Question: Which political supporter of Willett's proposal had already used the half-hour version of DST at Sandringham?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: What was the name of the director of the Meteorological Office who opposed DST?
Answer: Napier Shaw

Question: What year did Parliament first take a vote and decide against implementing daylight savings?
Answer: 1909

Question: Who was responsible for bringing a bill proposing DST to the U.S. House of Representatives?
Answer: Andrew Peters

Question: What industrialist from Pittsburgh campaigned strongly in favor of DST?
Answer: Robert Garland

Question: What year did the U.S. go to war, leading to wider acceptance of daylight savings?
Answer: 1917

Question: What year did the United States finally adopt Daylight Saving Time?
Answer: 1918

Question: Which country continued to observe DST nationwide despite the fact that the war had ended?
Answer: Britain

Question: What spring holiday did Britain adjust its DST schedule around?
Answer: Easter

Question: After what year was daylight savings repealed in the U.S.?
Answer: 1919

Question: What sport did President Wilson enjoy that made him not want to give up DST?
Answer: golf

Question: What U.S. city kept observing DST to stay in sync with London, leading Chicago and Cleveland to follow along?
Answer: New York

Question: What month and year were two neighboring cities in Minnesota on different time schedules?
Answer: May 1965

Question: What state supported DST because it wanted to sell more potatoes?
Answer: Idaho

Question: What company joined Clorox in funding the Daylight Saving Time Coalition in the 1980s?
Answer: 7-Eleven

Question: What year was the extension to U.S. daylight savings proposed by the DST Coalition?
Answer: 1987

Question: What year did the U.S. see standardization of DST outside of wartime for the first time?
Answer: 1966

Question: What percentage of Queensland voted against the daylight saving referendum in 1992?
Answer: 54.5%

Question: What was the name of Queensland's political party set up solely to support their particular DST arrangement?
Answer: Daylight Saving for South East Queensland

Question: In Australia, were rural or urban areas generally more strongly opposed to DST?
Answer: rural

Question: What member of Queensland Parliament was responsible for finally bringing the DST for South East Queensland referendum to a vote?
Answer: Peter Wellington

Question: What was the name of the organization that supported adding an additional hour to their clocks all year?
Answer: the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

Question: Joining farmers, what other kind of workers opposed SDST?
Answer: postal workers

Question: What regions of the United Kingdom were generally against SDST?
Answer: northern regions

Question: What do Muslims call the month when they fast between sunup and sundown?
Answer: Ramadan

Question: What would DST delay if observed during the Muslim holy month?
Answer: the evening dinner

Question: What Muslim country continues to observe DST during Ramadan?
Answer: Iran

Question: When was Ramadan in 2012?
Answer: July and August

Question: What year did Russia decide to never turn its clocks back?
Answer: 2011

Question: What country other than Russia declared they'd stay in DST all year?
Answer: Belarus

Question: Was Russia or Belarus first in their declaration?
Answer: Russia

Question: Which season's dark mornings led to people complaining about the switch from DST?
Answer: winter

Question: What year did Russia give up on the all-year DST and go back to Standard Time?
Answer: 2014

Question: Which group is more likely to support DST: urban workers or rural farmers?
Answer: urban workers

Question: If people have more daylight in the evenings, what season might see a rise in outdoor activity?
Answer: summer

Question: Would those in favor of DST argue that it causes people to use more electricity or saves energy?
Answer: saves energy

Question: What major health risk do people who oppose DST say it increases?
Answer: heart attack

Question: What profession is more likely to want to repeal DST: farmers or shopkeepers?
Answer: Farmers

Question: What adjective would those against DST use to describe the energy savings touted by supporters?
Answer: inconclusive

Question: What time of day do opponents of daylight savings believe is disrupted the most by the time shift?
Answer: morning

Question: Most people agree that a standardized schedule by DST is more practical than trying to do what in the morning on our own?
Answer: get up earlier

Question: What electronic device might people work their schedules around instead of paying close attention to DST?
Answer: television

Question: During what season is DST usually not observed because of the detriments of dark mornings?
Answer: winter

Question: What indirect benefit of DST might cause some areas to observe it even though they don't get any direct benefits like cost or energy savings?
Answer: coordination with others

Question: What percentage of all electricity usage in the U.S. and Canada is from residential lighting?
Answer: 3.5%

Question: DST will reduce electricity use in the evening but increase it during what time of the day?
Answer: morning

Question: When DST was first proposed, what type of lighting was consuming the most electricity?
Answer: incandescent

Question: Along with geography and economics, what variable often affects how much electricity an area uses?
Answer: climate

Question: Whose satire that was published in 1784 pointed out that daylight saving would only reduce electricity usage if the increase in the mornings was less than the savings in the evenings?
Answer: Franklin

Question: Have studies shown DST generally increases or reduces gas consumption from cars?
Answer: increases

Question: What year was the DOE report about fuel consumption published?
Answer: 2008

Question: What happened regarding DST in 2007 in the United States that probably led to the DOE investigation?
Answer: extension of DST

Question: What category of goods that are used in outdoor activities benefit from the extra hour of daylight from DST?
Answer: sporting goods

Question: What organization predicted a $100 million increase for the golf sector because of extended DST?
Answer: the National Golf Foundation

Question: What year did Fortune magazine make predictions about the increased revenue an extended daylight savings would provide?
Answer: 1984

Question: According to a study in 1999, daylight savings has caused what approximate percentage of increase in leisure industry revenue in the European Union?
Answer: 3%

Question: How much extra money from DST did Fortune predict for 7-Eleven on account of DST?
Answer: $30 million

Question: Is it better to harvest grain before or after the morning dew evaporates?
Answer: after

Question: What animal on dairy farms is affected by timing?
Answer: cows

Question: What does earlier milk delivery do to cows?
Answer: disrupts their systems

Question: Some farmers oppose DST because their farm laborers arrive to work and leave later or earlier?
Answer: earlier

Question: Besides farmers, what other group of people set their schedules by the sun?
Answer: parents of young children

Question: What year did a change in DST policy cost North America somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion in extra work?
Answer: 2007

Question: Who is the economist who said there was about $1.7 billion in lost opportunity costs because of the 2007 changes?
Answer: William F. Shughart II

Question: What have some people argued correlates with time shifts from daylight savings?
Answer: decreased economic efficiency

Question: What do some call the effect that they say caused a one-day loss for stock exchanges of approximately $31 billion in the year 2000?
Answer: the daylight-saving effect

Question: What factor determines the numbers people reach for estimates when studying DST?
Answer: methodology