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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSFrank and Joe Hardy are the teenage sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective in the small city of Bayport. On a motorcycle errand one Saturday, the brothers nearly get run off the road twice by a reckless driver with red hair, and later discover the car he had been driving wrecked and abandoned with its license plates removed. The same day, their friend Chet Morton finds his bright yellow jalopy stolen right from his locked garage. When the boys piece together that the red-haired driver stole Chet's car and also tried to rob the local ferryboat ticket office, they push to track him down themselves, hoping to solve their very first real case.
Free Battle of the Books questions for The Tower Treasure
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about The Tower Treasure. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a brown-eyed classmate complain that a speeding driver made her drop a cake?
✓ Answer
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
Callie Shaw, walking down the road with a battered package, blames Chet because she thinks he loaned the car to the reckless driver. Her sighting confirms the thief is heading into Bayport.
- First half
In what book is a forty-thousand-dollar haul of jewels and securities taken from a safe in a library?
✓ Answer
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
Fenton Hardy explains to his sons that the Applegate safe was opened either by someone who knew the combination or by an expert who could hear the tumblers. The haul becomes the heart of the central mystery.
- First half
In what book does a boy turn down a hat band and find two short strands of red hair?
✓ Answer
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
Joe takes the felt hat into a patch of sunlight and finds the giveaway hairs under the band. The strands match the wig, linking the thief's clothes, his disguise, and the crimes together.
- Second half
In what book do two boys plot to make a checkered-suit detective miss his six-o'clock plane?
✓ Answer
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
Frank and Joe round up their friends to delay Oscar Smuff so he cannot catch the early flight to Albany and bungle their father's deathbed interview with the captured thief.
- Second half
In what book does a boy tumble over a railing and save himself by grabbing two stair spindles?
✓ Answer
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
When the stubborn trap door finally gives, Joe pitches over the balustrade but catches two spindles of the stairway below, saving himself from a five-story fall thanks to his gym training.
- Near the end
In what book does a digger uncover a buried chest that holds only foreign flower bulbs?
✓ Answer
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
Frank's spade strikes a small chest at the foot of the old tower. The lid hides a load of European flower bulbs the caretaker had buried to keep cool, not stolen goods.
