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What is the 7th planet from the sun?

  • Neptune
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Jupiter

Which of the following is a dwarf planet?

  • Makemake
  • Ganymede
  • Hyperion
  • Tiny

How many planets are in our solar system?

  • 9
  • 8
  • 10
  • 7

How far is Earth from the sun?

  • 93 million miles
  • 9 million miles
  • 39 million miles
  • 3 million miles

Which planet are women supposedly from?

  • Earth
  • Saturn
  • Mars
  • Venus

Who named our home planet Earth?

  • William Herschel
  • Johann Bode
  • Grey Aliens
  • No one knows

Which of these is not a nickname for Earth?

  • Gaia
  • Terra
  • The Blue Planet
  • Greeny

What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

  • Pluto
  • Earth
  • Venus
  • Mercury

What is the coldest planet in the solar system?

  • Neptune
  • Uranus
  • Saturn
  • Jupiter

How long did it take for NASA's Voyager 1 to reach interstellar space beyond our star system?

  • 35 years
  • 11 years
  • 52 years
  • 23 years

How many suns does our neighboring solar system, Alpha Centauri, have?

  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 4

Where is our solar system located in the Milky Way?

  • The Orion Arm
  • The Perseus Arm
  • The Sagittarius Arm
  • The Norma Arm

Which of the following movies does not involve human travel to space?

  • Gravity
  • Armageddon
  • First Man
  • The Theory of Everything

Who was the first person to go to space?

  • Neil Armstrong
  • Yuri Gagarin
  • Alan Shepard
  • Buzz Lightyear

How hot is the center of the sun?

  • 27,000,000 F
  • 10,000 F
  • 10,000,000 F
  • 27,000 F

Which tech billionaire is obsessed with living on Mars?

  • Jeff Bezos
  • Bill Gates
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Elon Musk

Which color is not associated with any of the planets in our star system?

  • Grey
  • Red
  • Green
  • Purple

Approximately how old is our solar system?

  • 12 billion years
  • 500 million years
  • A trillion years
  • 4.5 billion years

Which planet has the biggest volcano in the solar system, that's triple the height of Mount Everest?

  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Mercury
  • Saturn

What is the densest object in our solar system?

  • Mercury
  • Earth
  • Your sibling
  • The asteroid Juno

Where does the main asteroid belt lie?

  • Between Mercury and Venus
  • Between Saturn and Uranus
  • Between Jupiter and Saturn
  • Between Mars and Jupiter

How many Earths would fit inside Jupiter, the biggest planet in the solar system?

  • 1,300
  • 800
  • 575
  • 90

How far away is the moon, on average?

  • 238,855 miles
  • 99,234 miles
  • 24,901 miles
  • 166,499 miles

Around how long does it take for a spacecraft to reach the moon?

  • Two days
  • Three days
  • Five days
  • One day

Which of the following planets does not have rings around it?

  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus

Who spent a long time under house arrest for saying the earth revolved around the sun?

  • Donatello
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Michelangelo
  • Rembrandt

Who was the first astronomer to observe the Andromeda galaxy?

  • Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Tycho Brahe

In what year did a whistleblower tell Congress that the U.S. is hiding a decades-long UFO capturing program?

  • 2023
  • 1947
  • 1980
  • 2020

How many orbits of Earth does the International Space Station make in 24 hours?

  • 8
  • 16
  • 4
  • 10

Approximately how many miles are there in one light-year?

  • 6 trillion miles
  • 6 billion miles
  • 6 million miles
  • 2 trillion miles

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