The most national croquet titles won by an individual is 14 by Bob Jackson (New Zealand), who won the New Zealand Open Championship Singles title in 1975, 1978, 1982-84, 1989, 1991-92, 1995, 1997-99 and 2002-03. Nicknamed ‘The Master’ Jackson also holds the distinction of completing three octuple peels in competition.
The most naked people on a theme park ride is 102, set by members of the public on Green Scream rollercoaster at Adventure Island, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK, on 8 August 2010. 40 members of the public could go at one time, due to the number of seats available on the ride. The rollercoaster went 3 times to accomodate them all. The particpants raised over £22,000 for the ‘Bosom pals’ appeal, which is for the breast cancer unit at Southend University Hospital. Good media
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The most nails hammered into a block of wood in one minute is 24 and was achieved by Willi Maier (Austria) at the Vienna Recordia event in Vienna, Austria, on 26 September 2010. Willi used 15.24 cm (6 in) nails. Vienna Recordia event 2010.
The most nails hammered by hand in one minute was 30 and was achieved by Boguslaw Bialek (Spain) on the set of ‘Guinness World Records- CCTV’ in Beijing, China, on 2 December 2011. Boguslaw Bialek challenged a Chinese participant, Ding Zhaohai, to the record attempt. Both exceeded Bogslaw’s current record and both achieved 30 nails hammered by hand in one minute- they now share the record.
The most nails balanced on the head of a single nail is 255 and was achieved by Alexander Bendikov (Belarus), in Minsk, Belarus, on 8 June 2012.
The most musicians to play the same piano was 103 in an event organized by Kuniko Teramura (Japan) and friends, at the Shiga University Auditorium, in Hikone, Shiga, Japan, on 22 April 2012. The participants played during 20 minutes Beethoven’s ‘Ode to joy’. Participants were rotating during the attempt so all could play.
The most multiple birth sets in the same academic year at one school is 17, and consists of 14 sets of twins and 3 sets of triplets, achieved by Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA Achieved by the graduating class of 2014.
The most muffins sold in one hour is 6,060 and was achieved by Oswald Nahrungsmittel GmbH Steinhausen (Switzerland) at the Lucerne train station in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 12 March 2011. Oswald Nahrungsmittel GmbH organised this record attempt as the kick off program for their new product “muffin cake mix” and their 60th anniversary. All 300 employees took part in the event. They were divided into 5 sales groups which were positioned in the whole city. Each muffin was sold at 2 Swiss Francs (SFR) per
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The most moving image cameras used in a single composite shot is 200, by Toshiba, Hungry Man and Grey London for the commercial’ Timesculpture’.
In February 2010, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island, New York, USA, announced that they had smashed together gold ions at nearly the speed of light, briefly forming an exotic state of matter known as a quark-gluon plasma. This substance is believed to have filled the universe just a few microseconds after the Big Bang. During the experiments – which began in July 2001 and have taken a decade to authenticate – the plasma reached temperatures of around 4 trillionºC,
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