[amsat-bb] Surrey 2000 Pub Quiz Answers!

["Paul Willmott" <pwillmott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Paul, Is it "next week" yet?

THE ANSWERS ON THIS SHEET ARE FINAL, EVEN IF THEY ARE WRONG! TAKE IT UP WITH
WILLMOTT IN BERMUDA!!!!!

AMSAT-BDA SURREY PUB QUIZ 2000

1). How many manned Gemini mission did the US carry out in the 1960s?
  ANSWER: TEN

2). In the 1970s how many crews inhabited the SkyLab space station?
  ANSWER THREE

3). What does the TLA (three-letter abbreviation) LOI stand for?
  ANSWER: LUNER ORBIT INSERTION

4). Which country's amateur call sign is prefixed by OX?
  ANSWER: GREENLAND

5). What does the CW abbreviation "55" stand for?
  ANSWER: BEST SUCCESS

6). What is the period of a sun-synchronous satellite +/- 5 minutes?
  ANSWER: 100 MINUTES

7). Which was the first non-US amateur radio satellite?
  ANSWER: Australis-OSCAR-5

8). Which Space Shuttle hosted the first amateur radio QSO in space?
  ANSWER: Columbia STS-9

9). In the film You Only Live Twice, which rocket booster is seen launching
the Russian spacecraft?
  ANSWER: US Titan II

10). Who wrote in his 1686 book, "Lo, for your gaze, the pattern of the
skies! What balance of the mass, what reckonings"?
  ANSWER: Sir Isaac Newton

11). Who wrote "Our problem is to find out what happens to bodies of
different weight moving in a medium devoid of resistance, so that the only
difference in speed is that which arises from inequality of weight."?
  ANSWER: GALILEO GALILEI

12). Under the current rules what is the maximum difference allowed between
UTC and UT1?
  ANSWER: 0.9 SECONDS

13). In amateur radio circles what does OSCAR stand for?
  ANSWER ORBITING SATELLITE CARRYING AMATEUR RADIO

14). Which country hosts the source of UTC Time?
  ANSWER: FRANCE

15). Why do the BBC World Service still quote program start times in GMT
when it hasn't been legal time for over 30 years?
  ANSWER: BEATS ME - TAKE MOST ORIGINAL ANSWER!!!

16). Before satellites what was the principal export of French Guyana?
  ANSWER: CAYENNE PEPPER

17). What has the NORAD/NASA Catalog of 1?
  ANSWER: THE ROCKET BODY THAT LAUNCHED SPUTNIK 1

18). P3D was supposed to launch on Ariane V501, what lucky project bumped
P3D from the flight?
  ANSWER: CLUSTER [Edit as necessary]

19). What is the launch site designated in the 1960s as WTR more commonly
known as?
  ANSWER: VANDENBERG AFB

20). For how many days did OSCAR I transmit?
  ANSWER: 18 DAYS

21). In AU (Astronomical Units - the Earth-Sun distance being 1), what is
the mean distance of Mars from the Sun.
  ANSWER: 1.524 (1.5ish will do)

22). In which year did the US Viking probes land on Mars?
  ANSWER: 1976

23). In 1975 what did ASTP stand for?
  ANSWER: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

24). To the nearest 100km what is the radius of the Clarke or Geostationary
orbit?
  ANSWER: 35,900km or 22,300 miles

25). In which publication did Arthur C. Clarke first propose the use of this
orbit and when?
  ANSWER: Wireless World 1948

26). When propellants are said to be hypergolic, what does this mean?
  ANSWER: They set themselves alight when mixed.

27). What does the TLA (three-letter abbreviation) ESA stand for?
  ANSWER: European Space Agency

28). What does "Barbecue Mode" mean?
  ANSWER: Slowly rolling a spacecraft or space station to prevent it being
overheated by the Sun.

29). In the 1991 RSGB Amateur Radio Operating Manual out of 204 pages how
many [pages] were devoted to amateur radio satellites?
  ANSWER: EIGHT (8)

30). Who commanded the first manned mission to leave low earth orbit?
  ANSWER: Frank Borman APOLLO 8

31). Who piloted the last Mercury capsule to touch dry land?
  ANSWER: Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom

32). Which country is allocated call signs starting with "MAA-MZZ"?
  ANSWER: United Kingdom

33). Which country is allocated call signs starting with "Z2A-Z2Z"?
  ANSWER: Zimbabwe

34). From what site in Australia in the 1960s did ELDO test fire its Europa
boosters?
  ANSWER: Woomera

35). How many Saturn 4 rockets were launched?
  ANSWER: NONE it went from 1B to V

36). In which US state is JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) located?
  ANSWER: California

37). In which year was Mariner 1 launched?
  ANSWER: 1962

38). In which year was the first module of MIR launched?
  ANSWER: 1986

39). Which was the third country to have a national satellite in space?
  ANSWER: Canada - Alouette 1, 28 Sep 1962

40). Which is the COSPAR designation and which is the NORAD designation, ..
1983 058 B or 14129?
  ANSWER: 14129 is NORAD, and 1983 058 B is COSPAR

BONUS: Which object was just described?
  ANSWER: AO-10


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