Super-Duper Scavenger Hunt
1. Where is the pencil sharpener?
2. Using the OPAC, write down the number of Fiction books in our collection by Joan Lowery Nixon.
3. Locate the Newbery Poster. Select one of the titles and write it here. What year did it win the Newbery Award? What is our call number?
4. How many books can you have checked out at one time?
5. Books are checked out for how long?
6. What is the fine charged each day for each overdue book?
7. What direction would you drive to go from Houston, Texas to Topeka, Kansas?
[HINT: an Atlas]
8. What was the first high school to fingerprint all students and what year did they do it?
[HINT: Famous First Facts]
9. Name 3 things George Washington Carver invented? [HINT: World of Invention]
10. What words are similar in meaning to the word “run” ? [HINT: a thesaurus]
11. How many degrees Celsius equals 85 degrees Fahrenheit? [HINT: Conversion Factors]
12. What is the address for the Russian Embassy in Washington, D. C.? [HINT: World Almanac]
13. Who is the current ruler of the Ukraine?
[HINT: Clements’ Encyclopedia of World Governments]
14. What does the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program focus on?
[HINT: Student Contact Book, look up hunger]
15. To what address would you mail your entry to the Horsepoem Competition?
[HINT: Contests for Students]
16. What is Mariah Carey’s address? [HINT: Newsmakers 91]
17. Who are the two Senators from Texas?
[HINT: Taylor’s Encyclopedia of Government Officials]
18. Who was Mao Tse-tung? [HINT: Encyclopedia of World Biography , first set]
19. Find a picture of Caroline Cooney. What volume and page is it on?
[HINT: Major Authors & Illustrators for Children and Young Adults]
20. What is the primary ingredient in nail polish? What else is it used in?
[HINT: How Products are Made]
21. What historical marker is on FM 1485, 7 miles from Conroe? [HINT: Why Stop?]
22. If you liked the book The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney, what other book might
you like? [HINT: What do Young Adults Read Next?]
23. What did the name Paul mean and what Latin name did it come from?
[HINT: Dictionary of First Names]
Super-Duper Scavenger Hunt page 2
24. Locate the following things and label them on your map:
a) Reference books
b) Non-fiction books
c) Fiction books
d) Biographies
e) Unabridged Dictionary
f) Professional books
g) Books written in Spanish
Created by Melissa Davis, Conroe, Tx 77303
Circulation Desk
h) OPACs
i) Mrs. Davis’ office
j) Mrs. Kimmons’ office
k) Pencil sharpener
l) Check-out Encyclopedias
m) Book return
n) Current magazines
o) Copy machine
p) Study carrels
q) Newspapers
r) Atlas stand
s) CD-ROM computer