds the Guinness World Record for walking the Amazon River, starting at Nevado Mismi, completing the journey 860 days later in August 2010.

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.

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.

Suresh

Suresh Joachim, Tamil Canadian film actor, producer & multiple Guinness World Record holder

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.

Time Won't Let Me Go

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

Woodruff, South Carolina

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