Survival Quiz:  Moon Crash

Web Page by Dr. Joseph P. Karwoski

Correct Answers by NASA

Your spaceship has crashed on the dark side of the moon, 200 miles from your mother ship. You must get your group back to your mother ship the best way you can.  Your job now is to rank the 15 items below with respect to their importance to you and your group’s survival.

You will rank each of these from 1 to 15, with 1 being the most important and 15 being the least important.

If you would like to do this as a group activity or get a scoring for yourself.  You will need to check the correct answers page and then yourself and the group.  To do this, you will subtract your selection from the actual and keep a total of the absolute value of the difference.  Below is the scale to judge your answers:

0-25:  Excellent	51-75:  Average
26-50:  Good	76-up:  Poor

Here are the correct answers (as determined by NASA)

Box of matches	15
Food concentrate	4
50 feet of nylon rope	6
Parachute silk	8
Solar heating unit	13
Two 45 caliber pistols	11
One case of dehydrated milk	12
Two 100 pound tanks of oxygen	1
Stellar map (moon’s constellation)	3
Life Raft	9
Magnetic compass	14
5 gallons of water	2
Signal flares	10
First aid kit (containing injection needles)	7
Solar-powered FM receiver/transmitter	5