CURIOUSITY QUIZ: MYSTERIES AND MARVELS OF THE MOON

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Test Your knowledge on the 'Moon ' devised on the upcoming occasion of International Moon Day and the Moon Landing Day on 20th July, 2023 and also the Launch of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission.. Attempt all the questions by clicking on the right option. Submit the completed Form by clicking the 'Submit' button at the end of the Form. Get your score and the correct answer by clicking the 'View score' button. Good Luck! You can also write your comments on the quiz in the Comment space given at the end of this Page or send your comments and questions related to this quiz for an answer directly to the email account given below:
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Why we always see the same face of the Moon ?

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The Moon is gravitationally locked to the Earth

The rotation period of the Moon about its own axis and the revolution period of the Moon about the Earth are same.

The rotation period of the Moon about its own axis is more than the revolution period of the Moon about the Earth .

The rotation period of the Moon about its own axis is less than the revolution period of the Moon about the Earth .

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What is the Mass of the Moon?

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7.342×10 ^ 22 kg

7.342×10 ^ 23 kg

7.342×10 ^ 24 kg

3.342×10 ^ 22 kg

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What is the diameter of the Moon?

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2398 km

3475 km

6132 km

5476 km

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What is the rank of the Moon in size amongst the planetary satellites of our Solar System?

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Fourth

Third

Fifth

Second

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The numerous holes seen on the surface of the Moon with a telescope are called :

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Impacts

Regolith

Maria

Craters

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The large basaltic dark lava plains of the Moon , generally called the seas of the moon are called :

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Regolith

Lunar Highlands

Maria

Lunar valleys

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The Moon is not visible in the night sky during which phase?

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Waning Crescent

Full Moon

New Moon

Waxing Gibbous

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What is the distance of the Moon from the Earth ?

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4,84,000 km

3,84,000 km

5,84,000 km

6,84,000 km

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What is the age of the Moon ?

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6.51 billion years

5.51 billion years

4.51 billion years

4.51 million years

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Which is the first spacecraft to have reached the Moon ?

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Luna-9

Apollo-11

Luna-1

Luna-2

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Which spacecraft first time successfully soft-landed on the Moon ?

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Luna 2

Luna-9

Apollo 11

Luna 3

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The side of the Moon always away from the Earth is called :

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Craterous Side

Far Side

Dark Side

Opposite Side

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Although the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, over time, slightly more than half (about 59% in total) of the Moon's surface is seen from Earth due to a phenomenon called :

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Libration

Lunar Phases

Lunar Cycle

Lunar oscillation

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Which spacecraft first time confirmed the existence of surface water ice on the Moon with its onboard spectrometer that observed absorption lines common to hydroxyl ions ?

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Apollo 11

Luna 9

Chandrayaan- 2

Chandrayaan- 1

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What is Hunter moon ?

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The first full moon to follow the Ester Moon that signaled the time to go for hunting in preparation for the cold winter months.

The first full moon to follow the Wolf Moon that signaled the time to go for hunting in preparation for the cold winter months.

The first full moon to follow the Harvest Moon that signaled the time to go for hunting in preparation for the cold winter months.

The first new moon to follow the Harvest Moon that signaled the time to go for hunting in preparation for the cold winter months.

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How many astronauts have, so far, set foot on the Moon ?

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What is the name of the first rover that rolled on the Moon surface ?

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Artemis

Lunakhod 1

Lunakhod 2

Zond-1

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Which spacecraft, for the first time , photographed the far side of the Moon ?

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Apollo11

LUNA 16

Luna 2

Luna 3

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Why there are no seasons on the Moon?

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The rotation period of the Moon about its own axis and the revolution period of the Moon about the Earth are same.

The Moon has no atmosphere of its own.

The moon's axis is tilted by very large amount to its orbital plane.

The moon's axis is tilted very little to its orbital plane.

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What is the name of the highest mountain of the Moon ?

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Mons Delisle

Mt Mauna Loa

Mons Huygens

Olympus Mons

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Lunar eclipses do not occur on all full moon days, because of the tilt of the Moon's orbit to the ecliptic. What is the tilt of the Moon's orbit to the Ecliptic ?

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2°

23.5°

10°

5°

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What is Blood Moon ?

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The Moon looks red in colour during the Partial lunar eclipse.

The Moon looks red in colour during its closest approach to the Earth.

A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a Blood Moon, because of the reddish tinge the Full Moon takes on when fully eclipsed.

The Moon looks red in colour during the Super Moon stage.

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What is Super moon ?

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It is the second Full Moon in a calendar month with two Full Moons.

It is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks .

It is the second full moon in a calendar month with two full moons.

A Super Moon is a full moon that nearly coincides with its closest passage to the Earth in its orbit resulting in a slightly larger apparent size as viewed from Earth.

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What is Blue moon ?

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It is a full moon that nearly coincides with its closest passage to the Earth in its orbit resulting in a slightly larger apparent size as viewed from Earth.

It is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks .

It is the second full moon in a calendar month with two full moons that makes it a very rare event.

It is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee—the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth

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What is Harvest Moon ?

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It is a full moon that nearly coincides with its closest passage to the Earth in its orbit resulting in a slightly larger apparent size as viewed from Earth.

It is the second full moon in a calendar month with two full moons that makes it a very rare event.

It is the full moon seen during the harvest period in the Europe as per the old farmers almanac.

It is the full, bright Moon that occurs closest to the start of autumn when farmers depended on the Moon's light to harvest their crops late into the night.

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What is Hunter Moon ?

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It is a full moon that nearly coincides with its closest passage to the Earth in its orbit resulting in a slightly larger apparent size as viewed from Earth.

It is the second full moon in a calendar month with two full moons that makes it a very rare event.

It is the first full moon following the Harvest Moon.

It is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks .

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What is Wolf Moon ?

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It is the second full moon in a calendar month with two full moons that makes it a very rare event.

The January full moon is often called the Wolf Moon as wolves used to howl at this time.

It is the full moon following the Harvest Moon.

It is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks .

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The study of the Moon is called :

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Lunar Science

Selenology

Moonology

Lunarography

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When did man first set foot on the Moon?

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July 10, 1969

July 30, 1969

July 28, 1969

July 20, 1969

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Who was the first man to land on the Moon ?

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Michael Collins

Alan Shepard

Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin

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How much time does light take to reach Earth from the Moon ?

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8.3 sec

1.3 min

1.3 sec

8.3 min

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When Moon's daytime temperature is 120 deg C , the night time temperature is about -130 deg C. Why there is a great variation of daytime and night-time temperatures of the Moon ?

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Because the Moon has no water on it.

Because the Moon's side always faces the Sun

Because Moon has no atmosphere

Because of the slow spin of the Moon about its axis.

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A crater of the Moon has been named after an Indian scientist . Who is he?

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Vikram Sarabhai

Homi J. Bhabha

Meghnad Saha

C.V. Raman

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The edge of the visible disc of the Moon as viewed from the Earth is known as :

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Lunar Craters

Lunar Maria

Lunar Limb

Lunar Edge

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What is the name of the lunar module of the Apollo-11 spacecraft that actually landed on the Moon ?

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Columbia

Eagle

Artemis

Curiousity

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What is the name of the command module of the Apollo-11 spacecraft that returned to the Earth after the successful lunar mission ?

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Columbia

Eagle

Artemis

Curiousity

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The place where the lunar module of the Apollo-11 spacecraft land on the Moon is called :

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Sea of Knowledge

Sea of Showers

Sea of Tranquility

Sea of Nectar

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Normally, a lunar month is defined by the complete cycle of phases of the Moon. The duration from full moon to full moon is about 29.5 days . This is known as the :

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Moon month

Lunar month

Sidereal month

Synodic month

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How many phases of the Moon we can see in total and what are these?

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8 (New moon, Crescent Moon, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, and Waning Crescent)

7 (New moon, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, and Waning Crescent)

8 (New moon, Crescent Moon, First Half Moon, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, and Waning Crescent)

8 (New moon, Crescent Moon, First Half Moon , Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Half Moon, and Waning Crescent)

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The most widely accepted view regarding the origin of the Moon was that the Moon formed just after the formation of the Earth out of the debris from a giant impact between the Earth and a hypothesized Mars sized body called :

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Phobos

Apollo

Theia

Artemis

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A lunar mission recently undertaken by NASA to reestablish a human presence on the Moon and to bodies beyond Moon like the Mars for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 :

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Mission Constellation

Artemis mission

Apollo mission

Mission Zond

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What is the name of the largest and oldest Impact crater basin on the lunar surface ?

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The North Pole-Aitken basin

The South Pole-Aitken basin

Sea of Tranquility

Shackleton Crater basin

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A thick layer of fragmented rocks and unconsolidated rock materials covers the entire lunar surface . This layer is the result of continuous impact of meteoroids, large and small, and steady bombardment of charged particles from the Sun and other stars. This is generally 4 to 5 meters thick in the plain region and 10 to 15 meter thick in highland terrain regions of the Moon. This layer is generally called :

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Lunar Soil

Lunar Regolith

Lunar crater

Lunar Maria

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Why does the Moon's sky look dark even if when there is Sun in the sky ?

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The Moon has no atmosphere.

The Moon has very thin atmosphere that does not contain any water vapour.

The Moon has a low magnetic field.

Although the Moon has a very thin atmosphere, it has no dust particles to scatter sunlight to produce an illumination of the sky.

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What was the name of the Russian spacecraft supposed to soft-land on the Moon two days ahead of Chandrayaan-3, but ended up in a fatal disaster?

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Luna- 9

Luna- 24

Luna-25

Lun-23

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Which country was the first to soft-land on the hitherto unexplored South Pole of the Moon?

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Russia

USA

China

India

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