Time Flies
This timepiece uses shadows to determine the time of day.
What is a sundial?
Water makes up this percentage of the Earth's surface area.
What is 71%? (any answer within 5% is acceptable)
The Summer and Winter Olympic Games are held once every _ years.
What is 4?
Known as the "Iron Lady", she was the first female Prime Minister in British history.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Popularized by Owl City in 2009, this insect is known for its bioluminescence.
What is a firefly?
This is the number of seconds in an hour.
What is 3600?
The shores of this extraordinarily saline lake in the Middle East are the location of the lowest point on the Earth's surface.
What is the Dead Sea?
The 1976 Olympic Games were held in this North American city.
What is Montreal?
This Tudor king was infamous for having six wives over the course of his lifetime.
Who is Henry VIII?
Used as a pest control device, it is made from a strip of material coated in a sticky substance that traps flying insects.
What is flypaper?
Modern-day clocks and watches use oscillators made from this crystalline mineral to keep time.
What is quartz?
The vast majority of the world's freshwater is used in this industry.
What is agriculture?
This bat-and-ball game featured in the Olympic Games only once, in 1900.
What is cricket?
Daily Double:
The House of Hanover, who ruled England in the Georgian era, were not British; they instead descended from this European country.
What is Germany?
A method of angling that uses an artificial lure.
What is fly fishing?
This South Asian country is the only nation in the world whose time zone is offset by 45 minutes.
What is Nepal?
This property of water, which allows insects to traverse its surface, is the result of cohesive forces between water molecules.
What is surface tension?
The first Modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in this year.
What is 1896?
The Battle of Bosworth field in 1485 resulted in the death of this king and the inception of the Tudor era.
Who is Richard III?
Usually refers to an ambitious person.
What is a highflyer?
First postulated by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity, this refers to the perceived difference in time passage between two objects moving at different velocities.
What is time dilation?
The excessive consumption of water in a short period of time can lead to a total shutdown of this bodily system.
What is the nervous system?
Translated from Latin as "Faster, Higher, Stronger", this is the current motto of the Olympic Games.
What is Citius, Altius, Fortius?
This battle, which resulted in the victory of the English longbowmen over the numerically superior French, is widely regarded as the turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
A mechanical device used to evenly distribute the power output of an engine.
What is a flywheel?