Cathedral High School Academic Quiz Bowl Social Studies Test
Attention:
1.Please write your name and school on your answer sheet.
2.Please write Social Studies in the Subject space.
Directions: Choose the best answer for each of the following multiple choice questions
and darken the appropriate space on the scantron answer sheet. You will receive 1 point for each correct answer. The highest, second highest, and third highest score will receive a bonus of 20, 10, and 5 points
respectively.
Good Luck!
- Who is the author of Final Countdown?
A)Pat Duggins
B)Ernest Faulkner
C)John Glenn
D)Howard Hughes
2. Which drink does the author gets asked about all the time?
A)Ovaltine
B)Hershey’s Chocolate Milk
C)Tang
D)Kool-Aid
3. What did the first man to walk on the moon say?
A)“Magnificent desolation.”
B)“O, brave new world!”
C)“I claim this moon for the United States of America.”
D)“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
4. Which Beatles album does the author mention?
A)Sgt. Peppers
B)Abbey Road
C)Let It Be
D)Revolver
5. Which of these space shuttles exploded?
A)Challenger
B)Endeavour
C)Atlantis
D)Discovery
6. What was the final American space mission in 1975, until the first space shuttle flew in 1981?
A)Apollo 18
B)Apollo-Soyuz
C)Skylab
D)Gemini
7. Where did President George W. Bush ultimately want NASA to send a mission?
A)The moon
B)The asteroid belt
C)Low-earth orbit
D)Mars
8. What safety device was missing from the space shuttle?
A)Life raft
B)Parachutes
C)Crew escape system
D)Auxiliary rocket boosters
9. What does the name “Soyuz” mean?
A)Freedom
B)Union
C)Liberty
D)Brotherhood
10. Which aerospace company got the contract to build Orion?
A)Lockheed
B)Boeing
C)Northrop
D)Hughes Aviation
11. Michael Okuda designed the logo for Orion. Which TV show did he used to work on?
A)The Orvillle
B)Babylon 5
C)Firefly
D)Star Trek
12. What was the first satellite called?
A)Mercury
B)Explorer
C)Sputnik
D)Laika
13. Who was the first man in space?
A)Alan Shepard
B)John Glenn
C)Yuri Gagarin
D)Marshall Titov
14. What was the very first space shuttle to go into space?
A)Columbia
B)Endeavour
C)Challenger
D)Enterprise
15. Which branch of the military allied itself with NASA to get the space shuttle program going?
A)Navy
B)Air Force
C)Marines
D)Army
16. Which pilot broke the sound barrier?
A)Gus Grissom
B)Alan Shepard
C)Yuri Gagarin
D)Chuck Yeager
17. Which two astronauts flew the very first shuttle mission?
A)Young and Crippen
B)Armstrong and Aldrin
C)Gibson and Thagard
D)Sullivan and Bluford
18. How did NASA move the space shuttle back to Florida after it landed in California?
A)They flew it by itself
B)They put it on a large truck and drove it
C)They put it on a series of railway cars
D)They flew it back on top of a 747
19. Who was the teacher who died in the first space shuttle disaster?
A)Christa McAuliffe
B)Sally Ride
C)John Glenn
D)Robert James
20. Which failed part caused the explosion of the space shuttle on January 28, 1986?
A)Crew rescue system
B)Exhaust manifolds
C)O-ring
D)Re-entry tiles
21. The European solar probe was called
A)Galileo
B)Voyager
C)Mariner
D)Ulysses
22. What is Bill Clinton’s middle name?
A)Jefferson
B)Washington
C)Madison
D)Lincoln
23. What was the name of the Russian space station?
A)Mir
B)Pravda
C)Laika
D)Sputnik
24. What did the Russian space station’s name mean?
A)Peace
B)Union
C)Truth
D)Equality
25. Who was the first man to make a spacewalk?
A)Gagarin
B)Leonov
C)Glenn
D)Shepard
26. What is astronaut Robert Gibson’s nickname?
A)Scooter
B)Gilligan
C)Skippy
D)Hoot
27. Who was the first American astronaut to live and work aboard a Russian space station?
A)Robert Gibson
B)Neil Armstrong
C)Norm Thagard
D)Gordon Cooper
28. What did the shuttle astronauts use to keep track of the supplies being loaded to the space station?
A)Inventory algorithms
B)Bar codes
C)Numbered checklists
D)Colored tags
29. What did the Russian space station smell like?
A)Grandmother’s attic
B)Sweat socks
C)Farts
D)Old cheese
30. What finally happened to the Russian space station?
A)Left in orbit
B)Used as the core of the International Space Station
C)Crashed into the ground
D)Crashed into the Pacific
31. What was the Soviet version of the space shuttle called?
A)Mir
B)Salyut
C)Buran
D)Borscht
32. What was the original name of the International Space Station?
A)Eagle
B)Freedom
C)Liberty
D)Excelsior
33. Which nation built the science compartment for the ISS?
A)Russia
B)USA
C)Japan
D)China
34. On the Dogs of War crew, what was the Russian cosmonaut’s nickname?
A)Spotnik
B)Laika
C)Pluto
D)Goofy
35. What famous satellite did the space shuttle repair?
A)Mir space station
B)Hubble space telescope
C)Sputnik
D)Telstar communications
36. What doomed the Columbia?
A)Cold temperatures
B)Falling foam debris
C)Loss of fuel
D)Poor piloting
37.What physical evidence confirmed to Nasa that they had lost the Columbia?
A)Fireball
B)No sonic booms
C)Telescopic confirmation
D)Radio communication
38. Which of America’s Mercury astronauts was able to return to space on the shuttle 36 years later?
A)John Glenn
B)Gordo Cooper
C)Alan Shepard
D)Deke Slayton
39. Which Apollo mission had all three astronauts die in a fire?
A)Apollo I
B)Apollo 8
C)Apollo 11
D)Apollo 13
40. Which astronaut helped investigate both space shuttle disasters?
A)John Glenn
B)Pete Conrad
C)Sally Ride
D)Scott Carpenter
41. Who was the first female shuttle commander?
A)Sally Ride
B)Christa McCauliff
C)Eileen Collins
D)Ginger Rogers
42. What is the Space Mirror used for?
A)Astronomical observations
B)Memorial to fallen astronauts
C)To investigate possible damage outside the vehicle
D)As a reflector for laser communications
43. Who owns the moon?
A)The USA
B)The Apollo astronauts who landed there
C)Russia
D)Nobody
44. Why are some people worried about the Apollo landing sites?
A)That we won’t go back to the moon
B)That they were faked
C)That souvenir collectors will pillage them
D)That micro-meteorites are damaging them
45. What killed astronaut Pete Conrad?
A)Motorcycle accident
B)Car accident
C)Space accident
D)Old age
46. Who did Astronaut Pete Conrad blame for the space program collapsing after Apollo?
A)JOhn F. Kennedy
B)Richard Nixon
C)Lyndon Johnson
D)Gerald Ford
47. What was lacking in NASA after the Apollo program ended?
A)A long term goal
B)Not enough astronauts wanting to go to space
C)No idea how to spend their budget surplus
D)Congress was upset that NASA wasn’t asking for big enough budgets
48. What disaster occurred aboard the Russian space station in 1997?
A)Air lock failed
B)Space debris collide
C)Fire
D)Collision with the space shuttle
49. Who built the Space Station Remote Manipulator System?
A)Russia
B)USA
C)Japan
D)Canada
50. What new device was created to allow astronauts to investigate possible damage outside the vehicle?
A)The boom
B)The box
C)The drone
D)The ticking spider robot