Apollo
This was the first Apollo mission to land humans on the Moon?
Apollo 11
Why do we only see one side of the Moon from Earth?
Synchronous Rotation
This is the only known planet where tectonic plates constantly move and recycle the crust.
Earth
This streak of light across the night sky is caused by a meteoroid burning up in Earth's atmosphere.
Shooting Star
What technology is used in Star Wars to travel across the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds?
The Hyperdrive
He was the commander of Apollo 11 and the first human to set foot on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
How many moons does Mars have?
Two
This planet is the hottest in our solar system.
Venus
This is formed through the collapse of a massive star, leading to an incredibly dense point called a singularity.
Black Hole
In the 2015 movie "The Martian", the stranded astronaut was able to survive by farming what food?
Potatoes
This Apollo mission was famously aborted after an onboard explosion, but all crew members returned safely.
Apollo 13
Which planet has the most moons?
Saturn
(274 as of March 2025)
This gas giant has the fastest rotation, completing a day in about 10 hours.
Jupiter
This event, marking the end of a stars life, has the potential outshine everything in the night sky.
Supernova
This 1968 film features the iconic line, "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
2001: A Space Odyssey
Which rocket was used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon
Saturn V
This moon is covered in ice and is believed to have a subsurface ocean beneath its crust.
Europa
This planet's axis is tilted so far that it essentially rolls around the Sun on its side.
Uranus
This type of stellar remnant is so dense that a sugar-cube-sized amount would weigh about a billion tons on Earth
Neutron Star
This method is commonly used in sci-fi movies to simulate artificial gravity.
Rotational Gravity (Centrifugal Force)
During Apollo 11, who stayed in lunar orbit while his two crewmates walked on the Moon?
Michael Collins
Which astronomer is credited with being the first to discover moons orbiting a planet other than Earth?
Galileo Galilei
This is the tallest mountain in the solar system.
Olympus Mons
This mysterious phenomenon makes up about 27% of the universe's mass-energy content but cannot be seen directly.
Dark Matter
Gravitational lensing, visualized by physicist Kip Thorne, was used to depict the black hole "Gargantua" with unprecedented scientific accuracy in the movie...
Interstellar