Trivia Quiz on Astronomy Part 5

1. What two planets dont have moons?

A) Earth and Mars

B) Mercury and Venus

C) Jupiter and Saturn

D) Neptune and Uranus

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2. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Cygnus ?

A) Sparrow

B) Crane

C) Heron

D) Swan

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3. At the equator, what is the brightest star in the night sky?

A) Betelgeuse

B) Vega

C) Sirius

D) Canopus

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4. What was created with the big bang?

A) Earth

B) The Solar System

C) Milky Way

D) Universe

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5. Saturday is named after which planet?

A) Mercury

B) Jupiter

C) Venus

D) Saturn

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6. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Lyra ?

A) Harp

B) Lute

C) The wind

D) Lyre

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7. If you're in the northern hemisphere, Polaris, the North Star, can be found by looking which direction

A) South

B) East

C) North

D) West

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8. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Ursa Major ?

A) Lesser Bear

B) Big Bear

C) Great Bear

D) Sea Eagle

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9. The spiral galaxy nearest ours is the ________.

A) Milky Way

B) Whirlpool Galaxy

C) Andromeda

D) Triangulum Galaxy

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10. When does a full moon rise?

A) Sunset

B) Midnight

C) Sunrise

D) Noon

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11. What does "Ursa Major" mean in everyday English?

A) Big bear

B) Little bear

C) Great cat

D) Great bear

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12. What is the only sign in the zodiac which doesn't represent a living thing

A) Aries

B) Libra

C) Scorpio

D) Capricorn

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13. This comet appears every 76.3 years.

A) Encke's Comet

B) Swift-Tuttle

C) Hale-Bopp

D) Halley

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14. What is the proper name for falling stars

A) Shooting stars

B) Meteors

C) Asteroids

D) Comets

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15. He is the Most Durable TV Astronomer

A) Carl Sagan

B) Neil deGrasse Tyson

C) Patrick Moore

D) David Attenborough

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16. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Coma Berenices ?

A) Berenice's Beard

B) Berenice's Hair

C) The Hair of Aphrodite

D) The Hair of Zeus

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17. This moon is our solar system's most cratered satellite:

A) Ganymede

B) Callisto

C) Mimas

D) Rhea

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18. Mercury's period of orbit takes how many earth days?

A) 76 days

B) 112 days

C) 176 days

D) Eighty eight

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19. The planet closest to the sun is _______.

A) Mercury

B) Venus

C) Earth

D) Mars

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20. The Big Dipper is part of what constellation

A) Ursa Minor

B) Ursa major

C) Cassiopeia

D) Orion

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21. What is a Blue Moon?

A) A full moon that appears blue in color because of atmospheric conditions.

B) 2nd full moon in 1 month

C) The last full moon of the calendar year

D) A full moon that signals the start of a meteor shower

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22. The planet closest to the sun is _________.

A) Venus

B) Mercury

C) Earth

D) Mars

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23. What lies between mars and jupiter?

A) The Kuiper Belt

B) Saturn's rings

C) The asteroid belt

D) The Oort Cloud

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24. What planet position is the Earth from the Sun?

A) 3rd

B) 1st

C) 2nd

D) 4th

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25. The tides on the earth's oceans are actually created by gravitational pull from the ____

A) Moon

B) Sun

C) Earth

D) Jupiter

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26. In the 1940s George Gamow developed a theory that a giant explosion, 10-20,000 million years ago, began the expansion of the universe. What is the name given to this theory?

A) The Big Band Theory

B) The Big Bang Theory

C) The Primordial Atom Theory

D) The Expanding Universe Theory

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27. There are _ planets in this solar system.

A) 9

B) 7

C) 8

D) 10

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28. Which Is The Brighest Star Visible From Earth?

A) Polaris

B) Betelgeuse

C) The Dog Star

D) Vega

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29. Which meteor shower occurs on the 14th November ?

A) Leonids

B) Orionids

C) Andromedids

D) Taurids

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30. What is the name used to describe the "minor planets"?

A) Comets

B) Meteoroids

C) Asteroids

D) Dwarf planets

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31. Which meteor shower occurs on the 4th May ?

A) Perseids

B) Lyrids

C) Eta Aquarids

D) Quadrantids

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32. What polish astronomer demonstrated in 1512 that the sun is the center of the solar system

A) Johannes Kepler

B) Tycho Brahe

C) Galileo Galilei

D) Nicolas copernicus

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33. What 2 planets do not have moons?

A) Earth

B) Mars

C) Mercury and Venus

D) Jupiter

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34. What Was The Name Of The First Orbiting Space Station

A) Skylab

B) Salytut

C) Salyut 1

D) ISS

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35. Other Than Mercury What Other Planet Has No Moons

A) Earth

B) Venus

C) Mars

D) Jupiter

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36. Name the second-largest planet in the solar system.

A) Jupiter

B) Saturn

C) Uranus

D) Neptune

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37. Which meteor shower occurs on the 10th October ?

A) Draconids

B) Orionids

C) Northern Taurids

D) Leonids

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38. What is the term for the path followed a by a small body around a massive body in space?

A) Trajectory

B) Ellipse

C) Precession

D) Orbit

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39. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Triangulum ?

A) Circle

B) Square

C) Delta

D) Triangle

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40. The North Star is also known as ________.

A) Sirius

B) Polaris

C) Betelgeuse

D) Vega

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41. The fourth planet from the sun is _______.

A) Mars

B) Earth

C) Venus

D) Jupiter

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42. What term appies to space devoid of matter

A) Void

B) Nothingness

C) Vacuum

D) Aether

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43. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Camelopardalis ?

A) Leopard

B) Camel

C) Horse

D) Giraffe

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44. What does "Ursa Major" mean in everyday English

A) Little bear

B) Big cat

C) Bear constellation

D) Big bear

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45. What Planet Is Between Mars & Saturn In The Solar System?

A) Jupiter

B) Earth

C) Venus

D) Uranus

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46. The spiral galaxy nearest ours is the _________ galaxy.

A) Milky Way

B) Andromeda

C) Triangulum Galaxy

D) Whirlpool Galaxy

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47. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Auriga ?

A) The Hunter

B) Charioteer

C) The Archer

D) The Driver

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48. Where are the 4 major moons of Jupiter discovered by?

A) Galileo

B) Copernicus

C) Huygens

D) Cassini

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49. What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Serpens ?

A) Snake

B) Dragon

C) Lizard

D) Serpent

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50. What is the name given to a group of stars?

A) Galaxy

B) Star cluster

C) Nebula

D) Constellation

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