General Knowledge Quiz Questions Answers About Solar System
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| Recent Updated: 23-Feb-2020
The plants along with their natural satellites, the comets, the meteors, and the steroids which revolve around the sun and constitute a single family is called the solar system. There are 9 planets including the earth. These planets in the order of increasing distance from the Sun are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and pluto.planets are solid heavenly bodies which revolve around the sun in closed elliptical paths. Pluto was discovered in 1930. It is the smallest, the farthest and the coldest planet of the solar system. According to a conference of IAU on 24 August 2006, pluto is not a planet. So, now, pluto is called a handicapped (BAWNA) planet. Let's test yourself with Solar System Quiz
1. The planet having only one moon is_______.
A. Earth
B. Saturn
C. Jupiter
D. Mars
2. Whom of the following gave a geometric model of the universe?
A. Newton
B. Einstein
C. Hipparchus
D. Ptolemy
3. Which of the planets is the brightest?
A. Mercury
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Jupiter
4. Which of the following planets have rings around it?
A. Uranus
B. Mars
C. Jupiter
D. Saturn
5. Which of the following satellites of Mars?
A. Ceres
B. Fobos
C. Dimos
D. Fobos and Dimos
6. Light year is the unit of _______.
A. Time
B. Mass
C. Distance
D. Speed of light
7. What is a black hole?
A. Hole in the Ozone layer of atmosphere
B. Hole in earth's centre
C. Highly dense matter available in the atmosphere
D. Hole in troposphere
8. What are shooting stars called?
A. Asteroids
B. Comets
C. Meteors
D. None of these
9. Which of the following is called Red Planet?
A. Mars
B. Mercury
C. Jupiter
D. Venus
10. Which is the biggest planet in our solar system?
A. Earth
B. Saturn
C. Jupiter
D. Uranus
11. Which of the following is called 'shy planet' our solar system?
A. Mars
B. Venus
C. Earth
D. Mercury
12. The Galaxy in which we live is________.
A. Spiral galaxy
B. Radio Galaxy
C. Irregular Galaxy
D. None of these
13. The atmosphere is held to the Earth due to_______.
A. Winds
B. Clouds
C. Gravity
D. The rotation of earth
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