Leap year trivia

Everyone knows February 29 is Leap Day.

And most people know it has something to do with keeping time in line with the Earth's rotation around the sun.

Far fewer could tell you how it came to be, whether there are any exceptions to the 4-year rule or what special privileges are extended on that day.

The folks at Lombard's Helen M. Plum Library pulled together a quiz for the Young People's Services department.

Children have been encouraged to take the quiz, find the answers around the library and enter a contest.

With permission from the librarians who wrote the quiz, we're posing the same challenge to our readers.

Match the right answer with the right question, and you could win brunch for two at Sam Houston's Charhouse in Bartlett.

You can submit answers by e-mail, fax or mail to Assistant City Editor Anne Halston. E-mail answers to ahalston@dailyherald.com; fax to (630) 955-0895; or mail them to Leap Year Contest, Daily Herald, 4300 Commerce Court, Lisle, IL 60532.

Entries must be submitted or postmarked by Feb. 29. Look for the answers next Sunday.

Leap into leap year quiz

Match the possible answers with the questions below

A. Leap second

B. 400

C. 1

D. 4

E. Julius Caesar

F. 366

G. Solar year

H. Gregorian

I. Proposing marriage

J. Bachelor's Day

1. How many days are in a Leap Year?

2. Leap Year Day keeps the calendar year nearly the same as this.

3. There's another name for Leap Day. What is it?

4. What is the most common calendar used today?

5. How many years until the next Leap Year?

6. Women have a special privilege in a Leap Year. What is it?

7. How many days are added in a Leap Year?

8. This keeps time on clocks the same as the position of the stars.

9. Name the Roman dictator who added Leap Year to the calendar.

10. The century years divisible by this number are Leap Years.

Leap Year Quiz courtesy of Young People's Services, Helen M. Plum Memorial Library, 110 W. Maple St., Lombard.