John: attempt a world record for most questions answered in four minutes on the next Question Tuesday (2008)

promise · status: kept · last event: kept (2008-03-04) · owner: John

In February 2008 John promised to try to break the world record for most questions answered in four minutes on the next Question Tuesday. He postponed it a week because he had not finished going through over 2,000 questions, then answered more than 55 questions in four minutes on 4 March 2008.

Part of: Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007)

Parts: John asks Nerdfighters for questions for his world-record Question Tuesday (2008) · John: answer leftover Question Tuesday questions in a big blog post on the Ning (2008) · John: run leftover world-record Question Tuesday answers in a follow-up (2008)

About: Question Tuesday

date	event	what	video
2008-02-21	promised	John says that on the next Question Tuesday he will try to break the world record for most questions answered in four minutes. (hedged)	People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes 00:00:36
2008-02-26	postponed	John postpones the world-record Question Tuesday to next Tuesday (4 March 2008) because he hasn't finished going through the questions.	Best Wishes! 00:01:08
2008-03-04	kept	John does the world-record Question Tuesday, answering more than 55 questions in four minutes.	SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD video description