THE SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM
70 Falmouth Street Portland, Maine 04103
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43.6667° N 70.2667° W
Founded January 1970
2022-2023: XLIII
Sunrise: 6:39 a.m.
Sunset: 4:13 p.m.
Civil twilight ends: 4:44 p.m.
Sun's host constellation: Libra the Scales
Moon phase: Waning crescent (30% illuminated)
Moonrise: 1:29 a.m. (11/19/2022)
Moonset: 2:12 p.m. (11/19/2022)
Julian date: 2459902.21
"To make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the
Universe."
-Carl Sagan
THE DAILY ASTRONOMER Friday, November 18, 2022
Quiz # 11: Thanksgiving Quiz
As the DA will be off during the latter half of next week, we thought we'd
post the Thanksgiving Quiz today. This quiz is designed to bring cheer and
delight (i.e. stress and tumult) to your family during this festive
holiday. We're mixing together a variety of topics from history to sports
to astronomy. Think of this as being similar to a "Brain of Portland"quiz,
only not quite as taxing, or so we hope. Enjoy! See you on Monday,
1. Who wrote "Mansfield Park?"
2. The Full Moon rises around what time of day/night?
3. Which baseball player still holds the record for the greatest lifetime
batting average?
4. Ok, smart aleck! Who has the second greatest lifetime batting average?
5. Who was the first Roman Emperor?
6. What part of the cell contains DNA?
7. The confederates started the American Civil War by firing on what?
8. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
9. According to Isaac Newton, every action has an equal ____________?
10. Which President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday?
11. A 50th wedding anniversary is gold; the 60th is diamond. What is the
65th anniversary?
12. Which two NFL teams ALWAYS play on Thanksgiving, though not
necessarily against each other?
13. Though snowflakes are all different, they all have the same
geometrical shape. What is that shape?
14. What is the most abundant element in the Universe?
15. Which single television broadcast was the most watched show ever?
(NOT counting NFL games)
16. Who was named the richest person in the world (2021) by Forbes
magazine?
17. What is the earliest possible date for Thanksgiving?
18. "Virga" is the meteorological term for rain that does what?
19. In which Shakespeare play did Portia's suitors have to select a gold,
silver or lead casket to win her hand?
20. Wood Fire, such as that one would have in a fireplace, is a chemical
process called what?
21. Who was the Roman goddess of home and hearth?
22. Let's just say you had five people in a home. They have a chess
tournament so that each person plays everybody else exactly once. How many
chess games would there be?
23. Historians believe that which people brought the Christmas Tree to
America when, ironically, they were helping Britain fight the Revolutionary
War?
24. Who was the longest serving British Monarch?
25. The Sun is in which constellation during Thanksgiving, hence this
constellation's nickname, 'The Thanksgiving constellation?"
ANSWERS
1. Jane Austen
2. Around sunset
3. Ty Cobb (0.366)
4. Roger Hornsby (0.358)
5. Caesar Augustus. (Julius was a dictator, not an emperor.)
6. The nucleus
7. Fort Sumter
8. A barred spiral (SBc)
9. and opposite reaction
10. Abraham Lincoln (1863)
11. Sapphire
12. Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions
13. Hexagonal
14. Hydrogen
15. The final episode of M*A*S*H 104 million viewers (February 1983)
16. Elon Musk (net worth $213 billion...well, it was before he bought
Twitter.)
17. November 22. (TODAY!!) The latest date is November 28.
18. Evaporates before it strikes the ground.
19. "The Merchant of Venice."
20. Combustion
21. Vesta
22. 10
23. The Hessians.
24. Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
25. Scorpius the Scorpion
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