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There are 4 moons in the solar system that are larger than Earth's moon. Name any one of them | Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, or Io | 100%
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Term for a planet such as Jupiter | Gas {Giant} | 100%
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American company founded in 2002 with the goal of enabling the colonization of Mars | SpaceX | 100%
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Planet who's orbit crosses with Pluto's Orbit | Neptune | 94%
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The Only Planet that is Denser than Mercury | Earth | 93%
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Fill in the blank: That's one small step for man, one _____ ____ for mankind | Giant Leap | 93%
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Who was the first person to walk on the moon? | Neil Armstrong | 93%
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What color does Uranus appear to be in a small telescope? | Blue | 90%
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In 2006 , Pluto was reclassified as a | {Dwarf} Planet | 90%
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Saturn's Most Popular Nickname | The {Ring}ed Planet | 89%
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Element Named after Pluto | Plutonium | 88%
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What oceanic phenomenon is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon? | Tides | 88%
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The Actual Color of The Sun | White | 88%
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Greek Name of Saturn | Cronus | 87%
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Day of The Gregorian Calendar that is Named after Saturn | Saturday | 87%
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Mars is named after the Roman god of ____ | War | 86%
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The Most Abundant Element on Saturn | Hydrogen | 85%
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What was the name of the American program to land a person on the moon? | Apollo | 83%
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The orbit of Mercury was important in proving this 1905 Theory | Theory of Relativity | 83%
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Element named after Uranus | Uranium | 83%
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First Country to observe Mercury by Radar | USSR | 83%
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Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter | Zeus | 83%
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Hard and Expensive Substance that Rains On Saturn | Diamonds | 81%
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Space Telescope that discovered Pluto's Fourth and Fifth Moon | Hubble Space Telescope | 81%
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Neptune is Named after the Roman God of the ___ | Sea | 81%
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Saturn's moon Mimas resembles this fictional space station and galactic Superweapon | {Death} Star | 80%
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The Shape of Pluto's Orbit | Elliptical | 80%
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Country who landed the first probe on the surface of Venus in 1975 | Soviet Union | 80%
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Pluto is named after the Roman God of the | Underworld | 80%
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Greek name of the Roman god Venus | Aphrodite | 79%
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It is predicted that in 35–50 million years Mars will gain one of these, something that 4 of the 8 planets already have | a Ring | 79%
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Pluto's Largest Moon which is almost half it's size | Charon | 79%
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Compound that gives Mars a reddish appearance | {Iron} Oxide | 78%
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Italian Astronomer who thought Saturn's Rings were Moons | Galileo Galilei | 77%
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Greek God that represents Mercury | Hermes | 77%
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Uranus was first named as Georgium Sidus in honor of | King {George} III | 75%
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The Roman God Mercury, after whom Mercury is named, is known as the | {Messenger} of the Gods | 75%
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What is the name of Earth's moon in Latin? | Luna | 74%
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The Tombaugh Regio area of Pluto's surface looks like this Human Organ | Heart | 73%
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The Only Spacecraft to have ever visited Uranus | Voyager 2 | 72%
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Moon of Jupiter thought to be covered with a layer of water and ice 100 km thick | Europa | 71%
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Why Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system | {Greenhouse} effect | 71%
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Ring of Bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune where Pluto is located | {Kuiper} Belt | 71%
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Only Spacecraft to perform a flyby of Pluto in 2015 | New {Horizons} | 70%
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Largest volcano in the Solar System | {Olympus} Mons | 70%
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Modern Day Country where Uranus was discovered | United Kingdom | 70%
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Belt you will find between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter | Asteroid Belt | 69%
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What is the term for the second full moon in a single calendar month? | {Blue} Moon | 67%
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Greek God of the Sun | Helios | 67%
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Looney Tunes character from Mars that wants to destroy Earth | {Marvin} the Martian | 67%
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The Number of Natural Satellites of Mercury | Zero | 67%
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What was the first word uttered on the surface of the moon? (Hint: it's the name of an American city) | Houston | 65%
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In what "sea" did the first moon landing take place? | Sea of {Tranquility} | 65%
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What are Mozart , Beethoven and Michelangelo on Mercury? | Craters | 64%
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Which phase of the moon comes after the new moon? | Waxing {Crescent} | 64%
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Storm on the surface of Jupiter that has existed since at least 1830 | Great Red Spot | 63%
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Probe, named for Jupiter's wife, which entered the orbit of Jupiter in 2016 | Juno | 63%
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Moons of Mars (name any) | Phobos | Deimos | 63%
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Saturn's Largest Moon | Titan | 63%
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First probe to send back high-resolution images of Saturn | Voyager | 63%
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Substance with chemical formula NH3 which makes up ice clouds in one layer of Jupiter's atmosphere | Ammonia | 62%
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Gas that composes 95.97% of Mars's thin atmosphere | Carbon Dioxide | 61%
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Who was the Greek goddess of the moon (and also hunting)? | Artemis | 60%
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U.S. probe that swung by Venus in 1962, the first successful interplanetary mission | {Mariner} 2 | 59%
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Over 400 _____ can be found on the surface of the moon Io | Volcanos | 59%
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Type of storm that sometimes encircles the entire planet of Mars | {Dust} Storm | 58%
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Actor who was the main star of the 2015 movie "The Martian" | Matt Damon | 58%
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First country to send a probe to the surface of Mars, in 1971 | Soviet Union | 58%
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Gas making up 96% of Venus's atmosphere | Carbon dioxide | 56%
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Name of the NASA rover that is currently operating on Mars | Curiosity | 56%
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Most Abundant Element on Pluto | Nitrogen | 56%
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Part of Venus where it is thought that microorganisms might live | Atmosphere | 55%
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The Discovery of this celestial body led to discussion about Pluto's status as a planet | Eris | 55%
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What band recorded the album "The Dark Side of the Moon"? | Pink Floyd | 55%
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The Valles Marineris in Mars is a system of long and extremely deep ... | Canyons | 54%
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Saturn Is Named after The Roman God of ___ | Time | 54%
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Astronomers from this city were the first to create written observations of Jupiter, which they named after their god Marduk | Babylon | 50%
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Venus is the only planet that can be seen from earth in ... | Broad daylight | 50%
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Mercury's Core majorly comprises of this Element | Iron | 50%
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Most common Element found on Mercury | Oxygen | 50%
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The Largest Moon of Neptune | Triton | 50%
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Second-largest moon of Jupiter | Callisto | 47%
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What was the code name of the lunar module used in the first moon landing? | Eagle | 47%
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Because of it's low escape velocity, Uranus has been proposed as a mining site for and isotope of this element | Helium | 47%
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Which phase of the moon comes after the full moon? | Waning {Gibbous} | 47%
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The approximate ratio of the Mass of Earth and Uranus | 14.5 | 46%
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Term for Venus when it appears in the east just before sunrise | The {Morning} Star | 46%
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Initially, Uranus was concluded to be a _____, and not a Planet | Comet | 45%
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Shape of the cloud pattern located around the north pole of Saturn | Hexagonal | 44%
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Southwest American State from where Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto | Arizona | 42%
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What James Bond movie has "moon" in the title? | Moonraker | 42%
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The adjective form of Mars is Martian. What is the adjective form of Venus? | Venusian | 41%
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A Meteorite from Mercury was found in this Modern Day African Country in 2012 | Morocco | 38%
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Uranus is named after the Ancient Greek Deity of the ___ | Sky | 38%
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Operation Uranus was a successful military operation in World War II by the Red Army to take back ___________ | Stalingrad | 38%
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Smallest Round Moon of Uranus , named after a Character from The Tempest | Miranda | 37%
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Length of an year on Uranus (in Earth Years) | 84 Earth Years | 36%
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Spacecraft which performed the first successful flyby of Mars in 1965 | Mariner 4 | 36%
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Term for the period of time it takes for Mars to rotate, about 24 hours and 39 minutes | Sol | 36%
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Evaporated Atoms from Mercury's Surface, form a ____ pointing away from the Sun | Tail | 35%
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What do you call the plasma that surrounds the sun? | Corona | 33%
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The adjective form of Mars is Martian. The adjective form of Venus is Venusian. What is the adjective form of Jupiter? | Jovian | 33%
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Sanskrit name of Mercury, that is similar to the name of Founder of a Religion /Avatar of Lord Vishnu | Budha | 31%
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Largest Moon of Uranus, named after queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. | Titania | 31%
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Shoemaker–Levy 9, which crashed into Jupiter in 1994, was this type of object | Comet | 30%
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German born British Astronomer that discovered Uranus | William Herschel | 29%
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Empire made the first recorded observations of Mercury | {Assyrian} Empire | 25%
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Top Layers of Saturn's Atmosphere Consist of the solid form of this compound that gives it It's Yellow Color | Ammonia | 23%
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The first functioning Mars probe, which landed in 1976 | Viking 1 | 23%
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Spacecraft that flew by Mercury in 1974 | {Mariner} 10 | 20%
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In Chinese, Japanese and Korean, what does the name "Uranus" mean? | King of {Heaven} | 19%
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Term for the rare occurences when Venus passes directly between the Earth and Sun | {Transit} of Venus | 17%
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First Spacecraft to Visit Saturn | {Pioneer} 11 | 13%
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Spacecraft that discovered ice geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus's South Pole | Cassini | 11%
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Name given by scientists for Mercury's Unique Atmosphere | Exosphere | 9%
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Day on which the Cassini spacecraft turned to image Saturn, most of its visible ring system, and Earth, during an eclipse of the Sun. | The Day The Earth {Smiled} | 7%
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What does Saturn's Astronomical Symbol ♄ Represent? | God's {Sickle} | 0%
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American Astronomer and author of How I Killed Pluto | Michael Brown | 0%
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