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. The media was not recognised as being useful means to find the killer. Howard Vincent, in charge of CID in 1878 said: “Police must not on any account give any information whatever to gentlemen connected with the press” | hindered | 2. Reporting by the press threw a number of false leads which pushed a stretched police force. The press did not like the police. | hindered | 3. The East London advertiser: It is clear that the Detective Department at Scotland Yard is in an utterly hopeless and worthless condition; and that if there were a capable Director of criminal investigations, the scandalous exhibition of stupidity and ineptitude revealed at the East End inquests, and the immunity enjoyed by criminals, murder after murder, would not have angered and disgusted the Public feelings as it has done. | hindered | 4. The Pall Mall Gazette reported, "...not quite 300 men, all told, 80 of whom are inspectors and 120 sergeants, with less than a hundred other distributed about the twenty-two metropolitan divisions..." Monro had recognised the need for more detectives and applied to Warren for an increase in man power. Warren was adamant that no such increase was necessary and argued that constables in plain clothes were just as effective as detectives. | hindered | 5. Mitre square was in the City of London so another police force was involved after the Eddowes murder, there was competition between the forces. | hindered | 6. Mary Nichols was murdered in J division, Abberline consulted and they agreed that it was probably the work of one man and not a gang. | method | 7. Photographs were taken of the women's eyeballs to see if an image of the murderer was on them. The prostitutes in the area were given a whistle that they could blow if they got into trouble. | methods | 8. 2,000 people were interviewed in the square mile where the murders took place. Slums were raided in the hope of finding the killer hiding under a bed or in a cupboard. 80,000 leaflets were distributed calling for locals to report any suspicious individuals to the police. | methods | 9. Identification parades for witnesses to pick out the man they saw. One policeman was armed and "disguised" as a female prostitute to attract the Ripper. Several spiritualists were enlisted to interview the dead victims from "beyond the grave" | methods | 10. Sailors were interviewed by Thames police. 76 Butchers and Slaughterers were visited. | methods | 11. Swanson: A portion of blood was collected from the roadway, the archway was opened to traffic. | methods | 12. Information was recorded in police ledgers. It is estimated that the Police ledgers had 36,000 entries. Many letters were sent in claiming to be the Ripper and leads in newspapers were followed. | methods | 13. Responsibility for hunting the Ripper fell to the Metropolitan Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), founded in April 1878, several of the original Scotland Yard Detective Branch had been jailed for being in the pay of a gang of swindlers. | hindered | 14. Detectives had a poor reputation with the press and the people. Their morale was low and they needed more men | hindered | 15. James Munro, took over CID in 1887. He was answerable to General Sir Charles Warren, head of the Metropolitan police. He was also answerable to the Home Office. Munro and Warren did not get on. | people | 16. Donald Swanson: was in overall charge of the Whitechapel murders police investigation on the 7th of September 1888. He had to assess all the information that the Jack the Ripper investigation he was the one man who had access to every strand of data on the case. | people | 17. Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, had been a former army general. People though he was only good for policing crowds and keeping order rather than detective work. He was especially criticized for not offering a reward but this was the Home Secretary not him. | people | 18. Frederick Abberline: He worked in H division for 14 years before being promoted to Scotland Yard. They decided the local detective force would benefit from experienced officers at Scotland Yard. By the time Annie Chapman was murdered he was the lead officer on the case. | people | 19. After the murder of Catherine Eddowes there was an apron found in the doorway of Gouslton Street as well as writing on the wall. | info | 20. 'The Juwes [sic] are not the men to be blamed for nothing,' it was suggested this was written by the killer. Warren ordered the words to be removed, fearing an anti-Semitic backlash in an area with a large Jewish population | Info | 21. Dr Llewelyn thought as a result of his post mortem on Polly Nichols that the injuries on the body had been inflicted with great violence, with a long-bladed, moderately sharp knife. | Nichols | 22. Each of the cuts had been inflicted violently and in a downward motion, cutting from left to right as though they were inflicted by a left-handed person. All of the injuries were made with the same weapon. | Nichols | 23. After Polly Nichols murder Abberline asked for an adjournment so that they could make enquiry houses in slaughterhouses. | methods | 24. After the death of Mary Kelly Abberline arrived quickly and said that no-one should be allowed to enter or leave the court." | methods | 25. Abberline, sent a telegram to Sir Charles Warren to bring the bloodhounds so as to trace the murderer if possible..." Abberline also sifted through the ashes of the grate in Mary Kelly’s room where her clothes had been burned. | methods | 26. Polly Nichols: After the police sent for Dr Llewellyn, the coroner, he arrived at around 4am and carried out an examination of the body and, noting the severity of the wounds to the throat, pronounced life extinct. | methods | 27. He also observed that Polly Nichols body and legs were still warm, although her hands and wrists were quite cold. He decided that she could not have been dead for more than half an hour. | methods | 28. Henry Moore in 1889: To give you an idea of it, my men formed a circle around the spot where one of the murders took place, guarding, they thought, every entrance and approach, and within a few minutes they found fifty people inside the lines. They had come in through two passageways which my men could not find. | hindered | 29. George Hutchinson was a witness in the Mary Kelly murder. He was walked around with police officers to see if he could identify the murderer. | Method | 30. Photographs were used to take Mary Kelly’s murder scene as it was in a house. This meant the scene had been undisturbed. | methods |
The media was not recognised as being useful means to find the killer. Howard Vincent, in charge of CID in 1878 said: “Police must not on any account give any information whatever to gentlemen connected with the press” &choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 30)
Reporting by the press threw a number of false leads which pushed a stretched police force. The press did not like the police.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 30)
The East London advertiser: It is clear that the Detective Department at Scotland Yard is in an utterly hopeless and worthless condition; and that if there were a capable Director of criminal investigations, the scandalous exhibition of stupidity and ineptitude revealed at the East End inquests, and the immunity enjoyed by criminals, murder after murder, would not have angered and disgusted the Public feelings as it has done.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 30)
The Pall Mall Gazette reported, "...not quite 300 men, all told, 80 of whom are inspectors and 120 sergeants, with less than a hundred other distributed about the twenty-two metropolitan divisions..." Monro had recognised the need for more detectives and applied to Warren for an increase in man power. Warren was adamant that no such increase was necessary and argued that constables in plain clothes were just as effective as detectives.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 30)
Mitre square was in the City of London so another police force was involved after the Eddowes murder, there was competition between the forces.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 30)
Mary Nichols was murdered in J division, Abberline consulted and they agreed that it was probably the work of one man and not a gang.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 30)
Photographs were taken of the women's eyeballs to see if an image of the murderer was on them. The prostitutes in the area were given a whistle that they could blow if they got into trouble.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 30)
2,000 people were interviewed in the square mile where the murders took place. Slums were raided in the hope of finding the killer hiding under a bed or in a cupboard. 80,000 leaflets were distributed calling for locals to report any suspicious individuals to the police.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 30)
Identification parades for witnesses to pick out the man they saw. One policeman was armed and "disguised" as a female prostitute to attract the Ripper. Several spiritualists were enlisted to interview the dead victims from "beyond the grave"&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 30)
Sailors were interviewed by Thames police. 76 Butchers and Slaughterers were visited.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 30)
Swanson: A portion of blood was collected from the roadway, the archway was opened to traffic.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 30)
Information was recorded in police ledgers. It is estimated that the Police ledgers had 36,000 entries. Many letters were sent in claiming to be the Ripper and leads in newspapers were followed.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 30)
Responsibility for hunting the Ripper fell to the Metropolitan Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), founded in April 1878, several of the original Scotland Yard Detective Branch had been jailed for being in the pay of a gang of swindlers.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 30)
Detectives had a poor reputation with the press and the people. Their morale was low and they needed more men&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 30)
James Munro, took over CID in 1887. He was answerable to General Sir Charles Warren, head of the Metropolitan police. He was also answerable to the Home Office. Munro and Warren did not get on.&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 30)
Donald Swanson: was in overall charge of the Whitechapel murders police investigation on the 7th of September 1888. He had to assess all the information that the Jack the Ripper investigation he was the one man who had access to every strand of data on the case. &choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 30)
Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, had been a former army general. People though he was only good for policing crowds and keeping order rather than detective work. He was especially criticized for not offering a reward but this was the Home Secretary not him.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 30)
Frederick Abberline: He worked in H division for 14 years before being promoted to Scotland Yard. They decided the local detective force would benefit from experienced officers at Scotland Yard. By the time Annie Chapman was murdered he was the lead officer on the case.&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 30)
After the murder of Catherine Eddowes there was an apron found in the doorway of Gouslton Street as well as writing on the wall.&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 30)
'The Juwes [sic] are not the men to be blamed for nothing,' it was suggested this was written by the killer. Warren ordered the words to be removed, fearing an anti-Semitic backlash in an area with a large Jewish population &choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 30)
Dr Llewelyn thought as a result of his post mortem on Polly Nichols that the injuries on the body had been inflicted with great violence, with a long-bladed, moderately sharp knife.&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 30)
Each of the cuts had been inflicted violently and in a downward motion, cutting from left to right as though they were inflicted by a left-handed person. All of the injuries were made with the same weapon.&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 30)
After Polly Nichols murder Abberline asked for an adjournment so that they could make enquiry houses in slaughterhouses.&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 30)
After the death of Mary Kelly Abberline arrived quickly and said that no-one should be allowed to enter or leave the court."&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 30)
Abberline, sent a telegram to Sir Charles Warren to bring the bloodhounds so as to trace the murderer if possible..." Abberline also sifted through the ashes of the grate in Mary Kelly’s room where her clothes had been burned.&choe=UTF-8
Question 25 (of 30)
Polly Nichols: After the police sent for Dr Llewellyn, the coroner, he arrived at around 4am and carried out an examination of the body and, noting the severity of the wounds to the throat, pronounced life extinct.&choe=UTF-8
Question 26 (of 30)
He also observed that Polly Nichols body and legs were still warm, although her hands and wrists were quite cold. He decided that she could not have been dead for more than half an hour.&choe=UTF-8
Question 27 (of 30)
Henry Moore in 1889: To give you an idea of it, my men formed a circle around the spot where one of the murders took place, guarding, they thought, every entrance and approach, and within a few minutes they found fifty people inside the lines. They had come in through two passageways which my men could not find.&choe=UTF-8
Question 28 (of 30)
George Hutchinson was a witness in the Mary Kelly murder. He was walked around with police officers to see if he could identify the murderer.&choe=UTF-8
Question 29 (of 30)
Photographs were used to take Mary Kelly’s murder scene as it was in a house. This meant the scene had been undisturbed.&choe=UTF-8
Question 30 (of 30)
