Planets
Space Missions
Science Fiction
Famous Scientists
Miscellaneous
100

This planet is named after the Roman God of love and is often called Earth's Sister.

What is Venus?

100

This satellite was the first man- made satellite in space.

What is sputnik?

100

This book is considered the first book in science fiction.

What is Frankenstein?

100

This Scientist discovered the four largest of Jupiters moons.

Who is Galileo?

100

The name of the asteroid belt in which pluto resides.

What is the Kaiper Belt?

200

This planet has the most known moons of any planet in our solar system.

What is Saturn

200

This man was the first ever person in space.

Who is Yuri Gagarin?

200

This book (and movie)  sees Botanist Mark Whatney stranded on Mars.

What is the Martian?

200

This engineer pioneered the theory of alternating current and the theory of wireless transmission of energy.

Who is Nikola Tesla?


200

The technical name of rocket science.

What is Astronautics?

300

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the universe, and resides on this planet.

What is mars?

300

This was the first of the Apollo missions to land on the moon.

What is Apollo 11?

300

This planet is seen in Star Wars and is the planet called home by the Jedi Master Yoda.

What is Dagobah?

300

This person won a Nobel prize in both physics and chemistry and is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Who is Marie Curie?

300

This substance, which we can neither detect nor see, is thought to make up ¾ of the universe.

What is Dark Matter?

400

Deimos and Phobos are celestial bodies named after the Roman gods of fear and panic.What planet in our solar system do these moons orbit?

Mars

400

This Astrophysicist was the first American woman in space.

Who is Sally Ride?

400

This type of radiation turns Bruce Banner into the Hulk.

What is gamma radiation?

400

This woman mathematician was instrumental to the success of the Apollo missions and worked at NASA as a human calculator, orbital mechanic and flight technition.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

400

The deep space object that contains "the pillars of creation".

What is the Eagle Nebula?
500

What are the first and last years that Jupiter has been visited by a satellite from NASA? (Half points for one correct answer)

What are 1973 and 2007

500

This mission is the last time a human has set foot on the moon.

What is Apollo 17?

500

This story by Issacc Azinov features the three laws of robots?

What is "I, robot"

500

Name one of the Scientists who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for their work on black holes.

Who is Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel or Andrea Ghez?

500

The number of years that it takes for Halley's comet to return.

75