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WorksheetsASTRO 1500 Trivia - January 24, 2025
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 40mins
What are you most excited to learn about in this class?
The star Vega is 25 light years away. When did the light that is now reaching us leave Vega?
1975
2000
2020
2025
If the Sun were the size of a basketball, how big would Earth be?
Softball
Tennis ball
Peanut
Appleseed
How old is the Universe?
10,000 years
4.5 billion years
100 million years
13.8 billion years
Based on the answer to the previous question, about how far away is the farthest observable part of the Universe?
10 light years
13 million light years
13 billion light years
8 light minutes
If I offer to give you 1 million dollars right away or $2 the first day and double the previous day's amount each day for 30 days, which option gives you more money?
1 million dollars
$2 and doubled
True or False. The attached image is an image of the Milky Way
True
False
True or False: The Solar System is bigger than the Milky Way
True
False
True or False: If we send astronauts to Mars, we won't be able to talk to them instantaneously
True
False
If I am one light-nanosecond away from you, how old do I appear to you compared to my actual age?
1 nanosecond older
1 second older
1 second younger
1 nanosecond younger
Which one is larger?
Galaxy clusters
Galaxies
True or False: the two-way communication time with an astronaut in Mars is always the same
True
False
True or False: The ASTRO 1500 Trivia questions will be very similar to questions on the exams
True
False
How can astronomers learn about the Universe at times in the past?
We can't
We can travel to distant locations in the Universe
We can look further away into the distant Universe
We can watch the Universe evolve forward and infer what happened in the past
If you had to guess, how times would you have to fold an enormous piece of paper for it to have a thickness equal to the distance of the Moon?
40,000
4 × 10 11
42
4× 10100
True or False: All of the planets could potentially fit between the Earth and the Moon.
True
True or False: The in-class Lecture Challenges are similar to exam questions
True
False
Approximately, how many stars are in the Milky Way?
1 billion
100 billion
100 million
10 trillion
