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Quiz about Its not Kevin Spacey
Quiz about Its not Kevin Spacey

It's not Kevin Spacey Trivia Quiz


Here are some random questions about Space, the final frontier. Let's slip the surly bonds of earth and have some fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by shvdotr. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
shvdotr
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
366,084
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
711
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 184 (7/10), Guest 75 (7/10), Guest 68 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Kevin Spacey was in a film called "Iron Will" about sled dogs. We all know that the first dog in space was called Laika. Whatever happened to her, anyway? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. No one would question that Kevin Spacey is a major movie star. But what kind of star (more correctly a star remnant) is the smallest, with a typical one being only about 20 miles across? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In 1999 Kevin Spacey produced and starred in a film called "The Big Kahuna." But if you want to talk about big, how about a star which, if located where our sun is, would be big enough to include the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars! What is the name of this red giant that is located at Orion's right shoulder? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In 1996, Kevin Spacey starred in "A Time to Kill." In 1960, the American space program unintentionally killed an innocent victim as the result of a rocket from Cape Canaveral going off course. Can you identify the victim, who lived less than 400 miles from the launch site? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Kevin Spacey was born in New Jersey in 1959 to Thomas and Kathleen Fowler. One meaning of "fowler" is "trapper of birds." Which of the following constellation names is NOT a Latin name for a species of bird? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Kevin Spacey won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in "The Usual Suspects," then took the 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor in "American Beauty." Which two moons of Jupiter might win awards for "Fastest Moons," since they orbit the solar system's largest planet in less than one planetary day? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In 2008 Kevin Spacey produced and starred in a TV film called "Recount." In 1999 it appeared that we may have to have another recount of the planets in our solar system. With more evidence gathered in 2013, there is speculation about a huge planet four times the size of Jupiter that may orbit the sun in the Outer Oort Cloud. What is the Greek name of the goddess of luck (associated with the Roman Fortuna) which has been attached to this hypothetical new planet? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In 2001 Kevin Spacey starred as a possible alien claiming to be from a planet called K-PAX. In the movie, K-PAX was in the constellation of Lyra. Well, in 2013 five planets were found orbiting a star in the constellation of Lyra. Two of these, called "Earth-like planets," (quoting Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com) share the name of a NASA space probe, the planets' sun, and a 17th-Century German mathematician. What is the name of one of these "habitable zone exoplanets"? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In 1986 Kevin Spacey began his stage career opposite Jack Lemmon in a production of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night." But what objects have taken part in the longest journey of the universe, traveling approximately 13 billion light years since the Big Bang? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In 1998 Kevin Spacey had a voice role in the animated movie "A Bug's Life." Comets are sort of like bugs that buzz through the solar system as they make their very elliptical orbits around the sun, using the term "bug" in its broadest possible sense. Since comets are always diminished after passing by the sun, what is a comet's tail like on the part of its orbit as it moves away from the sun?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Kevin Spacey was in a film called "Iron Will" about sled dogs. We all know that the first dog in space was called Laika. Whatever happened to her, anyway?

Answer: She died from overheating before her oxygen ran out while still in space.

The Soviets never intended to retrieve Laika's capsule, which created a controversy outside the Soviet Union. At first it was believed that Laika simply perished from oxygen deprivation, but in 1998 it was reported that she died when the cabin overheated on the fourth day.

In 2002 a Russian scientist reported that in 1957 it was "practically impossible to create a reliable temperature control system" for the cabin before the launch took place. In 1958 Laika's body and Sputnik 2 disintegrated on re-entry.

In 2008 a statue and plaque were set up in Laika's memory at the Russian space training base.
2. No one would question that Kevin Spacey is a major movie star. But what kind of star (more correctly a star remnant) is the smallest, with a typical one being only about 20 miles across?

Answer: neutron star

Neutron stars result from a large star's collapse during a supernova. Despite their tiny size, star-wise, they are very dense and have a mass many times that of our sun. When neutron stars spin, they become pulsars. A carbon star, similar to a red giant, gets its name because its atmosphere contains more carbon than oxygen. Peculiar stars are so called because of the unusual metals in their surface layers. And even though methane dwarfs are called dwarfs, they are still normal star size, but are dimmer than our sun.
3. In 1999 Kevin Spacey produced and starred in a film called "The Big Kahuna." But if you want to talk about big, how about a star which, if located where our sun is, would be big enough to include the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars! What is the name of this red giant that is located at Orion's right shoulder?

Answer: Betelgeuse

Using good ol' Sol (our sun) as a radius of 1, Betelgeuse would measure 950. Although there are over 20 stars with larger radii (six are named Cygni, such as NML Cygni at 1,650, KY Cygni at 1,420, and BI Cygni at 916, for example), I went with Betelgeuse because it has a more recognizable name. Meanwhile, Aldebaran is at 44.2, Polaris is at 46, and Sirius is at 5.9. That is, Sirius A, the brightest star in the sky which is only about six times the radius of our sun. Sirius is also a double star, but Sirius B is much dimmer now, even though it once was the brighter of the two.
4. In 1996, Kevin Spacey starred in "A Time to Kill." In 1960, the American space program unintentionally killed an innocent victim as the result of a rocket from Cape Canaveral going off course. Can you identify the victim, who lived less than 400 miles from the launch site?

Answer: a cow in Cuba

My source says the Cuban government gave the unfortunate bovine a state funeral, since it was a victim of "imperialist aggression." My source is the 1987 edition of the "Reader's Digest Book of Facts."
5. Kevin Spacey was born in New Jersey in 1959 to Thomas and Kathleen Fowler. One meaning of "fowler" is "trapper of birds." Which of the following constellation names is NOT a Latin name for a species of bird?

Answer: Draco

Draco is a dragon. The constellation of Draco was one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations listed in his "Almagest." J.K. Rowling's Draco Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" books was named for this constellation. Aquila is Latin for eagle, and is named for the eagle that carried Thor's thunderbolts. Cygnus is the swan, and this constellation includes the Northern Cross.

It was also mentioned by Ptolemy. Unlike the other three constellations, Corvus is in the southern sky. Corvus is the Latin name for the crow.
6. Kevin Spacey won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in "The Usual Suspects," then took the 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor in "American Beauty." Which two moons of Jupiter might win awards for "Fastest Moons," since they orbit the solar system's largest planet in less than one planetary day?

Answer: Metis and Adrastea

Metis and Adrastea probably travel so fast because they are very small and are very close to Jupiter. They are so fast that they would circle the Earth in under half an hour. Ganymede and Io are two of the solar system's four largest moons. Phobos and Deimos are Mars' moons, while Rhea and Dione are moons of Saturn.
7. In 2008 Kevin Spacey produced and starred in a TV film called "Recount." In 1999 it appeared that we may have to have another recount of the planets in our solar system. With more evidence gathered in 2013, there is speculation about a huge planet four times the size of Jupiter that may orbit the sun in the Outer Oort Cloud. What is the Greek name of the goddess of luck (associated with the Roman Fortuna) which has been attached to this hypothetical new planet?

Answer: Tyche

If Tyche exists, its orbit is 500 times farther out than Neptune, out where sunlight cannot reveal it to us. Speculation includes such concepts that Tyche may glow in the visible spectrum and that it may have "horns" or "antlers." One origin of the speculation about this gas giant lies in evidence that it dislodges comets from the Oort Cloud.
8. In 2001 Kevin Spacey starred as a possible alien claiming to be from a planet called K-PAX. In the movie, K-PAX was in the constellation of Lyra. Well, in 2013 five planets were found orbiting a star in the constellation of Lyra. Two of these, called "Earth-like planets," (quoting Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com) share the name of a NASA space probe, the planets' sun, and a 17th-Century German mathematician. What is the name of one of these "habitable zone exoplanets"?

Answer: Kepler 62f

Kepler may be better known as an astronomer, and, of course, that is the area of his expertise that best fits this question. But none of the others could be called "17th-Century" guys, right? Anyhoo, these Kepler 62 planets (Kepler-62 is the star in Lyra that they orbit) are all larger than earth, but they may be covered in water, possibly frozen.

The star Kepler-62 is slightly smaller and cooler than the Earth. It's interesting that Lyra should even have such planets, undiscovered until ten years after the making of the film.
9. In 1986 Kevin Spacey began his stage career opposite Jack Lemmon in a production of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night." But what objects have taken part in the longest journey of the universe, traveling approximately 13 billion light years since the Big Bang?

Answer: quasars

The name quasar comes from the phrase "quasi-stellar radio source." Some of these objects are as bright as 100 galaxies combined. One of them (PKS 2000-330) is traveling away from the Milky Way at 91 percent of the speed of light. Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit radiation like the lighthouse lamp as it rotates. Magyars are Hungarians and protostars are stars that are still in the process of coming into being.

Other incorrect answers I wanted to use include bulgars, milkbars and fubars.
10. In 1998 Kevin Spacey had a voice role in the animated movie "A Bug's Life." Comets are sort of like bugs that buzz through the solar system as they make their very elliptical orbits around the sun, using the term "bug" in its broadest possible sense. Since comets are always diminished after passing by the sun, what is a comet's tail like on the part of its orbit as it moves away from the sun?

Answer: It points ahead of the comet in its path.

The comet's tail is gas and dust boiled off the comet by the sun and pushed by a solar wind emanating from the sun, so the tail is always pointed directly away from the sun, no matter what direction the comet is traveling. With each comet's passing of the sun, it grows smaller, meaning eventually the sun will destroy it unless it ends sooner by crashing into a planet or being claimed by the sun's gravitational field and falling into it.
Source: Author shvdotr

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