Barkham Village Residents Association

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.

  1. Q. Which planet has two moons?
    A. Mars – Deimos and Phobos 2
  2. Q. Who wrote a suite of music about the planets
    A. Gustav Holst
  3. Q. Who discovered Uranus in his back garden in Bath in 1781?
    A. William Herschel
  4. Q. What do the rock band Queen and thermometers have in common?
    A. Mercury
  5. Q. Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter?
    A. Galileo
  6. Q. By combining the letters of a planet with one extra letter what word means scarcity?
    A. Dearth. Prefix Earth with ‘d’
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Q. Which planet has a day that is longer than its year?
    A. Venus
  10. Q. Which planet has a connection with Slough
    A. Mars, the UK home of the Mars bar!
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