It's time for the next Astronomy Challenge! This is another Bricker quiz, like the first one, or the second one, with similar rules. The previous challenges were in GA, but I have moved this one to BABBling. Only one answer per question, this time. Remember, some of these questions can have more than one right answer. Part of the game is to determine which "right" answer I am looking for--so this contest is all about me. It is sometimes deliberately deceptive, but I think anyone who finishes the quiz will learn something. I know I always do--sometimes I change my answers.


1. What year did the fiftieth star appear on the USAn flag?
2. What is the maximum latitude that can have the moon directly over head?
3. What automobile make is named after an asterism?
4. What day of the year has the worst time to see the Milky Way? (to nearest week)
5. What comes next in this sequence: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
6. Which gravity is stronger on the moon, the Sun's or the Earth's? (see question 6 of the first challenge)
7. To the nearest hundredth of a second, how long does it take the Earth to rotate? (see question 1 of the first challenge, or question 9 of the second one)
8. When was Io discovered? (to within ten years)

1. 1950
2. 5
3. Solara
4. September 16
5. Sedna
6. Selena
7. 60 minutes
8. Seventeenth century

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1. 1960
2. 28.5
3. Subaru
4. December 21?
5. Quaoar
6. Sun
7. 86164.10 sec
8. 1610 AD

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1960
28.58 degrees
Suburu
23 December
Quaoar
The Sun's (178 times the Earth's)
86164.09 seconds
1610

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5 SeanF
4 Eroica
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I'm curious why you both answered question 4 the way you did.

PS: I am not taking off for spelling errors (hi Gethen)

1. 1960
2. 27.03
3. Subaru
4. any "day" is the worst
5. Ort cloud
6. Earth's
7. 86164.06
8. 1610

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5 SeanF
4 Eroica
2 Wally
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Normally, I wait for a couple posts before updating scores, but I'm going to be away for a while. Wally, how did you come up with your answer to number two?

PS: You all are invited to try again, even to crib off others entries.

1. 1959
2. Same latitude as the Tropic of Capricorn or Cancer?
3. I have no clue - so, Subaru.
4.
5. Neptune
6. Sun's.
7.
8.

1. 1960
2. Should be 23.5 degrees N, but since the Moon isn't perfectly on the ecliptic (5.2 degrees), 28.7??
3. Subaru
4. Wild guess: Mid November
5. Sedna (Trick question?)
6. The sun's gravity seems to be twice as strong. 330,000/(400)^2
7. 23 hr 56 min .04 seconds
8. 1610 I think.

my answer to 2 came from a site that listed that as the max for this year. I'll try again. . .

1. 1960
2. 28.5 (just 'cause sean had sooo many right!)
3. Subaru
4. march 31
5. Ort cloud
6. Earth's
7. 86164.06
8. 1600-1620

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5 SeanF
4 Eroica
4 Brady Yoon
3 Wally
2 gritmonger
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Very good answer to number five gritmonger! I would never have thought of that.

1. 1960
2. 28.5
3. Subaru
4. October 8th
5. and Beyond
6. Sun
7. 86164.10 sec
8. 1610 AD

Bold are changed answers.

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4 Eroica
4 Brady Yoon
3 Wally
2 gritmonger
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I can see that there are at least two of these that are going to be trouble. Maybe I'll give some hints periodically. I know we're coming on the weekend, but I'd like to break the Challenge participation record, so give it a try, it can't hurt.

1. 1960
2. 28.57 degrees (how accurate do you want this?)
3. Subaru
4. April 1
5. Kuiper Belt
6. Sun
7. 86164.09 sec
8. 1610 AD

(shamelessly sponging off of SeanF)

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5 SeanF
4 Eroica
4 Brady Yoon
4 ToSeek
3 Wally
2 gritmonger
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Nearest degree accuracy is enough, unfortunately.

For those who want to look up previous challenges:

First one

Second one

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1. 1960
2. 23.5
3. Subaru
4. February 1
5. Kuiper Belt
6. Sun
7. 86,400 seconds
8. 1610

Trick question. Everybody knows that there are only 47 states.
The day that the store ran out and I had to get a Twix instead.
I'll guess Dopey, but I don't remember a Disney character named Uranus.
Exactly 1 day.
Captain Eo was discovered in 1986.

That was the same answer Candy gave. Unfortunately, also wrong.

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5 SeanF
4 Eroica
4 Brady Yoon
4 ToSeek
3 Wally
3 Candy
2 gritmonger
0 Lycus
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First revision:

1. 1960
2. 28.57 degrees
3. Subaru
4. April 1
5. Kuiper Belt
6. Sun
7. 86164.10 sec
8. 1610 AD

(Sponging even more off SeanF since he's ahead of me.)

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Second Try! 8-[
1. 1959 (unofficially)
2. 28.5
3. Taurus
4. October 27
5. Kuiper Belt
6. Sun
7. 23 h 56 m 4.1 s
8. 1610