# 🔵 Neptune Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What position is Neptune from the Sun?  
**Answer:** Eighth  
**Taglines:**  
- Dead last in the solar lineup  
- The Sun’s ghosted pen pal  
- It’s out there... *way* out there  
- The loneliest giant  
- So far, Pluto waves from behind  

### 2. What color is Neptune often depicted as?  
**Answer:** Blue  
**Taglines:**  
- Ocean vibes, zero oceans  
- It’s not sad, just stylish  
- Blue without the blues  
- Sky-colored planet, space edition  
- Like Earth, but without the life or pity  

### 3. What is Neptune primarily composed of?  
**Answer:** Gas and ice  
**Taglines:**  
- The frosty fart sphere  
- Cold cloudball chaos  
- Not your grandma’s snow globe  
- Elemental nonsense  
- Diet Jupiter  

### 4. Who discovered Neptune?  
**Answer:** Johann Galle (based on calculations by Urbain Le Verrier)  
**Taglines:**  
- Found with math, not eyeballs  
- Galle said “There it is!” Le Verrier said “Told you!”  
- When astronomy turns into algebra  
- Spotted by science, not vibes  
- Teamwork makes the cold work  

### 5. What is the name of Neptune’s largest moon?  
**Answer:** Triton  
**Taglines:**  
- Neptune’s frosty sidekick  
- Moon with a retrograde attitude  
- Triton: spinning backwards into your heart  
- A moon with commitment issues  
- Still waiting for its Netflix series  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Neptune was named after the Roman god of the ______.  
**Answer:** Sea  
**Taglines:**  
- God of seas, king of space surf  
- Poseidon’s Roman remix  
- Sea god goes solar  
- Neptune: deity of drowning and freezing  
- Water you doing out there, bro?  

### 2. Neptune has a famous dark storm system called the Great ______ Spot.  
**Answer:** Dark  
**Taglines:**  
- Jupiter’s angry cousin  
- Like the Red Spot, but goth  
- Space acne at its finest  
- The emo eye of the outer planets  
- Weather with issues  

### 3. One year on Neptune equals about ______ Earth years.  
**Answer:** 165  
**Taglines:**  
- Neptune’s birthday party is *so* overdue  
- One year = your whole retirement plan  
- Party once a century and a half  
- Slow orbit, strong chill  
- Neptune: the boomer of the planets  

### 4. The spacecraft that visited Neptune was named ______ 2.  
**Answer:** Voyager  
**Taglines:**  
- One probe to rule them all  
- The grand tour bus of the cosmos  
- Voyager 2: Neptune’s one-night stand  
- Passed by and said “cool, bye”  
- Dropped in, ghosted the galaxy  

### 5. Neptune’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen, helium, and ______.  
**Answer:** Methane  
**Taglines:**  
- The gassy giant strikes again  
- Smells like science  
- Methane: powering farts and planets  
- Cosmic burrito gas  
- Space, now 10% more digestively active  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] Which planet is closest to Neptune?  
A) Uranus ✅  
B) Saturn  
C) Jupiter  
D) Pluto  
**Taglines:**  
- Uranus always tagging along  
- Spaced neighbors, weird cousins  
- It’s a gas giant party  
- No boundaries in the outer solar system  
- They get along... sometimes  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] How many known moons does Neptune have?  
A) 8  
B) 14 ✅  
C) 27  
D) 63  
**Taglines:**  
- Neptune collects moons like Pokémon  
- Fourteen frosty friends  
- Moons with mysterious resumes  
- The orbiting entourage  
- Not too many, not too few—just chaotic  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What kind of planet is Neptune classified as?  
A) Terrestrial  
B) Dwarf  
C) Ice giant ✅  
D) Gas dwarf  
**Taglines:**  
- Ice giant: colder and sassier than gas giants  
- Not frosty enough to be nice  
- Big, blue, and bizarre  
- Giant, but emotionally frozen  
- Frozen chaos in orbit  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What direction does Triton orbit Neptune?  
A) Clockwise  
B) Retrograde ✅  
C) Equatorial  
D) Chaotically  
**Taglines:**  
- Triton: always going against the grain  
- Moon with a reverse card  
- It’s spinning backwards for attention  
- The rebel moon  
- Astronomy’s favorite contrarian  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Which element gives Neptune its blue color?  
A) Helium  
B) Oxygen  
C) Nitrogen  
D) Methane ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- Blue thanks to the gas that makes cows cry  
- Methane: now in 4K  
- Same stuff, prettier result  
- Cosmic color by chemical chaos  
- Nature’s paint can
