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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What is the largest planet in our solar system?	Jupiter	100%
Who is generally rewarded as being the first man on the moon?	Neil Armstrong	99%
A commonly used measurement in astrology is the distance that what travels in one year?	Light	97%
What is the major US space agency acronym?	NASA	96%
What was the name of the movie starring Tom Hanks about a famous failed moon landing?	Apollo 13	80%
What is the name of our galaxy?	Milky Way Galaxy	80%
What does the U in UFO stand for?	Unidentified	77%
What is the name of a gravitational field so strong, even light cannot escape it?	Black Hole	54%
Which object is often considered the most expensive thing ever made on Earth?	International Space Station	54%
Which Soviet satellite, launched in 1957, began the 'Space Race'?	Sputnik 1	52%
What is the name of the phenomena when the moon blocks out the Sun's light?	Solar Eclipse	49%
To the nearest minute, how long does it take sunlight to reach Earth?	8 minutes	46%
What is the closest known sun to our solar system?	Proxima Centauri	30%
What is the most common type of star found in our galaxy?	Red Dwarf	26%
What is the name of our closest known galaxy (besides our own)?	Andromeda	23%
What is the largest object in the asteroid belt?	Ceres	20%
What is the largest moon in our solar system?	Ganymede	19%
From which city did the astronomers who made the first written observation of Jupiter from?	Babylon	6%
What is the name of the nebula that is the coldest known place in the universe?	Boomerang Nebula	4%
What is the name of Mercury's unique atmosphere?	Exosphere	4%