Nancy Drew #22: Trail of the Twister Quiz

Answer: Scott Varnell

The setting for this game is Canute, Oklahoma, where Nancy is aiding a storm chasing team as the new intern while trying to uncover whoever has been sabotaging the team. Scott is the team leader, and you meet him after solving the twister quiz on the computer in the basement. Although Debbie is the first one to speak to you, you don't meet her until after talking to Scott.

Answer: LED display

Chase is the team's field research assistant; he describes his job as "fixin' stuff". You have to fix the display by rearranging numbered fuses in the proper order, after which you get to talk to Chase.

Answer: Pete

Nancy does not get to talk to Pete during the game, but it is learned that he broke his leg after getting caught in a hailstorm because of a severed coolant hose.

Throughout the month before the game's release, Her Interactive (the company that makes the "Nancy Drew" games) put up and hosted "Storm Chaser Pete's Blog", in which Pete discussed the goings-on of the Canute chase team.

Answer: The Creature of Kapu Cave

Scott mentions the Hilihili Research Center as one of the companies that helps fund the farmhouse. Nancy later learns that the agricultural team, who shares the farmhouse with the chase team, is working with the Hilihili on a research project.

Answer: Homesteaders

According to Pa, the friendly owner of the general store, the divining rod is believed by some to be able to find oil. Nancy does not find the divining rod until the second-to-last day of the game.

Answer: 9

Pa Pennies, souvenir tokens created by Pa, can be earned either by fixing circuit boards for Chase or playing Land Rush in the museum. They can also be found scattered throughout the farmhouse and elsewhere.

Nancy can hold 9,999 Pa Pennies at once, and the mystery box costs 9,990. Inside the mystery box is a coin which can be used to get an Easter egg from the Jackalope Fight machine.

Answer: P. G. Krolmeister

P. G. Krolmeister is the owner of the Krolmeister company, who, in Nancy's words, makes "pretty much everything." And indeed, Krolmeister products can be seen in many Nancy Drew games. Krolmeister himself is the one who hired Nancy for the case, as he is the one sponsoring the chase team. He is very old, but also quite energetic.

Unusually, Bess and George cannot be called in this game. Nancy can call Frank and Joe at any point, and even get hints from them. Pa calls Nancy once towards the end of the game.

Answer: Setting up the Fujita scale display

After setting up the Fujita scale display in the museum, Brooke, leader of the rival Kingston University chase team, comes in and tries to get information from Pa about Scott's team. Brooke is heard one more time in the game, after Nancy finds the Bluetooth device on Scott's desk (this is immediately after fixing the phone jack).

Answer: False

There are four possible ways to die or get fired in this game, and three of them occur while driving. Those three are crashing the car too many times, driving into the hail after fixing the communication antennae, and driving into the twister during the final chase.

However, Nancy can also die by either failing to unlock the storm shelter at the Grange theater in time, or leaving the shelter before the tornado has passed (the same death scene happens for both of those).

Answer: Key

Nancy spots the key at the base of one of the antennae, but has to drive back to the farmhouse while avoiding a massive hailstorm. She later discovers that the key is for Scott's desk drawer, and she finds important information in there.

The other three items are also found in the game. The utility knife is behind a coil of wire on a table in Scott's office; the MP3 player belongs to Chase, and Frosty has Nancy return it; and the divining rod is beside a pool of oil at the springhouse.

Answer: Moon Chunk

Moon Chunks are actually cheese, so Nancy can use them for catching mice, which she must do four times during the game. The other candies, along with others (such as Koko Kringles, another common item in Nancy Drew games), can be purchased at Ma 'n Pa's and either eaten or given to characters.

If Nancy leaves cheese for the mice at the springhouse after releasing them, she gets an Easter egg.

Answer: Television

After the television is fixed, it briefly shows the storm footage Frosty had shot, only credited to someone else. Nancy confronts Frosty, who admits that he had sold the footage to a friend who was trying to become a weather photographer.

Answer: Chase

Chase had stolen the divining rod so he could find oil. He is caught because Nancy first overhears him trying to clean oil off his boots, and later finds the divining rod at the springhouse next to an oil puddle.

If Nancy sticks the divining rod in the old prarie dog holes by the cornfield, she can find an Easter egg.

Answer: Scott

Scott was angry at being mistreated by the other faculty at Canute College, so he made a deal with Brooke: he would sabotage his team's chances of winning, and Brooke would pay him an enormous sum of money. However, Nancy (of course) figures this out, and is able to catch him.

Answer: Springhouse

After unlocking the shelter at the Grange and waiting out the worst of the storm, Nancy gets in a two-minute car chase with Scott. Eventually, Scott crashes at the springhouse, but fortunately, Nancy is able to pry off the boards holding the door shut using a big piece of metal, and she and Scott are safe.