Recently the planets have been in alignment across the sky so this time the quiz is loosely about the night sky - the planets and their moons.
- Q. Which planet has two moons?
A. Mars – Deimos and Phobos 2 - Q. Who wrote a suite of music about the planets
A. Gustav Holst - Q. Who discovered Uranus in his back garden in Bath in 1781?
A. William Herschel - Q. What do the rock band Queen and thermometers have in common?
A. Mercury - Q. Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter?
A. Galileo - Q. By combining the letters of a planet with one extra letter what word means scarcity?
A. Dearth. Prefix Earth with ‘d’ - Q. Which planet or moon has the fewest letters?
A. IO. One of Jupiter’s Galilean moons and it doesn’t even have a consonant! by - Q Which album, released in 1973, is one of only four to have sold over 45 million copies?
A. Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd - Q. Which planet has a day that is longer than its year?
A. Venus - Q. Which planet has a connection with Slough
A. Mars, the UK home of the Mars bar!