--- title: How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / How our calendar was made: Romans, Jul… # How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory The 16 questions of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 103 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t1/) — Ollie goes, "sept means 7 innit, so September's month 7, end of." His sister: "It's month 9, ya plonker." (A plonker is a silly person.) What's the full story? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t2/) — Mia: "Two Roman blokes got their own months? Lowkey swag." ("Lowkey" means a bit; "swag" means cool.) Which two? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t3/) — Zara: "445 days in one year? Bloody hell, imagine the homework." Why was 46 BC so long? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t4/) — What would happen if we had kept Caesar's calendar, unchanged, for another 1,300 years? — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t5/) — Maya, from Cork: "Bed on Thursday the 4th, up on Friday the 15th? Yer man the Pope's an eejit, they lost ten days of their lives!" ("Yer man" means that fella; "eejit" means idiot.) What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t6/) — Jack's dad: "In 1752 folk rioted, yelling 'give us our eleven days!' Fact." What would a careful historian say? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t7/) — Taras's great-grandad's papers say "1 January 1910 O.S." Mum goes, "Sound, that's 14 January our way." ("Sound" means fine.) Is she right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t8/) — Abel's mate from the Valleys: "13 months? I'd be tamping, that's an extra month of school!" ("Tamping" is Welsh slang for furious.) What does the Ethiopian calendar really have? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t9/) — Leon: "So my great-great-whatever's birthday from 1500 is wrong now?" What's the best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t10/) — A cartoon says Pope Gregory invented leap years. Put it right. — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t11/) — Gran: "2000 wasn't a leap year, love, century years never are." Is she right? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/t12/) — Ben's teacher calls the old Roman calendar "a right dog's dinner" (a big mess). Why didn't it fit the seasons? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which the month designated September bears a name signifying "seven". — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/e2/) — Given that the Julian year exceeded the solar year by approximately eleven minutes, ascertain the approximate interval over which the error accumulated to one entire day. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the reform promulgated in 1582. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in Britain? — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [115. What day of the week will it be?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/) - next →: [117. Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/117-other-calendars/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/)