The largest media scavenger hunt is ‘Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen’, which was carried out by 14,580 participants and organised by Misha Collins (USA) between 29 October and 5 November 2012. 972 teams took part in the record attempt and each team was made up of 15 participants. The winning team was Badwolf.
The annual Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, UK, is the world’s largest military air show in terms of participating aircraft. An average of 350 static and flying aircraft attend each year, with a record total of 535 aircraft at the 2003 show. Attendance is around 150,000 anually.
Weighing in at nearly a tonne (2,200 lb), the American bison (Bison bison) is the largest terrestrial animal in North America and the largest land animal to migrate. Although 60 million bison once roamed North America, they were overhunted to near extinction by the end of the 19th century, and wild populations are now limited to a handful of national parks such as Yellowstone in Wyoming and the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. A seasonal migrant, the bison moves to lower elevations in
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The largest microphone array is LOUD (Large acOUstic Data Array Project). It consists of 1,020 microphones gathered in a single array allowing operators to pinpoint, track and amplify individual voices in a crowd. It was built by a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,(Cambridge, MA, USA) led by Professor Anant Agarwal, and became operational in January 2004.
The largest known protozoans in terms of volume are the extinct calcareous foraminifera (Foraminiferida) of the genus Nummulites. Individuals measuring up to 150 mm (6 in) wide were found in the Middle Eocene rocks of Turkey. The calcareous foraminifera existed in the Eocene geological period, which lasted from about 55 to 38 million years ago. During this time the Earth’s climate as a whole was warmer and wetter than today. Areas as far north as Greenland, ice-locked today, were dominated by trees which nowadays exist
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The world’s largest mezuzah parchment measured 94 cm (37 in) long and 76 cm (30 in) wide and its container measured 110 cm (43.3 in) long on 19 May 2004. It was scribed by Avraham-Hersh Borshevsky of Jerusalem, Israel. The typical height of the Hebrew inscription measures (or rather the distance from the top of one line of inscription to the top of the line of inscription below it) is 4-6mm (0.15-0.2 in), here it is 40 mm (1.5 in), with the average size of
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The largest mexican wave involved 157,574 participants and was achieved by the TUMS wave at Bristol Motor Speedway during the Sharpie 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, USA, on 23 August 2008. Danny Girton Jr. adjudicated.
The largest meteorology lesson consisted of 16,110 participants all taught by the FOX 4 Weather Team (Mike Thompson, Don Harman, Joe Lauria and Karli Ritter, all USA) on ‘School Day at the K’ at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Kansas, USA on 7 May 2009. The Fox 4 Weather Team consists of Mike Thompson, Don Harman, Joe Lauria and Karli Ritter.
The American ten-engined Convair B-36J ‘Peacemaker’ had a wing span of 70.1 m (230 ft), the longest ever for a bomber. The aircraft, which had a maximum takeoff weight of 185 tonnes (410,000 lb), has been out of service since the late 1950s, when it was replaced by the Boeing B-52. Its maximum speed at combat weight was 661 km/h (411 mph), and a normal cruising speed of 370 km/h (230 mph). The B-36J had its maiden flight in August 1946. The B-36 was the
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The heaviest bomber in service is the Russian Tupolev Tu-160 ‘Blackjack’ bomber, which has a maximum take-off weight of 275 tonnes (606,270 lb) and a maximum speed of around Mach 2.05 (roughly 2,200 km/h or 1,350 mph). Its empty weight is 110 tonnes (242,500 lb). It has a 54.1 m (177.5 ft) long with a wingspan of 55.7 m (182.7 ft). Although a Boeing 747 has a higher maximum takeoff weight of 397 tonnes (877,200 lb), the ‘Blackjack’ is considerably smaller and crucially, flies more than
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