Pre-College/Youth Programs
Academic Competitions
25th Annual State of Jefferson High School Scavenger Hunt
January 9, 10, 11 and 14, 2008
Adjudication was held Monday, January 14 from 9:00am to 3:00pm
Rogue River Room, Stevenson Union, Southern Oregon University
Steve Boyarsky, Director of the Southern Oregon Education Service District, Adjudication Judge
Pam Turner, City of Ashland Judge, Adjudication Judge
David Ingalls, Attorney at Law, Adjudication Judge
Colin Swales, Director of the Hunt
Carol Jensen, Director of Pre-College Youth Programs, Southern Oregon University
Danya Hector, Program Manager, Pre-College Youth Programs
Results
In a close contest South Medford High School was declared the winner with 83 points. Ashland High School came in second place with 78 points and Crater High School took third place with 70 points.
South Medford High School Team
2007-08 Scavenger Hunt Champions
| Teams | Ashland |
Crater |
Grants Pass |
North Medford |
Rogue River |
South Medford |
| Categories | ||||||
| Internet |
23 |
20 |
18 |
22 |
20 |
23 |
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20 |
18 |
18 |
17 |
20 |
20 | |
| Bring Ins |
16 |
11 |
9 |
11 |
11 |
16 |
| Audio/ Video |
7 |
6 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
8 |
| Art/Images |
12 |
5 |
10 |
6 |
12 |
16 |
| Total Points |
78 2nd Place |
70
3rd Place |
58 |
62 |
69 |
83
1st Place |
Scavenger Hunt 2007-08 Questions
Part I: Internet Questions: Documentation is required for Internet questions.
The source is the URL of the home page or actual page on which your answer appears. Required documentation is a printout of the answer from the specific page and must include a URL. Documentation should refer to the underlined portion of the question, but need not contain the exact wording unless it is a proper name or in quotes. Two valid internet sources are required to challenge the Hunt Director's answer.
Dedicatee:
1. Our dedicatee, as INLA's boss blogged from November 2006 through July 2007.
What is his/her name? (M, L) (2 points)
Answer: Saad Eskander
Source: http://www.bl.uk/iraqdiary.html
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2. According to the dedicatee's blog, where did the female employee he calls "K" work and when did our dedicatee learn of the murder of her brother? (1 point each answer)
Answers
(a): Cataloguing Department (b): Monday, Feb 5, 2007
Source: http://www.bl.uk/iraqdiary02.html
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3. What time was our dedicatee's second child born and what was the name that the baby was given? (F) (2 points)
Answers
(a): 13:35 p.m
(b): Hanas
Source: http://www.bl.uk/iraqdiary06.html
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Other Internet questions:
4. When did this landlocked country, noted for its huge desert, sign an agreement allowing the USA authorities to search its fleet of ships, when in international waters, for disguised WMD? (1 point each answer)
Answers:
(a): Tuesday Oct 23, 2007
(b): Mongolia
Source: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_shipboardingmongolia_071023/
Source: http://www.mongolia-web.com/content/view/1448/2/
5. During the first week of October, 2001 an FBI list of suspected Al Qaeda suspects was, by mistake, made available on the World Wide Web. On whose website did this appear? (2 points)
Answer: Financial Supervision Authority, RATA
Source: http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a100301suspectslist
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6. Since the days of Christopher Columbus, many dreamed of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. But few chose a beach-cat as their vessel of choice!
(a) What is the current elapsed time record for crossing "the pond" (Senegal to Caribbean) on a 20 ft open catamaran? (2 points)
(b) Provide URL of a video interview with those that recently broke the record. (1 point)
Answer: (a): 11 days 11 hours 25 minutes 42 seconds
Source: http://www.sailspeedrecords.com/content/view/74/3
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Answer: (b): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bx2h_pierreyves-moreau-et-benoit-lequin_extreme
7. With the never-ending "Global War on Terror" it has become all too easy for a group to find itself labeled as a terrorist organization.
What group's obstructionist scare tactics led to it being so called? (2 points)
Answer: National Education Association
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112247,00.html
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8. At the UN climate change conference held last December the organizers suggested two ways the delegates could help offset the carbon dioxide generated by the meeting. What were those two ways? (2 points)
Answer: Wearing shirt-sleeves instead of suits and ties and urging participants to ride 200 free bicycles
Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/energy/2007/12/03/hot-under-the-collar-in-bali/
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9. Conventional wisdom says, "You can't judge a book by looking at the cover." Writers in the past used parchment instead of sheets of paper for their writing, which has now become fragile and brittle.
What new invention is now being tried to allow the text to be read inside those parchment books and scrolls without having to break them open? (2 points)
Answer: Diamond synchrotron
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2441840.ece
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10. When she won a recent contest, a young lady who speaks three languages was criticized by some of her countrymen/women, because of her deficiency in understanding another language. What was the contest that she won? (2 points)
Answer: Miss Belgium
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317173,00.html
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11. To the nearest ten, how many smoots would a flying crow cover between the main front entrance of SOU's Hannon Library and the SW corner entrance of the Stevenson Union building? (Assume the crow alights on the corner of the roof above the Stevenson Union's SW entrance.) (2 points)
Answer: 180
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
Google Earth printout
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12. Sun-ripened tomatoes, veal stock, parmesan cheese and anchovies. What do these foods all have in common? (2 points!)
Answer: Umami taste
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15819485
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13. In a speech he gave to students in 2005, Woz's ex-partner described a certain book as being a kind of paperback version of Google, albeit one that pre-dated the search engine by thirty-five years!
What was (a) the name of that book and (b) what parting words of wisdom were on the back cover of the last edition published? (1 point each)
Answers
(a): Whole Earth Catalog
(b): Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish
Source: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
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Part II: Print-Based Questions
Each answer requires at least one piece of print-based documentation with two to challenge the Hunt Director's answer. Print-based questions must be originally from copyrighted sources (books, magazines, journals, newspapers or government documents).
Documentation should refer to the underlined portion of the question, but need not contain the exact wording unless it is a proper name or in "quotes". See official rules for more details.
14. A trained bird begins and ends this novel about a fictional utopia with the word "Attention" (2 points)
Answer: Island, A Novel
Source: Huxley, Aldous. Island, A Novel. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1962
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15. Fed-up with making stays, this sixteen-yr old future author preferred to sail with Death on The Terrible.
What was this lad's name? (F, L) (2 points)
Answer: Thomas Paine
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15328527
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16. In November 2006, two priests were arrested while praying in Arizona.
(a) Where were they and (b) why were they there? (1 point each)
Answers
(a): Fort Huachuca, Sierra Vista, Arizona
(b): to protest military intelligence training there that fosters torture
Source: http://tortureontrial.org/
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17. Having suffered catastrophic environmental destruction, been the subject of Ponzi schemes and more recently home to Afghani refugees looking for asylum elsewhere, this nation state sought to provide the west with polished limestone coffee tables in order to revive its precarious economy. (2 points)
Answer: Nauru
Source: New York Times Magazine, Dec 2000 “The Billion Dollar Shack”
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18. When he himself died in 1774, the pet-owner probably didn't imagine his pet would outlive him by 232 years. What was the name of the pet? (2 points)
Answer: Addwaitya
Source: Time magazine, 3/26/06
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19. The title of this book is also a registered trademark of General Mills Inc.
Name the book and author (2 points)
Answer: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Source: Book’s Preface - Page 1
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20. What was the name of the house in Monkton Combe Parish that was purchased in 1798 by the man who drew the map that changed the world? (2 points)
Answer: Tucking Mill House
Source: Page 107 The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
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21. This blogger has links to Dilbert and The Onion on his/her online blog yet it talks about war, politics and occupation. Under (a) what pseudonym does the author write and (b) what was the title of the book, based on the blog that was short-listed for a non-fiction prize? (2 points)
Answers
(a): Riverbend
(b): Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq
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22. Home Sales are down. How much did an Oregon developer donate to charity when he recently auctioned off, at a loss, nearly 150 homes for sixty-five million dollars? (2 points)
Answer: $250,000
Source: Oregonian, Dec 17, 2007
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23. Which Oregon city has hired a retired schoolteacher to shout the news? (3 points)
Answer: Jacksonville
Source: Mail Tribune, Dec 17, 2007
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Part III: Bring Ins
Bring Ins must be delivered to the Hunt organizers as soon as your team arrives at SOU. Bring Ins will not be accepted once the adjudication begins.
The USA is often called a "Nation of Immigrants" and a large number of our foreign-born immigrants entered the US at Ellis Island.
1.Bring in a plain text copy of a Ship's Manifest showing an Ellis Island foreign immigrant with same last name as one member of your team. (circle the name) (1 point)
Earn an extra 2 points if you can prove a family relationship between that immigrant and the team member (i.e. grandparent, great grandparent etc.) (2 points)
2. Bring in a photo of your team holding the flag of the "Country of Origin" of the immigrant circled in bring-in #1 (3 points)
3. Bring in a book with the date of publication the same as the Date of Entry year in Bring-in #1 (3 points)
4. Bring in a copy of an email from a librarian at the Port of Departure shown in #1 (3 points)
5. Bring in a copy of the book mentioned in answer to Internet question # 13 above with note of its publication date. (4 points for last edition, 2 points for earlier editions)
(Current library books not acceptable.)
Part IV: Audio/Video Identification
(Clicking on the following links will take you to the selections. Audio files are MP3 format, video files are Flash.)
There are five audio and/or video selections on the emails each school was sent and on the web page. You will need two sources to challenge the Hunt Director's answer.
Audio (video) 1
What is the name of the invention discussed? (1 point)
Answer: turbo encabulator
What is the anticipated cost - (given later in the presentation)? (1 point)
Answer: $750,000,000
Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o
Audio 2
Who is speaking on this early gramophone recording? (F, L) (2 points)
Answer: Len Spencer
Audio 3
Composer (F, L) (1 point)
Answer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title (1 point)
Answer: Kontakte
Audio (Video) 4
Title of music composition (1 point)
Answer: Les Pleurs
Composer (1 point)
Answer: Mr. De Sainte Colombe
Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnriefsHKsQ
Audio 5
What is the name of the performer(s)? (1 point)
Answer: Antony (Hegarty) and the Johnsons
Which 2005 movie featured this track on its soundtrack? (1 point)
Answer: The Secret Life of Words
Part V: Art Image IdentificationThere are total of six images on the each school was sent and on the web page. You will need two sources to challenge the Hunt Director's answer to the question.
Title: (2 points) The Best Loved Elephant |
 Image 2Photographer/Artist: (F,L) (2 points) Joni Mitchell Exhibition Title: (2 points): Green Flag Song |
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Image 4 
Artist: (2 points) Max Ernst |
Part VI: Other ImagesThere are also two other images on the emails sent to schools and the web site. You will need two sources to challenge the Hunt Director's answer.
Answer: door to Long Now Foundation, San Francisco |
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What name does this 23-yr old from Central America like to use? (F) (2 points) Answer: Psycho |
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