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