FELICITY FROBISHER’S FUN SPACE QUIZ

1.

Space is how many miles from your doorstep?

a) 20 million miles?

b) 20 thousand miles?

c) 20 miles?

2.

Inside their spaceship travelling to the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts had to dodge:

a) Tennis balls?

b) Vomit balls?

c) Balls of string?

3.

On the Moon you could jump as high as:

a) A guinea pig’s ankle?

b) A giraffe’s eyebrow?

c) A zebra’s nose?

4.

The Moon is so far away that, if you could go by car, the journey would take:

a) More than a year?

b) A week?

c) Three weeks?

5.

The planet Uranus was originally going to be called:

a) Beyonce?

b) Wayne Rooney?

c) George?

6.

The hurricane on Jupiter known as the Great Spot has been raging for:

a) More than 100 years?

b) Two days?

c) Seventeen weeks

7.

In 1960 a piece of rocket that fell from space accidentally killed:

a) A gerbil in Germany?

b) An ant in Antigua?

c) A cow in Cuba?

8.

The Sun is big enough to swallow:

a) A million Earths?

b) Two Earths?

c) A hundred Earths?

9.

Some scientists think life may have travelled to Earth in a meteorite from the planet:

a) Pluto?

b) Mars?

c) Krypton?

10.

If you fell feet-first into a black hole, you would be:

a) Be stretched out like a long strand of spaghetti?

b) Squashed like a pancake?

c) Sun around like a top?

(Answers: 1c, 2b, 3b, 4a, 5c, 6a, 7c, 8a, 9b, 10a)