29-Feb-2024 Theme: 'Leap year'

(1) Including 2024, how many leap years have there been since 1999?

Answer: Seven.

(2) What Australian athlete famously broke a world record and won a gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics on 29th February, 1964.

Answer: Dawn Fraser.

(3) Where in Australia would you find The Leap, named after an Aboriginal woman who leapt to her death to escape capture in about 1860?

Answer: Near Mackay, Queensland.

(4) What comic strip character made famous the expression 'Leapin' Lizards'?

Answer: Lil Orphan Annie.

(5) Was Queen Elizabeth II’s “annus horribilis” a leap year?

Answer: Yes (1992).

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