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Want to practice your database search skills?
Find the answers to questions in this quiz by searching Oxford Reference Online.
1. Callisto is a satellite of which planet in the solar system?
Hint: Do a quick search for Callisto, click on the ‘Maps & Illustrations’ tab to bring illustrated entries to top the of the list, and open the result from the Visual English Dictionary for a full-colour labelled diagram of the solar system.
2. When is Stonehenge thought to have been built?
Hint: Just type Stonehenge in the quick search box.
Like to see more? Click on the “Longer Entries” tab, top left of screen. Click on first result in list, Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Long, fact-filled article on Stonehenge. See blue hyperlinks to Avebury, etc. Scroll down to bottom of entry for further links to Astronomy in the Old World, Pre-History of the British Isles, Stone Circles and Alignments!
3. When was Woodhenge thought to be built?
Hint: Just type Woodhenge in the quick search box.
Not enough information? Click on Widen Search tab and Oxford Reference Online will launch a full text search and bring up more articles for you.
4. Which medical breakthrough took place in 1928?
Hint: From home page, go to timelines, click on the Medical timeline
Discover the Timelines! The Premium Collection now offers 40 timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th century history. Each event on a timeline is linked to a carefully-selected article, making research and discovery quick and easy.
5. What three colours make up the Egyptian flag?
Hint: Type Egypt flag in the quick search box
How to see even more: First entry will be from ‘World Flags’ and will give you not only the illustration but generally a little background about the flag. Second entry is from World Encyclopedia including the flag, and also maps and facts and figures, lots of links to other entries in the Encyclopedia and useful website(s) at bottom of entry.
6. What is the world’s highest mountain?
Hint: Type highest mountain in the quick search box.
Well, we all know that of course, but the World Encyclopedia will give you a list of all the highest mountains by continent, longest tunnels, longest rivers and highest waterfalls, lists of prime ministers of New Zealand, India, Spain, Canada… Simply type your key words in the Quick Search box – you can go straight to the Encyclopedia if you like, but Oxford Reference Online is smart enough to find them for you from the quick search!
7. Where are a spider’s silk glands?
Hint: Type silk glands in quick search and click on ‘Maps and Illustrations’ section on left for beautiful captioned illustration of the anatomy of the female spider.
Feature: All captions are keywords for searching! Scroll through the images in the visual dictionary, listed on the left – spark plug, space probe, solar system…
8. Who wrote the slogan “Go to work on an egg”?
Hint: Simply type go to work on an egg in the quick search.
The answer will take you the Advertising Slogans section of our three quotations dictionaries.
There’s more! Find film names and film lines, taglines for films, opening lines, political sayings and slogans, newspaper headlines and leaders, last words (e.g. “Bugger Bognor” – King Charles V!)
9. In Italy, if you were doing the totocalcio what would you be doing?
Hint: Use Basic Search
Fabulous feature! Click on “Links” on the green navigation bar at the top of the screen to see helpful external links for the Italian language, including Italian newspapers. Every book in Oxford Reference Online has at least 10 links.
10. What can you find out about Katherine Mansfield in Oxford Reference Online?
Hint: From the home page click on ‘Literature’ and then select ‘The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature’. Search for ‘Katherine Mansfield’. Choose the second result. In addition to all the blue hyper-links, you can cross-search any word throughout the database. Highlight ‘Mahler’ in the middle of the sixth paragraph and click on the ‘Cross-Reference’ button top-left. The result from ‘The Oxford Companion to Music’ includes a timeline link – open the article to link to the ‘Performing Arts’ timeline.
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