Clocks that Never Really Were, 4th Hour Quiz

Answer: Nancy Drew

The first Nancy Drew mystery was published in 1930 and ran to 175 volumes before being remade into another series ("The Nancy Drew Files") which ran 124 titles. The books were ostensibly written by Carolyn Keene but this is a nom de plume for a succession of ghostwriters. The first was Mildred Wirt Benson who wrote to plot outlines provided by publisher Edward Stratemeyer.

Answer: The Stranger

Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler adopts the identity of Charles Rankin to avoid arrest and prosecution. He teaches prep school in New England and his hobby of working with old clocks leads him to participate in the repair of a 300-year-old church clock in the town square. The film's denouement takes place in that clock's tower.

Answer: Bill Haley and the Comets

"Rock Around the Clock" was written in 1952 and was recorded by many groups. The most successful and influential of those recordings was the one by Bill Haley and the Comets in 1954. It was certainly not the first rock-and-roll song ever recorded but it can fairly be said to have helped move rock music into the mainstream.

Answer: the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

The Osbornes told time by "a great French clock" in their "genteel, well-furnished drawing room." It is decorated by a relief of the sacrifice of Iphigenia who Agamemnon killed in order to secure fair winds for his ships in war. The clock is a symbol of the similar sacrifices made by the Osbornes to secure wealth and power.

Answer: twelve thirty

Written from the perspective of California, Phillips' song looks back on the young women going to work in the "canyons" of New York City. He recalls "Outside my window was a steeple with a clock that always said twelve thirty." Phillips stated in an interview that the reference to the clock was to a real clock stopped at 12:30 which he could see from his NYC residence.

Answer: melting pocket watches

Dali painted "The Persistence of Memory" in 1931. The soft melting pocket watches suggest the impermanence of time. The ants consuming one of the watches are a Daliesque symbol of the decay of material things. Dali's art further embraced sculpture, photography, film, furniture-design and writing.

Answer: it was stopped

It was the custom of Tristam Shandy's father to wind the clock and to have sexual relations with his wife on the first Sunday of every month, referring to the latter as "some other little family concernments". Perhaps Mrs. Shandy was not fully engaged as, in the midst, she asked her husband "Pray, my dear, have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" Tristam associates much of what is wrong with his life (a "thousand weaknesses both of body and mind") with this interruption.

Answer: the grandfather clock strikes thirteen

Young Tom, sent to live with his aunt and uncle, despairs of the location until he is awakened by a grandfather clock and discovers an 1880s garden behind the modern flat. He slowly discovers that he moves back in time more than fifty years when he enters that garden. The book won the Carnegie Medal in 1958 and was chosen as one of the ten best Carnegie Medal recipients in 2007.

Answer: he stops time by stopping the skyscraper clock

In a dastardly corporate maneuver, Norville is promoted from the mailroom to the presidency of Hudsucker Industries in order to fail and bring down the price of the company's stock. When it all comes a cropper, he falls off the building's giant clock tower at the stroke of midnight. Moses, the janitor, stops the clock and thereby stops time to save his life.

Answer: High Noon

The passage of time in "High Noon" is synchronized with the time shown on the faces of the many clocks which are seen as the town awaits the arrival of the murderous gang. Stanley Kramer produced and Fred Zinnemann directed. Gary Cooper won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor.