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Time Zones Quiz

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 Maximum score for this quiz: 100%

Coverage : The places on the earth are divided into time zones based on a particular time system as the standard. A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time. The Time Zones Quiz is on general knowledge about time zones and interesting facts related to it. Try cracking this quiz and emerge with all right answers.

1. Which country, excluding overseas territories and possessions occupied by it, has the largest number of time zones?
a.Russia
b.America
c.Africa
d.China
 
2. How many time zones does Australia have?
a.Five
b.Six
c.Seven
d.Four
 
3. On including overseas territories and possessions held by a country, which country has the maximum number of time zones?
a.India
b.China
c.France
d.Russia
 
4. Which is the largest country with only one time zone?
a.Russia
b.America
c.Africa
d.China
 
5. The two extreme time zones (earliest and latest) on Earth differ by:  
a.20 hours
b.22 hours
c.24 hours
d.26 hours
 
6. Which time system is used on the internet for meetings?
a.GMT
b.UTC
c.EST
d.IST
 
7. The first time zone in the world was established by:
a.American Railways
b.British Railways
c.Spanish Railways
d.Indian Railways
 
8. Time zones base their time on:
a.Greenwich Mean Time
b.Coordinated Universal Time
c.International Atomic Time
d.British Summer Time
 
9. Time zones were first proposed for the entire world by:
a.William Willett
b.Benjamin Franklin
c.Charles F. Dowd
d.Sir Sandford Fleming
 
10. Most Unix based systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, keep system time as local time in a particular time zone.
a.True
b.False
 
11. In a Unix-based computer sustem, timezone information is most commonly stored in a timezone database known as:
a.GNU C Library
b.W3C
c.Zoneinfo
d.tzinfo
 
12. Daylight saving time is mostly used in tropic regions.
a.True
b.False
 
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