Clocks that Never Really Were, 2nd Hour Quiz

Answer: The White Rabbit

In the book, the White Rabbit says "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" In the Walt Disney's 1951 movie, he says "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!"

Answer: Groundhog Day

Murray plays Phil Connors, a TV weatherman sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the Groundhog Day observance where Punxsutawney Phil (a groundhog) predicts the weather. He gets caught in a time loop where the day repeats endlessly. His attempts to destroy the clock radio in order to escape the loop were fruitless.

Answer: Clocks

The song "Clocks" almost failed to be recorded on Coldplay's second album but went on to be one of three major singles from it. The lyrics include the following: "Come out upon my seas. Cursed missed opportunities. Am I a part of the cure or am I part of the disease?"

Answer: Ordinary humans who are mortal

The premise of "The Bone Clocks" is that there is a war on Earth between the Anchorites, who devour mortal children to remain immortal, and the Horologists, who are capable of endless reincarnation. The title is a slur used by immortals to describe mortals who are doomed to death because of aging. Stephen King said it was one of the best novels of 2014.

Answer: Haydn's Symphony No. 101

Joseph Haydn wrote twelve "London Symphonies" between 1791 and 1795 on two visits to the British capital. The Symphony No. 101 in D major (Hoboken 1/101) is the ninth of the dozen. It was immensely popular with the British public. The composer had given his patron Prince Esterházy a musical clock in 1793 and this symphony was a reference to that gift.

Answer: Countdown

Originally a French TV game show ("Des chiffres et des lettres") which premiered in 1965, "Countdown" has entertained British audiences since 1982. It is produced by ITV and shown on Channel 4. Instead of cash prizes, winning contestants take home a ceramic teapot made in the shape of the game clock. A standing joke is that the show is part of "teatime telly."

Answer: Great Expectations

Miss Havisham was jilted by Mister Compeyson. She was embittered by the experience, wore her wedding dress every day for the rest of her life and sought vengeance on all men as a result of her experience. In Chapter 8, Pip says: "It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine."

Answer: a montage about the time of day made from film and video clips

"The Clock" runs for 24 hours and is looped so as to run continuously. Each frame shows a clock or watch or some other indication of the time of day, which is synchronized with the actual time at the point of exhibition. It could be described as a video collage. Produced in 2010, it took six people in addition to the artist to collect and edit the materials.

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it "a masterpiece of our time" (7 April 2011); it is unknown whether the pun was intended.

Answer: hanging from the hands of a skyscraper's clock

A country boy trying to make his way in the big city, Lloyd gets a job working for DeVore's Department Store. As a way of getting more attention for the store, his friend agrees to scale the outside of the 12-storey Bolton building in which DeVore's in located. They switch places and Lloyd ends up hanging from the hands of a giant clock at the top of the structure. The image became iconic.

Answer: The Thirteen Clocks

Thurber's story is of the vile duke who imprisons the kidnapped princess and declares that she may not wed (another) unless all thirteen of the clocks in Coffin Castle, which are frozen at ten to five, strike the hour of five o'clock. Prince Zorn goes into disguise to rescue Princess Sardinia and defeats the duke, causing all the clocks to strike at once. Thurber was blind by the time he wrote this novel so he could not illustrate it himself.