Scavenger Hunt!!!

So for this week’s tutorial task we were told we had to do a Scavenger Hunt. However it’s not exactly a real physical Scavenger Hunt, it’s just 10 questions we have to answer without using Google or Wikipedia. Here goes....

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?

A GAS-MASK – to prevent hay-fever. http://www.nels.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/GURPS/WWII/Turing.htm

2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other?

1969

Where were they?

UCLA
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5842105.html

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?

OCTOBER 28
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/gates_bill.htm

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?

In CERN.. physics research facility, Switzerland. http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedwebwhy.html

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?

Every computer I have purchased over the last few years have each gotten faster in speed. It’s amazing.

6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown? Honestly.. that doesn’t interest me what so ever...

7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?

Queen Victoria gave her approval and signed Letters Patent on June 6 1859 to establish the new colony of Queensland.
http://www.about-australia.com/facts/queensland/history/

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?

Cyclone Season

9. Why is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?

Poetry
http://www.neuroticpoets.com/byron/

10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?

Black Assassins, Steven Stockwell
http://www.blackassassins.net/Party.html