List of world records
Encyclopedia : L : LI : LIS : List of world records
This page lists World records by category. There is also which gives alphabetical listing.
Human mental and physical achievement and traits
Anatomy
- Tallest: Robert Pershing Wadlow, 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) [link]
- Shortest: Gul Mohammed, 0.57 m (1 ft 8.7 in)
- Heaviest Man: Jon Brower Minnoch, 635 kg (1,400 lb) [link]
- Heaviest Woman: Carol Yager, 725 kg (1,600 lb)
- Greatest Height Difference Between A Married Couple: 3' 1.2" (94.5 cm), Favien Pretou and Natalie Lucius
Physiology
- Oldest (claimed, but still unverified): Maria do Carmo, 128 years
- Oldest (verified): Jeanne Calment, 122 years [link]
- Oldest (living): Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116 years 85 days (December 9, 2005) [link]
Sports
- Longest Table Tennis Rally: Brian Seibel and Steve Seibel, 8 h 15 min 1 s
- Longest Wrestling Bout: Martin Klein beat Alfred Asikainen, 11 h 40 min
- Longest Cricket Marathon: Cricket Club des Ormes, 26 h 13 min
Culture and society
History
General
- Largest empire: British Empire, 37 million km² (1912)
Military history
- Battles
- Largest naval battle: Matter of definition, see Largest naval battle in history
Media
Radio
- Longest-running radio show: Rambling With Gambling (1925-2000), hosts John B. Gambling, John A. Gambling, John R. Gambling
Asian World Records
- Longest Violin marathon by an individual - L. Athira Krishna (32 hours)
Television
- Largest Audience For A TV Series: Baywatch, 1.1 billion viewers
- Largest cash prize won on a TV game show: Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, $2,520,700 (£1,352,597 or €2,009,486)
- Longest Running Animated TV Series: The Simpsons (1989-Present)
- Longest-running chat show: The Late Late Show (1962-Present), hosts Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny, Frank Hall
- Most Emmys For A TV Series In A Season: The West Wing, Nine Emmys
- Most Expensive TV Mini Series: Band of Brothers, $125 million (£79 million)
- Most Expensive TV Program: ER, $13.1 million per show
- Most Hours on Camera: Regis Philbin, 15,188 hours
- Most Popular Children's Educational Program: Sesame Street, 180 countries
- Most Seizures Caused By A TV Program: Pokémon, 700 seizures
- Most Successful TV Soap: ''Dallas, 90 countries
- Most TV Spin-Off Series: Ultraman, 14 series
Movie
- Longest Movie: The Cure for Insomnia, 5220 minutes (87 h)
- Most Expensive Movie Made: Titanic, $210 million
- Most Oscars Won by a Film: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Ben Hur, and Titanic, 11 each
- Most Portrayed Character In Horror Movies: Dracula, 162 films
- Most Swearing In An Animated Movie: [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]], 399 swear words
- Star Of Most Films Earning Over $100 Million: Harrison Ford, 15 films
- Longest Movie Title: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (72 characters)
- Highest grossing film (after adjusting for inflation): Gone With the Wind [link]
Music
- Longest Violin marathon by an individual: L. Athira Krishna
- Biggest All-Times Sales For A Band: The Beatles
- Biggest All-Time Sales for A Solo Artist: Michael Jackson
- Most "the most expletives in a #1 song". "Fuck It" by Eamon Doyle
- Most mentions of Freddie Mitchell: "Freddie Mitchell VS Chandler Bing" by The Doctors
- Biggest Selling Album of All-Time: Thriller by Michael Jackson
- Most Successful Act In UK Chart History: Queen (more than 1,322 Weeks)[link]
- Most covered song: "Yesterday", by The Beatles, (more than 3000 covers)
- Most Awarded Recording Artist in Music's History: Michael Jackson
- Most expensive Music Video ever: Scream by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson
- Longest-Running Rock Group Fan Club: Queen
- Longest Album Title: When the Pawn..., by Fiona Apple. (90 words)
- Shortest Song: "You Suffer", by Napalm Death. (1.316 s)
- Longest running song by a female group: "Independent Women Part I", by Destiny's Child (2001)
- Shortest Music Video: Collateral Damage, by Brutal Truth. (2.18 seconds)
- Longest Music Video: Ghosts, by Michael Jackson. (35 min)
- First completely sampled album: Endtroducing....., by DJ Shadow (1996).
- Most Successful Virtual Band: Gorillaz
- Best Selling Rap/Hip-Hoper: Tupac Shakur
Eating and Drinking Records
- Bicycle: Michael Lolito (Monsieur Mangetout), 10 bicycles consumed between 1966 and 1990
- [Beer speed drinking record] (1 liter in 1.3 seconds). ([1])
Painting
Largest collection of fake masterpieces: 3,500, owned by Christophe PetytPolitical entities
Independent countries
- Largest by population: China, 1.3 billion
- Smallest by population: Vatican City, 932
- Largest by surface area: Russia, 17,075,200 km²
- Smallest by surface area: Vatican City, 0.44 km²
Institutions
- Oldest monarchy: Japan
- Oldest parliament: Althing, Iceland, founded 930
- Largest parliament: China, close to 3,000 MPs members
- Oldest parliamentarian to win an election: Ratu Wilisoni Tuiketei Malani winning the Ra Province Constituency seat during the 1994 Fiji Islands Election at age 74 and retiring at age 79 in 1999.
Leaders
- Longest currently serving head of state: King Rama IX of Thailand, since 1946
- Longest serving head of state ever: King Pepi II of Egypt, 2221 BC - 2118 BC (94 years).
- Oldest serving President of a country: Ratu Josefa Iloilo Uluivuda of the Fiji Islands at 86 years as at 2006.
Sculpture
- Heaviest sculpture: Statue of Liberty, 24000 tons (54 million lb)
Language
- Most spoken language: Mandarin Chinese
Man-made objects
Buildings
General records
- Tallest buildings and structures: see World's tallest structures.
- Largest single-roof building: Millennium Dome, diameter 365 m
- Largest wooden structure: Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall), Todai-ji, Nara
- Oldest wooden structures: Horyu-ji, Nara
- Fastest wooden roller coaster: Son of Beast
- Fastest and tallest roller coaster: Kingda Ka
Bridges
Tunnels
Monuments
- Pyramids
- Largest: Great Pyramid of Cholula, 4.45 million m³
- Tallest: Great Pyramid of Giza, 138.8 m (height today), 146.6 m (original height)
Transportation
Commercial aircraft
- Largest: Antonov An-225
- Largest passenger aircraft: Airbus A380
Military
- Army
- Largest Infantry: China
- Largest displacement: Nimitz class aircraft carrier, 97,000 tons (98,600 t)
- Longest: USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 336 m
- Largest Battleship: Japanese battleship Yamato, 65,000 tons (72,808 t)
- Largest military aircraft: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
- Largest Airforce: China
Infrastructure
- Steepest street: Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
Spaceflight
Places of worship
- Churches
- Largest: Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro
- Tallest: Ulm Munster
Physical phenomena
Geography
Islands
- Largest: Officially, Greenland. Australia is sometimes considered an island but is more commonly defined as a continent
- Remotest inhabited: Tristan da Cunha
Lakes
- Fresh water lakes
- Deepest: Lake Baikal, 1,637 m
- Largest by surface area: Lake Superior, 82,000 km²
- Largest by volume: Lake Baikal, 23,000 km³
- Largest: Caspian Sea, 371,000 km²
Mountains
- Highest: Mount Everest, 8,848 m (see measurement section on Everest page)
- Highest known mountain in the Solar System: Olympus Mons, Mars (approx: 27 km)
Rivers
- Largest average discharge: Amazon, 219,000 m³/s
- Longest: Nile, 6,695 km (matter of dispute, see also List of rivers by length)
- Shortest: Roe River, 201 ft (61 m)
- Longest canal: Grand Canal of China 1,794 km
Geology
Caves
- Deepest: Voronya Cave, 2,080 m
- Largest cave system: Mammoth Cave
- Largest open space: Sarawak chamber
Gemstones
- Diamonds
- Largest cut diamond: The Golden Jubilee, 545.67 carats (109.13 g)
- Largest uncut diamond: Cullinan Diamond, 3,106.75 carats (621.350 g)
- Largest cut ruby: Rajaratna Ruby, 2,475 carats (495.0 g)
Biological phenomenona
General records
- Largest organism: see Largest organism
- Smallest genome: Mycoplasma genitalium, 580,000 base pairs
Animals
General
- Largest: Blue whale, 140 tons
- Largest land animal: Elephant, 7 tons
Invertebrates
- Largest: Colossal Squid
Birds
- Largest: Ostrich, up to 155 kg
- Greatest wingspan: Wandering albatross, up to 3.45 m
Mammals
- Fastest: Cheetah, up to 100 km/h (62 mi/h)
- Largest: Blue whale, 127 t (140 tons)
- Smallest: Pygmy Shrew, 2.5 g (38.58 grains)
- Smallest cattle: Vechur cow 1.24 m (48.8 in) long, 0.87 m (34.25 in) tall.
- Smallest breed of dog: chihuahua
- Tallest dog: Irish Wolfhound, up to 8 feet upright; the tallest recorded was 5 feet at the shoulders.
Bacteria and archea
- Largest: Thiomargarita namibiensis, 0.75 mm
- Largest number of genes: Streptomyces coelicolor
- Smallest genome: Mycoplasma genitalium, 580,000 base pairs
Plants
- Largest: General Sherman tree
- Largest flower: Rafflesia arnoldii, 11 kg
- Largest seed: Coco de mer
- Oldest: bristlecone pine, Methuselah, 4,700 years
References
Guinness Book of World Records, 1990-2006 editions
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
