The Quizzers Guide To The Cosmos 500 Questions About The Universe Stephen Webb by Stephen Webb 9783031524370, 3031524373 instant download after payment.

Who doesn’t like a quiz? The quiz format fills the schedules of UK television (The Chase; Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; Only Connect … the list seems endless) and, from my limited experience, the same seems to be true in other countries. Social media is awash with quizzes (purporting to gauge your personality; measure your IQ; or identify your strengths and weaknesses). And if a pub landlord wants to pull in the punters on a wet Wednesday night, the go-to solution is to run a pub quiz. Quizzes are fun! So, for your astronomical pleasure, this book contains a quiz with 500 questions all involving space and the cosmos. Inside, you will discover how many people in recorded history have been hit by a meteorite; which bits of Galileo’s body you can see in a museum; what foodstuff you should avoid if you visit a dark matter laboratory; and much more besides.
There is, though, a twist. Every question has an associated answer, and the order of the questions is such that, if
you read the answers in numerical order, you will be reading a history of astronomy. You will learn how astronomers developed our understanding of our solar system, then the stars, then our galaxy … all the way out to the farthest reaches of space and back to the start of the universe