4901.265.01 Computers and Society (Spring 2002)

Homework 1

Web Quiz

Due Date

Wednesday, February 27 (in class)

Assignment

Using Google (google.com), the Internet Archive (www.archive.org), and any other web-based references you want, try to answer as many of the following questions are you can. Provide URL attributions.

  1. The name of the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

  2. The name of George Washington's father.

  3. The names of the German federal states.

  4. The name of the Prime Minister of Egypt.

  5. In the television show Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, the name of Buffy's friend Willow's mother.

  6. The list of airlines serving Philadelphia International airport

  7. The schedule of USAir flights between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

  8. The position help by our University Provost have before she came to Rowan. Also, where and when she earned her PhD.

  9. The name of our University President's wife (if married).

  10. The oldest public (Usenet) posting by Stewart Clamen.

  11. Three television shows of which Stewart Clamen is a big fan.

  12. Stewart Clamen's home address before he moved to South Jersey.

  13. Current market value of Mario Lemieux's home in Sewickley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.