
Time test
1) Email the name of the person who wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to fleur@fleurmail.com
To do this with Hyperwords: Highlight ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ by clicking and dragging across the words, then select ‘Reference’, then ‘Wikipedia’ from the Hyperwords menut that pops-up.
You should then get a Wikipedia entry on the nursery rhyme.
When you have the answer, select it and choose ‘Email’ and ‘immediately’.
2) Answer this question, which is in Dutch: Hoe bent u?
Hyperwords: Highlight the Dutch words, then type the keyboard shorcut phrase 't,d,e’ for 'Translate/from Dutch/to English’.
3) What is the price in Euros on Amazon for the Kingdom of Heaven’DVD?
Hyperwords: Highlight ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ and enter the keyboard shortcut ‘h,a’ for sHop/Amazon (‘s’ is already used for 'search').
When you get the results, highlight the price and type in the shortcut ‘o,c' ( for cOnvert-Currency) and then choose your local currency from the list (or enter it's keyboard shortcut) and finally choose ‘Euro’. You can click on the resulting figure if you want it automatically pasted in after the original amount.
4) What is in the center of the crown the lady in the Starbucks logo wears?
Hyperwords: Select ‘Starbucks’ then choose ‘Search/pictures/Google’ and leave your cursor on ‘Google' to see the Starbucks logo appear.
5) What is the share price for Apple?
Hyperwords: Select ‘Apple’, choose ‘References’ and then go to ‘share price’ towards the bottom. It might take a second, but just wait and you will get a list of share prices - remember that you did not enter a share symbol, just a company name - but it's safe to say the top result, for ‘Apple Inc.’ is the right one (symbol ‘aapl’).
If you want this answer pasted in to the document after ‘Apple’, just click on it, just as you could for currencies, above.
6) Who played Hermione Granger in Harry Potter?
Hyperwords: Select ‘Harry Potter’ by double-clicking between the words. Then enter shortcuts; ‘r,i’ fo ‘References’ and ‘MovieDB’. The long name for this is ‘Internet Movie Database’, hence the ‘i’ shortcut.
7) To get from downtown Mountain View to Palo Alto, what makes more sense, taking El Camino Real, or highway 85?
Hyperwords: Select ‘Mountain View’ and enter the keybaord shortcut 'm,l,g’ and look at the map. Bt the way, Palo Alto is to the north west of Mountain View.
8) Are there any interesting new games coming up for the PS3, the Playstation 3?
Hyperwords: Select ‘PS3’ and enter ‘g,g’ for ‘Go/Google top search result’.
9) Where was Doug Engelbart born?
Hyperwords: Select his name, choose ‘References’ and point to ‘Wikipedia’. You don't need to click, just let your cursor hover over it and you should get a quick glimpse of the Wikipedia page right there.
If you want to, go ahead and click on the ‘Wikipedia’ command to open the full page.
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