Statistics for The Mars Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mars is named after the Roman god of ____	War	95%
Compound that gives Mars a reddish appearance	{Iron} Oxide	77%
Greek name of that Roman god	Ares	74%
American company founded in 2002 with the goal of enabling the colonization of Mars	SpaceX	69%
Actor who was the main star of the 2015 movie "The Martian"	Matt Damon	68%
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	67%
Type of storm that sometimes encircles the entire planet	{Dust} Storm	65%
Largest volcano in the Solar System	{Olympus} Mons	61%
First country to send a probe to the surface of Mars, in 1971	Soviet Union	61%
Gas that composes 95.97% of Mars's thin atmosphere	Carbon Dioxide	55%
Two moons of Mars	Phobos	50%
The Valles Marineris is a system of long and extremely deep ...	Canyons	45%
Two moons of Mars	Deimos	45%
Looney Tunes character from Mars that wants to destroy Earth	{Marvin} the Martian	43%
Name any one of the two NASA rovers that are currently operating on Mars	Curiosity \| Perseverance	35%
Term for the period of time it takes for Mars to rotate, about 24 hours and 39 minutes	Sol	28%
The first functioning Mars probe, which landed in 1976	Viking 1	15%
Spacecraft which performed the first successful flyby of Mars in 1965	Mariner 4	12%