time zones
Railroads and telegraphs increased the need for standard time. This topic is part of Time within Geography. This page currently draws on 4 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
time zones trivia questions
Time zones were created largely to standardize what?
Answer: Local time
Bonus fact: Railroads and telegraphs increased the need for standard time.
Earth rotates about how many degrees of longitude per hour?
Answer: 15°
Bonus fact: 360 degrees divided by 24 hours equals 15 degrees per hour.
Which international reference time replaced Greenwich Mean Time for most technical uses?
Answer: UTC
Bonus fact: Coordinated Universal Time is based on atomic clocks.
At its height, the British Empire was often described as the empire on which what never set?
Answer: Sun
Bonus fact: Its territories spanned so many time zones that daylight always fell somewhere.