Find answers to the Multiple alternative queries (MCQs) at the bottom of the page.
1. Name the nearest star to our sun.
- (A) Proxima Centurai
- (B) Alpha Scorpii
- (C) Beta Orionis
- (D) Vega
2. Which planet of our solar system is the fastest in rotation?
- (A) Mars
- (B) Pluto
- (C) Jupiter
- (D) Venus
3. Reflecting telescope and Gregorian telescope were respectively invented by Issac Newton and James Gregory. Who invented the infrared telescope?
- (A) Frank Low
- (B) David Gregory
- (C) David Alien
- (D) Langley
4. Name the closest Planet to the Sun.
- (A) Neptune
- (B) Pluto
- (C) Mercury
- (D) Mars
5. Name the farthest away planet from the sun.
- (A) Neptune
- (B) Pluto
- (C) Mercury
- (D) Mars
6. Length of days is different for different planets of the solar system. A day on Venus is 117 Earth days long. How many Earth days would be equal to one day on Mercury?
- (A) 30 days
- (B) 40 days
- (C) 50 days
- (D) 55 days
7. Name the third planet from the sun.
- (A) Earth
- (B) Jupiter
- (C) Venus
- (D) Saturn
8. Name the year in which spacecraft Viking I and Viking II landed on Mars.
- (A) 1973
- (B) 1974
- (C) 1975
- (D) 1976
9. Mars is barren desert. It is covered with red dust, which is why Mars is also called as the:
- (A) Red planet
- (B) Brown planet
- (C) Hot planet
- (D) Cold planet
10. Name the large gas giant planet which is larger than all of the other planets put together.
- (A) Neptune
- (B) Saturn
- (C) Jupiter
- (D) Venus
11. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun. It is named after the greatest of the Roman gods. It is much bigger than Earth. About how many Earths would equal to one Jupiter?
- (A) 100
- (B) 500
- (C) 700
- (D) 1000
12. Name the planet which was last discovered?
- (A) Pluto
- (B) Neptune
- (C) Uranus
- (D) Venus
13. Although Neptune is the eighth planet of the solar system and Pluto the ninth. But Pluto has a lopsided orbit around the Sun. In the late 1970s, it moved closer to the Sun than Neptune. Pluto is now the eighth planet and Neptune is the ninth. In which year, Pluto will once again become the ninth planet?
- (A) 1999
- (B) 1997
- (C) 1998
- (D) 1995
14. What is the distance of the Moon from the Earth?
- (A) 340,000 Km.
- (B) 385,000 Km.
- (C) 380,000 Km.
- (D) 360,000 Km.
15. Name the largest moon in our solar system.
- (A) Ganymede
- (B) Titan
- (C) Callisto
- (D) Miranda
16. Which planet of our solar system has the largest moon?
- (A) Uranus
- (B) Neptune
- (C) Saturn
- (D) Jupiter
17. Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon are the five largest moons of a planet.
- (A) Jupiter
- (B) Uranus
- (C) Venus
- (D) Saturn
18. Name the biggest Asteroid of the solar system.
- (A) Ceres
- (B) Hermes
- (C) Icarus
- (D) Hidalgo
19. How far away is the Andromeda Galaxy from our Milky Way?
- (A) One million light years.
- (B) Two million light years.
- (C) Two thousand light years.
- (D) Hundred thousand light years.
20. There are millions of galaxies in the Universe. A group of galaxies is called galactic clusters. What is the name of a small cluster to which our Milky Way, Way belongs to?
- (A) Local group
- (B) Zero group
- (C) Large group
- (D) Small group
- 1. B
- 2. A
- 3. B
- 4. B
- 5. C
- 6. A
- 7. B
- 8. A
- 9. C
- 10. D
- 11. A
- 12. C
- 13. A
- 14. D
- 15. B
- 16. D
- 17. A
- 18. D
- 19. A
- 20. C
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