Oklahoma Museum of History Scavenger Hunt - Oklahoma Historical ...

Turn back toward the front of the gallery where you will come into the Rock Fashionsexhibit.35. In the 1980s, how did MTV affect pop culture and teen fashions?Continue toward the front of the gallery into the rockabilly exhibit.36. What is rockabilly?37. When you come to the kitchen, notice what the main color is. Why is it thiscolor? 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 havesomething 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 Gallery42. As you enter the gallery, turn right into the African American exhibit. WhatOklahoman was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Silver Star,and the Purple Heart?4

17. Superman, Super Friends, Justice League of America, Fantastic Four, ActionComics, and Creepy.18. The Twilight Avenger19. Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.20. Clay21. He rescued 120 miners from the Lehigh coalmine fire.22. It is used for the national dance of Mexico, Jarabe Tapatio, the Mexican HatDance.23. Gemini VI24. Thomas Stafford, Weatherford, Oklahoma25. Answers will vary, but most people notice that there are lots of buttons andswitches and that it is small in there.26. 35 miles per hour27. A curved metal rod28. The 1899 Knox29. To protect themselves from dust, dirt, wind, heat and cold.30. Two31. Wind, loose dirt falling from the ceiling, fleas, snakes, mice, and scorpions32. A toaster and a blender or mixer. A clothes washer.33. 261 mph to 318 mph34. the band goes nuts.35. MTV broadcast into their homes the fashions of rock and roll.36. Rockabilly is a blend of rhythm & blues, country, and western swing.37. In those days, society had a strong association between women and the colorpink38. Each desk seats two students. Possible answers include: a cigar box, a lunchbox, a steel dip pen.39. The iron lung enabled the person inside it to breathe even though polio hadparalyzed 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 Rivers7

43. A fan that was particularly good at creating a breeze. The church was not airconditioned.44. One for colored people, one for whites. It was the custom and the law forblacks and whites to be separate. The facilities were supposedly separate andequal 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 feelsemotionally or what they cannot express in other ways.46. An American flag and a French flag and the date.47. Construction of the camps provided employment for the local people betweenplanting 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 thefact 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 although Sonic is encouraging carhops to use roller skates.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 ahundred years.8