Astronomy Meeting Jeopardy Template

Sci fi movie Fact or Fiction	Earth vs Universe Fact or fiction	Random True or False	Solar System True or False
100 What is a Fact? Explanation: Ion propulsion has been part of many science fiction films, but in recent years it has been successfully tested on a lot of unmanned spacecraft , notably NASA’s Deep Space 1. In the "Star Wars" films, the Imperial TIE Fighters are propelled by ion engines (TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine). While these spacecraft are fictional, real ion engines power some of today’s spacecraft.	100 What is a Fact? Explanation: The universe is estimated to contain some 100 billion trillion stars (that’s 1 with 23 zeros after! The world’s beaches are estimated to contain some 5 billion trillion sand grains. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all beaches on Earth	100 False - the Penrose method extracts kinetic energy from rotating black holes The Penrose method is a method for extracting energy from stars	100 False There are nine planets in the Solar System.
200 What is Fiction? Explanation: You would have to move at or near the speed of light to travel to another star in practical timescale. We currently have the technology necessary to send astronauts to another star system within a reasonable timespan. The only problem is that such a mission would be overwhelmingly expensive	200 What is a Fact? Explanation: There are few trillion trees on Earth, but only a few 100 billion stars in our galaxy There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way	200 False - magnetars are neutron stars rotating extremely fast that have a magnetic field so powerful that they could rip a person apart just for being in the magnetic field, regardless of the gravitational field Magnetars are dwarf planets that have a magnetic field because of the iron in their core	200 False Jupiter is 58 million km from the Sun.
300 What is a fact? Explanation: Recently, physicists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria for the first time teleported individual atoms using quantum entanglement The basic premise of teleportation -- made famous in TV’s "Star Trek" -- is theoretically sound. In fact, scientists have already teleported the quantum state of individual atoms from one location to another	300 What is fiction? Explanation: In 1971, NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt played a small round of golf on the moon. Earth is the only known place where they play golf	300 True - a quasar, a super powerful black hole, is at the center of many galaxies, including the milky way There is a quasar at the center of the milky way	300 False Mercury is the hottest planet with surface temperature of about 462 Celsius
400 What is Fiction? Explanation: Hawking Radiation actually makes black holes a brownish/orange color In the Martian, an astronaut stuck on a planet created a strategy to make water - “If I want water, I’ll have to make it from scratch. Fortunately, I know the recipe: Take hydrogen. Add oxygen. Burn.” Is this possible?	400 What is a Fact? Explanation: A spoon of a neutron star weighs 900 billion kg A spoon of a neutron star weighs the same as Mount Everest and a neutron star is the size of a city	400 True - the Higgs Boson was theorized in the 1960s and discovered in 2012 The Higgs Boson was theorized to exist decades before it was discovered	400 True A star is an object in space that gives out light and heat.
500 What is Fiction? Explanation: Hawking Radiation actually makes black holes a brownish/orange color In the movie Interstellar a black hole is depicted as being a giant black circle with rings of light circling around it. Is this an accurate depiction of a black hole?	500 What is a Fact? Explanation: One Mercury solar day (one full day-night cycle) equals 176 Earth days – just over two years on Mercury. A solar day on mercury is longer than a solar year	500 False - Water, H2O, is found many places in space, e.g. in nebula, throughout dust clouds, as traces on Mars and even around a black hole. Water is everywhere. Earth is the only place where we have found normal water.	500 False The asteroid is made of water and ice that moves around the Sun.

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