Stars
What is our closest star?
Correct Answer: The Sun
What is a constellation?
Correct Answer: A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern in the sky.
What is a galaxy?
Correct Answer: A huge group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
What is the Big Bang theory?
Correct Answer: The idea that the universe began from a single point and has been expanding.
What is the capital city of France?
Correct Answer: Paris
Which star helps sailors navigate north?
Correct Answer: Polaris (North Star)
Why do different constellations appear in different seasons?
Correct Answer: Because Earth orbits the Sun, changing our view of the night sky.
What is the name of our galaxy?
Correct Answer: The Milky Way
About how many years ago did the Big Bang occur?
Correct Answer: Around 13.8 billion years ago
What organ pumps blood throughout the body?
Correct Answer: The heart
What color are the hottest stars?
Correct Answer: Blue
Name the constellation that contains the star Betelgeuse.
Correct Answer: Orion
What are the three main types of galaxies?
Correct Answer: Spiral, elliptical, and irregular.
What happens to the temperature of the universe as it expands?
Correct Answer: It decreases (the universe gets cooler).
Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?
Correct Answer: William Shakespeare
What do stars make by nuclear fusion?
Correct Answer: Energy (or helium, from hydrogen)
What ancient cultures used constellations for navigation?
Correct Answer: Greeks, Egyptians, and Polynesians (any of these is correct)
What shape is the Milky Way galaxy?
Correct Answer: Spiral
What does redshift in distant galaxies show about the universe?
Correct Answer: The universe is expanding
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Correct Answer: Mars
What type of star will our Sun become at the end of its life?
Correct Answer: White dwarf
Which constellation can be used to find both the North Star and the Little Dipper?
Correct Answer: Ursa Major
Why do galaxies sometimes collide?
Correct Answer: Gravity pulls them together as they move through space.
What element was mostly formed during the first minutes after the Big Bang?
Correct Answer: Hydrogen
What do you call an angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?
Correct Answer: Obtuse angle