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.

Teachers : 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 bornAnswer

Hint: Dole for President


3. What is the electoral collegeAnswer

Hint: KidsNet


4. Find an exhibit of the Clinton inaugurationAnswer

Hint: President's Residence


5. How old must you be to run for presidentAnswer

Hint: Be a Smart Voter


6. When was the League of Women Voters foundedAnswer

Hint: United States League of Women Voters


7. How much money can an individual give to a presidential candidateAnswer

Hint: Election 101


8. What is the Gallup PollAnswer

Hint: Gallup organization



9. After the inauguration ceremony, what would Clinton or Dole do on Day 1 as presidentAnswer

Hint: Popular National Newspaper Published Daily


10. Where was Bill Clinton bornAnswer

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-speakAnswer

Hint: MSN/NBC Decision '96


13. Who was Bill Clinton's and Bob Dole's favorite movie starClinton Answer and Dole Answer

Hint: U.S. News and World Report


14. Where do Bob Dole and Bill Clinton stand on educationAnswer

Hint: IGuide's Showdown



15. What document does the president swear to preserve, protect, and defend when taking the oath of officeAnswer

Hint: We the People ...


16. How do you register to vote in each stateAnswer

Hint: Choose or Lose


17. What is a straw pollAnswer

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 stateAnswer

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 itAnswer

Hint: All Politics


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