Clocks
Telling Time
Time Zones
Days
History
100
What are the two main clock types?
A. Digital and Analog
B. Atomic and Digital
C. Cuckoo and Atomic
Digital and Analog
100
What is another way to say 12pm?
A. Midnight
B. Noon
Noon
100
What time is it in California if its 9am here?
A. 6am
B. 10am
C. 9am
6am
100
What months do the clocks change?
A. April/August
B. March/November
C. January/December
March/November
100
Who is Father Time?
A. Chronos
B. Zeus
C. Athena
Personification of time in Greek mythology (Chronos)
200
What kind of clock is this?
A. Grandfather
B. Cuckoo
C. Digital
Cuckoo Clock
200
What is another way to say 12am?
A. Noon
B. Midnight
Midnight
200
How long does it take the earth to go around the sun?
A. 2 years
B. 6 days
C. 365 days
365 days
200
How many months have 30 days?
A. 4
B. 12
C. 2
4
200
What civilization was the first recorded to use clocks?
A. Romans
B. Egyptians
C. Native Americans
Egyptians/Babylonians
300
What types of clock is this?
A. Digital
B. Mantel
C. Grandfather
Grandfather
300
What's another way to say 11:45?
A. Quarter to 12
B. Half past 11
C. quarter after 11
Quarter to 12
300
How many time zones are in America?
A. 3
B. 10
C. 6
6
300
How many months have 31 days?
A. 12
B. 7
C. 10
Seven
300
What industry helped create standardized time zones?
A. Retail
B. Railroad
C. Air Travel
In 1883 the railroad industry implemented standardized time zones to avoid “mini time zones ”which were common back then due to people setting their clocks to the local solar noon.
400
The first recorded clock was invented in the 1500BCE Century. What kind of clock was it?
A. Water Clock
B. Sundial
C. Pendulum
The earliest household clocks known, from the archaeological finds, are the sundials (1500 BCE) in Ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonian astronomy. Ancient analemmatic sundials of the same era (about 1500 BCE) and their prototype have been discovered on the territory of modern Russia. the earliest type of timekeeping device, which indicates the time of day by the position of the shadow of some object exposed to the sun's rays. As the day progresses, the sun moves across the sky, causing the shadow of the object to move and indicating the passage of time.
400
What's another way to say 1:15?
A. Quarter of 2
B. Quarter past 1
C. Half past 1
Quarter past 1
400
What direction does the sun rise?
A. West
B. East
C. South
The East
Every day, the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west. Actually, these celestial objects aren't moving that fast, but Earth is. It spins on its axis from west to east approximately every 24 hours.
400
What is the longest day of the year?
A. Winter Solstice
B. Summer Solstice
C. Spring Equinox
Summer Solstice
400
What universal force effects time according to Einstein?
A. Electromagnetism
B. Gravity
C. Strong/Weak
Gravity- Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that where gravity is stronger, time passes more slowly. That's called time dilation. Gravity is stronger closer to the center of the Earth. So, according to Einstein, time should pass more slowly closer to the ground.
500
What is the most precise clock invented thus far?
A. Makkah Royal Clock
B. Strontium Atomic Clock
C. Cosmo Clock 21
The Strontium Atomic Clock, it is 3 times more accurate than the nation's standard. Uses vibrations of atoms strontium atoms are trapped in the interference pattern of two laser beams. In this so called “optical lattice”, the atomic “pendulum”, i.e. the absorption frequency of the atoms, can then be determined very precisely – currently with an accuracy of 17 digits.
500
What does AM/PM stand for?
A. after midnight/pre morning
B. Around morning/past morning
C. Before/after Midday
The 12-hour clock divides the 24-hour day into two periods. am stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday". This is the time before noon. pm stands for post meridiem or "after midday" – the time after noon.
500
Which Country has the most time zones?
A. France
B. America
C. Russia
France - it has 12 including overseas territories. France's overseas territories are very scattered, taking in the Caribbean, South America, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific and the Antarctic.
500
What is the shortest day called?
A. Fall Equinox
B. Winter solstice
C. Summer Solstice
Winter Solstice
500
Why was Daylight saving time first invented?
A. To give Farmers more time to work
B. To conserve energy during WWI
C. To improve work/sleep balance
In 1916, it was implemented to conserve energy resources during WWI
