Week 5 - Tutorial Task

Part 2.
Scavenger Hunt
Without using Google or Wikipedia, try to answer the following questions and post your answers to your blog.

Provide the URL (with the date you accessed it) of where you found the answer. Describe how you found it.

1. Where was the first University established and in which year?
Nalanda University was established in what is now Eastern India in c. 450 CE.

URL: The Independent. (accessed on August 24, 2011)
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

2. What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
The band is called The Black Assassins. Stephen plays the keyboard and contributes to vocals. A few of the bands songs are: Death Take Me Now, Drugs, and Azaria.

URL: How I found it.

3. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
The world's biggest machine, the Liebherr T 282B, weighs in at 203 tons. It cost $US3.5M to build.

URL: World's Largest Machines Ever Built. (accessed on August 24, 2010)
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

4. Who is Justin Bieber's lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?
Bieber's lawyer is Kenneth Feinswog.

URL: Mention of his lawyer. (accessed on August 24, 2011)
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

How you can find him: Calling him on (310) 846-5800.

URL: State Bar of California.
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.


5. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
Definitely flying.
Flying: From $89
Greyhound: From $105
Trains: Approx. $141.22

URL: (all websites were accessed on August 24, 2011)
Flights.
Greyhound.
Trains.

SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

6. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
Hatsune Miku is a computer music software program that creates synthesized singing. It belongs to the Cryton Future Media company and was released on August 31, 2007.

URL: Crypton.
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.


7. Find a live webcam in Belarus. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
LIVE WEBCAM: Belarus.
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

Staying in Antartica. You can only stay on the boat as Antartica only homes research facilities.
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

8. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1991?
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Byran Adams.

URL: Aria Charts.
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

9. What type of car is used to make ‘Google Street View’?
The car used is the new Volkswagon Beetle.

URL: Google Street View Car
SEARCH ENGINE: How I found it.

10. Translate these questions into Spanish and then translate them back into English.

Into Spanish:

1. ¿Dónde estuvo la primera Universidad establecido y en que año?
2. ¿Qué es llamada la banda de Stephen Stockwell y qué juega él? ¿Puede denominar un par de sus canciones?
3. ¿Qué es el peso de la máquina más grande de mundo? ¿Cuánto costó construir?
4. ¿Quién es el abogado de Justin Bieber, y qué son la mejor manera (más rápido, más seguro) contactar al abogado?
5. ¿Qué es la forma más barata de viaje de la Costa de oro a Melbourne?
6. ¿Quién es Hatsune Miku? ¿A qué compañía pertenece ella? ¿Qué es sus cumpleaños?
7. Encuentre una webcam viva en Bielorrusia. Encuentre que un lugar para permanecer en Antártida.
8. ¿Qué canción fue la cima del taponazo australiano traza esta semana en 1991?
9. ¿Qué tipo de coche es utilizado para hacer 'Vista de Calle de Google'?
10. Traduzca estas preguntas en español y entonces tradúzcalos atrás al inglés.

Spanish Translation back to English:

1. Where it was the first University established and in which year?
2. What is called the band of Stephen Stockwell and what plays he? It can call a pair of its songs?
3. What is the weight of the largest machine of world? How much it cost to build?
4. Who is the lawyer of Justin Bieber, and what they are the best way (faster, surer) to contact the lawyer?
5. What is the cheapest form of trip of the Coast of gold to Melbourne?
6. Who is Hatsune Miku? Why company belongs she? What is its birthday?
7. Find a webcam alive in Belarus. Find that a place to remain in Antarctica.
8. What song was the top of the Australian pop outline this week in 1991?
9. What type of car is utilized to do 'View of Street of Google'?
10. Translate these questions in Spanish and then translate them behind to the English.

URL: Translate Website
SEARCH ENGINE: Free Translation.