- What is the name of Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting of melting clocks?
- Which band released the 2003 single Clocks?
- What is the name of the symbol which represents how close we are to a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes to midnight? It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- In the traditional song “My Grandfather’s Clock, how long does the clock in question stand on the floor?
- What word is defined as follows: “a mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum”?
- Which instrument maker was the recipient of the Longitude Prize, a prize offered by the British Navy in the 17th century to anyone who could develop a clock which accurately kept time at sea?
- What is the name of the fictional language, based on Russian, which Anthony Burgess developed for his controversial novel A Clockwork Orange?
- The worlds oldest working clock dates from 1386, and is found in which English cathedral?
- In the silent film comedy Safety Last, which film star ends up hanging from the minute hand of a clock face, high above the city streets?
- According to the first line of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, what time where the clocks striking?
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- What is the name of Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting of melting clocks?
A: The Persistence of Memory - Which band released the 2003 single Clocks?
A: Coldplay - What is the name of the symbol which represents how close we are to a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes to midnight? It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
A: The Doomsday Clock - In the traditional song “My Grandfather’s Clock, how long does the clock in question stand on the floor?
A: 90 years - What word is defined as follows: “a mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum”?
A: An escapement - Which instrument maker was the recipient of the Longitude Prize, a prize offered by the British Navy in the 17th century to anyone who could develop a clock which accurately kept time at sea?
A: John Harrison - What is the name of the fictional language, based on Russian, which Anthony Burgess developed for his controversial novel A Clockwork Orange?
A: Nadsat - The worlds oldest working clock dates from 1386, and is found in which English cathedral?
A: Salisbury - In the silent film comedy Safety Last, which film star ends up hanging from the minute hand of a clock face, high above the city streets?
A: Harold Lloyd - According to the first line of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, what time where the clocks striking?
A: Thirteen