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
What is ~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/Adikaa Maas?
Name the five limbs (angas) of the Panchang
What are Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga, and Karana?
What religion uses the Lunar Calendar?
What is Islam?
Why does the solar calendar need leap years?
Leap years are needed because the Earth takes a little more than 365 days to go around the Sun, and without them the seasons would slowly start to shift.
The approximate time interval between leap months 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 number of days 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?