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Space Trivia
1) In how many linear dimensions physical space is often conceived?
Answer: In three linear dimensions
2) In which century the mathematicians began to examine geometries that are non-Euclidean, where space is conceived as curved, rather than flat?
Answer: In the 19th and 20th centuries
3) According to which theory, space around gravitational fields deviates from Euclidean space?
Answer: Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity
4) Which planet is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Venus
5) Of all the planets in our solar system (apart from Earth), which planet is the one most likely to be hospitable to life?
Answer: Mars
6) Which stars in space can spin 600 times per second?
Answer: Neutron stars
7) How many percent of the Solar system takes up the Sun’s mass?
Answer: About 99.86%
8) Which volcano on Mars is three times the size of Everest?
Answer: Olympus Mons
9) Which thing in the solar system was once a piece of earth?
11) What is the reason, you would not be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune?
Answer: Because they have no solid surface
12) How many times an asteroid about the size of a car enters Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Roughly once a year but it burns up before it reaches us.
13) Where is the highest mountain known to man found in space?
Answer: On an asteroid called Vesta.
14) In which color the sunset on Mars appears?
Answer: In blue color
15) Which thing is present more on Earth than stars in a milky way?
Answer: Trees
16) One day on which planet is longer than one year?
Answer: Planet Venus
17) How far is our Milky Way galaxy from the nearest other galaxies?
Answer: Its 2.5 million light-years away
18) Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle and planets do not?
Answer: Because of Earth’s atmosphere.
19) Which planet’s atmosphere rains diamonds?
Answer: On gas giants Saturn and Jupiter
20) Which telescope is the most famous telescope which is almost 44 feet long?
Answer: The Hubble Space Telescope
Research by Yale University scientists suggests that there is a rocky planet called 55 Cancri e. It has a radius twice that of Earth and a mass eight times greater. It may have a surface made up of graphite and diamond. It’s 40 light-years away but visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Cancer. Some more impressive facts like this are yet to come, just enjoy the next series of trivia.
Space quiz NASA
21) Which hole is a place in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot get out?
Answer: The Black Hole
22) Which black hole was first discovered in the 1960s, and it’s 10 times more massive than the Sun?
Answer: Cygnus X-1
23) Does our Milky Way have a larger black hole?
Answer: Yes
24) What is the weight of the gigantic black hole lurking in the heart of our galaxy?
Answer: The weight of 4 million suns.
25) According to which project, there are expectations to have preliminary images of the black hole’s edge in the coming months?
Answer: The project called the Event Horizon Telescope
26) By using which international network of radio telescopes, scientists obtained an image of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87?
Answer: The Event Horizon Telescope
27) What Supermassive black holes can add to the galaxy?
Answer: It can give birth to stars and determine how many stars a galaxy gets.
28) How many stars in our galaxy according to the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite?
Answer: They mapped the location of 1 billion stars in our galaxy.
29) How much does the Milky Way weigh?
Answer: Estimates ranging from 700 billion to 2 trillion times the mass of our sun.
30) Is our Milky Way Galaxy close to any other galaxies?
Answer: Yes, and sometimes they crash into it.
For years it was believed that Earth was the only planet in our solar system with liquid water. More recently, NASA revealed its strongest evidence yet that there is intermittent running water on Mars, too!
Space travel trivia
31) Which tests have confirmed that non-Euclidean geometries provide a better model for the shape of space?
Answer: Experimental tests of general relativity
32) How longer the highest mountain on the asteroid called Vesta?
Answer: Its 22km in height, it is three times as tall as Mount Everest.
33) Which space tourism has been performed only by the Russian Space Agency?
Answer: Orbital space tourism
34) In which year Russia stopped orbital space tourism, due to the increase in the International Space Station crew size?
Answer: In 2010
35) Which American aerospace company won the $10 million X Prize in October 2004 with SpaceShipOne, as the first private company to reach and surpass an altitude of 100?
Answer: Scaled Composites
36) Which American spaceflight company aims to be the first to offer regular suborbital spaceflights to paying passengers, aboard a fleet of five Spaceships?
Answer: Virgin Galactic
37) In 2018, which American suborbital spaceflight services company is developing the New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system specifically to enable short-duration space tourism?
Answer: Blue Origin
38) What is the name of the suborbital vehicle XCOR Aerospace developed?
Answer: Developed a suborbital vehicle called Lynx.
39) Which two-seat vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) rocket use a capsule similar in shape to the Gemini capsule?
Answer: Hyperion
40) In which year EADS Astrium, a subsidiary of European aerospace giant EADS, announced its space tourism project?
Answer: In June 2007
Common questions about space
41) In which year, the US government released a set of proposed rules for space tourism?
Answer: In December 2005
42) Which prints on the Moon will be there for 100 million years?
Answer: The footprints
43) What is the weight of a spacesuit without the astronaut which takes 45 minutes to put it on?
Answer: A spacesuit weighs approximately 280 pounds.
44) Which satellite was the first artificial satellite sent into space by the United States?
Answer: Explorer 1, launched on Jan. 31, 1958.
45) How much food each space shuttle astronaut is allotted?
Answer: 3.8 pounds of food per day
46) What is the name of America’s first space station, which was longer than a 12-story building and contained almost 12,000 cubic feet of living space?
Answer: America’s first space station was Skylab.
47) What are the benefits of Experiments performed in space?
Answer: It helps us understand health problems on Earth.
48) Which country is a partner of the International Space Station, a research laboratory in space?
Answer: Canada
49) What was the first space telescope launched on 7 December 1968?
Answer: The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2
50) How many stars and planets the Milky Way is estimated to contain?
Answer: Its 100–400 billion stars and more than 100 billion planets.
Hard questions about space
51) According to NASA, what is the first human-made object to enter space in 1949?
Answer: The Bumper-WAC reached an altitude of 393 kilometers.
52) What was the first successful human spaceflight, carrying the 27-year-old Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961?
Answer: It was Vostok 1 (“East 1”)
53) Which object was the first artificial object to reach another celestial body reaching the Moon in 1959?
Answer: It was Luna 2.
54) When did Luna 10 become the first artificial satellite of the Moon, entering in a lunar orbit?
Answer: On 3rd April 1966.
55) Who was the NASA head of the Space Task Force and director of 25 crewed space flights?
Answer: Robert Gilruth
56) Who was the designer of the Mercury capsule?
Answer: Maxime Faget
57) Which robotic spacecraft was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to return a sample of material?
Answer: Hayabusa
58) In which year Hayabusa was launched?
Answer: On 9 May 2003
59) What is perhaps the most insidious health hazard to space travelers as it is invisible to the naked eye and can cause cancer?
61) How long does it take for light from the Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: It takes 8 and 1/3 minutes.
62) How much time it takes the Sun to do one revolution of the Milky Way Galaxy?
Answer: It takes the Sun 225-250 million years.
63) Which force keeps the planets in orbit?
Answer: Gravity
64) In which direction does the Earth spin?
Answer: Counterclockwise
65) Why do we have seasons on Earth?
Answer: Earth’s tilted axis causes the seasons.
66) How do spaceships make artificial gravity?
Answer: A ship could achieve artificial gravity by rotating about its axis.
67) The largest circular storm in our solar system is on the surface of which of the following planets?
Answer: Jupiter
68) During the period between 1979 and 1998, what is the farthest planet from the sun?
Answer: Neptune
69) The Andromeda Galaxy is which of the following types of galaxies?
Answer: Spiral
70) Which unlucky Apollo lunar landing was canceled after an oxygen tank exploded?
Answer: Apollo 13
More than a year ago a black hole and its shadow were captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope. Now time for a simple quiz to relax your mind after having incredibly hard questions about space.
Simple space quiz
71) How many planets are there in our solar system?
Answer: Eight
72) How old is the solar system?
Answer: Its 4.571 billion years
73) Which is the third planet from the Sun?
Answer: Earth
74) What is the color of the sun?
Answer: White
75) Would a guitar sound the same on a space station?
Answer: Yes
76) What device first proved that Earth rotates on its axis?
Answer: Foucault pendulum
77) Which planet has a moon almost as big as the planet itself?
Answer: Pluto
78) Who was the first black American astronaut in space?
Answer: (Guion s.) Bluford
79) Who was the first man to classify stars according to their brightness?
Answer: Hipparchus
80) What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of Mars?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
81) What is the nearest star to Earth?
Answer: The Sun
82) What is the name of the largest moon of Saturn?
Answer: Titan
83) What is the brightest object in the night sky?
Answer: The Moon
84) Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
Answer: Mars
85) What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
Answer: The Milky Way
86) What is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
Answer: Sputnik 1
87) What is the name of the spacecraft that carried the first humans to the Moon?
Answer: Apollo 11
88) What is the term for a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern?
Answer: Constellation
89) What is the approximate speed of light in a vacuum?
Answer: Approximately 299,792,458 meters per second
90) What is the name of the largest planet in our solar system?
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