Ah space, the final frontier, to quote Star Trek. It's the biggest place in the universe, it surrounds our little planet completely, it houses all the celestial bodies out there, including our life-giving sun. And yet, few of us know that much about it. Even experts have not teased out its myriad of secrets. Do you have basic knowledge of space? This quiz will test you on that knowledge with 15 space-trivia questions!
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If you could live in space without a helmet, which of your senses would you NOT be able to use?
There is no air in space and so there is no sound. Hypothetically, you'd still be able to smell and taste.
Taste
Sight
Smell
Hearing
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What does a 'light year' measure?
Light year is the DISTANCE it takes light to travel in a year's time.
Time
The brightness of stars
The mass of celestial bodies
Distance
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True or False: Space is a Vacuum
A true vacuum is very hard to achieve. Even "empty" space has molecules in it, just very little.
False
True
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What is the most abundant element found in space?
The most common element in the universe is hydrogen, which makes around 3/4 of all matter!
Carbon
Helium
Hydrogen
Oxygen
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How many countries have successfully sent people to space?
The US, Russia and China are the only countries that have launched people to space.
Three
Four
Six
One
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How much, would you guess, costs a full NASA space suit?
A suit costs 12 million dollars, 70% of that is for the backpack and control module.
$160,000
$12,000,000
$24,000
$1,200
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Which celestial body is depicted in this image?
An asteroid
A comet
A star
A moon
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Which celestial body is depicted in this image?
A New Galaxy
A Quasar
A Black Hole
A Supernova
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In more than 3 billion years, our Milky Way galaxy is going to collide with which other galaxy?
Andromeda
Magellanic
Jupiter
Ursa Minor
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True or False: If you touch two metal pieces together in space, they will bond permanently.
This is called "cold welding" and can only happen in space, where the atoms don't have anything separating them.
True or False: The Universe is slowly imploding, getting smaller.
The universe is actually acting like an explosion, with galaxy clusters moving away from each others and the universe expanding
True
False
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Which of these objects is the most luminous?
The strongest quasars are the brightest things in the known universe, as bright as thousands of galaxies put together.
A Supernova (A powerful explosion of a sun)
A Hypernova
A Supermassive Sun
A Quasar (A supermassive black hole that shoots out energy)
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How much of known space have we been able to see from Earth?
The other 96% are made of stuff we either cannot see, cannot measure, or cannot comprehend.
15%
25%
4%
90%
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What happens if you are exposed to space without a suit?
You live for 10 seconds and then freeze to death
You'll live for about 4-5 minutes and die from the cold
You die instantly
You live for 90 seconds and die of asphyxiation
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