Quiz on Guinness Book of World Records | Great Quiz Exchange 2020 | Aravind Anil

 50 Qs
 Qs 41-45 have image slides
accompanying the text slide
 Theme: Guinness Book of World
Records
 Heads up:This quiz is based on the
copy of “Guinness Book ofWorld
Records – 1982 Edition”. Therefore,
some of the records mentioned in
the questions and answers of this
quiz might not remain the same
right now.

 According to the Guinness Book of World Records 1982
edition:
 Biggest _____ : Seven stories tall and nearly 100 ft wide,
at Marriott's Great America in Santa Clara, California. It
was made by Harkness _______ Ltd based in
Hertfordshire, England.
 These item of regular use were installed in particular
establishments that started off in Hotels in most parts of
the world, including India.
 What item (also now inevitable in non – shady quizzing)
is this?

 According to the Guinness Book ofWorld Records
1982 edition :
 The highest rate of pay in cinema history was
contested betweenA for his brief part in Superman
and B for his role in Tai Pan. Each received in excess of
$ 2.5 millions.
 B died in 1980 aged 50, but was recently depicted in
Once Upon ATime in Hollywood by Damien Lewis.
 ID both A and B?

 According to the Guinness Book ofWorld
Records 1982 edition:
 The record remuneration that an actor
received for a single scene was held by Dar
Robinson, for the 1979 movie High Point. He
was paid $ 100, 000 for the 1,100 ft- high leap
he made from a then newly opened structure.
 Which structure?

 According to the Guinness Book of World
 MovieTheatre Seats: A has more seats for
watching films per population than any other
country, with one cinema theatre for each 1,512
inhabitants.
 The least number are in B (population ~8 million)
which had no movie theaters until recently.
 ID the countries A and B?

 This movie A, produced by Gary Kurtz, ran in
theatres for 2 and a half years and grossed
$267m worldwide, also being the highest
grosser until 1982, when it was defeated by B.
 ID both movies?

 The most expensive movie ever completed
was one which received its world premiere in
Washington DC on 6 Dec 1979. Paramount
stated that the cost of this movie directed by
RobertWise was $46 millions.
 ID the movie?

1982 edition:
 The people of this country, with a population close to
50 millions then, go to the movies more often than
those of any other countries in the world, with an
average of 19.06 attendances per person per year.
 This Asian country, that considers the filmmaker José
Nepomuceno as their "Father of Cinema”, celebrates
its centennial year of Cinema in 2020.
 ID the country?

 The largest amphitheater ever built (and also
called by the name of the family which built
it) covers 5 acres and has a capacity of almost
90,000. It has a maximum length of 612 ft
and maximum width of 515 ft.
 ID this “wonderful” structure?

1982 edition:
 The highest number of takes for aTV commercial was
28 by Pat Coombs, a comedienne, who in 1973 was
the supporting actor to a famous comedian on BBC
TV. Her explanation was “Every time we came to the
punch line I just could not remember the name of the
product”.
 Which famous British comedian, who had self-titled
television series that ran between 1960s - 1980s?

 According to the Guinness Book of World
Records 1982 edition, this sporting event held
the record for the fastest time in which a book
was been published about a real life event.
 It just took 46 odd hours for the publishers
Bantam Books Inc since the receipt of
manuscript of reports by the NewYorkTimes of
a certain unexpected sporting glory, to come up
with a 96 paged book.
 What event?

 The longest pre-scheduled telecast on record
was held by a 163 hours 18 min long program
by GTV 9 of Melbourne, Australia, covering a
real event that happened between 19 – 26
July 1969.
 Which event?

 As of 1982, the youngest opera singer in the world
was an American Jeanette Gloria La Bianca, who
made her official debut as Rosina in the opera ___
______ __ _______ at theTeatro dell’ Opera, Rome
in 1952, when she was just 15 years.
 FITB with the name of the opera, which had many
adaptations including a LooneyToons episode.

 According to the Guinness Book of World Records
1982 edition, the largest paying audience for a
single singer’s concert was 175,000, in a one-man
concert on 26 Jan 1980.This was also the first
concert that saw 150,00o+ turnout.
 Who was the performer?
 At which iconic location was the concert held?

 The most frequently sung song in English is
based on a score originally published in 1935 in
NewYork. It was also sung in space by the Apollo
IX astronauts on 8 March 1969.
 This song was copyrighted byWarner Music until
recently, after which the music and lyrics are in
public domain in the European Union and the
United States.
 Which song?

 The highestTV advertising rate was $550,000
per minute for NBC network prime time
during the transmission of an program on 24
Jan 1981.
 What program?

 The longest Shakespearian play has 4,042
lines and around 29,551 words, 1242 words
longer than Richard III. Of Shakespeare’s
1,277 speaking parts, the longest is the title
role in the same play with 11,610 words.
 Which play, named after the protagonist?

 Apart from being the longest Shakespearian
play, “Hamlet” is also the most filmed
Shakespearian story, and the second most in the
World.
 Topping the list is a folk tale that was adapted to
100+ films over the decades, including a 1950
masterpiece named after the protagonist.
 ID?

 As of 1982, the longest film ever released was
the 1966 movie **** aka four stars
directed/produced by a very iconic multi-faceted
gentleman.With a runtime of 25 hours, it
proved, not surprisingly, a commercial failure.
 It was later withdrawn and was re-released in
shorter formats, such as The Loves of On-dine
and Imitation of Christ.
 ID the film maker?

 The smallest functional musical record is one 1 3/8 inches
in diameter of a hymn, of which 250 were made by the
HMV Records in 1924.
 The record for the longest continuous rendering of a hymn
too was held by the same. It was played non-stop 17 times
by a German Military band on the platform of Rathenau
Railway Station, Brandenburg, on 9 Feb 1909.The reason
being the person honoured by this hymn was struggling
inside the train to get into his German Field – Marshal
uniform before he could emerge.
 Which hymn?

 In terms of sales of single records, the most
successful of all song writers as of 1982 was a
member from an iconic band. Between 1962 and
1978, he wrote jointly or solo 43 songs which
sold one million or more records.
 He was also the recipient of the first Guinness
Award in 1979, as the most honored composer
and performer in music.
 Who?

 Of the 23 such entries in a particular list in the
world, the oldest is that of Spain, dating from
1770.The most recent entry in this list is
Kosovo, which became an independent
country in 2014.
 What list?

 As of 1982, the program which attracted the highest
viewership was the episode of aTV series transmitted by
CBS on 21 Nov 1980, to 53.3% of all households in the US.
It was estimated that 83 million people in 41.4 million
homes watched – for a record 76 % of all viewing at that
hour.
 This prime time soap opera, that revolves around a family
from South of America, was originally spread between 3
decades – 1970s,80s and 90s.This series was revived by
CBS and aired with the same name between 2012 – 2014.
 Which show, with a very American name?

 The most protracted silence in modern sheet
music, as of 1982, was a 1952 piece entitled 4’
33’’ by anAmerican experimental composer,
which had a full orchestra but 4 minutes and
33 seconds of silence.
 ID the composer?

 Since the break-up of Beatles in 1970, it is estimated
that another 4 membered band formed in 1972 is the
most successful group in the world in terms of record
sales, thereby being a big contributor to their home
country’s gross national product.
 They have sold at least than 200 million albums and
singles worldwide, only behind the Beatles among
groups, and are also the first group from a non-
English-speaking country to achieve consistent
success in the charts of English-speaking countries.
 Which band?

 China had an estimated 1.4 million para-medical
personnel known as “________ _______” in 1981, a
World record, before the system was abolished.
 They were basically farmers, folk healers, rural
healthcare providers, and recent middle or
secondary school graduates who received minimal
basic medical and paramedical training and worked
in rural villages in their country.
 What were they known as?

 The World Record for the most one-sided general election is held
by, not surprisingly, a country that’s known for its dictatorship.
 The general elections held in October 1962 recorded a 100%
turnout of electors, and all 100% votes casted in favour of the
candidate presented by the “Worker’s Party of _____”.
 Interestingly, only one candidate was presented in each
constituency, all of which were selected by this party, although
some ran under the banner of other parties or state organizations
to give an appearance of democracy.
 Which country?

 What world record is still held by an event
that spanned 115 years between 1338 to
1453?
 By what name was this event called?

 The longest name for an entity of its kind is
“Shurnarkabtishashutu”, which in Arabic
translates to “under the southern horn of the
bull”.
 What entity?

 Francisco Nguema, the then President of
Equatorial Guinea, decreed in March 1976 a
compulsory “activity” for all boys between 7 and
14 years in his country.Any parent refusing to
hand over their son will be imprisoned or shot,
as per the decree.
 A world record was thus created thanks to this
act.
 What record?

 The heaviest conventional bomb ever used
operationally was built by the British RAF.Weighing
22,000 lbs and measuring 25 ft 5 in long bomb was
dropped on Bielefeld railway viaduct, Germany in
March 1945.
 What was its 2 worded name, a term that would
refer to something prestigious in multiple sports?

 The longest impeachment or political trial in the
history was the British Parliament’s
impeachment of a head for the
maladministration of one of their colonies.
 This trial that began in 1788 did not sit
continuously and dragged on for 7 years
(although the trial took only 149 days), until his
acquittal on 23 April 1795.
 Who was thus impeached?
 Which colony?

 The 1984 movie ‘Killing Fields’ is based on the
experiences of two journalists Dith Pran and
Sydney Schanberg, about a set of events that
happened less than a decade prior to its
release.
 Which set of events, that has theWorld
record for the worst event of its kind?

 The last recorded instance of a certain happening
anywhere in the world was in France on 10
September 1977 , with 5 such instances earlier in
that decade as well.
 The person involved in this event was Hamida
Djandoubi, aTunisian agricultural worker.
 What event?

 Spandau, located in western Berlin was the
most expensive of its kind in the world.
 Built in 1876, the cost of maintenance of staff
of 105 was estimated at $415,000 per year. It
was demolished in 1987 after the death of
Rudolph Hess, the lone inhabitant in the final
years.
 What was it originally built for?

 16 October 1978 was when a certain change took place after over
450 years of a continuous occurrence (since 14 September 1523), in
a big list of 255 entries.
 If we divide 255 into multiple subsets based on their origin, the
entries between the 45o years mentioned above would fall into a
subset of 196.
 Now if we pick the most recent cases, two out of the 3 most recent
entries in this list, i.e., the first and the most recent, falls into a
subset of 1, whereas the one in the middle will fall into a subset of
8.
 What is the list all about? OR
 What is common to the last 3 entries?

 David S Porter, born in Hope, New Jersey in
1938, was the first person to enter a very
coveted list of two similar achievements.
 He did the first when he was a guest of the US
Navy in 14 December 1970, and the other on
9 April 1979.
 What achievement?

 This iconic ballet has twoWorld records to its name.
 The greatest number of spins called for in classical
ballet choreography is 32 fourttes rond de jambe en
tournant in this work.
 The greatest recorded number of curtain calls ever
received by ballet dancers is 89 by Dame Margaret
Evelyn Arias, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Hametovich
Nureyev, after a performance of the same at the
Vienna Staatsoper in October 1964.
 Which ballet, from the 19th C?

 The record for the most translated English poem
is held by a 20th C work. It has appeared in 27
languages and according to the poet was
“anthologized to weariness”.
 It was famously recited by SerenaWilliams on
International Women’s Day 2017, substituting
'woman' for 'man’ in the lyrics.
 Which poem?

 He holds the record for being the most rapid composer
among classical composers. He wrote close to 1,000
operas, operettas, symphonies, violin sonatas,
divertimenti, serenades, motets, concertos for masses and
litanies, of which only 70 were published before he died,
aged 35.
 His opera The Clemency ofTitus was written in 18 days and
his two most famous symphonies were reputedly written
in the space of 42 days. His overture to another famous
work was written in full score at one sitting in Prague and
finished on the day of its opening performance.
 Who?

 The smallest recorded mammal is the rare Kitti hog – nosed
bat also called by an alliterative name “_________ bat”,
which is restricted to two caves near the forestry station
beside the Kwae Noi river inThailand.
 Mature specimen of both sexes have a wing span of about
6.3 in and weighs between 0.062 and 0.071 oz.
 FITB with the name of another species, which also appear
as characters, often eponymously, in children's books.

 The “Battle of _____Gulf”, in the Pacific Ocean, is
considered to have been the largest naval battle
ofWorldWar II and is, by some criteria, a contender
for the title "largest naval battle in history", with over
200,000 naval personnel involved, and started the end
of Japanese occupation in this country.
 It featured the greatest number of ships and aircrafts
ever involved in a sea-air action was 231 ships and
1,996 aircrafts, between the Allied forces and the
Japanese.
 ID the location?

 The highest price paid for paintings in the
lifetime of the artist is $1,950,000 paid for two
canvases Two Brothers and Seated Harlequin.
 This was paid by the Basle City government to
the Staechelin Foundation to enable the Basle
Museum of Arts to retain the painting after an
offer of $2,560,000 had been received from the
US.
 Which painter?

 Violinist Mark Gottlie, joined by his
sister Karen on organ, performed
theWorld’s first underwater duet,
a stirring rendition of a musical
piece for the first “Guinness
Spectacular”TV Show on ABC
television in May 1979.
 The piece they picked, a 19th C
music, was very appropriate given
their nationality.
 Which musical piece?

 The highest prize ever paid for a stuffed bird is $ 23,400 in 1971, at
Sotheby’s by the Icelandic Natural History museum for a specimen
of the Great Auk in summer plumage, which was taken in Iceland
circa 1821.
 The Great Auk was a flightless North Atlantic seabird, which was
finally ester mined in 1844, becoming extinct through hunting.
 Although it is not closely related to a common bird which were
discovered later in a different part of the world, the latter was so
named by sailors from the scientific name of the Great Auk
because of their physical resemblance.
 Which bird?

 Elias Ashmole was a 17th C English antiquary,
politician, officer of arms, astrologer and
student of alchemy. He supported
the royalist side during the English Civil War, and
at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded
with several lucrative offices.
 His “donations” to the University of Oxford in
1670s helped create a new establishment, the
first of its kind in the world.
 What came up thus?

 A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a
government or conferring institution, typically expected to
compose poems for special events and occasions. In
Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard
André by HenryVII of England.The royal office of Poet
Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John
Dryden in 1668.
 The longest which any poet has worn the laurel is 41 years
322 days, in the case of a very celebrated poet, who was
appointed in Nov 1850 and held the office till his death in 6
Oct 1892.
 Who?

 In 1982, the highest price at auction for a then
living artist was $ 774,000 at Christie’s, London
on 30 March 1981, for a Salvador Dali painting.
 This classic Surrealist painting is heavily inspired
by FreudianTheory. However, unlike Dali's
previous paintings that were very obviously self-
portraits, this face is not of Dali, but of an
unidentified person.
 Which artwork?

 The 55 lettered full name of this city has the
first 8 words ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la
Reina de’, and the last 2 words ‘de
Porciuncula’, which translates to 'TheTown of
Our Lady the Queen of the ______’.
 It is commonly abbreviated to 2 letters, which
accounts to 3.63% of its actual length.
 Which city?

 As of 1982, the nation with the highest beer
consumption per person was, not
surprisingly, from Europe.
 The average consumption is 38.28 gallons per
person, every year, normally with a surge
during a 2 week period in the second half of
each year.
 Which is the “country” in question?

 The largest palindromic proper noun , is a 9 letter
word, which is the name of a language currently
spoken by more than 37 million people worldwide.
 The word literally translates to "the mountain region”,
originally referring to dynasty that ruled this area
thanks to the landscape (although the name may not
be a very accurate description of its landscape in
broader sense).
 Which language?

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