Q 01/05

Chandrayaan-3's landing broadcast drew eight million simultaneous viewers, a record live stream on which platform?

A) YouTube

B) Twitch

C) Facebook

D) Instagram

Answer · why

A) YouTube

ISRO's own channel set YouTube's live record on landing day, beating the 2022 World Cup peaks of Brazil's CazéTV streams.

Q 02/05

From which island spaceport on India's east coast, in Andhra Pradesh, did all three Chandrayaan missions launch?

A) Thumba

B) Balasore

C) Sriharikota

D) Visakhapatnam

Answer · why

C) Sriharikota

Sriharikota sits on a barrier island between Pulicat Lake and the Bay of Bengal, picked for its empty safety zone and nearness to the equator, which h...

Q 03/05

Chandrayaan-2 and -3 each carried a lander named after which physicist, the founder of India's space programme?

A) Homi Bhabha

B) C. V. Raman

C) Meghnad Saha

D) Vikram Sarabhai

Answer · why

D) Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Sarabhai earned a Cambridge PhD on cosmic rays under C. V. Raman's supervision and also helped set up the Indian Institute of Management in Ahm...

Q 04/05

Chandrayaan's six-wheeled rover is called Pragyan, a Sanskrit word meaning what?

A) Wisdom

B) Courage

C) Light

D) Journey

Answer · why

A) Wisdom

Wisdom is what Pragyan means, and the rover cannot talk to mission control directly: everything it learns is relayed through its lander.

Q 05/05

Which Russian lander crashed days before Chandrayaan-3 touched down, ending its bid to reach the south pole first?

A) Luna 24

B) Luna 25

C) Luna 27

D) Phobos-Grunt

Answer · why

B) Luna 25

Luna 25 was Russia's first Moon shot since 1976, and it hit the surface after a braking engine ran for 127 seconds instead of the planned 84.