Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Fr. Dr. Rinju P. Koshy (born on July 11, 1980) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for running an online quiz contest for many consecutive days. He started the quiz contest named Arivu on April 28, 2020 and continued till December 18, 2020 completing two seasons with 218 episodes on the social platforms of Facebook and YouTube. Each quiz had 20 questions and people around the world were allowed to join the contest, as confirmed on December 24, 2020.

Tanusrii T. (born on January 2, 2013) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for reciting the names of the maximum number of pathogenic viruses. She recited the difficult names of 130 pathogenic viruses,

Vihaan Dogra (born on July 17, 2015) of Punjab, India, set a record for being the youngest to identify the names of all the countries by their outline maps. He confidently identified and recalled the names of 195 countries by merely looking at the printouts of the outline maps in 8 minutes and 19 seconds, at the tender age of 5 years, 4 months, and 7 days, as confirmed on November 30, 2020.

R.M. Vivek (born on July 2, 1998) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for making a small replica of the Taj Mahal. She made the replica (measuring 70 cm x 53 cm) using 25,000 matchsticks, as confirmed on December 19, 2020.

Arya J B (born on January 5,1998) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand master’ for carving out nine long words on nine different pencil leads, as confirmed on December 19, 2020.

R. Krishnaa (born on July 13, 2015) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for being a dinosauraholic kid. He narrated the diet (carnivore or herbivore) and period (Jurassic, Triassic or Cretaceous) of 76 dinosaurs after listening to their names, at the young age of 5 years, 3 months and 20 days, as confirmed on November 2, 2020.

R. Krishnaa (born on July 13, 2015) of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, set a record for being a little Paleontologist. He identified 47 types of reptiles and dinosaurs by looking at the pictures of their fossils and skeletons, and recited their names. He also answered 25 binomial names of the species of dinosaurs and reptiles, at the young age of 5 years, 2 months and 24 days, as confirmed on October 20, 2020.

Soham Mayank (born on September 20, 2007) of Haryana, India, set a record for being the fastest to recite 500 digits of Pi value. He recited 500 digits of Pi value in just one minute and six seconds, at the young age of 13 years, 3 months and 17 days, as confirmed on January 7, 2021.

Rajesh Chandra Debnath (born on March 30, 1985) of Tripura, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for publishing ‘The Dainik Bajrokantho’ (a Bengali daily poetry magazine) since January 26, 2018 on a regular basis. The first 599 issues were published online, while the print edition started from the 600th issue. Till September 1, 2020, a total of 950 issues of this magazine have been published including online and print formats, as confirmed on December 7, 2020.

Mohamed Rizwan TK (born on July 22, 1996) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for hopping on one leg for the longest duration (1 hour, 30 minutes and 38 seconds), as confirmed on March 31, 2020.