Scavenger Hunt (oh yeeeeeerrr)

Okay, so this week's wonderful tutorial task (whooo T T) is to find some crap on a list without using google and avoiding wikipedia...easy enough stuff, right? Not.

1. What is the height of the world's biggest tree? How long did it take to grow?

-- So apparently the world's tallest tree is a Coast Redwood by the name of Hyperion (oooh, sounds otherworldly like something outta a science fiction, huh?) standing at a whopping 115.5 metres tall. Wow. As for how long its been growing, Hyperion has been growing for around about 600 years now, which apparently is roughly 20 human years in tree, which I can't help but admit is freaking amazing. Not bad eh?

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Madonna?

-- Not that I would ever want to willing call her, one would gather that the best way to contact Madonna would be by using a phone. Or emailing. Or even sending a letter. ...Quickest definitely being to give her a quick phonecall, if you don't mind punching in all those extra numbers. As to how you're gonna do it? No idea. But here's another Madonna, I'm sure she'll like it if you flick a comment her way: Madonna. She lives in Vegas, isn't that great? :D

3. What is the age of the oldest ever captive elephant? Is this older than the average wild age?

-- Given that this is the last one I had to search for (meh, saved the most boring one till last), I asked a friend. Apparently the the world's oldest elephant in captivity was 86. Good God, I'd rather be long dead. But yeah, here's a link to stuff about elephants anyway, the info is probably in there.

4. How would you define the word "glycomics"? In your own words, what does it really mean? What does the term "seagull manager" refer to?

-- According to the Griffith Uni (I know, right?) website, glycomics is a pretty fancy chemical way of talking about sugar, or other things that are sweet and stuff. The griffith site has a whole load of crap ranting on using words I couldn't dream of understanding, but from what I could gather, its a science, people run tests on it and there are apparently 9 common sugars. Fascinating. Truly fascinating. . . .

As for a "seagull manager", by using my own amazing brain skills I'd deduce (yeah, a smart word right there) that a seagull manager would be a dude who spends his time watching seagulls fly out to the ocean to die (The Simpsons is a rather educational show, you know.), but apparently they fail even more in life than I originally thought they did. Using the Urban Dictionary, a seagull manager is a boss who hovers around the office, steals the awesome ideas you come up with while shitting on everything else. Nice definition, guys.

5. What was David Cronenberg's most recent feature film? Which of his films had 'Blondie' in it?

-- This whacked-out fella's most recent film is "Spider" (2002) according to the gore-loving website debased. As for Blondie's feature, you can find it in the film "Videodrome" released back in 1983.

6. When was the original "Hackers" released?

-- According to the imbd website, Hackers was released back in 1995.

7. Why do phone numbers in Hollywood flicks start with a "555"?

-- Haha, now this one just goes to show how stupid some Yanks can be. Hollywood films use the numbers "555" at the beginning of their phone numbers so people don't call up their favourite film characters, like God from Bruce Almighty, or the GhostBusters. 'Coz yeah, movies are totally real and if you dial that number you really will find God on the other line! Jesus. Oh yeah, I found this out here.

8. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Cairns?

-- Cheapest form of travel for sure would be to somehow fall in a toxic vat of waste (or Chemical "X" or something equally gross) and gain the ability to fly. Like Superman. Or be able to walk on water like ninjas and Jesus. But if you somehow can't find that, just knock out a kid on a bike and steal that.

9. What song was the top of the Oz Pop Charts this week in 1970?

-- Okay, so its a bit of an odd title, but by Creedence Clearwater Revival, the song top of the charts this week back in the 70's was "Around the Bend / Run Through the Jungle". This interesting little tidbit can be found on the australianmusichistory website.

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?

-- Not that I have any idea who this dude is, but Stephen Stockwell plays the keyboard and sings in the band "The Black Assassins". Oooohhh, creative title.

And yes, that was our 10 tasks (wow, T T again!!) for this tutorial, so I'm done for today.

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