{"id":58,"date":"2026-09-16T04:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/space-astronomy-quiz-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:04:03","slug":"space-astronomy-quiz-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/space-astronomy-quiz-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Quiz: 18 Questions on Planets, Moons and Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Space is the friendliest of the science categories, because most of it is visible from a back garden and the rest turns up in films. These eighteen questions cover the planets, the Moon landings and a few things at the edge of the solar system that catch people out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy space questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?<\/strong> \u2014 Mars<\/li>\n\n
  2. What is the closest star to Earth?<\/strong> \u2014 The Sun<\/li>\n\n
  3. Who was the first human to walk on the Moon?<\/strong> \u2014 Neil Armstrong<\/li>\n\n
  4. Which planet has the most visible rings?<\/strong> \u2014 Saturn<\/li>\n\n
  5. What galaxy do we live in?<\/strong> \u2014 The Milky Way<\/li>\n\n
  6. How many planets are in our solar system?<\/strong> \u2014 Eight<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Medium space questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Which planet is the largest in the solar system?<\/strong> \u2014 Jupiter<\/li>\n\n
    2. In which year did Apollo 11 land on the Moon?<\/strong> \u2014 1969<\/li>\n\n
    3. What was the first artificial satellite launched into orbit?<\/strong> \u2014 Sputnik 1<\/li>\n\n
    4. Which planet spins on its side relative to its orbit?<\/strong> \u2014 Uranus<\/li>\n\n
    5. What is the name of Jupiter’s largest moon?<\/strong> \u2014 Ganymede<\/li>\n\n
    6. Who was the first woman in space?<\/strong> \u2014 Valentina Tereshkova<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Hard space questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?<\/strong> \u2014 About eight minutes<\/li>\n\n
      2. What is the name of the boundary around a black hole?<\/strong> \u2014 The event horizon<\/li>\n\n
      3. Which space telescope launched in 1990?<\/strong> \u2014 The Hubble Space Telescope<\/li>\n\n
      4. What is the largest volcano in the solar system?<\/strong> \u2014 Olympus Mons, on Mars<\/li>\n\n
      5. Which probe left the solar system in 2012?<\/strong> \u2014 Voyager 1<\/li>\n\n
      6. What is the hottest planet in the solar system?<\/strong> \u2014 Venus<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Play on the Millionaire Trivia app<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Venus catches almost everybody: it is further from the Sun than Mercury but hotter, because its atmosphere traps the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Planets, moons and missions \u2014 eighteen astronomy questions with answers, easy through hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}