moon quiz - expert

So, how well do you know the Moon? If you can correctly answer the random selection of difficult questions on this page then, although there are no prizes, you can certainly feel very pleased with your encyclopedic knowledge of all things lunar.

1. The Egyptian Moon god who wagered a portion of his 'shine' in a game with Thoth was named...
   Nut
   Khons
   Osirus
   Horus
   

2. When the umbral phase of a lunar eclipse ends it is called...
   Third contact
   Fourth contact
   Fifth contact
   Sixth contact
   

3. Which astronaut travelled twice to the Moon but never walked on it?
   Jim Lovell
   Eugene Cernan
   Alan Shepard
   Michael Collins
   

4. The names of the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, translate as
   Sound and Light
   Love and Hate
   Fear and Panic
   Truth and Beauty
   

5. The Moon surface speed record, set by an Apollo lunar rover, is roughly...
   5 miles per hour
   10 miles per hour
   20 miles per hour
   40 miles per hour
   

6. If you were to drive the distance from the Earth to the Moon at about 60 mph (100 km/h) it would take...
   12 days
   22 days
   12 weeks
   22 weeks
   

7. The temperature on the surface of the Moon ranges between...
   500°C by day and -155°C by night
   250°C by day and 155°C by night
   105°C by day and -155°C by night
   5°C by day and -255°C by night
   

8. What is another name for the alignment during a full moon?
   Syzygy
   Quadrature
   Perigee
   Precession
   

9. Which of these is not related to the saros cycle?
   Anomalistic month
   Draconic month
   Sidereal month
   Synodic month
   

10. Whose ashes have been placed on the Moon?
    Gene Shoemaker
    Gerard Kuiper
    Gene Rodenberry
    Carl Sagan