Written by Alan, Quiz Master with 35+ years of live pub quiz experience.
100% AI-Free: Questions written by a Human for Humans.
Science 150630 is a selection of 10 questions. Science 150630 is the filename to differentiate it from other Science quizzes.
1 What is a more common name for the cluster of seven stars correctly called the Pleiades?
A Seven Sisters
2 At least one of which series of spacecraft is at all times docked to the International Space Station as an emergency escape craft?
A Soyuz
3 What was the name of the spacecraft taken into orbit for the first
A Space Shuttle Columbia
4 Moons named Titan, Rhea and Iapetus orbit planet in our solar system?
A Saturn (it has about 62 moons plus other moonlets)
5 The touchdown of which spacecraft in July 2011 concluded NASA’s space shuttle programme?
A Atlantis
6 Which two planets in our Solar System do not have moons?
A Mercury and Venus
7 Launched in August 2011, what is the destination of the Juno spacecraft?
A Jupiter
8 Where did Eugene Cernan set a vehicular speed record of 18 km/h in April 1972?
A The Moon (Apollo 16 lunar rover LRV-2)
9 Who was 16th century Polish astronomer famed for formulating a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the centre of the universe?
A Nicolaus Copernicus
10 What is the name for a cloud of dust and gasses in space?
A Nebula