Women On The Web Scavenger Hunt

This is an activity which is designed to help you become more familiar with searching the World Wide Web. Try to imagine this exercise as a walking tour of a new city filled with museums, homes, maps, photos, and other interesting artifacts. Find the answers to these 12 questions and take note of the URL (locations) of the answers. If required, Email the list of URLs and the answers to your instructor. You will be able to find the answers to all of these questions within a few mouseclicks from your starting point--this page. Good luck!

Useful Tip: Have your web browser keep this page open in a separate window or tab so that you can look at this page of questions while you are searching for the information. In Internet Explorer you can do this with the Page Holder feature.

An alternative is to bookmark this page so that you can easily return to it while you hunt!

Another Useful Tip: You might want to use more than oneSearch Engine to aid in your search/

Scavenger Hunt Questionsstart

1. Where was Joan Armatrading born?

2. Who, what and where are the Lesbian Avengers?

3. Who is Amy Bruckman and what does she do?

4. What were the names of Harriet Tubman's parents?

5. What does Dr. Irene Pepperberg study?

6.What job did Ida B. Wells hold between 1913 and 1916?

7. Does Barbie have a last name?

8. Who are the Guerrilla Girls and how long have they been doing what they do?

9. What are the undergraduate courses in Women's Studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville?

10.What is the text of the poem that Maya Angelou wrote for the inauguration of President Clinton?

11. Why is The Feminist Majority named The Feminist Majority?

12. Where was Hillary Clinton on September 5, 1995?

This page was designed and constructed by

Diane Maluso

Last updated on April 21, 2006.