Clocks & Calendars
"May" all the way
Trivial Pursuits
It's Lawful
Going Round in Circles
100

The popular saying “a month of Sundays” is flawed because you can have a maximum of only this number of Sundays in a month.

What is five? Months have only four or five of each day, depending on what day of the week the first of the month falls.

100

a strong feeling of fear, worry, or sadness caused by something unexpected and unpleasant

What is dismay?

100

Of knitting and crochet, it’s the one that predominantly uses needles.

What is knitting?

100

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guards against these two things.

What are searches and seizures?

100

This instrument can draw a perfect circle.

What is a compass? It can also draw part of a circle, called an arc.

200

This bell rings inside the giant grandfather-style clock that is one of the dominating features of the London skyline.

What is Big Ben? The clock’s proper name is the Great Clock of the Elizabeth Tower.

200

April showers bring this....

May flowers

200

Before recreational drones were invented, children and their parents would head to the nearest park to fly these miniature flying machines.

What are model, remote-controlled, or radio-controlled airplanes?

200

Twelve “peers” of the defendant, plus alternates, typically make up this deliberative body in a trial.

What is a jury?

200

The measurement around the widest part of a ball or the outside boundary of a circle is called this.

What is the circumference?

300

This refers to a calendar that businesses or governments use when their calendars do not start on January 1.

What is a fiscal year? For example, the U.S. government’s calendar year runs from October 1 through September 30 of the following year.

300

This six-letter word is often repeated in radio communications to signal distress 

Mayday

300

A game where you need to get three in a row, either x's or o's, to win.

What is tic-tac-toe?

300

This is said to be nine-tenths of the law.

What is possession?

300

When Earth makes a complete trip around the sun, we call it this.

What is revolution?

400

When someone at a speech or presentation holds up their arm and taps their watch so the speaker can see it, it means this.

What is your time is up (or similar)? If there is no watch, it still means the same thing. Organizers use two signals—one to indicate time is short, and one to indicate time is up.

400

This is the seven-letter term for a tall wooden pole decorated with ribbons, used for dancing in the spring? 

May pole

400

Of soft and hard cheeses, amateur cheese artisans usually make this type of cheese at home.

What is soft? Hard cheeses must age at specific temperatures and humidity levels in a cave-like environment, and most people do not have access to such a space.

400

If someone lives on your property for an extended period, they may be able to claim this even if you didn’t grant them permission or know they were living there.

What are squatters’ rights?

400

The perpetual cycle of birth, life, and death is known as this.

What is the circle of life?

500

This ultra-precise device is so accurate that it can measure Earth’s rotation slowing down by milliseconds.

What is an atomic clock? The atomic clock uses the vibrations of cesium or rubidium atoms to measure time.

500

This is the name of the flower, also known as the Hawthorn, that blooms in May

What is the Mayflower

500

Hobby numismatists collect these.

What are coins? Numismatists are also called coin collectors, and they spend a lot of time searching for rare coins.

500

When either side in a trial fails to show up, the judge can enter this type of judgment.

What is a default judgement? This type of judgment is handed down without jury deliberation.

500

This is the term for half the diameter.

What is the radius? The radius is the distance from the midpoint of the circle to any point on the outside of the circle.