1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. What's the best known artificial international language? | esperanto | 2. Who lived at 221B, Baker Street, London? | Sherlock Holmes | 3. Who cut Van Gogh's ear? | he did | 4. Where did Salvador Dali live? | Figueras | 5. Who painted the Mona Lisa? | Da Vinci | 6. Who wrote Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet? | Shakespeare | 7. What did the crocodile swallow in Peter Pan? | alarm clock | 8. Where was Lope de Vega born? | Madrid | 9. What did the 7 dwarves do for a job? | miners | 10. Who painted the Sistine Chapel? | Michelangelo | 11. Who wrote La Colmena? | Cela | 12. Name a famous detective who smoked a pipe and played the violin. | S. Holmes | 13. What was the name of Don Quijote's horse? | Rocinante | 14. Who was Robin Hood's girlfriend? | Maid Marian | 15. Who wrote the James Bond books? | Ian Fleming | 16. Who wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? | Robert Louis Stevenson | 17. Who said, "I think, therefore I am"? | Descartes | 18. Who wrote the Ugly Duckling? | Hans Christian Andersen | 19. What's the Hungarian word for pepper? | paprika | 20. Which painter did the group Mecano write a song about? | Dali | 21. What was the first theatre play in Spain? | La Celestina | 22. When was Elvis' first ever concert? | 1954 | 23. Who sang "My Way"? | Frank Sinatra | 24. Who was the main actor in Superman 2? | Christopher Reeve | 25. What year did Elvis Presley die? | 1977 | 26. In which city is Hollywood? | Los Angeles | 27. Who did John Lennon marry? | Yoko Ono | 28. Which 2 actors were in "Gone with the wind"? | Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh | 29. Who wrote the song "Johnny be good"? | Chuck Berry | 30. What was the first film with sound? | the Jazz Singer | 31. How many oscars did Alfred Hitchcock win? | none | 32. Which film about Germany won most prizes in 1976? | Cabaret | 33. Where are the Dolomites? | Italy | 34. Which is the largest ocean? | Pacific | 35. What's the capital of Honduras? | Tegucigarpa | 36. What's the capital of Ethiopia? | Addis Ababa | 37. What's the capital of Ecuador? | Quito | 38. What's the smallest country in the world? | Vatican City | 39. What is the capital of Australia? | Canberra | 40. What's the largest city in India? | Bombay | 41. How many avenues radiate from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris? | 12 | 42. What's the capital of Denmark? | Copenhagen | 43. What's the capital of Brazil? | Brasilia | 44. Which river goes through London? | Thames | 45. What's the highest mountain in Africa? | Kilimanjaro | 46. What's the capital of Finland? | Helsinki | 47. Where is Mulhacen? | Granada Spain | 48. How many states are there in the United States of America? | 50 | 49. Which river passes through Madrid? | Manzanares | 50. Which German city is famous for the perfume it produces? | Cologne | 51. What's the capital of Monaco? | Monaco | 52. Which is Britain's second largest city? | Birmingham | 53. What is 15 metres high, 8 metres wide and 240 kilometers long? | Wall | 54. What's the highest mountain in the world? | Everest | 55. What's the capital of Scotland? | Edinburgh | 56. Which country has the largest area: Australia, Brazil or India? | Brazil | 57. Where are the Luxembourg Gardens? | Paris | 58. Which mountains are between Spain and France? | Pyrenees | 59. Which is the smallest ocean? | Artic | 60. How many wives did Henry the Eighth have? | six | 61. Where was Franco born? | Teruel | 62. When did the first man go into space? | 1961 | 63. Who was the first man in space? | Gagarin | 64. Where did the first atomic bomb explode for the first time in Japan? | Hiroshima | 65. Who said, "Vini, vidi, vici"? | Caesar | 66. What year did Christopher Columbus go to America? | 1492 | 67. Who did Lady Diana Spencer marry? | Prince Charles | 68. What year did the Spanish Civil War end? | 1939 | 69. When did the First World War start? | 1914 | 70. When did the Second World War end? | 1945 | 71. Who did Franco designate as his successor in 1969? | Juan Carlos | 72. How many fingers did Ann Boleyn have? | 11 | 73. Who was Felipe el Hermoso's wife? | Juana la Loca | 74. Did Neil Armstrong put his l. or his r. foot on the moon first? | left | 75. What year did King Juan Carlos get married? | 1962 | 76. In what decade was the last execution at the Tower of London? | 1940's | 77. When did the Americans leave Vietnam? | 1973 | 78. Who was the first man on the moon? | Armstrong | 79. What religion was Adolf Hitler? | Catholic |
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