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1.Which country has the first territory to get into the New Year?
Kiribati (Line Islands)
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United States (Guam)
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New Zealand (Niue)
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France (Pitcairn Islands)
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2.From the following, which country is the first one to get all of its territory into the New Year?
Japan
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Tuvalu
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Samoa
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Nauru
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Samoa follows UTC+13:00, Tuvalu and Nauru follow UTC+12:00 and Japan follows UTC+09:00
3.Which time zone has the most countries in it?
UTC+00:00 (Western European/Greenwich Mean Time)
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UTC+01:00 (Central European/West Africa Time)
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UTC+02:00 (Eastern European/Central Africa Time)
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UTC+03:00 (Moscow/East Africa Time)
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46 countries fully or partially follow UTC+01:00 time, all in Europe and Africa.
4.What is the last archipelago to get into the New Year?
Aleutian Islands (United States)
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Hawaii (United Sates)
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French Polynesia (France)
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Howland and Baker Islands (United States)
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5.Which country celebrates the New Year most times (i.e., which country has the most time zones)?
France
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Russia
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United States
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Australia
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France has 13 (from Wallis and Futuna to the French Polynesia), Russia and United States have 11 and Australia has 9.
6.What does "UTC" mean in English?
Coordinated Universal Time
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Chart of the Universal Time
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Universal Comparison of Time
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Combined Universal Time
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7.When the clocks on this time zone strike midnight, more than half of world population will already in the New Year.
UTC+08:00 (China Standard Time)
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UTC+07:00 (Indochina Time)
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UTC+05:30 (Indian Standard Time)
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UTC+03:00 (Moscow/East Africa Time)
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According to this image, 50% of world population are located east of Pakistan. By the time India gets into the New Year, all countries east of it are already at January 1st.
8.Does Australia share a time zone with the United States (considering unincorporated territories)?
Yes
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No
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In UTC+10:00 (Eastern Time), where Queensland, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands lie.
9.How many time zones does Greenland have?
One
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Two
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Three
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Four
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UTC+00:00 (Danmarkshavn), UTC-01:00 (Ittoqqortoormiit), UTC+02:00 (Western Greenland) and UTC+03:00 (Thule Air Base)
10.Are Pyongyang and Seoul on the same time zone?
Yes
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No
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In 2015, North Korea changed its time zone to UTC+08:30, "to mark the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese imperialism". But, since 2018, it has returned to UTC+09:00, to match clocks with South Korea.
11.How many time zones does China have?
One
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Two
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Three
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Four
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Mainland China has only one time zone, the China Standard Time (UTC+08:00). It is the same time zone of Taiwan.
12.What frontier has the greatest time zone jump?
Pakistan-Afghanistan
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China-India
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China-Afghanistan
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China-Kazakhstan
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China follows UTC+08:00 and Afghanistan follows UTC+04:30. A three and a half hours jump!
13.Considering the Brexit, does the European Union have more than one time zone at the moment?
Yes
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No
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While most of the E.U. is in UTC+01:00, Portugal and Ireland are in UTC+00:00 and the Baltic Countries, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece are in UTC+02:00.
14.On how many time different zones are the capitals of the four semifinalists of Qatar World Cup (Argentina, Croatia, Morocco and France) located?
Two
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Three
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Four
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Buenos Aires is located in UTC-03:00, while Zagreb, Rabat and Paris are in UTC+01:00.
15.Let's suppose you live in a small village of less than 100 inhabitants in the middle of nowhere and you collectively decide to use a different time zone than your state government. Can you do that?
Yes
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No
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Eucla, in Australia, is the most known example of that. Located in the Western Australia-South Australia border, the village created UTC+08:45, to avoid the one and a half hour jump at the border. This way, they are only 45 minutes ahead of WA and 45 minutes behind SA.