SCAVENGER HUNT!

1. Weight of Worlds Biggest Pumpkin???

http://www.usefultrivia.com/holiday_trivia/halloween_trivia_006a.html - through dogpile
The world's record for biggest pumpkin is currently held by a gigantic gourd weighing a whopping 1,385 pounds!

http://www.verybestbaking.com/products/libbys/trivia_answers.aspx#7- through dogpile
Gerry Checkon of Altoona, Pennsylvania grew a pumpkin weighing 1,131 pounds from Atlantic Giant seed stock on October 2, 1999.

http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm- through yahoo
The largest pumpkin ever grown is 1,502 pounds. It was grown by Ron Wallace of Greene, Rhode Island. It was weighed in on October 7, 2006 at the Rhode Island Weigh-off.


2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?

Go to his changeroom at a swimming event?


3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giraffe.html- through yahoo
18 inch (46 cm)

AND

A giraffe's tongue can be 29 inches (74 cm) in length. (Turin, M.S. Aardvarks to Zebras, New York: Citadel Press, 1995.) - Found via yahoo.


4. How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?

Searched through yahoo. Typed in 'Definition: Ontology'
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization.
I believe ontology is a branch of study concerned with the nature and relations of being, or things which exist. The study of what kinds fo things exist, what entities there are in the universe.


5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?

Search retrieved via Ask.com
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=15821017&trkid=134852
Director David Cronenberg's first feature film, 'Shivers'.

http://home.comcast.net/~tatemanor/feature_makers/director_david_cronenberg.htm
First feature 'Stereo' (1969).

http://www.northernstars.ca/directorsal/cronenbergbio.html
In 1966, he directed his first short, 'Transfer', in which two men talk and eat across a table in a snowy field and end up engaged in a duel in which they flap their neckties at one another.


6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto- through yahoo

The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a small essay written January 8, 1986 by a hacker who went by the handle (or pseudonym) of The Mentor (born Loyd Blankenship).



7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?s=aa9995345b0c739e04c9e7c823356e40&t=24980&page=3&pp=25
All phone numbers in the US depicted in film and on TV begin 555 beacause that particular 3 digit code doesn't exist, and no phone numbers in the US begin 555, therefore you don't get freaks phoning numbers they see on tv or at the cinema.



8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?

I dont know, i dont want to go.



9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?

Typed in 'Music 1965' in yahoo search engine and found the Oz Net Music Chart
'Honey Don't' - The Beatles



10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?

Search through yahoo.
http://s472216.tblog.com/post/439925
Black Assain

http://jojow.tblog.com/
Black Assain

I discovered from this search engine excersise that the internet is FULL OF CRAP!!!!!! There is NOT just one answer! There are sooooooooooooo many different answers! ANYONE can put ANYTHING they want on the internet!!!!!