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Swiss men | The majority of the population to finish tertiary schooling in bern are what people? |
non | Do you have to go to the one year of kindergarten? |
ability and aptitude | What seperates the children in secondary school? |
10,979 | How many students were attending school during the 2009-2010 school year? |
89 | How many kindergarten classes were there? |
266 | How many primary classes were there? |
151 | How many lower secondary classes were there? |
8 | How many libraries are in Bern? |
9,045 | How many pupils lived in another municipality? |
1,185 | How many pupils attended school outside of the city? |
A funicular railway | What connects Marzili to Bundeshaus? |
106 m | How long is the Marzilibah funicular? |
Marzilibahn | What is the second shortest public railway in Europe? |
Zagreb funicular | What is the shortest public railway in Europe? |
Bern Airport | What is the name of Bern's airport? |
Bern-Belp or Belpmoos | What is the name of the regional airport? |
summer time | What term is used interchangeably with daylight saving time? |
one hour | What period of time do we set our clocks forward in DST? |
daylight | What do we get an extra hour of because we set the clocks forward? |
autumn | In what season do regions who practice DST set the clocks back one hour? |
sunrise | By setting the clocks forward, the normal time of what daily event is disrupted? |
George Hudson | Who first suggested daylight saving? |
New Zealand | From what country did George Hudson hail? |
1895 | In what year was modern daylight saving first proposed? |
Germany | Besides Austria-Hungary, what country first put DST into effect? |
incandescent lighting | What used to be the main draw on electricity? |
retailing | What industry having to do with shopping benefits from DST? |
farming | In addition to entertainment events that take place after working hours, what profession might suffer because of DST? |
energy | Research on DST is uncertain because we aren't sure how it affects the use of what? |
travel | What can be affected by DST that might disrupt plans for a vacation? |
Computer software | When the clock on your laptop adjusts to DST without you resetting the clock, what is controlling the change? |
policy | What do jurisdictions sometimes change that mixes up DST dates and times? |
sleep patterns | What important part of daily life might be disturbed because of DST changing what time you go to bed? |
Industrialized | What kind of societies usually follow a regular daily schedule year-round? |
agrarian | What kind of societies rely on solar time and daylight that changes with the seasons? |
North and south of the tropics | In what part of the world is daytime shorter in winter and longer in summer? |
axial tilt | What is the tilt of the Earth that causes solar time to change called? |
one hour | How much earlier do people's routines happen because of daylight savings? |
winter | In which season is the policy of setting clocks ahead least practical? |
after | Does setting the clocks ahead add an hour of daylight before or after the normal workday? |
Standard Time | What is the schedule of time called when it is not daylight savings time? |
lighting and heating | What two sources of energy use do DST proponents say are reduced by the time change? |
equal | What word describes the approximate rates at which sunset and sunrise change with the seasons? |
after | Do those who favor DST say people would rather have an extra hour of daylight before or after their usual workday? |
Supporters | Is it the supporters or opponents of Daylight Saving Time who say it significantly reduces energy use? |
higher latitudes | What latitudes see more extreme changes in the length of their days and nights throughout the year? |
near the equator | What region of the earth sees little change in daylight from season to season? |
little | How much impact does the times of daylight and night have on areas like Iceland or Alaska? |
small | Would observing Daylight Saving Time have a small or large effect on how light it is during the workday in areas at high latitudes? |
extreme | As compared to areas with lower latitudes, what kind of change do areas with high latitudes see in the length of day through the seasons? |
water clocks | What kind of clocks did the Romans use? |
hora tertia | What did the Romans call the third hour before sunrise? |
75 | During the summer solstice, for how many minutes did hora tertia last for the Romans? |
Jewish | What type of religious ceremonies are still observed according to the traditional, unequal time settings? |
Benjamin Franklin | Who first published the proverb about waking up early and going to bed early to be "healthy, wealthy, and wise"? |
Parisians | Which group of people did Franklin say would save candles by waking up earlier? |
1784 | In what year did Ben Franklin write a satire suggesting firing cannons at sunrise to wake people up? |
rail | What kind of transportation network helped encourage keeping more exact schedules? |
ringing church bells | In addition to cannon fire, what did Franklin suggest to act as Parisians' alarm clock? |
entomologist | What particular kind of scientist was George Hudson? |
insects | What did George Hudson spend time collecting when he wasn't working? |
1895 | What year did Hudson first present his two-hour daylight saving theory to the Wellington Philosophical Society? |
William Willett | Some people believe it wasn't Hudson who created DST, but an Englishman by what name? |
Robert Pearce | Who was the member of Parliament who brought a bill about Daylight Saving Time to the House of Commons in 1908? |
1916 | What year did Germany decide to try DST? |
Sommerzeit | What is the German word for Daylight Saving Time? |
coal | What natural resource were Germany and Austria-Hungary trying to conserve by using DST? |
1918 | What year did the United States get on board with DST? |
energy crisis | What event in the 1970s led more regions of North America to use DST? |
Ireland | What country joined Canada, the UK, and Ireland in continuing to observe Daylight Saving Time after the war? |
Second World War | Daylight Saving Time was used commonly during what war? |
Europe | Along with North America, what continent was affected heavily by the 1970s energy crisis? |
many | Has the world seen many or few changes in the observation of DST? |
repeals | Countries might change their DST policy by enactments, adjustments, and what other type of policy changes? |
02:00 | At what local time does the United States change the time? |
23 | Technically, how many hours does the day the time change happens have in the spring? |
25 | In the fall, DST means one hour is repeated, which means the day is actually how many hours long? |
03:00:00.0 | At the time change to DST, what will a digital clock read just after 01:59:59.9? |
spring | Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called summer time, but the clocks are actually moved forward in which season? |
weekend | During what part of the week is the time change most often scheduled? |
weekday schedules | What do we avoid disrupting by doing the time shift during days most people don't work? |
Eastern European Time | Which time zone in Europe always has a one-hour lead on Central European Time? |
two hours | For one hour each spring, how far ahead of Pacific Time is Mountain Time in the United States? |
October 26 | In 2008, what month and day did Western Australia change their clocks? |
one hour | At DST in the fall, how long does it stay the same time in both Pacific and Mountain time in the United States? |
Hawaii | In addition to much of the state of Arizona, what U.S. state does not ever change their clocks for DST? |
1996 | What year did the European Union standardize their Summer Time? |
October | European Summer Time begins in March and ends in what month? |
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 | What act in the U.S. brought about the 2007 change in DST policy? |
Congress | What government body is allowed to change the DST policy in the United States back to the dates observed from 1987 to 2006? |
Halloween | Supporters of the November end to DST name what U.S. holiday as the justification for keeping the change through the end of October? |
Beginning and ending dates | In the southern hemisphere, what aspect of DST is about the reverse of that of the northern hemisphere? |
24:00 | At what local time does Chile change their clocks for DST? |
Saturday | What day of the week does DST begin and end in Chile? |
five hours | In the Northern hemisphere's summer, what is the time difference between the UK and Chile? |
summer | During what season in the Southern hemisphere is there a three-hour time difference between mainland Chile and the United Kingdom? |
southern Brazil | Which part of Brazil observes Daylight Saving Time? |
equatorial Brazil | What part of Brazil does not observe DST? |
Asia and Africa | Which two continents that comprise a majority of the population worldwide don't observe DST? |
sunrise | The lack of fluctuation in time for what daily event means regions of the world near the equator don't usually keep DST? |
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