Night Sky Quiz

[Argonavis (William)]

The Night Sky Quiz.

oh dear, question 3 is wrong.

[renormalised (Carl)]

100% correct

[TrevorW]

Show off

80% correct

[renormalised (Carl)]

They were easy

[seanliddelow (Sean)]

90% They were all easy except question 10.

[seanliddelow (Sean)]

TrevorW got beaten by a 14 year old.

[Argonavis (William)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

100% correct

You can only get 100% 'correct' by getting question 3 wrong.

the nearest star to Earth is not 4.2 ly away

[MrB (Simon)]

True, it's ~8lm away

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Argonavis

You can only get 100% 'correct' by getting question 3 wrong.

the nearest star to Earth is not 4.2 ly away

I know...but if that's the answer they want, then that's the one they get

Best to email them and give them the correct distance

[pgc hunter]

90%

the only hard question was the last one.

[coldspace]

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 (Simon)]

the only hard question was the last one.

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]

if you had to guess...it's hard

[Jen]

i got the first one wrong cause at the moment for the last week i havnt seen any stars
Oh and i got the last one wrong oops

[Alchemy (Clive)]

apart from the proxima centauri question 100% .... according to them

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Originally Posted by Jen

i got the first one wrong cause at the moment for the last week i havnt seen any stars

too right, Jen.

I got 90% - Again, #10 was wrong.

[dannat (Daniel)]

got 90% , the speed of light question unfortunately

[AstralTraveller (David)]

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 (Duncan)]

100%

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

90% Well, cosmology is never my favourite subject.