{"id":3841,"date":"2020-02-29T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T10:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=3841"},"modified":"2020-02-29T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T10:16:53","slug":"what-is-leap-year","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/what-is-leap-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What is leap year?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[571],"subject":[39,24],"class_list":["post-3841","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-gregorian-calendar","subject-basic-intelligence","subject-international-events-and-celebrations"],"mcq_note":"<p>Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are <strong>leap years<\/strong> ( also known as an <strong>intercalary year<\/strong> or <strong>bissextile year<\/strong> ) if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 are.<\/p><p>A <strong>leap year<\/strong> is a calendar year that contains an additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year or seasonal year. Because <strong>astronomical events<\/strong> and seasons do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day into the year, the drift can be corrected. In the <strong>Gregorian calendar<\/strong>, the standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are multiples of 4 are leap years. <strong>In each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28.<\/strong><\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Every year that is exactly divisible by 4  is a leap year and the centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400."},{"right":"no","answer":"A year that contain 13 months instead of 12 months."},{"right":"no","answer":"A year that contain 28 days in the month February."}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":39,"title":"Basic Intelligence","slug":"basic-intelligence"},{"id":24,"title":"International Events &amp; Celebrations","slug":"international-events-and-celebrations"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":571,"title":"Gregorian calendar","slug":"gregorian-calendar"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}