Diffney Christmas Cracker Quiz 2024
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Ok I am often told that what to me is common knowledge, especially in astronomy, is not. So I thought I'd devise a little quiz to test the water. Have a go without googling or reading the other answers first.
1) What are the 8 planets in order going out from the sun?
2) What is the largest planet on our solar system?
3) What star is the brightest in our sky and how is it found in the sky?
4) What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
5) How far away is the closest star system to ours?
6) What is the star over the north pole and how is it found in the sky?
7) What is the crab nebula the remnants of?
8) What lies in the orbital space between Mars and Jupiter?
9) What are the 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter
10) What is a pulsar?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.1 Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
2 Jupiter
3 Sirius, below, left of Orion
4Venus
5 3.5 light years
6 Polaris, using stars of the Plough as a pointer
7 Supernova
8 Asteroid belt
9 Europa, Ganymede, Io and Callisto
10 Neutron star emiiting electromagnetic radiation
Not sure, obviously of one or two, but then I am interested in astronomy, and I don't think a class doing GCSE astronomy is really a representative group for common knowledge.
The brightest night time star is Sirius. Down and to the East of Orions belt the 3 in a row that themselves are bright. Another star in Orion is Betelguese which is above and left of the hunters belt. It is very interesting in that most serious watchers of Red Giants are expecting it to blow any time soon. The star names and locations were covered in our sciece leesons at Grammar School in the aerly 60s. I am still fascinated and if you do not have the skymap app on your mobile phones you are missing out.
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