Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum Scavenger Hunt Earn points while you search for clues and information about the life and works of America’s most beloved author. Names of Team Members: __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Page 2 Scavenger Hunt From the Interpretive Center... 1. Orion Clemens designed 3. When young Sam Clemens’ 5. Look at the wonderful something of historical teacher, Mrs. Horr, told him to sculpture that shows many significance for Nevada. What fetch a switch so she could characters from four of Mark was it? punish him, what did he bring to Twain’s books. Name the four her? books represented: ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ Orion Clemens, Samuel Score: __________/40 points Clemens’ older brother 2. Judging from Samuel Clemens’ mother’s dress, how 4. What job did Sam Clemens would you describe her size? have as a boy that made him a Small/Medium/Large/X-Large student of the “Poor Boys’ 6. Name the two characters College?” that are depicted twice in the ___________________________ sculpture: __________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points Score: __________/20 points Characters... “He was not the Model 7. What was the name of 9. Was Tom Sawyer based upon 10. The character of Injun Joe Boy of the village. He Samuel Clemens’ neighbor who Mark Twain? Why or why not? was based upon whom? became the inspiration for the No/Yes, because…___________ ___________________________ knew the model boy character of Becky Thatcher? ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points well enough - and ___________________________ ___________________________ loathed him.” ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ ~Mark Twain ___________________________ ___________________________ (describing Tom Sawyer) 8. Upon whom was the ___________________________ character of Judge Thatcher ___________________________ based? ___________________________ 11. What of Aunt Polly's was ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Tom Sawyer blamed for breaking? Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ Score: __________/20 points Score: __________/10 points Huck’s House... 12. How many ceiling beams 14. Tom Blankenship’s older said he was “unwashed” and support the roof in the “Huck brother helped an escaped “insufficiently fed.” Finn” house? _______________ slave who was hiding on Sny ___________________________ Island. What was this brother’s Score: __________/10 points name? Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ Who was Samuel Clemens’ sweet- 13. How many fireplaces are in Score: __________/10 points heart? She later became “Becky Huck’s house? ______________ Thatcher” in The Adventures of Tom 15. Who was the “original” Sawyer. Write the answer for #7. Score: __________/10 points Huckleberry Finn? Mark Twain Scavenger Hunt Page 3 The Boyhood Home... 16. In the kitchen, there is a 17. Although there are several 18. In the back bedroom used story about slave children in the bedrooms in the house, where by young Sam Clemens, “Tom household. What were the two would the young slave boys Sawyer” is doing what? boys’ names? have slept? Why? ___________________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ 19. In the front bedroom, there ___________________________ is a circular object draped on Did you know that Mark Twain loved cats? ___________________________ top of the bed. This was used ___________________________ to support what type of ___________________________ clothing? __________________ Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points On the mall... 20. Who was the real person 21. Sam Clemens’ father’s office is located Becky Thatcher is based on? near the Becky Thatcher House. What was “A cat is more John Marshall Clemens’s official title? intelligent than _______________________________________ people believe, and Score: __________/10 points Score: __________/10 points can be taught any crime.” 22. What did Samuel Clemens find in the rear ~Mark Twain of his father's office one night? _______________________________________ Score: __________/10 points Notes: Use this section to jot down ___________________________ ____________________________ notes about interesting facts ___________________________ ____________________________ you’d like to remember. Back in ___________________________ ____________________________ class we will share these with ___________________________ ____________________________ each other. You will receive 5 ___________________________ ____________________________ extra points for each interesting ___________________________ ____________________________ fact that NO ONE ELSE has ___________________________ ____________________________ listed! ___________________________ ____________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________ Calculate the subtotal of points earned on ___________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________ pages 2 and 3: _________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________ Page 4 Scavenger Hunt The Museum Gallery... 23. What object do you have to 25. In A Connecticut Yankee in 27. In his book, Roughing It, “turn on” in order to see the King Arthur’s Court, Sir Boss Mark Twain wrote about his wild “treasures” of the whitewashed introduced what American sport west days. He even got to see a fence? ____________________ to the knights? Pony Express rider. How long did it take a letter to travel from Score: __________/10 points ___________________________ St. Joseph, Missouri to Score: __________/10 points California by Pony Express? 24. There is a “bat” in the cave __________ miles in _____ days Tom and Becky running from bats in the cave. that was used as a special 26. Visit the “Barrel of Fun Score: __________/20 points effect in a movie. What 4 items Animal Show” to listen to five were used to create this bat? stories Mark Twain wrote. Name the five animals: ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/40 points ___________________________ Score: __________/50 points “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, 28. Mark Twain traveled abroad 29. According to researcher Dr. 30. What type of clerk did and many of our and wrote a book called The Edgar M. Branch, how many Samuel Clemens’ younger people need it sorely Innocents Abroad. While in steamboats did Samuel brother, Henry, serve as on these accounts. Paris, he observed a dance, Clemens pilot? ______________ onboard the steamboat named Broad, wholesome, which he described as “an the Pennsylvania? Score: __________/10 points charitable views of extraordinary jig.” What was the ___________________________ men and things name of this dance? cannot be acquired Score: __________/10 points by vegetating in one ___________________________ little corner of the Score: __________/10 points earth all one's lifetime.” ~Mark Twain Henry Clemens 32. After you blow the steamboat whistle, read about 33. As Mark Twain grew older, a steamboat Mark Twain he swore off travel. But in described in his autobiography 1907 he traveled across the as the “slowest one on the Atlantic Ocean to receive an planet. Up-stream she couldn’t honorary doctorate from what even beat an island; down- famous institution? stream she was never able to ___________________________ 31. Samuel Clemens received overtake the current.” What his pilot’s license on what day? was the name of this slow boat? Score: __________/10 points ____th of ___________, 18_____ ___________________________ Mark Twain received three honorary Score: __________/10 points Score: __________/10 points doctorate degrees in his lifetime. Scavenger Hunt Page 5 The Museum Gallery... 34. What fast food chain 35. What is the name of the 37. Mark Twain invented a self- immortalized some of Mark board game that Mark Twain pasting scrapbook in more than Twain’s characters in a set of invented? (Hint: It is a lot like 30 sizes. About how many of drinking glasses? Trivial Pursuit.) these were sold in 1877? ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Score: __________/10 points Score: __________/10 points Score: __________/10 points 36. Mark Twain created a self- 38. Mark Twain's books were portrait that was etched on what type of metal? released in what country before being released in the United