Universal Knowledge

1.

What is a Solar System?

People who travel in space.

A group of planets moving around a star.

A type of computer.

A way of making electricity.

2.

What is a Star?

Someone famous.

A small planet.

A blazing ball of gas giving out heat and light.

Someone who is in a movie.

3.

What is the Milky Way?

A chocolate bar.

Our solar system.

A painting.

Our galaxy.

4.

Which of these was a NASA spaceship?

Sigma 1

Zeus 13

Poseidon 7

Apollo 11

5.

What was Mir?

A piece of space rock.

A galaxy near to the milky way.

A Russian space station.

A planet.

6. What is a comet?

A type of airplane.

A rock band.

A dirty ball of ice flying around in space.

A mini planet that orbits around the sun.

7. What is unique about the space shuttle?

It can land like an airplane.

Its colour.

The fuel it uses.

Its size.

8.

What is the name of the first man in space?

Neil Armstrong.

Ronald Reagan.

Yuri Gagarin

Buzz Aldrin

9.

What did Mars Pathfinder use to cushion its landing on Mars?

A mattress.

Water balloons.

Air bags.

Parachute.

10. What group of stars features on the New Zealand flag?

Sirius.

The Southern Cross.

The Jonas Brothers.

Orion.