| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| …has the highest gravitational pull, at 2.54g? | Jupiter | 100%
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| …has concrete evidence that water once flowed on its surface, and has a canyon system dwarfing the Grand Canyon? | Mars | 100%
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| …spins on its side? | Uranus | 100%
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| …is by the hottest planet in our solar system at 460°C, hot enough to melt lead? | Venus | 100%
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| …has several active global tectonic plates, including the Nazca, Cocos, and Juan de Fuca plates? | Earth | 75%
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| …is home to the Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth which has been ongoing for hundreds of years? | Jupiter | 75%
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| …is named after the Roman god of war? | Mars | 75%
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| …has two moons, Phobos and Deimos? | Mars | 75%
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| …does not have a moon, and wouldn’t be able to due to the Sun’s gravitational pull? | Mercury | 75%
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| …has a moon named Triton, who, in Greco-Roman mythology, was the son of this planet’s namesake? | Neptune | 75%
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| …was re-classified as a dwarf planet in 2006? | Pluto | 75%
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| …was named by an 11 year old girl in Oxford, England in 1930? | Pluto | 75%
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| …is covered in volcanoes and sulfuric acid clouds? | Venus | 75%
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| …is home to a massive, extremely radioactive mass, which formed in 1986, known as the “elephant’s foot”? | Earth | 50%
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| …was made into a “sandwich” in 2020, when two slices of bread were placed on opposite sides of the planet? | Earth | 50%
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| …ranges from 430°C during the day to -180°C at night? | Mercury | 50%
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| …was discovered solely by mathematical calculations in 1846? | Neptune | 50%
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| …has the most moons? | Saturn | 50%
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| …has a consistent and clear hexagonal cloud pattern at its north pole? | Saturn | 50%
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| …has rings made of ice and dust which extend over 280,000km from its surface, but are only around 9 meters thick? | Saturn | 50%
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| …was the first planet discovered by telescope in 1781? | Uranus | 50%
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| …is the most similar to Earth in size and shape, often called its “twin”? | Venus | 50%
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| …is home to the ever-burning Darvaza gas crater, nicknamed the “Door to Hell”? | Earth | 25%
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| …has days which are twice as long as its years due to its fast orbit and slow rotation? | Mercury | 25%
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| …is the smallest of the gas giants? | Neptune | 25%
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| …has a density lower than water? | Saturn | 25%
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| …has dust storms which last for months and cover the entire planet? | Mars | 0%
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