Happy Leap Year 2024

Queen Margaret of Scotland was five years old when she came up with the notorious February 29 proposal trap in 1288. Margaret was born in ___.

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How many days are there in a Leap Year?

• 366

• 367

• 365

• 364

Leap Year occurs every __ years.

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It takes Earth 365 days and ___ hours to travel around the Sun.

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Leap Day is a day that legally doesn't exist.

• That is absolutely true!

• All days legally exist.

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There's a leap year every year that is divisible by four, but to qualify, century years (those that end in 00) must also be divisible by 400. So, the year 2000 was a leap year, but the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. Which centuries will not be leap years?

• 2100

• 2200

• 2300

• 2400