Multiple Choice Planet Quiz – Mars

Can you answer these multiple-choice questions about Mars?
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1. What position from the sun is Mars?
First
Second
Third
Fourth
2. What are the names of Mars’s moons?
Phobos and Deimos
Io, Ea, and Oeia
Makemake and Ceres
Ganymede, Titan, and Europa
3. What is Mars’s nickname?
The Blue Moon
The Orange Dwarf
The Red Planet
Neon Genesis
4. Which of these is approximately equal to Mars’s surface area?
All of Earth’s dry land
The Moon
Earth and the Moon
Earth, Venus, and Mercury
5. What is both Mars’s and the Solar System’s largest mountain?
Pillars of Creation
Altus Plateau
Tartus Butte
Olympus Mons
6. What compound gives Mars its distinctive colour?
Sulphur Oxide
Bismuth (III) Oxide
Silicon oxide
Iron oxide
7. Which of these statements is NOT true?
Phobos’s orbit is decaying, and it will likely disintegrate into a planetary ring!
Mars has frozen surface water
It is projected that in 43 million years that one of Mars’s moons will break apart
Definitive archaeological evidence of genetic material has been found on Mars
China has landed a probe on Mars
8. What was the first probe to land on Mars?
Mars 2
Mariner 4
Viking 1
Messenger 3
9. Which of these is Mars?
Ganymede, Mars, Makemake, Io
10. What is Valles Marineris?
Note the large horizontal line running across Mars here (centre of picture).
A seasonal river of liquid carbon dioxide
Elon Musk’s “real estate sector” where foolish people can buy plots of land
The “graveyard” for half a dozen probes
A canyon ten times longer than the Grand Canyon
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3 Comments
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Level 61
Apr 6, 2025
Oof, 8/10, my space knowledge is falling apart. Almost clicked Io (or is that Callisto?) for #9 somehow.
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Level 83
Apr 6, 2025
It’s Io, although I’d think the only one that resembles Mars is Makemake. Maybe Ganymede.
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Level 61
Apr 6, 2025
Good job! Taking the MCCQ quizzes and turning it into MCPQ!