Updated: Nov 14, 2008, 3:24 PM

Quiz: Do you know the Guinness World Records?

Thursday marks Guinness World Records Day. In SportsNation, we consider that a national holiday of the highest order! If presidents can have their own day, why not the guy who had 14 surgical procedures to look like a cat? Or the woman with a 13-inch waist?

Naturally, we wanted to focus on some of the more unusual records out there, so we've come up with a quiz to see if you can guess just how impressive some of these records are.

Do you know which country consumes the largest amount of cigarettes per capita? Can you guess the age of the oldest man to scale Mount Everest or which celebrity's locks of hair sold for more than $115,000?

Take our Guinness quiz challenge and see how you fare!

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Noon: Cindy Jackson - Most cosmetic surgeries!
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1:30pm: Dave Farrow - World's greatest memory!

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Quiz: Do you know the Guinness World Records?

1) Which country holds the record for ''highest cigarette consumption per capita?''

2) Which celebrity holds the record for ''most expensive hair sold?''

3) The U.S. holds the record for highest population of female prisoners in the world. But what percentage of the total U.S. prison population do they account for?

4) Led Zeppelin made its Guinness mark by staking claim to the highest demand for tickets for one music concert. How many people tried to buy tickets for the band's one-time reunion show in December of 2007?

5) Katsusuke Yanagisawa holds the record as the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest. How old was he?

6) An anonymous bidder in Qatar set a Guinness record by paying more than $2.5 million at a charity auction for which cell phone number?

7) Cindy Jackson holds the record for most cosmetic procedures, having had nine full-scale operations since 1988 and more than 50 procedures overall. Which procedure has this ''Living Barbie Doll'' NOT had done?

8) DON'T TRY THIS ONE AT HOME! Aaron Gregg of Canada is in the Guinness Book of World Records for juggling three running chainsaws. How many catches did he make in a row?

9) OK, you can try this one at home but it might get emotional. How fast did Samuel Grazette eat a raw onion in setting a Guinness record?

10) Speaking of food, Michel Lotito (France, 1950-2006) held a special Guinness record for having the strangest diet. Lotito had the ability to eat metal and glass thanks to a stomach lining twice as thick as the normal person. But which food item did he detest?

11) Which animal outperformed 6,000 professional brokers on Wall Street, in 1999?

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Quiz: Do you know the Guinness World Records?

1) Which country holds the record for ''highest cigarette consumption per capita?''

2) Which celebrity holds the record for ''most expensive hair sold?''

3) The U.S. holds the record for highest population of female prisoners in the world. But what percentage of the total U.S. prison population do they account for?

4) Led Zeppelin made its Guinness mark by staking claim to the highest demand for tickets for one music concert. How many people tried to buy tickets for the band's one-time reunion show in December of 2007?

5) Katsusuke Yanagisawa holds the record as the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest. How old was he?

6) An anonymous bidder in Qatar set a Guinness record by paying more than $2.5 million at a charity auction for which cell phone number?

7) Cindy Jackson holds the record for most cosmetic procedures, having had nine full-scale operations since 1988 and more than 50 procedures overall. Which procedure has this ''Living Barbie Doll'' NOT had done?

8) DON'T TRY THIS ONE AT HOME! Aaron Gregg of Canada is in the Guinness Book of World Records for juggling three running chainsaws. How many catches did he make in a row?

9) OK, you can try this one at home but it might get emotional. How fast did Samuel Grazette eat a raw onion in setting a Guinness record?

10) Speaking of food, Michel Lotito (France, 1950-2006) held a special Guinness record for having the strangest diet. Lotito had the ability to eat metal and glass thanks to a stomach lining twice as thick as the normal person. But which food item did he detest?

11) Which animal outperformed 6,000 professional brokers on Wall Street, in 1999?

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