2024: Leap Year

• Question 1 out of 10

  Why do we have leap years?

  To Give people a little bonus day

  To adjust the calendar to align with the Earth’s revolutions around the Sun

  To make space for international holidays

  To celebrate Olympic years

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• Question 2 out of 10

  What does Intercalary Mean?

  Relating to international trade agreements.

  Inserted into the calendar to align it with the solar year

  Pertaining to underwater exploration

  A term used in quantum physics

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• Question 3 out of 10

  What significant change did the Gregorian calendar introduce regarding leap years to improve upon the Julian calendar’s accuracy?

  It removed leap years entirely.

  It made every year divisible by 4 a leap year without exception.

  It introduced a rule that years divisible by 100 would not be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400.

  It doubled the number of leap years to better synchronize with lunar cycles.

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• Question 4 out of 10

  People Born on February 29th are known as Leaplings.

  True

  False

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• Question 5 out of 10

  According to old Irish Folklore St. Bridget complained to St. Patrick about something leading him to  allow what to occur only on leap day?

  You can have whisky for breakfast

  Women can propose marriage to men.

  People to switch professions only on leap day

  only men to bake bread on leap day

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• Question 6 out of 10

  What does Quadrennial Mean?

  Occurring every two years.

  Happening once every decade.

  Something that happens every four years or lasts for four years

  Taking place every century.

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• Question 7 out of 10

  Which comedic Opera, featuring  Frederic, who due to a misunderstanding, is an apprentice to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday but he was born on leap day?

  The Mikado

  Pirates of Penzance

  The Elixir of Love

  The Marriage of Figaro

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• Question 8 out of 10

  Which historical figure is associated with proposing a leap year reform?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Julius Caesar

  Isaac Newton

  Albert Einstein

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• Question 9 out of 10

  How many days are there in a leap year?

  364

  365

  366

  367

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• Question 10 out of 10

  Which Prominent American Jazz clarinetist, composer and big band leader was born February 29, 1904.

  Glenn Miller

  Duke Ellington

  Jimmy Dorsey

  Count Basie

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