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Space 79 questions.

The final frontier

Pub quiz question 7167 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which US President's assassination put an end to his negotiations for a joint USA/USSR space programme with Nikita Khrushchev?
Answer: A: John F Kennedy's
Notes: *: Assassinated 1963
Categories: People (1) 1960s (1) Politics (1) Space (1) Science (1)

Pub quiz question 6291 by pjh2

Question: Q: What single object accounts for more than 99% of the solar system's mass?
Answer: A: The sun
Categories: Astronomy (2) Space (2) Physics (2)

Pub quiz question 6295 by pjh2

Question: Q: What P-word means the visible surface of the sun?
Answer: A: Photosphere
Categories: Space (7) Language (7) Science (7) Physics (7)

Pub quiz question 7148 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the first American in space?
Answer: A: Alan Shepard
Notes: *: May 5 1961
Categories: People (3) Science (3) 1960s (3) Space (3)

Pub quiz question 6059 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the largest asteroid and the first to be discovered?
Answer: A: Ceres
Categories: Space (7)

Pub quiz question 7330 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Six US flags; two golf balls; a golden olive branch; 96 bags of urine, faeces and vomit?
Answer: A: Some of the items left on the moon
Categories: Connections (8) Space (2) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 2814 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is the fifth planet from the sun?
Answer: A: Jupiter
Categories: Science (3) Space (3)
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Pub quiz question 2816 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is the seventh planet from the sun?
Answer: A: Uranus
Categories: Space (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 2548 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former cosmonaut died in a plane crash in March 1968?
Answer: A: Yuri Gagarin
Categories: Science (5) 1960s (5) Space (5)
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Pub quiz question 3268 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to a solar eclipse when the Sun and the Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun?
Answer: A: Annular eclipse
Categories: Space (7) Science (7) Astronomy (7)