books/movies
This movie consists of a group of scientists travelling across the Milky Way in search of a habitable planet during the Earth's second Dust Bowl.
What is Interstellar?
These are a series of missions conducted by NASA with the ultimate goal of landing people on the moon again by 2028. #spaceracept2
What are the Artemis missions?
This astronomer received mass scrutiny for suggesting that the Earth revolved around the sun, not the other way around.
Who is Galileo Galile?
This is the planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This galaxy is the closest to ours, the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
In this book, later turned into a blockbuster starring Matt Damon, a man gets stranded on Mars and learns to survive until he can be rescued.
What is The Martian?
This movie about a biologist in space earned the biggest opening of 2026, grossing over $140 million dollars.
What is Project Hail Mary?
This scientist revolutionized astronomy by establishing the universal laws of motion and gravitation.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This famous comet only passes near Earth every 76 years.
What is Halley's Comet?
This nebula can be found inside the most famous winter constellation.
What is the Orion Nebula?
This book and movie tells the story of the underrepresented black women who worked at NASA, making them the leading institution of space research that they are today.
What is Hidden Figures?
This pop star's 10-minute space flight paid for by Jeff Bezos sparked conversation about the ethics and morality of commercialized space travel.
Who is Katy Perry?
This German polymath invented the three Laws of Planetary Motion and, in turn for his efforts, has like a million objects named after him.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This is the process our sun goes through where it turns hydrogen into helium.
What is nuclear fusion?
What is at the center of every galaxy? Name two different ones for another 100 points.
What is a supermassive black hole?
Some viable answers: Sagittarius A, TON 618, Messier 87, Cygnus X-1
In this book, Earth is destroyed to make way for an intergalactic highway, forcing Arthur Dent to escape with the help of an eccentric alien. Thumbs up!
What is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
This dog, the first dog to ever leave Earth's orbit, unfortunately passed away in space.
Who is Laika? rip :(
This astronomer played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. He's also a telescope.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
moons/satellites, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, meteors
This phenomenon where galactic objects moving away from us produce longer, redder wavelengths is a major piece of evidence that the universe is expanding.
What is redshift?
Name 5 of the 9 main Star Wars movies.
Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Force Awakens, Last Jedi, Rise of Skywalker
This song, released days before the Apollo 11 launch, features lyrics about a fictional "Major Tom" floating around in space.
What is Space Oddity by David Bowie?
This scientist led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, leading to our first ever image of one.
Who is Katie Bouman?
Name 3 moons or 4 constellations that come from greek mythology.
The Moon, Titan, Europa, Triton, Phobos, Ganymede, etc
Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus, Orion, Scorpius, Ursa Major/Minor, etc
This is the extremely bright core of a distant galaxy, powered by a supermassive black hole.
What is a quasar?