Title: Quiz About Searching With Keywords 

 

Sub-title- A Project about “Searching” for the Correct Information.

 

First Name Last Initial: Shelby M.  

 

Date: March 11 – March  17, 2016

 

 Color Group: Green D1 B3

 

This is a quiz that was found in the Sunday January 3 2010 Concord Monitor newspaper…. Answers are there, too.  You need to read the question, and… if you KNOW the correct answer, that’s good… but you must still VERIFY that correct answer.  And write out your source for that correct answer.  And, MOST importantly, I want to you also write out your thinking process- especially for the questions you do NOT know the answer to.  Can you eliminate any of the answers?  How?   And how did you search for the correct answer?  Did you search the QUESTION, or did you search the possible answers? 

 

Write it out!  Be complete.  A good paragraph per answer is what we are after here…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. What are the three places that make up the points of the Bermuda Triangle?

 

    1. Bahamas, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico
    2. Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Tortola
    3. Miami, Bermuda, Puerto Rico

 

I am going to use the search engine Google. I am going to use Google because it is the search engine that I am most familiar with. I am going to use the key words Bermuda Tringle, three points, and location. I found 215, 000 results and then I scrolled through the first few snippets until I found a website that I wanted to read. This is the link for the website I used. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/bermudat.htm . This website is a .com domain. I found a map with the correct answer. The answer is Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Recife is the popular, pretty capital of Pernambuco state in what country?

 

    1. Italy
    2. Spain
    3. Brazil

 

 

For this question I used the search engine Duck Duck Go. I am using Duck Duck Go because I have never used it before and I wanted to try it out. I am going to us the key words Recife, Pernambuco, country. On this search engine it does not tell you how many results have been found. I looked through some snippets and found a website that I liked. This is the website that I found http://www.brazil.org.za/recife.html . This domain is .org. I found the correct answer. The correct answer is Brazil. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Historic Nara, Japan, celebrates a huge anniversary in 2010.  How old is the country’s first capital city?

 

    1. 570 years  (in 2010)
    2. 1,300 years   (in 2010)
    3. 4,000 years   (in 2010)

 

On the question I used the website Dogpile. I used Dogpile because I haven’t used it before. I don’t know what the correct answer but I think it isn’t a. because that seems too young. The keywords I used are Nara, Japan, anniversary, and first capital. When I looked up these keywords there were a few pop-ups to guide me a different answers. I scrolled thorough looking at the snippets and I found one that I thought would work. The website I used is http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/travel/03headsup.html?_r=0 . This has a domain of .com.  I noticed on this website I noticed that there were lots of ads and ads for other articles. I found the correct answer. The correct answer is 1,300 years.

 

 

  1. The Northern Pacific Gyre lies in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the west coast of the United States. What does it contain?

 

    1. A huge pod of an estimated 2,000 endangered gray whales
    2. A giant debris field of garbage trapped in a spinning circle
    3. An underground sea mountain 7 miles tall

 

The website that I used for this question is IxQuick. I have never used this website before so that is why I am using it. I have no idea what the answer is and I don’t know how I could find the right answer by process of elimination. The keywords I used are Northern Pacific Gyre, Japan, and United States. I looked through some snippets and found one that I liked. This is the website that I found. http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/03/geography-in-the-news-swirling-ocean-garbage-dumps/ . This website is a domain of .com. I found the correct answer. The correct answer is a giant debris field of garbage trapped in a spinning circle.   

 

 

  1. This year (in 2010) a mosaic of an angel was discovered under the floor of the Hagia Sophia.  Where and what is the Hagia Sophia?

 

    1. Istanbul, Turkey.  It’s a museum that previously was a Byzantine Christian Church and a mosque.
    2. Luxembourg.  It’s a cathedral built to honor St. Sophia, the country’s patron saint.
    3. Mexico City.  It’s a traditional market where the image of the angel is said to have healing powers.

 

For number 5 I am going to do this one very differently. We are going to use 4 different search engines. The search engines I am using are Dogpile, Google, Bing, and WebCrawler. I have never used any of these search engines except for Bing.  I don’t know the answer but I think it is a. The keywords I am using are Hagia Sofia, mosaic angel, and 2010. I looked through the snippets and chose a one I wanted. All 4 different search engines had Wikipedia in the first few websites. Here is the website that I found on Dogpile http://www.keptlight.com/hagia-sophia-a-new-mosaic-unveiled/ . This website had lots of ads on it. It did not give me an answer. For the search engine Google I used this website http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/8026330/Sacred-Mysteries-An-appointment-with-an-angel-at-Hagia-Sophia.html . This website did give me an answer and it was in the subtitle so I didn’t need to visit any more sites. The domain for this site is .co. The correct answer is Istanbul, Turkey.     

 

 

 

 

  1. If you want to go whitewater rafting on the Kampar River, where do you have to go?

 

    1. Wheeling, West Virginia.
    2. Gopeng, Malaysia
    3. Johannesburg, South Africa

 

I am going to use Google as a search engine for this question but I am going to do an advanced search. I am going to limit the domain results. The keywords that I am going to use is Kampar River and location. Google found 1,410 results that contained information for Kampar River. To find an advanced domain I typed in site:*.edu to get only sites with the domain .edu. I scrolled through the snippets to find a site I liked. I found a site I liked. This is the site       http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/?f%5Bactive_fedora_model_ssi%5D%5B%5D=Page&f%5Bauthor_tesim%5D%5B%5D=Skeat%2C+Walter+William&f%5Bimage_format_tesim%5D%5B%5D=drawings&f%5Bimage_geo_tesim%5D%5B%5D=+Malaysia--West+Malaysia--Perak--Changat+Bertam+%7C+Malaysia--West+Malaysia--Perak--Kampar+River&f%5Bimage_keyword_tesim%5D%5B%5D=plantations. I found the answer in the tags at the top of the page. The answer is Gopeng, Malaysia.      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Most tourists love Devonshire cream tea – scones, clotted cream and raspberry jam with tea.  But where in England is Devonshire?

 

    1. In dairy country east of London
    2. Southwest England
    3. Near the Scottish border

 

For this question I am using Bing as my search engine. The keywords I am using are Devonshire, England, and location. I could not find a lot about Devonshire and was being called Devon. I looked through a lot of snippets and realized that Devon and Devonshire were the same thing. This is the website I found. http://www.plymouthcity.co.uk/map/devon.htm. This has a domain of .co. I found the answer. The answer is Southwest England.     

 

 

 

  1. What and where are the Adirondacks?

 

    1. The Amish region in Indiana where craftsmen make chairs
    2. Mountain range in New York state
    3. American Indian reservations in the Florida Everglades

 

I used Dogpile for this question. The keywords I used are location, Adirondacks, and about. I scrolled through some snippets and found a website that I liked. http://visitadirondacks.com/about. This website has the domain of .com.This website said where the Adirondacks were located in the subheading. The correct answer was they are located in New York and they are a mountain range.    

 

 

  1. Most people just call the region the Caribbean, but what is its formal name?

 

    1. The West Indies
    2. The East Indies
    3. The South Indies

 

For this question I used IxQuick. The keywords I am going to use Caribbean and formal name. This took me quite a while because I could not find an answer until I changed my keywords to Caribbean map.  I scrolled through some snippets and found this website. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/carib.htm. This has a domain of .com. I found the correct answer in the first sentence. The answer is the West Indies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Almost all tourists who visit the Galapagos Islands leave for their trip from what city?

 

    1. Quito, Ecuador
    2. Santiago, Chile
    3. La Paz, Bolivia

 

For this question I used Google. The keywords I am going to use are Galapagos Islands, takeoff, and city. I scrolled through the snippets and found a website I liked. In Google it came up with 276, 000 results in a half of a second. This is the website I found. http://www.galapagosislands.com/blog/how-to-get-to-the-galapagos-islands/. Its domain is .com. I found the correct answer in quotations. The answer is Quito, Ecuador.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What was the United States’ first national park?

 

    1. Great Smoky Mountain
    2. Yellowstone
    3. Yosemite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Of Hawaii’s six major islands, which is the smallest and least developed?

 

    1. Lili’uokalani
    2. Kauai
    3. Lanai