Statistics for 29th February quiz

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
	A year when February has 29 days is known as	Leap Year	95%
	In Irish tradition, a woman may do this to a man	Propose	68%
1988	This South African archbishop is arrested in an anti-apartheid demonstration	Desmond Tutu	45%
1504	This explorer used a lunar eclipse to trick Jamaican natives to give him food	Christopher Columbus	41%
		Dragon	41%
		Rat	41%
	A 29th of February will only occur in these three Chinese Zodiac years	Monkey	36%
1720	Ulrika Eleonora abdicates as queen of this country	Sweden	36%
1644	This Dutch explorer began his second Pacific voyage	Abel Tasman	23%
1940	This woman becomes first African-American to win an academy award	Hattie McDaniel	18%
1980	Hartford Whalers' ice-hockey player scores his 800th goal	Gordie Howe	9%
1908	This author of "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" is born	Dee Brown	5%
1892	This Floridian city is incorporated	St Petersburg	5%
1988	This Canadian politician comes out	Svend Robinson	5%
1916	This South Pacific island is annexed by the United Kingdom	Tokelau	5%
1939	This man received the Nobel Prize in Physics	Ernest Lawrence	0%
	If he refuses he must buy her	Gloves	0%
1912	This Argentine 'moving stone' breaks	Piedra Movediza	0%
2012	Construction of this super tall Japanese tower is completed	Tokyo Skytree	0%