The largest audience for a video game performance is 16,000 and was achieved by ZOO Magazine’ s Matt Beadle and Activision’s Jon Edney, who played DJ Hero at The Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight, UK on June 11 2010. Damian Field adjudicated
The largest audience for a comedian was 67,733 and was achieved by Mario Barth (Germany) at the Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany, on 12 July 2008.
The most watched live sporting event on television was the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany between 9 June and 9 July 2006. FIFA claimed that the tournament was seen by 30 billion (non unique) viewers over that period, the result of an increased fanbase among women and its Euro time zone the games were shown when the majority of global fans could watch, unlike the 2002 tournament, which was broadcast from Japan and Korea.
For the first time since automobile mass-production began in the early 1900s, China overtook North America as the world’s biggest car market in 2009, recording 13.6 million sales compared to North America’s tally of 10.4 million sales. The Chinese new car market increased its global lead in 2010 with more than 18 million annual sales compared to North America’s tally of 11.5 million for the same year. At its peak, North America sold 17.344 million cars in calendar year 2000 and in excess of 16
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The Emirates Financial Towers in Dubai, UAE, has an automated parking facility that can store 1,191 cars and occupies a net internal area of 27,606.14 m² (297,150 ft²). The modular parking system is capable of multiple, simultaneous rapid pallet movements and is programmed to control a peak capacity of 360 cars per hour. The facility was completed on 26 June 2011. The Automated Vehicle Stacker is split over nine floors, occupying a section each of basement levels 4 to 1, ground floor and podium levels
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The record for the largest autograph signing by professional athletes is 18 and was achieved by Samsung Electronics America and Circuit City as part of the ”HD Hero Days” Campaign, in Las Vegas, USA, on 10 January 2008.
In August 2006 ASC Process Systems (USA) announced it had built an autoclave with an internal volume of 2,321 m³ (82,000 ft³). It is designed to process components of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft by subjecting them to temperatures of up to 232° C (450° F) and pressures of up to 10.2 bar.
The largest backpack or rucksack is 4.315 m (14.15 ft 1.88 in) in height, 3.21 m (10 ft 6.38 in) in width, 1.47 m (4.8 ft 9.87 in) in depth and was measured at the Intergift IFEMA expo centre in Madrid, Spain on 3 February 2011. The backpack was made from polyester fabric and is an exact replica of a normal sized Safta backpack which was present throughout the measuring process. The largest backpack was scaled to be 10 times the size of the normal
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The largest bachata dance involved 325 couples (650 people) and was achieved by Buena Vista Social Dance Club (Russia) at Lenin Stadium in Khabarovsk, Russia, on 30 June 2012. The record attempt formed part of the Youth Day celebrations in Khabarovsk. All 325 couples danced for 10 minutes 18 seconds to live music, performed by Cuban singer “Mr Tito” (Ramon Barrios).
The largest awareness ribbon made of flowers was 28.71 m (94 ft 2 in) long and 19.68 m (64 ft 6 in) wide and was made of 105,000 pink carnations. Unveiled on 16 November 2007, in Dubai, UAE, it was created on behalf of the Dubai Healthcare City to raise awareness for breast cancer research. Adjudicated by Marco. The ribbon is inscribed a 32 x 25 m ellipse. If the ribbon was unfodled it would be 60 m long.