Beyond the Big Bang Short Quiz

What tool (instrument) was invented that changed Astronomy?

• Stonehenge

• Astrolabe

• Pyramid

• Telescope

What is the heliocentric universe?

• Earth is in the center of the Universe

• The Sun is between Venus and Mars

• The Sun is the center of the universe

• Saturn is the farthest planet from the center

While conducting satellite communication experiments for Bell Labs, Penzias and Wilson heard _______.

• static and dynamic

• static and kinetic

• static only

• static and noise

To explain nature, earlier people described celestial bodies like stars and planets as _______.

• Gods

• Galaxy

• Universe

• Solar System

An American astronomer who profoundly changed understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of the galaxies other than are own and helped established that the universe is expanding.

• Albert Einstein

• Johannes Kepler

• Edwin Hubble

• Galileo Galilei

What is the sun mostly made of ?

• Hydrogen

• Helium

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen

How old is our Universe?

• 13.8 billion years

• 13.8 trillion years

• 14.8 million years

• 14.8 trillion years

Light years are measure of ______.

• Distance

• Time

• Speed

• Light

One of the oldest monuments concerning the sun, moon and stars (solar observatory) and it is Europe’s oldest known calendar.

• Pyramids

• Stonehedge

• Gosek Circle

• Pantheon

He improved Aristotle’s model by tracing the path of the planets using concepts of epicycles (behavior of the planets)

• Plato

• Ptolemy

• Galileo

• Copernicus