Scavenger Hunt

The scavenger hunt questions and their answers:....

As part of todays task we were given some questions to find using search engines that are not Google or wikipedia, and told to think about where we get the answers from and do we believe the answers to be true. So using these search engines you do have to be diligent in what you use as a reference site. I have tried to do that here....

1.) Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

Onel de Guzman of Manilla is believed to be the creator of the love bug virus. I found this information of CNN.com archives after searching yahoo.com

2.) Who invented the paperclip?

A man by the name of Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor. He patented his version of the paper clip in Germany in 1899. However, an English company call Gem manufacturing patented the creation and design of the paper clip we know in 1899. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm I found this site using askjeeves.com

3.) How did the Ebola virus get its name?

The Ebola virus got its name from the Ebola river that goes through the Sudan and the Ivory Coast where the virus originated. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/Fact_Sheets/Ebola_Fact_Booklet.pdf I found this site using Altavista.com

4.) What country had the largest recorded earthquake?

With a magnitude 9.5 (Mw), Chile had had the largest recorded earthquake on May 22, 1960. Taken from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/facts.php, to get this information, I used Askjeeves.com

5.) In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1 kilobyte = 1073741824 terabyte. I found my answer on http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/storage_converter.htm and I found this site on yahoo.com

6.) Who is the creator of email?

Using yahoo.com I found inventors.about.com again for the name of the person whom created email. It was Ray Tomlinson who invented the internet based electronic mail, in 1971. http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm

7.) What is unique about the political organisation of the Kingdom of Nri?

Using Yahoo.com, I found this website http://www.nrikingdom.com/ which lead me on to more sites, where I found out the Nri or Eri people, rather than just inheriting your chief hood you had to earn it. An individuals fitness to govern was determined by his wisdom and his wisdom by his age and experience. Land, obtained through inheritance, was the measure of wealth. Handicrafts and commerce were well developed, and a relatively dense population characterized the region. Despite the absence of chiefs, some Igbo relied on an order of priests, chosen from outsiders on the northern fringe of Igboland, to ensure impartiality in settling disputes between communities. I found this using yahoo.com

8.) If you wanted to contact the prime minister of Australia directly, what is the most efficient way?

You can send mail to the PM

The Hon John Howard MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House

CANBERRA, ACT 2600
or you can contact the PM by going to this website http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm. I found this website using yahoo.com You also can reply and commetn to his Youtube post.

9.) Which Brisbane punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?Using Alltheweb.com I found this site http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/2005/content/standard.asp?name=StockwellS which shows a mini biography of all the contributers to the brisbane writers festival and it states that Stephen Stockwell, wrote music and played keyboard for a band called the Black Assassins.

10.) What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?

Web 2.0, is essentially the ability for everyday people to contribute to the content that is on the web. Using applications which use a kind of architecture by participation, like flickr, you tube, ebay, myspace, facebook, a person is encouraged to add value to the application as they use it. Its turning away from what application creators want you to be able to interact rather than tell you what you are to see and do on the web.