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Question	Tile	Select	% Correct
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Ceres	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Eris	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Io	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Nemesis	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	The Moon	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Titan	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Vesta	No	99%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Earth	Yes	98%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Mercury	Yes	98%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Neptune	Yes	98%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Saturn	Yes	98%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Sedna	No	98%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Venus	Yes	98%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Jupiter	Yes	97%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Uranus	Yes	97%
of the following are active stars?	Venus	No	96%
of the following are active stars?	Voyager	No	95%
of the following are active stars?	Triangulum	No	91%
of the following are planets (officially as of 2006)?	Pluto	No	90%
of the following are active stars?	The Sun	Yes	90%
of the following are active stars?	Andromeda	No	88%
of the following are active stars?	Sirius	Yes	86%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	The Moon	Yes	84%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Mars	Yes	83%
of the following are active stars?	Alpha Centauri	Yes	82%
of the following are active stars?	Betelgeuse	Yes	82%
of these statements are correct?	Charles Darwin discovered that Stars are a type of lifeform	No	81%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Earth	Yes	81%
of the following are active stars?	Georgium Sidis	No	81%
of the following are active stars?	Polaris	Yes	80%
of these statements are correct?	Thomas Edison discovered the planet Uranus	No	80%
of these statements are correct?	Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call to a man in space	No	79%
of these statements are correct?	Marie Curie recorded a solar flare for the first time	No	79%
of these statements are correct?	Benjamin Franklin discovered Saturn and wanted to name it Washington	No	78%
of the following are methods of calculating distance in space used by scientists?	Sending a probe to a nearby star system and seeing how long it takes	No	77%
of the following are active stars?	Magnus	No	76%
of these statements are correct?	Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter's four largest moons	Yes	75%
of these statements are correct?	Michael Faraday discovered that magnets don't work in space	No	75%
of these statements are correct?	Niels Bohr drew blueprints for a faster-than-light space shuttle	No	74%
of these statements are correct?	James Watson helped build the first successfully-launched American rocket ship	No	73%
of these statements are correct?	Isaac Newton formulated the law of Universal Gravitation	Yes	72%
of the following are methods of calculating distance in space used by scientists?	Using the Hubble constant, along with the redshift of a receding galaxy	Yes	69%
of the following are methods of calculating distance in space used by scientists?	Firing a SONAR wave at a planet or star and waiting for it to echo back	No	67%
of these statements are correct?	Louis Pasteur first recorded the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation	No	67%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Venus	Yes	67%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Jupiter	Yes	66%
of these statements are correct?	Albert Einstein discovered Special Relativity	Yes	64%
of these statements are correct?	Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the heliocentric model	Yes	64%
of the following are methods of calculating distance in space used by scientists?	Using the apparent size of a star or galaxy to tell how close it is	No	64%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Saturn	Yes	63%
of these statements are correct?	Nikola Tesla made the first electron telescope	No	62%
of these statements are correct?	Stephen Hawking correctly predicted the existence of Hawking Radiation	Yes	62%
of the following are methods of calculating distance in space used by scientists?	Using parallax over a six-month period to see the slight change in position	Yes	62%
of the following are methods of calculating distance in space used by scientists?	Comparing the absolute magnitude and the apparent magnitude of a star	Yes	58%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Mercury	Yes	55%
of the following are active stars?	Sagittarius A*	No	52%
of these statements are correct?	Urbain Le Verrier predicted the position of Neptune based on variations in Uranus' orbit	Yes	50%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Uranus	Yes	49%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Neptune	Yes	48%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Pluto	Yes	46%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	The Sun	Yes	46%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Titan	Yes	45%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Io	Yes	36%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Ganymede	Yes	34%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Ceres	Yes	28%
Have man-made machines (or actual humans) orbited, landed on, or flown by (or crashed into)?	Phobos	Yes	26%