Transcript Who Wants to Be a… Historian Extraordinaire? The Rules •Teams will be presented with a mystery object. •The purpose is to answer questions about.

Who Wants to Be a…
Historian
Extraordinaire?
The Rules
•Teams will be presented with a mystery object.
•The purpose is to answer questions about this object.
•There are often clues to help you.
•Clues are hints in the form of sources.
•Please explain your reasoning and work together!
•Captains will write your team’s answer and reasoning
•Audience: no calling out the answer please, but we do
need your help with sound effects.
“I’LL TAKE A PERFECT PAIR”
“I’ll CONSULT A CURATOR”
“MAY I PHONE A FRIEND?”
Audiences’ cue to make a
dramatic noise before the
answer is revealed.
Let’s Play!
And the Object is…
Object:
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Wood
Plastic
Steel
Silver
Clue not
available
Object:
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Wood
Plastic
Steel
Silver
Object:
Question 2: When might this object have been used?
1690s
1750s
1890s
1950s
Consult a
Curator
Object:
Question 2:
Consult A Curator
Clue: “Women had little use for
fancy shoes during their early years
on the prairie. Shoes were
expensive and were saved for
special occasions.”
Object:
Clue: Women had little use for fancy shoes during their early years on the
prairie. Shoes were expensive and were saved for special occasions.
Question 2: When might this object have been used?
1690s
1750s
1890s
1950s
Object:
Clue: Women had little use for fancy shoes during their early years on the
prairie. Shoes were expensive and were saved for special occasions.
Question 2: When might this object have been used?
1690s
1750s
1890s
1950s
Object:
Question 3: When was a person most likely to use this object?
While dressing
While eating
While cooking
While cleaning
Phone a
Friend
Object:
Question 3
Phone A Friend
Mrs. Erret Hicks
Canyon City, Oregon
(born May 9, 1873)
Written on March 29, 1939
Source: American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal
Writers Project Library of Congress American Memory Project
“Clothes were not such a problem. About
all we needed was something to keep us
warm. I wore cotton stockings or wool
ones, high, buttoned shoes, calico dresses,
and long, heavy, woolen underwear,
topped by several petticoats. I don't see
how these young girls get by today with -Te-he, -- a dress and a slip.”
Object:
Clue: “Clothes were not such a problem. About all we needed was something to
keep us warm. I wore cotton stockings or wool ones, high, buttoned shoes, calico
dresses, and long, heavy, woolen underwear, topped by several petticoats. I don't
see how these young girls get by today with -- Te-he, -- a dress and a slip.”
Question 3: Where was a person most likely to use this object?
While dressing
While eating
While cooking
While cleaning
Object:
Clue: “Clothes were not such a problem. About all we needed was something to
keep us warm. I wore cotton stockings or wool ones, high, buttoned shoes, calico
dresses, and long, heavy, woolen underwear, topped by several petticoats. I don't
see how these young girls get by today with -- Te-he, -- a dress and a slip.”
Question 3: Where was a person most likely to use this object?
While dressing
While eating
While cooking
While cleaning
Object:
Question 4: What is the purpose of this object?
Cleaning shoes
Buttoning shoes
Fixing dresses
Working leather
Perfect Pair
Object:
Question 4:
Perfect Pair
Source: Montgomery
Ward catalog reprint, 1895
Object:
Clue:
Question 4: What is the purpose of this object?
Cleaning Shoes
Buttoning Shoes
Fixing Dresses
Working Leather
Object:
Clue:
Question 4: What is the purpose of this object?
Cleaning Shoes
Buttoning Shoes
Fixing Dresses
Working Leather
And the Object is…
Object:
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Petrified Wood
Stone
Steel
Silver
Object:
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Petrified Wood
Stone
Steel
Silver
Object:
Question 2: What value would this object have
likely had to its owner?
Entertainment
Ornamental
Practical
All of the Above
Object:
Question 2:
Consult A Curator
Clue: Damage to an object is
not always a result of age. It
can also point to an object’s
use.
Object:
Clue: Damage to an object is not always a result of age. It can also
point to an object’s use.
Question 2: What value would this object have likely had to its
owner?
Entertainment
Ornamental
Practical
All of the Above
Object:
Clue: Damage to an object is not always a result of age. It can also
point to an object’s use.
Question 2: What value would this object have likely had to its
owner?
Entertainment
Ornamental
Practical
All of the Above
Object:
Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this
object?
Clean Animals for Cooking
Transporting Fire From
an Existing One
Creating Sparks to
Start a Fire
Wear as a Bracelet
Object:
Question 3:
Perfect Pair
Object:
Clue:
Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object?
Clean Animals for Cooking
Creating Sparks to
Start a Fire
Transporting Fire From
an Existing One
Wear as a Bracelet
Object:
Clue:
Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object?
Clean Animals for Cooking
Creating Sparks to
Start a Fire
Transporting Fire From
an Existing One
Wear as a Bracelet
Object:
Question 4: What type of person might have used
this object?
Traveler
Soldier
Family
All of the Above
Object:
Question 4
Phone A Friend
Alice Morse Earle
1899
Source:
Home Life in Colonial Days: Illustrated by
Photographs by the Author of Real Things, Works
and Happenings of Olden Times. New York:
MacMillan & Company, 1899. 47-48. (Complete
text available online via Google Books)
For many years the methods of striking a light were
very primitive, just as they were in Europe; many
families possessed no adequate means, or very
imperfect ones. If by ill fortune the fire in the
fireplace became wholly extinguished through
carelessness at night, someone, usually a small boy,
was sent to the house of the nearest neighbor,
bearing a shovel or covered pan, or perhaps a broad
strip of green bark, on which to bring back coals for
relighting the fire. Nearly all families had some form
of a flint and steel,—a method of obtaining fire
which has been used from time immemorial…
Object:
Clue: “For many years the methods of striking a light were very primitive, just as they were in
Europe; many families possessed no adequate means, or very imperfect ones. If by ill fortune the
fire in the fireplace became wholly extinguished through carelessness at night, someone, usually a
small boy, was sent to the house of the nearest neighbor, bearing a shovel or covered pan, or
perhaps a broad strip of green bark, on which to bring back coals for relighting the fire. Nearly all
families had some form of a flint and steel,—a method of obtaining fire which has been used from
time immemorial…”
Question 4: What type of person might have used this object?
Traveler
Soldier
Family
All of the Above
Object:
Clue: “For many years the methods of striking a light were very primitive, just as they were in
Europe; many families possessed no adequate means, or very imperfect ones. If by ill fortune the
fire in the fireplace became wholly extinguished through carelessness at night, someone, usually a
small boy, was sent to the house of the nearest neighbor, bearing a shovel or covered pan, or
perhaps a broad strip of green bark, on which to bring back coals for relighting the fire. Nearly all
families had some form of a flint and steel,—a method of obtaining fire which has been used from
time immemorial…”
Question 4: What type of person might have used this object?
Traveler
Soldier
Family
All of the Above