Easy Trivia Quiz Questions
What is the Moon?
A: The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits
planet Earth.
The Moon is Earth's only permanent natural what?
A: Satellite.
It is the fifth-largest natural satellite in the
what?
A: Solar System.
Following Jupiter's satellite Io, the Moon is
second-densest what?
A: Satellite among those whose densities are
known.
What is the average distance of the Moon from
the Earth?
A: 238,900 miles.
The Moon is thought to have formed about how
long ago?
A: 4.51 billion years ago.
The most widely accepted explanation for the
origin of the moon is what?
A: That the Moon formed from the debris left
over after a giant impact between Earth and a
Mars-sized body called Theia.
The Moon is in synchronous rotation with what?
A: The Earth.
It is the second-brightest regularly visible
celestial object in Earth's sky, after what?
A: The Sun.
Its surface is actually dark, although compared
to the night sky it appears what?
A: Very bright.
The moon’s surface has a reflectance just
slightly higher than that of what?
A: Worn asphalt.
The Moon's gravitational influence causes the
tides, and the slight lengthening of what?
A: The day.
The Moon's current orbital distance is about how
many times the diameter of Earth?
A: Thirty times.
The Moon's linear distance from Earth is
currently increasing at what rate?
A: At a rate of 1.504 ± 0.028 inches per year,
but this rate is not constant.
The Soviet Union's Luna programme was the first
to reach the Moon with an uncrewed spacecraft in
what year?
A: 1959.
The United States' NASA Apollo program achieved
the only what?
A: Crewed missions.
When was the first crewed lunar orbiting mission
by Apollo 8?
A: In 1968.
How many crewed lunar landings were there
between 1969 and 1972?
A: Six.
These missions returned over 840 pounds of what?
A: Lunar rocks.
The Moon rocks have been used to develop a
geological understanding of the Moon's what?
A: Origin, the formation of its internal
structure, and its subsequent history.
Since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the Moon
has been visited only by what?
A: Uncrewed spacecraft.