midnight
Midnight is the boundary between calendar days. This topic is part of Time within Everyday Life. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
midnight trivia questions
Midnight marks the start of what?
Answer: A new day
Bonus fact: Midnight is the boundary between calendar days.
What is midnight at the start of a day in 24-hour notation?
Answer: 00:00
Bonus fact: 00:00 is the conventional 24-hour notation for the start of a day.
Solar midnight occurs when the Sun is approximately where?
Answer: Lowest below the horizon
Bonus fact: Solar midnight is roughly halfway between sunset and sunrise.
Who recorded the 1965 R&B classic In the Midnight Hour?
Answer: Wilson Pickett
Bonus fact: In the Midnight Hour was added to the National Recording Registry in 2016.
Who is remembered for a midnight ride warning that British troops were coming?
Answer: Paul Revere
Bonus fact: Revere's ride took place before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Which Shakespeare character is at the center of Orson Welles’s "Chimes at Midnight"?
Answer: Sir John Falstaff
Bonus fact: Welles himself plays the larger-than-life Falstaff.
"Chimes at Midnight" draws material from several Shakespeare plays, especially those about which English prince and king?
Answer: Henry V
Bonus fact: The film focuses on the relationship between Falstaff and Prince Hal before Hal becomes King Henry V.
What is the title "Chimes at Midnight" drawn from?
Answer: A line spoken by Falstaff in Shakespeare
Bonus fact: The film is also sometimes known as "Falstaff," emphasizing its patchwork portrait of the character across several plays.
Which Monk composition became a jazz standard with a famous dissonant opening?
Answer: 'Round Midnight
Bonus fact: 'Round Midnight is one of the most recorded jazz standards.
John Schlesinger directed which film that won Best Picture in 1970?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy
Bonus fact: Midnight Cowboy also won him Best Director.
Which trilogy follows Jesse and Céline over many years?
Answer: Before trilogy
Bonus fact: The films are Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight.
North of the Arctic Circle, what can occur around the summer solstice?
Answer: Midnight Sun
Bonus fact: The Sun can remain above the horizon for 24 hours.