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This is the unit of astronomical distance that is the distance light travels in one year.
What is a light year?
These are the storms produced by the sun.
What are solar storms?
This was the first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This is the name of the car used to travel through time in “Back to the Future.”
What is a DeLorean?
This day is known to fans as Star Wars Day.
What is May 4th?
This type of matter accounts for approximately 85% of matter in the universe.
What is Dark Matter?
This is another name for the North Star.
What is Polaris?
This famous nurse known as the founder of modern nursing is also known as "the Lady with the Lamp."
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the food Mark Watney grows and survives on in “The Martian.”
What are potatoes?
This Admiral famously exclaimed “It’s a trap!” during the climactic battle at the end of “Return of the Jedi.”
Who is Admiral Ackbar?
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral?
This is the color of the hottest kind of star.
This woman was a marine biologist and environmentalist who wrote the groundbreaking book, Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This is the Californian City the 2014 sci-fi movie “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” is set in.
What is San Francisco?
These bipeds are natives to the forest moon of Endor and played a major role in the destruction of the second death star in “Return of the Jedi.”
What are Ewoks?
This is at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
What is a black hole?
This is how old the sun is in billions of years.
What is 5? (closer to 4.6)
This protagonist in Hidden Figures was the first female engineer for NASA.
Who was Mary Jackson?
In “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” this is the name of the depressed robot on the ship Heart of Gold.
Who is Marvin?
Darth Vader “disciplined” this many Imperial officers with a Force choke during the “Empire Strikes Back”.
What is two? (Admiral Kendal Ozzel and Captain Lorth Needa)
This is the most common type of galaxy in the universe.
What are elliptical galaxies?
This is the most common type of star in the Milky Way.
What are Red Dwarf stars?
This American physician is the first African American woman to become an astronaut in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
What is the “bug” in Men in Black looking for?
What is “The Galaxy”?
This is the name of the giant four-legged walker used by the Empire during the Battle of Hoth.
What are the AT-ATs?