Lunar Calendar
Number of days in a lunar year
What is 354?
Number of days in a solar year
What is 365?
Name the two celestial bodies are used in a luni-solar calendar
What are the Sun and the Moon?
Number of limbs in the panchang
what is 5? (5 in Sanskrit is Pancha)
Name a calendar system that exclusively follows the moon
What is the Islamic Calendar
Name a calendar system that exclusively follows the sun
What is Gregorian, Julian or Persian calendars
Name a calendar that follows both the sun and the moon
What is the Hebrew, Chinese or Hindu calendar system?
Number of days in each phase of the moon
What is 15? (Starts with Prathama 1, Dwitiya 2,... Chaturdashi 14, and ends with either Poornima or Amavasya)
Festivals shift by this amount annually in the lunar calendar year
~11 days?
An extra day is added every four years to keep the solar calendar accurate
What is a leap day?
Name the event added to a luni-solar calendar to keep months aligned with seasons
What is an inserted (leap) month?
Name the five limbs (angas) of the Panchang
What are Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga, and Karana?
Name the astronomical event marks the beginning of a new lunar month
What is the New Moon (Amavasya)?
Name the astronomical event defines the length of a solar year
What is Earth’s revolution around the Sun?
The approximate how often is a leap month added in a luni-solar calendar
What is about every 2–3 years?
Name the limb of the Panchang is based on the Moon’s position among the stars
What is Nakshatra?
The approximate amount of days are in one lunar month
What is about 29.5 days?
The name of the longest day of the year in the solar calendar
What is the Summer Solstice?
Name the primary purpose of the Panchang in daily life
What is determining auspicious timings and dates?