Net Search unit2. 2. Write a quiz.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:55 pmPost your quiz, with the answers to your questions, on the Noticeboard. Also, include any useful addresses that you find.
1. It wasn't on the list of photographs, but the sight of Earth rising beyond the barren landscape of the moon stopped this astronaut cold. He grabbed a camera, yelled at his crewmate for color film and took a picture that became an icon of the Apollo program. Who was the shutterbug?
a) Alan Shepard
b) Alan Bean
c) William Anders
c ... CORRECT The correct answer is William Anders.
2. What piece of clothing protects an astronaut from all the unfamiliar conditions of space?
a) A special pair of gold covered boots.
b) A spacesuit.
c) They don’t need protection because space has the same condition as Earth.
d) A hydro-plastic jump-suit.
b ... CORRECT. The correct answer is a spacesuit.
3. Who orbited the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on it?
a) Alan L. Bean
b) Michael Collins
c) Charles Conrad, Jr.
b ... CORRECT. The correct answer is Michael Collins.
4. Who reported to mission control, "OK, Houston, we've had a problem" during the Apollo 13 mission?
a) Fred W. Haise
b) James Lovell
c) John Swigert.
c ... CORRECT. The correct answer is John Swigert.
5. What geologist was the first scientist-astronaut to fly in space?
a) Harrison Schmitt
b) Charles M. Duke
c) Eugene A. Cernan
a ... CORRECT. The correct answer is Harrison Schmitt.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11272/cgi ... rotest.cgi
1. It wasn't on the list of photographs, but the sight of Earth rising beyond the barren landscape of the moon stopped this astronaut cold. He grabbed a camera, yelled at his crewmate for color film and took a picture that became an icon of the Apollo program. Who was the shutterbug?
a) Alan Shepard
b) Alan Bean
c) William Anders
c ... CORRECT The correct answer is William Anders.
2. What piece of clothing protects an astronaut from all the unfamiliar conditions of space?
a) A special pair of gold covered boots.
b) A spacesuit.
c) They don’t need protection because space has the same condition as Earth.
d) A hydro-plastic jump-suit.
b ... CORRECT. The correct answer is a spacesuit.
3. Who orbited the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on it?
a) Alan L. Bean
b) Michael Collins
c) Charles Conrad, Jr.
b ... CORRECT. The correct answer is Michael Collins.
4. Who reported to mission control, "OK, Houston, we've had a problem" during the Apollo 13 mission?
a) Fred W. Haise
b) James Lovell
c) John Swigert.
c ... CORRECT. The correct answer is John Swigert.
5. What geologist was the first scientist-astronaut to fly in space?
a) Harrison Schmitt
b) Charles M. Duke
c) Eugene A. Cernan
a ... CORRECT. The correct answer is Harrison Schmitt.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11272/cgi ... rotest.cgi