Astronomy Quiz Questions and Answers
1) What is the speed per minute at which earth revolves around the sun?
Answer: More than 1600 km.
2) At what interval does the sun shine vertically on the Equator?
Answer: Twice a year.
3) Which gas is most predominant in the sun?
Answer: Hydrogen.
4) How many does the moon take to return to the same position among the constellation?
Answer: 28 days.
5) Which planet has the largest number of satellite?
Answer: Saturn.
6) What are comets?
Answer: Celestial bodies.
7) Which planets can be seen by the naked eye of a normal human being?
Answer: Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
8) On which planet of the solar system does the sun rise in the west and set in the east?
Answer: Venus.
9) Which is the element found on the surface of the moon?
Answer: Titanium.
10) Which is the biggest star in our galaxy?
Answer: Red Giants.
11) Which is the nearest star to the earth excluding e sun in our galaxy?
Answer: Proxima Centauri.
12) What is the stage named in the evolution of stars when they possess super gravity?
Answer: Black Hole Stage.
13) Who invented the telescope which was the main tool in the study in Astronomy?
Answer: Galileo.
14) About the earth one astronomer said “nevertheless it moves”, who was that astronomer?
Answer: Galileo.
15) How many days the Mercury needs to complete one revolution around the sun?
Answer: 88 days.
16) How many years the Jupiter takes to complete one revolution around the sun?
Answer: 12 years.
17) How many years the Saturn takes to complete one revolution around the sun?
Answer: 30 years.
18) What are the small planets revolving around the sun in between Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: Asteroids.
19) Which Celestial body has the most concentric orbit?
Answer: Comet.
20) What is the name of the orbit of comets around the sun?
Answer: Elliptical Orbit.
21) Which astronomer was the first to say that the earth orbited the sun?
Answer: Copemicus.
22) Which is the hottest planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Mercury.
23) How many satellites are there for Mars?
Answer: Two.
24) Which are the two satellites of Mars?
Answer: Phobos and Deimos.
25) Which is the largest satellite in our solar system?
Answer: Ganymede.
26) Ganymede belongs to which planet?
Answer: Jupiter.
27) Which is the biggest satellite of Saturn?
Answer: Titan.
28) When was Uranus discovered?
Answer: 1781.
29) Which is the slowest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Pluto.
30) What is the name of a diffuse cloud of particles and gases visible either as a hazy patch of light or an irregular dark region?
Answer: Nebula.
