World Largest tea Cup

 

One of the world’s main tea producing countries – Sri Lanka – has just become the scene for a new world record, certified by the Guinness company: the largest ever cup of tea to be made anywhere in the world.

It was much too big a cup to involve anyone “putting the kettle on”.

Instead the tea, which had been cooking for hours in urns of 200-litre capacity, was pumped into the cup until it was full, he said

Firecrackers were lit as it was announced that the big red cup had been filled with 4,000 litres of tea.

It was then taken around the city and handed out in small plastic cups. 

A representative from Guinness World Records was there to certify this as the world’s biggest cuppa – 33 percent bigger than the previous record set in America – and send it into the famed record book.

The 64 kilogrammes of tea used for the brew came from Sri Lanka’s famed estates.

It was brewed with 175 kilogrammes of sugar and a massive 850 kilogrammes of a malted food drink made by Glaxo.

Largest parade of Volvo cars

On Saturday 11th September 2010 I made my way to Katowice, Poland where I was met by one of the organisers of Volvo Forum who had been tirelessly working with his entire team to make their dream of a setting a new Guinness World Records title a reality. They had been working solidly for months in order to achieve the largest parade of Volvo Cars. Although at Guinness World Records we have had many records for the largest parade of vehicles, we have not yet had had one for Volvo cars and with this being the first, the anticipation for a new record was very apparent. Although originally a Swedish car manufacturer, I was told upon arrival in Poland that the Volvo car is extremely popular in this country and for many families this is the perfect vehicle to have. That being said both organisers Volvo forum.pl and auto-Boss were very hopeful that participants with Volvo cars would turn up in their hundreds to make this record attempt a success.


Like with all of our record attempts we always set a minimum requirement that the potential record holders have to adhere to and this was no exception for Volvo. The minimum requirement of cars in the parade was 250 cars to participate with specific guidelines that had to be followed. 
On the morning of 12th September, being a Sunday the roads in Katowice were fairly quiet and I had the opportunity to be taken along the route that the parade would be taking place on. The route itself started on the border between Katowice and Chorzow and then proceeded into Katowice city centre. The guidelines state that the route needs to be at least 3.2km long and after being driven along it I was able to successfully measure the distance, in total it was 4.1km; therefore making it a more than acceptable distance for the parade to take place on.