This presentation can be used to play the research game created by librarian, Elizabeth Kahn, for Teen Tech Week. Students need a device with a browser to play. The game is suitable for grades 6-12.

1. Game of the Fast Finger Search
Using an iPad or any device with a browser,
can you find the answer to the question
before anyone else?
1. Find the answer
(all the parts if it is has multiple answers)
1. Raise your hand
2. Get your answer validated by the game leader
3. Pick a prize
created by: Elizabeth Kahn, librarian, Patrick Taylor Sci Tech Academy
Find her on twitter: @taylorlibrarian

2. What is the average yearly
rainfall in Seattle, WA?

3. What is the heaviest animal that
lives under the sea?
What does it eat?

4. Find a picture of someone who
is 100 years or older.

5. Find a picture of Mickey Mouse
that was made before 1960.

6. Find a recipe for gumbo and
name four of the ingredients.

7. Name five tourist spots in New
York City.

8. Find a picture of a monkey
sitting in a tree in the wild.

9. How many Smithsonian Museums
are located in Washington DC?
Name six of them?

10. Name an item on the McDonald’s
menu in Japan that is not in
America.

11. What is the circumference of the
moon?

12. How many people have died
trying to climb Mt. Everest?

13. What is the mileage between
Stanford University and UC
Berkeley?

14. What was Tesla’s favorite bird?

15. How many total Legos were
used in the Lego movie?

16. In the Disney movies, who has
more hairs, Elsa or Rapunzel?

17. Which elements does it take to
spell “More Oreos” on the
periodic table?

18. Who made the first phone call,
and what did they say?

19. How many women have walked
on the moon?

20. Name a food that was considered
trash food in early America but is
now considered a delicacy.

21. Name three places with great
skiing not in the United States?

22. What and when was the first Mardi Gras
krewe to parade in New Orleans?
What and when was the first Mardi Gras
krewe to parade in Mobile, AL?

23. Can you name all the people who
played Dr. Who?

24. How long is Harry’s Potter’s wand?

25. Name the hotel used for the interior shots
and the other hotel used for the exterior
shots in the making of the The Shining
movie.

26. In what country did they film most of the
story of The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe?
In what country did they film the Lord of
the Rings?

27. What is the longest running
television 30 minute comedy show of
all time?

28. How long before the premier did
Peter Jackson finish editing his
movie, The Hobbit?

29. How many species of penguins are
there?

30. Which manga had the most copies
sold as of the end of 2015?

31. How old was Barack Obama when he
first took on the office of president?

32. How many presidents died in office?

33. In the Harry Potter movie series,
there was more than one person to
play Dumbledore, name them.

34. Who invented Coca Cola, and what
year was it?

35. How many hobbits in the book, The
Fellowship of the Ring, knew about
the ring?

36. How many movies feature puppets
by Jim Hensen that were not muppet
movies?

37. If you watched the Harry Potter
movies back to back, how long would
you be sitting?

38. Find a picture of houses or buildings
in New Orleans that was taken before
1920.

39. Thomas Edison held hundreds of
patents. Can you name five different
ones?

40. Can you name the 8 original Disney
princesses?

41. How many hobbit feet were
manufactured for The Lord of the
Rings trilogy?

42. Where is the largest volcano in our
solar system?

43. What is the name of the recently
(March 2016) found dinosaur that is
in the tyrannosaur family?

44. How many countries are there in the
world?
Which one of these countries is not
recognized by the United States?

45. What is the hottest pepper in the
world?
What is the range of its Scoville Heat
Units (SCU)?

46. Find pictures of five different fruit
that are yellow.

47. What is the most watched series
finale in television history?
How many viewers was it?

48. In which country in Europe are there
more pigs than people?

49. How tall is Michaelangelo’s David
and what is he made of?

50. How many live earthworms will you
have if you cut one in half?

51. Dumbledore is the old English word
for something.
What is it?

52. When was the first Harry Potter book
published in England?
What about the US?