BRAINtest

The theme this week is “Space”

1. Which of the planets is named after the goddess of love?

2. With which constellation would you associate the twins?

3. Which planet would you associate with the lead singer of Queen?

4. The 2012 film “Prometheus" is the fifth instalment to which film franchise?

5. Roughly how many weeks are there in a full moon cycle (i.e. from full moon to next full moon)?

6. Which cosmological event was depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry alongside the Battle of Hastings?

7. Which South African band had a hit with “Special Star" in 1989?

8. Roughly how long does it take for sunlight to reach Earth?

A) Eight seconds, B) Eight minutes, C) Eight hours, D) Eight days

9. Which theory of the origin of the universe describes its beginning from a rapidly expanding singularity?

10. Name Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting of the night sky over SaintRemy - arguably the most famous sky in art.

11. What “W" is a theoretical structure predicted by Einstein field equations linking one point in space time with another?

12. Name the region around the Earth where charged particles are held in place by Earth’s magnetic field. A) Kuiper Belt, B) Oort Cloud, C) Van Allen Belt, D) Magellanic Cloud

13. Mentor to Johannes Kepler, astronomer Tycho Brahe (who had a metal nose) was from where? A) Algeria, B) Denmark,

C) Hungary, D) Finland

14. Uranus’s moons are named after literary characters from William Shakespeare and which other author? A) Charles Dickens,

B) Jane Austen, C) Alexander Pope, D) Victor Hugo

15. Name the Orson Scott Card sci-fi novel about a boy being trained in space to fight the alien Formics. South African Gavin Hood directed the film adaptation.

16. Where is the National Basketball Association (NBA) team known as the Suns based?

17. Name either of the 2017-18

South African Premier League teams known as the “Stars".

18. What is the title of the 2017 “Star Trek” TV series starring Jason Isaacs? A) “Discovery”, B) “Endeavour”, C) “Atlantis”, D) “Challenger”

19. Who wrote the novel “Contact" that was made into a film starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey?

20. Which star cluster is known as the isiLimela in Nguni (“planting stars") due its appearance in June at planting time? Answers on this page