Don't miss the game!Kickoff! On February 4, millions of Americans will watch Super Bowl XLI Super Bowl XLI was the 41st championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The American football game was played on February 4 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, a suburb of Miami, following the 2006 regular season. Kickoff was at 6:27 p.m. , being broadcast from Miami, Florida “Miami” redirects here. For the Native American tribe, see Miami tribe. Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a gamma world city with an estimated population of 404,048. . The game will begin at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. But viewers will tune in at different times across the U.S. That is because the U.S. has several time zones. The world is divided into 24 time zones--one for each hour in the day. Traveling east, you set your watch one hour later when you enter a new time zone. Traveling west, you set it one hour earlier for each time zone. Time-zone boundaries fall near every 15 degrees of longitude longitude (lŏn`jĭt  d'), angular distance on the earth's surface measured along any latitude line such as the equator east or west of the prime meridian. , beginning with 0 degrees at Greenwich, England. The boundaries zigzag to allow nearby communities to be in the same zone. This map shows the U.S. time zones, and the location of each National Football League (NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga ) team. Questions 1. What time would fans in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , tune in to see the Super Bowl kickoff? 2. What time would fans in Hawaii tune in? 3. You live in Denver and have tickets to the Super Bowl game in Miami. How should you adjust your watch by the time you reach Miami? 4. The eastern boundary of the Mountain Time Zone is closest to which line of longitude? 5. The Bears clinched their second-straight division title on December 3, 2006. In which time zone do they play? 6. A Cardinals game in Arizona ends at 5:30 p.m. local time. What time is that in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ? 7. Which team plays its home games on the 105[degrees]W line of longitude? 8. Most NFL teams are based in which time zone? 9. Alaska's Aleutian Islands Aleutian Islands (əl `shən), chain of rugged, volcanic islands curving c.1,200 mi (1,900 km) west from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula and approaching Russia's Komandorski Islands. are in the same time zone as what other state? 10. Most of Texas is in the Central Time Zone. Which part is located in a different time zone? 1. 3 p.m. 2. 1 p.m. 3. Set it 2 hours later. 4. 105[degrees]W 5. Central 6. 7:30 p.m. 7. Denver Broncos 8. Eastern 9. Hawaii 10. westernmost corner |
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