Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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What planet in the solar system is not named after a Roman or Greek god? | Earth | 95%
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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 | 80%
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What is the name of the brightest star in the night sky? | Sirius | 77%
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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 | 59%
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What part of the Moon did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land in? | Sea of Tranquility | 55%
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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 | 30%
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How many officially recognized constellations are there? | 88 | 26%
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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 | 16%
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Which modern constellation is the largest? | Hydra | 12%
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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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What is the name of the most prominent crater on the Moon? | Tycho | 7%
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