Photo by Sam Yu Ed Lombard holds a Frederick's Treasure Hunt map Sunday afternoon at the Frederick Visitor Center on East Church Street as Tourism Council volunteer Peggy Alley looks on.

If you have some free time and you want the answers to these and about 20 more questions, you are the perfect candidate for Frederick 's Treasure Hunt, a scavenger challenge designed to showcase little-known bits of city history.

Frederick Story (part of Celebrate Frederick Inc.) started the hunt two years ago, and the Tourism Council picked up where the group left off, council executive director John Fieseler said.

The hunt takes participants to 23 historic sites in downtown Frederick , most on Church Street. Others are on Second, Carroll, Record, and Patrick streets, and in Baker Park.

Fieseler has seen mainly families and groups of children heading out of the visitor center with Treasure Hunt maps, he said. Many local families are using the hunt as a staycation, a trend that has kept would-be vacationers closer to home this summer due to high gas prices.

Council volunteer Peggy Alley said some businesses have even used the hunt as a team-building exercise for employees.

While those who complete the hunt receive a token gift (a Tourism Council pencil, Fieseler said), the main purpose is to introduce participants to local history with which they likely aren't familiar.

"It shares some tidbits of Frederick history that people who are here every day or even live here may not know," Fieseler said. "It's not so much trivia, but more visual things."