| 09 December 1985 | Fastest rotating flywheel | 1405 metre(s) per second | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 02 August 1985 | Most durable mobile phone number (cellular phone number) | | David Contorno |
| 04 July 1985 | First black and white feature film converted to full colour | 1985/7/4 first | Yankee Doodle Dandy (USA 1942) |
| 04 April 1985 | Heaviest hotel re-located | 1451 tonne(s)/metric ton(s) | Hotel Fairmount |
| 25 March 1985 | Oldest Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress | | Peggy Ashcroft |
| 27 January 1985 | Highest score on Cheyenne (arcade) | 319,209,350 point(s) | Donn Nauert |
| 1981-1985 | Most consecutive wins of Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards | | Alabama |
| 1985 | Tallest moving human pyramid | | NSA |
| 1985 | First film based on a boardgame | | Clue |
| 1985 | Most Oscar winning generations | first | Hustons |
| 1985 | First woman to play with the Harlem Globetrotters | first | Lynette Woodard |
| 1985 | First driver to win: Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Daytona | 4 first | AJ Foyt |
| 1985 | First fully computerised photo-realistic movie character | first | The stained glass knight in Young Sherlock Holmes |
| 1985 | Heaviest garlic | 1.19 kilogram(s) | Robert Kirkpatrick |
| 1985 | First film character computer-generated | first | Young Sherlock Holmes |