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.
This instrument can draw a perfect circle.
What is a compass? It can also draw part of a circle, called an arc. Compasses often are used in high school geometry classes
A thunderstorm may also produce this frozen precipitation, even during summer months
What is hail? A hailstone can be deadly. The largest confirmed hailstone fell in Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010, measuring approximately eight inches (20.3 cm) in diameter.
Of knitting and crochet, it’s the one that predominantly uses needles.
What is knitting? Knitting requires two needles, while a hook is used for crocheting. Sometimes, crocheters use a knitting needle to perform specific tasks. Both can use yarn, but crochet is often made with thread, and the stitches are different.
If you place an egg in a glass of water and it sinks to the bottom, it is this.
What is fresh, or good? If the egg floats, it’s a sign that the egg is no longer fresh.
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.
The measurement around the widest part of a ball or the outside boundary of a circle is called this.
What is the circumference? In school, we learned that pi multiplied by the diameter equals the circumference.
This planet is known as the third rock from the sun.
What is Earth? An easy way to remember the order of the planets’ positions in relation to the sun is to learn the sentence “My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Names”— Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Of the games played on a checkerboard, this is generally considered the easiest.
What is checkers? The typical game is played on a board with 64 squares, and the object of the game is to capture your opponent’s pieces. Each player starts with 12 pieces, and the player who loses all their pieces loses the game.
A hen lays approximately this number of eggs in a day.
What is one? A hen lays an egg every 24 to 26 hours. Within 30 minutes, a new egg begins to form.
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.
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.
To smother a fire, you must remove this gas from it.
What is oxygen? Fires need a fuel source, oxygen, and heat. Never attempt to put
out an electrical fire with water. The easiest and quickest way to put out a small fire, such as a kitchen fire, is with a fire blanket. If you use one, you do not have to clean up the mess created by halogen fire extinguishers. It’s best to review the instructions before you need to use the blanket.
This two-person, alliterative, three-word children’s game begins with the letter T.
What is tic-tac-toe? One player’s pieces are X’s, and the other player’s pieces are O’s. The playing board is divided into nine squares in a three-by-three layout. The object of the game is to get three of your pieces in a row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
The color of the eggshell is not an indication of nutritional value, but this can be.
What is the color of the yolk? Often but not always, the brighter and darker the yolk color (leaning more toward orange than yellow), the more nutrition the egg provides
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.
When Earth turns on its axis, we call it this.
What is rotation? It makes one complete rotation every 24 hours.
A severe storm occurring inland is often accompanied by this wind event.
What is a tornado? The costliest tornadoes have shifted away in recent years from the traditional area known as Tornado Alley (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas) and toward the Southeast.
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.
This color egg is typically more expensive.
What is brown? Hens that lay brown eggs are usually larger than chickens that lay white eggs, so feeding a larger hen is more expensive.
This is the official name of the prevalent calendar in use today, particularly in the West.
What is the Gregorian calendar? In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar because the Julian calendar made it difficult to calculate when Easter should fall.
When Earth makes a complete trip around the sun, we call it this.
What is revolution? It takes roughly 365 days for Earth to travel in an elliptical path around the sun
Cold and hot deserts share the lack of this.
What is humidity/moisture? The driest non-polar desert is the Atacama Desert, located in South America along the Pacific Ocean coastline. The continent of Antarctica is the largest desert.
Hobby numismatists collect these.
What are coins? Numismatists are also called coin collectors, and they spend a lot of time searching for rare coins. In the professional world, numismatists also study the history of currency and its impact on culture, among other things.
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This is how you tell whether an egg is raw or hard-boiled.
What is spinning the egg? If it wobbles, it’s raw. The liquid in the raw egg sloshes as you spin it, causing it to wobble. If the egg is steady as it spins, it’s hard-boiled.