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Yuri Gagarin

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Yuri Gagarin's nationality?

a)

English

b)

French

c)

Russian

d)

American

2.

Choose the picture of Yuri Gagarin?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

When did he lift off into space?

a)

12th April, 1964

b)

12th April, 1965

c)

12th April, 1963

d)

12th April, 1961

4.

How long did his flight last?

a)

102 minutes

b)

105 minutes

c)

108 minutes

d)

208 minutes

5.

How old was he when he became the first person to fly into space?

a)

27 years old

b)

37 years old

c)

17 years old

d)

26 years old

6.

What were the first words spoken from space?

a)

“I saw the Earth. It’s so beautiful!"

b)

“I see the Earth. It’s so beautiful!"

c)

“I see the Earth"

d)

"It’s so beautiful!"

7.

What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?

a)

It was more than 1.700 miles per hour

b)

It was more than 17.000 miles per hour

c)

It was more than 17.000 m per hour

d)

It was more than 170.000 miles per hour

8.

Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

a)

Because he died in a car crash on a routine training flight in March 1968

b)

Because he died in a train crash on a routine training flight in March 1968

c)

Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968

d)

Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1969

9.

What was done after Gagarin's death to honour this national hero

a)

his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.

b)

his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Trainins Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.

c)

his country of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Trainins Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.

d)

his hometown of Gzhatsk wasn't renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Trainins Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.