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15.4 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lexile: 810
Option A - horse riding; characters ride horses several times.
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 765
20.1 Opening Ceremonies - Round 2Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
(H) 1990-2002 / USA
+20 Task
+5 pre-1999
Task total: 25
Grand total: 790
Round 210.7 Discus Throw
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
+10 task (ring)
Task total: 10
Season total: 465
15.8 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
Horse - Option B � from page 59 a single stone was scant protection from a charging horse
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (544 pages)
Task total = 20
Season total = 1515
20.9 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
(J) 2015-2024
Author born in USA
+35 Task
Task total = 35
Season total = 1550
15.10 Olympic ScavengerNever Change by Elizabeth Berg
Volleyball - Option B page 4
"I sold the tickets and I decorated the gym and I helped win the volleyball games . . ."
Task total: 15
Finisher bonus: 100
Season total: 580
15.6 Olympic Scavenger Round 2Challenge The Widow-Maker And Other Stories Of People In Peril by Clark Howard
Surfboard-Option B: “All I've ever been was a soldier, a convict, and a surfboard maker.� pg.64
+15 Task
Post total=15
Season total=390
10.5 400 metresJust One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 995
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
10.9 Javelin ThrowUnmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 1005
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.1 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Option B, Swim - " She'd lived next to the ocean for her entire life, had learned to walk with salt on her lips and learned to swim before she could read."
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1020
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.9 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Rowing - Option A � The house party goes rowing on the lake.
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1565
20.10 Opening CeremoniesThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
(H) 1990-2002
Author born in United States
+35 Task
+5 pub 1997
+150 Finisher
Post Total: 190
Season Total: 1,180
20.8 Opening CeremoniesThe Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
(F) 1964-1976 / USSR
Published 1964, author born in Ukraine
+30 Task
+ 5 Old
Task total = 35
Season total = 510
15.1 Olympic Scavenger 2.0Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie
Op. A: horse riding: pg. 5 "For a wager he had ridden his favorite mare up the staircase of a ducal house.'
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 815
15.2 Olympic Scavenger 2.0Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Op B: golf: pg 118 "...his objection to golf as a game...'
15 task
5 oldie
______
20
Running total: 835
20.1 Opening CeremoniesSo Many Doors by E.R. Punshon
(D) 1938-1950
author born in the UK
+20 Task
+5 Before 1999 (1949)
Task total = 25
Season total = 550
15.9 Scavenger HuntReady Player Oneby Ernest Cline
"Each OASIS public school has the own athletic teams including WRESTLING." p 72
Task +15
Grand total: 170
CORRECTED Season total15.6 Olympic Scavanger
James by Percival Everett
15 pts Canoeing Option A. James and Huck canoe on the Mississippi River
Task total = 15 pts
Season total = 490 pts
Post 523
15 point tasks Round 2
15.1 Surfing Option A
15.2 Horseback riding Option A
15.3 Swimming Option A
15.4 Golf Option B
15.5 Horse/horseriding Option A
15.6 Canoe/canoeing Option A
20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom
20.2 1910-1923 United States
20.3 1938-1950 Australia
20.4 1924-1937 Belguim
20.5 1951-1963 Spain
10.2 Long Jump The Day of the Dead by Nicci French - MYSTERY genre
+10 task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 115
10.10 1500 Meters Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
+10 task (517 pages)
+5 jumbo
Task total: 15
Season Total: 150
15.7 Olympic Scavenger Round 2Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Horse-Option B: “I got my horse and buggy out of the livery stable, and drove out of town.� Ch. 10
+15 Task
+ 5 before 1999
Post total=20
Season total=410
20.9 Opening Ceremonies D - 1938 - 1950Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
Belgium
35 task
5 oldie
_____
40
Running total: 875
15.5 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2Taming the Tease by Golden Angel
Swim - Option A - characters swim in a pool several times
Task total: 15
Grand total: 805
15.2 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3Baumgartner by Paul Auster
Option B, sail - " ... but there is an equal chance that she will sail eastward under balmy skies from the moment she starts out..."
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1035
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x2); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.3 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Option B, row - " ' Row like the blazes, lads!' Rob Anybody yelled."
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1050
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.4 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård
Option B, (horse) riding - "I concluded that riding was his domain. He wanted to ride his horse in peace."
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1065
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
10.2 Long jumpThe Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Historical Fiction
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 1075
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
Decathlon -- 10.1 100 metresRead a book with 100-199 pages in the MPE. I read The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, 121 pp.
Points = 10
Bonus = 5 Before 1999, TTOTS 1st pub'd in 1888.
Total Points So Far = 85
Decathlon -- 10.8 Pole VaultI read the best novel winner for 2015 in the Nebula Awards, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
Points = 10
Total Points So Far = 95
10.7 Discus Throw"RING" found intact in the word "SPRING," I read Come Gentle Spring by Jesse Stuart.
Points = 10
Bonus = 5 Before 1999, 1st pub'd 1969.
Total Points So Far = 110
15.8 Olympic ScavengerRivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Option B, rowing:
"The young man in the hospital bed was named St John Giles and he was a rugby eight or rowing six or whatever at Oxford University who'd come into London for a night out."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 645
15.9 Olympic ScavengerThe Ice Cage by Olivier Nilsson-Julien
Option B, hockey:
"I was there for an ice hockey tournament and we met at the party held for the Mariehamn team."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 660
10.5 Decathlon, 400 MetresSlow Dance by Rainbow Rowell, MPE 400 pages
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Season total: 670
10.2 Long JumpThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
scifi
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Season total = 520
Olympic Scavenger15.1- Cycling
As the title suggests... the main character bicycles through the streets of Port-of-Spain in Trinidad by Monique Roffey
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Task=15
Task Total:15
Grand Total= 75
Olympic Scavenger
� 15.1
20.1 Opening Ceremonies completed
Year bands:
(A) 1896-1909
(B) 1910-1923
(C) 1924-1937
(D) 1938-1950
(E) 1951-1963
(F) 1964-1976
(G) 1977-1989
(H) 1990-2002
� (I) 2003-2014
(J) 2015-2024
Host countries:
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, � United States, USSR (including any former USSR country: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
15.5 Olympic ScavengerSwim/Swimming option A
A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn
Protagonist Stoker swims to find help when he and others are stranded on a island.
. He swam to St. Maddens. God only knows he managed it. He landed in the beach half-dead then roused the men with the summoning bell.
Task Total 15
Season Total 230
10.8 Decathlon, Pole VaultNettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher, Hugo Award for Best Novel 2023
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Season total: 680
15.6 Olympic ScavengerUnder The Wave At Waimea by Paul Theroux
Option A: Surfing. The main character’s life revolves around surfing.
+15
Season total: 165
15.10 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Trust No One by Jayne Ann Krentz
Dive - Option B � from p 320 You’re going to need some financing to pull out of the dive..
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Finisher bonus = 100
Season total = 1680
20.10 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Return to Coolami by Eleanor Dark
(C) 1924-1937
Author born in Australia
+35 Task
+5 Before (pub 1936)
Task total = 40
Finisher bonus = 150
Season total = 1870
15.7 Olympic ScavengerA Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Sailing - Option A - the main character sails on the Thames with Detective Mornaday
Task total: 15
Season total: 165
15.8 Olympic ScavengerThe Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson
Wrestling - Option B - "You could have made it worse," Lily said. If you'd tried to wrestle the gun away he might have shot everyone in that classroom." pg. 158
Task total: 15
Season total: 180
Decathlon Round 210.9 Javelin Throw
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
+10 Task: JAvelin
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 880
15.10 Olympic ScavengerHorse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Horse or horse-riding Option A- The book is all about horse racing and riding.
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (640)
Task Total: 20
Olympic Scavenger Finish: 100
Season Total: 1000
20.1 Opening Ceremonies Round 2Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
(A) 1896-1909
Author born in UK
+20 Task (1898)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1898)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1025
Decathlon Round 210.4 High Jump
Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman
+10 Task: 4.30 Rating
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1040 (adjusted total)
15.3 Olympic Scavenger 2.0The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie
op B: sailing: pg 241 "It's all plain sailing..."
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 895
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(J) 2015-2024 / China
Task total: 35
+150 Opening Ceremonies finish
Post total: 185
Grand total: 750