Library International
Scavenger Hunt
Sources of information (note that every site will be used at least once):
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/warcreatures/timeline/timeline.html http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/index/qg.htm
Watch for this site for Future Announcements about a scavenger hunt competition and email research@darton.edu for help with answers to this hunt.
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This president of the United States was born in 1917 in Massachusetts and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for the book, Profiles in Courage.
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She became the First African American woman to enter space when she served on the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor in September 1992.
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Cuban essayist, poet, and patriot, leader of the Cuban struggle for independence, he is one of the greatest prose writers of Spanish America. He is noted for his fluent style and vivid imagery. As a poet he wrote the famous Ismaelillo.
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Who was Georgia's first Governor? The youngest? The oldest?
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In 1968, I was awarded the Noble Prize for Physics.
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Designed specifically as a defense against Nomadic tribes in Asia, I have large watchtowers that could be called buildings. Built mainly of earth and stone I vary in height between 18 and 30 feet and am 1,400 miles long.
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What Italian musician composed his works during the Late Baroque period?
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Name one of the most famous war Mascots of all time and the President he was named after?
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What Broadway Show was performed from July 7, 1975 to April 1990 with 6,137 performances?
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Name two of the most populous cities of the world and their population?
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I have four equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, green, and yellow with a vertical red band in center; there is a yellow-five pointed star on the hoist side of the blue band, my flag represent what country?
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What state's Motto is: Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiros spero (While I breathe, I hope)?
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This ocean is a polar climate characterized by persistent cold and relatively narrow annual temperature. My natural resources are sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, oils and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales), what ocean am I?
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I studied at the Munich Academy and later in 1920, with Kaminski. In 1924, with Dorothee Gunther, I founded a school for gymnastics, music and dance. All my major works, including the phenomenally successful Carmina burana (1937), were designed as pageants for the stage; they include several versions of Greek tragedies and Bavarian comedies. I was born in 1895.
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Name this Albany born native who made History in Georgia on July 31, 1942 when he and his band recorded the Columbia Records million - seller, "I've Heard that Song Before.
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