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Former US Vice-President Dan Quayle once made the bold statement that “It is time for the human race to enter the Solar System”. So here is a quiz to test your knowledge of it, whether or not you have yet arrived!
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Question of
How many named moons does Mars have?
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Yes
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1
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2
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3
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Question of
An Astronomical Unit (AU) is the average distance from the Sun to Earth. How many AUs is Neptune from the Sun?
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10
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20
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30
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40
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Which member of the Solar System became a planet in 1930 but ceased to be one in 2006?
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Ceres
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Pluto
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Eris
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Quaoar
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Question of
Thalassa, Nereid, Despina and Triton are moons of which planet?
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Neptune
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Saturn
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Jupiter
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Uranus
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Question of
With which planet did comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collide in 1994?
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Jupiter
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Saturn
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Earth
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Mars
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Question of
Which planet has surface temperatures of more than 460 degrees Celsius and a highly toxic atmosphere – possibly the result of a runaway greenhouse effect?
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Mercury
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Mars
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Earth
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Venus
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The Solar System’s main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of which two planets?
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Mercury and Venus
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Venus and Earth
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Earth and Mars
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Mars and Jupiter
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Question of
Which planet has an axis of rotation with a 98 degree tilt?
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Earth
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Venus
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Saturn
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Uranus
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Question of
Halley’s Comet was last visible with the naked eye from Earth in 1986. When will the next occasion fall due?
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2041
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2051
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2061
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2071
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What name is given to the vast ball of trillions of objects that surrounds the Solar System to a distance of at least 100,000 AUs?
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The Port Cloud
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The Oort Cloud
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The Tort Cloud
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The Zort Cloud
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got 1 wrong
10/10 good day
OMG I got 4/10 ? But at least I learned something ?
7/10
I got 7/10. Interesting quiz!
I failed at this quiz, but hopefully I’ve learnt something new!
Halfling
I got five of them right
Me and geography aren’t good friends is all I can say.
You need a bit more than geography for this one!
Got 8/10..cool quiz…intergalactic!
Actually, not intergalactic at all!
For me..it is..coz it’s all about space after all..quite only ??..but all in all..a very nice quiz..
Got them all, but only cos I got lucky on a few informed guesses. Pretty sure the consensus is that Pluto is a planet again…
Really? If that were the case, then there are other candidates with at least as good a claim, such as Eris.
Pluto has a grandfather clause that Eris and Ceres don’t have. Don’t ask me, I’m not an astronomer…
Interesting quiz. Only got half of the questions correct though. Need to study the solar system better.
Nice
Got 4 out of 10
6/10! Yeah!!!
got 4 out of 10 right!
6/10 fun quiz
6 out of 10 – not without a few guesses though! Fun quiz 🙂
7/10 – That didn’t take you long! I tried answering “Yes” to question #1 🙂
That wasn`t there when I checked it through! Fortunately I don`t think it matters much!
9/10 I couldn’t get the last one but tbh I did much better than I expected
You got 4 out of 10 right!
Could be better. I seem to be lost in space. 🙂