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Astronomy

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the two moons of Mars?

a)

Ganymede and Callisto

b)

Titania and Miranda

c)

Triton and Proteus

d)

Phobos and Deimos

2.

What is the largest star in the universe?

a)

UY Scuti

b)

Stephenson 2-18

c)

AH Scorpii

d)

S persei

3.

This person is a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk.

a)

Alexi Leonov

b)

Pavel Belyayev

c)

Gherman Titov

d)

Vladmir Komorov

4.

This space probe was launched by NASA on April 6,1973 to study the asteroid belt and the environment around Jupiter and Saturn. It was the first probe to encounter Saturn. Name this probe?

a)

Pioneer 10

b)

Voyager 1

c)

Pioneer 11

d)

Voyager 2

5.

This Project was the first passive communication satellite experiment and it was launched in 1960 by NASA. Name this project.

a)

Echo

b)

Telstar 1

c)

PAGEOS

d)

Explorer

6.

Which Belgian Priest-Astronomer proposed the Big Bang Theory in 1920's?

a)

George Gamow

b)

Mayim Bialik

c)

Fred Hoyle

d)

Georgas Lemaitre

7.

First photo of a Black hole was taken in 2019. Name the telescope network used for this.

a)

Event Horizon telescope

b)

CAIDA telescope

c)

Skynet telescope

d)

UCSD telescope

8.

What is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?

a)

Ceres

b)

Haumea

c)

Makemake

d)

Eris

9.

For discovering what, Antony Hewish received the Nobel prize in 1974?

a)

Quasar

b)

Magnater

c)

Pulsar

d)

Blazar

10.

The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the first humans known to have died in space. Two of them were Georgy Dobrovolsky and Vladislav Volkov. Who is the other one?

a)

Alexi Leonov

b)

Sharon Christa

c)

Viktor Patsayev

d)

Pavel Popovich

11.

In which city the headquarters of International Astronomical Union Located?

a)

Paris

b)

New York

c)

Shanghai

d)

Moscow

12.

What is the brightest star in the Leo constellation?

a)

Regulus

b)

Zeta Leonis

c)

Theta Leonis

d)

Denebola

13.

Which American Physicist discovered the Cosmoic Microwave Background

radiation, which helped to establish the Big Bang Theory of cosmology.

a)

Richard Feynman

b)

James Cronin

c)

Arno Penzias

d)

Hans Bethe

14.

Which Russian cosmonaut holds the world record for the most time spent in space at 879 days?

a)

Gennady Padalka

b)

Sergei Avdeyev

c)

Valeri Polyakov

d)

Sergei Krikalev

15.

This woman became the first American woman in space and Also she remains as the youngest American astronaut to have travelled to space, having done so at the age of 32.Name her.

a)

Judith Resnik

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Kathryn Sullivan

d)

Christa McAuliffe

16.

Who is considered as the “Father of observational Astronomy"?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Nicolaus Copernicus

c)

Johannes Kepler

d)

William Herschel

17.

”Mars Polar Lander” was a spacecraft launched by NASA to study the soil and the climate of the” Planum Australe” a region near the south pole on Mars. In which year did this spacecraft launched?

a)

1996

b)

2000

c)

1999

d)

1998

18.

Who is the first Afro-American and also the second person of African descent to go to space?

a)

James Buchii

b)

Dale Gardner

c)

Bonnie Dunbar

d)

Guion Bluford

19.

He was an American-German engineer and also he was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany. Then he worked as the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket in 1967.Name him.

a)

Herman Oberth

b)

Werner von Braun

c)

Luise von Quistorp

d)

Robert Goddard

20.

This Soviet space probe was the first probe to land on Venus and it became the first space probe to soft land on another planet.What was it?

a)

Mariner 2

b)

Mariner 1

c)

Venera 7

d)

Venera 1

21.

This Canyon is the largest canyon on Mars, and also it is considered as the largest canyon in our Solar system.

a)

The Grand Canyon

b)

Valles Marineris

c)

San Marina

d)

Yarlung Zanbo

22.

Which famous Italian-American Nobel laureate is considered as the “Father of X ray Astronomy”?

a)

Riccardo Giacconi

b)

Enrico Fermi

c)

Carlo Rovelli

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

23.

This was a class of reusable cargo spacecraft developed by Space X and it was launched into orbit by the company’s famous Falcon 9 launch vehicle to resupply the ISS. What is this Spacecraft.

a)

Dragon 1

b)

Challenger

c)

Endeavour

d)

Atlantis

24.

This space station is known as the ‘Hotel in Orbit’. It helds the record for the longest continuous human presence in space until 2010.

a)

Salyut 1

b)

Mir

c)

Skylab

d)

Salyut 3

25.

Who is considered as the oldest person to go to space?

a)

Peggy Whitson

b)

Alan Shepard

c)

Frank Borman

d)

John Glenn