Question 1

THE ANCIENT GREEKS REALIZED EARTH WAS NOT A FLAT SURFACE, BUT RATHER WHAT SHAPE?

Accepted Answer

A SPHERE

Answer

A GLOBE

Answer

A RHOMBUS

Answer

AROUND

Question 2

WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN TO CLASSIFY STARS ACCORDING TO THEIR BRIGHTNESS?

Accepted Answer

HIPPARCHUS

Answer

ARISTARCHUS

Answer

COPERNICUS

Answer

PYTHAGORAS

Question 3

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FIRST HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE EARTH ORBITED THE SUN?

Accepted Answer

NICOLAS COPERNICUS

Answer

SOCRATES

Answer

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Answer

TYCHO BRAHE

Question 4

A PHILOSOPHER THAT PROVED THE EARTH IS A SPHERE & THOUGHT IT WAS AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Accepted Answer

ARISTOTLE

Answer

WILLIAM HERSCHEL

Answer

ISAAC NEWTON

Answer

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

Question 5

HIS MODEL OF THE EARTH-CENTERED UNIVERSE WAS THE CORNERSTONE OF ASTRONOMY FOR 1,500 YEARS.

Accepted Answer

CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY

Answer

CHARLES MESSIER

Answer

GALILEO GALILEI

Answer

NICOLAS COPERNICUS

Question 6

BEGAN A NEW ERA OF ASTRONOMY WHEN HE CONCLUDED THAT THE SUN WAS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Accepted Answer

NICOLAS COPERNICUS

Answer

TYCHO BRAHE

Answer

ARISTOTLE

Answer

GALILEO GALILEI

Question 7

DISCOVERED THE 4 LARGEST MOONS OF JUPITER.

Accepted Answer

GALILEO GALILEI

Answer

NICOLAS COPERNICUS

Answer

PTOLEMY

Answer

PLATO

Question 8

WHO DEVELOPS THE THREE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION?

Accepted Answer

JOHANNES KEPLER

Answer

NICOLAS COPERNICUS

Answer

ISAAC NEWTON

Answer

GALILEO GALILEI

Question 9

A PATTERN OR GROUPING OF STARS

Accepted Answer

CONSTELLATION

Answer

SOLAR ECLIPSE

Answer

APHELION

Answer

PERIHELION

Question 10

LOCATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM IN THE UNIVERSE.

Accepted Answer

MILKY WAY GALAXY

Answer

MAJOR AXIS

Answer

ANDROMEDA GALAXY

Answer

SEMI MAJOR AXIS

Question 11

A MARTIAN VOLCANO WHICH IS THE LARGEST VOLCANO IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

Accepted Answer

OLYMPUS MONS

Answer

MOUNT EVEREST

Answer

MAKE-MAKE

Answer

CERES

Question 12

THE CLOSEST POINT OF A PLANET TO ITS ORBITS CALLED _____________.

Accepted Answer

PERIHELION

Answer

PROGRADE

Answer

APHELION

Answer

RETROGRADE

Question 13

HAPPENS WHEN EARTH BLOCKS SUNLIGHT TO MOON.

Accepted Answer

LUNAR ECLIPSE

Answer

TIDE

Answer

SOLSTICE

Answer

SOLAR ECLIPSE

Question 14

HALF OF THE MAJOR AXIS OF AN ELLIPSE.

Accepted Answer

SEMI MAJOR AXIS

Answer

OLYMPUS MONS

Answer

CERES

Answer

MAJOR AXIS

Question 15

SPINNING ON ITS AXIS. PRODUCES DAY AND NIGHT

Accepted Answer

ROTATION

Answer

RETROGRADE

Answer

REVOLUTION

Answer

PROGRADE

Question 16

BUILT AN OBSERVATORY AND MADE THE MOST ACCURATE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MORE THAN 20 YRS.

Accepted Answer

TYCHO BRAHE

Answer

HIPPARCHUS

Answer

GIOVANNI CASSINI

Answer

ISAAC NEWTON

Question 17

HELIOCENTRIC (PRON: HE-LEE-O-SEN-TRIK) MEANS AROUND:

Accepted Answer

THE SUN

Answer

JUPITER

Answer

STARS

Answer

THE EARTH

Question 18

HE GREATEST DISTANCE OF A PLANET FROM THE SUN IS CALLED WHAT? IS IT PLANET'S:

Accepted Answer

APHELION (PRON: AH-FEEL-YEN)

Answer

HELIX

Answer

CERES

Answer

PERIHELION (PRON: PER-EH-HEEL-YEN)

Question 19

ACCORDING TO KEPLER'S LAWS, ALL ORBITS OF THE PLANETS ARE

Accepted Answer

ELLIPSES

Answer

SQUARE

Answer

HYPERBOLA

Answer

PARABOLAS

Question 20

A PLANET IS SAID TO BE AT APHELION WHEN IT IS:

Accepted Answer

FARTHEST FROM THE SUN

Answer

CLOSEST TO THE SUN

Answer

AT IT'S HIGHEST POINT ABOVE THE ECLIPTIC

Answer

AT IT'S LOWEST POINT BELOW THE ECLIPTIC

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