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Julian Calendar
What calendar has 365 days and adds leap year?
100
West
What direction does the sun set?
100
Time Zones
What are bands that observe the local time?
100
Aristotle
Who thought earth was a sphere because of a shadow during lunar eclipse?
100
Equinox
What is the day when day and night are nearly equal in time?
200
Gregorian Calendar
What calendar fixed the Julian calendar and skipped days to make up the lose of those days?
200
East
What direction does the sun rise?
200
Local Time
What depends on location?
200
Eratosthenes
Who estimated how large the earth was?
200
Solstice
What day is 1/2 way between?
300
Islamic Calendar
What Calendar is incorrect and holidays travel through our calendar
300
Latitude
What is longest at the equator and point at 90º and -90º are the poles?
300
Universal Time
What is the time in Greenwich England?
300
El Mamum
Who sent out surveyors to explore earth?
300
Winter
What is the shortest season?
400
Persian Calendar
What calendar has months named after the zodiac and will be correct for 2 million years?
400
Longitude
What is extended from pole to pole and divided into 360º?
400
Daylight Savings Time
What allows people to take advantage of early sunrises?
400
Columbus
Who used wrong unit to figure length of trip to India?
400
Summer
What is the longest season?
500
Maya Calendar
What calendar has 18 named months with 20 days each and not strongly tied to seasons?
500
Horizon
What is an imaginary line?
500
24 hours
What is the hours for one day?
500
Poidonus
Who used the greatest height of the bright star Canopus above the horizon to study earth?
500
Sideral day
What is 23 hours and 56 minutes?