Another Quiz, for No Reason

[conlor]

Answer are below.

1. How many days are there in the normal, average year?

2. How many days are there in those periods we call leap years?

3. What causes leap years, and how do we manage to meet them?

4. What U.S. president's birth date was changed because of a change in the calendar? For Bragging Rights, what was the change in the birth date?

5. In what year will the next leap year take place?

6. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a historic, infamous attack on U.S. troops. Where did that attack take place?

7. Had Hawaii become one of the United States before the attack occurred?

8. How many Americans died in the attack on Pearl Harbor?

9. Two Spanish words are identical except for having a different first letter. One word denotes a fancy social event; the other describes the nap you take after the party breaks up. What is the letter change that creates the new word?

10. Name the site of the highest fortress maintained by Union forces in the Civil War. The forts located on this high-up landscape had various names. For Bragging Rights, give us the other names for this fortress.

Answer that are below:

1. There are 365 days in each year.

2. Leap year has 366 days.

3. A year actually consists of 365 and one-quarter days. So every four years, one day is added to the month of February to catch up on that extra day.

4. George Washington's original birthday -- Feb. 11 -- was changed to Feb. 22.

5. The next leap year will be 2008.

6. The attack was on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean.

7. Hawaii did not attain statehood until 1959, after World War II had ended.

8. A total of 2,390 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor, and an additional 1,178 were injured.

9. The party is a fiesta, wherein the letter "f" can be changed to "s," as in siesta, meaning a brief midday nap.

10. The 4,000-plus-foot high, level site was Cheat Mountain in West Virginia. The fort bore various names, including Fort Milroy, White Top and Camp McClellan. Thanks to Murfreesboro, Tenn., Answer-Maner Richard Beckett for this question and answer.


If you got the first three wrong...

[JudyLynne]

I missed a total of 3...but not the entire first 3.