Cathedral High School Academic Quiz Bowl Social Studies Test

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!

1. 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