News Break Challenges You to Hunt Through the Sunday, May 1, 2016 E-Edition of the Seattle Times to Find Answers to the Following Questions
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Scavenger Hunt Sunday’s News Break challenges you to hunt through the Sunday, May 1, 2016 e-Edition of The Seattle Times to find answers to the following questions. 1. On Washington’s primary ballot, while the candidate you vote for is confidential, your choice of what is considered public information? (NW Sunday) 2. What MLB team is former Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu now bench coach for? (Sports) 3. What did the President of Kenya set fire to Saturday and why did he say it was worthless? (Main) 4. In Seattle director Arne Zaslove’s production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, set in a 1950’s high school, who were the fairies? (NW Arts & Life) 5. What was the median price for a condo in King County in March? (Business) 6. The French-designed travel trailer, Beauer 3x, is coming to the U.S. and Canada in 2017 and expands like a telescope to how many feet, in less than 20 seconds? (NWAutos) 7. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that police can search phones with a valid warrant and compel a person in custody to provide what? (Main) 8. What was the city of Luxor, Egypt known as in ancient times? (NW Traveler) 9. When you buy LED bulbs what does a higher number mean in regards to light? (Shop NW) 10. What does the Guigou law in France forbid the publication of? (Main) 11. A new Detroit-based nonprofit group, Women Who Weld, is teaching welding skills with the intent of increasing the number of women in a trade in which more than what percent of workers are men? (Jobs) 12. Since 2000, what countries R&D (Research & Development) spending (measured as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)) has gone up 90 percent? (Business) 13. Typically, the primary source of lead poisoning is what? (NW Sunday) 14. What is the Helianthus (Copper Queen) sunflower free of? (Pacific NW) 15. In what year was the sport of rowing (crew) opened up to women at the UW and by whom? (Sports) News Break is posted to the Web on Monday and Wednesday. Please share the NIE News Break program with other teachers. To sign-up for the electronic edition of the newspaper please call 206/652-6290 or toll-free 1-888/775-2655. Copyright © 2016 The Seattle Times Company News Break Scavenger Hunt Answer Key for Sunday, May 1, 2016 1. Your choice of a particular party’s ballot is considered public information. (B7) 2. The Kansas City Royals (C6) 3. He set fire to tons of elephant ivory and rhino horn. He said it was worthless unless it was on the elephants. (A12) 4. The fairies were cheerleaders. (H3) 5. The median price for a condo in King County in March was $309,975. (D5) 6. It expands to 40 feet in less than 20 seconds. (G3) 7. They can compel a person in custody to provide physical evidence, such as a fingerprints without a judge’s permission. (A10) 8. It was known as Thebes (I4) 9. The higher the number means a whiter and cooler light. (E4) 10. It forbids the publication of photographs of survivors of violent crimes, including terrorist attacks, without their permission. (A15) 11. 95 percent (F1) 12. South Korea (D1) 13. Typically, the primary source of lead poisoning is lead-based paint in homes built before 1950 or built before 1978 and recently remodeled. (B2) 14. It is free of pollen. (Pacific NW page 9) 15. It was opened up to women in 1975 by Dick Erickson (director of rowing at the time). (C10) .