History of Daylight Savings
This U.S. president is credited with proposing the idea of daylight savings time.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is what daylight savings time aims to maximize in terms of natural phenomena.
What is sunlight during the day?
This popular outdoor sport benefits from extended evening daylight.
What is golf?
According to legend, Saint Patrick drove these out of Ireland.
What is snakes?
These two wars influenced the adoption of daylight savings.
What is World War I & II?
This pattern is impacted by daylight savings time.
What are sleep patterns?
This major U.S. city famously experimented with permanent daylight savings time in the 1970s.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This is the national flower of Ireland.
What is the shamrock?
This was the year the U.S. formally adopted daylight savings time nationwide.
What is 1966?
This hormone, responsible for regulating sleep, is affected by changes in daylight.
What is Melatonin?
This was the year the U.S. briefly extend daylight savings time for the sake of energy conservation.
What is 1974- The Energy Crisis?
This is the original color of Saint Patricks Day.
What is blue?
These two U.S. states do not observe daylight savings time
What is Hawaii and Arizona?
This is the scientific term for the body's internal clock that regulates sleep and wake cycles.
What is the circadian rhythm?
This famous festival is Nevada operates on "playa time," ignoring standard time rules altogether.
What is Burning Man?
This is a symbol of good luck.
What is a horseshoe?
These two countries were the first to adopt Daylight Savings Time.
What are Germany and Austria in 1916?
The region of the brain that controls our sleep cycle.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is the time of day that Daylight Savings takes effect.
What is 2 AM?
This US river is dyed green on the Saturday before Saint Patricks Day.
What is the Chicago River?