General knowledge quiz
Units of time: how many?
Each row asks how many of one unit of time fit in another. Type the number as digits; the highlighted row is the one you are answering.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 18 answers
- Limit
- 3:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 18
- Time limit
- 3:00
- Order
- One at a time, skip allowed
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- The highlighted slot is the one to answer.
- Prev and Next skip around; click a slot to jump to it.
- Enter on an empty box skips; the up and down arrow keys step through the slots.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Type the number for each row.
| How many | Number |
|---|---|
| Seconds in a minute | Not found yet |
| Minutes in an hour | Not found yet |
| Hours in a day | Not found yet |
| Days in a week | Not found yet |
| Days in a fortnight | Not found yet |
| Months in a year | Not found yet |
| Days in an ordinary year | Not found yet |
| Days in a leap year | Not found yet |
| Years in a decade | Not found yet |
| How many | Number |
|---|---|
| Years in a century | Not found yet |
| Years in a millennium | Not found yet |
| Hours in a week | Not found yet |
| Minutes in a day | Not found yet |
| Seconds in an hour | Not found yet |
| Seconds in a day | Not found yet |
| Days in February in a leap year | Not found yet |
| Whole weeks in a year | Not found yet |
| Hours in an ordinary year | Not found yet |
About this quiz
The clock runs on sixties and twenty fours, a habit inherited from Babylonian arithmetic, so none of the bigger counts is a round number.
- A day has 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds.
- A week has 168 hours.
- Type digits only: 86400, with no comma.
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