Trivia Questions On Space
In this quiz you will learn more about world space!
- 1.What is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way?
- A.
Andromeda Galaxy
- B.
Small Magellanic Cloud
- C.
Large Magellanic Cloud
- D.
Messier 33
- 2.What time of day should you view meteor showers to see them burn their brightest?
- A.
It Doesn't Matter
- B.
Just Before Dawn
- C.
Just After Sunset
- D.
At Exactly Midnight
- 3.Who said "In the center rests the sun"?
- A.
Claudius Ptolemy
- B.
Johannes Kepler
- C.
Tycho Brahe
- D.
Nicolaus Copernicus
- 4.What measure compares stars by their theoretical brightness if placed at a uniform distance?
- A.
Alpha Magnitude
- B.
Apparent Magnitude
- C.
Angular Magnitude
- D.
Absolute Magnitude
- 5.Which star has almost the same luminosity, mass and surface temperature as our sun?
- A.
Alpha Centauri B
- B.
Alpha Centauri C
- C.
Alpha Centauri A
- D.
Alpha Centauri S
- 6.Material composed of antiparticles is known as what?
- A.
Anti-Matter
- B.
Dark-Matter
- C.
Light-Matter
- D.
Opposite-Matter
- 7.How is the Sun's energy generated?
- A.
Solar Flares
- B.
Helium Fission
- C.
Hydrogen Fusion
- D.
Hydrogen Fission
- 8.Which Mercury Seven astronaut became grounded during project Mercury but went on to fly fifteen years later in the Apollo-Soyuz test project?
- A.
Walter Schirra
- B.
Deke Slayton
- C.
Gus Grissom
- D.
Gordon Cooper
- 9.What former astronaut died of cancer just before he was to take a political office?
- A.
Pete Conrad
- B.
Deke Slayton
- C.
Gus Grissom
- D.
Jack Swigert
- 10.What ancient Greek philosopher believed the sun to be a blazing rock and used that model to correctly explain eclipses?
- A.
Anaximander
- B.
Archimedes
- C.
Anaxagoras
- D.
Heraclites
- 11.What famous astronomer was Tycho Brahe's assistant?
- A.
Nicolaus Copernicus
- B.
Claudius Ptolemy
- C.
Albert Einstein
- D.
Johannes Kepler
- 12.Believed to have portals used for solar observations, Hovenweep Castle was built by what people?
- A.
Anasazi
- B.
Hovenweep
- C.
Pueblo
- D.
English
- 13.Whose First Law of Planetary Motion says that every planet's orbit is an ellipse?
- A.
Kepler
- B.
Einstein
- C.
Galileo
- D.
Copernicus
- 14.What are the cold remains of a white dwarf called after all its thermal energy has been exhausted?
- A.
Black Dwarf
- B.
Black Hole
- C.
Black Star
- D.
Blackbody
- 15.If two planets are three units apart, the force of gravity is how much less than if they were one unit apart?
- A.
One-Ninth
- B.
Two-Thirds
- C.
One-Third
- D.
One-Half
- 16.Which one of these satellites in our solar system is thought to be a "water world"?
- A.
Deimos
- B.
Io
- C.
Titan
- D.
Europa
- 17.Which planet does not tilt as it travels in its orbit ?
- A.
Venus
- B.
Mars
- C.
Jupiter
- D.
Saturn
- 18.Which planet was first seen in 1846?
- A.
Jupiter
- B.
Pluto
- C.
Uranus
- D.
Neptune
- 19.What is said to connect a black hole to a white hole in an alternate universe?
- A.
The Schwartzchild Radius
- B.
The Singularity
- C.
Einstein-Rosen Bridge
- D.
The Event Horizon
- 20.Who were the only two astronauts who flew to the Moon and also flew the space shuttle?
- A.
John Young, Thomas Mattingly
- B.
Alan Shepard, Gene Cernan
- C.
Dick Gordon, Alan Bean
- D.
Al Worden, Mike Collins
- 21.One parsec, a unit of distance in professional astronomy, is the equivalent of how many light years?
- A.
5.26
- B.
2.5
- C.
3.26
- D.
1.26
- 22.One light-year, the distance light travels in a vacuum in one year, is equivalent to how many miles?
- A.
5.87 trillion
- B.
4.68 billion
- C.
6.78 trillion
- D.
3.2 trillion
- 23.What planet was almost named "George's Star", after George III?
- A.
Uranus
- B.
Saturn
- C.
Jupiter
- D.
Pluto
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