CSCI 100 Web Search Assignment

Directions: Use the internet to find the answers to the following questions. You should copy the contents of this web page to a blank WordPad page, and type your answers below their corresponding questions. Once this is done, you should print your answers and turn them in. Be sure to include your name at the top of your answers, in the file (not written on later). You should include BOTH the answer to the question AND the link where you found the answer. You may NOT use Wikipedia for more than three of your answers!!!

0. NAME:

1. What is the cheapest price you can find on the web for the print version of the textbook for our course? (Not rental, not ebay, not e-book, but purchasing a hard copy of it) What company sells it for this price?

2. What restaurants in Oneonta take online orders?

3. Get the name of someone sitting around you that you don’t know. See how much information about them you can find on the internet. Give their name and all the information you found, as well as the web sites you used to find it.

4. What is the current temperature and wind chill in Mt. Washington, NH? Where can I find the snow report for Wolf Creek Pass in CO? What are the current surface conditions? What is the current temperature?

5. What is the cheapest price you can find for a graphics card for your computer that uses the new GeForce TITAN X graphics card? What store is selling it for that price? Is the vendor reputable, or a fly-by-night operation? How did you determine this?

6. What are the names and locations (states) of the nine dams on the Tennessee River?

7. Find a recipe for making that old military favorite for breakfast, SOS. Gold stars if you can find the one that says start with a quarter of a cow.

8. What does the word absquatulate mean?

9. What is the molecular formula and the molecular weight of ethyl alcohol (the kind you drink)? What is its melting and boiling point? How does it differ from methyl alcohol?

10. What is the US penny composed of (materials and percentages)? What denominations of coins has the US Mint issued over the years?

11. What is the strangest thing you have looked up on the internet? What site did you use to find it?

SAMPLE: What are the current weather conditions in Oneonta?