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Is Guiness beer the same company that hosts the Guiness book of world records?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Originally... Yes. Currently... No.

    "Guinness World Records Limited was formed in 1954 to publish the first book. The group was owned by Guinness Brewery and subsequently Diageo until 2001, when it was purchased by Gullane Entertainment. Gullane was itself purchased by HiT Entertainment in 2002. In 2005, Apax Partners purchased HiT and subsequently sold Guinness World Records in early 2008 to the Jim Pattison Group, which is also the parent company of Ripley Entertainment , Inc.."

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes it is. The book was originally designed to settle bar bets. It is also the company that hired one of the greatest statisticians of all time but din't let him use his own name in publishing. That is why we have "Student's T-test", not Gossett's.

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    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    i might have the checklist for quickest time of flipping a coin 5 heads in a row or 5 tails in a row, I observed it interior the international checklist e book, and that i broke it! i might even have the checklist for many circumstances having a basketball hit you interior the top.

  • 1 decade ago

    Unfortunately not... But it would be interesting, have a couple beers and take the longest piss ever recorded. WOO HOO!!!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Nope.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    haha.

  • 1 decade ago

    NO

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