Scavenger Hunt

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
A gas mask. I found this on www.bing.com after looking for what seemed like a century for an answer that wasn’t on a blog from this course

2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
20 October 1969? Between UCLA and a computer at Stanford.
(Found at www.search.com)

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
28 october 1955 and aged fifteen when he sold his first software in 1970
(Found with www.yahoo.com)

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Switzerland.
(Found with www.hotbot.com)

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?

6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
8lbs
(Found on www.yahoo.com)

7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
1840
(www.yahoo.com)
Tweed head is in NSW
(I know where tweed is located)

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Severe cyclone
(www.ask.com)

9. Why is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?

10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
The Black Assassins. His name is Stephen Stockwell
(www.yahoo.com)