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Click the Planet

Try to click the planet that corresponds to each fact.
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Quiz by overtired
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Last updated: May 22, 2023
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First submittedApril 14, 2023
Times taken38,450
Average score70.0%
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Largest planet
Smallest planet
Named after the Roman god of war
Has the most rings
Is sometimes further from the sun than Pluto
Has the most water on its surface
Reaches the highest temperatures
Known as the "Red Planet"
First to have a metal named after it
Has a Great Red Spot
Named after the Roman god of the sea
Has the most branches of KFC
Has the most tilted axis (82.23°)
Has the largest moon (Ganymede)
Named after the Roman goddess of love
Smallest volume gas planet
Has the most craters and looks similar to Earth's moon
Is being explored by NASA's Perseverance rover
Had a SEGA video game console named after it
Largest rocky planet
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
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Level 65
May 18, 2023
Fun and a well deserved feature!
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Level 72
May 18, 2023
Liked the KFC question.
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Level 78
May 18, 2023
Anyone else go through the list before answering that question ? No? Just me then!
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Level 76
May 20, 2023
It was actually a bit difficult considering Saturn is named after the Roman god of fried chicken wings
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Level 75
May 24, 2023
Nope - I went through the list to determine if there was a planet name somehow related to KFC and before channeling my inner Homer Simpson (D'oh)
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Level 67
May 22, 2023
How did 7% get it wrong?
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Level 71
May 22, 2023
Probably people who don't know what KFC is.
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Level 71
Aug 9, 2023
There are probably people from other planets taking this quiz and probably don’t even know about KFC’s existence.
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Level 78
May 18, 2023
Given recent discoveries suggesting that life might after all be possible elsewhere in the Solar System, and Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development, it seems a little presumptuous automatically to assume that Earth contains the most KFC outlets
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Level 60
May 18, 2023
Copyright laws, remember? Other planets have to refer to them as well.
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Level 78
May 18, 2023
But who's to say that they didn't have the first KFC and so we are copying them?
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Level 60
May 19, 2023
Me, some guy on the internet,
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Level 80
May 18, 2023
Uranus has a metal named after it too. Uranium is a metal, and is named after the planet, which in term was named after the god.
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Level 84
May 18, 2023
That's why it says "First to...". There's also Neptunium. And Plutonium of course (RIP planet Pluto).
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Level 71
Jul 18, 2023
It's a little tricky to determine when, exactly, quicksilver started being called "Mercury" as it kind of backed into that name, but it seemed to definitely happen before 1798, when Tellurium was named after the earth. But even there, the bases are covered, as Tellurium is a metalloid, not a metal.
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Level 64
Mar 6, 2024
Love this, classic example of "If we're being pedantic, this is incorrect. But if we're being even more pedantic, it's correct."
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Level 59
May 18, 2023
I've made the spanish version!

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1744710/clic-en-el-planeta

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Level 90
May 18, 2023
Had a 50/50 shot at the smallest gas planet question, since I knew which two it definitely wasn't. And once again my uncanny ability to get a 50/50 question wrong 90% of the time puts me in my place.
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Level 84
May 19, 2023
The problem is that it's not a straightforward answer. Neptune is heavier, but has a smaller radius. Which one is the "smallest" depends on whether you're thinking in terms of radius or mass. When it comes to astronomical objects, I generally think of larger and smaller in terms of mass, so I picked Neptune, choosing the "right" answer but getting the question wrong.
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Level 76
May 19, 2023
That's interesting. I think the opposite when it comes to planetary size. To me, large exemplifies size/area (which includes radius, circumference, volume, etc.).
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Level 84
May 22, 2023
@sumguy If you picked Neptune you would have got the question right - it has a smaller radius as you state. Are you sure you picked that?
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Level 60
May 22, 2023
Just guess whatever you weren't going to guess.
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Level 84
May 19, 2023
24 hours and still no Uranus jokes. Impressive.
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Level 75
May 20, 2023
Bit of a bummer, hopefully someone will crack soon.
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Level 60
May 22, 2023
Rather that someone than Uranus.

srry

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Level 65
May 22, 2023
Astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end the stupid joke once and for all. Oh, what's it called now? Urectum.
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Level 24
May 22, 2023
Uranus has the most tilted axis? Never knew
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Level 37
May 22, 2023
The sole reason I got that wrong was because I thought if it was Uranus I must have heard some jokes about it. Was deciding between Neptune and Uranus and that was my deciding factor
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Level 60
May 22, 2023
NASA has found new species of bacteria on Uranus!
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Level 75
May 20, 2023
I'd lose the water question. The gas giants probably have large amounts of water.
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Level 84
May 20, 2023
Hmm, OK, will look for another Earth question.
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Level 79
May 21, 2023
I put Jupiter for this, and Jupiter likely has more water than Earth by far, but there does not seem to be a consensus exactly how much.

Uranus and Neptune almost certainly contain far more water than Earth, maybe as much as Earth's total planetary mass.

There are also several large moons that contain more water than Earth.

It's a pretty fraught question and astronomers don't seem to have a good answer yet, but it's almost certainly not Earth.

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Level 84
May 22, 2023
Sorry, meant to have this changed before today. Have changed it to "water on its surface".
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Level 64
May 20, 2023
Technically speaking, since axial obliquity is measured from a counterclockwise perspective, Venus, with a tilt of 3° off from its axis but also with a clockwise rotation, has an axial obliquity of 177°, and is therefore the most axially tilted planet.
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Level 84
May 20, 2023
Wikipedia has it that "There are two standard methods of specifying a planet's tilt. One way is based on the planet's north pole, defined in relation to the direction of Earth's north pole, and the other way is based on the planet's positive pole, defined by the right-hand rule." I'm using the first method, which I'd say is the more intuitive for the layperson and so better for a quiz like this.
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Level 70
May 22, 2023
I put Venus based on the second method. Maybe you could specify this, for example by saying "axial tilt is a number between 0 degrees and 90 degrees". To me it is not obvious that one method is more intuitive than the other, it just depends whether you want to think of planets like Venus and Uranus as rotating backwards or as tilted by more than 90 degrees.
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Level 84
May 22, 2023
That's too wordy for a specification, but I've added the specific degree of tilt in brackets (82.23°) which should suffice. That couldn't possibly be Venus.

I meant intuitive in that Uranus is known to "roll like a ball" as opposed to "spinning like a top", as with the other planets (Venus especially!). To be fair though, Venus is known to "spin backwards", so I take your point.

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Level 60
May 22, 2023
Yep, I had no clue but guessed Venus because it rotates backwards.
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Level 66
May 22, 2023
Are there only 2 types of planets: rocky and gaseous? I was guessing that Earth had too much water to be considered rocky.
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Level 61
May 22, 2023
and under that water is....
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Level 76
May 22, 2023
Earth has waaaaay more rock in it than it does water.
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Level 67
May 22, 2023
The earth is rocky but it won't be rocky long
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Level 65
Sep 19, 2023
Please be sarcasm...
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Level 76
May 22, 2023
Dang, I was really thinking the metal question was a trick, and that mercury was named after the god, but nope! Dang alchemists.
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Level 60
May 22, 2023
The planet is named after the god. The question is about the metal being named after the planet, not vice-versa.
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Level 76
Jun 17, 2023
Yes, I know. That's what I'm saying. I thought that mercury (metal) was named after Mercury (god), but I was wrong. I was blaming the alchemists because they were the ones who named mercury (metal) after Mercury (planet).
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Level 60
Oct 3, 2023
Sorry, I misread your post. I thought when you said mercury, you were referring to the planet. Too many Mercurys.
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Level 63
May 22, 2023
Doesn't Mercury tend to reach higher temperatures than Venus?
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Level 84
May 22, 2023
From NASA: "Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere traps heat, making it feel like a furnace on the surface. It's so hot on Venus, the metal lead would melt."

"Instead of an atmosphere, Mercury possesses a thin exosphere made up of atoms blasted off the surface by the solar wind and striking meteoroids. Mercury's exosphere is composed mostly of oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium."

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Level 50
May 22, 2023
Uranus wasn’t an answer for any question. Poor Uranus,.
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Level 50
May 22, 2023
Never mind just realized they have one question. Still kind of depressing though, every other planet got multiple questions
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Level 84
May 23, 2023
The first version of the quiz had 3 answers for every planet, but I deleted the four that had very low correct guess percentages. Uranus also was the answer for:

Planet that reaches the coldest temperatures. (Everyone presumes Neptune, but because of Uranus being tilted on its side it has a dark side which never sees the sun and is very cold!)

First planet discovered with the use of a telescope. (I really liked this question, but not many could guess it.)

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Level 65
Sep 19, 2023
You could have said "discovered with telescope rather than naked eye" which would eliminate Jupiter and Saturn, and of course, since Uranus is bigger and closer to Earth than Neptune (most of the time), it would be the obvious answer I guess.
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Level 65
Sep 19, 2023
Also, what were the other 2?
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Level 84
Sep 20, 2023
“Rather than the naked eye” is implicit in “discovered by telescope”. If you can just look up and see it then you obviously don’t need a telescope to discover it. As I say, guesses were low. People don’t necessarily know which planets can be seen with the naked eye or not.

I can’t remember the other two.

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Level 62
May 23, 2023
fastest feature ever?
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Level 64
May 23, 2023
disappointed in the lack of uranus :(
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Level 65
Sep 19, 2023
AYOOO
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Level 75
May 25, 2023
Could a clever quizmaker make this quiz but with a [very-not-to-scale] picture of each planet instead of just word boxes? Ask the one who made that "Click the Compass" quiz!
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Level 84
May 25, 2023
He thought about it! A bit late now that this has been featured, but it would also require changing too many questions. Kind of obvious if you can see them which one is the red planet, or the one that looks like Earth's moon, or has a red spot, or the most rings...!
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Level 71
Jun 2, 2023
The planet-with-the-highest-temperature question is a bit dodgy: Venus certainly has the highest surface temperature of all rocky planets. But there are higher temperatures in the core of each planet. And for gaseous planets, it's not clear where the surface begins, so you should allow for temperatures anywhere in the planet, including the core. I would guess, Jupiter would be hottest then, but I'm not sure.
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Level 65
Sep 19, 2023
Ah yes, Earth is definitely 5200°
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Level 34
Jun 4, 2023
Uranus also rotates backwards. Venus and Uranus rotate backwards, Neptune’s moon Triton revolves backwards. What’s next? The Sun revolves backwards around the Milky Way?
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Level 77
Aug 9, 2023
apparently there was an unreleased Sega console called the Neptune
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Level 40
Dec 31, 2023
I managed to overthink the KFC question...