The most needles threaded blindfolded in one minute is 44 and was achieved by Wan Fuquan (China) on the set of Lo Show dei Record in Rome, Italy, on 11 March 2009. The record was part of the Italian TV show “Lo Show dei Record”
Madonna (USA, b. Madonna Ciccone) had her ninth No.1 on the US Music Video chart on 24 April 2010 with Sticky & Sweet Tour. No popular music artist has had more.
The most gold medals won consecutively in the men’s Olympic Discus competition is four, consecutively, by Al Oerter (USA) in Melbourne, Australia (1956), Rome, Italy (1960), Tokyo, Japan (1964) and Mexico City, Mexico (1968).
Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey won nine Olympic 100 m and 200 m medals – three silver and six bronze – between the 1980 Games in Moscow, Russia, and the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia. The bronze won in the individual 100 m in Sydney was awarded in 2009, after the gold medallist, Marion Jones (USA), was stripped of her title due to a drugs offence.
The most consecutive kickflips on a snowskate board is 14 by Phil Smage (USA) during ESPN’s Winter X Games 11 in Aspen, Colorado, USA on 25 January 2007.
In November 2005, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), introduced their five official mascots for the 2008 Games – the highest number since the competition began. These five Fuwa, as they are known, are cartoon depictions of: a carp (Beibei), a panda (Jingjing), the Olympic flame (Huanhuan), a Tibetan antelope (Yingying) and a swallow (Nini), which symbolise the sea, forests, fire, earth and air, and whose names, when put together in Chinese, read ‘Bejing Welcomes You!’ http://en.beijing2008.com/37/03/column211990337.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4430260.stm
The country with the most official languages is the Republic of South Africa with 11. These are: English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, Xitsonga, siSwati, isiNdebele and Tshivenda. The population of South Africa is 43,792,000 (2001). India has 18 languages that are recognised by its constitution and can be considered as official, however the difference is that each language is recognised as the official language of a certain area e.g Kashmiri in Kashmir. The overall official language is Hindi, and this is what all central government
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The most numbered iterations of a fighting game series is 13, for the King of Fighters (SNK Playmore, 1994) series, with its 13th edition released into arcades in July 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The North Pole Marathon has been held annually since 2002, and the course at the geographic North Pole has been certified by the Association of International Marathons and Road Races. The fastest men’s completion time to date is 3 hr 36 min 10 sec by Thomas Maguire (Ireland) in the 2007 marathon, and the fastest woman is Cathrine Due (Denmark) in 5 hr 37 min 14 sec in the 2008 marathon.
The most noodle portions prepared in 3 minutes is 8 and was achieved by Fei Wang (China) of Inn Noodle (London) at Borough Market, London, United Kingdom, on 10 October 2008. Fei went head to head against Michelin Star chef Gordon Ramsay (United Kingdom) as part of Gordon Ramsay’s Cookalong. Gordon only managed to make 3 bowls in 3 minutes. Also his noodles were wider than the maximum width of 7 mm so in fact he only achieved one portion in 3 minutes. Ralph Hannah
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