Time for ... Wordplay Trivia Quiz

Answer: moment in time

The word MOMENT is inside the word TIME, giving a moment in time.

The phrase usually refers to some special moment, maybe as eventful as a wedding, or just as simple as a picnic on a perfect summer's day. The image shows a clock at a particular time.

Answer: The Time Machine

"The Time Machine" is a science fiction novel published in 1895 by H.G. Wells. It tells the story of a Time Traveller (no further name is given) who travels into the far future using a time machine (a phrase that Wells is credited with coining). There he finds that the social inequality of his time has led to humans evolving into two separate species, the Eloi and the Morlocks.

Answer: Century

CRY TUNE is an anagram of CENTURY. A century is a period of 100 years, as indicated in the sign celebrating 100 years since the establishment of the city of Fort Lauderdale used as the image. A century is also the term used in the sport of cricket to refer to the scoring of 100 runs in a single innings by a batsman.

Answer: pay day

PAY DAY is the term used to describe the day when employees who are paid on a regular basis (weekly, fortnightly, monthly) receive their wages. It is also the name of a board game that uses a board that has one space for each day of the month - players collect their pay at the end of the circuit. As a single word, PayDay is the name of a candy bar containing salted peanuts and caramel.

Answer: eon

ONE is an anagram of EON. Colloquially this term is often used to refer to any long (or long-seeming) period of time, often in the plural: I waited around for eons before my date finally arrived. More formally, it is a unit of geologic time, the longest division that is used.

The image shows the four eons in current use. The Hadean eon starts with the earliest days of the Earth; the three earliest eons are often grouped and called Precambrian. The Phanerozoic eon, which is the current one, dates from about 550 million years ago. Eons are divided into eras, then periods, then epochs, then ages.

Answer: Times Square

TIMES SQUARE in New York is the place to be to see the New Year in! The picture was taken during the celebrations on the night of 31 December 1999 - 1 January 2000. For over a hundred years, people have gathered in the (usually bitter cold) winter's night to watch a large ball (12 feet across, weighing about 12,000 pounds) slide down a flagpole in the countdown to midnight, when the confetti flies and the fireworks start.

Answer: month

The word month is hidden inside the sentence. SerMON THat lasted for weeks. A month is an arbitrary unit of time, roughly corresponding to the time it takes the moon to complete a cycle - hence the etymological base of the word. However, not all months are created equal (30 days hath September, etc.), and a lunar cycle actually takes about 29.5 days. That is why lunar calendars get out of step with solar calendars, for which the month lengths are adjusted to keep in step with the length of the solar year.

Answer: You are behind the times

The letters U and R have been used to stand for the words You and Are. they are written after, or behind, multiple examples of the word Times. Hence, YOU ARE BEHIND THE TIMES. The image showed the White Rabbit from 'Alice in Wonderland', who was famously running late, or behind the proper time.

To be behind the times, however, does not mean to be late. It describes someone who is not up to date with current trends or fashions, or who is uninformed in regards to important events.

Answer: week

A synonym of little is WEE, and potassium is a standard clue for the letter K, which is the chemical symbol for potassium. Putting them together gives WEEK, a period of seven days as shown in the image.

Answer: Magazine

It is said that Father Time (or possibly Old Father Time, depending on where you live) sends out the old year, so that Baby New Year can take over timekeeping duties for the following year. 'Time' is the name of a long-established US weekly magazine, readily identified by the red border on its cover. Putting Father Time and Time Magazine together, we get the before-and-after FATHER TIME MAGAZINE.

Father Time is shown in the photo from a 1909 historical pageant held on the grounds of Llanelwedd Hall, near Builth Wells in Wales. It is now the site of the Royal Welsh showgrounds.