Given the great success of our previous space pub quiz, we hosted round two of the event! Would you have known the answers? We will post them later. Check out the slides of the first edition here: http://www.slideshare.net/visviva/the-questions-26374259 ======================= Questions by: Ajay Prasad, Saish Sridharan, Frederik Bräuer Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/SocietyVisViva

1. Vis Viva Space Quiz

3. 1. Identify X and Y
• The X in many folklores is a creature that lives
on the Moon.
• In Chinese folklore, X is often portrayed as a
companion of the Moon goddess Y ,
constantly pounding the elixir of life for her.

4. 2. Connect

5. 3. Identify
US State Senator Jake
Garn was an astronaut
onboard the STS-51
mission.
• How has his name been
immortalized informally
within NASA and the
general space
community?

6. 4. Connect

7. 5. Reference
to what?

8. 6. Guess X
• Spacecraft #11 was the first
Mercury operational
spacecraft with a centerline
window.
• Dubbed X 7 , it featured a
white, diagonal irregular paint
stripe starting at the base of
the capsule and extending
about two-thirds toward the
nose, emulating the X in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

9. 7. What?
• One of the significant events of 2006 was the
modification of a name to include the number
134340. What are we talking about?

10. 8. Cross section of what?

11. 9. Where would you find this ?

12. 10. What is he up to?

13. 11. Connect

14. 12. Sitter
• X Bane
• X Plagueis
• X Sidious
• X Maul
• X Tyranus
•XY
• Gimme X ,Y and what is this list?

15. 13. What unique distinction has this
song achieved?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UaSl_pRSYI

16. 14. Identify X
• During his university years, X did pioneering work for his
country’s space program. His projects were a success without
rival, killing more astronauts than both the Russian and
American space programs combined.
• Part of his research managed to confirm that there's not
enough oxygen for a political opponent to survive at altitudes
higher than 45,000 feet.
• In the same experiment, he confirmed that there is enough
gravity at 45,000 feet for a political opponent's body to return
to Earth when thrown from an aircraft.

17. 15. The future?
• According to the Russian manned spaceflight
contractor RKK Energia, X must be able to perform
the following tasks:
Large spacecraft assembly
●
Flight tests and launches
●
Creating, servicing and completing inter-orbital
tugs
●
Providing medical and biological conditions
required for the rehabilitation of interplanetary
expedition crews after their return to Earth orbit.
●

18. 16. Where you would have come across
these recently ?
• Chuck Yeager jetting off in the Bell X-1 to break the sound barrier
• Alan Shepard becoming the first American to fly in space on board his
Mercury capsule.
• Neil Armstrong, together with his Apollo 11 crewmates, preparing to
board the Saturn V rocket
• The Gemini 2 capsule falling back to Earth as audio from the Gemini 6
mission plays.
• Footage of the orbiter Atlantis launching and then landing on the final
flight of the space shuttle program

19. 17.Identify the character
and name the missing person

20. 18. Connect
• 1 - The crowning of King Tigrane of Armenia
• 2 - The birth of Jesus Christ (the star of
Bethlehem is alleged to be ____)
• 3 - The Norman conquest (1066 A.D)
• 4 - The Siege of Belgrade (by the Ottoman
Turks)
• 5 - The 1222 expeditions of Genghis Khan
• 6 - The Birth and Death of Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

21. 19. Who are these people?

22. 20.
• The flag of which country includes the
representation of the sky at its capital as seen
at 8:30 am on 15 November 1889?

23. MINIMALIST ROUND
Each poster represents a movie.
Example:

31. RAPID FIRE

32. • TEAM 1

33. • In "In the Year 2889" Jules Verne describes the
"phonotelephote“. What is he talking about?

34. • What are Crab, Eagle, Tarantula, Horsehead
and Butterfly all examples of?

35. • Which was the first space station in orbit?

36. • Captain Dallas, Warrant Officer Ripley, Science
Officer Ash .

37. • Who was the first space tourist?

38. • TEAM 2

39. • What was Soylent Green?

40. • Who is the only astronaut to have hit a golf
ball on the moon?

41. • In 2001: A Space Odyssey, what song did HAL
sing?

42. • Charlie Bucket, Grandma Josephine, Willy
Wonka

43. Id the ship
• Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee

44. • TEAM 3

45. • Which was the first man made object in
space?

46. • What was Mr. Spock's father's name?

47. • StarTrek: The Deep Space 9 station was built
by?

48. • What popular tech gadget’s name was
inspired from Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space
Odyssey?

49. • In the series FireFly what was the name of the
rebels?

50. • Team 4

51. Id the ship
• Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee

52. • Name any one Issac Asimov’s law of robotics.

53. What are these?
Alien: Ash
Aliens: Bishop
Alien-Resurrection: Call

54. Id the person
• Star Trek: the most important Vulcan spiritual
leader was

55. • What European Space Agency member
country recruited its first astronaut by way of
a radio commercial?

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