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 European nation ruled Rwanda and intensified the differences between Hutus and Tutsis? | Belgium | 2. What was the name of the militias in Rwanda that did most of the killing during the genocide? | Interahamwe | 3. What is the term for the village trials in Rwanda that promote reconciliation between the victims and the perpetrators of the genocide? | gacaca | 4. Who was the leader of the Aztecs when the Spanish invaded? | Moctezuma | 5. What was the capital city of the Aztec empire which Cortes took over? | Tenchtitlan | 6. Mercantilism term: Taxes on imports meant to limit the amount of imports coming in to the country | tariff | 7. In the race-class system in Colonial Mexico _______ was the term for people of Spanish blood who were born in the colony | criollos | 8. In mercantilism did the king's government want to promote or destroy guilds? | destroy | 9. What was Haiti called when it was a French colony? | Saint-Domingue | 10. From the Enlightenment unit: What terms refers to the system through which the branches of government can limit each other's power? | checks and balances | 11. Who was the leader of the French Revolution during the radical "Terror" phase in which thousands were killed as enemies of the revolution? | Robespierre | 12. Who was in the first estate before the French Revolution? | clergy | 13. Who was the leader of the army of freed slaves in Saint Domingue who initially fought for France against Spain and Britain but eventually led the revolution for independence from France? | Toussaint L'Ouverture | 14. Where was Queen Marie Antoinette from originally? | Austria | 15. Napoleon's disastorous invasion of which country in 1812 was the beginning of the end for his Empire? | Russia | 16. Hobbes or Locke: Which one said people are naturally selfish and violent and thus must submit to an absolute ruler to preserve security? | Hobbes | 17. Hobbes or Locke: Which one said humans are born equal and deserve natural rights to life, liberty and property which the government must protect? | Locke | 18. French Revolution: In the Tennis Court Oath, what was the new National Assembly swearing to do? | write a constitution | 19. What term refers to the "revolutionary" view that the sun is the center of the universe | heliocentrism | 20. Who was the first scientist/astronomer to suggest that the sun is the center of the universe (although he had no mathematical proof)? | Copernicus | 21. What was one of the revolutionary observations Galileo made when he greatly improved the magnification of the telescope? | moons orbiting Jupiter, the rough surface of the moon | 22. What was the main cash crop on plantations in Haiti (Saint-Domingue)? | sugar | 23. Haitian Revolution: who were the affranchis? | free blacks (many of them owned slaves) | 24. Who was the founder of capitalism whose famous book was titled Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith | 25. What was Karl Marx’s terms for wealth-owning class that he predicted would be overthrown by the poor workers? | bourgeoisie | 26. Britain was the first country to go through an industrial revolution. What was the first industry there to move over to the factory system? | textiles | 27. Karl Marx said all wealth is created by labor but only a small fraction of that (living wage) went back to workers. What was his term for the portion of the wealth that went to the wealthy? | surplus value | 28. In a recession unemployment is rising. What is happening to consumer spending? | decreases | 29. If the government lowers taxes and spends money on programs to create jobs during a recession is it using monetary policy or fiscal policy? | fiscal | 30. Which nation had the biggest colonial empire in the age of Imperialism? | Britain | 31. Name the leader who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that established the communist Soviet Union? | Lenin | 32. What event sparked WW1? | assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 33. What term, from a famous poem, refers to the racist notion that white Europeans/Americans had a responsibility to help civilize the non-white people of the world? | White Man's Burden | 34. Translate: Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori | How Sweet and Noble it is To Die For Your Country | 35. What was the goal of Germany's Schlieffen Plan in WW1? | to avoid fighting on 2 sides | 36. What neutral country did Germany invade at the beginning of World War One? | Belgium | 37. What was the famous Bolshevik (communist) slogan that helped win support of the Russian people (________, _________, and __________ )? | Peace, Land, and Bread | 38. Which three countries were in the Axis of WW2? | Germany, Italy, Japan | 39. Communism or Fascism: Which one promotes ultra-nationalism and promises to preserve the existing class structure? | fascism | 40. In the famous European D-Day landings on June 6, 1944 the Allies landed troops in which country? | France | 41. What term refers to giving in to demands in order to avoid war? | appeasement | 42. WW2: What battle in the Pacific in 1942 was a turning point? Up to that point Japan was on offensive, after that the U.S. was pushing them back. | Midway | 43. Name the US President who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan to end WW2. | Truman | 44. What was the name of the US plan to give aid to European countries to rebuild from WW2? | Marshall Plan | 45. The US Cold War policy of stopping the spread of communism was called what? | containment | 46. At the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences at the end of WW2 one of the biggest disagreements between US and USSR was over elections in which area? | eastern Europe | 47. In the Vietnam War what 2 countries aided the North Vietnamese army? | China and the Soviet Union | 48. As part of the deal at the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US agreed not to invade Cuba and to remove military forces/weapons from where? | Turkey | 49. Who was the first Communist leader of China? | Mao Zedong | 50. Name of Mao’s policy/plan to eliminate all non-communist influences in China- he used Red Guards for this | Cultural Revolution | 51. In what year did the Dalai Lama win the Nobel Peace Prize? | 1989 | 52. Who was the president of Egypt who was forced to resign during the Arab Spring protests? | Mubarak | 53. In which country did Arab Spring lead to a civil war that finally ended with the death of long-time dictator Mohammar Gaddafi? | Libya | 54. Which republican presidential candidate ran in to trouble and had to end his campaign after several women came forward claiming sexual harassment and/or long term extra-marital affairs? | Herman Cain | 55. Which republican candidate will be the party's nominee to run against Barack Obama? | Mitt Romney | 56. In the process to nominate a candidate for president each state holds a vote through either a primary or a ________ . | caucus | 57. A common slogan of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement is "We are the _____ " | 99% | 58. The terrorist group Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is mostly based in what country? | Yemen | 59. The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline would go from ____ to the Texas Gulf coast. | Canada | 60. Piracy was been a major international problem off the coast of which African nation in the last few years? | Somalia | 61. Who is the president of Syria whose government has used ruthless violence against its people this year killing thousands? | Assad | 62. Who shot and killed Trayvon Martin? | George Zimmerman | 63. What is the name for Florida's controversial law which allows the use of deadly force in self-defense? | Stand Your Ground | 64. Mainers will vote directly on what controversial issue in November? | same-sex marriage |
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