Astronomy Trivia Quizzes

Come with me to view the constellations in the night sky! Hopefully you will learn something along the way!

From the vast recesses of my mind, I've collected the most difficult facts about space I could remember and created this quiz. Hopefully, it'll provide quite a tough challenge for everyone. And, as always, please enjoy.

Join in me in a bit of space exploration. Together we will visit, among other things, planets, constellations and galaxies. Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

How well do you know about this great big huge place we call the Universe??? Test yourself with this rather tough quiz!

This is the last in the twenty questions about Solar System objects. Hopefully you have enjoyed them as much as I have enjoyed making them. What do you know about these visitors from the depths of our solar sytem, comets?

Star date 4392.24. Last entry of Captain John Russell. Now adrift in space, I hope my log book makes it back to Earth in the escape pod. The worm holes discovered in 2017 worked, but I ran out of fuel. Hope the log helps the next traveler. Recommended for grades: 7,8,9

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is of interest to astronomers studying stellar evolution. I hope it is also of interest to you.

There are fifty-eight stars that have a special status in astronomy because they aid in celestial navigation. This quiz will test your knowledge of some of them. Good luck!

I have chosen five of my favourite (northern hemisphere) constellations to ask you about. Come join me as I travel the stars!

Roll out the red carpet for these ten gorgeous stars of the sky.

You won't find anything about Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson in this quiz, as it's actually about a variety of stars whose names were given to characters from the 'Harry Potter' books. (No knowledge of the series is required - but it might help!)

There are many well-known stars in our night skies. Can you match the name of the star with its description? Recommended for grades: 11,12

The apparent magnitude of a star (or other celestial object) is a measure of how bright it is as seen from Earth. Here are a few questions for all you bright people out there.

I am hosting a cosmic dinner party, but am missing some ingredients. With that, I hop in my spacecraft, which happens to be a giant pumpkin, to travel the depths of space to collect food items.

Extra Extra: Read All About It! Local woman shares her true account of alien abduction in the article entitled "Abducted by Aliens": Dawn's story. Recommended for grades: 8,9,10

A human's brain is pretty big and can hold so much information, but do you know what's bigger? If you answered elephants, well I agree to disagree. The universe is so much bigger than elephants.

This quiz is not for rocket scientists only. Try it and see how much you know about the Hubble Space Telescope.

This quiz is not about Stephen King's book, it's about some of the bright objects in the sky that mankind has observed and sometimes been a little scared of for millennia. Let's see how many you know. Recommended for grades: 8,9,10

The story of the universe is reflected in the history of hydrogen. Let's take a look at a highlight reel.

How well do you know the constellations?

A quiz about the fundamental interactions between the Earth and the night sky that help to orientate stargazers.

Sorry to disappoint Modern Art-enthusiasts...this quiz has nothing to do with van Gogh's famous picture; rather, it's about all the twinkling specks of light that we can see (with or without optical aids) in the night sky. Enjoy!

Tonight seems like a good night to look at a few stars. For this quiz, you will need to match each star's proper name with its stellar designation. Good luck!

Melanie Heng is on a trip through the Solar System, sending postcards back to her friends on Earth. Use the descriptions to guess Melanie's location. Recommended for grades: 8,9,10

Some of the beautiful and intriguing things you can see on a clear, dark night.

Welcome to my second Author Quiz Challenge. Stars have lives similar to ours. They're born, they live for a few billion years then they die. This quiz is all about 'The Life and Death of Stars'. Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

Here is a mix of questions about moons in our solar system, stars, and constellations. If you get the ten answers correct, the first letters of the right answers will spell out another astronomical name.

Space is vast. There are lots of stars which illuminate this dark space and this quiz is about them. I will give you the name of the star. You have to match that star with the constellation which it is part of. Recommended for grades: 11,12

Okay, maybe not best, but certainly brightest! I shine the spotlight (not that they need it) on the ten brightest stars in our night sky according to science.nasa.gov and stellardiscovery.com. This excludes our Sun, the actual brightest.

This is a quiz challenge, using names of reality shows. We could use the name of a real show, but we couldn't do the quiz on the show. So, I figured stars/astronomy would be a good topic. Hope you like it!