The highest score ever recorded on the Mega Drive/Genesis version of Columns is 99,999,989, by Keith Danforth on 11 June 2006. At first glance it would appear that Keith’s luck cruelly ran out when he was just a few points shy of 100 million, but in truth the counter freezes at 99,999,989. As such, he has earned the honour of being the first person to earn a perfect score on this game. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The Tanggula Railway Station in Tibet is the highest in the world at 5,068 m (16,627 ft) above sea level. The unstaffed station on the Qingzang railway opened on 1 July 2006 and has a 1.25-km-long (0.77-mile) platform.
The greatest production of any tank was that of the Soviet T-54/55 series, of which more than 50,000 were built between 1954 and 1980 in the former USSR alone. There was further production in the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact in central and eastern Europe as well as in China.
The country with the highest rate of car ownership in the world is Luxembourg, with 647 cars per 1,000 population (2005 or later). The top ten countries in the list are: 1. Luxembourg 647 2. Iceland 632 3. New Zealand 607 4. Italy 595 5. Canada 561 6. Cyprus 550 Germany 550 8. Australia 542 9. Malta 523 10. Switzerland 520
The highest shade temperature ever recorded is 58øC 136øF at Al’Aziziyah in the Sahara Desert, Libya on 13 Sep 1922.
The highest restaurant in the world is at the Chacaltaya ski resort, Bolivia, at 5340m 17,519ft.
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia scored 222 points, including a record 32 touchdowns, against Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee (nil) on 7 Oct 1916.
The highest score for FIFA street was achieved by Andrew Mee (UK) on 7 August 2006. He scored 222,774 points on the Xbox version of FIFA street. Playing on the Easy setting, Mee achieved this total while playing a 12 minute game. Andrew’s brother, Jonathan Mee, holds the record for the highest margin of victory in FIFA Street (Xbox). On 8 June 2007, he beat his computer opponent (set to the Easy setting) by a 22 goal margin in a 12 minute match.
The highest points score ever achieved in the genre-defining and hugely influential simulator video game Utopia is 2,171 by Mike Morrow of Denton, Texas, USA, on 2 March 2002.
The highest score on the Xbox Live Leaderboard for the Direct Assault mode of Rez HD is 1,788,770, set by a gamer called TrueBluBomber. The highest scores for each of the game’s five game areas are as follows: Area 1 300,270 MisoraHebari Area 2 311,540 TruBluBomber Area 3 354,520 Rien Vayle Area 4 328,040 Misora Hebari Area 5 1,264,660 mumumu992 Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.