Exercises for Ready Reference Using the Internet Workshop
3/27/02

For each of the following questions note which ready reference gateway or meta-list you used, which
resources you picked within the metalists or gateways and also the answer to the question.
 

1. Can you find the names and addresses of three alternative medicine associations?
 

2. Who said "All that is very clearly and distinctly conceived is true."?
 

3. What topic does the magazine Dirty Linen cover? Can you find a periodical directory that
        gives the address and subscription information for this magazine?
 

4. Using xrefer.com do a search on existentialism.
 

5. What are the seven wonders of the ancient world?
 

6. Can you find online lessons on how to do the foxtrot?
 

7. What is the zip code for Cranberry Lake, NY?
 

8. What is the most commonly stolen vehicle in the United States?
 

9. Can you find the name of a civil rights attorney in Utica, NY
 

10. What is the population and what are some of the natural resources of Ethiopia?
 

11. On what day will Easter fall in the year 2007?
 

12.  Can you find out how a sundial works?
 

13.  Find a map of Nova Scotia.
 

14.  Can you find a toll-free nunber for Knotts Berry Farm?
 

15.  Can you find biographical information on Sri Aurobindo? Who was he?
 

16.  What was the novelist George Eliot's real name?
        Extra Credit: can you find the real name of Mama Cass?
 

17. Can you find information on the Persian or Iranian New Year which is spelled either
        Norooz, NowRuz,  NoRuz or Nowrooz?
 

18.  According to the 1830 census, what was the total population of slaves in New York State. How about in 1860?
 

19.  What is the area code for Mammoth Lakes, CA?
 

20.  What was the Consumer Price Index for February 2002?
 

21.  How do you say "I love you" in Portuguese?
 

22. How far is it between Utica, NY and Utica, Michigan?
 

23.  How do you remove a wine stain from fabric?
 

24.  Can you find information about the Navajo code talkers?