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Planets and Moons - Real and Fictional

Based on the clues can you guess these planets and moons?
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Last updated: December 17, 2018
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First submittedAugust 31, 2012
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Average score63.6%
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Our planet
Earth
The Red Planet
Mars
Biggest planet in the solar system
Jupiter
Moon of the above that may have
liquid water beneath its ice
Europa
Ice world from "The Empire Strikes Back"
Hoth
It was demoted to "dwarf" planet
Pluto
Theorized large planet beyond the above
Planet X
Brightest planet in the sky
Venus
Ringed planet
Saturn
Closest planet to the sun
Mercury
Planet whose name amuses
schoolchildren
Uranus
Hint
Answer
Furthest planet from the sun
Neptune
Luke Skywalker's home planet
Tatooine
Spock's planet
Vulcan
Superman's birth planet
Krypton
Superman planet
where everything is opposite
Bizarro World
(Htrae)
Transformers homeworld
Cybertron
Yoda's planet
Dagobah
Forest moon inhabited by Ewoks
Endor
Home world of the Time Lords
Gallifrey
Largest moon in the solar system
Ganymede
Moon from "Avatar"
Pandora
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Level 66
Aug 31, 2012
I'm surprised there are no Doctor Who worlds on here... please rectify the situation QuizMaster and I shall be grateful
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Level 37
May 10, 2013
PLEASE QM, put "Raxacoricofallapatorius" in the next one :)
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Level 32
Mar 4, 2014
i know right, i was hoping for some......
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Level 45
Oct 13, 2014
Yeah! Dudes! Gallifrey? Although Raxacoricofallapatorius would be awesome. I can say it.
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Level ∞
Mar 18, 2015
Added Gallifrey!
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Level 44
May 1, 2016
PLEASE put in Raxacoricofallapatorius! It would be great! A lot of type-ins, but GREAT!
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2019
You could add some from Rick & Morty, too
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Level 26
Aug 31, 2012
I only got the real planets. I wonder how many people said "the sun" for question 3. :3
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Level 67
Feb 9, 2016
Its like the King of Planets
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Level 69
Aug 16, 2018
People addicted to knowledge and trivia quizzes are generally not nincompoops. It's not like the question was a crossword clue in the "News of the World".
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2019
erm I think zero.. I dont think people think it is a planet. If you ask what it is then (general public) they might not know, but they know it is not like the others.
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Level 23
Aug 31, 2012
Hehe. "You're not in Kansas anymore, your on ______!"

Thats the only reason why I remember the planet for Avatar...

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Level 27
Aug 31, 2012
What is Planet X (further informations please)?
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Level 69
Aug 31, 2012
Perhaps a planet that orbits a dwarf star that has a big orbit.
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Level 27
Sep 1, 2012
Mh, interesting.
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Level 92
May 6, 2013
Planet X was a theorized large planet that would explain a disparity in the orbital pattern of the outer gas giants--Uranus and Neptune. The search for Planet X resulted in the location of Pluto, Eris, and several other bodies now called dwarf planets outside Neptune's orbit, but Planet X was never found, as it does not exist. The variance in orbits were explained by more accurate size readings taken by Voyager 2.
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Level 95
Aug 8, 2016
Actually, within the past couple of years new evidence has come to light that seems to indicate that Planet X may actually exist. I believe the consensus among astronomers as of August 2016 is that it probably does.
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Level 81
Mar 29, 2023
According to Wikipedia, plattitude is correct that Planet X doesn't exist. I think you're referring to what is known as Planet Nine which is different from Planet X.

Planet X was a potential explanation for orbital discrepancies of large planets.

Planet Nine is a potential explanation for highly unusual clustering of ETNOs (objects far beyond Neptune).

These are fundamentally different. As of right now, it appears that Planet Nine's existence is still undetermined but that there is an active search for it. There is also a laundry list of alternative explanations and some research points to the original clustering not existing at all. No consensus appears to exist.

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Level 55
Apr 26, 2015
Ironically, one reason for calling it Planet X was that X is the roman numeral for 10. So now it would have to be called Planet IX ("Planet Ix", as in "icks"?)
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2019
I vote for "Planetix" sounds nice andretr-futuristic (but cant help thinking of callanetics, in english confusingly (so close yet so far) called callisthenics..)
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2019
I've also heard people refer to a fictional planet that will one day collide with Earth as either Nibiru or Planet X. But I think that's a different Planet X.
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Level 37
May 10, 2013
Would it be posible to accept "Nibiru" for "planet X"? It's a name given to it by a lot of "believers."
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Level 69
Aug 16, 2018
That's a totally different Planet X.
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Level 18
Jun 28, 2013
One reason I remembered Pandora is because the planet that the Borderlands games take place is also named Pandora.
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Level 35
Jun 20, 2014
Pleased to see that Earth is answered 100% of the time. :^)
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Level 75
May 5, 2016
Apparently not many aliens on this site. (Or so they want us to believe...)
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2019
It is the first thing they learn before they are send here... they ofcourse need to assimilate..
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Level 45
Oct 13, 2014
Not knowing much about Superman, never having been a huge fan of DC in general, all I could think was 'Notpyrk?'

However, being a die-hard Whovian, all I can think is WHERE IS GALLIFREY? WHERE IS RAXACORICOFALLAPATORIUS, which would definitely be hilarious, WHERE IS ANYTHING? Come ON, people!

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Level 69
Jul 18, 2016
Heh, I tried "Notpyrk" as a wild guess, too. Turns out we were close, because Htrae!
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Level 60
Sep 13, 2023
Yeah, I did the same. Consider accepting "notpyrk"?
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Level 48
Nov 25, 2016
"Clom?"

"Yes, Clom."

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Level 66
Nov 19, 2022
There's a Seinfeld episode that helped me get this one, where Elaine meets someone that is the opposite of Jerry. (The Bizarro Jerry)
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Level 53
Apr 25, 2015
All I got were the 10 places which actually exist, plus Krypton and Vulcan. I probably should of thought about how I know nothing about Star Wars before expecting to get a good score.
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Level 60
Apr 25, 2015
It really reassures my faith in education that 100% of people know that we live on Earth, when less than 20 years ago, 14% of Americans couldn't point to America on a map.
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2019
Well, if the question was "which round planet is inhabited by humans". I am sure the score would be muccch lower (actually by two factors, the belief of some that our planet is flat, and people thinking, ow we allready colonised other places, yea I think I heard something about that, where was it again..)
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Level 55
Apr 26, 2015
"That ice moon oughta be called Coldth, am I right?"
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Level 15
Apr 27, 2015
im glad 100% get earth. that would be just sad if you didnt
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Level 63
Apr 28, 2015
Did way better with the real ones. But they are in our solar system so that wasn't too hard.
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Level 36
Apr 28, 2015
The fact that gallifrey was on here made me extremely happy
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Level 71
Apr 29, 2015
One could just type in all the planets in our solar system without knowing the questions and get nine correct answers (counting Pluto as well).
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Level 71
Oct 28, 2015
You would only get 1 point from 5 though (that's if you were lucky)
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Level 55
Oct 28, 2015
I almost typed Bizarro World as a joke. Apparently I thought that was a different comic strip, not Superman canon.
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Level 50
Oct 28, 2015
I was hoping for some Melmac :)
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Level 16
Mar 6, 2016
great quiz :D ^_^ :)
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Level 60
May 1, 2016
Kinda wish Raxacoricofallapatorius was on here :)
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Level 28
Jun 5, 2016
I don't know those planets from the movies, but I know the 8 planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ... And I even know 9 Dwarf Planets in our solar system not just...: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Sedna, Quaoar and Orcus there's even another dwarf planet called 2007 or10. Sounds a little interesting. Right?
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Level 84
Aug 13, 2018
Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, and 2007 OR10 are only proposed dwarf planets. (Also, Salacia and 2002 MS4).
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Level 86
Sep 6, 2016
Whither Magrathea?
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Level 88
Aug 1, 2018
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't make a showing? Sad, sad times.
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Level 75
Aug 16, 2018
That's just what I was thinking, then I realised that I don't remember the names of any planets that appear in it other than Earth

Edit: and now I see Magrathea in the comment above

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Level 72
Sep 6, 2019
maybe Bartledan?
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Level 43
Dec 16, 2018
yellow box please
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Level 74
Dec 17, 2018
Technically Luke was born on Polis Massa, but he did live most of his life on Tatooine until the time of the movies.
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Level 81
Dec 17, 2018
Maybe accept Dagobah without the h? I got it, but didn't realize it had an h.
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Level 72
Dec 18, 2018
Agreed. I still got it, but I was surprised I had to type the h.
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Level 82
Dec 17, 2018
I'm 35 and still think Uranus is funny.
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2019
Mine got a great sense of humor, so that is understandable.
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Level 45
Dec 26, 2018
Surely Degobah should be added as a spelling typo for Dagobah
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Level 82
Mar 27, 2019
It's unknown where Yoda is actually from. Dagobah is just where he was hiding for about 20 years. But he's over 900 so not a very significant portion of his life.
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Level 82
Mar 27, 2019
Maybe you should accept Nibiru for "Planet X"
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Level 70
May 13, 2019
I'm really surprised you didn't list the Conehead's home planet- Meepzor.
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Level 75
Sep 6, 2019
I always thought they were from France...
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Level 22
Sep 5, 2019
I thought earth had 99% Im like.........................................................
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Level 75
Sep 6, 2019
jupiter, neptune and uranus also have rings....
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Level 75
Sep 6, 2019
Ganymede may also have a liquid water ocean under its icy outer shell, albeit at much deeper levels. Europa (potentially) has the most easily accessible (to us) liquid ocean.
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Level 75
Sep 6, 2019
And what about Dune?? Ix (see above comment) could then make the quiz!
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2019
I think Discworld would make a great addition to this quiz. (It really shouldn't be absent in a quiz with fictional planets :) it is the greatest one of all)
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Level 74
Sep 6, 2019
Please do check out "Nibiru", it's basically the same as Planet X.
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Level 62
Feb 14, 2020
actually, ceres was also demoted to dwarf planet
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Level 84
Jul 28, 2022
Nope. Ceres was demoted to asteroid in the 1850s, and then promoted to dwarf planet.
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Level 62
Oct 6, 2023
This is a nit-pick since everybody calls it Endor, but the name "The Forest Moon of Endor" actually refers to how the moon orbits the planet of Endor, which is actually a cyan gas giant.
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Level 55
Jan 31, 2024
Some more misspellings for Dagobah would be nice. Most people have only heard it spoken in the movies.