1.	In the URL http://www.adforum.com/agency/ the "top-level domain" is:
		a. http://

		b. adforum

		c. com

		d. agency

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

2.	Which of the following is not a valid URL country code?
		a. ca

		b. cn

		c. mi

		d. uk

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

3.	Which of the following is NOT true?
		a. The Wayback Machine can allow you to see a page as it appeared at particular points in the past.

		b. The Wayback Machine has an approximately 6-month delay in recording more recent pages.

		c. The Wayback Machine has older versions of pages for all websites.

		d. The Wayback Machine is part of Archive.org.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

4.	What is the keyboard shortcut for opening a linked URL found in a Word document?
		a. Alt-Click

		b. Ctrl-Click

		c. Fn-Click

		d. Shift-click

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

5.	Which of the following would be the LEAST effective way to only get web pages from (originating in) a particular country? (You don't care if you miss a lot of things, but you want to be sure that almost everything you retrieve is from that country.)
		a. Use the "region" option on Google's Advanced Search page.

		b. Use Google's Advanced Search page and specify the language of the country.

		c. As part of your query, use site: followed by the country domain.

		d. Use the country name in your query.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

6.	To find web sites hosted at a particular Internet Protocol (IP) numeric address (for example, 140.147.249.7 is www.loc.gov), the prefix of ip: followed by the four part IP number can be used at what search engine?
		a. Ask

		b. Bing

		c. DuckDuckGo

		d. Google

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

You have been asked by an economist to find information on the role of wind energy in the production of electricity in the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The requestor is going to be writing a fairly extensive paper on the topic and needs a fairly exhaustive search. As appropriate for such a search, you start by identifying the basic concepts—those concepts that have to be in an answer (e.g., a retrieved web page) for that answer to be useful to the requestor.

7.	Which of the following do you consider to be the best set of concepts for this question?
		a. electricity production Baltic

		b. electricity production Baltic wind

		c. electricity production Baltic wind Estonia Latvia Lithuania

		d. electricity production Baltic wind political

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

8.	Which of the following statements is most correct for the above case?
		a. Your actual search statement (query) should include alternative words for one of the concepts.

		b. Your actual search statement (query) should include alternative words for two of the concepts.

		c. Your actual search statement (query) should include alternative words for more than two of the concepts.

		d. Your actual search statement (query) does not need to include alternative words for at any of the concepts.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

9.	Which of the following statements is the most correct for the above case study?
		a. If your search query includes the word "Baltic," you do not need to include the words "Estonia," "Latvia" and "Lithuania."

		b. If your search query includes the words "Estonia," "Latvia" and "Lithuania," you do not need to include the word "Baltic."

		c. Your search query should probably include all four words.

		d. Your search query should not include the words "Estonia," "Latvia" and "Lithuania."

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

10.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The OR operation is used to increase precision.

		b. The OR operation is used to increase recall.

		c. The OR operation actually has little effect on either precision or recall.

		d. The OR operation has significant effect on both precision and recall.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

11.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The AND operation is used to increase precision.

		b. The AND operation is used to increase recall.

		c. The AND operation actually has little effect on either precision or recall.

		d. The AND operation has significant effect on both precision and recall.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

12.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The NOT operation is used to increase precision.

		b. The NOT operation is used to increase recall.

		c. The NOT operation actually has little effect on either precision or recall.

		d. The NOT operation has significant effect on both precision and recall.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

13.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The NOT operation can have a very bad effect on recall.

		b. The NOT operation is seldom likely to have a very bad effect on recall.

		c. The NOT operation will never increase precision.

		d. The NOT operation is irrelevant to both precision and recall.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

14.	You are doing research on Oklahoma legislation relating to the use of pesticides. You decide to use the word "law" as an acceptable alternative to "legislation." Because of some research you did last year, you have all you need on the topic as it relates to bees, so you don't need to see any of the "bee" literature. In Google, which of the following is the most standard (and most efficient) search statement for the above search?
		a. Oklahoma legislation OR laws AND pesticides NOT bees

		b. Oklahoma legislation OR laws pesticides -bees

		c. Oklahoma AND (legislation OR laws) AND pesticides -bees

		d. Oklahoma legislation OR laws pesticides NOT bees

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

15.	In the above search, you are unsure as to whether you really want to eliminate the "bees" records. In that connection, which of the following statements is most correct?
		a. Eliminating the bees records may significantly damage recall.

		b. Eliminating the bees records is very unlikely to significantly damage recall.

		c. Eliminating the bees records will not improve precision.

		d. Elimination the bees records will have no effect on either precision or recall.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

16.	Which of the following is NOT a tool for increasing precision?
		a. Adding an additional concept

		b. intitle: prefix

		c. OR

		d. Phrase searching

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

17.	You are researching the effects of exercise on academic achievement. You want to find at least 100 results that significantly address the issue. You start with a quick search on the following: "effects exercise academic performance." Which of the following modifications will most likely increase recall with the least damage to precision?
		a. effects exercise academic OR school performance

		b. effects exercise academic OR school performance OR grades

		c. effects OR change exercise OR academic OR school performance

		d. exercise academic OR school performance OR grades

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

18.	The following question relates to the use of commercial, fee-based (not free to all users) database services, (such as Lexis-Nexis, Chemical Abstract Services, DIALOG, Factiva, etc.). Which of the following is NOT true of commercial, fee-based services?
		a. There are times when not using them can have legal implications.

		b. The quality of the information they deliver can be greater.

		c. Use of them always has to be paid for by the user her/himself

		d. They usually provide more retrospective searching.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

19.	The following question relates to the use of commercial, fee-based (not free to all users) database services, (such as Lexis-Nexis, Chemical Abstract Services, DIALOG, Factiva, etc.). Which of the following is NOT true of controlled vocabularies (subject headings, descriptors, etc.)?
		a. They are found in most commercial, fee-based services.

		b. They are consistent from service to service.

		c. They can help improve precision of a search.

		d. They can help improve recall of a search.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

20.	When distributing and presenting research results, there is now free, web-based software extensively available, such as Google Drive, that provides advantages over commercial, non-free software (such as Microsoft Office). Which of the following is NOT true of the free, web-based software?
		a. Content can be stored in the cloud or as local files.

		b. For most researchers, most of their audience is likely to already be familiar with using the free software.

		c. The free software can include a range of tools (for slides, documents, drawings, etc.).

		d. The free software does not have to be downloaded.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

21.	Which of the following is NOT usually considered one of the main criteria for assessing the information value of any given information?
		a. Currentness

		b. Relevance

		c. Reliability

		d. Validity

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

22.	You have a blog. In your next post, you are writing about a city you recently visited. You find a couple paragraphs on another person's blog that beautifully describe the city and you would like to copy that into your post with an attribution and link to the original. Regarding copyright, among other possible solutions, which of the following is true?
		a. If there is no copyright symbol on the page of the blog on which you found it, you can use it without further permission.

		b. The only thing you can safely do is to just link to it.

		c. You can check Creative Commons and see if permission for this content has been granted there.

		d. Since it was on a personal blog, it is therefore in the public domain and can be used without further permission.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

23.	Which of the following is a U.K. website that provides a newsletter and is useful for keeping up on new web research resources?
		a. FreePint

		b. Internet Scout Project

		c. ResearchBuzz

		d. ResourceShelf

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

24.	Which of the following finding tools makes least use of organizing the content by human-generated content categorization?
		a. Search engines

		b. General web directories

		c. Specialized web directories

		d. Portals

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

25.	From the point at which a new or changed web page first appears on the web until it is delivered to a search engine user on a search results page, a lot of processes occur. Which of the following series best describes the sequence of some of the main processes involved?
		a. Crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, display

		b. Crawling, indexing, categorization, retrieval, ranking, display

		c. Crawling, indexing, retrieval, ranking, display

		d. Crawling, ranking, indexing, retrieval, display

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

26.	Which of the following is NOT among the web's largest search engines?
		a. Baidu

		b. Bing

		c. Blekko

		d. Yandex

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

27.	On Google's Advanced Search page, which of the following statements is NOT true?
		a. Boolean is not possible.

		b. Boolean searching is implied but not directly specifiable.

		c. Some Boolean is possible, but you cannot do everything that you can on the main page by using operators.

		d. All Boolean that can be accomplished on the main page by using operators is possible.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

28.	You are doing a search in which one of your search concepts is President Franklin Roosevelt. In the part of your search that deals with his name, to most efficiently get all records for "Franklin Roosevelt," "Franklin D. Roosevelt" and "Franklin Delano Roosevelt," you would use which of the following?
		a. "Franklin * Roosevelt"

		b. "Franklin ? Roosevelt"

		c. "Franklin Roosevelt" OR "Franklin * Roosevelt"

		d. "Franklin Roosevelt" OR "Franklin ? Roosevelt"

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

29.	In Google, which of the following is true?
		a. Google does not search any punctuation (such as ., ;, :, ) and special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).

		b. Google searches some special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).

		c. Google now searches all common punctuation and special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).

		d. Google searches most punctuation but not special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

30.	In some cases, it would be useful to not have to "OR" a lot of synonyms by typing them all in, especially variant endings (nutrition OR nutritious OR nutrients). Which of the following is true?
		a. Google does not provide any feature that can accomplish this.

		b. You can accomplish this using the tilde in front of a term, e.g., ~nutrition.

		c. Google sometimes automatically searches not just the specific word you searched for but also at least some variant endings and closely-related words.

		d. Google now always automatically searches not just the specific word you searched for but also all variant endings and closely-related words.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

31.	Google's cache feature is designed to take you to ___________.
		a. A copy of the page as it is today on the web

		b. A copy of the page as it was one day ago

		c. A copy of the page just as it was when Google first found the page

		d. A copy of the page when Google last indexed it

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

32.	In your search, you use as one of your terms the name "Reuser." Google also finds "reusers," "reuse," etc. You don't want those. You can insist on just the word "Reuser" by using which of the following?
		a. +Reuser

		b. "Reuser"

		c. ~Reuser

		d. Reuser%

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

33.	Which of the following is NOT true regarding your Google web history?
		a. It can be viewed by you only if you are signed in.

		b. It does not affect your search results.

		c. It can be deleted.

		d. Specific searches can be deleted.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

34.	Which of the following is NOT true regarding a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)?
		a. As well as having it search specific sites of your choice, you can have it search specific parts of a site.

		b. In order for anyone to use it, the owner must have a website or web page on which the CSE can be placed.

		c. Tags can be applied to any of the websites and then be used as a narrowing feature

		d. The owner can view statistics for its usage.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

35.	In Google Finance, which one of the following is NOT a feature?
		a. Importing a portfolio file

		b. Viewing market news specific to your portfolio

		c. Synching your portfolio with your online brokerage accounts

		d. Screening your stocks by P/E ratio

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

36.	Which of the following is NOT true of Bing?
		a. Bing's Boolean format (syntax) is identical to Google's.

		b. Bing provides fewer searchable fields.

		c. Bing provides not just a calculator, but also an equation solver.

		d. Bing puts more up-front emphasis on social search and entertainment than does Google.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

37.	Which of the following is true?
		a. Bing's web database is actually created and maintained by Google.

		b. Bing's web database is actually created and maintained by Yahoo!.

		c. Yahoo!'s web database is actually created and maintained by Bing,

		d. Yahoo!'s web database is actually created and maintained by Google.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

38.	Which of the following is a section or feature that Bing offers but Google does not?
		a. Calculator

		b. Translator

		c. Travel

		d. Video

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

39.	Compared to Bing and Google, Yahoo!'s uniqueness and strength lie in ________.
		a. Both its search engine and portal features

		b. Its search engine features

		c. Its portal features

		d. Its portal and directory features

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

40.	Which search engine no longer has cached copies of pages displayed in search results?
		a. Ask

		b. Bing

		c. Google

		d. Yandex

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

41.	Which scholarly search engine does NOT link to citing articles?
		a. Google Scholar

		b. Microsoft Academic Search

		c. RefSeek

		d. ScienceDirect

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

42.	Which of the following is NOT a widely-known (past or present) metasearch engine?
		a. Dogpile

		b. Yippy

		c. ixQuick

		d. Metawonder

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

43.	Which of the following statement is most correct regarding metasearch engines?
		a. They can usually find all relevant items from each of several major search engines.

		b. They can usually find most relevant items from all major search engines.

		c. They can usually find some relevant items from multiple search engines.

		d. They all cover Google and Yahoo.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

44.	Large, general web directories most typically provide which of the following?
		a. Categorization and human selectivity

		b. Categorization and a search feature

		c. Human selectivity and a search feature

		d. Categorization, human selectivity and a search feature

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

45.	In the Yahoo Directory, what does the @ sign at the end of a category indicate?
		a. It contains only highest-quality sites.

		b. It is a category that is no longer being updated

		c. It is a cross-reference to a different parent category

		d. It only has temporary approval as an official category

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

46.	One of the following is more of a portal than are the other three. The homepage of which of the following is most portal-like?
		a. Ask

		b. Bing

		c. Google

		d. Yahoo

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

47.	(Live Questions). According to Google, about how many web pages contain this exact string of data: "singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame through many crossover reggae albums and singles."
		a. 500

		b. 0

		c. 1,200,000

		d. 12

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

48.	(Live Question). You are planning a trip to France and find that the price of petrol there is 1.49 Euros per liter. You use Google to convert that to $ per gallon and find that the answer is which of the following?
		a. 5.25 US $ per gallon

		b. 7.76 US $ per gallon

		c. 6.86 US $ per gallon

		d. 8.40 US $ per gallon

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

49.	(Live Question). Using Google, find pages on the website onstrat.com that have OSINT in the title. The total number that Google was able to find was:
		a. 2

		b. 4

		c. 6

		d. 8

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

50.	(Live Question). Your hamster cage company is considering placing an ad on some websites, and it would be helpful to know which sites or pages about hamsters are most frequently linked to. Based on the linkages that Google indexes and makes searchable, which of the following URLs is the most linked-to site?
		a. exoticpets.about.com/od/hamstersgerbils/tp/Hamsters.htm

		b. hamsterific.com/hamstercare.cfm

		c. pethamstercare.com

		d. smallanimalchannel.com/hamsters

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

51.	(Live Question). You are working for an advertising firm that has a food company as a client. They are preparing a campaign for a new cereal product and are doing research on past public interest in specific kinds of cereals. They present you with the following question: Going back several years, maybe to around 2004, based on Google searches, how much public interest was there in oatmeal versus granola?
		a. The ratio of oatmeal searches to granola searches was about 3.5 to 1.0.

		b. The ratio of oatmeal searches to granola searches was about 5.0 to 1.0.

		c. The ratio of oatmeal searches to granola searches was about 7.5 to 1.0.

		d. The ratio of oatmeal searches to granola searches was about 9.0 to 1.0

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

52.	(Live Question). In the website, www.onstrat.com, on how many pages does the word "extreme" appear on the page as part of a link; i.e., on how many pages is that word part of clickable text?
		a. 3

		b. 6

		c. 9

		d. 12

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

53.	Which of the following online encyclopedias is least free; i.e., you may have to pay to see some or all of the articles included?
		a. Encarta

		b. Encyclopedia Britannica

		c. Encyclopedia.com

		d. Wikipedia

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

54.	Which of the following is NOT true of Wikipedia?
		a. It is the world's largest encyclopedia.

		b. All articles in it are written by people who have expertise in that particular subject.

		c. Some individuals have extensive control over what is allowed in Wikipedia.

		d. It is free.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

55.	Which of the following reference tools has a highly scholarly (particularly a college or university level) slant?
		a. ipl

		b. INFOMINE

		c. Open Directory

		d. Refdesk.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

56.	In which of the following online phone directory sites will you find an option to see neighbors for a given address?
		a. 411.com

		b. ANYWHO.com

		c. Infobel.com

		d. Whitepages.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

57.	A biographer is writing the biography of a person who was born in Billings, MT, on January 5, 1950. For flavor, she wants to mention the temperature that day. Find the low and high temperature in Billings that day.
		a. -6F 19F

		b. -3F 18F

		c. 0F 29F

		d. 2F 29F

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

58.	The population of the city of Elko, Nevada, in 1990 was approximately:
		a. 14,736

		b. 15,990

		c. 17,635

		d. 19,023

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

59.	Which of the following genealogy sites is NOT primarily a fee-based system?
		a. Ancestry.com

		b. Archives

		c. FamilySearch

		d. Genealogy.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

60.	You need a replacement top cover for a Kenmore Water Softener, Model #625.384200. Find the part number so that you can order it.
		a. 7315477

		b. 7325435

		c. 7275907

		d. 7161849

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

61.	Which of the following is a Maori word for "sun"?
		a. rakau

		b. moana

		c. marama

		d. ra

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

62.	Which of the following websites is most definitive with regard to listing products or services manufactured or provided by the company?
		a. CorporateInformation

		b. Dun & Bradstreet

		c. Hoovers

		d. ThomasNet

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

63.	Which of the following websites contains an extensive listing by country of company directories?
		a. CorporateInformation

		b. Dun & Bradstreet

		c. Hoovers

		d. ThomasNet

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

64.	Your client has asked you to find an overview of a specific company, including its finances. The SEC filing that you would search for to get the most complete overview of a company and its finances is:
		a. 1-C

		b. 10-C

		c. 1-K

		d.. 10-K

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

65.	Which of the following shopping sites is auction-oriented?
		a. eBay

		b. mySimon

		c. Shopping.com

		d. Shopzilla

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

66.	A client of yours is just getting into the government market. They are a very small company, do not have an internal research staff and you work for them only part time. As a result, their government business development research has to be as efficient as possible, including searching sites that cover multiple relevant government database and resources. Which of the following, when searched, covers (searches) the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Commerce Business Daily, Congressional Record, and other government resources?
		a. FDFsys

		b. THOMAS

		c. USA.gov

		d. World Factbook

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

67.	Which of the following is NOT true of Google's Patent Search compared to the search capabilities of the patent search on the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website?
		a. Google goes as far back in time as does the USPTO database.

		b. Google has fewer searchable fields than does the USPTO database.

		c. Google is as up-to-date as the USPTO database.

		d. Google's full-text searchability goes back farther than does USPTO's.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

68.	You are a medical researcher doing work related to treatment of asthma. Which of the following websites is likely to be the one used most frequently by you and your colleagues?
		a. Mayo Clinic

		b. MedlinePlus

		c. PubMed

		d. WebMD

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

69.	Given the fact that no web pages exist that were created prior to 1991, availability online of earlier research (or even recreational reading) materials could be an issue. Regarding old books (ancient Greek and Latin works, 19th century novels, etc.) which of the following statements is most correct?
		a. You are unlikely to find any of this material on the web.

		b. You my find a little of this material on the web.

		c. You will find quite a bit of this material on the web.

		d. You are at least as likely to find this material on the web as in any single large university library.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

70.	Which of the following is NOT a term often applied to the billions of webpages that are not indexed by web search engines?
		a. Deep Web

		b. Hidden Web

		c. Invisible Web

		d. Secret Web

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

71.	The following are types of material that can cause pages to be hidden from search engines. Which one typically contains the most useful information to a researcher?
		a. Pages that require a password

		b. File types that search engines can't index

		c. Pages that are within a database on a website

		d. Pages that are 4 or more levels (links) deep within a website

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

72.	Which of the following is NOT one of the major U.S. websites for checking out the veracity of rumors spread over the web, particularly by email?
		a. Factcheck.org

		b. Politifact.com

		c. Snopes.com

		d. UrbanLegends.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

73.	Which of the following is NOT true regarding Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports?
		a. CRS makes all of its non-confidential publications available online to the public.

		b. CRS provides analysis to both Congress and the Senate.

		c. CRS reports are designed to be non-partisan and objective.

		d. There are multiple non-governmental websites that provide access to many CRS reports.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

74.	(Live Question). Perform a search of the medical journal literature for the phrase "lichen sclerosus" for articles published from 1980 through 2005. Sort the results by "first author." To show that you successfully accomplished this, count the number of articles with first author's last name "Abdul" through "Aberer." The number of articles with the first author's last name ranging from Abdul through Aberer is:
		a. 8

		b. 11

		c. 14

		d. 17

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

75.	(Live Question). Find the ZIP Code for 1306 8th Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
		a. 11215

		b. 11201

		c. 11217

		d. 11219

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

76.	(Live Question). For U.S. civil aviation in 2013, what was the number of fatal midair collision accidents?
		a. 0

		b. 3

		c. 5

		d. 9

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

77.	(Live Question). From Jan. 1, 1980, through Dec. 31, 2013, how many U.S. patents had Flow Control LLC in the assignee name?
		a. 18

		b. 27

		c. 56

		d. 104

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

78.	(Live Question). According to the World Factbook, the countries that rank worldwide as top 10 in total area (including both land and water) are:
		a. Russia, Canada, United States, China, Australia Brazil, India, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Algeria

		b. Russia, Canada, United States, China, Australia, Brazil, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria

		c. Russia, Canada, United States, China, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Algeria, Kazakhstan

		d. Russia, Canada, United States, China, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

79.	(Live Question). You are working for a government lobbyist and frequently need to track legislative activities of legislators on specific issues. You are currently concerned with natural gas. During the 111th Congress (2009-2010), how many bills mentioning the phrase "natural gas" were sponsored or co-sponsored by Representative Dan Boren?
		a. 3

		b. 6

		c. 12

		d. 16

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

80.	(Live Question). Your company is planning a new product that will require an air pressure control valve, and you need a supplier of such a valve. Since you will need to work together with them on the design, you prefer that the supplier also be a custom manufacturer located within 25 miles of your plant, which is in ZIP Code 60651. Which of the following sets of companies match your qualifications (air pressure control valves, custom manufacturer, within 25 miles of 60651)?
		a. Cadence Supply Co, Keckley Co., M&M Control

		b. Schneider Electric Co., Cadence Supply Co, Keckley Co.

		c. Schneider Electric Co., Cadence Supply Co., M & M Control

		d. Schneider Electric Co , Keckley Co., M & M Control

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

81.	(Live Question). Which of the following airlines have direct service between Pittsburgh, PA, and Boston, MA?
		a. American, Jet Blue, US Airways

		b. American, Delta, United

		c. AirTran, Delta, US Airways

		d. Delta, United, US Airways

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

82.	(Live Question). An executor of an estate has contacted you to find the closing price for McDonald's stock on Feb. 24, 1986. The answer is which of the following?
		a. 87.12

		b. 92.32

		c. 94.32

		d. 96.87

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

83.	(Live Question). What is the coefficient of linear thermal expansion for magnesium?
		a. 11 x 10-6 m/m K

		b. 18 x 10-6 m/m K

		c. 25 x 10-6 m/m K

		d. 44 x 10-6 m/m K

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

84.	(Live Question). In 2011, what was the compensation paid to the CEO of McDonalds?
		a. 8.75 million

		b. 13.7 million

		c. 17 5 million

		d. 27.7 million

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85.	(Live Question). A writer you sometimes do some work for is doing a biographical article on the major league umpire, Dutch Rennert. He needs to know who the other umpires were for the June 10, 1975 baseball game between the New York Mets and the S.F Giants. Which of the following is correct?
		a. Doug Harvey, Bob Engel, Harry Wendelstedt

		b. Jerry Neudecker, George Maloney, Ted Hendry

		c. Steve Palermo, Rich Garcia, Bob Engel

		d. Rob Drake, Sam Holbrook, Joe West

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

86.	(Live Question). What was the last year for regular passenger flights out of Montreal's Mirabel Airport
		a. 1999

		b. 2004

		c. 2007

		d. 2010

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

87.	(Live Question). On June 20, 1990 Tom Clancy spoke to a group of ____ ? Who introduced Mr. Clancy.
		a. Foreign Dignitaries, Cong. Steny Hoyer of Maryland.

		b. Navy Pilots, Steve Boushell

		c. Presidential Scholars, Sandy Nemitz

		d. White House Reporters, Sam Donaldson

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

88.	Which of the following is a resource that enables you to find which newspapers are available online for numerous countries?
		a. BBC World News

		b. KidonMediaLink

		c. NewpapersAroundTheWorld.com

		d. SiloBreaker

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

89.	Which of the following news sites enables easy browsing by categorizing stories under hundreds of categories, subcategories and sub-subcategories?
		a. Metagrid

		b. MSNBC

		c. Newslink

		d. NewsNow

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

90.	As a political scientist, you understand the role of political cartoons in influencing people. Which of the following is primarily a collection of political cartoons and will allow you to easily keep up with this medium?
		a. The Cagle Post

		b. The Matson Post

		c. The Murdoch Post

		d. The Smithson Post

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

91.	Which of the following is NOT true for BBC News?
		a. It has an archive of news stories going back to 1950.

		b. It includes news from BBC itself, AP, Agence-France Presse and other services.

		c. It has a useful collection of country profiles.

		d. It contains news published by the BBC going back well over 10 years.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

92.	Regarding the thousands of newspaper websites on the web, which of the following is NOT true?
		a. Many or most provide an archive of older stories.

		b. Many or most charge for archived material.

		c. Very few provide actual stories for free.

		d. How newspapers charge, which stories are free and which require a fee varies considerably from newspaper to newspaper.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

93.	Which of the following displays the full front pages of over 900 newspapers?
		a. Newslink

		b. Today's Front Pages

		c. FrontPages.com

		d. FrontPages.org

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

94.	Google News retains most articles for:
		a. 1 week

		b. 1 month

		c. 1 year

		d. 5 years

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

95.	For Google News Alerts, which of the following is NOT a delivery frequency option?
		a. As-It-Happens

		b. Hourly

		c. Once-a-day

		d. Once-a-week

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

You have been asked to set up an alerting service to track developments, as reported in the news, regarding hybrid vehicles in the U.K. (their technology, development, manufacture, marketing, sales, regulations, etc.). The requestor says she doesn’t want to miss anything of significance, but on the other hand, doesn’t want to have to look at hundreds of items per day. Also, she wants to know about developments as quickly as possible.

96.	In terms of exhaustivity (not missing anything really significant), which of the following would cover the greatest range of sources?
		a. BBC News Alerts

		b. Google News Alerts

		c. RSS feeds from BBC News

		d. Yahoo News Alerts

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

97.	If you were to decide to set up an alert in Google Alerts, which of the following strategies or search queries would seem to best meet the requestor's needs?
		a. Hybrid vehicles

		b. Hybrid vehicles OR automobiles OR cars

		c. Hybrid vehicles OR automobiles OR cars UK OR "U.K" OR England OR Scotland OR Wales OR "Northern Ireland"

		d. "Hybrid vehicles in the U.K."

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

98.	If, after you get the alert running, you find that you need to increase precision, which one of the following modifications might be your best option?
		a. Use the intitle: prefix on one or more search terms

		b. "OR" some additional terms

		c. Use the inurl: prefix

		d. Specify in your search query that "UK", "U.K." or "United Kingdom" must be present

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

99.	You recognize that blogs are sometimes useful when researching topics such as this, if you can find a blogger who keeps up with the topic. Which of the following tools might be useful for finding such a blog or blogger?
		a. BlogDirectory.com

		b. Blogger

		c. Blogspot.com

		d. Technorati

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

100.	(Live Question). Search the archives of the Washington Post to find an obituary of Edsel Ford that appeared there on May 27, 1943. On what page of the paper did the article occur?
		a. 1

		b. 2

		c. 12

		d. 13

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

101.	(Live Question). You need to find what the current issues are for citizens of Zagreb, Croatia. You decide to find what Zagreb news sites are on the internet. Unfortunately, you don't speak or read Croatian. Which of the following news sites emanate from Zagreb and are available online in both Croatian and English versions?
		a. Glas Koncila

		b. Globus

		c. HINA - Hrvatska Izvjetajna Novinska Agencija

		d. Hrvatska RadioTelevizija

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

102.	(Live Question). You are doing research on use of educational technology in the military. In 2009, Dr. J. Dexter Fletcher wrote an article entitled "Education and Training Technology in the Military" that very directly addressed factors of interest to you. Find articles that have cited that work. From the results you find, which of the following are authors who have cited Fletcher's article?
		a. A Berger, K Patel

		b. B Hu, Bhart

		c. DA Cook, RA Resiser

		d. LM Perry, M Anthony

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

103.	(Live Question). The September 14, 2011 White House homepage mentions that President Bush visited a hospital. What the name of the hospital.
		a. Childrens Hospital

		b. George Washington University Hospital

		c. Sibley Memorial Hospital

		d. Washington Hospital Center

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

104.	(Live Question). On the morning of September 11, 2001 CNN was airing a commercial for what company before breaking-in and showing one of the World Trade Center towers on fire?
		a. Coca-Cola

		b. Ditech

		c. Ford

		d. Yahoo

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

105.	Consider (1) the descriptive words that can be applied to Flickr images by the person who posts the images and (2) the indexing that Google does for images. With that in mind, for identical searches on Google and on Flickr, which of the following statements is most true with regard to precision of those search results?
		a. Precision is likely to be about equal for the two searches.

		b. Image search results for a Flickr search have a good chance of being more precise than those retrieved when searching Google Image Search.

		c. Image search results for a Google Image Search have a good chance of being more precise than those retrieved when searching Flickr.

		d. Precision is a concept that really does not apply in this situation.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

106.	A realtor wants to see satellite imagery for a particular U.S. property from various dates over the past ten years. Which of the following geographic search sites gives the exact date for the satellite photo of a particular area and provides a search function to see older imagery as well?
		a. Bing Maps

		b. Google Earth

		c. Google Maps

		d. Zillow

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

107.	An estate agent has taken a photo of a painting at the estate and wants to learn more about the painting. What are two possible tools for using the photo of the painting to search for more information about it?
		a. Bing Image Search and Bing Web Search

		b. CamFind and Google Goggles

		c. Google Image Search and Artcyclopedia

		d. Google Now and PicSearch

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

108.	Which of the following is NOT a filtering criterion in YouTube searches?
		a. 3D

		b. Commercial

		c. HD (high definition)

		d. Long (20 minutes or more)

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

109.	Which of the following websites has tens of thousands of maps online, both modern and historical? Its historical collection is particularly notable.
		a. David Rumsey Map Collection

		b. Harvard College Library Map Collection

		c. Perry-Casteñeda Library Map Collection

		d. U.S. Library of Congress Map Collection

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

110.	Which of the following is NOT a layers option in Google Earth?
		a. 3-D buildings

		b. Aridity

		c. Gallery

		d. Photos

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

111.	You walk for exercise and you want to plan a route near your office that will be 2 miles in length. You will probably not always be on a roadway (for example, it may go through a park). Which of the following displays an option that allows you to do this?
		a. Bing Maps

		b. Google Maps

		c. Google Earth

		d. Yahoo! Maps

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

112.	In Google's free custom maps program (Google Maps Engine Lite), which of the following is NOT an option?
		a. You can add directions to your map.

		b. You can choose from over 100 place marker icons.

		c. You can have up to 10 layers.

		d. You can insert data of your own by using CSV or Excel spreadsheets.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

113.	Which of the following is an option in Bing Maps but not Google Maps?
		a. Draggable routes

		b. Seeing imagery at a 45-degree angle

		c. Seeing pedestrian route options

		d. Viewing current traffic feature

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

114.	Which of the following is NOT true of Google Scholar?
		a. It allows you to save selected search results to "My Library" on Google Scholar.

		b. It provides a citation builder for MLA, APA and Chicago styles.

		c. It provides an alerting service for authors.

		d. It provides the use of date:, and journal: search prefixes.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

115.	When searching for scholars and researchers, which of the following identifiers is not usually publicly listed
		a. ISNI

		b. OpenID

		c. ORCID

		d. ResearcherID

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

116.	For your research on the genetics of birds, you need to quickly get the full text of an article, "The Allometric Pattern of Sexually Size Dimorphic Feather Ornaments and Factors Affecting Allometry," written by J. J. Cuervo and A. P. Mller. Find the full text of that article online. To confirm that you found it, what is the first word in the second paragraph of the Introduction?
		a. According

		b. Although

		c. Most

		d. One

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117.	You have decided to change careers and go into the field of viticulture and enology. You want to find a school that offers a masters program in that field and is located in the western U.S. Which two schools below are an option for you?
		a. Colorado State University and University of Idaho

		b. University of California, Berkeley, and Oregon State University

		c. University of California, Davis, and California State University, Fresno

		d. University of Colorado Boulder and Oregon State University

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

118.	Which of the following is NOT true of Amazon?
		a. You can search by condition.

		b. You can search by LC Call Number.

		c. You can search by reader age.

		d. You can sort search results by relevance, price, etc.

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

119.	(Live Question). A naturalist has asked you to identify the publication year for the earliest book to mention the scientific name for Rocky Mountain Sheep, i.e., Ovis montana. The answer is:
		a. 1794

		b. 1813

		c. 1825

		d. 1855

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

120.	(Live Question). You are going to be heading to the university library to check out a copy of Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. You decide to save time there by getting the probable Library of Congress call number before you leave for the library. From the web, you find that the likely LC call number is which of the following?
		a. TK4408.5 .K78

		b. TK 5101.2 .K78

		c. TK5105.888 .K78

		d. TK5208.6 .K78

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

121.	(Live Question). Who was the author of the first book published (other than just bibliographies or bibliographic essays) that had the phrase "Bermuda Triangle" in the title?
		a. Berlitz

		b. Jeffrey

		c. Kusche

		d. Winer

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122.	(Live Question). An English literature scholar is doing work on Dickens. He has asked you to find out how many times the word "silver" occurred in Dickens' The Little Curiosity Shop. Which of the following is the answer?
		a. 3

		b. 11

		c. 55

		d. 205

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

123.	(Live Question). What is the physical address for the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems?
		a. 111 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

		b. 1801 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122

		c. 215 Church Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

		d. 3600 Market Street, 6th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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124.	(Live Question). You are setting up a program featuring the novelist Jennifer Chiaverini and are getting ready to write a notice of the meeting. You want to mention her Elm Creek Quilts series and tell the name of the first book in the series. What was the first book in that series?
		a. Cross-Country Quilters

		b. Quilter's Apprentice

		c. Round Robin

		d. Runaway Quilt

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

125.	(Live Question). Your boss is going to be traveling to Strasbourg, France. You tell him to be sure to hear the bells at the cathedral there, and you want to send him a link to a video that will give a sense of the experience. On YouTube, find short videos featuring the sounds of the bells at the cathedral there. (Sort the results by largest-to-smallest number of views.) How many of the videos have more than 1,000 views?
		a. 0

		b. 2

		c. 4

		d. 6

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

126.	(Live Question). You are going to be driving from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., to the Empire State Building, 350 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016. About how much time might be saved by avoiding toll roads?
		a. 33 min

		b. 58 min

		c. 1 hr 18 min

		d. 1 hr 24 min

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

127.	(Live Question). For your upcoming European trip, use a well-known European maps and routes website to plan your drive from Milan, Italy, to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Find the estimated cost and distance. Using the options on the site's Route Planner, specify that you want the distance measurement in kilometers, the currency in Euros, that your fuel-type is petrol and that you will be driving a hatchback. Which of the following best matches the answer you receive? (What you get back may vary slightly from the answers here, depending upon detours, etc., that the map service accounts for.)
		a. Cost=145 €, Distance 1077 km

		b. Cost=154 €, Distance 1061 km

		c. Cost=178 €, Distance 1188 km

		d. Cost=172€, Distance 1263 km

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

128.	(Live Question). A program at work utilizes latitude and longitude to identify client locations on a map. What is the latitude and longitude of 1824 Ridgewood Circle, South Bend, Indiana?
		a. 41.685084, -86.225912

		b. 41.688970, -86.218509

		c. 41.690632, -86.219202

		d. 41.692227, -86.214707

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

129.	(Live Question). An historian has asked you to find a photograph he remembers seeing on the web. It is of shelling corn in Nebraska, and in the picture, there is a windmill, several horses and several people. Confirm that you have found the correct photograph by identifying which of the following is left-most in the image.
		a. building

		b. horse

		c. person

		d. windmill

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

130.	(Live Question). A client remembers seeing an Excel spreadsheet on some government website that showed the estimated new cancer cases for 2010. They want you to find on that spreadsheet the total number of estimated cases. Which of the following is the answer?
		a. 1,334,000

		b. 1,460,000

		c. 1,530,000

		d. 1,778,000

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

131.	(Live Question). You have been asked to testify before a U.S. Senate Committee. You will be staying at JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave NW., Washington, D.C., and want to see if it is feasible for you to walk to the hearing, which will be held at the Russell Senate Office Building, 2 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, D.C. Use the web to plan the best walking route for you. Which of the following is the correct answer (approximately)?
		a. .8 miles 19 minutes

		b. .9 miles 24 minutes

		c. 1.3 miles 28 minutes

		d. 1.3 miles 34 minutes

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

132.	(Live Question). The image in the upper left corner of the page with the URL extremesearcher.com/travel/index.html has what format, file size and dimensions?
		a. GIF, 14.77 KB, 185px X 243px

		b. JPEG, 107.38 KB, 231px X 298px

		c. JPEG, 57.33 KB, 210px X 243px

		d. PNG, 22.76 KB, 190px X 270px

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133.	(Live Question). An academic researcher at the University of Calgary needs to get her hands on the 1963 edition of a Listener's history of music A book for any concert-goer gramophonist or radio listener by P A Scholes. Are there any libraries in Calgary that have the book? If not, in what other libraries in Canada may one find a copy?
		a. No, it's not available at a Calgary area library but it is available in Toronto at the University of Toronto Library

		b. No, it's not available at a Calgary area library but is available at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

		c. Yes, it's available in Calgary and found in the St. Michael's College Library

		d. Yes, it's available in Calgary and found in the University of Calgary Library

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134.	(Live Question). A researcher at the American Restaurant Association is working on a presentation about the cost of food and meals at famous United States restaurants during the past 100 years. The Brown Derby is a legendary restaurant in Los Angeles/Hollywood. What was the cost of a plate of spaghetti (aka "Spaghetti Derby") in 1947?
		a. $1.10

		b. $1.20

		c. $1.30

		d. $1.35

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

135.	(Live Question). A real estate developer is working with a franchisee of a restaurant chain who is considering opening locations near major league baseball stadiums. They want to learn about chain restaurants near Wrigley Field. The chain restaurants nearest the stadium include
		a. Dunkin Donuts, Burger King

		b. McDonalds, Taco Bell

		c. Pizza Hut, Chipotle

		d. Ruby Tuesday's, Red Lobster

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

136.	(Live Question). Which of the following gas stations is not located in Cincinnati OH with a zip code of 45230?
		a. Sunoco 6090 Salem Rd Cincinnati, OH 45230

		b. BP, 7380 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45230

		c. Mobile, 443 Martin Luther King Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230

		d. Marathon Gas, 6790 Kellogg Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45230

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

137.	Which of these people search engines may give an individual's age (for those in the U.S.) for free (not just an age range)?
		a. Anywho.com

		b. DexKnows.com

		c. Intelius.com

		d. Spokeo.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

138.	Which of the following will lead you to extensive collections of public records from which information can be obtained without cost to the user?
		a. Intelius

		b. PeopleFinders

		c. Searchsystems.net

		d. Spokeo

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

You have been asked to find as much as you can about the man who lives at, and probably owns, 204 N. Queen Street in Chestertown, MD 21620. The requestor would not say why he needs the information.

139.	(Live Question). His first name is:
		a. Arthur

		b. Byron

		c. Patrick

		d. William

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

140.	(Live Question). His phone number is:
		a. 410-778-2080

		b. 410-778-2189

		c. 410-810-6544

		d. 410-810-6743

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

141.	(Live Question). He probably has a son whose first name is:
		a. Adam

		b. James

		c. Louis

		d. Samuel

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

142.	(Live Question). His neighbors (currently or recently) include people with the following last names:
		a. Church, Nowicki, Benson

		b. Pope, Myers, Sutherland

		c. Hurrt, Trout, Sherman

		d. Sammons, Johnson, Bevic

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

143.	(Live Question). Find an estimate of what might be a likely sale price were the house to be put on the market. Which of the following is closest to the number you found?
		a. $240,000

		b. $310,000

		c. $380,000

		d. $450,000

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

144.	(Live Question). His political party is:
		a. Democratic

		b. Independent

		c. Libertarian

		d. Republican

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

145.	(Live Question). What, approximately, is the median household income for that ZIP Code?
		a. $30,000

		b. $40,000

		c. $50,000

		d. $60,000

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

146.	(Live Question). What is the approximate birth year of Carol T. Jewell who lives on Loudon Heights Road in Charleston, WV?
		a. 1946

		b. 1956

		c. 1966

		d. 1976

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

147.	(Live Question). You want to send a birthday card to Louis Pope (formerly of Laurel, MD, now living in Fulton MD). Find his birthday.
		a. February 16

		b. June 21

		c. September 5

		d. December 14

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

148.	(Live Question). Who were the senators from Oklahoma in June 1933?
		a. Carl Bert Albert and Edward Hall Moore

		b. Lyle H. Boren and Will Rogers

		c. Thomas Pryor Gore and Elmer Thomas

		d. William Bliss Pine and John William Harreld

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

149.	(Live Question). You are helping with some genealogical research. In what month and year did Lloyd Gale of Maryland die? (It is believed to have been sometime between 1960 and 2000.)
		a. January 1966

		b. December 1979

		c. June 1976

		d. August 1999

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

150.	(Live Question). Your boss has a meeting scheduled with actor Mark Wahlberg. S would like some background. What are the names and years of birth of Wahlberg's four children.
		a. Alma (2003), Michelle (2006), Michael (2008), Brendan (2010)

		b. Brendan (2006), Stephen(2008), Elizabeth (2011), Laura (2013)

		c. Ella (2003), Michael (2006), Brendan (2008), Margaret (2010)

		d. Michael(2006), Rhea (2008), James (2011), Margaret (2013)

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

151.	In Twitter, changing a search term from just a word, e.g., Egypt, to that word with a hashtag in front of it, e.g., #Egypt, will:
		a. Probably increase precision

		b. Probably increase recall

		c. Probably have no effect on either recall or precision

		d. Probably increase both precision and recall

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

152.	Which of the following is NOT a search qualifier in Twitter searches?
		a. :)

		b. from:

		c. since;

		d. NOT

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153.	When searching for people, LinkedIn provides searchability for:
		a. 4 fields

		b. 9 fields

		c. 12 fields

		d. 25 fields

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

154.	When looking at results from a search for tweets from each of these Twitter search engines, which one has a filter for tweets geographically close to the searcher's location?
		a. Bing Social

		b. Google Social Search

		c. Topsy.com

		d. Twitter.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

155.	A researcher wants to find people with connections (business or social) to employees at Company X and who also are interested in a particular television series. Which social network will let you search for people in this way?
		a. Facebook

		b. LinkedIn (free version)

		c. Pinterest

		d. Twitter

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

156.	A news event is happening now. To find links to the latest reports from the professional media and social media, from the past hour about an on-going news event, you might turn to Twitter for links to the latest news. When searching tweets from each of these Twitter search engines, which one has both a left-hand filter for tweets that include links (likely pointing to news reports) and a limit for the past hour?
		a. Bing Social

		b. Google Social Search

		c. Topsy.com

		d. Twitter.com

Incorrect answer. Please choose another answer.

157.	(Live Question). On March 11, Rep Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) deleted a tweet. What did the tweet say?
		a. A Gorgeous Day in DC

		b. Congress is a Mess. We Need Help!

		c. Go Red Wings!

		d. The "new normal" is unacceptable. Retweet if you agree.

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1.	In the URL http://www.adforum.com/agency/ the "top-level domain" is:
		a. http://
		b. adforum
		c. com
		d. agency
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2.	Which of the following is not a valid URL country code?
		a. ca
		b. cn
		c. mi
		d. uk
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3.	Which of the following is NOT true?
		a. The Wayback Machine can allow you to see a page as it appeared at particular points in the past.
		b. The Wayback Machine has an approximately 6-month delay in recording more recent pages.
		c. The Wayback Machine has older versions of pages for all websites.
		d. The Wayback Machine is part of Archive.org.
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4.	What is the keyboard shortcut for opening a linked URL found in a Word document?
		a. Alt-Click
		b. Ctrl-Click
		c. Fn-Click
		d. Shift-click
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7.	Which of the following do you consider to be the best set of concepts for this question?
		a. electricity production Baltic
		b. electricity production Baltic wind
		c. electricity production Baltic wind Estonia Latvia Lithuania
		d. electricity production Baltic wind political
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8.	Which of the following statements is most correct for the above case?
		a. Your actual search statement (query) should include alternative words for one of the concepts.
		b. Your actual search statement (query) should include alternative words for two of the concepts.
		c. Your actual search statement (query) should include alternative words for more than two of the concepts.
		d. Your actual search statement (query) does not need to include alternative words for at any of the concepts.
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9.	Which of the following statements is the most correct for the above case study?
		a. If your search query includes the word "Baltic," you do not need to include the words "Estonia," "Latvia" and "Lithuania."
		b. If your search query includes the words "Estonia," "Latvia" and "Lithuania," you do not need to include the word "Baltic."
		c. Your search query should probably include all four words.
		d. Your search query should not include the words "Estonia," "Latvia" and "Lithuania."
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10.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The OR operation is used to increase precision.
		b. The OR operation is used to increase recall.
		c. The OR operation actually has little effect on either precision or recall.
		d. The OR operation has significant effect on both precision and recall.
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11.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The AND operation is used to increase precision.
		b. The AND operation is used to increase recall.
		c. The AND operation actually has little effect on either precision or recall.
		d. The AND operation has significant effect on both precision and recall.
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12.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The NOT operation is used to increase precision.
		b. The NOT operation is used to increase recall.
		c. The NOT operation actually has little effect on either precision or recall.
		d. The NOT operation has significant effect on both precision and recall.
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13.	Which of the following is correct?
		a. The NOT operation can have a very bad effect on recall.
		b. The NOT operation is seldom likely to have a very bad effect on recall.
		c. The NOT operation will never increase precision.
		d. The NOT operation is irrelevant to both precision and recall.
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14.	You are doing research on Oklahoma legislation relating to the use of pesticides. You decide to use the word "law" as an acceptable alternative to "legislation." Because of some research you did last year, you have all you need on the topic as it relates to bees, so you don't need to see any of the "bee" literature. In Google, which of the following is the most standard (and most efficient) search statement for the above search?
		a. Oklahoma legislation OR laws AND pesticides NOT bees
		b. Oklahoma legislation OR laws pesticides -bees
		c. Oklahoma AND (legislation OR laws) AND pesticides -bees
		d. Oklahoma legislation OR laws pesticides NOT bees
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15.	In the above search, you are unsure as to whether you really want to eliminate the "bees" records. In that connection, which of the following statements is most correct?
		a. Eliminating the bees records may significantly damage recall.
		b. Eliminating the bees records is very unlikely to significantly damage recall.
		c. Eliminating the bees records will not improve precision.
		d. Elimination the bees records will have no effect on either precision or recall.
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16.	Which of the following is NOT a tool for increasing precision?
		a. Adding an additional concept
		b. intitle: prefix
		c. OR
		d. Phrase searching
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17.	You are researching the effects of exercise on academic achievement. You want to find at least 100 results that significantly address the issue. You start with a quick search on the following: "effects exercise academic performance." Which of the following modifications will most likely increase recall with the least damage to precision?
		a. effects exercise academic OR school performance
		b. effects exercise academic OR school performance OR grades
		c. effects OR change exercise OR academic OR school performance
		d. exercise academic OR school performance OR grades
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18.	The following question relates to the use of commercial, fee-based (not free to all users) database services, (such as Lexis-Nexis, Chemical Abstract Services, DIALOG, Factiva, etc.). Which of the following is NOT true of commercial, fee-based services?
		a. There are times when not using them can have legal implications.
		b. The quality of the information they deliver can be greater.
		c. Use of them always has to be paid for by the user her/himself
		d. They usually provide more retrospective searching.
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19.	The following question relates to the use of commercial, fee-based (not free to all users) database services, (such as Lexis-Nexis, Chemical Abstract Services, DIALOG, Factiva, etc.). Which of the following is NOT true of controlled vocabularies (subject headings, descriptors, etc.)?
		a. They are found in most commercial, fee-based services.
		b. They are consistent from service to service.
		c. They can help improve precision of a search.
		d. They can help improve recall of a search.
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20.	When distributing and presenting research results, there is now free, web-based software extensively available, such as Google Drive, that provides advantages over commercial, non-free software (such as Microsoft Office). Which of the following is NOT true of the free, web-based software?
		a. Content can be stored in the cloud or as local files.
		b. For most researchers, most of their audience is likely to already be familiar with using the free software.
		c. The free software can include a range of tools (for slides, documents, drawings, etc.).
		d. The free software does not have to be downloaded.
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21.	Which of the following is NOT usually considered one of the main criteria for assessing the information value of any given information?
		a. Currentness
		b. Relevance
		c. Reliability
		d. Validity
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22.	You have a blog. In your next post, you are writing about a city you recently visited. You find a couple paragraphs on another person's blog that beautifully describe the city and you would like to copy that into your post with an attribution and link to the original. Regarding copyright, among other possible solutions, which of the following is true?
		a. If there is no copyright symbol on the page of the blog on which you found it, you can use it without further permission.
		b. The only thing you can safely do is to just link to it.
		c. You can check Creative Commons and see if permission for this content has been granted there.
		d. Since it was on a personal blog, it is therefore in the public domain and can be used without further permission.
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23.	Which of the following is a U.K. website that provides a newsletter and is useful for keeping up on new web research resources?
		a. FreePint
		b. Internet Scout Project
		c. ResearchBuzz
		d. ResourceShelf
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Searching Tools

24.	Which of the following finding tools makes least use of organizing the content by human-generated content categorization?
		a. Search engines
		b. General web directories
		c. Specialized web directories
		d. Portals
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Searching Tools

25.	From the point at which a new or changed web page first appears on the web until it is delivered to a search engine user on a search results page, a lot of processes occur. Which of the following series best describes the sequence of some of the main processes involved?
		a. Crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, display
		b. Crawling, indexing, categorization, retrieval, ranking, display
		c. Crawling, indexing, retrieval, ranking, display
		d. Crawling, ranking, indexing, retrieval, display
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Searching Tools

26.	Which of the following is NOT among the web's largest search engines?
		a. Baidu
		b. Bing
		c. Blekko
		d. Yandex
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Searching Tools

27.	On Google's Advanced Search page, which of the following statements is NOT true?
		a. Boolean is not possible.
		b. Boolean searching is implied but not directly specifiable.
		c. Some Boolean is possible, but you cannot do everything that you can on the main page by using operators.
		d. All Boolean that can be accomplished on the main page by using operators is possible.
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Searching Tools

28.	You are doing a search in which one of your search concepts is President Franklin Roosevelt. In the part of your search that deals with his name, to most efficiently get all records for "Franklin Roosevelt," "Franklin D. Roosevelt" and "Franklin Delano Roosevelt," you would use which of the following?
		a. "Franklin * Roosevelt"
		b. "Franklin ? Roosevelt"
		c. "Franklin Roosevelt" OR "Franklin * Roosevelt"
		d. "Franklin Roosevelt" OR "Franklin ? Roosevelt"
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Searching Tools

29.	In Google, which of the following is true?
		a. Google does not search any punctuation (such as ., ;, :, ) and special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).
		b. Google searches some special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).
		c. Google now searches all common punctuation and special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).
		d. Google searches most punctuation but not special symbols (such as +, @, %, $).
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Searching Tools

30.	In some cases, it would be useful to not have to "OR" a lot of synonyms by typing them all in, especially variant endings (nutrition OR nutritious OR nutrients). Which of the following is true?
		a. Google does not provide any feature that can accomplish this.
		b. You can accomplish this using the tilde in front of a term, e.g., ~nutrition.
		c. Google sometimes automatically searches not just the specific word you searched for but also at least some variant endings and closely-related words.
		d. Google now always automatically searches not just the specific word you searched for but also all variant endings and closely-related words.
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Searching Tools

31.	Google's cache feature is designed to take you to ___________.
		a. A copy of the page as it is today on the web
		b. A copy of the page as it was one day ago
		c. A copy of the page just as it was when Google first found the page
		d. A copy of the page when Google last indexed it
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Searching Tools

32.	In your search, you use as one of your terms the name "Reuser." Google also finds "reusers," "reuse," etc. You don't want those. You can insist on just the word "Reuser" by using which of the following?
		a. +Reuser
		b. "Reuser"
		c. ~Reuser
		d. Reuser%
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