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BALTIMORE & ANNAPOLIS SCAVENGER HUNTS
Ready for team-building with a dash of culture? On each of our scavenger hunts, you decipher clues to answer tricky, funny questions about the places you visit and things you find. Our hunts have been acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, the New York Times, ABC News, Citysearch, Daily Candy and numerous other media outlets. More than 1000,000 hunters have gone our scavenger hunts from numerous prestigious companies, not to mention trade associations, social groups, alumni groups, bachelorettes, school groups and more. For details on how the hunts work, and to see our rave reviews and prestigious clients, visit the Private Hunts page. Our locations include... The National Aquarium in Baltimore Fell’s Point The Walters Art Museum Annapolis ...And Beyond The Swimming with Sharks Hunt at the National Aquarium Search for exotic and bizarre fish in one of America’s premier aquariums. Five levels of numerous tanks take your investigation to a tropical rain forest, an Amazon river forest, tropical coral reefs, a four-story coral reef tank, and murky depths where the giant Pacific octopus lurks. You’ll watch gliding sting rays, hear the crackling voltage of an electric eel, peer into the teeth of sharks, dodge tropical birds, spot a pygmy marmoset, and rub your eyes at the brilliant colors of tropical fish and poison dart frogs. Along the way, you’ll uncover the answers to such questions as... • Which two Atlantic fish like to play the crying game? Answer: Black sea bass and gag groupers change from female to male. • Which multicolored fish might be packin’ heat in case others laugh at it? The clown triggerfish (trigger-fish) • What variety of other white meat might better be called la otra carne blanca? The Spanish hogfish Our standard National Aquarium hunt is 90 minutes, although we can extend the hunt to two hours if you’d like to include the half-hour Dolphin Show, with live dolphins performing live in a theater. For more information about the aquarium, visit www.aqua.org. Contact us for more information about the hunt. Back to the top The Fell’s Point Frenzy Scavenger Hunt Featured in the Baltimore Sun Dating back to colonial times, this neighborhood offers an exciting mix of cobblestone streets, 19th-century buildings, historic places, waterside walkways, harbor views, and lively new stores, bars and restaurants. Even Hollywood loves the area: It has served as a set for such movies as Sleepless in Seattle and Avalon, and the classic TV series Homicide. We’ll take you to those locations and cover all of the highlights on our fast-paced tour. You’ll search for answers to such questions as... • Near the Broadway Pier, where Meg Ryan was Sleepless in Seattle, what was Frederick Douglass’ Peculiar accomplishment? Answer: He graduated from a place called Peculiar Institution, according to a sign. • The Homicide detectives hung out at a place where it seems particularly convenient to drown your sorrows. What else should get drowned here? “Whoever serves beer or wine watered down,” according to a sign outside the Waterfront Bar. • What high and mighty ballot proposal might get you to say, “I’ll drink to that!”? “Vote against prohibition,” in a fading ad painting high up on the side of a building. Fell’s Point makes a great location for a 90-minute hunt, and there are plenty of fun restaurants and bars for a post-hunt party. For more fun, you can add our creative Team Photo Questions. For more information on Fell’s Point, visit www.fellspoint.us. Contact us for more information about the hunt. Back to the top The Walters Art Museum: The Museum Madness Hunt Go on an eye-popping journey across centuries and cultures on one of our famous museum hunts. You don’t need to know anything about art; the emphasis is on using your eyes and your wits. But after our whirlwind tour you’ll come away from the hunt eager to return on your own. With its majestic, mansion-like rooms (some still resembling the residences they originally were), the Walters is full of twists and turns and galleries and works you may never have suspected were there. Highlights include mummies, a snake that tells time, a cow turning into a woman, an exorcism, a deadly dice game, suits of armor, and Impressionists. You’ll discover the answers to such questions as... • What Greek wise guy can’t get his wife off his back? Aristotle, seen on all fours with his wife on his back. • Whose severed limb inspires surgeons? A reliquary once contained the arm of St. Panteleon, patron saint of physicians. • How many milk containers take a gander at a “goose”? Two cows observe ‘The Goose Girl’ in a painting by Millet. • What “two-lipped” enemy do soldiers stamp out? Soldiers trample tulips in Gerome’s painting ‘The Tulip Folly.’ For more information on the Walters Art Museum, visit www.thewalters.org. Contact us for more information about the hunt. Back to the top Annapolis: The Secrets of Annapolis Scavenger Hunt See the best of Annapolis on a whirlwind tour that reveals the best of the town while uncovering its hidden history and surprising sights. Highlights include hidden gardens and mews, sneaky and startling modern art, a small museum that tranports you into the past, a salute to the author of Roots, the home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, unusual architecture, a drummer’s warning, a puzzling device outside an old inn, stately homes, the college stomping grounds of Francis Scott Key, flippant signs and the gnarled giant tree of Mrs. Chew-Paca (who was not a Wookie). The two-hour daytime edition includes a visit to the inspiring grounds of the Naval Academy and its Museum and Gallery of Ships. You don’t need to know anything about the town for your team to unravel the mysteries and answer our tricky, humorous questions—but you’ll come away with a keen appreciation of the town. You’ll tackle such questions as... • Where Founders slept, a secret society has met. What is at the center of their repeated symbol? On the site of Mann’s Tavern, which was visited by several Founding Fathers, there now stands a meeting place for the Freemasons, with a symbol with a G in the center seen on their door and in a light above the door. • At the waterfront that’s not, what something fake comes out of something real. What is the real thing? In a very realistic mural, fake water runs out of a real hole in the wall. • Near a theater that converted into a church, find a house that seems as if the neighbors are trying to squeeze it out–maybe because the “paleface” doesn’t fit in. What number is the misfit? No. 168, with white clapboards, is exceedingly narrow, between brick houses. The hunt is available in 90-minute and two-hour editions (with the two-hour edition including the Naval Academy, as noted above). You can add Team Photo Challenges to the game to spur creativity and add to the fun. Contact us for more information about the hunt. Back to the top ...And Beyond! Other possible great hunt locations include... • The Baltimore Museum of Art • The Maryland Science Center • Washington, D.C. You can also suggest a new location for a classic Watson Adventures hunt, or you can try our popular, tradittional Grab ’n’ Go Hunt, which we’ve staged for companies at parks, resorts, neighborhoods, Disneyland, even in apartment buildings and homes. Contact us for more information. ON YOUR MARK, GET SET... For more information about these hunts or others in the Baltimore area, use our handy e-mail Contact Form. Or call Watson Adventures at 877-9-GO HUNT (877-946-4868), extension 11. The hunt’s afoot! TRY A PUBLIC HUNT Watson Adentures offers monthly hunts in Washington, D.C., that are open to the public for a low promotional price. To see the latest schedule, see the Washington, D.C./Baltimore edition of The Culture Vulture. It also includes amazing trivia, jokes from famous comedians, and links to cool and offbeat Web sites. If you’d like to receive this free quaterly newsletter in your own e-mail box, sign up here—and on the next page you’ll see, be sure to check off "Washington, D.C./Baltimore Area":  (We do NOT share your address with purveyors of spam.) Back to the top © 2005, 2007, 2008 Watson Adventures LLC Last update: 14-May-2010 1:43 PM |