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1. Which country has the first territory to get into the New Year?
Kiribati (Line Islands)
United States (Guam)
New Zealand (Niue)
France (Pitcairn Islands)
2. From the following, which country is the first one to get all of its territory into the New Year?
Samoa follows UTC+13:00, Tuvalu and Nauru follow UTC+12:00 and Japan follows UTC+09:00
Japan
Tuvalu
Samoa
Nauru
3. Which time zone has the most countries in it?
46 countries fully or partially follow UTC+01:00 time, all in Europe and Africa.
UTC+00:00 (Western European/Greenwich Mean Time)
UTC+01:00 (Central European/West Africa Time)
UTC+02:00 (Eastern European/Central Africa Time)
UTC+03:00 (Moscow/East Africa Time)
4. What is the last archipelago to get into the New Year?
Aleutian Islands (United States)
Hawaii (United Sates)
French Polynesia (France)
Howland and Baker Islands (United States)
5. Which country celebrates the New Year most times (i.e., which country has the most time zones)?
France has 13 (from Wallis and Futuna to the French Polynesia), Russia and United States have 11 and Australia has 9.
France
Russia
United States
Australia
6. What does "UTC" mean in English?
Coordinated Universal Time
Chart of the Universal Time
Universal Comparison of Time
Combined Universal Time
7. When the clocks on this time zone strike midnight, more than half of world population will already in the New Year.
According to this image, 50% of world population are located east of Pakistan. By the time India gets into the New Year, all countries east of it are already at January 1st.
UTC+08:00 (China Standard Time)
UTC+07:00 (Indochina Time)
UTC+05:30 (Indian Standard Time)
UTC+03:00 (Moscow/East Africa Time)
8. Does Australia share a time zone with the United States (considering unincorporated territories)?
In UTC+10:00 (Eastern Time), where Queensland, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands lie.
Yes
No
9. How many time zones does Greenland have?
UTC+00:00 (Danmarkshavn), UTC-01:00 (Ittoqqortoormiit), UTC+02:00 (Western Greenland) and UTC+03:00 (Thule Air Base)
One
Two
Three
Four
10. Are Pyongyang and Seoul on the same time zone?
In 2015, North Korea changed its time zone to UTC+08:30, "to mark the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese imperialism". But, since 2018, it has returned to UTC+09:00, to match clocks with South Korea.
Yes
No
11. How many time zones does China have?
Mainland China has only one time zone, the China Standard Time (UTC+08:00). It is the same time zone of Taiwan.
One
Two
Three
Four
12. What frontier has the greatest time zone jump?
China follows UTC+08:00 and Afghanistan follows UTC+04:30. A three and a half hours jump!
Pakistan-Afghanistan
China-India
China-Afghanistan
China-Kazakhstan
13. Considering the Brexit, does the European Union have more than one time zone at the moment?
While most of the E.U. is in UTC+01:00, Portugal and Ireland are in UTC+00:00 and the Baltic Countries, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece are in UTC+02:00.
Yes
No
14. On how many time different zones are the capitals of the four semifinalists of Qatar World Cup (Argentina, Croatia, Morocco and France) located?
Buenos Aires is located in UTC-03:00, while Zagreb, Rabat and Paris are in UTC+01:00.
Two
Three
Four
15. Let's suppose you live in a small village of less than 100 inhabitants in the middle of nowhere and you collectively decide to use a different time zone than your state government. Can you do that?
Eucla, in Australia, is the most known example of that. Located in the Western Australia-South Australia border, the village created UTC+08:45, to avoid the one and a half hour jump at the border. This way, they are only 45 minutes ahead of WA and 45 minutes behind SA.