CyberBee's Election Scavenger Hunt
Have fun trying to find the answers to these questions. Some answers may be found at more than one Web site. Use one or more of these search programs, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, or Magellan on the World Wide Web or check the CyberBee column from Multimedia Schools magazine. You are a Cybernaut if you can answer 18-20, an Internet Navigator with 12-16, a Hitchhiker with 8-11, or a Newbie with less than 8.
: If you want to use this as an activity in your classroom, just print the page and pass it out to your students. That way they can't click on the answer button and go immediately to the solution.
If you are an elementary teacher, you may want to pick the easier questions to use in your classroom and modify the point system. Or you may wish to use the easier hunt located on the elementary page .
1. What famous illustrator for the New Yorker popularized the donkey and elephant used to symbolize the Democratic and Republican parties
Answer or Answer or Answer
Hints:
Republican Party
Democratic Party
2. Where was Bob Dole born
Answer
Hint: Dole for President
3. What is the electoral college
Answer
Hint: KidsNet
4. Find an exhibit of the Clinton inauguration
Answer
Hint: President's Residence
5. How old must you be to run for president
Answer
Hint: Be a Smart Voter
6. When was the League of Women Voters founded
Answer
Hint: United States League of Women Voters
7. How much money can an individual give to a presidential candidate
Answer
Hint: Election 101
8. What is the Gallup Poll
Answer
Hint: Gallup organization
9. After the inauguration ceremony, what would Clinton or Dole do on Day 1 as president
Answer
Hint: Popular National Newspaper Published Daily
10. Where was Bill Clinton born
Answer
Hint: PoliticsNow
11. Instead of watching network news broadcasts, how do most young people spend their time
Answer
Hint: Morning Edition, May 13, 1996 - National Public Radio
12. What is campaign-speak
Answer
Hint: MSN/NBC Decision '96
13. Who was Bill Clinton's and Bob Dole's favorite movie star
Clinton Answer and Dole Answer
Hint: U.S. News and World Report
14. Where do Bob Dole and Bill Clinton stand on education
Answer
Hint: IGuide's Showdown
15. What document does the president swear to preserve, protect, and defend when taking the oath of office
Answer
Hint: We the People ...
16. How do you register to vote in each state
Answer
Hint: Choose or Lose
17. What is a straw poll
Answer
Hint: United States Information Agency Election '96 Political Process
18. Are the number of signatures required to place a candidate on the ballot the same in each state
Answer
Hint: Governor Lowell P. Weicker , Jr. - Ballot Process
19. Who spoke these words in his inaugural address "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
Answer
Hint: Columbia University, Project Bartleby
20. What was the theme in the 1964 Lyndon Johnson "Daisy" campaign ad and where can you view a copy of it
Answer
Hint: All Politics