LIBRARY SCAVENGER HUNT
Answer the following questions using library or online sources. Respond to each question with one or two complete, correct sentences. Document your sources using MLA
documentation guidelines. Reference the Works Cited document located in Week 5’s Assignment instructions to complete questions 1-10.
1. Who was president of the United States when the Federal Reserve was created?
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2. What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote, and in what year?
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3. What is the origin of the word “boycott”?
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4. Who coined the term “pandemonium,” and in what famous literary work?
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5. Who won the Academy Award for best actor in 1982, and for what film?
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6. What famous twentieth century American author wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
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7. What is the name of the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy?
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8. When did the famous English poet and playwright William Shakespeare live?
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9. What large library existed in ancient Egypt?
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10. What city hosted the first ever Winter Olympics, and in what year?
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