Space & Astronomy trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 Space & Astronomy questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
Tap a question to reveal the answer. The sample runs from very easy to very hard, like the pack itself. Showing 15 of 50 questions.
Which planet is closest to the Sun?Very easy
Answer: Mercury
What is the name of the United States government agency, founded in 1958, that runs the country's civilian space programme?Very easy
Answer: NASA
What is a group of stars that forms a recognisable pattern in the night sky called?Very easy
Answer: A constellation
What is the name of the space telescope launched into orbit in 1990 and named after an American astronomer?Easy
Answer: Hubble (the Hubble Space Telescope)
Which British physicist wrote the 1988 bestseller 'A Brief History of Time'?Easy
Answer: Stephen Hawking (Hawking)
Which star marks north in the night sky, lying almost directly above the Earth's axis of rotation?Easy
Answer: Polaris (the North Star, the Pole Star)
Which Apollo mission, launched in 1970, had to abandon its Moon landing after an oxygen tank exploded, with the crew returning safely to Earth?Intermediate
Answer: Apollo 13
What is the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way?Intermediate
Answer: The Andromeda Galaxy (Andromeda, M31)
What name is given to the large, cool, luminous stage that stars like the Sun reach late in their lives, when they swell to many times their original size?Intermediate
Answer: A red giant
Which moon of Saturn is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere?Hard
Answer: Titan
Which planet was discovered in 1846 after its position had been predicted mathematically from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus?Hard
Answer: Neptune
The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, observes mainly in which part of the electromagnetic spectrum?Hard
Answer: Infrared
What was the name of the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin made the first human spaceflight?Very hard
Answer: Vostok 1 (Vostok)
What name is given to the vast spherical cloud of icy bodies at the outer edge of the solar system, thought to be the source of long-period comets?Very hard
Answer: The Oort cloud
Which spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, ending its mission by plunging into the planet's atmosphere?Very hard
Answer: Cassini
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