Tutorial Task - Scavenger Hunt

1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
Ron Wallace's pumpkin weighed in at1502 pound at the Frerichs Farm GPC on Oct 7, 2006.
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/

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

Access his blog: http://granthackett.bigblog.com.au/index.do

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

They have long tongues that measure 18-21 inches long. The inner part of the tongue is pink in color, and then changes to a purplish-black color for the last 6 inches that are commonly visible.

http://www.cmzoo.org/giraffeinfo.html

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

The world ontology has many applications. In the communications sense its basically a system of categorising all the concepts, properties and/or objects in a certain field. Possibly a system of breaking down an idea or concept by labelling and classifying individual bits, parts or ideas to determine what makes it whole or how it works.
http://www.answers.com/topic/ontology-computer-science?method=6

5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
The director's first feature film slithered onscreen in 1975. "Shivers" (aka "The Parasite Murders" and "They Came From Within") is the story of a parasite, designed to help ailing human organs, that goes out of control with sickening results.
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/

6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
small essay written January 8th 1986 by Lloyd Blankenship, a hacker who went by the pseudonym of The Mentor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto

7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?
At one time, phone companies actually offered a service that helped the movie and TV industries come up with realistic-sounding dead phone numbers, but they reportedly ran out of them. Now, most of the time, the entertainment industry still falls back on 555, which was officially set aside for it in 1973. There is no real phone number beginning with 555.
http://www.eonline.com/print/index.jsp?uuid=15c80ea6-9c1f-4c67-8f5f-6af2efaf7145&contentType=answerBitch

8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?
I'm gonna go ahead and guess boat rather than plane. The Bottom Line on Greek Ferries - Have lots of time and energy but not much money? Greek ferries are great, off-season or high-season. http://gogreece.about.com/od/hydrofoilsferries/a/greeceferries.htm

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
I'll Never Find Another You by The Seekers
http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/topspot/1965.htm

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band, the Black Assassins
http://www.griffith.edu.au/search/search.cgi?collection=griffith&query=Stephen+Stockwell++band