# 🛰️ Sputnik Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What country launched Sputnik into space?  
**Answer:** Soviet Union  
**Taglines:**  
- Russia: now with orbital sass  
- The USSR: first to yeet metal into orbit  
- Cold War mic drop  
- Spacetime with a side of communism  
- Launching guilt trips and satellites  

### 2. In what year was Sputnik launched?  
**Answer:** 1957  
**Taglines:**  
- 1957: when the sky stopped being the limit  
- Baby Boomers met Space Doom  
- Your grandpa was still dialing rotary  
- Post-war, pre-WiFi, all drama  
- The sky called—it was taken  

### 3. What was Sputnik’s main purpose?  
**Answer:** Transmit radio signals  
**Taglines:**  
- Beep beep, capitalism’s in danger  
- Just a flying boombox  
- Earth’s first space spam  
- The original Bluetooth speaker  
- Talked more than your last Tinder match  

### 4. What shape was Sputnik?  
**Answer:** A sphere with four antennae  
**Taglines:**  
- Metal volleyball from hell  
- Beach ball of doom  
- It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s... a chrome orb!  
- Looks like nothing, terrified everyone  
- Sci-fi in the form of a space egg  

### 5. What does the word “Sputnik” mean in Russian?  
**Answer:** Fellow traveler  
**Taglines:**  
- Comrade in orbit  
- “Fellow traveler” sounds friendly until it’s spying  
- Ride or die... into space  
- Not creepy at all, promise  
- Just a buddy. A buddy watching you  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Sputnik marked the beginning of the ______ Age.  
**Answer:** Space  
**Taglines:**  
- Ground control, we have lift-off  
- From dirt to destiny  
- Humanity looked up and freaked out  
- The final frontier just got a passport  
- The Cold War went orbital  

### 2. The launch of Sputnik triggered the creation of ______ in the U.S.  
**Answer:** NASA  
**Taglines:**  
- We panicked into greatness  
- Sputnik: making Americans build rockets  
- NASA: born from fear  
- Houston, we have a Cold War  
- Space race: activated  

### 3. Sputnik orbited Earth approximately once every ______ minutes.  
**Answer:** 96  
**Taglines:**  
- Round and round it goes  
- Beeped every 96 minutes like clockwork  
- The sky had a new timekeeper  
- The Soviet FitBit  
- Space laps for Mother Russia  

### 4. The satellite transmitted radio pulses that could be received by ______.  
**Answer:** Radio operators  
**Taglines:**  
- Even your grandpa’s ham radio got nervous  
- Beep heard round the world  
- Soviet ghost sounds  
- DIY paranoia  
- Tune in for existential dread  

### 5. The launch of Sputnik shocked many due to its ______.  
**Answer:** Technological advancement  
**Taglines:**  
- Soviets out-teching America: not in the script  
- Who knew communism had WiFi?  
- Boomers clutching pearls since 1957  
- One beep, many breakdowns  
- Science with a red star  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What date was Sputnik launched?  
A) October 4, 1957 ✅  
B) July 20, 1957  
C) December 12, 1957  
D) January 1, 1958  
**Taglines:**  
- October surprise, Soviet edition  
- Just in time for Halloween anxiety  
- 10/4: Sputnik said “Roger that”  
- Cold War just got colder  
- The beep heard ‘round the globe  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] How long did Sputnik stay in orbit?  
A) 3 days  
B) 21 days  
C) 92 days ✅  
D) 365 days  
**Taglines:**  
- Nearly three months of high-stakes circling  
- Orbiting and intimidating  
- Beeping for attention  
- Long enough to raise blood pressure  
- Space loitering, Soviet-style  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] Which American president was in office when Sputnik launched?  
A) Harry Truman  
B) John F. Kennedy  
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower ✅  
D) Lyndon B. Johnson  
**Taglines:**  
- Ike got space-slammed  
- Dwight’s orbital headache  
- Not exactly in the five-year plan  
- From highways to high anxiety  
- Cold War curveball  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What was the next satellite launched after Sputnik 1?  
A) Sputnik 2 ✅  
B) Luna 1  
C) Explorer 1  
D) Soyuz 1  
**Taglines:**  
- Because sequels were big even then  
- Spoiler: it had a dog  
- From beeps to barks  
- Russia: now featuring pets in peril  
- Sputnik 2: the bark side of space  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Sputnik 1 reentered Earth’s atmosphere and burned up in:  
A) November 1957  
B) January 1958 ✅  
C) March 1958  
D) July 1958  
**Taglines:**  
- Flaming out with style  
- Soviet streaker enters the atmosphere  
- Goodbye, flying beach ball  
- All beeps must end  
- 92-day orbital rental expires
