The fastest time to complete the Indianapolis 500 race  is 2hr 41min 18.404sec (299.307km/h 185.981mph) by Arie Luyendyk (Netherlands) driving a Lola-Chevrolet on May 27, 1990.

The most Indianapolis 500 wins is four and is shared by A.J. Foyt Jr (USA) (b. January 16, 1935) in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1977; Al Unser Sr (USA) (b. May 29, 1939) in 1970-71, 1978 and 1987; and Rick Mears (USA) (b. December 3, 1951) in 1979, 1984, 1988 and 1991. The Indianapolis 500 is a 500mile 804km race, consisting of 200 laps, and was inaugurated in the USA on 30 May 1911.

The fastest 5 km (3.1 mi) joggling with five objects was 27 min 6.74 sec by Matthew Feldman (USA) at the Emerald Cove Middle School athletics track in Wellington, Florida, USA, on 24 May 2011. Feldman, 18 at the time, began joggling as a freshman in high school. Feldman committed 27 drops during the course of the attempt. As per the guidelines, runners must restart from the point at which they first lost control of a ball during the attempt.

The most yards passing in an NFL game by a rookie quarterback was 432 yards by Cameron “Cam” Newton (USA) for the Carolina Panthers against the Green Bay Packers at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, on 18 September 2011. Newton achieved this feat in his second-ever NFL start, one week after breaking the record for the most passing yards by a quarterback in his NFL debut.

The longest time in an abdominal plank position carrying a 60-lb pack is 17 min and 26 sec and was achieved by Eva Bulzomi (USA) at Axiom Fitness in Boise, Idaho, USA, on 6 July 2013.

The fastest time to carve 60 ice sculptures is 2 hr 52 min 12 sec, achieved by Richard Daly (USA) in Lakeville, Pennsylvania, USA, on 20 October 2013. Daly’s sculptures included themes of clothing, art, religion, food, and buildings, along with several Halloween-themed pieces.

The most step ups in one minute with a 60 lb pack is 47 by Robert Natoli (USA) in Oswego, New York, USA, on 4 April 2013. Natoli attempted the step up records for both 60 and 40 pound packs within one hour of each other. He successfully beat both records.

The longest TV commercial (duration) is 13 hr 5 min 11 sec, achieved by Arby’s (USA) promoting the Smokehouse Brisket sandwich, and aired on My9 KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, from 24-25 May 2014. The commercial consisted largely of a single shot of a raw beef brisket being smoked over the course of 13 hours. At the conclusion of the smoking process, the cooked brisket was removed from the smoker, and a chef used the brisket to make a sandwich.

The smallest waist belongs to Cathie Jung (USA, b. 1937), who stands at 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) and has a corseted waist measuring 38.1 cm (15 in). Un-corseted, it measures 53.34 cm (21 in).

Also known as a contra-, vertigo-, Hitchcock- or trombone-zoom, a dolly zoom involves moving (dollying) a movie camera towards the subject while zooming out, or vice versa; as the focal length changes, the background appears to fall away while the subject retains its relative size in the frame. This dizzying shot was designed by Irmin Roberts (USA) for Alfred Hitchcock’s (UK) Vertigo (USA, 1958) and has since been used countless times, most notably and effectively in Jaws (USA, 1975) and Goodfellas (USA, 1990).