Moon 02 Pub Quiz (Free Printable)

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1   Which crew member of Apollo 11 did NOT walk on the Moon in 1969?
A   Michael Collins; he piloted the Command Module in lunar orbit.

2   Which famous work of fiction provides the names for all the mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan?
A   The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional world of Middle-earth.

3   Keith Moon was the drummer of which rock band?
A   The Who.

4   Blue Moon is a beer that originated in which country?
A   USA. Inspired by Belgian traditions, Blue Moon is an American-style wheat ale.

5   The Oscar-winning song “Moon River” was performed by Audrey Hepburn in which 1961 film?
A   Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She played the character Holly Golightly, singing it on her fire escape with a guitar.

6   In “The Man in the Moon” nursery rhyme, to which city was the man going?
A   Norwich. The man in the moon, Came down too soon, To inquire his way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold Pease porridge.

7   Which planet has moons named Dione, Mundilfari, Bestia, Skoll and Fenrir?
A   Saturn. Saturn boasts 274 known moons, the highest number of any planet in the Solar System.

8   What is a Gibbous moon?
A   When it is between half and full, where the moon appears bulging—more than half illuminated but not yet full—between the quarter and full stages

9   What day of the week is named after the Moon?
A   Monday, derived from Old English Mōnandæg, meaning “Moon’s day”, directly linking it to the celestial body, just as Latin dies Lunae meant “day of the moon”.

10   What did astronauts David Scott and James Irwin do on the moon for the first time in 1971?
A   Drive a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV)