Greensboro Game Questions

 

 IL Standards

 

Know

Access

Evaluate

Use

Ethics

 

 

 

The categories are:

Category 1 - Choose Your Resource

 

  1. ( Standard 2)You need to find an article from the New York Times about the effect of global warming on polar bears. You should:
    1. Check today's paper to see if there is anything there
    2.  Use Google News and search for global warming new york times
    3. Use a library database that has full text articles from the New York Times
    4. Go to the New York Times website and search for polar bears
  2. ( Standard 1)The game ran late and the final score was not reported on the 11o'clock news. Find the score this way:
    1. Go online to ESPN or another sports site
    2. Check  the morning newspaper
    3. Go to a library database and search for your team
    4. Ask the librarian at the reference desk 
  3. (Standard 3)Your math professor has asked you to research a famous mathematician. You find some interesting information on the web but are not sure where what site it is coming from.  You should:
    1. Use the information and list the URL at the end.
    2.  Not use the information because it could be wrong.
    3. Use the information and attach a printout of the website.   
    4. Use another source fr known website and mix this information with it.  
  4. (Standard 3)You have to file your tax return and you need to get the form from the Internal Revenue Service.  Their website should end in:
    1. .edu
    2. .com
    3. .gov
    4. .org
  5. (Standard 1) Your English professor wants you to read three poems by Robert Frost. The best place to locate them is:
    1. on the web
    2. in a magazine
    3. in a newspaper
    4. in a book
  6. (Standard 2)Your biology professor mentioned a study about the relationship between smoking and hair loss. To find that study:
    1. Google it
    2. Try a medical database that has scholarly journal articles
    3. See if it was reported in today's newspaper
    4. Look for a book about hair loss in the library 
  7. (Standard 3)On the Google results page, sponsored links are:
    1. Paid advertisements
    2. Sites that Google recommends
    3. Sites the College sponsors
    4. Good sites to start your research
  8. (standard 3).COM at the end of a website means the site is:
    1. a community website
    2. a company website
    3. a complete website
    4. a commercial website
  9. (Standard 2)Which is NOT a search engine?
    1. ASK
    2. MSN
    3. Internet Explorer
    4. Yahoo
  10. (Standard 2)A good place to find a review of a recent movie is:
    1. a newspaper or magazine
    2. the wikipedia
    3. a book
    4. a peer-reviewed journal

 

 

 

Category 2 - Searching/Using Database (All Standard 2)

 

  1. If you use greenhouse  and ( effect or gasses) instead of greenhouse and gasses or greenhouse and effect, you are using:
    1. The Associative Law
    2. The Distributive Law
    3. DeMorgans Law
    4. The Commutative Law

     

  2. You want to search for recipes on chocolate chip cookies.  What search would give you the reipies you want:
    1. recipes AND ("chocolate chip" AND cookies)
    2. recipes OR  ("chocolate chip" AND cookies)
    3. recipes AND ("chocolate chip" OR cookies)
    4. recipes OR ("chocolate chip" OR cookies) 

     

  3. You want to make peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies, which search would you use:
    1. recipes AND cookies AND ("chocolate chip" OR "peanut butter")
    2. recipes AND cookies AND ("chocolate chip" AND "peanut butter")
    3. recipes OR cookies OR ("chocolate chip" OR "peanut butter")
    4. recipes AND cookies OR ("chocolate chip" OR "peanut butter")

     

  4. You want to find an article about the sinking of the Titanic but the fictional film account is not relevant. Which search would you use:
    1. Titanic AND not fictional
    2. Titanic AND sinking OR NOT film
    3. Titanic NOT account OR film
    4. Titanic AND sinking NOT film  
  5. If you do a search for articles about the moon landing and you get too many results you could narrow your search using:
    1. OR
    2. AND
    3. OR NOT
    4. WITH  
  6. To locate articles about how global warming is affecting polar bears and what is happening to the polar ice cap, which search would you use:
    1. "Global warming"  AND polar (bears OR  "ice cap")
    2. Global warming AND polar (bears or "ice cap")
    3. "Polar bears" AND ("global warming" OR "polar ice cap")
    4. Polar (bears AND "ice cap") OR "global warming"  
  7. Which search will retrieve the most hits?
    1. "Apple Iphone"
    2. Apple AND phones
    3. Iphone OR "Apple iphone"
    4. Iphone AND Apple 
  8.  What is the contrapositive of ~p -> q?
    1. p -> ~q
    2. ~q -> p
    3. ~p -> q
    4. ~p -> q
  9. If you used DeMorgans Law on the search Not Jets And  Not Giants you would get:
    1. Not ( Jets Or Giants )
    2. Not ( Jets And Giants )
    3. Not Giants  And  Not Jets
    4. None of The Above
  10. Which of the following is an example of the Commputive Law?
    1. A -> B and B-> A
    2. ~A \/ B and A \/ ~B
    3. A /\ B and B /\ A
    4. None of the above.
  11. The expression ~(p -> q) can be simplified as:
    1. ~p -> ~q
    2. ~p <- ~q
    3. ~p \/ q
    4. None of the Above

 

Category 3 - Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism (Standard 5)

  1. If you state that George Washington was our first president in your paper you:
    1.  Cite the constitution as your source
    2. Cite the Encyclopedia Britannica as your source
    3. Mention that you learned this in High School in your paper
    4. Not cite it because it is common knowledge
  2.   An MLA Works Cited Page should include
    1. All the sources you consulted for your research
    2. All the websites related to your topic
    3. Only sources that are print
    4. Only sources you used in the body of your paper
  3. Quotes taken from other sources are
    1. plagiarism and should not be used
    2. referenced in the text and listed in the works cited
    3. listed in the works cited only
    4. listed in a separate list at the end of the paper
  4. If you scan a copy of your textbook for your friend to print
    1. You have committed a crime
    2. You have committed an act of fair use
    3. You have saved your friend $100
    4. You have to note that the book is copyrighted
  5. Using social networks to help a classmate with the answers during an exam is
    1. unethical
    2. illegal
    3. likely to get you expelled
    4. all of the above

 

 

Category 4 - Library Wild Card

 

Category 5 - Evaluation

  1. What is the First Life occupation of the Second Life owner of the Reading Garden? (Standard 3)
    1.  Library Director
    2. Artist
    3. Actress
    4. Don't know
  2. At the Abyss, many of the resources come from what government agency? (Standard 2)
    1. Defense Department
    2. Weather Channel
    3. NOAA
    4. World Wildlife Federation
  3. How can you recognize the URL of a federal agency on the web? (Standard 2)
    1. Ends .gov
    2. Ends .fed
    3. Ends .org
    4. Starts fed.
  4. Which of these two sims is sponsored by NASA?  (Standard 3)
    1. Apollo 11 Moon Landing sim
    2. Explorer Island

 

 

Go to ALA in SL

Go to freebie http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Island/93/84/29

and get a free tee shirt

 

Ride the tube http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Island/57/110/65

 

Myster Manor http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/186/155/33

 

Check out Mystery Manor.  Someone important has a cottage there andyYou have been assigned a research paper about that person's work.  Which database might give you the information you need?

 

Sci Fi http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/189/119/33

 

answer MC QUESTION

Check out Mystery Manor http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/186/155/33 (in room by teleports).  A famous writer  has a cottage there.

answer being agatha chistie (check for notecard)

 

But unfortuneately she is dead.  Which database would give you the obituary?  Post this on wiki ( Standard 4)

 

What would be the boolean search in the catalog

what is the call number

what is oldest title

which has a number

a character detective name is ...

what train is the murder train in the title

find obit

post info on wiki (Standard 4)

 

To get the shape, this is a place you can sit around and discuss books.  WHat is the job of this person.  give answer, get circle

be a MC question

 

find friends LITA, ALA, ETC

take a picture and get a star

 

freedom

ride the tube

give a tube

Jet prop

Abyss

 


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