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All About Jupiter

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Our Solar System : All About Jupiter

Introduction:
"Here is the next installment on my twenty questions on the planets. What do you know about mighty Jupiter?"


1. Jupiter is named for the god _____________.
    Zeus
    Hercules
    Apollo
    Ares


2. What is the mass of Jupiter?
    10 times that of Earth
    512 times that of Earth
    half that of Earth
    318 times that of Earth


3. Copernicus was the first person to look at Jupiter through a telescope.
    True
    False


4. How many Galilean satellites are there?
    Four
    Three
    Six
    Two


5. Io is the satellite believed to have subsurface water.
    True
    False


6. The four Galilean satellites are visible in most small amateur telescopes.
    True
    False


7. Which of the following spacecraft visited Jupiter?
    Surveyor 3
    Viking 1 and 2
    Voyager 1 and 2
    Mariner 10


8. What was the name of the comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994?
    Comet Hale-Bopp
    Comet Ajax
    Comet Halley
    Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9


9. There are at least _____________ satellites closer to Jupiter than the four Galilean satellites.
    Four
    One
    None
    Three


10. At least one of Jupiter's satellites is bigger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.
    True
    False


11. Jupiter spins in less than 10 hours.
    True
    False


12. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is actually an atmospheric disturbance.
    True
    False


13. The surface of Callisto has no craters.
    True
    False


14. The Voyager spacecraft confirmed a very faint ring around Jupiter.
    True
    False


15. Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) is visible in amateur telescopes.
    True
    False


16. Jupiter's diameter is _______________ kilometers.
    143,000
    250,000
    88,000
    66,000


17. Some of the hottest spots on Io are in excess of 2,000 Kelvin degrees.
    True
    False


18. The escape velocity of Jupiter is ____________ km per second.
    11.6
    86.3
    67.5
    59.6


19. Jupiter is the _____________ planet from the Sun.
    Sixth
    Third
    Seventh
    Fifth


20. Io revolves once around Jupiter in _______ Earth days.
    1.77
    7.15
    3.55
    16.7


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