Ricardo Gondelles
Planet quiz! If you’re not an astronomer, chances are you’ll fail questions Nº 6 and 14. Are you ready to check your knowledge? Average score: 10/15.
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Which of these bodies in the Solar System has volcanic activity?
- Mars
- Io (satellite)
- Mercury
- Dione (satellite)
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An easy one… Which planet within the Solar System has a canyon on its surface, so huge, it could stretch from Los Angeles to the Atlantic Coast?
- Venus
- Pluto
- Mars
- Mercury
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Recent history to remember… Which spacecraft finally got to approach Pluto in 2015, on route to outer space?
- New Horizons
- Voyager 2
- Cassini-Huygens
- Juno
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Which U.S. President made the first telephone call to the Moon?
- Lyndon Johnson
- Gerald Ford
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
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Which type of Solar System body is used to classify an object known as Hale-Bopp?
- A dwarf planet
- A comet
- An asteroid
- A meteoroid
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Ok, this might be tough… There is a circumstellar disc beyond Neptune to reach some 55 astronomical units from the Sun, full of icy objects. What is its name?
- Interplanetary Medium
- Kuiper Belt
- Asteroid Belt
- Oort Cloud
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What was the first country to send an object reaching the surface of the Moon?
- China
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Japan
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There are only two planets in our Solar System that rotate clockwise. Which ones?
- Venus and Uranus
- Mercury and Mars
- Earth and Saturn
- Jupiter and Neptune
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There is a dormant volcano that happens to be the largest in all Solar System. In which planet is it?
- Earth
- Venus
- Mars
- Mercury
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One to stimulate your curiosity… Scientists discovered that there’s a planet in our Solar System that is actually shrinking. Can you name it?
- Mercury
- Venus
- Jupiter
- Mars
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One of these planets was recently discovered to actually have rings. Which one?
- Mars
- Venus
- Mercury
- Jupiter
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Keeping updated with news… Jupiter’s big Red Spot is actually changing in size. What’s happening to it?
- It’s getting bigger.
- It’s getting smaller
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Another easy one for a change… Which one of these is not a gas planet?
- Neptune
- Uranus
- Venus
- Jupiter
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Which planet moon has a peculiar two-tone (black and white) surface in Solar System?
- Mars’ Deimos
- Neptune’s Galatea
- Saturn’s Iapetus
- Jupiter’s Callisto
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Which region is the outermost in our Solar System?
- Oort Cloud
- Asteroid Belt
- Scattered Disc
- Kuiper Belt
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