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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the cost of having all of our electric lights?
About $3.50
The ability to see the stars at night.
The ability to create solar power.
Our firstborn child.
- 2. Multiple Choice
How much brighter than the Sun are the Pleiades?
10x
100x
1,000x
10,000x
- 3. Multiple Choice
In the Kiowa myth about the Pleiades, what famous tourist attraction did the rock the women were standing on become?
The Devil's Tower
The Grand Canyon
Stone Mountain
Mount Rushmore
- 4. Multiple Choice
In the Greek myth of the Pleiades, what was the name of the hunter that chased after Atlas’s daughters?
Atreyu
Flat Stanley
Orion
Gary
- 5. Multiple Choice
What did Edward Charles Pickering call the room full of women he employed?
His "Astronomettes"
His "All-stars"
His "Harem"
His "Computers"
- 6. Multiple Choice
How many stars did Annie Jump Cannon catalog?
15,000
25,000
250,000
2.5 MILLION
- 7. Multiple Choice
How did Annie Jump Cannon lose her hearing?
She was born deaf
Scarlet Fever
Swimming accident
it is unknown
- 8. Multiple Choice
How many major categories of stars are there?
5
6
7
8
- 9. Multiple Choice
What American University accepted Cecelia Payne?
Harvard
M.I.T.
Stanford
Yale
- 10. Multiple Choice
What did Henry Norris Russell discover about the Earth and the Sun?
That the majority of elements present on the Earth are also present in the Sun.
That the Earth and the Sun are actually both stars
That the Sun is younger than the Earth
That the Sun actually revolves around the Earth.
- 11. Multiple Choice
After listening to Russell’s speech, what did Payne figure out about Cannon’s data?
That ABCDEFG was correct after all.
That all stars are the same temperature.
That OBAFGKM is actually a temperature scale.
That Russell was actually a moron.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why did Russell reject Payne’s thesis?
He couldn't accept that Hydrogen and Helium were so much more abundant.
Because she was a woman.
Because metals are more abundant in stars.
Because he had worked out the data proving otherwise.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which stars are considered “newborns”?
Stars at 5 million years old.
Stars at 1 million years old.
Stars at 5 billion years old.
Stars at 1 billion years old.
- 14. Multiple Choice
How old are most of the stars in the Big Dipper?
500,000 years old
5 million years old
50 million years old
500 million years old
- 15. Multiple Choice
What kind of star will the Sun be after it becomes 100 times its original size?
White dwarf
Red Giant
Blue Giant
Yellow Dwarf
- 16. Multiple Choice
What kind of star will the Sun be after it collapses like a “soufflé”?
White dwarf
Red Giant
Blue Giant
Yellow Dwarf
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is the name of the brightest star in our sky?
Rigel
Sirius
Orion
Betelguese
- 18. Multiple Choice
What is the fate of the star Rigel?
Supernova explosion
Neutron Star
Pulsar
All of these
- 19. Multiple Choice
With a star as big as Alnilam in Orion's belt, what will it eventually become after it implodes?
Neutron Star
White Dwarf
Black Hole
Red Dwarf
- 20. Multiple Choice
What pattern did the Aboriginal people of Australia see in between the stars?
An emu
A kangaroo
A kiwi
A koala
- 21. Multiple Choice
How far away is the star in our galaxy that will hypernova?
100 light-years away
2,000 light-years away
7,500 light-years away
10,000 light-years away
- 22. Multiple Choice
How long will it be before Orion finally catches up to the Pleiades?
20 million years
Never
15 million years
8.5 million years
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