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DATING & CHRONOLOGY
- Silver is 25, gold is 50 - what is 30?
Pearl
- In many European languages Monday clearly shows its associations with the Moon. What about Thursday?
Associated with Thor or thunder e.g. German Donnerstag
- In the system of Chinese animal years, 2006 was the Year of the Dog. And 2007?
Boar (2008 Rat)
- The dynasties of which ancient country are grouped in periods that include the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom, the First Intermediate Period and the Second Intermediate Period, and the Middle Kingdom (not in that order)?
Egypt
- If a year is shown with the upper case initials AM what is its calendar?
Jewish (AM = anno mundi, dated from 3761BC, held to be the year of creation)
- French Republican calendar - months are well known e.g. Brumaire, Germinal, Prairial, Floréal, Fructidor - but how long were the weeks?
3 weeks of 10 days per 30 day month, eliminating Sunday
- In 1582 Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar, thereby causing Catholic countries to skip directly from 4 to 15 October of that year. Amongst the features of this calendar, which is used widely throughout the world, is the ruling that century years can only be leap if they are exactly divisible by 400. What is it called?
The Gregorian calendar
- Britain and its colonies - including America - adopted this new calendar in 1752, switching New Year's Day from 25 March to what date?
1st January. In mediaeval times New Year's Day had been celebrated on Christmas Day before being switched to 25 March, the Feast of the Annunciation
- If a year is shown with the single initial upper case H, what calendar is in use?
Islamic. H = Hejira or Hegira, arabic Hijrah. The calendar dates from 622AD, the year the Prophet migrated from Mecca to Medina - the word H means migration or flight and denotes also the Muslim era
- What do a gnomon, a clepsydra and a Nuremberg Egg have in common?
They are all used in chronometry. The Gnomon casts the shadow in a sundial, a Clepsydra is a water clock. The Nuremberg egg was an early watch.
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