How Well Do You Know Our Universe?
This is a true or false quiz about our Universe. If you don't know anything about this and you take it anyway and you get the answers right, take a moment to actually understand what the questions are and learn something.
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When a star dies it always turns into a Pulsar.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
False. Sometimes it turns into a Pulsar. Other times into a Supernova or even a Black Hole.Rate this question:
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- 2.
Our Solar System is at the edge of our Galaxy.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
True. Our Solar System is at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy (ours).Rate this question:
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- 3.
Our planet Earth is in the Goldy Locks point, witch means that its neither too far from the Sun nor too close.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Yes our planet is in the so called Goldy Locks point. Why Goldy Locks? Because its just right :-)Rate this question:
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- 4.
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun in our Solar System, is on one side freezing and on the other burnt.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
This is very true. Being too close to the sun will bring up consequences.Rate this question:
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- 5.
We know everything about the whole Universe.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
Don't even get me started on what we don't know. Long story short: all we know is 0.5%!Rate this question:
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- 6.
Scientists think that there may be a chance of life on Mars.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Yes! There is a saying: where there is water there is life.Rate this question:
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- 7.
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in the Solar System.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
This is true. Saturn is the most gorgeous also because of its rings.Rate this question:
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- 8.
Saturns ring are made out of moons (its moons that orbit around it).
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Yup! Every single rock or pice of dust that makes its rings are all moons.Rate this question:
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- 9.
Pluto is a planet.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
Nooooooooo! Pluto was claimed a planet when it was discovered by astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh in 1930 but now we realised that its too small to be a planet. And get this: other astronomers discovered in time different small planets that were not bigger than Pluto and one even a bit larger. Since they were like Nano planets they were classified in Dwarf Planets.Rate this question:
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- 10.
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Galaxy.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
Nope! Its only the biggest planet in our Solar System.Rate this question:
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- 11.
Jupiter's days last 10 of our hours
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Yes.Rate this question:
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- 12.
It takes Jupiter 11.8618 Earth Years to complete one orbit of the Sun.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Yes. This is because of its mass: more than the mass of all eight planets combined.Rate this question:
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- 13.
Our planet and Mars have the same mass
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Yes they do.Rate this question:
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- 14.
Water came from asteroids.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
yes. thats all i have to say.Rate this question:
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- 15.
It takes four minutes for the light of a star to reach us.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
False. it takes 4 years. So from now on, whenever you see a star, your going to appreciate it... right?Rate this question:
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- 16.
In Venus there is Hell.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Three words: Molten lava everywhere!Rate this question:
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- 17.
The Sun's Core has a temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Can you feel or imagine the heat?Rate this question:
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