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Space and NASA trivia questions
“Rockets, rovers and the Moon” is how Rewind’s picker describes Space and NASA, a History branch with 18 questions. 16 of them are tied to a year (1957 to 2017), and the other 2 are not about a moment in time.
Years covered by Space and NASA
Split by decade, the questions look like this, earliest year 1957, latest 2017:
- 1950s: 1 question
- 1960s: 6 questions
- 1970s: 3 questions
- 1990s: 1 question
- 2000s: 1 question
- 2010s: 4 questions
The shape of a Space and NASA question
Each card has four answers and one right one. 10 start with “Which”, 4 start with “Who”, 3 start with “What”. A one-line fact follows every answer, and the longest of them is 22 words. In 7 cases the answer is just one word.
Each answer and its fact were verified against a source page before the question was added.
Try these Space and NASA questions
Two samples from Space and NASA, chosen from the older questions. Neither is one of the ten the daily quiz is using around now.
Question (1997): What was the little rover that explored Mars on the 1997 Pathfinder mission called?
Answer: Sojourner. A twelve-year-old from Connecticut won the naming contest with an essay about Sojourner Truth.
The wrong choices on the card were Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity.
Checked against Sojourner (rover) (Wikipedia).
Question (2017): Which spacecraft spent thirteen years orbiting Saturn before diving into the planet in 2017?
Answer: Cassini. It carried the Huygens probe, which parachuted onto Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.
The wrong choices on the card were Galileo, Juno, and Magellan.
Checked against Cassini–Huygens (Wikipedia).
Pick Space and NASA in Rewind
Open Rewind, tap Branches on the title screen, and find Space and NASA under History. Its row shows 18 questions. Tap it, press Play these, and your ten for the day come from this branch alone.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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Every branch is on the Rewind topics page, and the other daily games are on the topics hub.