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100

Einstein developed this theory that included the prediction of gravitational waves

What is Relativity

100

Visible every 75 years this famous comet was last seen in 1986

What is Halley's Comet

100

Who was the second man on the moon? 

Buzz Aldrin
100

Who wrote the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy?

Douglas Adams 

100

What is another name for the North Star? 

Polaris

200

The idea that the earth is the center of the universe

Ptolemaic Model or Geocentric Model

200

How old is the sun?

Around 4.6 billion years old

200

What is the worlds largest and most powerful particle accelerator?

The Hadron Collider

200

This 2014 Sci-Fi film directed by Christopher Nolan has a cast featuring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway

What is Interstellar

200

The edge of a black hole, where the gravitational force is so strong that not even light can escape and where spaghettification happens is called what? 

The Event Horizon

300

This notoriously bitter physicist and mathematician invented the first reflecting telescope in 1668

Who is Isaac Newton

300

What is the densest planet in our Solar System? 

Earth

300

Launched in 2011 this rover reached Mars in 2012 and is still active now

What is the Curiosity Rover

300
What is the most expensive Music video ever made? 

Space Oddity by David Bowie, performed by Chris Hadfield on the ISS

300

What are the three main types of Galaxies? 

Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular

400
Who discovered that the planets orbited elliptically?

Johannes Kepler

400

How many moons does Mercury have? 

0

400

What spacecraft was famously repaired with duct tape? 

Apollo 13

400
This 1987 parody feature characters like Lone Starr, Princess Vespa, and Lord Dark Helmet

What is Space Balls 

400

This collision of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole can only occur in a binary solar system

What is a Kilonova

500

This was measured for the first time in 2nd century BCE by Eratosthenes using the shadows of sticks and alternating angles? 

The circumference of the Earth

500

What year was Pluto demoted as a planet? 

2006

500

What was the first satellite sent into space? 

Sputnik 1

500

What is the Iconic Tagline from the movie Alien? 

"In space, no one can hear you scream"

500

Not to be confused with the household appliance, this snapshot of the young universe is the oldest light still reaching earth 14 billion years after the big bang

Cosmic Microwave Backround