Week 5 - Tutorial Task

1) Where was the first University established and in which year?

Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. Established around 969 A.D.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20030501.html viewed 26 August 2011, via Bing.

2) What is Stephen Stockwell’s band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?

‘Steve’ Stockwell is in a band called the Black Assassins. 

Plays the Keyboard and sung vocals for the band. Some of the Black Assassins greatest hits include: ASIO, Azaria, Drugs, Death Take Me Now and Multinational Corporate Lifestyle.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~toxicoh/blackas.htm viewed 26 August 2011, via Bing.

3. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?

The world’s biggest machine is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and it weighs in at 564,763 tons.

It cost approximately $6.4 billion to build.

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/10-things-about-the-large-hadron-collider-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ viewed 26 August 2011, via Bing.

4. Who is Justin Bieber’s lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?

Scooter Braun and the best way to get in contact with him is by emailing his team at: info@scooterbraun.com

http://www.bing.com/search?q=best+way+to+contact+scooter+braun&qs=n&sk=&form=QBRE&filt=all, viewed 26 August 2011, via Bing.

5. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?

The cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne is a flight, costing $79.

http://www.airfaresflights.com.au/flights/Melbourne/Gold_Coast-OOL/ viewed 26 August 2011, found via Ask.

6. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday? 

Hatsune Miku is a Japanese “vocaloid” created by Crypton Future Media.

Born/Created 31 August 2007.

http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Hatsune_Miku viewed 26 August 2011, found via Bing.

7. Find a live webcam in Belarus. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.

Live webcam: http://www.travelcams.net/network/camera/live-webcams/europe/belarus/babruysk-center.html viewed 26 August 2011, found via Ask.

http://www.maplandia.com/antarctic/hotels/  viewed 26 August 2011, via Ask.

8. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1991?

The song at the top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1991 was ‘Everything I Do, I Do It For You” by Bryan Adams, which spent 11 weeks at number 1.

http://www.take40.com/music/number-ones/date?day=25&month=7&searchYear=1991&Search.x=65&Search.y=12 viewed 26^t August 2011, via Ask.

9. What type of car is used to make ‘Google Street View’?

There are many different cars used to capture the images for Google Street View.
One of them in Mumbai, India was an unmarked Maruti Suzuki.

http://mostlynerd.com/2011/03/google-street-view-india-mumbai/ viewed 26 August, via Ask.

10. Translate these questions into Spanish and then translate them back into English.

1. Where the first university was established and in what year?

2. Which is Stephen Stockwell’ the bandage of called s and what he does plays? Can you name a pair of your songs?

3. Which is the weight of the greatest machine of the world? How much it cost to construct?

4. Who is Justin Bieber’ lawyer of s, and which is the best contact of the way (possible, more fast most reliable) the lawyer?

5. Which is the cheapest form of route of the Gold Coast to Melbourne?

6. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company she belongs? Which is its birthday?

7. It finds webcam alive in Belarus. It finds a place to remain in Ant3artida.

8. What song was the cover of Australian letters of the outbreak this week in 1991?

9. What type of car is used to make the opinion of the street of Google of?

10. It translates these questions to Spanish later and tradúzcalo again within English.

Translated using Babelfish - http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ - viewed 26  August 2011, via Bing.