WebTrack Bonus Questions
Start a new sheet for Bonus Questions. Answer using
complete sentences. Points will be added to total score at end of project.
They may be answered in any order, but be sure to title with group number
and question number.
Bonus group #1.
What is historically inaccurate about Moon Shadow being detained
at Angel Island in 1903?
What's a "paper son"?
Why are there two dates in a works cited entry for a web
site?
What does the org in a .org web site stand for?
What's "picture bride"?
Name one of the sources used by the unofficial Angel Island
Home Page creators.
Who is responsible for the official Angel Island Home Page?
Angel Island was closed after a ____________ in ___________,
_____________ years before the ______________ ___________ ____________
was repealed.
What's the url (web address) of the site you go to to take
the first quiz?
What does url stand for?
Bonus Group #2
"The best known Greek legend on the subject of flight is
that of Daedalus, the engineer who built the labyrinth on the island of
Crete in which the Minotaur lived." What was the Minotaur?
An airfoil is another name for a _______________.
Describe the public reaction to the Wright brothers' first
powered flight.
In written Chinese, the characters for "home/family" and
"prison" are similar. What are their literal English meanings?
Another pioneer of flight had a "spectacular failure" with
his flying machine less than two weeks before the Wright brothers' historic
flight. Who was he? What was his machine called? More details mean more
points.
Who was Tom Tate? (re: Wright brothers.)
What country is the biggest grower of opium poppies?
What is the California state flower?
What common cough medicine ingredient is made from opium?
During what war did ignorance of morphine's addictive properties
lead to many addicts?
When you enter an encyclopedia article (online or print)
into a Works Cited list, you should begin the entry with what information?
What does the "PrintScreen" key on your keyboard do?
Who is Ming L. Pei? How old is he? (In his...40's, 50's,
60's, 70's?)
Who else supposedly flew a heavier than air plane before
the Wright brothers? When? Explain the dispute.