Look Up! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eclipse

When the moon comes between the sun and earth, it is called a solar eclipse. Sometimes the earth gets between the sun and the moon; this is called a lunar eclipse.

Every year there are 2 or 3 solar eclipses, but they are not all as pretty as the one in the photo. Mostly, only part of the sun is hiding.

Answer: Saturn

Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei, was the first to see the rings of Saturn, in 1610, but he could not work out what they were- he thought that the planet had ears! There are nine main rings, and over 60 moons circling around Saturn.

Answer: Milky Way

Get away from the city lights and look up- the Milky Way is huge and stunning! There are millions of stars, just like our sun. My picture is from the southern hemisphere and the five bright stars are the constellation of the Southern Cross.

Pinwheel Galaxy is 21 million light-years away from us, and Andromeda Galaxy is our neighbour, and moving towards us. We will run into it in 5 billion years!

Bajor-B'Hava'el System is not a real galaxy - it is in the 'Star Trek' movies.

Answer: Seas

Many of the 'seas' were named, like Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility), which is where, in 1969, the first moon landing took place. They are not seas, but flat plains. They are darker because they do not reflect the sun's rays as well as the surrounding mountains.

Answer: Halley's Comet

The comet appeared in 1066, just before the Battle of Hastings. It was not called Halley's Comet then- Edmund Halley was not born for another 500 years! Halley's visits our skies every 76 years and has been recorded for more than 2000 years. It has even been thought that the Star of Bethlehem was the same comet.

Answer: Black hole

The Magellanic Clouds are small galaxies, near to ours. The Big Bang is a theory about how the universe starts and bolides are types of meteors.

My picture is not a real black hole, but simply a hole that is black.

Answer: Russia

'MIR' means 'peace' in Russian. The space station consisted of a core area, with several other modules added on. Much of the assembly was carried out in space. Astronauts from many countries visited the space station, including USA, France, Germany, Syria, Bulgaria and more. Altogether, there were 104 different visitors to MIR.

Answer: Pluto

Pluto was the ninth planet from its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 until its reclassification. It was NOT named after the Disney dog, it was the other way around! The planet was named for the Greek god of the Underworld (also known as Hades).

Io is a moon of Jupiter and Ceres is one of the asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Charon is a moon of Pluto.

Answer: Neil Armstrong

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6, but did not go to the moon. Michael Collins spent over 23 hours going round and round the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the surface. In 1962, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth.

Answer: Jupiter

Jupiter is more than twice the size of all the other planets put together. The Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for more than 300 years. It is almost three times the size of our Earth.