| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Which United States President committed the nation to ‘landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth’? | John F. Kennedy | 99%
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| How many stages were part of the Saturn V rocket? | three | 91%
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| How many manned Apollo missions landed on the moon? | six | 84%
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| What was the name of Apollo 11’s Lunar Module? | Eagle | 83%
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| Apollo 11’s landing site was located within what lunar ‘sea’? | Sea of Tranquility | 83%
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| From the bottom of the engine bells to the top of its escape tower, the Saturn V rocket stood nearly 20 meters taller than what famous New York City landmark? | Statue of Liberty | 82%
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| What manned NASA project preceded the Apollo missions, paving the way for contemporary understandings of long-duration spaceflight? | Project Gemini | 80%
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| Who was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket? | Wernher von Braun | 73%
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| From what book of the Christian Bible did the Apollo 8 astronauts read during a live television broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1968? | Genesis | 60%
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| Name all three astronauts who perished in Apollo 1: | Gus Grissom | 58%
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| Ed White | 53%
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| Jim Lovell | 51%
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| Alan Shepard | 49%
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| The Greek god Apollo, from which the program derived its name, is the god of what? | Light, music and the Sun | 48%
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| Roger Chaffee | 46%
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| After splashdown, what portion of the Apollo spacecraft would be retrieved? | Command Module | 45%
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| At one point, the Lunar Module (LM) was called the ‘LEM’. What do these initials stand for? | Lunar Excursion Module | 43%
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| What is the name of the massive building where the final assembly of the Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft took place? | Vehicle Assembly Building | 43%
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| Much of the hardware used in the Apollo missions was employed during which space station program? | Skylab | 42%
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| What is the technical name of the ‘moon buggy’ used during the final three Apollo moon missions? | Lunar Roving Vehicle | 38%
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| Which portion of the Lunar Module remained on the moon? | Descent Stage | 34%
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| Name the four astronauts who were prime crew members of multiple Apollo missions: | Gene Cernan | 33%
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| Who was the only scientist to have walked on the moon? | Harrison Schmitt | 31%
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| John Young | 29%
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| Name the two Mercury astronauts who travelled into space as part of the Apollo missions: | Wally Schirra | 28%
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| Dave Scott | 23%
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