Mandakini 2016Astro Quiz

Prepared by: Dibya,Ahala, Aman, Shashank

There would three rounds of quiz

• Written round• Bounce• Pounce

• Rules for each round will be explain later…

• total Scores• Round1 score + round 2 score + round 3 score

ROUND 1Written round

Rules

• You will be given 20 mins.• Score: +10 , 0• After 20 mins, paper will be collected.• The score will be added at the end.

1. Which heavenly object is always visible?

2. Flag of…

4. connect

• 4 biggest moons of jupiter• oval shape of saturn• phases of venus• spots on sun

5. First animal to space?

6. Id the object and its location

7. identify the logo

8.

Ancient Greeks believed, the earth to be the centre of the universe. This model is called the X. Y argued that earth was not the centre of universe, instead sun was. this model came to be known as the Z.IDENTIFY X,Y and Z

9. ID

10. Who said this…

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

CURIOUS TO KNOW THE ANSWERS ????????????

ANSWERS1) EARTH2) MARS3) CHAWLA4) GALILEO5) FRUITFLY6) PILLARS OF CREATION; LOCATION - EAGLE NEBULA7) ISRO8) X: GEOCENTRIC UNIVERSE

Y: COPERNICUS Z: HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE9) GALLE (MARTIAN CRATER)10) CARL SAGAN

ROUND 2Bounce

Rules

• It is a bounce round• Two sets of 7 questions will be asked in forward direction and in

reverse directions…• +10,-0 for original question.• +5, -0 for passed question.

1. We all know center of milky way is in Saggitarius. But where is anticenter?

• Auriga

6.Identify the hypothetical case when this light curve will be obtained while observing a massive star.

a planet with two stars.

3.What is so special about this image?

• Rossetta’s Last Image

4. what is the time difference between consecutive sunrises on moon??(in earth time )

• 29.5 earth days

5. X are areas of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic field flux that inhibit convection. They usually appear in pairs of opposite magnetic polarity. Their numbers vary according to a 11 year periodic cycle. IDENTIFY X.

• SunSpots

6. Id the constellation

• Gemini

7. Id the person

Ferdinand Magellanic

id

Sqdn Ldr Rakesh Sharma

9. When 3 celestial bodies align(like in an eclipse), what is that configuration called?

syzygy

10. The Order• EARTH• MERCURY• VENUS• MARS • SATURN• MOON• NEPTUNE• JUPITER• URANUSExactly one object is not in it’s correct position. Id that object and also the criteria of ordering.

• Saturn is misplaced• pattern is decreasing order of density

11.Id the painter and the painting

Vincent Van Gough,Starry Nights

12) This was the first reflector telescope. It was invented by whom ??

Sir Isaac Newton

Rules• this is pounce round• the question will be directed to team 1.• and a pounce timer of 30 seconds will start for other teams to

pounce.• team participating in pounce must raise their hands and write the

answers on their pages.• +20,-10 for answering during the pounce timer.• during the pounce time any team other than team 1 can answer but

after that only the asked team will answer.• +20,-0 for answer by team 1.• +10,-0 on bounce of the same question to other teams.

1.Connect (in relation to astronomy)

PeppercornBlueberryCherry TomatoPeaWatermelonGrapefruitAppleLime

Size comparison of the planets

2. X’s mooon Y resembles the Death Star in the film Star Wars due a huge crater called Z , that covers nearly a third of its diameter. Z is 88 miles wide,and has crater walls 3 miles high.Identify X,Y and Z.

x= saturny= mimasz= Herschel

3.

“I came in with the halley’s comet in 1835. It is coming again next year and i expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if i can’t. The almighty has said,no doubt: ‘now here are two unaccountable freaks; they came in together. They must go together’.- said X. interesting enough, X died the day later when halley’s comet visited the earth once again. NAME X.

mark twain

4. In the year 2015, a galaxy was discovered by a group of astronomers at University of Lisbon. They named the newly discovered galaxy after a famous soccer player. Identify the player and the name that was given to that galaxy

• Player is CR7• Galaxy name: Cosmos Redshift 7

5.

Jupiter loses it strips