Cosmos Episode 8 Quiz

What is the cost of having all of our electric lights?

• About $3.50

• The ability to see the stars at night.

• The ability to create solar power.

• Our firstborn child.

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

How much brighter than the Sun are the Pleiades?

• 10x

• 100x

• 1,000x

• 10,000x

In the Kiowa myth about the Pleiades, what famous tourist attraction did the rock the women were standing on become?

• The Devil's Tower

• The Grand Canyon

• Stone Mountain

• Mount Rushmore

In the Greek myth of the Pleiades, what was the name of the hunter that chased after Atlas’s daughters?

• Atreyu

• Flat Stanley

• Orion

• Gary

What did Edward Charles Pickering call the room full of women he employed?

• His "Astronomettes"

• His "All-stars"

• His "Harem"

• His "Computers"

How many stars did Annie Jump Cannon catalog?

• 15,000

• 25,000

• 250,000

• 2.5 MILLION

How did Annie Jump Cannon lose her hearing?

• She was born deaf

• Scarlet Fever

• Swimming accident

• it is unknown

How many major categories of stars are there?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

What American University accepted Cecelia Payne?

• Harvard

• M.I.T.

• Stanford

• Yale

What did Henry Norris Russell discover about the Earth and the Sun?

• That the majority of elements present on the Earth are also present in the Sun.

• That the Earth and the Sun are actually both stars

• That the Sun is younger than the Earth

• That the Sun actually revolves around the Earth.