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Book Scavenger
Bertman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what song is Mr. Quisling learning on the piano | Heart and Soul |
| what is the restrants name that Hollister told them about | the black cat |
| what were the code books that Hollister gave James | Breaking the Maya Code and Codebreaker |
| what book did Emily check out | Inkheart |
| where did they find Hollister | in the middle of the library |
| what is the black cat | a restaurant |
| what book did hollister hand James | Codebreaker |
| when did the black cat close | 1963 |
| what was the black cats address | 710 |
| what user in the book scavenger forum claimed to work at the hospital mr. Griswold was at | CaptainOverpants |
| where did Emily hide a book | underwater in a fountain |
| what book did Emily hide underwater | The Westing Game |
| what was Emilys clue for The Westing Game | where the wet things are between art and science encrypted in her and James' code |
| What was the Baconian-like cipher sentence that James made up? | Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon. |
| Why did Matthew run away and where? | He hated moving so he ran away to have a sleepover with his bandmate and friend Ollie. |
| Why did Mrs. Lee tell Emily not to knock loudly? | She was not hard of hearing and Emily should only knock that loudly if her house was on fire. |
| Why didn't James and Emily find a book at the Black Cat restaurant? | They went to the wrong one. |
| Who was the guest user on Book Scavenger? | Barry and Clyde |
| Who did James and Emily THINK was the guest user on Book Scavenger | Mr. Remora |
| What did Emily compare Mr Griswald's game to when James was mad at her? | A championship if you played a sport. |
| How did Maddie try to take the Book of Codes without getting in trouble? | She said it was library rules that you had to share. |
| Why did almost everyone drop out of the cipher challenge? | They thought that just doing the homework would be easier than trying to think up ciphers. |
| Why was James not as chatty on a walk home from school on page 208 | He was made Maddie had ruined all his hard work from the cipher. |
| What book did Hollister hold up like a winning lottery ticket when James & Emily came into the bookstore to find books about ciphers? | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| James & Emily went to the Black Cat on Broadway, but on what street is the Black Cat that Hollister is talking about? | Montgomery, by the Transamerica building - the old steel-and-conrete pyramid |
| What was on the flyer that Emily saw tacked to a tree? | A picture of a black cat and and a phone number with the message "Looking for a black cat? Call Samuel |
| Why didn't the phone number work that was on the black cat flyer? | It started with a zero |
| What is the name of the park where Emily's family went to an outdoor concert? | Golden Gate Park |
| What book had Emily once found in an aquarium in her old doctor's office? | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library |
| What was the name of the venue where Matthew was going to see the Flush concert? | The Fillmore |
| What was the theme of the outdoor concert that Emily's family went to? | Jazz music with Halloween decorations |
| What did Emily add to the water-camoflouge bag with The Westing Game book? | a small stone to help weigh it down |
| Emily realized that the 13 digit number on the black cat flyer was actually not a phone number but what instead? | the ISBN number for The Maltese Falcon book |
| What does James call Maddie? | Her Royal Fungus |
| What was Mr. Quisiling's room number? | Room 40 |
| What is the name of the school that Emily & James attend? | Booker Middle School |
| Barry & Clyde were sitting across from the school looking for what? | A kid wearing a purple backpack |
| What was the name of the street that James & Emily ran up when they were trying to get away from the car that a followed them from school? | Lombard Street, the crookedest street in America |
| The computer said that how many copies of The Maltese Falcon were hidden in San Francisco? | 52 |
| What was the address of where Dashiell Hammett lived when he finished writing The Maltese Falcon? | 1155 Leavenworth Street |
| Emily falsely posted in the Book Scavenger website that she'd hidden The Gold Bug book near the outskirts of the city in Outer Sunset by a what? | A bench |
| What nicknames did Emily and Matthew have for each other? | Phlegmily and Barf-ew |
| What state were they living in when Matthew ran away when he heard they were moving? | Connecticut |
| What was written on the top of the map that always hung in Emily's family's kitchen? | The Cranes Conquer America |
| When they moved to Colorado, Emily wanted to get a pet elk and name him what? | Monty |
| What did Emily & Matthew find at The Maltese Falcon's author's house on Leavenworth Street that was a clue? | A large black wooden bird, a raven, which held a copy of The Maltese Falcon |
| Where did Emily find a 6 symbol puzzle on The Maltese Falcon book? | Inside the cover where the Book Scavenger tracking label & registration number were |
| What was the name on the calling card of the poacher who has stolen Emily's book at the Ferry Building weeks ago? | Babbage |
| What did Emily name the seagull who hung out with her at lunchtime? | Bob |
| What was the name of Emily's mom's blog about there travels? | 50 Homes in 50 States |
| What hint did Raven give Emily for solving the cipher inside The Maltese Falcon? | Charlie, Sally, Lucy |
| Who was Babbage? | Mr. Quisling |
| What did Emily wear to school on Halloween? | A black shirt with a morse code message |
| What is the name of the book collector? | Mr. Remora |
| What is the name of the publishing company that mr. Griswold uses? | Bayside Press |
| Where did Mr. Quisling put The Gold Bug book? | In the top drawer of his desk |
| What is Mr. Griswold's first name? | Garrison, nickname Gary |
| What was on Mr. Hollister's counter that Emily liked to play with? | Magnetic words |
| What book did Emily give Barry & Clyde? | The Poe book with the maroon cover that Hollister had given her |
| Who knew what kind of cipher that was inside The Maltese Falcon and what was it called? | James & it was called Pigpen |
| What was the answer to the cipher inside The Maltese Falcon? | Scarab |
| Who is Raven? | A Computer book scavenger player made by Mr. Griswold |
| What was the prompt you needed to get Raven to talk to you? | you needed to use The Gold Bug |
| What band did Mathew, Emily, & James meet? | Flush |
| What holiday occurred on Emily's 3rd day in San Francisco that meant no school? | Columbus Day |
| What book were Emily and James planning to hide in the bookstore? | Inkheart, the one she had found at the Albuquerque Zoo |
| What does Hollister look like? | A black man with gray-frosted dreadlocks tied loosely at the nape of his neck and a lazy eye |
| At Hollister's bookstore, the books in the window were arranged by color and stacked atop one another like Legos to create what design? | the Boyside Press symbol |
| How long did Hollister say it had been since he & Mr. Griswold had had a sensible conversation? | at least 30 years |
| In what section of Hollister's bookstore did Emily & James hide Inkheart? | under the arts & crafts section |
| How did the book by Poe in the bookstore differ from the Gold Bug book that Emily had? | the cover colors were nearly the same, but Emily's had a sparkly gold bug on it and Hollister's had an oval portrait of Poe on it. Emily's had one story and Hollister's had close to ten. |
| Emily says the Gold Bug story is not the easiest to read, for example, instead of saying "I met...", Poe says what? | I contracted an intimacy with.... |
| What does Hollister call Emily? | Emily-who-just-moved-here |
| Hollister gave Emily a copy of the Poe book which contained other stories besides Gold Bug, what were 3 of them? | The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Raven |
| In what year did Raven say the Gold-Bug was originally published? | 1843 |
| If you don't use the right words, when you ask Raven a question, she replies with what? And when you make a statement, how does she reply? | I do not have the information you seek. I can't help you with that. |
| What did Barry say that the ugliest fountain in San Francisco looked like? | A gigantic knocked-over game of Jenga sitting in a pool of water, and he said is was bad cement tactics when Clyde was trying to say "semantics" |
| What is Emily's user name on the Book Scavenger website? | Surly Wombat |
| When Barry & Clyde were trying to figure out what Emily's calling card meant, they typed BS, logo, and hidden book into the Internet search engine and besides Book Scavenger, what other 3 things came up? | Liar's Dice, a game called Cheat, and a video game |
| How much later did Emily start school in San Francisco than the other kids? | two month later |
| What did James give Emily on her first day of school? | his reindeer antlers |
| What grade was Emily in? | 7th grade |
| What was the user name of the book poacher that Emily knew was at Booker Middle School? | Babbage |
| What was the one class that Emily and James had together? | Social Studies |
| What were the names of the twins that James was friends with? | Kevin and Devin |
| Who is the class president at Booker Middle School? | Vivian Chu |
| How did Emily describe Maddie's hair? | Like a mushroom cap |
| What is Emily & Matthew's last name? | Crane |
| How did Mr. Quisling describe the difference between a cipher and a code? | A cipher substitutes individual letters with other letters, number, or symbols. A code can have word or phrase substitutions rather that individual letters. |
| What did Mr. Quisling say that Edgar Allan Poe and Julius Caesar had in common? | They were both fans of the mono alphabetic substitution cipher |
| Who developed on of the earliest substitution ciphers, now called the Caesar Shift? | Julius Caesar |
| What was the answer to James's cipher that Mr. Quisling put on the board? | MAYBE THE KEY IS FORT. I CAN THINK OF THREE. |
| For Mr. Quislings cipher challenge, kids could submit one cipher each week, due on what day? | Wednesday the first week, then on Mondays after that. |
| What was the prize of no one solved your cipher by the end of the week in Mr. Quisling's class? | A free homework pass, max of 3. |
| What is Emily's last name? | Crane |
| What was the bet the Maddie and James made? | If James loses, he has to shave Steve off of his head, and if Maddie loses, she had to dye her brown hair red like a toadstool |
| What had the old movie theatre near Hollister's bookstore been converted into? | a fitness center |
| What is Mop-Top Maddie's last name? | Fernandez |
| In what district of San Francisco is Bayside Press located? | In the financial district |
| What name did James make up and say they were there to see at Bayside Press (first & last name) | Joe Young |
| What was the man wearing that heard James & Emily trying to get into Bayside Press? | a Burgundy and blue argyle sweater vest |
| What level of the Book Scavenger game had Emily almost reached? | Auguste Dupin level, she had 14 points to go |
| What is Mr. Griswold's assistant's name who showed Emily & Jack around Bayside Press? | Jack |
| What are the Bayside Press colors? | Burgundy, silver, and blue |
| What whimsical character did people compare Mr. Griswold to? | Willy Wonka |
| Jack showed Emily & James two piles of stuff at Bayside Press - one was a pile of stuffed animals, balloons, etc to be donated to the children's hospital, and the other pile contained what? | Games that people sent |
| What book did James pick up from the pile of stuff at Bayside Press? | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (one of San Francisco's most notable writers) |
| When Jack led Emily & James out of the conference room, they passed a woman at work doing what? | Proofreading a book |
| What is Jack's last name and why was Emily impressed when she found out? | Kerouac, he was her dad's favorite author. Their mini van is named Sal after one of his characters |
| Mr. Griswold's assistant, Jack Kerouac, was named after a guy who was what? | A famous Beats poet |
| Who was in Mr. Griswold's office when Emily, James, & Jack entered? | Leon Remora, a rare-book collector |
| A sculpture of what man's head was in Mr. Griswold's office? | Edgar Allan Poe |
| What hung from the necklace that the Poe statue was in Mr. Griswold's office? | a Rabbit with bells hanging from it's feet |
| What was the name of the book from the 70s that contained clues to the hunt for the golden hare necklace? | Masquerade |
| How many copies of The Gold-Bug did Mr. Griswold plan to hide in the city? | 50 |
| The Book Scavenger Guest user said that the book he was looking for called The Gold-Bug contained how many stories? | 3 |
| Who was the Guest user on the Book Scavenger website? | Barry (and Clyde) |
| By comparing Griswold's copy of The Gold-Bug to Poe's actual story, Emily put the typos together and came up with the first line of what other story? | The Black Cat |
| Leon Remora was in Hollister's bookstore when Emily & James came in and told Hollister that his address was what? | 1717 Fillmore Street |
| When Emily & James went to the first Black Cat restaurant, the worker told them that they didn't open until what time? | 5:00 |
| What did Emily tell the first Black Cat restaurant that she'd left there the night before? | a book |
| What was the name of the park that James & Emily saw Hollister walking in when they were on the bus? | Portsmouth Square |
| What is the Principal of Booker Middle School's name? | Principal Montoya |
| Who shot Mr. Griswold? | Barry and Clyde |
| What book did Emily find? | THE GOLD-BUG |
| What was Mr. Griswold's nickname? | Willy Wonka |
| Where did mr. Griswold get shot? | At a subway station |
| Where did Emily move? | San Francisco |
| Where life is a game and the tokens are________ | Books |
| List the ranks of Book Scavenger | 0-25 Encyclopedia Brown 26-50 Nancy Drew 51-100 Sam Spade 101-150 Miss Marple 151-200 Monsieur C Auguste Dupin 201+ Sherlock Holmes |
| Who is Mr. Crane's literary idol? | Jack Kerouac |
| What was the name of the last person to live in Emily Crane's apartment? | Otis |
| What is James's cowlick's name? What did he say he was initially thinking of naming it? | Steve- but he thought of Geronimo first |
| What famous book/movie character do people say that Garrison Griswold is like? | The Willy Wonka of book publishing |
| What is the online name that Matthew Crane uses when he makes Flush videos? | FiveSpade |
| Name the states in which Matthew and Emily Crane have lived. | Matthew was born in Arizona, Emily was born in Washington. Then Massachusetts, New York, South Dakota, Illinois, Connecticut, Colorado, New Mexico, and now California |
| Where specifically was Garrison Griswold shot? | The Embarcadero BART station |
| How old was Griswold when he moved to San Francisco? | 12 |
| What was the first Poe book that James said he read? | The Tell-Tale Heart |
| What was the name of the book store that the Crane family visited together? | City Lights |
| Around what time did Emily move to San Francisco? | Halloween |
| What did Mr. Griswold start? | Book Scavenger |
| What blog did Emily's parents start? | Living in all 50 states |
| What happens when you find a book? | You get a point to spend on Book Scavenger merchandise |
| Where was the last place Emily lived? | Albequerque, New Mexico |
| Who is Emily's Neighbor? | James |
| What is the last name of Emily's family? | crane |
| What do Emily and James usually hear as they walk home after school? | Sea lion brays |
| What was the name of the Flush band member who knew of Matthew? | Trevor (Zeke, Liam, and Neil were the others) |
| Where did the beetle on Emily's treasure map mark? (what spot?) What part of San Francisco was it in? | Portsmouth Square, RLS. Chinatown (part of SF) |
| What did RLS stand for? | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| How much was Mr. Remora paying Barry? | $500 |
| What was the name of Garrison Griswold's ancestor who became Poe's literary executor? | Rufus Wilmot Griswold |
| How was Raven programmed to respond? | She would answer 8 questions at a time. If you used them up, she would not answer for 48 hours. |
| What did Emily, James, and Matthew get for winning Griswold's game? | 10% of the royalties from the newly discovered Poe book |
| What was Poe's full name? | Edgar Allen Poe |
| What was the newly discovered Poe book called? | The Cathedral Murders: a posthumous novel |
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