The largest popsicle stick sculpture was a geographical map of Thailand consisting of 840,000 sticks and was constructed by Wall’s (Thailand), at Siam Park Center, in Bangkok, Thailand, between 19 and 23 December 2011. The sculpture depicts the geographical map of Thailand that was created using 3D boxes. Each box was created using 84 sticks and there were 100,000 individual boxes. Therefore there were 184,000 boxes. The map was designed to depict various geographical layers that
The largest ice hockey tournament was the Hockey Calgary 37th Annual Minor Hockey Week Tournament which was contested by 664 teams totalling 10, 922 players in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from 5 January to 13 January 2007. 957 games were played over the week on 42 different ice sheets in 34 ice rinks across Calgary. There were 2,694 coaches and 450 referees used during this tournament.
The largest ever ice fishing competition took place on Lake Ponnenjärvi, Töysä, Finland with 26,462 participants on 15 March 2003. The Veljekset Keskinen Miljoona Pilkki event has been organised annually since 1997.
The world’s largest ice cream sculpture, shaped like an 18th century ship, weighed 925 kg (2,039.4 lb), used 1,715.54 litres (453.2 gal) of chocolate and vanilla ice cream and was created by Jacques Tokar, Antoine Tokar and Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream (all USA). The sculpture was unveiled at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School, Burbank, California, USA on 14 November 2002. The ice cream sculpture measured 1.46 m (4 ft 10 in) x 1.304 m (5 ft 10 in) x 72.7 cm (2 ft 5 in)
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Baskin-Robbins International constructed the world’s largest ice cream scoop pyramid using 3,100 scoops of ice cream in Maui, Hawaii on May 18, 2000. The pyramid weighed 800 lb. 362.87 kg.and stood about 4 ft. 1.21 m. high for approximately 45 min. Over 80 Baskin-Robbins International executives, franchisees and flavor experts representing more than 20 countries created the 21-layer ice cream scoop pyramid.
The largest cup of ice cream weighed 8,865 lb (4,021 kg) and was made by Baskin-Robbins at their headquarters in Canton, Massachusetts, USA on 13 September 2005. The cup stood 6.45 ft (1.96 m) tall measured from the base of the cup to the highest point of the ice cream.
The largest ice cream cone measured 2.81 m (9 ft 2.63 in) in height and was achieved by Mirco Della Vecchia and Andrea Andrighetti (both Italy) during an event organised by Rimini Fiera and sponsored by Sigep, Fabbri, Incisoria Imar, Icam, Martellato (all Italy), at Rimini Fiera, in Rimini, Italy, on 22 January 2011. The internal cone was made of wafer and covered with a 700 kg white chocolate cone then decorated with 2000 round wafer biscuits. The mind behind this attempt was Mirco Della
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The largest ice cream cake weighed 10.13 tonnes (22,333.6 lb) and was achieved by Dairy Queen Canada at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 10 May 2011. The cake measured 4.45 m (14 ft 7 in) long, 4.06 m (13 ft 3 in) wide, and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall. It included sponge cake, vanilla ice cream, buttercream frosting, and Oreo cookie crumble topping.
The largest annual ice canoeing race is held as part of the Quebec Winter Carnival in Quebec City, Canada. The 2011 event attracted 49 teams who raced across 6.4 km of icy St. Lawrence River.
The hypostyle (pillared) hall of the temple of Amon-Re at Karnak in Egypt had a roof supported by 134 giant columns and is 102 m (335 ft) long and 53 m (174 m) wide, giving it a floor area of approximately 5,000 m² (54,000 ft²). This is big enough to accommodate nearly 26 tennis courts. It was commissioned by Ramses I in around 1290BC.