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Quiz: How much do you know about clocks?

Fall back, spring forward.
10.00pm, 30 Oct 2021
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THIS WON’T BE the only reminder you get that the clocks go back to tonight, but FYI: The clocks go back tonight.

How much do you know about them?

He famously told the Toy Show he wanted to be a horologist but what was the name of this clock fan?
RTÉ
Domhnall
John Joe

Toby
Paddy
The word clock comes from the Latin word 'clogga', meaning what?
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Bell
Hand

Move
Face
'Clocks' is a song by Coldplay, featuring on which album?
Wikimedia
Parachutes
A Rush of Blood to the Head

X&Y
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
What time does lightning strike the clock tower in Back to the Future?
Youtube/Universal Pictures
9.01 pm
10.04 pm

12.06 am
1.08 am
A cathedral in which English city holds what is said to be the world's oldest mechanical clock, dating back to the 14th century?
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Manchester
Nottingham

Salisbury
London
If you 'clocked' someone walking by, what might you have done to them?
Seen them
Registered them on a recording device

Punched them
Potentially all of the above
The famed meeting point 'under Clerys' clock' was the beginning of manys a romance, but it what year did the department store close its doors?
Rollingnews.ie
2011
2013

2015
2017
Countdown was the first show ever broadcast on Channel 4?
Wikimedia
True
False
The Persistence of Memory with its famous melted clocks is an artwork by which Spanish artist?
Alamy Stock Photo
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dalí

Francisco Goya
Gaizka Mendieta
(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock was a 1950s number 1 hit for who?
Wikimedia
Bill Haley and His Comets
Jerry and the Pacemakers

The Isley Brothers
Harry and the Diamonds
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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You scored out of !
A
Made it with time to spare
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
B
Made it on time
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
C
A little bit late but acceptable
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
D
What time do you call this?
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
F
Have you even left the house yet?
Share your result:

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