Inner Solar System (not Sun)
Outer Solar System
Stars And Galaxies
Space Rocks Dwarf Planets And Stuff
Random Questions About Astronomy
100

This causes the Northern Lights.

What are charged particles colliding with Earth's upper atmosphere's gases?

100

This planet has 13 moons.

What is Neptune?

100

This is when two stars orbit each other.

What is a double star system (binary star system *triple points*)?

100

Another name for a comet.

What is a "dirty snowball"?

100

An arrangement of stars.

What is a constellation?

200

This is the color Venus appears to us as.

What is a rustyish-browny-yellowy-orangeish color (unless you are color blind, of course)?

200

This is the type of moon that keeps the rings of a planet in place.

What is a shepherd moon?

200

The number of miles Earth is from the Sun

What is 92,956,050 (93,000,000)?

200

D_ar_   _ _a_et.

What is "dwarf planet"?


200

Give 200 of your points to a team of your choice.

You had better have picked the team in last place!

300

This is roughly how hot does Mercury get.

What is 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius)?

300

The unique thing about Uranus's rotation.

What is Uranus rotates on its side?

300

This is the constellation that looks like a hunter.

What is Orion?

300

The steam surrounding the ice of a comet.

What is a coma?

300

This is the order of the planets.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?

400

This is what Venus's atmosphere is mainly composed of.

What is sulphuric acid?

400

The length of a day on Jupiter.

What is 10 hours?

400

This is when the Moon blocks out the Sun from Earth's view.

What is a solar eclipse?

400

This dwarf planet's orbit tilts.

What is Pluto?

400

The Kuiper Belt is composed mainly of this.

What is methane ice (also water and ammonia ice)?

500

This is when the Earth's shadow falls over the moon, obstructing our view of it.

What is a solar eclipse?

500

This is the 9th letter in Neptune.

What is... WAIT! Neptune doesn't HAVE 9 letters!

500

The four types of galaxies.

What are spiral, elliptical, lenticular and irregular?

500

The first one to do a push-up gets the points for their team. 

What is I don't have an answer for this.

500

The moon that is bigger than Mercury.

What is Titan?

600

What is 4+4+4+4-4-4-4-4-4+4+6-3-2?

One.

600

This is what Mars is made of.

What is dirt and rocks (marshmallow cream *double points*)?

600

The type of star the Sun is (Sirius is an A-1 V).

What is G-2 V?

600

The distance of a short period comet.

What is under 200 years?

600

These are the PROPER names of Earth's seasons.

What is Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall)?

700

Name the first spacecraft to visit Mercury.

What is Mariner 10?

700

They discovered Uranus.

Who are William and Caroline Herschel?

700

The name of the north star.

What is Polaris?

700

This is the shape of the Kuiper Belt.

What is a donut?

700

ISS is the abbreviation for this.

What is the International Space Station.

800

When was earth discovered?

What is when someone thought about it?

800

Name the satellite that is currently orbiting Jupiter.

What is Juno?

800

Split the points with the team with the lowest points

N/A

800

The main difference between a dwarf planet and a regular planet.

What is a planet clears its own orbit, and doesn't share it. A dwarf planet shares its orbit with other stuff, including (sometimes) other dwarf planets.

800

Ask David for a question (only your team can answer).

What is whatever he says.