Time Zones: The World's Clock
Noon in Paris, midnight in Sydney: can you really tell the time across the whole globe?
What this quiz asks
- 1In theory, how many time zones divide the globe?
- 2Which British town gives its name to the prime meridian, at longitude 0°?
- 3As you travel east, what do clocks generally do?
- 4What is the name of the line, near the 180th meridian, where the date changes?
- 5Which country, despite its huge width, runs on a single official time?
- 6What unusual offset from UTC does India use?
- 7How many time zones does Russia span from one end to the other?
- 8Thanks to its overseas territories, which country has the most time zones?
- 9Where is the most advanced time in the world found, at UTC+14?
- 10Which Pacific state deleted a whole day from its calendar in 2011 to switch sides of the date line?
