Welcome back to our Space Fact & Science Fiction quiz. Or, more accurately, to the quiz answers.
Let's jump straight to it, shall we?
And for our bonus questions:
Bonus01. How many known Solar Systems are there?
Trick question!
There Can Be Only One. The Solar System is the name of the stellar system in which we reside, located around the star Sol, from which it derives its' name. The stellar system (or star system) around the star Andromeda would be The Andromedan System. When you hear other people talk about other solar systems, they're just galactic yokels without comprehension.
This is why you hear new planets discovered around other stars referred to as "exosolar planets" or "extrasolar planets" - they exist outside the Solar System.
Bonus02. Which Klingon commander, previously seen in Star Trek films, was given the honour of the killing blow to the Enterprise in the Star Trek: Starfleet Command trailer? (good luck with that one)
Commander Kruge. The renegade Klingon commander played by Christopher Lloyd in Star Trek III: The Search ForCash Spock.
At this point, i'd planned a little bonus answer to the question who would win in a race?
N!xau (of The Gods Must Be Crazy fame) mounted on a hopping vampire, or Lam Ching-Ying riding a wrangled ostrich? But my copy is so old it's a VCD and the images are soooo tiny.
Let me see if i can't come up with something else for later in the day instead, eh?
Let's jump straight to it, shall we?
And for our bonus questions:
Bonus01. How many known Solar Systems are there?
Trick question!
There Can Be Only One. The Solar System is the name of the stellar system in which we reside, located around the star Sol, from which it derives its' name. The stellar system (or star system) around the star Andromeda would be The Andromedan System. When you hear other people talk about other solar systems, they're just galactic yokels without comprehension.
This is why you hear new planets discovered around other stars referred to as "exosolar planets" or "extrasolar planets" - they exist outside the Solar System.
Bonus02. Which Klingon commander, previously seen in Star Trek films, was given the honour of the killing blow to the Enterprise in the Star Trek: Starfleet Command trailer? (good luck with that one)
Commander Kruge. The renegade Klingon commander played by Christopher Lloyd in Star Trek III: The Search For
At this point, i'd planned a little bonus answer to the question who would win in a race?
N!xau (of The Gods Must Be Crazy fame) mounted on a hopping vampire, or Lam Ching-Ying riding a wrangled ostrich? But my copy is so old it's a VCD and the images are soooo tiny.
Let me see if i can't come up with something else for later in the day instead, eh?
puzzles from the 2000AD Space Quiz Book (1980) and Star Trek Annual (1979)
Well, it probably would have been better if this had been properly scheduled for this morning instead of tomorrow, eh?
ReplyDeleteIt's here now.