Ms. Charkes received her B.A. in English from The University of Chicago, her J.D. from Columbia University and her M.L.S. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Netizens of a certain age will remember the old Internet Hunt, created by Rick Gates, which resembled a scavenger hunt for information nuggets on the Internet. It was also a wonderful way to learn how to find things on the Net. Each quiz contains five questions that users can solve with Google. The questions are loosely related by an amusing presentation theme.
Topics vary from science to sports or pop culture.
The quiz is self-paced. The quiz displays the total score at the end. If users enter answers incorrectly, it does not give the correct answer so that students may try again. As with any test, part of what the students learn is how to read the mind of the test-preparer. By far the greater benefit, though, is that it helps students learn how to create focused queries that bring the desired results to the top of the list.