Day and Night
Our Solar System
Planets
Our Place in Space
Stars
Wild Card
100

A __________moon occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon

Full

100

What is the name of our Solar System?

What is the Milky Way Galaxy?

100

What is the name of the only other planet in our Solar System that may be able to sustain life?

What is Mars?

100

What is the Big Bang Theory?

What is the creation of the Universe.

100

What do we call the North Star?

What is Polaris?

100

What are the names of the aliens in the movie Alien?

What is a Xenomorph?

200

One revolution on Earth is how long (down to the decimal point)?

What is 365.25 days?

200

Space object made of ice, rock and dust.

What is a comet?

200

Name all of the planets in our Solar System (in order, starting at the center).

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (you heard about Pluto? Messed up, right?)

200

What causes the Earth to have four seasons?

Seasons are the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis.

200

What are "falling stars"?

What is a meteor?

200

What is the snow covered planet called in Star Wars?

What is Hoth?

300

This term describes the moon when it appears to be getting brighter each night.

What is waxing?

300

What is found in our solar system BETWEEN our inner (rocky) planets, and our outer (gassy) planets?

What is an Asteroid Belt?

300
What is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise?

What is Venus?

300

What was the name of the first mission to successfully land on the moon?

What is Apollo 11?

300

How LONG does it take for the suns light to reach Earth?

What is 8 minutes?

300

What TV show famously uses the "star blur/steak" effect to show they are traveling at light-speed?

What is Star Trek?

400

How many stars make up the Big Dipper?

What is 7?

400

What was the first nation to make it to space? (Hint, NOT to the moon).

What is The Soviet Union. (On October 4, 1957, they successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. )

400

What color is the sunset on Mars?

Bonus: What is a day on Mars called?

What is blue?

What is "a Sol"?

400

What is the ONLY planet in our solar system NOT to be named after a Greek God?

What is Earth? (I think we should just be called "Third Planeters" personally)

400

What is the term for a cloud of gas and dust in space that serves as the birthplace of stars?

What is a Nebula?

400

What does NASA stand for?

What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

500

Who can tell me the speed of light?

What is 186,000 miles per second or 299,792,458 meters per second.

500

What is located at the dead center of our galaxy?

What is a Black Hole? (named Sagittarius A)

500

What planet in our solar system has the largest Ocean?

What is Jupiter? (made of liquid metallic hydrogen rather than water)

500

What is the name of the closest galaxy to ours?

What is Andromeda?

500

What is the sun's outermost layer called?

What is the Corona?

500
Whichever team can perform the best moon walk gets the point.

Let's see those moon walks!