 He also earned the title of "scorpion king" after his feat of living in a glass enclosure with 6,000 scorpions for 21 days which is listed in the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records.He had a protégé, Nur Malena Hassan, who has completed her own two record-breaking stunts and is now known as the "scorpion queen".Ali Khan died on December 1, 2006, after being bitten by a king cobra.