Q 01/05

Which film's night sky did its director redo for a re-release after Tyson said the stars were wrong?

A) Apollo 13

B) Armageddon

C) Titanic

D) Contact

Answer · why

C) Titanic

Titanic. Tyson emailed James Cameron that Rose's stars were wrong for the North Atlantic in April 1912, so Cameron asked him for the right sky and put...

Q 02/05

Which institution did Tyson become director of in 1996?

A) The Adler Planetarium

B) The Griffith Observatory

C) The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

D) The Hayden Planetarium

Answer · why

D) The Hayden Planetarium

The Hayden Planetarium. Tyson first walked into its sky theater at age nine and decided on astrophysics; he came back as a staff scientist in 1994 and...

Q 03/05

Which animated-comedy creator was an executive producer of Tyson's 2014 Cosmos series?

A) Matt Groening

B) Seth MacFarlane

C) Mike Judge

D) Trey Parker

Answer · why

B) Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane. The Family Guy creator's backing was instrumental in landing the science documentary on Fox, where its thirteen episodes ran in prime...

Q 04/05

What is the name of the weekly podcast Tyson began hosting in 2009?

A) Science Friday

B) StarTalk

C) Star Stuff

D) Radiolab

Answer · why

B) StarTalk

StarTalk. It started as a radio pilot funded by the National Science Foundation, for which Tyson recruited stand-up comedians as co-hosts to reach peo...

Q 05/05

Which rapper's flat-Earth tweets did Tyson rebut point by point in 2016?

A) Lupe Fiasco

B) B.o.B

C) Wiz Khalifa

D) Kid Cudi

Answer · why

B) B.o.B

B.o.B. The rapper answered with a track calling Tyson out by name, so Tyson's nephew Stephen recorded a reply, 'Flat to Fact', which the astrophysicis...