Can you name the Maria (seas) of the Moon?

Latin Name	English Name
Mare Anguis
Mare Insularum
Mare Tranquillitatis
Mare Serenitatis
Mare Imbrium
Mare Vaporum
Mare Humorum
Mare Nubium
Mare Australe
Mare Nectaris
Mare Fecunditatis

Latin Name	English Name
Mare Smythii
Mare Crisium
Mare Frigoris
Mare Moscoviense
Mare Ingenii
Mare Cognitum
Mare Orientale
Mare Humboldtianum
Mare Marginis
Mare Spumans
Mare Undarum
Oceanus Procellarum

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Moon Seas Quiz

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Created by: GeoExpert -
Published: July 28th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 5,803

Tags: Latin Quizzes, Astronomy Quizzes, moon, sea, maria, space, english

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	MikeSang:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 17:44 GMT	26 points
	oh Sporcle, with your tricky Latin lessons masquerading as astronomy quizzes

	RyanUR:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 17:45 GMT	3 points
	Exactly. I was just expecting to have to name them with no clues or hints.

	BobM:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 17:54 GMT	15 points
	How long has the Sea that had become known been known as the Sea that has become known?

	davidr:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT	2 points
	Heh. Only yesterday, I was thinking that Sporcle should have a quiz on the `seas' of the moon. :-)

	davidr:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 18:03 GMT	9 points
	Also, could quiz authors please be more careful to include variant spellings? (`Vapour', in this case.)

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	Guinevere:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	4 points
	Well, that's the first and last time I think I'll be typing the words "Sea of Spumoni" in a desperate attempt to get more than five answers. In my defense, I did try "Sea of Spume" first; didn't think of "Sea of Waves."

	Morbo:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	12 points
	@MovieDynamic: Sure there are. They're inhabited by whalers. You doubt me? I don't see your fungineering degree.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 20:14 GMT	7 points
	I could have punished you by making all of you type the answers in their latin names... A bit disappointed that Mare Humorum is not Sea of Humor.

	Haunter:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 22:03 GMT	0 points
	Please, we all know there are only seven seas.

	Catherine_F:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 22:09 GMT	1 point
	I actually set off typing the Latin names - those are the ones I learnt! Don't know these fancy English names :P

	Djibouti:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 23:02 GMT	0 points
	Until this moment I had never heard the word Fecundity before. I guess Sea of Fertility would sound a bit weird.

	ZSP:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 23:35 GMT	5 points
	Seems like 'Mare Moscoviense' should translate to 'Muscovite Sea' and/or 'Sea of Moscow' even if that's not what its proper English name is. Likewise, 'ingenii' could be genius as well as cleverness.

	bucksfan54321:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 01:25 GMT	-1 points
	really...

	treblat:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 02:59 GMT	7 points
	We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon...

	OscilatingGibbon:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 14:46 GMT	5 points
	Mare Fecunditatis is also called the Sea Of Fertility :-) Got a few of these but there were some I'd never heard of, nice mix.

	melissa:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT	0 points
	Hey - Maria could go in the next heteronyms quiz. Moon seas / singing nun.

	Patteroast:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 02:01 GMT	2 points
	Bonus answer for Ocean of Storms. :)

	NaGfH:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	2 points
	all i remembered was that most were named for the effects the moon was thought to have on the earth

	zifyoip:	Jul 31st, 2009 at 18:03 GMT	1 point
	Mare Humorum seems to also be known as the Sea of Humors, and Mare Ingenii as the Sea of Ingenuity. Apparently there are translations of the Latin other than those given in Wikipedia. Who would have thought?

	snowman888:	Sep 6th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	1 point
	Anguis-Serpent Australe-Southern Cognitum-Known Sea Fecunditatis-Fecundity/Fertility Ingenii-Cleverness/Ingenuity Smythii-Smyth Humboldtianum-Humboldt Theres a bonus: Oceanus Procellarum-Storms ( Bonus ) Really FUN quiz!

Shotgunnova:

Oct 7th, 2009 at 06:54 GMT

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Good quiz, although I had no chance at getting a majority. Whatever happened to the Sea of Cheese? That's what the moon's made out of, right? Or did I miss that day in kindergarten? ;)

	tripperboot:	May 13th, 2010 at 00:53 GMT	1 point
	sea of vapor, sea of vapors...thats splittin hairs...

	dancastro:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 02:45 GMT	2 points
	"Mare numbium" is an erroneous spelling, the correct form being "Mare nubium". Speaking a Romance language helps a little with this quiz; for example in Spanish "cloud" is "nube".

	samcash13593:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 20:14 GMT	1 point
	Damn i made the connection betwen Mare Undarum and waves, but i guessed "undulating sea", and "wavey sea". I was soo close!