24 does not give its episodes conventional names. What does each episode title consist of instead?

A one-word codename for the day's mission

The name of the character it centres on

A line of dialogue spoken in the episode

The range of clock hours it covers

A broadcast hour of television carries fewer than sixty minutes of actual programme. What does 24 do with its on-screen clock during the advertising breaks?

It freezes until the show returns

It resets to the top of the hour

It keeps running, so the unseen stretch still counts toward the day

An on-screen readout of the hour

A title sequence with a theme song

A car bomb outside a federal building

A hijacking at Los Angeles International Airport

A passenger jet being blown up in mid-air

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Real trivia about 24: the real-time format, how the series was made, its world, and its cast.

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