On May 3, 1715, a total solar eclipse occurred over Europe. A quiz on the event
◣ QUESTION 1
The English astronomer X is famous for, among other things, predicting the onset of the eclipse with an accuracy of four minutes. As a result, the event is also known as “X’s eclipse”. Name X.
◣ QUESTION 2
At the time the eclipse occurred, the date was April 22 and not May 3 (the year was 1715 in either case). The reason for this is that Great Britain would adopt the _________ ________ only 37 years later. Fill in the blanks.
◣ QUESTION 3
Before the eclipse occurred, the English cartographer John Senex had published maps of the eclipse’s path created by both X (in Q1) and Y in March. Y is famous for pushing the
QUESTION 4
While X (in Q1) had predicted the eclipse to within four minutes, he’d got the path of the eclipse wrong by around 30 km. X later realised he’d used the wrong lunar _________ (a table that describes the path of the moon). Fill in the blank.
◣ QUESTION 5 Questions and Answers to the previous day’s daily quiz:
1. This British football legend was the runner up for the Ballon D’Or in 1999. Ans: David Beckham
2. The party to which Tony Blair belonged to. Ans: Labour party. He was the U.K. Prime Minister for three terms
3. Identify this novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932. Ans: The Good Earth by Pearl. S. Buck
4. This movie based on a popular comic book saga was released in 2008. Iron Man
5. This song by Pink Floyd was banned in South Africa. Ans: ‘Another Brick in Wall (Part II)’
Visual: The reason why May 2 is celebrated as International Harry Potter day.
Ans: Ans: It is the day the battle of Hogwarts was fought and Lord Voldemort was defeated Early Birds:
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