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Marking time

Do you have the time?
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go
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1. When and where did the law first limit the working day to eight hours?
1593 in Spain ✓
1919 in Turkey ✓
1865 in New Zealand ✓
1789 in the Swiss Confederacy ✓
2. What is the standard internet date format?
dd-mm-yyyy ✓
mm-dd-yyyy ✓
yyyy-mm-dd ✓
yyyy-dd-mm ✓
3. The world's longest non-stop passenger flight is New York to Singapore on Singapore Airlines. How long is the flight scheduled to take?
18 hours and 50 minutes ✓
19 hours and 45 minutes ✓
20 hours and 30 minutes ✓
22 hours and 10 minutes ✓
4. According to the Wimbledon Queueing Code of Conduct, when people are queueing for tickets to the tennis, what are they not allowed to do:
Play tennis ✓
Sleep in a tent ✓
Receive deliveries of takeaway food ✓
Give their place in the queue to someone else ✓
5. What is a moveable feast?
A religious festival held according to the lunar calendar ✓
A traditional German banquet and dance commencing at sunset ✓
A medieval harvest festival hosted by a different Gloucestershire village each year ✓
Dinner on board a sailing ship whose route makes the exact length of the day unpredictable ✓
6. How did Robinson Crusoe keep track of the date?
Each day he marked a notch in a wooden cross that he had carved the day of his arrival ✓
He arrived under a full moon, and marked each subsequent full moon with a notch in a tree ✓
Each day he tied a knot in a string, cutting it each month and weaving the month into his hut wall ✓
He arranged 365 small stones into a calendar, and every new year carved the date into a rock ✓
7. In the Chronicles of Narnia, Father Time lay asleep in the Underland. What did he do when Aslan woke him?
Cried with joy ✓
Destroyed the sun ✓
Called forth the dawn ✓
Set sail down the underground river ✓
8. What is the interval between successive births for a gorilla mother?
12 to 18 months ✓
two years ✓
four years ✓
six years ✓
9. Warner Brothers cartoon characters Ralph the wolf and Sam the sheepdog spend their days hunting and protecting a flock of sheep respectively. At the end of the working day they punch their cards on the time clock and greet the night shift, who are:
Bud and Lou ✓
Bert and Bob ✓
Chip and Dale ✓
Fred and George ✓
10. In what sort of publication would you find tidal times, a farmer's planting dates, lunar cycles, and the hours of sunrise and sunset?
Gazette ✓
Almanac ✓
Calendar ✓
Enchiridion ✓
11. What game was developed in the 20th century to entertain children during long journeys or waiting times?
I-spy ✓
Peek-a-boo ✓
Simon Says ✓
The Hokey Pokey (or Hokey Cokey) ✓
12. Pete Seeger's song Turn Turn Turn, which was a hit for The Byrds in 1965, takes its lyrics from Ecclesiastes. In the song, what follows 'A time to rend, and a time to sew'?
a time to rest, and a time to grow ✓
a time to learn, and a time to know ✓
a time to harvest, and a time to save ✓
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak ✓
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