Astronomy and Space

Question 1

First space walk

Answer 1

Alexei Leonov

Question 2

Closest star

Answer 2

Proxima Centauri

Question 3

The Earth’s magnetic belt

Answer 3

Van Allen belt

Question 4

Solar magnetic storms with 11-year cycles

Answer 4

Sun spots

Question 5

The ringed planet

Answer 5

Saturn

Question 6

Saturn’s orbital period

Answer 6

29 years

Question 7

The sun’s “breeze”

Answer 7

Solar wind

Question 8

Apollo 13 commander

Answer 8

James Lovell

Question 9

U.S. space station

Answer 9

Skylab

Question 10

Comet that returns every 76 years

Answer 10

Halley’s comet

Question 11

Polish astronomer

Answer 11

Copernicus

Question 12

First weather satellite

Answer 12

Tiros

Question 13

Probe to Uranus

Answer 13

Voyager II

Question 14

Third American in space (three orbits)

Answer 14

John Glenn

Question 15

Second American in space (suborbital)

Answer 15

Gus Grissom

Question 16

Second man to walk on the moon

Answer 16

Buzz Aldrin

Question 17

Oldest U.S. astronaut, launched in 1998

Answer 17

John Glenn (77 yrs. Old)

Question 18

English astronomer royal

Answer 18

Sir Edmund Halley

Question 19

Italian astronomer

Answer 19

Galileo (Galilei)

Question 20

First woman in space

Answer 20

Valentina Tereshkova

Question 21

The “Greenhouse effect” planet

Answer 21

Venus

Question 22

North star or pole star

Answer 22

Polaris

Question 23

Probe to Neptune

Answer 23

Voyager II

Question 24

Comet that struck Jupiter in 1994

Answer 24

Shoemaker-Levy 9

Question 25

American astronomer

Answer 25

Edwin Hubble

Question 26

Largest volcano in solar system

Answer 26

Mars' Olympus Mons

Question 27

1983 book chronicling the U.S. Space program

Answer 27

_The Right Stuff_

Question 28

Mars' orbital period

Answer 28

1.9 years

Question 29

The sun's halo

Answer 29

Corona

Question 30

The only planet not named after mythological figure

Answer 30

Earth

Question 31

First American woman to walk in space

Answer 31

Kathryn Sullivan

Question 32

Largest known asteroid

Answer 32

Ceres

Question 33

Venus' orbital period

Answer 33

225 days

Question 34

Planet closest to sun, with no moons.

Answer 34

Mercury

Question 35

First man to walk on the moon

Answer 35

Neil Armstrong

Question 36

Three-person U.S. space program

Answer 36

Apollo

Question 37

Russian space station

Answer 37

Mir ("peace" in Russian)

Question 38

First telecommunications satellite

Answer 38

Telstar

Question 39

Comet visible for several months in 1996

Answer 39

Hale-Bopp

Question 40

Man who played golf on the moon

Answer 40

Alan Shepard

Question 41

First man in space

Answer 41

Yuri Gagarin

Question 42

Space Shuttle names

Answer 42

Enterprise (atmospheric tests only), Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor

Question 43

First American in space (suborbital)

Answer 43

Alan Shepard

Question 44

The smallest planet

Answer 44

Pluto

Question 45

First American to walk in space

Answer 45

Edward White

Question 46

Theory of the expanding universe

Answer 46

Big Bang theory

Question 47

The second smallest planet

Answer 47

Mercury

Question 48

The red planet

Answer 48

Mars

Question 49

Nebula named for sea creature

Answer 49

Crab nebula

Question 50

"Dog Star", brightest star in sky

Answer 50

Sirius

Question 51

Galactic cloud of dust and gas

Answer 51

Nebula

Question 52

Apollo 11 landing module

Answer 52

Eagle

Question 53

Mercury's oribital period

Answer 53

88 days

Question 54

The blue planet (not earth)

Answer 54

Neptune

Question 55

Two-person U.S. space program

Answer 55

Gemini

Question 56

Belt between Mars and Jupiter

Answer 56

Asteroid belt (possibly a destroyed planet)

Question 57

Jupiter's orbital period

Answer 57

12 years

Question 58

Mars' moons

Answer 58

Phobos (larger) and Demos (smaller)

Question 59

First American woman in space

Answer 59

Sally Ride

Question 60

The largest planet (larger than all others put together)

Answer 60

Jupiter

Question 61

First man-made object to leave the solar system

Answer 61

Pioneer 10

Question 62

Neptune's orbital period

Answer 62

165 years

Question 63

First U.S. satellite

Answer 63

Explorer I

Question 64

First satellite, 1957

Answer 64

Sputnik

Question 65

Closest major galaxy

Answer 65

Andromeda

Question 66

Pluto's orbital period

Answer 66

248 years

Question 67

Uranus' orbital period

Answer 67

84 years