Academic Competitions

State of Jefferson Academic Scavenger Hunt 2012-13 - Middle School

The 14th Annual State of Jefferson Middle School Scavenger Hunt took place October 24, 25, 26 and October 31, 2012

Participants in the State of Jefferson Scavenger Hunt have three days to complete answers to academic, artistic, current news, and internet questions using library resources and documentation. Middle and high school teams involve as many students and adults as possible in the high-pressure task of finding and documenting the right answers. The Hunt culminates in an adjudication session chaired by a judge. During the adjudication, competing teams have the opportunity to challenge and defend their responses. Students learn teamwork, organization, library skills, critical-thinking skills and verbal communication. 

2012-13 Coaches Corner

Scavenger Hunt Coaches Memo (PDF)

Scavenger Hunt Rules (PDF)

Scavenger Hunt Registration Form (fillable PDF form)

2012 Results

Place                     School                                                       Coaches
1st             Willow Wind Community Learning Center        Andy Strange & Max Lawson
2nd            Talent Middle School                                       Sara Enriquez & Joyce Squire     
3rd             McLoughlin Middle School                              Rigel Chidester & Bonnie Howe

Nearly 200 students, representing ten middle schools, participated in this year's competition. It was a very close contest! Congratulations to Willow Wind Community Learning Center for their first place win with 99 points. Talent Middle School took second place with 98 points and McLoughlin Middle School took third place with 97 points.  Other participating teams were from Ashland, Eagle Point, Hanby, Lorna Byrne, Pinehurst, Rogue River and Ruch middle schools.

Willow Wind Community Learning Center 2012 Champions

Talent Middle School Second Place Team

McLoughlin Middle School  Third Place Team

Questions

Part I: Dedicatee

1. Our dedicatee is an Oregonian woman who has traveled to many distant lands being the “voice for the voiceless”. Who is our dedicatee (F,M,L)? (3 points)
   Answer: Agnes Baker Pilgrim
   Source: http://www.agnesbakerpilgrim.org/Page.asp?PID=89, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Baker_Pilgrim
   http://www.agnesbakerpilgrim.org?
   
   
2. According to our dedicatee, what animal did she pray for which is making a comeback in Oregon after 200 years? (2 points)
   Answer: Condor
   Source: http://www.agnesbakerpilgrim.org/Page.asp?PID=89
   
   
3. When the dedicatee was leading a gathering, the group was encircled by many hundreds of animals. What is the species of the animal which is born in water and, according to the dedicatee, is the “transformer of the people”? (2 points)
   Answer: Dragonfly
   Source: http://www.turtleislandstorytellers.net/tis_oregon/transcript_a_pilgrim.htm
   
   
4. According to the dedicatee, what animal nourishes birds and animals? Name the ceremony that honors the animal which has been lost for over 150 years? (2 points)
   Answer: Salmon
   Answer: Sacred Salmon Ceremony
   Source: “Grandmothers Counsel the World”, Carol Schaefer, p.15

Part II: U.S. Presidents

1. Which U.S. President (FL) said “all men are equal before” gill-bearing animals? (2 points)
   Answer: Herbert Hoover
   Source: http://www.hooverassociation.org/hoover/speeches/men_are_equal_before_fish.php
   
   
2. Most U.S. Presidential candidates use slogans to try to get elected. One candidate used a part of a song as his slogan. Who was the candidate (FML) and what was the song title which was released in 1977? (2 points)
   Answer: William Jefferson Clinton
   Answer: “Don’t Stop”
   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Stop_%28Fleetwood_Mac_song%29
   
   
3. What U.S. Presidential candidate (FL) used a reference to peanuts as his slogan? (2 points)
   Answer: Jimmy Carter
   Source: http://www.presidentsusa.net/campaignslogans.html
   
   
4. What U.S. Presidential candidate (FML) who lost used a tobacco company trade card to promote his election? What is the name of the tobacco company? (2 points)
   Answer: Samuel Jones Tilden
   Answer: Blackwell Durham Bull Tobacco Company
   Source: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/americavotes/tobacco.html
   
   
5. What former U.S. President’s (FML) home address is now a Middle Eastern specialty food store? What is the address (street, city, state)? (2 points)
   Answer: Chester Alan Arthur
   Answer: 123 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
   Source: http://voices.yahoo.com/little-known-facts-president-chester-alan-arthur-3959816.html
   
   
6. Before being elected, this U.S. President planned to teach mathematics. What is his name (FML)? What was his primary mathematical accomplishment? (2 points)
   Answer: James Abram Garfield
   Answer: Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
   Source: http://american_almanac.tripod.com/garfield.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nB2Yf6n_s

Part III: General knowledge: Print and Internet based questions

1. What is the name of the covered bridge that was designed by the son of a Swedish immigrant from Minnesota? What is the bridge designer’s name? (FML) (2 points)
   Answer: Grave Creek Covered Bridge
   Answer: Julian Elmer Nelson
   Source; http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120408/NEWS/204080343
   
   
2. What game was a minor playing in a tournament in Florida during the summer of 2012 when he was identified as being dishonest? What was he hiding? (2 points)
   Answer: Scrabble
   Answer: 2 Blank letter tiles
   Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/sports/scrabble-community-rocked-by-cheating-at-tournament.html
   
   
3. What is the title of the movie and 1934 book, where a father is taught how to love? What is the name of the Cockney who is a musician who plays multiple instruments?  (2 points)
   Answer: Mary Poppins
   Answer: Bert
   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_%28film%29
   Source: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-secret-meaning-of-mary-poppins/24059
   
   
4. A commonly repeated story, which is claimed to be the foundation of a phrase or expression, concerns removing an animal which has been placed with a racehorse causing the horse to lose a race. What is this phrase or expression? (2 points)
   Answer: “get your goat” or “get someone’s goat”
   Source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-goat.html
   
   
5. What 1955 invention was initially considered a luxury and today is a necessity? Who was the inventor? What was the invention originally called? (3 points)
   Answer: remote control
   Answer: Eugene Polley
   Answer: Flash-Matic
   Source: Mail Tribune, May 23, 2012, page 8A, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Polley
   
   
6. What is the name of a small hole which symbolizes a door to the current world? What is the name of the structure in which the hole can be found? (2 points)
   Answer: Sipapu
   Answer:  Kiva
   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipapu
   
   
7. In 1952 the U.S. Government agency concerned with mineral resources determined that Oregon ranked third in the value of what product?  What was this product used to make? (2 points)
   Answer: carbon dioxide
   Answer: Carbonated water, soda water, or soda pop
   Source; http://www.oregongeology.com/pubs/og/OBv17n07.pdf
   
   
8. What speech teacher attended almost all New York Yankee baseball games and New York Giants football games for more than 50 years? (FML) (2 points)
   Answer: Robert Leo Sheppard
   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sheppard
   
   What famous athlete made $49,000 by buying and selling a baseball card? (FL) Whose picture was on the card? (FL) (2 points)
   Answer: Wayne Gretsky
   Answer: Honus Wagner
   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T206_Honus_Wagner
   
   
9. Assume you wanted to take a driving trip this summer from Medford, Oregon to Oklahoma City, OK. If you took the northern route through Salt Lake City, UT and Denver, CO you would drive an SUV which gets 25mpg. If you took the southern route through Sacramento, CA, Barstow, CA and Albuquerque, NM, you would drive a hybrid car which gets 35mpg. If the average price of gas for the northern route is $3.75/gal and the average gas cost for the southern route is $4.50/gal, what is the cost of each route? (Answers must be within +/- $6) (2 points)
   Answer: Northern route: $276 ($270-$282) 1841 miles
   Answer: Southern route: $250 ($244-$256) 1941 miles
   Source: www.mapquest.com
   
   
10. What were the names of a marine (FL) and a star on Broadway and films (FL) who were associated with a television game show in the 1950’s. What was the name of the show? (3 points)
    Answer: Eddie Hodges
    Answer: John Glenn
    Answer: Name That Tune
    Source: http://www.qgazette.com/news/2010-02-10/Features/John_Glenn_Orbits_Earth_In_February_1962.html
    
    
11. Who opposed democracy, communism, socialism, and music and died at the age of 54? (FML) What organization was he the founder? (2 points)
    Answer: Osama Bin Laden
    Answer: al-Qaeda
    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
    
    
12. The United States operates eleven of these and the rest of the world only has a total of eleven. What extremely expensive thing does this description refer to? (2 points)
    Answer: aircraft carriers
    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier
    
    
13. In the Hunger Games book, Katniss is the main p_____t (11 letters) and President Snow is the main a_____t (10 letters). Fill in the blanks. (2 points)
    Answer: protagonist
    Answer antagonist
    
    
14. What is the full title of the book in which Greg and his friend throw away all of their Halloween candy? Why did they throw it away? (2 points)
    Answer: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal
    Answer: All the candy got wet.
15. In Greek mythology Procrustes makes his victims very uncomfortable. In what 2005 book does he use his beds as a form of torture? What is his character’s name in the book? (2 points)
    Answer:  Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Answer:  “Crusty”
16. What are the two tools that ancestral puebloans in Mesa Verde used to grind corn? (2 points)
    Answer: mano
    Answer: metate
    Source: www.nps.gov/meve/forteachers/upload/ancestral_puebloans.pdf
    
    
17. When the subway system was constructed in Brooklyn, NY, the removed earth was added to what was an Army fort of only 3 acres. According to the most recent Supreme Court ruling, in what state is that fill dirt? (1 point)
    Answer: New Jersey
    Source: http://masglp.olemiss.edu/Water%20Log/WL18/ellis.htm
    
    
18. Igor was Dracula’s sidekick in the 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. In what 1974 American comedy film did Igor appear as a sidekick? Who played the part of Igor? (2 points)
    Answer: Young Frankenstein
    Answer Marty Feldman
    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein
    Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/quiz/young-frankenstein-trivia-quiz/

Part IV: Music Identification

You will find a snippet of a song from each of the decades shown below. Identify the song title and artist.

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   Name the title and artist who sang this 1950’s song. What is the title of a 1988 movie where this song was featured? (3 points)
   Song title: “To Be Loved”
   Artist: Jackie Wilson
   Answer: Coming to America

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   Name the title and group who sang this 1960’s song. (2 points)
   Song title: “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
   Group: Beatles

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   Name the title of this 1970’s song. Who danced to this song in a television sitcom?
   Song title: “Shining Star”
   Dancer: Elaine Benes

   (FL) (2 points)
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   Name the title of this 1980’s song. Whose voice is heard in the snippet of the song (FL)? (2 points)
   Song title: “Thriller”
   Answer: Vincent Price

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   (CORRECTED) Name the title of this song that was in a 1990’s movie. What is the movie title? (2 points)
   Song title: “He Lives in You”
   Movie title: Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Lives_in_You

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   Name the title of this song that was in a 1990s movie. What is the movie title? (2 points)
   Song title: “Real Gone”
   Movie: Cars

Part V: Where in the world?

Part VI: Bring-in Items (items 1-6 are worth 2 points each)

1. Presidents Obama, G. W. Bush or Clinton bobble head
2. Camera flash bulb
3. 1940’s Royal or Remington typewriter
4. 2012 Britt Classical Event ticket stub
5. Pyramid Juice bottle with label
6. A photo of your school principal and team captain wearing Halloween costumes.

One member of your school will wear a Halloween costume of the Star Wars character Yoda and act out the part. Acting piece should be between 15 and 30 seconds. The Scavenger Hunt judge will issue 1, 2, or 3 points depending upon the quality of the costume and performance.