Leap Year Facts
The last leap day took place on this day of the week.
What is Saturday
The last Leap Day was in this year.
2020
We currently use this calendar.
What is the Gregorian Calendar
This expression refers to the act of believing in or accepting something outside the boundaries of reason.
What is a leap of faith
This Roman statesman and military general introduced the first leap year around 46 B.C.
Who is Julius Caesar
Leap babies are sometimes called this.
What are leapers or leaplings
The calendar we use today is not a lunar calendar, rather a -
What is a Solar Calendar
Neil Armstrong proclaimed this famous phrase in 1969.
What is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
In the Chinese calendar this is added every three years. It's place varies from year to year, and 2015 was the last leap year in the Chinese calendar.
What is a Leap Month
This marriage tradition is exclusive to Leap day.
What is women proposing to men
The earth's rotation is gradually slowing down at this decrease in the year per century.
What is 1/2 second per century
An expression denoting a daring step or enterprise whose consequences are unpredictable.
What is a leap in the dark
These twin cities in America are the self-proclaimed Leap Year Capital of the World. They hold a four-day leap year festival each leap year that includes a huge birthday party for all leap year babies.
What are Anthony, Texas and Anthony, New Mexico
The first warrants for arrest kicked off these trials on Leap Day February 29th, 1692.
What are the Salem witchcraft trials.
This calendar system proposed in 46 BC was a reform of the Roman calendar. It was designed with the aid of mathematicians and astronomers.
What is the Julian Calendar
An idiom to describe something happening or changing rapidly, or in fast progress
What is by leaps and bounds
The time it takes the earth to rotate around the sun is this many days, either to the third decimal point or to the hours, minutes, and seconds.
365.242189 days - or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds
The odds of being born on February 29th are 1 in this number.
What is 1,461
After 100 years, our calendar without leap years would be off by approximately this many days
What is approximately 24 days
This campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 sought to organize the vast population of China especially in large-scale rural communes to meet China’s industrial and agricultural needs.
What is a Great Leap Forward