I'm not sure if I've ever had to find something in life without using Google or Wickipedia. It kind of shows our reliance on the damn things.

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
I cannot find that information anywhere! Other search engines just aren't the same. Even on his own website http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
I am just going to guess a suit! Used dogpile.com


2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
The technology was first invented in 1973 in California, USA. By Xerox Corp. Britanica.com (it kept blacking out the screen because I didn't have a username).


3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
The info was readily available on microsoft.com
Gates was born on the 28th of October 1955. In Seattle.Not sure when he sold his first bit of software, but he started programing computers at 13 years old.


4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
I can't find exactly where, but it was by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 89-90. Somewhere in England. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
Well a computer 30 years ago could basically just add and subtract things, the computer I'm using today is astronomically more powerful.


6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
according to the Guinness Book of Records it weighed 8 pounds and 6 oz.


7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
Queensland first became a state on the 6th of June 1859, that's why there is so many cool channel 7 and 9 QLD adds. "love you Queenslaaaaand!'. It separated from NSW because it was sick of there poor sporting abilities... Ha, thats why the tweed river is in NSW.


8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
according to the bureu of meteorology there would have been heavy raindfall and flooding.


9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
He was a promiscuous poet, he travelled to venice after leaving England and learnt Armanien and made the first English to Armanien dictionary. Thats all I could find.


10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
Well there is a guy that plays in an alternative punk band in Brisbane called Sirhan Chapman. He is the vocalist/keyboard player. http://www.myspace.com/theblackassassins