Testing Times

1 In which Tarantino film are all the clocks stuck on the time of 4.20?

2 What do the initials GMT signify?

3 Which country with eleven in total has the greatest number of time zones?

4 In 2004, the Radio Times conducted a poll for the Best Film of all time that failed to win an Oscar. Which film based on a Stephen King novel came out at number one?

5 Which newspaper first printed a clock on its cover in February 1911?

6 The epilogue of which novel ends with the words, “Gratitude and mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man”?

7 What time is the alarm clock set for in the song Daydream Believer?

8 Which iconic TV comedy had the original working title of Owl Stretching Time?

9 Which group recorded the 1991 chart topping album Out of Time?

10 In which gangster epic did Robert De Niro play the role of David “Noodles” Aaronson?

11 Who penned the book A Brief History of Time?

12 Which song from Dirty Dancing won a Best Song Oscar?

13 The word clock derives from the Latin word clocha, meaning what?

14 Which Alice In Wonderland character was late for a very important date?

15 In which 1981 film did John Cleese play Robin Hood?

16 Doctor Doug Phillips and Dr Tony Newman were the lead characters in which 60s TV sci-fi series?

17 Which song has been a hit for Cyndi Lauper and Phil Collins?

18 Which Goon presented Potty Time?

19 Which US President was the first person to be voted Man of the Year three times by Time Magazine?

20 Which 2004 horror film spoof had the working title of Tea Time of the Dead?

21 Who was voted Person of the 20th Century by Time Magazine?

22 Which watch manufacturer is associated with the slogan, A lot of watch for a little money?

23 Which actress’s first novel was entitled Prime Time?

24 Which Elton John hit contains the line, “zero hour nine am”?

25 Which song did Rick ask Sam to play again in Casablanca?

Answers

1 Pulp Fiction
2 Greenwich Mean Time
3 Russia
4 The Shawshank Redemption
5 The Times
6 The Time Machine
7 Six o’clock
8 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
9 REM
10 Once Upon a Time in America
11 Stephen Hawking
12 I’ve Had the Time of my Life
13 Bell
14 The White Rabbit
15 Time Bandits
16 The Time Tunnel
17 Time After Time
18 Michael Bentine
19 Franklin D Roosevelt
20 Shaun of the Dead
21 Albert Einstein
22 Sekonda
23 Joan Collins
24 Rocket Man
25 As Time Goes By