Timeline of Timepieces

Riddles

1. What timekeeper comes from the land of snow, is divided like a pie, and is made of bone?



2. Used in business and leisure, a month at a glance in Gregorian measure.
(Clue: The current world calendar is based on the Gregorian calendar initiated by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.)


3. What "bomb" cracked and weighty, marks an eruption of 1980?



4. Evidence of Ice Age beings, what object dates to the Pleistocene?



5. Papa says you'll have to say "good-bye," when the flame burns this high.



6. Named for a common European bird, some people think this clock absurd.



7. The ox, the snake, and the horse unite, in this calendar of phased moonlight.



8. Splits time faster than the blink of an eye, seconds fractured a million times.



9. Twenty-four hours on its face, used to help ships find their place. (Clue: This object, used to determine longitude, is a descendant of the chronometer developed by John Harrison between 1737-1760.)



10. Ticking through time with leaf, fruit, and flower, this natural timekeeper marks the seasons, not the hours