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ASTRO 1500 Trivia - January 24, 2025

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are you most excited to learn about in this class?

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2.

The star Vega is 25 light years away. When did the light that is now reaching us leave Vega?

a)

1975

b)

2000

c)

2020

d)

2025

3.

If the Sun were the size of a basketball, how big would Earth be?

a)

Softball

b)

Tennis ball

c)

Peanut

d)

Appleseed

4.

How old is the Universe?

a)

10,000 years

b)

4.5 billion years

c)

100 million years

d)

13.8 billion years

5.

Based on the answer to the previous question, about how far away is the farthest observable part of the Universe?

a)

10 light years

b)

13 million light years

c)

13 billion light years

d)

8 light minutes

6.

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?

a)

1 million dollars

b)

$2 and doubled

7.

True or False. The attached image is an image of the Milky Way

a)

True

b)

False

8.

True or False: The Solar System is bigger than the Milky Way

a)

True

b)

False

9.

True or False: If we send astronauts to Mars, we won't be able to talk to them instantaneously

a)

True

b)

False

10.

If I am one light-nanosecond away from you, how old do I appear to you compared to my actual age?

a)

1 nanosecond older

b)

1 second older

c)

1 second younger

d)

1 nanosecond younger

11.

Which one is larger?

a)

Galaxy clusters

b)

Galaxies

12.

True or False: the two-way communication time with an astronaut in Mars is always the same

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or False: The ASTRO 1500 Trivia questions will be very similar to questions on the exams

a)

True

b)

False

14.

How can astronomers learn about the Universe at times in the past?

a)

We can't

b)

We can travel to distant locations in the Universe

c)

We can look further away into the distant Universe

d)

We can watch the Universe evolve forward and infer what happened in the past

15.

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?

a)

40,000

b)

4 × 10 114\ \times\ 10^{\ 11}

c)

42

d)

4× 101004\times\ 10^{100}

16.

True or False: All of the planets could potentially fit between the Earth and the Moon.

a)

True

b)
False
17.

True or False: The in-class Lecture Challenges are similar to exam questions

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Approximately, how many stars are in the Milky Way?

a)

1 billion

b)

100 billion

c)

100 million

d)

10 trillion