Statistics for Solar System Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Planet which is closest to the Sun	Mercury	99%
Galaxy in which our Solar System is located	Milky Way	88%
Pluto is this type of planet	{Dwarf} planet	87%
Comet that appears in the inner solar system every 75–76 years	{Halley}'s Comet	70%
"Belt" which appears between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter	The asteroid belt	70%
Name one of the four largest moons of Jupiter	Ganymede \| Callisto \| Europa \| Io	67%
Gas that composes 96% of Venus's thick atmosphere, creating a runaway greenhouse effect?	Carbon dioxide	66%
Term for a model of the Solar System which places the sun at the center	{Helio}centric	60%
Gas that composes 89% of the volume of Jupiter	Hydrogen	60%
Crystallized carbon substance that scientists think might rain from the sky on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune	Diamonds	54%
To the nearest whole number, the mass of the sun as a percent of the mass of the entire solar system	100%	50%
Term which refers to the distance between the Earth and the Sun	{Astronomical} Unit	45%
Martian volcano that is nearly three times higher than Mount Everest	{Olympus} Mons	45%
"Belt" which appears beyond the orbit of Neptune and is home to the above	{Kuiper} Belt	43%
What became, in 2012, the first human-built probe to exit the solar system	Voyager 1	42%
Giant storm that has been visible on the surface of Jupiter since at least 1878	Great Red Spot	41%
Nearest star to the sun	Proxima Centauri	41%
The largest object in that belt, named for the Roman goddess of agriculture	Ceres	37%
Shape that mysteriously appears on the north pole of Saturn	Hexagon	24%
Comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994 with the force of 6 trillion tons of TNT	{Shoemaker}–Levy	12%