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Hard Space Trivia
Allen Lam
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Copyright 1997, Softdisk Publishing
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$SECRETWORD
Asteroids
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#Ddjreuaeth
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$TOPIC
Space
Hard
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$QUEST
Which constellation means "Little Horse"?
Equuleus
Eridanus
Cetus
Leo
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$QUEST
The North Star is about how far from earth?
300 light-years
4.3 light-years
600 light-years
12 light-years
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$QUEST
Which of the following constellation names does not refer to an animal?
Eridanus
Equuleus
Capricornus
Cancer
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$QUEST
How many light-years in a parsec?
3.26 light-years
7.26 light-years
1.26 light-years
5.26 light-years
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$QUEST
The constellation Cetus refers to which animal?
Whale
Horse
Snake
Bear
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$QUEST
How many kilometers in an astronomical unit?
149,600,000 km
149,600 km
149.6 km
149,600,000,000 km
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$QUEST
The star that is often referred to as the North Star is called what?
Polaris
Vega
Andromeda
Alpha Centauri
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$QUEST
The constellation Libra means what?
Scales
Snake
Scorpion
Lion
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$QUEST
Jupiter is how many times larger in volume than Earth?
1400 times
9 times
45 times
520 times
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$QUEST
Which was the first space probe to study the planet Mercury?
Mariner 10
Voyage 2
Explorer 49
Sputnik 1
Saturn 5
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$QUEST
Venus, the hottest planet, has a surface temperature of...
462 degrees Celsius
853 degrees Celsius
120 degrees Celsius
1923 degrees Celsius
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$QUEST
How many years does it take for Pluto to go around the sun?
248 years
5 year
27 years
123 years
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$QUEST
The name of Pluto's only moon is what?
Charon
Zeus
Callisto
Europa
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$QUEST
Jupiter's atmosphere is mainly what?
Helium
Methane
Oxygen
Nitrogen
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$QUEST
Cassini's Division refers to what?
The gap between the A and B rings of Saturn
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
The boundary between our solar system and interstellar space
A big canal on Mars
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The boundary between our solar system and interstellar space is called what?
Heliopause
Cassini Division
Kepler's boundary
Ptolemaic system
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About how old is our sun?
5 billion years
100 million years
100 billion years
5 million years
500 thousand years
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$QUEST
The universe came into being about how long ago?
7 to 20 billion years ago
7000 to 20,000 billion years ago
7 to 20 million years ago
7 to 20 thousand years ago
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$QUEST
Oceanus and Procellarum are what?
The main "seas" of our moon
The rings of Saturn
The moons of Jupiter
Radiation belts
Comets
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$QUEST
Tycho and Copernicus are what?
Craters on our moon
The moons of Uranus
Comets
Radiation belts
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$QUEST
The black-hole concept was developed by which astronomer?
Karl Schwarzschild
Edwin Hubble
Thomas Gold
Ejnar Hertzsprung
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$QUEST
The largest array of radio telescopes called VLA (Very Large Array) is located where?
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Alaska
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Which astronomer proved that comets were celestial bodies?
Tycho Brahe
Karl Schwarzschild
Edwin Hubble
Thomas Gold
Ejnar Hertzsprung
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$QUEST
Baily's Beads phenomenon is associated with which cosmic event?
Total eclipse of the sun
Supernova of stars
Meteor showers
Sun flares
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$QUEST
The average distance of the moon from the earth is what?
239000 miles
634000 miles
21000 miles
104000 miles
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$QUEST
Which theory on the formation of the moon is considered to be most probable?
Formation by planetesimal impact
Formation by fission from earth
Formation in orbit near earth
Formation far from earth
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The far side of the moon was first revealed by Lunik III in what year?
1959
1949
1969
1979
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Who was the first woman in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Sally Ride
Guion Bluford
Amelia Earhart
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On its 34,981st orbit, the U.S. Skylab fell to earth in which year?
1979
1989
1969
1959
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The temperature at the center of the sun is about...
29 million degrees Fahrenheit
9 billion degrees Fahrenheit
782 million degrees Fahrenheit
43 thousand degrees Fahrenheit
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Our sun is mostly (about 71 percent) composed of this element.
Hydrogen
Helium
Nitrogen
Oxygen
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Our sun is in what stage of its life cycle?
middle
beginning
end
none, the sun will never die out
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$QUEST
The sun has been around for how many years?
4.5 billion years
4.5 million years
450 thousand years
450 million years
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The constellation Cygnus means what?
Swan
Dragon
Bear
Scorpion
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In astronomy, SNAP stands for what?
Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power
Sun Nucleus After Perigee
Saturn-Neptune Astral Plane
Space's New Astronaut Program
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A spectro-heliograph is used for what?
To photograph the sun
To determine the amount of helium in a star
To detect the composition of a star
To determine the speed of a meteor
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Which astronomer invented the spectro-heliograph?
George Hale
Edward Pickering
Neil Armstrong
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
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In astronomy, Magellanic Clouds are what?
Galaxies
Sun spots
Asteroids
Rradiation belts
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Supergiant stars can have diameters that are this many times larger than our sun's.
400 times
900 times
40 times
4 thousand times
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In astronomy, Frauhofer lines are what?
Dark lines in the absorption spectrum of the sun
The path traveled by comets
The dark gap in Saturn's rings
The trail left by the path of Jupiter's red spot
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