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 year was Tacitus born? | c.56AD | 2. How old was Nero at the time? | c.28 | 3. Who was Tacitus' father-in-law about whose career in Britain the historian wrote? | Agricola | 4. Name three of the main sources for Annals XV. | Pliny the Elder, Fabius Rusticus, Cluvius Rufus. | 5. What relation was Nero to Augustus? | Great-great-grandson | 6. In XV.35, who is said to have boasted of sharing the same connection with Augustus? | Silanus Torquatus | 7. What other claim to fame to the nobleman in ch.35 allegedly make? | He was one of the Junian family (descended from Brutus). | 8. In ch.34, who is putting on the gladiator show which Nero attends? | Vatinius | 9. Write three of the despicible descriptions Tacitus makes of the host of the gladiator show in ch.34 | Twisted body, suckled by a shoemaker's shop, filthiest of the wonders of the royal court, taken on for insults, etc. | 10. Why did Nero postpone his concert tour of Greece in ch.36? | Reasons uncertain. | 11. Who put on the most notorious banquet during the street parties of ch.37 and what was his rank? | Tigellinus. Prefect of the Praetorian Guard. | 12. Pick out SIX references to animals in ch.37(Latin with English translation/explanation) | volucris, feris, animalia, lupernalia, nemoris, grege, (etiam in femina). |
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How old was Nero at the time?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was Tacitus' father-in-law about whose career in Britain the historian wrote?&choe=UTF-8
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Name three of the main sources for Annals XV.&choe=UTF-8
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What relation was Nero to Augustus?&choe=UTF-8
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In XV.35, who is said to have boasted of sharing the same connection with Augustus?&choe=UTF-8
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What other claim to fame to the nobleman in ch.35 allegedly make?&choe=UTF-8
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In ch.34, who is putting on the gladiator show which Nero attends?&choe=UTF-8
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Write three of the despicible descriptions Tacitus makes of the host of the gladiator show in ch.34&choe=UTF-8
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Why did Nero postpone his concert tour of Greece in ch.36?&choe=UTF-8
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Who put on the most notorious banquet during the street parties of ch.37 and what was his rank?&choe=UTF-8
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Pick out SIX references to animals in ch.37(Latin with English translation/explanation)&choe=UTF-8
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