Open Day Competition

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What To Do

1. Answer SEVEN of the following ten questions. The answers can all be found on the World Wide Web.

2. To submit your answers, click here. (This will make sense only if you're reading the on-line version!)

3. Only one entry per person will be accepted.

4. The first two totally correct entries drawn out of a hat at 1600 on Open Day will win a prize. The prize will be a £15 book token.

5. The names of the winners will be written on the white board in the foyer of the Department of Computer Science at 1600. Winners can collect their prizes from the Departmental Office at that time. Unclaimed prizes will be sent by post, so don't worry if you have to leave before 1600.

6. This competition is not open to current members of the Department.

Questions

1. The Higher Education Funding Council recently visited the Department to assess the quality of its teaching. What was the result? (Hint: see ``31 things you maybe didn't know about the Department'', in the Computer Science undergraduate admissions pages.)

2. The Department's new M.Sc. course in Safety-Critical Systems is guided by an industrial panel. Who is its chairman?

3. There's a departmental research seminar next Wednesday (24/5/1995) at 1415 in room X/D007. What is the title of the talk?

4. Give the gauge (in mm) and the working voltage of the Moldovan state railway system. (Hint: the University of York has an Institute of Railway Studies. Find its home page, and go ferreting.)

5. You know that one of the UK's oldest amateur symphony orchestras is based in York, and that its secretary is Dr Anthony Fisher, a Computer Science lecturer at the University. Follow the links to find out which two colours are featured in the orchestra's concert on 1st July 1995.

6. What are the names of the two pubs in Heslington? (Hint: follow the link to ``The City of York'' from the main University page.)

7. To which event in the young Bill Clinton's life does he ascribe his ambition to become President of the U.S.A.? (Hint: see ``Family life at the White House'' in http://www.whitehouse.gov.)

8. You feel like visiting Iceland for a holiday. The Iceland Steamship Company (Eimskip in Icelandic) operates a regular direct passenger-carrying service between Immingham, 30 miles south of York, and Reykjavík in Iceland. On which day of the week does the ship sail from Immingham to Reykjavík, and on which day does she sail in the reverse direction? (Hint: Virtual Tourist II.)

9. Use the Computer Science bibliography service at http://donkey.cs.arizona.edu:1994/bib to find the title of a paper by a member of this Department on the subject of Hilbert curves.

10. York is an attractive city for cyclists - in fact one person in every five in the city cycles to work. There are some excellent cycle rides in the area, some of which make use of the system of cycle tracks which is being constructed. The question is: if you want to cycle from York to Beningbrough Hall (a popular National Trust property), from which bridge in the city centre are you advised to start?