Spaced Out Trivia Quiz

The only team in the NBA to be named after a celestial body (though the Houston Rockets would take you there!), the Phoenix Suns hail from one of the U.S.' sunnier and hotter destinations. Forming in 1968, the Suns featured in the NBA Championship finals three times in their first five decades of play but failed to clinch the victory; traditionally they've been a strong team across the league.

The team name is a fit for the city. Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, sits in the Arizona Sun Corridor in the Sonoran Desert and, because of its spot in the Salt River Valley, it's nicknamed the Valley of the Sun. The Suns were their first major sports team.

Started in 1992, the Mercury Prize has been regarded as one of the more interesting music awards not just in UK music but the world over, because of its tendency to fairly balance artists' popularity as well as their technical merits. In the past, it's given the prize to well-known names like Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, and PJ Harvey, for instance. In some cases, when lesser-known acts win the prize, it can catapult them to significant sales from the exposure alone.

The name of the award comes from Mercury Communications, who sponsored the event back in the early 1990s. The award kept the name despite Mercury being consolidated into a larger company.

One of the two Williams sisters, known for their supremacy in women's tennis, Venus achieved not only five Wimbledon singles wins, but two more Grand Slam titles at the US Open and four gold medals across three Olympic Games (one for singles play and three for doubles alongside her sister, Serena). While Serena would continue playing professionally until 2022's US Open, Venus competed in her last finals matches in 2017 before gradually dropping out of contention for the top spots.

Together with her sister, Venus is considered one of the most successful and famous names in women's sports of the 2000s and amongst the list of highest-earning athletes.

Released as three 'Books' (or seasons) from 2005-2008, the animated television show "Avatar: The Last Airbender" featured a young boy of prophecy, Aang, who needed to hone his powers to defeat the evil Fire Lord Ozai before the return of Sozin's Comet. With the help of his friends across the different elemental kingdoms, he could harness the powers of air, water, earth, and fire to ascend as the next Avatar.

The series was split into the three books based on elements of note, the first being "Water", the second being "Earth", and the final one being "Fire". All the books took place in and around their respective kingdoms as the group neared the Fire Lord to fight once and for all.

The Mars bar, created by Mars Inc., was originally made in the UK more than a hundred years ago, continuing to be sold in most Commonwealth countries as a confectionery candy bar. Mars also, for a short time, sold in the United States, but the equivalent chocolate bar there would be the Milky Way bar.

One unique variant of the treat, created in Scotland, involves coating the bar in a light batter, then deep-frying it in oil. Naturally, it's less healthy than just having the bar on its own.

In both the original "Lost in Space" from the mid-1960s and the Netflix remake airing 2018-2021, the Robinson family travelled around as a unit, lost in space (naturally) in the Jupiter 2, a large spacecraft designed for interplanetary travel and research. The catch is that in both iterations of the show, they had to contend not only with the harsh environments they got stranded on, but other sinister people who'd either joined the family or ended up wherever they crashed.

The series also spawned a live-action film remake that released in 1998. It, similarly, featured the Robinsons on the Jupiter II. "The Swiss Family Robinson", from which the series was loosely inspired, featured no such ship (obviously); they were stranded in a sailboat.

The follow-up to the Sega Genesis, the Sega Saturn first released in stores in Japan in 1994 and showed up elsewhere the following year. Though the Genesis was quite the success story even in the face of Nintendo supremacy, the Saturn stumbled out the gate with sales and failed to gain any ground outside Japan. By the time the Nintendo 64 released, Sega dropped through the standings in the console game, and after the release of their next console, the Dreamcast, they backed out of hardware.

Though there was a lack of popular titles for the Saturn, it still saw the release of "Nights into Dreams", "Virtual Fighter 2", and "Sonic Jam".

Taking place across four days in November 1942, Operation Uranus was a strategic operation which saw the Soviet Union, more than a million men strong, hold down Stalingrad (now Volgograd) against Hitler's army, comprised of German, Italian, and Romanian forces.

The Battle of Stalingrad, which took place over seven months, ended up being the largest urban battle of WWII, and it ended partly due to the overextension of Hitler's forces which, in turn, allowed the Soviets to surround the German 6th Army for three months, preventing access to air drops and ultimately leading to their surrender.

Eggs benedict, if you know your breakfasts/brunches, traditionally consists of a poached egg sitting on a thick cut of peameal/Canadian bacon, covered with hollandaise, all on top of a half of an English muffin. Though there are variations on this, it's a fairly common North American meal offering.

One such variation, as noted, is Eggs Neptune, which swaps out the bacon for crab meat, possibly a suitable choice for brunch near the sea. Other alternatives include Eggs Balmoral (which uses haggis), Eggs Florentine (which uses spinach), and Eggs Blanchard (which uses béchamel instead of hollandaise).

Considered by many Poe scholars to feature a narrator acting as the closest reflection of Poe's personal life, "The Black Cat" (1843) was a particularly concise short story featuring a man who, in his bouts with alcoholism, eventually took out his anger on his and his wife's cat, leading the vengeance-seeking animal (Pluto) to start a series of events leading to the destruction of his own life.

It's one thing for the animal to be the Gothic symbol of superstition, but it's another that it's named after the Roman god of the Underworld, a certainly intentional choice on Poe's part.