<p>Всероссийская интеллектуальная викторина на английском языке для 9-11 классов LET’S FLY TO THE STARS</p><p>ANSWER SHEET</p><p>ФИО ШКОЛА КЛАСС</p><p>AMAZING SPACE (14 points)</p><p>1 The Andromeda galaxy 2 «The Eye of Jupiter» 3 The Southern Cross 4 Io 5 The Horsehead Nebula 6 Aurora Borealis 7 The Face on Mars (Mount Cydonia) 8 The Hubble Space Telescope 9 Halley’s comet 10 Bill Anders took the stunning photo of the Earthrise from the Moon during Apollo 8 mission. The photo was made into a stamp by the US Postal Service in 1969. </p><p>DEFINITIONS (8 points)</p><p>11 moon / satellite 12 light year 13 comet 14 black hole 15 weightlessness 16 planet 17 constellation 18 space probe</p><p>THE SOLAR SYSTEM (10 points)</p><p>19 False (The Sun will die in about 5 billion years) 20 True 21 False (Venus rotates from east to west) 22 True 23 True 24 False (They are called Galilean moons, because they were discovered by Galileo in 1610). 25 False (The rings are split into categories from A to G (Ring A, Ring B, Ring C, etc)). 26 True 27 True 28 False (Pluto’s status was officially changed from planet to dwarf planet in 2006)</p><p>NAMES and nicknames (15 points)</p><p>29 The Columbus of the Cosmos 30 Valentina Tereshkova 31 Albina and Markiza 32 Sol 33 The British call it The Plough, Americans call it The Big Dipper. 34 Venetia Burney named Pluto. 35 All missions after Apollo 8 involved a command service module (CSM) and a lunar module (LM). To avoid confusion, during separate operations, each spacecraft needed a call sign. The crews were permitted to name both. So, the crew of Apollo 10 humorously named CSM “Charlie Brown” and LM “Snoopy” after popular “Peanuts” comic strip characters. 36 1 Saturn 2 Earth 3 Uranus 4 Mars 5 Mercury 6 Pluto 7 Venus 8 Jupiter 9 Neptune 37 All Uranus moons were named after characters in William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope’s literary works.</p><p>PEOPLE IN SPACE (13 points)</p><p>38 The terms were coined at the time of space race between the USSR and the USA. Cosmonauts (Navigators of the Universe) were those coming from the Soviet bloc, and astronauts (Navigators of the stars) were the ones from the USA alignment. 39 “That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind”. 40 Apollo 13 had to abort the mission’s lunar landing. A fuel cell oxygen tank exploded crippling their vehicle. But all three astronauts were safely returned to Earth. 41 Alexei Leonov and his crewmate Valery Kubasov. 42 The first space shuttle named “Columbia” took off into space on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years after Yuri Gagarin’s flight. 43 The STS -51L Challenger mission disaster occurred on 28 January 1986 when the spacecraft exploded 73 seconds after the lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 44 On 14 July 1961 Yuri Gagarin was formally welcomed to the UK by the Prime Minister Harold MacMillan and had lunch with the Queen. 45 Investigating time travel</p><p>CREATIVE WRITING TASK (15 points)</p><p>Содержание – 5 баллов</p><p>Лексика – 3 балла</p><p>Грамматика – 3 балла</p><p>Объем – 1 балл</p><p>Орфография – 1 балла</p><p>Оригинальность – 2 балла</p>