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1. "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first-ever mystery in which long-running series of books for girls?
2. Which 1946 black-and-white clock-related motion picture starred Orson Welles as a Nazi war criminal pursued by Edward G. Robinson as a Nazi hunter?
3. "Rock Around the Clock" was a hit for which early rock-n-roll band?
4. The clock in the Osbornes' home in William Makepeace Thackery's "Vanity Fair" is decorated with "a cheerful brass group" showing what?
5. John Edmund Andrew Phillips wrote a song recorded by the Mamas and the Papas in 1968 about young girls coming to the canyon. The clock in that song was stopped at what time?
6. Surrealist paint Salvador Dali is well known for his many bizarre works of art including the painting "The Persistence of Memory." What is depicted in that painting?
7. According to Volume 1 of Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel "Tristam Shandy", what was unusual about the clock in the room where Tristam Shandy was conceived?
8. In Philippa Pearce's 1958 novel "Tom's Midnight Garden," how does Tom Long discover the sunlit Victorian garden no one else can see?
9. In the 1994 Coen Brothers film "The Hudsucker Proxy," how does Moses the janitor save the life of company president Norville Barnes at the last moment?
10. All of the clocks (and there are many) in this 1952 Western movie count down the passage of time until the killers arrive on the midday train to face the sheriff played by Gary Cooper. What is the name of the film?
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