Statistics for The Venus Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Number of moons	0	92%
The symbol for Venus ♀ is also a symbol of ...	The female sex	81%
Greek name of the Roman god Venus	Aphrodite	71%
Why Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system	{Greenhouse} effect	68%
Gas making up 96% of Venus's atmosphere	Carbon dioxide	66%
Term for Venus when it appears in the east just before sunrise	The {Morning} Star	65%
Country who landed the first probe on the surface of Venus in 1975	Soviet Union	64%
Venus is the only planet that can be seen from earth in ...	Broad daylight	62%
Sea captain who sailed to Tahiti to observe one of the above in 1768	Captain Cook	59%
The adjective form of Mars is Martian. What is the adjective form of Venus?	Venusian	59%
Greek term for the same thing, today the name of the element with symbol P	Phosphorus	57%
Latin term for the above, meaning "light bringer", associated with a fallen angel	Lucifer	41%
Part of Venus where it is thought that microorganisms might live	Atmosphere	33%
Term for the rare occurences when Venus passes directly between the Earth and Sun	{Transit} of Venus	28%
U.S. probe that swung by Venus in 1962, the first successful interplanetary mission	{Mariner} 2	17%