#3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $400: It's the year Apollo 11 put a man on the Moon, & not just one 1969 |
#8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $2,600 (Daily Double): On July 24, 1969 the USS Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for this group of men the astronauts on Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins) |
#8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WHAT'S NEXT? $400: Apollo missions that landed on the Moon:
11, 12, this 14 |
#8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $2000: The Apollo 11 astronauts had to declare Moon rocks to this government service upon returning to Earth Customs |
#8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $600: These 2 West Point alums filled out the Apollo 11 crew with Neil Armstrong Collins & Aldrin |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | WELCOME BACK! $1000: Still in quarantine after splashing down, the Apollo 11 astronauts were welcomed back by this president Nixon |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | THIS IS NPR $1000: In April 2021 NPR's Fresh Air remembered this Apollo 11 hero who had just passed; he had called his solo Moon orbit "completely serene" Collins |
#8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $600: Apollo 11 safely reached the Moon in July 1969, landing in this peaceful spot the Sea of Tranquility |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | LEFT BEHIND ON THE MOON $1200: What if the Soviets got to the Moon First?" is the premise of Apple TV+' show "For All Mankind", a title from a plaque left by this mission Apollo 11 |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | ASTRONAUTS $400: Michael Collins, after a huge moment during this mission: "Roger, Tranquility Base. It sure sounded great from up here" Apollo 11 |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WEBSITES $200: (Sarah of Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.) Federal funding covers only about 2/3 of the Smithsonian's expenses, so to ready Neil Armstrong's space suit for Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, the Air and Space Museum raised more than $500,000 via a "Reboot the Suit" campaign on this community funding website Kickstarter |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $200: In July 2019 this D.C. monument was "turned" into a rocket for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 the Washington Monument |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) On its way to the Moon & back in 1969, Apollo 11 carried a piece of wood from a craft employed by these two men for another famous flight 66 years earlier the Wright brothers |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) To prevent the spread of possible Moon germs, Apollo 11's capsule & crew were disinfected upon splashdown; the crew was then transported to Houston inside a converted Airstream trailer called the MQF, or Mobile this Facility quarantine |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | 5 "LASH"ES $1000: For the Apollo 11 astronauts, this occurred on July 24, 1969 in the Pacific Ocean, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii splashdown |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | HISTORIC TRIOS $1200: Name & number of the 1969 moon mission with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins as the crew Apollo 11 |
#7849, aired 2018-10-25 | GEOGRAPHY OF THE MOON $1200: Recent high-definition photos showed us where the Apollo 11 crew landed in this sea the Sea of Tranquility |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS $2,000 (Daily Double): On this mission Pete Conrad said, "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me" Apollo 12 |
#7472, aired 2017-02-21 | UNCHARTED $3,000 (Daily Double): To avoid a rocky crater, Neil Armstrong manually flew the Apollo 11 lunar module to this "sea" the Sea of Tranquility |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | NO-FLY ZONE $400: Apollo 11 was launched from there Cape Canaveral (the Kennedy Space Center) |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $1200: Apollo 11 landed in this sea on July 20, 1969 the Sea of Tranquility |
#7055, aired 2015-04-24 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $1000: ...of the crew of Apollo 11 by last name (Michael) Collins |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | PARKS $400: Tranquillity Park in this Texas city was built to commemorate the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing Houston |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | THE MISSING MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): Aboard Apollo 11:
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin (Michael) Collins |
#6663, aired 2013-07-31 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1969 Apollo 11 landed humans here for the first time ever the Moon |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | APOLLO 11 $400: All 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes & 35 seconds of Apollo 11's mission took place in this month & year July, 1969 |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | APOLLO 11 $800: Apollo 11's crew brought back to Earth the first samples of these, 3.7 billion-year-old basalts Moon rocks |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | APOLLO 11 $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image of the Moon on a monitor.) Despite its name, this landing area does have craters; Neil Armstrong had to manually pilot the lunar module to a spot four miles from the original landing site the Sea of Tranquility |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | APOLLO 11 $1600: Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy aboard one of these mighty rockets a Saturn V |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | APOLLO 11 $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a rocket on a monitor.) The Apollo 11 spacecraft consisted of the lunar module Eagle & this module named Columbia the command module |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A YEAR TO REMEMBER $400: Apollo 11 lands on the moon 1969 |
#6388, aired 2012-05-30 | HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT 11 $800: It was the name of Michael Collins' mission in July 1969 Apollo 11 |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | WE LOVE YOU, CONRAD $1,200 (Daily Double): As a part of this 1969 mission, Charles "Pete" Conrad became the third man to walk on the Moon Apollo 12 |
#6286, aired 2012-01-09 | WHAT'S NEXT? $400: Apollo missions that landed on the Moon:
11, 12, this 14 |
#6251, aired 2011-11-21 | NEED A "LIFT"? $1000: At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, Jack King declared, "We have" this "on Apollo 11" liftoff |
#6036, aired 2010-12-06 | WELL, I NEVER! $400: I never blasted off on Apollo this number on April 11, 1970; its Aquarius lunar module never touched down Apollo 13 |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | SHIPS $1600: Among sites celebrating the 30th anniversary of this in 1999 was the U.S.S. Hornet, the recovery ship the Apollo 11 mission |
#5420, aired 2008-03-14 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $200: It's the mission that landed in the Mare Tranquillitatis in 1969 Apollo 11 |
#5190, aired 2007-03-16 | SHAM ROCKS $800: In 2000 NASA helped bust a man who pled guilty to trying to sell these fake items from Apollo 11 moon rocks |
#5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THIS CATEGORY GOES TO 11 $800: On July 20, 1969 Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon as part of the space mission with this name Apollo 11 |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SPACE EXPLORATION $600: On July 20, 1969 this lunar module separated from the Apollo 11 spacecraft & landed on the Moon the Eagle |
#4888, aired 2005-12-07 | HEY, JUNIOR! $400: James Lovell, Jr., Fred Haise, Jr. & John (Jack) Swigert, Jr. took off on this ill-fated flight April 11, 1970 Apollo 13 |
#4805, aired 2005-06-24 | ASTRONAUTS $1000: On Apollo 11 this man got to say, "OK, Eagle... you guys take care" Michael Collins |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | SHIPS $2,000 (Daily Double): On July 24, 1969 the U.S.S. Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for these men the crew of Apollo 11 |
#4118, aired 2002-06-26 | Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum $800: On display are the two space suits that these 2 Apollo 11 astronauts actually wore to walk on the moon Armstrong & Aldrin |
#4113, aired 2002-06-19 | THIS ONE GOES TO 11 $800: On July 20, 1969 the Eagle of this mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility Apollo 11 |
#4110, aired 2002-06-14 | THE 1960s $1200: After a harrowing ride on Gemini 8 in 1966, he got back in the saddle for Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong |
#4084, aired 2002-05-09 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $200: When Apollo 11 reached the Moon, Lawrence Knutson was the voice of Mission Control in this city Houston |
#4068, aired 2002-04-17 | TV MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Jeffrey Nordling.) It was a giant leap for me when I played this man in the movie "Apollo 11" Neil Armstrong |
#3941, aired 2001-10-22 | AL, HISTORY'S PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PAL $200: In '69 Al holds up Apollo 11's launch when he's late picking up this 2nd man on the moon to drive him to Cape Kennedy Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | THE ASTRONAUT HALL OF FAME $600: While others moonwalked, this vehicle was piloted by Michael Collins on Apollo 11 & Ronald Evans on Apollo 17 the command module |
#3788, aired 2001-02-07 | THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD $200: Appropriately, in 1969 the Apollo 11 crew listened to this Sinatra song, first titled "In Other Words" "Fly Me to the Moon" |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | FUN WITH OPERA $400: This Austrian with the middle name Amadeus was just 11 when he wrote "Apollo et Hyacinthus" in 1767 Wolfgang Mozart |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | '70s LIT $400: This Jack Higgins novel of 1975 isn't about the Apollo 11 moon touchdown, it's a WWII tale "The Eagle Has Landed" |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | MOON MEN TODAY $100: This Apollo 11 astronaut now lives on a dairy farm near Lebanon, Ohio Neil Armstrong |
#3427, aired 1999-06-29 | SPACE EXPLORATION $400: Nickname of the lunar module that landed on the moon in the Apollo 11 flight the Eagle |
#3285, aired 1998-12-11 | DESTINATION: MOON $300: The moon speed record, 11.2 MPH, was achieved by this vehicle during the Apollo 16 mission Moon rover |
#3282, aired 1998-12-08 | HISTORIC FLORIDA $400: On July 16, 1969 a Saturn 5 rocket launched this mission into the skies & into history Apollo 11 |
#3119, aired 1998-03-05 | SHOOT THE MOON $100: This lunar "sea" was the landing site of Apollo 11's Eagle module Sea of Tranquility |
#3119, aired 1998-03-05 | SHOOT THE MOON $400: A NASA doctor declined this president's dinner invitation to the Apollo 11 crew because of risk of infections Richard M. Nixon |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, he was the first man to set foot on the moon Neil Armstrong |
#2897, aired 1997-03-18 | EXPLORERS $200: In 1962 this future Apollo 11 commander was chosen by NASA as the first civilian astronaut Neil Armstrong |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | SPACE MISSIONS $1,100 (Daily Double): They were the nicknames of Apollo 11's command module & its lunar module Columbia & Eagle |
#2466, aired 1995-05-01 | SPACE EXPLORERS $1000: This Apollo 11 command module pilot wrote "Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places" for kids (Michael) Collins |
#2190, aired 1994-02-25 | COMPOSERS $400: His intermezzo "Apollo et Hyacinthus" premiered in Salzburg in 1767; he was just 11 years old Mozart |
#1705, aired 1992-01-17 | SPACE FLIGHT $600: The lunar module that landed the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon was code named this the Eagle |
#1212, aired 1989-12-05 | SPACE EXPLORATION $400: Apollo 11 landed in this "Sea" the Sea of Tranquility |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | COLUMBIA $400: Number of the Apollo mission that had a command module nicknamed "Columbia" 11 |
#994, aired 1988-12-22 | MAN IN SPACE $500: Apollo 11 astronaut who tells the history of U.S. manned spaceflight in the 1988 book "Liftoff" Michael Collins |
#930, aired 1988-09-23 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1000: Of the 3 crew members on Apollo 11, the civilian Neil Armstrong |
#859, aired 1988-05-05 | PLACES OF WORSHIP $400: A stained-glass window at Wash. Cathedral contains a piece of this, presented by Apollo 11 astronauts the Moon |
#732, aired 1987-11-10 | APOLLO 11 $100: Some 1 million spectators surrounded this space center to watch the lift-off Cape Kennedy |
#732, aired 1987-11-10 | APOLLO 11 $200: "Peaceful" site on the moon where the lunar module touched down the Sea of Tranquility |
#732, aired 1987-11-10 | APOLLO 11 $300 (Daily Double): The three crew members of Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins |
#732, aired 1987-11-10 | APOLLO 11 $300: Astronomic name for the booster rocket used to power the launch Saturn |
#732, aired 1987-11-10 | APOLLO 11 $500: While the lunar lander was code-named "Eagle", the command module was code-named this Columbia |
#648, aired 1987-06-03 | MONEY $400: Historic event commemorated on the back of the Susan B. Anthony dollar the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | MAN IN SPACE $300: Patriotic name shared by the Apollo 11 command module & a Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | MAN IN SPACE $400 (Daily Double): Number of the Apollo mission that put the 2nd man on the Moon 11 |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | MAN IN SPACE $600: Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin each also flew in this program Gemini |
#100, aired 1985-01-25 | SPACE $500: It lasted 17 days after the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the Moon quarantine (isolation) |
#5, aired 1984-09-14 | TRIOS $500: Apollo II trio; while Collins circled Moon, these 2 landed Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin |