week four questions

Question 1: Alan Turing wore a gas mask as he rode his bicycle around Bletchley Park. I found this through yahoo on http://www.fusionanomaly.net/alanturing.html

Question 2: In 1969 at U.C.L.A two computers communicated for the first time. I found this through yahoo on http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/990928looking.aspx

question 3: Bill Gates was born on the 28th of October in 1955. Gates made his first software program when he was thirteen years old but actually sold his first software when he was nineteen years old. This was also found through yahoo on www.answers.com/topic/bill-gates

question 4: The Worldwide Web was created by Tim Bernes-Lee and Robert Cailliau at European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. Found through yahoo on www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html

question 5: A computer found in 2009 is about 3000 times faster and better then the computers from thirty years ago.


question 6: The largest parsnip ever grown was 8lb 6oz. Through the yahoo search engine on the website: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/990928looking.aspx


question 7: Queensland became a state in June 1859. Found through yahoo on www.slq.gov.au/whats-on/exhibit/online/becoming_qld


question 8: Heavy October rains, flooding due to rain as well as a tropical cyclone were experienced on the 17th of November in 1954. http://tristian0007.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/what-was-the-weather-like-in-south-east-queensland-on-17-november-1954/


question 9: Lord Byron had lived in Venice and he also had scandals. http://englishhistory.net/byron/chronology.html


question 10: Shirhan Chapman's real name is Steve Stockwell and performed in the band the Black Assassins. http://web.revolutionrock.com.au/oral-hist/index.php?id=36