Question: With what other difference did the Gregorian calendar concern itself?
Answer: accumulated difference

Question: When was the vernal equinox at the end of the third century?
Answer: 20 March or 21 March

Question: In order to account for the full moon coming after the equinox, when was the equinox set?
Answer: 22 March

Question: How did the Gregorian calendar set these same of the full moon not preceding Easterconditions?
Answer: removing ten days

Question: When did the Council of Trent agree to the corrected calendar?
Answer: 1563

Question: To what time did the Council require the date of the vernal equinox to be set?
Answer: 325

Question: What did mathematicians of the time want to use to set the date of Easter?
Answer: motions of the sun and moon

Question: What method was used instead of computations of the sun and moon?
Answer: tabular method

Question: Whose modified proposal was adopted?
Answer: Aloysius Lilius

Question: When were the rights to publish the calendar granted?
Answer: 3 April 1582

Question: Who awarded the rights to publish the calendar?
Answer: the pope

Question: What problem caused the papal brief granting the right to publish to be withdrawn?
Answer: demand for copies

Question: When were the rights to print the calendar withdrawn?
Answer: 20 September 1582

Question: Where were the first calendars printed?
Answer: Rome

Question: What year did the Roman Republic use for dates?
Answer: consular year

Question: What event started the consular year?
Answer: consuls first entered office

Question: What was the date of the consular year before 222 BC?
Answer: 1 May

Question: What was the date of the start of the consular year from 222 BC?
Answer: 15 March

Question: When did Rome begin to use the Julian calendar?
Answer: 45 BC

Question: What other system of calculations are inherent in the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: system of weeks

Question: Why is calculating the days of the Gregorian calendar not simple?
Answer: irregularities

Question: After each country adopted the calendar how did the weekly cycle continue?
Answer: uninterrupted

Question: What was the previous day's date by the Julian calendar?
Answer: Thursday, 4 October 1582

Question: What was the date of adoption for the calendar?
Answer: Friday, 15 October 1582

Question: Who thought that the seasonal drift in the date of Easter unacceptable?
Answer: Roman Catholic Church

Question: What even is tired to the date for Easter?
Answer: spring equinox

Question: What did the Church of Alexandria use to calculate the date of Easter?
Answer: Metonic cycle

Question: Where did the Church of Alexandria place the vernal equinox?
Answer: 21 March

Question: Until 342 when did the Church of Rome think the vernal equinox fell?
Answer: 25 March

Question: Who was the architect of the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: Christopher Clavius

Question: What did the architects of the calendar notice about the astronomical tables?
Answer: discrepancies

Question: Whose solution to the discrepancies of the tables would have been agreeable to astronomers?
Answer: Petrus Pitatus

Question: When did Pitatus offer his solution to the leap year problem?
Answer: 1560

Question: What is the theory about leap year called?
Answer: Gregorian leap year rule

Question: What designation was added to British dates to differentiate them from countries not using the new calendar? 
Answer: "Old Style" (OS) and "New Style"

Question: When was the Calendar act enacted?
Answer: 1750

Question: With what did the Calendar Act align the British calendar?
Answer: Gregorian calendar

Question: What did the use of Old Style and New Style cause?
Answer: confusion

Question: What law did the British make to cause the use of the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: Calendar Act of 1750

Question: The Gregorian calendar is an improvement over what other calendar?
Answer: Julian

Question: How many days must be skipped to align the calendar with mean solar days in a year?
Answer: three Julian leap days

Question: What is the approximate error for every 3,300 years?
Answer: one day

Question: What is the error rate of the vernal equinox per every 7,700 years?
Answer: 1 day

Question: What was the error rate in the Julian calendar?
Answer: 1 day in 128 years

Question: What Microsoft executive was in charge of 360 development?
Answer: J Allard

Question: What manufacturer was enlisted to design the 360's graphics processor?
Answer: ATI

Question: Where did Peter Moor work before being recruited to help on the 360?
Answer: Sega of America

Question: Original 360 Alpha dev kits used what existing system's hardware?
Answer: Apple's Power Mac G5

Question: What CPU did the 360 use?
Answer: IBM's Xenon processor

Question: The Xbox 360 Pro included what size hard drive storage?
Answer: 20 GB

Question: What was the official name of the lower-priced 360 SKU at launch?
Answer: Xbox 360 Core

Question: The Xbox 360 Elite eventually launched at what price point?
Answer: US$479

Question: The 360 Pro's original storage was replaced by a hard drive of what size in 2008?
Answer: 60 GB

Question: What did Microsoft name the SKU that replaced the 360 Core?
Answer: Xbox 360 Arcade

Question: How many titles did the 360 have at launch in North America?
Answer: 14 games

Question: What title was the console's best seller in 2005?
Answer: Call of Duty 2

Question: How many copies did Halo 3 sell?
Answer: 8 million copies

Question: Halo 3 was released in what year?
Answer: 2007

Question: Other than Call of Duty 2, how many games sold at least 1 million copies the first year of the 360?
Answer: Five

Question: What 3 video formats did the 360 support natively at launch?
Answer: Windows Media Video (WMV) format (including high-definition and PlaysForSure videos), as well as H.264 and MPEG-4

Question: Support for what video format was added in 2007?
Answer: MPEG-4 ASP

Question: How are music player controls accessed by 360 users?
Answer: the Xbox 360 Guide button

Question: What is one feature of 360 photo slide shows?
Answer: transition effects

Question: What was the name of the non-subscription Xbox online gaming service?
Answer: Xbox Live Silver

Question: What was the "color" name given to the premium version of Xbox Live?
Answer: Gold

Question: What key feature is not supported by the free version of Live?
Answer: multiplayer gaming

Question: Which popular gaming titles have their own online service outside Xbox Live?
Answer: EA Sports games

Question: Voice support came online with what feature addition?
Answer: Xbox Live Vision

Question: What is the name of the 360's online service?
Answer: Xbox Live

Question: What is the name of the feature that allows users to download games from Live?
Answer: Xbox Live Arcade

Question: What can people owning both a PC and 360 do?
Answer: stream media

Question: What is the name of the 360's motion sensing camera peripheral?
Answer: the Kinect

Question: The 360's multimedia capabilities transformed it from a game console to what?
Answer: a hub for living-room computing entertainment

Question: What was the software attach rate in the US for the 360 by March of 2008?
Answer: 7.5 games per console in the US

Question: What are two prominent 360 exclusive franchises?
Answer: the Halo franchise and Gears of War

Question: Why were early multi-platform games considered superior on the 360?
Answer: the difficulties of programming for the PS3

Question: The 360 earned 38 nominations and 12 wins from what organization in 2007?
Answer: Game Critics Awards

Question: Microsoft hoped to have how many titles available for the 360 by the end of 2008?
Answer: over 1,000

Question: What hardware defect code plagued the 360?
Answer: "General Hardware Failure" error

Question: What is the flashing indicator of a general hardware error known as?
Answer: Red Ring of Death