Oklahoma Museum of History Scavenger Hunt REVISED April 11, 2013 In the Devon Great Hall 1. What is the name of the airplane hanging from the ceiling? 2. Look at the side of the airplane. What records did Wiley Post set using this airplane? 3. The symbols in the floor relate to what famous Oklahoma object? 4. What domed building do you see outside the window? In the ONEOK Gallery next to the elevators 5. Where and when did the prairie dog bag come from? What does it contain? 6. Did all Indians live in teepees? What do you see in the exhibits that supports your answer? 7. Notice the star chart overhead and read the panel on the Pawnee Indians who made the original. Why would they have made a star chart? 8. Look at the four different styles of houses in the center of the room. Which one would you like to live in? Why? 9. What did Lewis and Clark give to the Otoe Indians? 10. On the left side of the gallery, find the exhibit on language. How have the Indian peoples tried to preserve their languages and stories? 11. Go to the back left side of the gallery that is in the shape of a loop. Find the panel that answers this question: Both life and death are part of. 1
The INASMUCH Gallery next to the admissions desk As you enter the gallery, veer to the left and look for the blue Mustang in front of the drive-in movie screen. 12. When you watch a movie at a drive-in theater, where do you sit? At this theater, where does the movie s sound come from? 13. Go into the room on the left side of the gallery where there is a window that says, Crime Scene Do Not Cross. Look at the exhibit case on the left side of this room. What are three materials that heads are made of for special effects? 14. Leave the body parts room and turn left as you leave. Continue on the left side of the gallery till you come to the stage coach. Read the sign next to the stage coach. How many passengers was the stage coach designed to carry? Would you like to go on a long journey in the stage coach? Why or why not? 15. Go past the stage coach and turn right to find TOTO. What does TOTO mean? 16. Go behind the wall behind TOTO. What movie does the dollar sign come from? 17. Go out to the other side of the gallery where the old car and the buggy are located. What movie was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein? Enriched: Animal Art from the OKC Zoo 18. What painting is your favorite and why? Which animal painted it? Proceed to the Oklahomans in Space exhibit in the ground floor hallway. 19. What is the name of the spacecraft here? 20. Who was the pilot of the spacecraft and what was his hometown? 21. Look inside the Gemini VI space capsule. What do you notice in there? Gaylord Special Exhibit Gallery 22. Find the case with the cradle board in it. How many different animals are represented by the objects in the case? 2
23. Now that you have found all the animals, how many different paintings contain an animal? 24. Who are Minisa Crumbo Halsey s parents? 25. What painting contains a cradle board similar to the one in the cradle board case? 26. Look at the pencil drawings in Woody Crumbo s studio. What paintings, located in the gallery, is he drawing? 27. How many horses are illustrated in this gallery? 28. What months are represented in Minisa Crumbo Halsey s art works? Upstairs on the Third Floor Go up the stairs until there aren t any more stairs. In the Noble Gallery on the right as you reach the third floor. 29. Notice the wagon on the right. Read the panel in front of it. In how many land runs was this wagon used? 30. As you go past the wagon, you come to the sod house. Read the panel to the left of the door. List three problems with living in a sod house. 31. As you go past the farm and ranch area, and past the tractor, you come to a white house. Look on top of the stove in the kitchen. What are the things sitting on top of the oven? What is the big gray machine in front of the stove? 32. Go out of the clapboard house and continue into the Oklahoma and Infamy exhibit. Find the jacket in the case in the middle of the exhibit. Read the information on the card about the jacket. What color was the jacket originally? Why is it the color that it is now? 3
33. Look behind the wall with the picture of the burning ship. Find the big wooden wheel. What was it used for? What ship did it come from? 34. In that same room, look at the big map on the wall. What is the big, red arrow pointing at? When did the attack happen? 35. Leave the Oklahoma and Infamy exhibit, and go into the Little Black Dress exhibit. Find the case in the middle with three dresses, next to the wall mural of people dancing. What type of fur is on one of their collars? 36. Feel all of the fabric in the hands-on area of the Little Black Dress exhibit and touch all of them. Which do you think is best? What do you think is good about it? 37. Continue walking to the kitchen; notice what the main color is. Why is it this color? Why do you think this color was used so much in kitchens in the 1950s? 38. In the schoolroom area, how are the desks different from the one that you use? What is an unusual thing that you find inside a desk? (Not all of the desks have something inside, so you may need to look in more than one.) Now go to the other side of the gallery. 39. Find the iron lung. What was an iron lung used for? 40. Keep going; you ll come to the state government area. Find the Territorial seal. What does it look like? 41. Keep going past the government area; you ll come to the law and order area. Find Carrie Nation s pin. Describe it. In the Kerr-McGee Gallery 42. As you enter the gallery, turn right into the African American exhibit. What Oklahoman was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart? 43. Further along and to the right is a replica of a church. Find the Breeze Booster flexible edge in an exhibit case. Explain what the Breeze Booster is and why it would be needed in church. 44. Next to the barber shop notice the water fountains. Why are there two water fountains? Explain the idea behind them. 4
45. Go past the water fountains to the right and see the Funk and Soul exhibit. What do you think Funk and Soul Music is? 46. At the back of the gallery is the area that deals with wars in the 20 th century including World War I. Find the M1917 helmet. What is painted on it? 47. Also in this area is information on the POW camps in Oklahoma. Read it then tell how the prisoner of war camps were good for Oklahoma. 48. Continue on out of the war exhibit and turn right where the red car is. What was the price of a 1951 Bullet Nose Studebaker? Is that a high price? 49. Continue past the Studebaker to the right. Find the roller skates and tell why Sonic had them. Do you still see carhops using skates today? Why or why not? 50. The natural resources area is on the right side of the gallery near the front. In the oil and gas exhibit, find the Wild Mary Sudik. What is the Wild Mary Sudik? Why was it called wild? 51. The transportation area is in the middle section of the gallery. Find the barrel. What had been inside the barrel? How long had it been inside there? 5
OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF HISTORY SCAVENGER HUNT FOR THE INDOOR EXHIBITS ANSWER KEY REVISED April 11, 2013 1. The Winnie Mae 2. From Los Angeles to Chicago and two records set for flying around the world 3. Oklahoma s flag 4. The state capitol 5. Black Mesa, 6,000-8,000 BCE; corn 6. No. There are four cases that hold models of Indian dwellings that are different from teepees. 7. For similar reasons that people have studied the stars throughout history all over the world: to know directions, the change of seasons, to tell stories, and to tell time. 8. Different for each student. Could be Pawnee, Fort Sill Apache, Sac and Fox, or Wichita style homes 9. They were given documents from Thomas Jefferson that explained the peaceful relationship that the United States intended to have with the Indians. Also there are peace medals that are tokens of respect and friendship given to the chiefs. 10. The stories have been written down, published and included in social events where the stories are retold. The languages are being taught to young people so that when the older people die, the languages will not die. 11. the circle of life 12. You watch the movie from inside your car. At this theater, the sound comes from speakers sitting on the poles. You would set a speaker on your car s window so that you could hear it easily. 13. Plaster, latex, silicone 14. 12; students should take into the consideration that a stage coach journey was very long and slow by today s standards. Also there were no paved roads. 15. Totable Tornado Observatory 16. Yellow 6
17. Own answer different for each student 18. Oklahoma 19. Gemini VI 20. Thomas Stafford, Weatherford, Oklahoma 21. Answers will vary, but most people notice that there are lots of buttons and switches and that it is small in there. 22. Eagle, deer, duck, and bear 23. 25 24. Woody Crumbo and Lillian Faye Hogue Crumbo 25. Untitled 26. Last Sunset and Spirit Horse 27. 14 28. February, March, April, May 29. Two 30. Wind, loose dirt falling from the ceiling, fleas, snakes, mice, and scorpions 31. A toaster and a blender or mixer. A clothes washer. 32. It was white originally. Fuel oil from the damaged ships stained it. 33. It is used to steer a large ship. It came from the USS Oklahoma. 34. Hawaii. The attack took place December 7, 1941. 35. Colubus Monkey 36. Answers will vary. 37. In those days, society had a strong association between women and the color pink. 38. Each desk seats two students. Possible answers include: a cigar box, a lunch box, a steel dip pen. 39. The iron lung enabled the person inside it to breathe even though polio had paralyzed his or her diaphragm. 40. It looks kind of like a goat s head. 41. A gold-colored hatchet with a diamond in it. 42. Sergeant Ruben Rivers 43. A fan that was particularly good at creating a breeze. The church was not airconditioned. 7
44. One for colored people, one for whites. It was the custom and the law for blacks and whites to be separate. The facilities were supposedly separate and equal but the facilities for blacks were usually inferior to those for whites. 45. Answers will vary, but it is music that appeals to what a person feels emotionally or what they cannot express in other ways. 46. An American flag and a French flag and the date 1918-1919. 47. Construction of the camps provided employment for the local people between planting time and harvesting. German POWs were available as day laborers. 48. $1,618; answers will vary, but the student should try to take into account the fact that prices have changed a lot since the 1950s. 49. The carhops used the skates to move quickly as they delivered food orders. They are not used as much as they used to be although Sonic is encouraging car hops to use roller skates again. 50. The Wild Mary Sudik was an oil well that was a gusher. It was called wild because the early efforts that were made to control it were not successful. 51. Hog meat that had been at the bottom of the Red River in the barrel for over a hundred years. 8