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Argonavis
02-08-2009, 04:44 PM
The Night Sky Quiz (http://www.abc.net.au/science/games/quizzes/2009/nightsky/).

oh dear, question 3 is wrong.
renormalised
02-08-2009, 06:07 PM
100% correct:D:D
TrevorW
02-08-2009, 06:11 PM
Show off

80% correct
renormalised
02-08-2009, 06:13 PM
They were easy:D
seanliddelow
02-08-2009, 06:17 PM
90% They were all easy except question 10.
seanliddelow
02-08-2009, 06:22 PM
TrevorW got beaten by a 14 year old:P.
Argonavis
02-08-2009, 06:33 PM
You can only get 100% 'correct' by getting question 3 wrong.

the nearest star to Earth is not 4.2 ly away
MrB
02-08-2009, 06:35 PM
True, it's ~8lm away ;)
renormalised
02-08-2009, 06:35 PM
I know...but if that's the answer they want, then that's the one they get:D

Best to email them and give them the correct distance:D
pgc hunter
02-08-2009, 06:42 PM
90%

the only hard question was the last one.
coldspace
02-08-2009, 07:00 PM
100% by picking the wrong/right answer on 3.

I thought the last one was the Dish but remembered that it was around for the Apollo landings so this would make it over 40 years so I pick the Anglo and got it right.

Regards Matt.
MrB
02-08-2009, 07:01 PM
I didn't think so, tho I did kinda guess it lol.
a) and d) were too old, b) I had never heard of, so naturally I had to choose c) ;)

Only one I got wrong was Q1, would never have guessed that answer.
pgc hunter
02-08-2009, 07:03 PM
if you had to guess...it's hard ;)
Jen
02-08-2009, 07:46 PM
:doh: i got the first one wrong cause at the moment for the last week i havnt seen any stars :lol:
Oh and i got the last one wrong oops :doh:
Alchemy
02-08-2009, 09:06 PM
apart from the proxima centauri question 100% .... according to them
stephenb
02-08-2009, 09:06 PM
:rofl: too right, Jen.

I got 90% - Again, #10 was wrong.
dannat
02-08-2009, 09:12 PM
got 90% , the speed of light question unfortunately
AstralTraveller
03-08-2009, 10:16 AM
Another 100%. :)

If I hadn't read the thread first I may have got #10 wrong, which would have been silly. When I think back I can remember the AAT opening and that would have been a year or two after I joined the astronomy club. As others have said 'the dish' was running at least 5 years before that (actually much more than 5 years before that), I think Narrabri was already going (and SUSI was also up there) and of course Stromlo had been around for ages (they used to have some very historic scopes there).

So!!! Who wants to write the quiz that will test IISers??
toryglen-boy
03-08-2009, 10:41 AM
100%

;)
cookie8
03-08-2009, 10:55 AM
90% Well, cosmology is never my favourite subject.;)
M54
03-08-2009, 10:58 AM
O.M.G!
I got 100%!:eyepop:
Thought I was going to get about 6/10.:P

How encouraging.:D

P.S. I must say, we do love a quiz, don't we!
Waxing_Gibbous
03-08-2009, 07:24 PM
90%
Fluffed #10
Bang goes my citizenship application.
Sonia
03-08-2009, 10:33 PM
70% - not abd for mee!