Space | Category

Pub quiz question 4873 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the next country to launch a satellite after the Soviet Union and USA?
Answer: A: France
Categories: Geography (4) Science (4) Space (4) Technology (4)
Times used:

Pub quiz question 7144 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is Yuri Gagarin said to have done after leaving the bus just prior to the first space flight that has become a tradition with Russian cosmonauts?
Answer: A: Urinated on its wheel
Notes: *: 12 April 1961
Categories: People (9) Space (9) Science (9) 1960s (9) Superstitions (5)

Pub quiz question 2809 by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3272 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which English county gained the most tourists to view the 1999 total solar eclipse?
Answer: A: Cornwall
Categories: Geography (1) Space (1) Science (1) Astronomy (1) 1990s (1)

Pub quiz question 4628 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which organisation developed the zero gravity Space Pen in the 1960's?
Answer: A: NASA
Categories: Science (4) Space (4)

Pub quiz question 2811 by pjh2

Pub quiz question 6279 by pjh2

Question: Q: What bird gave its name to the lunar module which took Neil Armstrong to the surface of the moon?
Answer: A: Eagle
Notes: *: 1969
Categories: Space (1) Biology (2) Nature (2) 1960s (1)

Pub quiz question 6141 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Ceres always classed as until it was touted as a minor planet in 2006?
Answer: A: Asteroid
Categories: Space (6)

Pub quiz question 6144 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which was the only one of the accepted nine plants at the start of the 21st century not to be named after a Roman or Greek god?
Answer: A: Earth
Categories: Space (1) Religion (1)

Pub quiz question 7 by pjh2

Question: Q: Ranger, Viking, Galileo and Cassini are some notable examples of what?
Answer: A: Space missions
Notes: *: U.S. Planetary Science Missions
Categories: Science (5) Space (2)