College Questions
What time does this class start?
9:00 am
This is smallest planet in our solar system.
Mercury or Earth?
Mercury
What is our home galaxy?
A. The Milky Way
B. Snickers
C. Ceres
A. The Milky Way
What is a protostar?
A. a new singer
B. a baby star
C. a new toy
B. a baby star!
How many days in December?
31
How long is Winter Break?
2 weeks
This planet is known as the "Red Planet"
Jupiter or Mars?
Mars - Does anyone know why it's red?
What kind of a galaxy is the Milky Way?
A. Elliptical
B. Irregular
C. Spiral
C. Spiral
What is a star?
A. a giant ball of hot gas
B. Lady Gaga
C. a hot planet
A. a giant ball of hot gas
This is the first day of winter (winter solstice)
a. Nov. 29
b. Dec. 21
c. Jan. 3
December 21
This day will have the shortest day and longest night.
When is the Winter Wonderland holiday celebration?
TODAY!
at 12:00 pm
This planet is known to have distinct rings around it that are about 30 ft tall.
Saturn or Venus?
Saturn
A galaxy consists of stars, planets, and vast clouds of gas and dust, all bound together by...
A. NASA
B. gravity
C. water
B. gravity
Where are stars born?
A. in the theater
B. in molecular clouds
C. in Hollywood
B. in molecular clouds
This SNL alum wrote the Chanukah Song, where he lists many different people who celebrate Hanukkah.
A. Chevy Chase
B. Billy Crystal
C. Adam Sandler
C. Adam Sandler
Sandler originally performed the song on Weekend Update on December 3, 1994.
When does Spring semester start?
Thursday Jan. 22!
This dwarf planet used to be a planet until 2006.
Pluto or Neptune?
Pluto
What part of the Milky Way galaxy is Earth located?
A. Orion Arm
B. Scorpio Claw
C. Next to Venus
A. Orion Arm
When a star dies, it may be a huge explosion known as a _____.
A. Supernova
B. Big Bang
A. Supernova
This holiday starts on December 26th.
a. Kwanzaa
b. Hanukkah
c. Diwali
This holiday starts on December 26th.
a. Kwanzaa
b. Hanukkah
c. Diwali
When is the first day of OUR class after Winter Break?
Tuesday Jan. 6, 2026
This planet is blue because the methane gas absorbs the red light.
Uranus or Neptune or both?
Both!
How big is the universe?
A. 100,000 light years
B. We don't really know
C. too big to fail
B. We don't really know
Our Sun is a stable star or main sequence star about half way through its life. How many more years before it may die?
A. 7 Ahh!
B. probably billions
C. 100
B. probably billions
This man is behind the famous mouse and theme park and was born December 5, 1901.
Walt Disney
Disney was fired from his first job as an animator for the Kansas City Star because he "lacked imagination".