Saturday, March 3, 2012

Trivia Quiz #216 - Trivia Quiz About the Sun

Interesting Sun Related Trivia - Sunburn, Sunscreen, Suntan, Sun Song Titles, and more.
  1. A Martian year is how long in earth days? ( A year being how long
    it takes for the planet to travel around the sun)
     
  2. Venus and Mercury are inferior planets... Why?
     
  3. Dr. Ben Green developed what in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed
    out over the Pacific ocean?
     
  4. The ultimate source of energy for most renewable energy systems
    is what?
     
  5. What type of electromagnetic radiation is responsible for
    sunburn?
     
  6. What type of nuclear reaction powers the sun?
     
  7. What Elton John 70s hit returned to No.1 18 years later when
    Elton and George Michael recorded it as a duet?
     
  8. On sunscreen products, what does the SPF mean?
     
  9. What Memphis recording label recorded both Johnny Cash and Elvis
    Presley?
     
  10. The sun keeps the planets in orbit with it's force of what?
     
  11. Who recorded the albums The Soul Cages and Nothing Like The Sun?
     
  12. What planet has an orbit closest to the sun?
     
  13. Two planets orbit the sun faster than the earth, what are the
    names of the two planets?
     
  14. The approximate temperature at the surface of the sun is what?
     
  15. Which star is about halfway through its 10 billion year life
    expectancy, will then expand into a red giant and finally shrink to
    a white dwarf?
     
  16. What lies at the very center of the solar system?
     
  17. What is the name of the planet that takes about 30 Earth years to
    orbit the sun?
     
  18. It takes light from the sun how long to reach the earth?
     
  19. About how long is a sunspot cycle?
     
  20. Which planet is most often the furthest from the sun, but not
    always?
     
  21. Which planet travels around the sun at an average speed of 185
    miles per second?
     
  22. What are the thousands of small bodies orbiting the sun called?
     
  23. How far does the Sun's gravitational pull reach?
     
  24. Helium forms about what percentage of the sun's mass?
     
  25. The sun is about how old?
     
  26. How hot is the center of the sun?
     
  27. In 1991, where was the European space probe Ulysses sent off to?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz #216 - Sun Trivia


  1. 687 earth days.
  2. Their orbits are nearer to the sun than earths. Superior planets
    have orbits outside the earths.
  3. Coppertone suntan lotion.
  4. The Sun.
  5. Ultraviolet radiation.
  6. Fusion.
  7. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.
  8. Sun Protection Factor.
  9. Sun.
  10. Gravity.
  11. Sting.
  12. Mercury.
  13. Mercury and Venus.
  14. 5,800 K (9,980 F).
  15. The sun.
  16. The Sun.
  17. Saturn.
  18. About 8 minutes and 18 seconds.
  19. 11 years.
  20. Pluto.
  21. The earth.
  22. Asteroids.
  23. About 1 1/2 light years.
  24. 30 percent.
  25. 5 billion years.
  26. The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
  27. The Sun.
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