The document outlines the rules and questions for the prelims round of an astro quiz competition. It provides 12 multiple choice questions about astronomy topics like galaxies, stars, planets, and constellations. The questions cover identifying images, connecting concepts, and naming significant discoveries and astronomers throughout history. The top 6 teams will advance to the final round.

1. TECHKRITI’15
PRESENTS
ASTRO QUIZ

2. RULES AND REGULATIONS
There will be 12 questions in prelims round.
6 teams will proceed to the final round.
No negative marking in this round.
Hints can be given only if every team is ready to take
it. If any of the team objects it will not be given.
You need to write your answers in the sheet given

3. PRELIMS
ANSWERS

4. QUESTION 1.
What is this image depicting?

5. The Inca feared that a lunar eclipse was caused by
a jaguar attacking the moon. They'd try to drive it
away by making noise, including beating their dogs
to make them howl and bark.

6. QUESTION 2.
X is the closest starbust galaxy of our own. X is the
prototypical example of this type of galaxy. In 2014, in
studying X, scientists discovered the brightest pulsar yet
known. It is about five times more luminous than the
whole Milky Way and one hundred times more luminous
than our galaxy's center. The starburst activity is thought to
be triggered by interaction with neighboring galaxy Y. Both
these galaxies are messier. Give the names or messier
numbers of these galaxies.

7. X- M82 , Y-M81

8. QUESTION 3.
Connect
• 4 biggest moons of
Jupiter
•Oval shape of saturn
•Phases of Venus
•Spots on the sun.

9. Galileo

10. QUESTION 4.
In July 1958, Congress passed the National
Aeronautics and Space Act (commonly
called the "Space Act") which created
NASA. What was the event that directly led
to the creation of National Aeronautics and
Space Administration(NASA)?

11. Launch of Sputnik 1

12. QUESTION 5.
To commemorate what was this doodle made for?

13. WATER ON MOON

14. QUESTION 6.
• In 1983, the noble prize in physics was given to
William Alfred Fowler "for his theoretical and
experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of
importance in the formation of the chemical
elements in the universe“ and another person X
for "for his theoretical studies of the physical
processes of importance to the structure and
evolution of the stars“ . ID X .

15. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

16. QUESTION 7.
Find the odd one out
Alphekka, β lyrae , Algol, Betelgeuse, δ
Cephei, Sun, Polaris, Canopus

17. • CANOPUS (all others are variable stars)

18. QUESTION 8.
Both the images have something in common? What is it?

20. QUESTION 9.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye
'Till the sun is in the sky.
Where are these lines from?

21. The lyrics from "The Star“ an English
poem by Jane Taylor.

22. QUESTION 10.
• In March 1781, during his search for double stars, X
noticed an object appearing as a nonstellar disk. X
originally thought it was a comet or a star. He made
many more observations of it, and afterwards Russian
Academician Anders Lexell computed the orbit and
found it to be probably planetary.X determined in
agreement that it must be a planet beyond the orbit of
Saturn.He called the new planet the 'Georgian star‘.
What is the object and who is X?

23. X is WILLIAM HERSCHEL
He is talking about Uranus

24. QUESTION 11.
• X is a famous photograph of the Earth, taken on
December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo
17 spacecraft. The name has also been applied
by NASA to a 2012 series of image data sets
covering the entire globe at relatively high
resolution. This spectacular image is the most
detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to
date. What is X?

25. THE BLUE MARBLE

26. QUESTION 12.
• The Orion correlation theory (or Giza–Orion correlation
theory)
is a hypothesis in alternative Egyptlogy. Its
central claim is that there is a correlation between the
location of the three largest pyramids of the Giza
pyramid complex and Orion's Belt of the constellation
Orion, and that this correlation was intended as such by
the builders of the pyramids. Depending on the version
of the theory, additional pyramids can be included to
complete the picture of the Orion constellation, and X
can be included to match with the Milky Way galaxy.
What is X???

27. NILE RIVER