this is a scavenger hunt using the world wide web as your neighborhood. it starts with a riddle. as you answer the riddles, type the answer into the google search engine and hit “i'm feeling lucky.” the web site where you are taken will contain the a clue to the next riddle.

1. what was everyone in america rushing west for in the 1800s?



2. in this year, the spice girls hit number one on the charts for their debut single “wannabe.”



3. lord byron's poem “the prisoner of chillon” was inspired by his visit to the castle of chillon, which is in what country?



4. alfred stieglitz married which female artist in 1924?



5. what is the broadest protection the u.s. government offers for creative work?



6. in the 1999 film “being john malkovich,” the characters discover a ________ which enables them to get inside the head of john malkovich.



7. this 1989 film, which flopped at the box office, features clint eastwood who stars as a guy who tracks down fugitives who have jumped bail.



8. tell us what pinky is going to eat for dinner tonight. the first ten people to answer will win a sixosix t-shirt.