Homework 2:  Web Searching

Answer the following questions by finding the information on the Internet. To receive credit for answering the question, you must provide the answer as well as the following:

1. the exact URL of the page where you found it,
2. the name of the search engine, subject tree, or clearinghouse you used to find the answer
3. the search term or subject category you used to find the answer

(Note that for items 2 and 3 I am only interested in your successful searches; you do not need to include information about unsuccessful search attempts).

To satisfy the homework requirement, you must answer any 20 questions. In addition, you must use at least 5 different search tools (engines, subject trees, clearinghouses) in your successful searches.  You have the option of working in pairs, in which case you must answer 30 questions.

This assignment is due Thursday, February 8, at the beginning of class.  It must be typed, with your answers taking something like the following form:

2.  What is Grace Hopper famous for?
Figuring out how to connect frobbles to wikkichikkies without grembling
the hoobercrums.

http://gracehopper.com/info/grace.htm

Yahoo:  Engineering -> Widgets -> Anti-Grembling Technology

A few tips on searching:

• If you are using Netscape, Click on File, then on New Web Browser. This will open up a new copy of Netscape in another window. That way you can keep this page, with a list of the questions in one window, and do your searching in another window.
• There are many different search engines, subject trees, etc.. Here is a list (with links) of many of them, in categories.
• Type the words carefully - misspelled words won't match.
• Use more words to limit the search. Check on the "Options", "Help", and/or "Advanced Search"  link of the search engine to see how to combine the words (most search engines use AND or +)
• Use capital letters only if the word must be capitalized.
• Most search engines treat each word separately. If you want a specific phrase, most search engines allow you to use quotes to force the words to be treated as a unit, e.g. "Moby Dick".

1. What is the weather forecast for Honolulu for today?
2. What is Grace Hopper famous for?
3. How many people can be seated in the State Dining Room in the White House?
4. What are the symptoms of typhoid?
5. Who said, "I have not yet begun to fight"?
6. What is the population of Chickaloon, Alaska?
7. What is the atomic number and symbol used for the element Selenium?
8. Who were Zeus' father and mother?
9. How do you say "seven" in Swahili?
10. Name one person on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List.
11. Who built the Taj Mahal, and when?
12. What is the cost of admission to the Louvre?
13. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche, and when did he live?
14. When is Bill Gates' birthday?
15. What is the ZIP code for Forest Junction, Wisconsin?
16. Who holds the United States Patent number 5,598,585? What is it for?
17. When was the Magna Carta signed?
18. What are sufganiyot?
19. Find a recipe for a main dish.
20. Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?
21. What is phylogeny?
22. State the Mean Value Theorem.
23. How many members are there in the Israeli Knesset?
24. Where else is there a place called Brooklyn, other than in New York City?
25. What is a Caenorhabditis elegans?
26. Where is there a Best Western hotel in Philadelphia?
27. Who is the current government leader of Ecuador?
28. At what time is there an American Airlines flight from Toronto, Ontario to Boston, Mass. on the morning of November 10, 1999?
29. Find an image of the flag of Eritrea.
30. What is COBOL?
31. Where was Mozart born? (exact street address)
32. What were the locations of the three most recent earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater?
33. Who was Artemis' twin brother?
34. What should you feed a pet iguana?
35. Name five textbooks written by Patrick Henry Winston after 1993.
36. What is a triple rattleback and how much would you expect to pay for one?
37. What is the estimated driving time between Portland, Oregon, and Corvallis, Oregon?
38. Find the average salary for a public school teacher working in the Newton School District in Massachusetts.
39. Are there any international agreements pertaining to world trade in dairy products?
40. How much water is consumed by the city of New York each day and where does that water come from?