U10 The Curse of the Ninth
Joseph Haydn composed over _____ symphonies
100
what is displayed on the backs of players jerseys? (2 things)
last name, jersey number
How many planets are in our solar system?
8
Planets have been traditionally named after ______.
gods
Why did NASA put the golden records into the spacecrafts?
they might encounter aliens
Who was the first victim of this curse?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bixente Lizarazu wore what number on his jersey? What is one reason why?
69. born 1969 1.69m tall, 69 kg
Which planet is farthest from the sun and is a deep blue color?
neptune
After the telescope was invented the planet ___________ was discovered
Uranus
What images are on the records? (name 3)
math, chemical formulas, photo of the solar system. humans, inventions, animals,plants, landscape
Why do some composers believe the curse is not real?
Some wrote more than 9 symphonies and lived
Which sport used players numbers first?
rugby
Why is mars called the red planet?
covered with reddish rock and sand
This planet is named after the messenger god, because it is so quick
mercury
What can you hear on the record? (name 2)
languages, natue sounds, classical music
Mahler was scared of this curse, so his plan was to?
He pretended his 9th symphony was not his 9th symphony.
In soccer how is your player number chosen?
by the position you play
Name the inner planets or name the outer planets.
mercury, venus, earth, mars / jupiter, saturn, neptune, uranus
_______ guessed the location of Neptune before it was seen by a telescope.
Urbain le Verrier
Name the 2 spacecrafts sent into space and what have they been doing?
voyager 1 2 and collecting data
Why did people this Dvorak was considered safe from this curse?
People believed he wrote fewer than 9 symphonies
Some ________ ________ cannot be used because they honor certain players after they stop playing.
retired numbers
How are the planets divided into two groups?
by their distance from the sun
What has the IAU (internation astronomical union) done since 1919?
They have been handling the job of naming newly found space objects
How did Carl Sagan describe the golden records?
like a message in a bottle carried on a cosmic ocean