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Astronomy General Knowledge Quiz #2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 2,958 times
- The average score is 10 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What planet in the solar system is not named after a Roman or Greek god? | Earth | 94%
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| I move at 299 million meters a second. What am I? | The Speed of Light | 88%
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| Which other galaxy is closest to the Milky Way? | Andromeda | 85%
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| Which planet in our solar system has the longest day? | Venus | 85%
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| What is the latin name for the Sun? | Sol | 79%
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| What is the name of the brightest star in the night sky? | Sirius | 78%
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| What astronomer was famously tried for heresy by the Catholic Church? | Galileo Galilei | 69%
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| What is the name of Saturn's largest moon? | Titan | 65%
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| What was the first man-made object to orbit the Earth? | Sputnik | 63%
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| What is a colloquial name for the star Polaris? | The North Star | 63%
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| In 1066, what object appeared in the sky, signalling bad luck to King Harold of England? | Halley's Comet | 58%
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| What part of the Moon did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land in? | Sea of Tranquility | 54%
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| What is the name of a star in the constellation Orion, or a kids' TV show and movie? | Betelgeuse | 36%
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| What word means to orbit in the opposite direction of the spin of the object you're orbiting? | Retrograde | 31%
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| How many officially recognized constellations are there? | 88 | 27%
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| When the Sun's magnetic field is distorted, what phenomena is created? | Sunspots | 24%
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| What Greco-Egyptian astronomer was the authority on stars in the Middle Ages? | Ptolemy | 17%
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| Which modern constellation is the largest? | Hydra | 13%
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| What is the name of the most prominent crater on the Moon? | Tycho | 8%
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| What observational satellite crashed into Mercury in April 2015 after studying it for 4 years? | Messenger | 7%
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