Tuesday 22 September 2009

Quiz question for Sep 22, 2009

What does this chart represent? (The time on the right starts at 11:43 pm and ends at 12:00 am.)

4 comments:

Dev said...

India's inflation rates.

Hariharasudhan Viswanathan said...

Brilliant question Bhoy! I Googled to find the answer :)

The Doomsday clock....good one...

PS: Mota was my accomplice

Rahul said...

This one's a big tease for me lol.. Anyway, here's my wild shot

I think it is the number of minutes added on in India (since it starts 1947) at the end of the year to sync the clocks to earth's revolution. This has to be done because the year is not exactly 365.25 days..

The Answer said...

The year 1947 is only a coincidence, for it has nothing to do with India or its independence. This is the year the Doomsday Clock was created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. The clock is symbolic, where midnight represents a nuclear catastrophe, and the "time" changes according to political events around the world.

Unfortunately, no one got it right without googling.