Over the years teaching astronomy for non-science majors I have been asked many insightful questions dealing with common day phenomena. For this Journal Club I have condensed some of these into the following true/false statements:

• At Equinox day and night are equally long
• Moon’s apparent size is the same high and low in the sky
• Midnight Sun (at sea level) is only seen above the Arctic Circle
• Summer and winter half of the year equally long
• Sunset is the earliest at winter solstice
• Total day-hours over the year is the same everywhere on Earth

The statements are simple and would be understood with little additional explanations by most; however, the correct true/false answers are not all that straight forward. (No, I have not used any of them as exam questions). I will go through the issues involved to reach the correct true/false answers, and I hope that, besides a little new insight into orbital mechanics, the statements might provide topics for conversation, or maybe even a bet, on an otherwise slow night at the Pub. .