planets
big space stuff
space travel
small space stuff
non physics stuff
100

how far away is the moon?

what is 250,000 miles (and whatever the corresponding value in km is)

100

Give the year and name of the first moon landing. 

ex: Who is John Doe, 2024?

Who is Neil armstrong, 1969

100

what was the name of the rocket that brought astronauts to the moon? 

what was the Saturn v?

100

whats the nucleus of a atom made of, and what are their respective charges. 

what is a proton and neutron.?

proton charge: positive 

neutron charge: neutral 

100

what was the enlightenment?

period of time in history.

200

what is hotter, Venus or mercury. hint: Mercury is closer to the sun.

what is Venus?

200

Where does the ISS orbit?

1. LEO (low earth orbit) 2. Geosynchronous orbit 3. Geostationary orbit 4. Highly elliptical orbit 5. False claim, the ISS does not orbit. 

what is LEO?

200

what are the two space stations in orbit right now?

ISS and tiangong

200

what did newton do when he realized something won't move unless you do something to it?

he wrote his laws of physics and probably also invented calculus to give depression to generations of high schoolers. 

200

In Shakespeare's work of Julius Caesar, he reported the term "et tu, Brute". what does it mean?

what is You too, Brutus?
300

what term describes the distance from the Earth to the Sun?

what is 1 au ?

300

what did Johanes Kepler do? ( think about the word KEPLER)

he was a very important astronomer of the scientific revolution, and he wrote his laws of orbital mechanics

300

which space station was fundly only by USA BIg dollars capitalism Uncle Sam's pennies?

skylab

300

what is fusion, and where does it happen?

what is: atoms colliding each other to form heavier elements, releasing energy. happens in stars

300

what is one flaw in the physics of star wars?

every planet has same gravity, despite being very big different sizes. 

400
name the galilean moons. If four is too hard, name three of them. 

io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa 

400

what is the approximate orbital velocity of earth?

what is 30km/s

400

who was first dude to go to space

comrade Yuri Gagarin 

400

if I spin a object very very very fast and then throw it, will the object go faster or slower then just tossing it?

it should go faster

400

how long did hellenistic Greece last?

time period between the death of Alexander the great and the Roman annexation?

a. around 300 yr, b. 400, c. 500, d. 200.


what is 300 years

500

According to Ancient Babylonian astronomy,  the god Marduk is associated with the celestial body of Nibiru. In a collision with the planet Tiamat (between Mars and Jupiter)  forming Earth, and the belts. It was once thought such collisions was impossible, but it was shed new light. Under modern day astronomy, what is a theorem of how the earth moon system came to be?

What is the collision between young earth and a Mars sized body called theia? 

500

what is the velocity of Jupiter around its center of mass of with the sun?

8km/s

500
why dosen't the ISS break since its under the roche limit? 

it has tensile strength within the materials, 

500

taking the derivative of position gives you? 

and second derivative of position gives you? 

1st derivative gives you velocity

second gives you acceleration

500

Arguably which one was more important for the Roman military, the Polybian (Principate reforms) or the Marian reform?

what is "its up to your interpretation"