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ASTRO™ QUIZ 2023

Duration: 30 minutes
Please answer your questions on this question paper. Each question is followed by possible answers marked A, B, C
and D or just A and B. Only one answer is correct. Choose the most correct answer and circle it clearly.

1. The Square Kilometre Array Telescope is based 8. South Africa’s Space Agency is known as:
at ………………….. A. SASE – South African Space Agency
A. The South African Astronomical Observatory B. SANSA - South African National Space
in Cape Town Agency
B. The Boyden Observatory in Bloemfontein C. SASE - South African Space Exploration
C. Sutherland D. SASS - South African Space Satellites
D. Carnarvon
9. South Africa won the major part of a bid to host
2. The Earth rotates on its axis once each... the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Which other
A. Day C. Week country will be hosting the rest of the SKA
B. Month D. Year project?
A. America
3. The Sun appears to rise in the __________ and
B. Austria
set in the _________.
C. Africa
A. East, West
D. Australia
B. North, South
C. West, East 10. Mons Olympus, a mountain on Mars, is higher
D. South, North than Table Mountain.
A. True B. False
4. The reason the town, Sutherland, was chosen
for telescope observation is: 11. What is the name of the brightest star in the
A. The skies are unpolluted night sky?
B. There is enough space for the telescopes A. Sirius
C. There is no rain B. Vega
D. There are lots of rocks C. Polaris
D. Betelgeuse
5. The study of the solar system is called …
A. cosmology 12. What is the name of the region of space
B. astrology between Mars and Jupiter where many
C. planetology asteroids are found?
D. astronomy A. Oort Cloud
B. Kuiper Belt
6. What is the term used to describe a group of
C. Asteroid Belt
stars that form a recognizable pattern?
D. Trans-Neptunian Region
A. Asterism
B. Nebula 13. Neptune has a large storm raging on its
C. Galaxy surface. It is called the ………..
D. Constellation A. Great Red Spot
B. Great Dark Spot
7. Uranus is tilted at an angle of 23.5˚ whereas
earth is tilted at an angle of 90%, which means 14. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes
that Earth lies on its side. between the Sun and the Moon, blocking the
A. True Sun's light and causing the Moon to appear
B. False red.
A. True B. False

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15. What is the name of the phenomenon by which 23. Planets are named after…………
a full moon appears slightly larger and brighter A. Greek gods
than usual? B. Roman gods
A. Super moon C. Both Greek and Roman gods
B. Blue moon D. None of the above
C. Blood moon
D. Harvest moon 24. The Sun’s diameter is more than …………times
larger than the Earth’s diameter.
16. The Big Bang theory is the scientific
A. 10 B. 50
explanation for the origin of the universe.
C. 100 D. 67
A. True B. False
25. A solar wind is made up of protons and gas.
17. What is the name of the zone where exoplanets
A. True B. False
can be found on which life could possibly
develop? 26. What does the word “Geodesy” mean?
A. Kuiper belt zone A. It is the science of measuring the Moon’s
B. Goldilocks zone geometric shape, it’s orientation in space and its
C. Shooting star zone gravity field.
D. Planetoid zone B. It is the science of measuring the Earth’s geometric
shape, it’s orientation in space and its gravity field.
18. Which of the following statements about the
C. It measures the speed of satellites
Milky Way galaxy is false?
D. It measures the size of meteorites
A. The Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy.
B. The Milky Way galaxy contains our solar 27. If you were living on Jupiter, you would be
system. using the same calendar that we use on earth.
C. The Milky Way galaxy is the largest galaxy in A. Yes
the universe. B. Maybe
C. No
19. The Sun orbits the earth. That is why we see
D. Sometimes
the sunrise in the east and sunset in the west.
A. True B. False 28. Uranus has many moons. Two were named
after characters in Shakespearean plays.
20. Which of the following two planets are made of
Which two?
mainly rock and metal?
A. Deimo and Titan
A. Venus and Mars
B. Callisto and Ganymede
B. Saturn and Mars
C. Titania and Oberon
C. Mercury and Uranus
D. None of the above
D. Neptune and Earth
29. Which of the planets listed below is the
21. Dr Shamilla Goedhart from the SKA project, is
smallest?
known for/as ………………
A. Mars
A. An expert on the formation of high-mass stars
B. Mercury
B. Studying galaxies
C. Venus
C. A cosmologist
D. Neptune
D. Astronomical photography
30. Earth has ……………..satellites.
22. The Milky Way is a/an ……………
A. 24
A. dwarf planet
B. 2
B. galaxy
C. 63
C. orbit
D. 1
D. interplanetary dust particle

Thank you for participating.

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