UnMuseum Scavenger Hunt 1&2 Answer Key

You can find all these answers somewhere at www.unmuseum.org

1. 
   Find the name of the German immigrant who some people claim had a plane that flew before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight: Gustave Whitehead
   
2. 
   What does the term UFO mean? Unidentified Flying Object.
   
3. 
   What did the explorer Matthew Henson help discover? North Pole.
   
4. 
   What did archeologist Howard Carter find: King Tut’s Tomb.
   
5. 
   What reptile did people claim lived in the sewers of New York City? Alligators.
   
6. 
   What is unusual about the Baghdad Battery? Some people think it was a battery used at least 1000 years before batteries were thought to be invented.
   
7. 
   Over 200 strange stone objects can be found on Easter Island. What are they? Giant Statues.
   
8. 
   Colonel Percy Fawcett explored what region of the world? South America
   
9. 
   Where did the Hindenburg crash? Lakehurst, New Jersey.
   
10. 
    Gigantopithecus was what kind of animal? Giant Ape.
    
11. 
    Dian Fossey studied what type of animal? Mountain Gorillas.
    
12. 
    Author Conan Doyle was friends with what famous magician? Houdini.
    
13. 
    Where can you find rocks that ring like a bell? Ring Rocks Park, Pennsylvania.
    
14. 
    What king built Egypt’s “Great Pyramid?” Khufu (Sometimes also known as Cheops).
    
15. 
    The name of Blackbeard the Pirate’s ship was: Queen Anne’s Revenge.
    

1. 
   In what U.S. state did the great “Crash at Crush” occur? Texas
   
2. 
   There was a famous automobile race in 1907. It started in Peking, China. Where did it end? Paris, France.
   
3. 
   In geology a hoodoo is a natural formation made of what material? Sandstone rock.
   
4. 
   What type of legendary creature do people say lives in Lake Champlain? A lake monster nicknamed “Champ “.
   
5. 
   There is a legendary creature called the “wild man” that lives in central Asia. What is another name it is called by? Alma.
   
6. 
   What profession did Louis Bleriot have? Pilot (He was the first to fly the English Channel).
   
7. 
   What castle did King Arthur supposedly live at? Camelot.
   
8. 
   Who invented a device called a Tesla Coil? Nikola Tesla.
   
9. 
   Flowers are sometimes called the “Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom?”
   
10. 
    A coelacanth is what kind of animal? Early Fish.
    
11. 
    Comet Halley is named after what person? Edmund Halley.
    
12. 
    What was the “Colossus of Rhodes? Giant Bronze Statue.
    
13. 
    What is a cyclorama? A circular room with a picture the wraps all the way around the walls.
    
14. 
    The “Beale Cryptogram” involves a lost treasure. If it exists, how much is it supposedly worth in dollars? $30 million in gold.