Today is the longest day of the year, and we can't write much more about it without revealing the answer to last week's quiz, so let's get right to it.

The quiz was part vocabulary, part capitalization. We asked you to fill in the blank in this sentence: "They’re planning a party on the _______ to mark the longest day of the year."

First, you had to recognize that the event marking the start of both summer and winter is a solstice, not an equinox, which marks the start of spring and fall. Second, you had to know that you don't capitalize those terms or seasons. So the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year, which is the answer most of you chose 👏

Fun fact: The term "solstice" has nothing to do with length, even though it's the label we use for the longest and shortest days of the year. As we covered last year, the event gets its name from the fact that the sun’s path in the sky ​doesn’t change​ for a brief period on the solstice. The word combines​ “sol,” the Latin word for “sun,” with the Latin word “sistere,” which means to stand still.

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