How much do you know about Venus? Test your knowledge by taking the Venus quiz. All you need to do is click on an answer for each question. Have fun!

1: What is Venus?
a) A planet
b) A star
c) An asteroid

3: What is the surface of Venus like?
a) Rocky and covered with craters, mountains, and volcanoes
b) Covered with a layer of frozen liquids
c) Covered with large oceans filled with boiling-hot water

5: What is the name of Venus’s tallest mountain?
a) Mount Everest
b) Mount Rushmore
c) Maxwell Montes

7: How long does it take Venus to rotate, or spin around, once?
a) 243 Earth hours
b) 243 Earth days
c) 1 Earth hour

9: Who or what is Venus named after?
a) The Venus flytrap plant, which is deadly to insects
b) Tennis player Venus Williams
c) The Roman goddess of love and beauty

11: How many astronauts have flown to Mercury?
a) 0
b) 16
c) 6

13: At what time of day can Venus often be seen shining in the sky?
a) Only before sunrise
b) Around either sunrise or sunset
c) Only after sunset

15: Which two planets are closest to Venus?
a) Mercury and Earth
b) Earth and Neptune
c) Mercury and Jupiter

17: Which statement is true?
a) Venus’s journey around the Sun is shorter than Earth’s.
b) Venus’s journey around the Sun is the same as Earth’s.
c) Venus’s journey around the Sun is longer than Earth’s.

19: Which statement is false?
a) From Earth, Venus is the brightest planet in the solar system.
b) Ancient people could see Venus in the sky.
c) Venus can only be seen through a powerful telescope.

2: Which statement is true?
a) Venus is the closest planet to the Sun.
b) Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
c) Venus is the fifth planet from the Sun.

4: How long is a year on Venus?
a) 5,000 Earth days
b) 225 Earth hours
c) 365 Earth days

6: Which of these statements is false?
a) Venus has an atmosphere made up of toxic chemicals.
b) Venus has an atmosphere like Earth’s.
c) Venus is slightly smaller than Earth.

8: How many moons does Venus have?
a) 0
b) 4
c) 2

10: Which of these statements is false?
a) Venus’s thick layer of clouds blocks out light from the Sun.
b) Venus’s thick atmosphere traps heat on the planet.
c) At night, Venus is the coldest planet in the solar system.

12: Which of these statements is false?
a) Mariner 2 is a space probe that flew past Venus.
b) Several Venera space probes have landed on
the surface of Venus.
c) Serena is the name of a probe in orbit around Venus.

14: How were the craters on Venus formed?
a) By space probes crashing into the planet
b) By eruptions of frozen water from within the planet
c) By asteroids and other space objects hitting the planet

16: What have space probes studied on Venus?
a) Trees and other plant life
b) The planet’s atmosphere and rocky surface
c) Cities built by visiting aliens

18: How tall is Venus’s volcano, Maat Mons?
a) 500 miles (800 km) high
b) 5 miles (8 km) high
c) 50 miles (80 km) high

20: How long does it take Venus to rotate, or spin around, once?
a) 24 Earth hours
b) 243 Earth days
c) 243 Earth hours

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