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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 11:06:08 GMT
Expecting Gandalf to be in on this one like a rat up a drainpipe.
Astronomy and Space. Normal rules apply.
1 Cape Canaveral is found in which US state ?
2 What unit describes a distance of 3.26 light years ?
3 What is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere ?
4 The Great Red Spot is found on which planet of the solar system ?
5 Excluding the sun, what is the brightest star in the night sky ?
6 How many known constellations are there in the night sky ?
7 The volcano Olympus Mons is on which planet ?
8 Which two gases make up approximately 98% of the sun ?
9 What celestial event occurs when the moon is between the Earth and the sun ?
10 Which astronomer was the first to prove that comets travel in orbits ?
11 Who was the first American to go into space ?
12 Which astronomer showed that the sun rather than the Earth was at the centre of the universe ?
13 What celestial feature takes its name from the Greek word for milk ?
14 What constellation is also known as Aquila ?
15 What is the largest constellation in the night sky ? (for bonus, what also is noteworthy about it ?)
16 The asteroid belt is largely found between the orbits of which two planets ?
17 Sir Francis Graham-Smith, Sir Arnold Wolfendale and Martin Rees are the three most recent holders of which post ?
18 The 27 moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of which two authors ? (Shakespeare and Alexander Pope)
19 Approximately how many times bigger is the sun than the Earth ? a)10 b)100 c)1000
20 Titan, Janus and Phoebe are moons that orbit which planet ? a)Jupiter b)Saturn c)Uranus
Good luck !
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Post by Chunky Monkey on Mar 28, 2020 11:22:45 GMT
16- Mars and Earth
My - Mercury
Very - Venus
Maiden- mars
Aunt- Asteroids
Ester - earth
Just- Jupiter
Swam. - Saturn
Under - Uranus
North - Neptune
pier - Pluto
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 11:59:02 GMT
16- Mars and Earth My - Mercury; Very - Venus; Maiden- mars; Aunt- Asteroids; Ester - earth; Just- Jupiter; Swam - Saturn; Under - Uranus; North - Neptune; pier - Pluto. Excellent mnemonic for 1 bonus point, but it's factually inaccurate: Earth is in the wrong place !!!! Will give you 0.5 point for Mars. The other planet, anyone ?
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Post by Chunky Monkey on Mar 28, 2020 12:22:00 GMT
16- Mars and Earth My - Mercury; Very - Venus; Maiden- mars; Aunt- Asteroids; Ester - earth; Just- Jupiter; Swam - Saturn; Under - Uranus; North - Neptune; pier - Pluto. Excellent mnemonic for 1 bonus point, but it's factually inaccurate: Earth is in the wrong place !!!! Will give you 0.5 point for Mars. The other planet, anyone ?
Oh.... well as we can see Venus I assume earth is between Venus and Mars, so the other planet would be Jupiter? Going to need a new correct mnemonic (what ever that means) then 😎 |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 28, 2020 12:33:41 GMT
7 mars
8 Hydrogen Helium
9 Solar Elipse
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 12:53:22 GMT
Oh.... well as we can see Venus I assume earth is between Venus and Mars, so the other planet would be Jupiter? Going to need a new correct mnemonic (what ever that means) then 😎 Yes, nailed it with Jupiter for the other 0.5pt.
Whilst scientists cannot agree how the asteroids came to be (a fractured planet ? or leftover material from when the other planets were formed, pulled into position by Jupiter's gravity ?) analysis has shown that half (Mars's side) have attributes common to the inner planets - whilst the other half (Jupiter's side) have a similar make-up to the outer gas giants. Perhaps there is some truth in both theories (collisions occuring during the forming) as there are similar mysteries - eg) as to was the moon thrown out after something crashed into the Earth ? And were Saturn's and Neptune's rings similarly the result of collisions ?
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 12:56:50 GMT
7 mars 8 Hydrogen Helium 9 Solar Elipse All correct, Gandalf sitting on his hands until midnight now !
Gandalf 3pts ChunkyMonkey 2pts
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 28, 2020 19:39:45 GMT
i'll have to put my clocks forward
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 21:08:47 GMT
i'll have to put my clocks forward  |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 29, 2020 0:06:33 GMT
12 Copernicus
5 Sirius A, The Dog Star, 20 times the brightness of our sun, it's now known to be a binary star that has a white dwarf companion star nearby not surprisingly called Sirius B
2 A Parsec, the distance from Earth marked by one second of arc in the night sky...i think!
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Post by milhouse on Mar 29, 2020 10:31:38 GMT
Didn't know the quizzes had started back up!
1 - Florida
4 - Jupiter
18 -Shakespeare
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2020 16:26:03 GMT
12 Copernicus 5 Sirius A, The Dog Star, 20 times the brightness of our sun, it's now known to be a binary star that has a white dwarf companion star nearby not surprisingly called Sirius B 2 A Parsec, the distance from Earth marked by one second of arc in the night sky...i think! All correct, 3 pts plus a bonus for demonstrating good knowledge of the subject.
Gandalf 7pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2020 16:31:51 GMT
Didn't know the quizzes had started back up! 1 - Florida 4 - Jupiter 18 -Shakespeare 1) and 4) correct for a point each. Half the answer given for 18) so 0.5 for that one.
Gandalf 7pts Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 29, 2020 23:06:19 GMT
19 the diameter of the sun is about 100 times bigger than that of earth, which means the sun is about 318,000 times bigger than the earth in volume which is handy because the sun converts about 500 million tones of hydrogen to helium every second, the nett loss in mass is about 4 million tonnes a second
17 the are all Astronomer royals
10 Edmond Halley realised comets had periodicity and correctly predicted the return date of a comet which is now named after him
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 11:23:52 GMT
19 the diameter of the sun is about 100 times bigger than that of earth, which means the sun is about 318,000 times bigger than the earth in volume which is handy because the sun converts about 500 million tones of hydrogen to helium every second, the nett loss in mass is about 4 million tonnes a second 17 the are all Astronomer royals 10 Edmond Halley realised comets had periodicity and correctly predicted the return date of a comet which is now named after him Correct for 3pts plus a 1pt bonus: 19. Your knowledge of the sun exceeds mine ....... Knew about H > He but apart from that my fave stats are that it is 93 million miles from Earth, and its light, travelling at 186,000 miles per second, takes 8 minutes to reach us.
10. Returns every 76 years. Probably the same one as was seen before the birth of Christ, and also in 1066 as a portent to the Battle of Hastings. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) came into the world and went out with it.
Gandalf 11pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 30, 2020 17:09:47 GMT
19 the diameter of the sun is about 100 times bigger than that of earth, which means the sun is about 318,000 times bigger than the earth in volume which is handy because the sun converts about 500 million tones of hydrogen to helium every second, the nett loss in mass is about 4 million tonnes a second 17 the are all Astronomer royals 10 Edmond Halley realised comets had periodicity and correctly predicted the return date of a comet which is now named after him 4m tonnes a second adds up to approx 350,000,000,000 tonnes of mass lost every day, wonder how big it was 4.5 billion years ago  |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 30, 2020 23:17:09 GMT
3 troposphere
6 88
13 galaxy?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 10:42:31 GMT
3 troposphere 6 88 13 galaxy? All correct for 3pts more. Chocolate bonus opportunity missed here ..... if you had mentioned that our sun's solar system forms part of the Milky Way galaxy with a diameter between 150,000 and 200,000 light-years and is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars and more than 100 billion planets. What chance of life on one of these ? More likely than not, I'd say.
Gandalf 14pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
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Post by barbelman on Mar 31, 2020 11:45:32 GMT
11 was John Glenn after a race with Yuri Gagarin was lost!
20 must be Saturn
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 31, 2020 11:56:20 GMT
3 troposphere 6 88 13 galaxy? All correct for 3pts more. Chocolate bonus opportunity missed here ..... if you had mentioned that our sun's solar system forms part of the Milky Way galaxy with a diameter between 150,000 and 200,000 light-years and is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars and more than 100 billion planets. What chance of life on one of these ? More likely than not, I'd say.
Gandalf 14pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
There could even be another tommo as well  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 13:32:34 GMT
There could even be another tommo as well There is ! AND he's a 4-Pinner ....  Plays in the Norwich league. |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 31, 2020 13:33:32 GMT
All correct for 3pts more. Chocolate bonus opportunity missed here ..... if you had mentioned that our sun's solar system forms part of the Milky Way galaxy with a diameter between 150,000 and 200,000 light-years and is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars and more than 100 billion planets. What chance of life on one of these ? More likely than not, I'd say.
Gandalf 14pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
There could even be another tommo as well For Life in the universe, the standard "Drake" equation should suffice tommo though i read it has recently been updated by "Seager" equation!! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 14:13:25 GMT
11 was John Glenn after a race with Yuri Gagarin was lost! 20 must be Saturn Sorry Tony, your answers nearly lost in the void amidst all this scientific banter............
20 correct for 1pt. 11 slight mistaken identity although the reasoning right. Glenn's claim to fame was he was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. 0.5 for near miss.
Gandalf 14pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts Barbelman 1.5pts
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 31, 2020 23:11:57 GMT
15 Hydra, seen in the southern Hemisphere. The shape of Hydra resembles a twisting snake, and features as such in some Greek myths. One myth associates it with a water snake that a crow served Apollo in a cup when it was sent to fetch water; Apollo saw through the fraud, and angrily cast the crow, cup, and snake, into the sky
11 Alan Shepard in 1961
18 and Alexaner Pope
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 12:10:28 GMT
15 Hydra, seen in the southern Hemisphere. The shape of Hydra resembles a twisting snake, and features as such in some Greek myths. One myth associates it with a water snake that a crow served Apollo in a cup when it was sent to fetch water; Apollo saw through the fraud, and angrily cast the crow, cup, and snake, into the sky 11 Alan Shepard in 1961 18 and Alexaner Pope 15 Correct, and enough for 2pts there. One of the faintest constellations .... 11 Correct, 1pt 18 Correct for the 0.5 on offer.
Gandalf 17.5pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
Barbelman 1.5pts
Just the English name for Aquila to find.
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Apr 2, 2020 20:38:30 GMT
There could even be another tommo as well For Life in the universe, the standard "Drake" equation should suffice tommo though i read it has recently been updated by "Seager" equation!! tommo you should be watching Horizon tonight on "the Silence" |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Apr 2, 2020 20:59:01 GMT
14 Aquilla is latin for the eagle
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 21:44:42 GMT
tommo you should be watching Horizon tonight on "the Silence" Sorry, didn't see this until now.......Margo and I have just finished watching a DVD of Richard III starring Sir Laurence Olivier (1955) - you know, the one that starts with "Now is the winter of our discontent, made more glorious by this son of York" and finishes with "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse".
Margo was strangely gripped and didn't fall asleep halfway through like she normally would.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 22:33:34 GMT
14 Aquilla is latin for the eagle 14 Correct for 1pt plus a bonus pt for closing the quiz.
Final points:
Gandalf 19.5pts
Milhouse 2.5pts
ChunkyMonkey 2pts
Barbelman 1.5pts
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Apr 2, 2020 22:37:51 GMT
tommo you should be watching Horizon tonight on "the Silence" Sorry, didn't see this until now.......Margo and I have just finished watching a DVD of Richard III starring Sir Laurence Olivier (1955) - you know, the one that starts with "Now is the winter of our discontent, made more glorious by this son of York" and finishes with "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse".
Margo was strangely gripped and didn't fall asleep halfway through like she normally would. ok its about intelligent life in the universe at any one time, intelligent life is quite transient due to its predilection for self destruction, anyway the solution to Drakes equation for our galaxy alone is 10,000 planets with intelligent life at any one time, then multiply by the number of galaxies to get a very large number indeed |
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