Snap Quiz

This is intended to keep you on your toes - how aware are you of relevant background information? Answers will be found here. The Editor would be grateful for suggested questions for future editions.

1. What day of the week is 1st January 2000?
2. Suppose there is no street lighting just after midnight on 1st January 2000. Will the moon be bright enough to see by?
3. Consider the various torches you have at home. How long will they last on a new set of batteries?
4. "If Microsoft had designed their operating systems properly, none of these problems would have happened." True or false?
5. "The millenium bug threat is baloney, there's this bloke who's come up with a simple fix. If the year number is more than 50 it's this century, if it's less than 50 it's next century. Problem solved." True or false?
6. "The next century actually starts on 1st January 2001, not 2000, so the Y2K problems will happen a year later than people are predicting." True or false?
7. "Some problems are caused by 99 in the year. We may get problems as early as 1 Jan 1999." True or false?
8. Is the year 2000 a leap year?

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