Local Time and Standard Time

Q. What is the full form of the primary time standard: UTC?

Q. When it is noon in Greenwich, England, Indian Standard Time will be ________.

1. 4:00 AM
2. 5:00 PM
3. 5:30 AM
4. 5:30 PM

Q. The Prime meridian passes through which place in the world?

1. Greenwich
2. Manchester
3. Birmingham
4. Liverpool

Q. Local time is also called the _____ time.

1. Solar
2. Wind
3. Temperature
4. Moon

Q. We can calculate the current time of a place accurately by using the _________ of a place.

1. longitude
2. altitude
3. distance from sea
4. temperature

Q.

A bird flying high in the sky does not cast its shadow on the ground.

1. True
2. False

Q. If longitudinal difference between two places is one degree, the time difference will be _________ mins.

1. 1
2. 5
3. 3
4. 4

Q. India's standard meridian lies on 82.5 degrees East which lies __________ hours ahead of GMT.

1. four
2. four and a half
3. five
4. five and a half

Q. why was dawn of the century published?

Q. How long does the Sun take in order to travel across 15 degrees of longitude?

1. 4 minutes
2. 15 minutes
3. 30 minutes
4. 60 minutes

Q. As we move westwards from the Prime Meridian, what changes do we have to make to our watch?

1. Move it forward
2. Move it backward
3. Make no change
4. First move it forward and then backward

Q. Elijah, an astrophysicist, was observing the celestial bodies in the night sky. He made three observations and noted down the time of the observations. His observations were made at 7:00pm, 9:30pm and 11:20pm. He needs to know by what angle the Earth had rotated by the time he made his 2nd and 3rd observations relative to his 1st observation. Can you help him out?

1. 37.5 degrees and 27.5 degrees
2. 27.5 degrees and 37.5 degrees
3. 37.5 degrees and 65 degrees
4. 27.5 degrees and 65 degrees

Q. Central Meridians are generally multiples of which of the below given integers?

1. 5
2. 10
3. 15
4. 20

Q. Suppose an observer sets his accurate watch to 12:00 noon in Greenwich, England and then travels a great distance in one particular direction. The observer then notices that the sun is highest in the sky at 5:00 according to his watch. Then which longitude is he currently on?

1. 75° E longitude
2. 50° E longitude
3. 50° W longitude
4. 75° W longitude

Q. Sun rises in the ________ and sets in the ______.

1. North, South
2. South, North
3. East, West
4. West, East

Q. Here are the approximate longitudes of the following 2 cities.
New York- 74° W.
Cairo- 31° E.
Find their approximate time relative to the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

1. GMT + 2, GMT - 5
2. GMT - 5, GMT - 2
3. GMT + 2, GMT + 5
4. GMT - 5, GMT + 2

Q. The North Pole experiences ______ months of daylight or summer season when the Sun moves from the equator to the Tropic of Cancer and back to the equator.

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6

Q. The local time of a place is determined by the Sun's apparant movement.

1. True
2. False