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title: Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Space
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★

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The 16 questions of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with their options, 92 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t1/) — ★★★ Finn from Glasgow, on a dreich night: "Took me light years to finish my homework, ken." What is wrong with that, besides the joke? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t2/) — ★★★ Priya: "Vega's light left it 25 years ago, so if it changed last week we'd still see the old Vega." Check the claim. — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t3/) — ★★★ Tyler from Ohio: "Red's hot and blue's cold, like the taps, no cap." What is true for stars? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t4/) — ★★★ Gran: "The Pole Star's the brightest star in the sky, that's how sailors found it." What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t5/) — ★★★ Jack, rough: "Shut up, the Sun's gonna go supernova and we're all dead." What will a Sun-like star really do? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t6/) — ★★★ Amara says, "Gagarin went first, then the satellite, then the dog." Put it right. — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t7/) — ★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing really." About how far in 1,000 years? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t8/) — ★★★ Liam from Dublin: "Sure Voyager'd get to Proxima before me nan's birthday, it's grand." How long would it really take? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t9/) — ★★★ An astronaut texts from the space station: "stars r not twinkling up here lol, broken??" Best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t10/) — ★★★ Zara from Bristol: "Helium were found on Earth first, then they spotted it in the Sun, proper job." Check the claim. — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t11/) — ★★★ Kofi: "Apollo 11 was 1969 and the station's had people since 2000, so that's about 21 years apart." What is the real gap? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t12/) — ★★★ "I've told you a million times: Sirius is 8.6 light years away and shines 25 times brighter than the Sun!" Which number is hyperbole? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/e1/) — State the approximate age of a ten-year-old observer at the moment when the light of Proxima Centauri now reaching him departed that star. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/e2/) — Arrange the following stellar colours in order of increasing surface temperature: blue-white, red, yellow. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/e3/) — Identify the earliest of the following events. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/e4/) — Explain why stars observed from the International Space Station do not twinkle. — right ✓ · exam

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