Scavenger Hunt

The scvaneger hunt without using google is by far one of the most time consuming things i have eve done. Hopefully some of these answers are correct.


Answers:

1. In 2008, the world's heaviest pumpkin was weighed in America at 1,528 lb, which is about 693kg in kilograms (Guinness World Records, 2008).

I found a video on youtube about this pumpkin, however, an error message kept appearing when I tried to embed the video, so here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxg16hm0xsA


2. I'm going to take a stab at this question and say that the best way to contact Lilly Allen is on Twitter. She's always tweeting about what she's doing, and had gotten herself into a couple of fights with other famous celebrities on Twitter as well. Follow here at http://twitter.com/LilyroseAllen

3. A giraffe’s tongue is about 21 inches (53 centimeters) long (How Stuff Works, 2009).

4. When I saw the word 'glycomics' I imediately thought of sugar. Every women's magazine encourages girls to eat foods that have a low glycemic index, meaning they have less sugars and the sugar that is in them is realsed slower, rather than a massice sugar high you get from eating lollies. So my conclusion is that glycomics must be the study of sugars, their properties and how they affect the blood sugar level in the body.

The term 'seagull manager' refers to a type of management where a manager only speaks to emplyees when critiquing their work. Acting like a seagull and only diving in to pass criticism and then quickly leaving again, somewhat like a seagull who dives quickly for food. (Word Spy, 2009).

5. David Cronenberg's first feature film was in 1969 called Stereo. Debbie Harry, a.k.a Blondie, starred in his horror film Videodrome (Internet Movie Database, 2009).

6. The original 'Hacker's Manifesto' was a small essay written by Mckenzie Wark in 1986 (Harvard University Press, 2009)

7. " The answer lies 30 years ago or more when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978.
It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc.
Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen. Generic and satirical advertisements and commercials often used 555 numbers. In the early days of exchange names the prefix KLondike-5 was used as this exchange did not exist" (Mark Cuccia, 2009).

8. The cheapest way these days is highly most likely by traveling on a plane.

9. I Got You Babe- Sonny & Cher. http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Number-One-Songs-60s.html

10. The band that Stephen Stockwell plays in is the Black Assassins. Their homepage can be found on http://www.blackassassins.net/


Reference List

Guinness World Records (2008). World's Biggest and Heaviest Pumpkin Record 2008. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2008/10/worlds-biggest-and-heaviest-pumpkin.html

How Stuff Works, (2009). Giraffe. Retrieved on August 19 from http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/giraffe-info.htm

Word Spy (2009). Seagull Manager. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.wordspy.com/words/seagullmanager.asp

Internet Movie Database (2009). David Cronenberg. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/

Harvard University Press (2009). Hacker's Manifesto Mckenzie Wark. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html?show=reviews

Mark Cuccia (2009). Code 555 and the Movies. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.telephonecollecting.org/code.htm