The largest meatball weighs 503.71 kg (1110 lb 7.84 oz), has a diameter of 1.38 m (4 ft 6.50 in) and was prepared by the Columbus Italian Club (USA), during the St. John’s Italian Festival, in Columbus, Ohio, USA, between 5 and 8 October 2011. This attempt was organized by the CIC (Columbus Italian Club) (USA), which has over 300 members. During the attempt only seven members of this association handled the meat before it was cooked. These participants were: Fred Muccio, Mike DiCarlo, Jim Continue reading →

The world’s largest temporary corn maze measured 163,853.83 m² (40.489 acres) when opened to the public in September 2007 at Coolpatch Pumpkins in Dixon, California, USA . The attempt was organised by Mark Cooley (USA).

The largest permanent hedge maze is the Pineapple Garden Maze at the Dole Plantation in Wahiawa, Hawaii, USA, which has a total area of 12,745.79 m² (3.15 acres) and total path length of 3.962 km (2.46 miles). The maze opened in 1997 and expanded in size in July 2007. This maze also holds the record for the longest path in a permanent hedge maze.

The largest menorah in the world was designed by Yaacov Agam and is 32 ft (9.7 m) tall, 28 ft (8.5 m)wide, weighs 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) and was unveiled on 29 December 2005 opposite Central park, New York, USA. The menorah was designed according to a hand drawing by Mimonides based on the original Menorah in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem and is the largest size permitted by Halacha-Jewish law.

The largest media scavenger hunt is ‘Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen’, which was carried out by 14,580 participants and organised by Misha Collins (USA) between 29 October and 5 November 2012. 972 teams took part in the record attempt and each team was made up of 15 participants. The winning team was Badwolf.

Weighing in at nearly a tonne (2,200 lb), the American bison (Bison bison) is the largest terrestrial animal in North America and the largest land animal to migrate. Although 60 million bison once roamed North America, they were overhunted to near extinction by the end of the 19th century, and wild populations are now limited to a handful of national parks such as Yellowstone in Wyoming and the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. A seasonal migrant, the bison moves to lower elevations in Continue reading →

The largest microphone array is LOUD (Large acOUstic Data Array Project). It consists of 1,020 microphones gathered in a single array allowing operators to pinpoint, track and amplify individual voices in a crowd. It was built by a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,(Cambridge, MA, USA) led by Professor Anant Agarwal, and became operational in January 2004.

The largest mexican wave involved 157,574 participants and was achieved by the TUMS wave at Bristol Motor Speedway during the Sharpie 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, USA, on 23 August 2008. Danny Girton Jr. adjudicated.

The largest meteorology lesson consisted of 16,110 participants all taught by the FOX 4 Weather Team (Mike Thompson, Don Harman, Joe Lauria and Karli Ritter, all USA) on ‘School Day at the K’ at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Kansas, USA on 7 May 2009. The Fox 4 Weather Team consists of Mike Thompson, Don Harman, Joe Lauria and Karli Ritter.

The largest millipede in the world is a full grown African giant black millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas) which is owned by Jim Klinger of Coppell, Texas, USA and measures 38.7 cm (15.2 in) in length, 6.7 cm (2.6 in) in circumference and has 256 legs. The average length for this type of millipede is between 16-28 cm (6-11 in).