Leap Year Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which statement correctly gives the Gregorian calendar's rule for leap years?
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4, except century years must also be divisible by 400.
A year is a leap year whenever it is divisible by 4, without exceptions.
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 100 but not by 400.
A year is a leap year only when it is divisible by both 4 and 100.
2. Which sequence consists entirely of Gregorian leap years?
1996, 2000, and 2004
1896, 1900, and 1904
2096, 2100, and 2104
2196, 2200, and 2204
3. How many days does February have in a Gregorian leap year?
27
30
31
29
4. Suppose January 1 is a Monday in a leap year. What weekday will January 1 of the following year be?
Tuesday
Thursday
Wednesday
Monday
5. Imagine a calendar that adds February 29 every four years but never applies the Gregorian century exception. Compared with the Gregorian calendar, what would happen over many centuries?
It would insert fewer leap days and fall behind by one day every century.
It would produce exactly the same long-term calendar because century rules have no effect.
It would keep the seasons aligned more accurately by making every century year a leap year.
It would insert too many leap days and gradually drift relative to the seasons.
6. A calendar program is checking the year 2000. How should it classify that year under Gregorian rules?
As a leap year, because it is divisible by 400
As a common year, because it is not evenly divisible by 4
As a common year, because every century year is excluded
As a leap year, because every year ending in 00 qualifies
7. What is the main purpose of adding leap days?
To make every month closer to the same length
To ensure that each year contains exactly 52 weeks
To make the solstices occur on the same weekday each year
To keep calendar dates aligned with Earth's seasonal year over time
8. How many days pass from March 1, 2023, to March 1, 2024?
365
367
364
366
9. A subscription covers one complete Gregorian leap year, from January 1 through December 31. How many calendar days does it cover?
365
364
366
367
10. After the leap year 2024, which year is the next leap year?
2028
2026
2025
2030
11. Which of these century years is a Gregorian leap year?
1800
2400
2100
1900
12. How many leap years occur in a complete 400-year Gregorian calendar cycle?
96
97
99
100
13. How many days are in a common, non-leap Gregorian year?
366
364
365
367
14. A museum holds a special event only on February 29. After its 2096 event, when is its next possible event under Gregorian rules?
2100
2104
2108
2098
15. Why was 1900 not a leap year in the Gregorian calendar?
It was not divisible by 4.
It was divisible by 100 but not by 400.
Leap years were temporarily suspended in the twentieth century.
Century years must be divisible by 1,000 to be leap years.
16. Under the traditional Julian calendar rule, which years are leap years?
Only years divisible by 400
Years divisible by 4, except all century years
All years divisible by 4
Years divisible by 100 but not by 400