The largest underwater hockey tournament was the Senior Open Division of the 25th New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Underwater Hockey Championships, involving 174 participants across 18 teams, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, from 2-6 September 2009. The overall championships consisted of 564 total players on 62 teams across four competitive divisions: Junior Girls, Junior Open, Senior Girls and Senior Open. The tournament consisted of four competition groups: Junior Girls (14 teams), Junior Open (13 teams), Senior Girls (17 teams) and Senior Open (18 teams).
The largest vuvuzela is 35 metres (114 ft 9 in) long and 5.5 metres (18 ft) in diameter at the front. It was created by Hyundai Automotive South Africa and was presented and measured in Cape Town, South Africa, on 26 May 2010. The vuvuzela is sounded before each match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
The bird with the largest vocabulary is a budgerigar, Oskar, owned by Gabriela Danisch of Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, who knows and can say 148 words as ascertained on 8 Sep 2010.
First isolated from a water sample collected off the Chilean coast in April 2010, Megavirus chilensis (or MGVC) has the largest capsid (protein shell) of any known virus, measuring 440 nm in diameter. This virus’s total diameter is approximately 700 nm, making it larger than some bacteria, and big enough to be seen not only with an electron microscope but also with a normal light microscope. Moreover, its genome (genetic complement) is a linear, double-stranded molecule of DNA consisting of 1,259,197 base pairs, which is
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The largest virtual community for teens is Habbo (Sulake, 2000), which has over 15 million users as of August 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The largest violin is 4.27 m (14 ft) long, has a maximum width of 1.4 m (4.5 ft) and a bow with a length of 5.2 m (17 ft). It was made by the Vogtland masters of violin and bow making (Germany) in Markneukirchen, Germany, and completed on 14 June 2010. Vogtland masters of violin and bow making consisted of 15 expert violin and bow makers from the region. The violin was an up-scaled replica of a violin made by Johannes Georg Shcönfelder II in
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The largest vessel water skied /wake boarded behind is the AIDAbella operated by captain Josef Husmann (Germany) with a gross tonnage of 69,203. Galileo TV reporter Jan Schwiderek (Germany) successfully water-skied for six minutes 25 seconds at 14 knots (26 km/h, 16 mph) behind the ship outside of Alicante, Spain, on 1 October 2010. AIDAbella has the following dimensions: Length Overall 252.00 m, Breadth 32.20 m, Air Draught @ Design Draught 48.00 m, Design Draught 7.30 m, Passenger Cabins 1,025
The world’s largest vertical blinds measure 20.1 m (65 ft 11 in) wide and 8.3 m (27 ft 3 in) tall, and were created by Hillarys Blinds of Nottingham, UK in January 2003. The blinds are 75 times larger than the average size.
The largest is the inferior vena cava, which returns the blood from the lower half of the body to the heart and is slightly larger than the aorta.
The crews of the ISS are ferried to and from Earth by Russian Soyuz spacecraft and US space shuttles. The space shuttle orbiters are the largest, measuring 37.23 m long by 23.79 m wide and 17.86 m high. While the Soyuz craft remain docked for months at a time, and act as lifeboats, the shuttle only stays docked with the ISS for a matter of days. The longest a shuttle has been docked to ISS was 11 days 20 hours and 36 minutes, by the
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