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Space Trivia Quiz
Look Up Planets, Moon missions, rockets that land themselves and the Indians who went up. Look up!
196 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This Space Trivia Quiz has 196 questions: 68 easy, 79 medium and 49 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 196 Space questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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On which planet do sunsets glow blue, as NASA's rovers have photographed?
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Mars
Fine Martian dust lets blue light pass near the Sun's direction, while the daytime sky looks butterscotch.
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Mars has the biggest volcano in the Solar System, about two and a half times as tall as Mount Everest. What is it called?
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Olympus Mons
It is so wide that a person standing on top couldn't see its edges, as they'd be hidden past the horizon.
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Sunlight that reaches you left the Sun about how many minutes earlier?
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8
So if the Sun vanished, we wouldn't know for about 8 minutes.
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The James Webb Space Telescope's giant honeycomb mirror shines with a thin coating of which precious metal?
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Gold
Gold reflects infrared light very well, and infrared is the kind of light Webb was built to collect.
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Which space telescope, launched on Christmas Day 2021, shades itself with a sunshield the size of a tennis court?
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James Webb Space Telescope
The five-layer shield keeps Webb's instruments below about -223 °C, cold enough to see faint heat from the early universe.
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In 2015, Opportunity became the first robot to travel the distance of which famous running race on another world?
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Marathon
It took 11 years and 2 months; NASA staff ran a relay race at JPL to celebrate.
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In April 2021, which small NASA helicopter made the first powered flight on another planet?
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Ingenuity
Mars's air is about 1% as thick as Earth's, so its blades had to spin about 2,500 times a minute.
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What do people often mistake for UFOs: a neat line of bright dots moving across the night sky a day or two after a SpaceX launch?
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Starlink
The satellites spread apart and climb higher over days, so the 'train' soon fades.
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What did nearly 11 million people send to Mars, etched on three fingernail-sized chips on the Perseverance rover?
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Their names
The chips sit on a plate showing Earth, Mars and the Sun, with 'Explore as one' hidden in Morse code in the Sun's rays.
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'My battery is low and it's getting dark' became the internet's sad farewell to which Mars rover, lost in a dust storm in 2018?
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Opportunity
A journalist wrote the line as a 'translation' of its last data; the real message was just low-power readings.
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The faint glow on the dark part of a crescent Moon is sunlight bounced off Earth. Which Renaissance genius first explained it?
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Leonardo da Vinci
He thought Earth's oceans did it; we now know clouds bounce most of that light. It's still called the 'Da Vinci glow'.
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Stars twinkle but planets mostly don't. What makes the stars twinkle?
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Earth's atmosphere
Stars are tiny points, so moving air bends their light about; planets are small discs, so it evens out.
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Blue Origin's big orbital rocket, which first flew in January 2025, is named after the first American to orbit Earth. Who?
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John Glenn
Glenn orbited in 1962 and flew again in 1998, at 77, on the Space Shuttle.
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Chandrayaan-3 made India only the ___ country ever to soft-land on the Moon. Fill in the number.
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Fourth
Before India, only the Soviet Union, the US and China had done it, and none of them near the south pole.
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In 2012, Curiosity was lowered to the surface of Mars on cables from a hovering rocket platform. What was the platform nicknamed?
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Sky crane
The crane then flew off to crash a safe distance away; Perseverance landed the same way in 2021.
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On 6 August 2013, alone on Mars, which NASA rover marked one year there by playing 'Happy Birthday' to itself?
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Curiosity
It vibrated its soil-sampling tool at different speeds to make the notes, and never sang again.
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Which Indian mission sits 1.5 million km from Earth, where the Moon can never block its view of the Sun?
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Aditya-L1
It got there on 6 January 2024; 'Aditya' is a Sanskrit name for the Sun, which it watches nonstop.
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The word 'galaxy' comes from the Greek word for which drink?
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Milk
Ancient Greeks saw the Milky Way as a stream of spilled milk across the sky.
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Which Japanese carmaker's logo shows the Pleiades star cluster?
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Subaru
'Subaru' is the Japanese name for the Pleiades; in India the same cluster is called Krittika.
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Which small star pattern appears on the flags of Australia, New Zealand and Brazil?
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Southern Cross
Brazil's flag even shows the stars over Rio on the night of 15 November 1889, Southern Cross included.
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196. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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