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Q1: How many seconds tick by in a full 24-hour day? ⏳ 86,400

Q2: The Moon moves predictably against the fixed stars, letting ancient people measure what unit of time? 🌙 Months

Q3: Which ancient civilisation gave us the 60-based system for hours, minutes, and seconds? 🕰️ The Babylonians

Q4: What super-precise device keeps track of Earth’s spin better than anything else? 🕰️ Atomic clock

Q5: Which cosmic tug-of-war force is slowing Earth’s spin down over millions of years? 🌙 The Moon's pull on Earth's oceans (tidal friction)

Q6: Which part of our spinning planet is moving fastest right now? 🌀 The equator

Q7: What tiny time adjustment do scientists add or might soon subtract to keep clocks in sync with Earth’s wobble? 🔄 Leap seconds

Q8: Where does the world’s official atomic clock call home? 🌎 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA

Q9: What’s the name of the invisible line where each new calendar day officially kicks off? 📅 The International Date Line

Q10: Which island nation is the first to ring in the New Year each year? 🎉 Kiribati

Q11: Which worldwide system depends on atomic clocks in space to guide your phone or car? 🚗📡 GPS (Global Positioning System)

Q12: If Earth decided to spin a little faster, would our days get longer or shorter? ⚡ Shorter

Q13: What clever invention in the 1600s helped sailors navigate the high seas by keeping time accurately? 🚢 ⏱️ Marine chronometer, invented by John Harrison to measure longitude accurately

Q14: If a clock chimes once at 1 o’clock, twice at 2, and so on, how many chimes sound between 1 and 12? 🔔 78 times

Q15: Which Roman bigwig introduced the calendar that gave us leap years? 🏛️ Julius Caesar

Q16: Before sundials, which ancient civilisation tracked time using shadow clocks? 🌞 The Egyptians

Q17: Where exactly is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) measured from? The standard time from which all the world’s time zones are calculated. 🕰️ The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London

Q18: What crazy changes would happen if Earth suddenly spun backwards? 🌍🔄 The Sun would rise in the west, weather would reverse, and deserts and rainforests could swap places!

Q19: Which surrealist artist painted the famous melting clocks? 🎨 Salvador Dalí

Q20: Last one, promise! What moves without legs and ticks without a heartbeat? 🤔 A clock

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