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Question: Which of these would be the greatest distance apart?
Answer: 2 Galaxies
Question: In Roman mythology, what was Mercury?
Answer: The messenger god
Question: What is the title of the BBC TV factual space series that's been running since 1957?
Answer: The Sky At Night
Question: How long does it take for a launch shuttle to clear the pad tower?
Answer: 7 seconds
Question: Which constellation has a Latin name meaning little bear?
Answer: Ursa Minor
Question: Which of these options is a type of star?
Answer: Red dwarf
Question: Which of these planets has rings?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Who was the first person to step foot on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
Question: Planets shine because they reflect what?
Answer: Sunlight
Question: Exploration Rovers investigated which planet between 2004 and 2018?
Answer: Mars
Question: Who is the Hubble Space Telescope named after?
Answer: Edwin Hubble
Question: The first person to walk on the moon was who?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
Question: The chemical element uranium was named after which planet?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Which of these planets was discovered in 1846?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What is the name of Earth's moon?
Answer: Luna
Question: Which of these planets has the shortest year?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which planet has 9 continuous rings?
Answer: Saturn
Question: The first manned space mission to land on the Moon was called what?
Answer: Apollo 11
Question: Which constellation is named after the Latin word for 'crab'?
Answer: Cancer
Question: The third planet from the Sun is which of these?
Answer: Earth
Question: How many planets in our solar system are larger than Earth?
Answer: 4
Question: What does the first A stand for in NASA?
Answer: Aeronautics
Question: Mars was the Roman god of what?
Answer: War
Question: What planet in the solar system is furthest from the Sun?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What planet is nicknamed the 'Red Planet'?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which of these phenomena occurs on Mars?
Answer: Dust storms
Question: What does the name of our planet 'Earth' mean in old English?
Answer: The soil itself
Question: Himilia moons can be found orbiting which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: What is the name of the first satellite sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik 1
Question: Which planet has also been called Marduk?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: On Venus there is little or no what?
Answer: Water
Question: What is the nearest large astral body to the Earth?
Answer: The Moon
Question: Where is the countdown for a shuttle launch conducted from?
Answer: Launch Control Center
Question: The String of Pearls are a feature of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: How many ring does Uranus have?
Answer: 13
Question: Which planet was the first one to be discovered with a telescope?
Answer: Uranus
Question: NASA is based in which state?
Answer: Texas
Question: Earth is located in which galaxy?
Answer: The Milky Way
Question: The Valles Marienris on Mars is what kind of feature?
Answer: Canyon
Question: What is the seventh planet from the Sun?
Answer: Uranus
Question: What word is used to describe the shape of the Moon's orbit around the Earth?
Answer: Ellipse
Question: When Pluto was included, how many planets were there in the Solar System?
Answer: 9
Question: What is another name for Ursa Major?
Answer: The big dipper
Question: Which entrepreneur founded the space transport company SpaceX in 2002?
Answer: Elon Musk
Question: How long is Mercury's year?
Answer: 88 Earth days
Question: Which of the following is no longer considered an actual planet?
Answer: Pluto
Question: The words 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...' begin which film?
Answer: Star Wars Episode IV
Question: The words 'Space, the final frontier' open every episode of which science fiction TV show?
Answer: Star Trek
Question: Which of these is not a word you can use to describe the shape of the Moon?
Answer: String
Question: Which of the following is not a possible process for a star to undergo?
Answer: Choose its fate
Question: A cluster of stars is better known by what name?
Answer: Constellation
Question: How do astronauts warm their food aboard a space shuttle?
Answer: Inject Warm Water
Question: Cape Canaveral, site of the Apollo launches, was named after which president until 1973?
Answer: Kennedy
Question: Hematite makes up the surface of which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which of the following is our Solar System's only natural light source?
Answer: A Star
Question: Which of these temperatures occur on Mercury?
Answer: Both extremes
Question: Deimos is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which of theses planets is closest to the sun?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Tethys is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in which year?
Answer: 1969
Question: Many of the planets are covered in what due to collisions with space matter?
Answer: Craters
Question: What is the name the first satellite that was sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik 1
Question: Which of thse is the largest planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet is famous for its big red spot?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was called what?
Answer: Lunar 1
Question: What is the main element in the Sun?
Answer: Hydrogen
Question: Which of these has a 'tail'?
Answer: Comet
Question: What is a white dwarf?
Answer: A star
Question: Who was one of the first American astronauts to walk on the moon?
Answer: Buzz Aldrin
Question: What does the Earth orbit around?
Answer: The sun
Question: In the movies, what is the Planet of the Apes?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which planet is so light that it could float on water?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Who was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission?
Answer: Eileen Collins
Question: Epoch J2000 refers to which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet would you find between Earth and Jupiter?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which star is at the center of the Solar System?
Answer: The Sun
Question: Which planet is named after the Roman God of the Sea?
Answer: Neptune
Question: During launch and landing, who sits in the shuttle's forward flight deck left seat?
Answer: The commander
Question: Who was the first man to set foot on the Moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
Question: In our solar system which would be the coldest to live on?
Answer: Neptune
Question: A very massive star may explode at the end of its life and form what?
Answer: Supernova
Question: The Great Red Storm is a feature of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet is name after the King of the Roman gods?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which of these objects does Mercury's surface most resemble?
Answer: Earth's moon
Question: Dione is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Planets that are giant balls of gas with hot liquid centers are called what?
Answer: Gas giants
Question: About how often does a lunar eclipse occur?
Answer: At least twice a year
Question: What is the closest planet to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which component of the Milky Way makes up most of its mass?
Answer: Dark matter
Question: Which of these planets continuely orbits Planet Earth?
Answer: The moon
Question: Which of these orbits around a planet?
Answer: Moons
Question: Moonlets can be found around which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet takes its name from the Roman goddess of love?
Answer: Venus
Question: Uranus' moons, like Oberon and Titania, are named after spirits in the work of who?
Answer: Shakespeare and Pope
Question: Which grouping of stars has a Latin name that means little bear?
Answer: Ursa Minor
Question: Which is the largest of the 4 'gas giant' planets?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which of these objects normally has a highly elliptical orbit?
Answer: Comets
Question: Metis and Leda are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: What is the scientific term for a shooting star?
Answer: Meteor
Question: The rings of which planet are visible when looking through a telescope?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which of these is a theory to explain the evolution of the universe?
Answer: Big Bang
Question: Saturn is named for the ancient Roman god of what?
Answer: Agriculture
Question: What is the name given to parts of space where nothing can escape, not even light?
Answer: Black hole
Question: How do we tell a planet is moving towards us?
Answer: Blue-shift
Question: Aoede and Iocaste are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: When in orbit on the Space Shuttle, astronauts experience?
Answer: Microgravity
Question: Ananke moons can be found orbiting which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet has a core of Iron, Nickel and Rock and surrounded by a layer of metallic hydrogen?
Answer: Saturn
Question: What does N stand for in NASA?
Answer: National
Question: Violent explosions on the Sun are known as what?
Answer: Flares
Question: As in the title of the 1990s sitcom, which planet is '3rd Rock From The Sun'?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which planet is famous for the beautiful rings that surround it?
Answer: Saturn
Question: A spiral system containing several billion stars gave its name to which chocolate bar?
Answer: Milky Way
Question: All planets orbit the sun how?
Answer: In the same direction
Question: Which god and planet have the alternative name 'Jove'?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: The Rover Curiosity landed on which planet in 2012?
Answer: Mars
Question: Europa is a major moon orbiting which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet boats 2 rings, thought to be the result of a moon impact?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which of these was discovered by Apollo astronauts on the moon?
Answer: Moonquakes
Question: What might appear in the place of a collapsed star?
Answer: Black hole
Question: What kind of eclipse do we have when the moon is between the sun and the Earth?
Answer: Solar
Question: Who was the first man to travel into Space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin
Question: How do we tell how the planets are moving?
Answer: Red-shift
Question: What is the third planet from the Sun?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which constellation takes its name from the Latin for 'water bearer'?
Answer: Aquarius
Question: Which 1995 film starring Tom Hanks depicted a real life near-disaster in space travel?
Answer: Apollo 13
Question: What does the term asteroid mean?
Answer: Star-like
Question: Which constellation takes its name from the Latin word for 'fishes'?
Answer: Pisces
Question: What do we call two stars which are close enough to affect each other's orbits?
Answer: Binary Stars
Question: What do we call the theory which claims that a small mass blew up and grew, creating the universe?
Answer: The Big Bang Theory
Question: The Cassini division is a feature of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: What fusion reaction is occurring in the sun's core?
Answer: Hydrogen into helium
Question: Where is the NASA headquarters located?
Answer: Washington
Question: In ancient times what was believed to be a bad omen?
Answer: Comets
Question: Nicolaus Copernicus argued that which of these planets was the centure of everything?
Answer: The Sun
Question: How many moons orbit Mars?
Answer: 2
Question: Which astronomer gets a mention in Queen's song 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?
Answer: Galileo
Question: What type of planet is Pluto now known as?
Answer: Dwarf
Question: Chinese Astronomers called which planet the 'fire star'?
Answer: Mars
Question: Quasars are distant galaxies whose central regions are thought to contain a what?
Answer: A black hole
Question: Which of these is a type of star?
Answer: Red dwarf
Question: What was the name of the first spacecraft to visit Uranus?
Answer: Voyager 2
Question: What is at the center of our solar system?
Answer: The Sun
Question: How many moons does Earth have?
Answer: 1
Question: Uranus' tilt is thought to be due to a collision with what soon after its formation?
Answer: Another planet
Question: Which planets are Jupiter's closest Neighbors in the solar system?
Answer: Mars and Saturn
Question: What is the name of the sixth planet from the Sun which features an extensive ring system?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Our planet is cocooned by how many metric tons of space debris?
Answer: 6,300
Question: Best known as the first man to walk in space, who was scheduled to become the first Soviet to walk on the moon?
Answer: Alexei Leonov
Question: What is the brightest planet in the night sky?
Answer: Venus
Question: Where would you be if you were admiring the retired space shuttle in Gorky Park?
Answer: Moscow
Question: Herse and Kale are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which of these orbits earth?
Answer: The moon
Question: Which planet is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which of these theories shares its name with a hit science sitcom?
Answer: The big bang theory
Question: What is the center of the Sun called?
Answer: Core
Question: One of the courses of Tsukuba Space Center is the International Space Center Course. In this course what module does it offer?
Answer: Kibo
Question: When some shuttle astronauts reach space they feel ill, what is this called?
Answer: Space sickness
Question: What makes the moon rise?
Answer: Earth's rotation
Question: The word 'astrophysics' is based on Greek words. What does 'astro' mean?
Answer: Star
Question: Where is the furthest a human has been in space?
Answer: The moon
Question: Which sitcom, which began in 1988, takes its name from the smallest type of hydrogen-burning star?
Answer: Red Dwarf
Question: Amazonis Planum is a period of which planets history?
Answer: Mars
Question: What trace gas gives Neptune its brilliant blue hue?
Answer: Methane
Question: What do astronauts use to wash their hair in space?
Answer: Vacuum hoses
Question: Which is the brightest star in our night sky?
Answer: Sirius
Question: Astronaut Chris Hadfield played which song on the International Space Station in 2013?
Answer: Space Oddity
Question: Which constellation takes its name from the Latin word for 'twins'?
Answer: Gemini
Question: In what year did man first take his step on the moon?
Answer: 1969
Question: What color is Uranus?
Answer: Blue
Question: Carpo and Elara are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet is the only one not named after a Greek or Roman god?
Answer: Earth
Question: How many space shuttles actually flew in space?
Answer: Five
Question: What planet lies between Earth and Jupiter?
Answer: Mars
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Question: What does the first 'A' in 'NASA' stand for?
Answer: Aeronautics
Question: Which planet comes between Venus and Mars?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which planet has a nikel iron core?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which of these organizations is involved with space exploration?
Answer: NASA
Question: How high above the Earth does Hubble Space Telescope orbit?
Answer: 347 miles
Question: Neptune has the fastest winds of any solar system planet what speeds do they reach?
Answer: 1,300 mph
Question: How long does it take to get to the moon from Earth in a space shuttle?
Answer: 3 Days
Question: What do we call a cosmic body of such intense gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape?
Answer: Black Hole
Question: Who was the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth?
Answer: John Glenn
Question: A spherical group of stars bound together by gravity is known as a what?
Answer: Globular cluster
Question: Which planet is named after the Roman goddess of Love?
Answer: Venus
Question: Apollo 11 landed in which ocean upon completion of their moon landing mission?
Answer: North Pacific
Question: The Jodrell Bank Observatory in in which English county?
Answer: Cheshire
Question: Which planet is named after the Roman God of War?
Answer: Mars
Question: Very light snow is known to occur at high latitudes on which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: How long does it take for Venus to rotate once on its axis (in earth days)?
Answer: 224
Question: Which of these moons of Jupiter is the largest?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: The largest moon in the Milky Way is called what?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: Which absorbs heat from the sun more quickly?
Answer: Rocks and soil
Question: What is the distance from the earth to the moon?
Answer: 250000 miles
Question: What can a red giant star become?
Answer: Supernova
Question: How many astronauts live on board the station when it's fully staffed?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Venus
Question: What term is used to describe the study of the composition of stars?
Answer: Astrophysics
Question: What does N stand for in NASA?
Answer: National
Question: In terms of composition, what is the second most prominent element on Mercury?
Answer: Sodium
Question: A stars life cycle is mainly stable because the forces contained within it are…….?
Answer: Balanced
Question: How many of the planets in our Solar System are composed of silicate rocks rather than gases?
Answer: 4
Question: In Earth hours, roughly how long is a day in Jupiter?
Answer: 9
Question: What's the Latin name for the constellation 'The Winged Horse'?
Answer: Pegasus
Question: Which planet in our Solar System orbits the Sun in the shortest time?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Planet Earth is located in which of these galaxies?
Answer: Milky Way
Question: What is the name for a stellar explosion that briefly outshines an entire galaxy?
Answer: Supernova
Question: Which planet spins on an almost horizontal access unlike the others which spin on almost vertical ones?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Which was the first planet predicted to existence by mathematical calculations?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What is the name of the black hole thought to exist at the center of the Milky Way?
Answer: Sagittarius A*
Question: The Ring named Courage is a feature of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: The moon Titan orbits what planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Mariner 4 was the first ship to flyby which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: When the line of Orion's belt is extended in the southeast direction, it points to what?
Answer: Sirius
Question: What is the major constituent of Saturn's rings, more than 90 percent of their mass?
Answer: Water ice
Question: A Jupiter year is the same as how many Earth days?
Answer: 11.9
Question: In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, which character is an astronaut?
Answer: Howard
Question: Most asteroids are found between which two planets?
Answer: Mars and Jupiter
Question: Venus was the Roman goddess of what?
Answer: Love and beauty
Question: Which type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
Answer: Barred Spiral
Question: Which planet in our solar system is by far the coldest planet?
Answer: Uranus
Question: John Glenn was how old when he flew into space?
Answer: 77
Question: The Dawn spacecraft is due to land where in 2015?
Answer: Ceres
Question: Who is famous for his work on the motion of planets?
Answer: Johannes Kepler
Question: Which planet has just 38% the Gravity of Earth?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which planet is found between Mars and Saturn?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: The United States successfully orbited its first satellite in January 1958. What was it called?
Answer: Explorer 1
Question: The 'Red Planet' is better known as what?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which one of these is not considered one of the four 'Terrestrial Planets?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which chewing gum was chosen by NASA for its Gemini astronauts in 1964?
Answer: Trident
Question: Which dwarf planet was discovered in 2005 by Mike Brown?
Answer: Eris
Question: How is a planet outside of the solar system known?
Answer: Exoplanet
Question: What is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus?
Answer: Voyager 2
Question: Sol is the name given to which body in the solar system?
Answer: Sun
Question: Which of these is the real name of a dwarf planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Make make
Question: Which of the following is not a known type of star?
Answer: Green dwarf
Question: What's the storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere every 30 years or so called?
Answer: The Great White Spot
Question: How many known moons orbit Pluto?
Answer: 5
Question: Which of these planets has the lowest gravitational pull?
Answer: Mercury
Question: How many stars are in our Milky Way galaxy?
Answer: 300 billion
Question: What is the surface temperature of Mercury during the day?
Answer: 427 C
Question: Which astronomer discovered Uranus and many of its moons?
Answer: Sir William Herschel
Question: The largest structure in space built by humans is called the International what?
Answer: Space Station
Question: Which planet has 27 known natural satellites?
Answer: Uranus
Question: In March 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first person to do what?
Answer: Walk In Space
Question: In what year did the first man walk on the moon?
Answer: 1969
Question: The Orion constellation is located on the?
Answer: Celestial Equator
Question: About how long does it take the moon to orbit the Earth?
Answer: A month
Question: Which of these planets is the fifth coldest?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: How do scientists know about dark matter?
Answer: Calculated its existence
Question: The hottest planet in the Solar System is which of these?
Answer: Venus
Question: What planet is famous for its big red spot?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: In Earth hours, roughly how long is a day in Uranus?
Answer: 13
Question: Mariner 10 in the 1970s was sent to visited which planet?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which is the densest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Earth
Question: Astronaut Alan Shepard hit a what while on the moon in 1971?
Answer: Golf ball
Question: What was the name of the space shuttle that exploded shortly after takeoff in January 1986?
Answer: Challenger
Question: What is the nearest star to the earth?
Answer: Sun
Question: The first spacecraft that reached the Moon was called what?
Answer: Lunar 1
Question: The ESA mission BepiColombo is aimed at reaching what planet?
Answer: Mercury
Question: The Cosmonaut Training center in Star City is in which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: Which of the following moons of Neptune is the largest?
Answer: Triton
Question: Which telescope was launched into space in 2008?
Answer: Fermi
Question: What is the third planet from the Sun?
Answer: Earth
Question: Out of these planets, which has the shortest day?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which mythical god gave their name to the US space missions that first landed man on the Moon?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Which of these countries has not sent astronauts to the International Space Station?
Answer: North Korea
Question: Who was the first British citizen to go into Space?
Answer: Helen Sharman
Question: Which of these usually burns up in the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Meteor
Question: The rings around which planet were first discovered in 1977?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Which member of Queen handed in his astronomy PhD thesis in 2007, 36 years after having started it?
Answer: Brian May
Question: What is India's Space Agency called?
Answer: Antrix
Question: Planets that are giant balls of gas with hot liquid centers are called what?
Answer: Gas giants
Question: Building the space station required more than how many rocket launches?
Answer: 40
Question: Which planet has a tilt of only 1/30 of a degree?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Galileo was the first to discover which planet in the 17th Century?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Earth completes a rotation on its own axis in how many hours?
Answer: 24
Question: which planet gets its name from an Anglo Saxon word meaning soil?
Answer: Earth
Question: How far above the surface of the Earth does the space station fly?
Answer: 248 miles
Question: The tallest planet mountain in the Solar System is on which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: The first resident crew arrived at the International Space Station in what year?
Answer: 2000
Question: What was the name of the US space probe launched in 1990 to study the Sun's poles?
Answer: Ulysses
Question: Which was the first planet predicted to existence by mathematical calculations?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Nicolaus Copernicus ,the Astronomer, was born in which century?
Answer: 15th
Question: Encleadus is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Titan is the largest moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Space rock that enters the Earth's atmosphere is known as a what?
Answer: Meteor
Question: Which planet has the longest year?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Which planet is orbited by 67 known natural satellites?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which constellation is named after the Latin word for 'swan'?
Answer: Cygnus
Question: What was the nationality of the first person in space who was neither American nor Soviet?
Answer: Czech
Question: What name was applied to the first team of NASA astronauts, formed in 1959?
Answer: Mercury 7
Question: In 1991, the Space Shuttle STS-40 took 2,478 of which type of creature into space?
Answer: Jellyfish
Question: Iapetus is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which of these planets has the lowest gravitational pull?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which planet is found between Mars and Saturn?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which kind of hole would interest an astronomer?
Answer: Worm
Question: The Anglo Saxon word Erda gives its name to which planet?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which planet was most like Earth 4 billion years ago?
Answer: Mars
Question: Approximately how long is a lunar month?
Answer: 28 days
Question: Roughly how many functioning satellites are zipping around our planet right now?
Answer: 1000
Question: The Hubble telescope was first launched in what year?
Answer: 1990
Question: Uranus takes about how many years to orbit the Sun?
Answer: 84
Question: Which planet is nicknamed the 'red planet'?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which planet is most similar in size to Earth?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which planet does not experience seasons?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which gas makes up most of the atmosphere of Mars?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Question: What does the name of our planet 'Earth' mean in old English?
Answer: The soil itself
Question: What is the approximate speed of light?
Answer: 300,000 Km/sec
Question: Of these planets, which has the highest gravitational pull?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which of these famous sportsmen had died before any of the others was?
Answer: W.G.Grace
Question: Name the two planets in our solar system without moons?
Answer: Mercury & Venus
Question: How many Earth years does it take Pluto to orbit the Sun?
Answer: 248
Question: Which guitarist earned a PhD in astrophysics in 2007?
Answer: Brian May
Question: Which asteroid is named after an ancient Roman goddess, the protector of the state?
Answer: Juno
Question: In astronomy, what does 'VLT' stand for?
Answer: Very Large Telescope
Question: What is the orbital period, in earth years, of Eris?
Answer: 557
Question: Which body takes 248 earth years to orbit the sun?
Answer: Pluto
Question: Hubble photographed Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's crash into Jupiter in what year?
Answer: 1994
Question: Who was the first human to die on a space mission?
Answer: Vladimir Komarov
Question: Where in the solar system is the Sea of Showers?
Answer: On the moon
Question: Which word is applied to people trained by the Russian Space Agency to work in space?
Answer: Cosmonauts
Question: Which of the following moons of Saturn is the largest?
Answer: Titan
Question: National Aeronautics and Space Administration is better known as what?
Answer: NASA
Question: Who composed the orchestral suite 'The Planets'?
Answer: Gustav Holst
Question: What is the name of the 2nd biggest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet's moons are all named after Shakespearean characters?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Which planet has an average surface temperature of -201 degrees Celsius?
Answer: Neptune
Question: About how heavy is the air around Earth?
Answer: 5 million, Billion tons
Question: What is the closest star to the Sun?
Answer: Proxima Centauri
Question: Which of these bodies has a moon called Charon?
Answer: Pluto
Question: The International Space Station was first launched in what year?
Answer: 1998
Question: Which of these planets is closer to the sun that the others?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which chemical element shares its name with a planet and a Roman God?
Answer: Mercury
Question: How many moons does Mercury have?
Answer: 0
Question: How is a planet outside of the solar system known?
Answer: Exoplanet
Question: When did Sally Ride became the first woman in space and the last episode of M*A*S*H was aired - which year was it?
Answer: 1983
Question: What was the first asteroid to be discovered?
Answer: Ceres
Question: What was the name of the British Mars lander that was lost in 2003 and found again in 2015?
Answer: Beagle-2
Question: Which NASA mission carried out the first flyby of Saturn, in 1979?
Answer: Pioneer 11
Question: Which planet was the first founded by mathematical prediction?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Which of these Uranian moons is largest?
Answer: Titania
Question: Who was the first American to be launched into space?
Answer: Alan Shepard
Question: Charon was discovered in 1978 but which planet is it a satellite to?
Answer: Pluto
Question: Which is the second smallest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Mars
Question: How many Russians have walked on the moon so far?
Answer: 0
Question: What is the fifth largest planet?
Answer: Earth
Question: Who officially discovered Pluto?
Answer: Tombaugh
Question: Which planet takes 164 earth years to orbit the Sun?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Which of these stars would be the hottest?
Answer: Blue star
Question: Egptian Priests labelled which planet 'Her Desher'?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which planet's moons did Galileo observe?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet has 14 known satellites?
Answer: Neptune
Question: The constellation Ursa Major is known by what name in English?
Answer: Great Bear
Question: The adjectives Telluric and Terran relate to which body?
Answer: Earth
Question: What is the second most abundant element in the Earths Mass?
Answer: Oxygen
Question: How many moons does Pluto have?
Answer: At least 5
Question: Phobos and Deimos are both moons to which of these planets?
Answer: Mars
Question: Most asteroids are found between which planets?
Answer: Mars and Jupiter
Question: Which planet has the lowest density?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet was discovered by Johann Galle on 1846?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Styx is a moon of which body?
Answer: Pluto
Question: What type of planet is Pluto now known as?
Answer: Dwarf
Question: Which body in the solar system lost its status as a planet in 2006?
Answer: Pluto
Question: What causes meteor showers?
Answer: Debris from comets
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Question: Which planet was the first one to be discovered with a telescope?
Answer: Uranus
Question: What are most of the solar system's planets named after?
Answer: Roman Gods
Question: Which planet had 931 artificial satellites at the start of 2011?
Answer: Earth
Question: What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: The Crab Nebula, first seen in 1952, is located in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Which planet or dwarf planet in our system takes about 29.5 years to orbit the Sun?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet has only 2 moons?
Answer: Mars
Question: Earth is the only planet in our solar system with abundant what?
Answer: Water
Question: Vast empty space with little or no galaxies can be found are known as which of these?
Answer: Voids
Question: The Equator forms a major part of which planet?
Answer: Earth
Question: The Tropic of Capricorn is feature on which planet?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which of these is a feature of Neptune?
Answer: Great Dark Spot
Question: In Earth hours, roughly how long is a day in Saturn?
Answer: 10
Question: Which planet has moons called Triton, Proteus and Hippocamp?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What does the Russian word Sputnik mean?
Answer: Travelling companion
Question: The Sea of Tranquility is on which planet?
Answer: Moon
Question: In which year did man last walk on the Moon?
Answer: 1972
Question: Which planet's largest moon is called Ganymede?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: What planet in the solar system is farthest from the Sun?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What name is given to any small celestial body which orbits a larger one?
Answer: Satellite
Question: Who was Commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to walk on the Moon?
Answer: Gene Cernan
Question: The Tianwen mission to Mars launched in July 2020 from which country?
Answer: China
Question: Which metal is found in high concentrations in asteroids?
Answer: Iridium
Question: Hydra is a moon that orbits which body?
Answer: Pluto
Question: What planet is famous for the beautiful rings that surround it?
Answer: Saturn
Question: How long is one day on Jupiter?
Answer: 10 hours
Question: What year was Uranus discovered?
Answer: 1846
Question: What is 'Buzz' Aldrin's first name?
Answer: Edwin
Question: Which astronomer was noted for his formulating of the three laws of planetary motion?
Answer: Johannes Kepler
Question: Which planet has the greatest density?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which of these are distinctive features of the planet Saturn?
Answer: Rings
Question: The liveable area of the space station is as big as what?
Answer: 5 bedroom house
Question: Which planet is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman God?
Answer: Earth
Question: How many moons does Jupiter have?
Answer: More than 60
Question: Which of these space rockets was the largest?
Answer: Saturn V
Question: How many planets are bigger than Earth?
Answer: 4
Question: When did Ceres become the first asteroid to be discovered?
Answer: 1801
Question: What is another name for the Moon Titan?
Answer: Saturn VI
Question: Which planet is composed mainly of carbon dioxide?
Answer: Mars
Question: What is the hottest planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which of these planets was discovered before the others?
Answer: Venus
Question: What name can sometimes precede the title of the Kuiper Belt?
Answer: Edgeworth
Question: Which planet in our solar system is the 6th from the sun?
Answer: Saturn
Question: How hot is the sun's core, in degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 27 million degrees
Question: Which of these is a real feature of the Solar System?
Answer: Kuiper Belt
Question: Between which two planets can we find the most asteroids in our solar system?
Answer: Mars And Jupiter
Question: Which term means related to the moon?
Answer: Lunar
Question: Jupiter is almost how much bigger than Earth?
Answer: 1000 times
Question: NASA launched which planetary probe toward Mars in 1975?
Answer: Viking 1
Question: The Athabasca Valles can be found on which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: Who was the first American woman in space?
Answer: Sally Ride
Question: Who was the first American in space?
Answer: Alan Shepard
Question: What is the average temperature on Venus in degrees Celsius?
Answer: 462
Question: In 1930, which planet was discovered?
Answer: Pluto
Question: Houston, we have a problem' was the famous line spoken by the Commander of which aborted U.S. space flight?
Answer: Apollo 13
Question: The modern theory of the origin of the solar system is known as?
Answer: Solar Nebula Theory
Question: Apollo 11 landed in which area of the Moon in 1969?
Answer: Sea Of Tranquillity
Question: Which planet rotates on it's axis once in every 243 earth days?
Answer: Venus
Question: More distant galaxies are moving how?
Answer: Quickest
Question: How many planets are bigger than Earth?
Answer: 4
Question: In which year was the first walk in space?
Answer: 1965
Question: Any elements that are heavier than iron are formed from what?
Answer: Supernovas
Question: In which year was the last and longest manned landing on the moon?
Answer: 1972
Question: Leaving in 2015, when will the planned Bepi Colombo reach Mercury?
Answer: 2019
Question: Which body in the Solar System is approximately 220,000 miles away from Earth?
Answer: The Moon
Question: One of the problems facing astronauts in space is that there is a lot of what?
Answer: Cosmic Radiation
Question: What's the most mass a white dwarf star can contain without becoming a black hole?
Answer: Chandrasekhar limit
Question: What is the name of the main launch site for American spacecraft?
Answer: Cape Canaveral
Question: In what year did the US stop intentionally degrading civilian-use GPS signals?
Answer: 2000
Question: Which of these people is a famous astronaut?
Answer: Buzz Aldrin
Question: What is the name of the southern continent on Venus?
Answer: Aphrodite Terra
Question: The Sun will become what in about 5 billion years?
Answer: A red giant
Question: Phobos and Deimos are moons of which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: How long is a Mercury day?
Answer: 58 earth days
Question: Which one of these is the biggest?
Answer: Planets
Question: Energy is released in stars by what?
Answer: Nuclear fusion
Question: Charon is a moon which orbits which body?
Answer: Pluto
Question: What is the second smallest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Mars
Question: The constellation Lepus has which English name?
Answer: Hare
Question: Roughly how many galaxies are there in the universe?
Answer: A thousand million
Question: What is the second hottest planet in the solar system in terms of average temperature?
Answer: Mercury
Question: The Term Hermian refers to which planet?
Answer: Mercury
Question: In which year did Galieli discover the four major moon of Jupiter?
Answer: 1610
Question: Naturally occurring elements are created by which process?
Answer: Fusion
Question: The Kuiper Belt lies how many AU's away from the sun?
Answer: 50
Question: How long is a year on Uranus?
Answer: 84 Earth years
Question: Which planet in our solar system is the fastest orbiting planet?
Answer: Mercury
Question: President Aylwin succeeded which leader in Chile in 1990?
Answer: General Pinochet
Question: How far out into space does the Earth's magnetic field extend?
Answer: 80000 km
Question: Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: The second set of which rings on which planet were discovered by the Hubble telescope in 2003?
Answer: Uranus
Question: What planet is the third brightest body in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Triton is the largest moon of what planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What animal delayed a space shuttle launch?
Answer: A woodpecker
Question: Which planet is second closest to the Sun?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which planet is the hottest in the Solar System?
Answer: Venus
Question: What's the name of the type of rockets that were used for the famous Apollo space flights?
Answer: Saturn
Question: A Saturn year is the same as how many Earth days?
Answer: 29.5
Question: What is Europe's developing satellite-navigation system operational by 2020 called?
Answer: Galileo
Question: How many miles are in a light year?
Answer: 6 trillion
Question: Up to 12% of Jupiter is comprised of what gas?
Answer: Helium
Question: Amidst much controversy, which country launched a long range rocket in April 2009, to 'put a satellite into orbit'?
Answer: North Korea
Question: How many minutes did Neil Armstrong spend walking on the moon?
Answer: 152
Question: How much did the International Space Station cost to build?
Answer: $100 billion
Question: What makes the water cycle run?
Answer: The sun
Question: Which is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess?
Answer: Earth
Question: When was the first exoplanet found around a sun-like star?
Answer: 1995
Question: A stellar remnant of mostly electron-degenerate matter is known as a what?
Answer: White dwarf
Question: Laika the dog was aboard Sputnik 2, what does 'Laika' mean in Russian?
Answer: Barker
Question: Pluto (the planet) was almost called which name?
Answer: Zeus
Question: What is the name of the largest moon in the Milky Way?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: What's the name of the planet that orbits between Mercury and Earth around the sun?
Answer: Venus
Question: A Venus year is the same as how many Earth days?
Answer: 225
Question: Which of these space bodies is actually a dirty snowball, made up of ice and dust?
Answer: Comet
Question: In what century did William Herschel discover Uranus?
Answer: 18th
Question: Which of these will you find in space?
Answer: Neptune
Question: In which constellation would you see the Crab Nebula?
Answer: Taurus
Question: What name is given to the point of a planet's orbit when it is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: Perihelion
Question: How many continuous rings does Saturn have?
Answer: 9
Question: Which body is orbited by the moon Nix?
Answer: Pluto
Question: Hydrogen, Helium and a small amount of Methane provide the composition of which planet?
Answer: Uranus
Question: If the moon were the size of a cherry, what object would be the same size as earth?
Answer: Orange
Question: Asteroids are mainly made of what?
Answer: Rock
Question: Which two planets are Gas Giants?
Answer: Saturn and Jupiter
Question: How long does light from the sun take to reach earth?
Answer: 8 minutes
Question: When was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet?
Answer: 2006
Question: Based on size, how many earths could fit into the sun?
Answer: 1 million
Question: Which of these might you find in space?
Answer: Comet
Question: Which body was discovered in 1930?
Answer: Pluto
Question: A Neptune year is the same as how many Earth days?
Answer: 165
Question: How many sets of rings does Uranus have?
Answer: 2
Question: What is Jupiter's Red Spot?
Answer: Hurricane
Question: In 2009, US tycoon Charles Simonyi made his second trip as a 'space tourist'. How much did it cost him?
Answer: $35 million
Question: Which is the densest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which quality determines whether a star will become a black hole when it dies?
Answer: Its Mass
Question: What planet is nicknamed the 'Red Planet'?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which of these objects is usually the largest?
Answer: A star
Question: Which planet is sixth closest to the Sun?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet is often referred to as Earths sister planet?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which of these planets has rings?
Answer: Neptune
Question: How many people in total have ever walked on the moon?
Answer: 12
Question: Which of these is NOT true of the Sun?
Answer: Rises latest in November
Question: How many moons does Venus have?
Answer: None
Question: Who was the first woman to travel into space?
Answer: Valentina Tereshkova
Question: Valles Marienris can be found on which planet?
Answer: Mars
