The longest tennis rally consists of 50,970 strokes between Frank and Dennis Fuhrmann (both Germany) achieved at Tennisclub Am Lerchenbühl Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, on 20 July 2013. Frank and Dennis also beat the one hour record with 8,156 strokes.
The longest paperclip chain is 37.41 km (23.25 miles) long, and was completed by employees of Lyreco Deutschland GmbH (Germany), in an event at Hotel InterContinental in Berlin, Germany, on 16 December 2011.
The longest stuffed snake measured 1,768.8 m (5,803 ft 1.66 in), and was achieved by Hastings Community House (Australia), in Hastings, Victoria, Australia, on 22 March 2013. This project involved many local senior citizens, who over 20 months knitted and crafted the snake, with the help of the local community.
The largest twister board measured 52.15 m x 42.70 m (171 ft 1 in x 140 ft 1 in) and was achieved by participants of the Kick-In 2011 at the University of Twente (the Netherlands) in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 1 September 2011. The participants played twister for about 1 hour on the board.
The largest educational field trip is 1872 which involved students of Guido de Brès School and the Attraction Park Walibi Holland (both Netherlands), in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, on 27 September 2013. The field trip included a presentation by the Dutch astronaut André Kuipers on his experiences and the physics of orbiting earth.
The first tank was No. 1 Lincoln was built by William Foster Co. Ltd of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK and modified to become Little Willie. It first ran on 6 September 1915. Tanks first saw action with the Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps, later the Tank Corps, at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, France, on 15 September 1916. The Mark I `Male’ tank, armed with a pair of 6-pounder guns and four machine guns, weighed 28.4 tonnes (62,611 lb) and was powered by a 105-hp (78-kW) motor,
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The largest football (soccer) tournament (male) was Copa Telmex 2011, contested by 181,909 players and a total of 10,799 teams held in Mexico from 2 January to 11 December 2011. This is the 5th time this tournament achieves a Guinness World Records title.
Niek Vermeulen (Netherlands) has 6,290 airline sickness bags from 1,191 different airlines from almost 200 countries, as of 28 February 2012, which he has accumulated since the 1970s.
The most books signed by one author in a single session is 4,649 by Sammy Lee (Hong Kong), who signed his book “Autopilot Leadership Model” in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, on 19 January 2013. The event ran from 7.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. It took 11 hr 42 min 58 sec to finish the signing process.
The largest three dimensional balloon sculpture used 79,854 balloons and was constructed by balloon artist Lily Tan (Singapore) and her team of balloon artists in the shape of a robot named ‘Sentinel’, at Marina Square Shopping Mall, in Singapore, between 12-15 March 2012. The packets of balloons consisted of 100 balloons, with a total of 92,400 provided and 79,854 balloons used. The total width of the sculpture measures 19m, 23.3m in length and 11.5m in height. Lily Tan was the official balloon artist that led
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