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Cosmos – A Space Time Odyssey – Episode 1
1. “The ________________________ is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.”
2. What is the first line of our cosmic address?
3. What powers all of the life on our planet?
4. Name the planets in order of increasing distance from the sun.
5. Which planet is like its “own little solar system”?
6. Which planets were discovered by telescope?
7. What is the name of the spacecraft that has traveled the farthest from Earth?
8. The enormous cloud of comets that surrounds the solar system is called the _____________
______________.
9. What is the second line of our cosmic address?
10. What is the third line of our cosmic address?
11. What is the fourth line of our cosmic address?
12. What is the fifth line of our cosmic address?
13. What is the last line of our cosmic address?
14. Who first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the universe?
15. What ultimately happened to Giordono Bruno for refusing to recant his views of the
universe during the Inquisition?
16. Ten years after Bruno, ________________ pointed a telescope at the sky and found that
Bruno was correct.
17. How old is the universe?
18. If the entire age of the universe was condensed to a single calendar year (the Cosmic
Calendar), what date was the universe formed?
19. How long does each month of the Cosmic Calendar represent?
20. You, me, everyone; we are made of ______________ ________________.
21. What is our sun’s birthday on the Cosmic Calendar?
22. On what date did life begin on the Cosmic Calendar?
23. On what date did the first life forms begin to come to the land on the Cosmic Calendar?
24. What happened on December 30th on the Cosmic Calendar?
25. When did humans come to the Earth on the Cosmic Calendar?
26. How long has science existed on the Cosmic Calendar?