Clocks & Calendars
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.
Born December 1, 1935, this actor-director was once married to Mia Farrow and is often quoted as saying, “Eighty percent of life is showing up.”
Who is Woody Allen? Two of his romantic partners starred in his most memorable romantic comedies: Diane Keaton in Annie Hall and Mia Farrow in Manhattan.
Of knitting and crochet, it’s the one that predominantly uses needles.
What is knitting?
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guards against these two things.
What are searches and seizures?
This instrument can draw a perfect circle.
What is a compass? It can also draw part of a circle, called an arc.
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.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, known by this name.
Who is Pope Francis? He lived in a two-room apartment rather than the lavish papal suite. No pope had done this in more than a century.
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?
Twelve “peers” of the defendant, plus alternates, typically make up this deliberative body in a trial.
What is a jury?
The measurement around the widest part of a ball or the outside boundary of a circle is called this.
What is the circumference?
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.
Born December 1, 1913, she will always be remembered for her role as Peter Pan, for which she won a Tony Award.
Who is Mary Martin? She also played the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific.
What are model, remote-controlled, or radio-controlled airplanes?
What is tic-tac-toe?
This is said to be nine-tenths of the law.
What is possession?
When Earth makes a complete trip around the sun, we call it this.
What is revolution?
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.
On Christmas Night 1776, George Washington crossed this river with his bedraggled army to make a surprise attack on the Hessians.
What is the Delaware River?
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.
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?
The perpetual cycle of birth, life, and death is known as this.
What is the circle of life?
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.
On December 4, 1872, this American ghost ship was discovered near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean by the captain of the Dei Gratia, a small British brig.
What is the Mary Celeste? The ship was found in working order, with its full complement of cargo, but no one was found aboard it.
Hobby numismatists collect these.
What are coins? Numismatists are also called coin collectors, and they spend a lot of time searching for rare coins.
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.
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.