EXPLORING THE SPACE AND UNIVERSE MCQs

“Six comets” were discovered by:

  • (A) Fremont
  • (B) Mendez
  • (C) Caroline Herschel
  • (D) Galileo Galilee
Check Answer
  • (C) Caroline Herschel

What is “Hubble”?

  • (A) Rocket
  • (B) Spacecraft
  • (C) Microscope
  • (D) Space telescope
Check Answer
  • (D) Space telescope

Name the largest and the most luminous type of star?

  • (A) Red giant
  • (B) Blue giant
  • (C) Super giant
  • (D) White giant
Check Answer
  • (C) Super giant

When did the Hubble telescope launch into the space?

  • (A) 24th April, 1980
  • (B) 24th April, 1985
  • (C) 24th April, 1990
  • (D) 24th April, 1995
Check Answer
  • (C) 24th April, 1990

Hubble telescope was launched into the space with the help of:

  • (A) Colombia
  • (B) Discovery
  • (C) Skylab
  • (D) Sputnik
Check Answer
  • (B) Discovery

Approximately how many ‘Galaxies’ are there in the observable universe?

  • (A) 100 billion
  • (B) 130 billion
  • (C) 170 billion
  • (D) 200 billion
Check Answer
  • (C) 170 billion

Famous theory of “Laws of Planetary Motion” was propounded by:

  • (A) Galileo
  • (B) Newton
  • (C) Kepler
  • (D) Einstein
Check Answer
  • (C) Kepler

Who was the first Canadian woman in space?

  • (A) Roberta Bondar
  • (B) Dirk Fremont
  • (C) Valentina Tereshkova
  • (D) Svetlana Savitskaya
Check Answer
  • (A) Roberta Bondar

“Marc Garneau” was the first _______ in space.

  • (A) Austrian
  • (B) French
  • (C) Canadian
  • (D) Hungarian
Check Answer
  • (C) Canadian

Who was the first to measure the distance round the Earth?

  • (A) Eratosthenes
  • (B) Euclid
  • (C) Happarchus
  • (D) Isaac Newton
Check Answer
  • (A) Eratosthenes

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