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Space exploration quiz
How well do you really know Space exploration? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Space exploration questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
When space explorers talk about the Red Planet, which planet do they mean, and what gives its surface that rusty color?
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- Mars
- Iron oxide (rust) on its surface
- The iron oxide is in its rocks or dust
- Easy
At the dawn of the space age, what was the first artificial satellite in Earth orbit, and which country launched it?
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- Sputnik 1
- The Soviet Union (USSR) launched it
- It launched in 1957
- Easy
Planets keep looping around the Sun instead of flying off: what force pulls them inward, and what keeps them moving forward?
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- Gravity pulls planets toward the Sun.
- Their forward motion, or inertia, keeps them from falling straight into it.
- Together, gravity and forward motion produce orbiting paths.
- Easy
Which space telescope launched in 1990 reshaped astronomy, and what kinds of light can it observe?
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- Hubble Space Telescope
- It observes visible light
- It observes ultraviolet and near-infrared light
- Medium
What was the first human-made object to reach the Moon, and which country launched it?
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- Luna 2 was the first human-made object to reach the Moon.
- The Soviet Union launched it in 1959.
- Medium
What was the twin-rover Mars mission called, and what were its two rovers named?
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- Mars Exploration Rover mission
- Spirit
- Opportunity
- Medium
Which spacecraft first orbited Jupiter, and what did it send into Jupiter’s atmosphere?
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- Galileo spacecraft
- It sent an atmospheric probe into Jupiter
- The probe measured the planet’s atmosphere
- Boss
Which Soviet mission made the first soft landing on Venus, what was its lander called, and what year did it land?
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- The mission was Venera 7
- Its lander was also called Venera 7
- It landed in 1970
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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